G'day Moodlers and welcome to Moodle 2.0. The purpose of this screencast is to give you a quick flavour for the feature enhancements in the latest stable major release of the Moodle Learning Management System software, this version 2.0. Now it's been quite some time in the making and I think it's pretty fair to say that this screencast won't serve as a definitive list of all the new and improved features. It's just not realistic to demonstrate all of those wonderful things in such a short period of time. So I do apologise in advance for all of the aspects that I won't be covering but look on the same token I'd encourage you to get onto docs.moodle.org. You can certainly read up on the release notes and see the full functionality by the documentation wiki there. Okay look in a nutshell why would existing 1.9 or earlier Moodle users want to upgrade to 2.0? Why would other people out in the e-learning community who are evaluating learning management systems consider Moodle 2.0? Very simply compared to earlier versions of Moodle it is more usable, it's prettier, it's easier to tag and comment. There's now ways to control and manage the learning path of users. We can now push and pull data to and from third party services. We can promote and share courses with other Moodle instances and there's a fair bit of improved admin functionality as well. So that's a little taste for where we're headed and perhaps why I guess a bit of a rationale for Moodle 2.0. So let's kick off with navigation. Look we're on the front page by the way this is a standard plain vanilla installation of Moodle 2.0 and we're logging through seeing the system through the eyes of an administrator okay who can pretty much see and do all as far as global settings courses and users and functionality is concerned. So look as far as navigation is concerned for 2.0 we've now got this navigation block sort of pinned up on the top left and that will in fact follow all users wherever they go throughout the system okay. The idea there is to make the system more usable and in fact make it possible to navigate to most places in less clicks okay. So my home for existing Moodlers is you know synonymous with the My Moodle page okay. So it's a personalized dashboard page where users can view the courses they're enrolled in and any information that is relevant to them. Site home that could well be the front page or it might be the My Moodle page or another page depending on how that is configured by the system administrator. Site pages that will certainly be visible to the system administrator it may not be visible to users in lesser roles and depending on their permissions and capabilities. All users will see the My Profile function there in the navigation block and you can see the features listed. Courses courses will list those courses or discrete units to study that the said user is currently enrolled in. Again they become a click away like so. So we go straight in here and you can see again within the navigation block it has followed us to to this particular context and we can see the topics or sections that if you're like sort of threaded within the navigation of this particular block and again you could expand any of those sections or topics or they could be weeks depending on the course format and you could draw straight into a granular level to a particular activity with a single click. So it does make navigation a breeze within and throughout the system now and naturally you can simply return home with a click as well and I guess it's now you know it's an option as opposed to simply using the breadcrumb option as current Moodlers would be familiar you know in Moodle 1.9 and earlier versions. You might have noticed these little blue threads if you like there alongside these blocks. If we click those it now docks those blocks into vertical tabs on the left side of any page okay and we can simply mouse over them and it serves up you know the functions that are you know are relevant to the assigned role and context for the said user okay. So it is a very nice way to declutter any page. I might add that this this function here only affects the said user's view of the system okay not everybody else's and you know it's all about decluttering the system for the user clean spaces as you're on the eye and it does in fact make the system more usable. Look if you do prefer it the old way you can click those blue threads again to undock those blocks so we're back to the way it was. I'll just return to the front page now okay look on the topic of blocks and we're editing on I mean we've got the usual suspects that existing Moodlers would be familiar with they're back again we do have a few new blocks that are noteworthy I've added these to the front page already the comments block you can see there is essentially a shout box people make public text-based announcements and other people in a context can read them and I guess comment back community finder we'll get to in a little while but that does relate to the hubs functionality okay and the ability to I guess share and promote courses and I guess the finder is a way to seek out courses on other Moodle instances and have them listed on that particular block course completion status and self-completion probably don't belong necessarily on the front page but more likely on a you know like a my Moodle and or a course page where it relates to essentially the ability for teachers and students to track progress through a course and up until Moodle 2.0 that hasn't been a function you know users are sort of been hanging in a course and teachers and students have been unsure who's where and who's completed and who hasn't so this is a this is a very welcome mechanism okay there's some other blocks new blocks I'd encourage you to explore those and check them out for yourselves okay now we did say Moodle has has gone about it's it's prettier and there's there's now a few ways to you know go about making the standard themes you know configurable and customizable and it's fairly trivial via the front page side admin block appearance themes theme settings we'll just point out a few of the parameters here the theme list and allowing user course and category themes is nothing new but the ability I guess this parameter here theme designer mode will be useful for theme developers and people testing themes when they want to reset their case being able to allow changes in the URL could be useful also for themes for a variety of reasons custom menu items is a new parameter here and it makes it very easy to if we follow the syntax there to set up this horizontal navigation menu system within your learning management system okay so I can look and feel a bit more like a website so that will now become a very easy thing to do on the same token in fact I'll go to one of the themes in particular then we can check out a list of the standard themes some of these standard themes also give you the ability via the I guess the Moodle admin in a face to change some of the styling elements without having to to get FTP or or control panel or server level access to do so so things like putting you know logos into logos into a header or a tagline changing the color of links column widths and other you know sort of CSS elements can be can be controlled here directly within the Moodle interface for certain themes okay so it's it does make the appearance of the themes more customizable and configurable and easy to do so and I guess for those who are new to Moodle a theme is synonymous with a skin or a template that might be language you're more familiar with with other systems these are the standard themes the default themes within Moodle 2.0 they're different I guess now it's all about being brighter and bolder you know there's a variety of colors and styles and fonts and layouts okay and you can in fact configure these or you can select these standard themes for a modern or an old browser I'll leave you to interpret what the difference might be between a modern and an old browser but you get some idea there in terms of how theming will work for Moodle 2.0 so there's a lot of positives to be had I guess if there's any if there's any drawback to all of that it's the likelihood that your current theme so your standard or your third party themes for Moodle 1.9 or earlier won't be upwardly compatible so that will likely mean you'll need to modify or redo your existing themes for 2.0 so just bear that in mind before you upgrade okay as far as a HTML editor is concerned we've got a new editor for new WYSIWYG editor for 2.0 it's called TinyMCE here it is it's now cross browser compatible so you can not only use it for Firefox and IE it should be compatible for Chrome and Safari and other modern modern-day browsers I'd encourage you to explore it yourself the HTML editor is your friend and is the way to make Moodle pages pretty just a few things that are probably noteworthy is the ability to embed media very quickly via the HTML editor and the spellchecker the Google spell as opposed to probably no spellchecker for most Moodleers up until now that is I guess unless you're on a Linux platform and you might have had access to a spell so HTML editor okay now let's go to navigate our ways to a course we'll get away from the demo we'll go to the sandpit the sandpit it's just our place to experiment we'll make things break things with no consequence it's not a formal course just yet it's in fact a blank canvas but look we come in we turn editing on and we can then go about adding resources so for existing Moodleers there's nothing too foreign here other than the language has been simplified in the add a resource drop menu look we'll add a we'll add a file so what we'll do firstly is give it a name and then the mandatory description so we go to select the content that we wish to add and this is where it gets interesting this is a real game changer for Moodle so go on to the days of uploading simply directly uploading files and copying them into Moodle course and having to manage them there we can we can pick files from a variety of locations including a server your private files and then some third-party repositories if these are configured and enabled by your system admin including Google Docs Dropbox Flickr YouTube Wikimedia and the like okay so you know you got some you got some options there in terms of how this might be look just by way of example we'll just choose one of these run a keyword search on Flickr Flickr is a photo sharing site so naturally you would want to own the resource that you're about to upload or else or else have permission to use it that would be the premise under which you're going to make this resource available so look let's just choose choose that particular file we've selected it it's uploaded and that is done okay so we've got the repositories plug in there again it gives us the ability to pool or import resources from a variety of sources like never before as far as exporting goes that's a real game change as well i tell you what why don't we add an activity to make this possible let's add a forum we can go perhaps uh show you something else while i write it here the forum has changed well there's a new forum type i should say that's the blog format so so just giving the forum a title and an introduction okay so that is there we've set the forum up what we'll do now is add a discussion topic so for those not familiar with forums it's a public space to discuss good ideas and exchange ideas ask questions get answers help one another in an online collaborative sense so look we'll make our first post to the forum and i'll just say this is whatever's going on here message goes here we might want to attach a file as well so we could go grab a file if need be okay so we've got enemies like so we'll select that we're going to attach this file to our forum post so that is there now we'll add another discussion topic and a message that goes with it post that just quickly to illustrate this blog format again that's very much like the standard forum for general use the existing moodlers would be familiar with um we're now able to serve up that same forum in a blog type format with the uh with the various threads if you like um in this sort of view um back to what we were saying about um i guess you know the notion of port the portfolios and and the capacity to push or export artifacts away from moodal to third-party sites and services um you can see here this idea of exporting the portfolio we've got the link there and also alongside the the graphic so look we'll just do that because uh you know the user ought to be in control of their learning artifacts um they're not owned necessarily by the institution um or the system administrator for that matter so we've got a few places we could select as the destination for this exported file in this case okay so we might simply want that to be a file download if it were mahara that's the portfolio system okay um and we could export um export our learning artifacts to it so very flexible very open and i think that's the way learning needs to be the ability to push and pull um or export or import content um that you have permission to do so all right so that's been done and that's downloaded going back to the course now so look as far as other activities are concerned um i'm mindful of time and i really encourage you to explore these i'll perhaps make brief mention of them without demonstrating many more of them um but certainly the blog if we can call it an activity is the sort of thing you want to visit um if you're familiar with it already it has changed um the ability to blog and associate it with a course the ability to comment search and copy and actually feed in from an external blog into a moodle blog um feedback feedback was a third party contributed uh module that's now found its way into the standard release of moodle but it is disabled globally by default so you'll have to ask your system admin to turn it on um again that will be excellent for you know likes of web forms unit evaluation surveys questionnaires etc um we we said a bit about forums um we'll have a look at quizzes perhaps if we add a quiz we'll actually just check first we've got some questions in the quiz bank uh we appear to which is good look i'll return to the course page itself okay so look we're editing on adding an activity and it's a quiz quiz is a great revision tool okay you put questions in the quiz bank ideally and you can compile those with your colleagues over a period of time and then use them for revision or assessment purposes and the good news is they pretty much mark themselves okay so we just put in a name and an introduction here i'll leave all those default settings as they are for the time being so we've just set the quiz up we now need to add a question from the question bank so we'll select that and we add it so the interface has improved the workflow is a little bit more intuitive for the quiz module than it was previous so that's all set up good to go just in a couple of clicks again naturally the questions need to be set up first and they could be multi choice true false matching key concepts etc um other activities that have been improved than that are noteworthy i guess the SCORM activity for those not familiar with SCORM it gives us the ability to monitor, assess, track and report on our learners in their interactions with the learning content via Moodle and the content might have been most likely authored with a third party program it could have been the likes of articulate or captivate or one of the other authoring tools you know with the SCORM in Moodle there's now more display options better navigation and reporting functionality a couple others the wiki the wiki is a collaborative series of pages that anybody can contribute and collaborate collaborate on i would check out the wiki functionality there's now the ability to comment which is which is a you know a welcome feature and then the workshop the workshop module has been resurrected for those who are familiar with it and earlier versions of Moodle and for those who are not you know the workshop is essentially it's a it's an excellent peer peer assessment tool okay so you'd be able to set up submit assess and grade and evaluate you know in a very stepwise fashion so again without demonstrating those i'd encourage you to simply Moodle and check them out for yourself okay look i'm going to navigate out of this particular course perhaps back to the front page momentarily now have a little look at cohorts we're now sort of on to managing i guess the learning path for users cohorts is synonymous with site-wide groups it's been a very wanted feature of Moodle and you know the core development team are very responsive and uh you know the community wanted this feature in 2.0 and they've got it so this is pretty much how it works naturally the system admin will need to go via the site admin block on the front page courses pardon me users accounts cohorts first need to create the cohort so a cohort could be defined as a group a site-wide group of people you know they might they might share something in common it could be the business function it could be a degree you know of study it could be a geographic location i guess the people managing the system need to determine what constitutes a cohort it's like a really big group of users that you want to macro manage okay so look i'll just call this the let's say this is the this is the summer cohort so it might be a semesterized approach to what we're doing here and you've got two contexts where you can apply cohort the cohort functions either globally as in system-wide or users in all contexts or you can granularize it down to the the category level and you can see miscellaneous is our only and it's in fact the default category so you could apply it at either context say system-wide for this particular cohort the next screen we get presented with is um i guess the editing screen and we're able to assign users to this particular cohort and this is a very useful function when you have many users instead of going to each of the courses or each of the categories and having to micro manage them there you can do most of the hard work here as a system administrator in a pretty quick fashion so look we select our users we'll add them to this particular cohort so what this will then do for us if we find our way to a particular course now what we will do i guess at this stage you need to be need to be mindful that the cohort sync enrollment plugin needs to be enabled by the system administrator globally and then perhaps you as a teacher or else the system administrator or course manager would need to come in and ensure it's also enabled as an enrollment method within the said course that way i guess the members of the cohort also get synchronized as members of the course if that's in fact intended so look we'll choose cohort sync as a possible enrollment method we've got to choose the cohort that we're looking to sync with this particular course and we add that method so just to check i mean this indicates there's now two users enrolled in this course again imagine that could be 200 or 2000 and a couple clicks it's a very attractive function so look we could come into the participants in this particular course and see who we've got and you can now see we do in fact have two enrolled students so that's in essence what cohorts will allow us to do site wide groups or category groups i guess is a way to conceptualize it okay let's have a look um well perhaps navigate navigate to the sand pit we'll go to our pretty blank canvas as it appears here we're looking to well conditional activities we'll have a little look at it will allow us to restrict the availability of certain activities in the course and make it dependent on various conditions that could be based on date or a grade or completion of another activity so you know conditional activities might be for you if you're looking to really control and structure the learning path for your students and it might in fact be a very linear learning sequence it's not for everybody if you're more about sort of a non-linear sort of a very informal social collaborative method of web-based learning i'd probably advise against conditional activities in any case here's a quick look at it so look we turn editing on now what we might do we're going to set up some sort of sequence because we've got some resources happening here already we've got a forum and we've got a quiz so we might make it that the user needs to view the forum before they can complete the quiz okay and when they've completed the quiz we should then be able to indicate that they've completed the course let's just say there's a very small course and there's only a couple activities in it and the course completion status is tracked that progress is tracked and that status is reflected to the student and the teacher or the admin so what we might what we might need to do i guess the first thing here is via course settings again presuming conditional activities has been enabled system-wide we want to also come in and ensure that student progress completion tracking has been enabled it won't be on by default and that's um i would check the box as well to indicate that completion tracking does commence upon enrollment so back to the course now let's go to this forum and we've already set it up but we can update and revisit the activity settings so what we want to indicate here is that show the activities complete when conditions are met and we'll check the box the criteria here for activity completion will be that the student must view this activity if you want to restrict the criteria you would probably require them to perhaps post or discuss or reply so many times to a given discussion forum okay that's now being set up so there is some sort of criteria there associated with the forum now let's have some sort of um dependency if you like between the forum in the quiz this is i guess the conditional nature of these two activities now we're going to try and set it up so that the quiz cannot be accessed until the forum has first been viewed and let's presume there's some information in the forum that's relevant to the the quiz that is subsequent so the idea then if we scroll past most of these settings toward the bottom with availability activity we'll have a look here we will say activity completion condition we will say forum the forum must first be marked as complete okay as far as completion is concerned um we'll show the activity as complete when conditions are met and more to the point they'll need to a grade will be required let's say with respect to this quiz okay so in essence what we're done here is the student will first need to view the forum before the quiz become become available and then for the quiz to be indicated as completed um and all conditions met the condition is that a grade must be received and if we want we can specify what that grade in fact is i'll perhaps quickly detour to indicate what would be involved there this is via grade book and again this is perhaps a little bit of advanced functionality but via the middle grade book you could go to the simple view and for this quiz activity this particular grade item if we update that we can indicate here the grade to pass we can set that as 10 out of 10 which is essentially 100 percent for that particular quiz the student needs to get full full marks for the grade to be considered a pass and for the condition to be met for that activity so we've set that up i guess the other thing we could now do perhaps we won't but if we really didn't want to we could set up a course as a prerequisite for the successful completion of another so you know we could say that you need to uh need to complete the Moodle features demo as a prerequisite for the sandpit course or vice versa um so that's very achievable as well but perhaps beyond the scope of what we're demoing today look i think it's time to log out and let's have a look at this system through the eyes of a student momentarily now you can see upon login they've been redirected to the my Moodle page so that's their personalized page okay um and i guess the the learning information and the courses that belong to them at this point in time self-complete this course presuming the the user is stepped through what they needed to read what they needed to do without any conditional activities necessarily having been set up within the activities of the course so that has been done and how we might navigate to another course and the user wishes to self-enroll and that's just being done so let's have a look how these are conditional activities play out okay we can see that the quiz is sort of it's been uh it's it's quite faint that won't be available until um condition is met with the forum and if you recall the forum needed to be viewed okay so the user would need to come in view the forum if they return to the course page the quiz should then be available so they go about attempting the quiz so they submit their attempt and you finish the review having having viewed the grade and the feedback that's that's the idea behind conditional activities as far as hubs is concerned again uh if your organization uh decides to run its own hub i guess the idea is you're looking to share and promote courses with others it's a pretty big undertaking but it'd be important that you download and install the hubs module which isn't part of the standard moodle it's not it's not recommended that you install the hub software on a standard moodle instance so you'll want to set up a separate moodle instance for the purpose of your hub um so don't use your existing moodle instance um as the place to wage your hub coat okay but the idea of the hub is essentially a central repository where you can promote and store your courses um for trusted moodle instances um and certainly advertise and publish your courses to the hub um so they're you know they're shareable linkable downloadable okay so let's presume um the way we would go about that i suppose again uh needing to log out as student perhaps come back in as an admin okay on the front page side administration registration the system admin uh will be able to register your moodle instance either with a specific hub uh that is known and trusted uh and or register with mooch which is the uh the official moodle community hub okay so that's what you'll want to go about doing firstly the idea then will be if we find our way to we're already registered with one hub here by way of example let's navigate through to a course so if you were looking to promote and advertise your course you could come in and there's either a an administrator or course manager course manages a new role to moodle 2.0 it's i guess it's uh it's higher up the food chain then teacher in this respect because you can publish a course so again when the hub's function is enabled it gives you the ability to either advertise or share so advertise the course for people to join let's try that first so you select the hub where you wish to advertise this particular course so you need to put in some essential information there the name of the course is description the publisher the creator the license information the subject choose and some creator notes okay so that is advertised now on the hub bearing in mind again the hub is a separate moodle instance with uh specific hub code that's been downloaded and installed by moodle.org so we've just advertised that particular course um we might in fact want to share it as well so sharing sharing will give the end user the ability to download the the course and then restore it into their own moodle instance so uh you certainly anonymized all of the user information that won't be included in this particular backup so we step through the wizard very quickly and perform the backup so the course has been sent essentially published uh over at the moodle hub okay so let's have a look how that plays out okay so what we can do over here again this is the specific hub software that's been installed on this particular instance of moodle it's not a moodle that's typically used for the courses itself and the typical communication collaboration and uh assessment that would go on in a standard moodle instance it's really as we said the repository for promoting and storing courses and then certainly sharing them and downloading them so look we can uh we can browse for our courses that we can enroll in and that should serve up a certainly the course that we uh published there before if we're looking for courses that we can download there we have it so courses that are available there and you can see the link okay where you can actually download the course and then restore that course to your own moodle instance so it's all about I guess promoting and sharing good moodle courses with other moodle users via the hub or the central repository all right well I reckon that's just about enough for a bit of you know a snapshot of what moodle 2 has got on offer I think all that remains is really to go get the software start planning for the next step there might be a fair bit of new learning involved here for existing moodle users and anyone new there's a fair bit involved certainly to get yourself up and running but again the software is freely available via moodle.org and look if you need help the community the moodle community is very generous if you need expert and commercial assistance you know in the way of hosting or training or support recommend that you contact your preferred moodle partner or a trusted learning solutions provider but in any case relax and joy I hope this screencast has been useful and happy moodling


Suppose we want to graph the line through the point 5,4 with slope negative two-thirds. So we'll begin by plotting the point 5,4. Since we're given the slope, it's helpful to remember that slope is rise over run. And so this slope minus two-thirds, we can read this as minus two over three, or as two over minus three. Now because we like to read things from left to right, it's actually convenient if we always make the denominator positive. So let's read this slope as a rise over run of minus two over three. And what this means is that if we start at any point on the line and rise minus two, we go down to units, then run three units to the right, we'll get to another point of the line. And it's worth writing down that if we go down to and right three, we get to the point eight, two. And since this is a graph of a line, two points are enough to draw the line. Or let's try to draw the line through three-four perpendicular to the line y equals two-thirds x minus five. So we have a point three-four, so we'll graph it. Now the line we want is supposed to be perpendicular to another line. And so remember, the slope of a line perpendicular to a line with slope m will have slope minus one over m. So we do need to know what the slope of the line is, and remember that if our equation of the line is in the form y equals mx plus b, our slope is m, the coefficient of x. And so the line two-thirds x minus five has slope m equal to two-thirds. So the line perpendicular will have slope m equals minus one over two-thirds, which is equal to minus three-halves. And so we can read our slope as a rise over run of minus three over two. And so this means that if we start at any point on the line, we'll have out this one, and rise minus three, go down three units, then go right two units. We'll get to another point on the line. And again, it's worth noting that this would take us to the point five-one, and once we have two points on the line, we can draw the line. Or let's graph the line through one-negative-four parallel to the line y equals three-x plus seven. So we'll begin by plotting the point. Since we're talking about parallel lines, remember parallel lines have the same slope. So the line y equals three-x plus seven has slope m equal to three. And so a line parallel to y equals three-x plus seven will have slope m equal to three. And here it's useful to remember that for any number n, n itself is equal to n over one. And so our parallel line will have slope rise over run equal to three over one. And so if you start at any point on the line and rise three, go up three units, and then go right one unit, you'll get to another point on the line. And again, it's worth noting that this takes us to the point two-one, and since we have two points on the line, we can draw the straight line between the two points.


Live from the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida. It's theCUBE, covering Splunk.com 2016, brought to you by Splunk. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and John Walls.  We are in Orlando, Florida, live on the show floor at dot com 2016 along with John Furrier. I'm John Walls. The two continuous coverage here have been here for a couple of days and we'll be wrapping up a little bit later on this afternoon. It's for New Keynotes Live tomorrow. We have with us a keynote star from today, Andy Mann, who is the Chief Technology Advocate. I knew I wasn't going to get that out. Sorry, Andy. Thank you for being here with us. And John Rooney, who's the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Splunk. So thank you both for being here. Thank you. First off, just your take on what you see, what you feel, the vibe that you got going on here. I mean, John and I have been talking about it for a couple of days. Seems to us very positive, very upbeat. Lot of good spirit going on here. Your take. Yeah, look, I'll jump in. There's a great vibe at this show. I mean, it's something I've understood from this company is the customers are such part of our lifeblood and they love to be here. They love to be with each other. They love to learn about stuff. They love to tell each other how good things are going. When they listen to the keynotes, you can really feel the buzz going in. Yesterday's keynote with Doug. Also the one with Shy and our product team was just really positive, coming out of there, all the buzz was like, oh wow, I got to get that. I'm willing to try that. Let's get that installed, how soon can we have it? So people are just really into what we do and the results we get and that gives us a lot of energy. Yeah, John, your take. Yeah, this is my, so I've been at Splunk for four and a half years. So this is my fifth user conference and obviously we've gotten bigger. The scale has gotten bigger, but the spirit's still there. There's still the fundamental spirit around our users, our customers pushing us to do more, telling us about how they're using the product and I think it's been a really great kind of growth experience of seeing how we're still bigger but the heart of that vibe at the conference is still pretty much the same. And you guys are getting a lot of new customers and new Splunkers in the customer base, blending into that culture that you guys have seen to preserve the work hard, play hard. Certainly the keynotes are packed, the hallways are packed with people coming out, running to the sessions, the sessions are packed, the party's rocking. I mean, I saw more adults going on rides last night at Disney, going, you know, why was one of them? But I'm not a customer, but people smiling, a lot of bonding, high fives, just that's a cultural tenant, isn't it? Yeah, it's something that we're really thoughtful about in terms of in hiring and growing and how we treat our customers. We really tried to not let go of the things from the early days even beyond when I started. So it's good. This is coming to the product conversation because this is where the rubber hits the road. They put all that aside, great community, into the people's jobs are on the line, digital transformations happening, Splunk went from a tool to a platform, now a fabric. That's not the way it's supposed to go by the playbook of tech startups. It's supposed to be platform tools and then world dominance. You start as a tool, turn into a platform now, that's really an interesting progression. But the tool has turned into a platform. Well, I mean, I think the way we looked at it is, going back three, four years, we wanted to make sure that the fundamental things that Splunk did well around the data ingestion, the correlation, the visualization, we made sure that that was a platform, that was extensible, that was something that not only we could build on, but our partners could build on. And then over time, what we found, the more we talked to customers, the more we heard about how they were using the product, we wanted to focus on, okay, what are the couple pillars of the business? And that's why we really doubled down around IT operations and security and to build out these solutions like enterprise security and IT service intelligence that are hyper-focused on those users, their pain points, how to deliver value to them. Solve a problem. Absolutely, that are problem-focused, but still take advantage of everything great with the platform. So, first of all, it's a testament to all the companies and startups out there that are trying to figure out the future. If you just solve a problem, now that you've had a growth strategy and there's a business reason why you did that, I get that. But an observation, we go to a lot of events, so this year I think we'll be over 100 different events. There's a pattern emerging about the successful companies. Here it is. The ones that I see that are doing well and disrupting, but yet innovating, they do it completely opposite of the way it used to work. And so it's almost a reverse. And that's kind of come from this whole DevOps ethos. The way you used to do it actually is not really the way you want to do it in the future. So IT guys have this challenge. How do you keep the lights on? How do you maintain operations? But I got to start retransforming my workflows, my work streams, my personnel, my tasks, almost doing it opposite. Yeah, I mean, that's a lot of what Andy talked about at the first part of the keynote. This notion that there's this big change, this big transformation driven by everything from cloud to microservices to hybrid environments. And all of a sudden the job of the IT professional looks different than it did 15 years ago. However, is the mission ultimately different? Like, isn't your job to deliver value and run that business? I think Andy made a great point in the keynote this morning that this idea that IT was somehow a separate entity from the business, I think is a misnomer. And I think it's becoming more into- Well certainly it's into the fabric because IT's in software's every part of the business. So IT then has to horizontally embed in. Fundamentally, right? Yeah, there's no technology division of every company. Like every company is contained within that. So talk about conventional wisdom, guys.  I have to have top of rack, switch is, and I got to do all this. Cloud busted that big time. Data analytics, this is what happened. Well I want to know what's happening and what will happen. New dynamics around data, new security. The perimeter's dead, we all know that. So a lot of the conventional wisdom tenants are all getting thrown out the window. Which ones do you highlight right now that you think are the most vulnerable or have already been kind of demystified, if you will, in terms of the conventional wisdom? How are you supposed to do IT operations? How are you supposed to do security with data? Yeah, I can't remember who said it, but the common wisdom is frequently neither, right? So it's neither common nor wisdom. And so it's one of the things that Splunk has been really good at is disrupting and doing things differently. I mean, you look at everything from our, the way we collect and store data, the way we price, the way we work with our customers, the way we work with partners in a really open ecosystem. Yeah, these things are all doing a lot of ways contrary to whatever the common wisdom might have been, the conventional wisdom. I think with the IT operations, the conventional wisdom was change causes problems. And that's got to go. And that's part of the DevOps philosophy as well. And I certainly believe that change is the only constant. And if we're not changing, then we're dying. We've got to get rid of this notion that IT apps needs to stop people doing stuff. We need to hold back. Now I can't do that. You'll need to raise a service ticket. Now I can't do that because we need to wait for a change window. There's just not acceptable anymore. We've got to accept change and love change. Well, we had Yelp on earlier today and they said fundamentally, it's all about software everywhere. And automation of that software to get rid of some of those objections. Change window. What? Use containers and publish it to a scheduler. I mean ultimately, if the big driver of this is businesses want to move faster, they want to do more and they want to learn faster, you can't do that stuff manually. That's no longer eyeballs and things written on sticky notes. It has to be infrastructure as code. It has to be software driven. It has to be data driven. Or Dave, don't turn this off. Absolutely. Yeah. How many times have you seen that in data center? So ultimately, all the ditch digging is done by the technology so that the people are freed up to actually add value. And that's whether you're talking about from things around automation or even what we're doing with machine learning. If you think about machine learning, we're not replacing security or IT practitioners. What we're actually doing is bringing the answers and the information to a much more crystallized point so that they're better prepared to do their job. But they don't have to do all the hauling of the information and the chopping of wood to get there, which doesn't scale very well. It doesn't allow you to do what you need to do at the speed in which businesses need to work. This is the question more along the lines of how you go about your business on what you do. But because change or this ability or I guess a willingness to accept new paradigms, new visions, I mean, is that something that's embedded in Splunk in terms of your hiring and the kind of people you look for? I mean, what is it about Splunk, do you think that differentiates you from others in the tech sector when it comes to that kind of employee perspective? Certainly as a relatively new employee, I've only been just over 12 months at Splunk. And going through the hiring process was actually different. I've been hired for a lot of different roles in my time. And going through the hiring process was very different. It was in a large way structured and different, I've interviewed other candidates since I've joined as well. And to a large degree, it's structured so that different people are asking different questions of the same candidate. Some will focus on technical skills, some will focus on experience, some will focus on cultural fit. And we have very distinctly described cultural values and we'll often get older timers, if you will, or interviewing for the cultural fit so that the people who know deeply what the cultural Splunk has been continue to reinforce that. And I think that's actually very powerful. It's a couple things to highlight. You guys have the Enterprise Splunk, IT source, intelligence, product update, then security, Enterprise security, user behavior analytics, and on and on, continue to add to the product sweep. So I want to ask both of you guys, what's the biggest thing you'd like to share with the audience? And I'd like to know from your perspectives, what's changed most with the data? Because the data continues to be the most valuable asset for the customer. We had the CTO on from Splunk earlier talking about how you can start to separate data into classes and use the machine learning differently. Time series is different than relational databases. He's got a great vision on that. I think he's right on the money. But this means a completely different view of how you have data and the value of that data putting it to work. What's changed this year? What should people be thinking about? Just general comments around how important that data is. Yeah, I mean, I think I'd go back to the machine learning theme. The paradigm for working with Splunk from the beginning was get it all in one place and ask questions of it, right? But that's still massively powerful. It's still a powerful use case for a lot of customers. But I think there's a huge opportunity from the analytics side to say, how about your data starts to tell you some things? How about your data proactively, does some pattern recognition, does some predictive things, does some threshold analysis? And now all of a sudden you can expand the scope of the type of data you put in. Essentially, you're gaining this scale that you wouldn't normally have because the software is doing more of the work. It's not just answering questions. It's coming up for the questions for you, which is a very different thing. And I think it's the cusp of a whole new paradigm for us. And the data sharing dynamic. Is that coming into play? Yeah. And I think this, you know, you talked about was this year, we see the rise of containers, the rise of microservices, the increasing adoption of cloud, teams working together with DevOps kind of modes and variations on that theme. And I think this fragmentation is fundamentally changing the way that we need to manage and use and share data. When you've got such amazing and such diverse fragmentation of resources, sources, applications, infrastructure and everything, including customer data, and increasingly executives want business data in that mix, I believe you've got to have one source and everyone on the same page. Can you achieve agility with data or agile data? Data native, whatever you want to call it. I mean, we're coming down to that conversation, aren't we?  Yeah, I mean, I think the notion, I mean, those terms up, the principle of kind of data driven decision making has lived around forever and probably, you know, going back in the NBA textbooks for time out of mind, but it's just, it hadn't been feasible before. It's been really hard to make data driven decision makings if you can't measure, you know, if you can't manage what you can't measure. And I think, you know, we're now, Splunk is, you know, part of this new generation of solutions technology that now enables you to even be able to make those decisions, enables that type of discussion. And so, all of a sudden, organizations that may have worked off of hunches of the data or subsets of the data or the loudest voice in the room, you can't argue with the data, but you have to be able to structure the argument. And I think we're an enabler for that. John, I want to ask you, what's the biggest disruption in IT operation or IT in general? Is it personnel, technology process, all the above? And I would say it's, you know, from a DevOps standpoint, and Andy lives this all the time, talking to our customers and talking to industry, it's the cultural change around DevOps. And it's just the notion of, you know, the traditional, I'm IT, my job is stability, don't break anything, keep things cool, and I'm Dev, and I want to push, I want to push and build and push and push and push, and it was, you know, Snake and Mongoose. And I think this new world where, no, they're working together, you're all rowing in the same direction, and these general principles of working off of the same data set, taking shared tasks and that empathy, and, you know, tools can help that, but it's not the driver itself. It's very much of a change management or cultural thing, and Andy, you talk to customers all the time. Yeah, I look very much so, and I think the idea of sharing and collaborating together, historically, we've been tasked with different things. Operations, DBA, security, development, had different goals, different MBOs, and of course they're going to work differently. Bringing them all together, having this collaborative attitude where they communicate with each other, that's so much different from how it has been in the past, and that's enabling this agility, because again, they're working together to common goals, they're using common data to make decisions rather than making things up and having opinions, and that's a massive change. So just take 10 seconds a piece. You always talk to customers, you know, they go back to the bosses, what did you learn at the show, right? What did you get out of the show? So if you tell us 10 seconds or you would, John, Andy, what are you getting out of the show? What are you going to take back with you, back to work? Sure, I mean, I think I'll reinforce what I was talking about before, that we're on the cusp of making analytics real, and having more of a less, we're moving away from kind of the passive, you know, data management, data farming worlds, having that data start to work for you, and having that leverage point really drive the business in new ways, and we're in the beginning of that journey now. Andy? And for me, it's the demand from all of our customers for this DevOps thing, right? The reaction from the keynote, the full rooms and all of our breakout sessions led by customers and partners and us, the buzz that I'm hearing, the attraction at the booths that we're showing off our capabilities, and how all our customers are working with DevOps. This is a transformation in flux, but this is a transformation that is only going to grow. You mentioned the stage, you look good up there, man. I mean, you own that stage. Just have it. Thank you very much. John, appreciate it. 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Okay, there we go. Okay, warm welcome to all of you. Good morning, everyone who joined Harrison, Prabhakar, Anita, morning. Let's pray and really get started, right? Okay, we're going to just go ahead and just pray in the spirit praying tongues for some time. Let's just be refreshed, be strengthened, be edified. What God says that when we pray in the spirit, like we are edified in the inner man, in the inner person. What God says that seasons of refreshing come from the Holy Spirit from the presence of the Lord. And we also pray the mysteries of God. So let's go ahead and just do that for some time. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, Lord. Now, when we do this, we pray the perfect prayer, the Holy Spirit, the praise, the perfect prayer, the will of the Father. And yes, pray the perfect will, God's will for our lives. Sometimes we don't we do not know what we should pray for as we ought to pray for. But what God says in Romans, we read that Romans chapter eight, that the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us with words with groanings. So just continue to pray bold, continue to pray strong. For those of us who I do believe that most of us do pray in the spirit, but for those of us who are yet to start, you know, yet to begin praying in the spirit, just believe God, right? So just going to pray a simple prayer. And if there's anyone here who's not yet started praying in tongues, so just going to pray a simple prayer and say, Lord Jesus, baptize this person, baptize them with the Holy Spirit and with fire.  And especially if you just pray asking God, you know, release the gift of tongues in me. He's the giver of the gift. He's the one who baptizes. So I'll do that. Lord Jesus, I pray that if there's anyone who has yet to have an encounter of baptism in the Holy Spirit and also a gift of tongues, I pray God that you would just fill that person right now with the power of your Holy Spirit. And I say, be filled in Jesus' name, be filled in Jesus' name. And Lord, I ask that, Lord, we ask that you release your gifts so far the God, and especially gift of tongues in that person. And if there's anyone like that here, you just go ahead and take a step of faith. What is that step of faith? You go ahead and pray out, speak out the syllables. And like we've studied, the gift of tongues is to be earthly language. It's a heavenly language. And it is a language that you do not know. So the words may not make sense. Let that not keep you away from speaking it out. Many times it acts as a hindrance. So just think of it as syllables, as sounds, and go ahead and voice those sounds that are forming in your spirit. And these utterance is given by the Spirit of God, but we are the ones who speak it out. So go ahead and speak it. And those of us who already speak, continue to pray out bold and strong. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for the soul of the Spirit, which is your Word, God, that you're giving for each and everyone. You've given for each and everyone. May we be faithful to use the sword. May we be faithful to wield the sword. Bless your name, Lord. We bless your name, Lord. We bless your name, Jesus. We praise your name, Jesus. Yes, Lord, we lift your name in this place, Father God. You be glorified in this place. You be lifted, be enthroned, Lord. You are the King of Kings and you are the Lord of Lords. Yes, Lord, we acknowledge your Lordship of Father God. We acknowledge your Lordship of Father God. Oh, we just come under your authority, Lord. We come under your Lordship of Father God. We come under and we submit, Lord. We submit ourselves of Father God, everything, Lord, to you, Father God. Thank you for watching us with your precious blood. And this morning again, God, we just re-redicate of Father God, everything about us, Lord. And we present ourselves, our members, God, as Lord to you, Father God, and the one, the Holy One, the righteous one. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Oh, we give you praise and we give you glory, even as we come at these two sessions into your mighty hands. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay, welcome back. Just wanted to know, is there anyone who's, you know, who's yet to start praying in tongues? And maybe you started praying in tongues? Maybe, okay, let me be specific. Maybe there were a couple of words that you spoke or anyone like that? Or does everyone, okay, Charles, you want to ask a question or you want to say something? Go ahead, Charles. I want to say something. When you said that we started praying in the Spirit, if it came into my heart, you said, can I? And then if you continue, you can't. And then when you said, just start pronouncing those syllables and I started, I started. And when you prayed, the prayer like, as in God to baptize us with the Holy Spirit and fire, it felt a very, very big cool, cool air growing in me in my vein. Then I started bubbling out the word and it's working. I believe it's working. Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. So glad to hear that, Charles. So glad.  The first time I started praying so many questions, so many doubts, you know, is it me? Is it God? Is it me? Is it the Holy Spirit? And I think, you know, the publication that pastor, the book that pastor written, the book letter, about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and praying in tongues is so useful, very practical. And when you have the time, just go through it and I'm sure it'll be a blessing to answer all those, you know, questions that we might. But praise God.  Yeah, testimony. Praise God. Anyone else? Yeah. Okay. Okay, so let's start. Let's just continue with where we left off last class, right? We were looking at the restoration of the ministry of the evangelists, right? And we were looking at several people who God used to bring back the ministry of the evangelists, to bring back the service of the evangelists. And like we were saying that these were ordinary people, these were people who had, you know, who had limitations of the understanding of God, you know, who didn't have it all, the way we understand right now. But they were faithful, right? They were obedient and they went ahead and started doing what God had put in their hearts. They had a passion for the Lord Jesus and they had a passion for the people, you know, because they had experienced Jesus, because they had experienced in their spirit the gospel and they changed destinies and changed lives really. And some of them came from, you know, if you read, they came from religious backgrounds, they came from cold religious backgrounds, cold formal religious backgrounds and they met the Lord Jesus and their lives were changed and they had such a passion that they just went out. They knew that as God put in their hearts, they came to know that here are these people who do not know about Jesus. You know, here in this part of the world, they do not know Jesus or in my own city they do not know Jesus. They started going out and sharing about Christ, right? And so we see that the restoration of that ministry office coming back where people went out and shared and we see many names. In fact, this is chapter 4 and page 11 in your notes. So we see many names listed there, many, many movements listed there, like, you know, the Bogomiles or the Hussites and the Methodists and the Presbyterian Baptists and all these we see that they were, God would raise up a person or a person would, you know, respond to the gospel and God would use that person to take the good news of the gospel out, right? And several names that we see there, George Whitfield, John and Charles Wesley and I think like sharing last time, you know, last session about, specifically about Charles and John Wesley, John Wesley, you know, he, both of them, ordained in the Church of England and they went about doing ministry across continents, right? In England as well as in America. But something was missing in John Wesley's and he met this group, this Moravian and from Germany, I think, from Heron Hood. So they, you know, there's an instance where they're traveling by ship and John Wesley is there and he hears them singing and he hears them praying to the Lord as if he was there with them. So for him, it was a new experience, right? So it, the kind of intimacy they had with the Lord and the way they spoke to Jesus and the way they sang and worshiped, you know, really touched his heart. And there began the journey of him actually receiving the Lord as a Savior and then after that there was no turning back. They just went back with a passion and fire and the Church has said, no, you can't preach. You can't preach this Salvation by faith through, Salvation by grace through faith. They, you know, excuse me. But they went out, they took the gospel to the, they started preaching to whoever would listen to them. And it was in the, in the, in the priest, I mean, in the streets and they faced a lot of persecution about, you know, they went ahead and did that. And so they had many contemporaries, like one was Edward Perrin, who was also, who fellowshiped with them and who, you know, who was also influenced by them. And, and we see several other names. So what I really want us to do is, you know, read through. And I think the previous class that you had, Church history and missions is also something that is, especially the book that you're using, the compilation of all the, you know, the, right from, from the book of Acts, the early Church and then talking about revivals and visitations. And so it lists on many, many names, many, many people whom God used, you know, in evangelism, like in the ministry or the office of the evangelist. So it'll be very useful for you to, for us to go through the, go through those. I know it's a lot of, a lot many names, a lot of details, but it's really good to read that, to see how there was restoration brought in, in the restorative moves of God, how you see this ministry office being restored, right, especially after that season that the church went through. And where it was just a shadow of how it, how it used to be. But, you know, I'm sure if you're studying that, you realize that even before the Reformation, that there were people God would raise up and like Jan, who's and, and others with Cliff, who was there probably, I think around 200 years before Martin Luther came in. So he preached justification by faith, like what Martin Luther would, you know, preach. So we see that happening. And, and right down to our contemporary times, where people, the message of the gospel being shared, right. So, so here's something that we can do. Okay, just do a research on how the gospel came to your country and to your city. Okay, I'll put it up in the, in the stream. So just go back, simple details like just maybe you, you can check out in the net, you can maybe talk to other pastors in your town or city and find out, you know, when did the gospel, how did the gospel first come to my land? Okay. And I think it's, it's interesting and we should be thankful for God for using those people and really praise God for those people who were faithful to the call, you know, they did not have much. They probably did not know much. But one thing they knew that salvation is found in Jesus alone. And if a person does not have Christ, then he, she is lost in sin.  So they just knew that. So they, they took that and they came. Right. So I know many, many cities are represented here, many countries are represented here in this class. So go ahead and, and, and, you know, you do a research, do some reading and find out when was the first church established. I think that would be a good way to start, you know, when was the first church established in the city. Now that could be that may or may not be accurate in the sense, maybe it was, you know, it was, it was, it was a Catholic church or it was, you know, some other denomination, but, but whatever, you know, let's find out, okay, how did it start really? How did the gospel come? Right. So maybe next class, you can have more information, simple things like, you know, when, who was it? And how exactly did they do it? Right. So you could find out. Okay. So maybe if it's India, north of India, south of India, you know, whatever, or whichever country that you are in, okay, just find that out. Let's, let's share it. Maybe take a few, few minutes to do that in the next class. Right. Okay. So today, let's move on to a chapter, the next chapter, which talks about some practical aspects or practical keys for doing the ministry of the evangelist. Okay. So here are, okay, here's the ministry office. We've studied about the ministry office of the evangelist. We've studied about, you know, how the Lord Jesus ministered as an evangelist. So we see some key factors which are there to the ministry of the evangelist. So that gives us some understanding, okay, an evangelist, okay, this is what the person does. This is how the person ministers. This is the message, the central message of the person. And this is, this is how the person, you know, the person's audience and so on. And, and what follows the message, the demonstration of power and demonstration of the power of God. We know all that. So let's look at some of the practical keys, you know, when it comes to doing the work of ministry, what are some things that, you know, maybe God is calling us, or one of you, or some of us, some of you to do, to the office of the evangelist. Okay. So here are things to, some things to keep in mind. And here are some reminders. Okay. So let's look at that. Let's look at chapter five, which is page 13. Okay. So here, and all these factors are all these keys, practical things are, you know, what we see in the Bible. So it's really a biblical scriptural pattern, a scriptural model. The first thing that we see is, of course, you know, we looked at the person, of course, the first thing is the message. Okay. The message is the gospel. The message is the gospel, which is preached, the content is the gospel, which is preached. So it is very clearly described in 1 Corinthians 15 and versus one to three. Let me put it here in the chat. Okay. So what does it say? 1 Corinthians 15, Paul declares, he's testifying, this is the gospel which I preached, and he goes on to, you know, give some key indicators or key factors or key points about the gospel. Okay. Now let's read that. Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preach to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved. If you hold fast that word which I preach to you, unless you believe in vain. For I delivered to you, first of all, that which I also received, okay, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scripture. So this was a centrality of the message that Paul preached wherever he went the gospel that Christ died for our sins. He was buried and he rose again. So in a nutshell, you know, the gospel, this is what it is that Christ died for our sins. He bore our sins. He was buried and he rose again. So it doesn't stop with Christ dying for my sins, but it also continues. He was buried and he rose again so that my sins were taken away, so that I was justified by him. So Paul preached that message that formed the gospel and the gospel and was also what he preached, what the evangelist preached was also the cross, the message of the cross. Okay, so that we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 and 17 onwards, 1 Corinthians chapter 1 for 17. So okay, this is only from, let's read up to 24. Okay, 1 Corinthians 1, 17 to 24. Okay, so this is what we read for Christ did not send me gospel, not with words, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For sins in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preached Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. So, well, the gospel was the message, the gospel, the evangelist preaches the gospel, the evangelist preaches about the cross, which is part or the central theme of the gospel. That Christ died on the cross and that this message is the power of God. Paul says that this message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but when we believe and when we receive it, really, those who are being saved, it is the power of God. This cross, this message of the cross, the fact that Jesus died and what he carried upon himself when he died and what happened because of his death, what happened because of that sacrifice, it releases the power of God to break certain things in our lives. Actually, if you look at it, there are certain silent proclamations of the cross, of the message of the cross. One of which is water baptism. It's a proclamation of the believer identifying that I died with Christ. I was buried with him and I rose again with him and a believer is testifying to that and it's a proclamation.  And another one is the Lord's table or communion. When we take the bread and we drink from the cup, testifying to the body and the blood, the body of the Lord Jesus, which was nailed to the cross, the blood of Jesus that was shed for us on the cross, testifying to the, talking about pointing to the message of what happened on the cross, that act of sacrifice, the death on us. Again, a powerful declaration. Every time we take communion together as believers or maybe even alone, we are testifying, we are declaring, we are proclaiming that this is what is happening. Okay, Maxon saying that my voice is breaking. Okay, is anyone else having the same challenge? It is fine. Okay, it's fine now. So it was breaking. Okay. So sorry. I don't know what's maybe. I think in between for a few seconds and then it's fine now. Oh, it's okay. It's okay. Fine. Fine. So I think something to do with my cables. Thanks. Thanks for pointing that out. Thanks, Maxon. Yeah. Okay. So, so the, so what about this and then also, you know, communion pointing to this powerful act that happened on the cross, pointing to the cross. So, so we see that it is this message is actually the power of God. So we cannot shy away from talking about the cross, the message of the cross. And, of course, what seems to be foolish, you know, this whole thing of talking about what happened, pointing to what happened a couple of millenials ago and that changing and that impacting life here and now. That's the power of the cross. That's the power of the message of the cross. That's the reality, spiritual reality that we see. It's so tangible that this is what is changing lives. Okay. So there's no need to shy away. There's no need to take another approach. Talk about the cross has to feature.  They don't want to hear anything. They don't want anything to hear about the cross. But really, we cannot hold back from sharing that. Otherwise, it'll just become maybe a self-help kind of a message or a motivational kind of thing, a feel-good message, but it will lack power. You know, it can be interesting of the messages, most interesting of presentations, but without this, it would lack power because people need to know what happened on the cross. People need to know the full gospel and so that they can put their trust, they can put their, they can extend their faith and receive it, and then see for themselves the life that has changed. Right? So the message of the cross very, very important. Sure, Maxon, you can try that and then see if it helps. Right? Okay. Okay. So the message of the cross. Then we see that Romans 1 and verse 16, Paul again reiterating that the gospel is the power of God. Okay, the gospel is the power of God. But this news, this good news about how, what happened, this came and carried our power, our sin, our sickness, our shame, our curse, everything on the cross. And he died and he rose again and by that one act, that one sacrifice, the offering of that one sacrifice, he has perfected forever, those who are being perfected. So that Paul is saying, Romans 1 and verse 16, he's saying, I'm not ashamed of the gospel, I'm not ashamed of this, for it is the power of God to salvation. Hey, Charles, you have a question? Go ahead, please. You can go ahead and ask if you, I think you've not unmuted, Mike. Thank you. Talking about the power when it had nothing, not have the gospel and the, the fuel well things, there is, there is a preacher. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah, you're saying something about the preacher? I'm saying about the fuel well messages and there is one preacher I have seen who never uses the Bible and he talks, he's an American preacher, I've forgotten the name, but he speaks something like, something like Austin, he talks and he, people are very many following him. Is it the powerful message when, when he does not use the Bible, I've never seen him open the Bible and I don't know if his, if his message is one of the powerful ones, he has a very big, large crowd of people and he teaches fuel well messages. Yeah, that was my inquiry. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, yeah, so the thing is that, you know, when we look at it, well, well, we don't know the full picture. So obviously, I cannot comment, but the thing is that if I want to see lives saved, you know, there is no holding back from presenting the gospel. Well, people do take certain approaches by saying, okay, first I want to, you know, build bridges and, and get to know the person and let the person know about Christ, know about what is possible, know about, you know, the fact that he is a friend and he loves and, yes, all that is true. But without this, you know, there is no change lives, right? Because we're trying to do something on our own strength. We're trying to better our lives by putting in some, putting into practice some principles, some preset, which is, which is brilliant, which is good. But my spirit is not, does not come alive or is not born again, you know, still, I make that decision. So, so that's the thing. So, like, we don't, I don't, I really don't know, you know, what about this particular person that you're sharing. But, but the fact is this, that the reality is that the message of the cross is power, the gospel is power. So, you know, you know, in the message, you know, that needs to be presented, the truth of that needs to be presented, people need to receive it, and then they will experience the power of that. Yeah, so that's, that is why that is how I would respond. Okay, so hope then helps, Charles. So, in Romans one, verse 16, Paul says, you know, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation. It is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes for the Jew first and also for the Greek. So, it is, so, which means that, you know, if you understand it, that without the gospel, gospel, the gospel carries the power of God, it is the power of God. Now, the power of God is required for a person's life to go from death. It's, we're not talking about, you know, just a person bettering their lives, improving their lives, we're not talking about just a resolution, right? Okay, I need to go on a diet and change this, or I need to, you know, it's, it's a matter of life and death, right? And it takes the power of God, it took Christ dying on the cross to release that power. So, it takes the power of God to break what we are held by, which is held by sin, you know, the power of sin. So, it takes the power of God to break that. So, therefore, we need to preach the gospel and Paul is saying, I'm not ashamed of the gospel, because this is the power of God. This is the real deal. This is the power of God. And that is what will break the power of sin and change lives. It is simple, right? It's a simple message. It just takes believing.  So, I receive this simple message, I believe in it, and I experience the power of God being operational in my life, in my life. And, yeah, starting from, you know, my sins being forgiven, a whole lot of other things as well, right? Which we're going to look at right now. The word that is used there is sozo. I think you would have studied that earlier, also SOZO, and it's pronounced sozo, like how you'd say pizza, sozo. And this word is used in several scriptures, several verses, and it used in different contexts. So, we understand the importance of salvation, because we look at it in one angle and we say, okay, forgiveness. But SOZO involves a whole lot of other things as well. It is not just forgiveness, but it also deals with healing. And it's not just forgiveness and healing, but also deals with us being set free from the oppression of the devil. So, it's its deliverance as well. So, it's not just healing and deliverance, but it also deals with preservation and safety and general well-being. So, we see that then we're able to appreciate the gospel even better. We're also able to appreciate salvation even better. So, let's look at some of the scriptures where SOZO is used. So, okay, of course, it's used in salvation. It is used to denote the forgiveness of sins. So, Matthew chapter 1 and verse 21, let me put the verse here. Matthew chapter 1 and verse 21.  So, who's speaking? Who's saying this to whom? Anyone? Matthew 1, 21. Yeah, so this is actually to Joseph, right?    He will forgive their sins. He will bring them out of their sins. And the same word we see in Romans, sorry, Acts chapter 4 and verse 12. Acts chapter 4 verse 12 says, nor is there salvation, so that word salvation important, nor is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved against SOZO. So, salvation in no other name and there's no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved. So, we see that. So, forgiveness of sins SOZO refers to that. Also, healing. Healing of sickness, bodily healing again is a word SOZO. Matthew chapter 9 and verse 22, but Jesus turned around and when he saw her, he said, be of good cheer, daughter, your faith has made you well and the woman was made well from that power. So, your faith has made you well and the word SOZO. So, you see that SOZO refers to physical healing, bodily healing as well. So, the Lord is saying that your faith has made you well. And it's about that woman who had that issue of blood for 12 years and so on. She reaches out in faith and the Lord is saying, be of good cheer. Your faith has made you well. Your faith has, in other words, your faith has saved you. Your faith has made you well and this healing that has happened in your body, you know, you've received SOZO. You've received salvation and your faith has made you well. So, it refers to physical healing. Let's look at another scripture, Mark 6 and verse 56. Mark 6 and verse 56. So, wherever he entered into villages, cities or the country, they laid the sick in the market places and begged him that they might just touch the hem of his garment and as many as touched him were made well. So, as many as touched him, reached out and touched him, they were made well. Again, SOZO. So, they were saved. They were healed physically in their bodies and they were SOZO. So, let's look at one more verse. James chapter 5 verses 13 to 16. James 5 is talking about the elders gathering and praying. So, yeah, James 5 verse 13, is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, nointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith will save the sick. The Lord will raise him up and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven, confess your trespasses to one another and pray one another that you may be healed and then goes on to say the effective fervent prayer of a righteous person avails much. So, we see, well, it's about physical healing and that's great news. And what about deliverance? What about coming out of oppression from the work of the enemy or from being imprisoned by the enemy? So, that also, Luke 8 verse 36, they also who had seen and told them by what means he who had been demon possessed was healed and refers to, again, SOZO. So, we see that forgiveness of sin. We see physical healing and we see deliverance. The same word, SOZO, been saved. So, the Lord, when he saves people, by no other name, by which there's no other name given, by which we might be saved, it refers to all this, it refers to all this. Of course, forgiveness of sins is an important part of it. I would say the most important part of it, but it also has all these elements of being healed, of being delivered. Jude verse 5, but I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe, saved the people from land of Egypt, out of the land of Egypt, referring to slavery and what they were held by and they were delivered from it. They were set free out of that bondage and Egypt always referring to that, our old life, an old life of bondage, an old life of sin and slavery to sin. So, here we see that they were set free and having saved the people, having delivered the people out of that bondage. So, we see deliverance, which is also a big part of Sozo. Then, safety, physical safety, preservation, that is also Sozo. So, Matthew 8 and verse 25, then his disciples came to him and awoke him saying, Lord, save us, we are perishing. Lord, save us, we are perishing and they use the same word. Lord, save us, Sozo, we are perishing. And what is that incident? Anyone? Matthew 8, what is this incident that caused the disciples to come to him and say, Lord, save us, we are perishing? Anyone? Just the boat, when they were in the boat and the boat was, and there was a storm? Yeah, exactly. So, they got into the boat, the disciples followed him into the boat and a great tempest arose on the sea. Verse 24 talks about that. And the boat was covered with waves, but he was asleep. Verse 25, the disciples went, woke him up and said, Lord, don't you care? Save us, we are perishing. And the Lord, of course, awakes and says, why are you fearful? Oh, you of little faith and sozo again being connected there. So, here, the context is physical safety. Lord, we are about to die, we are about to drown. The boat is about to capsize and we are about to drown in the waters.  So, physical, you know, safety from physical harm and danger. Again, sozo. Let's look at one more scripture and then we'll just take a break. 2 Timothy 4 and verse 18. Okay, the scriptures are there in your references there in the notes. 2 Timothy 4 and verse 18, and the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for his heavenly kingdom, to him be glory for ever and ever. Amen. So, again, it will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for his heavenly kingdom, to him be glory for ever and ever. So, again, the word sozo is used there. So, we see that, you know, this amazing word and that is what the gospel is about. Okay, that is what the gospel is about. So, the gospel is not about, you know, getting a ticket to heaven, right? It's not about getting a ticket to heaven and it's about life here as well. It's not just about the hereafter. Yes, of course. Our destiny has changed. Praise God. Our destiny has changed and, you know, so it's not about just waiting to go to heaven, but it's about life here as well. So, salvation covers that. And what a great revelation, the fact that it is about physical safety, that it is about deliverance, that it is about healing, physical healing and, you know, other aspects of healing, like mentally, emotionally, and it is about forgiveness of sins and salvation. So, you see that word sozo, that's salvation. So, he will save the people from their sins.  He will save, he will sozo the people, right? So, that forms part of the gospel. It's the evangelist preachers. So, we'll take a break. We'll come back at 11. Thank you.


Roblox hides their darkest secrets by any means they can. Heck, half their updates help blind the community through anger or happiness from the conditions faced by very unlucky players. If certain stories such as 1x1x1x1 in combination with Nali and the prophecy even surface as a threat to what they can seal within their greedy business, they announce it as a joke. This one is the most well known, but I believe I have discovered a far more serious and fatal concern buried under the radar. I'm sure we all know by now that Roblox has begun their live broadcasting, using Twitch as have many other people as well. Their broadcasts are just Roblox employees playing games, discussing upcoming events as well as contests. Now, what if I informed you that they add subliminal messages in these videos? Your broadcasts may be live, and you can call it BS if you want, but it's far more real than you can imagine. If you aren't aware of what subliminal messages are, they are basically tiny portions of a video or movies that are cut, and show you an image or play an audio clip in such a small time frame that you do not notice it.  An example would be fear, dirty things, or anything else that can make its viewers uncomfortable or think differently. It was used in the past during movies to convince the viewers that they want popcorn or drinks. However, it may even be a form of mind control, much like that of Polybius. Roblox's use of this was very hard to detect, but there was actually a thread on a gaming website, not Roblox, that spoke of this. The game site discussed the horror and mystery genres in depth, and could be related to creepypasta wikis as well. Roblox is hardly considered a decent game to most, but it is becoming more well known if anything. This is why the post received around 30 responses, and if I recall correctly, about 10 of them agreed with the topic. The thing being questioned by this thread involved viewers of the next level Episode 5 to feel anxious and their stomachs being upset by the worry. I doubt watching a Roblox video induces any form of stress that could cause this. Note, I recently checked this post, and found that it was deleted, and no further discussion could revolve around the topic. I was certainly interested at that point, because I always love exploring the demonic and known dangers hidden in things. Yet, considering I had watched the first live stream they made of Winter Games 2013 or whatever that was, I found it hard to believe. So, I decided to watch a video for myself despite the potential risk of feeling sick. What I felt was the complete opposite, I began to feel hungry, even though I had lunch just an hour before this. Several people in the chat seemed to feel similar, so you can see I'm being sincere. What I regret not doing, and still feel foolish about, was trying to listen or watch for the additions to the video. I swear it went through cleanly, but my body says otherwise. Even there I tried to find more, but there was no information regarding annoying sensations felt after watching the videos. Earlier this year though, I accidentally discovered a small article describing a peak in death in several countries. The article treated the situation as a joke, but slightly hinted the idea that the people who died were last on Twitch. They were watching Roblox, unaware of what was entering and destroying their minds. I believe the deaths were a result of suicide, but the article didn't really touch that point.  I wish I could share its name, but it happened ages ago and I cannot relocate it. All of this has caught my attention, and I no longer will view one of those demons videos ever again. It is a major risk that I for one am not willing to take. Your subliminal messages are killing innocent and young people, and use clever trickery to block it out. You never know what exactly your subconscious does with processed information, and in this case it ends lives. Watching their live streams is dangerous, but is it worth it to take such a risk?


Yeah, good afternoon. My name is Herman Einzler. I'm based in Wurzburg and I'm the director of the Department of Internal Medicine where we see a lot of myeloma patients. Now the myeloma patients are quite concerned about COVID-19 and I think that is is clearly very important because we know that the likelihood of a severe cause of a COVID-19 infection is higher among myeloma patients when compared to healthy controls. So please be careful, please wear your mask, please keep social distancing and also all the hygiene restrictions that should be followed. And this should be also done in a patient who receives a vaccination. Now why this? We know that we can successfully vaccinate patients with multiple myeloma and I would encourage you all to do a vaccination and to have a vaccination done. Concerning the different vaccines, I don't see an issue with any of the vaccines. It's so important to get vaccinated. I would accept every vaccine that is available for you. There is no increased risk with these vaccines like AstraZeneca or J&J that are slightly different from the biotech or Moderna vaccine that are RNA based but still they are safe and I think especially in myeloma patients they can be safely applied. What we don't know or what is questionable whether the protection in a myeloma patient is as good as in a healthy control and that's why even after being vaccinated you should still wear a mask and do the social distancing and all the measurements of hygiene. But in principle and that has been shown and we have seen this that in most of the patients the vaccination is protective. Patients that have a very low likelihood to respond to the vaccine patients early after stem cell transplantation so in the first one to two months following stem cell transplantation is probably not effective. You should also be careful not to take steroids during maybe five or seven days prior to vaccination. You shouldn't use steroids five to seven days post vaccination though. This is important and if you are in a certain schedule it always makes sense to have the vaccination being done between two cycles of therapy and if possible it might be good to delay a little bit the treatment and have sufficient time that the immune response can develop. So in conclusion I would recommend you all to get vaccinated accept every vaccine that is approved by the AMA by the European Medicine Agency and get vaccinated as early as possible because we know that these vaccinations are protective in myeloma patients but not probably in all patients as much as in a healthy control. Please stay safe and all the best to you all.


All right, headed into week five of the fantasy football season. So you gotta preach patience or you gotta hit the panic button. You're in, you're out, you gotta figure it all out and that's what we do right here on Up and Adams with a bit of panic room. So here's some players I think you're panicking on based on your tweets and such. Yes, it's very scary. Oh, what happened? She was, she was upset about something. She's in the panic room. Okay, so here is the first guy, Aaron Rodgers. Cut and dry, I'm gonna say panic, but don't drop him. Through four weeks, he's the 21st ranked quarterback and I'm sorry, I'm gonna apologize to everybody because I said, he's going 13th, he's not even a QB one, he's gonna be great. And he hasn't been great. He's got three interceptions, not a ton of touchdowns. I do think those numbers improve as he starts and continues to build chemistry with his receivers. You guys heard me talk about this. You know, the identity of the offense is going to shift from Jones and Dylan. They're running the ball right now but it's going to change. That said, don't play him right now. Play the Jared Goffs of the world, the Trevor Lawrence's, the Gino Smith's, even play the matchups week to week until it improves. But you're not gonna get anything if you're dealing Aaron Rodgers.  Like Travis E.T.N. Don't do it right now. Speaking of running backs though, another guy the world is panicking about at large is Leonard's four net and I get it, but I will say don't panic. Fantasy managers are worried. He carried the ball three times negative three yards. He couldn't have an uglier stat line and that was against the Chiefs. It was a kind of a weird game, right? They, I mean, they fell by double digits early. I still have never seen a stat line like that. They threw and threw and threw and didn't run and run and run at all. You know, yeah, he was in the passing game though. Doesn't have to forget that too, close to 60 yards and his first touchdown of the season was through the air on seven grabs. He's still the 16th highest ranked running back as far as scoring is concerned on the year and he will start scoring, by the way, more touchdowns as long as his offense gets healthier and it will. I'm not worried about it. And actually like the matchups they have Atlanta and they have Pittsburgh coming up. Okay. And hit me up with people at Up and Atom show that you're panicking about. This is just literally me looking at my Twitter feed and seeing who you guys are worried about. DJ Moore, DJ Moore is a big one here because this is someone who I'm always pumping him up. I'm always like, he's gonna get 2000 yards no matter who's throwing him the ball. But he, you know, last year he was averaging like 10 targets a game. He's gotten 29 total targets through week four. And I'm not the only one frustrated about it. He is too, take a listen. Like no matter to me, getting open is getting open. Open is one yard, 0.5 yards. Open is open in this league like quarterback. He doesn't see it that way. It's cool. They go on to the next read, next person is open. He's mad. He wants the ball and he's open and I don't put any of it on DJ but it's hard to see the members picking up with whatever that quarterback situation is. The Panthers ranked dead last in total offense right now dead last. Baker hasn't really shown me anything as far as, you know, me trying to make light of this. Now Moore is really talented. I don't think you drop him but you can't play him right now unless the offense starts to figure things out. All right, another guy the world is panicking about the fantasy world is George. It just looks like we didn't pay our bills. That's not the certain point. George Kittle, lots of talk about this. He's been back for two weeks. He hasn't gotten more than 30 yards and five targets in a game. I'm gonna preach patience here. I would not start panicking yet because we're working his way back into the offense, right? And, you know, as is Jimmy G. We talked about it like Baldy. He didn't have a preseason. He didn't have training camp. He's got a shoulder. Look, leave Jimmy G alone. Leave George Kittle alone here too. You know, George has never averaged fewer than 65 yards per game in a season. So the Niners run a lot of course and he blocks a lot and people wanna knock him for that. But he is simply too good in the passing game to be held back for long. So we can look at splits and we can look at percentages and what he's doing among tight ends. I think it's simply a, we are not giving Jimmy G the patience he deserves here. It is a bit new. They are running and all of that, but he needs to, Jimmy G needs some comfortability. He didn't get any reps. It was all the Tre Lantz show. So give him a break. I don't know why I'm his safe place for Jimmy G. I think it's cause stats makes me so mad. Rob Stats, Guerrero.