From Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Covering Actifio 2019, Data Driven. Brought to you by Actifio. Hello everyone and welcome to Boston. In this theCUBE special coverage of Actifio, Data Driven 19, I'm Dave Vellante. Stu Minim is here. Got a special guest, John Furrier is in the house from Palo Alto. Guys, theCUBE, we love to go out on the ground. You know, we go deep. We're here at this data theme, right? We were there in the early days, John.  We're going to cover the first Hadoop world. And since then, things have moved quite fast. Everybody thought Hadoop big data was going to take over the world. Nobody even uses that term anymore, right? It's kind of, now it's AI and machine intelligence and blockchain and everything else. So, what do you think's happening? Did the early big data days fail? You know, Frank Jennings, this morning, called it the experimentation phase. I mean, I don't really think Frank has a good handle on what's going on in my opinion because I think it's not experimentation is real. That was a wave that was essentially the beginning of not experimentation of realization and reality that data, unstructured data in particular was real and relevant. Hadoop looked good off the tee, middle of the fairway, as we say. But the thing about the Hadoop ecosystem is that validated big data. Every financial institution jumped on it. Everyone who knew anything about data or had data issues or had a lot of data knew the value. It's just that the apparatus to build via Hadoop was too expensive. In comes cloud computing at scale. So, as cloud was accelerated, when you look at the Amazon Web Services Revenue Chart, you can almost see the D mark where the inflection point is on the hockey stick of Amazon's revenue numbers. And that is the point in time where Hadoop was on the declining of failure. And Hortonworks sold to Cloudera. Cloudera's earnings are at all time low. A lot of speculation of their entire strategy. And their venture-backed company went public, but bet the ranch to be the next data warehouse. That wasn't the business model. The data business was a completely new industry, completely being transformed. And far from experimentation, it is real and definitely growing like a weed, but changing because of the underpinning infrastructure dynamics of cloud-native, microservices, and that's only going to get highly accelerated. And the people who talk about context of industries like Frank are going to be off. Their predictions will be off because they don't really see the new picture clear enough, in my opinion, so I think he's off. So it's not so much of a structural change like it was when we went from mainframes to PCs. It's more of a sort of flow and evolution into this new area, which is being driven, powered by new technologies. We talked about blockchain and machine intelligence. Well, I mean, the makeup of companies that were building, quote, big data solutions, were trying to build an apparatus or mechanisms to solve big data problems. But none of them actually had the big data problem. They none of them were full of data. Another one had a lot of data. The ones that had the problems were the financial institutions, the credit card companies, the people who were doing a lot of large scale with Google, Facebook, and some of the hyperscalers. They were actually dealing with the data tsunami themselves, so the practitioners ended up driving it. You guys at Wikibon, we pointed this out on theCUBE many times that the value was going to come from the practitioners, not the suppliers of so-called technology. So, you know, the Claudairs, the world who thought Hadoop would be relevant and growing as a technology, were right on one side. On the other side of the coin was the cloud decimation of that sector. The cloud computing just completely blew away that Hadoop market because you didn't have to hire a PhD. You didn't have to hire specialty skills to stand up Hadoop clusters. You could actually throw it in the cloud and get agile quickly and get value out of data very, very quickly. That has been real. It has not been an experiment. There's been new case studies, new companies born, new brands. So it's not an experiment. It is reality and it's only going to get more real every day. And I add, you know, of course, you mentioned Claudair and Hortonworks. I also got map bar reeling. Sue, let's talk about Actifio. So they coined the term copy data management. They created the category. Of course, they do a lot of backup. I mean, everybody in this space does a lot of backup. And then you saw the Silicon Valley companies come in, particularly Cohesity and Rubrik. You know, to a lesser extent, you got some other guys like Xerto and Dhruva. But it was really those two companies, Cohesity and Rubrik. They raised more money in their D round than Actifio has since its inception.  You know, they're not like this really sexy, very East Coast versus kind of West Coast mentality. What's your take on what's going on? Yeah, so Dave, right. You look at the early days of Actifio and you say, great, copy data management. I have all these copies of data. How do I reduce my cost, get greater utilization that I have and leverage the data? I, you know, love the title of the show here, data driven. You know, we know at the center of digital transformation, if you can't become data driven, like a CMO Brian Regan got up on stage talking about that industrialization data. How am I going along that journey being this? I collected data versus now, you know, data is the reason that I make decisions and how I make decisions that get smarter. The cloud of course is a huge enabler of this. There's all these services that I can instantly access to be able to get greater insight and move along with that environment. And if you look underneath all of these backup companies, it's really how I can change that data into business value and drive my business, the metadata underneath it, all those pieces, not just the wonky storage and technical solutions that make things better and I get a faster ROI. It's that data at the core of what we do and how do I get that as a business accelerant because we know IT needs to be able to respond back to the business and data needs to be that rocket. Is it the case of data haves and data have nots? I mean, Amazon has data, Facebook has data. I'm talking about Actifio, you brought that up, okay, on the segment, the insight segment, which is cool, they're here at the event. But they have a good opportunity, but also they got some challenges. I mean, the thing about Actifio is, to my earlier point, which side of the wave are they on? Are they out too much out front with virtualization and Amazon, the cloud will take them away? Or are they riding the cloud wave and making that an enabler? And I think what really I like about Actifio is because they have a lot of virtualization capabilities. The question is, can they scale that stew to containers and microservices because the real opportunity in this market, in my opinion, is going to build on the virtualization trend and make container aware microservices capabilities because if they don't, then that would be a tell sign. Now either way, it's a hot M&A market right now. So I think being in the market, horse on the track, as you say, you look at the Tableau Salesforce deal monster numbers, we are in clearly a hot IPO market and a major roll up market on the M&A side. I think clearly there's two types of companies, old and new, and that is really what people are looking at. Are they part of the old guard? Are they the new guard? So this is to me, it's going to be a tell sign of what they do next. Can they make the data driven value provision that articulates stew, actually a reality, is going to come from the technology underneath? Well, I think it's really interesting point you're making because stew, as you probably know, that Amazon announced the Amazon backup service, right? And you talked to all the backup guys and they're like, oh yeah, it's backup, but it really doesn't do recovery. It's really not that robust. It's part of me says, uh-oh, watch out. You better move fast because Amazon has stated, hey, if you don't move fast, we're going to just keep gobbling and you've seen Amazon do this. You know, what are your thoughts on that? Can these specialists, can they survive? John's talking about M&A, you know, can the market support all these guys along with the big, you know, traditional guys like Veritas and Dell EMC and IBM and Commvault? Right, well, so Actifio started very much in the data center. They were before this cloud wave really took off. It's really only in the last year that they've been satisfying their products. So the question is, does that underlying IP, which wasn't tied to hardware, but, you know, sat at really more of, you know, reminded us of that storage virtualization battles that we talked about for years, Dave, but now they're going to the cloud. They've got all the partnerships in the cloud, but they are competing against those new vendors that you talked about like Cohesity and Rubrik out there and there's big money chasing this environment. So, you know, I want to talk to the customers here and find out, you know, what, where they are using them and especially some of those first customers. But they clearly need a cloud play because that's clearly where the action is. But if you look at what's going on with Amazon, Azure and Google, you see a lot of on-premises stew because that's where the customers are. So just because the customers are currently not migrating their existing workloads to the cloud, doesn't mean it's not going to happen. So I think there's an opportunity for any company like Actifio who may or may not be behind the curve, behind the curve on the tech side. One little misfire on a tech bet could cripple the company and also make the companies. A lot of high risk-reward ratio, how they handle containers, how they build on virtualizations. Virtualization is going to be part of the future with cloud. These are the kind of the dynamics that are going to be in play and they got some time on their hands because the on-premises growth is because the clients are trying to figure out what to do and they're not going to be migrating, lifting and shifting workloads a lot to the cloud. NetNU will be cloud-based, but that enterprise is a proven why we're in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud conversation that the enterprise on-premises is not going away anytime soon. I want to ask you guys, John, you specifically about the sort of new Silicon Valley growth model and how companies are achieving escape velocity. When you and I made our first trip to Barcelona, I was having dinner with David Scott, who was the CEO of 3Par, and he said to me, when I came to 3Par, the board said, hey, we're willing to invest $30 million in this company. And David Scott said to him, I need way more, I need $80 million. I mean, today $80 million is nothing. You saw pure storage hit escape velocity with just throwing money and growing at the problem.  Well, you could debate that. I mean, if you have to, you know, build the rocket ship, hit critical mass, and you want to fund that, you're going to need it in the enterprise. However, there's arguments on the SaaS side that you can actually get flywheel effect going early with less capital. So again, that's three. But so this is my point. Well, that's 3Par. That was 2000 and whatnot. Yeah, so it's early days. So that was, that's ancient history, but software is generally supposed to be a capital efficient market, yet these companies are raising many hundreds and hundreds of millions, you know, half a billion dollar raises, and they're putting it largely in promotion. Is that the new model? Is that sustainable? In your view? Well Matt, I think you get the, I think you're conflating capital market dynamics with the, you know, viable companies to invest in. I think there's a robust seed in series A market, but the series A market in Silicon Valley is, you know, 15 to 25 million. It used to be three to five. So the dynamics are changing on funding. There's just not enough companies, horses on the track to deploy capital at tranches of 30, 50, 80 million. So the capital markets are clearly going to have the money available. So it's a market for the startups and the growth companies. That's separate from actually winning. So you've got slacks going public this week. You have other companies that have built business on a SaaS flywheel, and then everything else is gravy in terms of the go-to-market. They got a couple hundred million. I think the slacks got close to a billion dollars of cash that they've raised. So they're flooded with cash. They'll never spend it all. So there are some companies that can achieve success like that. Others have to buy market share. They've got to push and build out a sales force, and it's going to be a function of the role of customer customization, specialism, and whatnot. But with AI machine learning, there's more efficiencies coming in. So I think the modern company can do more with less. What do you think of the ride shearing IPOs? Uber and Lyft, do you a bull? Do you like them, or do you think they're losing too much money and can't sustain it? I was thinking about that this morning after looking at the article in Wall Street Journal and our coverage on SiliconANGLE. You look at Zoom communications. I like models that actually can take a simple concept in an existing, mature market and disrupt it by being cloud efficient and completely SaaS and data-driven. That is an example of success. That to me, Zoom communications and Zscaler, another company that we talked to. These are companies that were built with a specific value proposition that made the product, and they were targeting mature markets with leaders in a video conferencing, WebEx, Citrix. Zoom came out of nowhere, optimized on simple value proposition and used cloud-scale and data and crushed it. Uber, Lyft, a little bit different issue. They're losing money, but I would bet on the long term that that is going to be the use case for how people will help transportation. I think that's a long game, and I think that without regulatory kind of pressure, without, if there's regulatory issues, that's really the big risk. But I believe that Uber and Lyft absolutely will be long-term brands. And just like Facebook was early on, although they threw off a lot of cash, those guys are building for penetration. That's where the funding matters. Penetration is critical. Now they're the standard, and people really don't take taxes anymore, but they're really using the ride-sharing. And you got the scooters, you got the bikes. They're all sequencing into these adjacent markets, which drains more cash, but builds the brain. Well, that's what I wanna ask you. So people compare the early Uber, Lyft, taxi ride-sharing to Amazon selling books, but there's all these other adjacencies. You ever thought on this? Well, just, you know, right. Uber Eats is a huge opportunity for that environment, and autonomous vehicles, everybody talks about, but it's still quite a ways out. So there are a lot of different. We're in San Diego, last week we had eight zillion scooters. San Diego had fun going around their electronic scooters. Boy, talk about the gig economy. They pay people at night to go pay by the recharge. You do on that. It's what is the future of work. That's a great point. Uber's got to look like Amazon. You subsidize the front-end retail side of the business. But look at the data that they throw off. Uber's data is that they're gathering on not only customer behavior, but just mapping services. 3D mapping's going to be huge. So you've got these cards that essentially bots on the road, providing massive mapping and traffic analysis. So you're going to start to see data driven, like Actifio's slogan here, be a big part of all design decisions and value proposition from any company out there. And if they're not data driven, I think they're going to be coached. It's that data and that machine learning underneath that can optimize where the people are, how I use the systems. Such a huge wave that we're watching. How about one last topic, which is heavily data-driven, is Facebook. Facebook, obviously, data-driven company. Facebook crypto play. I love it. I love Facebook. I'm a bull on Facebook. I think it's been beat up. And I think two billion users is hard to replicate. But what's your thoughts on their crypto play? Well, it's kind of the middle finger to the United States of America, but it's a great catalyst for the international market because crypto needed a way to come in and bring all those users in. Bad timing in my mind for Facebook because given all the antitrust and regulatory conversations, what better way to show your threat to the world order when you say we're going to run a banking system with a collection of international companies? I think the U.S. is going to look at this and say, oh my God, they can't even be trusted to handle personal information. And we're going to now let them run a banking system, run monetary, basically world bank equivalent infrastructure. No fricking way. I think this is going to be a major road to hoe. I think Facebook has to really make this an ecosystem play if they want to make it work. That's their telegraphing move. Hey, we want to do it for the community, but we've got our own wallet and we've got our own network. But they bring a lot to the table, so it's going to be a really interesting dynamic to see the coalescing around Facebook because they could make the market. Look what Instagram did to Snapchat. They literally killed the company, took all their users. That is what's going to happen in the digital money economy. When Facebook brings billions of users, user experience with money, what happened to Snapchat with Instagram? It's going to happen to the world bank if this continues. Do you stand on the government breaking up Big Tech? So, Dave, we look at these companies, it's not easy to pull those apart. I don't think our government understands how most of Big Tech works. Take Amazon and AWS, that's one company underneath it. Facebook, Microsoft, Microsoft, we went through all these issues. Question Dave, we've had lots of debates on Twitter. Are they breaking the law? Are they not doing trust? I have some trust issues with Facebook myself, but most of the big companies up there, I don't think the anti-rust kicks in. The Facebook story, let's do it, the Facebook story and the YouTube story is simply this. They have been hiding under the platform rules, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and they are a editing platform, so you can't sue them. Once they become a publisher, they could be sued, just like CNN, Fox News, and everybody else. And we're publishers. So they've been hiding behind the platform. That gig is up. They're going to have to address, are you a platform or are you a publisher? You're making editing decisions around what users can see with software. You are essentially editing the feed. That is a publisher role. With that becomes responsibility, and then obviously break it through. Facebook is conflicted right now. They're trying to figure out which side of the fence to go on. No, they want one side, the platform side. They're making billions of dollars. But they're making decisions about which content to show and whether or not they monetize it. And when it's controversial content, they'll turn down the ads a little bit, but they won't completely eliminate it sometimes. You've seen that. The only thing that the partisans and politics seem to agree on though, is that big tech has too much power. What's your take on that? Well, so I think that if they are breaking the law, then they should be moderated. But I don't think the answer is to go hard after Elizabeth Warren, hard after men break them up. I think you've got to start with, okay. Because you break these companies up, what's going to happen is, they're going to be worth more, it's going to be AT&T along the way. Well, you guys were at Cisco Live. We covered this at Avansion Web Services, Public Sector Summit. The real issue in governments too is there's too much tech for bad on the PR side, and there's not enough tech for good. Tech is not bad. Tech is good. There's not enough promotion around the apps around there. There's real venture funds being created to promote tech for good. That's going to where the tide will turn. When does the tech industry start doing good stuff, not bad stuff? All right, we got to wrap. John, thanks for sitting in. Thank you for watching. But right back, we're here at Actifio, Data Driven 2019 from Boston. This is theCUBE. Right back.


in the Owlet baby care booth with Chris Stout and you guys have an interesting, sorry, Chris Droud. You have an interesting product here. Tell us about it. Yeah, so the Owlet care product was designed to basically alert parents when their baby stops breathing or if their baby stops breathing. The device itself is inserted within a sock. It's similar to the pulse oximeters you see in the hospital, those little red lights you clip to your finger. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the sock sizes can change. It's a common question, but we can actually remove the device and then replace it. But the sock itself monitors the heart rate, the oxygen level, the skin temperature, and the movement patterns of the baby. Now it communicates that information via radio waves along with about 14 other elements to a base station. Now the base station is meant to sit on the parent's nightstand. And that's what we're looking at right here. So I have an eight-month-old and I have an eight-month-old and our base station sits on my parents, on my wife's side of the bed.  Okay, and I think you demonstrated, do the alarm for us here. Yeah, there we go. So you can see the alarm and if you get close, you can hear it. You aren't gonna miss that the middle of the night. That's right. Not too horrible, but you're waking up for that. That's right, it's not too bad at all. But you wake up the first time it went off, I leaped out of bed, right? And ran to my son's room. Now the base station also communicates through Wi-Fi to a mobile app that can sit on your phone and in real-time report statistics. So we have Clark here who's a child in Utah and we're in Las Vegas right now and you can see his heart rate and his oxygen level changing in real-time. Wow. If his alarm was to go off, if his oxygen were to go off, his base station would fire an alarm and his application would fire an alarm as well.  That's pretty cool. So the sock, show the inside for the camera here. So the sock itself has two sensors that fit within it and as we said earlier it monitors over 18 different elements. Now we don't want mom stressing about the data so the application only shows them two elements and only shows it in real-time. We're basically saying your baby's fine. You can see that your baby's fine and we capture that data and then we monitor it ourselves. What do you mean you monitor it yourself? Well, when an alarm happens we actually have a data science team that looks at the alarm and they want to figure out was it our app, was it our device, or was it the parent's device and whereas our false alarms are far below industry average, we have often found that when a parent calls in and says the alarm's gone off several times, I'm not sure why. We've been able to say we can tell it's not our product and so by saying that what we're able to say is probably something you should look into but as we're not a medically approved device. You can't say there's something wrong with the baby but you can say there's not something wrong with the device so it's up to you to make the next choice. That's right. Oh, interesting. And we have had parents who have called us and said well I'm having the alarm going off what can you tell and we've been able to say we can tell it's not our product and they were subsequently able to go to their doctor and in many cases they found issues that their doctor was able to identify. Sure, sure. Yeah, that's the right way to handle it. But so you're saying the data about Clark is not only going to his mother's cell phone and to the father who's got the receiver by the nightstand, it's also going to you guys? Yeah, so we store it on our servers so we've tracked just in the past year we've tracked over 18 billion heartbeats and that data allows us to understand algorithms. We've been able to see sometimes when infants have cases of sleep apnea. Now, again, we're not we're not a medically approved device yet. We're going through clinicals and we are being reviewed by the FDA as in going through that process of being approved by them and we're hoping to have approval in the near future. So do you have to follow HIPAA requirements, which is the United States laws about having medical data shared and protected? You have to do that? So we don't share that data. It's used for the device improvement, but we're not a medical device so it's not technically considered a medical data. But we are already abiding by and building all of the systems and infrastructure to abide by HIPAA. You can do that when you get to it. Exactly. But technically, the FDA were to say, what are you doing? They would first say, well, you're not a medical device. So this data is assisting you in the improvement of the device. The data allows us to refine how the device reads the data and when it should fire an alarm. Okay, got it. Very cool. So it's called the Owlet Baby Care. That's correct. And how much does this cost? It costs $250. It's available at OwletCare.com and you will see it in retail source this year, most likely in Target, BabiesRS, and Bye Bye Baby, who we're in talks with. Okay, so that's Owlet, O-W-L-E-T.com. OwletCare.com. At least I spelled owl for you. That's right, because it's a baby owl, right? Owlet. Yeah, there you go. All right, thank you very much. This was great. Thank you. Pleasure.


Deep Learning, DL, has been successfully used for EEG-based sleep stage classification, SSC, however, the need for large amounts of labeled data limits its applicability in real-world settings. Self-supervised learning, SSL, has recently emerged as a promising technique to address this issue by leveraging unlabeled data. This paper evaluates the efficacy of SSL in improving the performance of existing SSC models when only limited amounts of labeled data are available. It was found that fine-tuning pre-trained models, with only 5% of labeled data, can achieve comparable results to supervised training with full labels. Furthermore, SSL also improved model robustness to data imbalance and domain shift issues. This article was authored by Ahmed El-Deen El-Diel, Mohammed Raghab, Zhenghua Chen, and others.


Here we are, chapter 12, book of Proverbs. I'll begin reading here in Proverbs chapter 12 at verse 1. I'll read to verse 4, and we'll get into our study. And incidentally, as you already know, excuse me, the first several chapters of Proverbs, you were able to take three or four verses or sometimes even more. And because they all tied into one central thought, we would cover a lot of verses at one time just by taking those verses together and then just looking for the point that was being made. But Solomon has now gone into a style of giving a single proverb or perhaps two that carry the same thought. And so it's a little more difficult, to be honest with you, to give you studies on the rest of the chapters because each one of those verses could really be almost the study of its own. And so I'm trying to jowl these things so that we can get the heart of what he would have us to know. And that's what we'll be doing here in chapter 12. So let's begin reading at verse 1, chapter 12, book of Proverbs, verses 1 through 4, and we'll get into our study. Solomon writes, whoever loves instruction loves knowledge.  I wonder if he meant me to say it like that, but a good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of wicked intentions, he will condemn. A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous cannot be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones. I will stay there a long time tonight. Okay, here we go.  So let's begin with almost a little bit of a topical for just a moment. Solomon would be saying this. This would be a main point. He'd be saying, a key to maturing faith is the ability to receive instruction. A key to a maturing faith is the ability to receive instruction. One of the pitfalls of being a young believer who has gifts and talents. One of the pitfalls is a self-assuredness that sometimes will keep that young person from receiving correction. So a key to maturing faith is the ability to be corrected. It's the ability to receive instruction. That's what he's saying. Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge. There's a young man that we find in Scripture. We looked at him when we went through the book of Acts. His name is Apollos. And Apollos was introduced to us in Acts chapter 18. And when Apollos was introduced, he was described in a certain way. You see that if you take notes in Acts chapter 18 verses 24 and 25. And when you read Acts chapter 18 verses 24 and 25, those verses describe this young man in this way. They describe him as eloquent, that he was mighty in the Scriptures, and that he was fervent in spirit. These are the kinds of qualities that describe a spiritual leader. Somebody who can speak well, somebody who knows the Word of God, and somebody who has this energy about them, this fervency about them, especially when you're young. And that is a very attractive trait. I find that to be true to this day. There are many young ministers that really have an appeal because of their energy, because they pace the platform, because they can engage people. And they use illustrations that draw people's attention. And they know the Word, and they're able to present the Word at all. And people are taken by that. And Apollos was a man like that. He was a man who spoke well. He was a man who was well versed. He was a man who had this energetic way about him. He's also described as one who speaks boldly. And he's also described as somebody who taught the basics of the Scriptures accurately. So these are things, if you were to look for a spiritual leader, these are things that are outer emblems that are attractive to the listener. These are the things that people will come and enjoy listening to. They will listen to the young man as he speaks. They get caught up with his energy. They like the way that he presents himself. And all of that's a good thing. That was Apollos. But one of the things that made Apollos very special was he was teachable. You see, there was an older couple in the congregation listening to this young man as he was speaking. Aquila and his wife, Priscilla. And the Scripture tells us as they were listening to him, they sensed and saw that he knew certain things, but was not versed in other things. In other words, he wasn't yet complete in his understanding of the things of the Gospel. He was uninformed in his theology. And the Bible tells us that Apollos was taken aside by Aquila and his wife. And as they were taken, he was taken aside that they taught him more of the Gospel. They gave him more information. And what makes him in my sight a great man was that he received their instruction. I am telling you, I've been around a long time. I've been the young man.  And I've been that young man. Now I'm the older man. And I know as the younger man that I was so assured sometimes that I knew what I was saying was right and much of the time it was because they did study. One of the things I needed to learn was to receive correction from those who've been in the faith longer than me. And that is something that every minister has to learn. And one of the most dangerous things that you can be is a person who is gifted but not correctable because you're dangerous at that point. And so the one who loves instruction loves knowledge. The one who loves the word instruction there doesn't simply speak of information. It carries with it the connotation of being instructed or corrected. A person who loves correction when it occurs is somebody who really is moving in the right direction is the point that Solomon is making. The one who receives correction is blessed by the Lord.   It means it's like an animal.   He's actually like an animal. In other words, he's opinionated. He's a person who can hardly wait for your mouth to stop moving so he can start talking. And he has all this information that you really need to have. He says, well, that's really not a good quality to have at all because you're not teachable. In 1 Corinthians in chapter 8 verse 2, the one or he who thinks he who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. In Romans 12 verse 16, simple word, do not be conceited.  Don't be self-important. Don't think that you've got it all down because you don't. Every day that you live is another day you can learn. And if you have that attitude, Solomon would say that's a very good attitude to have. Somebody once said, a man who has himself for teacher has a fool for an instructor. I like that. That's good. And so we need to be correctable. We need to be teachable.  Verse 2, a good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of wicked intentions he will condemn. When it speaks of a good man, this is an ethically good man. And this is a man who pleases the Lord. And as a result, God favors him. God delights, if you will, in this man. But a man of wicked devices, the word devices speaks of wicked plots and intentions. A man of wicked devices, he says, God will judge. This one who is of wicked devices is a man who constantly thinks of and plans on doing evil. That's what his whole life is built around is, what can I do that is really bad? And it's not as if he is thinking, I want to do only bad, but his intent is to do that which is evil.  The result is that he receives judgment. In John 5, 28 and 29, Jesus said, do not marvel at this. The hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth.  And so the person who is of wicked intentions ultimately is judged by the Lord. Verse 3, a man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous cannot be moved. And so when he speaks of the root of the righteous, it's a picture of a tree that's planted and its roots have gone deep and they're drying up the water, the moisture, the nutrients that they need. And as a result of that, they flourish. It's like what it says in Psalm 1, verses 1 through 3. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law, he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper. Jeremiah 17, verses 7 and 8, same thing. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord whose hope is in the Lord, for he shall be like a tree planted by the waters which spreads out its roots by the river and will not fear when heat comes. Its leaf will be green and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit. I was in a South American country at the moment. I can't remember which one. There it was. And we were walking by a river. It's a small river that was going through the city. And the thing that stands out of my memory, it's been about 20 years since I saw this. But the thing that stands out is there were eucalyptus trees that were there on the edge, on the lip of this river. And those eucalyptus trees were huge. But when you look at them, they were there right by the water's edge. And they had roots that went down deeply. And they were constantly soaking in that supply of water. And they were constantly producing this leaf. And that's the point that he's making. If you're rooted and grounded in the things of the Lord, if you're rooted and grounded in God, God is going to bless your life. So don't go to a place that's a place of drought.  Remain close to the Lord, and God will bless your life. Verse 4. We don't need to read this, do we, ladies? Okay. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband. A she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones. This is a contrast, obviously, between a wife of noble character and one who is really what would be called disgraceful. It speaks of a crown.  But the word rottenness when used here speaks of something that eats his strength, diminishes him as a man.  And a shameful wife brings him disgrace in society. There are wives that do not do their husbands good. Yes, I'm aware, by the way, that there are husbands who don't do their wives good too. I read your minds, but that's not what Solomon's talking about right now. And there are. I've seen a few in my day. Wives who bring shame to their husband. Wives who don't do him good all the days of her life, but actually through criticisms and mean spiritedness just takes his strength from him. I've seen it. And it's sad to see it either way, to be honest with you, to see a husband who doesn't cherish his wife and to see a wife who brings shame to her husband. And that's what Solomon is speaking about.  And today we're hearing more and more about wives who physically abuse their husbands who disrespect that man or order him around like he's a child who control and manipulate. And we say, well, you know, that's maybe I said this once and I'll say it again because it bears repetition at this moment. But even in the society that we live in, ladies, be very careful that you don't allow the society to put you in its box. We're not to be conformed to this world, but aren't we to be transformed by the renewing of our minds? As Paul said in Romans 12 too. And indeed, that's true. And I said this once and I issued this not as a real challenge, but I said, you know, ladies, some of you may have been here, it's been a few years. I said, you know, men in general in the society are looked at as being and we're treated as being unnecessary.    He doesn't even know how to do the dishes.  And what it makes men feel like, it makes men feel disrespected and diminished. Maria and I were talking about this today. I'll say it very quickly, but it is something important to remember. You know, I as a man, hold women in high regard. She knows this. This is true. I hold women in high regard, obviously. Why wouldn't I? You know, women ought to be held in high regard. Jesus taught us to do that. And I don't see women as any less than men, but we hold different roles. We are not equal. We're equivalent. There are things that men do, that men simply do that are better than women. And there are things that women do that are better than men. And rather than competing with one another, we compliment one another. We thank God for the differences, because when you unite those differences, you become one in Christ. That's what marriage is. My wife has certain things I don't have. I need those things to complete me. God gave me a woman who enables me to become more of a man. That's the way it works. But when we're in a society where a woman thinks that she's got to be the man, and the man right now is confused and doesn't know what he is, and I have to tell you, I see a lot of that. I do. I see a lot of young women who are more man than the man that they're with. It really kind of trips me out. Whoa, that's one bad baby. We're not in competition, guys. We're not in competition. God created us to complete one another. And respect. That's how a man actually spells the word love. Respect. And that's how we know we're loved. It's when our wife respects us. When our wife shows us the respect that that we really should have. Prayerfully, we've earned and deserve. Of course, we want to be men who are respectable. Of course we do. Some of us don't know how to be yet, but we're learning. But the bottom line is, is, and I said this to my wife when we were first married, because my wife wanted to mama me, and I don't mind being mamaed every once in a while. Why not? But I told her, listen, I didn't marry my mother. I married a woman supposed to be my wife. And if I want to be mamaed, I'll call my mommy.  And together we'll make this journey. When the scripture says an excellent wife is the crown of her husband, that's absolutely true. Because I can see a man's ministry by simply looking at his marriage. I can see his ministry when I see his wife. Because if this is a woman who's blossoming and loves the Lord and walks in the spirit, I can say this man's got a good ministry. But there are numerous men who pastor churches who don't even pastor their wives. And it's out of control. And so when a man is loving his wife in the way that Christ loved the church, when we are given ourselves for her washing her with the word and walking in the spirit with her, our wife begins to blossom. And that brings glory to us. In 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verse seven, a man indeed ought not to cover his head. He's the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man. And so a woman, my woman, my wife brings honor to me. And when people will say to me that they love my wife, you're also saying, I love you. You're also saying, I appreciate your ministry. Because in our relationship, from from almost day one, I'd say, Murray has been somebody that I have attempted, sometimes better than others, I'll be honest with you better, my attempts have been more successful than others at certain periods of our lives together. But I've known pretty much for a long time that she is the reflection of my walk with Christ. And thus I have made it my aim to be the best husband I can be for her. But she brings honor to me by the life she lives for Jesus Christ. And when she is not bringing honor to the Lord, she's bringing dishonor not only to him, but also to me. And so she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bone. So of course, our great desire is to bring glory to the Lord and one another. Verse five, the thoughts of the righteous are right. But the councils of the wicked are deceitful. The words of the wicked are lie and wait for blood. But the mouth of the upright will deliver them. So when he says the thoughts of the righteous are right, councils of the wicked are deceitful, righteous thoughts, which speak of plans or intentions, spring from the hearts of those who love the Lord. But the wicked schemer always plans for that, which results in evil. When he says in verse six, the words of the wicked are lie and wait in blood. The wicked trap with false accusations is the context. That's what that means. But a righteous person makes a skillful defense through wisdom and instruction. The wise are able to avoid a trap. And by a soft answer, they can avoid problems. In verse seven, the wicked are overthrown and are no more. But the house of the righteous will stand. The wicked are overthrown and are no more. Do you guys remember somebody by the name of Madeleine O'Hare, Madeleine Murray O'Hare? How many of you remember that name? If not, let me give you a lot of you don't. Let me give you a brief history lesson. Back in back in 1963, an atheist by the name of Madeleine O'Hare or Madeleine Murray O'Hare filed a suit with the intent to prohibit Bible reading in public schools. It was the atheist Madeleine Murray O'Hare who won that suit. And the Bible was no longer allowed to be read in the way that at one time had been in classrooms throughout the United States. And shortly thereafter, there was another law that was passed that banned prayer from school. No Bible reading and no prayer back in 1963. And Madeleine O'Hare in the United States was it was she was referred to as the most hated woman in the United States because of what she had done. But she took that as a sign of something to be proud of her son. I can't remember his name. I think it may have been John. Her son came to faith in Christ and was disowned by his mother. And he said that his mother was the most vile, wretched, profane human being he had ever known. And it was his own mother. He said his mother was addicted to pornography. His mother enjoyed using profanity. As a matter of fact, she got so bad in her latter later years that when she'd be interviewed, they stopped interviewing her because they had to edit so many profanities from her from her speech that she wasn't even used. She wasn't even worth speaking to anymore. So this is a woman whose whole goal and some of us remember this because that was in my lifetime was to remove God from the public square. She's been she laid a seed with others that has blossomed in the age that we live in now where you can't have Koran in a public school, but you better not read your Bible. Those are things that came specifically for from her efforts, those kinds of things. Well, why am I bringing her up to you? Well, because it says here again, the wicked are overthrown and are no more. Madeleine Muriel Hare was kidnapped, murdered and her body as well as one of her sons and her granddaughter was dismembered and buried in the desert somewhere. Eventually, the ones who killed her were arrested and confessed to the crime. The wicked, the wicked are overthrown and are no more. She's a great example of that. She was a very profane, wicked woman influencing an entire generation to reject the things of God. And it's just a fact. You can think in terms of the variety of world leaders that have arisen and have left planet Earth who also have been overthrown. Men in recent history like all the way back in the early 1900s, like a Stalin or a Lenin or a Mao, you know, Pol Pot and various others, even even Castro's and all that arose for a time. But you know what? It's only for a time. And they may live 60, 70, 80 years, sometimes 90 or more. But they go the way of all the earth.  They're overthrown. But the righteous on the other hand, the righteous continues. The house of the righteous will stand. And so the evil, they don't last, the righteous do. In Psalm 37, verses 35 and 36, the Psalmist said, I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a native green tree. Yet he passed away. Behold, he was no more. Indeed, I saw him, but he could not be found.  And the wicked are overthrown. Keep that in mind. Verse eight, a man will be commended according to his wisdom. But he who is of a perverse heart will be despised. Wisdom can result in being respected. But warped thinking results in disrespect. Verse nine, better is the one who is slighted but has a servant than he who honors himself but lacks bread. This is a word against pretense. It's better to live within your means and be comfortable. But the one who pretends to be somebody, well, very often they don't have enough to eat. And they're really foolish. These are the ones who they may drive a nice vehicle. They may wear the latest styles. They may live in a home. But the home is falling apart from neglect. This is somebody who doesn't know really how to live. He only has the appearance that he does. Verse 10, this is an interesting scripture here.  But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Isn't, now that's interesting to me. And I'll tell you why. Well, one, I'll say compassion to animals tends to be an indicator of character.  Well, there are some who like animals more than like people. We know that. But usually if you're treating your dog well, you probably, you have a compassion at heart. Now, there are some people who treat their dogs like they're their kids. I don't know about you. I think that's kind of goofy. I could go on about that, but I won't. I have a friend of mine. I'll leave him a name, Bob Grenier. He's a pastor in Visalia. And he puts pictures of his dog, Annie, on Facebook. And he calls Annie, Annie the Christian dog. So I wrote him. I said, man, what do you mean, Annie's a Christian dog? I said, listen, if any man be in Christ, it's a new creation. Are you telling me that that dog's really a cat? I mean, what's wrong with you? And I said, you've got to stop doing this, because frankly, I think you look a little crazy.  I think loving dogs and loving animals, of course, is a good thing. And that's basically what's being said here.  It's interesting in Matthew how Jesus in chapter 12 verses 11 and 12 said, what man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out. Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. It's interesting how Jesus used an illustration of kindness to an animal, just to demonstrate to us that that's an indicator of being a good person. Verse 11, he who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding. Working diligently produces income, but following pipe dreams produces hunger. He's saying, do your work and do not run after the dream of a quick profit. In Proverbs 14-23 all hard work brings a profit. Mere talk leads only to poverty, so work towards your dreams. That used to be called the Protestant work ethic by the way, is where somebody worked for what they got and did not think that somebody owed them out of what they had. Our society, I'll be careful with this because it's not because I'm afraid to talk about it, it's because I can talk too long about it. So I'll be very careful about this, but I will tell you this, that I was raised in a home where my father, my father taught me that hard work was a good thing. Hard work was a good thing. And my father was not a man who could receive from other people if he had the ability within himself to achieve his own goal. My dad was not a person who would take things just given to him. He worked for everything he had and that's the ethic my father gave to me. I'm the same way. I'm just saying this and I guess most of us are, if not all of us are the same way, I don't believe that somebody owes me anything. I believe that I have the responsibility to take the God-given gifts that I've received, to put them into practice and to achieve the dreams that perhaps the Lord has put into my heart. I do not believe that because somebody is wealthy they're bad if they don't give me things. Because if they worked for it it's between them and the Lord. And what they do with their money is between them and the Lord. But be careful because we're living in a time when people think that they're owed something because they don't have what somebody else has. That's called envy and that's called covetousness and we have failed to realize that. I was watching the news years ago now there was a guy who decided to sleep in the front yard of a guy who owned a house on the beach. He decided he was going to sleep on his front yard. He had a sleeping bag and he's sleeping on the guy's front yard. And then the news was interviewing, this is years ago, was interviewing the owner of the house. Why are you not letting this man sleep on your front yard? Uh because it's my house because I pay rent because I mow this lawn because it belongs to me. And the guy who was sleeping on his front yard started yelling at the homeowner saying to him you go to house and I don't have one. Well I don't know what to say about that. Why don't you have a house? And is it my fault that you don't have a house? And am I obligated somehow to get you a house? How's that work? And what we're living in the United States right now be very careful as we're being brainwashed and to believe in that we owe everybody everything. But in fact who gave you what you have? Didn't you work? Didn't you go to school? Didn't you learn how to read and to write and do the basic things? Didn't you go out and apply for a job? What was your first job? My first job was washing dishes. That's what I did. I washed dishes. I made minimum wage. And you know that was my first series of jobs. I was making minimum wage when I married Marie. Thank God she wasn't. She owed me. No I but that's that was what life is. If you you have a job you buy a car. You buy your car? Do you buy a brand new car? No you buy a car you can afford. And you drive that car and then one day as you're working hard maybe you get an increase. Maybe you get a salary boost and a new position. Now you get a different car. You've been running an apartment. As you rent your apartment it's great to have an apartment. Thank God I've got a roof over my head. But I'd like to have a home. So now I make it enough to get a home. I buy a home. Do I buy a very expensive home? No I buy a home that I can afford and I get into that home. Is it filled with all kinds of stuff you know big TVs and stereos? No it's just a place that we we have a bed for our kids a bed for us and some basic things and guess what we're happy. Why? Because we worked for those things they belong to us. But after a while you say I've got some equity in this home. I can sell it. I need a little more space. See my first house was 969 square feet. I had two bedrooms and no we didn't have air conditioning. I didn't even know really I'd never lived in a house with it. Then I was living in Ontario. It's 110 degrees during the summer. We're sleeping with the windows open and I say well maybe maybe we ought to get an air conditioner.  So what happens is after nine years I have equity in a home. My dad taught me that if you have equity you can use it. What I do is I sell my home and I bought a home that my family could grow in. My first house had two bedrooms. The next one had enough room for four kids and me and my wife. That's what we did. That's what people in my generation and my parents generation always did. You live within your means. My grandmother and grandfather had 13 children. And they had a three bedroom house. That was about 700 square feet. That was my grandparents. Think about that for a minute. They had like I think they had eight eight sons and five daughters and they ate kids. Boys shared a room and slept on the floor. That's what they did. Did they complain and cry and say I deserve more? Somebody ought to give me a bigger house? They worked. And one day my dad bought his own house. And my dad taught me how to buy my own house. So you work. Nobody owes you anything. Nobody owes you anything. Keep that in mind. Because we're in a generation now that thinks everybody owes us something. And we hate those one percenters don't we? We hate them. Why? That's called envy and covetousness. And we think that they owe us what do they owe me? They owe me nothing. They owe me nothing. What I am supposed to do is take the gifts that God gave to me and to work. And at night there's just something about putting your head on a pillow at night knowing you had a long hard honest days labor. And when you get your check you work for it. There's just some honor in that. It was called at one time the Puritan work ethic. And America was built on the back of that work ethic. We're losing that right now. We're losing it right now. The people who think that we owe them something. You know I'll help people because I think as a Christian I ought to. But I don't want to cripple them by giving them things they should be getting for themselves. And that's something we have to be aware of. I hope I didn't offend too many of you but that's the truth. I don't really care. Let's see where were we? Verse 12. The wicked covet the catch of evil men but the rid of the righteous yields fruit. The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips but the righteous will come through trouble. A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth and the recompense of a man's hands will be rendered unto him. So verse 12. The wicked covet the catch of evil men. Wicked people use the tactics of evil men. Desiring results that their evil seems to yield. In other words they admire con men. Yet the root of the righteous yields a fruit. He's rooted in righteousness and produces fruit that endures to everlasting life. In verses 13 and 14 when it says the wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips evil people eventually get caught by their own lies. They end up suffering for it but in verse 14 righteous people are careful. Don't get themselves into a bind. They work with their hands and they prosper. Verse 15.   So in verse 15 the way of the fool is right in his own eyes. We demonstrate wisdom and maturity by the way we take advice. Again we've already seen that but it's very true. How do you receive advice? If you're if you're not interested in receiving advice here's something for you very practical then don't ask for it. Don't ask for it. You know there was a period in in the history of this ministry where people were coming to me and I'm talking about 20 25 years ago or more and people were coming to me asking for advice and as a pastor that's what I'm supposed to give right advice. So they say pastor I'd like to ask then they'd ask and I'd say well if you're asking what scripture says concerning that this is what the bible says and and this is my recommendation and then often they would just go out and do something quite opposite. They wouldn't follow the advice not that I'm supposed to make the decisions for them I'm not but I began to see that there were people who would just ask advice because they're not really wanting advice. What they're wanting is someone to agree with them. They just want me to agree and so they can walk away feeling wise but when I would not be agreeing with them they wouldn't listen and I saw that happen quite often. So eventually for a while people would come up to me and they would say something to me and I actually started saying this I can tell you what I used to say I don't say it anymore they'd say I'd like to ask you a question and I would say okay let me ask you something first before you ask okay all right. Do you want me to tell you the truth or do you want me to agree with you? Which is it? What do you mean? No you know what I mean. Do you want me to say what you want to hear or do you want me to tell you the truth? It's up to you. You know what I'm really not that interested okay that saved me a lot of time. It did and a lot of frustration and I actually I'm telling you the truth I really would do that I'll still do that. Do you want an honest answer or do you want me to agree with you? Because it makes people think because many times they just want me to agree with them and they want to walk away saying well the pastor said this and they'll quote me and so you have to be very careful.  You see again a fool is set in their own way and refuses to listen to others. In verse 16 a fool's wrath is known at once. Mature people receive criticism without getting angry and telling people off. In controlling their anger they do not increase the problem that results. When it says a fool's wrath is known at once yeah you're talking to somebody and he gets mad and everybody knows they can hear him yelling they can hear him raising his voice and that's what he's saying a fool's wrath is known at once. A prudent man covers his shame a prudent man listens carefully and is very careful not to respond quickly. Verse 17 he who speaks truth declares righteousness a false witness deceit. Reliable witnesses will tell the truth without hedging it. They don't modify it in other words. Verse 18 there is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword but the tongue of the wise promotes hell. Some people use their words as weapons don't they? Some people use words as weapons you know there was this old saying sticks and stones you remember it sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me that's not true is it? Your body can heal from a wound that was inflicted by a stick or a stone much quicker than a wound that was inflicted by someone's evil words towards you that's a fact and you know it you could have grown up with somebody was telling you constantly how stupid you are how ugly you are how fat you are how skinny you are how you'll never succeed how you'll always be a loser and that is just driven into you to the point where you just live up to what you were told and you want to know something words are piercing be very careful how you use yours because some of them are like a sword and they pierce and they harm be very careful speak with grace and speak with love and when you speak the truth do it with gentleness try and be careful with the things that you say because there are those that can injure you and sometimes the pain is so great that you'd never really forget it my mom when went through a period when I was growing up my mom was not well and and god knows I love my mom mama could be cruel and mama could say things and there was a period in my life when my mother told me she hated me a lot more than she ever said I love you you know those are words that I heard when I was growing up and you know what they hurt you and they stay with you and you begin to wonder you know if your own mother doesn't love you who who whoever will and that's what happens so there are words that pierce there's one who speaks like the piercings of a sword but the tongue of the wise promotes help promotes healing if you will the truth will lift shall be established forever a lying tongue is but for a moment truth will always outlast lies even if it may not seem so at the time verse 20 deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil but counselors of peace have joy plotting evil only results in pain and sorrow promoting peace results in joy those who are peacemakers will always have an inner contentment verse 20 deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil but counselors of peace have joy no grave trouble will overtake the righteous but the wicked shall be filled with evil decent people do not have frequent troubles of their own making evil people find themselves in trouble all the time verse 22 lying lips are an abomination to the lord those who deal truthfully are his delight simple simply stated god hates lies because he's the god of truth so we need to learn to speak the truth in love verse 23 a prudent man conceals knowledge the heart of fools proclaims foolishness this is an interesting an interesting thing i'll say it quickly but notice again verse 23 a prudent man conceals knowledge wisdom produces discretion do not speak all that is on your mind this is referring to the wisdom to know who to speak to and what to say jesus himself knew what was in men and didn't disclose himself to all men john chapter 2 makes that clear there were those who would ask him a question who are not sincere there were others who are hungry to know the truth when you're having a conversation there are times when you may open up and share your heart and share the wisdom god gave to you because the person you're speaking to wants to hear it and there are other times when you're speaking to somebody they're really not interested in anything you have to say and so wisdom is just discretion you just remain quiet you don't say anything you can seal knowledge verse 24 the hand of the diligent will rule a lazy man will be put to forced labor hard work brings success and can result in promotion the lazy will sink to the bottom god blesses industry and diligence in work verse 25 anxiety in the heart of a man causes depression a good word makes it glad encouragement produces hope i have a friend of mine he's going to be with the lord his name was steve maze and uh steve closed his message one message he heard i'll never forget he says i don't want to leave you under condemnation i'm going to leave you in grace and i'll never forget how he closed his message by saying that because sometimes when you're looking at certain passages in scripture i have to tell you it's just like a hammer coming down and people are sitting there going oh my god i'm such a wretch and and and we are we are but by the grace of god you know god has made us into new creations and his word brings encouragement and even even with correction even when the word corrects me it is also encouraging me because he's not leaving me in sin he's saying look at this is who you are the word of god is described as a mirror and you know i look pretty good at three o'clock in the morning in the dark but when the light is on me and i've got a mirror right in front of me i get to see my imperfections and the word of the lord will show me my imperfections but not only does it show me my imperfections it also shows me god's healings and that's the encouragement you get from god's word and uh you know anxiety in the heart can cause a man depression a good word will make it glad god will bring encouragement and hope to you the righteous should choose his friends carefully for the way the wicked leads them astray be careful who you hang around with and i'm not saying you know run around like you're the perfect person looking for another perfect one because you're going to be by yourself all the time it just be be aware of the fact that your pastor is not david osalash your your pastor is the one who influences you in your life is the one who encourages you in your life that's your pastor really be careful who you let lead you in the ways of the lord be very careful because you can be led astray and be careful who you hang around with because their influence can help you to either go in the right way or in the wrong way the way the wicked leads astray verse 27 the lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting diligence is man's precious possession he's speaking about laziness again diligence leads to success but laziness results in never completing a project the lazy one may hunt but doesn't even cook the food that he caught and by finally in verse 28 in the way of righteousness his life and in its pathway there is no death a righteous life leads to heaven remember roman 6 23 the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is eternal life in christ jesus our lord the way of the of righteousness is life and in its pathway there is no death


One thing American Horror Story is known for is its references and Easter eggs, whether it's referencing classic horror films, pop culture, or itself. And this year's AHS Delicate Part 1 was no exception, so let's take it episode by episode as I point out all of the references that I noticed this season. First of all, there are some reused character names this season which don't really mean anything but I'd be remiss if I didn't point them out. There's Talia's partner Theo who shares a name with one of the main characters of last year's AHS NYC, Theo Graves. Then there's also Oz who in Delicate is Anna and Dex's dog, but Oz is also the name of Ali and Ivy's son in Colt. And speaking of Ivy from Colt, there's another Ivy in Delicate as Cara Delevingne claims to be a nurse named Ivy when she gives Anna her ultrasound in episode 2. AHS Delicate's title sequence is packed full of potential references as well. This year's title sequence seems to pull similar imagery from some of the title sequences of AHS past. For instance, the snake imagery seems very reminiscent of the snake imagery in Apocalypse. Also the shots in Delicate's title sequence featuring candles also feel very similar to the candles in Apocalypse. The Delicate title sequence also features a baby with black claws which of course we now know is a reference to Queen Mary's child in episode 4, but it also harkens back to the Apocalypse marketing campaign which used a lot of images of a baby with black claws. The season 1 episode of American Horror Stories entitled Ball shares a lot of similarities with Delicate so far, with the characters of Liv and Matt dealing with very similar IVF and relationship struggles as Anna and Dex are. And also the title sequence for Ball is similarly themed around the colors red and there's also goat imagery in that as well, spiders and flowers. Back to American Horror Story Delicate's title sequence, it also features some goat imagery which is a reference to the goats that often appear alongside the bird women featured in this season, but it's actually the third AHS title sequence to feature the animal after AHS Coven and AHS Apocalypse. And the last reference to another season that I caught in the title sequence is the imagery of blood going down a sink drain which feels very similar to the title sequence of American Horror Story Cult. American Horror Story Delicate is based on the book Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine and the title sequence also features a reference to the book, specifically the shot of the flower being splattered with blood which is definitely a reference to the cover of the book. American Horror Story's marketing team also released a poster which resembles the book cover as well. In episode 2 we get a small cameo from Zachary Quinto who previously had larger roles in Murderhouse, Asylum, and NYC. Also in episode 2 Anna circles the day that she can take a pregnancy test on the calendar and the day is September 20th which is also the day that AHS Delicate premiered its first episode. In that same episode, Siobhan gives Anna an archival dress which she says is the same one that Madonna wore to the 1991 Oscars. Siobhan warns Anna that she does not want to rip it which may be a tongue in cheek reference to Kim Kardashian infamously damaging an archival Marilyn Monroe dress when she wore it to the Met Gala. Anna and Siobhan also sing Sooner or Later by Madonna in this scene which is a reference to the performance that Madonna did at that very Oscar ceremony. Later at the hospital Anna meets Dr. Saperstein which is a reference to the doctor from Rosemary's baby who is also named Dr. Saperstein. Similarly Dr. Hill is also the name of a doctor in Rosemary's baby only this is an easter egg that originated in the book Delicate Condition as Dr. Hill's name originates from the book but Dr. Saperstein's name was changed from Dr. Crawford in the book to Dr. Saperstein in the show. Delicate Condition and AHS Delicate both are clearly taking a lot of inspiration from the 1967 novel as well as the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby and this is not new for American Horror Story. Season 1's Murder House has some substantial references to Rosemary's Baby as well as like I said the Season 1 episode of American Horror Stories entitled Ball. In episode 3 we get a satanic tunnel with Ave Satanus written on the walls which is very reminiscent of the satanic storyline in American Horror Story Apocalypse. This episode also introduces us to the tunnels under Talia's Hampton's house which may or may not be real but nonetheless they feel similar to Ryan Murphy's Netflix show The Watcher as well as last year's horror gem Barbarian. In those tunnels in American Horror Story Delicate we also see a ton of jars containing fetuses which is very similar to the basement of The Murder House when Charles Montgomery was inhabiting it. And in episode 4 we get that flashback to Queen Mary the first childbirth. Historically Queen Mary has the nickname of Bloody Mary which may be the show making a roundabout reference not only to the urban legend that some fans have been wanting American Horror Story to cover for quite some time now but also the season 2 episode of Horror Stories entitled Bloody Mary. And there you have it, those are all of the easter eggs and references that I found in American Horror Story Delicate Part 1 but be sure to let me know any that I miss and I will include them if I end up doing this again after Part 2 drops. What are your thoughts on the season so far? Let me know all of your thoughts in the comments and subscribe for more horror content coming soon. Thank you for watching and I will see you next time.


What's happening it's your boy Nick check coming back at y'all with a new video today. We're talking about how to pick a college Essentially the past few months all these college videos that I've been making and helping you guys along this journey They kind of culminate to this one decision essentially picking the next four years of where you're gonna spend your life What you're gonna study who you're gonna meet potential jobs alumni connections everything like that is Based on what college you decide to go to whether it's a local community college a state school an Ivy League internationally whatever University you decide to end up at that's a huge Life decision that it's definitely gonna need some reflection and it shouldn't be any sort of rash decision So today I thought I'd give you guys just some tips and my personal Story about how I chose my school and ended up where I am today I think with picking a college the first inform is my hair, so you know I think the first and foremost important aspect is it has to be the right and best Fit for you not for anyone else not for your mom not for your dad Not for your best friend or girlfriend who's going to that school has to be for you and yourself and nobody else Sure, it's great if you're a triple legacy at UC Berkeley and your entire family went there and you've been wearing that gear since The day you were born, I mean that's great and all but if you get on campus and it's not the right fit for you Then you shouldn't be attending that school just because your whole family's been there at the end of the day This is the decision. That's not impacting anyone else, but yourself It's up to you because you're the one that put in the work No one was writing those essays for you No one was submitting those applications Surely people might have helped you and coached you along the way But no one should have a final say in what college do you decide to go to? When I say it has to be the right fit for you It has to meet some certain criteria that you should be Setting up for yourself Obviously if ranking is important to you then go to a school that is ranked Well, or if you're looking for the best pre-med or engineering programs find schools that have the best majors in that field If you just want to be in New York look at all the schools in New York City Whatever criteria and variables are important to you and will factor into what will make you the happiest in college It should be the criteria you look at when deciding to choose a college It's very intuitive But I feel like people just get so caught up because they're so focused on the name brand Oh, or the National U.S. College rankings or the football teams or the frats or the parties like get rid of all that Bullshit and focus on what matters to you in 20 years No one's gonna be thinking back to oh Those parties are the things I remember the most about college I don't pick a school because it has a good party scene or as hot girl No one's gonna care about that what's gonna matter and what's gonna be the most impactful or the Professors you worked with or the students you met or your best friends that you made throughout college Those factors should take precedence over any other variables. All right The next best thing to do is obviously visit the campus if you haven't already The only way you're gonna get the real feel for what College is gonna be the best fit for you is if you step foot on that campus If you do a college tour if you talk to the people and visit the buildings That's the only way it's hard to tell via the interweb or pictures or even through videos It's still hard, you know if it's close obviously road trip to it if you can afford a flight That's optimal and you know go on one of those organized tours The biggest thing is ask a lot of questions on your tour to like pressure them see see if you can stump them up Don't just ask about like basic house. How are the parties blah blah blah, you know ask What what's the one-to-one ratio with students to faculty what facilities are offered for undergraduate students? What makes this school different than XYZ school like really try and challenge your tour guide because like I applied to be a tour guide I didn't get it here. Whatever. It's not that I'm salty It's just that tour guides are repeat the same information every tour And so in order to get the most out of that specific tour You should be challenging them asking them questions that they aren't ready for because that's gonna give you the most insight Whether it's you know, what are the most difficulties that you face as a student at Princeton or How are first-generation low-income students dealing with adversity on campus? Just questions that are really gonna make them stop and think are gonna get you the best answers Another thing is utilize online free resources I've noticed that a lot of schools now have virtual online tours for students who can't fly out So go check that out see if you can do like a flyover tour and see the different buildings It's hard to get an actual feel for it, but it's better than nothing another great option is watch YouTube videos I'm sure people who want to apply to Princeton search up Princeton University and you know my videos the first one to pop up They see me a day in my life I kind of show you my dorm what my social scene is like how I vlog it And that's kind of the best way to get a feel for what a student like yourself could be The biggest thing is you want to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone else for the next four years And I think it's so hard because there aren't many college vloggers out there who do it well Consistently and high quality besides me That's totally a joke sarcasm if you're any other college youtuber and I don't know about leaving it down below I'll check them out another huge thing is talk to the students on campus That's gonna be the best indicator for what student life is going to be like because they're the actual students that attend that school They make up the population of the undergraduate students Those are the people you're gonna be spending the most time with if they're rude not helpful Unkind when you have your first interaction with them that might be an indicator that the school might not be the best fit for you If you ask one, hey, can I get directions to this specific building? And they're very helpful. They you know walk with you along the way. Oh, are you perspective student? Yeah, do you have any questions like how can I help you if those are the type of people you're meeting on your Tours and you're gonna be a lot happier going to schools where you feel more Friendly vibes people who Are more conducive to you learning becoming a better person and a better human And then another thing that I think is very obvious But not enough people do is researching your school Something that I didn't do very well and wish I would have taken advantage more is use the internet to find out about your schools Like don't just think that oh because it's Princeton or it's Harvard. Everything is fine and dandy like there's a lot of underlying problems institutionally with our Schools that don't get talked about in the public press. You have to do some really deep research I mean a few months ago. We've had professors that have been accused of sexual misconduct On campus and like that's crazy.  It just doesn't get published in the media Unless you're on campus and you hear about this stuff So, you know, definitely do a lot of research look into whatever programs or majors that you're implying to make sure that it's Top notch in that field if it has like a bad English department Then go to a school that has a good English department If it has the best engineering department then go to the school that has the best engineering department Like it's very intuitive. It's very simple But you know, not enough people realize how easy it can be Also, definitely look at the financial aid packages that you're given Really weigh the pros and cons of a school that will give you a full ride versus a school that may not give you so much and Decide whether that money is going to be a big enough factor to influence your decision because money is money and College is expensive like no doubt about it. But if a school is willing to give you generous Financial aid package, definitely keep that in consideration Also, this is kind of a counterpoint to what I said earlier about choosing a school that has the best major But to be honest, a lot of you guys have no idea what you want to major and I don't even know what I want to do A lot of my friends came in thinking they're one thing but ended up switching to something completely different So don't be so headfast on just this one specific major Be open to a lot of new ideas and with that being said like look into colleges that are really great overall Like have a good liberal arts education So you have a wide variety of knowledge rather than just the best engineering program But has really shitty other programs because that's going to be a very ineffective and not balanced Education my last kind of tip is just be very open-minded especially when you're visiting this schools Don't have any prejudices or stereotypes about what you've heard or what you've seen about this school or whatever Because that's going to limit how you can really see yourself on on that specific campus Going with an open mind because who knows the school that was on the bottom of your list You could step on campus and have a completely different feel for it and it could end up being your your favorite top school At the end of the day this decision is for you and nobody else Don't your family or your friends or your teachers influence you like as great as it is to get their opinions And I highly recommend asking them. Hey, I'm debating between school x school y these are the pros These are the cons. What do you think? Can you help me make this decision and as important as their advice and Opinions are at the end of the day. It's up to you No one can make that choice for you because it's four years of your life That's an incredibly long time to be at one university You especially don't want to be the case where you get to a school You end up not liking it and then having to transfer a year or two out That's just a whole process that takes a lot of time and it's kind of a waste like you should have No doubts whatsoever about this being your first school and after all this advice You're still second guessing yourself or having doubts. I don't know flip a coin Let destiny do its work Obviously take that with a grain of salt if you guys are flipping coins to actually choose your college decision Good luck to you. I don't know what to say Yeah, those are the best tips and advice that I can think of off the top of my head All right, that's it for this video Make sure you guys hit that like button subscribe if you haven't already leave comments for any other videos And I'll see you guys next time


Hello, I'm Kent Ishiguro. Today, I will present the problem of excessive PLV in VM agnostic KBM and mitigations. I'd like to introduce myself briefly. I'm a third-year PhD student at K University in Japan. My research interests are performance and security of hyperviruses. Over-subscribing budget CPUs is often used in cloud environments, as it enables better hardware utilization by multiplexing budget CPUs on fiscal CPUs. However, over-subscription can incur excessive spinning and it degrades guest-beam performance. For example, rockholder preemption is one of the famous problems which incur excessive spinning. Let's suppose an ordinary case of spin-rock synchronization. Two fiscal CPUs need to acquire a spin-lock. If CPU 0 has already acquired a spin-lock, CPU 1 fails to acquire the lock and it will spin until CPU 0 releases the lock. Since fiscal CPUs are always active, the busy rating is always short. The operating system assumes fiscal CPUs are always active and the spin-rock synchronization works efficiently. However, in a virtual environment, the assumption is not always kept. If virtual CPU 0 is preempted by the hypervisor after it acquires a lock, virtual CPU 1 spins forever. This problem is called the lockholder preemption problem. Excessive vCPU spinning can degrade the performance of guest-beam. Virtual CPUs waste their execution time by executing post-loop instructions for a long time. Ideally, the hypervisor would know which vCPU should be scheduled right now to avoid excessive vCPU spinning like lockholder preemption. However, it is hurled due to the semantic gap between KVM and DINAC scheduler or KVM and guest VMs. Because of the semantic gap between KVM and the scheduler, boosting a target vCPU can be impeded by the DINAC scheduler to keep fairness between vCPUs. The semantic gap between KVM and guest VMs makes it hard to build a comprehensive vCPU candidate set for boosting. KVM leverages the hardware feature to mitigate excessive spinning on Intel x86. The hardware feature is called post-loop exiting, PLE for short. PLE can detect excessive spinning and transfers the control to the hypervisor for scheduling. The current KVM strategy to suppress PLE events is basically rescheduling a period vCPU to another preempted vCPU. This is performed with DINAC scheduler by leveraging yield-to-function provided by DINAC CFS scheduler. To yield and boost vCPUs, KVM makes a request to the DINAC scheduler. Before making a request to the DINAC scheduler, KVM selects a vCPU to boost in landrobin from candidate vCPUs. This candidate is important to resolve the cause of PLE as soon as possible, although KVM attempts to reschedule vCPUs where PLE event happens. In the worst case, a lot of PLE events occur in the short period of time. This is a KVM trace with running two 8-vCPU VMs simultaneously. VM exit occurs repeatedly due to post-insurrection, which means PLE events occur continuously more than 100 times, even though the VM has only 8 vCPUs and they are boosted in landrobin. These continuous PLE events occur in a short period of time. All PLE events in the series occur at the same code location. In conclusion, in the worst case, PLE events occur continuously in the short period of time at the same code location. Continuous PLE events occur a large number of PLE events. This kind of phenomenon is not rare, and most PLE events are from continuous PLE events. So rescheduling vCPUs does not work as well as we expected. The figure in the bottom shows the CDF of PLE occurrences on several benchmarks. In these experiments, two 8-vCPU VMs are running simultaneously on KVM. The benchmark we noted is running in one VM, and CPU-bound benchmark, Swaptions, is running in the other VM. This figure shows more than 100 continuous PLE events is more than 20% of the total number of PLE events in these 4 benchmarks. The reasons for these PLE events are mainly two functions. Native Q'd spin lock swappers and SMP call function many, which means both spin locks and TLB shootdown are the cause of PLE events. I have identified several problems which incur a large number of continuous PLE events. Loss opportunities and over-boost that are due to the lack of comprehensive approach to identify the root cause of PLE. I introduce the strict boost mitigation against these problems. The other problem is schedule mismatch, which is due to the semantic gap between KVM and Linux schedule. Linux scheduler ignores boost requests from hypervisors. This results in PLEed ACPU is rescheduled repeatedly before scheduling a boosted ACPU. Then continuous PLE events occur. I introduce the mitigation, the boost, against this problem. For less oversize, describe these problems and mitigations. The current KVM candidate VCPU selection for boost is developed as follows. The current version implements directed yield, which leverages yield to function to yield the PLEed VCPU and boost or target VCPU. Every candidate selection has been enhanced with optimization against low-code preemption. This prioritizing less entry PLEed VCPUs, boosting only preempted VCPUs, and boosting only VCPUs in kernel mode. Introducing these optimizations results in missing boost VCPUs, that are the cause of PLE event due to TRB shoot-down synchronization. Boosting hearted VCPUs where they receive an IPI alleviates the latency due to TRB synchronization. The experimental results and candidate VCPU selection strategy give us three insights. The first one is spinlock skill incurs continuous PLE events. The second one is VCPUs in user mode also need to act when TRB shoot-down happens. And the third, no need to boost IPI receivers when low-code preemption happens. The first one is due to the schedule mismatch problem, which is described later. Second one is called loss opportunity in this work. The third one is called over-boost. To mitigate these problems, I introduce two new candidate selection rules. One is a boosting IPI receiver VCPUs in user mode. The other one is not boosting hearted VCPUs if the used VCPU has not sent an IPI to it. Next, I'll talk about the schedule mismatch problem, KVM co-operative VCPUs with Linux schedule. However, Linux schedule does not distinguish between VCPUs and the other threads. Also, KVM makes requests to Linux CFS schedule for boosting VCPU. Linux CFS schedule always keeps fairness between VCPUs, which results in Linux schedule ignoring the request from KVM. Eventually, let's see the case study of schedule mismatch problem. Suppose that KVM tries to yield VCP0 and boost VCPU1. VCPU0 is waiting for VCPU1 to release a lock. In the Linux CFS LAN queue, VCPU0 is very high priority and VCPU1 is low priority. The scheduler picks the highest priority task, VCPU0. Then if the CPU time of VCPU1 minus CPU time of VCPU0 is more than threshold, the scheduler decides not to yield VCPU0 and not to boost VCPU1 because the scheduler considers scheduling VCPU1 is too unfair. VCPU0 will trigger a PLE event again and again because VCPU1 still has a lock. VCPU0 consumes its CPU time for executing a prose loop. Eventually, VCPU1 is boosted after VCPU0 waste its execution time with PLE repeatedly. I introduced the Debooster mitigation against this scheduler mismatch problem. Debooster makes the scheduler not hesitate to boost another VCPU instead of VCPU which exits due to PLE by lowering PLE the VCPU priority. As a result, VCPU1 is boosted without wasting VCPU0's CPU time. I have implemented these two mitigations in Linux KVM 5.6.0 by adding only 41 lines of code modification. The mitigations have been evaluated on an 8-core server with two VMs with 8 VCPUs each. Mitigations can reduce the number of PLE events with four benchmarks. In terms of performance improvement, application execution time is reduced by up to 40% and this throughput is included by up to 75%. Also, I evaluated the fairness between VMs. This result shows no core runners performance degradation because mitigations do not raise the priority of the boosted VCPU. In conclusion, over-subscribing VCPUs incurs excessive spinning. Pose-loop exiting is a hardware feature against it. Unfortunately, PLE does not fix it due to the semantic gap between KVM and guest VMs or KVM and Linux scheduler. Introduced mitigations improve application throughput by up to 75%. This problem is investigated by the KVM community. Please see links below and please see our paper for more detailed experiments and analysis. Thank you for your attention.


as my colleague so interestingly pointed out it's not a cumulative record it's a cumulative record my thought was yes air logs on a computer which ironically would be a cumulative record and a cumulative record at the same time but don't just it's bad anyway so cumulative record is what we're thinking of here this is a genuinely skinnish thing since he invented the cumulative recorder all right so the basic idea is really simple count behavior that's that so if I if I if I do one behavior right so I'm gonna wave at you hi so there's one baby I can wave it again now there's two behaviors I can wave it again now there's three way which again there's four way which again there's five you notice how my hand keeps going up well on a cumulative recorder it would do just that the little pen would begin tracking across the paper and it would just go up every time behavior happened it would take up right so it's it's a cumulative record of how much you behave not over a minute or something that is literally here's how much behavior this person or this organism has engaged in it's cumulative you're adding it all up right so cumulative record it's a useful very useful tool especially an experimental analysis of behavior or understanding rates of responding skinner invented this tool and the this is one of those situations that allowed him to actually understand the functions of schedules of reinforcement there's way more to it and you're gonna have to see a longer video for that goodbye


So, it is my first time to work with the American military, so your passion to work made me passionate person to work, I want to get experience from you girls. The Dream Armed Forces are standing up all female company, it's going to be with their quick reaction force brigade, so they had requested us to come and help out. We started off kind of with the medical side we did first aid and CPR, also had our corpsmen do tactical combat casualty care. For that we went into entry control points and vehicle control points and then personnel and vehicle searches, which is what those women will mainly be used for. We did basic marksmanship and weapons safety and handling and then we took them on a two-day live-fire range with M4s.  We at least seem to really enjoy that one. To be part of something that it felt like we're making a difference, we're the first team to go out there, being able to kind of kick that off and get the momentum going was awesome. I'm really happy and proud of myself to be one of the quick reaction force members and I want to be beside the men in Jordan to ensure security and safe to everybody.