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Hi, I'm Peter Burris. Welcome to another Wikibon action item. We're once again broadcasting from theCUBE's beautiful Palo Alto, California studio. And I'm joined here in the studio by George Gilbert and David Floyer. And in remote we have Jim Cabela's, David Vellante, Neil Raden and Ralph Finos. Hi guys. Hey. How are you all doing? This is a great, great group of people to talk about the topic we're going to talk about guys. We're going to talk about the notion of de-risking digital business. Now, the reason why this becomes interesting is the Wikibon perspective for quite some time has been that the difference between business and digital business is the role that data assets play in a digital business. Now, if you think about what that means, every business institutionalizes its work around what it regards as its most important assets. A bottling company, for example, organizes around the bottling plant. A financial services company organizes around the regulatory limit or impacts or limitations on how they share information and what is regarded as fair use of data and other resources and assets. The same thing exists in a digital business. There's a difference between, say, Sears and Walmart. Walmart made use of data differently than Sears and had specific assets that are employed and had a significant impact on how the retail business was structured. Along comes Amazon, which is even deeper in the use of data as a basis for how it conducts its business. And Amazon is institutionalizing work in quite different ways and has been incredibly successful. We could go on and on and on with a different, with a number of different examples of this and we'll get into that. But what it means, ultimately, is that the tie between data and what is regarded as valuable in the business is becoming increasingly clear given if it's not perfect. And so, traditional approaches to de-risking data through backup and restore now needs to be rethought so that it's not just de-risking the data, it's de-risking the data assets. And since those data assets are so central to the business operations of many of these digital businesses, what it means to de-risk the whole business. So, David Vellante, give us a starting point. How should folks think about this different approach to envisioning business and digital business and the notion of risk? Okay, thanks, Peter. I mean, I agree with a lot of what you just said. I'm going to pick up on that. I see the future of digital businesses really built around data, sort of agreeing with you, building on what you just said, really where organizations are putting data at the core. And increasingly, I believe that organizations that have traditionally relied on human expertise as the primary differentiator will be disrupted by companies where data is the fundamental value driver. And I think there's some examples of that and I'm sure we'll talk about it. And in this new world, humans have expertise that leverage the organization's data model and create value from that data with augmented machine intelligence.  And you hear a lot about data-driven companies. And I think such companies are going to have a technology foundation that is increasingly described as autonomous, aware of the anticipatory, and importantly, in the context of today's discussion, self-healing. So able to withstand failures and recover very quickly. So de-risking a digital business is going to require new ways of thinking about data protection and security and privacy. And specifically as it relates to data protection, I think it's going to be a fundamental component of the so-called data-driven companies' technology fabric. It's going to be designed into applications, into data stores, into file systems, into middleware and into infrastructure as code. And many technology companies are going to try to attack this problem from a lot of different angles, trying to infuse machine intelligence into hardware, software, and automated processes. And the premise is that leading companies will architect their technology foundations, not as a set of remote cloud services that they're calling, but rather as a ubiquitous set of functional capabilities that largely mimic a range of human activities, including storing, backing up, and virtually instantaneous recovery from failure. So let me build on that. So what you're kind of saying, if I can summarize, and we'll get into whether or not it's human expertise or some other approach or notion of business. But you're saying that increasingly, patterns in the data are going to have absolute consequential impacts on how a business ultimately behaves. We got that right? Yeah, absolutely. And how you construct that data model and provide access to that data model is going to be a fundamental determinant of success. Neil Raiden, does that mean that people are no longer important? Well, no, no, I wouldn't say that at all. I was talking with the head of a medical school a couple of weeks ago, and he said something that really, really resonated. He said that there's many doctors who graduated at the bottom of their class as the top of their class. And I think that's true of organizations too. You know what, in 20 years ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Peter Drucker for an hour, and he foresaw this 20 years ago. He said that people who run companies have traditionally had IT departments that provided operational data, but they needed to start to figure out how to get value from that data and not only get value from that data, but get value from data outside the company, not just internal data. So he kind of saw this big data thing happening 20 years ago. Unfortunately, he had a prejudice for senior executives. You know, he never really thought about any other people in an organization except the highest people. And I think what we're talking about here is really the whole organization. I think that I have some concerns about the ability of organizations to really implement this without a lot of fumbles. I mean, it's fine to talk about the five digital giants, but there's a lot of companies out there that, you know, the bar isn't really that high for them to stay in business, and they just seem to get along. And I think if we're going to de-risk, we really need to help companies understand the whole process of transformation, not just the technology. Well, take us through it. What is this process of transformation that includes the role of technology but is bigger than the role of technology? Well, it's like anything else, right? There has to be communication, there has to be some element of control. There has to be a lot of flexibility. And most importantly, I think there has to be acceptability by the people who are going to be affected by it, that it's the right thing to do. And I would say you start with assumptions. I call it assumption analysis. In other words, let's all get together and figure out what our assumptions are and see if we can't line them up. Typically, IT is not good at this. So I think it's going to require the help of a lot of practitioners who can guide them. So Dave Vellante, reconcile one point that you made. I want to come back to this notion of how we're moving from businesses built on expertise and people to businesses built on expertise, resident as patterns in the data or data models. Why is it that the most valuable companies in the world seem to be the ones that have the most real hardcore data scientists? Isn't that an expertise in people? Yeah, it is. And it's worth, I think it's worth pointing out. Look, stock market is volatile, but right now the top five companies, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft in terms of market cap account for about 3.5 trillion. And there's a big distance between them. They've clearly surpassed the big banks and the oil companies. Now again, that could change, but I believe that it's because they are data-driven, so-called data-driven. Does that mean they don't need humans? No, but the human expertise surrounds the data as opposed to most companies, human expertise is at the center and the data lives in silos. And I think it's very hard to protect data and leverage data that lives in silos. Yeah, so here's where I'll take exception to that, Dave, and I want to get everybody to build on top of this just very quickly. I think that human expertise has surrounded in other businesses the buildings or the bottling plant or the wealth management or the platoon. So I think that it's that the organization of assets has always been the determining factor of how a business behaved. And we institutionalized work, in other words, where we put people based on the business's understanding of assets. Do you disagree with that? Is that, are we wrong in that regard? I think data scientists are an example of re-institutionalizing work around a very core asset, in this case, data. Yeah, you're saying that the most valuable asset is shifting from some of those physical assets, the bottling plant, et cetera, to data. Yeah, we are, we are, we are, absolutely. All right, David Flare. So I'd like to, I'd like to come in. Let me give you an example from the news. Cygna's acquisition of Express Scripts for $67 billion.  Connecticut General was just a sleepy life insurance company and INA was a second tier property and casualty company. They merged a long time ago. They got into health insurance and suddenly who's Express Scripts? I mean, that's a company that nobody ever even heard of. They're a pharmacy benefit manager. They're an information company period. That's all they do. David Flare, what does this mean from a technology standpoint? So I wanted to emphasize one thing that evolution has always taught us, that you have to be able to come from where you are. You have to be able to evolve from where you are and take the assets that you have. And the assets that people have are their current systems of record, other things like that. They must be able to evolve into the future to better utilize what those systems are. So what are the, and the other thing I want to say. Let me give you an example, just to interrupt you. Because this is a very important point. One of the primary reasons why the telecommunications companies whom so many people believe, analysts believe have this fundamental advantage because so much information is flowing through them is when you're writing assets off for 30 years that kind of locks you into an operational mode, exactly. So, and the other thing I want to emphasize is that the most important thing is sources of data, not the data itself. So for example, real-time data is very, very important. So what is your source of your real-time data? If you've given that away to Google or to your IoT vendor, you have made a fundamental strategic mistake. So understanding the sources of data, making sure that you have access to that data is going to enable you to be able to build the sort of processes and data digitalization. So let's turn that concept into kind of a, a Jeffrey Moore kind of strategy bromide. At the end of the day, you look at your value proposition and then what activities are central to that value proposition and what data is thrown off by those activities or what data is required by those activities. Right, both internal, yeah. The internal and external data, what are those sources that you require? Yes, that's exactly right. And then you need to put together a plan which takes you from where you are as the sources of data and then focuses on how you can use that data to either improve revenue or to reduce costs or a combination of those two things as a series of specific exercises. And in particular, using that data to automate in real time as much as possible. That to me is the fundamental requirement to actually be able to do this and make money from it. If you look at every example, it's all real time. It's real time bidding at Google. It's real time allocation of resources by Uber. That is where people need to focus on. So it's those steps, practical steps that organizations need to take that I think we should be giving a lot of focus on. You mentioned Uber. David Vellante, we're just not talking about the, once again, talking about the Uberization of things, are we? Or is that what we mean here? So what we'll do is we'll turn the conversation very quickly over to you, George. And there are existing today a number of different domains where we're starting to see a new emphasis on how we start pricing some of this risk. Because we think about de-risking as it relates to data. Give us an example of one. Well, we were talking earlier in financial services, risk itself is priced just the way time is priced in terms of what premium you'll pay in terms of interest rates. But there's also something that's softer that's come into sort of much more widely held consciousness recently which is reputational risk, which is different from operational risk. Reputational risk is about, are you a trusted steward for data? Some of that could be personal information. And a use case that's very prominent now with the European GDPR regulation is, if I ask you as a consumer or an individual to erase my data, can you say with extreme confidence that you have? That's just one example. Well, I'll give you a specific number on that. We've mentioned it here on Action Item 4. I had a conversation with Chief Privacy Officer a few months ago who told me that they had priced out what the fines to Equifax would have been had the problem occurred after GDPR fines were being enacted and was $160 billion was the estimate. There's not a lot of companies on the planet that could deal with $160 billion liability like that. Okay, so we have a price now that might have been kind of sort of mushy before but the notion of trust hasn't really changed over time but it's changed as the technical implementations that support it. And in the old world with systems of record we basically collected from our operational applications as much data as we could put it in the data warehouse and its data mart satellites and we tried to govern it within that perimeter but now we know that data basically originates and goes just about anywhere. There's no well-defined perimeter. It's much more porous, far more distributed. You might think of it as a distributed data fabric and the only way you can be a trusted steward of that is if you now across the silos without trying to centralize all the data that's in silos across them you can enforce who's allowed to access it, what they're allowed to do, audit who's done what type of data, when and where and then there's a variety of approaches just to pick two. One is where it's discovery oriented to figure out what's going on with the data estate using machine learning. This is elation as an example. Then there's another example which is where you try and get everyone to plug into what's essentially a new system catalog that's not in a DBMS but that acts like the fabric for your data fabric DBMS and that's atlas. That's an example of one of the companies that are looking at coming at this. But when we think, Dave Vellante, coming back to you for a second, when we think about the conversation there's been a lot of presumption or a lot of, another bromide, analysts like to talk about don't get uberized. We're not just talking about getting uberized. We're talking about something a little bit different, aren't we? Well, yeah, absolutely. I think uber is going to get uberized personally. And so, but I think there's a lot of evidence. I mentioned the big five, but if you look at Spotify, Waze, Airbnb, yes Uber, yes Twitter, Netflix, Bitcoin is an example, 23 and me. These are all examples of companies that go back to what I said before of putting data at the core and building human expertise around that core to leverage that expertise. And I think it's easy to sit back, companies for some companies to sit back and say, well, I'm going to wait and see what happens. But to me anyway, there's a big gap between kind of the haves and the have nots. And I think that that gap is around applying machine intelligence to data and applying cloud economics, zero marginal economics and API economy always on sort of mentality, et cetera, et cetera, and that's what the economy is, my view anyway, is going to look like in the future. So let me put out a challenge. Jim, I'm going to come to you in a second on very quickly on some of the things that start looking like data assets.  So we have it at the third site and then we can, and it takes some career of time. And then if there's a catastrophe or we have, you know, large or small, being able to restore it often in hours or days. So we're talking about an improvement on RPO and RTO. But when we talk about data assets, and I'm going to come to you in a second with that, David, for, but when we talk about data assets, we're talking about not only the data, the bits, we're talking about the relationships and the organization and the metadata as being a key element of that. So David, so I'm sorry, Jim Cabela's, just really quickly, 30 seconds. Models, what do they look like? What are the new nature of some of these assets look like? Well, the new nature of these assets are the machine learning models that are driving so many business processes right now. And so really the core assets there are the data, obviously, from which they're developed and also from which they're trained, but also very much the knowledge of the data scientists and engineers who build and tune this stuff. And so really what you need to do is you need to protect that knowledge and grow that knowledge base of data science professionals in your organization in a way that builds on it. And hopefully you keep the smartest people in house and they can encode more of their knowledge and automated programs to manage the entire pipeline of development. But we're not just, we're not talking about files. We're not even talking about databases, we're talking about algorithms. Algorithms and models are today's technologies really, really set up to do a good job of protecting the full organization of those data assets. I would say that they're not even being thought about yet. And going back on what Jim was saying, those data scientists are the only people who understand that in the same way as in the year 2000, the COBOL programmers were the only people who understood what was going on inside those applications. And we as an industry have to allow organizations to be able to protect the assets inside their applications and use AI, if you like, to actually understand what is in those applications and how are they working. And I think that's an incredibly important de-risking is ensuring that you're not dependent on a few experts who could leave at any moment in the same way as the COBOL programmers could have left. But it's not just the data, and it's not just the metadata. It really is the data structures and the models and everything else. It's a whole way that this has been put together and the reason why. And the ability to continue to upgrade that and change that over time. So those assets are incredibly important, but at the moment there isn't a way that you can, there isn't technology available for you to actually protect those assets. So if I combine what you just said with what Neil Raden was talking about, David Vellante has put forward a good vision of what's required. Neil Raden's made the observation that this is going to be much more than technology. There's a lot of change, not change management at a low level inside the IT, but business change. And the technology companies also have to step up and be able to support this. We're seeing this come, we're seeing a number of different vendor types start to enter into this space. Certainly the storage guys, Dell EMC are talking about doing a better job of data protection. We're seeing middleware companies, TIPGO, WANDISCO talk about doing this differently. We're seeing file systems, Scality, Weka IO talk about doing this differently. Backup and restore companies, Veeam, Veritas. I mean, everybody's looking at this and they're all coming at it just really quickly, David. Where's the inside track at this point? For me, it is so much white spaces to be unbelievable. So nobody has an inside track yet? Nobody has an inside track. Just to start with a few things. It's clear that you should keep data where it is. The cost of moving data around an organization from inside to out is crazy. So companies that keep data in place or technologies can keep data in place are going to have an advantage. Much, much greater advantage. Sure there must be backup somewhere, but you need to keep the working copies of data where they are because it's the real-time access. Usually it's important. So if it originates in the cloud, keep it in the cloud. If it originates in a data provider in another cloud, that's where you should keep it. If it originates on your premise, keep it where it originated. Unless you need to combine it and then put that at the new origination point. Then you're taking subsets of that data and then combining that up itself. So that's my first, will be my first point. So organizations are going to need to put together what George was talking about is this metadata of all the data, how it interconnects, how it's being used, the flow of data through the organization. It's amazing to me that when you go to an IT shop, they cannot define for you how the data flows through that data center or that organization. That's the requirement that you have to have and AI is going to be part of that solution of looking of all of the applications and the data and telling you where it's going and how it's working together. So a second thing would be companies that are able to build or conceive of networks as data. We'll also have an advantage. And I think I had a third one, companies that demonstrate pernil's observations, a real understanding of the unbelievable change that's required. You can't just say, oh, Facebook wants this, therefore everybody's going to want it. There's going to be a lot of push marketing that goes on in the technology side. All right, so let's get to some action items. David Vellante, I'll start with you. Action item. Well, the future is going to be one where systems see, they talk, they sense, they recognize, they control, they optimize. It may be tempting to say, you know what? I'm going to wait.  I think that's a mistake. I think you have to start now and you have to start with your data model. George Gilbert, action item. I think you have to keep in mind the guardrails related to governance and trust when you're building out applications on this sort of new data fabric and you can take the approach of a platform-oriented one where you're plugging into an API like Apache Atlas that Hortonworks is driving or discovery-oriented one. As David was talking about, which would be something like Elation using machine learning. But if, let's say the use case starts out as an IoT edge analytics and cloud inferencing, that data science pipeline itself has to now be part of this fabric, including the output of the design time, meaning the models themselves. They can be managed. Excellent. Jim Capil, has she been pretty quiet? But I know you got a lot to offer, action item. Jim. I'll be very brief. What you need to do is protect your data science knowledge base. That's the way to de-risk this entire process. And that involves more than just a data catalog. You need a data science expertise registry within your distributed value chain. And you need to manage that as a very human asset that needs to grow. That is your number one asset going forward. Ralph Finoce, you've also been pretty quiet. Action item, Ralph. Yeah, I think you've got to be careful about what you're trying to get done. Whether, and it depends on your industry, whether it's finance or whether it's an attainment business, there are different requirements about data in those different environments. And you need to be cautious about that. And you need leadership on the executive business side of things. The last thing in the world you want to do is depend on data scientists to figure this stuff out. And I'll give you the second or last answer for action item, Neil Raiden action item. I think there's been a lot of progress lately in creating tools for data scientists to be more efficient. And they need to be because the big digital giants are draining them from other companies. So that's very encouraging. But in general, I think becoming a data driven digital transformation company for most companies is a big job. And I think they need to do it in peace parts because if they try to do it all at once, they're going to be in trouble. All right, so that's great conversation guys. Oh, David Floyer, action item. David's looking at me saying, what about me? David Floyer, action item. They are him. So my action item comes from an Irish proverb, which if you ask the directions, they will always answer you. I wouldn't start from here. So the action item that I have is if somebody is coming in saying you have to redo all of your applications and rewrite them from scratch and start in a completely different direction, that is going to be a 20 year job and you're not going to ever get it done. So you have to start from what you have, the digital assets that you have and you have to focus on improving those with additional applications, additional data, using that as the foundation for how you build that business with a clear long term view. And if you look at some of the examples that were given early, particularly in the insurance industries, that's what they did. Thank you very much guys. So let's do an overall action item. We've been talking today about the challenges of de-risking digital business, which ties directly to the overall understanding of the role that data assets play in businesses and the technology's ability to move from just protecting data, restoring data, to actually restoring the relationships in the data, the structures in the data, and very importantly the models that are resident in the data. This is going to be a significant journey. There's clear evidence that this is driving new valuation within the business. Folks talk about data as a new oil. We don't necessarily see things that way because data, quite frankly, is a very, very different kind of asset because it can be shared, because it doesn't suffer the same limits on scarcity. So as a consequence, what has to happen is you have to start with where you are. What is your current value proposition and what data do you have in support of that value proposition? And then whiteboard it, clean slate it and say, what data would we like to have in support of the activities that we perform, figure out what those gaps are, find ways to get access to that data through piecemeal, piecepart investments that provide a roadmap of priorities looking forward. Out of that will come a better understanding of the fundamental data assets that are being created, new models of how you engage customers, new models of how operations works in a shop floor, new models of how financial services are being employed and utilized. And use that as a basis for then starting to put forward plans for bringing technologies in that are capable of not just supporting the data and protecting the data, but protecting the overall organization of data in the form of these models, in the form of these relationships, so that the business can, as it creates these, as it throws off these new assets, treat them as the special resource that the business requires. Once that is in place, we'll start seeing businesses more successfully reorganize, re-institutionalize the work around data, and it won't just be the big technology companies who have, who people call digital native, that are well down this path. I want to thank George Gilbert, David Floyer here in the studio with me, David Vellante, Ralph Finos, Neil Raiden and Jim Cabellos on the phone. Thanks very much guys. Great conversation. And that's been another Wikibon Action Item.


Senator representing Cardona Central, Uba Sani, has urged the federal government to decentralize the police force and encourage community policing to tackle banditry and insecurity bedeviling the state and the country at large. He stated this when he paid condolence to Senator Bala Na'ala in Cardona over the death of his son. Sani says efforts must be put in place to end insecurity as nowhere in the country is safe for citizens to leave while calling on the government to double efforts to put an end and to fish out the perpetrators. Also reacting, Senator Bala Na'ala says that the correct antidote is to fish out the culprits. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Cardona State, expressed worry over the unfortunate incident, saying citizens can't walk freely as nowhere is safe. It's for politicians you are helped to politicize the issue of security. Security is much more important. Our issue has been evolutionary. Evolutionarily, we said that in a long time, we took so many days for granted. And created unwittingly, created a situation of hatred. Policemen were not willing to enforce the laws of this country. Customs were ready to compromise at the border and allowed the interpretation of things that ordinarily immigration were ready to compromise and bring people who have no business to be in this country. Those in charge of security were equally willing to do that. It became a norm that once there is money, everything is possible. That is on the part of territorial protection. Internally, leaders became so obsessed with power. And therefore, law was divided into two. One for the leaders and the other for the followers. This clearly shows that we need to put particularly precious insights and focus on how the public will solve this problem. Because this young man is an innocent person living in his house, but forced to come to his house. In modern times, we have lived in the house and come to this moment that the security have not been able to track. Those people that committed this very terrible crime is something that everybody in this country would be worried. Of course, I also express my condolence to the family and the father, I said to myself. Also, I want to work closely together to ensure that I consider that this do not happen again in our home country. He was killed by unknown gunmen in his home. We pray that this kind of incidents do not occur again because it is becoming very worrisome. The thing is, we don't even know what happened next. So we are coming on the federal government, the state government. All government concern. And I want for a security person to please double the efforts in tackling this situation in our home country.


Darman the cosmetics entrepreneur turned YouTube famous lifestyle guru and vlogger has climbed his way to the top quickly and secured some luxurious real estate in the process. This even includes his new Calabasas mansion he purchased in November 2020 which also has some celebrity history. In fact Darman snagged none other than one of the Kardashians long time mansion for a whopping 15.5 million dollars. Can you guess who's? This sale was record priced at that ranks by more than a million dollars as the most ever paid for a house in the city of Calabasas. Today we're gonna check out where Darman calls home. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses even though I've done a house tour of my own place please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Darman has had quite the lucrative career as a social media star guarding a net worth of 30 million dollars and it seems like it almost happened in the blink of an eye. Dar got his first shot of fame when he founded a company We Grow, a medical marijuana franchise in 2010. He was involved in selling products and services to help patients use medicinal marijuana properly. Darman started his YouTube channel on May 9th 2018 and uploaded his first video titled Before You Give Up Watch This. Since then he has been uploading various motivational and inspirational videos based on various relatable life situations and blogs. Today Dar has garnered over 6.2 million subscribers. Other than YouTube he has lots of fan followings on his various social media platforms including more than 3.6 million over on his Instagram. Besides YouTube he has two businesses. He is currently the CEO of LivePlan, a beauty company with more than 1.7 million followers on Instagram founded in 2015 and Darman Studios which has more than 862K followers as well. And in case anyone has been living under a rock, social media personalities are the 21st century's A-list celebrities whose dedicated global fan bases allow them to fill their bank accounts with piles of money and they often use this money for multi-million dollar real estate. So we should come as no surprise that Darman and his fiance snagged a 15.5 million dollar Calabasas mansion.  Be sure to hit that subscribe button and ring that bell we post a new video daily. We're going to check out the one and only Darman where he calls home these days with his family aka his new top the line mansion in Calabasas. As you know here we talk about celebrity houses but have you ever wondered about YouTubers like Steve will do it's extravagant car purchases or about Summer Ray's new bends? We recently started a new channel Famous Fashion where myself and some other hosts are reporting on all things celebrity purchases in fashion. We'll link you one of our videos, join us and be sure to subscribe. Most recently in what seems to be a Valentine's Day we can give to herself, Summer has yet another big car to add to her driveway. While it may seem more practical her new designer SUV was far from cheap. As always don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat and now let's get into this video. Just last year Darman and his fiance Laura G a well-known beauty influencer and businesswoman in her own right were house hunting for the perfect spa. And let me tell you they looked at some lavish LA mansions only for the rich and famous. The couple recently welcomed their first child into the world so I'm sure they needed to love the place. And for an 8 figure price tag they must have loved their mansion. Darman's added to his real estate portfolio in a huge way by getting his hands on this massive Calabasas mansion for a whopping $15.5 million. This spectacular estate built in 2005 features a 9,320 square foot home which boasts 6 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. And as for the Kardashian who formerly owned it, fun fact the seller was none other than Khloe Kardashian and her $15.5 million payday was a record price. Anyways that insane price tag ranks by more than a million dollars is the most ever paid for a house in the city of Calabasas. Considering this is more than double the $7.2 million she had purchased the home for six years ago off of Justin Bieber, we'll call this a win for Khloe. In addition the home was previously owned by Eddie Murphy so it appears whoever snags his pad is bound for greatness. Talk about a list pedigree home.  And since they welcomed their daughter earlier this year it was a match made in heaven. Built in 2005 the Tuscan Villa style compound is located in the estates at the Oaks and features a double gated community where other homeowners include the likes of Kourtney Kardashian, Travis Barker and Murphy Cosmetics Tycoon's Chris and Linda Tobiel. That could be a pretty high profile dinner party if you ask me. This spectacular estate is set on a high ridge with remarkable long views of the surrounding hills which will be a theme in this house tour. In addition the 1.3 acre property boasts lush landscaping that contradicts its dry valley location. We're talking rolling green lawns perfectly set clumps of tropical plants and large bunches of brightly colored roses. Previous demands purchased Khloe Kardashian had recruited top designer Tommy Clemens and Waldo Fernandez who were the same men that reeded Kris Jenner's recently sold main residence. Their goal was to transform the formerly bland interiors into a sophisticated modern showcase with the jet black hardwood floors, cream colored walls and a full array of name brand furniture. In addition the 9,300 square foot house now features a sexy backlit bar, a delicately curved staircase and a dining room with garden views. Keep it coming. The interior of the home features not one but six fireplaces throughout and boasts vaulted ceilings, crown moldings and hand painted tiles. In addition the lavish house features floor to ceiling windows which allow for a ton of natural light, arched walkways, decked out with custom fixtures, chic paintings and elegant chandeliers. There are also distressed hardwoods and terracotta floors throughout.  It looks like Khloe set Darab pretty good. The home features a gourmet kitchen with granite countertops, sub-zero appliances and an island perfectly centered in the room. In addition the kitchen comes complete with a breakfast nook and bar and a butler's pantry with more room than you know what to do with. A graceful sitting area features a cozy fireplace, custom cabinets, another elegant chandelier and oversized windows with large glass sliding doors that give access to the terrace and pool area. Other common areas include a cream toned living room with an entire wall of steel framed floor to ceiling glass doors. And this room has more upscale furniture, custom fixtures, a fireplace and a large flat screen TV. Dar also lucked out with a family room with minimalist built-in shelves, a bar, cozy furnishings and rolling views of the backyard garden and mountains. In addition there's a spacious office with custom built-ins and oversized windows perfect for lots of natural light and I'm sure perfect for Dar to do his work. I'm gonna bet that Dar signed a few big sponsorship deals in there. And for some additional goodies there's a state-of-the-art theater with luxe couches, a games room with billiards table and a deluxe bar perfect for entertaining. With access to the backyard from almost every room, this setup is probably one of the most glamorous houses we've seen. But I wouldn't put it past the property passed on from Khloe Kardashian. The woman has stellar tastes. In addition, Kardashian opted to transform two of the guest bedrooms into one very large walk-in closet. Having a walk-in closet the size of two guest bedrooms, I'm gonna guess Laura loves that feature. Furthermore, Khloe formerly had her own dressing room decked out with a sparkly chandelier, potlates bordering the enormous mirror, flowers and upskill knick-knacks. There's even a spacious guest house that's a mini replica of the main house so it basically has its own mini-meat. And as luxurious as the interior of the home is, the backyard is just as impressive. The grounds surrounding the main house itself are meant for lounging and entertaining. In addition to that mini-guest house, there's a lavish pool and spa decked out with the top-of-the-line patio furniture surrounding it. Outback, there's also an outdoor bar, barbecue area, kitchen and entertainment area. If this doesn't do it for you, how about the outdoor area with a thatched roof, multiple courtyards and outdoor fireplaces as well as other patios for all fresco dining. All of this is surrounded with manicured grounds, a picturesque view of the California mountains and numerous Moroccan-style fountains scattered throughout the property. All right, so I think I'm gonna bring this house to an end right there. We got to take a quick look at Darman's house in Calabasas and that killer mansion he grabbed off of Khloe Kardashian for his growing family. After seeing that fancy mega mansion he's living in, what did you guys think? Was it everything you would expect out of Darman? Personally, I love that backyard with the picture-perfect pool and the interior features like the sexy backlit bar. Out of the highlights of Darman's home, which were your favorite? You can even go ahead and rate them in the comments down below. I'd also love it if you guys subscribed to my personal channel. You can drop a comment. We'll link you one of my latest videos. Oh, this is a childhood gem. Oh my gosh. I forgot about these pictures. I'm not looking at that. There's a creepy X there. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I will see you all next time. Bye.


So we'll just see where things take us. Which is the way all these streams go. So I don't know whether this is going to be chill or have a beat. It's Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva this evening, which is a rum that I know I will have to reiterate throughout the stream a few times because people always ask that it would be nice. I wonder if they have that as swag. But Electron have never acknowledged my existence so I don't think I'll be getting any swag anytime soon. I kind of had this idea to do some sounds that were sort of harkening back to the old days of Electronica, lots of sample and hold filter stuff. So I'll pageate, perhaps. No plan, yeah, there's never any plan for these. We'll set it to hold mode. I'm not sure about genius, but I get to have very, very chill. So we could work in music, I think. X, Y rather makes that. Yeah, it does, doesn't it? One is the high resonance on the filter and the other, I think it's a relationship of having a lower modulated and carrier often gets you into more vocal sound but also because I'm modulating harmonics, it's picking out those. And then distorting it makes a big difference. Changing the carrier ratio and stuff has given us lots of interesting stuff. Should we have something on X, Y as cool? Let's merge together in the chat. Sorry, I got lost with the FS1R, yeah. I always wonder one of those. These live streams are just about jamming. Digitone and DeepMind users in there, as you would expect from my viewership, I guess. If I'm modular, you've just got a Digitone keys. Jealous. Love the fact that it has the individual outs and of course, a really nice keyboard. I'm gonna come back to this sound, this patch. I think I'd like to have, not like a proper BTB, but like a sort of kick drumming kind of tommy, hand drumming kind of friend. I should probably talk about what's on this one as well. So this sounds like it has multiple voices going, but if we look here, it's actually just one voice at a time. So what I'm doing on this is in page two of sin one, locking the offset of B1 to different values to create chords, something I'm really into at the moment. I love the idea that you can take the operators and spread them out into a chord and you can parameter a lot of that, of course. But then you only bring in the FM, all these interactions come in that are really, really cool. Let's have a look at that a bit more pitch. So yeah, I'll share something that I've really been enjoying tone recently, just something I've really enjoyed being playing with this. So I'll just set my amp to drone. So there are a few algorithms, there should be video. I hope this still is for most people anyway. I hope there is for you as well. Try refreshing if you're not seeing it. There are a few algorithms which allow you to output pretty much everything all at once. So algorithm seven, for example. And if we set our mix in the middle, then we go into page two of sin one, we can start to tune. It's a bit more harmonic character, of course. We can just give that some space to live with it a bit much. You can actually turn the chorus output, but if we send it into the reverb or delay from here, chorus signal in our reverb, but just get a dig attack. You actually know that you want to, a dig attack. Creating these chords within the synthesis voices, cross-modulating them. Let's commit to the fact this is not going to be at 120 bpm, so let's go down. If I put 42, it says 420 there, so that's nice. A few more LFOs. Or if you were out of LFOs, all the ability to send an LFO to a couple of different locations. Either of those would be fine. But preferably another LFO, another two LFOs. Four LFOs per part would be great. iOS LFO apps, if I had an iOS device, that'd be great. I'm actually, actually the noodler would be good for that as well. I could, that's got many LFOs, eight of them, I think. So that'd be another way of doing it. Or many feedback early back on, on this would be the easiest way of doing it, I think. But since you're doing ASMR channel, I am ADSR ASMR. Last stream last week, we ended up doing guided meditations. So we've got these, so it's not just, because the master overdrive is on, it sounds, I barely, it's inescapable. As much as I would have any pessimistic during in his Wednesday. And we need something to get us over the lamp, I think. So I just wanted to show off the bong thing for this evening. Let's spend half an hour in G, so it's just on the white note, something's easy, isn't it? Let's go with that. Let's get it up, I can watch my recent video. I'll go with some of that clickiness. If you don't know how, then watch my recent video and you'll find out. Yes, indeed, end at the void. Let's look at it. Sign waves, they're just lovely, aren't they? Sign waves are nice. Here's something that I wanted to discuss with people for a while. Sorry, while we're here. And this might not come across well with the encoding on the stream, honestly. And I need to do some proper tests with this. But I think if we cycle the notes, I think that as it cycles the notes, I think it puts a slight bit of pitch drift on it. I think it's built-in. I think all of the voices are slightly detuned from each other no matter what you do. And that's part of why it sounds so good. Let's plumb that in so we can start doing something with the sound. Put the C. And we'll put some gaps in it. We've basically got a 16 step, it's like a 16 step XOX style. A red shading, filter on to high pass mode, turn to the resonance and then adjust it. Now, thank you so much, that's very, very kind. Thank you, Martin. All right, let's really bless this out. See you again soon. I have some new things coming, actually, for the channel to show off, I guess, the one you've seen, actually. The one that is directly related to what we're doing right now, and a Qorg Ops 6 to take a look at, which I'm very excited about because I don't know whether you knew this, like FM synthesis. I'll keep under my hat, not because it's particularly secret, but I just think it'll be a nice surprise, a rise, ruin these surprises. Is it another synth with a number six in the name? No, no, the other thing is not a synth, actually. The other thing is an accompaniment to a synth. I would also like to play with a wave stay as well. But the Ops 6, obviously, you show me an FM synth with a grabbing mod matrix. I shall be excited by it. So I think my plan is to do a bunch of long form patch making videos for the Ops 6 once I've got to grips with it, I think. And also maybe show off some of the neat features. Because everyone's already done the release day videos. The Ops 6 would have been a really choice for me on my channel, because the Ops 6 is the FM synth. And you're thinking of the SQ64, which also looks pretty good. And if I didn't already both a Beatstep Pro and a Keystep Pro, then I would probably pick one up, honestly, I'd do like to look at the features on that. I think it's only going to stop. But this is, everything's muted now, this is just what's sent in the delay buffer. If we close it all the way down, then bring up the feedback. You can almost always bring something back. Hey Orange, do I make these sessions available somewhere without my comments? It would be of limited interest, I think I just...


The Book of Zechariah from the World English Bible This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Missy, Guangzhou, China Zechariah from the World English Bible Chapter 1 In the 8th month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, the son of Barakaya, the son of Ido, the prophet, saying, Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers. Therefore tell them, thus says Yahweh of armies. Return to me, says Yahweh of armies, and I will return to you, says Yahweh of armies. Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, thus says Yahweh of armies, return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings, but they did not hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh. Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, just as Yahweh of armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us. On the 24th day of the 11th month, which is the month Shabbat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, the son of Barakaya, the son of Ido, the prophet, saying, I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine, and behind him there were red, brown and white horses. Then I asked, my lord, what are these? The angel who talked with me said to me, I will show you what these are. The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, they are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth. They reported to the angel of Yahweh, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, we have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace. Then the angel of Yahweh replied, O Yahweh of armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years? Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words. So the angel who talked with me said to me, proclaim, saying, thus says Yahweh of armies, I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. I am very angry with the nations that are at ease, for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity. Therefore, thus says Yahweh, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy, my house shall be built in it, says Yahweh of armies, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem. Proclaim further, saying, thus says Yahweh of armies, my cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion and will again choose Jerusalem. I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns. I asked the angel who talked with me, what are these? He answered me, these are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. Yahweh showed me four craftsmen, then I asked, what are these coming to do? He said, these are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it. Chapter 2 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then I asked, where are you going? He said to me, to measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length. Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him and said to him, run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages, without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. For I, says Yahweh, will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her. Come, come, flee from the land of the north, says Yahweh, for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky, says Yahweh. Come, Zion, escape you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon, for thus says Yahweh of armies. For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. For behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who serve them, and you will know that Yahweh of armies has sent me. Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion, for behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you, says Yahweh. Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of armies has sent me to you. Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. Be silent, all flash before Yahweh, for he has roused himself from his holy habitation. Chapter 3 He showed me Joshua the High Priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary. Yahweh said to Satan, Yahweh rebuke you, Satan. Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?   To him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing. I said, Let them set a clean turban on his head. So they set a clean turban on his head and clothed him, and the angel of Yahweh was standing by. The angel of Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying, Thus says Yahweh of armies, If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my court, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by. Here now Joshua the High Priest, you and your fellows who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign. For behold, I will bring forth my servant, the branch. For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua, on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave its engraving, says Yahweh of armies, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. In that day, says Yahweh of armies, you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree. Chapter 4 The angel who talked with me came again and wakened me, as the man who is wakened out of his sleep. He said to me, What do you see? I said, I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand, all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon. There are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it, and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on the left side of it. I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?  I said, No, my lord. Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says Yahweh of armies. Who are you, great mountain?  Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it, and you will know that Yahweh of armies has sent me to you. Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh which run back and forth through the whole earth. Then I asked him, What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it? I asked him the second time, What are these two olive branches which are beside the two golden spouts that pour the golden oil out of themselves? He answered me, Don't you know what these are? I said know my lord. Then he said, These are the two anointed ones who stand by the lord of the whole earth. Chapter 5 Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. He said to me, What do you see? I answered, I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its breadth ten cubits. Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side. I will cause it to go out, says Yahweh of armies, and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones. Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, Lift up now your eyes and see what is this that is appearing. I said, What is it? He said, This is the Ifa basket that is appearing. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land. And behold, a talent of lead was lifted up, and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the Ifa basket. He said, This is wickedness, and he threw her down into the midst of the Ifa basket, and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth. Then lifted I up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the Ifa basket between earth and the sky. Then said I to the angel who talked with me, Where are these carrying the Ifa basket? He said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar, when it is prepared she will be set there in her own place. Chapter 6 Again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of brass. In the first chariot were red horses, in the second chariot black horses, in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful. Then I asked the angel who talked with me, What are these, my lord? The angel answered me, These are the four winds of the sky, which go forth from standing before the lord of all the earth. The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country, and the white went out after them, and the dappled went forth toward the south country. The strong went out and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth. And he said go around and through the earth, so they walked back and forth through the earth. Then he called to me and spoke to me, saying, Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country. The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jadiah, and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon. Yes, take silver and gold and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehoshodak, the high priest, and speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh of armies. Behold, the man whose name is the branch, and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of Yahweh. Even he shall build the temple of Yahweh, and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne, and he shall be a priest on his throne, and the council of peace shall be between them both. The crowns shall be to Helam, and to Tobijah, and to Jadiah, and to hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Yahweh. Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh, and you shall know that Yahweh of armies has sent me to you. This will happen if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh, your God. Chapter 7 It happened in the fourth year of King Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. The people of Bethel sent Cherazar and Regimelech and their men to entreat Yahweh's favour and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of armies and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done these so many years. Then the word of Yahweh of armies came to me, saying, Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?  Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity and its cities around her and the south and the lowland were inhabited? The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying, Thus has Yahweh of armies spoken, saying, Execute true judgment and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. Don't oppress the widow nor the fatherless, the foreigner nor the poor, and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart. But they refuse to listen and turn their backs and stop their ears that they might not hear. Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which Yahweh of armies had sent by his spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of armies. It has come to pass that as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen, said Yahweh of armies. But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned, for they made the pleasant land desolate. Chapter 8 The word of Yahweh of armies came to me. Thus says Yahweh of armies. I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. Thus says Yahweh. I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth, and the mountain of Yahweh of armies, the holy mountain. Thus says Yahweh of armies. Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.  Thus says Yahweh of armies. If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes, says Yahweh of armies? Thus says Yahweh of armies. Behold, I will save my people from the East country and from the West country, and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they will be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness. Thus says Yahweh of armies. Let your hands be strong. You who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal, neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in because of the adversary. For I set all men, everyone against his neighbor, but now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says Yahweh of armies. For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.  Don't be afraid, let your hands be strong. For thus says Yahweh of armies. As I thought to do evil to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, says Yahweh of armies, and I didn't repent. So again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid, these are the things that you shall do. Speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gate, and let none of you devise evil in your heart against his neighbor, and love no false oath. For all these are things that I hate, says Yahweh. The word of Yahweh of armies came to me. Thus says Yahweh of armies. The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts, therefore love, truth, and peace. Thus says Yahweh of armies. Many people and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come, and the inhabitants of one shall go to another saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of armies. I will go also. Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh of armies. In those days ten men will take hold out of all the languages of the nations. They will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you. Chapter 9 An Oracle The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrak and will rest upon Damascus, for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh, and Hamath also which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon because they are very wise. Tyre built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like the dust and fine gold like the mire of the streets. Behold the Lord will dispossess her and he will strike her power in the sea and she will be devoured with fire. Ashkelon will see it and fear, Gaza also and will writhe in agony as will Ekron for her expectation will be disappointed, and the king will perish from Gaza and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. Foreigners will dwell in Ashtad and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. I will take away his blood out of his mouth and his abominations from between his teeth, and he also will be a remnant for our God and he will be as a chieftain in Judah and Ekron as a Jebusite. I will encamp around my house against the army that none pass through or return, and no oppressor will pass through them anymore for now I have seen with my eyes. Rejoice greatly daughter of Zion, shout daughter of Jerusalem. Behold your king comes to you.  I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and the battle bow will be cut off and he will speak peace to the nations and his dominion will be from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water. Turn to the stronghold you prisoners of hope, even today I declare that I will restore double to you.  Yahweh will be seen over them and his arrow will go flash like lightning and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet and will go with whirlwinds of the south.  Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people for they are like the jewels of a crown lifted on high over his land for how great is his goodness and how great is his beauty. Grain will make the young men flourish and new wine the virgins. Chapter 10 Ask of Yahweh rain in the springtime, Yahweh who makes storm clouds and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plant from the field. For the terrapheme have spoken vanity and the diviners have seen a lie and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep, they are oppressed because there is no shepherd.  For Yahweh of armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle. From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle-bow, from him every ruler together. They shall be as mighty men cutting down muddy streets in the battle and they shall fight because Yahweh is with them and the riders on horses will be confounded.  For I am Yahweh their God and I will hear them. Ephraim will be like a mighty man and their heart will rejoice as through wine. Yes, their children will see it and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh. I will signal for them and gather them for I have redeemed them and they will increase as they have increased. I will sow them among the peoples and they will remember me in far countries and they will live with their children and will return. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and there won't be room enough for them. He will pass through the sea of affliction and I will strike the waves in the sea and all the depths of the Nile will dry up and the pride of Assyria will be brought down and the scepter of Egypt will depart. I will strengthen them in Yahweh and they will walk up and down in his name, says Yahweh. Chapter 11 Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. Whale, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen because the stately ones are destroyed. Whale, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down. A voice of the wailing of the shepherds for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions for the pride of the Jordan is ruined. Thus says Yahweh, my God, feed the flock of slaughter. Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich and their own shepherds don't pity them. For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh. But behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land and out of their hand I will not deliver them. So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called favor, and the other I called union, and I fed the flock. I cut off the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was weary of them and their soul also loathed me. Then I said, I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die, and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off and let those who are left eat each other's flesh. I took my staff favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. It was broken in that day, and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh. I said to them, if you think it best, give me my wages, and if not, keep them. So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. Yahweh said to me, throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them. I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of Yahweh. Then I cut apart my other staff, even union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. Yahweh said to me, take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound. But he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs and pieces. Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock. The sword will be on his arm and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded. Chapter 12 An Oracle The Word of Yahweh Concerning Israel Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him, says, Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem. It will happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. In that day, says Yahweh, I will strike every horse with terror and his rider with madness, and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, the inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of armies, their God. In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood and like a flaming torch among sheaves, and they will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem. Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them. It will happen in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication, and they will look to me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. And will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his first born. In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hada Driman in the valley of Megidin. The land will mourn every family apart, the family of the house of David apart and their wives apart, and the family of the house of Nathan apart and their wives apart, and the family of the house of Levi apart and their wives apart, the family of the Shimeites apart and their wives apart, all the families who remain, every family apart and their wives apart. Chapter 13 In that day there will be a spring open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.  It will happen in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. Neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive, but he will say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground, for I have been made a bondservant from my youth. One will say to him, what are these wounds between your arms? Then he will answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me, says Yahweh of armies. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones. It shall happen that in all the land, says Yahweh, two parts in it will be cut off and die, but the third will be left in it. I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, it is my people, and they will say, Yahweh is my God. Chapter 14 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes when your spoil will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, the house is rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south. You shall flee by the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel. Yes, you shall flee just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, King of Judah. Yahweh, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with you. It will happen in that day that there will not be light, cold, or frost. It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh, not day and not night, but it will come to pass that at evening time there will be light. It will happen in that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem. Half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. In summer and in winter will it be. Yahweh will be king over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one. All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Riman, south of Jerusalem. And she will be lifted up and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hanano to the king's wine presses. Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse, but Jerusalem will dwell safely. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem.  It will happen in that day that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them, and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor. Judah also will fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together, gold and silver and clothing in great abundance. So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps as that plague. It will happen that everyone who has left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the king, Yahweh of armies, and to keep the feast of tents. It will be that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, Yahweh of armies. On them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt doesn't go up and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents. This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents. In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, holy to Yahweh, and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before the altar. Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of armies, and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of armies. End of Zachariah The Book of Malachi from the World English Bible This is the LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org The Book of Malachi from the World English Bible, Chapter 1 An Oracle The Word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi I have loved you says Yahweh yet you say how have you loved us? Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother says Yahweh? Yet I loved Jacob but Esau I hated and made his mountains a desolation and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness. Whereas Edom says we are beaten down but we will return to build the waste places. Thus says Yahweh of armies they shall build but I will throw down and men will call them the wicked land even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever. Your eyes will see and you will say Yahweh is great even beyond the border of Israel. A son honors his father and a servant his master if I am a father then where is my honor? and if I am a master where is the respect do me? says Yahweh of armies to you priests who despise my name you say how have we despised your name? You offer polluted bread on my altar you say how have we polluted you? In that you say Yahweh's table is contemptible Yahweh's table is contemptible when you offer the blind for sacrifice isn't that evil and when you offer the lame and sick isn't that evil? present it now to your governor will he be pleased with you? or will he accept your person? says Yahweh of armies now please entreat the favor of God that he may be gracious to us with this will he accept any of you? says Yahweh of armies oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors that you might not kindle the fire on my altar in vain I have no pleasure in you says Yahweh of armies neither will I accept an offering at your hand for from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name is great among the nations and in every place violence will be offered to my name and a pure offering for my name is great among the nations says Yahweh of armies but you profane it in that you say Yahweh's table is polluted and it's fruit even it's food is contemptible you say also behold what a weariness it is and you have sniffed at it says Yahweh of armies and you have brought that which was taken by violence the lame and the sick thus you bring the offering should I accept this at your hand says Yahweh but the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing for I am a great king says Yahweh of armies and my name is awesome among the nations chapter 2 now you priests this commandment is for you if you will not listen and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name says Yahweh of armies then I will send a curse on you and I will curse your blessings indeed I have cursed them already because you do not lay it to heart behold I will rebuke your seed and will spread dung on your faces even the dung of your feasts and you will be taken away with it you will know that I have sent this commandment to you that my covenant may be with Levi says Yahweh of armies my covenant was with him of life and peace and I gave them to him who might be reverent toward me and he was reverent toward me and stood in awe of my name the law of truth was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found in his lips he walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many away from iniquity for the priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth for he is a messenger of Yahweh of armies but you have turned aside out of the way you have caused many to stumble in the law you have corrupted the covenant of Levi says Yahweh of armies therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people according to the way you have not kept my ways and have had respect for persons in the law don't we all have one father hasn't one God created us why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother profaning the covenant of our fathers Judah has dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves and has married the daughter of a foreign God Yahweh will cut off to the man who does this him who wakes and him who answers Jacob and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of armies this again you do you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears with weeping and with sighing because he doesn't regard the offering anymore neither receives it with goodwill at your hand yet you say why because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth against whom you have dealt treacherously though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant did he not make one although he had the residue of the spirit why one he sought a godly seed therefore take heed in your spirit and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth for I hate divorce says Yahweh the God of Israel and him who covers his garment with violence says Yahweh of armies therefore take heed to your spirit that you don't deal treacherously you have wearied Yahweh with your words yet you say how have we wearied him in that you say everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh and he delights in them or where is the God of justice chapter three behold I send my messenger to prepare the way before me and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire behold he comes says Yahweh of armies but who can endure the day of his coming and who will stand when he appears for he is like a refiner's fire and like launderer's soap and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them as gold and silver and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh as in days of old and as in ancient years I will come near to you to judgment and I will be a swift witness and against the adulterers and against the perjurers and against those who oppressed the hireling and his wages the widow and the fatherless and who deprive the foreigner of justice and don't fear me says Yahweh of armies for I, Yahweh, don't change therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed from the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances and have not kept them returned to me and I will return to you says Yahweh of armies but you say how shall we return will a man rob God yet you rob me but you say how have we robbed you in tithes and offerings you are cursed with the curse for you rob me even this whole nation bring the whole tithe into the store house that there may be food in my house and test me now in this says Yahweh of armies if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall be not room enough for I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground neither shall your vine before its time in the field says Yahweh of armies all nations shall call you blessed for you will be a delightful land says Yahweh of armies your words have been stout against me says Yahweh you say what have we spoken against you you have said it is vain to serve God and what prophet is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully in the way of armies now we call the proud happy yes those who work wickedness are built up yes they tempt God and escape then those who feared Yahweh spoke one to another and Yahweh listened and heard and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name they shall be mine says Yahweh of armies my own possession a man spares his own son who serves him then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him Chapter 4 for behold the day comes it burns as a furnace and all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble and the day that comes that it shall leave them neither root nor branch but to you who fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in its wings you will go out and leap like calves of the stall you shall tread down the wicked for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make says Yahweh of armies remember the law of Moses my servant commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel even statutes and ordinances behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come and strike the earth with a curse End of the book of Malachi