Today we're going to talk about wilderness experiences and honestly the the season that I've just come out of it's been a truly humbling experience and I'm sharing this from you know I'm being open I'm being transparent here it was really it was really humbling before I went into this season that I was in I really thought that I was it I was I was it I had it all figured out I was you know Mr. Know it all I was all that and you know I thought that you know hey I've been to Africa you know I've done this I've done that and listen to me and look at me here and all that and if you look at it from God's perspective I'm not surprised God probably you know if you look at God's perspective I had it coming I needed that to humble me a little bit and I'm being really honest and you can laugh and it's you know it's funny and all that but for real I needed it I'm not saying that God that they was God that put me in that situation it wasn't but you know when the devil has plans to attack us and stuff because the devil truly tried to destroy me and destroy us he couldn't destroy us God wouldn't let him destroy us and when he can't destroy you he will try to delay you when he can't delay you he will try to distract you when he can't distract you he'll try to discourage you so I was delayed distracted and discouraged but not destroyed hallelujah here we are today hallelujah praise God and I've been waiting to say this actually I've been waiting to say this and I want to say it to the whole world and I want to speak into the spirit realm right now and say devil you should have taken me down when you had your shot because we're coming for you with the fire of God we're coming for you gonna pay for every single day that you have stolen hallelujah I've been envisioning saying that for like two and a half years some of you that I talked to frequently you've already heard me say that many times but now I said it from the stage and it felt really good I'm very serious when I say that the devil would try to destroy you when he can't he would delay distract or discourage you and that's what we went through and it was a humbling experience God allowed it he said this boy it's good for you to know what you're preaching about because I could preach a little bit I could make people feel a little bit like yeah yeah yeah I didn't know what I was preaching about I've never faced it before one of my favorite sermons that I used to preach is when I talk about stepping out of the boat taking a step of faith out on the water and I had never been in a storm before the disciples of Jesus when Peter needed to take a step of faith he was in the middle of a storm and it hits different to say it when you have experienced storms it hits different the scripture that says the name of the Lord is a strong tower when you have felt unsafe before the Bible verse that says I know the plans I have for you it hits differently when you have felt hopeless and helpless it hits differently when you have gone through it so now I mean I'm not in any way fully you know I'll probably go through things still in my life but at least I know what it means to go through wilderness it's not easy praise God and the humbling part of the experience is I realize that I'm not special I'm not special I'm just an average guy but Jesus Christ loves average people Jesus loves average people with average problems and average marriages and average houses and average work and average everything there's one thing that isn't average though and that's our God our God is everything but average so if you're feeling average here today maybe you're an average Joe like me Jesus Christ wants to use you you don't need a special gift to be able to be used by God you don't need a special talent you need to be nothing special for God to use you looking for average people Jesus Christ called 12 average very carnaly minded people that were straight out stupid many times when he chose the people that would shake and change this world so if you're feeling average today don't be discouraged let it be an encouragement God is calling you average Joe he is calling you today he wants to use you and that's all he needs he needs an average Joe I had some numbers and I'll say it just for fun if you are an average Joe and you're making between 33 and 39 a year you live in 2200 square feet you have 1.15 kids and 1.88 cars you're the average Joe that Jesus is looking for you have a dog named Max or a dog named Bella Jesus is calling you today you're the average American person and that's what he's looking for he's not looking for for special people he's looking for average people like you and me praise God and average people go through wilderness as well and that's what I'm gonna talk about today the title of today's message is deserts and gardens deserts and gardens praise God you can follow me to the book of Joshua how many know what it means like to go through wilderness you know the meaning like going through wilderness you're well acquainted with it can I see it again how many have gone through a very serious wilderness in your life how many are going through wilderness right now I mean don't be going through wilderness is nothing to be ashamed of I'm literally I mean I'm on the you know right two days ago I came out of my metaphorical wilderness and this is how we look like this is a person fresh off the wilderness boat you know praise God so the dictionary definition it's not a dictionary definition but it's a Christian resource that defines the Christian terms it says that a wilderness experience is a local for intense experiences of stark need for food and water of isolation like Elijah of danger and divine deliverance like Hagar and Ishmael of renewals and encounters with God like Moses and there's a psychology as well as a geography of wilderness a theology gained in the wilderness and something I can say is that wilderness experiences often times comes right before or right after life changing events or promotions I mean I'm gonna mention it we used to say the joke in the pastoral chat when the first happened but I was ordained as a pastor and then literally on like Sunday it was like Sunday I was ordained as a pastor and like Tuesday was not allowed back into the country and when my wilderness experienced I never even came to the church with the title so the joke was oh man dude you really want that title that's what he was here for you know took the title and ran with it so many times that's how it is right around very important events in your life great promotions either before or after is when you face that something that we kind of see God would like allow it to see to test your metal to see if you are ready and you're able to carry the promotion that is coming away and that is it when I grew up in Swedish Pentecostal church the elders in the church they are very God loving people God fearing people and I don't know if you have this in American culture maybe some of us they are from European countries we can identify but Swedish Pentecostal church when you have the young people that were on fire for God you know they newly saved newly converted and they love Jesus and they sing loud and they raise their hands and they dance a little and they shout hallelujah and the elders would be like oh wow I can see the passion in you I feel the fire burning in your heart I can see myself I just want to let you know get ready because the wilderness is coming for you too you'll go through your wilderness too don't you worry like oh wow thank you for this wonderful prophetic encouragement I feel so edified by these elders you know these are the desert dwellers they have found their comfort in living in the wilderness they have no plans of moving out they're there permanently and they want to encourage people you know hey it's coming for you too get ready it's coming for you too so we are not desert dwellers here that's not my purpose of telling you either but I want to let you know that many of us in fact all Christians go through wilderness but there are two different kinds of wilderness not everyone goes through the desert type of a wilderness but I believe that everyone goes through the garden type of a wilderness two different wildernesses I'm going to read from the book of Joshua chapter 5 to define the first wilderness Joshua chapter 5 verse 6 for the children of Israel walked 40 years in the wilderness till all the people who were men of war who came out of Egypt were consumed because they did not obey the voice of the Lord to whom the Lord swore that he would not show them the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers that he would give us a land flowing with milk and honey this was the only wilderness experience that I was aware of from the beginning it's the desert it's caused by you know it's a prolonged season of you know sand and all that good stuff and if you go to Israel and the surrounding areas and you've actually gone to the desert that the people of Israel was in with if you ride a camel because you can't take a car through the desert it takes about a day and a half to go through that desert so for the people of Israel to confusedly be walking around in that desert for 40 years it's literally a miracle it's like if you would go out here get your car and it would take you half a day to find your way out of the parking lot it's literally impossible it requires God not allowing you to come out of that desert experience because of their pride because of their disobedience and because of their rebellion against God but then we have the other type of wilderness experience the one that all of us if you haven't yet it's coming I'm not I'm I'm just joking but but it might be you know I might be able to prepare you if you haven't faced anything of such sorts yet and it's from the book of Luke chapter 22 this is the second type of wilderness experience Luke 22 verse 39 coming out he went to the Mount of Olives and as he was accustomed and his disciples also followed him when he came to the place he said to them pray that you may not enter into temptation and he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw and he knelt down and prayed saying father if it is your will take this cup away from you from me nevertheless not my will but yours be done then an angel appeared to him from heaven strengthening him and being in agony he prayed more earnestly that his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground when he rose up from prayer and he came to his disciples he found them sleeping from sorrow and they said to him why do you sleep rise and pray lest you enter into temptation two types of wilderness one was a wild desert one was a wild garden and I've got a couple of points now on how you can identify if you're going through a wilderness experience in your life today I hope that this message will help you to be able to see clearly if you're in the desert or if you're in the garden okay point number one one of these wilderness experiences was self-inflicted it was because of rebellion it was because of disobedience and what happened was it became a punishment the other was inevitable there was nothing that could change the fact that it was going to happen one was a punishment one was a test what is your wilderness today is your wilderness a punishment or is it a test just like the three Hebrew men in Daniel chapter 3 the three Hebrew men it was inevitable for them that they would go through this test that the fiery furnace was not a punishment not from God it was from man and God can use man to put you into a garden God uses man many times to put you in through situations so these three Hebrew men it was inevitable sooner or later they were going to have to say no or they were going to have to bow their knee and they chose to say no and there was an instant test I think metaphorically speaking that the fiery furnace was the garden of the three Hebrew men it was inevitable it wasn't self-inflicted it would have happened no matter what because they had their faith and they said no we're not going to follow Jesus and consequences followed number two in one of the wilderness experiences God wanted the people to learn a lesson in the second one they needed to keep their focus when Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane there was no lesson for him to learn there when Daniel was in the lion's den there was no lesson for him to learn to get out of the lion's den I believe that the lion's den was Daniel's metaphorical garden wilderness experience he wasn't there because he had been disobedient to God and he wasn't there to learn a lesson what lesson could he have possibly been learning in the lion's den how to tame lions or what there was no lesson you learn lessons when you go through wilderness no matter what but the purpose of it isn't a lesson when you go through a garden the purpose of it is to keep your focus you don't need to learn a lesson at this point if you read about Jesus in the book of Matthew 4 when he was taken into the desert and the devil was tempting him he wasn't there to learn a lesson he was there to keep his focus the longer he kept his focus the more successfully he passed through the garden remember the garden is something you pass through it's not something that you live in don't be a desert dweller nor be a garden dweller we're passing through it, we're not staying there Jesus passed through the desert and he was tempted but he kept his focus and because of them he moved on in deserts you need to learn your lesson but in the garden you need to keep your focus where are you today? I'm talking from experience we were asking God fasting and praying seeking the physical, sure someone is like oh yeah you're fasting, okay God will forgive you God will forgive you I know there was someone because I thought the thought it's like I heard someone was like ah you're fasting, okay okay we were fasting, we were praying we were seeking the face of God and we were asking God what is the lesson you want us to learn here I mean if you look at it from a practical point of view the lesson is basically don't do anything that you're not allowed to do on a visa that's the lesson, oh wow thank God for that lesson that was a good lesson for life we weren't there necessarily for a lesson because we were praying we were seeking the face of God but God wasn't answering and saying oh this is the lesson I want you to learn and when you learn this lesson be faithful in little then you will go through and I will let you out what we were there for was to keep our focus to not allow anything to distract us from following what we have our eyes on which is Jesus Christ hallelujah step number three the third thing that differentiates a desert from a garden in a desert God wanted the people of God to pray and seek him and God wants you to always pray don't misquote me here but in the desert God wanted people to seek him and pray and seek his face in a garden Jesus already prayed and sought the face of God Jesus already tried to get an answer from God but seemingly there was no answer seemingly yet God always sends his comforter in the book of Psalm 23 God gave us two promises when he talks about the value of the shadow of death promise number one he will guide you through it promise number two he will protect you and comfort you in the midst of it those are the two promises those are the two promises so when you are praying and you are seeking the face of God many times he has already told you I will see you through trust me only something that I realized something that I realized when I was in this season is that sometimes we try too much and what we need to do instead is to trust you try you try and all you need to do is to trust in the value of the shadow death it says nothing about trying it talks only about trusting you can't lift yourself out by yourself out of the lion's den trust that God knows what he is doing in the midst of it so Jesus Christ was praying we in our situation we were praying the answer that we wanted the answer we wanted was basically oh you know if you forgive the sins that someone had done to you for many years ago you live a better and holier life and you watch less Netflix and you pray and fast more and you don't do anything else then I will fast forward this situation for you but it wasn't about that it wasn't about that but God sent his comfort always the three Hebrew men there was a fourth man there to comfort them in the lion's den God sent his angel to shut the mouths of the lions and to comfort Daniel when Jesus was in Gethsemane the Bible says angels came and ministered to him and comforted him when Jesus was in the desert in Matthew 4 angels came and ministered to him there too he will comfort you you might not answer the way that you want him to hallelujah step number four deserts can be shortened gardens can't you cannot shorten the garden experience you have to endure till the end in the desert if the people of God would have turned away from their idol worship if they would have finally embraced God and followed his law the situation would have turned around but in the garden Jesus had to go through it till the end when Daniel was in the lion's den he prayed I mean he doesn't say it but I'm pretty sure he was praying in the lion's den he would be weird if he didn't he was praying, he was fasting and if I was the one in the face with lions if you read it it actually says that when the people that he's accusers when they were thrown into the lion's den the lions devoured them before they even landed literally mid-air the lions took them imagine being in that you can read it imagine being in that situation and you are praying God they put the stone over on everything and you don't even know what time it is God please save me right now I'll do anything I'll increase my time to 20% 30 even God 30, okay 35 even come on God I'll do these out fast every Monday I'll do 3 day fasting every month 7 day fasting once a year or 40 days fasting or whatever you know there was nothing Daniel could do to shorten his encounter in the lion's den when you're going through a garden you got to endure till the end yeah and why is that because of point 5 point 5 in the garden in the garden when Jesus was in the garden praying and he was sweating blood there was a reason bigger than himself when you're going through a garden is because there is a purpose greater than yourself you're not just there to learn to change a way of life like they did in the desert they needed to change something change their approach change their attitude but when you're going through a garden is because there is a purpose greater than yourself because Daniel went through the lion's den that is why God became the God of that nation after that there was great turnaround in that country because of the lion's den when he was there do you think he knew that do you think if he prayed the God was like oh yeah you're going to survive this and when you survive the whole country is going to love me and that's why I'm putting you through this right no all he needed to do was to trust come on come on because there was a purpose greater than himself something great is coming after but the desert wasn't that wasn't how it was they were there to learn something change something grow so what are you going through today these five points hopefully you'll be able to see if you're going through a desert or if you're going through a garden message here right now we're going to take some time to minister here at the end maybe you're here today and you feel like oh I'm probably going through a desert after all I mean considering what you've said it fits me people go through desert don't get me wrong people go through desert you know people I've heard many people say you know you commit a crime you get punished for it and you say it's your garden or your wilderness experience God is not doing this for you to you know a greater purpose or whatever God can turn it around but you caused it okay mister or mrs so it's important to understand the difference between a desert and a garden and if you are here today and you feel like you're going through a desert in a little bit we're going to pray with you and if you're here today and you feel like you're going through a garden maybe you're still in the middle of it we're going to pray for you in just a minute I want to round up with this in the book of Isaiah chapter 10 let me see if I can find it quickly there are five stages that people go through the five stages or the five phases of loss or grief I didn't grief during my wilderness but I think that it's definitely five stages of wilderness too and I'm going to share it with you the number one stage that you go through when you are in a garden it's stage number one denial I was going through that me and Brittany for a long time we refused to accept reality and many times when life hits you really hard and you come into a situation that you can't even believe like where did this come from it's very hard to accept that reality maybe you are facing denial today and you're like no that's not real the doctor told you that you got a terminal disease so you're like no, that's not me not happening, not today it's so hard to believe and understand and accept the reality that we live in denial is that you today we want to pray with you in just a minute stage number one, denial stage number two anger stage number two, that's mine I'm telling you right now that's the one that I struggle with the most I was angry, I'm not going to lie I was angry I was angry with the immigration officer I was angry with the government of United States I was angry with Biden I was angry with the police I was angry with the political system I was angry with Sweden I was angry with Covid, I was angry with masks at times angry with my wife she forgave me and loved me even more I was angry if I ever talked to you at some point these last three years I've probably been angry at you and you wouldn't even know me and I'm like wow so for me stage two, anger every stage had a part of stage two for me I was in denial and anger I was in anger and then stage three is bargaining and I was bargaining with anger and that was something that I had to face with God it's not a sin to get angry it's a sin when you act out of anger okay so if you have emotions and you are not always perfectly emotionally stable God can overlook that people that he's the average they weren't all emotionally stable at all times they called him a ghost they rebuked him to his face they were people that literally he said like my word is gonna fill you and they're like we don't have bread he's like jeez guys literally I'm talking about word not bread guys come on okay they were so average so I was angry so many things my wife can testify but after that comes next stage and we went through that stage two and actually Jesus in the Garden of Gethseman he went through two of the five stages two it's the two most important stages stage number three which is bargaining we started bargaining with God oh my have I bargained with God God I will never take a paid salary again let me come home I will work for you for free for the rest of my life Lord whatever it is God please just let me get through this and the same with Jesus in the Garden not like that that was very that's not how Jesus said let this cup pass me by he was bargaining with God but once again it seemed like God didn't answer yet God comforted him the reason why God didn't answer the prayer of Jesus because Jesus added not my will but your will be done God please let me get through this not my will though let your will be done and we begin to bargain with God we begin to ask and pray and say we'll do this we'll be better we won't do it again still and that's the stage that separates the desert from the gardens people that go through desert they never pass stage 3 because at stage 3 God comes in and is like oh yeah you're gonna behave ok let's move on you're gonna do the right thing you're gonna stop doing those things let's move on but in the garden bargaining is only the third number 4 depression number 4 depression I went through depression to accept it but it was heavy maybe you are going through that today let me tell you something that you are feeling depressed that you are feeling anxiety it doesn't mean that there is an absence of faith that you're feeling anxious today depressed or you're having feelings of feeling down doesn't mean that there is no faith there don't be ashamed because you have feelings don't be ashamed because life hits you hard it's ok you still have faith even though you don't feel like it your faith is there even though you don't feel the presence of Jesus He is still your Lord He loves you He wants to be your friend no matter what whether you feel it or not He is right there hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the presence of anxiety doesn't mean the absence of faith the presence of depression doesn't mean the absence of faith hallelujah so you go through that depression and me personally I would never when I'm in the midst of it I would never tell anyone no because I thought I got it together what are people gonna think if I actually say that I'm not doing good I'm not doing good aren't you a pastor isn't your faith so strong why are you feeling down yeah it happens life hits you but the best thing is that you get back up you can't get back up if you were never down you can't get back up if you were never never struck down and that leads me to stage number five and this is the one that defines it all Jesus went through this stage two in the garden stage number five after depression is acceptance you accept the facts of your situation this family member is gone I'm accepting it they're gone this child that I had in me it's never gonna come back it's gone it's in heaven and you accept it the situation that I'm facing it is what it is and when you come to the point of accepting your lion's den when you come to the point of accepting your fiery furnace when you come to the point like Jesus in the garden sweating blood because he was so anxious and he stood up and he said, God I accept the outcome it was not until he did that that God could transform that situation and he became the savior of mankind Jesus Christ when you accept the situation come in and he would say, my daughter and my son I never needed you to be strong I never needed you to be perfect I just needed you the moment that you accept the hardship you accept and you say, you know what it's not gonna change right now I'm not gonna get my child back I'm not gonna get my parent back I'm not gonna this situation isn't gonna turn around this heartbreak it's not gonna change they're not gonna come back tomorrow and say I'm sorry and they want to get back together and you begin to accept the garden that you're going through that's when this Bible verse comes to pass from the book of Isaiah chapter 10 verse 27 it shall come to pass in that day that your burden will be taken away from your shoulder and your yoke from your neck and the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil because he will never leave me nor forsake me I accept it God save me maybe that's you today I want to help you we're gonna pray so that you can come to the point of acceptance because at that point when we are here that's when God he can build you up like never before if you have never been broken how will he build you 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The fraction of industries that are likely to be affected in the short run, or jobs affected by the short run, by artificial intelligence is relatively small, particularly in India, you know, in less developed countries, in emerging markets. But over the long run, the idea that machines can do many of the jobs that humans can do and replacing humans represents an important question. There is the possibility that machines, rather than replacing humans, actually augment humans, that machines can make humans more effective, and in which case that's the normal kind of productivity enhancing that we've often seen. But it is potentially the case that AI, artificial intelligence, will represent worker replacing. In terms of the effect of that will be that it is conceivable that there will be significant distributive effects of technological change. And whether those kinds of technology changes are overall welfare enhancing will depend on society's policies for managing both the redistributions and most importantly for my mind job creation. So I think that at least for a developed country like the United States, UBI is not a good idea. Because at least for my generation, work is associated with dignity, human dignity. I think the responsibility of government is to create jobs and you can do that because there are huge numbers of jobs in an emerging economy necessary to build infrastructure, technology, education, caring for the aged, health, which will not be replaced anytime soon. So the point, one of the important points I make in our paper with Anton Kornek is that the nature of technological change is that it creates rents which can be taxed. So if there is the political will, we can generate revenues that will ensure that everybody is better off. So this is largely a political issue. Now, if your democracy doesn't work well and America is an example of a dysfunctional democracy, but if you have a democracy that works well, then you will have a tax system that can ensure that everybody or almost everybody can benefit from these kinds of technological progress.  One part of the question you asked about globalization and globalization, you can think of as a technological advance that it's a chain of ability to bring countries together. The question, globalization is being questioned now by the United States. That to me is the greatest threat to globalization because Trump has attacked the international treaties and the international organization and the rules-based system. So in my mind, why I've been a great critic of globalization is because I thought the rules were unfair to developing countries, not that they were unfair to the United States, but in some ways they were unfair to American workers. So they were written really based for corporations for their advantage relative to the workers in both the developed and developing countries, which is one of the important points I've tried to make in my new book, Globalization and Discontent Revisited. But the response, if the United States is going to effectively withdraw from institutions like the WTO, and I say effectively because it's undermining right now the appellate system by vetoing the appointment of new judges, which there are two vacancies and next year there will be a third, and that will undermine the ability of the WTO to engage in the seducation process. It's not a good solution, but it's the only solution that's possible is the rest of the world will have to say, just like a rule of law within a country is important, you need an international rule of law and that's what the WTO is and if you don't like it you work to reform it, but what they will have to do is to say, even though in the past they've been a consensus based organization, they have to say, we can't let one country destroy us and therefore the rest of the world, I think it has to go ahead, including India and China, and say we will make this international regime work for the rest of us and we will figure out what happens with the United States, but we will have judges. If you decide you don't want to abide by the results of that, you bear the consequences because you signed the WTO treaty, you haven't withdrawn from it, and the U.S. will not withdraw from it, so I think that the rest of the world really needs to increase the resolve not to let Trump get away with what he's trying to do is undermine the international order. On the issue of investment, one of the important areas is public investment and I think one of the things that has held India back, the infrastructure, and it's difficult to export goods particularly if you don't have good infrastructure, that is going to need probably higher taxation and more public expenditure because these are basically within the public sphere and the cost, you might say, a well organized government program can do it much more efficiently than the public-private partnerships which are shown to be very inefficient in carrying these things out. The having a good financial system is also very important for investment and systems of bail in really undermine confidence in the financial system. You want the financialization of the economy, ordinary individuals can't inspect the books of every bank, they have to rely on government to see whether the bank is sound, that's one of the important regulatory functions of government, and they have to have assurance that the money is safe and to tell them that, oh by the way your money isn't safe if it collapses you have to get a haircut as they call it, you lose your money, will mean that people will not trust the financial system and what you really want is the economy to be moving over time, increasingly to an electronic system, a much more efficient system than using paper money or having people bury money in their mattress, so that's what happens when you move to a financial system now you can use debit cards and this will undermine all of that, so the answer is not a bail in, the answer is twofold, one make sure the banks are adequately capitalized with equity and make sure they're adequately supervised and regulated, in general one needs to have adequately capitalized banks and that the capitalization is important particularly in the private sector because it ensures that they have the incentive to behave well because they have their skin in the game, I mean otherwise they have too much of an incentive to lend money to friends and then when it goes bad the government has to bail it out, so you have to have enough money for their writing incentives and also to protect the public, that's particularly important for the private banks, very negative effects of demonization which was done very poorly and I think from an economic point of view not a well thought out economic initiative and particularly the point that you made that it affected the part of the economy that's not measured very well which is the informal sector which is a very big part of the Indian economy and those effects are likely to have lags, that is to say to persist for a while. The problem with aggregate consumption in general for, this goes back to what we were saying is there's a need for the economy to have more investment, for an economy of the stage, what made the East Asia country so successful is they have very high savings rates and the, so in some sense I don't worry about too low of consumption, what I worry about is that the savings are not being translated into productive investment, so you want a high level of aggregate demand and that takes aggregate policies, brings things to tax, high profits, high incomes and that are not being reinvested in the economy. I think that partly is to make a more competitive economy because one of the barriers to investment, at least in many of the countries I know in the United States, is that we've gotten in many sectors of our economy a high degree of monopoly power, so there are high profits but low incentive to invest because they don't want to compete against themselves, so making the economy more competitive is probably one of the most important. I also think you could always use tax policy, that is to say you say to a firm, especially the large corporations which do have East market power and monopoly profits, that if you invest your profits in the country and create jobs, you will get a tax credit, you will have your taxes reduced in effect, but if you don't, we will tax those profits at a high rate, so I think that you can create incentive structures that encourage more private investment.


Okay, welcome back everyone. We're live in Las Vegas. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events. Extract a signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm Joe, my co-host Dave Vellante. We're day two of two days of wall-to-wall coverage of IBM's information on demand. This is exclusive coverage from SiliconANGLE and Wikibon. Our next guest is Rich Medina, co-founder and principal consultant at Daki Labs. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. So I want to just get your take on day two here. What's your take on the new event here? I mean, that's the IBM event. So a lot of IBM propaganda being kicked around and they're doing a good job. We had some good commentary. Dave and I did a little breakdown yesterday, kind of an analyzing it in this morning. What's your take? I'm exhilarated. So it's one of the first years where we see the content technologies being integrated with social, mobile, the cloud, big data and analytics. And so at least from a personal perspective, I feel relevant to everything. So Rich, you've written a lot about a variety of topics. So we're gonna talk about some of those today. But there's a presentation. If you go to RichardMedinaDakiLabs.com, RichardMedinaDakiLabs.com, you'll find a presentation on how to integrate your systems of engagement with your systems of record. That's right. So this is all the rage these days talking about systems of engagement. By systems of engagement, we're talking about social systems. Is that right? Or what do we mean by systems of engagement? Yeah, so kind of the conventional wisdom today is that the traditional systems were called systems of record. And that's basically what we had until the 1980s, 1990s and so on. And those were the database systems, transactional systems, line of business systems, ERP systems, basically what comprised IT until recently. Recently, we saw the advent of systems of engagement. So that would be social, mobile, cloud and so on. And so a big challenge has been on how to, well first, how to do systems of engagement properly, but also how to integrate them into the older, more traditional systems to get benefit and not to hurt yourselves. So what does collaborative systems fit? Are those the systems of engagement? Are these systems of record? They get a little bit of both? They kind of have a hybrid? That's a great question. No, they're mostly systems of engagement. What we, a good way to think about it, the way we actually have to get our hands dirty and try to implement these systems and so on. And so what we found to be very useful is to think about basically most of the stuff that IBM does in terms of three dimensions. So content management, which is managing content, objects, content and so on. Process management, which is managing workflow and processes and such. And then participation management, which is about managing the involvement and the human interaction of people and so on. So collaboration primarily falls into that dimension. Okay, so how do you integrate your systems of record with your systems of engagement? What are the steps to do that? First of all, why do that? Yeah. Okay, let's start there. Why do that? Well, of course, because everyone else is trying to do it. No, but because of that, it makes, there's something called enterprise content management really did not fulfill its promise. One of the promises was to get the right information to the right people at the right time and so on. And it kind of, pardon the expression, but crapped out using older technologies, maybe the web and so on. With systems of engagement using mobile, particularly in the cloud, you're able to let everyone who can, should be playing the game, play the game. Because everyone using mobile in the cloud can now use the enterprise content management systems and participate in workflows and so on. But more than that, it provides you with a lot more flexibility in moving around your resources, your people and so on. So that in the old ways, you'd have an org chart and so on and people who were in a particular department had to work on that and such. Using some of the technologies like expert identification and such, you're able to get the people you want to work on a problem, you need them to work with them and so on. So there are a number of this, about four other benefits too. So actually I wanna pick up on something you said about enterprise content management. So it seems like one of the problems was that you were, the industry was trying to industry, the practitioners were trying to shove all the data into one place. And that became the God box, if you will. And then the amount of data just grew like crazy and then mobile and social and you had this explosion of information. And then you're never able to get to what you needed when you needed it.  And that got very expensive. So what's changed from a technology and process standpoint to enable systems of record and engagement to come together? Yeah, so if you notice the kind of the benefits that I'm extolling are not, they're not magical and so on. And most of them are kind of hard headed in terms that they boil down, I'm having them boil down in terms of efficiency and effectiveness and so on. And that increasing knowledge or increasing hand holding and collaboration and so on. I'm talking primarily about increasing efficiency and effectiveness. And what they do is they reduce the transaction friction. So in the old days, right, I'd have to do a lot of tasks to be able to get a paper document. Then I'd have to do a lot of things to be able to get an electronic document. So if the documents were in the God box, I think that's what you call it, I'd have to, I don't know what name it is and so on. So I'd have to ask you and you'd be able to get it and so on. Or I'd have, that wouldn't work, so I'd scroll away on my own hard drive or share drive. Now with these systems, if you do it right, they reduce that transaction friction. So I'm able to get my stuff and get easy access to it. And we're able to sync and share a lot more effectively. So technology enables that, right? And it's sort of got us into this problem and it's helping us get out of the problem. Is that right? Right, so it's what it's a cause of and solution to all our problems, right? To quote Homer Simpson on something else. We've never had him on theCUBE, John. We could have him on theCUBE. But if done effectively. And part of that just kind of hooks back to how to integrate the two. We've actually, most of us are trainable and so we collectively in this industry have learned a lot from falling on our faces in the last 20 years or so. And so we can use our false starts and our mistakes and so on from doing analogous technology rollouts in the past. So for example, 10 years ago, if we were sitting here, we might be talking about mobile MFPs, right? Multifunction printers and such and now being able to scan in documents from these printers and be able to do that. And we found that many organizations when they tried to use those in an enterprise level had many, many problems. And those problems that they're having had back then and solved. We're seeing folks have the same sorts of problems with mobile. And we know how to solve them. We've done it before. So let's talk about the objective. Is the objective better productivity? Is it to reduce risk? Is it for the both of those? It depends. What are you seeing with your clients? Sure, so it's, you can boil it. Many of them are fluffy or derivative. Second order types of benefits. Increase customers, improve our brand and a number of other things. But they boil down many of them to making more money and saving money and controlling risk. The cost and risk of breaking the law and so on. So as I said, the transaction friction that comes down to efficiency. Doing more things and reducing cycle time that boils down to effectiveness and such. And then reducing cost and risk. That's one of the problems that you mentioned. If you don't do it right, there's a lot more risk and cost that you can incur with the new distributed mobile and social technologies. So in 2006, when the federal rules of civil procedure, you know, basically said that electronic documents are admissible in a court of law. Everything changed. And then all of a sudden, the general council became the trump card. And risk became the primary motivating factor. My question is, in ROI categories, all this fuzzy stuff, well we really can't justify, well guess what, we're gonna get sued. Oh, let's do it. Let's spend $30 million and fix this problem. Question, has the problem been fixed and has that bit flipped from one of risk to opportunity? Yeah, well I would take issue with what you said. Okay, yeah, let's state that. Yeah, so that kind of argument, that chicken little argument, that the sky is falling and so on. You mean that the general council was the tail wagging the dog. You don't buy that? No, because usually most, practically most organizations, unless they had been burned recently, wouldn't spend all that money and risk and so on. They really had to be proactive or risk averse or been burned recently for them to spend a lot of money and do the kind of inventories and everything else that data inventories. And you're talking about average mid-sized companies. Is that fair? Not about big companies too, absolutely big companies and too. Pfizer, Merck, JP Morgan Chase, some of these companies. Okay, so that's pharmaceutical and also financial services. Right, too highly regulated, right? Also insurance companies. So is it fair to say in those industries that the premise stands or? It depends on whether they've been burned recently and so on. A way, often a way to sell it or get them to motivate behavior is not in terms of chicken little or penalties that you may incur based on past things which were sporadic, unpredictable events, but rather on the operational cost of reducing risk. And that is, yeah, in the normal course of discovery, what you have to do, forget about penalties, in the normal course of discovery based on what you have to do, you incur this amount of money digging through the swamp. So if you start now doing good housekeeping, good document hygiene and reducing the swamp of documents and data and such, your discovery cost will be less and less and so on. Legal discovery. Yeah, also, yeah, so I'm sorry, two things, one is the proactive reducing the swamp and the second is the legal discovery, yeah. Yeah, which was volume-driven, right? Yeah. Okay, so has that problem been solved? No, it's gotten worse because in some estimates, again, I'm a little skeptical about the numbers and so on, but it's plausible. In some circumstances, the numbers are getting 40% bigger per year in terms of the swamp of stuff on the shared drives, hard drives and email and SharePoint and so on. So it's growing at 40% per year in many cases. And so that's a lot of straw in the straw, hay pile or whatever that you have to dig through. So on the plus side, folks are getting better at being able to reduce that swamp, but on the minus side, with many large organizations like the one you were talking about, it's beyond human manual ability to be able to sort through it. So you absolutely need technology to do it. And even with the great stuff IBM has, that it's still, it's early in the game. And so it's at that turning point where people are still trying to figure out and kind of stumbling around and how to reduce the swamp. What's the gait there? Is it being able to automate to things like classification? It's really, it's assisted classification. A lot of it, it's just repetitions. If you go back to the imaging world and so on, capture world, who knows billions? Who knows how many hundreds of billions of documents or more have pages have been scanned in and so on or simulated to be scanned in. So lots of repetitions as to what works in imaging and OCR and ICR and so on. Those kinds of repetitions and experiments have not been done yet in the automatic classification and reducing the swamp. There just has to be some time. So there's a difference between people who buy the products and so on and start to implement it and people who have gone and done it for years and so on and come out the other side. It's the same sort of thing with records management and e-discovery and such, particularly records management. That's been around since the 90s. And there hasn't been actually for enterprise deployments a lot of experiments and repetitions on that. Rich, John, you wanna jump in here? Yeah, no. Since I've dominated this, I get 20 more questions. No, I know, this is Dave. Dave loves e-discovery, whatever, that's the old term. Dave always brings up this conversation almost every time. I always wanna talk about Bitcoin. But... We were talking about Bitcoin last night, that was a good conversation. That's a non-sequit. I had to get that into Bitcoin, hashtag. Chief data officer. Dave always brings up this concept. Do we need a chief data officer? And that is a person who is going to be bizarre of data and this has been debate. No, yes. I've been with her which is like no freaking way. I.T. reporting to I.T. Who manages the data, the business units, the line of... This is the challenge. What's your take on this whole conversation? Do we need a chief data officer? Did the chief security officer help us with security? So these are the conversations that we were having yesterday. What's your take on that? Yes, and by data, just one clarification, do you mean also the unstructured documents and so on and the content coming from social media? Yeah, absolutely. All right, so for all... All data, I mean... There is a definite gap in their billing vision and management and a locus of responsibility for information. And big gaps in the structured data world as well as in the unstructured data world and so on. No one wants to take responsibility and be able to have the vision as well as the oomph to be able to make things happen. I don't know if it's a chief data officer. I've been through so many proposed three-letter acronyms for that role. Whether it's chief data, chief information officer, chief knowledge officer, chief records officer, all of them, most of them have come by the wayside. The question is, where are we in the innovation cycle? I mean, the innovation strategies are grounded in data now and you have legacy, infrastructure legacy, form-ass legacy... No, I'm with you. But part of the data, part of the two dimensions that we're talking about, the responsibility, let's see here, what needs to be done is to be able to manage, govern, governance on not just the content, the objects, but also the processes to show that you're following compliant processes and now in participation, who owns the mobile device management, the policies around mobile and the cloud and social and so on? Does that fall under the CDO or not? There definitely has to be a, there is a role for this CDO type person who would do the defensive and the administrative and the offensive aspects for data. I don't know if you call them the data or her, the CDO. So mobile has totally changed the equation, obviously. You guys are experts in mobile, you mentioned that up front. And it basically, it sends risk even further out onto the user's hand. So talk about mobile as a challenge, talk about how you guys address that and then we'll close. Well, with mobile, again, we assimilate it to previous instances of when technologies were rolled out that were distributed where things got out of hand quickly, whether it was Lotus Notes, not because of the technology, but because of folks organically growing it like weeds and then SharePoint, MFPs, a number of other things. And so what you often see is you start out in the middle. That is, you go into an organization and you see that they're sprouted around and it's unmanaged and so on. So what you have to do is to get, start the building up, see what the state, current state is, the state of fragmentation and mismanagement and so on, and then do a policy for mobile and for social and for some other areas, and then try to rein them in and then provide alternatives, a good route, so a good navigable route that's safe rather than this swamp with rocks and so on to mix metaphors. And so then you start building, designing and so on applications. One of which is for broad superficial mobile use, which is and also for sync and share and so on. And then you start talking about more sophisticated use with business processes, for internal business processes, say for accounts payable and HR and so on. And then for line of business processes, maybe for new drug approval and so on. Those are many and so on. You were talking about Pfizer or for customer new account onboarding, say in financial services. And so it's a combination of first seeing where you are, building rules and policies that day forward, you begin to send no more and then building good behavior and route so that people will be more efficient using the new ways rather than the old ways. Awesome, well listen, Rich, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE and we could go on forever on this topic. And the problems just keep mounting as the data grows, as you get new technologies like mobile, it's a real challenge that you're trying to solve. So appreciate you coming on and thanks for sharing your insights. Thank you very much. Okay, they were live here. Exclusive coverage, SiliconANGLE, Kupan's exclusive coverage of information on demand, IBM's conference, big data analytics, social business, cloud and mobile, all here right here in theCUBE. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. We'll be right back after this short break.


is going to be the the the the the decrease 330357 ending inventory was at 4625 minus the 330357 gets us the 132141 the ending balance at this point in time represents the ending balance in each of these products and then the change is the journal entry we need to make to get to get our ending balance and our financial statements down to the current ending balance according to our calculations here so that's going to be the journal entry number so if i look at my financials we should be at 5249 now so if i go to my financials we're at 5249 we're going to bring it down to the 184943 by decreasing inventory 339957 assuming we sold that and recorded the other side to the expense account of cost of goods sold on a a a cruel that's an accrual concept right so now we're doing the accrual thing with a journal entry not the cashed based thing and so we're going to go back on over here and just make a journal entry there it is journal entry as of the end of the month 531 531 and we're going to say this is going to be cost of the goods that are sold cost of the goods and the amount being what did i say again do you remember i forgot again 3399.57 that's about the maximum memory 33 but there's two double digits<PHONE_NUMBER>.57 because if you memorize like 3399 then those are like one digit memory so i can remember seven double digit numbers instead of so i should be able to remember more than seven digit whatever inventory decreasing 339957 all right that's it recording the expense other side decreasing the inventory let's save it let's close it let's run it the balance sheet that is that's what we're running and check it out so if i go on to the balance sheet inventory going down as of the end of may to the 184947 does that tie out to what we have here 184943 we're off by some by a bit here some pennies no no<PHONE_NUMBER> no you're just doing some stupid you can't you're the numbers changed when i looked at them that it's not that the numbers changed or something i don't know but now it's correct so then we'll run it this one and then then down here we've got the cost of the goods sold at and notice i put this one into cost of labor again that's not correct let's just change that let's change that that probably bother people people are going to be upset on that one so i'll fix it now they're still going to be accept they're still going to be upset but this will at least we'll fix it we'll fix it okay okay let's do that so then now we've got the cost of goods sold here okay so there it is and then we record the cost of goods sold so the bottom line is the income is going up separate from the inventory tracking we're not doing it on a perpetual system we're basically using whatever system we talked about in prior presentations to pull the information on the income side of things and now we're using the weighted average method to get a proper cost of goods sold as best we can on a periodic system so that we can basically look at our financial statements in this case on a monthly basis at the end of the month and get some numbers that are going to hopefully help us for better decision making purposes into the future and as you track your information over here on your worksheet and what not as well you can also of course get a better idea possibly of your profit margins and what not on a on a product by product basis so you can then determine you know which products are not just selling best but also which products are most profitable when you take into consideration you know the profit margin and whatnot i mean obviously here if you've got a product over here that you know costs a lot more and whatnot you would think that maybe the profit margins might be better on the you know if you could sell so so so so the more data could help with those types of calculations so in any case the two major flow assumptions that we can we can use will generally be the first in first out which we took a look at in a prior presentation and then a weighted average type of flow assumption we took a look at this time now just for the fun of it let's take a look at because i did this one in 2023 and the last one in 2024 i believe let's change our report to total only and then i'm going to go to uh the the periods and i wanted to select the uh previous year previous year and then i'll do the change here so i can compare actually wait a sec let me do it this way i've got to change the date up to 2024 2024 that's when we did the FIFO and then i'll do the previous year change in dollar change in percent and run it and so so now we've got uh uh april and may 2024 and then april and may 2023 and if we go down to the cost of goods sold you could see the cost to goods sold is not exact right because we use i i believe uh in the prior presentations we did the same uh the same flows sales and purchases using a first in first out method and here we used you know a weighted average method so you can get into the details of which is going to be more advantageous if you have a period of of increasing prices such as we had here with the uh with inflation which is typically the case meaning the cost of the inventory is going up and your flow assumptions will then have an impact on uh your cost to goods sold and and the general idea would be if you if you use the first in first out kind of flow assumption then that would mean that you would be selling the items that are cheaper right and your balance sheet would be holding on to the inventory that you bought purchase latest which usually would be the most expensive if you're in an inflationary or increasing price type of system so you would think that the first in first out system will result in a bigger number in the uh ending inventory and then the ones that you sold would be a smaller number in you know the cost of goods sold because you're selling the items that in essence are cheaper right would be the general idea and then the weighted average is kind of taking the middle one and then you've got first the last in first out which would be the opposite of first in first out which no one really uses generally for practical purposes because it doesn't really make sense from a flow assumption but you know it could it could make sense from a tax a tax standpoint so in the case those are the that's the general idea


Okay, we're going to go ahead and get started here, but I neglected, I was a very poor instructor. I should have showed you the demonstration of that resolution of this puzzle that we showed that I told you the answer, but I didn't actually give you a demonstration of that. So let me switch this over for a second to show you. This is a simulation which shows the two pucks, two disks, with the same force being applied to both, but one puck with the force being applied with a string wrapped around the edge, the second force being with the string tied to the center. Okay, so we'll start them off same at rest, same force, same direction, and we click to start and what you see is that their translational motion is the same, right, as determined by Newton's second law. The energetics is different, right, because the top guy force does more work, so transfers more energy into the system, but in terms of the dynamics, same force applied to the same mass object for the same amount of time, in this case, same change in velocity at any instant, therefore starting from rest, both starting from rest, same distance traveled, the race is a tie. Okay, all right, so let's progress to our next topic, which is the drawing for the second poster judge award, and to help us with this, we'll have the winner of the first drawing come forward. Jingwen? Okay, so the question is, is he allowed to draw his own name? Well, we'll see if he draws his own name or not. We'll see if he draws his own name. So, as I mentioned before, I guess two years ago or last year I had, when we started for the very first time, of course, nobody had won at that point, chose one of the participants, and that person drew that his name, so that has happened in the past, but we'll see if it happens again. All right, so shake it around.  All right, thank you, and you are not the winner. Even if your name is on here, your name's not on, your name's not on here. Getting closer to the winner, getting closer, the winner is Zahra. Okay, so we still have one more drawing, okay, so again, make sure you have a poster ballot. Anyone need a poster judging ballot here, and I'll mention that the final poster judge drawing will be held at the banquet tomorrow night, so you need to be there to win, but the banquet is at 8 p.m. upstairs where we have the awards, the poster awards will be awarded. You get your certificate from participating in the school there as well. 8 o'clock tomorrow up at the Adriatico Terrace, okay. Okay, so let me just remind you the usual drill here of the procedures, which are, okay, everyone's turned in their snapshots, and I will say also that tomorrow we will have, we meet here again at 9 o'clock for a roundtable discussion on international collaborations, our final hands-on session, and the afternoon off and then the awards banquet at 8 p.m. at the terrace. All right, the usual thing, the poster, you know, the procedure, snapshots and posters, here's what you judge on, everybody's a judge, here's your ballot to pick your top five must have your name written down if you want to compete for the drawing when we just did the drawing, and then here are the cash prizes, so there will be cash prize, I'll just mention more specifically, grand prize, first place, 100 euros, there will be two second place finishes, 50 euros each, and three third place finishes at 25 euros each, okay. All right, so without further ado, we're going to go ahead and proceed with our afternoon session, poster session, and I need my list of names here, and the microphone. Yeah, I guess it's both. And one thing guys, Professor Swinney wanted me to remind you that under resources, there's a shared drive, all of the files from our session are finally up, and you guys should be able to find files in there, certainly by the end of the week, and then going forward, this will persist after the school ends, so you have access to these materials, and you can always contact poster session, with a presentation of poster number 33 by Crissel Xosophe Manchem, and she's from the University of Shams, in Cameroon, and she'll tell us about her work on the influence of dipolar potential energy in the dynamic and stability of micro, micro-community. How come you have a microphone? How come you have a microphone? Presently, it was my idea that, I can't wait to hear from you, the next question is here, the time, too, of three. Yes, try speaking, say something. My contribution. Now it works, okay. All right, we'll restart this, okay, and you can start again. Hello everybody. My disease is a veritable problem in our society. It's a disease which caused the loss of memory. It's a veritable problem which caused the loss of memory. Which I need to discover. Because this works, I hope. Test the volume. Hello everybody. My disease is a veritable problem in our society. It's a disease which caused the loss of memory. How occurred this disease? Recently, it was emited the hypothesis that is asthma disease is related to a dysfunction of micro-tubules. We turn aim to discover a appropriate treatment of the disease. We want to understand the brain mechanism related to a dynamic and stability of micro-tubules. So our goal is to find the realistic model which explained as well the dynamic and stability of micro-tubules. We find the equation of motion. We describe the behavior of micro-tubules. And we derive the form of wave function, be propagated along micro-tubules. We turn aim to compare the result which a result obtained is a former model. Here, in a simulation result, we compare wave function without, we take into account dipolar potential energy and the function without taking into account this dipolar potential energy. We observe that the wave function we take into account dipolar potential energy has an amplitude more bigger than another wave function. Dipolar potential energy increases the amplitude of our signals. We also present in this simulation result the global potential of our systems. And we observe that dipolar potential energy bring down the symmetric of double well potential and increase the tunnel effect will imply the shift energy level. So, dipolar potential energy return. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to my presentation. The synergistic relationship between HIV, NTS, and TB results in high mortality. And it's also a source of economic burden in developing countries. From this diagram here, we have the group of people who are HIV-infected, HIV negative. And we realize from literature that the incident of TB cases is high among HIV-infected individuals as compared to HIV-negative individuals. And that is the dead rates related to TB. It's also high. Our model is made up of 12 compartments. The protected against TB, protected against HIV. The eyes represent the infections, either coinfections or one disease. And the model is highly nonlinear. So we standard the behavior of solutions about the equilibrium point. And we can see that if we have maximum protection against HIV, the only infection in the population will be that of TB. And if we have maximum protection against TB, the only infection in the population is that of HIV. And one of our main results is that the endemic equilibrium is locally and globally asymptotically stable, meaning that we may have the disease in the population, but it is at manageable levels with minimal interventions and death. And our main result was confirmed by the graphical solutions. These are a few among them. We are by with an increase in protection. With an increase in protection, there is an induced number of infectives in the population. And I wish to welcome you to my poster presentation for more explanations. Thank you. Thank you. Poster number 35 will be delivered by Serge Tarkov-Golem from the University of New-Inde in Cameroon. He'll tell us about his work on higher-order roadways in a nonlinear, strove industry. Hello. Originally, roadways are giant waves, high-amplitude waves. They are heard to be responsible of many marine disasters. As we can see on these figures, a ship's being destroyed by a high-amplitude wave. It has been shown that this kind of wave can be met not only in oceanic conditions, but only in nonlinear physical systems, such as nonlinear fiber optics. That's why we have made an investigation of a nonlinear Schrodinger system driving roadways. As a result, we have depicted here on the left panel the first-order roadway and the right panel the second-order roadway. It's important to remark that the amplitude of the second-order is higher than the amplitude of the first-order. We have also constructed the third-order roadway here on the left panel. The amplitude is more higher than the amplitude of the second-order and the first-order. We have also shown that the third-order can be split into six first-order roadway solutions. In view to obtain details on this work, you are welcome to follow my poster. Thank you for your kind attention. Thank you for the introduction and hi everyone. Now, let's see two dimensions system. By the way, it has been observed in a thin layer of excitable media including chicleadena, frog egg, patinum surface, slamo, heart tissue, and bilosobsabolinsky reaction. Spiral waves in heart tissue are the origin of ventricular tachycardia, which can lead to fibrillation. At least all in cardiac dates, it's very important to understand spiral waves. We have built a model system to study excitation waves where we look into ways to remove spiral waves. We use B.C. reaction because it widely used system to study excitation waves in excitable media. The B.C. preparation and the wave observation are convenient compared to biological media. In my work, we study periods of wave 10 by setting the temperature at the local or the origin of wave. If you want to know how to remove spiral waves, please come to my poster. Thank you. Hello, everybody. First few, you don't know, HCV is a disease in the liver. It's infection in the liver caused by many viruses and this liver disease caused by type C virus. There are about 130 and 150 million people have chronic hepatitis C infection in the world. Not every year, about 700,000 people die each year from hepatitis C-related diseases. Most of these cases occur in Egypt and about 14.7% of Egyptian people have this disease. This is the life cycle of HCV. This is the viral particles and goes to the cell via process called endocytosis. After that, the genetic material becomes translated and makes the proteins of this virus and this is the proteins. After that, new variants have been formed and released from this cell and go to invade other cells. There are a lot of genotypes and what does it mean by genotypes? Because the same genetic materials that have different sequences belong to the same virus. There are different sequences and these differences in sequences make differences in the proteins translated. And here in Egypt, the dominant genotype is genotype 4. This is the protein that I am forward and back. Posture number 38 will be delivered by Syed Mohamed Reza Tahiri from the Institute of Gen Study and Basic Sciences in Zanjan. He will tell us about his work on trapping sub-micromer aerosols using optical tweezers. Hello everybody. Aerosols are tiny solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in air. They have a very big impact in our life. For example, aerosols can reflect or scatter or absorb the sunlight and control the energy budget of the Earth. Aerosols have a very varied range of sources, chemical structure and sizes. But most of the aerosols have sub-micrometer sizes and there is no good experimental method to control and study just single sub-micrometer aerosol. Then we have tried to make some optimization on optical tweezers to make it suitable for this purpose. Optical tweezers in simplest form are tightly focused Gaussian laser beam. It means that if you focus a Gaussian laser beam by some lenses into, for example, a colloidal solution, particles with refractive index higher than the surrounding medium experience a restoring hook and force to the place with highest intensity to the optical point in the focal point. Here you can see our experimental setup. It consists from a laser source, some optical elements to modify the laser beam and an optical microscope to see the sample and also make optical trap here. And here you can see some of our results. The smallest aerosol that can be optically trapped before our work is something around two micrometer. And by our optimization, we can trap a sub-micrometer aerosol at the smallest 18 nanometer. It's really interesting for atmospheric scientists. And if you want to know more about our method or optimization, please come and visit my poster number 38. Thanks. So polymer is a fascinating class of macromolecules. They're very long and they could assume a wide variety of function and shape. So the function of each polymer usually is associated with a particular shape. So if you change the shape, you change the function. So for example, in neurology or in pathology, we have different varieties of disorders, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's. These are protein related disorders. So that's the reason why probably why we have different fields, physicists and biologists working on, special physicists working on this area. So in my field, in my work, I will be presenting a simple or reduced model, a molten-ion walk. It's a random walk confined in a square lattice. So here we study how we can extract physics and other information which cannot be or which are difficult, usually difficult to extract from different models. So if you have questions, you want to clarify something or if you have suggestions to make this research improve. So I'm all free at poster number 39. So please visit my poster and let's have a conversation. Ladies and gentlemen, hello. I'm Reza Sheetbrew from Iran, Shaid University. My work is about my bisophiles in a single layer. As you know, two-dimensional material are crystalline material consisting of only one atomic layer. These materials, such as graphene as a grandfather of two-dimensional material, multi-diasulfide, boronate right, can be used to make next generation of transistors. Photonance spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy are typical conventional metal to identify a number of layers, but there is a problem. Lattice point defects such as sulfur vacancy can destroy the quality of a single layer. To solve this problem, we made four type samples. First, single layer, polystyrene-native single layer, and the others were defective single layer with various populations of point defects. Then we applied multi-fractor analysis to these samples, and we showed that the Hertz parameter, this parameter, Hertz parameter, sorry, Hertz parameter can be very different in these samples. As conclusions, we create a tool to identify population of point defects, defects on multi-multi-multi-multiple-diasulfide single layer without any further analysis. Thank you for your attention. Hello everyone, I'm Xing Wen Zheng from China, and I will introduce you to a box fish-like robot. In recent years, robotic fish has played an important role in underwater resource experiment and underwater pipeline expectation and underwater secretion. So, compared with other species of fish, boss fish has more excellent streaming characteristics, and our lab has decided a kind of boss fish-like robot to do research on biomimetic perception and collective behavior. Our research includes lead-row line-inspired interaction. Lead-row line system is a sensory system which can be found in every kind of fish, and using lead-row line system, fish can sense the environment. And our research is to find the relationship between the motion of the boss fish-like robot with pressure data based on fluid mechanics. This is our experiment on the interaction for two or more boss fish-like robots. And we have also the research on navigation and communication of the boss fish-like robot. I'm very interested in my research, and I feel good about the boss fish-like robot. Thank you. Poster number 42 will be delivered by Lydia Bulbasova from the Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics in Russia, and she'll tell us about her work on optical wavefront distortions due to atmospheric turbulence. Our atmosphere is turbulent media, and atmospheric turbulence is a serious limitation for optical resolution of ground-based astronomical telescopes. Physically, it is wavefront distortion of optical wave by astronomical object. For example, this wavefront without atmospheric turbulence, wavefront of plane optical wave, it is wavefront distortion due to atmospheric turbulence. In result, image quality is degraded. So, same negative effect, a present for laser beam propagation through atmospheric turbulence. It is important for optical communications. Atmospheric turbulence is complex system and can be described by turbulence spectrum. Our measurement shows that turbulence spectrum non-Kolmogorov, but for the four we calculated wavefront distortion for two models of power spectrum of atmospheric turbulence, it is Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov. By using the analytical calculations, you can see three nail approximations. Therefore, in results, we compare to models of spectrum and show that optical wave distortion insignificantly decreases that Kolmogorov theory. This effect can be important for choice of site for new astronomical observatory and need for correction of atmospheric sounding by optical methods. Thank you for attention. It comes from the Roman god having two faces facing opposite and then this facing opposite, they have characteristics that the one face looks to the future and another face looks to the past. And then these surrounding particles, they mimic this Janus and call the Janus particle. They are microscopic particles and they are having two different surfaces having different chemical or physical properties. So my work is to see how this thermal forces transport this particle and orient it in a specific direction. So this is my numerical setup where the particle is sitting in a gas under this thermal gradient. And then the physics behind the particle transport downward because of this massive collision by the particles which are near to the upper hot place. And then it also rotates because of this asymmetry in the nature of the surfaces. And then this is the numerical result that I did where the orientation is in the upward having this upper face having special characteristics. And then it transported to us the cooler part and then the orientation change and then comes to this lower face. And then there is a whole mathematics behind to explain this phenomenon and then that is called the Boseman equation. It is solved by using numerical scheme called Trix simulation Monte Carlo method. So about more I will be talking in my poster. Please do visit my poster. Thank you so much. Okay. So helices can be found anywhere in nature and on any scale. So we have an example of a molecule of RNA. We have some bacteria Van Gogh is very familiar with. We have some shell and a pigtail. So anywhere in nature. Now another interesting form for us is a hemihelix. It is obtained if we take two identical helices with opposite headiness and tie them together to obtain a hemihelix. Yes, it is important. Can we produce those shapes in a lab using a simple tabletop technique and not just any helix, but a helix that has desired curvature, torsion and headiness. So this was a method of producing it. We took one layer of latex and pre-stretched. On top of it we glued some strips of latex that were unstretched under various angles. And then we started cutting them out. As we cut them out, they start immediately to sprung out and form those shapes. So we obtained ring shape and this helical shape. We connected those two helical shapes to obtain the hemihelix. Now once we got those shapes, we were wondering how stretchable are they? Can they be stretched into a fully strip? For a helix, this minimal tension required to fully stretch it is infinite. So it cannot be stretched into a full strip. While for a hemihelix, it is finite and impets a curvature of some material properties and geometrical properties. Now I will try to perform. For a helix, I cannot do anything. For a hemihelix, I might not get it into a first. Here, I get a straight ribbon. And as for the rings, well, they also are very interesting to observe, but for them you will have to visit my poster to tell you about them. Number 45 will be delivered by Emre Kaya from the Bogan DC University in Turkey. And he'll tell us about his work on investigation of self-organization and really been our convection based on molecular dynamics. Thank you. Hello. Here's a thin layer of flutes confined between two plates. The lower plate is kept at a higher temperature than the upper plate. And as a result of this, we create a temperature gradient between the plates. At the lower temperatures of T1, the main mode of heat transfer is conduction. But as the temperature rises to T2 after a certain threshold, the conduction becomes somehow unstable. And the dominant mode of heat transfer shifts to convection. And we see this bulk motion in the flutes. This is called Rayleigh-Benard convection and has been studied for almost more than 100 years now. So there are experiments that are manifesting this phenomenon and Navier-Stokes equations are also predicting the onset of convection. And they are also numerical assimilated in order to get velocity fields. But the question of how self-organization manifests itself at a more fundamental level is still open. So in order to answer this question, we create a molecular dynamics simulation of the phenomenon. And try to come up with a parameter that can, at least we hope, that can characterize the self-organization at a molecular level using molecular properties. So if you want to discuss more about this topic, please visit my poster. Thank you. Thank you. We will discuss two concepts. The first being error precipitation, the second being triangulated grid. Now what is error precipitation? We have rain gauges which measure point rainfall measurements. We take point rainfall measurements, but what we do need is rainfall over a given area. So how do we determine rainfall over a given area? We need a network of rain gauges to determine what volume of rain is falling over an area. We need this because point precipitation gauges do not represent the spatial variability of rainfall for an area. So for example, at a gauge point x, if I go to a gauge point y, the rainfall at y is not necessary, the rainfall at x. Now you may ask why is this important? This is using hydrological analysis such as we have forecasted models which uses runoff, which is the definition of runoff, as well as soil hydrological analysis which also is soil moisture content. Now the next thing we are going to look at is triangular grids. Now the next question you may ask is why this method? There are three methods I listed here. They are the arithmetic mean, the iso-ital analysis and the finite element method analysis. Why did I choose the finite element? Because it allows unequal ratings. You can add and remove points from the grid with minor changes in terms of adding in data points. And finally, you can automatically generate the AD curves, which gives basically how the precipitation varies right in increasing areas over different durations. Okay, now how do we determine area precipitation? We're going to discretize this domain here and each of the nodes or the rain gauges have three different variables. They are the x, the y coordinates, as well as the rainfall at that point. We are going to interpolate what is doing for at any point in this element using these three sets of data values. Thank you. This is summer school on complex systems. An example of these kind of systems are the collages. As you can see, examples are blood, veins, DNA, milk, virus and of course the beard. Well, all those systems have the characteristics that contain a dispersed phase into a continuous phase. And as you can imagine, understand the dynamically structural and sub-assembly behavior of these kind of systems are, is, for, have the interest of fields like medicine, pharmaceutical industries, biophysics, foods, et cetera. From the beginning of this field and with the development of theoretical frameworks and computer simulations, the colloidal dispersions with radical-symmetric interactions are shown with agreement with some kinds of real systems. But, however, in the reality, in the nature, only a little quantity of colloidal systems have radical-symmetric interactions. In this way, my research work is to go out of this spherical symmetry and try to understand the dynamical behavior of non-spherical particles, like a protein in a very radical system, who doesn't have strictly a spherical shape. In this way, I perform it as a experimental system that consists of monomers and dimers, confines 52 glass plates to form a quasi-two-dimensional system. I have the story of the dynamic of this system, the brain digital, by the microscopy to obtain the dynamic of properties. Furthermore, it is well known that colloidal systems interact through the solvent, I mean interact through the dynamic interactions. But, as you can see in my poster, those dynamic interactions can be factor-level until taking fraction close to all those five. Please, if you have any questions, let me ask in the water session. Thanks. Hello everyone, my name is Pauline and this is my topic, infrared-reflectance analysis of porous gas. Actually, this is a material study by using infrared spectroscopy. And why is it so interesting? The interesting part is this porous. The porous structure can enhance the optical properties, especially in the UV luminescence. Yes, or can you start from the beginning or continue? Continue, okay. I think you guys will get bored. Okay, continue. This is the gallium nitride layer and this is the substrate, sapphire. So, after undergo the electrochemical etching, it will become this. And this structure we name it as honeycomb structure. And do you know this? This is the gallium nitride layer and the top layer is the porous gas layer which forms porous. And this remains un-aged. And this is the sapphire. And what is the IR spectrum? This is the IR spectrum of the bare wafer and this region we name it as Brestarum region which we can extract the optical phonomode. So, after etching, there is an extra mode around here which is induced by the porosity because porous medium, we have gallium nitride. So the mixture will give you an extra mode that is porosity-induced mode, and we name it as folic mode, and that's another forbidden mode here. Okay. If you want to know more about the analysis, please come to visit me. Thank you. Poster number 49 will be delivered by Shyma Monim from Cairo University in Egypt, and she'll tell us about her work on optical properties of solid tissue simulators using integrating sphere systems. Thank you. Many people these days approach light phototherapy for scan treatment, tumor removal, eye surgeries, and for these kind of treatments and medical applications, we need to understand how do different light wavelengths' colors propagate inside our human tissues, which means that we need to study our own optical properties, the optical properties of our own body. How do light propagate inside our human tissues? So optical properties are the parameters describe the light propagation inside the tissues, and it's mainly controlled by two factors. How many scattering and absorbing elements are there? We have many scattering particles, then the beam tends to spread in the tissue or go back, so be reflected. If we have many absorbing particles, this means that the beam have less probability to transmit or even go back. So optical properties, mainly absorption and scattering coefficients are directly linked to the measurements of transmission and reflections for each sample. So if we can construct human tissue simulators with different amounts of absorbing and scattering particles, for them we know the optical properties values and also the transmission reflection values, then we can build a calibration model for which we can import the measurements of transmission reflection, get back the optical properties values. I want to show you how to use integrating spheres for this purpose, this measurement, transmission reflection.  So come to the poster and yeah, mention some of them. Thank you. One moment. Let me take this moment to make an announcement about an additional poster. So yesterday, poster number 31 presented by Fateme Rajab Asadi. She presented her snapshot, here she is, but she fell ill and was unable to stand by at her poster. Her poster is up again here right outside, poster number 31, so I invite you, she'll be there feeling better, we're happy about that and she will be there and please stop by and see her and her poster. It can be voted on. Okay, so we're ready to go. Okay, so poster number 50, the last poster in this session and also the last poster for the hands-on school, a snapshot will be delivered by Abdulmonim Suleiman from Sudan University of Science and Technology in Sudan and he'll tell us about a novel protocol for minimal radiation dosing in pediatric urography. Thank you very much. I'm very pleased to present my work today entitled Radiation, Those Measurements for Pediatric Patients During Urography. As you know, radiography current contributes almost 95% of all artificial radiation. So it is almost 100% of artificial radiation including radioactive power plants and every other applications of radiation, just 5%, 95% is medical exposure. So from this medical exposure, almost 300 million procedures performed in kildering and as you know, pediatric always more sensitive to radiation than adult patients. By a factor from 4 to 6 times from 0H to 40H almost 6 to 4 times and in addition to that females are more sensitive to radiation also than adults. Other thing, as you know, radiation has two kinds of effects, deterministic effects or cancer effects. So our objectives in medicine to reduce the probability of deterministic effect and to prevent this skin burning and skin reddening. The procedure now dealing with urography is a procedure in normal urination. The child can urinate after falling the bladder but in pathological condition the urine flows back. We designed an ambitious protocol. This is clinical settings. This is phantom. This is detectors. And the good news that we managed by these settings to reduce the dose 4 times. Please visit my poster for further discussion. Thank you very much. Okay. So that concludes the snapshots. Let's go ahead and proceed to the poster session but first let's give all the presenters a very nice round of applause.


Hello, welcome to toffee TV is the start of 11 show ever to play Brighton at home on Tuesday the 3rd of January I'm picking the team again today because You know I picked a team against City, which I thought probably Might be able to get something out because if you like I said if you're in a relegation fight Then you've got to go places and believe you can get something and I picked another 11 plays Which I'm part of picks and of course it's down to the manager who picks so he gets full credit obviously but you know I'm taking a little bit of credit for that. So I'm picking a team again and it starts with Jordan Pickford in goal Didn't need to do as much as I thought he would do against City, but he made a great I think I think was in the first half. He made a really good save From a few yards out and I think you saw it late as well Because there's a Everton player in front of him and he got down quicker made a really good save He's our number one. I'm not gonna pick anyone else. It's you know Yeah, Jordan Pickford in goal wing backs. I've gone for a back five again So nice higher at the pitch Patson and Mikolenko for Patson was okay against City Not his best game in the Everton shirt, but back at home with a home crowd behind him If you can get him on the ball, he's got that intensity. I think you can really have a good game I've said before that Thinking other formations certainly when Gordon McNeill are out there just looking to be producing off out wide so get our wing backs High at the pitch get more men in the middle and we can produce more I think personally Mikolenko was also brilliant against City It obviously not for for their goal of defending, you know getting Don't like that by Mares You know not great, but he was better going forward even if you're not getting the ball and Getting on the ball and put getting crosses in just making those overlapping runs You'd occupy and a defender you're dragging someone out You're making the pitch bigger and you're giving whoever's got the ball more options got another option You can have a pass down the wing to you or he's got you've created more space for him to get a shot away Like which he did for Demi be great and we you know got an equalizer which we earned a point That's you know little things like that running into space occupying the defending necessarily have to be on the ball I'm putting amazing crossing just getting forward running into space and occupying defenders or making the pitch as big as you can And I was really delighted for him But that's basic things he should be doing every week So hopefully does the same and hopefully you can get on the ball a bit more and get some crosses in Me three centre backs. I've got Cody Godfrey and Tarkowski I've kept the back five because I just think other formations haven't worked and you know I Think Frank Lampard if he hasn't already needs to just understand that we can't break teams down But I play just out good enough to play expansive pretty passing site football Maybe just stay solid and get teams on the counter attack. Then we got more chance of winning games I think you know with these I think he knows enough about that we've played under Jose Mourinho So I don't think you'll have a problem. I don't think Everton fans love a problem We're getting results as well and seeing plays work hard. I don't think that bothered if I'm out playing nice football passing out the back and stuff We just want to see our plays work hard and I think this is a Formation that really suits them to be honest So I think Godfrey being in there with his recovery pace let you get high at the pitch Let your full backs to get higher at the pitch Actually midfielders to get higher at the pitch so we might end up having a better attack and output anyway because it could It's a lot like we could get anywhere. So we honest watch us against Wolves and we did nothing. We couldn't break him down at all So I think this formation is more suited. So was in my opinion Me three in the midfielders address a gay the core eight and Alex who will be kind of gay back in the hold of midfield because oh Nana was in there On the weekend against City and obviously on and suspended so he comes out of the team and For the first time for a while to be honest a place been unavailable I mean put sort of like for like player him think last season the past few seasons You've had the Corey come out and a Gomez or a Davies go in and it's just not worked or a Delph Where there's now on Anna comes out and a decor he goes in into the core He's always big physical tall box-to-box You know, he's good going forward. We have a few, you know for the couple seasons been a we've wished that you can get more Out of him going forward and hopefully this is a game where you can try and get him into the box You've got cover behind him in the dress again a gay's got you know, we've still got Godfrey at the back or whatever You can also step into midfield. So I think the core a Get him high with the pitch Just haven't there's a body just running to the box knocking behind defenders causing troubles It goes in trouble. Sorry because like I said last week We have to get more plays in the box.  I do want to see him get a goal I didn't pick pick him against city because I didn't think it'd be fitting off. I don't want it I didn't want to risk him Against a team that was probably a right off But listen, he played an hour, which was probably planned play an hour and then play full 90 against Brighton And he was fine in that hour.  There was just no one in the middle So this is why I've gone for that formation And it's why I've gone for two up front and it's why I've gone for them two as well for a mix of pace skill and Dominic Harvard-Louis physical presence and both I think gray's our might be our top goal scorer now I think Um Maybe he's not he's certainly one of the ones that scored quite a few or only ones that scored a few goals for us now And you know what a crack we scored against city so he deserved to keep his place. So yep, that's my team Uh, let me know what score you think it will be In the comments and let me know what team you would pick is there any changes you would make to my team Or would you pick the same team? Thanks for watching. Make sure you join us on software TV premiere Where you get daily Live shows and exclusive shows make sure you subscribe like and comment. Don't forget. Thanks for watching and we'll see you later