So once again reading from James 1 verse 19 says so then my beloved brethren let every man be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath for the wrath of man does not produce righteousness of God so it's so a very simple instruction to be swift to hear to be quick to listen to quick to hear to be quick to understand right and the other two you know don't be so quick in order to put forth your thoughts your your ideas your opinions maybe and also definitely you know be slow to wrath or anger because the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God what the righteousness of God would actually bring to pass our reaction in wrath or response in anger will not bring about the same thing right though it could be injustice though it could be you know something that is requiring of maybe you know we are stirred up emotionally right it will not bring forth that right so yeah so swift to hear also to hear to understand to hear to analyze to hear to really seeking to get the whole picture right before we actually put forth our thoughts our opinions our judgments maybe our conclusions right so that's the reminder that we have yeah so why don't we pray and then we'll get started right rather we thank you Lord for this instruction we thank you for this exhortation in your word Lord for us to be Lord slow to speak and slow to anger but at the same time be quick to hear to understand Lord and I pray that Spirit of God that you will enable us to do this Lord and even as we do this and even as we Lord apply it in our lives master maybe see your righteousness being established for the card and in practical ways Lord Spirit of God enable us remind us Lord of this we thank you in Jesus name we pray amen amen okay so I went through all your all of you who had submitted I went through your status update right of where things are and yeah so the marks also have been I think there were a couple of those like I think from Divya and Lubega you had emailed it to me so I went through that also and I have so that since that was delayed there's been a you know I can't award the full marks so I've done that now yeah so I went through it and I see that's for you know some of you that's good progress right you've started the work and you've kind of gone through the thing you know what to do and you're doing it but for some of us some of us you I noticed that well you really haven't started okay so it is it is more like this is the title these are the you know this is this is the kind of research that I'm going to do so I just want to you know tell you that this is hardly any time maybe exactly a month to submit the final report right April 4th so just want to request you to start doing that I'm of course talking about the online students and also about the in-person class right so e-learning students your timeline is different for submission so we will go with whatever has been mentioned as the timeline for submission okay so today's class I just want to remind you again you know after going through some of the status updates I see that a lot of material for some of us you know a lot of material has been taken from the sources that you had cited okay as as research it has been copy pasted okay you had or you know it it's it seems like that right from whatever sources that you had taken the information it had been you know a large portions of it right so the entire research seems to be based on you know whatever you've taken and I when I ran through you know the plagiarism tests it came as you know a lot of sections are plagiarized meaning that you had actually verbatim it had been lifted out and used in your research okay so just wanted to again remind you right so if something is plagiarized or if something is taken from somebody's research which is already done and if you're just you know putting it as your research or if you're taking the contents lifting the contents from maybe books or journals or periodicals which are available on the net and if you're placing it you know just copy pasting then that would amount to plagiarism so just wanted to check that so you can actually do a check you know of your material whatever your your project report is just do a plagiarism check there are various tools available on chat GPT itself you know you can do a plagiarism check copy paste and just say you know do a plagiarism check you know and I did that for various you know updates then I saw that it just threw up various sections where it could be potentially it was plagiarized okay so of course you know it also you know mentioned that okay these are from the Bible so therefore it is not just quoted and it's not plagiarism but various other sources you know it was you know it had that potential so just want to remind us about that you know please do not do that okay and I think Rosalind you had a difficulty about the format I saw it so you know whenever you can check with fellow students how they actually uploaded the word doc right you would actually try to copy from an excel sheet onto the word doc and then so it was all showing as one column but if you you can just check with any of them you know saying how to find out how to do it on the word doc and it'll be fine right so you can please feel free to reach out to any of them and you know for those those kind of support right okay okay so in today's class anything that you know that was that so that was about plagiarism yeah and also Ruby you've you've got those questions okay what I went through your thing these are some eight or ten questions that you have that but then you know what we wanted was a status update meaning okay with regarding to those questions what work has been done right so that's the update so which means if there are if only those questions are there that that means that well work is not progressed right so so just wanted to ask just wanted to encourage you to you know start working on it quickly right whatever information because yours is about study on the about depression of young adults in India and of course you said mostly Tamil Nadu so it needs to a lot of work thank you written some questions there a lot of work on statistics a lot of works and also the biblical basis of it you know that's the important thing no don't forget it all you know all your research okay whatever topics that you're doing has to have a biblical base you tie it back to the word of God right and you're saying okay this is the solution if there is a problem you know this is what the word of God says okay this is the solution this is the answer you know so that's the that's a crux of it right whatever research you're doing you're bringing it back to the word of God right biblical basis for it right so never forget that so it can't be you know an academic exercise without the word of God in it right so so okay let's say statistics of depression and so on that is fine yeah that is a bulk of it but then you know from the word of God what is the solution what is the answer that what is your recommendation right so that would bring the completion okay so yeah thank you okay right some other thing that I noticed was I think it's yeah economic systems Lea Lama I don't know if he's Lea Lama's here but you know a lot of that wealth accumulation and in religious texts okay so that is fine no you're doing a comparative study okay what does you know the religious texts of other religions what do they say what do they have to say what do they opinion but you come back to the authority of God's word no that should be a final that should be our approach is Lea Lama there okay probably when he watches the video of this maybe he'll get to understand that so yeah so there's a lot of you know comparison that's fine you can you know what are the other religious texts talking about and I think from Hindu scriptures from Islamic scriptures and so on so that's fine but you come back to again you know what does the word of God say and also you know let it be different from I think you've made that distinction difference of you know from whatever we had studied biblical prosperity right and I guess there will be an overlap but you kind of talking about economic systems and ancient civilizations and etc so that is fine but also just make sure that there's no plagiarism from someone else's work just want to repeat that please okay right and yeah so Lyndon I see that I went through your assessment again I mean your status report so you know some of your questionnaire really needs to be you know refined because you know some questions like how much time do you spend on individual Bibles reading and prayer okay that needs to be refined like how much time is it are you referring to daily are you referring to weekly is it monthly right so we need to refine it and yeah so I guess you're you're going to be asking people in the church right so you've not made that distinction is it going to be leaders is it going to be a church people who are congregation in the congregation so and I also see that these are all very descriptive questions right open-ended questions like questions like do you believe in the term revival you know what is your opinion on revival and so on so these are all open-ended so putting together and you know when you interpret the data you need to do it right you need to do it well so yeah I just wanted to say that yeah and also you know you've you're looking at okay whether that denomination is Calvinistic Armenian in their theology and all that so maybe you should include that in your questions also right and if that has a bearing on you know being a hindrance for revival or it'll be a good thing you know do they do they are they of charismatic view or cessationist view you know you've mentioned that but I think that should be part of the question that because you're talking about different denominations because that is not in the questionnaire right like for example the kind of theology the denomination believes in so you just mentioned okay do you believe in revival what is your opinion on revival but but what about the doctrinal foundations because that is a topic of your research right denomination Christian denominational divergence so there should be something about the denomination from which they come say the variations among them and I don't know about the different beliefs different practices that is what you've mentioned right and doctrines so in the research or in the questionnaire what is their doctrine what is their practice what do they believe on so that needs to be there very clearly right because that is the research you're not doing a study on you know based on the historical data you know that we know okay this denomination this is what they believe in that we know but then that particular church or that person that you're asking you need to ask these questions what is the doctrine what is the practice you know what is the thing and it needs to be really incisive questions right an open-ended so so that's the thing okay yeah Lyndon thank you success you lifted your you put your hand up I'll just come back to you see another question so yeah so Rosalind the question as the inter you know the the tabulation you know when I say tabulation it's when you actually put all the results together so that is what you tabulate the results right so so when you have a like an open-ended questionnaire it's going to be difficult to tabulated but you can so that is what I was saying right so the questionnaire when I say tabular form it doesn't have to be in an excel sheet you can you know just like how some of the quest questionnaires that you have all for your quizzes it can be in the same form right multiple choice question you take any assessment that you've done in the past on any subjects previous years subjects previous semesters the questionnaires were in the Google form right so you can use it as the same the same manner like how it was in the Google form so it doesn't have to be an excel sheet so the some of the questions that we had you just look back you know maybe look at the previous question paper and see how was it and you can use the same kind of a template same kind of a pattern so it doesn't have to be on the excel sheet okay so success yes what is your question success you put your hand up I are you can put it on the chat or you can unmute and speak okay whenever you're ready okay good morning sir morning yes I submitted my work my research paper but he's showing me that I've not submitted I don't if you have received me sir okay let me just check quickly okay success so this is on the biblical exam factors for divisions of the churches yeah so it's I've also marked you I've also responded I've received it and I've also based on the fact that you sent it on time I've also given you the marks also yeah all right sir thank you sir right okay and success I just wanted to yeah about your search also you also you know taken a lot of material from other sources right so just wanted to just tell you that you need to be a little careful that you see you read the source you could paraphrase it okay and and you could mention the site the source like this is where it is from right but if you're going to be taking it verb atom as an as it is like Raymond 1996 you mentioned that you know statement of the problem or Christianity today you know so so I hope you paraphrasing it and not quoting it verb atom so just all those who are using these different sources probably you know you search the internet and you've come across these periodicals articles etc. it's good that you're doing that but just make sure that you know maybe it's a quote that you want to use you know somebody's could take somebody said this and you want to quote it verb atom right that is fine but if large chunks of material you know you're going to you're going to put it there right there then that means that you wrote it right even though you've cited the you know the thing so even the sentence formation everything is the same then that'll amount to that'll be plagiarism right so if I just do a plagiarism check then it'll just show up as a lot of it or it'll say potential plagiarism and so on so please just be mindful of that yeah I just wanted to say that okay any further questions anyone okay so all those who are you know you have these questionnaires and everything so your you know so the next part of your questionnaire like you let's say you have 50 questionnaires you got filled in the next part of it would be to interpret the data okay so you have main age and so on so interpreting so which means compilation is one okay so you put out all together okay so you have maybe I'll just like a tablet like that's the tabular column okay so you have okay names of people names and then you put it that you can use an excel sheet name all the names 50 names then okay then the next column could be just an example age so you put all the ages you know 10 15 whatever then the next column could be whatever gender male female so you put that so you've got that you know how did they respond to the first question okay that's a first that that's another column question number one did they answer yes no what were the response maybe right so you've got that if it's a descriptive answer then then yes you have to put the answer in and then see how you can interpret that right so so that's the thing so you put all this you've compiled it and at the end of it you are interpreting no it's it's easy if it's a it's a it's like an objective kind of a thing or a close-ended question and then you will have to you know use another way to interpret the the open-ended questions right what are what are they saying and then maybe you can you can try to summarize it in maybe in a line and do that so the thing is you are interpreting data you're saying okay boys in the age or men in the age of 25 to 45 in the age group living in urban or rural settings or urban settings you know are undergoing stress levels whatever because of their commute and I'm just you know putting something so you're able to interpret it right you'll be able to looking at that data looking at this when you're saying that a majority of of the men in this age group seem seems seem to have this problem you're able to interpret and you're able to arrive at what is the cause of it right it's because they have these patterns they have these habits they have these things whatever for example you know I'm just saying so you get the questioner you compile it and you then you're able to interpret it and after the interpretation you're able to you know study the issue and from the biblical perspective present the biblical perspective and the solution and so on you know this is just one scenario one case right so so just wanted to share that that that is something that you will have to do eventually right after you have all the questioners okay any any questions anything that you want to share yeah I think jeffina yeah so when we talk about the plagiarism go ahead and again yeah yeah so when we talk about plagiarism I think in my introduction I kept you start to get us from the sport this introduction not in my case the case but only introduction I think I also mentioned the link so even when we do that I should not be coffee tasting I should be paraphrasing the stuff see see if it is a quotation with somebody stating something obviously either you can paraphrase or you can quote it right see you've talked about an article by BBC news and that is fine so the way you've written it it's fine like news article published by Ajay Tomar present today states that and and you can actually cite you've also given the links down so so that's fine right so that is fine you're paraphrasing you're just pointing to what was mentioned etc but if you're lifting entire you know the entire subject matter the entire interview that happened and they're putting it there right then that would amount to plagiarism right so yeah so that's so I think I wrote every single case so you don't have to put the you know each case you don't have to put all the details yeah so you can you can actually see okay how it happened let's say for example you've put the findings right age how it who was a perpetrator of the crime how it happened so if there are anything more that you you can mention there you know maybe similar economics condition or anything else that you can find there you can put that okay so this can be those fields when you're compiling the all the compilation okay you're not okay before compilation yeah I mean if you feel if you want to and if the word if it doesn't go beyond the word limit you can no problem the compilation matters yes because it's from this you are actually compiling and stating it if you want in your research to that this will actually make sense to put the entire testimony you can but if you feel that okay if I just you know kind of put it together and then if I just present what happened if that makes better sense then you can yeah okay so impact of the gospel so you can also you know talk about how it was shared I don't know if you found that information like was it in church was it a co you know a friend in what way did they receive the gospel the means of the gospel so that will also you know that's also a key factor right like how they you did okay no no how how was it shared like did they watch a program was it you mentioned that I mean it's a very general thing is a biblical preaching right when if you if you want to you know because that's a key factor right you're talking about the impact of the gospel so which means that you know how did the gospel reach them so when you say biblical preaching yes but in what where was it was it workplace was it workplace was it you know you know something like that so that will be that'll also you know give us some thing okay so these are the people they've gone through this they're in this traumatic thing but this avenue of preaching the gospel was effective in reaching that we could find a pattern that I'm not saying that it you know it will there could be a pattern hmm yeah there could be a pattern so that's all okay yes Abu Bakr so good morning good morning please I want to maybe guys any comments or correction on what I submitted sir yeah I'm just yeah so yours seems to be very you know in like a academic oriented kind of a research right and like more leaning towards the theological research so the concept of revelation revelation so concept of revelation as such in in in the society so so I went through that yeah so I didn't kind of read it in depth but yeah so that's that's fine I think one thing is that when you talk about Nigerian society it would help to give some information about like yeah what is that what is it like you know so the so the research can actually state something like that mention that you know what what is the right you know why why why you know when you say typically Nigerian society why is it what is it different you know the whole revelation and the concept of revelation and understanding scripture etc you know obviously you're saying okay Nigerian society is like this and maybe there are some challenges and maybe there are some you know whatever so it will help to if you expound a little bit explain a little bit about the general world view of a Nigerian contemporary Nigerian society it would help so that's I would say probably that's that's something that you could mention right yeah and see also yeah you're just clarifying some of these terms etc that's fine but yeah I think some more insight into Nigerian society because I'm not able to you know understand like why specifically is there anything that is very distinctive or very different about Nigerian society that you know that you are saying that okay this this whole idea of revelation you know that that could be different for a Nigerian society you know so so that's something that I guess you need to explain for us yeah then it'll be good and a little more structured also okay yeah Paul and then Divya also I hope that helps a worker okay yeah so Paul you have any question and then after that Divya yes I'm sorry to pop in I thought you are moving systematically person to person my concern also wanted to hear a comment on what I've submitted okay okay let me just check okay yeah so same I think it's a similar thing Paul because you need to talk about the you know the Moroto community in Uganda talk about that and I think you've done that you kind of mentioned that so yeah so specifically just get into some details right and it's a I think fairly I mean clear research title believers participation you know why what is it why are they participating what are the challenges for not participating etc so yeah just continue with that and also you know some of these things I think terminologies and I think probably you used template for you know a research paper template because it says you know statement of the problem objectives of study general objectives specific objectives etc you see you know if it's really relevant for your title okay and then you can get into it otherwise you don't have to go into all these you know kind of headings I can keep it simple yeah okay thank you okay Divya yeah you wanted to say something yeah thank you pastor I just wanted to know like feedback as well as a question like a follow-up on some comments that you had given others so we were talking about a biblical perspective right yeah in the research that I'm doing I'm already stating that it can be used AI can be used for Christian missions so do I have to like explore the question like is it good for it to use AI in Christian mission like a biblical perspective of that when you say biblical perspective in terms of this topic when you let me know what exactly I need to do well yeah I mean I think the topic is it is you know it you are actually based on the premise that yes you are doing this for ministry so that itself is you know the great commission or discipling whatever it is you know this tool and how it's going to be used from this ministry so I think that premise is covered completely so you don't have to worry about that like you know you mentioned like Bible translation children's ministry etc so it's it's it's fine so maybe you can yeah you can look at the dangers of it you can look at I guess you will write facts limitations dangers and etc and and I guess like relying on a method rather rather than the you know the or to heavily on the we use the method but is it at the cost of substituting the presence and power of God or you know the the knowledge of the word etc relationship or intimacy with God so you know is there a danger that can be where it there will be a substitution of it so things like that yeah so yeah but general approach and everything is fine you can just go ahead with it no problem okay yeah thank you okay okay anyone else okay so good yeah I hope you're having a good time doing this and also spread out your efforts to the through the week don't let it pile up so that's the thing you know just do maybe like John C. Maxwell says you know about writing books somebody asked him how do you manage to write so many books he's written so many books like leadership and so he says I just make sure that I sit down every day and write make sure that I write one line at least that's it you know so he just says discipline disciplines himself to just write one line if at all you know and that's the thing so yeah the same way just spread out make sure that you at least read up something or you know write something to it or get some quest maffiled in something like that so just spread it out so that it doesn't pile up when it piles up and then we have limited time and then you're not able to spend enough time on it you know so the quality of the work suffers so that's the thing yeah okay so thank you yes literally yeah I just hear comments thank you so much okay we'll wind up yeah okay God bless so we'll catch up again probably if you have more questions just jot it down and we can you know we can discuss it in our next class right okay thank you all the very best God bless bye


So Biomutant is a game which comes out towards the end of this month to be precise, May 25th. Say game I'm really interested in and today for those who are hearing about this game for the first time, or have found this video in search of an answer to a question, today I quickly sum up exactly what this game is and what it will offer. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more Biomutant be sure to subscribe and turn those notifications on. So Biomutant is a game developed by THQ Nordic who do have quite the catalog of games under their belt. So this game is described as a post apocalyptic open world ARPG that delivers real-time melee, shooter and mutant ability action, replay abilities enhanced by a varied and deep character progression system. You can explore a systematically generated surface world and underworld either by foot, mech, air balloon, jet ski and much much more. In the background of the video now you're witnessing a couple of trailers here which I've caught up and put together to show you guys what I believe you'd want to see all that good shit while I speak about a few other things I think you will be interested in. Firstly the combat system. So this game offers a martial art style combat system known as Wong Fu, allowing you maximum freedom of your movement and agility while mixing shooting melee and powers from your mutations. Learning new Wong Fu combat forms through progression and let me tell you there's a ton to learn and do here with this game people. In terms of the creature you will obviously play there is a real deep customization system here which I'm working on a video for so expect that soon but to keep things short you'll be able to re-cold your creature's genetic structure to change the way you look and play which also affects your attributes and in addition to this affects your exposure to the bio contamination in the world which also leads to other mutations of a good and helpful nature. Beyond your character though, beyond leveling, progressing, upgrading, learning new moves and some more abilities there's also a deep crafting side to this game which is incredible. Again on this I'll bring you a much deeper video on it explaining all you need to know but again to keep things short the crafting system works in a way where you can mix and match parts to create your very own one-handed or two-handed slash and crush weapons. There are even characters that you'll meet playing the game that will craft cool stuff for you and also let you modify your automation. This is your scrap toy, Sidekick. But trust me it goes way beyond this and it's a big part of this game. But in terms of our characters and our builds, beyond upgrading, learning new moves and abilities, beyond crafting weapons you will also totally free when it comes to equipping your character. Not only when it comes to choosing weapons you've created but what type of gear you will wear and there is a deep deep gear aspect to this game which again benefits you as a player like we see with many other games and some of this gear people look super super cool it really does us can't wait to learn what it does and with this custom built mutation of a creature you play with you are free to explore the world and what lies beneath its surface. You can do this three and many different ways by foot, by mechton, by a googlyde or a gall blimp or even area unique man's. There are lots of discoveries to be made, mysteries to unravel, creatures to confront and weird characters to meet. And with this your actions play a major part in the unfolding story where end is coming to the new world. A plague is ruining the land and the tree of life is bleeding death from its roots. The tribes stand divided and they're in need of someone strong enough to unite them and people that person is you. And that's basically it guys that is the lowdown with Biomutant which a game releases on May 25th for Playstation and Xbox. It will be a game I add to my library of games to cover and stream and I do have a few in-depth videos coming on this game too and while it offers so stay tuned for them. But yeah guys this has been the lowdown on Biomutant and the basics of what you need to know and on that note the end of the video has arrived. If you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out. If you're new and here want to see more Biomutant be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one


Oh seriously guys, what we're talking about today is my three worries about Avengers Infinity War because as many positives as I can have for this film, I do have my slight worries because I'm hyped as hell to see this film. I just do have my worries and I want to make sure and keep you guys my worries and have a light lead discussion down below in the comments to talk about some worries that you guys might have for this film as well. Of course, I will be getting some positives things in this video but tomorrow you guys will be checking out some other positive things, things that I'm actually looking forward to and that will be my video of three things that I'm looking forward to most in Avengers Infinity War. Check out that video tomorrow but of course today we're talking about my worries so of course, let's get right into it. One of the main things that I am worried about in Avengers Infinity War is this is something I actually posted on my Twitter is some of the heroes that we're getting on the poster like Shuri and Akoya, I'm very worried that they're gonna have such a small role and not really any significant impact to Avengers Infinity War. And I say this with a lot of things because I love these two characters in Black Panther. They were the two big standouts for me and as much as I'm excited to see more of Wakanda in this film spoiler for my video tomorrow but I'm very nervous to see them on the posters because a lot of them have the same exact outfit from Black Panther.  She was a cool suit but you're gonna tell me she didn't build up any other armor within like the two-year span from Black Panther to Avengers Infinity War.  Build off Wakanda, build off that marketing, that movie just made you a ton of money. Build it off, make the money, do whatever you need to but don't risk losing any other flavor in there as well because that's what's really worrying me. I don't want these two great characters to just kind of be promoted and be like oh yeah they were only in it for like a couple minutes. I'm guessing Hawkeye barely has any screen time in this film, maybe he'll have more in the fourth one but it's just a big worry of mine and I don't want to see two great characters get promoted and then shit on pretty much in the film because we've seen that happen before. The big worry that you have for Avengers Infinity War of course is the villain of Thanos. I don't want him to end up being an Ultron. I liked Ultron, I think the trailer is from the whole thing, he looked like this dark medicine character. But then I saw the movie and I'm really despaired to see a whole Tron again because when you rewatch the film he's not that dark, he's not that badass as the trailer has made him seem out to be just as a joking robot. I mean look at this scene. I'm sorry, I'm sure that's gonna be okay, I'm sorry, it's just, I don't- Yeah, a joking robot, the trailer said nothing on that. He was literally like scary, let's just say that. I hope Thanos isn't turning out to be, I hope Thanos is a crack in one-liners crack in jokes, see him to be an actual menace and scary guy to the Avengers and that's something that I want to end up seeing, I want him to actually be scary and I'm worried about getting another Ultron but at the same time maybe they've taken that criticism so I'm hoping here. My last big worries about this film is that the fact that there's an Avengers 4 that's supposed to be kind of tying into this Avengers 3, I know they said they haven't but it's not gonna be a part two but my one worry is feeling like this film isn't, doesn't end on a film, I feel I hope it doesn't just build up to something and Climax's cliffhanger moves on to the second film. Other films that have done this is Hunger Games which thoroughly at this point I know it's not a part two but it really just can be a worry for me knowing that I don't know how the directors are gonna cut it how's the ending gonna be is it gonna feel like a fulfilled film or are we just gonna get this cliffhanger it's like oh now I gotta wait another year thank god it's only a year but it's a little bit worrying sis because I want this to feel like it's own film in a sense but you know these are just small worries that I do have for Avengers Infinity War because this film is so hyped up for me and I know in the end of the day I should just be trusting the Rooster Brothers I should be trusting Marvel but some of these films you know especially with the villain concept this is something that we could be worried about because we've seen villains be this point I really only liked Killmonger, Loki, Vulture and that's really it from recent memory. Of course guys I want to hear what your guys' worries are about Avengers Infinity War this is gonna be like I said short videos just all leading up to Avengers Infinity War I thought these would be kind of fun to talk about and start a lively discussion down below so comment down below and tell me what your guys' worries are and make sure to check out my video tomorrow talking about some things I'm most excited about Avengers Infinity War. Of course he doesn't want to catch up on all these videos make sure to hit that like and subscribe button and of course if you want to talk more geeky shit go talk over my social media links all down below you can guys go check this out we talk tons of nerd stuff and the most important thing is go check out sandwiched on films you guys want to check out movies early go to that website you want to get some movie news go to that website you guys are all the best and of course stay class


Hey everyone, welcome to this CUBE Conversation as part of the AWS startup showcase season three episode one featuring Astronomer. I'm your host Lisa Martin. I'm in the CUBE's Palo Alto studios and today excited to be joined by a couple of guests, a couple of co-founders from Astronomer. Baraj Parikh is with us as is Pella Paraza Calderon. Thanks guys so much for joining us today. Excited to dig into Astronomer. Thank you so much. Yeah, we're going to be talking about the role of data orchestration. Pella, let's go ahead and start with you. Give the audience that understanding that context about Astronomer and what it is that you guys do. Yeah, absolutely. So Astronomer is a, you know, we're a technology and software company for modern data orchestration, as you said, and we're the driving force behind Apache Airflow, the open source workflow management tool that's since been adopted by thousands and thousands of users and we'll dig into this a little bit more. But by data orchestration, right, we mean data pipeline. So generally speaking, getting data from one place to another, transforming it, running it on a schedule and overall just building a central system that tangibly connects your entire ecosystem of data services, right? So what that's Redshift, Snowflake, DVT, etc. And so tangibly, we build, we had Astronomer here build products powered by Apache Airflow for data teams and for data practitioners so that they don't have to. So we sell to data engineers, data scientists, data admins, and we really spend our time doing three things. So the first is what we build Astro, our flagship cloud service that we'll talk more on. But here we're really building experiences that make it easier for data practitioners to author, run, and scale their data pipeline footprint on the cloud. And then we also contribute to Apache Airflow as an open source project and community, right? So we cultivate the community of humans and we also put out open source developer tools that actually make it easier for individual data practitioners to be productive in their day-to-day jobs, whether or not they actually use our product and pay us money or not. And then of course, we also have professional services and education and all of these things around our commercial products that enable folks to use our products and use Airflow as effectively as possible. So yeah, super, super happy with everything we've done and that gives you an idea of where we're starting. Awesome. So when you're talking with those, Pella, those data engineers, those data scientists, how do you define data orchestration and what does it mean to them? Yeah, yeah, it's a good question. So, you know, if you Google data orchestration, you're going to get something about an automated process for organizing silo data and making it accessible for processing and analysis. But to your question, what does that actually mean? You know, so if you look at it from a customer's perspective, we can share a little bit about how we at Astronomer actually do data orchestration ourselves and the problems that it solves for us. So as many other companies out in the world do, we at Astronomer need to monitor how our own customers use our products, right? And so we have a weekly meeting, for example, that goes through a dashboard and a dashboarding tool called Sigma, where we see the number of monthly customers and how they're engaging with our product. But to actually do that, you know, we have to use data from our application database, for example, that has behavioral data on what they're actually doing in our product. We also have data from third-party APIs tools like Salesforce and HubSpot and other ways in which we actually engage with our customers and their behavior. And so our data team, internally at Astronomer, uses a bunch of tools to transform and use that data, right? So we use FiveTrans, for example, to ingest. We use Snowflake as our data warehouse. We use other tools for data transformations. And even if we at Astronomer don't do this, you can imagine a data team also using tools like Monte Carlo for data quality or Hightouch for reverse ETL or things like that. And I think the point here is that data teams that are building data-driven organizations have a plethora of tooling to both ingest the right data and come up with the right interfaces to transform and actually interact with that data. And so that movement and sort of synchronization of data across your ecosystem is exactly what data orchestration is responsible for. Historically, I think, and Broj will talk more about this, historically, schedulers like Cron and Uzi or ControlM have taken a role here. But we think that Apache Airflow has sort of risen over the past few years as the de facto industry standard for writing data pipelines that do tasks, that do data jobs, that interact with that ecosystem of tools in your organization. And so beyond that sort of data pipeline unit, I think where we see it is that data orchestration is not only writing those data pipelines that move your data, but it's also all the things around it, right? So CICD tool and secrets management, et cetera. So long-winded answer here, but I think that that's how we talk about it here at Astronomer and how we're building our products. Excellent. Great context, Pella. Thank you. Broj, let's bring you into the conversation. Every company these days has to be a data company, right? They've got to be a software company, whether it's my bank or my grocery store. So how are companies actually doing data orchestration today, Broj? Yeah, it's a great question.  But on the other hand, it's something that companies have been doing forever, right? You need to get data moving to use it. You know, you've got it all in place, aggregated, clean it, et cetera. So when you look at kind of what companies out there are doing, right? Sometimes if you're a more kind of born in the cloud company, as we say, you'll adopt all this cloud native doing things your cloud provider gives you. If you're a bank or another sort of institution like that, you know, you're probably juggling an even wider variety of tools. You're thinking about a cloud migration, you might have things like Cron running one place, Uzi running somewhere else, Informatica running somewhere else while you're also trying to move all your workloads to the cloud. So there's quite a large spectrum of what the current state is for companies. And then kind of like Paolo was saying, Apache Airflow started in 2014, and it was actually started by Airbnb. And they put out this blog post that was like, hey, here's how we use Apache Airflow to orchestrate our data across all their sources. And really since then, right, it's almost been a decade since then, Airflow has emerged as the open source standard. And there's companies of all sorts using it. And it's really used to tie all these tools together, especially as that number of tools increases, companies move to hybrid cloud, hybrid, multi cloud strategies and so on and so forth. But you know, what we found is that like, if you go to any company, especially a larger one, and you say like, hey, how are you doing data orchestration? They'll probably say something like, well, I have five data teams, so I have eight different ways I do data orchestration, right? This idea of data orchestration has been there, but the right way to do it, kind of all the abstractions you need, the way your teams need to work together and so on and so forth hasn't really emerged just yet, right? It's such a quick moving space that companies have to combine what they were doing before with what their new business initiatives are today. So, you know, what we really believe here at Astronomer is Airflow is the core of how you solve data orchestration for any sort of use case. But it's not everything, you know, needs a little more. And that's really where our commercial product, Astro comes in, where we've built not only the most tried and tested Airflow experience out there, we do employ a majority of the Airflow core committers, right? So, we're kind of really deep in the project. We've also built the right things around developer tooling, observability and reliability for customers to really rely on Astro as the heart of the way they do data orchestration and kind of think of it as the foundational layer that helps tie together all the different tools, practices and teams large companies have to do today. That foundational layer is absolutely critical. You've both mentioned open source software. Pella, I want to go back to you and just give the audience an understanding of how open source really plays into Astronomer's mission as a company and into the technologies like Astro. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we, so we had Astronomer started using Airflow and actually building our products because Airflow is open source and we were our own customers at the beginning of our company journey. And I think the open source community is such is at the core of everything we do. Without that open source community and culture, I think we have less of a business and so we're super invested in continuing to cultivate and grow that and I think there's a couple sort of concrete ways in which we do this that personally make me really excited to do my own job. For one, we do things like we organize meetups and we sponsor the Airflow Summit and there's these sort of baseline community efforts that I think are really important and that reminds you, hey, there's just humans trying to do their jobs and learn and use both our technology and things that are out there and contribute to it. So making it easier to contribute to Airflow, for example, is another one of our efforts. As Viraj mentioned, we also employ, you know, engineers internally who are on our team whose full-time job is to make the open source project better. Again, regardless of whether or not you're a customer of ours or not, we want to make sure that we continue to cultivate the Airflow project in and of itself and we're also building developer tooling that might not be a part of the Apache open source project but is still open source. So we have repositories in our own sort of GitHub organization, for example, with tools that individual data practitioners, again, customers or not, can use to make them be more productive in their day-to-day jobs with Airflow, writing DAGs for the most common use cases out there. The last thing I'll say is how important I think we found it to build sort of educational resources and documentation and best practices. Airflow can be complex. It's been around for a long time. There's a lot of really, really rich feature sets and so how do we enable folks to actually use those and that comes in, you know, things like webinars and best practices and courses and curriculum that are free and accessible and open to the community are just some of the ways in which I think we're continuing to invest in that open source community over the next year and beyond. That's awesome. It sounds like open source is really core not only to the mission but really to the heart of the organization. Varaj, I want to go back to you and really try to understand how does Astronomer fit into the wider modern data stack and ecosystem. What does that look like for customers? Yeah. So both in the open source and with our commercial customers, folks everywhere are trying to tie together a huge variety of tools in order to start making sense of their data. I think of it almost as a pyramid. At the base level, you need things like data reliability, data freshness, data availability and so on and so forth, right? You just need your data to be there. I'm sorry. You just need your data to be there and you need to make it predictable when it's going to be there. You need to make sure it's kind of correct at the highest level, some quality checks and so on and so forth. And oftentimes that's kind of takes the case of ELT or ETL use cases, right? Taking data from somewhere and moving it somewhere else, usually into some sort of analytics destination. And that's really what businesses can do to just power the core parts of getting insights into how their business is going, right? How much drama you and I had, what's in my pipeline and sales force and so on and so forth. Once that kind of base foundation is there and people can get the data they need, how they need it, it really opens up a lot for what customers can do. I think one of the trendier things out there right now is MLOps and how to actually put machine learning into production. Well, when you think about it, you kind of have to squint at it, right? Like machine learning pipelines are really just any other data pipeline. They just have a certain set of needs that might not be applicable to ELT pipelines. And when you kind of have a common layer to tie together all the ways data can move through your organization, that's really what we're trying to make it so companies can do. And that happens in financial services where we have some customers who take app data coming from their mobile apps and actually run it through their fraud detection services to make sure that all the activity is not fraudulent. We have customers that were on sports betting models on our platform where they'll take data from a bunch of public APIs around different sporting events that are happening, transform all of that in a way their data scientists can build models with it, and then actually bet on sports based on that output. One of my favorite use cases like to talk about that we saw in the open source is there was one company whose their business was to deliver blood transfusions via drone into remote parts of the world. And it was really cool because they took all this data from all sorts of places, right? Kind of orchestrated all the aggregation and cleaning and analysis that had to happen via air flow. The end product would be a drone being shot out into a remote part of the world to actually give somebody blood who needed it there because it turns out for certain parts of the world the easiest way to deliver blood to them is via drone and not via some other thing. So all the things people do with the modern data stack is absolutely incredible, right? Like you were saying, every company is trying to be a data-driven company. What really energizes me is knowing that for all those best-to-be tools out there, that power of business, we get to be the connective tissue or almost like the electricity that ropes them all together and makes it so people can actually do what they need to do. Right. Phenomenal use cases that you just described. The variety alone of what you guys are able to do and impact is so cool. So, Pella, when you're with those data engineers, those data scientists in customer conversations, what's your pitch? Why use Astro? Yeah, it's a good question. And honestly, to piggyback off of Mirage, there's so many, I think what keeps me so energized is how mission-critical both our product and data repetition is. And those use cases really are incredible. And we work with customers of all shapes and sizes. But to answer your question, right? So, why use Astro? Why use our commercial products? There are so many people using open source. Why pay for something more than that? So, the baseline for our business really is that Airflow has grown exponentially over the last five years. And like we said, has become an industry standard that we're confident there's a huge opportunity for us as a company and as a team. But we also strongly believe that being great at running Airflow doesn't make you a successful company of what you do. What makes you a successful company of what you do is building great products and solving problems and solving pain points of your own customers, right? And that differentiating value isn't being amazing at running Airflow. That should be our job. And so, we want to abstract those customers from needing to do things like manage Kubernetes infrastructure that you need to run Airflow and then hiring someone full-time to go do that, which can be hard, but again, doesn't add differentiating value to your team or to your product or to your customers. So, folks to get away from managing that infrastructure sort of a base layer. Folks who are looking for differentiating features that make their team more productive and allows them to spend less time tweaking Airflow configurations and more time working with the data that they're getting from their business. For help getting staying up with Airflow releases, there's a ton of, we've actually been pretty quick to come out with new Airflow features and releases and actually just keeping up with that feature set and working strategically with a partner to help you make the most out of those feature sets is a key part of it. And really, especially if you're an organization who currently is committed to using Airflow, you likely have a lot of Airflow environments across your organization. And being able to see those Airflow environments in a single place and being able to enable your data practitioners to create Airflow environments with a click of a button and then use, for example, our command line to develop your Airflow DAGs locally and push them up to our product and use all of the sort of testing and monitoring and observability that we have on top of our product is such a key. It sounds so simple, especially if you use Airflow, but really those things are baseline value props that we have for the customers that continue to be excited to work with us. And of course, I think we can go beyond that and we have ambitions to add a whole bunch of features and expand into different types of personas, but really our main value prop is for companies who are committed to Airflow and want to abstract themselves and make use of some of the differentiating features that we now have at Astronomer. Got it. Awesome. One thing I'll add to that, Paula, and I think you did a good job of saying is because every company is trying to be a data company, companies are at different parts of their journey along that. And we want to meet customers where they are and take them to where they want to go. So on one end, you have folks who are like, hey, we're just building a data team here. We have a new initiative. We heard about Airflow. How do you help us out? On the far other end, we have some customers that have been using Airflow for five plus years and they're like, hey, this is awesome. We have 10 more teams we want to bring on. How can you help with this? How can we do more stuff in the open source with you? How can we tell our story together? And it's all about kind of taking this vast community of data users everywhere, seeing where they're at and saying, like, hey, Astro and Airflow can take you to the next place that you want to go. Which is incredible. And you bring up a great point, Viraj, that every company is somewhere in a different place on that journey. And it's complex. But it sounds to me like a lot of what you're doing is really stripping away a lot of the complexity, really enabling folks to use their data as quickly as possible so that it's relevant and they can serve up the right products and services to whoever wants what. Really incredibly important. We're almost out of time, but I'd love to get both of your perspectives on what's next for Astronomer. You give us a great overview of what the company's doing, the value in it for customers. Pella, from your lens as one of the co-founders, what's next? Yeah, I mean, I think we'll continue to cultivate in that open source community. I think we'll continue to build products that are open sourced as part of our ecosystem. I also think that we'll continue to build products that actually make Airflow and getting started with Airflow more accessible. So sort of lowering that barrier to entry to our products, whether that's price wise or infrastructure requirement wise, I think making it easier for folks to get started and get their hands on our product is super important for us this year. And really it's about, I think for us, it's really about focused execution this year and all of the sort of core principles that we've been talking about. And continuing to invest in all of the things around our product that again enable teams to use Airflow more effectively. And efficiently. And that efficiency piece is everybody needs that. Last question, Varajas, for you. What do you see in terms of the next year for astronomer and for your role? Yeah, I think Pella did a really good job of laying it out. So it's really hard to disagree with her on anything. I think executing is definitely the most important thing. My own personal bias on that is I think more than ever it's important to really galvanize the community around Airflow. So we're going to be focusing on that a lot. We want to make it easier for our users to get our product into their hands, be that open source users or commercial users. And last but certainly not least is we're also really excited about data lineage and this other open source project in our umbrella called open lineage to make it so that there's a standard way for users to get lineage out of different systems that they use. When we think about what's in store for data lineage and needing to audit the way automated decisions are being made, you know, I think that's just such an important thing that companies are really just starting with. And I don't think there's a solution that's emerged that kind of ties it all together. So we think that as we kind of grow the role of Airflow, right, we can also make it so that we're helping solve, we're helping customers solve their lineage problems all in Astro, which is our kind of the best of both worlds for us. Awesome. I can definitely feel and hear the enthusiasm and the passion that you both bring to astronomer, to your customers, to your team. I love it. We could keep talking more and more, so you're going to have to come back. Raj, Paola, thank you so much for joining me today on this showcase conversation. We really appreciate your insights and all the context that you provided about astronomer. Thank you so much for having us. My pleasure. For my guests, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching this Cube Conversation.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspie's Case Breaks.com coming at you with 2020 Panini Encased Football. Four box, half case, pick your team number two. Second half of the case that Jason popped open a little bit earlier today. All right, big thanks everybody here for getting on the action. I think we got a few people here watching this break live that are in here. Good luck to those folks. Now you saw RNB, which means random number block. That means you get a block of numbers for those teams just for pick your team two. So we've turned some teams into a serial number break. We got a second one right there too, just applies to those two teams right there. All right, so let's find that over there. Those off to the side and here it is. There we go, we got Joe Burrow on the front. Five cards per box. So some pretty nice stuff in here per tradition. Right, and I think Drew, yeah, you ended up being the last bottom mojo with the Rams. We'll do the graded cards here at the end all at once. See what we got here. Autograph on the bottom, great. Now just a quick note, ladies and gentlemen. There's a topler shortage around the world. And so we've been having to, in some cases, putting some of these cards into toplers are too big for them. Obviously our shipping team is gonna be putting that blue painter's tape on it so it's not gonna slide around and rattle around during shipping, but if you're taking them out and putting them into different top loaders or if for whatever reason we miss blue taping some stuff, just keep an eye on it. Be careful when you're handling these. All right, behind Drew Brees is Henry Ruggs, Quad Relic to 75. That's for my Raiders and that will be for Robert Runkle. It's got my Raiders. Got a nice relic here, Jalen Hurts. Wow, substantial rookie swatch. Some great color there, nine out of 15. I think Eagles are a number block team. So Eagles nine is gonna be for Gerald, last bot Mojo in that number block. And behind Brees is Dante Colpepper. Nice, 26 out of 50. Legendary signatures. Nice, Vikings, Jeremy. Picked up the Vikings straight up and Saints. I think we're picked up straight up. Yeah, so Jason, you'll get this card as well. Next box, how many top lures can you trade for a mystery crate spot? We need a lot. Brandon, what's up? Ooh, that bat knob card, do I believe it's under 360 point? I don't know, I think it fit into one of these slider boxes, just about, I think. All right, behind James Connor is Jacob Eason. 44 out of 50. Colts, that'll be number block team. So Colts four, Robert. And we got a Joe Burrow here. I think I actually grabbed the autograph. There's the Joe Burrow relic. 17 out of 25, going to Sean. Picked up the bangle straight up. And we've got Kenyan Drake. Nice, he's a new raider. One out of 50, this is still Cardinals addition going to Ryan. He might use him as a wide receiver. All right, Justin Jefferson, 13 out of 50, substantial rookie swatches. Another Viking for Jeremy Shack. Damien, what's up? What's my favorite product to rip for the people? 2020, Panini Encased Football. Just dropped today. That's my favorite product to rip for the people. We got plenty of it on jaskyscasebreaks.com, go and get it. And there's James Connor right here. Two out of 10, Pittsburgh two, that's for Min. Wait, are the, Yousha is saying the Niners are trading, trading four, the number three overall? Who has, don't the Dolphins have the number three overall? Is that really happening? What, so what are the terms of that deal? Is this just rumor or is this actually happening? So the Niners, did they move a quarterback? No, the Dolphins have upended the NFL draft order. Yeah, it's a done deal. For 2021, sending number three pick to the Niners for the number 12 pick, which the Dolphins then traded to the Eagles. As a result, the Dolphins finished Friday's moves with the number six pick in this year's draft and multiple future first round picks as part of the hall. And Miami also has a number 18 pick. So they just move picks, no players. Interesting, so two is staying put, huh? But allegedly Garoppolo is their guy or do you think they're gonna get a quarterback? They're getting a quarterback, right? Good moves by the Dolphins. They got so many picks, they can do some damage with those picks. 17 out of 25, substantial rookie swatches, Rams. That'll be for Drew. Six out of 25, Chase Young. They're taking a QB, right Adam? I think Adam thinks they're gonna take a QB. You don't move up to three to get an offensive lineman. There you go, there's Chase Young going to Jerry and the Washington football team. And behind Aaron Jones is Van Jefferson. 28 out of 75, that's a ram for Drew. There you go, and everyone's saying, yeah, Chris Laura's saying QB for sure. And Adam's saying, everyone's also saying that this must mean the Jets must be picking QB because if they weren't, they would have taken that deal with San Francisco, interesting. Oh, also I like the Go Rams inscription right here. And there's Aaron Jones for the Packers. That goes to Packers five, Adam. All right, and the last one, and then we'll do the graded cards, which is what makes, in case, so unique. So if you're chasing that kind of stuff without having to wait for BGS or PSA, there you go, you'll get graded cards already. So I'm looking at the draft order now. So Jaguars, so could there be three quarterbacks taken in a row, Jaguars, Jets, Niners? There's Miles Garrett, 19 out of 20. Browns, that'll be for Ellie. And you got Jerry Judy, 43 out of 60. Substantial rookie swatches for my rivals, the Broncos, Hovsep, and another Kenyan Drake, this time out of 10, seven out of 10 Kenyan Drake. Another one for Ryan and the Cardinals. And there's Keenan Allen right here as well for the Chargers. I guess we'll randomize that to one person in the break. It's a non-numbered card. All right, your graded cards. Here we go, here's the fun stuff. We have a 9510, 9510 AJ Dillon, seven out of 75. There you go. That's Packard, Green Bay seven is Gerald. Good guy, AJ Dillon. Just hanging out in our Instagram stream over the weekend. I think it took a picture with a fan as well. It's on our Twitter, at Jaspie's Rakes. So thanks, AJ. Could be a really interesting player this upcoming season working behind Aaron Jones. All right, next up, we've got a 99, Jalen Régor. Jersey and autograph, rookie cap actually.  Philadelphia nine is gonna be Gerald. Here you go, a couple more. It's gonna stand this way right here. We've got a 10 on the autograph, a nine on the card, 910 Jake from State Farm. 16 out of 25, Buffalo, Jeff Mason with the Buffalo Bills. The final, the final one here, there's gonna be a 910 Jonathan Taylor. They got a little inscription in there. I'm not sure, am I missing what that says? That says Colts something? 25 out of 75, Indianapolis is a number block team. Colts five, Adam Cuperman, that's for you. Great running back here too. Colts, power, ICPE, Colts forever? I guess that could be forever. Colts powered? I kind of see a P-O-R-S, Colts forged? I almost see forged right here, F-O-R-G-E-D. Chris says period, Colts, period, full stop. I don't know, it's going to Adam Cuperman. He'll figure it out. Colts forged, is that what it is? That's, I'm gonna, yeah, we might have to do that. I'm gonna, yeah, we might have to send him a tweet. I think it is forged though. Maybe, I don't know, maybe we'll still ask him. All right, now let's quickly go back to this list right here. There's that extra Kenan Allen base card, and let's see who gets it after 12 times. I should have just given it away to someone else. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. All right, there you go, Adam. You'll get that extra Kenan Allen card right there. I'm Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com. Plenty more in case in the shop. Go and get it, and I'll break more with you later tonight. Bye-bye.


I'm talking about attention, not even about something, just being attentive. In the yogic systems, we have what is called as Dashaavadhanis, Shatavadhanis. What this means is, a man will do ten things at the same time. Now, when you don't miss a thing, everybody thinks you're some kind of a superhuman being. We can give you very dynamic processes through which you can scale up your attention to a higher and higher level. What means focus to you and in which way can we apply focus in our daily life? So, what's your definition of focus? Okay. There are many ways to describe this work. Instead of saying focus, if you use the word attention, would you agree that attention and focus are about the same thing? There is a little difference. There is… there are nuances to it. But when you say focus, it's just like focusing a light on something means only a focus is always a spot. Attention can be much more widespread. See, right now, if you have clear vision, I'm having problems seeing the young man because you kept him in darkness there in the hall. But if the hall was well lit, I don't have to focus myself to see the people who are sitting here. I just need attention. If I'm attentive, I will see all the people here the way they are. But now I get interested in this one young man, then I need focus.  Otherwise, let's say in sleep, in your experience, neither the world exists nor you exist, all that's happened is there is no attention because there is no attention, there is no perception of any kind. So first thing is attention, that there is a general grasp of everything, then there is a particular interest, then we focus it down to that particular interest. So what is the purpose or what is the definition of focus? What is the use of focus? Where can focus get us? We are focusing on something only because our attention is not keen enough. If our attention was very keen, you would not need to focus on anything. In the yogic systems, we have what is called as Dashaavadhanis, Shatavadhanis, what this means is a man will do ten things at the same time. Another man will do hundred things at the same time. This is, he will articulate a particular musical raga at the same time. He will calculate a very complex arithmetic problem. At the same time, he will write poetry. At the same time, like this, he will do ten things or one hundred things. There are people like this. You can either use that to just be a stage performer or you can just use it in your life.  It's very important. If you're walking on the street, you're able to see something that most other people cannot see. That is when you become a leader because you are able to see things others are yet to see. That is when you take up a leadership position because essentially leadership means you're on a perch. Once you're on a perch, you must see better than others. So attention is that dimension which will put you on that perch. If your attention, if your attention has to be very keen about everything, then you should stop discriminating in terms of I like this person. I don't like this person. This is good. This is bad. This is nice. This is not nice. This is useful. This is not useful. If you do not make any kind of discrimination, you just work on your attention, not about being attentive about something, just being super attentive, not about anything. See, right now, if you increase the voltage in this hall where you're sitting, when light comes on, light is not thinking in terms of whom should I focus on. When light comes on, everything that is there in that room will be seen. This is important. This is a very important aspect of yogic process is that we go on working on our attention, that we keep on keying up our attention to a higher and higher level, a higher and higher voltage and intensity. Now, we don't encourage focus because focus means consolidate all that attention and put it on one person. Suppose you invested your entire focus on one spot and you found nothing worthwhile in that spot, what will you do at the end of your life? This is what is happening to most lives. Now, you just work on making your attention itself so keen that even if somebody focuses on something, they won't be that keen. If your attention is that keen, you won't miss a thing in this universe. Now, when you don't miss a thing, everybody thinks you're some kind of a super human being. No, no, no, this is not about being super human. This is about realizing being human itself is super. So, if you cultivate your attention, there are… we can give you very dynamic processes through which you can scale up your attention to a higher and higher level.  How much lack of clarity there is in you, that much blundering you will do in your life. Simply, there is no question about this. So, if one has to get… first of all, work towards cultivating this attention, first thing is you stop your sense of discriminatory looking that you don't look at this person, oh, this is a man, this is a woman, this is a dog, this is this, this is that. Simply pay attention without any judgment. If you just pay attention to anything and everything without any judgment, you will see if you just pay attention to an ant, there are phenomenal things. You're in Germany, who knows if you pay enough attention to an ant, you may come up with the best automobile on the planet because I have not seen any machine moving with as much dexterity as an ant moves, but I think nobody has paid enough attention to an ant. So, attention, raising the bar of attention is more important than focus for immediate purposes if you need to focus on something you can. But right now you can do a simple experiment. If you sit with your face slightly upturned like this and close your eyes, you will see naturally there will be a focus between your eyebrows, but you can be conscious of many things.  So, mental focus is a limited possibility, but the attention, enhancement of attention that ultimately delivers you to a space where you become conscious or in other people's words super conscious is just conscious, but people think you're super conscious. Because of this, you grasp everything as it is. The most important thing for this is that your mind is not functioning like a prism, distorting things and creating designs where they don't exist.  It just shows everything just the way it is. Only when you see everything just the way it is, you will have the ability to handle everything sensibly. Otherwise, you make a mess out of many things. And this is very important for an entrepreneur because you don't have a job.


Good morning everyone welcome back to today's vlog. It is very cold if you guys can't tell I honestly hate vlogging in my room because I feel like it never looks good and it just kind of stresses me out But anyways, it's like 615 I'm gonna flip this maybe It's 615. I'm about to head off to Pilates today. I have Pilates class I need to come home in between and then I'm going to drone a mini tonight with some girls Which would be really fun, but I need to pack my bag Everything's like kind of ready as you guys have always seen guys I feel like I just wear the same fitness set ever I have like 15 No, I also probably I'm more than that But I think I alternate between the same five because they're always at the top of my drawer because like laundry clean You know, I mean, anyway, it's comfortable if you have a struggle same Lulu said I've worn this Probably like five or six times and you guys have seen them on vlogs. I promise I have more I just don't wear anything else. Also subscribe if you guys are new here. I'm Kenzie. Happy Vlogmas I have like all this packed up and ready. I just need to pack up my backpack and Get out the door Also guys yesterday at my facial I totally forgot because I was still focused on my Instagram stories to say it was Garnier who sent me which is so nice of them So I'll show you guys this makeup and stuff later, but yeah, it was just like so cute I totally forgot to even say that on the blog because I was making all these cute Instagram stories And I'm just dumb so anyways, thank you to Garnier for the facial Okay, I'm packing my snacks for today. I have lots of driving so All right guys I also as you guys know from yesterday's vlog was not feeling the best but I woke up feeling way better So I'm just gonna take similar shots and just really banked on the fact that I'm gonna be so Healthy and feel great It's too early for this The Trader Joe's ones aren't as gross and I think that's just cuz they're probably not as healthy and good for you So I just I wouldn't changed and this is my casual look for the day Hey guys, just wearing my really super chill low key outfit I just got out of Pilates day. What is out of town right now? So I'm taking from other teachers and I used to take from them before she was at the studio But now I'm just like why would I ever take from anyone else who isn't daylight classes just are not the same So anyways, you guys saw my vlog yesterday. I accidentally won YouTube if you know, you know I actually ordered six of these so I have a few boxes in my bag that I'm gonna give to friends and stuff but Yeah, I just got ready for my day. I have a class at 10. It's like 8 15 as I got ready I was watching Brooks vlog and I think I'm gonna text Dom and ask her which one's from blue bottle What do you want from blue bottle? So we have class I'm gonna be working on like a lot of life What? Gonna be working on a lot of final stuff I've won like left of school for the semester and I like could it be more thrilled my shoe is untied Oh, I knew something was off. It's cuz I don't have my hoops in it not God forbid. I need some some emails and stuff and just follow up Um, I think I really do want to record some podcasts in New York. I just don't know if that's like Gonna be possible, so we will see but Oh my gosh Also, I'm so sorry that a few of the vlogs have been out of order They were not supposed to be the glossy eye travel vlog was supposed to go up before but it's just like For some reason took a long time for approval. It's taking like as of right now It's not even approved so the Texas vlog had to go up first, which really frustrates me I know it's probably not a big deal to you guys, but um, I just don't like having things out of order You know So anyways, I'm gonna go to blue bottle and get some breakfast and then I don't have class until 10 And he's so awesome guys if you guys watched my last like called you can my life vlog or something You guys know that my school moved to an hour and five minutes away from my house Which is annoying, but it's fine because it's like my workout was like midway in between so I cut my drive in half So it's still 30 when it used to be like no time. So that's like really great thing happening The new office is like amazing though. So it's fine Anyways, I gotta Get some work done people. They should put a stroller where I can sit where you push me the baby and the chihuahua If I do that, I need to be there after to be Here we are All right, so I got a cold beard. Oh, not in New Orleans this time. Don gets the iced mocha and then the best toast ever Guys it is so cute I need to come to Beverly Hills soon at night because the lights here are just so cute You guys can probably see them already, but like the little ornaments and everything. It's so festive I just love it, but I have my coffee Dom's coffee Dom's breakfast I ate my breakfast there and just listen to a podcast kind of chilled for a second. It's currently like what time is it? 909 I don't have cost to a 910, but I'm getting there early and then I'm probably just gonna do some emails and stuff I pretty much always give places like 15 minutes early at all the time All right, everyone guys I have a surprise giveaway for all my friends in this car right now So I accidentally purchased six of these and I meant to purchase two.  So look at that amazing. It's my favorite That you're I'm driving your car currently Watch it be like nude lipstick it makes my like lips disappear No, no, no, it's it's the by Beauty of God. Look, it's really great, but I like the clear one better. Yes. Thank you I'm really appreciate it days with Kate really This is kids my roommate use my coat Yeah, that's actually a big deal Okay, that's Here we are back in our favorite place Hey guys Westwood really brings the vlogging out of you That catering to my Angelina's We're going to get some food Wait, it's like around the corners. Okay, we have an ice drink now right down there Wait, this is what we should do for our deal see outing though. Yeah, wait, so cute. Wow. There we go guys Decayah got some decayah for lunch. So good. There's nothing on the back. That's very good All right guys, so I just put lipstick on so I was bored in the car on a conference call And now I look crazy. But anyways, I'm out of class. I need to shower You know, you just feel so tired, but you know, you just need to shower and you'll feel better. That's me I'm stopping at CVS right now. I need to get some wrapping paper and new hot not highlighter Concealer and then go home shower self-hand my to-do list all that stuff. These are my favorite, but They're the packaging is new. So I don't know what I'm gonna get Feel like I'm gonna get this one. I just like it to be lighter. They normally have like a highlighter one, but okay So this is what I think I'm gonna pick up. I'm not quite sure yet Okay, so I had to pick up some wrapping paper and stuff for a gift and new concealer I freaking love this parking lot. It just brings me back really great memories. It feels so good out guys It's so like cloudy and gloomy today, which is my favorite weather It's a few hours later It has been a mess. I had a call. I went to CVS. It came home and I don't know like I don't know how to describe it, but like just something really absurd happens. I don't know. I think like Overall, it just kind of sucks getting taken advantage of you know That's pretty much it but I just had to go handle a lot of stuff for the house because we've had People basically take advantage and I had to go fix some stuff Okay All right guys, I just went and showered and it self-ten really quick I have to go to my friends to get ready and then tonight Lauren Maddie Scout and I from look for Elizabeth and then Maddie and Scout from the okay sis podcast are going to at John Avinni's which we all love John Avinni's and I'm very excited For a girl's night, so I'm gonna go get ready Fix some stuff on my computer send off some stuff and then head off to John Avinni's it's only like 623 right now. I need to leave it like eight. So yeah, okay everyone. So it is now 8 825 I just got to John Avinni's as you guys can see I'm not ready. Oh, I went to a friend's got ready fix some video stuff and regrouped Feeling great feeling grateful for life. I have amazing friends Dom's literally letting me borrow her car for like days Which is amazing. I'm also my car supposed to be done like tomorrow or whatever But in glossary for my video. So that travel blog will go up and then everything else will be in order from Here on out. Yeah. Um, also, okay Sorry that a lot of this has been in the car But you know, whatever I don't like my outfit because I had to grab all of the stuff like on the way out and like Just not feeling it and I saw Lauren posted Instagram and like I know her graph Which is great and I have so many great outfits to be wearing at this point in time of my life, but I Feel like I just wasted a whole night on a bad outfit. Does that happen to anyone else? Anyways, so we are going to John Avinni's for dinner And then when I get home, I'll show you guys some like unboxing and stuff I might be up late, but the good thing is I don't have to bring up till like 7 15 tomorrow So I need to put on a playlist to pump me up and I listened to my you're too hot for him playlist I made like two years ago back before I was dating the angel that my boyfriend is and yeah, August No, yeah, August 24th 2017. I made this playlist and I was like the 4,000 followers almost it's very funny But it's a great little pump-up playlist Yeah, so I'm really sad of my vodka Fusili if you guys don't know John Avinni is my favorite restaurant. These are some of my favorite people So I feel like this is gonna be great. Then when I get home We're just gonna we're gonna have a little a little night because I normally go to bed at like 930 or 10 like last Sunday was about at 845. I think so You know, it is what it is Also guys look right next door. So that's John Avinni's always the green neon light And then next door is a Christmas store This is not really my vibe for Christmas decor. You guys should you guys have to see my mother's house That's more of my vibe, but it's still so cute and festive. It feels like you're in a movie Wow I Guys it is like 10 something now. I'm home from dinner This is what I wore. I didn't really get to show you guys. I honestly hate my outfit, but I had to grab stuff Really really quick so I can go get ready to friends But these jeans are literally again the best jeans I've ever worn I'm going to like spend the money and buy maybe one more pair I don't know for them to go on sale, but they're just literally the best I know they're so expensive. It took me so long to actually finally buy a pair like I've been thinking about it for forever So worth it. I'm a big princess poly jacket. I just like this is not really me I know that people don't think it's me, but I'm very particular and it's just not me Also the way that I like curled my hair. This is one great thing that came out of earlier So I was in such a rush I grabbed everything and I grabbed this conner wand and this one is the one that I don't really use And it's much better than the one that I was using so swapping those out But I'm going to I think oh my gosh. I'm gonna show you guys I'm actually gonna show you guys the new skin care I've been using in honor of going to John of Innes with Lauren because it's a Sonya Dakar stuff It's like so freaking good like Unreal like my skin is just wow it really cleared of my skin Especially because I broke out when I was traveling really bad for some reason and it just cleared up overnight So it's the best thing ever. I'll show you guys my new routine Also guys very excited about these. So these are the Levi's The other ones that I wear all the time that are Levi's. So these are like bootleg. Actually, what would they be called? Ribcage flair, so I love the ribcage jeans You guys always ask about these and whatever I'm like sitting down and I see the jeans hit my sneaker like my Air Force There's something I'm like, oh my gosh I wish that they actually did that and so these are supposed to do that I don't feel like trying them on tonight. So updates to come but hopefully I love them because oh Hi, Cocoa, cuz I love the other ones. So I think that I honestly probably will And then also I told you guys I didn't forget In the beginning of this haul that I would show you guys this that the Garnier gave me So this is really great affordable skincare. I love their micellar water I'm a really really big fan of micellar water and this one is hydrating. It's their new one I think she said it was like eight dollars. I don't know. It's very inexpensive like drugstore skin care But it's really great. Um, yeah, I really like micellar water in general and this one is a little more hydrating Oh my gosh guys, look at her Hi Look at it Okay, then I have the water rose 24 hour moisture gel and then they have this just in a moisture cream That's more of your vibe and not a gel, but oh my gosh, Coco. I love you. We barely got to hang today.  It's a little bit dramatic But like I would just much rather be home with my dog at all times, you know, so okay, let's see a Lot of my other presents that have come in. Oh my gosh, just wanted to do laundry a lot of my other presents that have come in our gifts and I have great things to show you guys, but I'm just afraid like Quentin does not watch my vlogs But I don't want him to see I don't know I Also, I'm afraid that like one of you guys with DM him because you guys sometimes do things. It's not very nice So, oh wait guys I forgot the most exciting part about this also literally this drives me freaking insane the drawers broken and it makes me Want to actually cry. I'm so dramatic, but like it just I can never get everything We perfectly clean and here which this is really messy We'll fix this tonight because that drawer always looks like that anyways This is their sheet mask, which is really cool So you are able to like mix it like right there You can see it's a sheet part and then this is the liquid part But Quentin so obsessed with sheet mask and I already did them and I already know that I love them So I might let him do it because he like loves skincare God bless It's actually really great quality. Don't date someone unless I was skincare, but it's very great. Okay guys Excuse my bathroom what I hate my bathroom to it's a little a mess right now I haven't really I unpacked, but like I haven't been home enough to like really Just realize I'll have a scrunchie then I close the store I haven't been home enough to like really get things that back in order So anyways, I'll show you guys my new skincare really another sport products that I've been using okay So Lauren had some like gift box thing and she told me that this much was using under skin It's the best thing she's ever used so I was like okay. I have to get it So I got it literally in like two seconds But see so new to car silver clarifying wash. There's more stuff too. These are just at the floor I'm gonna grab one more products that I've used I haven't really used the butterfly bomb as much or the mask I will this week and then we have the organic Omega booster I feel like I've run out of this really quickly because I love it I've been using it a lot and Quentin also uses it. I know so I feel like that's why I'm really running out of it But this is amazing and then I have the sony to car super clear Things these little droplets, so I wash my face as you guys will see with this put this on the miss and then guys this stuff is The real deal so you sony to car blemish buster this like the more you would ask you one that everyone talks about that one's trash and comparison to this I mean that was not trash, but like this one is just so freaking good Look, I've never had a spot treatment worked so well my skin ever throw my hair back Also, I just love how it's not curling down right guys today is really looking up. You know, it's like 11 p.m. But you know Next thing that I do is I put on the super clear serum Okay It's amazing seriously guys like I'm almost glad not I'm not glad But I'm almost glad that I broke out right before I really started using this stuff because I was able to see like How much of a difference it made it's just so freaking good. This stuff is definitely pricey I know but like I'll spend money on skincare because I think skincare is worth it The omega booster I learned to just do one pump sing is how I feel like I've gone through it so quickly But I feel like I go through Every serum like that very quickly Then you have the blemish buster So you just dip a q-tip in here It's just like so good.  I want to do this mask. I'll do this this week. It's the rose gold radiance mask These are all Lauren's favorite. So I trust them. She's like honestly one of the other people I was telling you this I feel like toned by a trash bag and I would do it I just thought how much I trust her product recommendations. So this is now um, oh my gosh, this looks Really freaking crazy. I need to Change myself guys. This is embarrassing. I self-tanned. I showered self tan ran out the door And when I was at my friend's getting ready, I realized thank God run a long sleep. I only self-tanned one of my arms I've never done that floor, but I did it. So here we are. Also. I ordered new Nice like silky pictorial secret like very basic pajama sets and I just want them to be in because I just need to trash all mine because they're not gonna anymore and I really just need to stick to like black Like pajama sets because if I don't get black then I just get self-tanned around them So I'm sure a lot of you guys know that pain, but yeah, I have pretty much everything a Lot more organized as you guys can probably see here All right, so that is it for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed Sorry, but I don't know I feel like the middle of the day I just like kind of vlog and it was really actually awful you guys so much subscribe if you guys new here And I'll talk to you soon. Bye


Tom O'Brien, what is going on, folks? This is Jacob Schup filling in for Tom O'Brien. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Let's take a look at what we got going on. Obviously, big news coming out. We'll dive a little bit into it. But it's Powell saying inflation is kind of a bit more aggressive or longer, has more resilience than they anticipated. So this is kind of telling people that rates are going to stay longer, or excuse me, higher for longer. Right now, you can see the market not really know what to do with that. We have the ESMini sideways right now, up at 0.12%. The Russell down about 0.3%. NQs up the same amounts, and then the Dow up 0.38%. Of course, gold is doing quite well today, trading at 2,409. You actually had Citigroup come out today as well and said that their new price target for 2025, somewhere about halfway through, is going to be around the 2,800 level, which would be fantastic for all the gold holders out here. Barrick, of course, did not do too well today. We'll take a look at that, a little bit going forward. Silver down slightly at 1.12%. And then Copper settling out about $4.30 on the contract, down about 1.58%. And then oil, actually sideways today, trading at 85.43 currently. Now, it's interesting with some of the bonds that we have going on here, right? You had some strength in them today. Obviously, these things went higher rates. Remains to be seen kind of how that shakes out. I know a lot of people are moving money into bonds currently, especially with just the high rates that we have now and the idea that rates will say higher for a longer period of time. But anyways, we can move on from there. Tesla down 3%, 1.56%. This has really shot our investment two in the foot pretty heavily. We're interested to see if they have anything to say about this, but obviously they're huge bag holders regarding Tesla and they're not doing too well with it right now. Still dynamics down as well at 1.39, 91 in the dollar, off from that 1.07 mark, trading at 1.06, 27. Still want to see it move to 1.07 and we're expecting that to happen. Disney at 1.14, Apple.  It's a super micro computer. So we got cooking on it. Anyways, up 8.16% today. Things off as high of somewhere up north of 1,000. I can talk about that when the charts come up. Essentially they're introducing new IOTs and embedded systems. It's going to use Intel's INTC, Atom and Core, central processing unit. This is low power, high efficiency. It's going to be for compute performance. I don't understand the hype around IOT, but every new product seeks to join it in a major way. Of course, edge applications are massive in more industrial kind of senses, but for the common household user, I don't see a use in IOT, but that doesn't matter because the market does. And we've seen things like SMCI. I mean, look at that chart. I mean, it's from December. Man, if you just have, we're trading at 235 sometime mid-December, all the way to its high of 1229, we're trading right down now at 954. And I think a lot of analysts see that going back up to around the 1,000 area. Some interesting news in that way as well is AMD. It's quite cool. Let's take a look at where we're at right now. Next, we're trading up 2.21%, at 163.85. It's quite the dip, too, from 227. They have just unveiled new AI chips for business PCs, which is fantastic. It's called the Ryzen Pro 8000 series and the 840 series. It's gonna be available later this quarter. Commercials PCs equipped with the Ryzen AI-enabled processor will often offer next-generation performance for artificial intelligence-enabled content creation, collaboration data, analytics workload. And I still think this is a little bit ahead of the curve. We're not too many people are using any kind of AI that's so intensive for business at this moment, beyond content generation from open AI. But if a company like AMD can get in here for the consumer market, again, we've already spoken about how to video up a lot of their major drivers are gonna be for training these AI models and AMD kind of allows them to be maintained, right? Especially on a commercial level. So if they can get ahead of the curve on this, which I think they are, they can have a pretty good sizable share of chips used for AI in business, which I think is pretty solid. See if there's anything else interesting with it. It's about it. When it starts shipping, of course, we'll follow that as well. In the realm of AI, Microsoft has invested about 1.5 billion in an Emirati AI firm, G42, and takes, that's a minority stake in it. You know, there's projections going all the way to 2030 that you're gonna have AI making up something like 15 trillion of the global GDP. So it makes sense that you have these companies investing large, large chunks of money just to get a small sliver of it. And I do see it being pushed, I would say, to be successful. Let's talk a little bit about this. Microsoft invests 1.5 billion in United Arab Emirates based artificial intelligence firm, G42. That gives the US tech giant a minority stake and a seat on the board. Under the partnership, G42 will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Azure, to deliver AI advanced solutions to global public sector clients in large enterprises. Again, if you've been with us, this is one of the things we talked about that Microsoft is so solidly positioned for, right? Is going to be basically storing a lot of this data on certain portions of its Azure platform. Microsoft President Brad Smith will take the seat and said we'll combine world-class technology with world-leading standards, just typical CEO talk. But again, I think this is what's so solid with Microsoft going forward, is when you're using this AI, that information is stored somewhere, it's sent somewhere, it's processed somewhere, it's not being processed natively on your PC. So where is that going? And that's a big question obviously security-wise, but also you just wanna know what's happening in the operations of your business. And this is where I think Microsoft is just poised very well, because you already have a lot of integration in businesses with Azure. And so it'd be kind of a seamless transfer. And for people who aren't Azure, maybe say like AWS, and we have been seeing Amazon invest a bunch in AI as well, and I would reckon it's probably the same way that they want the data being stored and processed somewhere on their servers. Regardless, the point is, is that more Microsoft can get into that and have these early AIs that will be used in enterprise solutions, that they can store that data on Azure and process it there. I mean, it's huge. And really the upside for Microsoft will be massive for that. Take a look real quick what Microsoft's trading at before we go to the break. Trading up just moderately at 0.7 at 4.16 at 58. Folks, stay tuned. We'll be right back with thousand chat.