For those of y'all that have been here for a little while more specifically from before the season was over Remember what we said going into this offseason. We said that this would probably be the craziest Ravens offseason ever Ever I know when Ray Lewis flirted with leaving the Ravens That was that was crazy when Ed Reid actually left the Ravens and joined the Texans That was crazy But this off see that I think this offseason all the craziness that has been going on It may top that and maybe because social media is in a different era right now, then maybe that's why but anyway The season this offseason has been crazy. So now we got some significant updates with the Baltimore Ravens to talk about with Lamar Jackson with DeAndre Hopkins with Odell Beckham, Jr. We'll start with Odell Beckham, Jr. Because there's some allegations going on with Odell Beckham, Jr. right now That I don't think anything will come of it, but hey, you never know But it is significant allegations, but we'll see we'll see one thing that I have learned on here Is to especially with stuff like this You can't jump to conclusions. You really can't you you got to wait out the process Like if it was something football related, hey, jump to all the conclusions You want to based off of this that and the third but with stuff like this You got to just let it play out and see how it goes So we'll see what happens with that but apparently Odell in his camp They said a ain't got nothing to do with us We wasn't involved that didn't happen and apparently they said that there was some videos surveillance that Showed the opposite of what the allegation says. So we'll see what happens with that. But anyway, Jocina Anderson And I was just going through the episodes of her podcast looking through all like the titles and stuff and what they were about I'm like, I like Jocina Anderson. She like another like she's like a Ravens reporter Because she covered the Ravens a lot like a whole lot And with her it makes sense because like she she been covering Odell from from jump like from When he was a giant Um, and then she's covered him throughout his entire career and then for him to join the Ravens And she been covering a lot with the whole Lamar Jackson thing. Um, so it just makes sense that she just She got a lot of love for the Ravens, but she she covers them And extensively attentively and all that good stuff whatever whatever other words you want to throw in there But anyway, Jocina Anderson, um, she did confirm She confirmed it. So Mike Lombardi put it out there on his podcast And then he went on Pat McAfee show and doubled down on it. He was like, hey, yeah Hey, Lamar Jackson. He asked about the Andre Hopkins and Odell Beckham jr. So he initially Put that out. But then jocina Anderson. She was like, yeah, he did he did but She she she she changed it. She she said something different because Mike Lombardi said that Um, Lamar Jackson asked the Ravens to get the Andre Hopkins Odell Beckham jr. And he said then we'll talk Then we can start talking. So obviously about the contract, but jocina Anderson said there was no ultimatum She said there was no ultimatum So she just said Lamar Jackson asked the Ravens to check in on both the Andre Hopkins and Odell Beckham jr But she said that there was no ultimatum with it. So it wasn't like a all right If you do this Then I'll do that But she says she basically saying Lamar was just like, hey, y'all do this Silence so anyway Um, so that that was cool. That that's nice to know that like it's official And I mean even before jocina Anderson confirmed it It does seem like it's official Because based off of what the Ravens did and how the Ravens did it to acquire Odell Beckham jr. But With the Andre Hopkins, there has been a lot of talk about Deandre Hopkins, um, a lot of rumors about the Ravens and Deandre Hopkins What's gonna happen with that? What could happen with that or the Ravens really interested in him? Are they pursuing him and of course over the past couple of days We've been giving you all the updates about everything that pac-man jones has been saying In regards to the Ravens in their interest in one deandre Hopkins because first he talked about When pat McAfee was on there talking about different teams that were interested in deandre hopkins The first pac-man jones like wait, you forgot one team there. You forgot one. That's the Ravens. Don't forget about them And then the very next day. He was like a it's a strong possibility Not strong, but strong with a k and you know when we Say that Then that's real right there, baby. That's real. That's that's when like something is a real real significant possibility So he got a lot of us hyped with that pac-man jones like all right pac-man a let's let it be make it happen But then jocina anderson sort of took it for a turn in the podcast yesterday She and she slipped it in there real real smooth. She slipped it in there real smooth But she talked about how the ravens right now are not actively pursuing Deandre Hopkins, but There was a little caveat in there. She said they're not actively pursuing him At his current contract So Basically letting it be known like a ravens are interest. This is what I took from it when I heard it Because it was right before she was asking uh Kalea's kid because she had Kalea's cam ball in there She said it was right before she was asking Kalea's cam ball about John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson How he thinks things are going to go down, but she slipped it in there real quick Um, but she said that uh, yeah, they're not currently pursuing Deandre Hopkins with that current salary so this It doesn't mean they're out on Deandre Hopkins but I think they would be in on arizona being like consuming a lot of that salary if something was to go down Because the arizona car don't they obviously want to move off of Deandre Hopkins Uh and the Baltimore ravens from everything that we've been hearing it seems like they want to move on to Deandre Hopkins um, but it's got to be some give and take And I know I've been seeing a lot of it on twitter A lot of people putting out stuff that seems like it's it could be legitimate They've been putting out some real good trade offers and some trade packages And it seems like it's a it's a big consistent going around Where so many ravens fans and whatnot about what the ravens could possibly offer to the the cardinals What the cardinals could often return to the ravens for Deandre Hopkins to be Swapped to go from arizona To Baltimore and my guy JT he said it best when I was texting him the other day He brought up he said hey, man. Well last time the ravens got a man at receiver from the Cardinals It worked out And it certainly did like a man not not as any receiver now But a grown man At wireless a grown man at wide receiver from the Cardinals It worked out that was obviously Anquan Bolden And you see how much like he helped Joe Flacco out a lot a whole lot Like Lamar has already done a lot, but imagine with a Deandre Hopkins like you remember Was there that'd be some time with Joe Flacco Joe Flacco be like hey look man Anquan Bolden. I know you over there somewhere. Just throw it up The Anquan will come down with it To have a receiver that you can do that with It's a beautiful thing So I really still do hope it happens. I do um Actually building a lot of confidence that it will happen um with Deandre Hopkins, uh Because I don't just because she reported this. Oh, yeah, they they out on his current salary right now No, I like we we've seen this story a lot of times that could just be public talk for hey Y'all know what y'all got we we got a they got to be some compromise on both our sides with this whole thing Yeah, I think this could all be part of their negotiations with the Cardinals So We'll just see how it goes when that'll be something. No, that'd be something Two years in a row the Baltimore Ravens and the Cardinals they trade in wide receivers. They swap in wide receivers They're like here he goes Hollywood Cardinals like all right, they they go the first round pick And then the following year you're like, all right. Hey Ravens. Here goes Deandre Hopkins and Ravens be like All right, what are they going to give up? We'll see if we do see hopefully we do see but we'll see when we get there Now Lamar Jackson, um Jocelyn Anderson also she was talking to Kalea's Campbell about Lamar Jackson um And Kalea's Campbell he he talked about how like as far as a fully guaranteed contracts, um He said that'd be nice for the NFL to get there to that point But the only way they're going to get there is if people fight for it And that's what Lamar Jackson is apparently doing. Um, he's fighting for it Now something that I really really appreciate it The agent talk because obviously there's been a lot of people say hey Lamar He needs an agent and that there's obviously some pros to having an agent They can do a lot of the negotiating for you. They can talk to teams for you They can get a feel for what the market is for you They can deal with your team directly for you They can take care of little deals and get you this and that for you They can do a lot for you. So you ain't got to worry about it. You ain't got to do the do the work They can do it for you but With all that being said and those are some definite benefits of having an agent So nothing wrong with that at all and Kalea's Campbell was like I'm I'm happy I have an agent because I ain't got to talk to teams directly and da da da da da But um As far as a contract He made a very valid point about Not having an agent or having one or not having one. He said with him, he has an agent. His agent talks to the teams and whatnot. But he said, his agent's job is to get the type of deal that he wants. And said his agent, he could talk to the team and whatnot, come back to it. Same thing we said on here too, a couple days ago. You can have an agent. Agent could go get whatever deal from the team and be like, go get whatever offer. They can show it back to you. Hey, I got this offer for you. Check it out, big dog. You like it? How about this contract? And you can tell them, yes. Hey, I love it. Hey, great contract. All right, let's get it done. What do I sign? Or you can simply tell them no. No, I don't want that. The final decision, it comes from you as a person who hired the agent. Again, having an agent is great. It's amazing. It could make a lot of stuff easier, but it is not the end all, be all. Just because you have an agent does not mean, all right, well, a lot of people say, oh yeah, if Lamar would have had an agent, this deal would have been done already. That's not true. That's not true. If he would have had an agent, again, he could have just filled the office from other team if there were any, he could have done that. But having an agent does not mean, all right, well, if he had an agent, so much things would be opposite of what they are now. That's not true. It's just not. But I thought that was an interesting little segment from Kalea's camp. But he also talked about how he had a strong offer from the Jets. And again, now on this time, it's not the Ravens winning in the battle with another team, but hearing that about somebody else instead of the Ravens is like, wow.  But yeah, he said he had a strong offer from the Jets. Said he talked to Aaron Rodgers and stuff and whatnot. And Kalea's camp on the Jets would have been nice. And I think him being on there would have been, it would have made life easier for him. I think on for Atlanta, I'm kind of naive to how that defense is, so I don't know. But as far as him being on the Jets, I think life would have been made easier for him because they already got so many defensive pieces in place. I feel like he could have came there or went there and been a strong supporting cast member. He wouldn't have to be a focal point of the defense, but he would make a strong defense even stronger, but he wouldn't have to do as much. They wouldn't be relying on him as much as they are, as much as like the Falcons may be or even the Ravens would be. Cause Ravens really relied on Kalea's camp a lot. And a lot of times, as crazy as this off season has been, that's something that I forget about a lot. Well, not forget that he's not on the Ravens, but I kind of do forget that he's not on the Ravens cause we've been so used to him being on the Ravens and now he's not going to be there. He's going to be on another team, but him going on just in the Anderson's podcast, the crew, it gave me that reminder like, hold up, Kalea's camp wasn't going to be there anymore. He's not going to be with the Ravens anymore.  It's going to be a significant loss. Run defense for sure.  Ain't going to see that no more. So now Michael Pierce who missed about 99% of last season cause he got hurt in the first game, I think. I think it was the first game we can suggest, but I don't remember, but either way, Michael Pierce, he missed the majority of last season. Locke going to be, he going to be relied on. Broderick Washington, Travis Jones in his second year. So yeah, man, Ravens, they brought Brent Urban back. So yeah, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. But yeah, that's a big loss right there. I hope he does well in Atlanta. So we'll see. But anyway, just wanted to let y'all know about that stuff. Jocina Anderson, she also talks about how she hopes Lamar comes back to the negotiation table and he could just talk to the Ravens some more so they can get this thing worked out. She also, they also talked about the possibility of the 49ers and the Ravens possibly doing a trade there. But Jocina Anderson, she's like, no, no, no, just, no, don't even think about it, Lamar. She said, just talk to the Ravens, man. So we'll see how everything goes. And as we have been, we'll just continue to be patient with this entire process.  So if you're patient or you're not patient, you still gotta wait out the process. So yeah, that's that. But anyway, I love y'all, Team Keep It Clean. I appreciate y'all, Team Keep It Clean. And let's make this a great Friday. We out.


At Big Data SV 2014 is brought to you by headline sponsors WAN Disco. We make Hadoop invincible and Actium accelerating Big Data 2.0. Okay, welcome back. We're here live inside the queue. We are in Silicon Valley for Big Data SV. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANG and Joe and Jeff Kelly from wikibond.org. Our next guest is Amila Frem from Neo Technologies. Welcome to the queue. Thank you. Thanks for having me. We met when you guys were a couple people in the valley. John Callahan and True Ventures introduced us and boy, what a whirlwind for you guys. Back then we were kind of talking, high-fiving each other, saying, yeah, this graph stuff is going to be brutal. This Facebook platform could take off. It could take off. It could take off. I think there's a pony in there somewhere. Billion users, Actium users later. Just one example of many, and we just had Joe Halestin on from Berkeley, which by fact, they're talking about graph databases. You get nodes and edges and math kicks in. Graphs are a wonderful thing in computer science, as we know. So congratulations, very relevant, and as an entrepreneur, great success. Give us a quick update on the company, kind of where you guys are now. Funding, staff, what your plans are. Yeah, so we're active in the graph database space. We're the most popular graph database out there today. If you look at any kind of objective measures, at least, in terms of number of deployments, tweets mentioning us, which I know that you guys track, things like that. It's pretty evident that Neo4j is the leading graph database today. In graph databases is this alternative way of looking at data, where you embrace the relationships. That's the key difference between a graph database versus any other model out there. So you have nodes, and you have relationships between nodes. And then you have key value pairs that you attach to both the nodes and to the relationships. Turns out to be a very effective way of managing complex data. And any of the big web properties out there, the Twitters, and the Facebooks, et cetera, the world, have all implemented their own proprietary stacks. They had to in order to get to the scale where they are today. Now Neo4j exists as an off-the-shelf solution. And it's used by, this is new for us, it's used by 100% of the Fortune 1 company. That's right. That's true. That's right. You can't argue with that. So Walmart is using us, for example, and 35% of the global 2000 is using us in production. In production, not POC. No, I mean, it was funny, because we're also open source. We have a community edition, which is available for free. And we have an enterprise edition, which is on a subscription. And a lot of open source companies throw up a lot of beautiful logos on their slides. And it turns out that they're actually just users, not customers. But now, so we have hundreds of customers, 35 plus, that are in the global 2000, and are using us for real mission critical stuff. And tell us about the business model. So when you say customers, you've got the open source edition, essentially. And then you've got, I guess, what you can call an enterprise edition, and package some services around that. Sure. Yeah, so sort of the philosophy in my book is that when you run an open source business, you want to segment out the people who are more time than money, for the people who are more money than time. So if there's a student or a hobbyist out there, you can try to sell them on it, but it's never going to work. Like, if you have a lot of time, you can work around any. It doesn't matter if you're open source or if you're proprietary, you can work around it. As long as it's software, you can work around any mechanism in there to protect the software. So the people are more time than money. You want to give them your stuff for free. But then the people who have more money than time, i.e. big companies, you want to give them a valuable offering and try to get them on a subscription hook. And that's what we have with our Enterprise Edition. So really, the key differentiation between the Enterprise Edition and the Community Edition is clustering. So with the database, it turns out to be really important if you have production deployments to have a cluster system. So if one machine goes down, you don't want the entire website to go down, for example. So that's available in the Commercial Edition. And as well as we have a high performance cash, and we certify it so that it's good for certain operating systems, and of course, also support. It's really hard enough for the Enterprise and make it a viable option. So talk a little bit about the evolution of the company. I mean, you guys have come a long way. John mentioned you guys met a few years back. Where are you in terms of size of the company? You mentioned customer attraction, which is great. But give us kind of an update on where you guys are. So we're still small, although when John and I met, we were tiny. So in comparison, we're bigger, right? So we're 60 people today, spread out That's a decent size. When you go, you see some of the companies that these at Strat, at smaller events, there's some very small companies. It's actually not bad. So we're 60 people, and we're spread out across 11 countries, just because as a CEO, I enjoy the pain. They have a big fund advantage. You need a graph database to manage all that. We do, we do need a graph database. Luckily, we have one. And headquarters here in the valley in San Mateo, where we're 25, 30 people, something like that. And so yeah, so that's sort of the state of the unit. So you get some good traction here at Strat. I'll read some tweets from our crowd chat monitoring that says from Russell Whitaker, it looks like I may have an actual immediate need application for Neo4j at work after seeing Emil's presentation at Data Science Strat a conference. So hey, congratulations. Thank you.  Next one, they had a guy, Dan Woods, ask the question, what is the downside if any of graph analytics engines loading data from anywhere for analytics? Mm, the downside if any, loading it from anywhere.  Right, if you take all of your data and put it in there, you know, if you don't have valuable scrub good data in there, you're not gonna get good answers. And I think that's sort of the key perspective on that. I think that, I agree that the traction strata this year is really good. The way that I actually introduced my talk at Strata was that it turns out that graph databases, when you look at sites like DBEngines.com, which track traction of all the database projects, graph databases grew the fastest of any category in databases, bar none in 2013. Grew the fastest of any category in databases, bar none, which is pretty impressive, right? At the same time, it's the fastest growing one but at the same time, it's also probably the most misunderstood, mm. Because people equate graph databases with social. They say that graph databases are only good for social. And the dangerous part of that is that it's partially true because graph databases are really good for social but not exclusively so. So we have a lot of traction in financial systems, we have a lot of traction in financial services and in telecom, in retail, we're used for recommendations, fraud analytics, network management, geologistics, shipping, there's like a wide range of use cases. Why didn't you? That quote, by the way, got a lot of retweets. You must have said that on your presentation because Paige Roberts from Acti and said, the biggest misconception about graph databases dashed are only for social dash Neo4j. Yeah, that was the entire title of my talk actually. Okay, but let's talk about why not social? Give some specifics, social is graph-based relationships, et cetera, and unstructured and what loosely structured. What are the besides social? Well, so to be clear, social is a great use case for graph databases. It's not just the only use case. Yes, exactly. Phenomenal for social, check the box. Check, yeah. And that's what I mean. I think like Zuck has popularized the notion of the social graph, right? So people know graph equals social to them. I think that makes perfect sense. I think that's why people think of it in that way. But then, I mean, really anything where the relationships are important, it turns out that actually my perspective on that is that the difference between information and knowledge is relationships. Like what your viewers are doing right now when they're trying to figure me out is that they're looking at data about me and they're trying to gather data about me. And if they're like name, first name Emel, last name Ephraim, age 35, that tells them something about me. I call that data, discrete data, data on me or flat data. But in order to really understand me, if they understand that I grew up in Sweden, which is why I have this Swedish accent, right? I live in California. You good at Winter Olympics? I'm good at Winter Olympics. I have a wife called Madeleine, a daughter called Nomi. I work at Neo Technology. Like all of those things is what gives me color. It is what makes you understand me. And that's all about the connections between the unknown concept and the known concept. So if that is true, if the difference between information and knowledge is in the connections and the relationships, it's mind blowing to me that there's not a database system out there that fundamentally embraces relationships, right? Except for graph databases. The graph database do do that, which I think is why they have this sort of wide appeal. What's your biggest challenge right now with your business? Obviously, you're in a good spot, relevant to the market for social and data in general, because data is great for, you know, we talked about the shape of the graphs. There's also computational upside of having the ability to have arcs and edges and nodes. And so graphs are a beautiful thing from a math perspective. So it's obviously very relevant. So what's your challenge, what's your opportunity that you're going after? Yeah, good question. So it used to be that the big challenge was the market perception of graphs. And that is still a challenge. But for example, today, Forrester released their take radar report on the operational database management, enterprise DBMS. And in there, they predict that graph databases will be used by 25% of enterprises by 2017, 25%. I mean, that's pretty significant from two guys at the Starbucks Cafe in 2007, right? We shouldn't invest in it. I mean, we shouldn't invest in it. Which is pretty cool, right? So that used to be the biggest challenge. It still is a challenge. I'm not delusional, or I probably am. But in this particular case, I understand that most people don't yet know what graph databases are. Having said that, I do think that we made significant strides in that one. The biggest challenge for me right now is very simple, hiring. Finding awesome employees. We're looking for data scientists here in the valley. We're looking for engineers worldwide. We're looking across the board. And that is, I mean, I'm sure, mirrored by a lot of companies here in the valley. And it's a real challenge. Good luck with that. And it's really hard. It's very competitive. Obviously, Facebook and everyone else wants these guys too. So it's a startup. So let's talk about that. So you're in San Mateo. You're going to move all your operations. So I'm going to be in Sweden. You have other development centers around the world. Talk about the global aspect of it. Yeah. You guys are funded from Europe. Yes. To European BC. We have a European heritage. You know, I grew up in Sweden. The company grew up in Sweden. We still have Malmö Sweden. It's our engineering HQ. And we have all of our engineering in Europe, except we also have the one guy in Kuala Lumpur and one guy in Auckland, New Zealand. And it's a little bit spread out. But engineering, sort of the gravity of engineering is in Europe. And then the gravity on the commercial side is here in the valley. But as I mentioned up front, like we're in 11 countries just because I enjoy the pain of managing a global organization. If we could just go back to some of the use cases and some of the application and the different industries. So the forest report, 25% of enterprises are going to be using graph in some form. So that's going to span verticals just by definition. So what are some of the things that you're seeing in, you mentioned, financial services. What are some of the nodes and edges that people are trying to understand in that market, for instance? Maybe we could talk about retail or others. So let's start with financial, then go to retail. So financial services, there's a huge leading investment bank in finance. Typically I can't talk about the customers, unfortunately. But a huge leading investment bank that all of us would know the name of. And their problem used to be that when they onboarded a new trader, it took them two weeks until that person was up and running and had access to all the assets, the media assets, the documents, and the collateral inside of the company. It's a heavily regulated industry when it comes to access to those kind of things. And it turns out that when they did root cost analysis on that, it was actually because the software platforms they were using, it was so difficult to compute whether new trader got access to this particular resource. Because if you look at that as a node and edge kind of thing, node and relationships, the new trader and the new employee or every employee is a node. And every resource is a node and resource being a document or something like that. But then it's not just a direct relationship between them. It's the trader belongs to a group. The group belongs to one or more groups. The content is aggregated into folders and collections. And you have all these kinds of access control list relationships between them. It ended up being a many, many multi-way join in relational database, which is a minutes response time or an hour response time. With a graph database, it's millisecond response time. So in that example, it was like the files and folders and documents were nodes and the individuals were nodes and then whether they had access and if they belonged to different groups and how they're organized were the relationships. Interesting. All right, so let's take, we hear a lot about Ritza. How about something like pharmaceuticals? Pharmaceuticals, we don't have a lot of traction yet in pharmaceutical in sort of the traditional one. We see a lot in bioinformatics. And bioinformatics turns out that when you dive into that, there's a lot of very graph data. Actually, in our body, there's a lot of graphs already. Someone, be it evolution or a divine being or I'm not gonna go into that. Someone or something has already figured out that a graph model is a very efficient way of representing information. In fact, that's how our brains are structured. Neurons, synapses to other neurons that are connected in a big network or a graph. Turns out that inside ourselves, protein networks are graphs as well. And when you start working with that kind of data, it's all very graphy. Interesting.  Does that have the potential to give a kind of a bad name to graph databases and some of the use cases? Yeah, I mean, I think it does. And I think graph databases are a hammer. It's an ethically neutral technology. It's a tool, right? And with a hammer, you can bang someone in the head or you can build a house for them, right? And if the first, you know, umpteen guys that you see with the hammers start banging you in the head, you're not gonna like the hammer after a while, right? So I think that for us, I'm personally, let's say not a huge fan of, you know, the NSA type applications. Having said that, I think for us, we need to lead with and make sure that all the amazing things that graph databases enable are the stories that people hear first. Knowing that it is horizontal technology, it can be applied in a good way and in a bad way. Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, even beyond just kind of the graph database market, I mean, do you feel like it could have the potential that whole scale to, at some point, turn to the, I guess, the commercial sector, the industry that we're in? Because, you know, right now, a lot of the IRS is directed at the government. But, you know, as the public starts to understand a little bit more about all the data that's being collected on them, you know, from my perspective, it's an issue as we as an industry need to get out in front of.  Yeah, I mean, I couldn't agree with you. Appreciate the question. Yeah, I couldn't agree with you any more. I do think that it can completely reflect on us.  It can go in both ways. And I think the answer is to have an intellectually honest debate about it and talk about what do we as a society feel are the right things to use these things for and the wrong things. And then just myself or my company, I try to steer us in the direction so that we don't engage with those kind of things. And that's sometimes doable, sometimes not, but that's sort of my own personal moral compass on that issue. Yeah, I mean, it's one of those issues. Tech is an enabler and you can enable positive things, negative things, it's how you use it. And that gets to the heart of all those kind of decisions you make inside a company, for instance, about how you're going to use data. Just because you can do something doesn't mean necessarily. Should, yeah. So talk about the plan. I mean, I see a lot of things to navigate, hiring, you mentioned, getting some quality people, obviously, Key. What about funding? What's your plan? Looking for more funding? What's the next step? Yeah, so we raised $25 million to date. We have lots of cash in the bank. We're in the fortunate situation where we get some funding from our customers, which is the kind of funding that I like. It's called in, value, creation, gets paid. Yeah, so that's good. We have significant runway. If we stop hiring right now, we can cash flow positive if you want to. Having said that. You want to grow. We want to grow and the market's exploding and we know that the big guys are entering the space. We know that, I'm not going to mention names, but all of the big guys who are currently invested in the database space are coming out with graph databases. We know that, well, it's public now that Teradata launched what they call a graph database. One could argue, technically, whether that's true, but what they call a graph database as part of their Aster story in End of Q3 last year. So that is happening. So now is not the time to take it slow. So we are investing and we want to do that. We may even race another round in 2014 and just accelerate because the market is exploding.  No one in the history, no one where you guys have came from. You know, the entrepreneurs that make it always have an itch to scratch, always have the persistence, I got to say, in following your work and the team. It's been fun to watch.  Congratulations. Thank you. And you're going for it. And you know, same with us. You know, we had the same thing. We felt strong about our media that we built this media business and it's been great. You know, the fifth season with theCUBE, we already had 100,000 views here live on the live stream, so it's been great. Fantastic. Thanks for coming on. Appreciate it. Great to see you. Neo Technologies, Neo4j, great buzz. I mean, just so many tweets. You're winning the crowd, so to speak. Great community. Thanks for coming on. I mean, thanks for coming on. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back with our next guest after the short break, live from Silicon Valley, all the action, all the startups, all the major big data innovation here at Big Data SV.


Hi, we are now ready to begin vertical theory lesson two This takes our discussion of triads major and minor triads that we had in our last lesson and builds on that There are two new concepts that we're going to learn today the first of those concepts is Taking that notion of a major and minor triad and now developing it a little further into that of an augmented and a Diminished triad that's first and then the second part of the lesson today is learning the Inversions of a triad now we've inverted intervals before now. We're going to invert triads So I think this is going to be an interesting lesson in one that sits pretty quickly I don't think it's really all that difficult if you've really understood everything coming up to this time So let's go ahead and go to work. We are going to begin with the notion of Diminished and augmented triads now last week we said that a minor triad is Three notes root third and fifth that consists of a major third and a minor third And we also said that a minor thigh at triad is a root third and fifth that consists of a minor third and a major third You should understand that concept well at this point and now we're ready to move on to the next two now This ought to be pretty simple for you a diminished triad or Is going to be one that has three notes a root a third and a fifth and wonder if anybody can guess minor third on the bottom and Minor third on the top. That's what you guessed. You're absolutely right and an augmented triad same deal a root a third and a fifth with a Major third on the bottom and a Major third on the top and now you can see the four different versions of a triad Major, which is a major on the bottom minor on the top a minor, which is a minor on the bottom major on the top a Diminished which consists of two minor thirds and an augmented which consists of two major thirds Let's take a look at a couple of different examples of all three of these if we have our good old C E and G This is a major triad major third from C to E and minor third from E to G If we take that middle note the third and we make the E flat the E flat That's going to give us our minor triad Okay, from there. I think you can start to quickly see that if we made The top note flat as well or made it smaller. This would give us a minor third Just like here and instead of a major third we have a minor third here So this would be our diminished chord and you can still use that that circle to indicate diminished and Finally from C to E is a major third and to G Sharp is another major third. This would give us our Augmented chord so this would be a C major chord over here C minor C diminished and C augmented all three versions of the C triad Okay, simple enough. I think that probably is something that you can all Grab on to really quite quickly and now let's move on to the other half of today's lesson And that is the notion of inversions now remember when we took an interval before and Here we have a third and if we wanted to invert that interval we would simply put that lower note on Top right so now we're going to do something very similar with a chord Okay, and with our chords. Let's take that good old C chord that we were just using This is a C major triad and This is in what we call root position. That is the position where the root is on the bottom Okay, so root third fifth now if I take that lowest note and I put it now on the top I Take the C I Take it out off the bottom and move it up to the top This would be still a C major chord But now it's in what we call first Inversion Okay, and that is taking the bottom note or the root and putting the root on the top Okay, this is also sometimes known as the sixth inversion Okay, and the reason it's known as a sixth in a sixth inversion is because the distance from the third Up to the root is now a sixth Okay Then our other option would be to leave the G on the bottom and move the other two notes up and This would be what we this would still be a C major Chord but this is second inversion and it's sometimes known as a six four Inversion because the distance between this note the bottom note to the to the root is a fourth And the distance from that bottom note to the top note is a sixth and therefore it gets that name the six four inversion So we have three different ways of writing a triad. We can show a triad in root position Which is when we see it the way we're used to seeing it root third fifth We can have it in First inversion or the sixth inversion where the root is on the top and the third is the lowest note and Then we can have the six four inversion where the root is in the middle The third is above that and the fifth is on the bottom three different versions Let's just take a quick minute It's really quite easy to identify these Quickly, let's just take a look if you were to see something that looks like this or like this You know that those are both in root position as soon as you see a third and then another note a Sixth above the bottom note you know that that's in the sixth the sixth inversion Okay, and something that looks like this immediately should jump out at you as a Six-four Inversion here's another six There's an example of another six inversion or first inversion and here's another second inversion Something that looks like this would be another second inversion six four. That's another six Okay, so we have three different versions of the same thing now I might ask you to write and identify The three different versions of any particular chord. So if I asked for a a major Triad in all three inversions you would start with an a you'd know that it would need an a a c and an e you could quickly go to our Keyboard find your a and say okay. It needs to be a major third a One two three four. There's my four half steps. That's a c-sharp and One two three half steps. That's my e So I could go okay. It's an a c-sharp e. That's my root position Now I'm going to leave the c-sharp and the e where they were but move the a to the top that's my six and Now I'm going to go in this fashion and this is my six four inversion three different inversions of the a Major triad we can do that for major triads. We can do it for minor triads diminished and augmented Okay, time for you to check out the assignment. You'll have Things to do both with augmented and diminished triads as well as the three different inversions of a triad


John, would you please lead us in a word of prayer? Chawmasa, father we want to thank you for this time. Don't be something us for your presence as we continue to learn about other authority that you have given us or you have more than you would open the eyes of our understanding and help us to know more about it and we pray to God, we would walk in that authority that you have called us in and we pray Lord Jesus that we would manifest what you want us to do in this world of God. Lord we submit pastor also into your mighty hands and ask for your grace to be with her as she teaches of God. We pray for the rest of the class that they will be able to join soon and we will all be able to learn together of God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much John. We've been studying about different realms where we can take authorities and today we are at chapter 13. We have moved on to more practical chapters now where we will look at ways and methods although you can't really box up how authority is exercised. There are some common practices based on common observation that are very helpful. So we are moving on to more practical subjects now. Let me see it's likely that we might complete the portions well ahead of time. I hope so. That way you will have a couple of weeks for you to do your assignments as well. So let's get into chapter 13 here. This is about exercising authority in deliverance. So we've seen so much of this in scripture. We see that the Lord Jesus cast out spirits and he exercised his authority in doing this. So Matthew 8.16 is a verse. Could somebody read that for us? Matthew 8.16 please. I'll read. When evening had come they bought to him many who were demon possessed and he cast out the spirits with a word and killed all who were sick. Amen. Thank you Anita. So it's so clear isn't it that Jesus was able to cast out demons with a word. So he did function in this way. Jesus also destroyed the yokes and the burdens or if you want to call it oppression that the enemy put on people. So Luke 13 is a very good example. Luke 13 maybe we can read some verses from this passage as well. You can read verse 11 through 10 to 13. You can read Luke 13, 10 to 13 that should be enough. I'll read Luke 13, 10 to 13. Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath and behold there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity 18 years and was bent over and couldn't no way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her he called her to him and said to her woman you are loosed from your infirmity. And he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. Thank you, thank you Nicholson for reading that. So you see here that there was an oppression of the devil that brought about a physical manifestation. So there was a woman who was bent over. But when Jesus addressed the issue which was a demon spirit in this case the spirit left her that bondage was broken and she was able to straighten up. So in the same way we too can cast, we too can break bondages that people may have and be suffering with. So destroying bondages you could call it yokes, burdens, oppression of the devil. Then stopping demonic works. Stopping demonic works is something where the authority of Jesus was seen. One good example is when he spoke to the storm. It is likely that the storm was a demonic activity. But some may even say that no it was a natural occurrence that was trying to stop them. But in any case he spoke to the storm and he said peace be still. So it's a command which he issued and he was able to exercise his authority. So you see here in all the things that we are discussing what did Jesus do? Exosia, the power, what is that translated to authority? The authority which he had he used it. Now think about it, how good is the authority if we keep it packed up in the cupboard? No use. It has to be put to use. Only then it is valuable. So we discussed this early on in our study of authority. If you take a traffic police and this traffic police is not willing to wear their uniform and not willing to show their hand actions to regulate traffic. They may be a traffic police. By the government they can have a certificate in their hand which says you are a traffic police. But no use because authority is not used. But in the case of Jesus what are we seeing? We see that he was using his authority. Whenever he saw any demonic activity he used it. So it is something for us to learn from. If I'm experiencing something where I know that there seems to be a demonic interference. Come on, I have the authority. Let me put it to work. Let me put it to use. So now we will look at some practical guidelines about how we can put this authority to use and very specifically in ministering deliverance to people. Deliverance is a term which we use for casting out demons. Generally that's what it means. So if I'm ministering deliverance to someone it means I'm casting out demons and I'm breaking, destroying the influence or the work of demonic powers over the life of that person. So that's the meaning. Now if we look at the way people have studied deliverance there is a categorization that is spoken of in Christendom. It's called ground level warfare and then strategic level warfare. So what does it mean? Ground level warfare is more of a personal level where somebody is demon possessed and we are ministering deliverance to them. So at a personal level when we are casting out demons that is known as ground level warfare. Strategic level warfare would be more of, we said there are principalities, powers of darkness, rulers of wickedness in the heavenly place. So we know that there is this whole hierarchy of demonic powers and when you consider and study the hierarchy of these demonic powers we also said that they are very specialized, isn't it? So some will attack people at a personal level but then there are those who are functioning over a region, functioning over a nation, things like that. So at a different level in their hierarchy. So that would be more of strategic level of spiritual warfare. So that good practices in that would be, we will look at it briefly later on but our course here is mainly focusing on the ground level warfare which is ministering deliverance in casting out a demon and so forth. So in strategic level it would be good for the churches to sort of come together. It would be good for people to come together in the city and pray together to be of one heart and pray regularly. All these things matter as far as strategic level is concerned. So strategic level is another discussion. So you may not find insights on that in today's class or a couple of classes ahead. We will specifically touch on the ground level warfare. So when it comes to deliverance, the best thing, not just deliverance, anything that we are involved in, maybe prophesying. Good thing to do is we go back to scriptures and we read passages on that topic. So prophecy will be good to read. 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 14 and then read about people who are ministering in the prophetic gift or the prophetic anointing, the prophetic calling, study about them. How did they do it? How did the spirit of God work through them? So what happens is very scripturally our faith will be built up in those matters. So coming to deliverance, sometimes what happens, we want to read over this book, that book. Not that it's bad or it's wrong or anything, we can. But it's always good to have a very strong scriptural foundation. So I generally do this. This is something that I practice. I try to get a scriptural foundation of different topics. So I do read books, but I would go to a book on prayer after I read all the scriptures about prayer in the Bible. Because there can be many opinions that people have and those opinions need not necessarily be right as far as scripture is concerned. So it's good to first rely on the word of God, meditate on what the Bible says, the verses say. For a while, just meditate when you feel like, okay, you know, I have a sense of what this is talking about. Then you want to read some books or listen to some sermons to get an idea of practical application. And also by that time, you would be in a better position to discern. Okay, is what they're saying right or is it wrong? We would have some idea because scripturally we've already seen what the word of God says. So that's how you build on. So coming to casting out demons, the best to do is to meditate on incidents where Jesus cast out demons in the word of God. Now, you might ask, what am I going to get from it? No, observe how he used his authority. We might want to read it once, twice, thrice, 20 times, 30 times, but just going over those passages you recognize. Okay, you know, this is how he used the authority. He spoke a word, he commanded, he, you know, he spoke to the demon or he had compassion on the people and he sent them free. So it's really helping us get a perspective on how did Jesus do deliverance and not just that. Another great thing is that in Romans 10, 17, it says, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So as we are meditating on passages regarding deliverance in this case, faith is being built up. More and more faith, more and more faith. So then what happens? I am in a situation where I have to minister deliverance. What is important when we minister deliverance? Faith. So I'm carrying that faith in order to issue or release that authority. So that is the reason why it is a good practice to meditate on scriptures. So there are many scriptures given here. We may not have time to go through all of them. Maybe we will look at maybe three passages and that will really help. So yeah, I think three passages is good. Let's look at three. Okay, so can somebody please turn to Matthew chapter four versus 23 and 24. Any one person? Let me know who that would be. Matthew four, 23, 24. Who's going to read that? Okay, I'll just randomly assign. You could please say yes or no to save time. Okay, John is going to read that. Wonderful. So another person could please read Mark one versus 21 through 28. Who will that be? Okay, Jeff, I will read. Great. That's nice. Then Matthew eight versus 28 to 34. Another person could read that please. Who would that be? Yeah, I don't see any. Okay, okay, Nicholson. Great. So that's nice. Let's go ahead and read it then. Let's begin with Matthew four, 23 and 24. And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.  Thank you. So, you know, we see that right healing, preaching. He was doing his ministry, which had all these components and he, you know, he healed, which means he set people free from torments from demon possession. So that's quite clear. So thank you, John. Thank you for that. Jeffy now. Can you go next please? 21 to 28, right faster. Yes, you're right. Mark 121 to 28. Okay. Jesus and his companions went to the town of Capernaum. When the Sabbath day came, he went into the synagogue and began to teach. The people were amazed at his teaching for he thought with real authority quite unlike the teachers of religious law.   I know who you are, the Holy One of God. But Jesus reprimanded him. Be quiet. Come out of the man he ordered. At that, the spirit, the evil spirits screamed then threw the man into a convulsion and then came out of him. Amazement gripped the audience and they began to discuss what had happened. What sort of new teaching is this? They asked excitedly.  The news about Jesus spread quickly throughout the entire region of Galilee. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jeffy now. So now you share your observations with me about Jesus's deliverance ministry. We just looked at the passage, Mark 1, 21 to 28. So anything you can share from it? I just want to say that Jesus has a great authority and Satan, he knows the power of authority. I feel that like he's so much afraid. He's asking why are you here?  So the authority makes the devil so much weak and he's so much afraid. So it makes me feel like when I use the authority, the devil is so much afraid of us. Thank you. Thank you, Jeffy now. Good observation. That's right. Because in verse 24, we see that, isn't it? Let us alone. What have we to do with you?  So Satan is afraid of the authority that Jesus carried. Good. So anything else? Any other observations in this passage? How did Jesus use his authority? Jesus commanded his authority. Very good. Very nice, Anita. So verse 25, isn't it? What does he do? He rebukes. The moment there is a manifestation, he just rebukes that demon. That's the way in which he has used his authority. And what does he say? He says, be quiet and come out of him and he issues a command. Okay. So this is the way we are observing. Okay. This is how Jesus ministered the power of God in this situation. Okay. Great. Thank you. Anything else? Any observation is fine? Any other observation? Others? Ma'am, in verse 27, when Jesus commanded his authority, the unclean spirit obeyed him. That's right. Yeah. See, so wow, that is a wonderful observation. So what is the meaning? The demonic realm responds to the authority of God. Okay. So that gives us so much confidence. Wow. Thanks, Anita, for sharing that. So the spirits listen and they obey. It says, you know, obey is more like no questions asked, right? You just do it. Obey him. Good. Very nice. Anything else? Okay. So I think you're getting the point. We can look at the passage, think about it, right? And see so many things in it. Like I'm just seeing that the demon spoke. So when we are ministering deliverance, is there a possibility that the demon might speak? Yeah, maybe it can. Then, you know, Jesus issues a command to be quiet. Okay. So then, yeah, that is also something. So when demons speak, what should we do? We generally see Jesus saying be quiet. He doesn't engage in too much of a conversation with the demon. Okay. So then, yeah, we too can do that. We can command the demon to be quiet. What else do we see here? You know, the unclean spirit, it says. Okay. So that is what a demon spirit is termed in this particular situation. Now, we don't know exactly why it is called as an unclean spirit. But yeah, okay, that's an observation. Fine. Then when it came out of the person in this case, you see that it convulsed him and cried out with a loud voice. And he came out of him. So is it possible that when we cast a demon out that a person can behave like this? That, you know, maybe they convulse, they shake, they fall, there is a scream and the spirit comes out like that. Yeah, there is a possibility because we have observed that here. So, you know, in this way, when we are meditating more and more, there are lots of observations, spiritual observations, practical observations. So then, you know, it is equipping us that, okay, fine, this is how Jesus ministered deliverance. But at the end of the day, what is a beautiful thing? You know, I heard somebody say that Jesus was not afraid to minister deliverance. See, he went to the synagogue and he found somebody with an unclean spirit there. Now, he could have been concerned if I cast out a demon, what will they do? Will they allow me to come back to the synagogue or not? But Jesus was very bold. He knew that part of his ministry was to bring freedom to the captives. So he got the demon out of the man. Okay, so I heard somebody say that sometimes we are so scared about demons that, you know, we would rather have, you know, demons in people and them attending church than, you know, casting them out. So Jesus was not like that. He was not afraid of casting out, dealing. He noticed there is an issue here. There is a problem. This man needs to be set free and he did it. And what was the reaction? In this case, there seems to be a positive reaction of the people. They are very thrilled. They say, oh, see how he teaches, see what authority he has that he commands, even unclean spirits and they obey him. And then his fame. So people are talking about what Jesus has done. So those are some observations from this passage. Now, let's go to another passage. I said, yeah. Matthew 8, 28 to 34. So, Nicholson, please go ahead. Matthew 8, 28 to 34. When he had come to the other side to the country of the gurgle sinness, there met him to demon possessed man, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce. So that no one could pass that way.   Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding. So the demons begged him saying, if you cast us out, permit us to go away into those herd of swine. And he said to them, go. So when he had come out, when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine and suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea and perished in the water. Then those who kept them fled and they went away into the city and told everything, including what had happened to the demon possessed man. And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they begged him to depart from their region. Thank you so much, Nicholson, for reading that. So what observations do we have here? Just feel free, anything that you noted. Can I say something? Yes, yes, Isaac. Yes, we observe like we're establishing the monology that the spirit world, that is the evil world, recognized the authority of the power of light. So we see they recognize straight away, they see Jesus, they recognize that he had authority to just cast them out. So in fact, he made a request. Thank you. Thank you, Isaac. Good observation. So you see straight away, so there were these men, but when they saw Jesus, it says suddenly they cried out, what have we to do with you Jesus? So they recognized the authority, so this also. So does the kingdom of darkness or demons, when they see us, do they recognize that this person, born again, saved, filled with the Holy Spirit, carrying the authority, do they recognize it very much? Even before Jesus can say something, they are the ones speaking up. So they recognize authority. Wonderful. Nikolson, you had something to say. I thought I saw your hand go up. It was the same thing, but yeah, by one thing I had to, which I don't know if I'm right or wrong, but I think this is the only place where Jesus permitted what the demons requested. So I found that interesting in the past. Yeah, I know, but it's kind of, I wonder why, that he heard them and he sent them into pigs. So that's true. So they asked, the demons had a request and then Jesus kind of listens to that. But okay, another thing that we can see here is, remember I said demons are disembodied spirits. So they were in the men. When Jesus cast them out, they go into animals. Okay, so what we were discussing earlier is correct. They can inhabit, we said people, they can inhabit animals, they can also inhabit objects or spaces. So yeah, so that is again another observation that we have here. Then you notice that the men were very, they were exceedingly fierce. So the manifestation of the demons or demon possession through those two men, it can come, it can happen in different ways. In some passages we see that the demon threw the child into the water, into the fire. So that's a different way in which that demon is functioning. Here however, what's happening to these men, they're very fierce to the extent that no one could pass that way. So is it okay for us to understand that they were violent, they were scary? Yeah, possible. That's how those men were. So then remember we said that demons can take charge of the faculties of a human being. They can slowly try to control more and more of the person. So here it seems like full possession where the men had no control whatsoever and the demons were using them literally to do what they wanted to do. So that is another observation. Anything else you want to add? It's so interesting, isn't it? There's so much. Yeah, you can share your thoughts. Yes, mine is different. Now there is a debate that since Jesus cast demons and they went into the pigs, so we should not eat pigs because they are not holy. Okay, okay, okay. So is that a question? Yeah, I need you to throw light on it.  Oh, we don't eat. Okay, fine. Yeah, thank you Paul. So I'll just see if I can get a passage of scripture here for you. So coming to Acts chapter 10 and verse 15. Okay, so this passage talks about... Let me post it first. Acts 10 and verse 15.  So Peter had that vision of a sheet coming down from heaven and all kinds of animals. Now if you look at the Old Testament, yes, there were laws. God gave the people many laws regarding hygiene, regarding eating. And at that time he did forbid people from eating certain foods. I don't know what it's called. I think some kosher diet or something. So definitely the devout Jews are following those diets. And that is why when Peter sees all these animals in the vision and he is prompted to go eat those animals, he says, no, I will not touch unclean animals. That's when a voice speaks to him and says that what God has cleansed you must not call common. So again, it's as if you see a change of an Old Testament law. So what we do is we will... See, there are many laws in the Old Testament. But you have to look at it after the cross. After the cross, if you find a very clear cut change in scripture, you can take it as, okay, I no longer need to follow that Old Law. So when it comes to clean animals, unclean animals and a certain food law which God gave in the Old Testament, okay, don't eat pigs and all. If you look at the New Testament, it sort of negates that and it says, okay, don't worry about it anymore. So it's okay to eat pigs is what I would say based on what we have seen here. And yes, the vision was in the context. It was about something completely different. So basically what Jesus was telling Peter or God was telling Peter was you must not consider the Gentiles as unclean because up until that time, you know, Peter also by personality was only passionate about ministering to the Jews and God had to make a change to that and say, look, now that the Lord Jesus has died on the cross, the salvation has to be preached to all tribes, tongues, nations, everybody. So now it's out for everyone. So, you know, why don't you start ministering to the Gentiles also. So God had to work in Peter's heart and so he gave him the vision. So that is the context. But then, you know, we are also able to see that God sort of makes it clear that, okay, there's no clean unclean animals anymore. So yeah, did you get your answer Paul? Yes, yes. Okay. Great. Thank you. All right. And Zellie, good observation also. She's asking in verse 34, why is it that the people of the region beg Jesus to depart. So earlier in what Jeffina read, we saw that his fame went all around. So when we do God's work, you know, sometimes there's a positive response. People will appreciate you and they say, wow, Jesus, you cast out a demon. But now in this case, it is likely that the people who own the pigs, you know, they had a loss. So when the demons went into the pigs, what happened? The pigs went and you know, they jumped into the water, they died. So what is this economical loss for the people? And it's so unfortunate, isn't it? They're not seeing what Jesus has done with the power of God to set free people whom he has made in the image of God. Now, those things are not valuable in the sight of these so-called owners of those animals. They just notice that they had a loss. The pigs died.  So can you please go to some other place? So negative reaction. Okay, but what did Jesus do? Same thing, he did God's work, he set people free. But this is how, you know, the audience, that's the reason we say we should look for God's approval. Sometimes, you know, the response of the people around will be very positive. Sometimes it will be very negative. So if you're just going by that, you can't do God's work. So, Zellie, does it answer your question? Yes, Pastor, thank you. Okay, wonderful.  And Jeffina shares, I loved how the demons couldn't even stand the presence of Jesus. Jesus didn't come and speak anything, but they were so much afraid just by knowing that Jesus is here. Yeah, very true, Jeffina. So the Kingdom of Darkness as also another one of our students pointed out, they are aware and they are afraid. So then you imagine how much courage we should have. So see, we only looked at some three passages and that took quickly and we learned so much. Now, if we can take time to study several other passages and it is listed here in our notes. Okay, we're not going to look at them one by one. I encourage you to do it in your personal time. There is a Canaanite woman's daughter whom Jesus sets free in Matthew 15 verses 21 to 28. You can study about that. A young boy with an evil spirit in Matthew 17. That's the time they bring the boy and they're not able to cast out the demon. So it's like, you know, you have a practical class, isn't it? So then they fail, but personally, they come back and ask Jesus, Jesus, why did we fail? So you see how the disciples are being trained. They are asking Jesus questions and Jesus is giving them answers.  So he's helping them and guiding them on how they must do it the next time. So if they come with fasting and prayer, how will that help? It will help build up the faith of the individual. You know, when we are prayed up, when we have fasted, what happens? Our spiritual man is so become stronger and the noise of the flesh is under control, you know. And so we are in a better place to exercise our authority and our faith is also stronger. Okay. So all these reasons why one must fast and pray. So from that passage, we will understand, okay, fasting and prayer really helps.  You can study about that.  So just go ahead, Luke 13, we saw that, you know, woman who was bound by Satan. When Jesus set her free, she straightened up. So when we study, there are so many observations which we can make. One is that Jesus, I'm just summarizing some of the common things that you will notice. Jesus ministered with great authority. He never, he never went to demons and said, please, can you, if you don't mind, can you just leave this? No. In fact, people were so amazed to see his authority. So Jesus ministered with authority that that is something we take away from it. Then he commanded these demons. And what else do we see? They came out from the people. And in all the passages that we read, we understand that it's like right away. They came out of the people. So that is the standard. So can demons come out right away when we issue a command? Yes, they can.  Allow us to go into the pigs. So sometimes there is that happening, but not all the time. Some other times he just sees a demon. He commands it. It comes out. Okay, so then that also we can understand. At times when they spoke, what did Jesus do? He usually said, be quiet. So then when we get into deliverance ministry, we need not engage in too much of a conversation with demons. Then what else do we see? Some more observations. Yeah, so in Matthew 1228, we see that he cast out demons by the spirit of God. Okay, so then that gives us a lot of confidence. So when I go before a demon and then the demon, you know, usually it will try to intimidate us and say all kinds of things. Then I won't get scared because I know that, hey, it's not just me, isn't it? I'm coming with the authority which I have in Christ Jesus and how is the demon going to leave this person by the spirit of God, by the Holy Spirit. So I'm depending on that to see the person set free. So that again is something that we must keep in our hearts that it is by the spirit of God. Jesus cast out demons. We too can cast out demons by the spirit of God. We get great confidence by going through these passages and just getting faith out of it about the authority and the way the authority was released and ministered to the people. So now we will move on to general instructions for deliverance. So this is very, very practical stuff. So how do we come up with these instructions? This is based on people's experiences and that's how. So one is always operate out of love. Now, because we are referring to deliverance as spiritual warfare, we have that sense of seriousness and anger towards the devil, isn't it? That's why when we speak to the demon, it's usually a command. We are commanding them, they have to obey it. So going with this as our understanding of deliverance, we should not forget that ultimately we love the person. All this anger and all this firmness is against the demon, not against the person. So to have the right motivation is very important when we minister deliverance. So love the person. Another thing about right motivation is that we are not seeking to gain some badge so that I can tell, oh, if somebody asked me, ma'am, how many spirits have you cast out? Oh, just now I cast out 99, very soon it's going to be 100. You know, like I'm just adding it to my resume or my bio data to show that, wow, you see, this is how God has helped me exercise authority. Or I am doing this for 15 years. Now, even if I say things like that, why am I saying it? What is my motivation? Is my motivation really to glorify God? Or is it to show people that I'm so great or that God is using me mightily? So motivation of the heart is so, so critical. One is love for the person. I truly love that person with the love of Jesus. So when I'm casting out a demon, it is not so that I can say, oh, you are 100 number 100 and I cast out the demon. Come on, you know, this is how powerfully God is using me. So we should be very careful. Many times when we talk about motivation, outside people will not know. People will only look at our ministry and say, oh, all these flattering things about us. Wow, pastor, you are doing so nicely, so well, you're carrying such great authority, anointing. But you should not let that mess with our mind. We know that, hey, I am walking in submission to Christ. I'm depending on God. It's like John 15. Without him, I can do nothing. So God, thank you that this brother has been set free. Thank you that the sister has been set free, bless them, you know, help them grow in you.  So when we maintain right attitude, okay, and don't become proud because there is a tendency. We human beings, we have that flesh now. We have that tendency that we want to be recognized or praised, but avoid all that motivation is number one. Whatever we are doing in the ministry, motivation is number one and generally motivation is before God.  So what is the thing in my heart? Why question? Why am I doing what I am doing? So if I have the right motivation to honor God, to love people, then yes, this ministry is going to be a blessed ministry. Okay, so more practical stuff to be prepared. Okay, now we may not be able to predict.  You might just go thinking, okay, I'm going to share from God's word today and you go there and suddenly, you know, you have this one situation where you have to cast out a demon. So the best thing to do is, that is why remember when we did prayer and intercession, that course also, we said daily, daily time in prayer, daily time, you know, praying in the spirit, daily time in meditating in God's word and as regularly as possible. You know, if we can also have these disciplines of fasting, what happens? It's like day in and day out, we are ready. We have the scouts and guides in school, they used to teach us the motto, be prepared, be prepared. So I think it applies for the believers also, isn't it? Always be prepared because we don't know when we will be in a situation where we have to apply the authority of God and release the power of God. So it is helpful to maintain a lifestyle where we are daily strengthened in prayer and fasting. I mean, don't fast daily but regularly, you know, if we can have fasting in our lifestyle. Okay, so let's do one thing. We kind of, at the end of the first session, let's come back, we'll discuss more and it's very practical. So I encourage you if you have any questions, comments, observations from your experience, please share. It will make our learning more, you know, enriched. Okay, so okay, let's go for a break now. We'll meet in 10 minutes. We'll meet at 11 o'clock. Thank you.


Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here with MGRmusic.com and today we're going to be taking a look at some Metallica-style tones using the Blackstar Silverline Deluxe. All the tones you're going to hear today are coming directly from the amplifier, so that's all the drive tones and all the effects that you're going to hear as well. I'm using my Jackson Adrian Smith signature guitar plugged straight into the amplifier, which is mic'd up with a Lewitt Audio LCT 440 condenser microphone. All of the patches for the tones that we're going to talk about in this video are available on the Blackstar Insider website, but there's also some links down below in the description, so you guys can download these patches and put them into your own Silverline amplifiers. The only thing that is not included in the patches is the resonance and presence settings. This is because these are global settings on the Silverline amps. They're not part of the presets. So when you import these patches into your own Silverline amp, you can tweak the resonance and presence controls to suit your own taste. I've got the resonance just below halfway and the presence is up at full just for a little bit more attack. These settings remain the same for all the tones we talk about in this video. The first tone we're going to talk about is an early 1980s Metallica-style tone based off the album Kill'em All. This is great for those aggressive early thrash metal riffs. Here's how the tone sounds. This tone is actually a little bit more mid-humped than the typical Metallica tone. In the early days they were using very high-gain British-style amplifiers. So I'm using the OD1 voice here with the KT-88 response. The amps Metallica actually used to record the album had EL-34s in them, but just to get a little bit more attack out, I chose the KT-88 saying because the higher head room really lent itself well to using this particular guitar. Metallica have always used active pickups which give the front end of the amp a little bit of a kick. So if you don't have active pickups, you can boost the top end just to kind of simulate that early breakup that an active pickup would give you. I've actually got the gain pretty low for this. It's on 3 and the channel volume is up at 10. Got the bass set to 3.5, the mid is on 10 and the treble is also on 10. People often think of Metallica as having a very, very scooped tone, but those early records did have quite a bit of mid-punch in them. I've shaped the EQ a little further with the ISF which I've actually got set to 3. So it does lean a little more on the American side. So we've got that British pre-amp EQ with lots of mids, but we've pushed it slightly American by bringing the ISF back. There's no reverb on this. It's completely dry, but I do have a linear delay just with the slightest bit of slapback just to thicken the guitar sound. The next tone we're going to look at is a mid-1980s clean tone. So here's how this tone sounds. This tone was inspired by the tone off the track Sanitarium, but it can be used for any other Metallica clean tone. This is using the clean bright voice of the amplifier with the 6L6 response. So for this I've got the channel gain set to 6.5. This doesn't really matter too much on the clean channels. If you push it all the way up you will get a little early clipping, but at this level it's fine and the channel volume is at 10. This tone is a little bit more scooped. So I've got the bass up at 8.3. The mid is down to 3.3 where we get that slightly hollow mid range and the treble is all the way up at 10. For this the ISF is also up at about 9.5. There's also quite a lot of effects used on this. So I've got the chorus effect on there, the linear delay for a bit of ambient space and also a plate reverb. Like I said this is great not just for playing Metallica songs from the mid 80s, but any other clean Metallica riff you want to play will work pretty well with this tone. The third tone I'm going to look at is a mid 80s inspired heavy tone similar to that of the Master of Puppets album. So I've gone for the super crunch voice for this one with the 6L6 response. The gain is set to 7.5 and the channel volume is up at 10. The super crunch is great for this because even though it's a very heavy tone there's still a lot of clarity in there. Bass is set to 8, the middle set to 3, so that's scooped out quite a bit there. The treble is set to 9.5 and the ISF is set to 9. There's also a room reverb on this just for a bit of space. This tone was very much inspired by the Master of Puppets album but anything from that era of the band's catalogue will work pretty great with this tone. And the fourth and final tone we're going to look at in this video is inspired by the early 1990s black album era tone which is a much fatter, more saturated Metallica tone. Sounds like this. For this tone we're using the OD1 voice with the 6L6 response. The gain is set to 5.5 and the channel volume is once again set to 10. The EQ for this tone has a very very drastic mid scoop. We've got the bass up at 9, the mid all the way down to 1, the treble is at 6 and the ISF is at 3. We've also got an analogue delay on a short slap back just to thicken that guitar sound up and also there's a whole reverb here to create a nice big space around those guitar refs. Because this tone is based off the black album tone it's great for that early 90s super heavy, super saturated Metallica tone. So there you go guys, there are four Metallica style tones using the silver line deluxe. Like I said at the start of the video the patches for these are linked in the description below but they're also available on the Blackstar Insider website so please go download those, put them into your own silver line and let us know down below in the comments what you think of those tones. Thank you guys so much for watching, hope you've enjoyed this video. Like I said, please let us know what you did think of those tones if you've enjoyed them and if you've started using them to play along with Metallica tracks yourself we'd love to hear about it and if there are any other artists you'd like us to talk about the tones of throw the names in the comments below and we will take a look at that for you as well. Don't forget to go check out Blackstar Amplification on YouTube for more videos just like this and if you're looking for a guitar teacher in your local area please head over to mgrmusic.com we've got a network of great teachers all waiting to help you guys unlock your full potential. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you soon.


So I'd like to thank you again for coming here today. Let's kick off by talking about technology. How do you think we can best leverage new technologies like unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to improve mission execution? What are the technology areas in which the Coast Guard should be making strategic investments if we wanna keep ahead of our adversaries? Yeah, well, thanks for the question first. It's a real honor and a pleasure to be here. And thank all you for being here. I look forward to answering any questions that we have at the end of the more formal interview process. But I think we're in the middle of a technology revolution. I think we have to be a little bit impatient. It's got to be faster. It's got to be better. It's got to be more robust. And I think technology is the future of the Coast Guard. We have to build tomorrow's Coast Guard today. So we have to invest in technology today. I'm glad you talked about AI and machine learning. I think that's critical. We compile a lot of data in the Coast Guard. It's not accessible. So we need to have a decision advantage as a military service across our entire mission spectrum. And I think we can only do that if we harness data in a more usable and analytical way. So I see that as one of the first steps. Obviously I'm an operational commander. I've got a huge operating area. And it's critical for me to improve my awareness of the domains in which we operate. So the Scan Eagle on NSC has been a game changer for us. We can field a more formidable force package. We need to do more of that. We need to look for additional technologies where we can expand domain awareness and leverage both decision superiority and operational advantage. I think the other area where oftentimes it's overlooked where technology is going to be critically important is supporting our workforce. We have to move into an advanced learning system that delivers better training to our workforce in terms of time, quality, and substance. You know, I think of the Coast Guard I grew up in where you learn by turning a wrench. And that's important. We have to have hands on learning. But there are technologies out there that allow you to show through 3D imagery and through, you know, mobile technology how to overhaul an engine and the list could go on and on and on. But there's a learning management component of this that I think is critically important as well. So what I would say in summary, one is our workforce and learning management. Secondly is leveraging the data environment to give us decision advantage. And third is leveraging technology for better operational success. Great, thank you so much. Now talking about looking ahead, I'm sure when Alexander Hamilton started the Coast Guard, he never had vision that we would be talking about space exploration. What challenges and opportunities does the continued expansion into space present to the Coast Guard, both in terms of commercial space launches and growing commercial space based sensors and communication? Yeah, that's a great question. I think it's a twofold question, right? So how can the Coast Guard as an operating agency leverage the space environment in a way that we don't now? I think that goes back to your first question about leveraging technology. I remember not too many years ago, the Coast Guard was looking at cube satellites and how it can improve communications and search and rescue. I think there's still an opportunity out there, both partnering with other agencies who are already in that space, but also looking at how we can leverage the space environment to enhance our surface operations. The second part of that though, is what are we doing to support commercial space? I'm going to take issue a little bit with your question because I think the character of the Coast Guard has not fundamentally changed in the last six years. Alexander Hamilton envisioned us back in 1790. He envisioned a maritime force that would be a Sentinel for America in terms of safety, security, and environmental protection. That's what we do. That's what we do in commercial space. So what are our specific responsibilities? Our specific responsibilities are first to ensure the security of launches and large platforms. Our second responsibility is to ensure safety of life and that safety of those who are flying into space and returning and that's safety of those who are on the vessels that support commercial space operations. And the third function is for us to continue to facilitate safe marine transportation. What I mean by that is that, I'm excited about where space is going. I'm a guy who, parents woke him up at night and let me see the TV when they landed on the moon and that was just a seminal moment for a lot of us who are my age. And so I'm excited about where the United States is going into space and we want to be part of that. But the way that we're best part of it is making sure that we leverage our Coast Guard abilities, our regulatory authorities, and our capabilities to make sure that commercial space and manned spaceflight is safe and the marine transportation is safe as well. So I think we've got multi-fold responsibilities there. Now I will admit this, our regulatory processes aren't as quick as they should be. There's a reason for that. We have to be very deliberate and there's always a cost benefit that goes into regulating. But we are now not just on the precipice of autonomous vessels, we've already crossed the precipice and we're seeing those autonomous vessels launched. I was down in Port Canaveral not too long ago and I met with SpaceX and I got to see what they're doing with autonomous vessels. And it's amazing. It's amazing to see these rockets come back down and land on an autonomous vessel. But yet, our regulatory processes don't really contemplate the operation of autonomous vessels. Now we've done as much as we can under our authority to regulate and make that safe. And I think we've got a very productive dialogue with all the space agents, it's not just SpaceX, it's Blue Origin, there are a number of others out there who are entering into the commercial space environment. In fact, I'm gonna forecast that space launches will quadruple over the next decade. So I think the Coast Guard's gonna be in this business for a while. And my responsibility at Land Area is to try and position us to meet demand and I think that demand will only continue to increase. Thank you. Much like the race to be in space, there's a race to control the Arctic. One of the Coast Guard's missions is to preserve and protect US geostrategic equities and interest in the Arctic region. Land area has been extremely active, oops. In multilateral exercises in the Arctic. What do you see the benefits of these exercises? What can we improve and how do you see that progressing? Yeah, another great question. And so I just sat through the Arctic panel that Admiral Fagan did, our vice commandant. And so I'm gonna steal from her a little bit. So she said, our interest in the Arctic are threefold. It's access, it's domain awareness and it's partnerships. And I don't think you can say it any better than that. And so those are gonna be our lines of effort in the Arctic. The United States is an Arctic nation. But what I try to do as Land Area is I try to explain that we have a continuity of interest across the Arctic. When people tend to think about the United States Arctic, they think of our extended continental shelf and our EEZ off of Alaska. That's important. It's either US territory or it's sovereign rights where we can assert some influence lawfully. But we have a continuity of interest that extends all the way over into the Atlantic Arctic. Even though we're not contiguous to the Arctic and the Atlantic, when we see increasing man-made activity, when we see migrating fish stocks, when we see our closest partners like Denmark and Canada and all our other Arctic nations have a growing interest in the Atlantic Arctic, we need to be there, we need to be present. And so that's what I'm focused on. And we have done a lot of joint exercise. It goes back to the partnership and partnerships build capability, partnerships build interoperability and partnerships I think create a presence that's a deterrent to malign activity. So I've been all in as area commander on supporting joint operations and international operations in the Arctic. People were looking at me somewhat cross-eyed when I said, hey, we're gonna take a 270 foot cutter and we're gonna take a fast response cutter and we're gonna send it north of the Arctic Circle off Greenland. We had never done that before and we did it. And we did it effectively. So to me it's about projecting presence, but more so it's about collaboration with our key strategic allies who want what we want. Safe, secure and an environmentally sound Arctic. Speaking of our strategic allies, one of your operational priorities is efforts in illegal, unreported and unregulated or IUU fishing. IUU fishing is often presented as a Pacific-centric issue. However, we know that it is a global threat with illicit operations occurring on every ocean. What can you tell us about your growing knowledge of the IUU fishing threat in the Atlantic and what is land area in particular doing to combat that threat? Yeah, well first we have to recognize that IUU is a global problem. It's not a regional problem, it's a global problem. Fish stocks don't respect boundaries, right? So IUU fishing is a global problem. And I will tell you, I've had a great opportunity to work with a lot of international partners both in South America, in the Caribbean, certainly over in Africa with our African engagement. And when you ask them, what do they see as their number one national security threat? It's IUU fishing. And so we have to meet them in that space and that's what we're trying to do. So last year I sent Coast Guard Cutter Stone on its post-shakedown cruise down to Brazil and Uruguay and to Argentina to work illegal fisheries. I don't think we had done that in more than a decade. But it was a sign from us that we understand the challenges that our partners have and we want to do what we can to share our information, share our capability and share our practices because at the end of the day we are a maritime governance force and we want to help other people build maritime governance. It wasn't too long ago that maybe we'd have a deployment to Africa once every five years, maybe once every three years. Now we're doing that annually or twice a year just because the challenges and the Gulf of Guinea in particular with China's distant water fleet and overfishing are profound. And I heard the commandant mention this morning that in the next 20 years, Africa will have 25% of the world's population. That population is going to rely on protein. So what we have to do is work with partners to help them project maritime governance for their own fish stocks and work with them to be good stewards of scarce marine resources and that's what we want to do. And then it does also circle back to the Arctic, right? I mean, as we see migrating fish stocks move to the Arctic, the fishing fleets will move with the stocks and we've got to make sure that we work with partners to make sure that we have good governance in the Arctic, one that adheres to and observes international norms. Okay, you mentioned that IUU was a global problem and it seems that the Coast Guard has really becoming, having an increasingly global mission. What role do you see the Coast Guard playing in the broader joint force around the world? What level of interoperability do you envision with the US Navy and the US Marine Corps as part of the tri-service maritime strategy? Well, we action that strategy each and every day. We are very connected with the numbered fleets. We're very connected in Coast Guard Atlantic area with US Fleet Forces. One of the hats I wear that was mentioned at the outset is I'm Defense Force East. By definition, that makes me part of the joint force and I think that's our heritage, that's our history and it's a mission that we're really proud of. I have never seen the Coast Guard in higher demand. I've been wearing the Coast Guard uniform for 38 years of commission service. If you had the Academy, that's four. So over four decades, I've never seen the Coast Guard in higher demand globally. I wish I had resources to support everybody who wants Coast Guard. In some sense, it's a good problem to have, right? On the other hand, one of the biggest challenges I have is how to allocate scarce resources between all the different missions that the Coast Guard has, whether it's fisheries, whether it's counter drug, whether it's the flow of human migration in certain areas, whether it's the Arctic. But I am gonna remain fully committed to doing what I can to support the joint force. I do see that we have an access, we have capabilities and we have authorities that are desired by many nations with which we work. And I heard Admiral Giltay say it this morning for those of you who listen. He said, look, we work with a lot of navies, but they're not blue water navies. They're navies that look more like a coastal constabular force that reflect more Coast Guard than they do blue water navies. So I think it's important for us to partner together and be part of that joint force so that we can extend security cooperation where we can best return, get a return on investment. Well, the Coast Guard motto is always ready. And one of the ways that we have to be ready is to look to the future. How do you see the land area mission set changing or evolving in the future? What is the outlook 20 years from now or further on even? That's a great question. Well, let me start with space because I think that's an emerging mission for us. Even though I said we've already kind of crossed the Rubicon and we're seeing autonomous vessels, I do project an exponential rise in space launches and we're gonna have to do our part. I think the Arctic's gonna become even more critically important as we see more human activity as we see strategic competition expand in the Arctic region and the Coast Guard's gonna have to be there like we've been for 150 years. I think we're still trying to see how the security situation in Europe evolves. It's changed. We all know it's changed. How has it changed? We're not quite sure. But I know that however it's changed, the Coast Guard will have a role, strengthening partnerships, thinking those lines of partnership, but also projecting Coast Guard presence where we can add value as part of the joint force. And then I think as we see energy exploration expand off of Africa, we see more African nations build capability to protect their own EEZs. I think there'll be a growing demand for the Coast Guard in Africa as well. I'm excited about that. That's a mission that we'd love to do. I wish we could do more of it. I think you're gonna see us do more of it. But what we have to do is have a more persistent and habitual interaction with our partners over in Africa. And I see that becoming a real important location for us as the United States, not just the Coast Guard, as the United States in the future. I had the real pleasure of being at the International Sea Power Symposium in Newport last year. And I had the opportunity to meet with a lot of Chiefs of Navy from our African partner countries. And I tell you, they were excited about the Coast Guard. They were excited about the opportunity for us to send cutters over there. And when I pledged to them, as I said, look, I may not be able to send a cutter, but I can send people. I can send subject matter experts. I can send people over there to help work with you to build something that fits your legal regime, your particular security situation. And you have my commitment that will be an enduring partner for you. Well, I know that you have a hard stop. So we're going to offer, to take some questions from the audience here. Any questions from the audience? So sir, we see that the Coast Guard's FY23 budget request includes $125 million for a commercial security cutter or a polar icebreaker. Can you give us any more information about that evolving turn of events and any chance that's going to the Atlantic Command? I think those are all early questions, right? Here's what I'll say. We are so pleased that the administration and Congress understands the value of Coast Guard icebreakers. And the fact that the nation is investing in more polar capability, I should say high latitude capability, I think is refreshing to all of us that have worn the blue uniform for so long. When I came in the Coast Guard, we had icebreakers everywhere, right? West wind, north wind, glacier, and we could just go down and name them. Now we've got two, one heavy, one medium. So the fact that we're on a shipbuilding program and that we're going to have polar security cutters in our inventory, I think is a great thing. And then obviously Congress says, hey, there's got to be a bridging strategy to that end. And I think that's why you've seen the mark in the FY23 budget. Thanks, sir. I'm an Army guy and I stand in awe of the Coast Guard's ability to husband resources. I mean, I think you guys are a great, great guardian of the nation's resources and do a fantastic job executing a very difficult mission. And I think you ought to get a lot more money for more coasties and more equipment. Well, thank you. I really do appreciate that. And so you're going to be one of our best ambassadors and you're one of our recruiters, the Coast Guard's hiring. And so please go out and sing it loud and proud. The Coast Guard's hiring, we need great young men and women to serve. We still have some more time. Any other questions? Oh, okay, yes. Hi, my name is Sandy Trumblin with Pavilion Storage. We are a innovative data storage platform that is able to be able to do a lot of high-end analytic storage capacity. Where would we go and talk to folks within the Coast Guard for innovative projects that could take advantage of our platform? Yeah, Admiral Dave Durminellian is our CG6, our data guy. And look, I was a management major at the academy. So to me, it's just ones and zeros. But I know we've got a lot of smart people in the Coast Guard. What I am smart enough to know is that, as I said at the outset, we've got to do a better job, not only on data integration, but data management and data accessibility. We've got to do a better job analyzing the data that we collect to give us decision advantage. So thank you. Great, thanks. Okay, we still have about five minutes or so. Any other questions from the audience? Okay, Admiral, thank you very much. No, thank you.