For 43 years, she hid a secret under her clothes, which was revealed only after many years. Welcome to Viral Stories, Secrets, Facts, and Strange Stories from Around the World. If you find yourself amazed at what some of our fellow humans and animals can do, this is the place for you. This is a channel you're going to want to tell your friends about. Be sure to subscribe and hit that bell icon to be notified of our new uploads. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy Viral Stories. The story of a woman who we will be talking about today flashed around the world for a few days.  While some considered her decision to be wrong, to say the least, others called her a real hero. But either way, when people got to know her story, they couldn't remain indifferent. We all communicate with a certain amount of people in our day-to-day lives, including colleagues at work or even a shopkeeper. When you see a person every day for many years, it's unlikely that you can imagine that. For example, your colleague, who has been working with you for years, is not who they claim to be. And only after some time you realize that that man who carries heavy stuff and works just like anyone else is not a man at all. Surprised? The citizens of Egypt were surprised too, when the story of a 69-year-old shoe-shiner made the news. Now, Ceza Abu-Dawouk is a citizen of the town Luxar, quite a famous person who lives in a small house without water supply or sewage. However, just like most Egyptian citizens, her story began when she married a young man at the age of 16 and got pregnant. It was love at first sight, and there were no signs of trouble. Her husband was working and was bringing home money, while Ceza was taking care of her health and expecting a child with anticipation. But a few months before the birth of her child, a horrible tragedy occurred. Her husband passed away from a mysterious disease. As a consequence, the pregnant woman had lost a source of income, having lost her husband and managed to survive in her savings for some time and gave birth to a healthy little girl. After giving birth, she decided to find a job to provide for herself and her daughter. But everything was worse than it seemed to be. It was difficult to find a job because of local traditions, according to which a woman had nothing to do in a job. Wherever she went, looking for some kind of work opportunity, she would always hear a no. Only men were allowed to work in her region, though women's responsibility was maintaining the home. 16-year-old Ceza was in despair, and while looking at her baby, who simply needed food, she had decided to become a man, if only men are allowed to work. This decision forced her to dress like a man, leave housekeeping duties to make money and support her baby girl. Someone might say that this is impossible, but Ceza tried her best to act like a man and soon she had already cut her hair short and started acting like them. After some time, she even learned how to change her voice. And finally, she became a man, at least appearance-wise. She had only one goal, to get a job that she desperately wanted. Every day she put on a gelabia, a traditional man's garment in African countries. She wore a turban and put on men's shoes. She tightly wrapped her chest even though it was highly undesirable for the nursing mother. Ceza traveled to a neighboring town for work, where nobody suspected that she was a woman. The hard-working mother worked tirelessly and didn't look for easy jobs. At first she was a builder and together with men, carried blocks and mixed cement. Then she worked in the field along strong men from day till night, plowing crops in the sun. Lately, she has been working as a shoe-shiner in the train station of her native town, Luxor. Despite the fact that she got paid less than a dollar a day for hard work, it didn't prevent her from bringing up her lovely daughter.  Her daughter, Huda, is all grown up now and has now been married for a long time. She has had five children, but there was a tragedy in her family too. Huda's husband has been providing for the family and they had a good life. But around 40 years old, he also felt ill and had to stop working. And it so happened that Ceza once again had to take care of the financial matters. The 69-year-old woman gets up at 6am every morning to head to the train station. Her daughter, Huda, brings her all the necessary tools and returns home to children. A few years back, regular clients of the shoe-shiner at the train station began noticing that something was suspicious about this man. To have regular clients, you need to engage in conversation with them. One way or another, they figured out that it was a woman. They started bullying the woman and even chased her away. Because sadly in their culture, it's a bad thing to do. She even had to leave town for some time to escape weird looks and curses.  A journalist found out about this occurrence. A group of journalists came to film a reportage about a woman who pretended to be a man for 43 years and were shocked to hear what the locals had to say who had no clue that a woman was living next to them. They were close and at the time asked for help and landed a helping hand. But all this time, they were convinced that she was a man. Ceza even built the house she is living in now. When the Egyptian government found out about the story of a brave and selfless mother, they have decided to give her an award for perfect motherhood that allowed her to receive certain fees and pension. This story was broadcasted on national television and it touched millions of hearts, so she was given the title Mother of the Year. Our heroine still works as a shoe shiner at the train station, but once the whole country found out about her, people's attitudes have changed. Many regular clients who pay good money for her services, passers-by treat her with respect and try to help her in every way possible because even some men can't handle what this fragile woman has been through. And all of this was out of love for her daughter. She managed not only to bring her up and provide for her family, but to become a hero for the whole country. And perhaps she is the best example for men who sit at home and whine about their miserable lives and lack of job opportunities. That's it for today guys, leave a comment and let me know what you think about this amazing story. Give the video a thumbs up and see you soon.


One of the things that's really neat that's kind of happened since the loss of fossil fuels is people are revitalizing previously important parts of the landscape that are now important again. So this behind me is about 100 apple trees. This is an abandoned apple orchard. It hasn't been used really for production in years. As you can see, weeds have grown up. These trees are great vines that are choking them out. Really this is what used to be a vitally important part of the farmstead and this is on one of the older farms in the area. But it's fallen out of favor. Why would you pick all your own apples when they're so cheap at the grocery store? Well they're not anymore. So now we're coming back to using these things and because this has been abandoned they haven't been sprayed. They haven't used any petrochemicals on them in a long time. So I'm really excited to have access to this space. But it's going to take a little TLC to get it usable again. So that's what I'm starting to do now. May very well be dead. But if I give them some breathing room by killing the grapevines, who knows maybe something will sprout next year. Fingers crossed. All right, well I'm a little pooped from sithing down all this grass, cleaning up from under these trees to give them a fighting chance for next year.  I'll be pulling them all down probably next spring when I prune. These all need to be pruned and brought down to their old form. So there's a lot of work here in the spring. But for now some of them are ripe, some of them will be picking apples and these are going to be made into applesauce. So a few weeks ago I picked about three bushels of apples to store for the winter. And these are spartan apples which were designed to be stored for the winter as well as winter forest apples or forest winter I can never remember which are supposed to store quite a long time. And so what I'm doing now is I'm taking them out of the baskets that I brought them in and putting them into bags in smaller containers and I'm going to have half bushel baskets here shortly once I make them. But for right now I'm putting them in plastic bags because there's a reason that you buy apples in plastic bags in the grocery store. It helps keep the moisture in.  But if I put them in this plastic with not tied to tight at the top so that they can breathe a little bit they'll increase the humidity within their bags. They should be stored at 80 to 90% humidity anyway and this will help keep the humidity up and then I'll put them in the coldest part of the basement that isn't where the potatoes are. I have two cold spots in my basement one over here where the well is and then one over there where the stairs coming into the basement are and I have the potatoes and want to put the apples in another and the reason is apples let off ethylene gas. Ethylene gas is used to ripen fruit basically the apple trees let off ethylene gas to say hey everybody ripen right now so they ripen together tomatoes do it bananas do it it's that ripe fruit smell that you have that's ethylene gas. And so by keeping the tomatoes and the apples apart the apples won't cause the potatoes to sprout because otherwise they like the same conditions apples and potatoes both like to be stored just above freezing to 30 35 degrees or so and then they like to be humid 90 plus percent which is a difficult combination and that's why I'm having to put these in plastic bags is to keep that humidity up. It also gives me a chance to go through and find some of spots but I found found these as I've been going here I should go through these every month at a minimum every two weeks would be ideal just to find apples with spots because one that apple can spoil a bunch as they say we'll see how long these keep I've seen instances online where these Spartan apples last into the spring I don't know if I'll be that lucky now I have three bags I just lightly close the top I wanted to breathe but not that much and now this goes into cold storage


Let's continue with what we have been talking about, the cities and how God has a heart for the cities. We will first pray and then we will get into the discussion. I would just like to request someone to lead us in a word of prayer. Anyone? Precious Lord, we thank you for this time. We humble ourselves once again before your presence. Lord, we pray, open our eyes of understanding when you know more of your word, more of your mysteries of your word of God. Help us, Nancy, to share your word with boldness and speak to us tenderly, Lord. Help us to follow your word. Help us to live after the revelation that we are receiving, Lord. In Jesus' precious name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you for that. In the last class, actually, Nicholson had asked a question. I don't know if he's here. If he's not here, then he isn't here. So let me see. Maybe I'll post it on the stream. Basically, he asked about fasting when we pray for the city. So there are examples. There's a time when Ezra called for a fast. And at that time, everyone was fasting, including the animals, because they were seeking God for direction on how to move forward. So as a community, oh, yeah, here is Nikki. Yes. So Nicholson, welcome. I was just answering your question. You had asked if there is an involvement of fasting when we pray for the city. And so the answer is, yes, there are examples. You had people like Ezra calling for a fast when they, as a community, they needed direction and they needed God to really bless them in the work ahead. So we see that. And even in the life of Nehemiah, he's concerned about Jerusalem and he's concerned about the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. But you notice that he is praying and he did not even, sorry, he also engaged in fasting as he was seeking the Lord. So there is an element of fasting which is involved in praying for the city. So I just wanted to add that. Just give me a moment. The chair that I sit on, it keeps going down. I have to pull it up. Sorry for this. Yeah, sorry about that. OK. So there is an element of fasting there. And you asked if there is a transformation that anyone, any city has experienced. Right. So you can look up. There are a lot of articles and videos about this place called Kali in Colombia. Kali in Colombia. And based on the change that this city experienced, there are documentaries as well. I think there is one documentary which is called as Transfer Transformations. OK, you could look it up. It's a nice video to watch. And they talk about how there was a lot of rime in that city. There were murders, drug trafficking, you know, corruption. So things like that. So when such things were going on, the people decided, the Christians, they decided that they are going to start praying for the city. So they started praying and they also held one event, a city-wide event, where they gathered people, they basically invited people from all churches to come. So it's, you can see it in the video. You can see how, you know, so many people come together. They pray, they pray overnight, they worship, they are just seeking the Lord. So the report says something like when the people started praying together, they started seeking God together as a city-wide body. Changes started happening in the city. So the crime rate came down and testimonies like that. And I think the video also carries city transformation testimonies from other places as well. So just have a, yeah, OK, Siddh Kinnu has given us that link. Thank you, Siddh Kinnu. So just have a look at that and that will help us see how it actually works, you know, today. So I hope that is beneficial. Now, let's go on to what we have been discussing. We talked about God having a heart for the city. Now we will proceed from there and see how we can pray for the city and bring about this transformation. Yeah. So. Yesterday, we saw that it's us, you know, God notices the sin of the city and the agents who have to bring a change is us because we are salt and light. OK, and we are the ones who are called to pray for God's kingdom to come. Now, the body of Christ is the one that shifts the balance. Now, how do we shift the balance primarily through prayer, primarily through a spiritual warfare? OK. So when we talk about prayer and spiritual warfare, the Bible paints a picture for us. And that is to say that we as God's people are like watchmen. What do watchmen do? Watchmen, they guard a place. They watch to make sure that only the right people enter and the wrong people are kept out. So the watchmen look out for the city. They look out for the city. Now, scriptures tell us as a 62, 6 and 7 says that we are watchmen. We are watchmen on the walls. So as we pray for the city, what's happening? We are protecting the city. We are guarding the city from the works of the evil one. And we can also continue to proclaim and declare God's blessing upon the city. So we are watchmen and our characteristic is to protect. Our characteristic is to be like a gatekeeper.  But the ones who shouldn't come in, you know, we prevent them from entering. So even through prayer, right in the spiritual realm, now, we may not physically be stopping human beings from coming. That's not what we are talking about. But spiritually, we can allow and disallow you know, the influences, spiritual influences over our city. So we have a great responsibility to take care of our city through prayer. So we're guarding it. We are loving and disloving influences. We are also the maintainers or the people who preserve the city. We are those righteous people who are in the city, who are crying out to God day and night for his mercy and his work to be released upon our city. So this is the responsibility that God has given us. So in a word, you know, in a way, we can say that, you know, Watchmen is one picture, but we're also like the body of Christ is like a shepherd, isn't it? Because what does a shepherd do? A shepherd also takes care of the sheep. He is keen on protecting them from any harm, you know, any attacks. When we pray, we're doing the same thing. We are protecting the city. We are like Watchmen. We're also like shepherds who are protecting the city. And that is the responsibility which God has given us. So we will look more deeply into how we are going to pray. So there are several points actually in our notes today. And I am hoping to touch on all of them and cover them so that we are equipped to pray for the city. So praying for the citywide church, how can we do that most effective way? Now, yesterday we said that as individuals, we can pray. God is looking for one man to stand in the gap and can that shift the balance? It can. And we have seen it. We have seen it in various revivals. I think I gave the example of the Welsh revival, right? Evan Roberts, it was one person. It started, it started with him. But yes, eventually a lot of other people joined in and, you know, the prayer movement started and then the outpouring of the Holy Spirit happened. The revival took place and it also resulted in, if you read the outcomes of the Welsh revival, you will be amazed, OK? Because you see there that the crime rate came down. The the cussing, right? People used to cuss and use bad language. Those kind of things changed. So you read those results in the Welsh revival and that is city transformation. We're talking about touching the city, isn't it? So when people began to pray and it began with one person initially, then again, you know, it went on to covering a lot of other people, brought a lot of other people into the work that God was doing. However, in general, usually or normally, it takes a city-wide church to win a city-wide war. So one person can do it, a few people can do it, but it is better for a large gathering of believers in the city. You know, when God looks at the church in the city, he doesn't look at individual churches. We we see in the book of Revelation, you know, he addresses the church of Ephesus, the church of. So he looks at the city and he addresses the city-wide church. So the city-wide church itself has a large body of believers. When we rise up and when we pray together, that is the most effective way of taking the city through prayer. So a city-wide church is helpful in winning a city-wide war. Now, the example which I gave you from the transformations documentary, people came together from different churches and they prayed for their city and then they talk about the results that they saw. So for us also, we can encourage churches to come together, churches to pray together and that makes a difference. So what are some of the things that we can pray for? We can pray for the spiritual leadership in the city. So that is made up of you will have pastors, you have ministers of God, you have leaders, Christian leaders. And also we can extend it and pray for the families of these people because they are the ones who will lead the work of God in the city. So what can we pray for these people? You know, we pray the things that we pray over leaders. We would pray for God's wisdom. You would pray for, you know, the anointing breaks the yoke. So we can pray a lot. You increase the anointing upon their lives when we have more grace. Right? We are able to do more for the kingdom. So then we pray, Lord, give more grace, Lord, to all of these people. We can pray for good health, good strength. We can pray for, you know, because serving the Lord requires boldness. We can pray for boldness upon the lives of these people. And as they move forward boldly, we can also ask God for his protection upon the lives of these spiritual leaders. So are we praying for one pastor of, you know, some, you know, peace church and then one pastor of Grace Church? No, we are praying for all the pastors, anybody who is in spiritual leadership over the city. You know, the Bible says that it is God who appoints these shepherds. Leadership comes from God. So we will uphold them. We will pray over them. We will bless them. We will ask God to increase them and strengthen them. So that is one thing we can do when we are praying for the city. So pray for all the pastors, all the ministers, all the leaders, no bias in that. If God has chosen people in leadership, let us uphold them. Let us pray for all the pastors, all the leaders in the city, because they have to be strong, they have to be clear on how God is leading them. Then we can pray for the citywide church. Now, everything that we discussed when we talked about praying for the believers, praying for the brethren, praying for the local church, that can come here. So we can pray and we can say, Lord, you said you will build your church and the gates of hell will not prevail again. So that means your church is a powerful church. So let the body of believers in the city arise in the name of Jesus. OK, so we pray for a strong church. We pray for, you know, strength in the church. We pray for the church to be touched by the work of the spirit. So like a revival, God's revival, God's work of the Holy Spirit upon the church. We can pray that, you know, the people will be discipled, that they will be empowered by the word, that they will have an influence over all the spheres of society. So what are we saying? You know, first we prayed for God to strengthen the pastors and the leaders. Now we are praying for a strong, citywide church. Imagine, you know, if the church in the city is shining, all the people are taking their position and wherever God has called them, they are making a difference. It impacts the entire city. So we pray for the believers, we pray for the body of Christ and we pray that, Lord, let them make an impact. Let them be strong, let them make an impact. Now there are some points which are listed here. But additionally, the Holy Spirit might impress you with other specific points. So just feel free. But, you know, I'm giving you some general points that we can begin with. We can also pray that the church in the city be the temple of God. Now, what is a temple? A temple is defined by the God who lives in that temple. So people say, this is this God's temple, that God's temple. But we know that we as the spiritual body of Christ, we are the temple of God.  So that body is applicable in our physical body, but we're also the family of God or the body of Christ. So as a body of Christ, we are the temple of God. So when we call ourselves temple, what defines a temple, the God who lives in the temple? God must dwell in us. That is what makes us a temple. If God doesn't dwell, how good is it for us to be just a gathering or a building? But God is not there. That doesn't help. But we pray that God, you fill the body of believers, make us your temple, be here in our midst to God. And then we will reflect your glory. Because if God's presence is in the temple, what can we see? We can see the glory of God with the presence of God comes the glory of God. So in the city, that's what we want. We want God to be seen. We want God's glory to be revealed and it is only revealed where God dwells. So when we pray for the city, when we pray for the city-wide church, when we pray for the churches in the city, let us pray that and say, God, you come, you dwell, you reveal your glory in our midst.  Then we can go ahead and we can pray that there will be a manifestation of God's glory in various ways. How does God's glory manifest? We see, you know, Jesus, the first time he does a miracle in John chapter two, when he turns water into wine, we read, he manifested his glory. So the manifestation of God's glory is through signs, wonders, miracles, healings, deliverances, you know, and the work of the spirit.  So in all these ways and also, you know, the goodness of God, some social action that we engage in, but in the name of Jesus, you know, not just for doing good works, but in the name of Jesus, for the glory of Jesus, all these things manifest the glory of God. So we can pray God in our city, let the church arise, you know, let the body of believers be strong, you know, let them, let them do the works of God, let those works be seen. These are the prayers that we pray for the city-wide church. And one church being strong in all these ways, it is helpful. But when we are looking for a city-wide impact, we have to pray for the city-wide church. Okay. Moving on. We can also confess and repent on behalf of the city. God says, right, in 2 Chronicles 7, 14, if my people were called by my name, if they would humble themselves, what is humble ourselves? It's basically repentance. It's going before God and acknowledging the wrong which we have done.  You know, we turn from our wicked ways, oh God. So we repent, we repent of our sins, but here is the other thing, you know, we can also identify with the sins of the people.  So when I say, God, forgive me, forgive me for this sin in my nation. It may not mean that I have done that crime.  Lord, I repent on behalf of my people.  Have you committed the sin? No, but this is the principle of identification where on behalf of the city, we can cry, we can repent, we can confess. OK, we can say sorry to God. And that is a biblical principle, actually, like you can identify on behalf of the sinner and repent on behalf of the sinner. OK, that doesn't mean that the sinner does not have to do his own repenting. But you understand what I mean in intercession, you know, this is the possibility we can pray by identifying the sins of the people. So this is also a manner in which we can engage in prayer. Now, it is possible that there are certain sins that have been committed in cities. OK, we read this in the Bible, where you had things like the first one was was sacrificed, which was not at all something that pleased God. You know, evil things were done in cities to protect the city, to bless the city. So there could be certain sins that were committed in the city and the Holy Spirit can lead us to repent on behalf of those sins. Now, let's take, for example, if the sin of our city is corruption. OK, and we as God's children, we are praying against that. We are saying God, you know, there shouldn't be hoarding of money. There shouldn't be injustice by extortion of money and things like that. But we can also engage in act of repentance. What are some of those acts of repentance? Now, we might be the people who say, you know, like Zacchaeus, when he came to know that I made a mistake, I should not have taken money four times. He gives back. OK, and that's his act of repentance. So we can also we know that there is a demonic influence of corruption over our city. So how do we go against it? We are praying, we're engaging in spiritual warfare, but spiritual warfare can also be in action. So if there's a lot of corruption, I engage in, you know, the right way of handling money. I am generous with my money. OK, so whatever is happening in the city through the demonic influences, we go opposite to that. If there's no honor, let's say, just example, I'm giving you. Let's say women are not being honored. There's a lot of disrespect, you know, women are not being honored. And that's the spiritual atmosphere of the city. As a church, when we engage in acts of of repentance, that there could be things here. It's mentioned as reconciliation ceremonies or it can just be an act where as a body of believers, we respect women, right? So then you're going against the spiritual influence in that particular place. OK, so I was saying we engage in actions which are opposite to the wrong spiritual influence. So they can also be, let's say, some kind of I've heard this, in fact, one of the pastors in our pastors meetings shared that in his city, there was conflict among the communities. They were not willing to talk. They were not willing to see eye to eye. So at that point, it was a Christian person who went and he mediated, right? He mediated and he tried to bring in reconciliation. And what are some ceremonies of reconciliation? Maybe we may want to honor somebody who has been put down unjustly, right? So you engage in an act like that. So when you say ceremonies, it's basically like an act that you engage in where you are countering the evil that has been done so far or the evil you know, that that has remained in the culture till now. So when we engage in an act like that, that's also a spiritual warfare act where you're breaking what has happened till now. You're changing it and there is a shift in the spiritual atmosphere. So that reconciliation, I remember that pastor saying that when he went in and, you know, he, together with some of the other Christian brothers, they went and they did this whole thing of apologizing, sorry, all that. The reconciliation slowly came because what they did did not happen through anyone else till that time. So these are all the ways in which we can change the spiritual atmosphere. One is prayer, you know, in a spiritual way, but also action. We can engage in certain actions which are opposite to the spiritual atmosphere, right? So let's say there's a lot of complaining, there's a lot of accusation, you know, bad language in our culture, in the city. We go opposite. We speak blessing. We worship, we praise, you know, we do things like that. You do an opposite action as led by the spirit of God. And that also breaks the strongholds in the city. So in that way, we can pray for the city, confess and repent on behalf of the city. Then we can pray for God's visitation. What is God's visitation? See, basically we are saying Holy Spirit come, OK, move upon us. You know, the work of the spirit, it is the Holy Spirit who convicts us of sin, righteousness and judgment. So we are saying, you come, Lord, you work in the hearts of the people, you bring them to a point of decision. And earlier we talked about how the Father draws people to Himself.  So we're asking for that sovereign work of God, the work of the spirit, the work of the Father. And you know, we pray, Lord, bring these people to repentance, help them, Lord, to awaken to the knowledge of God so that they can escape whatever the enemy is doing. The way is corrupting the world, the way is corrupting the lives of the people that people can actually escape it and they can be saved. So, you know, we begin to pray these things, we begin to pray that the gospel. We know that the gospel is the light which shines on the lives of the people. So we can pray, Lord, let your gospel penetrate. You bring that wisdom and revelation so that people can accept what you have done. They can understand the work of the cross. They can understand that Jesus is the Son of God. So, you know, these are prayers we can pray over our city. We can also ask God to send forth laborers, you know, because we will need many laborers. Even Jesus said that the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few, so we can say God. And he said, pray to the God of the harvest. So, our God is a God of the harvest. If we pray to him and say, God, you send laborers, then what can God do? God will send men and women to touch the lives of the people. And, you know, he can do it in amazing ways. So we can do that, right? We can pray and we can ask God to send more people who are serving him, who will share the gospel and do the work of God in the city. We can also ask God for supernatural encounters. We've talked about these things, actually, when we prayed for those who are lost. And we can say, God, you know, let there be a release of angels, let angels go and minister, let's pray. We can pray that God gives people dreams, visions, you know, in supernatural ways. I'm sure, you know, many of you have heard that in some of the cultures where they're not accepting of Christ, a lot of people have testified of having dreams, right? Having dreams, even in closed places where there's a lot of persecution and people are not able to enter to take the gospel. There are testimonies that have come in where people have just had dreams of Jesus and they've given their lives to Christ. So we can also pray and we can say, God, in supernatural ways, Lord, you minister to the people, let them have divine visitations. The way Paul on the road to Damascus, God encountered him and his life changed. So as we pray, these things can take place. So we can begin to pray and ask God for a spiritual, for a mighty visitation. Now, I told us earlier that one thing is to pray. The other thing is to go against the works of the devil. So spiritual warfare, what are the things that we can focus on when it comes to spiritual warfare in the city? We can exercise our authority against demonic powers. We can exercise our authority against demonic powers. How to do that? You know, some of the ways in which we can exercise spiritual authority is, one, we can declare the power of cross. OK, we can declare the value of what Jesus has done on the cross. The Satan never likes it. You know, the cross is one thing he hates. He does not want us to talk about the cross. He does not want us to reflect on the cross because it is a picture of victory over the devil. He doesn't like it. So that is the first thing we can engage in. We can declare the finished work of the cross. You know, the defeat of the enemy. We can declare the blessings that have come through the cross. We can declare how we are saved. Salvation was bought through the cross. We are redeemed. This is the reality. What is on the basis of the cross? So much has taken place so we can begin to declare the victory of the cross. And that is part of spiritual warfare over the city. So engage in declaring the work, the finished work of the cross over the city. And we can declare that, you know, this is the victory. And therefore, the enemy is defeated. Then we can also very specifically identify the strongholds over the region. OK, this would come under spiritual mapping. I don't know if we spoke about it earlier, but in a simple sense, spiritual mapping is you look at a region, you look at the spiritual negative influences, OK, and basically you identify, like, for example, in the city of Ephesus as a goddess Diana, OK, and there was a lot of influence because of that goddess over the city. So that stronghold had to be broken. Similarly, over cities, there can be some demonic strongholds, there can be the worship of some god, goddess, or it can also be strongholds of injustice, alcoholism, I think I touched on that earlier. So things like that. So when we pray and we do the mapping, we can identify over this region.  So when we identify those specific demonic influences, we can engage in pulling down those strongholds, right? We come against them, the prevailing strongholds and we tear them down. We proclaim how do we tear them down? Basically, again, you know, one of the best ways is to submit to God. So we exalt God, we worship God, we honor God, we speak the truth of His word, we speak what the cross has done, we declare the power of the blood. You know, these are the things that we engage in and together with that, you know, we take authority, we bind the works of the enemy over that land. OK, and, you know, we with our declaration we declare things null and void in Jesus' name. We declare the presence of God over the city. So as we're doing all these things, we're binding, we're casting out. It's really war that is going on and a transformation is coming through. So we can identify these specifics, specific strongholds and go against them. And we can also, you know, engage if there are, let's say, individuals, OK, who are affected by these demonic influences, we can also pray over them and set them free. So in many instances, like in Samaria, if you see there was a sorcerer by the name of Simon, OK, and that was the stronghold in the city. So the moment, you know, the message came to him, Philip preached and the sorcerer gave his life to Christ. OK, so things turned around. So similarly, like later you see in Paphos, there was one other sorcerer, Elimus, he was not letting the word of God penetrate the heart of one of the council leaders, but the moment Paul addressed that the leader was able to see the gospel. So these strongholds, it could also be working through individuals. And, you know, sometimes when we cast out these specific demonic spirits, there was a demon spirit in a girl in the city of Philippi, OK, and she was she had a spirit of divination going around doing fortune, telling and all. But when Paul and Barnabas, like they cast out that not Paul and Barnabas, yeah, no Barnabas in this. But Paul, he cast out that spirit. What happens is that girl is set free, OK, and we read that there are people who saw what happened. And there was like a freedom, right, which came from casting out those specific spirits that were working through individuals. So that is also a way of engaging in spiritual warfare. So we bring the freedom of God, basically, by breaking those strongholds, by casting out those demons and going against the enemy. So engage in spiritual warfare. So we pray for for God to work in the city. And we also go against the enemy. Now, we can pray for other things that the scriptures teach us to do for the city. We can also pray for the peace of the city, OK, Jeremiah 29, 7, we have seen that God has called us to pray for peace in the city.  But you see, there is a spiritual authority which you and I can exercise over the city. And instead of being those complainers, how about we exercise our positive spiritual authority by blessing the land and speaking peace over the land so we can pray for peace. In the city, we can also pray. The Bible calls us to pray for those who are in authority. So we may have, you know, members of parliament, members of legislative assembly. We have, you know, other influential leaders. We have people in positions. They're handling different aspects concerning the city. What is the word of God? Tell us in first Timothy two versus three and four, we are called to pray for civil authority. So instead of, you know, condemning them, putting them down, the responsibility of the churches, we pray, we pray that God, you know, you give them the wisdom, you lead them, you strengthen them, Lord, you bless them, right? So when we pray, what happens? So we are committing them into God's hands and God can lead them with his divine influence and things can turn around. So let us pray for our leaders. That is something we can do for our city. We can also pray for peace in the city. So again, you know, we are taught Paul wrote with Timothy. First Timothy two versus one through three, there he says that we can ask we can pray that let there be peace for our own peace. We have to pray, right? So we pray for peace in the city. There can be a lot of rival communities living there. And yet, you know, we can say, God, let your peace, rule and reign in our city. Let your peace, rule and reign in our community. So that way, what we're saying is, God, remove any strife, hatred, rivalry, you know, ill will and all of those things, Father, that may exist. And in the place of those things, Lord, Father, we release, O God, for we release your peace. And, you know, we maybe for this kind of a work to get done, what we said earlier, repentance also comes into the picture. What if, you know, you are the community that has been harmed or you are the community that has been hurt by others? One of the things which is required is the act of forgiveness. So we can first release forgiveness. We can first release those past hurts and say, God, we release these things. You know, we cannot change what has happened in the past, but we know that you can bless, you can bring peace amidst, you know, X, Y, Z communities that live here. So we want to be a channel of blessing. So in that way, we can begin to pray for peace among communities in a given place. We can also pray for various causes. And when we read the word of God, you know, there is God upholds causes. He upholds justice. Righteousness and justice, right? That's what the throne of God is based on. So God is an upholder of the truth and justice. So various causes are there, depending on our city. And we can pick each one of them up and we can pray for them. Some are listed here. So your notes here says pray for the poor and homeless. We know that God cares for them. So based on God's word, we can pray for those who are in need. They don't have homes. They don't have facilities so we can pray and we can also pray. God caused the government to come up with policies or God to bless those who are poor in our city. So press like this. We can pray. So whatever God upholds, we can pray for those things. We could pray for marriages in our city. We could pray for families. We could pray for, you know, safety of homes. We can pray for children that that they be influenced by good things. And the negative influences that the enemy is bringing through the Internet, through, you know, all kinds of other channels that those things would be stopped in the name of Jesus. We can pray for young people. Obviously, there'll be a lot of universities and colleges in most of the regions and the influence over their lives. We can pray and we can say, God, awaken them to the truth of your word.  But Lord, awaken them to righteousness, awaken them to justice so we can pray for things like that. So children, young people, we can also pray for safety in the city. Right. God's protection. We can pray for the crime rate to go down. Now, we may want to be very specific about the crime rate. Remember, we said in that state of Kali, city of Kali, there was trafficking, murder. You know, those those were some of the crimes that people were dealing with. So maybe God points us to some specific things that are going on. And we want to cry out to God and say, God, these things are going on. And we speak a stop to that in the name of Jesus. So we can pray against the crimes that are taking place and ask them to seize in Jesus mighty name. So just going back to the Belch revival, it's amazing. You know, sometimes when you read about these revivals, one of the outcomes was the crime rate went down and it went down so steeply that it is said that the police didn't have any work. Every evening, people would gather for these spiritual meetings held by Evan Roberts and the team. So the whole city would be moving in the direction of the crusade or, you know, whatever you want to call it, like that large gathering where it's taking place. And the crime rate came down so much that the police were out as crowd control. Can you imagine? Because that was one of their primary jobs at that time. They didn't have anything else to do like. So is it possible for crime rate to go down? It can go down. OK, we've seen that happen in cities. So that's something we can pray for. Then we can pray for bondages to be broken. No, we see right. People are addicted. People are addicted to drugs. Sometimes we see people, you know, lying on the roads, addicted to alcohol, they're addicted to some other substance. And it's so sad for us to see these things. But as believers, we know that these are the strongholds of the enemy. He's working on the hearts of young people, on the hearts of, you know, others in our city. So we go against and we pray and we find those, you know, influences in Jesus' name and we will see God's work released upon them. So we can pray that people be set free from bondages. And that is God's heart. We can pray for just some issues here. OK, but, you know, there are so many issues that I can keep listing out. You can make your own list for your city and pray. So you could pray for elderly for their protection, could pray for purity to be established. You know, there was one point I still remember. This was early on. This was when I was in college. That was the first time that in the newspapers, there were certain pages, you know, which had like really, you know, wrong pictures and photographs till that time, we would never get newspapers like that. But it started, you know, those kind of newspapers also started coming. And I remember at that time, one pastor had gone to church and he was asking us to pray and he said, these things have to stop. You know, Satan influences, isn't it? So in that way, there could be some advertisements that can be stuff on the Internet that goes on, you know, trying to get people hooked to sexual impurity. So these things we can pray and we can say, God, you know, we we want to see reverence and purity in our land or God. We we take authority over what Satan is trying to do in the name of Jesus. So, you know, things like that. And I remember praying and after some time, actually those papers did they stop or they became less popular, something happened. But I remember that there was a call for prayer just for that. So we can pray if there's any wrong influence over the city. Then there are issues of corruption, injustice, oppression, bonded laborers in our times, you'll be amazed to see that there are still bonded laborers, right? There is castism, so many things. So all of these things exist around us. And we are God's people here. What about dignity of women? OK, crimes against women. Every day you hear news crimes against small children, right? Abuses. So just so many things that happen in the city that is displeasing to God. So pull out all those things and pray, right, for God to intervene in those situations. And also, we can engage in. There's a last section here, which says engage in ground level spiritual warfare, ground level spiritual warfare is what I already told us to exercise the power of God through our lives. So when I'm exercising the power of God through my life, I release people from bondage the way Peter, he ministered to Simon the sorcerer, Paul, right? He ministered to that, like he went against Elimus, the sorcerer. So, you know, basically, if you come across something where you have to release the power of God, you have to cast out a spirit, you have to bind the spirit, that's called as ground level spiritual warfare. So we engage in things like that. And we are able to see a freedom in our state. So these are all the points that I wanted to touch on today. I know it's a lot, but it'll be good if you can just go back and review the notes one more time. And that will really help us. But I'm just leaving this time open. Any thoughts, any questions, anything you're wondering about? Let's see if I can answer. So feel free, you can just, you know, unmute yourself and ask. Yes, yes, Divya. Yeah, thank you, Pastor. So my question is regarding, like, sometimes we just, as maybe we set up our time for praying for the city or may not be in a large group or so. But these are, since these are, you know, very, it touches on topics that are very general. So sometimes we cannot see results, right? So how can we keep ourselves motivated to, you know, continue praying? Yeah, so I didn't mention it, Divya. It's there in our notes here, where that statement comes, right? Where it says for a city-wide, city transformation, we need a city-wide church to engage in prayer. But it also says there that sometimes for city transformation, for us to see the changes, it might take months and years, okay? So what I would say is, I would say that we have to pray and ask God for a burden. So this motivation may not be based on seeing, you know, immediate results. So we really need a burden from God where, you know, we are taken by God to pray for the city for a prolonged period of time. And in a practical sense, yes, you can just look and see if there is any change. But in certain matters, no, you know, if we never know, we might pray through our lifetime and then the change might happen. Like, I have heard, you know, I'm a little interested in this whole thing about that civil rights movement and Martin Luther, King Jr. and, you know, the people, how they fought against injustice. So there are stories of, you know, mothers and grandmothers who prayed through their lifetime and nothing happened. But it's only later, right? That at a certain time, there was a transformation. It was like a wave, it came against injustice. So these matters of city transformation, it's kind of hard to keep yourself motivated, actually. Yeah, but you can look for some small changes here and rejoice in that. Right, right. Thank you. Thank you for saying that. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, but a good one. So I'm sharing a link. This was preached in church a while ago. APC, I've shared the link 2012. This is about city transformation. So just for us to get like a good idea of what we are talking about, you know, you can also spend time listening to these sermons. And yeah, God is the God of cities and we want to see, you know, cities. Why touch the entire city? Because we are talking about hundreds and thousands and millions of souls coming to God at the same time. So it is that powerful. So while we're engaging in our regular way of ministering, how do we touch the city at large? Right, these are questions. And as you look at all this, there's this thing about seven mountains. How can you influence? We are influencers. How can we influence seven mountains? Spiritual warfare for city transformation. How do we engage in things like that? So yeah, there's so much more that we can actually look at. So do think about it. If you have any questions, any other questions as of now? Okay, so feel free to post it on the stream page. I could also answer them over there for us. Okay, so yeah. So thank you. Thank you, everyone for connecting today. We will wrap up today's class. We'll close with a word of prayer and I would like to request someone. So who's going to close today? Okay, I thought as much as it can. Please go ahead. Father, we come to the throne of grace. Lord, thank you as we have learned today how to pray for our city. Lord, we keep in your hands. Lord, all the cities from where we are from. Lord, we are going back. We're from the different nations. Lord, different places. We give all the places and all of our people in your hands. Lord, every knee shall bow. Every temple for the Christ Jesus is the Lord. Lord, thank you for the prayer. Lord, thank you for all the time we have spent in prayer. And since the day we have spent in your presence. Lord, the learning about your word and Lord, learning about the praying. Lord, thank you for this hour. Lord, thank you for all the students who have joined us. And thank you for all the ma'am. Lord, who has taught us about the praying. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Sitkenoon. And thank you, everybody. God bless you all. Have a blessed weekend. A good time of worship with your local church. Be refreshed. We'll meet again next week. Take care. Bye. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Bye for now. Thank you.


Okay, hi, I'm Jeff Urik, I'm the head of marketing here at Nanosys and we're the Quantum Dot Company. So we're the sort of Q and QLED and QNED and Quantum and all those great acronyms that have Quantum Dots. So you've been busy since the last video we did three or four years ago? Very busy since the last video you did. Yeah, you know, since then we've seen a ton of traction in mini-LED LCDs, just continued growth in regular LCD business, IT products, and fantastic new technology called QD OLED that we're showing here today with Samsung Display. So yeah, Quantum Dots everywhere. I hear it's the best. It's the best. Is it? I think it's the best of the best, yeah, especially in the TV space. The QD OLED, that's the S95C from Samsung on top here, it's really the best quality TV in the premium market today. I don't have any doubt about that. Super high peak luminance, we measured over 1300 nits, it can do 91% coverage of the BT 2020 color gamut, viewing angle is amazing, and it uses true RGB colors. So the way that the video signal works is every color, every pixel is made up of red, green, and blue elements. And so this display, red plus green plus blue equals white, W, white, and on this display, this is a G3 OLED, this is the top of the line white OLED technology, has a white sub-pixel, so it's mixing in white to boost the luminance, the colors are a little darker. This is a kind of subtle demo, I wonder how it will work on your camera, but as you look here as it fades into the darkness, you'll see some hue shifts and some flickering in some of these colors. And that's the TV actively tone mapping with that white sub-pixel, it's constantly trying to, you can really see it here as it flickers as it comes up, it's constantly trying to use the white signal, the white pixel to boost the luminance of the display. And it's actively sort of recolor grading the content all the time. We're also showing here a Sony BVMX300 professional reference monitor, this is a $35,000 RGB OLED. So this is the kind of monitor, this is very popular in Hollywood, a lot of movies are mastered on this. So the Samsung QD OLED and this mastering monitor have the same performance, you don't see that flickering and those hue shifts on these two top displays. Now the other demo that we have is a little bit different, and the Blu-ray player is complaining to me, that's a different, no, no, that's the LG remote. Well, I guess it's the end of the day and we only have one loop playing right now, so I guess we'll stick with this demo for now. Sorry, Sean Rax. Alright, how much brighter does it get compared to the other OLED? You know what's really interesting about this demonstration is, they both have the same peak white luminance, in fact, they're within 15 itch of each other, they're both about 1300 nits, these two TVs, but this TV, the R plus G plus V additivity, only goes to 600 nits. So every color that's above 600 nits is really relying on that white sub-pixel to boost the luminance up. This TV is 1300 nits of pure RGB color, all the way up and down. Here this display week, is there other new quantum dots, innovations happening in the micro-liddy area or something? Absolutely, so we don't have it here actually, but our friends over at Negase across the road here have it. Quantum dot color conversion is a really important thing for micro-liddy displays, and so we're showing a demo there, where we're showing inkjet printed and photo lithography patterned quantum dots on top of micro-liddy. Number of papers here at the show that have UV micro-lids with RGB quantum dots on top, almost everybody who's looking at micro-liddy is looking at color conversion as well. Is there a competition happening at your booth? Well there is, I think some guy named Frank, does he still have the high score? Yeah. Michelle, you can't beat him? No. Okay. Well, yeah we're just having a friendly competition using the MetaQuest Pro, this is one of our favorite new quantum dot displays actually, a lot of people may not realize it, but Inside MetaQuest Pro VR headset is a mini LED LCD display with quantum dots inside, so it's a great example of quantum dots delivering vivid color and awesome brightness, and we're actually watching Michelle play here on a TV with 240 hertz refresh rate kind of gaming TV with of course quantum dots inside. Because when you do VR you want to have very high brightness. Yeah, high brightness and really wide color gamut, because you want to mimic the natural world, even go beyond the natural world, why stop there, right, so you can use color to create these amazing experiences. And there's some very big brands launching VR things soon, and we don't know what display they're going to use. We don't know. We have no idea. We don't know. We have no idea. And what's happening here with the... Yeah. So yeah, here we can see Frank's score, I don't think anyone's going to beat 741,000 on DeSaver, I don't know. This wall, we're calling this mini LED equals quantum dots. A lot of people don't maybe realize when you see mini LED today, it really means quantum dots. Just about every product on the market with mini LED technology is using quantum dots today. 100% of TVs that use mini LED use quantum dots. And they do that for a few reasons. One is of course great color, wide color gamut, super high brightness. The quantum dots are very stable, and so they can be driven to very high brightness. This TV here is 22, 2300 nits peak luminance. There's a TCL TV out there that somebody just measured at 3200 nits with quantum dots inside, so super bright. And the quantum dots are also very fast, and that's an area that people haven't talked about a lot. But it's great for mini LED because in mini LED you have thousands of zones of mini LEDs in the backlight. When you have a fast moving object moving across the screen, you need the backlight to keep up. Some phosphors are actually very slow. They respond on the order of 8 milliseconds. And so you have color shifts and kind of color ghosting and banding problems. Quantum dots respond in nanoseconds, so it's perfect color all the time, no matter how fast your refresh rate. We also see that in IT products. This is a great ASUS gaming monitor and an MSI notebook here with a mini LED quantum dot display, super bright and showing some gaming content with some analysis there. All right. Good stuff. What's on these walls here? So here... Cyber sickness. Yeah, it's one of the reasons we think that the VR community is using some quantum dots. So one of the problems for VR is lag, right?  And so if you're going to use an LCD and you're going to use one of these slower phosphors, you're waiting for the phosphor to warm up, you can solve that, but you have to put a delay in the video. You have to delay the video and say, I'm going to look ahead and make sure my phosphor is ready and warmed up, but there's no time for delay on VR, right? And so you need to have a really fast display that can keep up. Over here, we're talking about a new kind of color metrology, a new way to think about measuring brightness in displays. We're talking about NITS, which is a measurement that people are very familiar with. It's a popular sort of marketing. I just talked about a bunch of NITS kind of scores here, but NITS don't tell the whole story of brightness. In fact, NITS only measure the sort of black and white response of our eye the way we perceive color. And there's something called the Hemholz-Kohlrausch effect, and we're kind of showing that here. And what we're seeing is that all of these patches are the same luminance. And in fact, they're the same luminance as this gray background. They appear much brighter to our eye, and that's because they're very saturated colors. And the HK or Hemholz-Kohlrausch effect tells us that the more saturated color is, the brighter it appears to our eye. And this new metric called experienced color range that Samsung Display developed captures that. And you see this here. So this is the brightness from black to white. This is kind of luminance or NITS. This is colorfulness or chromaticity, color gamut. And here we're following the XCR line, which is the distance from black along the color there. And you can see that you get a much higher score for high color displays. QD OLED, for example, scores very high. That Vizio TV, in fact, scores higher than this $2,800, $3,000 white OLED TV, for example. A few years' partnership with the Vizio now. Yeah, in 2015 they started. So they're one of the early ones, actually. Yeah, TCL, Samsung, Vizio among the first to adopt QD. And I saw you were walking around doing videos here at the show. Yeah. And you are doing a regular show. We do a regular show. It's called the Display Show. It's on the Nanosys YouTube channel. Brian Berkley is our host, and he's a VIP of the display industry. And he's been doing it for a long time. And yeah, we went around and found some of our favorite technologies here, a lot of micro-LED things and other good demos. Only stuff with the quantum dots? Oh, no, no, no. No, Brian has one. It's sponsored by Nanosys, but it's really Brian's show. And so we covered some OLED stuff. And yeah, you name it. It's been an awesome show. It has been one of my favorite demos. It's one more day. It's not finished, but that is awesome. Yeah, exactly. One of my favorite ones was Kenichiro Masaoka. He's a guy who invented the BT-2020 color gamut. He's showing some really cool new measurement stuff over there. And he's somebody we talked to today, too. So check him out if you haven't already. So here, the display week.  And all these new TVs can come with HDMI 2.1. And there's a whole bunch of updates that I'm going to be filming at the Computex 2023 with the HDMI licensing administrator, which are organizing all the display makers, the cable manufacturers, and making sure that they are compatible with each other. There's a stable performance. There's no interference. And there's a smooth 8K future with 48 gigabit per second support. And there's the whole infrastructure for certifying, for testing, for making sure there's no interference with the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and stuff that people have. So thanks a lot for watching. Check out my HDMI playlist in hdmi.charbacks.com.


So we have the ID TechX here with a CDT and this is Wallace Power right here for your display, so hello, so who are you? Hi, my name is Alexander Daust, I am the technical leader of the flexible OLED project at CDT. So this is a flexible OLED display right here? Yeah, this is what we call a human device interface. What we've done is we've integrated touch sensor to this particular device. As you can see, touch the device. And it's a very bright, this is a segmented display right? No, it's not a segmented display, these are fixed icons. I don't actually know, we can give you some, we can send you some. No, I can send you a functional device. As you can see on the side here, this is a very thin, just a fraction of a millimeter. So it's right there, a fraction of a millimeter. And it's fully flexible. And you have this one you can show also? These are also, so these are what we call a graphic equalizer with a seven segment display, also fully flexible. And we can make these in all the RGB and W colors, as you can see we have an example of white. So is it possible to have the full what's called matrix or something like that where you can display anything people want? So then you're talking about a display as in a TV display, this is not what we're doing. These are fixed icons, this is a low cost, low information content OLED on flexible substrates. Here we're just trying to make people aware of the possibilities. So we have a few examples. Obviously this is a visiting badge for the conference for example, but equally you can have a transportation sign that can give you your residual balance. So these are just product ideas that we want to share with people here. For example, it could be a credit card. It could be a card for validating an entrance into a sporting event or a ticket or a concert. So there's no battery in there? There's no battery in there. And it gets the power through NFC? Through NFC. And so Samsung Galaxy phones also have this NFC function. So all these demonstrators that you see here would also work with a Galaxy phone. So do you have lots of customers so far? Let's look over here. Designs like that? Yeah, so here what we do is we can just say we just print it white and we can put color filters over the top and that gives the customer the ability to have many many different colors as part of their product depending on what they're interested in using this technology for. So you're in Cambridge in the UK? Yep, that's right. And what kind of customers do you have so far? So we're generating customers, people that are looking to use these products in white goods for example in consumer electronics, fridges, washing machines, that kind of application area. So it's good for showing numbers? Because you can actually do all the numbers with this? You can do whatever logo you want. You know, we just put numbers down as an example. But it can adjust for the amount of money that it actually did. Yeah, in this case, in this particular example, the numbers are fixed. But as you can see in the example here, we can have multiple of these seven segments and they can make up any number of these. We need a microcontroller or something in there? There is already one in there. That could be programmed to all kinds of stuff. Secured. What's the price of this kind of thing? So there's no price because we're not in production. We're at the moment looking to get customers and basically get this into full-scale production. All right. Together with partners. Is it unbreakable? Yeah, flexible. Yeah, it's flexible. I haven't managed to break one. It's just plastic basically. So very thin. 300 micron. Depending on the color, but the power consumption is a few milliwatts per centimeter squared. So you see a little bit of power in the device? Yep. Or NFC is enough? Yeah, NFC is enough. Then you have like this. How long will it take you to do one for ID TechX? Well, I mean, from developing the concept to final delivery of this demonstrator was a few weeks. But that's because we had a lot of other stuff on the go at the same time. All right. Potentially. But potentially within a few weeks. Any of these could be made within a few weeks. Any new designs? Anything that anybody would want? There could potentially be millions and millions of people having this soon, right? That's our ambition, yes.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Informatica World 2017, brought to you by Informatica. Hey, welcome back everyone. We are here live in San Francisco for Informatica World 2017, exclusive CUBE coverage of the event, Informatica World 2017. I'm John Furrier with my co-sp, Peter Burris, general manager, head of Wikibon Research at wikibon.com. Our next guest is Greg Hansen, Vice President of EMEA Cloud and DAF data as a service. Welcome back. Good to see you again, CUBE alumni. Good to see you. Yeah, thank you very much. Good to be back. Back for year two, we are year three for coverage. Exactly. So last year we had a great conversation. I think you laid out pretty much the playbook. A lot's happened in the past, it breaks, it happened. But Cloud in outside of North America is a tricky game because there's a lot of different countries. I was at the EU and other parts of the world there, but it's really a regional issue. And you've seen a massive expansion of the Cloud guys. We have Amazon sponsorship here, Google now has Spanner globally. What is the landscape like given Brexit, obviously that was a political thing, has ramifications, but also the regional expansion of the Cloud players has been pretty significant over the past year with announcements coming. I can't even keep track of them all. How's that impacting your business? So it is quite fragmented across EMEA. I mean, our region is EMEA and Latin America as well. And it's a huge geographical region. And across that geographical region, it's very different in different countries. So the EU as a whole, there is, Cloud is very hot in the EU at the moment. There's a large adoption. I think we've passed that point of no return, past the tipping point, as you should say. And every enterprise customer I talk to is now, it's not when they're going to, or if they're going to adopt Cloud, it's when. And usually they're already on a journey that we can help them with. But then in some of the far-flung regions, where the maturity of Cloud is less so, where the presence of Amazon or Microsoft or even ourselves is limited, like Russia, for example, or the Middle East, there's not that same kind of infrastructure. So the desire and the demand for Cloud in those regions is less. But the large majority of our geographical region, Cloud is a huge topic for every single customer. What's the state of the art right now in your territory with Cloud? I mean, obviously from an informatic perspective, you have a view, but also in Cloud adoption, hybrid, clear. Public Cloud does use cases of that a lot on premise with hybrid. What's the key state of the art right now for Informatica and the Cloud players? I think there's fabulous opportunity for Informatica. It really is a hot topic. So, and there's two ways that we can deal with that. I mean, there's the enterprise space, which Informatica has been ruling for 20 years now. But Cloud gives us a huge opportunity to go into new market sectors as well, that we've really not been in before. Mid-market opportunities, and you'll no doubt see a lot of the partners around the event here that we've got that allow us to address customers that we simply weren't addressing before. We had an enterprise sales force. And if you think about those mid-market organizations, they're the organizations that are really going to drive the Cloud adoption as well in countries like Italy and Germany, where you very quickly get down to small and medium-sized enterprise. Cloud is huge in those organizations, in those countries. So there's a great opportunity for us to go after that mid-market sector as well as the enterprise. But increasingly in the digital business, we were talking about this earlier in one of the other segments. In the digital business, you have greater distribution of data, greater distribution of function, and almost inevitably, the ecosystem is going to be comprised of big enterprises, but also mid-market companies. They're going to have to work together. So it's not looking at the enterprise in the mid-market in isolation. Increasingly, the enterprise is going to be acknowledged as a way of extending your influence into a lot of different customers, or a lot of different domains, both through partnerships as well as through customers. How is Informatic going to facilitate that kind of a new approach to thinking about business as a network of resources? Well, one of the great things about the cloud infrastructure itself, if we roll back and think about 10 years ago when all our products were on-prem, it was very difficult for us to understand what our customers were doing with our products. We had to go and talk to them, speak to them on the phone, visit them to understand what their use cases were. Now in cloud, that world has changed, because if you think about one of the things that Informatic is well known for, it's metadata. So operational metadata, technical metadata, we can actually see what our customers are doing with our products. We can understand the use cases, and that becomes a crowd sourcing in terms of how you can replicate, how you can industrialize, how you can reuse a lot of that type of integration, which is enabling us to create new wizards, new accelerators, which are common across the marketplaces and use cases. So it's really a phenomenal change over the last two years, which has been brought on by that ramp up of cloud adoption that we've seen globally, to be perfectly frank. Okay, take a minute, Craig, to talk about this DAS. I think a DAS, I think it like cellular distributed antenna systems, but I mean, it's an acronym. It's data as a service. Data as a service. But what does it really mean? Take a minute to just break that down. What does that mean to the customer? What's the product? What's the offering? It's important, obviously data is the key, and people want it as a service, so take a minute to just explain what that means and the impact. Yeah, it's important to understand what Informatic means by data as a service, I think. And our data as a service product lines are pretty much concentrated and focused on increasing the quality of data. So high performance quality of data. If you think about, you know, digital transformation as a topic which has been talked all around in rooms and corridors around this event here this week. Fundamentally, data is really the key foundation of that digital transformation. But I would say, high quality data is key to the success of digital transformation. So, and that's what our DAS products can enable us to do. So, what do you think about looking at the data? How does the customer engage with DAS, those days of service? So, the typical use case is that you could have address verifications and we have products that support multiple different countries and regions, more than 240 countries. So, if you want to get high quality data about customers, which everyone is, you know, ultimately wanting to do these days to effectively cross-sell and upsell, we can provide a global facility to do that. But you can fix data in batch orientation, but what's much more effective is actually plugging into the applications. So, it becomes seamless to an end user. So, they're using Salesforce.com, they're using another application, and it's embedded into the application. So, it runs in the background. When they enter a poor address, for example, it will correct it and it will validate email addresses and phone validations. We've got a customer in Germany just as an example, one-on-one, which is an internet service provider in Germany, they've got 7.7 million customers. And one of their biggest problems is the inaccuracy of data. And that prevented them billing. Prevented them onboarding the customer first and foremost, then it prevented them billing, which is a pretty serious problem for an organizer. I'm moving to Germany. So, by implementing the DAS products, what they enable them to do is make sure that when they enter data into a system, that it was high quality, it was correct at the point of entry. Which, by the way, is seven times cheaper to do it there rather than try and fix it downstream. So, it's an important product set for us to support high quality data for that digital transformation journey. So, you're not buying and selling your customer's data. What you're using is this is a service to enhance the quality of your data. Yeah, it will fix data, and it will also enrich data that they've already got. That's an important distinction, John, because a lot of people talk about data as a service, they say, oh yeah. Data cloud. I'm going to monetize my data by giving it to the marketplace. And we all know that you could put a good data, you give that data to a good data scientist, they're going to re-engineer your customer real quick. That's people worry about the privacy. So, back down to the drivers for your business. What are the drivers for your business in EMEA? Yeah, certainly clouded option, which we've already talked about, is a huge growth market for us in EMEA. But there's other things happening locally in the EMEA marketplace. GDPR, general data protection regulations that are coming up. That is a hot topic on the lips of all our customers right now. And let me take a minute to describe what that means for people who maybe are not familiar with it, because it's generally an EU thing, but it affects every organization that wants to sell into the EU. And it came on the back of the Google Right to be forgotten ruling, where really what we've got to do is we've got to provide a framework where a customer can say to an organization, I want you to forget me. And obviously they need a central library, they've been able to manage it from a single point. That is an extremely complex thing for an organization to do. It's a particularly an enterprise organization. Forensics is what it is. Exactly. And if you think about how to approach that, I think Informatica is a unique position to help organizations deal with that type of issue. Because I know one of the announcements today, I think Ronan, who was on before me, was talking about Clare, our Clare buoyancy and our artificial intelligence, but it's all about that unification of metadata. That's a great example of how that, a good use case of where that can be deployed. Because if you think of the fragmentation of data that we've got across many clouds on premise, how do you understand even where all your customer data is? And that's what the unified metadata can provide. It can go out, collect all the metadata from all these different vendors, index it, catalog it for you. We've been in business 20 years. We know what customer data looks like. We know what product data looks like. We can categorize it and index it for you. And then you can search it. So you can identify where your risk is, where your customer data is that's at risk. You can do something about it. And now with the most recent acquisition that we made last year in terms of Diacu, which was a missing piece for me in terms of how do we expose that to business users to actually engage in the governance process. The new Diacu acquisition of Axon. Really fills that gap for us. And I think we've got a really good stack to help us with that. You've got product chops. We've talked about them in the past. The brand, this new brand is out there. You're seeing some branding, brand value. Good for the partners, good for business. So with that, I'll ask you my final question, which is what's different from last year? A lot has changed in 12 months. Just in a short 12 months, certainly in the product side, we saw some awesomeness in the products. Always had good product folks at Informatica World. Which is why I love doing this conference. But the brand challenges were there. What is Informatica? So what's different now from last year? The big highlights. Really, for me personally, and I've been here Informatica quite a long time, I think it's quite refreshing. We had quite a lot of change in terms of our C level in Informatica. That's really breathed new life into the organization from my own personal perspective. There's a huge refocus and a drive on our fantastic new product sets that we're releasing here today. And internally in the organization, there is a big motivation. There is a new kind of culture and new resurgence almost in terms of where we feel we're going to be in the next five years. Because we're looking at the product portfolio. We're looking at the outlook in terms of our growth and our strategy. And it's a great place to be right now. And sales always helps when you get good sales and everything. And I'm sure you've seen the figures, et cetera that we've been doing. But I can't see that changing. I think the market is changing. Amazon's stock price and sales and net income over the past year. And really inflection point was right at end of 08, being at 09. But really the real kick up on the hockey stick, which they have, has been around 2010, halfway through 2010. And then it's just pretty much straight up massive shift. This is a wave. Cloud is here. Yeah, and I think Sally Jenkins, our CMO earlier on this morning, I think she put it exactly right. Informatica, in my view, we've been a little bit too conservative in terms of shouting about how good we are. And I think we're pretty much one of the hottest pre-IPO companies that are out there right now. So if you look at our product set, the leader in six market segments, that's a great place to be. I'm excited about the future. And going private, we've talked to Neon. I've talked to all the top executives. It's just a great, close the curtain, open the doors back up again when you're ready. Easy to retool. Certainly as a private company, no pressure on the 90 day shot. Cock Jerry Held, board member, was talking about how that makes things go really smooth. That's right, yeah.  It's helped with the product development. It's helped with the commercial modeling as well. And it's an exciting place to be right now. It's always good for management to be focused on not with that window of every 90 days, which really is 60 days, because you've got 30 days to prep for the earnings call. But focusing on real product innovation, Michael Dell did it at Dell Technologies. Now EMC, a lot of great stuff. Greg, thanks for coming back on theCUBE and sharing your insights. And when we're in EMEA, we're going to come by and say hello. And certainly we'll keep in touch as we expand theCUBE out to in Europe. Look forward to it. Thanks so much. It's theCUBE live coverage. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE, with Peter Burris with Wikibon. We'll be back with more live coverage here in San Francisco at Informatica 2017. After this short break, stay with us.


This video is produced with support from the Government of Canada's social development partnerships program, Disability Component. The opinions and interpretations in this video are those of the creator, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada. Welcome to a Crash Course in Nells. This series is designed to give you the tools you need to produce accessible e-books, making them even more enjoyable for all readers. My name is Danny. I'm an accessibility tester with the National Network for Equitable Library Service. I was born blind, so I usually read books audibly or in braille. My name is Caden Farris. I don't have a slight impairment, so I can read print just fine. It's just reading print and understanding print are two very different things. Some publishers try to add accessibility to the end of their publication workflow. So they end up with an e-pub that's been produced by their third party producer, and they're ready to throw it up on Amazon. And just before they drop it into Kindle, they say, oh, let's add some accessibility. And it's a great idea. It's always good to think about accessibility no matter where that comes up in the team. But ideally, accessibility would be part of the building blocks of this e-pub, not tried to address at the end. So content creators are the best ones to describe their images. They're the ones that are creating them. They know what's important to the text. If they were describing these images, not only would it be much easier for publishers to produce an accessible copy of the book, but the descriptions are going to be a much higher caliber because they're the ones that are most familiar with the content they've created. The reason I believe publishers should be thinking about accessibility from the very beginning is it makes the book a lot more accessible in the long run, and it also makes it a lot easier. Instead of trying to do all that work just in one small time span, just two weeks before the book is published, having it done all the way through makes for a lot better book for everybody, and it doesn't make the workflow cramped. People who are setting up the book for print when they're designing their headings and when they're laying out the table of contents, they can be doing that in an accessible way. And readers know how many items there are in the list. And all these building blocks of an accessible publication can flow through the lifespan of this book's creation so that by the time that book ends up as an EPUB, it's already 95% or 98% accessible. We have a couple of final tweaks to do before it's cooked and sent out into the world to be distributed. So that, I think, is the most important piece is whoever you can involve in this to encourage accessibility and to build this accessible content, the better the finished product is going to be and the easier it's going to be for everyone. Making things accessible is not as hard as you think. It's generally just a swipe down a menu here or a very slight tweak to a table or to the way that your workflow is presented, but it doesn't take very much time, especially once you've gotten used to it. A lot of it can be done just from reviewing your own content in an e-reader. So if you're reading that book on a smartphone, you can actually turn on voiceover and explore it by using touch gestures or enabling a listen feature. And if you're hearing different headings being announced, list items being announced, if you're hearing tables being read with their headings for each column, if you have good navigation points within the text and within the chapter list in your reading app, chances are you've got a really accessible leap up. But if you're hearing it being read word by word, or you're hearing garbage when it's passing over an image, you've got some work to do. So a lot of the testing can be done right from your smartphone, loaded into an app, hit the listen button and see what you get. You're not going to discover all of it because you may not be as familiar with reading books audibly, but it can be a really good first step to determining how accessible your content is. When publishers are ready to start distributing their e-book, they want to make sure that the metadata has been included. So this is going to ensure that everyone who has access to this content is aware that it's going to be good for them. It's going to work well in their reading system. So that's really the final piece, is make sure that you've specified as much accessibility metadata as you can so that everyone knows how workable this book is going to be for them. There are organizations throughout Canada who have access to accessibility testers that specialize in different fields of accessibility. So the possibility exists to give your EPUB to one of these organizations to share it with an accessibility tester and say, hey, take this for a test drive, see how this works with your assistive technology so they can try reading it with their braille display or listening to it audibly or magnifying the text and changing the margins, adjusting the contrast. This can happen very quickly because they're familiar with the technology and they can give you recommendations of you've done a really good job with this reflowable EPUB but we want to see it in EPUB 3, for example. So these are quick tests that accessibility testers who are familiar with their technology can perform very quickly and give you some really targeted feedback to improve what you're producing. I do a lot of reading for pleasure and when I set a book in my reading system and hit play, I just want to enjoy reading a good book. And if it's poorly designed, if it's difficult to navigate, if it doesn't read properly, it really detracts sharply from the reading experience. This is something that was supposed to be enjoyable and it's jumping all over the place. I can't find where I left off reading before. It's pausing at all these different italicized words and it's not a good experience. It's not an enjoyable experience. I'm just going to move to a different book because this isn't at all what I had in mind. And it's so easy to produce accessible material. It's frustrating to me to see publishers go to all the work of producing an E-book that is ostensibly offered in text and thus should be completely accessible and yet that final touch wasn't done and so the book is still really difficult and frustrating to read. I think that having information accessible to all is just a genuine human right and I think that having books accessible is not something that's very hard to do and I think that it should have been done a long time ago. And with that, we come to the end of a crash course in E-book accessibility. We hope you feel empowered to unleash the full potential of E-Pub by producing your first born accessible books. And if you ever get stuck, you might just find the answer on accessiblepublishing.ca. Thanks so much for watching and let's continue to change the world one book at a time.


That run by the Pelicans to make it interesting. What did it take to close it out? Down to the last two minutes of the game. So we've got like, you know, Dome Dixon's 17-18 points. You have to get Antonio Santana and they just can't fight you. You know, even though the record doesn't show us they're a resilient team, a young team, very, very scrappy. And they've gone hard for four quarters, and they've just given it a victory. Finding ways to pull games like this out, what kind of a character builder is that for this group in the young season? Definitely a character builder, but you've got a good bit of job to finish your games, especially being up 20 points in a row. You've got to finish your game to where it's going to start and then you've got to come back in the game. There's the process, you know, we just continue to do all in all to come over to win. We move on for the last game, but up on the city for our last game of the week. And let's talk about the rhythm that you're getting into. You said after the Orlando game, you feel like you're getting your bounce back. 39 points, 12 assists to go with those five boards, guys. Yeah, just being aggressive, man. I think we've been to the basket. Just being aggressive, the ultimate aggressive, to get to the basket to take whatever the defense is giving me. And whatever happens, I think that happens, but, you know, I'm feeling more confident and more comfortable. I mean, I knew it was going to take me a little bit of time, but just got to keep going. I hope that I can have some consistency. One more game left in this road trip. Thanks so much for your time, James. Thanks, editor.


I am a social scientist and health systems researcher with the Chemriwelcom Trust Research Programme. My role in the health services that deliver for newborns has been in co-leading qualitative research aspects of the project for the last three years. Nurses are very important in the delivery of care for newborns. So our work was looking at the nursing culture in these hospitals, looking at what the barriers, the enablers are for actually being a nurse in a newborn unit and what that means in terms of service delivery. The methods that we used was initially inviting stakeholders and engaging them in understanding what the nursing issues are in the country. So these were mainly drawn from training institutions from the Ministry of Health and from the nursing council and we were also doing ethnographic work with frontline nurses to understand what the culture of nursing is in those public hospitals. The advantages of social science methods is that they provide a deep understanding of the phenomenon of interest. In our case, it provides a deep understanding of what it means to be a neonatal nurse. It provides a deep understanding of what the social context is within which the newborn nursing takes place. And particularly useful for this project is that it enabled us to understand whether some of the intangible things that you need to consider when you're coming up with a strategy to try and improve how care is provided, particularly in our case, task shifting strategy. The main methods that we used in this work was ethnographic methods. So we were embedded within these hospitals of an 18-month period and we were using long-form interviews with the nurses. So these are typically different from your usual question answer. We were really looking for narratives and stories from the nurses about what it means to work in those units. We spent a lot of time doing non-participant observations, more than 250 hours of observing night shifts, weekend shifts and day shifts. And because we were there for such a long time, we developed really close relationships with the nurses. That means we were able to talk with them informally and keep diaries of this. These were really innovative ways of trying to understand what it means to be a nurse in the newborn units. The newborn units themselves, I would say, they are small, very congested spaces in terms of they'll have anything from 40 to 80 babies. But what is more surprising is the ratio of nurses to babies. So you have one nurse to anything from 15 to 20 very sick babies, which makes it such quite a challenge for a nurse to work there. And most of the time, the nurses were actually unsupported to be able to provide that work. The mortality ratios were quite high, anything from 50% going upwards. And therefore, it means that they were quite emotional spaces, both for the researchers and for the nurses themselves. So some of the key findings that we saw unsurprisingly, nurses were completely overwhelmed. They had a very difficult job to do, but also interestingly, they came up with different ways of coping. I can think of three main ways that they came up with that really stood out from this work. So one of those things was a way of prioritizing tasks. So they had developed a hierarchy of doing those tasks that the more technical tasks were given more priority, sort of making sure the babies that making sure that the babies get their medicines, making sure that they get fluids. This was more prioritized more than the bedside care, which includes things like canceling mothers or took into a mother after they've lost a child that was given as much priority. Another thing that came from our work was that there was already informal task shifting that was happening in these words. So because the nurses are so stretched in terms of what to do, they were informally delegating to mothers, to students and to support staff. So some of the things they were delegating is like feeding the children, feeding the babies, cleaning of the babies and in some hospitals, mothers were actually tasked with weighing and keeping feeding charts in the various hospitals where we went to. And then lastly, the routines that nurses came up with included coming up with sort of a mental a lot of making sure that you get through some tasks so that at the end of the day, they're able to say, I was able to achieve this. So in each typical shift, they will make sure, for example, that medicines have been given, fluids have been given, ward runs have been done. And that was a way of them just getting through what is essentially a difficult job. I think the unique thing that this work has shown is that there is need to invest in the software strengthening of human resources. Because often what has happened is that a lot of focus has been on strengthening the hardware of human resources. So for example, thinking of how to increase the numbers of nurses within maybe a health system, how to increase training, but it's a little bit more about thinking about what does this training mean. So for example, if you're training more, if you're training nurses, are we preparing them for the practical and realistic conditions that they find on the ground where they don't have enough support and they don't have enough basic resources. Another potential solution is thinking about task shifting. So from our work, there was already informal and organic task shifting going on. So what lessons can we draw from that that can inform a more formal and strategized task shifting strategy where we can move some of the non-technical tasks away from nurses to enable them to actually do tasks that they have been trained for, and tasks that actually reinforce their professional identity, and then move the non-technical tasks to a lower harder, so more of the clerical jobs can go to a more informal harder with the nurses actually supervising and supporting that harder. I think from this work, there is potential to look at nurse resilience and how that can be maintained. So for example, from our work, despite all these challenges, nurses were showing up for work and they were still working with poor support and lack of enough drugs and basic equipment. So there was a passion, they had a passion for what they were doing. So how do we tap into that intrinsic motivation and maintain it so that there ought to be more research that looks into that. And then if we think about task shifting, we also have to think about, well, what are some of the regulatory and governance mechanisms that we need to think about when we introduce a new cadre? How do you start thinking about integrating it to the formal health systems? And understanding that those formal health systems are also complex as they are out with their own problems. So I see these two as ways of thinking ahead in terms of future research in this area.