Mate I don't know if this is such a good idea. I'm feeling all right mate.  I'm struggling. I'm not an athlete. No warm-up James is doing his now. I should be doing a bit of that. No warm-up first shot will be it in in about 30 seconds time And it's gonna be straight-up match play. I'll get we're gonna do nine holes So it's gonna be first I think we're gonna do five holes on my channel and then switch over to James Wilchers channel And hopefully we can get a bit of a game going and get it down the full nine holes. We shall see You're giving me a lot mate Not feeling too great That's my excuse anyway Can't swear on this channel. We're James Wilchers wearing already on the first tee PC mate Hang on we're getting stopped here buddy Have you paid your green fee? Oh God, it's giving it the power I'll leave this rolling Well then we are back on so I've just been told I get five shots on this nine. Is that right? I think I mentioned it last night very briefly. It's a rematch. Just don't forget our last game and it ended all square last one So it's Yeah, when it takes all right, I'm going through wood It's a tough course this West Cliffs a really good course played it yesterday. It's 8 a.m. In the morning. It's a bit breezy Let's see how we get on anyway. Yeah, this claim is everywhere. There's a lot wasn't it? Yeah, it's a good start I'm better than it's on this tee yesterday, which is a bonus I'm switched on me now. I'm in the I'm in the mode Super shot. Well done. I think we both it better than we did yesterday All right, so you got 107. Yep. What are you saying downwind if I'm on it? Do you want an excuse that trap? Yeah, you're a baby fader me Right, so James for birdie and I win if not I've got a bit of a Can you see me yet? They're very good. Yeah, the greens are spot on It's a really really top track. I'm not sure how this video will come out in order But I've also filmed yesterday and it's yeah, it's a top course, but very difficult Who wrote his bald? I'm too sure what to say about that when it was going at the old I thought it's gonna go up 10 foot past Make that railroaded in I'm on down Yeah, that's that was quite a bit short one. That's front right. Yeah, the winds got the cheeky one I look at this I'm not sure who shots artists to be fair Right, so James is well He's in good nick really because that's When I turn and look at where my ball is in a bit. I've just got a nightmare up and down again so I'm open. He doesn't stick this one too close to be honest The green them I'm out of fun gelation in it foot away that look like a really good putt and it just rolls on and on and on All right, this is not an easy shot. He's playing probably up about five foot Not got too much green to work with and He's downwind And the greens are fast if you haven't seen by those parts so far So the average golf Great shot mate. I'll give you that Right, I didn't see that one coming really James now was got to make a putt so Nice effort good stroke Right so back to all square like I said didn't see that one coming from when I first got to the green but I'll take that So we now got the hardest on the golf course This is stroke one and it's straight into win today I played this yesterday And I would say this is probably one of the hardest golf. Yeah Because there's no bailout from t-to-green is the reason I can't miss it left all right The whole way up. That was not water Yeah, I'm up high left. I don't you pick that up on that sort of sandy area It was terrible anyway, but terrible, but dry I think That's a positive That's a superb strike, but that wins got it. He's okay. Yeah Very good There's super strike, but the wind coming off that left-hand side just it's a one tough golf all that All right, so Andy's got some major problems here just in bounds somehow He's just stopped on this sandy area to stop the left side of the hole and So the hole goes Hang on a minute So the hole goes over the edge of that bunker and down Pretty much got floated the bounds to get this anywhere near the green But are you gonna do that or are you just gonna? No, I'm only I'm playing a seven I which is going to win here, but the idea is so really over that fence line Maybe that is a bit tight I'd say over the corner of the bunker left side of the bunker Not good either way sounded great. I think that should be really good. Yeah shot, mate. Yeah So James t-shirt was really good. The water is not of it. I keep I've said it enough times now It's a really tough golf ball, but it's a perfect t-shirt Yeah, it's for a reason in it. What have you got? Yeah, it's wrong at least It is like a two-club wait Even a six or seven actually try and release it up the green That's a lot of club I think it's six on if I can just shit this land it on the front Yeah In and off the left that's kind of the drink on the right. It was a really solid strike I was literally saying how good that shot was and the wind gets it. It's just gone That's move probably 25 30 yards in the air Yeah, and I haven't bothered getting a yard I'm gonna say it's about To that flag, yeah Again anything on the dance floor Yeah, you got a long long part from that green in the air again. I thought it was a decent shot I thought I played that well, but right, so I did say James had gone in the drink But he's actually it's held up there. He's well flag is there We're slightly along with that, but he's got tough old shot It's a downslope on the As soon as you land it on the green as well It's come back here. He's got pop this right up in the air. I think and open it land soft, but it's Yeah, I lost that one in the air. It was a great effort, right, okay, so great great piece of camera work Well, mate, you got a long long long and all the way up. It needs a fair old hoof. I think don't it? Yeah Playing a good free-foot up here Hello Great part. I'll give you that James having to make He's gonna have to make this put and like I said, it was a good five after the tee shot Look out look back down that fairway and just look how narrow it is I mentioned it's tough as all I Good effort. Good effort. I didn't play from this tee yesterday. It's a bit further back and it seems like a long carry Is it not as bad as it seems or they teed off? Well forward of this anyway. Yeah, I mean it's long enough. It's where you aiming you only up the fairway on the right Yeah, on the right. Yeah.  Just give him a little zoom in Yeah, it's just that little spot in the fairway See what the average golfer can do in average is he Good yeah It's probably a bit more to the left than I aim, but it's really that bunker. Well, you play too much Hey, it's like It makes me laugh because it's that was a good shot and it's like I don't know Yeah, that's how I play the game Right is I played them all last week, mate 34 points.  Yeah, I'm super shot It's right at the flag right at the flag. Oh Well played Super shot right the pin the right of the pin. All right, and he's got one for eight slightly up here Little pill, but it's downwind in it. Do you think? Yeah, I'm sure downwind off the right Probably playing about 140. I would say Have you got nine All right, maybe it might be a bit too much after that driving it is boosted Riga Like a bull striking machine now Yeah, but that is sure it's not a shot. It's nine on all day for you. Yeah getting too big for your boots Yeah, I know I need to calm down me and let's get back It's short, mate. Yeah, I was way short. I don't even a nine-ine. I think I'd have just got Is it a big drive? excited Comments down below has Andy turned into a Big dog Mate, I think every single pin around is tough Never seen greens like it Nice touch mate Right after an absolute awful putt from me that was pretty poor James what is any shots on this? That's my saving grace after that putt How's that pin position? I mean it just sits in a in a swale almost, don't they? Yeah, if you can get on it At least you got the pace, right good read. Well done. Well done. Good thought Right, so it's the last one on my channel. Is it? I'm on up, aren't I? 157 par 3 to finish and this green is mental. You'll see when we get up there It's if you can get on the putt and service. That's one thing, but Well, wait and see What a bull flight that is Where's that?  That was the best time of it in three days, mate. Wow. I Just thought it was going to come up short in that bunker, but it's carried it I left myself another nice uphill putt Yeah, we're sitting up high. There's a load of wind Chipping a five iron. Ah Stunning mate Sit down ball That could be too big is it? That's big, you know, is it? This is the green I was telling you about so It actually slopes off my putt is over there you can see the severe slope down Which is what my ball is fed off But I think for James, you've got I don't know you've got a bit of a backstop. I think you know I think I think it's a makeable shot if you can drop it in there It doesn't it doesn't run off the yesterday the flag was over there. It was just If you went past the old you were gone Well needs to be in there, don't it? Yeah It's just straight forward mate. Man of your caliber. Look at that backdrop again. Stunning, isn't it? West Cliffs are proper golf course, you know State That's that's done really well. It another thought and it was gone.  But yeah straightforward double breaker from ten four. That's great in it Seriously, I think that maybe maybe if the camera doesn't sort of show off this then you might think it's an exaggeration But I don't know we sit come here and have a go All day me well done super shot nice putt great up and down Right, so that's my bit finished great up and down there from James to keep it one up And it's been okay so far as a great part five coming up next switch over to James's channel So it's James Wiltshire Yeah, just James Wiltshire, that's it get over and watch part two and see how this one finishes up


Είμαι ο δόξος Δάλετς Συμπήδας και είμαι ο πόλης δοκτροφιστικός εργαστικός και νομιουργία για τη διεκαινότητα της πόλης της ΕΕΕΕ. Είναι ένα παραδείγμα για να παραστουθεί σε τη διεγραφία νασών και καμιωτική ψέλο. Είμαι στιγμή σήμερα, ένα τόπο, στις ιδέες θημουργικές για το πόλης της ΕΕΕΕ. Ωρανότητας υποστηματοπής με σκόλης και τρανότητα. Είμαι είχα πραγματικά να καταγώσουμε ένα δύο πρόβλημα. Ποια πρόβληση είναι η δοκιμάτι της πρόβλημαςσης για το κόλο Ιγκλονός και τη δύο χώρια της μεγάλοτης δεχαία σε αναβασμόνες τέρεις. το κόλο Ιγκλονός είναι ένα επίπεδο μεγαλύτερη σημαντικός κερίς. Εποτιθεί μετά 9 νέους ελλητούς στο Ιγκλονό που εκκλη cas θεωρήσει 1 & 6 άνθρωποι. Υπήρχαν Folge 9, δεν υπάρχει ένα πρόγραμμα οικονομιστικό. adopting a program. So, how is that being calculated? To date, the prevalence estimates of hearing loss in England are calculated using data from a study by Davis, who collected and analyzed audiological data in the 1980s. της υποσπαθείς της ανθρώπης της ελληνικής στην Ευκαιία, η Ευκαιρία Δευτείου είχε δυνατήρια πρόκειται. Πρώτα, η προσπαθείς των αγγώδων είναι διάφορες από ένα σαμπλ που έχειδεί σχετικόν 2,578 καθαρίες. Από τα εξασφαλή της ελληνικής προσπαθής της ελληνικής εξασφαλής ένας επαλήθεια της εξασφαλής της εξασφαλής ανακλείς του αγγώδου για ένα αγγώδο but participated in the study. For example, 18.9% of those 51 to 60 years old had hearing loss of over 25 decibel hearing level. Today, each clinical commissioning group who is responsible for an area in the UK uses the population demographics to estimate the number of people with hearing loss in their area. For example, the population demographics show that in 2015, in central Manchester, there were 40,000 people aged 51 to 60 years old. Therefore, according to the percentage of the daily study, it is estimated that 2,720 of them may have hearing loss. However, this audiological data was collected and analyzed in the 1980s, and this data's accuracy has not been validated in the last 40 years. But importantly, calculating the local hearing health needs through this audiological data, we assume that the percentage of those with hearing loss will remain the same no matter the place that people of the same age live. However, this does not reflect the reality because where people live plays an important role in their health as the location shapes several environmental risks. In David's study, the English samples were derived from only two cities, Notihum and Southampton. So the samples are very unlikely to be representative of the whole population of England. In other words, that study did not consider in its estimation the effects of place and socioeconomic factors, such as high occupational noise exposure, for manual occupations and differences in regions of England with strong and weak manufacturing industries. Where people live significantly affects their hearing outcomes. If they didn't and only age was responsible for the loss of hearing as we grow, we would expect that the prevalence of hearing loss in people of the same age would be the same no matter where they live. In order to test that assumption, I analyzed all the available hearing data in the English longitudinal study of aging or ELSA. Due to the sampling method, the participants in ELSA have similar mean age profiles over time as the study is a representative study of the English older population aged 50 years old and above. The number of people with a hearing loss increased by 10% over 15 years. However, the mean age of the people I analyzed stayed the same. You can easily look at the different colors that represent the differences in hearing loss prevalence derived from people that have similar age profiles in each region and in each year of collection. Over the same period, the samples had markedly different hearing outcomes in terms of where responded sleep and the increased rate of hearing loss ranged from 3.2% to 45% between regions of England. Remember that these representative samples were from people with similar age profiles. The results provided surprising evidence that the increasing trend in hearing loss prevalence was not age-related as widely believed but is potentially due to social and lifestyle changes. This is a significant milestone in hearing research and a breakthrough that gives us considerably insight into what is actually happening. A natural next step is also the PLACE project that I currently run as the primary investigator. This project provides a significant opportunity to validate the existing audiological data after nearly 40 years. The study utilized data from the seventh wave of the English longitudinal study of aging which contains objective hearing data for 8,529 participants aged 50 to 89 years old that gave consent to have their hearing acuity measured by a hunt hand audio measured screening device. The objectively identified hearing loss was defined as greater than 35 decibel hearing level at 3 kHz in the better hearing ear. Ames were to explore regional patterns and identify potential regional differences in the current prevalence estimates of hearing loss in England. The estimates of hearing acuity in regions of England for 2015 are shown in the slide. The four panels on the top show the estimates according to a hearing in a tool study by Davis who estimated the prevalence of the hearing loss for the four age groups respectively. You can see that the percentage of those with hearing loss remains the same no matter the place that the people of the same age leave. The four panels on the bottom of the figure show the estimates according to the English longitudinal study of aging. We can see that the hearing loss estimates are currently vastly underestimated in most regions of England, particularly for the age groups 51 to 60, 61 to 70 and 71 to 80 years old. The findings show clearly that the hearing loss prevalence is not related to the aging of the population as traditionally believed, but potentially to social and lifestyle changes and population differences across different regions in England. These findings have important implications for a health policy and planning for health services in England and globally that should be based on the actual needs of the populations and not on the age of the populations through projections. Now I will explain why a social spatial approach is crucial for planning sustainable models of hearing care. The unequal distribution of power, money and resources in society leads to social inequalities. As a result, some groups of people are more privileged than others which creates injustice and disadvantage that influences life experiences and health outcomes. I and my colleagues have proposed a novel theoretical framework that examines the mechanisms and explains the relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and hearing health over a lifetime. According to this model, hearing deterioration is a lifelong process and not an inevitable result of aging. Understanding this process is an essential step in addressing the global burden of hearing loss. The play study is the first that used big data to investigate on basis of geographical patterns of objectively identified hearing loss in a nationally representative sample of older adults and not only on age demographics. Future research that will generate epidemiological hearing data using large data sets is crucial needed to understand better the impact of socioeconomic inequalities and the personal characteristics of the hearing loss outcomes during the life course in order to improve diagnostic procedures harnessing what computational audiology has to offer. The topics of my presentation today were the figures of a hearing loss in England, findings of the place project, the power of big data in estimating patterns of hearing loss and why do socioeconomic position and lifestyle matters. I'm sure you will now have realized that applying computational audiology approaches might offer promising solutions to generate large-scale epidemiological inferences to improve populations here in health. Thank you very much for watching my presentation.


ॐ drummer' Briwan Universe good afternoon please sit town Gauri come I hope you all remember you're meeting with Gauri right gauri who addressed you before interview when I was grooming her personally for the interview and she was delivering talks also with you in other centres of as a matter of her practice तो रई कर भारक्त कर बश्यात के लियार ते कर बरस्नाः के ना ड़ेरा सम परकाहते है सरह कुई। फरिस की आँई वेख़्ा सकिट वीख़्े कि रवार्ग़े के आप रई लोगे है एक वग़्े है। एक तो समाल प्रसंथे थान कर थी के रवार ग़ाई ौf the first time she had got 186 and we had made a plan and me and Gowri made joined effort the Gowri not less than 200 ृ and she said yes sir that is the thing which will ensure the rank ृ So, I'm happy and I'm really proud of her that she has got 206 in the interview and she is finally IS with 47th rank ृAnd naturally you have a connect being attached with Chanakya ु आब और लग भाजा इसा किना जाने बी श़ासारुएक अंफार प्रशत्या साथने कषीग तुर्न्थ जए विगा कहाँ। । । । । ।। ।। । ।। । । । ।। । । । । । । । । । । । । इतृदिम बनुनapter आप कब पासाशालीटी वैन। ऐसे जान। अगर पीटाद़ा मार्फीं म्दिष्षणता, निश्ज्छा सर, अगरवाशा वेजी ईक तुर्भीसभाशा, निज्ज़ा सर आच मैंदेजा देरेगा कर्घाता, छे बगोन्ता, सच्यटम्यासि। मिश्रसर अंकसाद्या लगाव्याव्याष्टुछ़। सी और सहाठा। मुऽद्ऩी चुट्चित। शिठ्टा। क्या टौब लोगे में नईच्णाचाद। साहठा। अइंब आश्परलाजी ये जेड़ने। सहाच़ासि। हI was a very often a source of confidence and motivation for me. I remembered that before going for my interview,it was on the 12th of April, I spoke to him twice. A number of feelings one is going through, nerv natness is one of them. But talking to him always served as a source of confidence and relieved stress and gave you that kind of motivation that one should go and perform out there. Because he believed in me. टीक्टीटा टीक्टीटीटी को हुग । । । । । । । । । । । ।। । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । । औरने नहीं वहने दीगवाँ करगाचा करूकाची और धीखा कर्चा करकाचीके आपजागी के लिए लेँग हमादी उसोग मैं, तो ब्हता,calm everything that somebody else suggested may not be the wise thing to do for this exam. Okay. So the first thing I would like to share with you is that during this journey there were a lot of ups and downs for me, particularly in my first attempt I could not clear the preliminary exam. वाजा छ़ापची है, मेर्टे आप झे इसकोखात को वी एक में ख़िरती मैगा ज्यात् है. मैं्गोगा मैं आफ गादे रहुग प्लिए ज्यात् है. वो मैं वी ज़ुप आप गादाचा लेजा के लागा से लिची मैं, ब्र मिना और अगोगा ऎस प्रष्हित है। वहाँ कि बवहाँ लोगाँ लीक। में भी वोनागा लोगाँ वोनागाँ वोनागाँ tochा भी खेजा मुवाँ, ईवें उसी श्वरिजट तवाँ आण जत, and यो सब जाएजों एक चल 1890 और तो देखाँ थागय, भी ओ़क्डाट देवर नकबायाल जोर जोरोंगे लेगे एक ञादडीग कर दधादन और अवर वो जी तरजाडेश़ा कुई रचन्दों के आए वागद थ मुग कुई तभी अगदेवाよ, पर दूगदर तवाद और सचैताथनो, जोर के रहें, तो बहो कोगंो टलगने ल Because when you would have a setback or when you would find it hard to continue this journey of the exam, it will be that motivation that will keep you going. That drive within you, that result within you that will help you. that will help you. That is what helped me. Also, I did my graduation and post-graduation in economics. And I wanted to, I mean, I was fortunate enough to receive a good education and I wanted to use my education productively for the people around me. I had the chance to sit for placements both during my graduation and post-graduation but I did not wish to work at a company. Personally, I did not want that for myself. I wanted something that is more at the grassroots level, more real, more connected with the people, the kind of challenges and dynamism that I had seen my parents face in this job. I wish that I could also get that and use my education to kind of sail through it. So, one of my advice would be that do not be motivated to sit for this exam because of superficial reasons. Because the real motivation lies in your inner drive, what you want to do, ask yourself that. And there is a very real answer which if you can get, you will find yourself motivated even during the loads. That is what happened to me. So, my father used to say this phrase in Hindi, करना है, तो करना है. तो मुजे जो मन ता करने का, जो मेरे अंदर जाए ये जनुन ता, that is what kept me going during those low phases. And hopefully if you also find that motivation within you that is all within you, it should help you also. Okay, so after this, the next thing I would like to elaborate a bit about some pointers for the preparation, some important things that I feel you should definitely incorporate if you think that you would be okay doing those things. One is about the importance of current events which are given in the newspaper. I don't think I can ever emphasize enough the importance of reading the newspaper for this exam. Both, in fact for all three stages, preliminary mains and interview. So, I'll begin with the preliminary stage. If any of you would have either written the preliminary exam this year, it was on the 28th or would have gone through the paper, you would have seen that a lot of the questions are questions that cannot be solved by reading static books. And the kind of knowledge that the question requires for you to be able to answer it is found in newspapers and articles that come over a period of time. So, for example, maybe some of you will relate there was a question on the animal which does the waggle dance. Then there was a question about the flag code of India. There was a question about countries having satellite constellations of their own. So, all these questions have been mentioned in the newspapers in the past few months. So, it's important that you read it, not just rely on the compilations given monthly or weekly or six monthly, but read the newspaper and so that you're able to recall. For example, say an article has come in November last year brillances many months afterwards. So, it's important that for you to remember it, you note it down. Ideally, I mean, I did this, I maintained a register and I noted down facts or pieces of information that I thought are likely or can be asked in the preliminary exam. It is highly advisable you do that because static books will not give you the kind of answers, will not give you the kind of knowledge that is required to answer the questions. Secondly for means, a lot of your notes and answers if they are heavy in current affairs, you're able to add value to your answers using current affairs. So, your notes should be heavy in the newspaper content and your answers should also majorly comprise of them. That is how you will be able to score better. If they ask you a question, if you give static information, definition, advantages, disadvantages, whatever the question asks you, you will get normal marks, average marks. If you add examples from news, if you add schemes, government programs for the issue, occurrences, international relations, disaster management, if you have the recent examples, those are things that will add value and they will help you score better. So, both for prelims and means, newspaper form a major chunk of the preparation you put in content-wise and knowledge-wise. So, I'll give you an example. For example, last year in the GS3 paper, there was a question on climate change and Kyoto Protocol. So, anybody can write on climate change if you have studied basic preparation you have done. But if you would have been reading the newspaper, you would know that an IPCC report has come. It has stated that this much temperature increase has happened. You would read, for example, many disasters that are occurring in different parts of the world because of climate change. So, I remember writing that floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Europe and the US, more specific examples. All this happened last year. So, if you maintain a note of such examples from the newspaper, when the question comes, your answer will be very specific. So, imagine if somebody reads it, they will feel that, okay, this person knows about the topic. They are well read. They are aware about the happenings related to this topic. So, keep the syllabus in mind and when you read the newspaper, jot down the examples, keep going through the examples so that when you have to answer in the exam, you are able to put in a lot of those examples there and add value to your answer. Okay, the next important thing I would like to talk about is referring to past year questions. UPSC keeps on surprising you. Last year, the preliminary exam introduced a new pattern of questions in which you could not use the elimination technique. You had to know exactly which of the four matched the following or statements are correct, which are incorrect and only then you could answer. So, these kind of questions come and so as to be prepared as much as possible till before you enter the exam hall. That was my target. Till I reach the exam hall, I should do as much as I can prepare myself as much as I can so that I can give my best in there. So, when you will go through these papers, you will see the variety of questions that UPSC asks. The pattern, it keeps on evolving, it keeps on changing, they introduce new types of questions. So, it will prepare you for the diversity of questions that you are likely to face in the examination hall. Also, I realized this when I was going through past year question papers, particularly for prelims, I am talking, that a lot of the topics are UPSC favorites in the preliminary exam. I found some of those topics on my own, I had my own list that these topics are repeated every year or every second year. So, it is good to focus on them because if one or two MCQs are assured from that topic, if you study it well, you will have the benefit, the cost-benefit ratio will be in your favor. So, for example, Buddhism, Jainism was one such topic. I found that almost in every preliminary exam, one question or two questions came. So, it is worthwhile to Google it, to read different material on it, note down the terms, go through it 3-4 times. For example, Ramsar sites, very frequently asked. It was asked last year also, it's in the news. For example, minor minerals. I think, if you don't read it specifically, you will not be able to answer the question. So, it's worthwhile. When you go through the past year questions, you will see that some topics are very, very frequently repeated. So, it may come next time also. You can have specific sheets for it, jotting down your notes, go through it repeatedly. So, this should help you. For mains, past year questions helped me realize the depth and the expanse of which I should be studying topics because the main syllabus is very vast. There are 4 GS papers and you have to at some point know, you cannot study everything about all the topics mentioned. So, when you go through the past year question papers, you realize, okay, again, some topics are more frequently asked. What are the kind of questions that are asked? In how much depth am I required to answer those questions? How much do I need to study about a certain topic so that I can write a 3 page answer on it or a 2 page answer on it within the given time frame that I have. The nature of questions in the mains exam is rather indirect. So, the question won't be explicitly asking you, okay, what are the pros and cons of this? It makes you think. So, it was for me a skill to realize that this is the question, this is the material and I have to be able to fit my material, my knowledge into what the question is asking. There is this gap that you need to bridge and you need to answer what the question is asking very specifically. So, for example, in this year's GS2 paper, the last mains, they asked a lot of case laws. The very first question about environment problems and the constitution, they said, answer with the help of specific case laws. So, you know that now when you prepare for GS2, you need to focus on case laws. You need to have those examples ready with you. It is likely that it can come again. It's a new pattern to introduce last year but you have the advantage now. You know that it has come, it can come again. So, when you go through past year questions, it helps you realize how much and how you need to study. I also used to do this other thing that when I used to go through past year questions, say I have read my notes for GS2. So, I'll take the GS2 paper of last few years and then I'll read the question and I'll draft the answer in my mind. So, you don't have to write it down. That's time consuming. You draft your introduction. Then you think of, okay, what points can I write? What diagram? What map? What examples? What committee? What articles can I quote? What conclusion? In your mind, I used to just jot down not even the point, just one-one word. So, somebody else who would read it would not understand anything but to you, you've written five points. You can expand it into a three-pager there. So, this is practicing answer writing without actually physically writing. You can practice a variety of questions like this very quickly. So, it helps you think quickly and organize your thoughts. So that in the exam because it's very difficult to get time to think. In three hours, you have to answer 20 questions. You have seven minutes for a 10 marker and you have 11 minutes for long questions. In the beginning, you usually take more time. So, you're very short on time. So, you cannot see a question and be like, okay, should I write this or should I not write this? It has to be quick. Thinking and writing has to happen simultaneously. So, if you do this exercise, I did it and it helped me. You go through the questions and you draft the answer in your mind. Okay, so this was about past year questions. Then, the next thing I want to emphasize is the need for self-study. For me, it was the only and the one major thing I did. Personally, I felt that I did not require classroom guidance. So, I majorly devoted time to self-study but it's different for different people. If you feel you require that kind of confidence, then you should definitely seek mentorship or coaching of that sort. For me, self-study allowed me flexibility to set my own targets, make my own schedule. I knew my own weaknesses and strengths and I learnt during the course of my attempts, okay, I need to focus more here or not focus. So, major chunk used to go in that. If you come to the class for coaching, please go back and study. That is what's going to stick with you. Revise what was done in the class or do according to your own schedule but that is what is going to help you and do it as per your own plan. So, for me, my planning used to work in reverse. How it used to work is say, I kept five days for my optional first paper. My optional was economics. So, if I kept five days and there are five units, that means one unit a day. So, whatever may happen, that one unit a day has to happen. Whatever number of hours it takes, I never personally kept account. So, that is how it helped me. So, I knew that, okay, this day to this day to this paper, then this day to this day to this paper. Sometimes you can interchange. You don't feel like doing optional. You want to do constitution. So, you can change it but this should be fixed and you should plan and strategize your self-study. I used to take breaks every day while studying. The reason for that is that you need to sustain a certain level of effort you put in for a long time. Usually, even if people get in in the first attempt, it is one year of entirely devoted studies and that one year of the exam, prelims, mains and interview. So, usually minimum two years, you need to sustain a certain level of effort for which it is necessary that you have certain stress busters, certain ways to relieve yourself. So, for me, I used to go in the evening for a walk with my father almost on all days, particularly between the prelims and mains exam, that is a stressful time of about three months and you have a lot to cover. So, those walks used to help me kind of re-energize myself, revive myself for the session of studying at night. And I was never particularly of social media or of my phone deliberately but I think that it happens automatically a lot of it because when you have to put in so much effort and you have to cover the syllabus, every day you have your plan, you will automatically see yourselves withdrawing from things that take up your time. You will not even miss not doing these things because just there is so much to do at hand. So, if you are honest with yourself and disciplined and focused about what you want, I was and I did not require deliberate outside intervention of not using my phone.  So, know yourself if you feel that you cannot discipline yourself like that then no harm to ensure that you are putting in the required effort but focus is enough to maintain a balance between fun things and studies. I used to talk to my friends also very often share them with a bit how my day was maybe crib a little bit about how much and how much I had to do. So, all those things used to help me. I used to do all that every day but in a very regulated kind of way so that my preparation is not affected. Then some people have asked me in the past few days about the CSAT exam after I have not been through the recent one but from what I have heard is that it is increasingly becoming difficult and is becoming a challenge for a lot of the students. So, in my personal experience what happened was that I have studied in English medium and my bachelors and masters both were in economics which are quantitative skills heavy courses so you require mathematics. So, I felt that I have a certain base in the CSAT syllabus so I did not put in extra effort in that. However, to check whether I will be able to get the qualifying marks, 66 marks in my first attempt I had solved the past 5 or 6 years CSAT question papers and I did it in a simulated environment I timed myself for 2 hours and I solved and I was getting around 100 or 110 around that so then I realized that 66 is the cut off and if you are making that by a good margin then you do not you can completely focus on the first paper the GS paper so a good way for you to test if you need to put in extra effort for CSAT is by solving past your question papers simulate the actual exam environment and give them and see how much you are scoring in case you are not getting reasonable margin over the cut off it will be worthwhile to devote some time so get the study materials for CSAT and attempt it also this other thing I realized in CSAT was that there are 80 questions even if you do 40 questions with the reasonable accuracy rate you will get about 100 marks which is well above the cut off you are required to clear it is a qualifying paper so when I used to be doing CSAT I used to skip the questions in which the mathematical questions in which I felt that the solving would be long calculation would be long, the equation is complicated or if at the first go you feel that this question will take time I will have to write a lot I used to skip it because if you think about it you can skip every one out of two questions you can afford to skip that is not to say that if you know do not do it but so I used to not because CSAT also has time constraints it is difficult to do those 80 questions in the two hours so I used to skip those questions and then it is better to attempt the easier ones in those 80 and reach your target number of 40 45 I used to I think last year I attempted maybe 48 or 50 so so that is the other thing while attempting the paper because if you attempt similarly you will suffer by a negative mark the next thing I would like to speak about is the interview in which I had special guidance from sir that during the interview process some things I focused on particularly the DAF which is basically like the information in your CV current affairs and brushing up my optional which is also economic so it is relevant generally also so I thoroughly prepared these things DAF specially where you are born where you studied any question that can be remotely asked read upon it form opinions practice speaking practice talking so practicing on my own was a very major part of my interview preparation because I used to pose questions to myself from current news topic you know what is your opinion on this what is your opinion on that and you actually when you say it out loud you realize how you sound and what words sound like what how you come across as what you might think you sound like is different from what you actually sound like so I did a lot of self correction by practicing on my own I attended some mocks I attended mocks at Chanakya in my previous attempt and I attended one in this attempt as well that helps you kind of gain confidence because you actually face a panel of bureaucrats former bureaucrats so it was a good confidence booster for me and that kind of helped me at the interview stage the next thing that I would like to speak to you about is the choice of the optional subject because it is very important you have two papers and it makes a lot of difference to your marks so personally speaking for me there was never a doubt about the optional I was going to take I did both my graduation and post-graduation in economics and I liked studying the subject so I thought that I would be happy taking it as my optional and studying it again for the UPSC exam so I my parents although they had suggested that I look through some other optionals but I was pretty clear that I did not want to dive into something new at the point I had been studying the subject for a while and I liked it so I would say that when you want to decide your optional you should take into account some things of which the first thing would be your interest in the subject it may be that it is your graduation subject that is the subject you like it may not be the case but it is very important that you like studying it because you will be required to put in a lot of hours studying your optional so if it is a subject that you are not fond of then it will be very difficult to do that I really liked economics so I was very happy when I had to shift from GS to my optional preparation I liked doing that secondly please see the syllabus for whatever optionals you are considering see the books that are majorly recommended go through some of those books it will give you a good idea as to what exactly the optional paper consists of what the syllabus is of UPSC so that is another thing you can do if you want to decide your optional and I would advise because I did that please do not look at the scorability of an optional subject if you look at the people who score ranks year after year they are from a variety of optionals which tells you that whatever subject you may have chosen if you prepare well, if you give your paper well you will have chances of success so scorability is not the correct criteria in selecting your optional subject it was not for me it was my base, my knowledge and my interest in the subject and that is what my advice would be to all of you lastly I would like to say that it is a it is a difficult and challenging process and I always stayed true to myself during my preparation journey I never try to comfort myself in a fake way if I was not meeting my targets I knew it I analyzed my weaknesses yes whenever there were failures in the first attempt it was emotionally a setback for me so there were days I was very bogged down by this failure I had faced but eventually you come out of it when you remember your drive the reason you want to give this exam that happened to me and then it is course correction this is what I should have studied more I need to pay more attention to this I need to correct myself I need to change my strategy these are the questions I answered in my attempt thereafter staying true to myself helped me do this course correction you are the best person to judge where you need to work hard and do not be afraid of hard work it I think it is a necessity you need to put in the kind of hard work because the syllabus is so vast it is such a long process be focused throughout so those are some of the things I think that helped me and hopefully some of this will help you too don't forget to like share and subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon to never miss an update


What I really love about being in a rowing boat is how close you are to the water. It was the very thing I thought I would fear the first time I did it. You know, being that exposed to spray and waves, potentially being sloshed or washed overboard. But I loved it because the oars were like extensions of my arms. I could feel the texture of the water. The moments of pure joy come when you're in sync, when you're rowing in the rhythm of the ocean. When your body is in this mechanical ballet with your boat, with the ocean. I love a good storm, I'll admit that. When the wind is howling and the waves are animated, there is so much energy in the atmosphere. It's a charged environment. When you get away from land, it goes very quickly from green to all sorts of incredible blues. And in fact, in the middle of an ocean, the blue is just dazzling. The sunlight continues way down because of the clarity of the water and splinters in a million ways. The first thing when you get near a continental shelf is you start to smell seafood. Like the best smell of seafood, like lobster bisque type of smell. And then as you get nearer, then you get land itself. And the smell of land is basically like someone watered a fresh garden in summer. Wow, it's so good. Of course I have moments of fear. I think rowing an ocean brings those to the surface a lot more than any other ocean or sea voyage.  You're vulnerable, you have no means of propulsion other than what you can generate through your own body. Even the concept of that is sort of terrifying before you even leave. The reality once you get going is that you wake up, you go through this routine and each day goes by and it's in this way. I am lonely at sea only when everything is going just right. When there is a 60 foot whale that takes a breath right next to your boat, like three feet away and it makes you gasp. And you wish you could turn around and that there will be another person in your boat so that you could say, did you see that? So really loneliness in my opinion is the lack of being able to share a moment, lack of shared experience. What is success? What are my definitions of success for rowing a Pacific? Firstly I'd say getting to the point of departure, getting to Japan and leaving. So let's call that trying, giving it a go. And the second thing I would say is giving it a go in the best possible way but also coming back alive. That has to be high up there. And then the third thing is learning. I mean all of these things I've been exposed to, these wearable technologies, these amazing people. The fourth thing is inspiring children, girls in particular. It has to be meaningful and not just to me. I want to be the first woman to achieve this extraordinary feat. But that's less of the driving force than it is to see if it's even possible for a woman and for that woman.


Okay, hello, my name is Steve Snead and I am an acting teacher I'm located at Southlake High School in Seattle, Washington If you saw the first Video, you know that I talked about warming up and that's a lot of preparation as well for presentation of any material so today we're going to talk about presentation and I've got a couple pieces. I'm going to present to you and And I'm going to talk I'm going to use the skills and drills that we were referring to in the earlier video Okay, so I'm going to present the poem. It's a piece written by James Lollie a good friend of mine I went to college with and it's from a musical we did a while ago called Street life, but I will read it and demonstrate some of the things that You should be concerned with as you're presenting or reading or reciting Or a monologue all of those things. Okay All right It shouldn't be like this it just ain't fair That some reach the stars and I can go nowhere I'm just as able as anyone else. Why must my capabilities be put on a shelf? It shouldn't be like this. They just ain't right that before you listen. I got the fuss and fight I Want to reach some goals things. I've never tried Why must all my dreams be tossed aside? We all have dreams. We want to reach the sky all God's children got wings. Why won't you let me fly? It shouldn't be like this It's just all wrong That some seem to fit and I don't belong. Why can't I live? Why can't I be me? When will you understand?  That's why I selected it and it can be done as an individual or you can do it with groups The way I do it with my class is I have each class members say a portion of it But I'm gonna play around with some lines to help you listen because acting is listening and observing as much as it is Presenting and talking. It's just as much. Okay It shouldn't be like this it shouldn't be like this it shouldn't be like this Okay, did you hear the different phrasing? Let's take another line another thing about that is Directors like it when they can give you a direction and you change a lot of times in auditions. You'll see that happen right the Person auditioning you will say I like that now Read it with less anger and The testing you to see if you can actually take that direction and make that change it shouldn't be like this It's just All wrong It should be like this It's just all wrong Shouldn't be like this. It's just all wrong But that I'm demonstrating I make myself laugh, but I'm just demonstrating The way in which you can read a line and present it differently So I want you to listen really listen to that because it's hard to do we get focused on how we say something so again look in the mirror say it and then See if you believe yourself Okay, now I'm gonna do this other piece this one. I've got memorized And this is actually written by a Rico Bimbri for a play called peer pressure that we did years ago Peace is called. Let's make a statement Let's make a statement about drugs and crime all the things on our mind Brother sister dies before their time killed by the violence and the crime Let's make a statement about the dropout rate the schools and our fate Let's make a plan make a plan to have a better land before it's much too late Let's make a statement about the boy that you just met and having babies when you're not educated to support it Let's make a statement about drugs and crime all the things on our mind a brother and sister dies before their time killed by the violence and the crime Let's make a statement about going high getting high your friends know but you try to lie Why deny get straight you dream a dope pie in the sky the only truth is that you soon die Let's make a statement. Let's make a statement. Let's make a statement okay, so those are two pieces and You can try to capture the lines if you'd like or you can have your own piece But the next video we'll do we'll talk about Preparing for your own okay Steve Snead acting instructor at South Lake High School shout out for them Seattle, Washington. Thank you


Welcome back. We are here at the Splunk 2012 user conference, the third annual worldwide user conference. I'm Jeff Frick with siliconangle.tv. I'm here with my partner Jeff Kelly from wikibond.org, the preeminent big data analyst. I kind of keep coming up with new, new, new adjectives. We've, we've been here all day. This has been a great show. You're in the cube and the cube is giving you the full day coverage wall-to-wall of what's going on here at the Splunk show. We've had a number of executives, customers, partners and we'll continue for wrapping up today. It's our last segment I believe, Jeff. And then we will be back all day tomorrow. So we invite you to participate. We're glad you're along. The theme for the show is data journey. So participate using hashtag data journey. And with that, let me kick it over to Jeff Kelly. Thanks so much. Of course, we saved the best for last. Cube alum, Ron Valken, CEO, founder of Think Big Analytics. Been on a number of times with us. Great to have you back. Jeff, always a pleasure to be here. So tell us a little bit about what's going on here at the show, what you're doing here. Maybe just for our new viewers who haven't seen you on the cube. Tell us a little bit about what you guys do, a professional services firm in the big data space. Absolutely. So Think Big Analytics, we're a professional services firm that's purpose built for big data. We started the company about two and a half years ago with a real exclusive focus on helping the enterprise take advantage of all these new disruptive data capabilities that big data and big analytics data science can create. And so we're here because we're always excited about new technologies and this fast moving space. It's important to be aware of what's going on and we're watching Splunk closely. Yeah, I mean, you're in a position as a service provider and see a lot of the different players in the market from a technology perspective. What's your take on Splunk and kind of maybe the uptick in adoption you might be seeing or what's your take out there in the field in terms of how Splunk's being used? Absolutely. So we definitely see Splunk as building on a heritage of machine data and search to really tackle some new use cases integrating with big data technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL. So what we're seeing, for example, we have a large credit card customer that is using Splunk to do operations on big Hadoop cluster to help them get their arm around events that are going on the cluster to troubleshoot and diagnose things more quickly. So that's an example. We see also people are using Splunk to pull data into Hadoop clusters to feed data into Hadoop. And we also see Splunk going after the larger opportunity for being a kind of platform for streaming real-time big data. We think that that's still white space. Hadoop is very established and effective as a workforce, a batch analysis and data science platform. But that was you get into streaming real-time that there's a number of approaches and Splunk is really putting a lot of energy into being an effective platform there. Yeah, that's interesting because we're seeing a lot more activity in the streaming big data. We saw a notable kind of change direction a little bit there focusing on that. And obviously Twitter's open source storm platform is obviously another option. So that's kind of the white whale of the big data play. It makes sense of this data that's coming in in real-time so that you can do it fast enough so you don't lose the customer or that you can improve the process or catch the bad guy. Yeah, definitely streaming big data is a hot topic and to an additional Splunk you've got technologies like Storm that are out there. What we think is interesting too though is a lot of times there's a real blend that you want to do deep analytics, you want to be able to load all the data into for example Hadoop and do data mining analysis, detect patterns and build models and then you push out to do near real-time response. The most traditional way to do that in a big data space is to have a no-sequel database that holds all those models and you do differential updates to it as events come in. But what we're seeing is that as customers are starting to do more complicated patterns and flows of data in those real-time environments, they want to have a scalable infrastructure for managing all those data pipelines the way it runs that they want to have a fabric for the logic as well as a scale-out platform for the data. And that's where we're seeing the interest for more advanced users around these streaming big-time data platforms. So these customers are they are they reacting in fear that they've got to get a handle on what's going on and this is really a new investment in new technology that they want to expand or is it more you know just a better ROI more of a shift in technology and really more of a cost savings driver that's driving these kind of purchase decisions. Well I think I think that there's of course an important other motivation besides fear and cost savings which is opportunity to create new value right. So we were working with a media giant that's very excited about personalization and building intimate relationships with their customers. We're working with one of the largest retailers looking to drive very close you know improvements in how they put products in locations and work with customers and build intimacy. We're also working with companies large credit card companies that are doing things like targeting offers effectively to those consumers so they can be more accurate in the way they respond. So you know there's a range of companies that are driving personalization driving intimacy creating new businesses on top of big data as well as cost cutting and as well as you know fear is the flip side which is if you're late in some of those requirements to create value then you may have to respond and it won't be on your own terms. Instead of you defining the terms of how is the market shifting someone else will do it. We definitely see that there's an element of that starting to happen that when you look at the pioneers of big data the companies like my old company Quantcast or Google or Facebook or LinkedIn, eBay that they are often creating new offerings and products and forcing incumbents in industries to respond. If you look at the media industry the challenge of the old guard that haven't been intimate with their customers is they're being intermediated right they're finding that they're no longer allowed to have a direct relationship with their customer they're being relegated to being a content provider to someone else who owns their customer right they're not being put out of business but lack of facility to work with data and to build intimacy with customers is putting them in a very disadvantageous position. So we see enterprises waking up to the importance of investing in big data so they can create strategic value now instead of waiting for two years when they're under the gun to respond to an unpleasant change in their industry. And you know as a service is from how are you helping that transition when you go into clients I mean you must see a mix of both startups that maybe kind of get that right away and maybe older more traditional firms that maybe need a little more goading what's the kind of strategy in terms of helping people make that make that connection that hey we've got to be proactive here we can't wait you know wait the two years because then it's too late we couldn't pass by. Sure you know definitely we see we do a lot of work in the enterprise and one of the things we do is we have a envisioning services something we call a brainstorm where we come in and we help customers really think through what are the ways that they can create differentiated value out of their data what are the new ways of working with data what are the use cases that value add that apply to them in their industry and let them really drive meaningful changes to their business so that that becomes a foundation that co-creation of ideas that drives into an execution program that's nimble with quick releases of value that drives them to transform and creates that value and learning in the market for how to really differentiate and be part of the companies that are succeeding on big data. So that's our general engagement approach we think a lot of times the challenge for the enterprise is recognizing that this is a different game that it's not a case of applying the playbook from last decade and and going out and finding commodity providers with low skills that you can ship a spec and have them build something that this isn't about implementing a package that's a commodity it's about creating something new and differentiated that works for you it's about your data and analyzing it flexibly and that's different than anyone else's and it's about turning the equation backwards so instead of the old IT mantra was how quickly can we summarize and get rid of data and the new mantra they get is how much data can i use to be smart and create value right so that's you know how we engage the enterprise and when we engage with small nimble firms startups that are typically no longer startups but growing it's because they just want best in class expertise that we've got brilliant engineers and data scientists who can provide acceleration and thought leadership in their programs and they recognize that they have that what's most scarce for them is time and that they can't afford to do it wrong or make mistakes can you can you speak specifically to to maybe a fast-wind um say customer intimacy engagement that you know you got a big enterprise they want to get closer they're they're afraid of the disintermediation and you've come in you've done your brainstorm you know what are some of the kind of quick wins that you can demonstrate to them kind of the aha moment to the guy that's down at mahogany row that doesn't really buy it yet until you come in and show them sure i mean a lot of times we will come in and we'll help customers put some of their data about customers together so their customers 360 customer view and we've done things like helped provide immediate insight into what marketing and advertising channels were more or less effective to allow for decisions to drive better results that then led to investment and how to start to organize new data sets to start to build personalization programs to reach out to those customers so those are examples of how you can quickly get in and start to get the data together get some basic analysis and insight and go from that to more proactive model built excellent so you know one of the issues we've kind of seen over the last few years is that people sometimes get hung up on the technology and of course this is a you know a this is a big no-no you don't want to just invest in the technology because oh everyone's talking about that you think it might help you someday and and you invest and you've got no use cases you're talking about kind of quick wins how is that conversation changed with you with your your clients and people you see in the industry is are you going into there have been any trends as as you go into new engagements in terms of their understanding of what big data is you know big data does not necessarily equal Hadoop it can mean a lot of different things and how's that perception changed that you've seen well i'd say that there's definitely over the last two and a half years we've seen there's a lot more information out there but there's also a lot more misinformation out there right there's a lot of not at wikibon.org we're still playing all night not here but the other other outlets you know what you see is a lot of times customers well they've they've read a lot and they're they're thinking about the problem but they can be just paralyzed because there's so many options right and so one of the big things that we do is we help get a customer off the dime and say you know this is how you can get started and we know a way to build this successfully it's going to work so instead of we still often see companies that are stuck in an endless cycle of proof of concept where they're trying out all the different technologies and not creating any value and we want to guide customers to get started small pilot something and then build on that success so keep rolling out incremental releases and generate value yeah that's interesting because it kind of we were talking a lot today we actually heard two or three times talking about DevOps and the kind of the the ability to kind of connect development with operations to quickly iterate and kind of release you know new applications and new use cases quickly and that seems to be a real theme and a real important aspect of what makes big data so different than the way we used to do we used to think of data management with a very structured you know a set in stone data model and an enterprise data warehouse and if you hadn't changed a data source data source add one or take one away you've got to you know change the whole model and you've got a whole big project underway and that's really changing with this idea of big data do you think people are getting that are you still to have to convince people about this kind of new way of doing things well Demi I agree that it's it's very important point about big data that it's agile data we started saying look we think there's really four v's in big data you know everyone says volume variety and velocity and that's true but the actually the most important v is value your ability to get quickly value out of your data so and how was that it's because you can be agile and working the data and instead of committing up front to here's how we're going to organize the data and we'll get everything structured the classic enterprise data warehouses well we'll build a model that describes every question we'd ever want to answer and then once we've built it then we'll have a perfect system except that we'll never get there and this business will have changed and it will be we won't let too many people access it because it's too costly right those were the little drawbacks and the theory of the enterprise data warehouse so the big data approach of let's get in there let's put the data in a raw form and let smart people start to make sense of it and answer questions and we'll invest in what's working when we've proven there's value in a way of organizing structure and data we'll structure right so you don't in a big data system you don't dump everything in raw bits and have no structure but you structure things once it's been proven to be value so that's a big shift I'm sorry I didn't mean to interrupt have you seen a change in kind of the sponsors the titles and the role of the sponsors of your engagements and has it kind of shifted out of kind of the business the pure business analytics or the where the data center type of folks into more of the business people and you know are we going to see you know chief big data officer here before too long well you know definitely we see an increased partnership between business and technology so whether it be a marketing group whether it be product or engineering and a technology firm whether it be risk management but you'll see the business partnering with the technology team the IT team and in fact we think that's good I get worried when you create a separate group that's neither the business or the technology side as to whether they have the alignment and sponsorship but it is important to have those close partnerships because this is about creating a technical capability it's really about being scientific and changing the way you operate your business it's making fundamental automated decisions based on data that's a big shift from how business has been done and it takes that partnership that you need the business to really understand the metrics and understand where the value can be created and you need the technologists to implement it and make it successful hopefully with best in class support and then ultimately deliver it to the line guys who don't fit either of those models but are executing a lot of the little decisions in the day-to-day work too yeah I mean we see that increasingly you want to automate the routine decisions and let people the line workers deal with the exceptions that can't easily be automated so their work actually gets more interesting but it also it's a lot more efficient than having to deal with everything on a manual basis so we've talked about security use cases a lot today what are you seeing out there in terms of applying big data to catch the bad guys so to speak we talked with a few people today about that very topic and I think it's getting a lot more play these days with some high-profile data breaches what role can big data play in kind of securing your infrastructure but other maybe even other parts of your business well definitely big data provides you a lot of capacity and capability to work with information to find patterns to go back and mine historical data when you see in a pattern and see what your exposure was to correlate different data streams and to even starting to bring in unexpected data sets like can you do text mining for news to find people that might have a motivation now to break the law because they've just been convicted or gone bankrupt or there's a variety of these kind of use cases where you might use interesting other data sets that you weren't traditionally thinking about to intersect and start to get some insight into your problem what external data sets what partners data can you source and take advantage of in order to be effective in security so we've worked with a number of large enterprises that have interesting data sets in the space that are looking at how do they build more effective security including for example predictive models to be able to find malicious botnets before they're unleashed on the world right that's the key right before it does the damage or quickly they're out there I mean you want to be able to predict it before it happens but it's also often the case that as something is developing being able to characterize it and respond quickly can make a big difference all right well we're time for one more question so why don't you tell us a little bit about what you guys are doing in the coming six months year what are your priorities because I think I like to ask all our guests that that really helps us understand kind of where this market's going what are your priorities to think big analytics and what are you guys really jazzed about so you know think big we continue to be super excited about how the enterprise can take advantage of big data and create value and we see that really maturing in this next six months as we as companies are really starting to go beyond proofs the concept and invest in putting together the infrastructure in order to not only nimbly create applications but start to do data science and and create advanced analytics on top so we're seeing this maturation the enterprises tried some of the toe dipping and realized what is it really going to take to succeed here and we're seeing a lot of excitement going into the fall and next year for really taking advantage of big data to create unique business value and connect with customers and so how to out of potential customers link up with you guys so definitely we always welcome hearing from customers on our website thinkbiganalytics.com follow us on twitter I'm Ron Bodkin at Ron Bodkin on twitter would love to hear from you and certainly appreciate the opportunity to be here today all right great yeah if you're you're thinking about starting a big data practice definitely look these guys up think big analytics doing some really interesting work Ron thanks so much for being here again we appreciate it we'll see you again soon I'm sure on the queue thank you and Jeff I think that about wraps it up for today you're watching The Cube so look at Angle's premiere video production we're here live at .com 2012 Splunk's End User Conference third annual here at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas we've had a long but very interesting day with a lot of great guests we're gonna be back tomorrow morning around 10 a.m. for another complete day of coverage any final thoughts you wanted to want to share with the audience Jeff that was fantastic it's just great to have a service provider on who is kind of sits above the technology stack helps customers kind of sort their way through where do I go what are my options where do I start how do I deliver by I think your fourth V on big data is incredibly insightful and something that should be more widely adopted by more people because it is ultimately about the value it is what is this worth to me well thank you we definitely think there's a need for this new breed of integrator that's specialized in big data and we're excited to be there yeah I think that's you're in a great spot and really a great way to close out our day Jeff so I'm glad you saved the best for last although don't tell tell Eric and Rob that we will keep that to ourselves so thanks so much thanks for being with us today we had a great time we'll be here back here tomorrow morning as I mentioned 10 a.m. please join us then you can follow us the cube hashtag of course and data journey hashtag is the hashtag here for the Splunk conference but we'll see you here tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Pacific at silkenangle.tv the cube


Shalom my friends, welcome to this important conversation with me. Most likely you have had at least one encounter with someone who has tried to influence you to embrace the Christian faith. It may have been a Christian friend, a neighbor or business associate, or maybe someone approached you from a missionary group like Jews for Jesus. You may have received an unsolicited email advancing missionary arguments or heard an invitation to get saved from a television evangelist while channel surfing. Jews for Judaism, the world's leading counter-missionary organization, has prepared this video to help you understand the tactics and respond to the claims of missionaries who challenge your Jewish faith. Who is behind Jews for Jesus? Most Christian denominations including Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches and most mainline Protestant groups such as the United Church no longer have programs to convert Jews. On the other hand, evangelical Protestants who constitute over 25% of the American population devoted a tremendous amount of money and energy to promote their faith among Jews. These evangelicals fund over 1,000 different ministries worldwide that especially target the Jewish community for conversion. Jews for Jesus is one of the largest and best known of these groups. Why do evangelical Christians seek to convert Jews? Evangelicals assert that the only way to have a relationship with God is by embracing Jesus.  But isn't it true that evangelical Christians are very supportive of Israel? Yes, many evangelicals are lending important political and financial support to the state of Israel. However, most of them also engage in or support efforts to convert Jews to Christianity. Are these missionary groups really a serious threat? Unfortunately, these groups have become increasingly successful. Over the past 40 years, more than 350,000 Jews worldwide have been converted and the numbers continue to grow. Why are these missionaries so successful? There are two significant factors why they succeed at getting Jews to accept Jesus. The first reason is the increasing vulnerability of Jews due to a lack of solid Jewish education and meaningful Jewish spiritual experiences. The second is the missionaries' development of a cunning marketing strategy designed to overcome resistance to conversion and feeling of guilt by promoting their deceptive message. It's Jewish to believe in Jesus. Some of their tactics include mimicking Jewish holidays and rituals. For example, missionaries may wear scalp caps and prayer shawls, like Shabbos candles at their religious services, and celebrate Hanukkah, Passover and Rosh Hashanah. They distort the meanings of these practices, claiming, for example, that the three Matsot at the Passover Seder symbolize the Christian trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Or, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In addition, they frequently use misleading euphemisms, such as rabbi instead of in place of pastor, become a completed Jew instead of convert to Christianity, mikvah service for baptism, and synagogue instead of church. Jews for Jesus in similar groups claim to be Jews who have come to believe in Jesus. Actually, many members of groups like Jews for Jesus and even their leadership are Gentiles. They are not and have never been Jews. These missionaries claim that the most Jewish thing a Jew can do is to believe in Jesus, and the Jews can retain their Jewish identity even after becoming Christians. Being Jewish is not just a matter of lineage, but it glues being a part of a community of faith. Therefore, people who are not born Jews can become Jews by embracing the spiritual path of Judaism. However, Jews who convert to another religion voluntarily cut themselves off from the Jewish faith community. That Jesus and his followers were Jews does not automatically confer Jewish legitimacy to their movement. The worshipers of the golden calf in the desert were also Jews, but being Jewish did not make them right. There was nothing Jewish about their idol worship. As soon as the followers of Jesus changed the Jewish concept of Messiah from a human redeemer who leads the world to a utopian age into a divine Savior who dies to atone for the sins of the world, they began transforming their faith into a different religion. This critical change led to the development of a comprehensive theology that dramatically veered from its Jewish roots and was eventually formalized with the canonization of a set of scriptures vastly different from Judaism's Bible. Regardless of their superficial attempts to appear Jewish, Jews for Jesus is an oxymoron, in a theological contradiction. Putting on skull caps or sprinkling their conversations with Hebrew or Yiddish expressions does not change the fact that they are following a religion that is not Jewish.  Even if he continues to eat vegetables, his diet can no longer be considered vegetarian. Since they clearly identify themselves as Jews for Jesus, they deny being deceptive. This claim itself is not true as many of their missionaries are not Jews. In addition, they are often not totally upfront about their beliefs. While focusing on the claim that Jesus was the Messiah, their actual belief is that Jesus was God incarnate, the second person of the Christian trinity. Although Jews for Jesus reject the validity of rabbinic teachings, they use many practices instituted by these very same rabbis in their evangelistic presentations. Their primary deception is promoting Christianity as Jewish, and because of these tactics, many Christian groups condemn them. The Long Island Council of Churches accused Jews for Jesus of engaging in sub-refuge and dishonesty of mixing religious symbols in ways that distort the essential meaning. What are the Jewish answers to the challenges of these missionaries? Question one that the missionary would ask you, why don't you believe in Jesus? My answer, your answer, although Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, he died without fulfilling any of the biblical criteria that defined the Messiah. The essential concept of the Messiah is of a wise and righteous king who will reign over restored Jewish homeland and bring about a utopian world of universal peace and universal knowledge of God. In light of Jesus' failure to fulfill these and numerous other prophecies, early Christianity proposed that Jesus would return in the future and bring about a redeemed world. Aside from the fact that this claim could be made for any failed Messiah, this concept simply does not appear anywhere in the Jewish Bible. Furthermore, the Jewish belief in God as absolutely one and non-carporial makes it impossible to accept the Christian belief that Jesus was God incarnate. The Torah warns us against worshipping a concept of God that our ancestors did not know and our ancestors had no concept of a Trinitarian deity. Question two, a missionary would ask you, did you know that the Jewish Bible contains many passages proving that Jesus was the Messiah? Your answer, my answer, this claim is baseless. Christians believe in Jesus as a matter of faith, but there is nothing in the Torah that can be used to prove this belief. Many Christians scholars acknowledge this fact. Some of the proof texts used by the missionaries are based upon mistranslations. For example, their claim that the Jewish scriptures contain a reference to the Messiah being born of a virgin has been repudiated by almost all modern Christian translations of the Bible. Most missionary proof texts are quoted out of context and are based upon a circular reasoning. Christian missionary Walter Riggins states in his 1995 book entitled, Joshua Ben David, let me repeat this point he says, there is no self-evident blueprint in the Hebrew Bible which can be said to ambiguously point to Jesus. Some proofs cited by missionaries are actually based upon texts that are totally fabricated. Another question the missionary would ask, but didn't Jesus perform miracles and don't many Christians experience miracles today? My answer, your answer, the Jewish Bible never teaches we will be able to identify the Messiah by the miracles he will do. The reason is that even false prophets may have the ability to perform miracles. Even the Christian scriptures acknowledge that false messiahs can perform supernatural miracles. Miracles cannot prove that a particular religion is true because people of all religious faith experience miracles. This is also true of a subjective feelings of joy and spiritual fulfillment. No religion has a monopoly on these either. Furthermore, Jews do not necessarily accept all of the stories in the Christian scriptures as historically true. Interestingly, even Jews for Jesus publications maintain that many claims of the miraculous by contemporary Christians are highly questionable. Question four you might be asked, how would you get forgiven for your sins today without temple sacrifices? Our answer, it is an error to think that animal sacrifices were the essential way of dealing with our personal failures. None of the biblical prophets thought that animal sacrifices were indispensable in order to be forgiven for our sins. As a matter of fact, the prophets constantly berated people who mistakenly thought that sacrifices in and of themselves can attain forgiveness. The Bible clearly teaches us that the only way of atoning for sin is through repentance. In Hebrew, T'Shuvah, a process of transforming that includes acknowledging our wrongdoing and confessing to God, feeling regret, making restitution if we harmed someone, resolving to improve our behavior and returning to God and praying for forgiveness. The sin offering in the Bible was only mandated for unintentional sins and only when the temple was standing in Jerusalem. Someone who was too poor to offer an animal could bring fine flour to the temple. The sin offering was supposed to be an outward symbol of the person's inner change. It didn't secure forgiveness by itself. Today, in the absence of the temple, we reconnect with God in the wake of sin through sincere repentance. Question 5, you might be asked, did you know that you can have a personal relationship with God through Jesus? Our answer, every person has a personal relationship with God because we are His creations and we all possess a divine soul. All we need to do is turn to God with a sincere heart and this action awakens our intrinsic spiritual closeness with Him.  The Bible never speaks of the need to approach God through an intermediary. The Bible's holiest people, such as Moses and King David, experience deep intimacy with God directly, without believing in Jesus. Prayer, Torah study, acts of charity and kindness and living in obedience to God's will are the means of developing closeness with Him. Understanding and dealing with missionary tactics. Please note that not all missionary groups will employ all of the following techniques. However, these are some of the tactics that you might encounter. Famous scientist Louis Pasteur used to say, Fortune favors the mind that is prepared. That is crucial to realize that missionaries operate as salespeople and not as educators. Knowing their techniques of influence and developing your own critical thinking skills is vital to resist their overtures. Number one, assuming superiority. Missionaries may attempt to elicit as many, I don't know, responses as possible in order to establish their superiority and credibility. Do not allow yourself to be intimidated. Bear in mind that they are not interested in a genuine exchange of ideas. Missionaries are driven by their agenda of attempting to sway you from your faith. Their questions are not really questions seeking a genuine answer but they are setups for their sales pitch. You can simply state that you would prefer to learn about biblical concept from someone who does not have a hidden agenda. Number two, deception. Some missionaries may claim to have traditional Jewish backgrounds with a solid Jewish education. All too often this is an exaggeration or even an outright fabrication designed to establish their credibility. The implied message is that this Jew for Jesus came to accept Christianity after knowing and overcoming all the Jewish objections. Some missionaries may even present traditional Jewish objections to their position and then demonstrate how these objections lack substance. Don't expect to hear a fair or accurate presentation of the Jewish position from the missionary. Number three, love bombing. Just as salespeople often flatter and charm potential customers to prime their receptivity and clinch the sale, so too do the missionaries. Someone's warmth and friendliness has nothing to do with the validity of their ideas or sales pitch. Number four, cover up. Missionaries may focus on issues where there is little resistance and may avoid revealing beliefs that are less palatable. For example, they may stress the idea of Jesus as the Messiah while avoiding the bottom line Christian doctrine that claims that Jesus was actually God incarnate. Missionaries may also gloss over their conviction that good people who do not accept Jesus will be consigned to eternal damnation in hell. Number five, the numbers game. Some missionaries may inundate you with endless lists of verses from the Bible. Of course, the truth is not determined by volume. They may claim that there are over 300 Biblical proofs for their positions. A careful examination of the passages in context will immediately refute their presentation. They may hide behind the numbers and say, you may be right, but if you look at all the proofs together, they are pretty impressive. It's important to remember that numerous weak pieces of evidence do not become stronger by combining them. 300 times zero is still zero. Six, manipulative logic. Occasionally, missionaries may try to force you into accepting a proposition with false premises. One popular example is the assertion that Jesus was either a lunatic, a liar, or the Messiah. Missionaries assume that you won't feel comfortable with the first two options and you will accept the third. Of course, there are other possible explanations such as Jesus sincerely believed he was the Messiah, but he turned out to be mistaken. This scenario is consistent with Jesus' dying words related in the Christian scripture. And he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Number seven, exploiting ambiguity. We live in a confusing, frustrating world where reality is more often gray than black and white. Sometimes missionaries may attempt to intensify your anxieties and insecurities by focusing on issues about which you feel powerless, such as terrorism, war, rampant immorality, illness, and your own mortality. Or they may play on the guilt you feel over a personal failure. Then they offer simplistic answers to these critical problems. The lure and comfort of certainty can sometimes interfere with our normal instinct to verify these claims. Number eight, short-circuiting thought. Some missionaries may denigrate your desire to carefully analyze and evaluate their claims by stating, you rely too much on your head. You have to open your heart. The Torah never tells us to base our critical decisions upon our emotions. Our Torah always warns us to think and use our minds because our hearts can often lead us astray. Another tactic the missionaries use is to pressure you for a quick commitment, such as what is preventing you from accepting Jesus into your heart right now? Number nine, provoking us to jealousy. Most Jews who convert to Christianity never experience Judaism as a real spiritual path, a way of developing a personal relationship with God. Missionaries readily exploit this weakness by introducing potential converts to their enthusiastic worship services full of music and emotions. Bear in mind that a person's passions does not prove the truth of their beliefs. Every religion has adherents who have profound spiritual experiences and intense worship. The great tragedy of our time is that far too many Jews are unaware of this vital potential within their own faith. Number ten, presupposition. A common technique employed by missionaries is to throw out the challenge. Why don't you pray to Jesus and just ask Him to reveal Himself to you or to give you a sign? This is a manipulative tactic to preempt thoughtful consideration and maneuver you to tacitly accept their position. And of course, missionaries will interpret virtually anything that happens to you as a divine sign, as something meant to be. Let me offer some practical recommendations. Missionaries working with organizations like Jews for Jesus are well trained, like an aggressive sales force. They push their product. They are taught to overcome all your objections and to close the sale and it's unlikely that you will be able to reason with them. Therefore, Jews for Judaism strongly recommends that you avoid trying unless you're thoroughly schooled in the relevant biblical and theological issues. A polite but firm, no, thank you, is the most appropriate response. Resist the temptation to respond angrily or with hostility, because this reaction only bolsters their determination. Remember, although you may feel offended by their activities, they are not behaving in this way to offend you. For the most part, Jewish converts to Christianity are not villains, they are the unfortunate victims of Jewish educational and spiritual malnutrition. If you do experience any missionary activity, please report it to Jews for Judaism and their staff and trained volunteers will respond appropriately. The most effective way to counter the efforts of predatory missionaries is to make ourselves, our families and our communities less vulnerable. Missionaries can only be successful when there is an educational and spiritual vacuum. It is vital that all Jews have a meaningful Jewish education that leads to a profound appreciation for the wisdom and beauty of Judaism. Obviously, intellectual knowledge of Judaism alone is not enough. We must bring the teachings and spirituality of Judaism into our hearts, our homes and our daily lives. When our lives are enriched by Jewish living, when we embrace our Judaism with passion, then we will become inoculated against the missionary threat and will be less likely to stray to alien faiths. We realize that not knowing how to answer all the questions posed by missionaries seeking to convert you can be frustrating. This video is only a brief introduction to the issues you may want to explore on a deeper level. Jews for Judaism has an extensive array of educational materials and offers stimulating speakers and classes throughout the year. We are available to answer your questions. As well, we provide counseling to families dealing with a loved one who has embraced another faith. And we have been successful in helping these people to return to their families and to Judaism. If you would like any information or to arrange a private consultation, please contact us at JewsforJudaism.ca Thank you, my friends.


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