Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Oracle Modern Customer Experience 2017. Brought to you by Oracle. Hello, and welcome back to a CUBE coverage of Oracle's Modern Customer Experience Conference here at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE theCUBE. With my co-host this week, Peter Burris, head of research at wikibon.com, part of SiliconANGLE Media. Our next guest is Austin Miller, product marketing director for Oracle Marketing Cloud. Welcome to the CUBE conversation. Thank you very much for having me. The coveted post-launch spot. Yeah, we have a lunch coma kicking in. But no, seriously, you have a really tough job because you're seeing the growth of the platform play. Really robust hours on the platform. But how you got here, through some really smart acquisitions, but handled well and integrated. We've covered that last year.  Yeah, I mean, I think that one of the best things when we started thinking about, to your point, product integration, it's also the way that we are talking to our customers about how they can use the products together. It's not merely enough just to have maybe one talk to another, but unless we prove out the use cases, you don't get the utilization. I think this year what we've really seen is getting those use cases to actually start getting some traction in the field. So this integrated marketing idea is seems to be the reality that everyone wants. Where are we on that progress bar? Because this seems to be pretty much unanimous with customers. The question is how to get there, the journey, and the heroes that are going to drive them, the theme of the conference. But the reality is this digital transformation is being forced for business change. And marketing is part of that digital fabric. I think that one of the most interesting things about this is if you look at kind of the history of when did the stack start becoming actually a part of the story. It was at a point where we didn't really necessarily even have the capabilities to do it. As a result, many marketers who thought they were maybe buying into a stack approach got a little bit burned. I think that now we are actually at that place where that value is not only something that they can see inherently and say, oh, I like all these applications that talk together, but it's actually feasible. It's something that they're going to be able to use. And they can be optimistic about, frankly. Where are they getting burned? You mentioned that from buying into a full stack of software for a point solution. Is that kind of what you meant? Or what are the reasons? I think that in the marketing realm, when you're talking to marketers, it is very easy to think about all the horrible things that they have to deal with on a daily basis, all these problems. And the reality is that oftentimes you've had to have this conversation with them that says, you know, there are not going to be easy answers to hard problems. There are usually hard answers to hard problems. We can help alleviate some of that friction, especially when we start talking about data silos or things about interoperability. So being able to not just have an integration but pre-built function within these particular platforms. But, you know, realistically, it just wasn't something that we necessarily, in the market in general, were able to deliver on until somewhat recently. So I am very happy that I heard you use the word use cases, especially after lunch. Because that's been one of the biggest challenges of both marketing technology, when we think about big data, as if there's been such a focus on the technology, getting the technology right. And then the use cases and how it changed the way the business or the function did things, kind of either did or didn't happen. Talk about how a focus and use case is actually getting people to emphasize the outcomes and how Oracle is helping people that turn that into technology decisions. This may sound almost counterintuitive, but in reality, the way that use cases we see helping us the most is that it really helps spur about the organizational changes that we need in order to actually have some of this happen. Because it's very easy to say, we have all this technology marketer, you should be using it all. But if you don't actually prove it out and how that's going to impact, let's say the way that they're creating their marketing messages on even a kind of not exciting basis, like how are you creating your emails? How are you creating your mobile messaging? How are you doing your website? And then start talking about those in actual use cases. It's very hard for people to organize their organizations around this kind of transformation. They need something tangible to hold on to. And the old way was put things in buckets. Exactly. We got one covered, move on to the next one. Or by channels even. So we got an email solution, or we got a web solution. And as the customer moves amongst these different mechanisms, or engages differently with these mechanisms, the data that becomes, we talked a lot about this, becomes the integration point. And that, as you said, affects a significant change on how folks think about organizing. But what do you think are going to be some of the big use cases that people are going to be, or that you're providing advice and counsel to folks on in 2017? Yeah, so I think that talking about marketing specific use cases is really important, especially when we start thinking about how am I using my first party data that I may have within a particular channel? And I'm using that to contextually change the way I'm communicating to somebody on another channel. But if we kind of take that theme and we think about, let's not just expand it to marketing, but let's really talk about customer experience. Because as a customer, I go in-store, I go on email, I go on your mobile app, I don't view those as different things. That's just my experience with your brand. And even as we start getting to maybe some of the service things, if I call into a call center, the way that we're really thinking about marketing is not only bringing all this information across our traditional marketing channels, but how are we helping marketers drive organizational change beyond the traditional bounds of even their own marketing department into service, into sales, into on-store? Because in reality, that's where kind of the next step is. It's not just about, to your point, promotional emails. It's about how are we bringing this experience across the full spectrum? So it's really how is first-person data going to drive the role of marketer differently? The tasks of marketing is a consequence. And therefore, how are we institutionalized that work? Absolutely. And to, you know, I think that you can see this in the investments that we've made in the ODC Oracle Data Cloud. It's first step. Let's start thinking about how we can start moving right on first-party data. That would be a nice starting point. But then afterwards, how are we taking third-party data, let's say from offline purchases, starting to incorporate that in? That's their third-party data. Because then we really start getting to that simultaneously good experience or at least consistent experience across digital, across in-store. We start piecing together, but we really need to start at that baseline. A lot of people have been talking about the convergence of ad tech and market tech for years. And, you know, we had a CUBE alumni on our CUBE many years ago when the big data movement started to happen and he was, you know, visionary, revolutionary kind of guy, Jeff Hammerbocker, who was founder of Cloudera, who's now doing some pioneering work in New York City around science. He's since left Cloudera. But he said on the CUBE, what really bothered him was some of the brightest minds in the industry working on using data to put an ad in the right place. And he's kind of being kind of critical of use it for, you know, cooler things. But when you look at what's happening on more tech side when you have customer experience, that same kind of principles of predictive thinking around how to use an asset is can be applied to the customer journey. So now you bring up the question of AI. If you broaden the scope of ad tech and market tech to say all things consumer in any context, at any given time, you got to have an AI or machine learning approach to put the right thing at the right place at the right time that benefits the user. Not just that. That's not scalable. I mean, that's the reality of it. To your point, if you're going to start thinking about this across all these different channels, including advertising as well, the idea of being able to do these on one off basis from a manual perspective, it's completely untenable. I mean, it is, you're completely correct. But to that point, you know, where you're talking about the best minds in the industry may be dedicated to figuring out, you know, if I put a little target here, am I going to get somebody to click on that ad one time or how am I placing it? That is very much the way that we were at the very beginning parts of marketing technology where it was batch and blast, you know, messaging. How can we just kind of get the clicks and the engagement and how do we send out all the- Spray and pray. Exactly. And now I think that we are getting to a much more nuanced understanding of the way that we advertise because it's much more reliant on context. It's not just how can I get my stuff in front of somebody's eyeballs. It's how am I placing it when they're actually showing some sort of intention for maybe the products that I already have. Yeah. Well, adaptive intelligence is interesting to me because what that speaks to is one, being adapted to a real time, not batch, spray and pray and the old methodology of database driven things. No offense to the main database kind of oracle, but it's a system of record, but now new systems of data are available and that seems to be the key message here that the customer experience is changing. Multiple channels, that's the omni-channel. There needs to be that, everyone's looking for the silver bullet. They think it's AI, augmented intelligence or artificial intelligence. What are those, how do you see that product roadmap looking because you're going to need to automate. You're going to need to use software differently to handle literally real time. Completely. And I think that this is a really important distinction about the way that we view AI and how it factors into marketing technology and the way that I think a lot of people in the industry do. I think that once again this theme of there aren't easy answers to hard problems, it is very pleasant to think that I'm just going to have one product that's going to solve everything from when I should send my next email to if there is clean water in this particular area in a third world country. That's just something that maybe sounds nice, but it's not necessarily something that's actually tangible. The way that we view AI is it's something that's going to be embedded and actually built into each of these different functions so that we can do the mission critical things on the actual practical level and kind of make it real for marketers. Make it something that isn't just kind of like, oh just buy this and it'll solve all your problems. So I got to ask you the question, the old adage. Use the right tool for the right job.  So a lot of people lose email marketing that way. They're using it for notifications when in reality that's not the expectation of the consumer. Some are building in a notification engine separate from email. All that stuff's kind of like under the covers and the weeds, but the bigger question to you is, and I want to get your insight on this because you're talking to customers all the time is as customers, as you said, need to change organizationally, they're essentially operationalizing this modern era of CX customer experience. So it's a platform based concept which pretty much everyone agrees on. But we're in the early innings of operationalizing this. So how do you see that evolving and what do you want customers to do to be set up properly if they're coming in to the first inning of their journey or even if they're midstream with legacy stuff? Yeah, and I think that that's a really good perspective because you don't want to necessarily force people to go through excruciating organizational change in preparation if we're in maybe the first inning, but it is really just about setting up the organization to adjust as realistically we get into the middle innings and into the later innings. And really the kind of the beginning foundation of this is understanding that these arbitrary sort of almost like tribal distinctions between who owns what channel, who's the email marketer, who's the mobile person, they need to be broken down and start thinking about things instead of these promotional blasts to your point or even maybe reactionary notifications. How is this contributing to like the number of times your brand is touching me in a day or the way that I'm actually communicating? So I think that it's an interesting kind of perspective on how we would organizationally set up for that. But the short answer is that AI is going to fundamentally change the way that marketers are operating. It's not going to fundamentally change maybe everything that they're doing or it's not going to be replacing. It's going to be a complementary role that they need to be ready to adjust to. So you are, you're in product, product management. Product marketing. Product marketing. So you are at that interface between product and marketing. Both moving more towards agile. How are you starting to use data differently and how would you advise folks like you in other businesses not selling software that might not have the same digital component today but might have a comparable digital component in the future? What would you tell them to do differently? So I think that the first step is to actually have an honest assessment of what we have and what we don't have. I think that there's a lot of people who like to kind of close their eyes or maybe plug their ears and just sort of continue down the path of least resistance. Oh, an honest assessment of what kind of data we do have today. What kind of data we might actually need. And then most importantly, is that actually feasible data to get? Because you can't, you know. You can't wish it, but you can't get it. We can wave a magic wand and say this is the, you know, these are the numbers that I need on this particular, maybe interest level of these particular clients. So the fatal flaws, hoping that you're going to get data that you never get or it's un-gettable. Or this is really something that I think a lot would resonate more with marketers is that we have now set up all these different points of interaction that are fire hoses of data spraying it at me. I may be able to, you know, retroactively look at it and maybe garner some kind of insights, but there's just no real way for me to take that and make it actionable right away. I mean, it is a complete mess of data in a lot of these issues. And that's where AI comes in. Absolutely. It's able to automate that reaction. Triage at a bare minimum. So the first starts with data, what would be the second thing? So it's data, presume that you're going to need help on the triage in organizing that data. Is there a third thing? I would say that it's a, you're going down the right path of the steps there, but once again, we're all talking about these kind of concepts that do require a great deal of specialization and a lot of actual understanding of the way that we're dealing with data. So honest assessment is definitely that first part, but then do I have the actual people that I need in order to actually take action on this? Because it is a specialized kind of role that really hasn't traditionally been within marketing organizations. I know you guys have a big account-based focus, account-based marketing, you know, doing all kinds of things, but I'm a person, I'm not a company. Correct. So that's a database thing. Hey, what company do you work for? Get all the people who work for that company, error target list. I'm a person. I'm walking around, I got a wearable. I might be doing a retail transaction. Absolutely. So the persona-based seems to be the rage and it seems to be the center we heard from Mark Hurd, his keynote, that's obviously his perspective and others as well. So it's not like a secret, but how do you take that to the next level? I mean, account-based could help there too, but you need to organize around the person and that seems to open up the identity question of, okay, how do I know it's John? And I think that that goes beyond just personal taste, but into what does this person actually do with this company?  And meanwhile, the guy who might be making the buying decision at the end of the table is looking at that and being like, there's no way we could do that. We don't have the personnel to do that. There's no chance. And you have already dissension from the innards of the actual people who are making the buying decisions. The vision can't be so big that it resonates with no one. And you need to understand on a persona level what is actually resonating with them. Because feasibility is a very important thing to our end user. And we need to actually incorporate that into our messaging so it's not just so pie-in-the-sky visioning. Yeah, I did a piece of research, sorry, John. I did a piece of research a number of years ago that looked at the impact of selling mainly to the CIO. And if you sell successfully to the CIO, you can probably guarantee nine months additional time before the sale closes. Yeah. Because the CIO says, this is a great idea and then everybody in the organization who's now responsible for doing it says, hold on, don't put this in my KPIs and will I take a look at it and what it really means and blah, blah, blah. Don't make me responsible for this stuff. You just added nine months. Yeah, absolutely. Well, and I even have a very minute example for something that we rolled out. And this was a great learning opportunity which is we rolled out a feature called multivariate testing. It's not important what exactly it is for the purposes of this, but basically it's the idea of you can take one email, make eight versions of it, test it and then send out the best one. Sounds great, right? I'm an executive. Boy, I'm going to get every last ounce of revenue from my emails. I'm only going to send out the best content. You don't pitch that right. The end user, all they hear is, wait, wait, the thing that I do one of, I have to create eight of now? I mean, am I going to get to see my kids ever again? I mean, it's like, that's just the way that you have to adjust. And seven of them are going to be thrown away. Exactly, a seven of them are going to be called a failure. Exactly, so it's just not something that you can take for granted because marketers have a variety of different roles and a variety for responsibilities. And compound that with everything's going digital. So, very chaotic world. Austin, great to have you on theCUBE. Spend the last minute though. I would like you to just share for the last minute, what's the most important thing happening here at Modern CX besides the simplicity of the messaging of modern era of customer expectations, experiences. All that's really awesome. But what should people know about that? Aren't here watching.  And we're seeing them as real. You can actually see them working together in products and serving up experiences to customers that we're even doing now as part of the sales process and saying, hey, this is how you would actually do this as opposed to just, here's our Chinese menu of different options, pick what you want and then you can just kind of serve it up. Because I think that there's something that's very heartening to maybe marketers who have a little bit of, I don't know, doubt about whether or not this is real. It is real, it's here today and we're able to execute on it. And that's the integration of a multi-product and technology solution. Yeah, and I would almost say it's slightly different from that though in terms of it's not just integration of these pieces, it's integration that's pre-built. So we actually have it pre-built together and then we also have these tremendous new innovative features and functionality that are coming with those integrations. It's not just portability, it's actual use cases. Would you say that it's as real as the data? It's as real as the data. I think that that's- If you have the data, then you can do what you need to do. That's a very, very good point. Austin Miller, product marketing director at Oracle Marketing Cloud. Thanks for sharing the data here on theCUBE where agile, agile marketing is the focus. I'm John Furrier, Peter Burst. More coverage from day one at Mendele Bay for Oracle Modern Customer Experience Show. We'll be right back with more after this short break.


manufacturing. That's going to be the production of goods. Then we have the finished goods storage. So the storage of the finished goods, which of course involves the custody of finished goods, issuance of goods to the shipping department. Then we have the cost accounting, cost accounting team is the maintenance of the cost of manufacturing. So we have to account for the maintenance of the cost of manufacturing inventory and cost records. We want to make sure the inventory is in the cost records. Then we have the general ledger. The general ledger is of course the accumulation, classification, summarization of inventory and related costs in the general ledger. Now we'll think of the segregation of duties with relation to inventory. So remember, this is going to be one of the major internal controls. When we think about internal controls, we have the sub segregation or separation of duties. That meaning that the key components we're going to separate. And therefore, if there's going to be something like theft or fraud that's going to take place, it would have to involve something called collusion where multiple people would have to get involved and plan in order to basically commit fraud. So this is going to be one of the major internal controls, separation, segregation of duties that should come to mind anytime we think of internal controls with basically any type of system. Also note, of course, as we consider these internal controls, as always, that we're going to have more separation of duties, more segregation of duties that can be done as companies are larger. If you go to a smaller type of companies, the question is what type of separation or segregation of duties will be appropriate given the size and the maintenance or the people that are involved within that organization. All right, segregation of duties, inventory management function is segregated from the cost accounting function. So inventory management separate from the cost accounting. Why if they weren't segregated, production and inventory costs can be manipulated. So if you have the same person that's going to be involved in the inventory management function and is also doing the cost accounting function, then the production of inventory costs can't be manipulated. And again, this is kind of the interesting factor for most people to actually think about where could fraud take place. And then for us as the auditor, we've got that kind of skeptical viewpoint that we have to have basically when we're designing or thinking about internal controls or auditing them, where could fraud take place? And then what can we do in order to set up in total controls to reduce it? And how can we test for those controls? So this may result in an over or understatement of inventory and net income. Then we have the next segregation inventory stores function is segregated from the cost accounting function. So inventory stores function segregated from the cost accounting function. If they weren't segregated under authorized shipments can be made. So that wouldn't be good. We can have the unauthorized shipments. If we had that one person involved of those two items, and the theft of goods can be covered up. Obviously inventory is something that's not as liquid as cash, but it's something that is fairly liquid. And it depends on what type of inventory we have. So it's something that could be subject to theft. And we want to make sure that we have the proper safeguarding and controls over the inventory as well. And that of course includes segregation or separation of duties. Then we have cost accounting function is segregated from the general ledger function cost accounting separates from the general ledger. If not segregated, it is possible to conceal unauthorized shipments. If that wasn't the case, it's possible for one person in charge of both things to conceal unauthorized shipments. And again, as you think of these things, you might say, well, one person wouldn't do that. I know the person involved. I know everybody involved in this. But notice as the companies grow, we don't possibly know everybody personally involved in the situation. And maybe that's good. And to some degree, because we want to have basically some kind of checks and balances, some separations within basically the systems, the larger systems, you know, are going to have that separation of duties, you got to have it. And also, if we don't have the separation of duties, remember that if they're not separated, the likelihood for someone to just realize that they could have the opportunity to commit fraud and not be caught once that's being realized. And if that's coupled with a problem situation for individuals, they're more like financial problems or something, they're more likely to commit fraud. We would rather not have the temptation even be involved there. And therefore, you want to make sure to have the separation of duties and the fraud prevention in place, the good controls. So cost accounting function is separated from the general ledger function. If it wasn't, it is possible to conceal unauthorized shipment. This can result in the theft of goods causing overstatement of inventory. Then we have the responsibility of supervising or supervising physical inventory. So we're supervising the physical Emperor inventory separate from the inventory management and inventory stores function. So if they weren't segregated, it's possible that the inventory shortages will be covered up through the adjustment of the inventory records to the physical inventory. So notice once again, responsibility for supervising the physical inventory is separate separate from the inventory management and inventory stores function. Because if it's not, it's possible that the inventory shortage will be covered up through the adjustment. You can adjust the inventory records to the physical inventory. This could result in an overstatement of inventory. So here we have our segregation of duties. Now we're going to post this out in a table type of format. So we have the function over here, and then we've got the area that will be involved including inventory management, raw materials, finished goods, storage, cost accounting, it. These are different areas that of course will be doing different things. That's the point. So we have the function of making of production schedules. That's going to be in the inventory management, the making of the production schedules, then the issuing materials requisition that's going to be the in the raw materials stores. So that's a different area. And then we have the update cost records with the materials, labor and overhead usage. That's within cost accounting often helped by it as needed. And then we have the updating inventory records. That's going to be in cost accounting and it as needed release of goods to the shipping department. So now we got the goods released to the shipping department, finished good stores. So that's going to be a separate location. And then the approval and issuance of the purchase requisition that done in the inventory management.


Hello everybody Andrea Tereschi here. I have been a tutor for dental hygiene students and dental assisting students for the past 13 years in total, so I love teaching This episode video will be about why you get sensitive teeth So you might be wondering why are my teeth sensitive and there's actually a term for that and it is called hyper sense It's hyper sensitivity So about sensitive teeth is it can be avoided, but if you have sensitive teeth now there are ways for it to Prevent it from getting worse and there's also ways to help Not cure but help to kind of cover up the sensitivity a little bit So you're not as sensitive So the first thing is how the sensitivity happen it could happen from not having proper oral hygiene So if you're not brushing and flossing then that plaque that is staying on the teeth hardens into tartar and then all of that Kind of eats away at the enamel over time for lack of a better word And it's something's eating away at the enamel that means less enamel and then the underlining layer is exposed And that's when things become sensitive. So to sort of cure that Is to start taking care of your teeth because you you do not want it to eat away at the enamel even more That's very important using a hard toothbrush could cause hyper sense it Hypersensitivity because if you're brushing too hard You could be taking away some of the enamel and some of the gum tissue around the teeth over time It doesn't take a lot So you you might be thinking that you're helping by brushing too hard But you're but you're actually not so there is a fine line between brushing too hard and not hard enough So how I said earlier if you do not have proper oral hygiene if you're not brushing Properly then that's also a bad thing too and that can cause hyper sensitivity if you're drinking a lot of Soda a lot of pop things that are overly acidic that can cause hyper sensitivity also because it is eating away at the enamel So anytime you have something acidic have a cup of water and just sort of Swish around because that will help to eliminate the acid attack in The mouth because every time you have something acidic you are actually having an acid attack inside The mouth and the teeth can't handle acids It's just how it is right, but of course we have to eat drink live our lives like normal So you will have some acidity in the mouth, but that's also why it's so important to constantly have water and pop Energy drinks sports drinks have a ton of sugar Very very acidic so so even completely avoid those If you can because you do not want your teeth to become sensitive Now once the teeth do become sensitive there are ways to help that So the best thing to do is to purchase a sensitivity type of toothpaste. So like there's some brands out there There's sense line. There's Colgate sensitive. So look for a Sensitivity type of toothpaste, but they are all a little bit different So ask your dental hygienist which one is the best for you because there are different ones Plus they probably have samples. So so there's no point buying one and Realizing it doesn't help it doesn't work ask your dental office for some samples But another thing too that once you start to use those toothpaste it does take a couple weeks to actually become Become effective because what those toothpaste do is they do form a thin layer over the teeth To help protect them. So once it starts to form your teeth are Protected to some point, but it does take a couple weeks and you have to use those toothpaste twice a day every day If you use it every day, maybe every other day and then use a different toothpaste They won't be as nearly as effective. So you might as well do it, right? Toothpaste are not expensive. So why not, right? another form of treatment could be if you have Moderate to severe sensitivity if you go to the dental office, they might be able to apply It's it's like a bonding agent over the tooth. So it it helps to cover up the enamel they Paint it on it's clear and they shine a light to Harden it to the tooth and then that should last for about six months. So that will actually help to form that layer Over the teeth and if you continue to use the toothpaste that helps even more So those are just kind of some little options, but every situation is different. So please book an appointment with your Dental office and they will let you know the type of Hypersensitivity that you have because there are different types and then they will let you know how to treat it and How to avoid more in the future? So I hope that helped if you guys have any questions, please let me know because it's not nice to have sensitive teeth Trust me. It's not a nice thing. So thank you so much for watching and if you need anything just let me know


Hey Psych2goers! Have you ever wondered what your nightmares really mean? Could your subconscious be trying to tell you something? Many psychologists work with their patients to interpret dreams. Sigmund Freud, the founder of Psychoanalysis, believed repressed concepts and wishes could be found in dreams. While your own dreams likely have personal meanings that only you can interpret, there are a few common nightmares that have been said to have some strong meanings. So, here are six common nightmares and what they really mean. 1. Being unprepared for a test Have you ever had one of these dreams? Many people seem to. You haven't studied at all for the important test when suddenly you find yourself seated ready to take it. The clock quickly starts to tick and you have no idea what the first answer is. This type of nightmare where one finds themselves unprepared for the important test or assignment represents a lack of confidence. You obviously can't take the test since you haven't studied, so any confidence in acing the exam is absent. This nightmare could also mean you're having a tough time advancing to the next phase of your life. 2. Drowning Have you ever found yourself drowning in a dream? If so, this could mean you've been feeling overwhelmed lately. In the waking world, you find yourself emotionally involved in a commitment or situation. You may find yourself in over your head and engulfed in the deep end of a situation. 3. Teeth falling out Have you ever woken up from a nightmare frantically feeling to see if your teeth have fallen out? Well, if you have dreams where your teeth fall out, this could be symbolic of any insecurities of your appearance. You may get anxious about how others may judge you or your appearance. If you often have strong feelings of embarrassment or fear of rejection, this is likely more true. 4. Being chased Who hasn't been chased in a dream before? It can be pretty terrifying, and it may feel as if your legs suddenly stop working right when you need to run. If you find yourself chased in a nightmare, this could really mean that you're running away from something in real life as well. Maybe you've been avoiding something important? Maybe you don't like to face these issues as you should be. Some believe that whoever is chasing you could be a representation of a part of you. Are your feelings of anger coming back to haunt you? Let's hope not. Better try to wake up and practice working through your anger or fear with a counselor or talk about it with someone you trust. 5. Being late or missing an event Have you ever been late to an important event in your dream? A theater performance? An important job interview? How about being late to that test you weren't prepared for? Being late or missing an event can mean that you feel you're missing out on an opportunity to feel fulfilled. Time is seemingly running out for you and it seems you must hurry and make a choice. You may be anxious about a big discussion in your life that may steer you towards an entirely new path. It's best to take a breath and realize you have enough time to figure this out. Talk with someone about this important decision or lack of fulfillment. You may not be as fearful when a new opportunity arises. It could lead you somewhere new and this doesn't always have to be a scary thing. It can be exciting too. 6.  Suddenly you find yourself in a crowded auditorium and nothing but your underwear or nothing at all. This can symbolize a fear you have of one day being exposed. Your emotional insecurities out for everyone to see. Maybe you're not as vulnerable as you should be. Maybe you attempt to put on a strong face when really being more vulnerable is the release you need. This dream could be a reflection of that as well as feelings of uncertainty about a topic. Or about yourself and who you are. It's okay to be more vulnerable around those around you. One of the worst feelings is pretending to be someone you're not. So don't shy away from those feelings. Show the world who you are. And just maybe not all of you. In your next dream, it's best to keep your pants on. So which nightmare have you experienced before? What do you think it means? Were there any symbols in your dream that led you to an interesting interpretation? Let us know in the comments, we'd love to hear from you. If you liked this video, don't forget to click the like button and share it with someone who's been having interesting dreams lately. Subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more content like this. And as always, thanks for watching.


In the context of the football we're playing and the chances we're creating, of course, we'd love to score more. Definitely, we'd love to score more. You look at the one at the end, it's in injury time. You have a full back that's making a 60 metre overlapping run to get a cross in. And it falls to the player that you'd probably love to have that chance. And he did everything right and a few centimetres to the other side and we're celebrating a goal. But I can't fault the way they're playing. And I trust the players. I trust the group that if we keep playing that football and creating those chances, we will win a game very comfortably. Yeah, look, we're in front. We're in a very good position. It's a position you want to be with three games to go. To be in the mix, to be in front, it's exciting. It's exciting for everyone at the club, the fans. We would have loved to have won today. But the fans go home today knowing that their team gave everything and we're the better side. On another day we celebrate three points as well. But we'll move forward to victory and if we can continue playing that way then we have to have confidence that we can get something there as well. It was hard to see. My first thought was, I thought maybe it was a foul from Liam. But from what I'm told, he dived or he went down before it. But I haven't seen it clearly to make a judgement either way on that. I don't think there is an easy game. I think the A-League proves that every week. We're on top on Merritt and now we have Melbourne Victory, last year's champion. So that's not an easy game. The players will have a lot of belief.  We'll keep working towards getting another win on Friday night.


Is that time of the year when we start talking about taxes again? Why? Because the budget is coming up and let's admit for you and me the only thing that matters in the budget is income tax. But I'm not going to be talking about income tax. I'm going to be talking about something which has become very controversial in the last few years and that is wealth tax. And economists across the globe except perhaps in India actually have been saying that the super rich need to be taxed a little bit more. Not only on their income but also on their wealth and even institutions like the IMF and the World Bank have said that there should be some sort of a wealth tax on the richest people, on those who own most of the means of production of a nation. Oxfam has come up with a new report which some people have criticized and perhaps rightly criticized some of its conclusions. But its main point remains correct that the top 1% today have a large disproportionate amount of income and wealth. Their estimate is that the top 1% has nearly 40% or more than 40% of the country's wealth. You might not agree with that number, maybe it's 25%, it could even be 50% but the point is it's an obscene amount of wealth in the hands of the top 1% in a country where so many people go to bed hungry every day. Now how can you solve that problem? One way is to impose a wealth tax which would take money away from the super rich more than their income tax would and then distribute it amongst the poor or invest it, put it in government programs which help the poor. There's another logic actually for having a wealth tax and let me explain that, that logic comes deeply from within capitalism itself. And I'm going to take an example. Let's say there is Peter and Paul. Peter and Paul both are in the same industry and they come face to face to sell goods. Now we understand that the person, if Peter has more capital to begin with than Paul, Peter is going to have an advantage. Why? There are various reasons. Peter will be able to invest in new technologies which would be labor saving and that would help him reduce prices and capture the market. He could even because of his deep pockets actually cut prices in the market and say, okay, I'll take a loss and drive Paul out of the business. Finally, Peter with his capital will be able to employ more people, expand faster and therefore meet a growing demand faster than Paul and ultimately be able to take over Paul's company, offer him something that, okay, you're not doing well, you might go bankrupt. Here's some money, take it and get out of the business and therefore Peter becomes the monopoly there. So when you start with more capital, you're always going to have an advantage. So starting with more capital or more wealth creates conditions of inequality even inherently in capitalism. What happens if both of them start with the same capital? Again, this is the problem. Let's say that both of them have the same capital, but one of them for various reasons. Maybe for changes in government policy, maybe because their factory is closer to a river, maybe because they work harder. Maybe they came up with an innovation, whatever happens, they earn a little bit more than the other company. So let's say Peter's company earns a little bit more than Paul's company. In the first year, the gap might be narrow. In the second year, it would increase and that would turn into savings over a period of time in addition to capital. And that capital over 10, 15 years would accumulate and give Peter an advantage. It is the same as starting with extra wealth right at the beginning. So this is the first reason why excessive wealth concentration in the hands of one company leads to them taking over all productive resources. And that causes inequality and that inequality gets reproduced over years and years and comes to a situation where a few people own everything and earn everything. And their earnings turn into savings and their wealth keeps increasing where a majority of people remain poor and their savings keep producing. And their wealth keeps reducing as a proportion of total wealth in the country. Now, there is one more way and these are connected in which a person an entrepreneur might have an advantage right at the beginning and that is just inheriting a business. Imagine that you come up, you want to start a new business and you want to compete with someone who already inherited an existing brand, has a lot of money, has a huge business in place, what are you going to do? Can you really compete? The reality is that unless there are major changes in the economic patterns in society, it is almost impossible for smaller companies to compete against established bigger brands. So if someone is born into capital or inherit capital, again, they have the same advantage as someone who has more wealth or more capital at the beginning of any particular business cycle. So both of these inheritance and concentration of wealth are problems which create inequality even inequality takes place. There are many problems. You might say inequality is bad because everyone should have access to things equal access or equitable, not equal, but within a particular range. Some might say that is just, you know, that is just non economic morality because why should they have someone has better ability, they should have more money. The reality is that what inequality does is that it slows down economies because if there is only one person who has wealth and 100 others who don't, then that one person might be producing things which those 100 can't buy. So then what this one person can do is essentially stop investing. They slow down, they turn their investments into financial assets and they only want to earn from those financial assets without expanding their business anymore, demand in the economy reduces. This is the nature of inequality. This is what inequality does. It slows down growth. It's not only bad morally, ethically or even in terms of saying there's so many people who are poor and they should get access to goods. It's really just bad simply in terms of growth. So what is the solution to that? And that is where I've come back to these two key taxes which I've been spoken about right now. One is wealth tax and the other is inheritance tax. This has come up every time in the last few years. There have been questions that should there be a wealth and inheritance tax and every year it has been postponed and it has not come. The question is whether it will come this year at all. There is a problem with wealth tax which we should acknowledge right now because let's take the wealth of the richest people in India. Gautam Adani, Mukesh Ambani and these richest people, their wealth actually is a valuation of the stocks they hold. Now try to understand this. This is not really wealth that can be converted into liquid assets immediately. So if Gautam Adani's worth let's say $130 billion or something, most of it is because of the stocks he owns in companies or his shares in Gautam Adani owned companies or his family owned companies where he's the majority shareholder and the fact that the valuation of these stocks have gone up. Now there have been arguments that there should be a 5% wealth tax on the richest billionaires. How would they pay this 5% wealth tax? They would have to liquidate those assets which is their wealth. If they went and sold 5% of their stock in the market, they would actually cause a run on their company. Selling of 5% in the open market is not a joke. It changes the value of that company and automatically the riches of that person itself will drop sharply. So it is a difficult process. It is a process in which governments will have to assess what the richest people have. How much of it can be liquidated easily without changing dramatically the valuation of those assets? And what proportion of that can be taken as tax? It's not an easy straightforward thing where you say 5% of your current net worth is going to be taxed. It's not possible to do that that easily. So these are complex questions but that is what governments and finance ministries exist for. That is what tax experts exist for and now collecting information is much, much easier. It is much, much easier to process information using AI, using machine learning. Similarly, inheritance tax. Inheritance tax, if you inherit stocks and shares, can you really pay a tax without liquidating those in the stock market? What about if you inherited a house which cannot be liquidated in the market because the market is not going to buy anything if there's a real estate slump? So again, these are issues which have to be looked at but they're not issues which cannot be assessed at all. They're not things which cannot be calculated. There might be some excesses over a period of time so maybe it is better to start slow till you've come up with a formula which works. That is why bringing wealth and inheritance tax might be difficult but it has to be done because without that two things happen. Inequality continues to increase and get perpetuated and the economy slows down because it affects the aggregate demand in the economy. That's the show today. Keep watching NewsClick. We will be focusing on the budget as we come closer to D-Day. Do like this video, share it as well and tell your friends about it.


This is why the narcissist hates you. Why does the narcissist hate you? Why do they feel intense dislike for you? What has aroused these strong feelings within them? Why can't they get on with you? Why can't they manage to deal with you in a positive way? What is holding them back from treating you respectfully? There is a reason why the narcissist hates you. There is a reason why they feel intense dislike for you. There is something that has aroused these strong feelings within them.  They see you as being superior to them in some way. They believe that you are more desirable or attractive. They believe that you are more able to fulfill expectations or needs.  And because you are someone who they wish they could be. Seeing your progress and achievements makes them envious. They wish they could have what you have but they can't. And it makes them feel inferior to you. So they try to balance it out by invalidating what you have achieved. They try to make you believe that you're not as great as you think you are.  They're trying to take your sense of value and significance because they have none of their own.  Another reason why the narcissist hates you really has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with them.  When they observe your qualities and abilities, your progress and achievements, it triggers them to reflect on what they possess or what they have achieved. They compare themselves to you and that they begin to feel inferior. They begin to feel as though they're not as good as you are. It really has nothing to do with you. You haven't done anything to hurt them. They're just looking at what you have and then comparing it to what they have. And it's making them feel inferior to you. It's making them feel as though they're not good enough. You are not responsible for how they feel. They already felt this way even before they met you. What you have is just reminding them of what they don't have. But rather than them reflecting on how they really feel about where they are in life, they deny those feelings and instead they choose to project them onto you. They project their own self-hatred onto you by trying to invalidate everything that you're doing and making you feel as though you're not good enough. When really, that's how they feel about themselves. Don't react to their hatred. Don't react to their negativity. When you react to it, you are given a power. Don't allow yourself to become a part of their negativity. Instead, allow it to flow through you. Don't let it get to you. Don't react to it. Observe it from a neutral perspective and don't give it any meaning. And then it will not have any power over you. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


So, I'm checking out the shot here, the whole sequence is cool. I'm actually very curious how you did the camera work in terms of the handheld field and everything. I'm curious about your workflow, because it already looks really, really cool. I think the actions are cool too, I think this all makes good sense here. The only tricky thing is that you're establishing a left-to-right swing and then it's a right-to-left. So it's kind of an odd break here. And you know, it's technically switching angles like that. It's just confusing because you're changing direction. I know it's technically correct within screen space. What you could do is, you know, you could cheat it where imagine it would be a bigger turnaround so that the head here, this guy is a bit further here, bigger bend, the butt is here. So that when he swings, we only get that much, that much swing. So it keeps a right-to-left, not that you want to start going this way, but you just want to end it just enough so that when you cut, it continues that right-to-left thing here. And you might argue that it's almost then the same angle, we're just moving out, but which is technically fine. So you're going from a close-up to a wide shot, I think that's totally fine. And then you got the smack here, boom. That smacks right on impact, which means if you go then right-to-left, that should be fine. And you're holding this for that. Now I see what you mean with the ending where you quite know who is finishing. I think that could work. You could end on a really cool pose mouth open, really cool. Or you show the full on impact head-to-head collision, which could be really cool too.  If this gets too long, I think it's fine. I think you should be fine. Because the thing is, the main impression that I had was that it was too slow, because overall, and I think if you are going to speed this whole thing up, twice the speed, let's pretend, right? So over here, that works a lot better. So imagine you're technically only 9 seconds into it, instead of 19, 9 something. So play this twice the speed makes everything a lot better. And then with that, it gives you more time. I think 10 seconds is a great length for all this action. Because at one point I was thinking, well, at that speed, I don't know, it gets a bit long, and you could almost combine the throw down here with the tail. So it's not a down, we hold and wait, and this, but it's like a double smack, right? It's almost you're doing this, and through that throw here, the tail continues and smacks the guys. That could be a cool double whammer. And then back into, then you could cut it to something like this, you can actually end it like that, right? So you're doing this, you're doing throw, bounce, smack. So it's not this, right? You're not doing this, and you will cut out this shot. You would end here, you would end in this, but it would be coming from this. I'm just saying, if you would think of cutting it shorter, making it a bit different, it would be throw down the immediate smack here, which would bring the guy closer to us, a bit bigger here, with this guy. And then you could have a bit of a side-to-side walk for him going away from us, and the camera rotating around a bit, so you end up in fact here again, and then that. And again, given that you have now nine seconds, I can see how cool it would be to stop and wait for that. Right, so the audience goes, oh man, what happens? But I would also love to see what that would look like if the full-on head collision there, but then you would almost have to finish it when the camera bounced off. Oh, I don't know. I don't know, it could be kind of going, boom, cuts.  That could work too. But that's it. That's other than that, the major thing to me was speed. And then that may know about the camera change here, just in terms of screen direction. You can keep the rest and everything, or if you want to make it slightly different, just as an idea. A smack, boom, like a smack down and tail smack, just because double smack like that, it's kind of neat. Something maybe unexpected, something you haven't really quite seen. And the rest is fine. Love the camera work. Again, I'm curious what you did with the camera. So that's all the hand scripted. How did you do the handheld?  And it looks like it's already in a good spot there. And I love this here. I love your foreground piece here, just for a little bit of a moment here, and then boom, and then it reveals the guy. It's cool, cool set up there. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's all I have. It looks already great. Think about those little changes. And then I would say, let's do this. All right, thanks. All right, there's an email you can sign up. You can start whenever you want. You can submit whatever you want. You get 16 submissions. Either way, a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right, thank you.


The U.S. Naval Academy kicked off its 21st annual giving tree program in Bancroft Hall November 29th. Participants take an angel off the tree and buy a gift for the child listed on the card. Community of Annapolis does so much for us and we never really have a chance to say thank you or a way to get back so this is one of the ways that we do that. The event is sponsored by the Academy's sixth company in collaboration with the Salvation Army of Annapolis. It shows the generosity of the MIDS, the staff, the faculty, and it shows that we're here to help support more than just ourselves, more than just our own family, but help support the kids and families of the community as well. From Washington, I'm Petty Officer Liz Vlahos.


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I have a question for you. I'm wondering if anyone here has Old Testament heroes. Anyone? Yes. Moses. Moses, OK. David. OK, yes. Heart after God's own heart. Humility of Moses. Esther. The courage to fast and pray and go before the king. Isaiah. Beautiful. The prophet Daniel. So a second to Daniel, second to Daniel. So as a child, our family, I was born into the fire of renewal. Our family had Bible study as a family in the evenings. But we also, I was homeschooled K through fourth grade. And so first class of the day, every day, was basically a prayer meeting. I didn't know at the time we called it Bible study. And we just spent time praising the Lord, praying together, studying the Word of God. But one of the things that I learned as a child was about Enoch. And so as a little one, Enoch was my hero because he walked with God. And so I just want to take a look at the genealogy. I don't know if you all or anyone here love to read genealogies. OK, we have one person. So two, two. So as a child, we would all kind of fall asleep as our father was reading genealogies to us. But he pointed Enoch out to us. Let me stop our slideshow here. I might need assistance. We can actually close down the slideshow. Did it work? Great. OK. So the genealogy of Enoch, for years, I would just marvel. Every time I read Genesis chapter 5, I had how Enoch just stood out in that genealogy. It says in Genesis chapter 5, verse 21, when Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah, 300 years, and had other sons and daughters. So it's just kind of in the middle of this genealogy, the same thing is almost the same thing as being said about most of the different people who are listed. But Enoch has this one line, Enoch walked with God. And so when we look at that passage and when we look at our walk with God, sometimes we think it's just God and me. But that fits into a much bigger picture. And so I want to point out a few things in this genealogy that will help us as we're praying with, Lord, how are you calling me to share the fire of renewal in my life, but also in the church and in the world? So if you look at Genesis chapter 5, the name Adam means man. The name Seth means appointed. The name Enosh means subject to death. The name Kennan means sorrowful. The name Mahalallel means from the presence of God. The name Jared means one who comes down. The name Enoch means dedicated. The name Methuselah means dying. He shall save. And the name Lamech means poor and lowly. The name Noah means rest and comfort. So if you put the meanings of all of those names together, you see man appointed, subject to death, sorrowful. From the presence of God, one comes down, dedicated, dying, he shall save the poor and lonely, bringing them rest and comfort.  That proclamation that we see, there are people in this family who did not walk with God. Enoch walked with God. And so there's just so many graces that are poured out on all of mankind that is proclaimed here in chapter 5 of Genesis. And so we sometimes, even in our walk with God, we think, well, I'm going to follow Jesus, but by myself. And so we're not, at that point, we're not even thinking about my walk with the Lord and how it fits into the bigger picture of the gospel. But it's me trying to follow Jesus apart from him. And so I went to confession years ago. And a priest afterwards said to me, Alicia, have you been baptized? And I said, yes. And he said, OK, have you been confirmed? And I said, yes. And he said, great. You have a toolbox.  You're carrying this toolbox. Take out the tools and use them. And so I, with God's great sense of humor, I just happened to be doing home renovations at the time. So I went home. And I grew up with a father who works in contracting, construction. And so he was like, Alicia, you know how to hang drywall. This is something you can do. And so he left a few pieces of drywall. I knew how to cut the drywall. That was simple. But I'm sitting there after this time of confession. And I'm looking at, in my hand, the drywall, a screw, and then this power tool. And I just think to myself, wow, Lord, what if I tried to put up this piece of drywall, hang the drywall, without the tool? What would happen? One, it wouldn't work. Two, I would probably injure myself. And three, I was like, Lord, teach me to use the tools you have given to me. And so that's what we come here today. We come asking the Lord, inviting him. Teach us, Lord, help us to rely on you. Help us to use the tools that you've given to us. And so if we look at Acts chapter 1, verse 3, we see Jesus speaking. And Jesus says, wait for the promise of the Father, which He said, you heard from me for John baptized with water, but before many days, you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. And Jesus goes on to say, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. And we see, even there, Jesus pointing to, you need power to follow me. You need power to be my witnesses. And so Jesus is basically helping His followers to prepare their hearts to be open to receive. When we talk about the fire of renewal, when we talk about the power of the Holy Spirit, it is pointing to this moment of Pentecost. And so as we move into Acts chapter 2, I want to take a moment. We don't always stop and read a full chapter of the Bible at once, but we're going to do that. I actually want to encourage you to, after today, maybe after this weekend, go home and pray with this chapter. But now we're just going to take a moment to soak it in. And I just want to ask that we all, again, just remain in that very prayerful posture. When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place, and suddenly a sound from heaven, like the rush of a mighty wind. And it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now, there were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at the sound, the multitude came down. They were bewildered because each one heard them speaking in his own language. And they were amazed and wondered, saying, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear each one of us in his own native language? Parthenians and Medes, Alamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Frigia, Pamphlet, Egypt, parts of Libya, belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God. I just want to pause there for a moment. We're talking today about how do we live and how do we share? And when we think about how we receive and how we share, we're seeing here just this brief moment. They heard the mighty works of God. So just staying tuned to that line, that passage, we hear. And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, what does this mean? But others mocking said they are filled with new wine. But Peter, standing with the 11, lifted up his voice and addressed them, men of Judea, and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give ear to my words, for these men are not drunk as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. And Lord, as we read this, we just ask that this would be a reality for us in this moment. And in the last days, it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh.  And your young men shall see visions. And your old men shall dream dreams. Yay. And on my men's servants and on my maid's servants, in those days, I will pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs in the earth below. Blood and fire and vapor of smoke, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord comes, the great and manifest day. And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.  As you yourselves know, this Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. But God raised him up having loosed the pangs of death because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him, I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover, my flesh will dwell in hope, for thou will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy holy ones see corruption. You have made known to me the ways of life.  Brothers, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, he would send one of his descendants upon his throne. He foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus raised up, and of that we are all witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see in here, for David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet, let all the house of Israel, therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified. Just wanna pause there for a moment. So we just heard about the upper room, we just heard about this incredible proclamation of the gospel from Peter. But there are a few things that I want us to just pray with now, and one of those verses is just the point where Peter says, you crucified and killed Jesus. So he's pointing out that these people were there at the crucifixion. I don't know about you, but maybe there are some people in your life who you know are not following Jesus. Maybe they're baptized, maybe they're not. You pray for them, you witness to them, you love them, but there's this grace that comes in the next verse. Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, brothers, what shall we do? And Peter said to them, repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  So all who received his word were baptized and there were added that day about 3,000 souls and they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship and to the breaking of bread and prayers. There's a beautiful opening of the heart at the proclamation of the mighty works of God and then after that opening of the heart, there is this moment of confrontation and conviction followed by this moment of being cut to the heart and saying, what must we do? And so that's the experience of each one of us as we receive the gospel, but also of the person who we are sharing the gospel with. Those people were sharing the fire of renewal with. And so we're gonna take just a little bit of time to reflect and I just wanna invite you, if you have a journal to write down right now, when was the first time I first heard God speak? Maybe it wasn't a proclamation of the gospel, maybe you were reading your Bible. For me, I was a small child and my parents would ask, did you read your Bible? Did you say your prayers? And at first I didn't and eventually I said, oh, yes, yes, I could say yes, I read my Bible. Yes, I said my prayers. And one night they're asking, oh, great, what did you read? Where did you read that in the Bible? Just asking more and more questions and finally one day I could answer all their questions, but finally one day they asked a question that I could not answer. And my father said, oh, that's great, Alicia, you read your Bible, you said your prayers, what's God saying to you? And I was undone, nine years old at this point and I was just like, I've been talking to God ever since I can remember, he's my best friend, but I've never heard him talk to me, I've never heard him speak. And so my father said, well, then ask him to help you hear him. And so I said, okay, and then for nine months, every day I asked everyone, parents, aunts, uncles, priests, to pray for me to hear God every day, Lord, help me to hear you, open my ears, Lord, open my ears, help me to hear you. And then one day, when I least expected it, I audibly heard Proverbs 3-3 and I was like, I don't know what that is, but that wasn't me and ran upstairs from the basement, told my mom, you know, mom, mom, I think God spoke to me. And she said, well, what did he say? And I said, I just heard Proverbs 3-3 and she said, oh, Alicia, that's in the Bible, let's find it. And so we looked it up and it said, forsake not truth and mercy, bind them around your neck and write them on the tablet of your heart. And I was undone, overjoyed and my dad arrived home from work and I ran out to meet him, like, dad, dad, God spoke to me, you know, so excited to tell him. And he was like, you know, Alicia, that's wonderful, but you know, it's only to those of little faith that God speaks audibly.  He speaks audibly to me too. And you know, from that moment on, I could see, oh, Lord, you've been speaking to me since I can remember. You've been speaking to me through my parents. You've been speaking to me through the Bible when it repeats again and again and again the same thing. And I'm asking you, why Lord, why is it repeating? You know, you're telling me this is important, you know, and the Lord, I realized the Lord was speaking to me in so many different ways. And so I just wanna invite you to take a moment, in this case, to write down the first time you remember hearing God speak to you. Maybe it wasn't an audible voice, but just a time when you knew that you knew that you knew, God spoke to me. And that might be something that you need to pray with as well, but wanna invite you to secondly, write down one was a time that the Lord, that I experienced in my life being cut to the heart. And maybe that was a moment of conviction for you. For me, there was a time in my life, you know, I'm born into the fire of renewal, taught by my parents to always look for Jesus in the least of these and to serve and to just fall desperately in love with the Lord. And so that was what I knew, the fruits of the spirit was what I knew of peace and love and joy, regardless of circumstance. But there came a time later in life when I started repeatedly saying, my will be done. And at that time, when I started doing that, when I started saying, my will be done and the Lord making it very clear that Alicia, that's not my will, you know, this is disobedience. And I continued on, my will be done. Two of my friends spoke to me. So Rebecca and Sarah just said, hey, Alicia, you don't seem to have the joy that you typically have. And that, that was all it took. All of a sudden I was like, joy, when did I lose my joy? And when did God stop speaking? When did I stop hearing his voice? And, you know, that moment of question led to a deeper awareness. The moment of being cut to my heart was actually soon after that, going up to receive communion in the oratory and just hearing the Lord speak to my heart. Will you betray me like Judas? Will you commune with me? And then go out and say, my will be done. And so this being cut to the heart for me, just, it was the dynamite, that the power of the Holy Spirit projecting me back to Christ, giving me the strength to take steps into faith to say, I will be done. With every step in faith that I took, even though they were feeble and small, when I first started saying, I will be done, Lord. You know, I will take steps in faith, I will follow you. That was when I started seeing, oh wow, when I started saying my will be done, all of a sudden I felt like I had to protect myself. I had to control things. I had to, it was, I didn't have peace. So I wasn't only missing joy, I didn't have peace. And I also started seeing that blessings, abundant blessings that I had experienced my whole life, just weren't there. And it was when they returned that I realized, oh wow, hey, blessings are back. And when I started hearing God's voice, that I realized, wow, I didn't even realize I wasn't talking to God and hearing His voice and communing with Him. So again, just wanna invite you, as you're reflecting on sharing the fire of renewal, to take a moment, to write down a moment when you were cut to the heart. We're going to spend some time at the very end of the workshop discerning together. How is Jesus inviting me to share the fire of renewal, to live and to share the fire of renewal? And so there's a whole second meditation on Acts chapter two that I just wanna invite you into during that time and in the days to come, really meditating on when did I first experience an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in my life and just savoring that, thanking the Lord for it, writing it out, returning to that place. And that is all of that, returning to these places of deliverance, returning to these places when the Lord brought us from death to life, from my will to thy will be done. Those are places that help to equip us with the ability to rely on the Holy Spirit to bring the fire of renewal to others. So for me, even though I grew up with what most people would say, this was a very charismatic childhood, Alicia. My family was not formally connected to the charismatic renewal. We would come to festivals of praise here. We came to the conferences, but it was not until my brother was in seminary and his friend from Columbia who had gone to a charismatic seminary started to share this grace of praying in the spirit and praying in unity. Which here in the US, prayer groups, covenant communities, many, many people are practicing praying in unity, practicing, prophesying, praying for healing, the full spectrum of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But for me, that did not come until much later in life. And when I had that experience and met this Colombian seminarian who was sharing with my brother, who was also a seminarian and myself, Alicia, did you know the papal preacher for Pope John Paul II, for Pope Benedict the 16th, and for Pope Francis, is a charismatic renewal leader, author of over 26 books. Read his books, like really, I had no idea. And then as I kept taking steps closer to the heart of the renewal, getting to know people from covenant communities nearby, helping to start a prayer group, the Lord connected me with the National Service Committee, with the Ark in the Dove, with these beautiful ministries where I found the most orthodox and the most charismatic Catholic Christians I had ever met in my entire life. And some of the riches and graces of that encounter was for me, this experience of formation. So I wanna share with you, we don't have technology supporting us, but you all have highlights. These are extremely high level highlights. So just as with that genealogy that we took a look at, you know, the story of Enoch within the story, each one of you has a story. The fire of renewal has touched your life in some way, and your story fits into a much bigger picture. And so if you want a very brief snapshot of that bigger picture, you'll see on the side that says renewal history highlights, just some very, very brief highlights. What I never knew was that actually in 1897, Blessed Elena Guerra, Foundress of the Oblate Sisters of the Holy Spirit, wrote a series of letters to Pope Leo XIII. And in these letters, she asked him to pray for unity, and she asked him to pray for a new and ongoing Pentecost. So can I just see maybe a show of hands here? Did you all know that? Yes. Okay, so many people here did know that, but a few did not yet know that. I was just in awe of this. Okay, this is beautiful. She asked Pope Leo XIII, petitions him asking him to pray. On January 1st, 1901, Pope Leo XIII invoked the Holy Spirit on the 20th century by singing Veni Creator Spiritus. Incredibly, within 24 hours, there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Bethel School in Topeka, Kansas. This is what is now known widely as the beginning of the Pentecostal movement. It took years for that movement to move into mainstream denominations, but it almost immediately spread to Azusa Street. My mom talked for years about, Alisha, you could see the Shekinah, glory of the Lord at Azusa Street during California. Go to Azusa Street, like, okay, mom, sounds great. And then years later, I, after experiencing praying in unity in a prayer group and had a very tangible experience of the Holy Spirit afterward, people were coming up to me and saying, Alisha, he was here, making motions like sounds of wind and just this deep, deep knowing the Holy Spirit was here. Then I started reading the history of Azusa Street. And so I just wanna recommend, if you have not yet, if you've heard of it, but you haven't yet dove into that story, I do recommend that you read up on Azusa Street from there, years later, in 1962, Pope John the 23rd prayed, renew your wonders in this our day as by a new Pentecost. I had heard this portion of the story. I had, I'd known about this prayer, but what I didn't realize was this understanding that Pope John the 23rd as a bishop visited a Czechoslovakian village where for centuries, the full spectrum of the Charismatic gifts were practiced. It was a place with no jails, no hospitals, and no divorce. And so this heart for the kingdom of heaven to come and this experience of, I've seen, I've seen this heavenly grace here on earth just being behind that prayer. And then in 1967, this is not on the sheet, this is not on the sheet, but I just wanna share with you who here has heard of the Duquesne Weekend. Okay, so the Duquesne Weekend, two professors take students to the Ark and the Dove Retreat Center, about 24 students, and 12 of those students had a radical experience of Pentecost. And I just wanna invite you to, again, if you have not read this book, As By a New Pentecost, it gives you the witness and the stories of all of the attendees who were there. And amazingly, if you look at this timeline from 1901 to today, so Pope Leo the 13th praying to today, there are over 600 million people that baptism in the Holy Spirit has reached. Just an incredible number of people who've had this glorious experience of a personal Pentecost. And from 1967, so about 54 years ago, to today, over 160 million Catholics have received baptism in the Holy Spirit, have had this experience. And so just see this dynamic power of the Holy Spirit moving as you look at the timeline. Now, if you look at renewal structure, this is something that just kind of gives us a cue as we prepare to enter into prayer about what has supported this renewal and the spread of the renewal, how, what did it look like over the past 50 years here in the Catholic Church? And where are we now? And one of the bullet points here you can see is the National Service Committee was formed in 1970. So very soon, organizations, groups of people, committees, wanting to serve the work of the Holy Spirit, always in a posture of service came together. And then you can see ICO, ECRIS, ADL, Catholic Fraternity. Other organizations were formed. The ADL is actually the Association of Diocesan Liaisons. Here in the US, 10 years after the beginning of the renewal, the bishops, I mean, you can imagine, this is spreading like wildfire. The bishops were like, what do we do with this? So they had a conversation, they had a meeting, and they issued a statement on baptism in the Holy Spirit. And the conclusion of their statement was, baptism in the Holy Spirit is a normal part of Christian life. And so we see now, from the upper room on the day of Pentecost, almost a third of the world's population is Christian, in name, which is incredible to think about. And in 2019, on Pentecost Day, an organization called CARIS was launched. When it was launched, Pope Francis turned to renewal leaders from around the world. And he said, this organization, he shared with them that the organization would have juridical personality. So the renewal is now not only in the Catholic Church, it's in the very heart of the Catholic Church with juridical personality. And not only that, he said, I commission you to bring baptism in the Holy Spirit to the whole church, to build unity in the body of Christ, and to serve the poor. And that might sound like it's something new, but it actually is pointing back to the Maline documents and the work of the Holy Spirit in the earliest days of the Catholic Charismatic renewal. And so I do want to make sure that we have time for us to pray through, you know, to have this commission bring baptism in the Holy Spirit to the whole church. Well, that's huge, Lord. How are you inviting us to do that? You know, it's always in this walking with God, like Enoch, this very simple way of walking with the Lord. But out of that flow many, many fruits. Another resource that I just want to recommend if you want to write this down, the Maline documents, M-A-L-I-N-E-S, highly, highly recommend. If you are looking for the theology of the renewal, these documents were written by renewal leaders from all over the world, reviewed by theologians, including Cardinal Ratzinger at the time. So just another resource to grow and understanding so that you're equipped to share. And there are so, so many fruits. You know, sometimes we're part of a prayer group or we're part of a community and we don't always see what's happening in the rest of the world. In Brazil, a friend just recently shared with me, they are building a city of mercy for 5,000 homeless people. And this is a work of a covenant community. So just seeing how the Holy Spirit's moving and working through the grace of renewal, companions of Christ, many diocesan priests are looking for community. One of the fruits of the renewal was a group of guys who were praying in unity in the spirit, called to priesthood, said we wanna continue to live in community. So they're not a religious community, they're a diocesan priest, but they practice a life of living out this personal Pentecost and life in the spirit in community. And it's actually spreading, it started in Minnesota and just recently has spread out to Colorado as well as to Illinois. So again, I just wanna encourage us, you know, there's, I think just this particular time, there's an invitation from the Lord and just this sense of our heavenly Father speaking to us saying, dream with me and no dream is too big. Dream with me and no dream is too big. So I wanna invite our worship leaders back up. And I'm actually going to invite us to look to the Holy Spirit to lead. So if you have a word, if you have a scripture, if you have an intercession on your heart, I wanna invite you to just come forward to me to share that as we enter into this time of prayer. All of us in unity, we're going to seek the Lord and we're going to pray with, Lord, how are you inviting me to live and to share the fire of renewal? Maybe it's starting a prayer group. Maybe it's starting a Bible study. Maybe it's just telling a friend your story. So that will look different for all of us, but we're going to just come before the Lord now with open hearts to seek Him together.