Felly, rydw i'n mynd i ffodus o'r tuyddiadau gwiriaeth COVID-19 ydy'r gwiriaeth a'r gwirio'r cyffredin wedi'i gafodd gyda'r ddechrau ac am llwyfodol Câmpus. Alun i'r rhai hynny yn cwestiynau gwyllwgol, rydw i'n rhaid i'n ddifwngu gweithio'n gweithio'n Groes Atlainwg. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether its draft budget will enable local authorities to deliver a consistent level of co services. Reductions to UK Government funding have reduced the overall Scottish budget for 2022-23g by 5.2 per cent in real-terms. The Scottish Government has increased local government funding for day-to-day services such as skills in social care by £975.7 million in 2022-23—a real-term increase of 6 per cent. This funding, including the extra £120 million added at stage 2 of the budget now, will enable local authorities to deliver their core services in supporting communities across the country. However, at a time when public services, including those provided by councils, have been stretched to breaking point, the SNP Green's cuts to council budgets is nothing short of an insult. Trumpeting an an additional £120 million after cutting £371 million requires some brass neck from the minister. It's still a cut. So, what will the minister tell constituents across my region and across Scotland, who now is saying that that cut reflected in their vital local services being scaled back and their council tax bills going up? I thank the member for his supplementary question. I want to recognise the outstanding and vital work that local authorities do across Scotland. If anyone has got a brass neck, it's a member because it's his party in government that Westminster has cut the Scottish budget by 5.2 per cent and has refused to engage constructively in this budget process over the past two months. The reality is that we have a reduced budget and we have given a fair settlement to local government with a real-terms increase in the local government settlement. I hope that perhaps in future budgets the Conservatives might want to engage in a more mature and considered fashion, where instead of just calling for funding increases, we should say clearly where that funding should come from. Liam McArthur, the leader of Orkney Islands Council last week announced that he was withdrawing from COSLA denouncing the settlement from the Scottish Government as the worst of any local authority. Does the minister believe that such treatment of Orkney Islands Council reflects a Government committed to island proofing and supporting our island communities? As the member will appreciate, the distribution of funding through the needs-based formula is a process that is taken in conjunction with COSLA. Our deliberations in this Parliament are with regards to the overall local government funding settlement and, as I said before, there has been a real-terms increase for that settlement. I would again make the point that if members wish to see in future budgets more money for one budget line, they have to identify the corresponding budget line, where there should be a reduction. 2. Rona Mackay To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to introduce trials for a four-day working week. We are committed to establishing a £10 million fund to allow companies to pilot and explore the costs and benefits of moving to a shorter four-day working week. We are in the early stages of developing the pilot and are committed to developing a comprehensive design for the pilot over the next year, supported by an initial £500,000 of funding. Our work will be informed by experience drawn from similar projects in other countries and, of course, elsewhere in the UK. 2. Rona Mackay The minister for that answer. The pandemic can be used as an impetus to change the dynamic of work for the better. What work is the Scottish Government undertaking to ensure that workers' voices and rights are at the heart of any upcoming four-day week trials across the country? 3. Rona Mackay The member is right that the pandemic has served to intensify interest and support for more flexible working practices. We have already seen the possibilities and positives of adopting alternative working practices for a better and more inclusive balance between work and people's personal lives. Ministers have met and continue to regularly meet with trade unions to ensure that workers' voices and rights are at the heart of the pilots, and that will be a guiding principle as we move forward. 4. Stephanie Callaghan To ask the Scottish Government for its reaction to the recent report by autonomy that, even under workiest scenario, its research suggests that a four-day working week would be affordable for most businesses once the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic has passed. I have looked at the findings of that report, which I think was around a year ago. It does indeed say that, under the best-case scenario, a reduction in hours would be entirely offset by increases in productivity and price increases as well. Of course, there were also worst-case scenarios that we have to pay attention to, and they found a number of issues around perhaps cash flow for some companies as well. That is why the pilots will be so valuable so that we can learn the lessons in the Scottish context of how to take that forward. 3. Christine Grahame To ask the Scottish Government how many instances of failure to comply with the 20-mile-an-hour speed limit in Midlothian South Tweeddale and Lauderdale have been recorded since its introduction, including how many fines were subsequently issued as part of the enforcement of 20-mile-an-hour speed limits. 3. Keith Brown The information requested is not held by the Scottish Government. Police Scotland is responsible for the enforcement of speed limits. 4. Christine Grahame I thank the cabinet secretary for his response, so my next port of call is obviously Police Scotland. South A village in the border through which today A7 passes has had long-standing issues with speeding by both cars and commercial vehicles. Anxiety increased because the pavements are narrow and can't be widened. Residents in the local community council sought the 20-mile-an-hour speed limit. It would have a major impact on speeding, but breaches, I am told, are frequent. What can the community do beyond contacting Police Scotland? I would say that the Scottish Government could practice guide on 20-mile-an-hour speed restrictions and suggest that any changes should be monitored and where compliance levels are not at an acceptable level. Considerations should be given to the addition of traffic calming measures or, in some cases, diverting to a 30-mile-an-hour limit if necessary. Those things are the result of a dialogue between a number of partners, primarily between the council and, in the member's case, the councils involved and Police Scotland. I know that the 20-mile roads in Midlothian South, Tweedian and Lauderdale are a mix of local roads. Therefore, under the responsibility of local councils, there are also trunk roads. I know that that is the concern of the members. Some speed surveys have been undertaken by the Borders Council, including on the trunk roads that are of concern to the member. I suggest that she wants to have further discussion both with the local authorities and with the police. I am happy to pass that message on and add my support to the further dialogue that she is seeking. Is the minister aware that new data reveals that there are 59 fewer local police officers in Lothian and the Borders compared to the period before the creation of Police Scotland? Does the minister share my concern that the savage SNP cuts to front-line policing are undermining efforts to issue fines, combat speeding and could be putting lives at risk in Stow across the Borders and the wider south of Scotland region? I am not wholly convinced that that referred to the substantive question. Cabinet Secretary, if you would like to answer very briefly. I will do just to say that, of course, what the member neglects to mention is that we have around 50 per cent more police officers per capita in Scotland than we do in England and Wales. It is his Government that has cut the funding for this. It is his Government that has cut 20,000 police officers in England and Wales, so it will take no lessons from the Tories on proper police funding. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions ministers have had with the outdoor education sector since December 2021. Minister, I met representatives from the outdoor education sector on 9 November. The meeting was also attended by Councillor McCabe, causeless children and young people spokesperson. Since that meeting, Scottish Government officials have held a series of meetings and further discussions with the sector. I am pleased to confirm today that an additional £2 million in support funding will be provided to the sector. Can I warmly welcome that £2 million commitment from the Scottish Government? I think that it is absolutely essential that that money is there to safeguard our outdoor education centres. I also, however, ask the Minister if she could comment on the article by Martin Davidson from the Outward Bound Trust in the Scotsman today to ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to address the inequalities in access to outdoor education for residential for many children across Scotland. Minister. I thank Liz Smith for her welcome of the additional funding and also for her question. She will be aware that, in 2021-22, we committed to providing financial support to low-income families, ensuring that all children can participate in curriculum-related trips and activities, not only trips to residential centres but also all forms of school trips that have a curriculum-related purpose. The programme for government further makes that commitment to ensure that secondary school pupils will be supported to go on at least one optional residential centre trip during the time at school. Can the minister provide an update on the Scottish Government's actions to expand outdoor learning, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and how will she work with organisations such as Outlet to play resources to achieve that? Our vision is that all children and young people are participating in a range of progressive and creative outdoor learning experiences. As Collette Stevenson indicates, there are a range of commitments within the programme for government relating to outdoor learning and school trips. During the course of this year, the Government will engage with key partners in local government and in the outdoor learning sector to progress those commitments. This work will build on our Covid-19 outdoor education recovery fund, which provided an additional £500,000 to outdoor learning experiences last year, reaching many pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. A report from last year's funding programme will be published soon. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve the services that are available to people with a gambling addiction. We share the concerns expressed by many around the impact of gambling-related harms in Scotland, and we recognise that gambling can have disastrous consequences. We agree with a view of our stakeholders that a public health approach is needed to tackle those harms and to improve treatment services. We are working with Public Health Scotland and third sector stakeholders to develop an understanding of the scale of the problem in our communities. We are assessing person-centred and localised treatment options, recognising that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution. We welcome the review of the Gambling Act 2005 and further hope to see greater regulation and control of the gambling industry in the coming white paper to prevent gambling-related harms in Scotland. I thank the minister for that helpful and comprehensive answer. As we know, problem gambling is highly disruptive to sufferers and their families. Gambling research found that one in five problem gamblers spent more on the habit during lockdown, with young people particularly likely to increase their gambling. Will the minister therefore consider establishing or supporting the establishment of a residential clinic specifically for gambling addicts in Scotland? I thank the member for the question. Gambling-related harms are complicated in origin and may affect a whole range of people, not just those who are experiencing the most significant level of problem gambling for which residential clinics may be of most use. There is not just one single approach that will solve the issues related to gambling-related harms. The introduction of a residential clinic cannot be the only approach that is taking. As I said in my earlier answer, we are very keen to work with the third sector and those with lived experience to understand the person-centred treatment options for those who experience gambling-related harms and to consider localised approaches. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support local authorities in dealing with instances of bullying in schools. Cabinet Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville Whenever it arises, in 2017 we published updated anti-bullying guidance for all adults working with children and young people. In 2019 we introduced a uniform approach to recording and monitoring incidents of bullying in schools and published guidance on that. To support local authorities, schools and all those working with children and young people to build confidence and capacity to address bullying effectively, we have established and fully funded respect to me, Scotland's anti-bullying service. Fulton MacGregor I thank the cabinet secretary for that response. In the last few weeks I have been dealing with four constituent queries relating to significant alleged bullying in schools, three in secondary schools and one in a primary school. In all cases, the child who has experienced bullying has moved to another school and is doing well. However, what more can be done to help local authorities to educate those involved in bullying-type behaviours and to support victims so that it is not always they who have to move away to escape the abuse? Cabinet Secretary Well, this must have been an exceptionally difficult time for Mr MacGregor's constituents, particularly the young people involved in this. As I said in my original answer, our focus is very much on prevention and early intervention environments that engage with young people, promote respect, celebrate difference and encourage positive relationships and behaviour are key in supporting our young people. There are a range of strategies that schools use to improve relationships and behaviour and support in those approaches is provided by Education Scotland as well as, of course, through the relevant local authority. As I mentioned, the respect me provides support to all adults working with young people to give them practical skills and confidence to deal with bullying behaviour appropriately. I thank the cabinet secretary for those answers, which he considers extending the 2019 records so that identification of bullying using cyber methods, be it mobile phones or laptops, can be identified and centrally collated. Cabinet Secretary Well, I thank the member for that question. I'd be more than happy to follow up with him directly with this in further detail. We are, of course, very aware that, as society changes, then, of course, our bullying strategies need to make sure that they are up-to-date and relevant to the challenges that our young people are facing. As I said, I'd be very happy to meet the member to discuss his particular concerns on this and to go into this in further detail. To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the £10 Christmas payment will continue to be paid by DWP to recipients of disability allowance and personal independence payment once the benefits are fully devolved. The reason is because the payment that Mr Balfour refers to is a reserved benefit. It is not devolved to the Scottish Parliament. The £10 Christmas payment is a UK Government payment that is paid to people in receipt of various benefits, including disability benefits and low-income benefits such as pension credit. As Mr Balfour is aware, we have worked with the UK Government to ensure access to passported reserved benefits such as the Christmas bonus payment, as well as other entitlements for people receiving the Scottish Government's child disability payment and adult disability payment. The issue is that, from time on now, we are going to still have two lists every year where the agency is going to have to pass that information on to DWP. Has he had discussions with DWP about devolving its power to the new agency to save its administrative cost? The Scottish Government engages in regular dialogue with the Department for Work and Pensions with regard to data transfer and sharing of relevant information across the delivery of our devolved benefit programme. If Mr Balfour is now arguing for more social security powers to come to the Scottish Parliament, I welcome that, because we have seen on the evidence of delivery so far that both our agency Social Security Scotland and this Government are delivering social security in a way that is a human rights-based approach that is based in dignity, fairness and respect. We are delivering well, and with more powers we could do even more. Given that the £10 Christmas payment is a reserved benefit, does the minister agree that Jeremy Balfour might like to join me and others in calling for the full powers over social security to be devolved to this Parliament? Indeed, as I have already stated, the delivery of devolved social security to date is something all of this Parliament should be proud of. We have set up Social Security Scotland from scratch, and it is developing, growing and strengthening each day. We are about to deliver our 12th benefit, seven of which are new, including the remarkably important Scottish child payment, which has been strongly welcomed by stakeholders and families. Importantly, we are making a meaningful difference for thousands of households, spending £361 million extra above the fiscal framework and giving extra help. If we compare that to DWP, who, of course, withdrew £20 a week from family budgets, who, of course, have been found to have wasted billions of pounds worth, £8.3 billion in PPE contracts and £4.3 billion in fraud write-off, we are delivering well, we are delivering proficiently and with more powers we will be able to make an even bigger difference for thousands of families. I, along with many others in Scotland, look forward to the days coming soon when we will gain and utilise more powers to make an even bigger difference together.


Officer sees something on girl's lips, immediately acts on instinct. He watched the teenagers pass him, some hurriedly, some slowly, most with necks bent, gazing at their phone screens. Then, there was a commotion from down the hallway, and one girl broke through the crowd. She was intent on placing one foot in front of the other, but she was fading. She stumbled, and when he saw her lips he knew. Roger Caron was pacing the hall, waiting for the slightest hint of trouble. He had been an officer for 34 years, and he had a keen eye for reading faces. He searched each one as they passed. He knew that the key to preventing crime wasn't a matter of being in the right place at the right time, it was all down to being constantly aware of his surroundings. He had to anticipate the action before it happened. And there was a strange tension in the air today. With the recent security risks in American schools, Paschak Hills High School in New York decided to do something rather unorthodox. And they weren't the only school to take active steps to protect their students. But their decision to employ ex-police officers as a full-time security measure was not without controversy. Some people have criticized the school's move, stating that having full-time police officers may not actually prevent crimes from occurring, while others believe that having a policeman address criminal behavior at school may be missing the student's larger behavioral issues. Nevertheless, Officer Caron was here to stay, and one day he proved his worth to both students and critics alike. Officer Caron took his job extremely seriously. He may have seemed placid and easy going to most, but behind his eyes the cogs were always turning. 34 years with the Woodcliffe Lake Police Department will do that to a man. He was equipped to face situations that would make the bravest of men crumble, but when he noticed a student acting strangely in the school hallway one day, he was terrified. 18-year-old Sara Buzini was a diligent student. She had aspirations of becoming a police officer one day herself, but even she never suspected that a simple twist of fate might prevent her from ever realizing her dream. She wolfed down the last bite of her lunch and hurried to class. When she realized her mistake, it was too late. Caron watched the students as they swelled around him. It was the second busiest part of the day in the hallway as the teenagers rushed to reach their classes after their lunch. It was the crucial period when Caron knew he had to be on high alert. He scanned the traffic, looking for any irregularities, hands in pockets, suspicious bulges, strange behavior. Then, his eyes fell on Sara. He saw her for a second as the crowd parted, walking with a slight stagger. Officer Caron took a step forward, but the mass of bodies blocked his view. Then he spied her again, picking out her bright yellow shirt in the distance. Her blue-tinted lips were silently opening and closing in an astonished o, and then she made a signal with her hands. Sara took step after labored step, clinging onto the wall for support. Her lids grew heavy and her vision was starting to go dark. She could feel herself fading as she struggled for air, her brain sparking as it burned through the last speck of oxygen in her body. Then, Caron was behind her. He wrapped his strong arms around her ribcage and lifted her clear off the ground. With a squeeze and then another, he managed to dislodge the French fry blocking her airways. Other students in the hallway stood in silence, shocked from their day-to-day school stupor. With an enormous gulp, Sara swallowed a lungful of air and spluttered. Her lips started to regain their red blush. Her eyes looked up at her savior-in-aw. I noticed Sara didn't seem right, Caron explained, she was stumbling a bit, moving very quickly. The closer I got, I realized her color was off. Bazini, ran up to me and started giving me the choke signal. At that point, I knew exactly what was wrong. And it was lucky that Caron noticed what was happening in the hallway that day. I knew it was lodged in my throat, Sara said, describing the moment she realized that she had swallowed a large French fry and she couldn't breathe. My drink, which I had in my hand, couldn't get it down. She described the feeling of oxygen deprivation as a tingling sensation and her vision became blurry. Thankfully, she spotted Caron standing in the hallway. Caron immediately noticed that there was something gravely wrong with Sara as she was staggering towards him and turning an alarming shade of blue. She then raised her hands and clutched at her neck, and Caron managed to figure out exactly what was wrong with the girl, despite her not being able to talk. Caron recalls what he did next as the situation unfolded. I asked her if she was choking. She said yes, so I immediately knew I had to do something, he explained. All staff at the school have been trained in CPR and first aid, and Caron knew exactly what he had to do to get the girl breathing again. So he held her from behind, made his hands into fists, and squeezed in a thrusting motion. This technique is called the Heimlich Maneuver. It was designed by American doctor Henry Heimlich in 1974, and is widely recognized as the most effective way to open a choking person's airways. This movement compresses the lungs, which builds enough pressure on the lodged object to propel it out of the airways. But the American Red Cross has advised that this technique should only be used as a last resort. Caron describes the moment that Sara started to breathe again with relief, I began the Heimlich Maneuver. I gave her approximately five abdominal thrusts. At that time she began to cry in gasp for air. As soon as Caron was sure that the French fry had been dislodged, Sara was sent to the school nurse for a check-up. Sara says that she was understandably shaken from the ordeal and a little bruised, but she was found to be completely healthy by the school nurse and given the all-clear. Sara is extremely grateful to the officer as he saved her life, I couldn't make it downstairs to the guards desk, and I couldn't make it to a classroom. So again, thank God officer Caron was there to save me, she said. It's unsurprising that Sara and Caron have become good friends after the incident, there's such a special bond with him now, Sara said in an interview with CBS New York, he's a hero. But it wasn't only Sara singing Caron's praises for his heroic actions that day. Soon, the mayor of Montvale, Mike Gasali, heard about the officer's heroic deed and dedicated a Facebook post to him. Excellent job by hero special law enforcement officer 3 Roger Caron at Pascac Hills High School, he wrote. Shortly afterwards, the post went viral worldwide. The mayor of Montvale's Facebook post garnered an impressive amount of views, and even Sara commented, feeling very blessed and thankful. But officer Caron shrugs off the praise and remains humble, saying that it was simply his duty to react the way he did, and he did nothing out of the ordinary. But thanks to her newfound friendship, Sara is more determined than ever to follow in his footsteps and become a police officer.


Welcome back everyone. We were discussing about the influence of the spirit world on the natural world Here in the chat section Lucy is saying sister in our intercessory prayers We are declaring God's word over the members of our family who have a longing desire to have alcohol During family get-togethers not able to see any changes over the individual families I'm not understanding where might we be wrong in speaking God's word. So as Lucy what you're doing is correct Declaring God's word is the way in which we are enforcing The victory of the cross Okay, so when when we declare God's word or when we make declarations such as let's say, you know a child is in substance abuse and as parents They are praying that you know my son will serve the Lord because there are scriptures that say that Those those who fear the Lord the righteous their children will be mighty on the earth So when I make a declaration like that, I'm not wrong. It's very scriptural There are passages of scripture where God says I will pour out my spirit on your Descendants on your children's children and you know my word will be in their mouth So these are declarations that we can make and it is right. We need to do that because what are we doing? That is faith Right now. We can't see it, but we know that the power of the word of God will touch them So sister Lucy Continue to do that Sister you said Yeah, you can hear me. Yes, sister. I'm able to hear. Yeah, so I'm saying continue to do that It is the right thing along with that. You would need to have some patience Sister can I have any some of the verses in particular to declare upon their lives? For this particular thing is it? Okay, so can I can I enlist them and post it on the stream page later on? Yes, sister. Yes, sister. Thank you. Yeah, so I'll do that so you can make these declarations Yeah, and other than that see we we can be very spiritual in our diagnosis But it's also good to be practical Be spiritual, but it doesn't mean we cannot be practical so Going back to the example that I shared of a parent with a child who is in substance abuse It's different from your Sister Lucy Yeah, so along with praying along with declaring What the parents could also consider is maybe counseling like what's happening what's happening in the child's mind Maybe the child is not able to talk speak out what happened so speaking to Maybe a trained counselor or and you know like an elder might help and show us What are those issues that need to be addressed? What are those problems that need to be? Delved to it. So we can be practical also. Maybe counseling will help Maybe some form of therapy could help We shouldn't just because we are looking at it from the spiritual lens We must not dismiss the practical aspects That must also be considered when we consider both the change Might be faster Okay, so yeah, I just wanted to say that sister Lucy. I hope you agree with me Sister. Thank you. Yeah, all right. Thank you we'll move on with our Notes, but please keep asking these questions. It's really good. So we said about the influence of the spirit world and We looked at I was giving the example of emphasis where there was The influence of the goddess of Diana and that had affected everything People's lifestyle their worship. There were people who are making those idols and that place had become a tourist destination Just for the worship of the goddess of Diana. So you see how everything is affected Business culture lifestyle and we said art form, right? Satan can use art forms as his expression. So in this case the the art of sculpting Okay, it's being utilized to make idols for worship We see many of these things happening around us and we wonder how come people are into so deeply into these things Even when we share the truth with them, it's possible that there can be something deeper Offer demonic influence that is keeping people in bondage Okay, that is why They are where they are and and so we as believers will need to go against the work of the enemy to Release deliverance in their lives. So circumstances situations world systems geographic regions and territories I said Ephesus but even Corinth Corinth and and there was a lot of opposition that Paul faced in Corinth When he went to Athens, right or Athens, however, you want to call it over there people were very Intellectual, so when Paul was preaching about Jesus, they couldn't receive it easily They wanted something new something exciting Paul come on tell us something, you know some philosophy But even that way of thinking pattern of thinking Keeping them in bondage that they're not able to receive the gospel These are all ways in which Satan can influence communities groups of people territories and You know geographic regions We said Organizations and institutions sometimes there are certain organizations all of our organizations have a Vision they have a mission something they want to accomplish, but you see that could be organizations that Outrightly have the wrong vision you know to to You know, maybe draw people away from God or You you can just I mean, I don't want to get into it So I'll start seeing some details and you maybe get myself into trouble, but you get it, right? organizations institutions that may ought right outright Lee have the wrong Motivation or they can seem very right, but have some influences that mislead people So it can happen Activities activities we said like alcoholism. I pointed out We may find that it's very strange how in in a place where there's good education Good medical facilities good opportunities young people are still addicted lots and lots of young people are still addicted to Maybe alcohol or some drug drug abuse is happening Maybe there is a spiritual aspect or a spiritual angle to it where demons are causing it We see that there can be an influence in all kinds of other ungodly activities even mob violence Sometimes you wonder how can all the people get together and bash up, you know one person one weak person or Cause a lot of destruction in the city Sometimes there are spirits behind it The people themselves don't know what they are doing, but they are influenced by demonic spirits and those spirits Cause all this they cause violence. They cause murders. They cause, you know crimes against women So many things are happening and then people are like, oh, did we even do that? Why did we do that? It's so wrong So I'm not saying that, you know, we can resign Any responsibility like not take responsibility for what has happened But I'm just helping us think that apart from people doing things wantedly there can be a Demonic influence which is also making people do and You know to add to that in large numbers ungodly things evil things wicked things Okay, so that's who Satan is right spirit of wickedness. He carries that so When when we see things like this we can understand hey, this is what is going on here All right, and Someone came in the middle during the break and asked really good question How do we address? When we see that we're not able to penetrate with the gospel How do we really minister to people if they are caught up in things like this? So what we are learning in this class is helping us understand How do we approach? Right such communities. So firstly, there'll be the spiritual things Spiritual strategies which we need where we have to in the spiritual Tear down the works of the devil Upload the strongholds of the devil. So that's the way we would approach first Destroy whatever he has set up destroy it. How are we going to destroy through prayer through praise through? Declaration through decrease the word of God right acts of faith. So through all this we first destroy and Then as the Lord leads strategically, we'll have some Methods right through which we can enter in and preach the gospel and see a change in that particular Community, but imagine if we never understood this angle that there is a spiritual influence We'll only do the physical, you know or natural things that come to our mind and we may we may think that it's really not working because There's more to it. There are demon powers which we need to fight and evict before we can see the work of God Established powerfully Okay, so yes Satan and his demons can influence through these activities also evil activities now Satan demons can also influence spaces When we say spaces We mean, you know any any given space you go to a particular place It can be a building or you know like like some something that is set up for worship of a certain God Do those places have demonic influence? Yes, they do maybe even some homes or shops or you know Name any building could they have demonic influence? Yeah, they could if the people who are responsible for that place allow demonic presence Okay, how do people allow demonic presence? We look at that now But yes, even spaces buildings can have demons in them Objects sometimes objects can carry demons in them. Okay Now that there are there is one passage we will read it later, but what we recognize is Satan does all this so that he can Influence people we can interfere in their lives Okay, so When it comes to places when it comes to things we can be cautious We can be cautious in what we We keep with us or we carry back with us. So Simple example is sometimes, you know, we go on a tour we go visiting new places and we buy stuff We may not have an idea that there are certain things which are of worship Okay, something that is dedicated to this God and dedicated to that God It might be a very tiny nice looking thing that you pick up and you think it's a souvenir I'll just take it back home and keep it. But if it is an object that has been consecrated or Dedicated to some kind of a spirit that it may carry an influence Sometimes people come away with that influence and then you know things can happen so Whenever in doubt if you are doubtful about anything that I don't know whether this has any influence Just don't take it. That's all It's as simple as that and if you feel something you have has an influence just throw it. That's it Okay, so don't make it a big deal. It's not a big deal But the Bible does say that it can happen Okay, even objects can carry demonic influence In them So all this will help us to go against the enemy and take our authority. That's why we are discussing these things So now that we said yes Demons can influence. How do they end up influencing? That's the question. So we have we have listed here at least four different practices or things that people do Through which the demons can influence. Okay, so what are these four? firstly disciplines Disciplines so when we look at something as a discipline, it generally is associated with habits Okay, for example, you know, I usually say If you have to brush your teeth for all of us, it's a habit. We don't think about it. We just do it It's just a part of who we are or maybe we're driving Initially, it may be a struggle but after that you don't think about you're just driving, right? Or some other things that we just do normally. It's just part of who we are Normal routine schedule eat at this time sleep at this time. It's a habit habits Form the discipline that we carry if you don't have habits, then yeah, we are lacking discipline But if we do have habits, then it's showing that hey, you know, there's some form of discipline Now we are talking about Disciplines or practices that are regular that may engage the spirit world What people do is sometimes they engage in regular prayer They don't even know what they're praying, but they pray because somebody told them take this prayer go pray they pray But they don't understand when they are doing that what they are doing is they are sort of opening the door for demons to come and You know oppress them Lot of people can hear testimonies that people speak of and they say I never knew I did this they gave me a book I read the book every day. I just said those you know, whatever mantras or this and that and All this happened suddenly I started seeing things and how Because these practices they actually engage the spirit world So prayers are some things that people end up doing Incantations again incantation is like worship Worship and chanting things like that people do those things that opens the door for demon spirits there can be meditation meditation that people do That also can invite demon spirits And you know many other things which become regular Regularly people like wake up at this time do do this do that But it has nothing to do with God. It has nothing to do with with worshipping the living God Then we have to be very careful about those practices. Why are we doing this when we do it mindlessly? It's actually an open door for demons to enter in Okay, so these Disciplines will allow demons to oppress us Sometimes wrong lifestyle can also it's it's like You could say like a not really a discipline but Somewhat in that category because we do it repeatedly Like if let's say we know that we're not supposed to behave a certain way or we're not supposed to maybe engage in you know It's something like anything immoral like maybe some illicit sexual relationship or wrong Sexual activity or even drug abuse things like that. What are we doing? We're actually harming ourselves. We know it's sinful It's putting us in bondage, but knowing that Again and again and again and again we do the same thing as if nothing is going to happen But when we keep doing that maybe initially it's the weakness of the flesh But the weakness of the flesh can become a Stronghold of of demons later on because what the demons do is make the will of the person very small You lose your ability to make decisions at one point Initially you could but you kept doing it you kept doing it even though Holy Spirit is convicting. We are saying it's okay It's okay next time next time next time slowly. What happens my ability to choose? I lose it that capacity has become small and smaller and smaller and smaller And I'm just not able to win against that voice In my head, which is telling me to do the same wrong thing again. Okay. I'm stuck But In this journey at any point Demons can take over so when demons take over what happens is they sort of start energizing The whole activity and you're wondering I want to give up but what's happening? Why am I still doing it like this? Why is it all because you're no longer in control? You're out of control somebody else is in control Okay, so these are the dangers of anything it can be something like lying We just like or we control people we manipulate people Initially, we're just doing it thinking nothing will happen. What will happen? Nobody will notice that we're doing it But slowly it goes out of control because one is my will is no longer strong Second is we are talking about demonic influence. So that is why for a believer Being so very careful about our personal walk with the Lord our choices our decisions very important very very important Don't we shouldn't it's not for people like we're not doing it so that people will look at us and say oh such a righteous person No, there are other implications the way we walk before the Lord first is that God sees us Secondly, we want to keep the door shut to demons. We don't want any influence of demons in our lives Okay, so we said that certain practices will invite demonic activity in people's lives and also behaviors patterns sinful patterns They they allow an open door for demons to come in so we have to be very very careful So that's the first one. Please feel free to ask questions if at all you have any Okay, I'll move on the next one here is Dedications Okay, so Deuteronomy chapter 7 versus 25 and 26 this passage will read it and explain Can anybody go ahead and read it, please either on campus or online?  So don't bring it Burn it. They don't even keep it with you. That's the instruction He's saying not shall you bring an abomination into your house lest you be doomed to destruction meaning There will be an influence of that object That's what I was saying earlier and I said spaces and objects So these objects can carry demonic presence in them and they can influence now How did they in the first place? Get a demon into them Because those objects were dedicated So there is something known as Dedication in the spirit realm, okay, which people use like in the occult Apparently, I mean, I don't know too much but people say things like When somebody is dedicated they become a voice of that spirit the spirit comes on them You all may have heard I think in different cultures We've heard these things that somebody is dedicated to that God or goddess and they start acting like that that goddess So the spirits take over whatever is dedicated That is why when there are objects that are dedicated They can just take over even when it comes to cultural forms There's some art forms if we dedicated like let's say music, right? You dedicated to Satan demons You must have heard all these stories They start to influence people in the wrong way. I mean, I've heard of certain kinds of music that when people listen to it They they Immediately go into depression. They feel suicidal. How is it happening? I mean, it's just music, right? Music is not supposed to do that to people but There can be demonic dedication of art forms some pictures, you know some things That are dedicated to demonic spirits So dedication is one of the ways in which The spirit realm can get entry like the influence of the spirit realm can affect the natural realm Okay, so that is something we have to be very careful about and Look at it the other way we talk so much about our dedication to demons and sounds very scary But what if we are dedicated to God? Think about it. We say right. I'm dedicating myself to God. I'm dedicating my singing talent to God I'm dedicating my speaking ability to God I'm dedicating Anything else my home my family you see that again actually works Because it's very powerful what we are saying is God I Want you to express yourself through me? So when I am dedicated my abilities my gifts are dedicated to the Lord They become an expression for the glory of God. So even the flip side is Is something for us to look at? Consecrating myself dedicating myself is very very powerful Okay, and that I think is what Satan is trying to use the other way around and Unfortunately people without knowing or knowingly they are dedicating themselves through all these practices evil things that they do and You know worship and then demons come you dedicate the place before you start living here You're dedicated to some spirits We'll come and stay and then if you ask them how did you come they'll be like you only invited me to come here That's why I'm here. Okay. So that's how they enter through dedication We've got to be careful Yeah, just come to the Chat here, okay, no questions Online Yes, yes, okay, please use the mic So when we start in the spiritual room to approach any particular Place or anything that you feel has a strong hold Is it wise to you know refrain from doing it in the natural room later if you feel there is a little more strong hold? Usual tendency is like, you know, there is a particular place x y z and there is something so the tendencies to go each out speak But today there was an insight that you know, the first thing that we need to do is start off with the spiritual room of you know addressing it through prayer or fasting or And then when you feel still feel that there is a strong hold in that particular place or people So is it better to refrain on the natural the next approach or not? And I mean, you see it's all about being Sensitive to the voice of for God Some cases God may tell us to hold on that, you know, that spiritual work is not yet done So hold on maybe you need to go in later But in some situations after you've prayed It may be the right thing to you for you to even step in and start addressing it in a practical way also Only then the victory will come so it can work both ways. Yeah Sure Okay, I think now we've you know understood about dedication and we can be careful Not to allow these things in our lives now moving on the next practice that might affect is sacrifices sacrifices Apostle Paul He writes about sacrifices in first Corinthians chapter 10 versus 19 through 21. Could somebody online read this passage, please When I read sister. Yes. Yes, sister Gertrude First Corinthians 10 19 to 21 What and what am I saying then that an idol is anything or what is offered to idols is anything Rather that the things which the gentiles sacrifice They sacrifice to demons and not to God and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons You cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons Okay, thank you sister. So here as we noticed Paul is mentioning that the gentiles may be unknowingly. They think they are sacrificing to God But who are they really sacrificing to? Who are they really sacrificing to? Just go back to it and see verse 20 idols idols, okay, but There's more to that. Can you can you please read it verse 20 to demons sister? Yeah, that's what Paul is saying That they think they are sacrificing to idol But who is actually receiving the sacrifice? demons Okay, so there is this practice of Sacrificing as well which opens the door to demonic activity And so, you know, we we should be careful people have practices like they would sacrifice Material things sometimes they give things that are grown in there in their field or You know clothes Some objects from the house or it can be fruits food items They they give it or even their labor they work and they kind of you know, they they dedicate it to God So many things people sacrifice But when they are sacrificing What is Paul saying? It's not really the the idol that's taking it, right? There's something behind it and Then people talk about hey, I receive power It's true because power is coming but the source is The one that you know, we are not very happy about from the demonic realm So these sacrifices are a way to draw power from the wrong realm or from the wrong kingdom Apart from this we said material things are sacrificed, but sometimes Living things are sacrificed animal sacrifices Some of us are familiar with this right in some communities they do that they'll kill some animal and shed the blood Why because it's it's an offering to the demons. They're asking for it. Okay? Worst still it's very unfortunate, but things have been done in in the world things like human sacrifice Sacrifice of the first born. It's just like unbelievable what people do for demonic power in in their Lives, but it's really sad. It's really sad But demons can push people to that extent and people can yield to that extent because of their lust for power lust for You know fame and glory but Let us be aware that these things will also lead to an open door in the demonic realm but in the Bible there are references to You know human sacrifices King of Moab Offered his first born son on the city wall and God never liked it God was very angry with him for doing something like this, but you see to counter All these sacrifices Okay, God gave his one and only son the Lord Jesus Christ Who met every requirement one and only after that we don't see any other sacrifice in the Bible No, which is required for us and for salvation, but through Jesus God has countered all of these sacrifices The sacrifice of God's you could say first born son He shed his blood and he cleansed ours. That's like the best that nobody can ever Match up to but God has already done it for us and all these other sacrifices, you know after They do not glorify God. So sacrifices are a way through which Demons can influence people and communities now the final one here is rituals Rituals religious practices So there are all kinds of rituals that people have and it may be a part of their worship Many things they they'll walk they'll turn around.  You have to do this. You have to be like this. You have to dress like this You have to speak like this. You have to eat like this but when people do these things There will be some power something that they are seeing spiritually. That's why they're doing it Because demons can influence through these rituals and these religious practices But maybe the people don't understand where that power is coming from but we as believers need to know Okay, and in our own personal lives We we can also think through and see hey, do I carry some disciplines which are unnecessary Are there any dedications? You know, maybe in my my life or my family's life which need to be broken or any sacrifices that that have happened which we need to cancel or Even rituals and religious practices if it is happening Maybe you're the only believer in your house and others don't believe they are still practicing those things Just stay away from those things. Don't get into that because you know, it's just real There will be some of the other influence of those things, but it's not to scare us.  So I'll pause here for any questions Before we can move on Sister, I have a question. Yes. Yes, sister. Get her This is my lighting candle in the church. Does it have influence? Okay See sister, it's a it's a actually it's a difficult question which you're asking because I Think every time we have to discern You ask yourself, how are you feeling about it? See if it's a one-off thing Someone passed away and then you went and they gave candles to all of you and you lit a candle, right? I don't personally for me It actually recently happened But I was okay with it because it's a one-off thing. I'm there and I also asked myself. Is it okay? Am I feeling fine? I had peace. So I lit the candle So it's okay. But if you're feeling some disturbance, you're like, I don't think this is right Then just don't light the candle because that can also become like a ritual Because in some places they do that, right? You have to go to the candle and come back. So it's better to avoid all these things Okay, thank you sister. Yeah, sure. Sure In our side, I used to hear like When someone gets murdered After that, that area, some people say that I hear that person's sound there Exactly The same sound I used to hear Yeah, so see the Bible like in Hebrews chapter 9, I think it's verse 27 It says for it is appointed for man to die once after which is judgment so This thought of there being and there being a spirit You know wandering about All that's not biblical if someone dies and even Jesus talked about it when one dies if you Die like in the Lord you go to heaven directly Because Paul says being absent in the body is being present with the Lord. So what is he saying as a believer? I'm not here on earth.   So Having understood this What are these voices that people are hearing and they they say that all the Murdered person is the one who comes back his spirit comes back. They're just demons Demons know how to imitate Okay, they there's something on his familiar spirit Where the demon is very familiar with with somebody's Activities their behavior everything they they are they in that sense They can imitate and they can fool people So they're demons. That's a couple of questions in sync. Yeah So, let us say there are scenarios where you know people give you give us this Do or some foods which is offered to a thing and the mind initial mindset is like, you know, we Upfront I say like no, I don't want to have so some of them homage But on the flip side during Christmas. So let us say I go and give them a Christmas cake So is it okay when they give to just take it as just eat it and just leave it there or Mm-hmm, you know up front reject saying no, I don't want to take it. Yeah, that's the first question Yeah, yeah, and the second one is suppose you are knowing you're unknowingly A victim of any of the stronghold could be a place or any people or Anything for that. So how do you really?  Yeah, okay. So both are really, you know important questions. I was just looking for the reference here first Corinthians chapter 10 Versus 27 Yeah, I'll just get the NKJV version of it. So Paul He talks about a similar scenario like let's say an unbeliever invites for a meal Then what do you do? Okay, so I think it's from verse 23 wait, let's go back to verse 18 Was 18, okay, I'll quickly read it. It has an explanation within itself observe Israel after the flesh Not okay verse 19 What am I saying then that an idol is anything or what is offered to idols is anything rather That the things which the Gentiles sacrifice their sacrifice to demons and not to God And I do not want you to have fellowship with demons You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the Lord's table and Of the table of demons or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he now? Go on to verse 23. He says all things are lawful for me But not all things are helpful all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify then I'll just jump to verse 25 eat whatever is sold in the meat market Asking no questions for conscience sake For the earth is the Lord's and all its fullness If any of those who do not believe invites you to dinner and you desire to go eat Whatever is set before you asking no question for conscience sake But if anyone says to you this was offered to idols do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you and For the conscience sake for the earth is the Lord's and all its fullness Conscience I say not your own but that of the other For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience? But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken off for the food over which I give thanks? Okay, so basically what Paul is saying is first he said don't be Involved or a participant in worship right like you cannot eat like a food offered to idols meaning Don't be a participant in those things now. He comes to a place where let's say somebody is giving us some food And it is offered to idols As a believer he says look actually I don't have to be afraid all food is gods Just because they dedicated it to some idol or whatever don't worry about it. Pray sanctify eat it Don't ask any questions but if they say That it was sacrificed or it was whatever dedicated then for their conscience sake you refuse Understood, so I think very clear-cut like it gives you your answer So you can always go back to first Corinthians chapter 10 and your second question was if we have been a victim of Demons yeah in some way so I think We can pray and trust God for a restoration because if I mean We didn't know and all all of these things have happened in our life But now we know we can say God, you know, I I believe you will restore the years the locusts have eaten and You know everything that I've lost you're going to give me double like start making declarations like that Don't worry. Don't worry about the destruction that the enemy has cost in your life Just trust God for restoration and you know like come back with double strength Okay, great. Yeah coming here to our chat shaker He's saying if a person who is in Christ is dead and comes in a dream frequently. What is it? Is it safe? Okay, so shaker When we talk about dream interpretation we say that when we see someone or something it can mean literally that person or There can be an assigned meaning for example If I see if I see, you know My father in my dream it can mean my father or it can mean a person of authority Understood, it's not my father that God is trying to speak to me about it can just mean It's somebody in authority Okay, or if you see let's say Moses in your dream It can mean Moses, but it can also mean a leader. It can mean a deliverer Right. So interpreting is also something that goes into understanding the dream. So if you're see is seeing a Person who is in Christ is dead Now you'll have to check really pray about it shaker and see how you feel about it If you feel God is trying to communicate a message to you then pray and ask for an interpretation or Share it with someone who might be able to help you, but if that dream is bringing fear If it is bringing confusion in your life, then that dream is not from God. Just reject it Okay, because dreams can come from God, but demons can also Intercept with dreams. So some dreams if we feel it's not from God, you can just cancel Reject it say pray a simple prayer that says I cancel this dream in the name of Jesus That's it. Okay. I hope that answers your question Okay, sister Gertrude earlier. I mentioned first first Corinthians chapter 10 Yeah, I think you've written it already. Okay, Jay Warren, you have a question. I think Miriam Raised our hands first. So we'll go with you Miriam and then Warren then probably will wrap up the class Thank you so much. I have a question to ask In church if you are praying and then you don't fall And then again, they come back and pray for you. You don't fall then they'll bring Let me say anointing oil. They are oil. I don't know if it is real then they all want to Put it on your forehead and then you refuse then after that they will say you are rebellious Is it a must when you are prayed for you have to fall down or is it a must they have to put for you That anointing oil and why do they say if you don't fall you have a spirit of rebellious Okay, thank you Miriam So in my own life experience, I can tell you maybe I fell once I never You know fell otherwise Even if people kept their hands on my head, but the point I'm trying to make is the What we have to check for Right for effective ministry is the fruit That comes from the life of that person Or what has happened in that that person's life a miracle God has done a miracle now They have drawn closer to God. They're living for Christ. They're serving Christ. That is the fruit the real result See people can fall get up and do the same old evil things that they were doing before How does it help? falling is not Falling is not the evidence of Being touched by the anointing Miriam. I I'll just put it that way. I hope that helps you and if if we don't fall and you know By putting oil and all of that People are trying to make us fall. I'm not able to understand what what that is I really don't understand that Okay, fine Next Warren, would you like to ask something and Miriam? Yeah, I see your thank you here Yes, sister. No, actually I just wanted to share something but I think we're running out of time It's okay. We can always quickly just to just to share an experience actually some there was a person who in the UK Who sent me a video and basically their husband had passed away about a year ago And in the UK we have uh, you know these uh psychics and mediums Who conduct these services and people actually take it as a entertainment So they had gone for this and and a husband actually This guy was speaking to a husband and he said a lot of things that were accurate, you know And they were like astonished and I'm I'm like looking at this video in astonishment like in in in some such like You know in horror basically and the last thing that this this dead spirit said was By the way, the coffin is closed. It's too late now You know, it's too late now. There's nothing I can do So, I mean they were and they were trying to interpret it in the like a way that you know He's trying to tell someone but for me the interpretation was that it's too late now basically I'm in hell. There's nothing I can do the coffin is closed. You know, that's the thing But it's just it just goes to show that for the unbelievers, you know, they take these things so lightly and it's just dangerous Yes, it is very dangerous Never to to kind of Have any such influence in our lives to shut the door on it and thank you for sharing Warren these things do happen. So, you know fortune telling future Demons can With the knowledge that they have they can but we know one thing The only person who knows everything is God We we say right one of the attributes of God is omniscience.  Okay. So with that, let's Pray and close the class. I would somebody online pray, please and then we can Stop the call Okay quickly though because we have All right, let's pray. Yes Loving father in the name of Jesus. You're such a good God a wonderful God a loving father Lord, who can we compare to you about father? No one else We want to thank you for this time. We want to bless your name lord for speaking to us. Thank you for teaching us Oh god, thank you for the wisdom and knowledge about father. Thank you lord for the things that Your name about father we give glory and honor to you in Jesus name. We are prayed Amen Thank you Miriam. Thank you everyone. God bless you. We'll connect in our next class. Have a wonderful day Bye for now


All righty fish and freaks welcome on back to the channel we are giving it a dangle again over in ET but today we got a 2v2 going on in today's video sponsored by Mystery Tackle Box. If you're looking to grow your tackle arsenal MTB is the best way to do it and you're gonna pay a lot less than you would in the stores. I've been partnered with MTB for years they are a great partner and they also make the perfect gift for the fishermen in your circle. And after all these years I'm still surprised by all the new tackle that I see in the boxes every month. They have tons of connections in the tackle world now. In every box you're getting a great mix of hard bait, soft plastics, terminal tackle and you're even getting Guggen Squad hard baits and plastics in there so it is juicy. They have boxes for everybody whether you're a beginning fisherman or you're looking for that next level elite box and they have different species boxes as well so they've got you covered. 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We just we just really it's time for Matt to catch a 10. I mean everybody else in the group has been catching 10. You might be in the wrong close to it. He's got a legit shot out here. Why it? How many tens have you seen out of this lake in the last two months? At least five. At least five. Like you've personally been involved. What's that? You've personally been involved. Been involved with three as a sharelunker caught that was registered the same the same week. They're like the week before. So this is day three. We're out here in ET. I usually do this every year if we've been hammering on them crappie but today I left the crappie sticks in the truck. Yeah they're in your book so it won't be a distraction for me. I'm going I'm going meat and potatoes, vibe jigs, lipless cranks, spinnerbugs, all that fun stuff you do March April out here in ET getting that grass and just winding grind for big fish so that's what we're gonna be doing. I'm trying to get that jump. All right so we've got the shaman and Matt heading out. Wyatt, what's the deal out here? What do you think? There's a deal. There was a lot of offshore. I say offshore. Mid-debt stuff, free spawners, staging areas. I was doing great offshore. We had a big storm roll through. Light came up, muddy water, rising water, mud always means, especially in March, we're gonna push shallow. I'm with Wyatt. I think it's gonna be shallow, beat the bank. Hopefully they're gonna be feeding today because it's windy. See the pines? It's doing more than whispering today. It's screaming pines and the last two days have been like sunny, high pressure. Today's a big bass feeding day. Let's go. So I want to say going to the bank really in this case we're talking about the dirt because the fish are going to sometimes move up into the newest, freshest water that they can that has cover, that has nutrients. The shad will often move up into these areas. You'll see they'll feed on all this new little stuff that's coming into the water. The bluegill will do the same thing and in turn the bass will go up there and feed on those baitfish. So this is pretty murky. Pretty usual. Oh there you go. Little buddy on the point.  Mally ain't blind as a bat. God, that's a bad one there. Poor dude. Somebody put him in the skillet. I won't make it very long. I don't want to land on a giant. Under the water we have some sparse hydrilla, some millfoil, and there's lily pad stems and that is really the key. I've seen this for years and years and years now. Probably 10 years of bass fishing during this time of year and in the fall where the lily pad stems are really key because they're I'm not sure whether they're making the hard bottom or they just grow around hard bottoms but bass really like that especially when things are you know silty they don't like real silty type conditions so those lily pad stems that just means that's well it's number one it's gets covered they can relate to and also harder bottom so fishing around those should be really productive in the spring and in the fall. 396 recorded first wayable fish. Here's the big key with fishing in severely stained or muddy water conditions. You've got to hit your target or you got to know where some targets are and you got to run that lure past it maybe multiple times. The fish might not even see it the first time but it's kind of a catch 22 because they're going to hold tighter to cover so you know it makes them more predictable where they're going to be but also you got to make some good cast and really present your bait by that cover. Things that are going to put out a big presence in the stained muddy water that's going to be your spinner baits that sound really good you got your vibe jigs you've got you know lipless crankbaits sometimes those can be a little fast so your crankbaits things that make rattles move a lot of water or any sort of plastic that's got this when you want to use your big chunky moving trailers that put out a lot of water dispersion and even have rattles in it so that would be the time is during these conditions. Oh I'm called 385. 385? 385 is fair. 96 385. Basically two four pounders which round up a hair. No kidding. You got any decent ones or what? No. A couple of decent's. Nothing crazy. What do you have? Two that's right under four. Like a 396 and a three. Well we got a 972 too but other than that no that's crazy. Derp's status right now sitting pretty. A couple of sub fours. One little I can't remember how big the other one was but I know we're doing better than the other team and it is just straight-up bank fishing. The key though is little lily pads that are submerged right now because the waters come up but those hard stems they usually provide a little hard bottom something for fish for light too and sometimes they get on pretty good. A little vibe jig, spinner bait, stuff like that will get through there swim jig. Good choices. Put the mark down. What's the what's the phrase for the mercury? Yamaha's put the hammer down. Mercury, hold the water. What is it? Is it something's over water? Mercury, stir s*** up. Yeah it's got it down just like that other one down the hatch. I know I was like dude this is gonna be it was just like that last one probably like 15 feet out. Hey should be a three pounder. That's a long fish right there. Third decent fish captured just over four pounds giving us about a 12 pound average on our three fish.  You just wait for the fish to latch on. That's it. That's pretty much it. You boys on a little program over here? I got a little swim bait action going. A little swim bait action? All right you got any Mondos? Like over five? Might have a little ball game. We got another one similar size 12 pounds probably. We got a tight race. Okay I'm intrigued. That's what I was coming to ask you. You know we got to drive home and all that stuff. I know. I'm good calling it I'm kind of interested to see what we got now. All right we'll do our little calculation we're gonna see who the winner is. Wish we had a camera in the other boat to see see that upgrade action. 12 out of 3. 12 out of 3. Wow. 12 out of 3. Pretty much 12 on the dot. Four pounds. It was a 420 something. Yeah. We had a 396 and a 385. So you basically had a five and some pretty good. Pretty good but not good enough. Why you're an aspiring pro. Your BFL angler of the year. Yeah man. So this is what you do every day. Yeah. So it's just another day but for me it was good. Yeah man I had a great time. It was a blast. Four pounders. Four pounders. No giants like this likes got you know. No true representation of giants it has. But hey just went through some drags that changes out of here so we did it with good. Cake plate. Cake plate. Good day. Just a friendly competition today but it always feels good to get that doubt that means less trash talking I have to put up with during the rest of the season. Thank you guys for tuning in to today's 2v2 bass fishing competition. If you want to see the previous two videos in the series they're just the two previous videos in the library. This is an incredible time to be out all in the water. You could catch the biggest fish in your life. Get out there give it a dangle. God bless you and the great outdoors. Godspeed and I'll see you on the next one.


Live, from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Informatica World 2019. Brought to you by Informatica. Hey, welcome back everyone here. Live in Las Vegas, for theCUBE, for Informatica World 2019. I'm John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE. We've got two great guests here from Snowflake. We've got Tarek Diwak, who's the Director of Technology Alliance at Snowflake, and Rick Tam Daniels, Vice President of Strategic Ecosystems and Technology at Informatica. Welcome back to theCUBE. Good to see you guys. Good to see you as well. Hey, thanks for coming on. Snowflake, congratulations, you guys are doing really well. Thank you. Big growth, new CEO, Frank Slutman. Informatica, the data, ZAR, Neutral Third Party, Switzerland, Cloud, you got Switzerland. What's the relationship, explain. Well, I think it's funny that comment comes up a fair amount, and I look at it this way. It's not so much that, you know, with Switzerland, what we're focused on though, is where customers are choosing to go in their journey, we want to provide them the best experience possible, right? So we end up going very deep in our strategic ecosystems, and Snowflake's one of those partners that we've seen tremendous growth with, and customers are adopting. So, very excited about the partnership. Talk about your relationship with Informatica, why you're here, what's the story? Yeah, definitely. So, Snowflake, we put customers first, right? And as Rick mentioned, it's all about having a diverse ecosystem, and the enterprise, Informatica's a leader, when you look at where customers are going with data, right, they, obviously data integration's key, data quality is key, data governance, all the areas that Informatica has been the best to read in, it just makes sense for, continue to make traction in these enterprise customers. Can you explain the business model of Snowflake, what you guys do, quick one minute? Sure, so Snowflake's a data warehouse solution built from the ground up for the cloud. Why that distinction's important is because we're the only data warehouse born in the cloud, if you look at how the other solutions you're doing today, they're taking an architecture, an architecture created a decade ago for a non-premise world, and they're just shifting to the cloud. And the challenge that you have there is that you can't take full advantage of things like instant and infinite resources, both compute and storage, right? Independent scaling of compute and storage, elasticity, right, the ability to scale up and down and out with the click of a button, and then even being able to support massive concurrency, things like loading data, at the same time that you're querying data. This is what Snowflake was built for. How about data sets from other people? That's one of the benefits of having cloud data in the cloud. Correct, so our architecture's key, that's the key to our business and our product, and what we've done is we've separated compute and storage, and we've become a centralized database, and what we've found by creating additional views, you can actually share your data with yourself, you can share it with other customers. We've created this concept of data sharing. Data sharing's been around for decades, but it's been very painful. What we've done is created an online, performance secure way for customers to share the data. Rick, this is really highlights of value proposition for Matica. I always say, beauty in data is in the eye of the beholder, depending on where you're sitting in from. You could be on-premises, you have legacy, you could be born in the cloud, and taking advantage of all that cloud stuff. Graham Thompson was on earlier, he said, hey, if you've got data in the cloud, why move it on-premise? So there should be a choice of what's best, and that's where you guys come in. What specifically are you guys tying together with data where it's in the cloud, and make customers want to choose to have, for compliance reasons, a variety of other reasons, on-prem or under the location? Well, I think one of the big things about cloud data warehouses in particular, it's not all things being equal with the on-premise world, right? The level of agility you get with the snowflake, where it's infinite scale out, up in a few minutes, that empowers so much transformation in the organization, that's why it's so compelling, and so many folks are adopting it, and so we're helping customers on that journey though, because they've got a very complex data environment, and they've got to, first of all, understand how does this all put together to be able to start modernizing and moving to the cloud? I'm sorry, if I ask the question, where should a customer store their data on the cloud or on-premise, I know where you'll come in on that, it's cloud all the way, because that's what you do. But this is something that architects and the enterprise have been feeling with, because they do have legacy stuff. So, and we've seen with the SaaS business models, data has been really key for their success, because it gives them risk-taking, or I'm saying risk-taking, meaning they can do things, A-B testing to whatever, test certain features on certain users, basically use the data, basically, to create value. And then the upside of taking that risk is reward. You get more revenue, hockey stick growth, and the numbers are pretty clear. Enterprises want that, but they're not really set up for it. How do they get there? The best part with the SaaS model is customers can de-risk by putting some of their data, for instance, Snowflake, right? We work across AWS and Azure. So, customers that maybe aren't all in yet on either cloud provider can start using Snowflake, and put data into Snowflake, and test it out, test out the performance and the security of cloud. And if, for whatever reason, it doesn't work out, they haven't risked very much, if anything. And if it does work out, then they've got a great proving round for that. So, the SaaS opens up a lot of possibilities for enterprise customers. Jay, that covers, I brought this up with Graham, and he's from Scotland, so I understand his perspective. I'm from Silicon Valley, so I took my perspective. I said, when I hear regulation, I see anti-innovation, right? Like, when I hear governments coming involved, putting regulation on things, we're seeing a very active regulatory environment on tech companies around data. GDPR, one year anniversary, this is a real issue. How do you turn that regulatory constraints around data, because what it means is more complexity around how to deal with the data. How do you turn that into an advantage? Obviously, software abstraction certainly helps from tech, but customers are trying to move faster with cloud. They can do that for all those reasons we talked earlier, but now you've got complexity around regulation. I think, first off, from a data warehouse perspective, we were built with security and compliance in mind from day one, right? So you build in things like encryption, always on encryption. You build things like role-based access controls, things like key management, right? And then, when you think of Informatica within the data pipeline, getting data from sources in and out of Snowflake, then you build additional data quality, data governance tools on top of that. Things like data catalog, right? Where you can now just go discover what data you have out there, what data are you moving into the cloud, and what is the lineage of that data? So, about this migration and movement, because that becomes, people are generally skeptical when they hear migration, like, oh my God, migration. Either they know it's going to cost some money or potentially technical risk. How do you guys handle the migration in a way that's risk-free? Yeah. I'll take that one. So, one of the things that we really put in front of all of our migration approaches for customers is the Enterprise Data Catalog. And using the machine learning capabilities of the catalog to take what is a very complex landscape and make it very understandable and accessible to the business, but then also understand how it's all put together. Where data's coming from, where it's going, who's consuming it, and once you have that view and that clarity of how things are put together, it actually means you can take a use case-based approach to adoption of the cloud and moving data. So, you're actually realizing business value incrementally as you're moving, which I think is really key, right? If you do these massive multi-year projects and it takes a year to get any results, it's not going to fly anymore, right? This is a much more agile world. And so, we're really empowering of that with the intelligence around data. You know, Digital Transformation's got three kind of categories we find when we poll people and do research.  Then on the other end of the spectrum, you've got fear, oh my God, I don't really have the talent to do some study it, spec it out, we've got to figure it out. Then you have people who are kind of like, you know, the fast followers, influence kind of like, focused. They tend to break down in the middle of projects. And the sun seems to be the pattern. They get going and they get stuck in the mud. This is a real issue around culture and people. So, I've got to ask you, you know, a lot of these challenges around people and culture is huge skills gap. What is the biggest hiring skills gap that's needed to be filled so that people can be successful, whether they've got a really rock star team or smart team that's just got to reskill up or how do you take a project that's stuck in the mud and rebooted, these are challenges. I think one of the nice things about Informatica is that there's 100,000 folks out there who are familiar with Informatica's approach of implementations. So, by us bringing our technologies and embracing these journeys, we're actually empowering customers to not have to get coders and data scientists. They're using some of those same data engineers, but now they're bringing data to the cloud. And I think along those same lines, we think of practitioners usually, right? I need data scientists, I need more data engineers. I think a valuable asset that's becoming more clear now is to have a new breed of data analysts, right? That understand how to put AI and machine learning together, how to start to grab all of the data that's out there for customers, right? Structured data, semi-structured data, and make sure that they've got a single strategy along how to become data-driven. Give an example of some of the customers you guys are working together with using Snowflake and Informatica. What are they doing? What's some of the use cases? What's some of the applications? Yeah, so I think one of the biggest use cases is data warehouse modernization, right? So you have the existing on-premise data warehouses, and I always like, I talk to customers, think about, well, realistically, when you have a new use case on your on-premise warehouse, how long is it going to take you to actually see your first piece of data? I don't know, a lot of people have extra capacities, kind of hanging around in their warehouse, right? When you think about, they have to make business cases, they have to get new hardware, new licenses. It could take six months to see their first piece of data, so I think it's a tremendous accelerator for them to go to the cloud. So the main thing there is agility. Yes, exactly. Fast time to value. How's business with the Snowflake? What's going on with you guys? What other use cases are you seeing besides the data warehouse, modern data warehouse? Sure, John, I can start with business in general. It's very exciting times at Snowflake right now. Late last year, we got a funding round of $450 million for growth funding, brings our total funding to just over $920 million. Our valuation doubled to $3.9 billion. That puts us in the top 25 highest valued private U.S. tech firms. Like I mentioned before, we tripled the number of employees to over 1,000 across nine countries globally. We're going to expand to 20 or more in the next 12 months. And then in terms of my favorite part. What's been the traction of that? Why the success? What's been the aha moment for customers with Snowflake? Yeah, I think about what customers try to do in their data journey. There are probably three key things. Number one, they want to get access to all their data. And they want to do that in a very fast and economic way. They want to be able to get all the different variety of data that's out there. All the modern data types. Both the structured data, their ERP and CRM systems, things about customers and product and sales transactions. And then all this modern data from web and social, from behavior data, from machine generated data and IoT. But they want to put it all together. They don't want to have different disparate systems to go and process this and try to bring it all back together today. That's been the challenge. Is the complexity and the cost. And what we've done is start to remove those barriers. You know, I love the, well, I love the term now because I hated it when it came out data lake. During the Hadoop days we heard data lake. And then it turned into a data swamp. You start to see that get fixed a little bit. Because what people are afraid of is they're afraid of throwing all this data into a data swamp. They really want to get value out of it. This has been a hard thing in the early days of Hadoop. But it was cool technically to be, you know, putting Hadoop clusters together and standing them up. But then it's like, where's the value? I think the data lake concept, in essence, makes a lot of sense. Because you want to get all your data in one central place so you can ask questions across all the different data types and all the different data sources. The challenge we had was you had the traditional data warehouse, which couldn't support the new data types and the diversity, just the pure volume. And then you had newer, no sequel like systems like Hadoop that could start to address just the sheer mass of data. But they were so complex that you needed an army and you still do need an army. And then there's some limitations around performance and other issues. And so no data projects were making it into production. I think we still have a very small success rate when you think about data projects that actually make the production. This is where, with Snowflake, because we had the luxury to build it from the ground up, we saw the needs of both using a relational SQL database because SQL's still an amazing expressive language. People have invested skill sets and tools. And then be able to support the new semi-structured data types, all within the same system. All within a SaaS model so you can start to remove complexity. It's self-managed. We have a self-managed SaaS offering so customers don't have to worry about all the operational lifting. They can go and get insight into the data. And then because of the cloud, they can take advantage of the elasticity and the scale and pay for what they use. What was the big bet on Snowflake that paid off? You had to kind of hone it down. But the biggest bet, John, was re-architecting a database in scratch because if you look all the other solutions out there that get the fastest time to market is you can take an architecture that's been existing for a decade or so and wrap it around a cloud. And that gets you some benefits of the cloud. For instance, no need for upfront costs and implementing hardware in the data center. You can offload some of the management and some of the maintenance to the cloud providers. But like I mentioned before, you can't scale automatically. You can't take advantage of infinite scale, right? Because these systems were designed in an on-premise world that had a thinking of finite resources. So I think our big bet was, do you create a new architecture? That's a big risk, but luckily it's paid off well. Big risk payoffs. Rick, talk about the ecosystem.  You have to. You guys are integrating integration points. I was comparing you guys, not to sound like it's in a bad way, but Slack is going public, so I'll use them as an example. Slack is a software that's cloud-based, but what made them really big besides copying the message board kind of IRC chat, is that they have a huge integration points with all the key players that really fed that in. This is kind of something that in metaphors, not directly to you guys, but you guys are very integration, partner-oriented. How is that playing out? Again, I'm sure there's, I didn't see any strategy change, so I'm still continuing. Give us the update. How's that going? This is a great example. It's no-flake here on theCUBE. This is core of Informatica. Take a minute to explain the strategy. Well, I think the beginning of the journey with any of our ecosystem partners does start with the connectivity layer, but honestly, moving data from point A to point B, that's kind of, that's the tip of the iceberg, right? And so we've really focused on bringing, really addressing all the challenges, the entire data journey. So it's one thing about, first of all, how do we even find the data to bring there? Now once I've found it, can I connect to it? Do I have the access to the data? Can I bring it to the right targets the customer wants to consume? But then once the data is there, is it usable? Is it consumable? Is it clean? If I'm doing customer 360, do I need to get my golden records? Or you mentioned GDPR, our whole data protection focus on trying to create a perimeter between different parts of the enterprise or automatically applying masking, encryption, those sorts of things. So we're really focused on integrating that as tightly as we can and making it seamless for customers to be able to tap into those capabilities when they need them. I mean, feeding data to machine learning and then powering AI is a great example. You don't have the right data at the right time for the machine learning. The AI doesn't work well. And then applications that are going to be using machine learning need to have access to data as fast as possible. Lag really hurts everything. And this is a huge issue. Yeah, I mean, and we're looking at complete acceleration of that whole data discovery phase to build your models and train them.  The old adage is still applicable today. And I think even, but you've got security issues. What happens if your training data includes some sensitive code names that show up in your models all of a sudden, right? There's all these issues, but then you take out those models and operationalize them as well. Again, the inputs need to be clean. Cloud on premise, final word. Get your, get your bull's take on it. Obviously your data where it's in the cloud. For the customers that have an on-premise dynamic, whether it's legacy or whatever, I got to move to the cloud. I'm eventually going to have some cloud and how it's going to look. What do they do? What's the state of the union for dealing with data that's not just in the cloud? Yeah. I guess, go ahead. Sure, I think, again, going back to having a SaaS model, customers can pick specific projects, specific data sets to go and try out, right? Snowflake gives them a perfect example of not even having to directly engage the cloud partner yet, right? They want to see if data can be ingested in the cloud in a very fast, performant way. They want to see if security meets their needs, right? They want to test out all of the different things around management and ease of use. They can do that with Snowflake. Again, at a very low risk way because we are a SaaS platform, we've got a great model on elasticity, customers can pay as they go just to try it out. So for me, when I think of these customers that are stuck there and trying to make a decision, I say, look, try Snowflake. It's a very risk-free way to start to analyze some data sets. And if it works for you, then you've got a proof point of starting to move more and more workloads into the cloud. Rick, digital transformation, what are customers doing? What's the playbook? Yeah, I think the recipe is, one, be laser-focused on value, right? Have your eyes on how I'm going to get value as quickly as I can this transformation. Second thing is, understand what you have. Understand your existing landscape. And third piece is go, like get started because I think the case for the cloud is so compelling for customers. I don't know a single customer that I talked with who is not already on the cloud journey. So it's really though about making sure you get business value as you proceed down that journey. Get the proof points up front. Absolutely. Think smaller steps. Yep, incremental. Jill of the value. Sounds like agility dev outs. Guys, thanks for coming on. Good to see you. It's Cube Coverage here in Las Vegas. I'm John Furrier, your host of the Cube with Rebecca Knight. Two days of wall-to-wall coverage. We'll be back with more after this short break.


Okay, so now we want to plot some critical points and I'm going to go back to what you've already encountered in the textbook in chapter 7, Applying the Angles to Shadows and Tracking. So let's focus on shadows. The first example that we've got here is the example of a wing wall. The wing wall being an extension out from the side of a building that might be blocking the sun. In the case that we've got in the textbook, we've got a wall that is to the west of the site and so in our case that means that on this plot it's going to be a shadow that's going to be occurring on the west side in the afternoon sun and we'd like to plot when is that shading going to happen on our central point, our point of interest x, in this case x was in the center of a building. So we can imagine that this was a window that we wanted to understand or a central point in the window that we wanted to understand when is it being shaded versus not shaded. And so we did some basic trigonometry in the textbook to give us critical points between the central point x and three other shadowing critical points, a, b, and c. And those points are listed in the textbook and so what I'm going to do right now is just start plotting those out and so we had a, our points in that case listed as zero being the south. And so when I had plus 54 degrees, what I was having is an addition of 54 degrees onto the original 180 degrees, right? And so we're going to end up with some points at the bottom and they're going to go up to our critical point of a, which was zero degrees and altitude angle, excuse me, zero degrees altitude angle and 54 degrees to the west to the afternoon azimuth angle. And then point b was going to be a separate altitude angle upward of 35 degrees. And so let's go to approximately 35 degrees, we'll plot a second point right there. And our third point, so this was point x, a, this point was point x, b. And now we're going to need a third point that's going to be point x relative to the critical point c. And that was going to be 45 degrees up, so we count up 45 degrees and we're going to go up 45 degrees and we need to go into the west in the azimuth 114 degrees, right? So first we add 100 degrees and we're going to get about 114 degrees across to finally get our critical point c right here. And so if I want to connect these guys together, if I want to connect these guys together, first thing I know in an orthographic projection, and I'm just kind of telling you this, is that it's a vertical drop down. So lines connected together vertically will basically just have a vertical line down. The connection for the points here is going to be more like an arc, okay? And so we make sure that we have a nice arc tying these points together and it's going to extend continuously out towards the north. And then I'm going to shade, oops, then I'm going to shade that data in under here. So all of this region is going to be under shadows for our wing wall. So we understand that in December we get shading happening at about four o'clock in the afternoon. So four o'clock solar time, shading happens for the rest of the day. In the, on March 21st, shading is going to happen at about, we're going to say at about 250, right? And by the time we get to the end, the other extreme, the summer solstice of June 21st, that time is going to be about 345. So from 345 on to the end of the day, we're going to have shadowing occurring for this particular point X in the problem. And now if I were to take that same plot and show you what we did inside the textbook, it's going to look just like this. So something very much like what the textbook is just by plotting the points out and connecting those points together.


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