It's time to value, it's elapsed time, it's compressing that elapsed time, it's accelerating business outcomes, which compared to the TCO stuff is like telephone numbers, isn't it? Oh it is, and part of what you're seeing is the new technologies in open source are really breaking down walls of spark technology, really started to look at how they could help solution developers bring analytics into their applications quickly and within that timeframe, time to value and cost functions. So it's not a data person thinking about how they use analytics or an analytics person thinking it's a solution. And it's back to your point, all these new workloads need to do this and I think the spark ecosystem really started to hone in on that and offer a good value proposition. Would it be fair to characterize this acceleration in the use of analytics on two fronts? One is how agile you are in improving the analytics and then the other is how fast you can apply it at the time of transaction? Absolutely, and we're seeing this in the way some of the business models are done that sometimes before you use spark it would take a week to update these, data scientists involved, but then you need to apply it quickly. So this is part of our Demantic group, works with retailers online, looking at a billion records, would take them about a week to put the data database, do the things about you said get the algorithm right and then deploy it. Now with Hadoop they're looking at doing that in a few hours. That's kind of this continuous evolution of if I've got a breakthrough, I've found something, I need to deploy it fast. I can't wait a week to go do that. We were talking earlier about something that's sort of on the edge of not quite mainstream but experimental notebooks where you bring together different analytic types in a not necessarily a programmer medium, although you can drop into that, but sort of almost like accessible like a spreadsheet. That's true. And to what extent does that democratize the ability to build these predictive models? Oh, huge. And if you looked at notebooks two years ago, two and a half years ago, there were nothing on GitHub. Now there's probably, I think the last count we looked was over 200,000. So you now you have people coming out of college, graduates that know how to use notebooks. And notebooks for folks that don't know they're a web based interactive collaborative way. It's a wiki with cells so you can run code and see visualizations. Think about as a live analytics document. And that's fascinating because the types of questions business are asking are very open-ended. I think I see something, you sit with me data scientist and show me. Am I right? And if it is, I'll tell you where to go next. So our idea of an application isn't just inputs and outputs anymore. It's a spreadsheet of what ifs in many cases that then you find the business value for. So is your job essentially to be a trend spotter and then figuring out how to create value from those trends or try to identify where IBM can create value? Trend spotter is a good way to put it, but we put a lot of skin in the game. And so internally when we start to spot these, we'll socialize it, but who cares? Some smart people see stuff all the time. You're not just an observer. That's right. Customers. So we go out and we get customer examples. And if I can get maybe a dozen customer examples, then we know this is a real trend that's going to have some weight behind it. If I can't, then I have to tell folks, this was interesting, but it doesn't look like the adoption rate is going to be something we interested in. So I wonder if we could take two examples. And it may not have been directly in your area, but just as an observer of IBM, there's two major things going on. One is cloud. And the economics of cloud are clearly changing. Provisioning is becoming free. It's automated. It's like software economics. And then cognitive. Now, I feel as though IBM was more reactionary to cloud, but very proactive with cognitive and essentially inventing an entire new industry where cloud is like, all right, you know, it's kind of hard times and hardware. Steve Mills never liked hardware anyway. I always joke to him. Hardware, mainframe hardware is good. The rest of it, forget it. Storage in x86, but we joke all the time. But my point is, those were some tectonic shifts in the industry that you had to respond to. Whereas cognitive, I'd say you're creating a whole new industry. What role did people like yourself play in creating those opportunities? Well, let's see. The first of a kind that came out of the Jeopardy project was a research project. And my team took that as the first one and then took the next 14 months and commercialized it to give it and then created the Watson division. So my team had all the analytic skills, the big data skills, and this was a great project. Wonderful to partner with research and go do that. And learn about kind of the way that we could think about cognitive, the different areas, the different ways to look at data. And help the division get going. We're also the group that started Bluemix. So we partnered with others and I've been very small teams. It was called Initially Cloud OE and then Bluemix. You know, less than 20 people. And it caught such a wave in IBM and with customers. It was, you know, beyond what we ever expected.  It was just phenomenal on what was happening around it from a cloud standpoint. But back to my point, the way we socialize with both internal lecturing is lots of demos. Lots of ways to get customer reaction to say, you know, are we doing the good thing or did we miss the mark? The one thing that the capabilities of the cognitive computing services, Watson, looks very alluring. But it's hard even to someone who's moderately technical to picture what that API platform looks like. Can those be exposed in these more accessible notebooks the way you're exposing the spark analytical and other capabilities? Absolutely. In fact, we use notebooks when we develop Watson to hone the analytics down. And that was kind of our first experience with early, early notebooks on, you know, this is something we think could be productive for other people. So that was four years ago. And it was just a, you know, Python was doing some interesting things with it. But, yeah, it's, you can think about natural language processing. You know, how do I use a notebook and be able to call out to the different APIs to go do that or Watson learning? You know, how do I do that so I can train it better? My notebooks are very good for helping explore the way that you want to do training and documenting it. So businesses, others can see and understand or create new notebooks off the ones that you already have. So it's got to be rewarding to see the outcomes affect, you know, the human condition. Let's talk about Watson a little bit more. So, you know, it's like I said, we've been torturing ourselves for 15 years about ringing more costs out of IT. And the industry's done a pretty good job, but it just gets kind of rote. Look at something like Watson and specifically in healthcare. How do you see what's your vision rod as to how Watson, other, you know, parts of the ecosystem, maybe other cognitive systems affect the human condition? What's your vision there? Well, part of this is, you know, we're very happy to help, you know, a small team get Watson started and where it is today. We, again, spend a lot of time talking with oncologists and others about what was their vision for utilizing Watson. And, you know, the huge amounts of information, new journal articles and things, but also they wanted to be able to, you know, as we're doing, create an API so you can create new applications. Now, I think that's the exciting part of Watson is, how do I look at, you know, new vertical applications that IBM can't create? And, you know, you want to open up that ecosystem to do that. So, you know, I think that's the important part of looking at this corpus of information that Watson's got for healthcare and then having people explore, like, you know, the latest ones on, you know, meat. You know, here's what it causes, but, you know, I really read the article and said, well, it's 50 grams or more. Well, it's, you know, I need more information. All of us have the time to go read all this and have, you know, figured out what it is, or does Watson help us do those type of things when we're making a meal? Well, it strikes me that Watson was sort of remarkable in the first application in jeopardy, but it was also intimidating in terms of trying to think, well, as a corporate customer or whatever, or as an independent software vendor, how would I take advantage of that platform or service? And if you're exposing it now at something that's like a workspace, it would seem like you're breaking the fundamental bottleneck in terms of getting democratizing access to this. I think that's right. And part of it was the initial system performance was so key on the question and answer side of it. And as Mike talked about this morning, now they're looking at a lot of different solution spaces. So now I can break out the natural language processing interface. I can bring out the Watson machine learning the cognitive pieces to it. And so it's a good maturation over time of what, you know, driven by the types of applications people want to do. How do we break those APIs out slowly? And you saw it might be very careful on, it's not thousands, it's not waves of APIs, it's 30-some, and then they're going to grow it to 60-some. That seems like a small number. And the reason we want it small is how do we find that right sweet spot for developers to do the right value but not get swamped into much details? And how far are you in terms of testing the stability and the richness of the APIs with developers? All the time. And is that your group? No, it's not my group. That's Rob High's group and in the Watson group to do that. They're the ones testing it. We're one of the consumers now. We're working with customers on that as we put it together. People say, gee, can we put some Watson analytics into this? Well, great. How do we want to utilize that as a new service inside of an application? Okay. So, Rod, if you had to create a hall of fame of IBM innovations, it'd be a big wall, I guess. But what are some of the ones that stand out for you? Oh, geez. Well, you know, the superstar, one of the superstars in my mind is Fred Brooks. Fred Brooks? Yes. And I think Fred is still teaching in Chapel Hill if I'm not mistaken. And he wrote another book? I think he probably wrote another book. And designed. Yeah, he's just, one is he's so down to earth. I've met him a number of times, but he's so insightful too. You know, he just has a way to get that BB King note of getting right to the point and understanding the technology and communicating value points in it. So, to me, you know, Fred set the stage for a lot of the computing we're doing and trying to be very pragmatic but visionary at the same time. So, the system 360, the OS 360 is number one. I think so. And it's still... Don't you think?  It got it started and it's still alive today. People keep saying, well, it can't last and guess what? It seems to have a pretty good... Virtualization. That's right. You know, it's still there. It's still there. That's right. You know, it's... DB2 or the relational... Relational came around quite a long time after its research started. That's one that's interesting where we innovated. We didn't take advantage of it. Oracle did a much better job than we did at that. Yeah. So, I think that, you know, probably my Hall of Fame starts with Fred Brooks on that. And then where do you think Watson will fit in that spectrum? I think Watson's going to be extremely high. And I think the way we've harnessed cognitive, how we're thinking about the future of how computers interact and gather information, you know, building these ease of use applications with it, robots, we saw today. You know, there's things... I'm getting ready to open source to how do we hook JavaScript into Spark because robots are a lot of being done in JavaScript. How do I do those things so people can, you know, be able to use machine learning, cognitive, and other things? I mean, robots they can't learn doesn't seem very interesting. Are there... You know, we saw that we saw Pepper up on stage today. Yes. What kinds of things are humans going to be able to do that robots won't be able to do? Climb stairs, I suppose. It's probably hard for a robot to climb stairs right now. And he's saying, no, just stay tuned. We didn't think that autonomous cars were a possibility a decade ago. Five years ago. No. No, I... You know, with... As Mike was talking about, and I think, you know, Bob was talking about kind of this, you know, dark web. There's lots of information out there that we're not really doing a lot with. Nest, you know, being able to adjust to different rooms and turn on. You know, we can collect information. I think that's where we want the intelligence to go is to help us.  I don't want a relationship with Watson. Watson's there to help me.  Then I'll look to Watson to go help me with this. And I think computers will get smarter as they can, you know, look at what you're doing. It's like, you know, different types of moves that you're in, or if looking at your complexion to decide if you might have some oncoming disease or some, how do we help doctors do that and how do we help ourselves? Amazing times, Rod. We'll have to leave it there. Thanks very much for coming back on theCUBE. Really a pleasure. Thank you. Great to talk to you. All right. Keep it right there. We'll be back with our next guest right after this. Live from IBM Insight 2015. Right back.


Tell you what, I had a great time covering the western states 100 out in California, but it is nice to be back home. Back to normal vlogs, you know what I mean? Just, whew, it was a lot, I mean I'm still recovering. What is today? I think today's Wednesday. Yeah, it's Wednesday. So I'm still recovering anyway. It's good to be back in a normal routine and back to running, going to the grass soccer fields. And yes, I do realize that if you are not as into ultra running, which I get it, like it's a unique niche within the running space, then the last six or seven days on the vlog was kind of a lot to handle because there was a lot of western states coverage and vlogs over the past week. So anyway, if you're more into track or road marathons or cross country, anyway, I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless. Oh no, shoot. All right, here we go. Staying positive even though I only have one sock on. All right everybody, we're cutting it short. As far as I know, no blisters on the right foot with the no sock. Didn't do any filming, time's a little tight tonight, so anyway, zipping back to the studio and cutting it short because not my foot, thankfully. Left foot is feeling amazing, my stomach, there's a little stomach issue. So we're going to call it there, guess what? The sun will rise tomorrow, we'll get some more miles in tomorrow, probably right back here on this beautiful grass field, although it's probably going to be filled with thousands of people. I don't know what time everyone is going to start showing up, but this is where the fireworks go down. All right, again, happy Independence Day, see you in the studio. Oh man, welcome to the studio everybody, yes, this is where I record a lot of the videos for all of you, I'll explain the name here in a minute, but I don't think I've filmed in here in about a week because of the western states trip, absolutely insane the last week and yes, it's crazy but I just have to acknowledge passing 20,000 subscribers and moving on up and look at this, I just like reminiscing about where we've been, where we are, and where we're going. Remember this everybody, shout out to Luke the vlog fan who made me this sign at 10,000 subscribers back in, I think this was early March approximately, seek beauty, work hard and love each other. Thank you Luke again for this 10,000 subscriber sign, which at this point is kind of in the rear view mirror as we move forward and a shout out again to all, and I said this yesterday but just so we're on the same page with everybody who's joining up in the last week, probably because you found the videos searching YouTube, searching Google for western states video footage or finish line footage, oh my gosh, just so epic, all this footage that is appearing on your screen right now, it is an incredible trip, well just so everyone knows this is a daily, that's right, daily running vlog, so every single day a new video is uploaded, I just, I don't want you to be subscribing to a YouTube channel that you don't know what it is, and because there's a lot of running YouTube channels out there that make beautiful cinematic racing footage, like racing vlogs, that is not just this channel, like I do that, and I think I do it pretty well, but I also, we also do running shoe reviews, we do training videos, we do simply just life videos, like today when you're watching this is the 4th of July, so I'll probably be getting some life footage with my family, filming life, sharing life with you, so anyway, just want to be upfront with what you are subscribing to here on this channel and real quick, the Shudio, where does that name come from, well this is literally my shed, and you can't quite see it right now on screen, but this is where I have like axes and saws and hammers, I'm looking at hammers right now in my shed, so what we did is we took the SH from shed and combined it with shoe, shoes, shoeboxes, and then combined it as well with studio, because this is like my little recording studio to make it one word, Shudio, and yes, you spell it S-H-O-E-D-I-O, just so you know, so welcome to the Shudio everyone, and yes, I did promise three months ago that every single quarter, and hard to believe, so January, February, March, April, May, June, so now the second quarter of 2019 is in the books, but I promise three months ago that every three months, we would check in on everybody's injuries, that's right, we're gonna just jump into it right now, the question of the day, oh man, this is a tough topic, but we got to talk about it, in the last quarter, April, May, June of 2019, did you suffer a running injury, if so, what was it, and or the other option for the question of the day, are you struggling with a running injury right now, and if you are, again, what is it, and who knows, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a nurse, I'm not a PA, I'm not a physical therapist, but who knows, maybe myself or somebody else could give you some tips or tricks for dealing with a running injury down in the comments, that is the beauty of this channel, is that it's not about me, it's about all of your wisdom, all of your experience being shared down in the comments, so I'll just answer the question of the day, because last quarter, I was good, meaning two quarters ago, January, February, March, but the last one, the second quarter, not good, I suffered a stress reaction slash bone bruise in my second and third metatarsals in my left foot, it was my first bone injury, and yes, we're gonna go with bone for the keyword, throwing you a bone here, so it was a bone injury, my first bone injury in 10 years, I haven't had a stress reaction or a stress fracture since college, at the University of Colorado when I ran for the buffs in 2009, 2010 when I graduated, so I'm in your boat, I feel you, like, you know, running injuries happen and I wish I could have avoided it, because I was getting ready for the Cleveland Marathon, but this is life, this is reality, we have to deal with it as runners and learn from it, right, so that's a question of the day, if you get hit it up down below, and I hope that there's not too many comments sharing injury, like current running injuries right now, because at least in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summertime and now is the time to get outside, enjoy the trails, enjoy the outdoor running, and I hope you are healthy to do that, okay, and I should also mention real quick that my specialty in running injuries is plantar fasciitis and stress fractures, okay, I'm not too familiar with knee injuries or calves or soleus or hips or hamstrings, there's a lot of running injuries, right, there's so many and there's very nuanced, you know, it's not like, it's, running injuries are usually not traumatic, they're overuse injuries and sometimes it's hard to, in fact, my last running injury with my foot, it was really difficult to kind of nail it down what it was, but we landed after talking with a podiatrist, we landed on a stress reaction slash bone bruise in my left metatarsal, my left foot metatarsals, so what is the game plan moving forward into the third quarter? Well, number one, how about we all strive to stay as healthy as possible? That's like, that was one of my goals at the beginning of 2019 to not suffer a running injury, but, but I'm also, you got to be careful, oh, and it's walking that line, but I also want to race well, I want to win races and I want to set PRs and I want to make who knows, like potentially national teams, I don't know, like that is some goals that I have in this third quarter, which means I have to train, so what is my forecast of training and racing in the next three months?  I think it's going to happen, okay? I'm being careful, but I also know what I need to do in order to get as fit as possible for that race on August 24th, okay? So that's frankly not, it's like seven to eight weeks away, so I don't have a ton of time, but I'm also excited that this training block is going to be shorter compared to my last one getting ready for the Cleveland Marathon. So the Pikes Peak Ascent in late August and then, yes, my brother and I are planning to fly to New Hampshire for the USA Track and Field Trail Championships. That's right, we're going to fly into Boston. I believe it's September 29th or 28th approximately. Hi, Seth. Okay, I love you boys.  So those are my boys. So basically, New Hampshire in late September for a trail race out, yeah, out in New Hampshire with my brother and then, guess what everybody? There's potential that I may have found a fall marathon in October, not in the United States, okay? So stay tuned for updates on that. October, not in the United States. Again, we're looking at July, August, September, mid-October for this marathon. So anyway, it's a pretty good window to work with as far as training and getting ready for it. Whereas last time with Cleveland, I think my training block was once again too long. It was a little over five months. It was just too long. So that is it for today. Thanks for hitting up bone for the keyword and the question of the day about running injuries. And I hope there's not too many answers to that down below in the comments. But listen, this is reality. This is life. We're here to help each other. All right, seek beauty, work hard and love each other. And thank you again for all the new subscribers. It's amazing. It's crazy. You're the best. You are the best. All right, see you tomorrow. 5am.


Hello and welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of CloudNative SecurityCon North America 2023. Its first inaugural event is theCUBE's coverage. We were there at the first event for a KubeCon before CNCF kind of took it over. It was in Seattle. So in Seattle this week is CloudNative SecurityCon. Of course theCUBE is there covering via our Palo Alto studios and our experts around the world. We're bringing in Besantabara who's the CEO and founder of UpBound.io. That's the URL, but UpBound is the company. The creators of Crossplane, really kind of looking at the Crossplane across the cross abstraction layer, across clouds, a big part of as we call super cloud trend. So I'm great to see you. You've been a legend in the open source community. Great to have you on. Thanks John, always good to be on theCUBE. I really wanted to bring you in because I want to get your perspective. You've seen the movie, you've seen open source software grow. It continues to grow. Now you're starting to see the Linux Foundation which has CNCF really expanding their realm, right? We got the cloud native con KubeCon which is Kubernetes event. That's gotten so massive and so successful. We've been to every single one as you know. I've seen you there and all of them as well. So that's going great. Now they got this new event that kind of spins out dedicated to security. Everybody wants to know why the new event? What's the focus? Is it needed? What will they do? What's different from KubeCon? Where do I play? And so there's a little bit of a question mark in the ecosystem around this event. And so we've been reporting on it. Looking good so far. People are buzzing. Again, they're keeping it small so that kind of managing expectations like any good event would do. But I think it's been successful which I want to get your take on how you see it. Is this good? Are you indifferent? Are you excited by this? What's your take? I mean, look, it's super exciting to see all the momentum around cloud natives. Obviously there are different dimensions of cloud native security and important piece, networking, storage, imputes, like all those things that I think tie back together. And in some ways you can look at this event as a focused event on the security aspect as it relates to cloud native. And there are lots of vendors in the space. There is lots of interesting projects in the space. But the unifying theme is that they come together and probably around the Kubernetes API and the momentum around cloud native and with Kubernetes at the center of it. On the focus on Kubernetes, it seems this event is kind of classic security where you want to have deep dives. Again, I call it the event operating system because you decouple, make things highly cohesive and you link them together. I don't see a problem with that. I kind of like this. I gave it good reviews if they stay focused because security is super critical. There was references to bind and DNS. There's a lot of things in the infrastructure plumbing that need to be looked at or managed or figured out or just refactored for modernization needs. And I know you've done a lot with storage, for instance. Storage, networking, kernel. There's a lot of things in the old tech or tech in the cloud that needs to be kind of, I won't say rebooted, but maybe reset or jump. Do you see it that way? Are there things that need to get done? Or is it just that there's so much complexity in the different cloud cluster code thing going on? It's obviously security is a very, very big space and there are so many different aspects of it that people you can go into, right? I think the thing that's interesting around the cloud native community is that there is a unifying theme. Forget the word cloud native for a second, but there is a unifying theme is that people are building around what looks like a standardized play around Kubernetes. And the Kubernetes API. And as a result, you can recast a lot of the technologies that we are kind of used to in the past in a traditional security sense. You can recast them on top of this new standardized approach around Kubernetes, right? Whether it's policy or protecting a supply chain or scanning or like a lot of the access control authorization, et cetera, all of those things can be either revived to kind of apply to this cloud native play and the Kubernetes play or creating new opportunities for companies to actually build new and interesting projects and companies around the standardized play. Do you think this also will help the KubeCon be more focused around the developer areas there and like just touching on security versus kind of figuring out how to take something so important in KubeCon, which the stakeholders in KubeCon have grown so big, I can see security picking up a lot of, sucking a lot of oxygen out of the room there. So here you move it over, you keep it over here. Will anything change on the KubeCon side? We'll be there in Amsterdam in April. What do you think the impact will be good? Is it good for the community? Just good, swim lanes, what's your take?  I suspect that you'll see some of the same vendors and projects and everything else represented in KubeCon. The way I think about, you know, all the kind of branched cloud native events are essentially a way to have a more focused discussion, get people together to talk about security topics or networking topics or, you know, things that are more focused on. But I don't think it changes the, you know, the effect of KubeCon being the umbrella around all of it. So I think you'll see the same presence and maybe larger presence going forward at Amsterdam. We're planning to be there, obviously, and I'm excited to be there. And I think it'll be a big event and having a smaller event is not going to diminish the effect of KubeCon. And if you look at the developer community, they've all been online for a long time, you know, from IRC chat to now Slack and now new technologies and stuff like Discord out there. The event world has changed post-pandemic. So it makes sense and we're seeing this with all vendors, by the way, and projects. The digital community angle is huge because if you have a big tent event like KubeCon, you can make that kind of a rallying moment in the industry and then have similar smaller events that are highly focused that build off that, that are just connective tissue or subnets, if you will, or communities targeted for really deeper conversations. And they could be smaller events. You don't have to be monster events. So it's like, but they're connected and traversed into the main event. This might be the event format for the future for all companies, whether it's AWS or a company that has a community where you kind of create this network effect, if you will, around the people. That's right. And, you know, if you look at things like AWS re-invent, that's a massive event, right? And in some ways, if it was a set of smaller sub-events, maybe it actually will flourish more, I'm not sure, but... They just killed the Francisco event, so... That's right, yeah. But they have reinforced, but they have reinforced, all right? So they just established that their big events are re-invent and reinforce as their big... Oh, I didn't hear about reinforce. That's news to me. Reinforce is their third event. So they're doing something similar as CloudNativeCon, which is our currency after having an event, and then they're going to create a lot of sub-events underneath, so I think they are trying to do that. Very interesting. Very interesting, for sure. So let's talk about what you guys are up to. I know from your standpoint, you had a lot of security conversations. How's Crossplane doing? Obviously you saw our super cloud coverage. You guys fit right into that model where clients, customers, enterprises are going to want to have multiple cloud operating environments for whatever the use case is. Whether you're using chat GDP, you got to get an Azure instance up and running for that now with APIs. We're hearing a lot of developers doing that. So you're going to start to see this CrossCloud, as VMware calls what we call it, SuperCloud, there's more need for Crossplane-like thinking. What's the... For sure, and we see this very clearly as well. The fact that there is a standardization layer, there is a layer that lets you converge, the different vendors that you have, the different clouds that you have, the different models that you have whether it's hybrid or private, public, et cetera, right? The unifying theme here is that you're literally bringing all those things under one control plane that enables you to actually centralize and standardize on security, access control, helps you standardize on cost control, quota policy, as well as create a self-service experience for your developers, right? And so from a security standpoint, the beauty of this is like, you could use really popular projects like open policy agent or Kiverno or others, if you want to do policy and do so uniformly across your entire stack, your entire footprint of tooling, vendors, services, and across deployment models, right? Those things are possible because you're standardizing and soldating on a control plane on top of all, right? And that's the thing that gets our customers excited that we're seeing in the community that they could actually now normalize, standardize on small number of projects and tools to kind of manage everything. We were talking about that in our summary of the keynote yesterday was Dave Vellante and I were talking about the idea of clients want to have a redo of their security. They've been just that the tooling has been building up. They got zero trust in place, maybe with some big vendor, but now they got the cloud native opportunity to refactor and reset and reinvent their security paradigm. And so that's the positive thing we're hearing. Now we're seeing enterprises want this cross-cloud capabilities or cross-plane-like thinking that you guys are talking about. What are your customers telling you? Can you share from an enterprise perspective where they're at in this journey? Because part of the security problems that we've been reporting on has been because clients are moving from IT to cloud native and not everyone's moved over yet. So they're highly vulnerable to ransomware and all kinds of other crap. So another attack, so they're wide open. But people who are moving to cloud native, are they stepping up their game on this cross-plane opportunity? Where are they at? Can you share data on that? Yeah, we're grateful to be talking to a lot of customers these days. And the interesting thing is like, even if you talked about kind of large financial institutions, banks, et cetera, the common theme that we hear is that they bought tools for each of the different departments and however they're organized. But sometimes you see the folks that are running databases network and being separated from, say the computer app developers there are all these different departments within an organization. And for each one of those, they've made localized decisions for tooling and services that they bought. What we're seeing now consistently is that they're all together, getting together and trying to figure out how to standardize on a smaller, one set of tooling and services that goes across all the different departments and all different aspects of the business that they're running. And this is where this discussion gets a lot very interesting. If instead of buying with different policy tools for each department or once that fits it, you could actually standardize on policy for the entire footprint of services that they're managing. And you get that by standardizing on the control plane or standardizing on effectively one point of control for everything that they're doing. And that theme is like, literally it gets all our customers excited. This is why they're engaging in all of this. It's almost a holy grail. The thing that I've been trying to do for a long time and it's finally happening. I know you and I have talked about this many times, but I got to ask you the one thing that jumps into everybody's head when you hear control plane is lock in. So how do you discuss that lock in perception from the reality of the situation? How do you unpack that for the customer? Because they want choice at the end of the day. There's the preferred vendors for sure on the hyperscale side and app side and open source. But what's the lock in? What does the lock in conversation look like? Or do we even have, they have that conversation? Yeah, to be honest on it. And so the lock in could be a two dimensions here, right? Most of our customers that people are using cross plane or using up end product around it. Most of them are concentrated in say, one cloud vendor and have others. So I don't think this is about necessarily about multi-cloud per se or being locked into one vendor. But they do manage many different services and they have legacy tooling and they have different systems that they bought at different stages and they want to bring them all together, right? And by bringing them all together that helps them make choices about consulting or even replacing some of them, right? But right now everything is siloed. Everything is separate, both organizationally as well as the code bases or investments and tooling on contracts. Everything is just completely separated and it requires humans to put them together, right? And organizations actually try to gather around and put them together. And so what they're, from a, I don't know if lock in is the driving goal for this but it is standardization and consolidation, right? That's the driving initiative. And so unification and building is the big driver. They're building out. Right, yeah. And you can ask, why are they doing that? What does standardization help with? It helps them to become more productive. They can move faster. They can innovate faster, right? Not as a ton of like literally revenue written all over it. So it's super important to them that they achieve this kind of increase their face of innovation around this, right? They do that by standardizing. The great point in all of this and your success at upbound and now CNCF success with KubeCon, CloudNativeCon and now with the inaugural event of CloudNative SecurityCon is that the customers are involved. A lot of end users are involved. There's a big driver, not only from the industry and the developers and getting architecture right and having choice. The customers want this to happen. They're leaning in, they're part of it. So that's a big driver. Where does this go? If you had to throw a dart at the board five years from now, CloudNative SecurityCon what does it look like if you had to kind of predict out the trajectory of this event and community? Yeah, I mean, I look, I think the trajectory one is that we have what looks like a standardization layer emerging that is all encompassing, right? And as a result, there is a ton of opportunity for vendors, projects, communities to build around within on top of this layer, right? And essentially create what, you know, I think you talked about an operating system earlier and decentralized aspect of this, but like, you know, it's an opportunity to actually, we, what it looks like for the first time we have a convergence happening industry-wide and through open source and open source foundations, right? And I think that means that there's living new opportunity and lots of new projects and things that are created in the space. And it also means that, you know, if you don't attach to this space you're likely to be left out. Awesome, so I'm great to have you on great expert commentary, obviously multi-cube alumni and support of theCUBE and as you become successful we really appreciate your support for helping us get the content out there and best of luck to your team and thanks for weighing in on CloudNative SecurityCon.  Thank you. Great stuff. Okay, this is more coverage, CUBE coverage from Palo Alto, getting folks on the ground on location, getting us the stories in Seattle, of course, CloudNative SecurityCon, the inaugural event, which looks like will be the beginning of a series of multi-year journey for the CNCF, focusing on security, of course the CUBE's here to cover it, every angle of it and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching.


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This will be a great program for them to tune into just to see what commitment looks like and maybe what it looked like in another religion. I think it's so important, Tom, for us to solidify why we believe what we believe so that way we can truly walk it out. Oh, well, it's super important. And the fact that we need to know people's stories and where they've come from and how they've come out. God has got a story for each of us. I love that. Sidney's got a story. A man's got a story. I got a story. Gita, who with us just in a minute has a story as well. Well, you all know that we've been praying for Israel and we've been keeping Israel before the Lord in the situation with the war with Hamas. I want to read a scripture to you. It says this in Psalm 122.6 and you've heard this many times, I'm sure. Pray and seek for Jerusalem's peace for all who love her will prosper. Oh, Jerusalem, may there be peace for those who dwell inside your walls and prosperity in your every palace. Well, there is a call for a national day of prayer for Jerusalem, for Israel. Some Knesset members and rabbis have called for prayer asking Christians to pray as well. And so we just wanted to do that and just join with you in praying for Israel. Amanda, I think I'm going to ask you if would you do that for us? Father, we just thank you right now for your power that is released over Israel, God. We thank you for your anointing, Father God. Lord, I ask right now that you would move in such a way, Father, that it would be supernatural that people would look and say, this is the one true God. Look what he has done, Father, I thank you that we as your church that is around the world that we would be awakened and that we would look to you, Father God, that we would intercede on Israel's behalf. And Father, we bless them. We bless them in Jesus' name. Lord, I thank you for your provision, for your protection, God, and for your wisdom, for every decision that is being made. 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Yes, we love always being connected with you. You are part of our Hope Today family and we are so excited for our guest today. Gita Chopra is a former Hindu turned Christian. She's the first person in her generational lineage to accept Jesus. Gita is with us today on a mission to help you take back your identity, inheritance and authority. Gita, we are so glad to have you with us today. Oh, thank you, Sydney. I'm so excited to be here. Well, Gita, we want to get right into your story. So tell us about your conversion story of being a Hindu and then coming to Jesus. Sure, and a lot of people ask me this. So, you know, I've been a Hindu for about 35 years and then, you know, Jesus found me. People always say, well, what happened? Well, Jesus fisted me out of Hinduism and I talk a lot about that in my book. And, you know, I was born again. Here I am. I'm a brand new creation, brand new person. And ever since I became a Christian, you know, I learned a lot about how I was living before and how I'm living now and how many Christians are living now. And I kind of put all of that into my story. So can you tell us like what, like what was that moment for you when you're like, okay, I'm giving my life to Jesus. Can you take us back to that place? You know, I had many moments. So even though I was a Hindu, so many people might not know this, but as a Hindu, you can still go to church. So I went to church as a child, you know, my parents and they still go to church, they go to church with me. But, you know, we're allowed to explore different things. So I almost explored everything new age and nothing ever satisfied me. It was nothing until I realized one day that, you know, how long am I gonna do this? I really, I really wanted something deeper. And I had many moments, but in 2016 on Mother's Day, I finally decided, you know, that's it, I'm giving my life to Christ and I'm never looking back. And that's the beginning of my life. That's really incredible that I think, you know, a lot of us, like it's hard to like fathom because we grew up in a Christian culture, but for you just saying, you know what, I am leaving this behind because, you know, with your family being from India, it's Hinduism is more than just, it's not a religion, but it's a whole culture and a way of life and free to say, I am done and giving my life to Jesus. But I know you are so passionate about helping Christians understand some of the pitfalls that we fall into that, you know, may look similar to what you experienced in Hinduism. So can you talk to us about that?  So can we dive right in to that point? Sure. And you know, I've had some great teachers, you know, as a Christian, even my church, my pastors, I have many pastor friends and, you know, I watch a lot of different programs and Andrew Wamek was one of the most influential teachers in my Christian walk. And I think he changed my whole Christian life in a sense, cause for the first three years, I didn't realize the authority I had in Christ.  And it's good to be surrendered, don't get me wrong. But then I started to learn of the authority I had in Matthew 10, 8, John 14, 12, you know, Mark 11, 23, Jesus said, speak to the mountains, speak to that illness. You know, and then I started getting confidence and courage, praying for other people. And then I realized like, you know, my whole life can change. Like many Christians are not, we're not using the authority Jesus gave us. So, you know, one of the things I say is that the enemy only has power over us to the point that we agree with him. Because I think as an early Christian, I thought, you know, attacks are inevitable. I'm just going to have to wait till they pass. But actually, if I agree with the enemy, then I'm giving him power. And when I disagree with him, he runs away. And it took me years to understand that. I'm still understanding it. So what ways are that we come into agreement with the enemy? What are some things that you've seen in your own life that we need to understand that this is a way that he traps us? Oh, it's all in our thinking, Sidney. It's, you know, it's all in our thinking.  You know, our thoughts create our words, of course, but it starts in our mind, right? Joyce Meyer always says, the battlefield is the mind. And that is so profound. It's so simple, but true. And, you know, you can just start off with a simple negative thought in the morning or maybe you're waiting for a healing or you're standing on God's word for something and the enemy might say, well, it doesn't look like it's going to happen. It would have happened by now or, you know, that's never going to change. And even if you subconsciously agree with that, you've given him power. You know, you've kind of, what's the word? You've ignored the power crisis given you or you've kind of, you know, mitigated that, made it less powerful.  So can you share with us that your journey of that and that got really specifically through the power of scriptures and a woman that was really instrumental in your life? Can you tell us about your healing story? Oh, yes. So minister Cathy. So just at the Lord's church, which is I think down the road here in Monroeville. So that was my first church. And so just before she passed away, you know, she would always pray with me because I was sick at that time and I had a lot of digestive issues and I didn't own my authority. And she always said, you know, you're healed in the name of Jesus, you're healed. And I didn't understand what that meant. I thought, does that mean I just ignore my symptoms and pretend I'm healed, but later I understood. And just before she passed away, she said, you know, can you pray in tongues? Like, can you pray in the spirit? And I said, no.  And that was a very interesting day, you know, not to scare people, but I kind of saw demons running away from me and they were generational. So they were all generational demons and there was, I think there was about five or six elders and I was right in the center of that circle and they were just praying over me, shouting in tongues. I didn't know what they were saying.  And I was, I don't know what to say. She said, open your mouth, start praying. And I just started praying in tongues right away. And I saw the spirit I saw in that room. I just saw demons fleeing. They were fleeing, they were running away. They were generational demons. That's so powerful, Gita, to just see that, like in that moment, just having the encounter, the presence of God and just seeing the demons flee. How did that change you in that instance? How have you never been the same since, since that encounter?  Say, I need to remember this more and more because it's so easy to forget, but I have never been the same.  And I think for the first few nights I saw the same thing, I saw them running away. But after like the fourth day, I guess there were no more and I never saw that again. But, you know, and I just want to talk about to the effect of how they ran away, Sidney. I think we all need to understand this. When we pray in the spirit, demons are running away from us, even if we don't see it. And the way they were running was as if a burning building was coming down on them and they were running for their life with such, with hatred obviously towards me and to Christ. But fear, like it was like such a spirit of defeat. Like they were utterly defeated, like unconditional surrender.  It was like all I always saw was the backs. They had no courage. They're scared of us. And that's what I write in my book. You know, the enemy is more scared of us than we should be scared of him. He's terrified of you. You just said something really powerful about that unconditional surrender that you experienced with the demons flaying. And can you just talk for a moment because there's probably somebody, I feel like someone's watching that can relate to right where you are, that maybe they are come from a Hindu background or a Muslim background or whatever that may be. And there's this fear of I know Jesus. I want to come to Jesus, but I'm so afraid of those things. Can you just speak to that person right now? You can't afford to be afraid. You know, that's what I'll say. Again, being the first person in my generational lineage to accept Christ, you know, if I was afraid, I wouldn't be sitting here today. I wouldn't do any of the things I'm doing today. I was depressed. And I didn't know I was depressed as a Hindu. You know, I was quiet. I was a very different person. I was very introverted and negative and cynical. But God gave me this new life, you know, and I'm so glad you can't afford to not take that chance and step out of the boat. So what's it been like? So you mentioned, Gita, that you came, you were looking for something that satisfied, something that made sense to you. So what has it been like to walk with Christ now? How can you contrast what that's like compared to before? You know, if I could sum it up in one word, I'd say freedom, freedom for sure. Yeah, I'm just free in my thoughts. You know, doors open up. I feel like a different person. For example, I feel pretty now. I never used to think I was. I mean, you know, I'm not boasting in that way. I'm just saying that different things I like about myself or I think I just had self-loathing, self-blame, guilt, all those things are just all gone. Yeah. Well, I'm just thinking back. I remember you praying on the prayer lines here at Cornerstone.  Talk to us a little bit about, you know, something applicable that someone could do in their life that has really helped you. You know, I think fasting is important as a Christian for any believer. I think that discipline thinking, you know, and I learned a lot of this from Andrew Wamek. I'll make myself fast at least, you know, a few times a year and it doesn't have to be from food. You can fast from anything. You know, sometimes I'll wake up at a certain time for 30 days in a row and like pray at, you know, 6 a.m. or something. And then after that's over, you know, I feel like again, like very refreshed and very close to God. It's very important to be close to God. I just have a question. It's like when you're talking about the power of fasting, is that something that in Hindu, do they pray and fast at all? Or is that something just like the difference like here in Christianity? That's a great question, you know, and it's funny. In Hinduism, they do a lot of things, but the way I can distinguish it is they do it out of fear, not love. And I apologize for me offending anyone, but in Christianity, we fast out of love, right? The whole concept is love. There's a lot of fear in Hinduism. There's so many rituals. There's so many things you have to do. Now, thankfully, I didn't grow up in that kind of household. We went to church and, you know, things like that. But if you actually look at the traditional Hindu approach, it's very fear-based. And we are based on love. I'm interested in your family's reaction or your, I mean, I've met your dad, a wonderful guy, you know, and just the, maybe the, what other Hindu community that you knew, what's been the reaction to all this? You know, thankfully, my family is blessed by my salvation because when Jesus does one thing, he does it for many. So it's not just for me, you know, and I knew that from the beginning. I have a much larger purpose, even the books, you know, I'm gonna be reaching a lot of people. So this is not about me. It's about my family, my parents. You know, I'm still single, so my future family.  My dad has been a church.  There's been big miracles that I don't take responsibility for. So it's beautiful. A real testimony to the, just God.  God desires to minister to you just the way that he has to Gita and her family. But I see you running to him, you know, that unconditional surrender. And I believe that, you know, if that's you right now, then what would you recommend them to do in this moment, right here?  Jesus loves you so much. You know, I've had personal encounters with him, which have just made me break down and cry. I've never had that before. You know, I remember sitting in a park once, just four weeks ago. And I was praying for, you know, a personal issue I'm having. And Jesus just came and I felt his grace, his love. I mean, at that moment, I had no questions, no prayers I was complete.  I can't put into words his, Jesus is love for you. He died on the cross. He died for you, right? And there's really nowhere else to go from there. It's finished. Yeah. I was gonna say, I just love like your heart and your sincerity of just saying that, you know, there's only one road leads to Jesus because in like the culture that you grew up, it was saying like multiple, you know, multiple gods and multiple idols.  And so what would you say that for that person that is just like out there, they are searching for all those different things. What was the one thing for you where you knew this is the truth, that Jesus is the truth? That's a wonderful question. I think it's from the internal to the external. So the world will try to change you from the external to the internal, but Jesus changes you from the inside out. And I was all, I've always been a searcher. You know, I went from new age. I mean, I know new age very well. I know Hinduism very well, but it's from the inside when I had that voice, you know, when God speaks to me, there's nothing else. There's nowhere to go from there really. Like so when God will speak to you, ask him if there's someone out there who feels hopeless, you know, ask God, what's your word for me today, Lord? You know, who are you? And he will reveal himself to you in a very personal way. My way was very personal too. Isn't it interesting that so much of our culture that grew up in Christianity has tried to search for Eastern things sometimes and gone towards Eastern thought and Eastern religion. In fact, we had, when the answer is right there, you know, the answer of Christ is right there, but it's kind of hidden. What would you say? What do you think about people that maybe grew up in the church, but never had that relationship? And they're kind of like, well, you know, that's, I've had that, I've done that. What would you say to that person that's maybe out there saying, oh, maybe I should look into this Eastern philosophy? Yeah, you know, the grass is always greener. So I spent many years meditating and someone said it very well, a pastor in New York at a church I went to said, meditating is emptying your mind, right? But the prayer and the Holy Spirit fills your mind.  The buck really stops here because it's very filling, you know, and if they, you know, if they really try Jesus in the way that, you know, in that deeper way, they will be satisfied. They probably are just maybe, you know, influenced by the world or maybe they're not in the right church. I don't know, yeah. The Word of God.  Like I know you talked about Andrew Womack, like just as those teachers pouring in, but your pursuit, you know, of the Word, what does that look like?  That's it, you know, it's great. And it was, you know, things were going well and then the challenges came, you know, and a health problem that just wouldn't go away no matter what I did. And you know, and the Holy Spirit gave me a command and I had to obey Him and which was hard. So, you know, He doesn't always tell you the things that are easy. And that's one of the things, you know, but that builds character. So that, I think that's my daily walk now is learning to walk in obedience, even when it's tough. And right now I'm at a place where, you know, loving God, even when my life is not perfect or, you know, being grateful for what you have while you're waiting for what you want, that's really what a Christian has to do. We have to stand on the Word of God. You know, and if I don't stand on the Word of God, how am I gonna pray for others in my ministry? So we really need to learn how to stand. And, you know, and that's why Paul said stand twice in Ephesians 6.   Yeah, that's great. So authority is a really important thing that you learned that was different about the other religions you were seeking. And just, you know, talk to us about the importance of us getting that. And what does that means? Not everybody understands. Like, what are you talking about with authority? Well, you've already got it, right? And I think Andrew Wamek, that's the name of one of his books, which is a great book, you've already got it. So how do we get it? It's in us and we have to appropriate it out. And that's still a topic in its infancy in mainstream Christianity.  Only God has authority.  Jesus said, I'm going to be with my father, you know, so please finish my work.  We're supposed to be the light of the world. We're supposed to speak to that demon.  And people say, well, no, we don't do that. But you kind of are. Like on a daily basis I cast out demons. A negative thought is a demon. You know, in the name of Jesus, no, I don't agree with that. That's casting out a demon. You know, a friend of mine had a headache. I laid hands on her. I said, you know, in the name of Jesus, be healed. That's casting out demons. We need to do more of that. And the more we practice that on a small level, the more we'll be able to, you know, cast out that cancer or that hurricane or whatever it is, that war. So we need to build up to that, right? I love that so much. It's like we're talking about that authority.  But if we don't really consciously think about like, no, Holy Spirit is in us. Holy Spirit is in me. And something God over the weekend just revealed to me, I was driving home from the gym and he just said, my resurrection power is in you. So what does that mean? When you're going through a difficult situation, when you're going through a hard time, when you're going through that sickness, when you're going through that battle, certain things that should have taken you out, they don't. Why? Because the resurrection power of Jesus is in you. So you're able to get up. You're able to rise out of it ashes. You're able to be victorious because of Jesus, the hope of glory that is in you. And so maybe today you're listening to our conversation and you're like, you know what, I need to stand but I'm having a hard time to get up. Well, can we just encourage you? Give us a call on our prayer line at<PHONE_NUMBER> because we are here to encourage you and to stand together. When two or three are gathered, he is in the midst. And can you imagine all of us knowing that the resurrection power is in me and in Tom and in Gita and in all of us that we can do damage for the kingdom of God. It is time for us that even though we see this gross darkness that is over our world, gross darkness that is in our lives that we know that through Jesus we are victorious. I love that. And I just think the word today is do something. Don't just go to church and expose yourself to things of the world or things of Christian philosophy or things, do something in making a difference in your life. Do something of taking a step towards God. He's drawing you. He's drawing you right now. He's pulling you towards himself and wanting to have that relationship. Gita was interested in things enough to look and she was attending church, but at one point she made a decision to make a commitment to the Lord. And that's what you need today. You need to open that door of your life and say, come in, come into my life, Lord, be my Lord and Savior. And he will rush in there. Gita, when you did that, it was his work, right? It wasn't like, oh, I've got to do all this stuff. All of a sudden it was his work. Oh, it was a very restful place to be. And he kind of changed me, you know, one thing at a time. You know, and like I mentioned in my book, I had a lot of guilt and shame and I definitely wanted to mention that too because I think that blocks a lot of people. So one of the things that stopped me from actually coming to Jesus, I really felt I wasn't good enough for whatever reasons. And I didn't do anything that, you know, that bad really, but I just felt I was a bad person.  So if that's stopping anyone, I just want to mention that today too. He took all that away. And no, I didn't lift a finger. I love the word freedom when you set up. You could say it in one word, it's freedom. Just say that to yourself, freedom. Like God desires for you to be free. He does not want you being held captive by anything that the enemy would have to offer. Any chains that are holding you down from fulfilling the calling and giftings of God, he's put them in there. Break free, break free from the guilt, from the shame. Break free from sin, whatever it is that is separating you from God, there is nothing more important. The buck stops here. Words from Gita Chopra at Jesus. He is our everything and he loves you. And as she said, he died for you. He is wooing you. I literally, in my spirit, I see him drawing you. He wants your commitment. He wants your yes. So today I encourage you to surrender unconditionally to the one who is love with you. Absolutely, so take this moment. And again, don't let this moment pass. Gita didn't let that moment pass when the spirit of God was calling her. So don't let this moment pass. Don't let it be something that you say, well, that was a nice little religious thing I did. No, the world's full, right Gita? The world's full of religious things we can do, right? So yeah, rituals, there's all kinds of things. But no, Sidney, it's something where we've got to make just one step towards God and he rushes towards us. One step towards God, one day at a time.  His arms are open wide. And so when you receive Jesus, when you walk with Jesus and you surrender all, your life will never be the same and you'll experience that freedom and that hope and that deliverance. And we hope you have a great day. On tomorrow's Hope Today, praying for a future spouse, author Kali Logan shares the significance of prioritizing your relationship with God as you patiently wait for the one he has planned for you. Don't miss tomorrow's Hope Today. Cornerstone Television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers, whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible.


Yr eisteddaeth yma sy'n gyflaes. Rhaid i gyflaes i gyflaesio'n meddwl i ddim yn rhaid i gyrd twofyddiad David Robertson… …r Minister of St Peter's Free Church Dundee, y gennifrwynydd yw'r Seindd y 52 o'r Siamd gyffredig coronavirus. I am a free church minister, so confining this to four minutes is going to be miraculous. You will all be believing that by the end. As moderator of the free church, I bring you prayerful greetings from our growing denomination. I'd like to reflect upon the relationship between church and state, which has sometimes had a troubled history in Scotland. My own church was formed as the Church of Scotland free because of the intrusions of the state into matters that were none of its business. I think my favourite story about all of that is in the 16th century, the story of the famous encounter between Andrew Melville and King James VI in Falkland Palace. Melville told James, you are but God's silly vassal, language which I'm sure the Presiding Officer would rule out of order in this chamber. Before going on to inform him, there is Twa Kings and Twa Kingdoms in Scotland. There is Christ Jesus the King and His Kingdom the Kirk, whose subject King James VI is and of whose kingdom not a king, nor a lord, nor a heed, but a member. I would submit to you that the church in Scotland has been the most radicalising, equalising, democratising force in Scottish history. I realise that we live in different times and that not every member of this august body is a member of Christ's church yet, but we do need to work out what the role of the state and the church is. From our perspective, we do not believe that the church has the right to tell the state how to govern, except in the most general principles. Despite rumours, we do not want a theocracy. We all have our opinions as private citizens, but as public bodies the churches do not have the right to tell you, or you as our elected representatives, the rate of tax, whether we belong to the EU or not, or other such issues. Our role is to pray for you, to serve the poor, to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to have a prophetic witness to challenge the powers that be. History teaches us that when the church seeks to run the government, or the government seeks to control the church, trouble awaits. Just as the church should not seek to govern politics, so the state should not seek to act as God, but we can work together in partnership now, as we have done in the past, on vital issues such as education, welfare provision and healthcare. The teaching of the Twar kingdoms is not just an important part of our common history, but an excellent model for today. It would be good for all of us to recognise that we are all servants of God, but in different interlocking kingdoms. The relationship of the church and the state in Scotland should be that of good neighbours and good friends. I pray that each of you would know individually and collectively the presence, peace and power of Jesus Christ.


Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and today we're playing The Sims 4. We're back with Jim Pickens in his lovely house. He's fallen asleep in the bed, but don't worry, he'll be fine. But underneath the house, we have built a vault. We moved them in here yesterday. I shouldn't claim I built this. I'm not skilled enough to do anything like this. We've locked everyone down here except for Jim. He's allowed to stay up top because he's like the overseer of the vault. Even though it doesn't look like he's overseeing much right now. What is that music? Who the hell is listening to that? Okay, good. It's gone back to sad sim music now. That's more familiar. I got this mod where I can assign people chores and no one else will clean while I have someone assigned. So I want to make one person the cleaning sim of the vault.  You clean every day and you clean every hour of the day. Will this work? If I'm right with the mod settings I have on, they shouldn't even clean up after themselves now that there's a cleaner assigned. Oh my God, what is wrong with me? Can you clean me?  And we're going to try and make everyone writers. I think that's a good idea. I think that'll get us a lot of money in the long run. Oh God, that's made Shrek very tense. He's writing his biography, Shrek, A Life of Layers. I'm writing an angry note for Clement. He's not cleaning enough. Look, this is still down here. Why isn't he cleaning this? I guess because it's not technically trash yet. Serial monogamous. Who got that? Four marriages and 20 unique households. What? Who got married? I didn't give you permission for that. You need the overseer's blessing for that. Why is Shrek gaming? You need to write your autobiography. Serval's already done their book. There we go. Grimm's finished too. Grimm's will make a lot of money. He's a good writer. Capture Sim's life in an epic poem? Sure. Do that. What's happening to you? Oh, he's cleaning. Or going mad. I can't tell which. Look at this. They're all working away except my dad who's just playing video games, I think. Which is a shame because I think he'd be a pretty good ghost writer. He just hear everyone unsubscribing, disliking, clicking the X. The writing machines? I wonder if he nearly done his autobiography. He almost is. God, it must be really short if he's almost done already. I guess he didn't really get up to much in his life, did he? Oh my God, I thought he was just gonna tickle her or something. Oh no, look at this. It's so uncomfortable. Now you need to read it to make sure it's good. You're gonna check for spelling errors and whatnot. His fund is maximized from reading this book. Okay, it must be good. Oh my God, he's got so many books to sell to publishers.  Because if so, you're not allowed.   Capture Jim's epic sag. I like that there was an option for just a cat. Grim has recorded Jim Pickens in the book of life. This is great. Will this possibly bring me back if I need it? Let's just keep that in the inventory for now. I'm gonna see if I can take his books to publish them. I want the credit and you're not even getting a ghostwriter credit.  Okay, good. I cheated and got the mailbox inside. I had to place it outside the boundary and then build a wall around it with a cheat. And it's been nominated for an award. Oh, you are so welcome, Grim. The book of life is a bestseller. People want to read about Jim. I understand contemplated turning it into a book myself, but I'm worried that it'll take on some kind of Bible-esque reputation and there will be a whole religion formed. It's a lot of work. Thank goodness Grim is a celebrity once again. He must be a very good writer. God, he's freaking out. He really wants to drink. I'm gonna lock him in the bathroom until he feels better. There we go. Now, when you feel better, come on out.  God, he's gonna have like an existential crisis in there or something. Just one of the many experiments involved tech. They're like, hmm, Jim, interesting experiment. And what does this prove? And he's like, what do you mean? I'm just torturing. Kind of rivalry is broken out. They're just staring at each other. This is very uncomfortable. All right, I'm just gonna leave you there. Wait, how's Jim ill?  He's trying to get reception.  Get me out of here. The cleaning seems to be working. I don't know if he's cleaning it with his outfit though because he's filthy. Or maybe that's why he's so stinky. He's just working up a sweat. But then again, Jim Pickens is dancing too and he looks fine. The only issue is the only bathroom in this entire place is locked. They're not allowed to use it. I don't want any rumors to start flying without my knowledge. So I'm gonna buy some spy bugs and bug everyone in the vault. I gotta know what they're doing at all times. Plant bug. Oh my God, what? He's getting sick. Okay, well, I planted the bug, but I think I have a bug myself. Maybe it's a good time to write that book alive now. Capture Epic Saga. There you go. It's important because he's not looking so good. I quit while he's broken. Plant a bug on him. There you go. You should know something is up as soon as he hugs you. Not sure how I can plant a bug on my ghost dad, but we're gonna give it a shot. There you go. I need a listening device. Oh, I think I've already got two of those actually. Yeah, that's great. God, this is the only human affection this guy's ever gotten. He should definitely suspect something. Jeff Bickins is feeling flirty after placing all these bugs on people. Okay, everyone is bugged. Now let's use the listening device. Wait, why do I have one on this kid? I don't remember doing that. I know he was my prisoner briefly and then I de-aged him. He was old. I gave him a new chance at life. Okay, I'm a good guy.  I think we know where we are.  Oh my God, what are you doing to them now? Okay. You sure no one is listening? Okay, I'll tell you. Who's he talking to? I think he's talking to himself. Yeah, he is. He's reading a book. Maybe that was just a line of the book. I don't know. Things are going pretty well. I think we have to go out into the world and get another prisoner. Oh, well, hello. That's convenient. How are you? Oh, great. Another vampire. I don't know if I can stick another vampire. You know what? I could do it though. A little barbecue.  All right, Jim's actually a really good chef, so this is gonna be nice. What do vampires like eating veggie burgers, right? Where'd my veggie burgers go?  All right, we're gonna have some grilled fruit instead. Sorry. Oh, no, I didn't say steamed hams. I said grilled fruit. Okay, where is he putting them? He's just getting sick every time he makes food. Oh, he put them in his inventory. No, don't go away. Serve the food. There you go, yummy. He doesn't look too happy about the food. What's wrong with it? What if I bled on it a bit? I think I have some blood downstairs, like not even exaggerating. I'm pretty... Yeah, there we go. There's a little plasma pack. I got some very used needles in the kitchen. Okay, he's looking really bad. I think I should actually go to the hospital. But after this lovely garden chat, I think the sun's about to come up. Rift the bull! Okay, now he's screaming at him. He just realized I'm evil from that. I've got my troll recording him. This guy has got to be a bit unsettling. It's cloudy. Someone get on that weather machine. Clement, go. Stop cooking for everyone. Shrek is busy. You're the only one who can do this. Got Jim still screaming at him. He's just screaming at him constantly. I think it's working great. I hear some burning. I don't think it's the fruit. I don't think there's any point in getting dressed for work at this point. You know what? Um, barbecue's over. I got to go. Good thing I've got this whole thing recorded though. He's giving out to him one last time. He looks so sad and the happy little drone behind him recording him burning. I hope you have life insurance and that covers that chair. Oh, very considerate that you got up out of the chair. God, this is going to make some good content. Right, drone? He's doing like shifty eyes. He's like, I don't think this is what I was made for. My God, it's recording the whole thing, even the Grim Reaper. That in the garden. Video file description. Lol, he looked so dumb. Very respectful. I'll swap that over to my hard drive soon. All right, now let's actually hit the town and get some more members for my vault.  Was it because I went and dated another Grim Reaper? Look, you just stopped caring for your body, okay? It's not a weight thing.  You're boring. You don't even seem to take pride in your work anymore. Speaking of no pride in your work, the other Grim is just fired because he's locked down in the vault. All right, where should I go meet new people? Um, I think the hospital would be a great spot. Alternatively, karaoke might be fun.  I think the whole vault is infected. It must be there's something in the air vents or something like that. Here, I'm going to visit the karaoke bar with this child. Wait, hold on. George Cahill. Isn't that my kid? I think I adopted him, actually, and I think he got taken away from me. I killed a guy called George Cahill, and I was like, oh, well, that name's free now. And I named him George Cahill. It is him. Why are you crying? Do I bring back bad memories? Yeah, that's right. Pick them up. You're mine now. You're mine again. Run. Back to the vault. Let's go. Come on. The loss of the family losing a parent. Is it because I kidnapped him from his new parents? Yeah, you're locked in here now. That's all I needed to do. Just get him inside the gate. Now I can go do karaoke. He'd either find his way down into the vault or he'll just die there. I wonder the other. Why is no one looking? All right, fine. Since no one's looking, Jim, take this opportunity to throw out all that spoiled food. Wait, no, don't bring it over there. Keep it away from everyone. Okay. It's like a siren song trying to lure them into the vault. Come on. You like what you hear? If you moved in with me, you'd hear me all the time. Wait, no, come back. You like this? It sounds a bit like Johnny Cash if you ask me. I am the man in black after all. Come back. That's my pace you're walking through. You're not going to move in with me then stay out of my pace. All right, the public isn't working. Kidnapping work great. I'm going to go kidnap someone. Someone famous who will give me a high ransom if I'm ever caught. That's a ransom's work, right? I'm going to get this guy implicated in the crime for no apparent reason. I just want to scapegoat him. If it goes to court, I'll try and pin it all on him and I'll be like, Judge, please. I have like six dependents and they're all locked in that vault. And unless I go back, they're all going to die down there. Why is Harry Potter here? I can't get in because you need a relationship with them because they're famous. All right, fine. I got to get their attention somehow. Ignore Jim making magic gestures. That was just an act of God.  All right, again, there you go. You should have stayed in the same spot because like lightning never strikes twice and it was totally lightning. How does he keep getting out of this? He's across the street just shooting fire at him, but he keeps moving. Yes. Okay. Finally, someone's on fire. Oh my God. Oh, whoa. Good thing you came outside. Mabel is very hungry.  All right, never mind.  I'm becoming super villain. Let's appreciate it before we take her away. That's very nice. All right. Thanks for being my distraction. I'll see you around. This guy always calls me.  Okay. I think he's dead. I guess that's what happens when no one extinguishes the fire. I'm used to someone actually doing it. Jim, you're standing uncomfortably close to that fire. Could we get you out of there? Could you go home? Harry Potter, he is like five minutes ago. My life was fine. Welcome to your new home. Avoid the trip wire as you're coming in. What's her fame level? Global superstar. Can you make good YouTube videos or something? What can you do from the vault?   I get that, but you've got to wear the uniform. Use the video station to upload any video footage you captured or ad agency will cut up your footage to get what they need. Oh, a sponsor deal. Oh, I love it. I never turn one down. There we got space in the storage room. That'll be your backdrop. I mean, that's what this screen screen is hiding. All right, we got death in the garden. Let's edit that. Can we make that into a beauty video? Yeah. Why are you saluting her? You're not involved with this channel. She reacted in disgust. Judith, that footage is ace. Our editors are already recoding it to meet the needs of the client. Fantastic. Good job, Judith. You're officially a content creator. Okay, now she's got the mandatory uniform and everything. She's assimilating well. She's getting pissed. Oh, no, she's in denial actually. Okay, great. We've got a new vault member who contributes to the vault. You know, I don't want to just get anyone for this vault. I feel like everyone should have a purpose. Granted, I have some really useless people in the vault already, like not singling anyone out. But yeah, we're going to leave it at that for today. If you have any suggestions for the vault, do let me know. You know, this is a democracy in here, even though it may not look like it. It's just all filtered through one man. He is the funnel and we are the mess of ideas going into it. But I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I appreciate you watching as all of these folks and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


What, Jared, can you? Yeah, I'm going to stay here. I'm going to stay here. Yeah, it was tough. I mean, they did a great job, obviously, defensively, and made it tough on us all night. And you know, we took your cap to them. They're the team they are for a reason and did such a great job doing, you know, playing against us tonight and keeping us contained. Jared, you've always talked about listen and learn. What's the lesson learned from this experience and this game? So many things, so many things. And then you can take away so many, so many different things as far as experience and different situations and different approaches. And there's so many different things. How many of these have hurt right now? I know it's still a few minutes after that. How much does it hurt? Tills. Tills. And it hurts me so much just knowing how well our defense played and against that team, against Tom, to play that well defensively and let's not hold up our end of the bar. And then it's, you know, our job is four points. So we need to do that tonight. Jared, do they play more zone than Texas? They play a lot of zone, yeah. They did. Jared, John said, how does it compare to anything you've ever experienced in football? Well, the toughest loss I've ever had. I mean, it kills. It's terrible. There are some good things you can take from it. But right now, there's nothing. It's a game I wish I would have played better. I wish you would have played better offensively as a whole. I wish I could have had a million plays back. But if there's nothing you can do about it, you should learn to move forward. Jared, John said, how do you find the end zone? Take us through that play. Which one? The first sound grow in the third quarter. We're just going to go out open. Yeah, he was running somewhat of a runoff route, clearing out coverage, and they dropped him. They let him run through free, and was kind of surprised that he was out of wide open, and I tried to get it to him as quickly as I could. And unfortunately, it's too late. 13 to three, did you ever think that Super Bowl would play out the way you did? No, I don't think so. I think you would have expected to score a lot more points and it sucks the way it turned out. But I'm going to use it as a learning experience and be better because it's probably games that they ran. John said, I'm numb. I got outcoached. What's your reaction to that? You know, he's been so good for us all year. And I feel his pain. But for him to say something like that, we wouldn't be here without him. We wouldn't have won 13 games in the regular season without him. We wouldn't have done all the great things we did without him. We wouldn't have the culture we had without him. We wouldn't have any of the people here without him. And he's done so many, so many good things for this whole organization that I hope he knows that. And we're so behind him that we couldn't be more behind him. Jared, who are your nerves at going into this game this afternoon? How did you feel when you got to it? I felt great. I felt great. I felt excited. And again, ultimately, we just didn't do that. Did they do anything differently from fans than you would have seen in the film or in the spectator? Yeah, but that's the game. I mean, that happens every game. And I think that's kind of something that they do well, and so they're able to mix it up well and keep us guessing. And especially early on, we're able to completely guessing. Jared, I want to say a few things for Jared. Not only today, but the whole experience leading up to this game is that maybe you're surprised and if you go to it again, what's that like? Um, no, I don't think it took us by surprise. But any time you go through it, you definitely know what's coming and have more of an experience to it. Jared, what are you up to? That's my fault. I can't put us in that situation. I knew they were bringing Cover Zero Blitz there and tried to hit Brandon on the goal ball. And Gilmore was too far off for me to make that decision and had a decision about me. And I got to be better. Did you believe this game were in your most bad relationship with the size of your books? Or was that you're not in the same team as the ball? Everything.  And we're having a hard time making the ball. And that happens. And you know, you think at some point you're going to come out of it as we have all year. And we almost did. I mean, we were moving the ball there well at times in the game. And kind of just one play, just one play. We couldn't get one play. We couldn't get one play. And they did. And it's tough to them. I mean, they played so well. And we know what type of offense we are. And for them to do with it, it does tonight as a person. You had a lot of Super Bowl matches. It wasn't terrific, but it was OK. But what do you think about Michael Freighton? I wasn't watching him much. He did a great job, though, and won the game. It's all matters. He won the game and he did a great job. Did you think there would have been other fields? That's not my decision. I thought he was a great player. And hopefully, given the ball, but for whatever reason, that's not my decision. You're not going to try to make sure I don't pull the wrong one. We'll search for answers right now. Is that what you say to the team? No, I mean, you are numb in a way. We're trying to process it all. But we know what happened. I mean, we got outplayed. We got completely outplayed. Like I said, for an offense, we know we're capable of being for them to do what they did to us. It's so impressive and a deeper cap for them. But at the same time, we left so much out there on the field that it's so hard to take right now. And I'm mad at myself. I wish I would have done things differently. I wish I could have back and made it to plays, but all stuff I can learn from and usually report.


In this video, we provide the solution to question number 10 from the practice exam to for math 1050. We have to solve a linear equation. We have 6 times 7 plus x is equal to 5 times 9 plus x. We want to solve for x there. So our goal is to combine like terms. My first, the first thing I'm going to do to get there is to distribute these coefficients. So distribute the six, distribute the five. So this is going to give us 6 times 7, which is 42. And then we get 6 times x, which is just 6x. On the right hand side, we get 5 times 9, which is 45. And then we get 5 times x, which is 5x. Now, in this situation, we can we're not ready to combine the x's together. I noticed that if I move the 5x to the other side, I'll get a positive coefficient, which is generally what I like. So I'm going to subtract 5x from both sides. I want to get the x's by themselves. So we're actually going to subtract 42, 42 from both sides as well. 42. Then on the left hand side, you get the 6x minus 5x. On the right hand side, you get the 45 minus 42. 6x minus 5x just gives us an x. And 45 minus 42 just gives us a 3. And so that is then the solution to this equation. It would be a good idea to check your solution, but I can reassure you in this situation the correct solution is in fact x equals 3.


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