Good morning, Hank, it's Tuesday. I recently learned it's been 510 days since my fifth novel, Turtles All the Way Down, was published, and if I'd written just like a paragraph or two each of those 510 days, I would have at least finished a draft of a sixth novel, but I haven't, and today I want to talk about why. This came to my attention, by the way, because the paperback edition of Turtles All the Way Down is being published today in the United States. It's like the hardcover, except less expensive, and also the cover is softer, and there's a Q&A at the back, and we fixed a couple typos. But yeah, I haven't written a novel in the last 510 days. Partly because I've been working on other stuff, Crash Course European History, our project with partners in health, TV and movie adaptations, but then again, I've had some kind of day job for most of my writing life. The truth is a little more complicated. Turtles All the Way Down has been very generously received, both by critics and by readers, and I want to emphasize how grateful I am to have a large audience and even to have my books reviewed in places like The New York Times and The Guardian, let alone positively. But the process of publishing the book was very difficult for me. I realize this is the pinnacle of champagne problems, but I was really overwhelmed with fear about whether people would like it, and whether it was a good and useful thing to put into the world, and whether it was the best book it could be, and so on. Also, and this is the champagne-iest problem of them all, when you have a lot of success, it can start to feel like everyone has to develop an opinion of your work, even if they aren't particularly familiar with it or particularly interested in it. Like, I haven't seen Fifty Shades of Grey, but I still feel like I have to have an opinion about Fifty Shades of Grey, and I kind of do have an opinion, although maybe the opinion is wrong, maybe the movie's amazing. But when that happens, when you make a thing that people like, or in some cases dislike so much they define themselves in opposition to it, it can be pretty destabilizing. Writing stories has always been like a way out of myself trying to inhabit other people's consciousnesses can give me a break from having to inhabit my own. But publishing those stories is about something else, a complicated mess of wanting people to like me, wanting to be successful, hoping that my stories might be useful or important to the people who read them, and wanting to pass on some of the gifts that other people's stories have given me. And so for at least the past like decade, writing for me hasn't only or even primarily been about writing, it's also about touring and publicity and movie rights, all of which I am ridiculously lucky to stress about, but which I nonetheless find stressful. And all of that together means that for the moment anyway, I'm not really able to write much fiction, but I haven't stopped writing. Instead, I started writing in a place that felt quieter and safer to me, where people who liked my work could find it, but people who didn't care to probably wouldn't. I started a podcast with a somewhat weird premise, reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, and gave it a hard to spell name, the Anthropocene Reviewed, and for the last year and a half, I've been writing about everything from scratch-and-sniff stickers, and the Taco Bell breakfast menu, to the practice of googling strangers. And it has been so fun and so fulfilling to explore a new kind of writing and to seek out places where my personal experiences connect to universal ones. Like, I was way too into scratch-and-sniff stickers when I was a kid, an early symptom of my long-term fascination with virtualized experience, but I didn't understand the strange and beautiful chemistry of those stickers until I started writing about them. The pleasures of unexpected discovery turn out to be similar, whether you're writing fiction or non-fiction. I do intend to publish more novels, many more, hopefully, but in the meantime, I'm very grateful that the ones I've written are still finding new readers. Books are quiet and interior experiences in a very loud world, and so are my favorite podcasts. So regardless of the medium, I just want to say thank you for listening. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


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Our last speaker probably doesn't need much of an introduction. I'm Jarek from YA and Chief Technology Officer and CEO as well. So first, what I would like to talk is a bit about privacy from a macro perspective because it is in my opinion very important also to understand some of the reasons why GDPR has been made. And if you look beginning of our century, 2000s, we started tackling damages of passive smoke and there's been put way more attention to smoking and all of the hazards that second hand smoking or passive smoking is causing here. And why I'm talking about this? Because when I was kid in 70s and 80s, the awareness of the damages and hazards of a passive smoke strikingly reminds me on lack of awareness of our privacy exploitation. And there's a number of things that we can compare there. And if you are looking from today's perspective, we know about the damages that passive smoking is causing. But it wasn't like that before. You see those are some of the commercials from 50s, 60s, even similar was in the 70s. So more doctors, small cameras and it is a good for a baby's smoke. Yeah, it is funny and it's ridiculous when you look at it from today's perspective. But what I'm worried is that my daughter is not going to look upon a certain things where I had to rise to awareness about the privacy and exploitation of her privacy in the same way as I'm questioning my parents. Because you know when I was kid during 70s, when kids were playing games, that was a pre-play station and pre-exbox time. So we had a cardboard games or just a simple games. And our parents were playing cards and smoking in the same room. Very kids were playing. Why?  You see the pattern as well with the privacy. Just some of those companies at that time were called BAT, like British American Tobacco. Today they are called the FSG's, M's, etc. And then once when some of the research and some of the knowledge about hazards of a passive smoking started popping up, then my parents said like, we are not smoking anymore at home, there is no smoking anymore in the car. Imagine smoking in the car with the kids. That's what I passed and that's what our kids born in 70s have passed. Even kids born in 80s. And then as there is more of a data and more of a regulation coming out so that people were not allowed to smoke anymore at work or were not allowed to smoke where people are eating, etc. Then parents also picked up and seen it's maybe a good thing that we don't smoke anymore.  So what we were seeing in 2000 and beginning of 2000s was like a massive fines for tobacco industry due to abuses that can be compared I think in the same way with the privacy and what Katrina said I fully agree with it. The only way to change the things and to enforce things is by fines. If you don't find someone, but it's not like finding 100 plus billion corporation with 200,000 euros fine. It's a joke, just the legal cost for them would be a way bigger to get into any discussion so it's easy for them to pay. But now with GDPR for the first time those fines are getting magnitudes bigger and there is a pity that there is a cap on the amount. So it goes with a percentage but there is a cap on the amount there. And let's see if you are going to see those not multi-trillion but multi-million fines for the F's, G's and M's coming forward. Because GDPR and data protection should not be and it's not only about protecting situations where data loss happens because of negligence or not knowing better but also should be for a misuse of your private data even if there was no data breach. Because there is no difference and in a number of cases it's less harmful. So it's a bit obscure to talk about it but it's less harmful if some of the data that goes out from telecom players or other companies that we've seen in the past comes out then what are the potential damages and hazards of exploitation of your data without any data breach. And I was also glad to hear that Telefonica is the one that started moving there because I've been also for a number of years in a telecom sector and we've been collecting all of that data because there was a saying that all of this is goldmine and that data from users is an oil of a new economy and then what I was witnessing in a telecom sector for 15 years was that data was not used for almost anything useful with air to say or hardly anything useful and it was just staying there waiting for someone to exploit it. So that's also why I like to compare this data or a metadata or any kind of your private data to a nuclear waste. If you are collecting it and not using it because sometimes there is some metadata that you need to use and at wire we use it because this is something that improves functionality of wire so we needed a tiny bit of a metadata in order to enable multi-device support proper multi-device support on wire but you need also to be prudent about it and then delete it when you don't need it and this is something what will take mentality shift for a number of companies that are sitting on this data and not really doing anything because now with a GDPR they know that this is liability and it's becoming their nuclear waste and that they can pay severe fines for that. When we are looking things from the data perspective I like there to look of course the field that I'm in and this is the communication space and social networking space, messaging space and why GDPR is important yet another reason is because when you look social network perspective Europe is the only one that doesn't have a massive one everyone else has it and we know that it's a way harder to get a grasp on what's happening within those territories that are outside of EU and especially then when there comes dispute situation experience there is not the best looking there it's needless to stress all of the risks of EU private data being outside of EU and this is why GDPR is also important because it's addressing up to a pretty good extent this issue and other thing that is important to make this as mentioned and forcing any kind of laws on those companies that are outside of EU it's quite difficult and what's even worse is that similar thing is happening on the business side and with a shadow IT what's up being used my personal situation on a Tegel airport where my wife first looks a bit difficult so the handle can be also seen as a weapon and security personnel they are debating for a couple of minutes if this can go in the airplane or not and then what is happening next think shock they are taking a photo of her passport taking a photo of this purse sending it with a whatsapp somewhere back this is German police and if this is happening in Germany you can imagine what's happening in the rest of the European countries so needless to say how important it is that this shadow ITC's to exist and that the cases like this one are being properly sanctioned because one of the first things what GDPR tells you is that there shouldn't be an upload and storage of address book and what's happening first thing when you install your whatsapp you upload your address book and then of course it is further being matched with your Facebook account and the whole story goes on there and if this is done by German police officer it's something that's very serious and needless to say there that industrial espionage is real and this is something that was extremely to protect not only in Europe but elsewhere but especially in Europe weakest link of the chain email how many of you still using email for let's say serious business communication see pretty much everyone in the room and 97% of people so here is maybe roughly 100 of us so 3 of us would be able to spot the phishing mail it's one of them is Sebastian there and Raphael maybe this room has a couple of more people than what is the usual percentage but a number of those exploits are happening through email and 30% of those phishing messages get opened by targeted users and then 12% are going to click so you see some of the biggest exploits that happened in the last year and also that brought multi-billion damage to Mayesh and the number of other companies around Europe came by clicking stuff from employees what they shouldn't be doing and if you look further, partner source through 2020 email is still primary targeting me to get those exploits and one and a half billion people is going to be affected with this according to IDC so needless to say for sensitive work information not only for the efficiency reasons email is way beyond communication tools, messaging tools, etc but for potential data breaches how they are going to happen the easiest, the softest target is email server and we've seen it during the US election campaign and during the number of other situations where this should have not happened, it still happened there and if you look there one third of consumers would stop dealing with a business after a security breach happens so it's not only the GDPR fine is going to hit those businesses they are going to also lose a lot of customers and if you see for instance the Lloyd hit by cyber attack and they are also the one that was saying email should not be used for sensitive communication some makes after they are being hit and super sensitive data of all of their customers is out so those also that are preaching the story are not really executing and if you see some other interesting cases when email is used where it should have been used and the situation is not much better with the business messaging tools that are not deploying the highest grade of security standards because it's basically the same risk as it is with the email server or maybe a little bit better but still a very similar game so here what is really important is that with the solutions that are deploying end-to-end encryption the encryption keys are on your side on the subjects of communication the ones that you are exchanging sensitive information not in the core of the network and there we can say like you know why we are great guys you see we have a nice office we are nice people we are not going to be abusing your data you don't have to trust us on that because technology is the one that should make sure that it doesn't happen you've seen also that at Twitter where employee kicked out US president not like it was a bad thing to do it is still something what should not happen and this is continuously happening if there is a mean for exploit like this to happen it is only a question of time when it will happen so there we'll talk a little bit about the EU-grown alternative so with a wire using Simon Sinek's language start with a why why for us is protecting your essential data and shielding your digital privacy how we do it we do it by using the best possible technologies encryption high definition audio video sound and everything delivering the highest experience without sacrificing on usability or security because we've seen what is happening when systems that are used that might even be secure if they are very hard to use then shadow IT kicks in and then the trouble starts and what today we have a great messaging tool and the collaboration suit for consumers and businesses and as mentioned by Jonne we need also to start looking at how the privacy is further going into the world of machines and communication human to machine and machine to machine so this is exactly some of the next steps that we are doing and then once when you have this in your core it's easy to address any of the new growing verticals when you are following certain principles and then when you have this privacy and security built by design so there also just as a reference it's not only good enough to say we have this, this is the best and the greatest or this is as it's number of times referred that military grade encryption whenever you hear military grade encryption beware of that check rather if it's open source how transparent it is and also who has audited that solution when was the last time audited what was audited, was it audited only specification or was it audited implementation that is running so there when you do things like that also comes some more recognition from people that are true privacy activists they may be disputed by someone but they are the benchmark at least for our team extremely important there mentioned by other panelists full transparency and there I like to say that our terms of use and privacy policy is written by ordinary people or normal people that are in their company and then it is checked by our lawyers that they didn't put anything super stupid there but it's only checked, it's used still the same language it's a super short and it's meant to be understood by any of our users it's not written by lawyers for lawyers and this is something that needs to change and this is something where us and you in this room need to make a difference because we need to rise awareness we are the ones that our opinion makers and we are the ones that are being asked by our families and friends and if people do not demand different privacy policies and different terms of use not much is going to happen here so GDPR is the one again that helps quite a lot here so just to wrap it up two words about wire and messaging solution and the collaboration suite for consumers and the businesses within the same application you can have the both spaces similar as you would have with email and available for download on any of those platforms we'd like to get your feedback about it and to get to know how we can make it better and the ones that helped us a lot to make wire a better privacy tool and better security tool are exactly our users and from beginning we've done also a number of mistakes and our first privacy policy was taken from lawyers while for lawyers from lawyers for lawyers and we've been hammered in the media so it was a good learning experience and we improved it so in the same way if you see some other stuff where we can improve we'd love to hear your feedback and hear more so a couple of closing remarks there needs to be businesses seized usage of shadow IT stop using email for your sensitive information and sensitive company data and lead by example not like the lawyer that is talking one thing and then doing something totally different so it's my favorite author and Gibson says the future is here it's just not even been distributed yet thank you


using big data to anticipate car accidents based on weather forecasts in Chicago so they could deliver the right spare parts to repair houses. Someone else saying, you know, two thirds of the food that we deliver, fresh fruit and vegetable, gets spoiled in transit because it can't get to the right market.  This is no longer bits and bytes and it's that humanizing element of what this stuff can do that's almost like a superpower. It's almost a dual conference. You have the geeky conversations, the alpha geeky conversations around, you know, the Hadoop and the Greenfields and MongoDB and all the different Cassandra's so on, so forth, data warehousing, business intelligence, and then you have this whole application mindset where there's real impact, not just for business, but society. Ed, what are you seeing out there at that level of what are some of the exciting bullet points that you can share with folks out there and how big data is really changing the world? I think one of the most interesting things as this goes into an organization is that people start off with maybe they'll do a pilot project and then suddenly they find out once they've used Hadoop once for something and built kind of a platform they're able to get out data. Often it's the unexpected things that are really creating value and we're excited that one of the things we talk about alongside big data is data science and the word science is so important because people are experimenting and exploring and making discoveries in their organizations and in the world that they didn't know were there before. So I think a lot of this, we're still very early stage, still really feeling things out, still answering the questions of what this is going to do for me, but it's the unexpected things that are definitely the real value. What's the most provocative thing that you've seen here, guys? If you guys can both comment, that'd be great. I want something that you go, wow, that's really provocative and also you mentioned some of the things you mentioned about the applications, what's really the most provocative, most interesting thing? So there was a discussion which sounds very esoteric but it's actually really, really important. There was a big debate a couple of days ago about whether you don't need a hypothesis anymore or a domain expert anymore once you have the data and there's a great example where they took, if you see the movie Moneyball, you got all these scouts who, they look for kid's arm and whether his girlfriend's attractive as an indicator of his playing success and instead a couple of people show up with a spreadsheet and beat all the other teams, right? That's a case where you take a guy who doesn't have domain expertise but he's good with numbers, can beat a bunch of people who've been doing all their lives and so some people claim that the importance of being able to, of domain experts, to being an expert in your field goes away once you have enough information. The data beats expertise. That's a really, really threatening thing for everybody who's got a career where they're a domain expert because it means that someone with a spreadsheet and the right data can beat you. So while that sounds pretty esoteric, data beats hypothesis, the consequences of that are everybody who's got a job because they're good at their job. It sounds scary. It's no longer important, that's terrifying. It sounds scary. Abhi Mehta, who was one of the keynotes you guys brought on, who's a fantastic speaker, who's been on theCUBE multiple times, back at Hadoop World 2010, he talked about the Industrial Revolution, data factories and the paradigm of, hey, it's going to be scary for some people. It's going to be some displacement. What are you seeing around that kind of conversation? Because it's not just one industry, it's government. We heard we had someone on from the Chicago Metropolitan Information Center talking about some of the things she's working on. You get Gov 2.0, which you guys are heavily involved in. It's just not government, it's data sets. So ownership, all these debates going on around this. Is that part of the program?  Yeah, so one of the kind of the big pictures, stories I'm telling is that we are where we are because data is now like a nervous system inside our companies, right? Used to be it was support structures, made everything go faster that was there before, replaced existing processes. But now it's on the inside, we're seeing this kind of shift and power shift where in the kind of skills we need to use it. And so we have these things that popping up all the time, you know, the target story about the 16-year-old pregnancy that the target alerted the father to because of the promotional flyer they sent in. But all these unexpected things that are happening. And we as an industry don't just need the scientists to exploit the data, but we need policy makers, we need anthropologists to understand what has actually been a very fundamental change that computers are on the inside of what we do now where they used to be on the outside. Guys, if you can share with the audience out there, I see you've been involved in this in the show and the planning process, the execution, we're in the last day of the show here. What was it all about here, okay, from a show standpoint, it's really just reiterating what people might know, but what expectations were met, exceeded, changed, and how did the crowd here play into that? Because obviously we care about the big data around the crowd impact because you guys, they're here and we can see it on Twitter, right? So share with us that and then talk about the vision for Strata, we know that you guys announced your emerging Hadoop world with Strata, which is fantastic, takes a big monkey off Cloudera's back in terms of organizing that massive show that last year was a sell out, fire and marshals were all over the hilton in New York. So talk about this show, what's happened here for the folks who couldn't make it and then the vision for Strata evolving? I think one of the challenges is big data is so instrumental to all of our lives that we're going to see the focus on specific topics. You could easily envision Strata focused on healthcare or policy making or retail or high level CEO decision making and how does the company, we had a Diego Sands was talking about Proctor and Gamble's boardroom, which is an analytic sort of bat cave where they can crunch numbers in real time. How are CEOs going to go together? So I think what you'll see is that there's a lot of specialized discussions around different disciplines. Certainly we're thrilled at the attendance, we're thrilled at the number of exhibitors. We've also seen a change in the kind of people that are here, someone came up to me and said, dude, there's a lot of suits here. And that's really to your point, this convergence of I've got business problems, maybe data can help me. I've got data tools, maybe they can solve a business problem. That's kind of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of those two worlds colliding, which is hopefully a delicious candy one. Just quick question on the attendee profile and demographics. Obviously it's a really still a hot developer market. We were commenting here earlier. There's a lot of recruiting going on.  I mean, it's a massive, Facebook's got that little booth over there basically recruiting. It's great. I mean, people need scientists, right? So is there going to be more developer focused content and or was there feedback on that? Did you guys hear people say, hey, not enough deep dives? Or was that cool? Or will there be separate mini summits strata events where you can do more drill downs on developers? Or what was the feedback on that? So right now we do have a very broad based audience. And I think that's appropriate as everybody from product managers to developers are trying to understand how they can use data policy makers, entrepreneurs. And so we keep that. And in this show, I think it's a pretty good template for what you can expect from the rest of the year where we go deep on stuff that works and deep on stuff about business strategy at the same time and deep on data science. At this point, we have these three big audiences and we're a great home where they can intermingle. Yeah, I think that's a really good strategy. And in fact, we've been hearing a lot about the cultural fit or lack of fit or change, depending on how you want to look at it, between the old data warehouse business intelligence markets which is big business. I mean, that's an industry. And then also the green field with Hadoop. So there is an educational process. Talk about the data science MBA with Jumpstart program. We had Bill Schmarzo on. We call him the Dean of Big Data because he's just so dynamic and pleasurable to listen to and knowledgeable. How did that go? And what's some session? What came out of that session? Yeah, so Jumpstart was started with the notion that in many cases, you have a business problem. Can you solve it with data? And Bill did a great job. I mean, he actually had Michael Porter's business consulting group stuff and all these matrices and it was like a rundown memory lane for anybody who's done business school. And I surveyed the room and about 35% of people in the room plus or minus 5% because we're at a stats conference. 35% of the people in the room said they had MBAs which was quite high. And I think one of the things that we really found was there's a hunger for how to apply this stuff to business decision making because once upon a time you'd make a decision and then a quarter later you'd get back your numbers and you'd see if it worked.  And the expectation of business people who they walk in knowing more about their friends, what they had from dinner on a Facebook feed, then whether they're going to make the quarter or where their trucks are, that's not going to stand. So there's a whole shift in expectations. There's a whole training. We're talking to Claudero who's been very successful this year and hugely successful. I think they're going to do this year. Dave Vellante forecast, they're probably double sales just by hitting the alarm clock. He thinks they'll do well above that in terms of revenue, which is fantastic for an open source company like that. But in talking to Sarah over there who runs training and they have massive success with their deal that there's a 5,000 trainings. There's a huge emphasis on training and the human capital here is just it's embryonic. It's not enough. There's not enough people. And I don't know if business people can even understand how to ask the right questions yet. So that's a large part of what we're going to spend time teaching. What are you guys going to do about that problem?  Obviously we love the data scientists workshop. It's an educational need. What's going on in the market? What is needed and what's going on that people can go to? What resources are you seeing? We're doing several things. I mean, one of our big jobs for this conference is to try and make sense of the marketplace right now. I spend a lot of January writing a lot of material about exactly where everybody sits and how they stack up and what's real. I think one of the other really important things coming through this year is going to be the increased importance of visualization. You talked about the skills gaps and what we want to be able to do is give non-mathematically trained people the skills to be able to have a fingertip feel for the data. So it's not just about boring old dashboards and tablet technology is absolutely vital in this, that people can see the data, then they can stick their finger in it, move it around, get that dynamic, which is what data scientists have built into their gut. But we want that, you know, so business people can have that too. Yeah, I made a tweet prior to coming here only to goof on the TED conference because I love the TED videos and it's intellectual candy really for the brain in my mind, I love TED. But I was calling this conference the TED for the real world in the sense that there's a little bit of TED here in the sense that there is a cultural mindset change that intellectually is challenging. Did you just call us a brand muffin? Huh? Did you just call us the brand muffin of conferences?  So, you know, but really, I mean, well, lace brand muffins maybe. Nice, maybe a carrot cake. Cookies, you know. Brownies. What's next? So, final questions for you guys. What's next this year? Obviously, the Hadoop World Integrations is big news. We love that. That's probably going to go to the next level.  Program changes. For the folks who don't know, you can go to O'Reilly blog. These guys are posting their roadmap there as well. But just in general, share with the folks out there the vision and what's the next steps. What are you going to build on? What are you going to tweak? Well, Ed and I split duties pretty well. We have different backgrounds and very complementary backgrounds. So, I've been running a lot of the online conferences and the startup showcase, jumpstart, some of that stuff. And Ed is focused on the core content and the really high-end speakers and so on. I know we're going to be developing more of the jumpstart program. That was packed rooms.  That vibe of solving business problems with data I think will play really well on the big Apple. And so, we're definitely going to ramp that up a lot. We saw a ton of success around that theme. And I think maybe even go a little higher up the food chain to the CIO CTO as part of that develops because there's an increasing hunger to understand how this is going to affect applications. Yeah. I'm typically right. Because the application surge, I mean. Sure. We're also looking at geographic expansion. So, hopefully we'll have some news confirmed pretty shortly about China and London to add to this. So, we're very excited. Congratulations. Program chairs from Strata. Ed Dunville, Alistair Kroll, great guys. You should follow them on Twitter. Find out where they are. Just go on Google search. Go to O'Reilly. Their blog is fantastic. These guys are expanding. This is a real, real game-changing trend. Great to be part of it. I'm really psyched for you guys. Congratulations. Thanks. We'll take a quick break.


You tried to disroute me. You did the right stuff. You tried to disroute me. Right here. Yo, good job, buddy. That's what I was thinking about. Me and Joe said, hey, man, you got a right stuff. They want us to take our coat off, Charlie. No.   Not take your coat off. Everybody takes your coat off. You guys class? The President of the United States and the Vice President. Well, please sit down. Well, thank you all. Welcome to the White House and back to the White House for some of you. It's a great, great pleasure to have you here. Just as it was a great pleasure to watch these gentlemen perform in the World Series. And all of my words of welcome are intended for all of you also. In that Interstate 70 series, The Show Me Spirit really came through. Your team showed the world, and you did it royally. That's it. You proved to America what a never-can-never-say-die spirit can do. Even after losing the first two games of the series at home, you met the challenge. And you kept America in suspense for seven full games and rallied to bring the World Series trophy to Kansas City. Only five other teams in World Series history have managed to overcome such a margin. Now, look at how enthusiastic I'm being. And I pitched in a World Series, but I was with the Cardinals at the time. Three games. It was the 1926 World Series, but I was doing it in 1952 in a movie. I had an edge on all of you in the sense that I knew the script in advance, so I knew it was going to come out right. Well, Dick Hauser, you may not have the words to describe it, but in the words of Brett Saberhagen it was, a dream come true. And what a dream it's been for Brett. A 20 and six regular season record. At 21, the youngest player ever to win the World Series, most valuable player, a leading candidate for the Cy Young Award, and a proud papa to brand new Drew William. You're not only a hot pitcher, Brett, but I understand you're a pretty good coach, too. And if you don't think so, just ask Janine. The Royals have some super-talented players. George Brett, the third baseman who has captured the essence of hitting, has become something of a Kansas City institution. He's an inspiration for future ball players all across the country. Then there's Willie Wilson, who batted 367 in the series. Frank White, the ever-steady second baseman, Slugger, Steve Balboni, and Halmore McRae, and of course Dan Quisenberry, the premier relief man, whom I called Jim on the phone the other night. Heads will roll in the West Wing for that. But it's the Royals' team play, a combination of the great spirit and hard work of every one of you on the roster that brought you this championship. I always like to point to experience as a major element of success, but it's hard in this case when you can add up the ages of three of the five starting pitchers and come up with fewer birthdays than I've seen. Seriously, you've fought long and hard throughout the season.  And now that you've proved you're the champions of the world, what do you do for an encore? Next year. All right. Congratulations. God bless all of you. Thank you very much, Mr. President. On behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. Fogelman, the entire Kansas City organization, players, wives, coaches, and our many fans, not only in Kansas City, but all over the world, we'd like to make a presentation to you as whether it be a bullpen pitcher or DH, whatever, you're on our team and we're proud to have you. There's a cap. There you go. And there's a cap. And if you happen to DH or pinch hit, that's not all right here for us. There you go. There are some gentlemen here in the first row that I would like to inform you and have you inform others, I am armed and ready. Okay. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much. You enjoyed it. Thank you very much.


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Hey, it's Anfaa from Anfamuse.com and today I want to show you how to synthesize a simple rease bass Then make it not so simple. What is a rease bass at all and well? How does it sound like? Of course in Zenits of FX? So here we are. I have Bodline enabled to have waveform and Spectrum view So we can see what we're doing like this is nice to synthesize sounds or even listen to music that other people did With these tools, especially the spectrum analyzer because then we can better understand what you're hearing and this nicely You know rewires your brain to actually see what is the harmonic content of your sounds of Or what is the harmonic content of what you hear and it's helpful when you want to design sounds you heard or something similar Okay, so we have some effects. I'm quickly gonna make a patch and Then I will explain what I did So we I'm gonna make a saw wave Get another voice Use the same saw wave and now I'm gonna tune this Badly doesn't sound familiar Well, probably it is that's a rease bass where what is a rease bass? It is actually the first rease bass No, the first reason that people talk about that it was called a rease bass Had also a very low a little bit of Lopez filler. So it sounded more like this I'm gonna disable velocity sensing here and here So we get consistent Filtering and volume Well, a rease bass bass is on the simple fact that if you get two waveforms due to the same waveforms And one is slightly faster than the other they will Go the other ways We can I think we can easily see this on our oscilloscope if we Make one of these waves in the left channel and another in the right I just need to find the right pitch Or maybe or maybe they are too much detuned. We can't really see this very well Well, this oscilloscope doesn't actually Give us the better the best impression of what it is like But you got to believe me Now they are very slightly detuned So our pulsation is slower if we do tune them if I do tune them more part For some reasons and it sub effects default Detune type has the limit that is very sane Because it doesn't produce pitches that sound like you're not playing the right in the right key or you're not tuned your instrument you haven't Okay, so that's a dark rease And this is a bright one What I'm gonna do now to make this more interesting is change from poly mono Which makes us unable to play chords Now if I hold one key and press another The latter one will take precedence and play we'll have just monophonic instrument And this is what we want because bass doesn't really like chords Also, I want to disable portamento Which is the feature that makes the notes slide and pitch between them instead of jump immediately When you open the controller Window you have the control over weather What is the time How fast the portamento is done this is rather fast and you can make it very slow It also depends it depends on what you need like Also, there's a funny thing called the threshold for portamento And by default it's set up so The portamento isn't performed when you make slower intervals than this Here I make a fifth And it doesn't use portamento But but an octave does you can invert it by Deselecting this and then intervals smaller than what you have here We'll use portamento And bigger one Actually, this isn't an octave Okay, now it works. Okay. The thing is that the threshold Works a little bit different in two directions. So When I had 12 here Making it negative It worked if you make it positive It also works because well you need to this Make it one lower. Okay. 12 is an octave because it's 100 cents 100 cents is a semitone 12 semitones is an octave if you didn't know this Another funny thing that you can do especially if you want to perform live This kind of sounds is to change the range of the pitch bend Right now it's 200 cents, which means two semitones one whole tone, but Can make this 12 Or even 24 which is two octaves and now I can perform this simply by pressing a key and then Using my pitch bend, which is very cool because you have much more expression and you don't depend on the portamento time You can also combine the two like use the portamento and also Use the pitch mode pitch wheel. Oh, this is all your choice, okay, let's leave this for now and See what we can do to make this more interesting We have two voices and what if we add a third one Right in the middle We have more phasing It starts to sound like a super so Doesn't it actually what is a super so well It's kind of the same deal, but you have much much more of the same and Detune it Not to well why we have more most of the times Reese's have only two voices Because then you have the most Of the pulsation you you have Okay, we can actually change the waveform and see what we can get This is a power wave And it has more high frequency content than a saw wave of course it has to have less Frequency low frequency content because you know the sum of the energy in a waveform cycle needs to stay the same So It kind of a sounds like a high shelf low shelf like a tilt EQ That's adding high frequency, but reducing the low frequency content We could use this but it's actually very Very harsh So I would make it less prominent simply make it a little more Backed off and what I want to do is compensate for the lack of low-end. I'm gonna add a saw wave Detune it and then filter it Let me show the voice list I Will hide the first two waves and We can see and use the internal voice free oscillator. We have External. Oh, uh-huh. It didn't change because we're using the But the external one is disabled We get some funky business here look. Ah, yes, okay because I was using Because I was using, you know external slaters I Got a little bit messed up. I want an internal here as so here and then I will reference this so the four voice Now disabling the first two Actually Let's take a look at the third voice You can see that we have resonance because No But it would be nice to have this sharper, so I'm going to increase the stage number Okay, it doesn't Reese. I mean it doesn't beat it doesn't pulsate because we have just one of this and we need to so they face cancel each other Because they they are distant speeds I think something is clipping Yeah, probably All righty, so let's enable our first two voices and make them quieter Also what we can do is take our high end and Change the panning like put the first voice a little bit to the left and the second voice a little bit to the right And Now we have some stereo chair well stereo image stereo width can make it wider Looks like the portamento Yeah, it's uses the threshold. I usually just leave this on so the threshold is like Used for notes above And I put it to zero However, actually a little free semitone threshold might be nice How does it work let you can actually go a whole tone up Or down without having the portamento, but making it free semitones already activates a portamento You Can see some like side effect of using the mod wheel and actually We're using just changing the playback rate of the internally generated wavetables That are created with an add since All right, we can do more we can for example distort this bitch I Will enable stereo So we have two channels and we can hear our width And this is left right mix if it's on the left There's no effect if it's in the center Essentially 64 you have mono and the right Inwards the left and right channel and this is interesting if you use dry wet Because you can actually have the distorted sound Have swept stereo And this can interact with the non-swapped Original dry signal not distorted Because also we can filter the distorted signal and so what I want to do I want to cut off the low end And finally add some EQ Well it kind of looks like it remembers some older things that I have been doing let's use a low-shell filter Up to gain Now we have more bass and this is the frequency. Let's make it a little bit more gentle Alrighty, this is our Reese bass. What else you want? Well, I Want to take one more try at this sound of entirely a different approach Actually faking what what this effect is So I will disable this voice And I will another one not a voice part changing the channel. I can actually play it And now I Want to do something very weird Let's do simple saw wave And give it a notch filter Make it wider and give it more stages and Now we have a little so it's moving it draws a nice sine wave Cutting it through from our source so wave And now the funny thing is hmm There's LFO stretch LFO stretch means lower LFO frequency on lower notes This very change our frequency scale going to compensate Why this is funny? Well, it doesn't sound nothing like the Reese but It tries to mimic the phenomena and that phenomenon that when you play lower notes the original Reese bass is It's pulsating slower And higher notes it's pulsating faster. Okay, this is all for today. Thanks for watching. I hope you learn something if You want to see more of that well subscribe You can also like this video if you like it if you want to ask me something or Ask for a specific sound tutorial video about something late. Just leave it in the comments Thanks. See you next time. Bye


Okay. Welcome everyone. Good morning. Hope that you're doing well and that whatever you learned yesterday was refreshing and strengthening about the tabernacle of David. So today again we have something very special to study. We will pray and then we'll get started. But before that, I just wanted to check, did your previous class get over a little late? No, no, it actually, we didn't have the last hour because I see, I see. Okay, understood. Yeah, yeah, because people are still joining. So that's what I thought. Anyway, we'll go ahead. We'll pray and we'll get started. So yeah, could someone please lead in prayer? Okay, as Salli. Father, we want to thank you for this time.  We pray God that you would open the eyes of our understanding and we would be able to understand more of your word this morning or God especially. Help us to understand regarding prayer and to apply this in our lives for God. We thank you that you are leading us in a special way. We give you praise in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen, amen. Thank you. Thank you, John. Yeah, so so today we are going to focus in on praying for revival. Okay, how to pray for revival. Revival, if you look at church history, you would find a common thread, you know, running through all the revivals and that common thread would be prayer. Okay, people made time for prayer, people invested in prayer, people sought God with all their hearts, with all their being and people cried out to God and as a result of that, we see a great work of God. You know, what is revival? Revival is moments in time when we have seen a mighty move of God. Okay, it's a mighty move of God in terms of people coming into the kingdom, in terms of the Holy Spirit working in people's hearts, in terms of the manifestation of the supernatural, the manifestation of the power of God, the display of God's glory, that people are getting healed, people are getting delivered from demonic powers, there is a city transformation taking place. So, you know, in that moment of time, you or that period in time, you see a work of God unlike any other and you know, if you just, I'm giving you a few things about revival, but there is so much more and it's a refreshing, you know, from God's presence that God brings in and he shows us his glory. So, many a time, you know, people refer to the book of Acts as a period of revival. You know how people stepped out and ministry was happening, the regions were being won for God and God's power was being demonstrated. It was an exciting time. It was an exciting time. It was spread over about three decades, but you see God's glory in a different way, in a powerful way. Okay, so that is revival. So, when we are crying out to God for revival, what we're saying is, God, you visit us in a new way, in a fresh way, in a powerful way so that we will be revived, we will be strengthened even more in you and we will see you for your power and your glory and each revival, you know, it displays God, it displays the glory of God in a magnificent way and that's what we want to see, we want to experience. So, there are people in history who have cried out to God and said, God, you visit us, you come powerfully in our midst, you do your work powerfully and God has done it. So, Charles Finney made the statement which is in our notes here. I am in page 80, page 90, chapter number 22. So, the statement says, revival comes from heaven, when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die or if need be to win and die, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. So, he is talking about the determination and the commitment that one needs to pray till something happens.  So, we need to press in, we need to push in and prayer is really the key to revival and anyone would agree, whoever studied revivals will agree that there was somebody who was praying, there was a community of people standing on the word of God. So, how can one pray for revival? Praying for revival is based on God's word, the promises in God's word that we can take and we can ask, okay, God, this is what you have spoken and we want that to come to pass. So, we can pray for revival in that manner. We can also pray for revival being led by the Holy Spirit. Now, Holy Spirit obviously will only speak in line with what God has already spoken in his word. So, 1 John 5-7, it says that the Spirit and the Word agree, so there will be no disagreement. The Holy Spirit leads us to pray for certain things and when we are led in both ways by the Word and the Spirit, we are able to call upon the Lord and we are able to press into this revival that we are talking about. So, you know, there are so many revivals, I think yesterday we looked at the Moravian, I told you the Moravian prayer movement, but it's also called as the revival. So, what is the precursor to that? You had people praying for 24 hours for several years and we have talked about the Welsh revival of Evan Roberts and I told you, Evan Roberts prayed and communities of people actually prayed. So, it's like that, when you study different revivals, Azusa Street, some people talk about that, 1905, William J. Seymour and when you see what they were doing, they were praying and in fact, one man, William J. Seymour, apparently he prayed for many hours, he prayed in tongues and even after the revival broke out, they say that he would wait in the room where people would gather and he would be praying and he didn't want anybody to disturb him or him to disturb anybody. So, it seems he used to put like a carton, you have those carton boxes, right? He'll put that on his head and he'll be praying. So, you can see a man who has put the carton box on his head and what is he doing inside? He's praying, he's praying in the spirit, he's praying, praying, praying and he would only come and speak to the people when he sensed the Holy Spirit move him to speak, otherwise the whole time he would be praying. Okay? So, I'm just giving you a glimpse of this connection between prayer and revival. So, you talk about different revivals and you will see that there were people who were you know, crying out to God, layman's revival, you know, that's another revival, where you had people during lunch break, they decided that they are not, they are going to spend that time to pray. So, wherever they were, they would just gather and this was started by, I mean, I don't remember the details now, but you can look it up, it's there. I think it's all there in the book publication called Revivals, Visitations and Moves of God. So, a person decided that he will print flyers and in that flyer, he had invited people, okay, every day during lunchtime, can you just gather and pray? That's all. So, it went around, these flyers went around and people actually took it seriously and they started gathering for prayer during lunchtime. So, initially, a few people gather, tens, 20s, hundreds, thousands and it just started, during lunchtime, chapels and churches started getting filled and a mighty revival took place, you know, even the press started covering it. So, it became that huge because somebody initiated prayer and said, can we all just spend a little bit of time, you know, praying during lunch break and, you know, it led into a revival. So, prayer is the key. If you want to see a move of God, sure, short way, seek the Lord through prayer and that's what we have seen even in church history and many, many revivals. You can look at somebody, somebody's name. We talked about Charles Finney, right? And we said, Father Nash, remember his ministry, his preaching was so effective because you had that Father Nash and his team, okay, investing time in prayer. So, if we want a revival, it's actually quite simple. We have to connect to God. We have to seek him. We have to spend that time with him, okay, and pray, okay, and we really never know, you know, how God begins to move when one is willing to do that. So, prayer, prayer, prayer, you know, you can't overemphasize it. It is that important. And, you know, today, just imagine if local churches make that time for prayer and even, let's say, if you can't gather as a local church, even a small team of people, you gather together and start praying, you know, surely we can all move in the direction of a mighty revival or a move of God. So, when we pray for revival, what are all the aspects that we must focus on? That is what we are going to look at today. There are a couple of points that I will touch on. To be exact, there are five points, okay, so we will go through each one of them. So, the first one is that we must pray prayers of repentance, of consecration, yielding and surrender to God. So, usually, when you study about people who prayed for revival, you know, you find those who were, you know, very honest with God and also, to the point where they said, God, if you want to change something in me, you change it. Okay, if like, bend me, mold me, make me, I just come before you and I dedicate myself to you.  So, inviting God with repentance, that's also something that we have seen people do. If you look at the book of Jonah, right, when people repented, what happened? God's forgiveness came. God's working in their lives manifested. So, to pray for revival, this can be a starting point. We can ask God for forgiveness. We can ask God to change us. If there are things in our lives, you know, there can be weights or the Bible calls weights, things that interfere, you know, in our race, this faith race, faith journey, there can be sins. Okay. So, there's a cleansing that we're asking God for. We are saying, God, whatever standards we've had till now, we want you to up it. Okay. So, we pray for forgiveness, Lord. If there are things in us which are not right in your sight, then you please forgive us and help us to change. The good example, again, is that same Evan Roberts, you know, in their language, the Welsh language, they would say, bend me. Okay. Bend me was the term which in this revival became very, very popular. You know, people started using that term. It was introduced by a person called Seth Joshua. Okay. Seth Joshua first said, Lord bend me. And Evan Roberts caught on to that. So, the prayer of the Welsh revival was Lord bend me, meaning I repent. I commit myself to you. I surrender, you know, I'm ready Lord for if you want to change something in me, change. Okay. The sins in my life, the burdens in my life, the weights in my life, you know, I'm letting go. You know, it's like the heart of David. Remember, David came before the Lord and he had this prayer in Psalm 139 versus 23 and 24. He said, search me, oh God, and know my heart, try me and know my anxieties and see if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. So, he's coming open before the Lord willing to repent, you know, of his sins. And we know the context some of the other psalms of repentance also that he wrote. Okay. Sorry, everyone, there was some interruption in the connection. So, anyway, I'm back. So, I was saying that we are repenting, right? We are repenting before the Lord.  Maybe there are some ungodly affections, okay, which we have, they can be our affection for self. They can be our affection for, you know, certain worldly achievements where we have selfish ambition. They can be our affection for the praise of people. Okay. So, sometimes, even without our knowledge, all of these things are a part of our lives. But when we truly come before the Lord and we are seeking a revival from God, we need to be in a place of repentance.  Whatever you want, you please do it. Okay. And that becomes the real cry for revival. So, when we are praying for revival, you know, we need to have our hearts so open before the Lord, where we are saying, God, our current standards, we may think that, hey, my Christian life is, I'm just living the life, the Christian life, but we still go before the Lord and say, God, bring me higher, oh God, bring me higher. You know, I'm sorry for the things which are not right in my life, in my heart, in my family, in my community, in my church. And in fact, this repentance can extend over the city as well, over the nation as well. We repent for God, not just for our sins, but also for the sins of the people in our land. And that's how we are inviting the working of God in our midst. So, when we pray for revival, it's good to go humbly before the throne of God's grace and say, God, we're like an open book. You do whatever you want to do, Lord, you do that in us. So, that is the main way in which one can pray for revival. Second, we can pray and ask for more of God. We can ask for a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So, when we say more of God, you know, in the Psalms, it says, as the dear pants for Brooks of Water, you know, I pan for you, oh God. So, there is a longing in our spirit for God, which only God can satisfy. So, when we're asking God for a revival, we're asking him to visit us in a strong way, okay, because our affection is set on God. And what we are saying is, we're saying, God, only you will satisfy. Nothing else is going to be sufficient. Nothing else is going to be enough for us. So, we want more of you. We want more of you. And to have more of God, you know, what is a requirement within us? We need a hunger. We need a thirst for the Lord. So, as God's people, just imagine, you know, as individuals, you know, we are living our lives and we are saying that I'm okay. You know, in my Christian life, I don't really have to grow anymore or I don't really have to experience anything more from God. You know, that itself shows that we are stunted. But the healthy way to live the Christian life is at every given point, we have to say, God, I am hungry. Teach me something new. Do something new in my life. You know, help me, Lord, to see your glory in a new way. So, what is that? That is carrying the hunger of God. When people don't have hunger, very soon, we can expect, you know, whatever working of the Spirit is there, it will come to an end. It will come to a stop, you know, stand still. Because God can no longer work in the lives of people who are not hungry for Him. But it is when churches are hungry. So, I want to really encourage you to go read those revival stories. You would find that people were crying out, people were calling out to God. There is one more chapter we will do in this course. There is the example of a lady called Pandita Ramabai from India. And she worked among children. And we will study how these children were crying out for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. They were asking God, God, pour out your Holy Spirit, pour out your Holy Spirit. So, they had that hunger. And for us to receive a revival, we need to be hungry. You know, anyone who goes before God and says, I already have, but if you want to give, you know, that attitude will not work for revival. Every revival that we study about, people were hungry. And how beautiful, isn't it? If we have people in our churches, people in our communities saying, hey, we want to see more of God's working in our midst. So, hunger is very important. That need for more of God is very important. We need to be excited, more revelation from God's Word, you know, more of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, more of the gifts of the Spirit, more of the manifestations of God's power, whether it is healing, whether it is some miracles, whether it is something supernatural that God is doing among us. So, we're always hungry. Wow. You know, what is the next service going to look like? What is the next class going to look like? God, what are you doing? So, that is a healthy believer. That is a believer who is prepped for revival. Okay. And so, in our prayers, this is what we're asking God for. God, give me a greater hunger for you. Give me more of you. Let there be a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now, we know that praying for more of the Holy Spirit that is so scriptural in the Book of Acts on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was already poured out. But, you know, God has promised this for all his children, for all his sons and daughters. So, today, we can ask God, keep pouring out the Holy Spirit and keep releasing, oh God, those dreams, those visions, you know, that prophecy and that tongues and everything, Lord, that you have through the working of your spirit in our midst. So, God also promised in His Word in Zechariah 10-1, says the latter rain will be greater than the former. So, the early outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that was mighty enough. But what is the promise of God? God said in the last days, the way I'm going to pour out my spirit, it will be much greater. And that is why today if we say, okay, God, we want a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit, it is very much in line with Scripture and we can ask God for that. And when we do that, you know, God is a God who is faithful, he pour out that increasing measure of the rain of the Holy Spirit on us, okay. And people who have prayed in this way and who have experienced the working of the Spirit, even today, we can hear of churches around the world, some of them giving testimonies of what happened when they prayed for more of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So, all these things should really inspire us and help us realize that we too can experience these things. Alright, so first we said repentance, coming with an open heart, letting God work in our lives, you know, that is our approach in prayer. Second, we are asking for more of God. So, we become hungry, genuinely hungry for more of God, more of the outpouring of His Holy Spirit. Then we are asking for the manifestation of the glory and the power of God in our midst, okay. So, what is the glory and the power of God? The glory of God, we can study it in many ways, the glory of God. In the Old Testament, you would find that you could see the presence of God, you could experience the presence of God. You know, the glory of God would come like a cloud, it would appear as fire, okay. So, all that was the glory of God. And later on, when Jesus came to the earth, we saw that He manifested His glory. For the first time, you read that when He turned water into wine, when He did a miracle, the glory of God was manifested. So, Jesus manifested the sonship glory through a miracle. And then, through His entire lifetime, He was doing miracles, He was doing supernatural works. So, He was manifesting His glory in that manner. And He told that, you know, we who are believers, we will do greater works than Him. So, today, you know, when we're talking about the glory of God, the glory of God will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. It is who God is and what God does coming through in and through our lives, okay. So, by that, we mean that in our churches, you know, we're experiencing the presence of God in a mighty way. We're experiencing the works of God, you know, the way Jesus did all those mighty works, those works of God are there in our midst, okay. And talk about the nature of God.  So, the manifestation of everything that God is, is seen in the church. It is seen in the body of believers. It is seen in a particular believer. That is the glory of God, which we are talking about. So, we want God to be revealed. Basically, that's what it is for who He is, okay, through the works that He does. That is the glory of God. So, we are crying out to God and we are saying, God, we want a manifestation of God of your glory.  So, they come back, they tell the other believers, this is what has happened, we have been warned. But when the believers hear this, they pray together to God and they say, God, you know, because of these threatenings, we don't want to stop the work, but give us more boldness so that we can continue the work. And then they also pray and ask God for, let more, so that these people will realize, ask for the manifestation of the glory of God. And that's where, you know, God is able to work. So, as God's children today, you know, in addition to whatever else we have said, let us pray for the manifestation of the glory and the power of God. You know, we want to see the power of God, just imagine, we go to church, okay? But we don't experience God working in our hearts or in our lives, not through the presence, not through the gifts of the Spirit or not through, you know, the breakthroughs, the miracles and all that he's releasing, we just go to church and we come back. You know, that will be so incomplete, isn't it? But what is God's promise? He wants to fill his temple with his glory. He wants to fill his house with his glory. So, when we are praying for revival, that's what we are saying.  But Lord, we want your glory. You manifest yourself. If you are there, that is what makes the difference. So, we begin to pray in this way. We become hungry. God, every time we want to see you, we want to see your glory. Maybe one time we experience the peace of God, right? And that that is his glory presenting itself in that way. We get healed. That is God's glory presenting in that way.  God's glory is being manifested. So, we are encountering the glory of God in different ways and we want more of that. So, when we pray for revival, that's what we should say. God, manifest your glory, oh God. Manifest your power. We should not be, you know, a dead set of people doing, you know, sort of just rituals and traditionally coming together, but we really, really need you. So, when we pray for revival, that's what we are asking for. Okay. And again, you know, you could just look at the revival stories and there you will see, you know, there were times when God's glory manifested in amazing ways. And also, the way, for example, the Azusa Street revival, in that revival, there is this incident where when people were praying, okay, people were praying. And of course, there were a lot of healings that took place and very remarkable ones, you know, things like somebody's ear got injured and immediately when someone prayed for it, the ear got healed in front of everybody's eyes, you know, the bleeding and the injury and all just disappeared. So, crazy, crazy stuff happened.  And they came to put off the fire. But when they actually came there, they found that there was no fire. But people could see the building burning. But what was that? It was the manifestation of the glory of God. God was working in their midst by the, you know, by his glory. And, you know, all these amazing stories that you read about revival and it really inspires you, not that God is going to work the same way. Maybe we won't see any manifestation of cloud or fire or heat or cold, maybe not that way, maybe in some other way, right? But we are open. God, whichever way you're going to manifest your glory, you please come and we need to experience your working in our midst. So we cry out for the glory of God.  So in many revivals, you would read that a lot of people, you know, thousands of people accepted Christ, thousands of people came into the kingdom of God, everything, you know, Welsh revival, there is a number attached to that, how many thousands of people accepted Christ, layman's revival, so many thousand people accepted. So you see that the lost come into the kingdom. And so when we pray for a revival, we can also pray, God, you those who don't know you, Lord, we pray that in a quick way, in a speedy way, Lord, that you will draw these people to yourself.  So we can pray everything we have learned about those who are lost, you know, bringing them into the kingdom, we begin to pray those prayers, when we pray for revival and surely a lot of people will come into the kingdom of God. And I think I told you, right in the Welsh revival, they had people who used to cuss, they stopped cussing, people who, the crime rate was very high and they actually figured out that the crime rate had become less because people were getting saved. People who are coming into the kingdom, they were understanding that we have to live by the nature of God and not do all these sinful things. So people getting saved in revivals, you know, that is something very common and we must pray that God will do that work of great harvest, mighty harvest.  So we need to pray, Lord, let there be a revival so that many will accept you. And then, you know, the fifth point here is to pray for transformation of the community. And yes, I have been sharing bits and pieces with you about different communities. So God can also do a deep work. Remember, when we talked about the Moravian revival, what was their issue? What was their sin, in other words, division, strife, competition. But when God began to work in their midst, how did the prayer movement start through unity? And then the unity stayed. After the unity stayed, we saw what a missionary zeal, you know, arose from the prayer movement of the Moravians. So in that way, whatever a community needs for transformation, maybe, you know, we've talked about this when we talked about praying for the city, maybe we want crime rate to go down, maybe we want, you know, justice, we want protection, we want righteousness. But God is able to do all of that, you know, when a revival breaks forth. So we are praying and we are asking God for a revival. And then, you know, as we pray for revival, we can also exercise the authority that God has given us because we are overcomers. Jesus has already overcome the paths of darkness on the cross. And we, in line with that, we are also overcomers. So when we are praying for revival, we can exercise our authority and, you know, spiritual. We've talked about spiritual warfare, how we want to stop the enemy, how we want to bind what the enemy is doing. And instead of that, we want to lose the kingdom of God. So we engage in that form of prayer as well. So these are all just a few key things to pray for revival. But I'm sure this list is not complete. All right. But when we start praying along these lines, we can be sure, based on God's word, based on what we have seen in many of the revivals that these are the keys. Okay. And we can expect God to work in our midst and God to bring forth the revival.  And I know of people who have been praying for revivals for, you know, years, decades, but they have not been in a revival yet. But that doesn't stop them from continuing to pray for a revival. So we need a determination to say that God, we will not stop praying. We haven't seen it, but, you know, we believe that you are going to do it. Okay. So we must not give up. Sometimes seeing a manifest revival, I don't know, you've prayed your whole lifetime, but you may not have seen it. But we need to persevere and trust that God is a God who honors every prayer.  God holds it close to his heart. So people have prayed for revival. There can be many years of prayer, but he will honor it. Even if we don't see it in our lifetime, you know, for sure, we know that God is going to do it. And through that, souls will come into the kingdom. The community will be transformed. We will see God's power being manifest. So that's a little bit about praying for revival. I'm just going to stop here. And if you have additional thoughts, you have additional stories or even questions, you know, we can go ahead and discuss that. All right. So yeah, feel free. You could post these things on the chat or even unmute yourself and ask. Okay. Anyone here prayed for revival? I think the answer should be yes, right? Everybody? Oh, praying. Okay. We are saying praying, Zillatoli, yes. Anita, yes. Nikki currently praying for carvar. Okay. Wonderful. Wonderful. Yeah. Yeah. Praise God. No, we should because God has asked us to trust his promise. He said the later in will be greater than the former. So it's biblical. We can ask for the outpouring of his spirit. Even Anita says praying for carvar. Wow. Amazing. Praise God. Yeah. So any any questions along these lines? Yeah, I just had one. I just just out of curiosity, like, where they're like, do you know of any revivals that started in homes? Okay. In homes, is it Divya? Oh, yes. Like, in as a maybe a group, maybe a group of people gathered in a home. Okay. Actually, at the moment, I can't think of any. It'll be good for you to scan through that book, revivals, visitations and Moves of God, APC publication from our resource section. Yeah, it has lots of stories. Okay. Sure. I'm sure you'll find something. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Nikki saying is there a point where we start moving out in faith and do people just wait to signs like people coming to church? Okay. Okay. So with regard to revival, oh, Nikki, I think the norm is that we can step out because that's a that's a given. Like, if you read Mark chapter 16, these signs shall follow those who believe. So we don't have to wait for a revival for us to actually do the works of God. So let's go ahead. Let's keep doing, you know, let's keep praying, let's keep fasting, let's keep reading the word, let's keep preaching the word, you know, let's, let's keep ministering to people as a norm. Let's do all those normal things. But you know, when revival happens, you will know. Okay. When revival happens, you will know. Does that answer your question, Nikki? Okay. Great. Yeah. Thank you. So I don't know if you all remember this was maybe 2008. There was a news of the Shillong revival in Meghalaya, which, you know, people had stories to share about the revival, how churches were being filled and people were worshiping for hours together. Yeah, correct. Correct. So, you know, that there are, there are those incidents where when people were worshiping in the churches, they had like supernatural manifestations. They talked about a bird coming, you know, that there was no bird in that place and suddenly a bird appeared and some angelic visitation. So amazing, crazy things happened in that in that revival and there were pictures, there were videos captured and somebody here in Bangalore, you know, they had made CDs and given those CDs and I saw it, you know, you had young people, children, they were all just wailing and crying and they were just saying, God, we are sorry. You know, it was just, I have never seen anything like that. You have so many people just crying out to God and it was as if God was pouring out a spirit on that community in that period of time and, you know, there were testimonies coming out like people who were given to alcohol addiction, they repented, you know, they wanted to stop drinking and all. So, so many stories were coming out of that and God was doing a marvelous work in that Shillong revival. At least these are the things that I have heard. I've also heard it from a friend of mine who has gone and witnessed the revival. So, that's why confidently I can share about it. But yeah, I'm sure there are other stories as well. Yeah, these stories inspire us. So one of the ways in which you can keep yourself fired up to pray for revival is you read of other revival stories and when you see what God has done, you know, it makes us want it.  So I'm just looking at the chat here, Zellie Tohli, you can read from headhunters to church planters by Paul Hathaway. It's a book of amazing spiritual awakening in Nagaland. Oh, thank you, Zellie. That's good. At least we can read this book. That's nice. That's about Nagaland and while praying for cities, how do we consolidate things to pray for the city, things pertaining to the city? Any suggestions based on your experience? Yeah, so consolidate, you can do a little bit of research about the city and that will give you the demographics of the city.  Then you will know how to pray based on those things. Then you would also need, you know, the current situation and when you're looking at the current situation from news, you can get, you know, information about the economy, you can get information about the safety. So different aspects, you cover different aspects of the current news. Then after that, you know, you could also go by God's word. We already have, you know, a list of scriptures which apply to every city. So you can take those scriptures and you can pray in addition to that, you know, God releases prophetic words through his people. So there can be even prophetic words that we hold on to and we pray. So in this manner, you put everything together, okay? You consolidate everything and keep praying as led by the Holy Spirit. All right, till a time where God says, okay, you know, this is done or that is done. So in this way, you consolidate it and you keep praying. Now does that help, Divya? Yeah, yes, yes, Pastor. Also, like, sometimes, you know, there can be as we learned, like, there can be some territorial spirits and things like that, right? Sorry, I didn't get you. There can be. Can you hear? Yeah, only one word. Yeah, I just said, like, there could be territorial spirits, right? Over places. So, yes, yes, yes. So, like, how do we get an understanding of such things? Yeah, so for territorial spirits, no, Divya, we can, we can see there's both the natural and the spiritual. So in the natural, you can observe, you might find that there are, you know, some activities that are abnormal. So if you find, I think we've discussed this, no, some places you see there's a lot of addiction, prostitution, corruption, and you can kind of notice that it is quite, you know, prevalent, it's, and it's spreading across, it's touching many communities in the city. You can understand that something like this cannot be, you know, just happening. It has to have a spiritual influence behind it. So you observe, but you also pray. When you pray, God will, God will put that on your heart and say, okay, you know, in this region, you have a spirit of lust, which is causing people to engage in prostitution or causing or a spirit of addiction of bondage, which is causing people to, you know, go into things like this. So both are required, you observe, and you also hear from God, and God will help you discern that these territorial spirits are at work in that place. Okay, okay. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. But one question is, don't get too absorbed in that, Divya, because what happens is, you know, people, it's like an unhealthy, they get very attached to these territorial spirits and those territorial spirits, and then you know, your focus goes, demons, spirits, God, and it's Yeah, yeah, got it. Yeah, understood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Great. Okay. I'll just look at the chat here. All right. So those are the only questions here. Close with the word prayer. Okay. All right. So let's close with prayer. And I just want to encourage you, I know I share like bits and pieces, not a very systematic way today. But, you know, inspiring stories from that revivals, visitations and moves of God. Please do read that book, you know, when you have some time, and that will give you great insight into revivals and praying for revivals. So I would like to request someone to please pray, maybe Zellie, because John started with prayer. You can close with prayer. Yeah. She learned about revival, but Holy Spirit continue on to inspire us, continue on to speak to us so that we have a heart for revival that will never cease to pray that hearts will be focused on you. We thank you so much for this time. God, you bless our pastor and bless each one of us. We thank you, God, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Zellie. Thank you, everyone. I have posted your second assignment. You can start working on it. I know you would ask me, oh, where are the assignment? I'll hand it to you. Okay.