Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Konstantin Karinopoulos from Neopreformance. Materials, how are you today Konstantin? Hello Tracy, I'm very well, and how are you? Konstantin, as always, I've been enjoying watching your milestones since you came out of retirement, become the CEO again for Neopreformance Materials. But at the beginning of the onset of this interview, I'd like to bring up the recent news in the industry about a passing of one of your friends, John Landrath. I wondered if you wanted to say something to our audience about his unfortunate passing. Sure. Tracy, John was a friend and he was one of the really, really good people, great professionals in the rareth industry. He spent virtually his entire career as a geologist for MaliCorp. He's done tremendous work around the mountain pass deposit. He's been to pretty well every rareth deposit around the world and he's had views on those deposits. I remember during my involvement with him, I sent him to Africa on a couple of expeditions of deposits and he was always a really nice, rational, calm man who believed in facts and rational analysis and it's a great loss for the industry. He didn't grab the headlines, he never made a lot of noise but he was a consummate professional and for those of us who knew him and worked with him, we will miss him terribly. I thank you so much for your commentary on John Constantine. Now, with regards to near performance, every time I turn around I see some really large numbers. Let's see. You recently announced a 70.9 million bot deal secondary offering of common shares and in December we saw a similar headline for 47.6 million in bot deal secondary offerings of common shares. Can you talk to our audience about what this really means? Sure. When I joined again the company as CEO in the summer, one of the problems that I recognized immediately and I had been talking to the board about it when I was chairman of the company and incidentally for governance purposes I stepped down from the chair of NIO when I took over the CEO seat. The new chairman at NIO is Claire Kennedy, a great professional, tremendous board skills and a great chair. One of the fundamental problems I saw with the company is the fact that we had very limited liquidity as a public company and that stemmed from the fact, a few other reasons as well. The main fact was that 70% of the equity of NIO was owned by one large fund in California called Oak Tree and those in the financial industry would be very familiar with Oak Tree, very successful fund over the years. So I've had a number of conversations with Oak Tree about the wisdom of reducing Oak Tree's share in the company and allowing more shares to circulate in the market and therefore improving the liquidity and so far that thesis has held correct. We following our third quarter results release in November, we put together a road show, we built a book for about rum numbers $50 million, $12.10 a share, Oak Tree sold just under $4 million shares and immediately the liquidity improved and the share values continued to increase. Now I won't claim full credit for that. The markets have been pretty frothy, I have to admit over the last few weeks. So as that continued, we did following another road show, virtual road show of course, we put together another secondary this time closer to $80 million at $15.75 a share. So it's not normal that you can have successive secondaries at higher, successively higher prices but I think this talks to the fact that the basic thesis was correct that improved liquidity is helping the stock but also the frothiness in the market, the attention that's being paid to rare earths again is refreshing because the industry when it comes to investor attention, there's a definite cyclicality and now of course with mountain pass with a hugely successful listing in New York through the SPAC deal they did in the summer, they're trading over $5 billion market cap. I think there's a lot of folks that are paying attention and they realize that rare earths are a very interesting area to invest in. The fundamentals are very much in the favor of the entire industry and companies especially like ours that continue to execute and put money to the bottom line I think should and deserve the attention that they're getting. So our analysts did a top five rare earth companies to watch globally and listed neopreformance as number three pointing out of course that you have the only processing facility outside of China. Now I have a number of questions of course to ask you about this can you just talk to us a little bit about the frothy market and the rare earths market landscape that we currently have out there. Sure let me correct one observation that we have one of the two rare earth processing facilities outside of China, Linus of course in Malaysia is the biggest, our plant in Estonia is significantly smaller but it's big enough for the purposes that it serves and it is the only facility in Europe which in my mind at least it's a very very strategic asset. The industry fundamentals we went through a really tough time in earlier quarters especially affected by COVID and it wasn't really a direct effect I mean it was the supply chains being affected by COVID and as consumer demand dropped the inventory corrections especially through the second quarter by the time they got back to suppliers like us in the earlier parts of supply chains you know they became a tsunami and hence our second quarter was probably the only worst quarters that I could remember would be fourth quarter of 08 first quarter of 09 when the world was falling apart for completely different reasons and back then we came back with a vengeance and it looks like the business is coming back pretty strongly and overall I think you have some massive wind on our back and that's clearly the EV demand or demand by the EV industry especially in China and Europe where the industry is growing at very impressive rates both in terms of consumers voting with their feet and buying more and more EVs but also manufacturers and supply chains responding to that demand and setting up supply chains in Europe now because China has had those supply chains for five to ten years we see significant demand growing growth in Europe and of course you know North America is a little slower to respond but North America will get there but there's no question that the EV industry has been the biggest demand trend in the rare earth sector at the same time there was an unintended positive consequence from the lockdown and as all of us work from home demand for laptops smart devices and so on has gone through the roof so the plans that we own that supply either electronic materials or electronic rare earths or magnetic materials for micro motors inside electronic devices and the like we're they're running flat out and that's simply because consumers are buying smart devices and electronic devices at an unprecedented rate of course one of the many catalysts that we've credited or some have speculated have been driving the rare earth markets have been the EV market as you said the smart devices but where are we really in the supply chain development Constantine there's a lot of hype out there in the media there's a lot of misinformation we still don't have a supply chain for rare earths outside of China that's functioning in North America can you comment on that yeah i'll i'll say the same thing that i've been saying for for years it took supply chains at least two decades to pack up and leave North America especially supply chain specific to our industry it's going to take the better part of a decade if we start putting it together now and unfortunately we you know i i'm very impressed by what the europeans are doing and i've said this before the efforts in north america are a little spotier in europe and then the europeans had a fabulous experiment with their battery alliance the european battery alliance where they committed an awful lot of money in north of two billion euros to attract global manufacturers throughout that battery supply chain and now you know every big name in the EV battery sector has either built or is building a plant somewhere in europe to supply EV demand well i think that's what it takes um you know friends have called it a Manhattan style project as necessary i mean if we're serious about it and if we really believe what we say that the future supply chains specific to electric vehicles and advanced manufacturing advanced electronics depend on on our ability to produce rare earths and perhaps more important sophisticated materials from rare earths um we we should have started a decade ago to be ready now but you know it's never too late i think it will take a concerted effort you you see some efforts here and there but they're specific to parts of the supply chain like for example uh the department of defense in the united states uh giving a contract to or giving a financial incentive to line us to build a separation plant in texas still the the rest of the supply chain is empty in other words the the rare it's it's good to start with the rare earth production but then those rare earths have to be converted into metals alloys magnetic materials magnets motors and so on before they end up in a in a tesla or a byd or a volts wagon uh ev so there's an awful lot of effort that that needs to continue to be um expended in order to end up at some point with a fully integrated fully functional supply chain in north america and of course i have there's no question that investor intel caters to the capital markets and we have a lot of competing public markets right now they're uh talking about the technology for the extraction of rare earths we hear about the recycling to pull out the rare earths or the magnetic materials we also hear about processing pilot plants and of course the exploration as a sophisticated member of our community can you tell us where you think investors should invest their time in getting to know this sector and where they might actually see their greatest uh appreciation for their investment dollar and this is where you can add that you are now offering your the dividend process that you have at neo performance well um yeah we neo has always been making more money that we know what to do with it so we we've been paying a dividend to our shareholders and we've been over the last couple years we we have been buying back uh our stock um and in the meantime now we're looking at a series of um meaningful m&a transactions that fit in together with what we do uh in our uh strategy throughout the supply chain that's a different conversation for a different time uh in the meantime that's a your question is pretty loaded Tracy um you know i have my own views that i i would be very hesitant to make public um i've been doing this for about 30 years i've seen a lot of failures i've seen a few successes um and and all i would say is that um you know there is as you you talked about information and misinformation don't forget that we spent the last four years politically talking about facts and alternative facts news and fake news information and misinformation i mean the same thing goes um to information with regards to what companies do in our sector so people who are interested in investing in the sector they need to to cut through the noise and and get to the bottom of of what companies are offering um i'm a bit old-fashioned i believe in cash flow and i believe in in balance sheet strength and and that is clearly reflected in the way uh nio is operated and in fact uh our balance sheet saved us during the covid turned down um you know we didn't lay off a single person um we slowed down some of our plans but we didn't shut them down and the result is we could afford to do it and in our business uh one of our greater greatest resources is human capital and if you let people go it's very expensive and it's short termism to just let people go if this quarter or next quarter don't look great because it's taken us decades to make sure that you know the people that work for us are the best anywhere so you know letting them go would would create a serious problem when things come back and we need them back so we we rarely let people go for external reasons uh other than you know performance related reasons uh in in in terms of what other companies are doing that there are some exploration companies that i really like they have unique deposits and those deposits tend to have excellent either either excellent mineralogy or an excellent distribution of the desirable magnetic type rare earths that today command the higher values um then when it comes to technology in terms of separation um you know separation is a relatively in my view and I might sound heretic in this um or heretical it's it's not a very high value proposition if at the end of the day what you do has to compete with the large commodity manufacturers in in asia then you know there isn't a lot of margin to to command just because you have a better separation technology um you know solvent extraction works really well it's dirt cheap and as long as you know what you're doing it can be a fairly clean operation um so when it comes to you know further downstream in in the business clearly um magnet anything related to magnets um has a great volume demand but again at the same time people who get into it they need to compete against the large commodity magnet producers in asia so be very careful uh when you're investing in a company you need to look at their business plan and see how defensible it is against massive dislocations uh like we've seen in the past and I remember when molly corp uh when molly corp uh filed for bankruptcy when neodymium prices almost over a span of a couple weeks went from 40 a kilo to 15 a kilo uh back in 2015 and you know molly corp couldn't keep the lights on on the other hand um if you have a defensible proposition with um strong barriers to entry then those companies are um are worth investing in you know I apologize for the generalities but I'm going to get into a lot of trouble if I if I said anything specific about I think the conclusion for your last comments are quite clear for most of us which is just you're articulating clearly the value proposition in looking at neo performance and as we've heard you say you've invested properly you're looking at m&a opportunities at this time presently uh continuing as you've been doing and what I would like to ask is just for some highlights of what we as shareholders uh should anticipate in this upcoming year perhaps the next quarter two is there anything you can comment on well again um obviously I cannot share any non-public information you know in the in the last press release we had um announcing the secondary that we did in uh earlier this month we did have there was a paragraph um and a lot of people may have missed it that we saw a strong demand in the fourth quarter and we believe that our fourth quarter our our fiscal quarter and fiscal year is calendar quarter and year but we we expect that our fourth quarter numbers will exceed analyst expectations and this is what I was saying earlier um you know this is this is public information um and it is really supply chains automotive electronics coming back after you know and taking advantage of sort of pent up demand you know when when people lock down they stop buying things so as the lockdown started relaxing people started buying cars and uh and electronic uh devices and I I would be very hesitant to to make any projections for 2021 because it's so deep how things will unfold it's is so dependent on how successful the world will be uh against covid I mean if the vaccines work well and if people get vaccinated and we can start acting like normal humans again then I'm very bullish about our business but if we if we see you know plans shutting down with with cases and people you know and people being locked down in in their homes for the rest of the year I don't know all bets are off you know I all I'm saying is you know we'll continue to have a very conservative balance sheet because you never know how things unfold but you know I at this stage I would say I'm cautiously optimistic that you know things will continue to unfold as planned and as hoped for uh where the covid um uh situation will continue to improve but that's more of a hope than uh than speaking just shirley on the fact well as always Constantine thank you so much for an update on neopreformance materials thank you tracy


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Good morning, everyone. Maybe Wednesday, November 22nd, last trading day this week, or actually I shouldn't say this week, but we have Thanksgiving tomorrow and the markets will be closed tomorrow.  So the S&P has had more than a 0.25% pop overnight. So that means reverse iron condor for those zero DTE traders. See if that works out or not. VIX all the way down to 12.94. Crazy, it seems like just a couple of weeks goes up to almost 20. Good morning, bubble bee. Nvidia had a good report after earnings. It's currently about flat though, but Bell has rung. So we'll see if we can get a couple of trades in today. It's usually a light trading day, usually low volume. So we'll see how things go. We'll use the two days expiration options chain. Two DTE, a lot of stocks pushing up here. Best of luck coming down. Nvidia coming down a little bit. Amazon up over 2%, AMD up over 2%. Strongest stocks on the board here. Yep, we're live. We're not getting our second bar here, so let's see what happens with volume. I'm never too optimistic on days before holidays, but we will see. Just never know. Nice push up by some of these stocks, really Apple surging up. Yeah, it's feeling a little bit better. My voice sounds a little bit better. I still have this just cough that sometimes drives me nuts. But yes, thank you. It's still going through cough drops and congestion medicine. So AMD, it's like it's gonna get a big volume bar. Next, thank you, Bumble Bee. My eye here on AMD. I'm sure it's affected by Nvidia having such great earnings. So if AMD comes down about to this pivot, that's where I'd like to get in. And then somebody asked me about where you get out of a volume runner. So if it would come down below, well, the start of this price is, that would be your exit. So low risk. If we can get a little pullback there. Again, it's the two days to expiration. So I would trade the 123 calls, trying to get filled at a buck 60 AMD, AMD, sorry. Built at a buck 60 and AMD was the 123 calls. And I would close half at a buck 75. Oh man, it's already pushed up there. See, then get filled at a buck 80. Now I'm gonna put it back at a buck 75 actually. Built at a dollar 75. So out of half of that, get out of another one at a buck 95. Built at a buck 95. Nice job, AMD. Nice little volume runner here. Let's see if we can find a mighty 90 here now. Tesla is staying weak, and Nvidia is staying weak. So it's kind of surprising after I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia ticks a little lower. And then at some point it starts coming up just because it had such great earnings. And you probably have people that were kind of selling off right now because with the big, with the good earnings, we'll see AMD push here. Meadow, yeah, meadow really pushing here. While Nvidia and Tesla are falling, I'll get out of another AMD at 205. I'm just gonna put that in just in case I don't, because I miss it. Yeah, Nvidia are really falling here with Tesla, but AMD is not Disney. Yeah, a little potential mighty 90 short there. It's a good call there, bumblebee. Built at 205 to get out of another AMD. Nice. So let me look at Disney here. Our little mighty 90 short. Might be too late. Yeah, too late. I'll wait and see if it pushes back up. I was answering Eddie L's question and missed it. Apple kind of looks like it's setting up to be a upside continuation runner. AMD is holding on. Some of these stocks are pushing down right now. Not AMD, it's holding. Yeah, I missed Disney. That's a good call out there, bumblebee. Netflix pushing up. Good, looks like it's setting up. It's got a nice push up here, little pause. It's like it wants to go a little higher. They have another AMD at 225. Built at 225. Beautiful upside volume runner. So Nvidia, that bar's not gonna get as big as it first. How about now? Man, my Bluetooth, like something funky keeps coming disconnected. So AMD has come down right to where my exit would be on this, unfortunately. If it bounces, I'll hold it. But if it comes down below where that's at, I'll exit. It was a really nice winter until this happened. This is kind of what you get on a day into a holiday, though. You're like, this isn't, you don't see this very often. Nice upside volume runner. And then you get this big pullback like this. Like you just don't see that. So days before holidays, it is important to kind of be careful because you're not, sometimes you get some funky stuff happening with price action. And Nvidia's got a big volume bar to the downside now. So this is a pretty nice push down by all of these. So if AMD can rebound, I'll hold it.  Yeah, MU Mighty 90. Let's take a look at that. Nice volume pop. Man, options are so cheap though, man, under a dollar. If you want a smaller stock, I'd go, I'd say go for it. What a bummer, AMD. I'm going to close my AMD, get filled here. Yeah, just hold for a second, couldn't get filled there. Just trying to get filled at $1.25. But now we'll just wait and see what it does. I was gonna try to get out of $1.25. I wasn't getting filled. So we'll see, maybe it's tipped its toe down below and wants to go back up. So maybe it's a good thing I didn't get filled there. But MU, yeah, MU is a good setup. It's just so, the options are so cheap. I'm not gonna trade something under a dollar, but you can if you want. It's definitely a good volume pop. I mean, that's what we look for right there, for sure. Right, blockchain, another one. It's just got a really good separation there. I'm gonna get long Amazon here, I think. It's kind of held up through this push down. 146 calls in Amazon, trying to get filled at above 40. Yeah, it's a good job adjusting to get filled there probably. Yeah, this would be a continuation runner to the upside. It looks like it left me. See, it pushed up and you could see how a lot of these stocks flushed. But see how Amazon held? Like it didn't wanna continue down like Apple did, Microsoft, Roku, Meta. So that's why I was wanting to try to get long there, but I didn't get filled. You did a good job of adjusting to get filled. So $1.43, I would get out of half at 14 cents is 10%. So what is that, $1.57? You probably already get out of half, dang it. I missed it, I'm gonna cancel my Amazon. And here's something else about this. So it's a low risk trade, because if it does come down below this point where this red bar is, then I would bail on it. So it turns out to be a low risk. And Bob a bleeding lower. See now, you got out of half. If it comes below right this point here that I would bail on it. And speaking of which, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of my AMD. It just hasn't held up.  I just have not been able to get filled on AMD. So weird, unbelievable. It's taking all my profits here with just a few contracts left. All right, I can't get out of AMD because it's just falling. So I'm just canceling it and I'm just gonna wait until it stops falling. It's so frustrating when it does that. Yeah, Disney Mighty 90 would have gave me two red bars. Yeah, Microsoft falling. Hopefully you've been able to exit AMD because I haven't been able to build a dollar. Wow, out of a dollar in AMD, that was a nightmare. So what turned into a really nice volume runner really ended up disappointing. That was a big winner until this fall right here. Well, not in anything at the moment here. Amazon doing, oh yeah, I guess I could have probably got back into Amazon or I could have got into Amazon. I did come down. I think Nvidia is really bringing AMD down now. Could get Mighty 90 and MU going because that's come back down. So we'll do that. Yeah, it's still just really small options. So I'm gonna pass on MU. So it's kind of weird. All the markets are green but things seem to be getting really weak.  That's the thing, we could alongside Nvidia and the VIX is really coming up. Things might be getting weak today. I mean, things have been so strong and you can't just keep going up forever. Did I say 140, I don't know if I said 136 call. I meant to say 146. I don't remember if I said 136 or 146 but I would close half my Amazon at $1.50 at $1.50 and filled at $1.50 in Amazon. Nice little push up there. Crazy how much I gave back in AMD. Got it in $1.16, got out of a dollar. I mean, that's not something you wanna do with a volume runner. Couldn't get filled. Mighty 90s, I wait for two green bars. If you're long, that's exactly what. So what I did yesterday with Nvidia ended up being a positive trade and I added to it as well. So I always position size on a Mighty 90 so that I can add. So I go in medium size and then if I have to add to it and then that medium becomes a larger trade and then I wait for my two green bars. We got a lot of green stocks. I mean, a lot of stocks are in the green for having so many stocks falling in the last 20 minutes. I would get out of another Amazon at $1.65. So I've had a couple of nice Mighty 90s they've just been in stocks for me that are just too small to trade but typically when you see us set up like MU you typically will find yourself getting two green bars out of the volume pop like that. If it was over a dollar, I would have traded it. Filled it at $1.65 because another Amazon. So thank you Amazon. Some things starting to find a little balance now. Makes me wonder if Amazon's gonna be able to push through as a day. It's got a pretty tight range. So there goes your MU. So yeah, so if I would have gotten in right where that Mighty 90 was I probably would have added down at the pivot because that's a key level. Meta with a nice little bounce there. Amazon doesn't look like it's gonna do it. So, you know, here's something about Amazon like if it's just gonna keep this tight range the entire time. I mean, it's hard to make money when it's you're talking about in the last 20 minutes it's moved about 0.7 points Benji. Trying to grasp the concepts Airbnb qualified for a continuation run the way it's holding above the pivot while the market pulled back. Let's take a look. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of similar to Amazon. So, and then you could have gotten long right here and if it then pushed through that key level you just bail on it. So it becomes, you know, could be a quick trade.  It's kind of what I'm seeing on Amazon not like I'm not liking what it's doing here because a continuation runner you want it to eventually continue upward or continue downward, whichever where you're going.  But again, we're a day before the holiday. So you don't always get that typical pattern of movement when you don't when the volume is low and it still looks like things want to get weak. Honestly, hard to tell actually. You know, we're 45 minutes into the market being open and then you get a lot of slow movement on these days. You know, it's kind of like a Friday daily into a holiday. You know, it'll be the same thing when Christmas rolls around. You know, you get the last couple of trading days for Christmas that the volume is just muted and the price movement's muted. Target pushing through highs of day. Like, look at that.  I mean, that's what you want. That's what I wanted to see from Amazon. I know target making a big volume bar to the upside not sure what's going on with target right now but Black Friday sales. It's just hard to make money when Amazon is just moving so tight like that. And I kind of knew that going into it. You know, if it goes below that key level there, I'll bail on it. Not sure what's gotten into Tesla bleeding so lower. What's Amazon going to do here? And how's the MU doing? And I kind of came back down didn't it? And I gave you one bar. Yes, disappointing. AMD still hasn't recovered. I thought maybe it was going to recover here. Amazon's still up over 2%. Is it going to take off now or what? I mean, I never bail. That's just, I follow the rules. That's just the way I am. So if you position sides appropriately, then you should always follow the rules. I can't remember who it was yesterday but somebody bailed on Nvidia and I didn't because I followed the rules and I ended up having a positive trade.   And you know, I've done it. I've cut my losses.  So you just kind of use your judgment. I would say 98% of the time I follow the rules and maybe 2% of the time I'll just, you know, bail on something, Benjiya. So you're supposed to bail small. Yeah, so I mean, I don't figure it in my percent of my account. I never trade more than 30% of my account at one time. You know, so if someone has a $10,000 account, I wouldn't have more than $3,000 of buying power wrapped up in a trade at the same time. But for me personally, my small is usually $2,000 or under. My medium, and I've found my mediums gotten a little bit bigger the last few weeks, it's just cause I've been doing pretty good, but my medium is usually about 2,500 to 3,500 of buying power. And then my large is probably over 4 grand of buying power in a trade.  That makes sense. I think if you take a look at, if you're large something, here's another thing, I never put on more than three trades at the same time. Three is my max. So if I have three trades on and they're all four grand or higher, I mean, that's about 12K of buying power. Like I don't have any more than that on at any one time. And I definitely never go with more than three in the same direction at the same time. Hopefully that makes sense. Yeah, I mean, that's just my own risk management. I mean, and also like I'm trying to juggle calling out my fills and all that, it's a lot when you've got like, I've just found threes in my max because, you know, some people can have four, five, six on at a time. Yeah, exactly. And I remember when Steve and I first started doing these trade and these strategies we'd have six, seven trades on at the same time. Just like got to be where it was like, your mind's, your head's spinning, especially if you're going in, if you're getting two way movement, it's going into two different directions. It's just, it's about all I can manage because you're constantly, okay, I need to put a working order in for 10% for this one. Okay, what's 10% of this? I gotta put that in. So only a couple of trades on it, yeah. So only a couple of trades today. Okay, I'm used giving you another green bar. Hopefully you can get above this pivot and rip one more time higher for you. See Amazon here, I want it to continue higher. I'm not going to sit through another pullback here with Amazon. Like a lot of these have given to, you know, another rip higher where like Apple, this is its fourth green bar in a row now. You know, where's that with, that's what I want from Amazon. Roku's given his third in a row, a meta third in a row. Target's still going, goog, four in a row. So that's all what I wanted to see Amazon do. So I'm not going to get any more trades. So it is 930 central almost. So Amazon, if it continues higher, I will scale out of it. If it wants to come back down, I'm not going to mess with it anymore because you also start getting faded decay when you're just buying puts and calls. So, you know, I got a half and then I got out of a quarter twice. So, so that's my plan. I will be back on Monday. So hope everybody has a great holiday. Hope you guys spend some time with your families, friends and then I'll see you all back here next week. So have a great one everyone. Peace.


Hello Cube friends and welcome back to Vegas. Lisa Martin here with John Furrier. This is our third day of coverage of AWS re-invent. There are somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000, 70,000 people here, the excitement is palpable, the energy in the room has been on fire since Monday night. John, we love talking, we love re-invent. We love talking about AWS and its incredible ecosystem of partners and we're going to be doing that next. I mean, 10 years of the Cube, we've been here since 2013 watching it grow as the cloud computing invention and then the ecosystem has just been growing, growing, growing. At the same time, innovation, and that's this next segment, it's coming that we both have covered deeply. Boomi is going to be a great segment. We have, we have, and speaking of innovation and Boomi, we have a four-time Cube guest back with us. Ed Mikosky joined us, Chief Innovation Officer at Boomi, and it's great to see you in person. Yeah, great to be here. Thanks for having me. What's going on at Boomi? I mean, I know up and to the right continues. We'll go this way. What's going on? Yeah, we continue to grow. We're really focused with AWS on the cloud and at modernization. Most of our projects and many of our customers are in this modernization journey from an enterprise perspective, moving from on-premises, trying to implement multicloud, hybrid cloud, that sort of thing. But what we're really seeing is this modernization choke point that a lot of our customers are facing in that journey where they get, they just can't get over the hump and a lot of their, they come to us with failing projects where they're saying, hey, I've got maybe this anchor of a legacy data source or applications that I need to bring in temporarily or I need to keep filling that. So we help with integrating these workflows, integrating these applications and help that lift and shift and help our customers' projects from failing and quickly bringing themselves to the cloud. You know, Ed, we've been talking with you guys for many, many years with the Cube and look at the transition to how the market's evolved. If you look at the innovation going on now, I won't say it's an innovator's dilemma because there's a lot of innovation happening. It's becoming an integrator's dilemma. And I was talking with some of your staff, booth traffic's up, great leads coming in. You're mentioned on the keynote and the slide. I mean, the world kind of spun in the direction of Boomi with all your capabilities around integration, understanding how data works. All the themes here at re-invent kind of like are in that conversation top track that we've been mentioning in Boomi. You guys have been building around. Yeah. Explain why that's happening. Am I right, am I getting that right or can you share your thoughts? Yeah, absolutely. We're in a great spot. I mean, given the way the economy's going today, people are again trying to do more with less but there is this modernization journey that I talked about and there's an explosion of SaaS applications, cloud technologies, data sources, et cetera. And not only is it about integrating data sources and automating workflows but implementing things at scale, making sure you have high data quality, high data governance, security, et cetera. And Boomi sits right in the middle of providing solutions of all of that to make a business more efficient. Not only that, but you can implement things very, very quickly because we're a low-code platform. It's not just about this hardcore technology that's really hard to implement. You can do it really quickly with our platform. Speaking of transformation, one of the things John does every year ahead of re-invent is he gets to sit down with the CEO of re-invent and really kind of does a great, if you haven't seen it, check it out on saleclenangle.com. Really kind of a preview of what we're going to expect at the show. And one of the things Adam said to you was, CIOs, CEOs are coming to me not wanting to talk about technology, they want to talk about transformation, business transformation. It's no more not so much about digital transformation anymore. It's about transforming businesses. Are you hearing customers come to you with the same, help us transform our business so we can be competitive, so we can meet customer demand? Oh, absolutely. It's no longer about tools and technology and providing people with paint to paint on a canvas. We're offering solutions on the AWS marketplace. We have five solutions that we launched this year to get people up and running very quickly based on business problems, from disbursement to lead to cash with Salesforce and NetSuite, to business to business integrations and EDI dashboarding and that sort of thing. We also have our own marketplace that provide these solutions and give our customers the ability to visualize what they can do with our platform to actually solve business problems. Again, not just about tooling and technology and how to connect things. How's the marketplace relationship going for you? You guys seeing success there? Yeah, we're seeing a lot of success. I mean, in fact, we're going to be doubling down in the next year, we're going to be, we haven't announced it yet, but we're going to be announcing some new solutions. I guess you're not announcing it now. We're not going to get into specifics, but we're going to be putting more and more solutions on the marketplace and we're going to be offering more ways to consume and purchase our platform on the marketplace in the next couple of months. Talk about what's new with Boomi real quick. I know you guys have new connectors as early access. What's been announced? What have you guys announced? What's coming? What's the new things folks should pay attention from a product standpoint? Yeah, so you mentioned the connectors. We have 32 new connectors. And by the way, in our ecosystem, our customers have connected 199,970 unique things. Amazon SQS is one of those in that number. So that's the kind of scale we're dealing with. Okay, hold on. What's the number again? 199,970, at least that's the last check. That's a good recall right there. Exact number. It's an exciting number because we're scaling very, very rapidly. But the other things that are exciting are we announced our event streaming service that we want to bring to our cloud. We've relied on partners in the past to do that for us, but it's been a very critical need that our customers have asked for. So we're integrating that into our platform. We're also going to be focusing more and more on our data management capabilities because I mentioned it a little earlier, connecting things if bad data is going in and bad data is going out, bad data is going everywhere. So we have the tools and capability to govern data, manage data, high quality solutions. So we're going to invest more and more in that because that's what our customers are asking us for. Data governance is a challenge, right? For any business in any industry, too much access is a huge risk, not enough access to the right people means you can't really extract the insights from data to be able to make data driven decisions. How do you help customers really on that fine line of data governance? Very specifically, we have as part of our iPad platform, we have a data catalog and data prep capability within the platform itself that gives citizens in the organization the ability to catalog data in a secure way based on what they have capabilities to. But not only that, the integrator can use data catalog to actually catalog the data and understand what needs to be integrated and how they can make their business more efficient by automating the movement of data and sharing the data across the organization. On the innovation side, I want to get back to that again because I think this integration innovation angle is something that we talked about with Adam Sileski in our stories hitting Silicon Angle right now are all about the partner ecosystem. We've been highlighting some of the bigger players emerging.   You're doing low code before no code is popular. So where are you guys at on that wave? You got a good customer base, share some names, what's going on with the customers? Are they becoming more developer oriented? Because, let's face it, your customers are working on Boomi, they're developers. And so they have, they got tools.   We call that SuperCloud, but that's kind of where this new shift is happening. What's your reaction to that? Yes, so I guess we are a SuperCloud on Amazon and our customers and our partners are developers of our platforms themselves. So most of our partners are also customers of ours, and they will be implementing their own integrations in the back end of their platforms, into their back end systems to do things like billing and monitoring of their own usage of their platforms. But with our customers, they're also Amazon customers who are trying to connect in a multi-cloud way or many times just within the Amazon ecosystem, or even customers like Kenco and Tim Hager, who did a presentation from HealthBridge. They're also doing B2V connectivity to bring information from their partners into their ecosystem within their platform. So we handle all of the above. So now we are an independent company and it's nice to be part of, a central part of all of these different ecosystems. And where I find myself in my role a lot of times is literally connecting different platforms and applications and SI partners to solve these problems because nobody can really see it themselves. And I had a conversation earlier today where someone would say, hey, you're going to talk with that SI partner later today, they're a big SI partner of ours. Why don't they develop solutions that we can go to market together to solve problems for our customers? Lisa, this is something that we've been talking about a lot where it's an end conversation. The my big takeaway from Adam's one-on-one and reinvent so far is they're not mutually exclusive. There's an end. You can be in ISV and these platforms in the ecosystem because you're enabling software developers, ISVs, they call it. I think that term is kind of old school, but still, independent software vendors, that's not a platform. They can coexist, and they are. But they're becoming on your platform. So you're one of the most advanced Amazon partners. So as the cloud grows and we mature and what 13 years old Amazon is now, so okay, you're becoming bigger as a platform. That's the next wave. What happens in that next five years from there? What happens next?  So for us, where we're going is connecting platforms, platform providers, cloud providers are getting bigger. A lot of these cloud providers are embracing partnerships with other vendors and things and we're helping connect those. So when I talk about business to business and sharing data between those, there are still some folks that have legacy applications that need to connect and bring things in and they're just going to ride them until they go away. That is a requirement, but at some point that's all going to fall by the wayside. But where the industry is really going for us is it is about automation and quickly automating things and again, doing more with less. I think Tim Hager had a quote where he said, I don't need to use Michelangelo to compate my living room and that's the way he thinks about low code.  You want to get things done quickly and you want to keep automating your business to keep pushing things forward. So a lot of the things we're looking at is not just about connecting and automating data transformation and that's all valuable, but how do I get someone more productive? How do I automate the business in an intelligent way more and more to push them forward? Out-of-the-box solutions versus platforms. You can do both. You can build a platform or you can just buy out of the box. Well, that's what's great about us too is because we don't just provide solutions. We provide solutions many times as a starting point or as a, the way I look at it, it's art of the possible a lot of what we give because then our customers can take our low code tooling and say, wow, I like this solution but I can really take it to the next step almost in like an open source model and just quickly iterate and drive innovation that way and I just love seeing our, a lot of it for me is just our ecosystem and our partners driving the innovation for us. And driving that speed for customers. I had the chance to interview Tim Hager myself last month and he was talking about Boomi is enabling him to do, Boomi integration and Flower enabling him to do integrations 10X faster than before and HealthBridge built their business on Boomi. They didn't replace the legacy solution but he had experience with some of your big competitors and chose Boomi and said, it is 10X faster. So he's able to deliver to those and it's a great business helping people pay for health issues that they don't have the funds to do that so much faster than they could have had they chosen a different technology. Yeah and also what I like about the HealthBridge story is you said they started with Boomi's technology so I like to think we scale up and scale down so many times when I talk to prospects or new customers they think that our technology is too advanced or too expensive or too big for them to go after and they don't think they can solve these problems like we do with enterprises. We can start with you as a startup going with SaaS applications trying to be innovative in your organization to automate things and scale, as you scale as a company we'll be right there along with you to scale into very, very advanced solutions all in a low-code way so. And also helping folks to scale up and down during what we're facing these macroeconomic headwinds that's really important for businesses to be able to do for cost optimization but at the end of the day that company has to be a data company they have to be able to make sure that the data matches it's there, they know what they have they can actually facilitate communications, conversations and deliver the end user customer is demanding whether it's a retailer, a healthcare organization, a bank, you name it. Exactly and another thing with today's economy a lot of people forget with integration and automation tooling once you get things implemented you've got a man in many traditional forms you've got to manage that long-term you have to have a team to do that. Our technology runs autonomously I hear from our customers over and over again I just said it sometimes I'll walk away for a month and come back and wow, Boomi's still running I didn't realize it because we have technology that continues to patch itself feel itself continue running autonomously that also saves in a time like now where you don't have to worry about sending teams out to patch and upgrade things on a continuous basis we take care of it for our customers. I think you guys can see a lot of growth with this recession and looming you guys fit well with the marketplace as people figure out how to right size you guys fit right nicely into that equation I got to ask you what's ahead for 2023 for Boomi? What can we expect to see? Yeah, what's ahead? I briefly mentioned it earlier but the new service we're really excited about that because it's going to help our customers to scale even further and bring more workloads into AWS and more workloads that we can solve challenges for our customers. We've also got additional solutions we're looking at launching on the AWS marketplace we're going to continue working with S-I's and G-S-I's and our ISV ecosystem to identify more and more enterprise-grade solutions and verticals and industry-based solutions that we can take out of the box and give to our customers so we're just going to keep growing. What are some of those key verticals? Just curious. So we're focusing on manufacturing the financial services industry and I don't know maybe it's vertical but higher ed is another big one for us so we have over 100 universities that use our technology in order to automate grant submissions, student management of different aspects, that sort of thing. Boise State's one of them that's modernized on AWS with Boomi technology so we're going to continue rolling in that front as well. Okay, is it time for the challenge? It's time for the challenge. Are you ready for the challenge, Ed? We're springing this on you but we know you so we know you can nail this. If you were going to create your own CISL Reel and we're creating CISL Reel that's going to go on Instagram Reels and you're going to be a star of it, what would that CISL Reel say? Like if you had a billboard or a bumper sticker what's that about Boomi? Boom, powerful story. Well we joked about this earlier but I'd have to say go Boomi it, this isn't real. Go Boomi it, go Boomi it why? Go Boomi it because it's such a succinct way of saying our customer, that terminology came to us for our customers, from our customers because if Boomi becomes a verb within an organization they'll typically start with us and they'll solve an integration challenge or something like that and then we become viral in a good way within an organization where our customers, at least you mentioned it earlier before the show, you love talking to our customers because they're so excited and happy and love our technology, they just keep finding more ways to solve challenges and push their business forward and when a problem comes up an employee will typically say to another, go Boomi it. When you're a verb that's a good thing. Yes it is. Splunk goes plunk it, that was a verb for log vials, queen x, tissue, yeah, we need those here. And thank you so much for coming back on the fourth, your fourth time so now we'll, next time we'll see you, fifth time we'll get you that five timers club jacket like they have on SNL next time. Perfect, can't wait. We appreciate your insights, your time and it's great to hear what's going on at Boomi, we appreciate it. Cool, thank you. For Ed Mikoski and John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live enterprise and emerging tech coverage.


Thank you for joining class. We will begin. We were looking at, what were we looking studying on Friday? What did we study? The lot servant. Yes, Lucy. The lot servant through the verses ratio 42, 1, 6 and 7. Okay, we were looking at the servant songs, but what are we basically studying in this chapter? Who established the new covenant and has a high priest who officiated the covenant by springing off his blood, and he's a testator to make the new covenant effective. Okay. The new covenant, which is embodied within the messiah. Okay. Thank you, Lucy. But why are we studying all of this? So what is the topic? Promise of his coming, the prophecies. Okay, promise of his coming, the prophecies regarding what? Uh, which has got fulfilled. Second coming, the prophecies of his birth. Yes, his incarnation. Right. God becoming flesh, God becoming man. Where's Deeksha? She's not well. Okay. Okay. So we'll continue. We began looking at, um, we were looking at studying some of the prophecies. Okay. And we looked at Isaiah chapter 42 versus, um, 1, 6 and 7. And we said, this is one of the servant songs. This is the ninth prophecy that we were looking regarding the prophecies concerning the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Okay. So we looked at, um, three things that we, um, important three facts about the servant. What is the first important fact, what we learned from Isaiah 42? What is the first thing we learned about the servant? He establishes the covenant. He himself was given as a covenant, okay, to the people. And what is the second, was the second thing about the servant? Testator. Okay. That is the part of the first one. He himself is the covenant. So he's also the testator. What's the second thing that we looked at? He was open blind eyes, bring prisoners out. And those are in darkness out of the prison house. Yes. Thank you. So he's a servant who would open the blind eyes, set the captives free, those in bondage he would release them from, bondage. And we see, we saw the New Testament scripture passages, we talk about the fulfillment of this in Jesus Christ. Okay. And then we also studied about Isaiah chapter nine, verses one and two about naftali and zebulin. And we looked at how the promise was fulfilled by Jesus through these tribes, saftali and zebulin. Okay. And what is the third important fact about the servant? He'll be a light to the Gentiles. He'll bring forth justice to the Gentiles. Okay. Which means we're saying that Jesus's ministry was not just to the Jews. It was not just for the Jewish people, but his ministry was also to the Gentiles. Now, why are we, sorry, why is this being elaborated or mentioned in scripture that Jesus's ministry is not just for the Jews, but also to the Gentiles? Why is it mentioned? Why is emphasis given? Salvation is for all? Yes. Jews thought the Messiah was only for them, right? They thought they are the people with the laws, the covenants, the prophets, the messiahs going to come from them. They are the chosen race, the chosen people. They have all the covenants, the laws, the prophets, the forefathers. So everything they've thought they are like the privilege, the high caste of society, so to say. Okay. But and they look down upon the Gentiles. But salvation is for Jews and Gentiles. There's no Jew nor Gentiles, slave, no free male, no female. All are one in Christ Jesus. Amen. So that is what the Messiah would come and his ministry was not just for the Jewish people, but also to the Gentiles. He will also bring righteousness and justice to them as well. Okay. So this whole task of bringing justice and righteousness to Gentiles, was it fully completed in Jesus? Fulfill the ministry. The ministry to the Gentiles is fully completed to the Jews and Gentiles is fully completed by Jesus. Ongoing system. Yes, it's ongoing. Stalusi, thank you because it is not finished. It was the task was completed in terms of the sacrifice was made. But God looks to us, we as the body of Christ, we as the church, we are here to bring forth to justice to the Gentiles and be a light to the Gentiles. So Christ is fulfilling his task in and through us his body, which is the church. Okay. And we see this even in the early church. We see that in the apostles in the early church, they also did their ministry to the Gentiles. And we look at Paul mentioning this in various places. Acts chapter 13, verses 46 to 48 is one of the places where Paul and Barnabas, you know, they say that you people had the word of God, but you rejected it. Okay. And so now we turn to the Gentiles. Okay. And God has commanded us, I have set you as a light to the Gentiles and you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth. And so what happens when the Gentiles heard this was 48. What happened to the Gentiles? Look at the Acts chapter 13, verse 48, what happens to them when they heard? Yes, they were very happy and they glorified God. Why? Because they were also included in the plan of salvation. They're also part of the eternal life and many of them believed. Okay. So that was the last bit of the portion that we had left incomplete in the last class when we were looking at the prophecy in Isaiah chapter 46, 42, verses 1, 6, and 7. So any questions regarding the prophecies concerning the incarnation of Jesus Christ? There are many more, but we looked at some important ones. Any questions, any queries, anything that you don't, did not understand, you want me to explain before we move on to the next chapter, chapter 5. No questions, no clarifications, anything you want me to explain again. Okay. We'll move on to chapter 5 where we will try to understand the incarnation. What is incarnation? What is incarnation? Taking on human form.  Okay. So we look at our focus will be not on the historical aspect in terms of how Jesus lived, where he went, what he did, and all of those things, but rather on the spiritual implications. What is spiritual through implications that we will gain? So we look at, we'll gain a few insights of the how of incarnation, how God became human. Okay. How did humanity and divinity exist in perfect unity in the person of Jesus Christ? How was he fully God? How was he fully man at the same time? How was he 100% God? How was he 100% man at the same time? Okay. So we'll look and gain a biblical perspective of his incarnation. Okay. And we'll also look at what happened when the eternal God, how when deity became human or deity became, took on humanity. Okay. Again, we look at the spiritual implications of this and not the historical aspect, how he walked on the earth, how we live, what he did. Okay. So we'll begin by looking at the biblical perspective of his incarnation. Again, we will look at John chapter one versus one to three, but I'm not going to focus on that because we studied that quite a bit in chapter one and chapter two. We look at verse 14. So can somebody please read John chapter one verse 14, please. And the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Yes. So we see that the word became flesh. The word became God. You know, sorry, the word was God. The word was with God in the beginning and God became man. Okay. The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory. The glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Okay. So why do you think Jesus became or took on humanity? Why did divinity, why did God become man or why did divinity become humanity? Why did God become man? Why did he take on the human nature? Why? Okay. Showing, setting as an example, being a model, okay, that we can overcome temptation, we can live the life, follow the laws that he's given us because people in the Old Testament were struggling to keep the laws. Okay. We couldn't match up to the law. We couldn't live according to the law. Okay. So he came to fulfill the law, keep the law and show us as an example. Okay. Why did the word become flesh? Why did divinity become humanity? Take on humanity. Why? Sanjay says to show us the way, the truth and the life. Okay. People says to save mankind. Yes. One of the reasons why God became man was so that he can make the full sufficient, perfect sacrifice. Only a sinless person can make the full sufficient and perfect sacrifice that will appease God. Okay. Lucy says for our salvation, what else? Other than salvation, to manifest who God is, to show us who God is. Okay. What's the meaning of manifest? Showing, showing who he is, showing his works. Manifest means getting into reality. The word of God manifested himself means, you know, and in Jesus, we could see the father means in a very real way, in a very tangible way, the way that we can touch, experience, feel. Okay. So it was Jesus who became man, God becoming man so that we can understand the Godhead. We can understand the father. He came to manifest who the father was. He came to manifest the nature of the father. Okay. The attributes and the characteristics of the father. And so the word became flesh. When we talk about word becoming flesh, you know, what do we mean? What do we mean by flesh? Human. The word became human. Okay. Okay. Becoming human, being human. Okay. Here an in-person student says in a tangible way, we can experience, we can relate to in a real way. Yes. The word became flesh means what? It's not just becoming human, but it's taking on the fullness of humanity. Okay. So even though Jesus was fully God, he was 100% God, but yet he took on the fullness of humanity. So when he said he took on the fullness of humanity means what? He was 100% human. He went through the struggles and the challenges that we face as humans. Right. Was he tired? Was he hungry? Was he lonely? Deserted? Did he hurt in his body? Yes. Did he sleep? Yes. So, you know, we see that he took on the fullness of humanity. He went through everything in the natural process of a human being. Why? Why did he have to do that? Why did he have to do that? Why did he become so fully human? Why did the eternal logos take on the fullness of humanity? No answers? Tell me. You can use the mic. Okay. It's okay. It doesn't matter. There are many students. Okay. So here an in-person student, he was speaking in Hindi, so he didn't want to use the mic. He says, God had given Adam an authority in the Garden of Eden and when they sinned, they lost that authority and Jesus came to take back that authority from Satan and also to set us an example to show us how we can flow in that authority. But you know, in the boundaries that God has given us, how we can still use that authority and how we can glorify God, how we can extend his kingdom. Yes. Sanjay says to identify with us in our pains and our struggles. Yes. To identify in our pains and struggles. That's why the writer of Hebrew says we have a high priest who identifies with us, who went through temptation just like we go through, but yet did not sin. So what is he saying?  He went through temptations, but he did not yield to temptations, which means it means that when you face temptation that you can also not yield to temptation. Lucy says to set us an example and a model. Yes. So he took on the fullness of humanity so he can identify with us. He can identify with our struggles, with our challenges. He can identify with what we are going through and also we can identify with him. And we can become his representatives here on earth. When he created Adam and Eve, how did he create Adam and Eve in his image? Exactly like him. Why did God create Adam and Eve in his image? Because he wanted them to represent him here on earth.  So that is why he became the fullness of humanity so he can understand us and he can also set us an example. So here it says that the word became flesh and dwelt among us. What does the meaning of dwelt mean? Dwelt means dwelling in tents. In the Old Testament we see most of the time when people journeyed they dwelt in tents and also here dwelt literally means tabernacle dwelling. In Hindi they say tabernacle. Wherever they journeyed, the tabernacle journeyed along with them. The tent of meeting also journeyed along with them and it said that in the tabernacle that God manifested his glory. You know God would come there. His presence would be seen there. He would speak. He would make known his ways and what the people need to do. So God manifested his glory in that tent. So that is why here we read the writer of John is saying he's writing to the Jews. So the Jews know that in the Old Testament God dwelt with man. His presence was there in the tabernacle. So he's saying this word became flesh and dwelt among us, lived among us and we beheld his glory. So what was the glory that the people in the Old Testament saw when God manifested himself in the tabernacle? What glory did they see? Who's glory did they see? God's glory, right? When Jesus dwelt among men, what glory did they see? Sonship glory. Thank you Nelson. Why didn't we see God's glory when Jesus dwelt here on earth? How do we know it's sonship glory? Because Jesus in his high priestly prayer in John chapter 17 says, Father I finished my work. You know just before the night he, the Garden of Gethsemane was going to be betrayed. You know he says, Father finish my work and I'm coming back to you. Give me the glory I had before. You know and he says now I'm giving my glory to my disciples. So the glory he was talking about that he's going to give us as those who believe in him is his sonship glory and he's saying now give me back the glory when I come back. He's talking about the glory that he had as deity as God. Now when we're saying that Jesus is 100% God, 100% man, humanity and divinity coexist in perfect unity in the person of Jesus Christ. Why didn't Jesus manifest his the glory of God? Why did he manifest sonship glory? When we say that word became flesh, divinity became becoming humanity and in Jesus, deity and humanity existed in perfect unity, perfect oneness. Jesus was completely God, completely man, 100% God, 100% man. But why didn't he manifest his, even though he was 100% God, why didn't he manifest his the glory of God? Why did he manifest the sonship glory when he lived here on this earth? In the Old Testament they saw the glory of divinity, God being manifested. Why did Jesus not manifest his the glory of deity? Why did he manifest the sonship glory? Do you are able to understand my question? Yes, did you ever think about it? If you look at John chapter 17, it talks about the glory of Jesus and did not have his, he had the sonship glory. If you look at John chapter 17, so look at verse 22. And the glory which you gave me, I have given them and they may be just as we are. Where does he say, God, give me back the glory that I had? So what is the answer to my question? Look at verse four and five. I have glorified you. Look at verse four and five. I've glorified you on the earth. I have finished the work which you've given to me and now your father glorified me together with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world wars. And then in verse 22 he says in the glory which you gave me, I've given them that they may be one just as we are one. So why did Jesus not manifest his the glory of deity? Why did he manifest the sonship glory when he lived here on this earth? Because he had taken the form of human. So he had given up his the powers that God had like you know being omnipresent and omniscient. So and he always referred on earth to the father. He prayed to the father and that's what he taught us to do as well. I think I did have another right track. Yeah, he did not choose to exercise his power of being omnipotent, his attributes of being, sorry not power attributes of being omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. He refrained from using it even though he was fully God. Yeah, okay. It's there in verse 24, Father, I desire that they also whom you gave me, maybe with me where I am that they may behold my glory which you have given me. So on that ground it's like the glory that the Son has received. He's given it to us. Yes, we receive the sonship glory, but my question is why didn't he manifest his the glory of deity? Why did he manifest sonship glory? First Timothy, yes, sorry, he limited himself or refrained himself from using it. Why? First Timothy chapter 6 verse 16 says, you know, no one has seen, yes, Sunday says no one can see God with their physical eyes and live, right? God lives in unapproachable light, to no man has seen or can ever see. So if Jesus came and he wanted to reveal the heart of the Father to us and if he wanted to be that sacrifice for sin, okay, and if he manifested his sonship glory, could we even walk along with him, touch him, experience him in a tangible way? Yes or no? If he manifested the glory of God, could we walk along with him, experience him in a tangible, in a real way? No, we can't because it says here that he's when he manifests the glory of God, you know, no eye can see him. He lives in unapproachable light, no man has seen or can ever see. We can't see, right? We will still be like people in the Old Testament trying to understand God and imagine if he manifested the glory of deity, no one could crucify him on the cross. He can't lay hands on, you know, on the glory of God, can't even come near it. It's like, we can't even think of imagining going anywhere near the sun. We leave on millions of kilometers away from the sun. Okay, so that is why Jesus refrained from using his the glory of deity, but he took on the sonship glory so that we can experience him in a real tangible way and he can fulfill the will of the Father. He can complete the work of the Father for which he came. So he refrained from using, like Warren also says, refrained from being omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. Also refrained to study about it in Philippians. Also refrained from manifesting his the deity of the glory of God. Okay, so when we talk about the word dwelt among us, it basically means tabernacle, where so when when Jesus lived, we were able to see the glory of God because we were able to see it with our naked eyes. We were able to experience it. We were able to experience his healing. We were able to experience his miracles in a very tangible and a real way. He could touch the eyes of the blind man. Okay, he could raise the dead back to life. He could hold their hands. He could do all of those things. People could experience him. He could carry children. You know, he could speak to them. He could relate to them like a human in a real way because he was manifesting the sonship glory, but through his sonship glory, he was still manifesting the glory of God, which means what do we mean by manifesting the glory of God? What do we mean when you say manifesting the glory of God is to put into action, put into action. When we talk about, we are called to manifest the glory of God or Jesus manifested the glory of God. It basically means manifesting who God is and what he does. Okay, please don't forget this. Two things. Manifesting the glory of God means who God is, his nature, his attributes and what he does, the miracle signs, things that he works out in our lives. So how is the glory of God manifested in our lives through who God is? And that's the work of the fruit of the spirit. The fruit of the spirit is very evident in our lives. It basically manifests the nature of God and what God does is manifest it through the gifts of the spirit. Okay, and Jesus desires that we manifest his glory just like when he created Adam and Eve and that's why he says in John chapter 17 verse 22, God, you know, Father, I'm giving them the glory which you have given me that they may be one just as we are, one and we can also manifest and continue his work here on. All of you with me? Yes, all of you able to understand? I was going above your heads. Some of you are just looking at me very puzzled. What about the online students? All of you understanding? Yes, no? Okay, so we see that in the Old Testament, God lived and moved with his people. So whatever people moved, they moved from place to place. Daniel, can you please mute your mic? Daniel, can you please mute your mic, Daniel? Yeah, thank you. Okay, so we see that wherever the Israelites moved, the tabernacle also moved with them. And we see that God dwelling among his people, moving with his people, providing for his people and he manifested his glory, manifested who he is and what he can do. He did, you know, God water from the rock, he provided manna, he, you know, was gave them light during the night time, you know, shielded them from the sun during the day. So we see the experienced God in a real way. So also in Incarnation, we see God coming and dwelling with mankind, okay, God living with mankind and we beheld his glory. We could see the glory of God which was manifested in Jesus. So the glory that Jesus manifested when he lived here on the earth is the sonship glory, okay. That is what we read in John chapter 1 verse 14, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the one and only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. So what was the glory that Jesus manifested when he lived here on the earth? He manifested his sonship glory, okay. Now the Greek word for glory is doxa. It basically means honor, reputation, reputation or esteeming a person, okay. So to the word doxa and the New Testament, when you read glory, it means doxa in Greek and it basically means honor, splendor and majesty. So when Jesus came, he manifested the splendor, the power, the glory, the majesty of God. And when we manifest the glory of God, we're also doing the stain, okay. And his glory was characterized by grace and truth, okay. His glory was manifested by grace and truth, okay. That's why we see that Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life and we see grace, compassion and mercy that he shows forth. So when we're trying to understand, hey, how can this, you know, how can Jesus be fully God and yet be fully man? How can he be 100% God and how can he be 100% man the same time, okay.  He limited himself to certain things. He submitted himself to certain limitations which he did not want. He refrained from using it so that he can fulfill the will of the Father even as he's come here on the earth. And for us, it's not very easy to understand, right. We can't understand how can divinity, humanity exist in perfect unity in the person of Jesus Christ. How can he be fully God, fully man? We cannot completely understand. We completely cannot define it, okay. And we only can understand what is being revealed to us, okay. And we know that Jesus could reveal only what could be revealed in the limitations of his humanness, only what can be understood by us. So he refrained from using those, those nature and attributes that would, would refrain him from, you know, expressing himself to us or expressing who God the Father is to us or fulfilling the will of the Father. So he refrained from using that. We will study that in a little more and you'll be able to understand, okay. So the important thing we need to understand is that, you know, of course, we can't understand how Jesus was truly God, truly man, fully God, fully man, okay. He did not become, but we need to understand that he did not become flesh in the sense of seizing to be what he eternally was. That means when Jesus became human, he did not seize or he did not stop being God. That is something that you need to remember, okay. He did not, when he became flesh, he did not seize to be what he eternally was. Who, who was he eternally? He was eternally God. So he did not stop from being God, rather the eternal God took on the fullness of humanity, which means in his body, in his soul, in his spirit, he was fully human and he was also fully God, but he limited himself to the manifestations of the divinity, limited himself to the manifestation of the divinity, means he did not manifest the glory of God. He refrained from being omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniceant. We'll study all of that more in detail and you will be able to understand, okay. Now let us look at Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1, 2, 3. Can somebody read that please? Before we read Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 to 3, anyone has any questions, any doubts? All of you are able to understand? Yes, no? Okay. Can we, someone please read Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 to 3 please? God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds, who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged out, purged our sins sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Amen. So here we see that God has spoken to us through his Son, okay. So everything that the Father wanted to reveal to us is revealed through the Son. The word incarnate is basically God himself speaking to man, God himself speaking to us, okay. So we look at two other facts about Incarnation or regarding Incarnation in this passage that we read or this verses that we read. First thing we look at is Jesus with the brightness of God's glory. The second thing he's the express image of God's person, okay. If you look at the first one God Jesus is the brightness of God's glory. If we look at this in the amplified Bible he says it says or he's the express image of his person. You know if you look at the amplified Bible says he's a perfect imprint and the very image of God's nature. That means exactly how God is his nature where he looks the perfect imprint is seen in Jesus, okay. The Jerusalem Bible says he's the perfect copy of his nature, okay. The new international version says he's the exact representation of his being, okay. And the literal Greek Bible says who being radiant of the glory and the representation of the reality of him. Which means we're saying hey Jesus was fully man but he was also fully God, okay. And we see in Jesus the perfect, the very image of God's nature. We see the perfect copy of his nature. We see the exact representation of his being, okay. So let's look at what it means that Jesus is the brightness of God's glory, okay. God's glory is basically manifesting who God is and what he does. His nature, his attributes and his works, okay. So all this is expressed in was expressed in Jesus. You know when Jesus lived here on this earth people were able to see and experience the nature of God and what God does, okay. So it says here that Jesus is the brightness which means what does it mean? Jesus the brightness of God's glory which means the nature and the attributes of the character of God is seen out shining in Jesus. When you look at some people they stand out compared to the rest of us, right. They outshine compared to the rest of us. So you know basically Jesus was you know the brightness of God's glory means he was out shining the nature and the character of God. So all who God is was seen, was manifest, was shown out through Jesus. What do we mean when we say that Jesus is the express image of God's person? It basically means he's a perfect copy. He's the exact representation or it's like in reality seeing God himself, okay. Who God really is was seen through the nature and the characteristic of Jesus. So the incarnation you know of Jesus we receive the complete revelation of the living God. It's not just seeing the nature but also hearing what God wants to speak to us or reveal to us. The mysteries of the kingdom of God was revealed to us by Jesus, okay.  So everything that we want to understand and know about who God is can be seen in the person and the image of Jesus Christ, okay. Isn't that wonderful, right? You know just imagine this God who lives in unapproachable light who's so glorious, so magnificent, so great, so awesome, so powerful would just want to limit himself to come and live amongst us to reveal who God is, to reveal the heart of God, to reveal the nature of God, to reveal the attributes of God. It just it kind of blows our mind to just think you know you know God can think of me a significant insignificant person like me, a small speck in this huge world that you know he thought about us. He thought about us weak humans, fallen humans, frail humans who do not want to obey him, who do not want to continue loving him, who choose the things of this world but yet he thinks so big of us, he thinks so great of us and when he does things for us, the things that he does for us is so great, is so you know we stand in awe of it, it just blows our mind to think that you know we're just so small, we're weaklings you know and yet this great big God wants to come and manifest himself, show us the nature, show us the attributes, show us the character of God. Isn't that amazing that you know he limited himself, he refrained from using his his nature and attributes of being deities so that we can see, we can understand, we can experience him in such a real way so that we can have a real relationship with him and this is what you know he comes to fulfill his whole plan and purpose to have a communion, to have fellowship, to have relationship and all this Jesus did or God did for us is because he wants to have a relationship with you and me, he wants to communicate with us, he wants us to experience him and not only that you know he it also says in Ephesians that he's the fullness of the deity is being given to each one of us, you know the fullness of Godhead is being given to each one of us that means he wants us to experience him in the fullest sense so now don't restrict yourself from experiencing who God is in the fullest sense because he wants to reveal all of him to us so be greedy, be hungry, be desirous for more of him, say God I want to experience more of you, who you are, your nature, your love, your power God I want to just experience that even when you are reading the New Testament you can read familiar passages of scripture but now look at it with a different perspective from now saying hey here is this God you know who laid aside his refrain from using his glory of deity took on the sonship glory so that I can know him so say God even as I'm reading this familiar passage you know in the gospels I've read it thousands of times or hundreds of times and listened to it but you came to manifest yourself you came to manifest your nature and reveal your mysteries to us so reveal your truths to me even as I'm reading this scripture you know when we do that he's going to really breathe on his word and his word is going to come so alive and so we can just experience his manifest presence in such a powerful and such a real way can we do that at least for all that he's done looking at his word and just experiencing him and desiring him more in the way that he's come to reveal him as self to us okay so we see that in Colossians 1 chapter 1 verse 15 it says Jesus is the image of the invisible God okay isn't it wonderful that we can't see God but yet so wonderful to know that same God has come to reveal himself to us and 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 4 says that you know Christ who is the image of God which means he's the he's not the avatar of God he's not somebody who's just taking on a form of something you know like when we act in the skits and on you know you can act like king you can act like a beggar you can act like Jesus you can you don't become Jesus right you just act you can act like a Samaritan woman but you don't become the Samaritan woman so we but when Jesus and it says here Jesus is the image of the invisible God it does not mean that he took on you know an avatar it means he's the exact representation he's the exact revelation okay so in the incarnation the invisible God becomes visible okay any questions so far any questions or we'll study Philippians chapter 2 verses 6 to 8 and you will understand you know incarnation in a much more deeper way any questions just one more minute are you able to understand yes can you see the bigger picture of the incarnation than just Jesus coming down to die all for your sins and receive all of that and live out that and experience him in the fullest sense okay there no questions will end class we'll yes can you please take the Mike Nelson so that others can listen to your question in John chapter 1 verse 14 the word is used as begotten so actually I want to know about more actually begotten means yes it's a good question so the word begotten basically means that you know one of a kind okay Jesus one of a kind it's from the the Greek word forget what the Greek word is but it just basically means it's it's one of a kind so when he says that he's the only begotten son of he's means his his origins is from God he's the only one who was from the father okay he does not say here that he's only begotten of Mary and Joseph that means we can say he's the only son of Mary and Joseph he was not begotten of humanity because but he was begotten of God he's only one of the kind which means begotten means one of the kind so he has his origins from heaven not from humanity was not born to earthly human parents was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit but he was not begotten of Mary and Joseph was begotten of God which means he's he's God's son he's his origins are from there did that help I'll explain that when I'm looking at the son but it just basically means that yeah good question anyone else has any questions okay there are no questions we'll end class okay thank you all for joining class have a good day thank you thank you thank you thank you Boren


The baby's sleeping. That's why he's not here. His sleep is more important. It's true. I'm sorry.  I'm Corbin. I'm Stephanie. And he follows on Instagram, Twitter, and more juicy content. It's so juicy. Thank you for watching this video. And don't forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and the bell, so you don't miss out on all our notifications. Bye! Today! It's Shahid Kapoor's birthday. Happy birthday, Shahid Kapoor. My best friend. In case you didn't know. After you, of course. But yes, it's his birthday. Rick is not here because he's dead. Sorry. He'll be back. Don't worry. He comes back to life every now and then. 39. 39? Sorry. I was looking at what day it was on. 39 years old today. So happy birthday, Shahid Kapoor. Happy birthday. Today we are reacting to one of his songs. Oh. Yeah. It's called Haun Hai Ho. It's from Isk. Isk. Okay. Is that how you pronounce all that? I would say Khaun Hai Ho. I don't know. The person on it. Ha! Good one, babe. You want to read all that? As a dancer. In Shimak. Daweer's Institute. Shahid Kapoor made an uncredited appearance as a background dancer in a film. Dil Tu Pagahai in 1997. And Thao in 1999. Isk Vic translated it to love. Shamu. Was a 2003 Hindi language coming of age romance starring Shahid Kapoor in his debut film performance. The film became a sleeper hit at the box office and launched Shahid Kapoor's career. In this video you can see why Shahid Kapoor was known as a chocolate boy. Which you know is not a racial term. But a term for a young, fresh-faced hero who specializes in romantic roles. In case you don't know. A lady I once talked to. She was, I assume she liked Shahid Kapoor.  And I thought she was being racist. It doesn't make sense. She's Indian. But the term comes from a time when handsome pictures of men used to decorate boxes of chocolate. That's cool. And there's a bit of negative implication into it. See? Racism. A chocolate boy may be popular with ladies. But he is usually seen as nothing more than a pretty face. This song does not have subtitles, but it is basically about Shahid Kapoor's being schmitten for the new girl at the college. Cool. I do like that little background in why it's chocolate boys. I didn't know that. But here we go. He's our best friend.  Just adorable. Great family. No, but you could...  Yeah, kind of.   Yeah, he was so young. He's 39 now. He's an old man. He's peeking though. He's a good-looking man. I feel like a lot of times people think like they look their best when they're like 20, 21. But it's not true. Yeah, that was cool though. Was that singer of Shahid Kapoor's? We've seen that singer sing, the playback singer, sing for Shahrukh Khan when he was younger, I feel like. I feel like I've heard that playback singer sing for him. So it gave me vibes of young Shahrukh Khan a lot. So you can tell me if I'm 100% wrong, which I probably am. But happy birthday to you, sir. We wish you the very best. I'd like to celebrate it with you when you come over here. We'll drink some whiskey and watch Harry Potter. What house do you think Shahid Kapoor's in? We could place every Bollywood actor if we get to know them into a house. You might not agree, but I think I would need more Gryffindor. No. You say Slytherin. I actually don't say either. I'm saying his personality himself, I don't think he is. I think he is. I would have actually maybe put him in Hufflepuffer Rig. Really? Yeah. The characters that I play often will go that way, but I actually think he is much more reserved, which is why I won't put him in Gryffindor. People in Gryffindor can be reserved. No, they can. Yes, they can.  Gryffindor is the worst house. Just letting you know in the video now.


So, hello, this is a first in a short series of videos regarding Jetpack when it comes to WordPress. Jetpack is something we installed in October of 2013 to the Nebraska Libraries on the Web project sites. And when you first notice it is in logging into your dashboard, as I've done here, you will see that it says Jetpack is ready to be installed and ready to bring awesome. Jetpack offers several features that we're going to talk about in general in this video and then for some of them, which I think are going to be the more useful to our libraries, I'll create separate videos for that, but I highly recommend you watch this one first because if nothing else it will get Jetpack turned on for your particular site. You can access Jetpack a couple of ways. One is if you do have this banner, you have not closed it already, which you can close it using this X here, you can click on learn more. You can also get to the same place once you've set up Jetpack by clicking on the Jetpack here in the dashboard menu on the left. So I'm going to go ahead and do that. Now what we've got here is the Jetpack menu and at the moment, none of this actually works, but I want to cover a couple of the things that it will do for you so you can decide if you want to turn it on or not. Basically there are three features here that I will create separate videos for and I will encourage you to use. The first one is listed here is WordPress.com stats. Originally earlier on in this project, I was recommending people turn on Google Analytics. Unfortunately, Google Analytics has changed how it works and we can no longer use it based on our setup. So WordPress.com stats is going to be the way you can now get user statistics for your websites, number of visitors, things like that. The other one is publicize. This will allow you to write content for your blog and then automatically cross post it to other services such as Twitter and Facebook. This is something I use personally. This is something I highly recommend if you have such as something such as a Twitter or Facebook account. This way you can just write a blog post here and when you click publish here, it will automatically go to your other social networking accounts. The third one I want to talk about real briefly here and I need to scroll down to find it is it's going to be an email thing here as you can see there is a lot of options and I have obviously missed the one that I'm looking for here. Subscriptions there we go. Subscriptions allows you to add a widget to your site so that people can subscribe to your website via email if they wish to. So if you have patrons or visitors that want to receive your updates via email instead of RSS or having to come to the website, subscriptions is something you can turn on and have available on your site for your users. But you'll notice here all these just have these learn more buttons. They don't actually work yet because the first thing you need to do is in this blue box here at the top, this is connect to wordpress.com. So what I'm going to show you in the rest of this video is how to do that. So step number one is go ahead and click on connect to wordpress.com and then it's going to ask you to enter username and password for the wordpress.com website. Now we are running wordpress but we are not wordpress.com. Wordpress.com is a hosted service where people can use wordpress without paying for it without hosting it themselves. You're using the commission's copy of wordpress not wordpress.com. So chances are you don't already have an account. If you do, go ahead and type in your username and password here. However, I'm going to assume you don't have one. So I'm going to go ahead and click on need an account. And then it's going to ask you to fill in an email address, a username and a password. Now it may pre-fill in the email address as you can see here and actually I'm not going to actually use this one because it's a separate account I have here. We're going to set up NLC social at Nebraska.gov. And then it's going to ask me to pick a username and I'm going to call this NLC social. And then put in a password. Now I'm going to cheat here just a little bit. I've pre-configured a password on another screen here and I don't really want to show that to you. So I'm going to go ahead and copy it and then paste it into this field. And I just showed you that password. So you know what we're going to do? We're going to pick a completely different one. And in fact, you know what, I'll use that one and I'm just going to go ahead and change it in a minute here so that you won't be able to notice it. We'll go hide there. And then we'll go ahead and click sign up. So at this point what I'm going to get here is a check your email to complete your registration. So an email is going to come into my email account and when I get that, and I'm going to go ahead and check my email while I'm talking here, once I get that, excuse me, it's going to have a link that I'm going to need to click on to verify my email address to make sure I'm sending it to a legitimate email address. Once you get that, you will click on the link in the email and that will activate your account. Then what you're going to need to do is go back to the authorized Jetpack screen here. You're going to type in your username and your password and click on authorized Jetpack. Once you have authorized Jetpack, then all of those features that I showed you on the screen with all the boxes, the publicize, the subscribe, the stats, those features will then be turned on and will not only have learn more buttons, but will also have configure buttons. Once you've got those, once you've got this authorized, any service you want to turn on from Jetpack, just go ahead and click on that configure button. And like I said, for at least those three services that I specifically mentioned, there will be separate videos shortly available on the online training screen that will show you how to configure and use those individually. So as always, if you have any questions, just go ahead and leave a comment in this video on the project blog and just go ahead. Once you get this turned on, watch those other videos and you'll learn how to use those features. Thanks.


I think always, in my life, when I look back, I was always interested in problems or projects where you have something to do, maybe you don't know how to do it, but you need to have something done at the end and I really enjoyed projects and I enjoyed things that involved math and science and I really liked computer programming when I started programming when I was in graduate school. And those are tools which I could use to solve problems and to analyze satellite data or other types of data and that got me interested not only in using those tools to analyze satellite data, but to understand what was being measured and how to measure it better. And so that's led to one or two new satellite systems where we can actually make these measurements better and now that we're interested in climate research, satellite observations are crucial for studying climate because you have them over the entire earth year after year, decade after decade, and so you're able to study how Earth's features vary over 30, 32 or even 40 years in some cases.