is the author and the finish of your faith and he is writing your story even right now. We're so glad that we're part of your story today on Hope Today here with Tom and Angela. Such a joy to be joined by all three of you and we have a great guest coming up Tom. We do. I like being part of people's stories. I hope it's a great story that God's writing today in your life but you know are you going through anything right now? Maybe you are. Are you having trouble getting a big picture perspective on God's work in your life? Boy that so often that's exactly what we struggle with but maybe you're even in a dark place and you wonder where God is. Well coming up we're going to have a great discussion with Joel Mom. He's been through those places and he's going to help us clarify the unique mission and message God has for each one of us. Guys this is going to be a great discussion Angela and I love Joel's got such a great way of expressing this and a perspective on these kind of things. Yeah I mean difficult times come for us all so it's great to be able to listen in and lean into what he's learned from his journey and I know it will fill us all with a good perspective for sure. Good perspectives are so important and you know a lot of us are walking through different seasons and times in our lives and we just want to bring to your attention about one family who is in desperate need of our prayers on behalf of their two-year-old little girl in Atlanta Erica and Blake Selah's daughter Skylin. There she is right there is battling a rare brain cancer called metablastoma. Now Skylin has spent more than a month in the ICU unable to see and feel sunlight and we just want to show you this video that's coming up that's her father right there that you can see sunlight holding her that was the first time he was able to hold her just in weeks and so we just want to show you this coming up this video of her leaving the ICU and heading into a new room with the window take a look at this. So sweet they had a little parade for Skylin you know just like she was leaving the ICU we just want to you know Skylin is one of the loved ones of cornerstone television networks HR manager Deb Goodman and her family is asking everyone to pray for Skylin as she continues on this journey we just want to take a moment today to lift her up her parents she has siblings and their entire family and prayer and we also just want to know like let you know that they are having a spaghetti dinner that they're hosting here in Pittsburgh and so if you want to donate and help this family because we know medical bills are so high just give us a call we'll get you connected at our prayer line at<PHONE_NUMBER> so we just want to say Deb into Erica and Blake and the whole cellar's family and little Skylin that we are here for you we are praying in their seating and can you pray Angela for a Skylin and just lift her up yes I would love to father we thank you for Skylin we thank you that God you are the creator who knit her together in her mother's womb we thank you that your hand is able and willing to heal because that's who you are so we ask even now father God that you would heal Skylin's body from the inside out you would touch every cell within her God that you would minister to her day and night father we pray for her parents and her entire family that your peace would surround them that you would consume them with the light of love and life that you are do what only you can do mend heal and deliver in Jesus name amen amen amen thanks for praying Angela and please continue in prayer for Skylin I know she's a she's a twin so her you know her twin has unique challenges facing this but uh you know when we think about things like that what what if everything that has ever happened to you has prepared you for your greatest work what if those confusing uncomfortable seasons when you feel like you're walking in circles or actually the path that God was leading you on to fulfill the destiny as planned for you well Joel mom is our next guest and in his book connecting the dots he's going to help us understand what God is doing when life doesn't make sense Joel welcome to hope today hey good to be with you well let me ask you you know we uh you know many of us every one of us have gone through those dark times and it's natural to ask the question why but you say there's a better question we we should ask what is that well as a counselor a master degree in counseling I found that when you start asking why it doesn't tend to lead good places there may not be an answer for why right now the better question is how am I going to respond right now to what's in front of me and that's one of the goals of the book is helping you see look God hasn't forgotten you he's right here with you he's working behind the scenes most of the time we don't see it or understand it until later though so the question why isn't going to lead anywhere good the question for right now I say why is for later how is for now how am I going to respond to what has what is happening right now trusting that ultimately God is going to work all things together for good including this situation you know you have what seems like to me a pretty unique take on the path that we walk in life we tend to think linearly you know we tend to think start from point A go to point B to point C but you have another take on walking kind of circular we don't like the idea of going around the mountain but could you just explain how what God has shown you through that yeah so I lead hikes around the world and one of the things that Psalm 23 when I was in Israel one time a guide said you know that Psalm 23 that Hebrew word it says the Lord is my shepherd he leads me in paths of righteousness that Hebrew word path it's word my goal it actually means paths made of circles and there's all sorts of you know theories on what that means I'm convinced what it means is God leads us in an ever widening circular path getting us to where he wants to go and you probably experience that in your life where you find yourself going we're doing this again but it's just a little bit different or we're here again or this time frame again maybe every three or five or seven years you've got a shift in your life and you go we're doing this again I'm convinced that that's our gentle shepherd leading us you know we're kind of poofy sheep we can't necessarily get straight up a hill so he gently leads us up the hill in circular paths getting us to the good stuff where he wants us to be and and I'm I believe it's a circular path more than a straight line but it's an ever widening it's like a spiral ever widening getting us to who he wants us to be you know I I'm in the book I read that where you talk about going that way up a mountain my wife and I are bicyclists as everyone who's watching this show knows that you do that to get up a mountain on a bicycle too a lot of times and but what is the spiritual one you know when you're not kind of going directly towards you want to where you want to be and it's you kind of can get impatient so what has God taught you what are some of the principles God's taught you as you're on that path well I in the store in the book I tell a story of a crazy year of my life that I felt like was a waste it's one of those things you know when you're writing your resume and you leave off that year and people are like what happened here you're like yeah we don't let's not talk about that and it was a year that I just couldn't explain it it felt like a waste of my life but as I'm further down the road now I look at it and go that was one of the most transformative seasons of my life and as I started looking at my story and listening to stories of hundreds of other people and counseling I started to see there's a really consistent pattern there's about nine stages in every season of life that people go through it actually follows what's called the hero's journey where there's a there's this transition this this moment where life life changes and then you have to have some courage and then a guide shows up of course our guide is the Holy Spirit there's a decision you have to make to go all in on the season and fully commit then there's a series of challenges there's a dark cave and ultimately you emerge with a different perspective because of what life has done and I really believe that the ultimate goal of each season is for God to give you more of a mission and a message well let me ask you about some of the things you've noticed as you have been on these journeys you talk about some gifts gifts of discomfort I don't want that gift you know I don't I don't want to have anything to do with the gift of discomfort or the gift of limitation could you talk about those gifts and what how God uses those things yeah I mean if God really is working all things together for good we have to believe all things actually means all things and one of the things he'll often do is when a transition point is coming when you when you need a turning point in your life he'll kind of prepare you by making things a little uncomfortable you know when a when the mother eagle decides it's time for the baby eagles to fly she starts pulling those soft feathers out of the nest so they start kind of feeling the poke and they you know they're not made to hang out in the nest they're made to soar and I believe God sometimes will do that for us in his grace oddly enough he'll make things a little uncomfortable so that we're not looking back like King Solomon says don't don't look back at the days of the past and say oh why were those days better than today he makes it a little bit uncomfortable to get us where he wants us to go and I'm even convinced he uses our enemies those people that would try and do us harm if you look at the story of Joseph you know at the end of the story the guys that did him the most harm his own family they're they're freaking out worried about what he's going to do to them he's like oh no don't worry God sent me ahead of you for the saving of many lives and oftentimes God will he'll take you through a journey and at the end of it the purpose is for you to rescue the very people who cause the harm to you but he uses the enemies to push you right to where you need to be do I just love this whole like the story of just like our journeys and God's purpose and everything and I just want to ask you this question and curious you know as a counselor how you've even counseled your clients but how do we transition well because I think we all hit these moments in our life for like it's exciting transition can be really exciting it can be terrifying and it can be challenging so what are some practical things that we can do as we're in the midst of the transition getting to that new place that we can do in our day-to-day well I tell a story in the book about when my family moved to Central America when I was a kid as soon as we got there we experienced an earthquake and then the volcanoes started erupting so the sun is kind of blacked out and I thought did we arrive at the apocalypse and I talked to one of the local missionaries had been there for 30 years he goes ah no it's just a season change he said when we shift from the dry season to the rainy season this always happens it just means seasons are changing I think one of the important things to recognize in a turning point is it's probably going to come with some discomfort so what the best thing you can do is is have courage and courage is is GK Chesterton says courage is a contradiction in terms almost it's like a willingness to die accompanied with a desire to live so you have to kind of throw yourself into the adventure trusting I really do believe God is directing my steps and this within the adventure I would have chosen but hey you know it's not an adventure until something goes wrong it's an if it's on your terms it's not really an adventure and what I tell people is there's going to be courage required but and and if you'll just go all in commit to the path that it's like Tarzan swinging through the jungle if he doesn't let go of one vine to grab on to the next vine he's not going to keep his forward movement he'll just kind of be hanging there in the middle of the jungle stuck between two vines so you have to go all in you have to fully commit Jesus said that he said he said those who don't basically he says if you don't go all in you're not even worthy of the call here there's a verse where it's one of those savage Jesus things like wait that's not very nice Jesus he's like you got to go all in going all in is really critical but I think that a lot of times people sometimes want to forget those painful or traumatic moments in their life so what would you say to the one who's saying I just want to forget about that well first of all you're probably never as a counselor I'm just going to tell you this you're probably never going to forget it you know but we do have to forgive as Christians we don't forgive and forget we forgive and remember with forgiveness so when you've properly processed it what I've seen is when you've properly processed the hurt that's happened and oftentimes it takes a couple years to get around a certain grief is more of a spiral again another spiral than a straight line we hear of the stages of grief and we think oh click click click I'm over it but if you've ever lost something really that you love it comes back in waves and you know wake up a year two years five years later and it's just as bad as the moment it happened but every time it gets further and further apart and you just remember nope I forgave what happened there and as you do that the memory becomes less and less painful and and then that's when I think the power happens when we're willing to tell the story of what happened with forgiveness there's a verse in Revelation it says they overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony the blood of the lamb is that forgiveness that Jesus offered us and he asked us to give to others but the power really gets ignited when we're willing to tell the story of what happened without bitterness and then that's when our survival story becomes somebody else's survival manual I say man I've been through that too but listen you can make it through this and that's where you God's given you that mission and that message through that season and everything that's happened to you has prepared you well I love that because it's it is so easy to suppress those stories and to and to not not be willing to tell them but you tell some great stories in the in the book I I love the story about your friend asking you to come to Mexico not for a week but to take over his ministry and you told him that I love where you said you said I'll pray about it which means leave me alone right that's kind of what I'll pray about it means but could you tell me tell us that story and what God did through that well I was looking for a change but the change that got offered to me wasn't what I wanted I wanted to be climbing mountains and we got offered to take over a ministry down right on the water in Mexico and I love Mexico but that wasn't the part of Mexico I necessarily wanted to be in so my friend called he said I want you to take over his ministry I was like I don't I don't think that's my calling he's like well I don't agree I agree that that it's not your calling but we feel like you're the one that's supposed to do it he kept hassling me and I said you know I dropped the Christian prompt card like let me pray about that brother you know which translation that means leave me alone well my friend he he called me back two weeks later and he said what'd you hear and I'm like about what he's like you didn't pray about it like dude you don't follow up when somebody says I'll pray about it you'll leave him alone and then he goes what did Emily your wife say about it I was like oh man I didn't I didn't tell her because I knew she actually would pray about it so we ended up long story short we ended up going but it was it was a crazy thing because I knew it was something we were supposed to do but it's still I I kind of went kicking and screaming but the Lord just kept blowing doors open where it was clear that was what I needed to do and then we went and it was just as bad if not worse than I thought it would be but I now see it was probably one of the most transformative seasons of my life yeah again I love that you're you're willing to be open about things like that so what what is the you know I was I was uh asking some friends of mine whenever I read a book I like to read it like straight through I don't I don't look for the back but you said you have a friend who always reads the back of the book I know there's a lot of people that do that they jump right to the last page try to see where things are going where are we going with this what's what's the last page here the last page is this God is going to waste nothing in your life if you'll redeem if you'll give your whole story to him to redeem if you'll hold on to nothing surrender to him and say Lord I'm gonna rejoice in my suffering for I know that suffering produces endurance endurance produces character and character produces hope and hope does not put me to shame I'm not gonna lose heart though outwardly I'm wasting away inwardly I'm being renewed day by day this light and momentary affliction is preparing for me an eternal weight of glory which is beyond all comparisons so I'm gonna fix my eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen for what's seen as temporary what's unseen as eternal I didn't come up with that it's too eloquent for me that was the apostle Paul but that's where we have to that's the power of his word we're trusting that ultimately he's gonna bring good from this and the cool thing about it is when he brings good from it we walk out with a mission he's given us a unique problem to solve and a message to share for his glory and for our fulfillment and as we share that message man we become lights the world around you let your light shine in this dark dark world where people say how do you have so much hope you say well it's because God's love has been poured into my heart as he's been walking in my story his story his story in my life I love that phrase by Paul light momentary affliction it's always one that you know you really have to think about knowing what Paul went through would you take a moment I know this is really hitting someone out there would you take a moment to just speak to that person and pray for that person yeah I'm gonna pray speak we'll say this uh man I want to declare in your life that God is accomplishing all things for your good and for his glory uh he's he's got skin in the game here this is his glory is at stake and he is going to accomplish good things in your life so if you are if you are struggling right now know this you're probably not gonna understand it for a while uh you're gonna you're gonna look back and you're gonna go oh that's what that was about and and honestly some of the stuff we're dealing with we may not understand on this time of the space time continuum uh this side of it we may go and I don't get it and I've joked that when I stand before God I'm gonna I'm gonna ask him some questions but all indications are when we stand before God we're gonna drop to our knees put our face to the ground and go true and just were your judgments hang on to that hope true and just were his judgments he is going to accomplish good things in your life even through what seems like the worst possible thing right now yeah the book is called connecting the dots what God is doing when life doesn't make sense joel mom thank you so much for being with us today thank you you well guys this is uh you know a tremendous uh you know uh aspect on those difficulties and we're gonna we're gonna take a quick break when we come back we're gonna talk some more about this we're gonna have a scripture we're gonna have a time that uh ministry just for you when Laura called our 24 seven prayer line she had so much fear that she didn't want to leave her house she had lost her husband of 54 years just six months earlier laura was flipping through tv stations when she came across cornerstone television she felt compelled to call one of our prayer partners talked listened and prayed with her for 45 minutes at the end laura said how much the ministry had helped relieve her fear praise god for how he's using ctv and when you give you become part of what he's doing this month when you give we'll send wild expectations as our way of saying thank you this book will inspire you to live your life as god intended to give and request your copy visit us online at ctvn.org slash donate or call us at<PHONE_NUMBER> hope happens here today we have a beautiful scripture that in our interview with joel joel he alluded to and it comes from psalms 23 one through six the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he makes me lie down in the green pastures he leads me beside still waters he restores my soul he leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies you anoint my head with oil my cup overflows surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and i shall dwell in the house of the lord forever no matter where you are in this journey of life we read clearly from the psalmist that even if you find yourself in the valley of death be assured god is with you i love guys how in this scripture he begins first kind of declaring like this is the lord he is my shepherd and then he turns his attention to god and doesn't just keep this conversation going horizontally like yeah this is about my lord he says no god you are with me you anoint my head with oil no matter what you're going through god will truly use it for your good it doesn't mean it feels good or that it is good but he will use it for your good and i love that so much and you know one thing that when i was studying this scripture a while ago did you know and it's like it's the connection points because even joelle mentioned it when it was talking about that circles with the past of righteousness did you even know that when you look up the Hebrew the shadow of death it's not shadow of death it's deep darkness you don't if this isn't talking about dying it's talking about being in this pit being in this place of despair being in a place of hopelessness but that's why it's on the other side because i've always thought about this scripture i'm like if we're talking about being the shadow of death and there's imminent death that is present but why but there's so much hope on the other end and it's because we're in this pit of deep darkness and we've all been there but god has a hope for us that he is the good shepherd that he is leading us through the valley and i remember even hearing somebody say that things only grow in the valley that it's in those hard places it's in those places when you want to give up and you feel like you're surrounded on all sides just what joelle was saying that was such an incredible revelation i'm just sitting in my spirit it's like it's a circle and it all makes sense it's like okay we're going around this again but it's enlarging god is doing something in the midst of that tight and that hard place so if that's you today take hold of this is the promise that you can stand on you can declare decree this right over yourself this is a short promise and you will watch god do that circle around you dancing around you you know i i want to talk about five words and it's for thou art with me i still think of it in king james you know for for you are with me uh you know when you think about difficult times when you're a kid uh guys this is the way it was for me when i was a little kid if something was scary as soon as i saw my dad it wasn't scary anymore you know because dad was going to take care of it okay dad was big god was strong he could take care of anything right and you think about that the shepherd you know jesus the god our father he can take care of the thing you're going through you know we want to get to that place where we're at in the green pasture love me some green pasture love me some still waters i want to be there i want to sit there i want to relax there but we're going to walk through that dark place in fact maybe i just got this picture of someone seeing a light far off seeing the good place far off but all of a sudden you kind of descended when you descend down into that valley you don't see that anymore you're like hey where's that nice place i saw god where's that place you were leading me i don't see it anymore no you're down in the valley but it's all right it's still there and god's with you he's going to lead you through that so hang on to that promise whatever that promise was it seems like it's not coming to pass hang on to it gods bring that to pass for you today guys i've seen this in my own life i've seen promises where i was i felt like i got a promise from god and then all of a sudden i was in a place where hey the promise is nowhere god i must have misheard you you must be lying to me you know you went somewhere but no he's bringing us through bringing us to that place yeah and i think that's how david felt in this moment here he was the anointed king knew that well and yet he's running for his life and why the psalm says you know why are the wicked prospering god and and here i am trapped and stuck but david found that in the middle of the valley is where his head was anointed with oil it was there that he saw the lily of the valley it was there that his cup runneth over so whatever valley you face today or maybe the one that is coming you know if we're not in the valley we're going there at some point hold on to the fact that god will use it to anoint your head with oil and it's not just to take you to a place of preparedness but it's to prepare a place in you for his spirit to dwell for his glory to be made known in you and i know something we were talking about like yesterday like we had like behind the scenes was that sometimes i think even god tests us because are you going to worship him for the promise or you're going to worship him for who he is sometimes that's what the test is all about he wants to see like who are you going to worship are you going to bow down to that promise and say like you know god if you don't do this i stop believing in you but if you say you know i will though you slay me yet i trust you there has been seasons in my life where i came to a point where i had all these words all these prophets said this this this and i said god either these are all false false prophets or this is your word but i'm going to trust you i'm going to stand by you and i'm going to worship you and so even when you're in that dark place one of the most beautiful things that you can do worship your heavenly father get on your knees it may not be pretty it might be ugly there's been times i've been weeping and crying but i just lift my hands up and i say you are good you are my father you are adonai you are my prince of peace you are my all in all and no matter what i walk through and no matter what i go through god you are with me he's a manual god with us he understands the pain that we are walking through and so many of us right now have burdens but you know what i love that jesus has cast your cares and your burden on me my yoke is easy and my burden is light that's the god that we have that's the god that wants to walk with you in the valley that's what makes him better than any other god because they're not real he's the true and living god he will step in the midst of the situation because even in the hard times even in those dark places he wants to make himself known to you today so do you know jesus today as your manual as your god with you because that is the greatest hope that we have him and it's in him alone today on tomorrow's hope today learn how to conquer shame and rest in the one who has taken all shame away author and podcaster jasmine l holmes opens up about her own battle with shame and shares how god can break the chains of shame in your life through the power of the gospel that's tomorrow on hope today cornerstone television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible


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This is a brief outline, I will just go on. CDEAP stands for Center for Distance Engineering Education Program. It is formed to disseminate IIT bomb-based courses live and recorded, not only live, not only recorded but also live to students in faculty of colleges and also to working professionals and we have been transmitting live IIT bomb-based courses for close to one decade. Live transmission strategies, until December 2007, we were doing it on a commercial basis. We used to purchase the bandwidth, transmit our courses and then from the recipients collect money. In January 2008, we switched over to ISRO, we joined the EDUSAT launched by ISRO, ISRO is giving bandwidth free, in return we are transmitting our courses for free. So in other words, all of you can receive all our courses absolutely free of cost including two-way communication. We have one channel, we start our transmission at 8.30 in the morning, we go till typically about 8 in the evening. So these are generally packed, about 13 to 14 courses we are transmitting. What is the course? In our terminology semester long subject, 40 hours. So we also started transmitting through webcast, these are the details about EDUSAT. So here I have written 65 remote centers, we are actually close to touching about 90 including the remote centers that are in the pipeline. Orders have come, now some of these components are to be imported and so not available. So ISRO is taking little bit of time, BAR of the electronics is implementing, it is taking, it is going to be done over a period of time, but we have a large number of centers. We also transmit through webcast, as I mentioned in the last class, last talk, we are transmitting at 100 kbps because it is accessible to our students also. If you transmit at high bandwidth, only western students in the western countries will have access to, but we want to make this available to our students also. These are our courses, our students go and listen, for example the digital control course that I am teaching now, College of Engineering Pune is getting live. They also take the quiz, I send them the quiz half an hour ahead of time, they take a print out, do the quiz and they join, they can also post questions. In Moodle, they can all, there is no difference at all, whether a question is posed by a student at IIT or by a student at College of Engineering Pune. In fact, even for answers, there could be a bright student in College of Engineering Pune, he could be answering all of IIT students questions. So, there is no distinction at all between students within the campus and outside, they are all the same. So, it is our course delivered on fixed schedule, it is also free. Now, of course, I mentioned value added courses, previously of course, we had to pay the satellite money and so on. So, we are collecting some money, we had to pay and even with edu-sat, edu-sat only gave the bandwidth free, it did not give the money for my support staff, my people who are doing the editing, camera man, people who maintain the website. So now, through the mission, we have got funds to maintain all of that. As a result, we do not have to take the money from the colleges. Now, everything is absolutely free of cost. So, as I mentioned here, slides, assignments, colleges can synchronize their exams and the discussion forum and in fact, the whole nation can become one large classroom. And unlike if you look at this Moodle, let me go back to this Moodle again, unlike the regular class where people ask questions and there is a difficulty answering. If you have a lot of questions, there is a possibility, there is a difficulty of answering all of them. But through Moodle, there can be a lot of questions and answers that can go side by side. As a matter of fact, if there are more questions on a single topic, then you get to analyze that single topic from various angles. So, in fact, your learning can actually be better if there are more students. That is why I said the whole nation can become a large classroom. This was one of the fears expressed by some people. If I do this, then college management will say, we do not need the teacher. IIT is transmitting, we will receive it. In fact, such a thing was done in the first time when College of Engineering, Pune received. They received nine courses. They thought that that could be given as additional load to the faculty members. But the faculty members found that this going through an IIT course actually was a lot more work just being associated. What does the course TA or we call it course associate at the remote center? So every value-added course shall have a CA at every RC. So value-added course in my terminology is that there is a course that has very good overlap, 70, 80 percent overlap that you want to use IIT's course as a substitute for your course that you do not have to teach. If there is only 20 percent overlap, there is no point in using it. You can tell your students, on this day this person is going to teach this, go and listen to it. That is it. But when there is a very good overlap, 70 to 80 percent overlap and there is a shortage of faculty members, somebody who has just joined after a BTEC, BE, he has to teach the course, he has to prepare all the material, you are actually feeling guilty about it. Then you can tell him, hey, IIT Bombay is transmitting it, join that as a course associate. Get the entire course. This year you teach this using this material. By the way, we have no problem. You can use all of my slides and teach your own course next semester. So this is a way for us to bootstrap these teachers, large number of teachers. So you have to be there on time, you have to be present for all the classes. If some background material is missing, that person has to teach. For example, I am teaching a course on control. I may say that IIT students already know Laplace Transforms. So I will not teach. But in a college in a remote center, they may not have taught. So that course associate has to spend one extra hour to teach Laplace Transforms. So in this way, the course associate has a lot of work. Organize exams, grade them, answering questions, be an interface. They actually found that this has a lot more work because in a university system, the syllabus is prescribed. Whether you teach or not, exam is going to happen. Students have to write. So this actually involved a lot of work. Involves a lot of work and I do not think there will be any problem. I strongly believe that it only strengthens the teaching system in colleges. And also it is not done every year. We do not want the faculty member to join again next year. Let them teach by himself or herself. Let somebody else come for another course. So we have lots of value-added courses for professionals. It is possible to give certifying programs. Of course, it is very difficult for IIT Bombay to reach out to grade lots of papers. If you look at the previous one, we have something called graded courses grading by remote centers. So for example, we have a PSG college of technology, it is a very reputed college. And what if the faculty members in that place, they say based on IIT courses delivery, we will do the certification. We will conduct an exam or IIT is anyway giving the exam paper. By the way, I give the exam paper, I also give the model answer. So they can conduct the exam for the people who come. There could be professionals who are coming from neighboring places, they come and participate and write the exam, PSG college can grade and give a certificate that this person appeared in the course conducted by IIT Bombay. We have graded them and given them a grade. So will it not have value in industry? So it is possible to set it up in every place. It is possible to do it in NIT Surat Kal, NIT Surat, Sona Engineering College. You name the place, Badnera. So it has a value because the people who want jobs want to be recognized, want to be differentiated. So if I have, in fact, we have something called solar classroom. Solar classroom is just webcast and the person listens to it. Even if I do not give any names, there is a student who comes and listen to my course at the prescribed time because it is also webcast. So imagine the student who is in IIT field and then he applies for a job in embedded systems company. They ask him some questions, he is able to answer all of it. So they were curious, how come you know all this? Since I listen to this in all the course lectures from IIT Bombay, I picked up all of this. So will you not get the job? It does not matter.  Finally, are you going to deliver? Are you going to do the work? That is what matters. That is what we have to emphasize to our students. You learn because education is a very powerful tool. So through all those, we are trying to make this available. But certification is very difficult for IIT Bombay to do it for 1000 people. It will be good if remote centers can actually do that. We will do it. Every remote center says we will take care of 20 people, small number you can manage. But together we can do it for 1000 people. The levels of operation, we have 4 studios, we have 40 full-time staff working in our center. You can maybe as a part of this course, you can actually visit Eduset. I do not know whether there is a tour. They can just drop by if you have some time. Running studios, maintaining servers, PCs, other equipment. We do webcast. We do streaming. We worry about codec. We worry about stability because in fact, when I transmit through Eduset, which all of you can receive, we simultaneously transmit through webcast. So that means we need to have all these things connected. It has to be recorded on tape. It has to be recorded as a hardware in the hardware, in the hard disk. And we actually were trying to do just to give an estimate. For example, this semester we are running 30 courses. One year ago we were ready for transmitting 50 courses. So we actually worked out some calculations, did some calculations. 50 courses means 50 into 3, 150 hours of lecturing every week. And there are 5 working days. 5 by 5, it is 30 lectures per day. And we have to record, we have to edit because we promised our students, within 24 hours we will release our course on video and demand. That means every day we have to edit 30 lectures. If it takes 2 hours to edit, actually it takes real time to grab it from the tape. You have to play the tape, grab it, so that is 60 hours. And you have to grab it, you have to edit it, you have to render it, save it, all that. So 60 hours, man hours are required to edit, just to do the editing, even if you assume only 2 hours. So we tried a tape-less solution that we will send it through wireless. But one hour of AVI file is something like 3, 4 GB. We were choking our bandwidth.  That is just to give an idea of levels of operation. We are transmitting 30 courses. So this is the statistics of courses transmitted. We do not have the current semester. Current semester we are doing about 30. This is 27 in the previous semester, 35. So this is something I already mentioned about live transmission. The most difficult thing about all of this is getting feedback, to convince people that this is actually useful to people. People do not want to give feedback, do not want to register. So this is one of the problems. This is the VOD hits within our campus. By the way, we are planning to make this VOD available for outside people also. We are working on establishing the bandwidth. Because even if you have only 100 KBPS, right? If 100 people watch that, it could be enormous. And 100 students watching, it is a very small number. We have 6 lakh students studying. So if you look at 1%, so let's say half the people are interested in some electronics course. Or even 1 lakh students are interested in some electronics course. So if you look at 1% of that, that is 1000 people. Of course they may not be watching at the same time. But just imagine what will happen before the exam, the night before the exam. So a lot of people could see it if there is a good course. You can see that this is the month of November. Lot of hits, our exams take place in November. And then they take place in April. Of course here we did 35 courses, here we did 27 courses. You can see that it picks up during exam time. Even within the campus, something will happen outside. By the way, you have already received a newsletter from us. Have you seen it? In the bag it was there apparently. And in that it talks about how to submit proposals for the national mission. We have also summarized the student perceptions. Our students what they thought about this transmission. We were worried that maybe our students will complain. Why are you doing this? We came through IIT, we came through JEE, other students didn't come through JEE. Why are you sharing our course with other people? But actually what is happening is because we made all these services available, video and demand is available if you go through CDP. So they could for example complain to the student, faculty members move the course out of CDP. Then it is not available on video and demand. We don't give the support of Moodle. We work very closely with Naseer for example. And we follow up and of course the faculty members come better prepared, give better lectures and so on. So instead of students complaining. I mean that was a remote possibility but even that didn't happen. Students are actually demanding. That's why the number of courses is going up. So some incentives are given and then government money is available to do that. Of course it benefits our own education, distance education. It benefits our own education. I am able to record people before they retire. So many best faculty members have retired. I cannot bring them back. So some lessons, some difficulties, immediate plans. So we have Amruta people. We are working closely with them. You are familiar with this product A-View. So in fact we are using this in IIT Bombay. So this is like a video conferencing unit except that you don't need a video conferencing unit. You just need internet. Just download a player and then students can interact. That is something that we want to do. And of course our live transmission is different from NPTEL. Because it's a live class. As it happens, things cannot fail. If I create, if there is too much disturbance to the faculty member when he is teaching the course, he will say your studio is bad. I am going to a regular classroom. Won't it happen? Because you have to cover some portion. So this is this. I have already talked about this. I have already shown this. So long term plans to become an academic entity to partner global efforts help build academic institutions in India. Of course the objective of all this is that our children have better childhood. Our children don't have childhood anymore. This is some information. I will give a copy of this.


From Nassar Awar state comes the report that the state chapter of the People's Democratic Party has alleged that the ruling all Progressive Congress and government officials in the state were planning to disrupt Thursday's sitting of the ongoing governorship election petition tribunal in Lafayette, the state capital. Chairman of PDP in the state Honorable Francis Orogu raised the alarm during a press briefing in Lafayette. He narrated that the aim of APC and its members was to cause unnecessary tension in order to create an impression that the state was not safe for the continuation of the case. While calling on all PDP supporters in the state to be vigilant and report any person plotting the cause mayhem or any form of trouble to the security agencies, Orogu advised those masterminding the plan to desist from it for the sake of the state, adding that any plan to disrupt the ongoing tribunal proceedings will be resisted. Candidates to be vigilance and not hesitate to report to the authorities by any person who may be plotting to cause mayhem on any of the occurred of the ongoing case. If the security will do what they are supposed to do, the citizen will do what they are supposed to do. There is no reason why this sitting will not take place peacefully and peacefully. And whatever the decision of the tribunal comes out to be, we are bound to respect it.


My name is Robert Dudley. I'm a professor of integrative biology here at the University of California, Berkeley. So I'm interested in how animals work, how they evolved, and what they're doing in natural environments. I do a lot of field work in the tropics, so I see a lot of animals in tropical rainforest, and oftentimes they're moving about looking for something to eat. As a consequence of seeing all these animals and occasionally drinking myself in tropical environments, I just wondered, what is it about alcohol? Where does it come from? What's our natural historical pattern of exposure? And what motivates excessive drinking? The argument of the drunken monkey is that we are interested in alcohol because we have evolved as fruit-eating primates, and alcohol is found naturally in fruit within tropical environments. And we like to drink because we have positive feelings when we drink alcohol that historically would have been beneficial when we could only eat right fruit, but now, of course, things can go badly wrong when we have unlimited access to high volume, high concentration alcohol. So where does alcohol come from, anyway? So it turns out that yeasts produce alcohol. They ferment sugars and produce carbon dioxide in the alcohol molecule, and yeast spores are everywhere. They're landing on fruit. They're landing on flowers even before the flowers turn into fruit and they encapsulate themselves into a developing fruit tissue. So yeasts are everywhere, sugars are within fruit. Yeasts ferment sugar, produce alcohol, primates and monkeys and our ancestors go to the alcohol. So the hypothesis suggests that they are preferentially selecting fruits that have a fairly high alcohol content. We have inherited an ancestral bias that associates alcohol with nutritional reward. We forage for fruits in the jungle, and in the concrete jungle, we go down the supermarket aisle and pick up alcohol. My father was an alcoholic and I've always had an intense personal interest in this question. What are the origins of self-destructive behavior? One goal of the drunken monkey hypothesis of course is to facilitate research, basic research into the biology of alcohol exposure. And ultimately we would all love to have a really straightforward explanation and of course cure for this disease.


T F N N headline news update Good afternoon everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien coming alive from T F N N headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida 1 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday three hours left to go on the trading day and we got markets in positive territory S&P's up 24 points trading at 28 16 Dow Jones up 177 trading at 25,731 and the NASDAQ up 68 points trading at 76 59 Dollar index a little bit of negative action off 189 ticks trading at Excuse me 96 710 notes and bonds almost unchanged a little bit negative on price negative one tick on the third year negative six ticks in Excuse me negative one tick on the 10 year negative six ticks on the 30 year We got some action gold up $10 at 1308 and oil up a dollar at 57 87 We'll start things off Let's jump over to some of the futures markets We'll start it off with the S&P quite a run for most of the overnight session either even through this morning Making highs at around 11 30 this morning of 28 23 just a couple points off there in the S&P at 20 28 21 Dow 30 quite an acceleration as well highs of the session right after 11 30 of 25,796 currently the Dow just trading 30 points off that level 25,765 NASDAQ 100 highs around the same time of 11 30 this morning 73 12 right up against that level of training at 730 4 Gold contract got quite a little acceleration overnight. There's about 8 8 30 last night. You're trained at 13 0 1 Fast forward to this morning currently training at 1307 93 crude oil with some volatility. We got the II IIA numbers at 10 30 this morning this morning I'll get there those numbers showing showing a draw versus an expected increase in the inventories nonetheless You have crude training at 57 91. We were trained at about 57 75 coming into those numbers So not that big of a jump and the pound briefly back above 132 currently. Oh, no, we're back above 132 132 14 and to dig into those oil numbers. There's your full breakdown. So crude 3.8 million barrel draw the estimate had been a surplus of 3 million barrels So quite a miss. That's why you saw a little bit of a pop But surprising that you wouldn't see more action on quite a miss as we're currently just hanging at that 57 91 level Stay tuned. We're gonna man Steve Rhodes coming up right now with the trader's edge Dave White live at two o'clock with the power trading hour and Tom O'Brien live from three till five Stay tuned folks. Steve Rhodes coming up right now


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. I'm going to be doing another video today on the subject of subtitling. I've done a couple of videos this week about using Kaden Live to generate subtitles. I did a video explaining how you can use Kaden Live to create a sub, create your subtitles, but not actually render those out on the video. You can just export the subtitle file as an SRT and upload that to YouTube. That was one video. Another video I did was how to take auto-generated YouTube subtitles, work the other way, download those to your local operating system, edit the subtitle files, put them online again, or you can edit them directly in YouTube Studio. But another use case that I was doing earlier in the week or looking at was adding subtitles in Hebrew to videos. Now, for those who haven't heard me mention this on this YouTube channel, I live in Hebrew, I live in Israel. Hence Hebrew is one of the languages that are very relevant to me. But of course, Hebrew is only one of several languages that are written from right to left, also called RTL. And in fact, the neighboring language here of Arabic has many, many more speakers. So although this video is specifically about adding subtitles in Hebrew, I hope it will be relevant and perhaps of interest for more people than just Hebrew speakers. So in order to do that, let's jump over firstly into Caden Live. Now, I've just created a really, really simple script here. I'm going to drag it across. You guys can see my name is Daniel. I am sorry. Hello. My name is Daniel. I am 33 years old. I live in Jerusalem and tomorrow I am going to the beach. So not a super complex little bit of dialogue here. And this is, of course, just for demo purposes. So the first thing I'm going to just jump to where it says hello, my timeline. You can put myself down to you guys can see you can even talk from the timeline. Hello, what did I say? My name is Daniel, 33, live in Jerusalem and tomorrow I'm going to the beach. So I can actually just see based on the waveforms visible in the audio layer, what exactly I say at each point. So there is a shortcut.  Subtitles is under project, add a subtitle is one of the options there. So hello is Hebrew is easy. It's Shalom. Now, look what's happened in the subtitle editor on the bottom right Shalom in Hebrew has appeared. But we have some better news. It's appeared offset to the right. So as soon as I change my keyboard layout over to Hebrew, it automatically inherited the RTL text format. So it's one of those things that just works out of the box, which is not always the case in Ubuntu, especially. So that was one word. Now, let's just see how that renders on the video. You can see my video here where in the top in the right hand side of the screen, that's my timeline preview. And Shalom looks pretty good. It's right there in the center of the screen. It's, you know, visible, whatever it looks fine. So let's try the second second phrase here. So we're going to go again for project, subtitles and add subtitle. And this one is said, my name is Daniel. So I'm going to go a bit of colloquial. Corim Lee Daniel. OK, I could also say Shmi Daniel, but Corim Lee Daniel is what people would actually say. Now, I've just added it. You can either type here or you can type in the subtitle window in the window. And this is actually a better result because this is not just one word like Shalom. This is three words, but they've been laid out automatically right to left. Corim Lee Daniel, and I can even put a full stop if I change back to English for a moment, full stop here. And it's it's been added to that track. So I'm not going to do the rest. I'll do the rest of this by myself. I'll unpause the video and then I'll upload this to YouTube and then we can see how that looks. All right, so I've just rendered this video, this 13 second test video and I've exported it to YouTube. It's still coming up to full resolution, but just take a look firstly at the subtitles as they rendered out here within YouTube. I'm going to just move a little bit down so you guys can see it, hopefully. Corim Lee Daniel. So it rendered out from YouTube just fine. In fact, when I added that full stop in English, which was a mistake I made, it did come at the end. But otherwise, the layout of the Ani Bench 33, Ani Garh Biro Shalim. And then I'll go to the end. So all the Hebrew subtitles rendered in the video just fine, right to left. Now, that was the main thing I wanted to show, but let's also just take a look at adding subtitles in YouTube editor. So as usually, we want to jump down into subtitles. Now, the automatic English subtitles are going to populate just based on my default settings. What I want to do now is click on to add language. And then I'm going to click into Hebrew. And now you can also add. This is a feature that some folks don't know about. You can actually add different title and descriptions for various languages. So I can actually give this clip a little title and description in Hebrew and in Greek and in Portuguese, so on and so forth. But I'm not going to do that. So I want to show, keep it simple for this video, how to add subtitles. Click on add subtitles. And then for this one, I'm just going to go for type manually, because it's so short. So we said that was shallow. Now, this is just to show you guys when I started typing in Hebrew, it hasn't actually laid out, detected the RTL layout as well as we did in Caden Live. So what I do is if you right click on the mouse and I'm using Google Chrome here, there is writing direction. And it's by default, it's going to be left to right and just change that over to right to left. And that's just going to make the text layout nicely. So let's just do one more, because again, I don't want to go through typing this whole thing again. Oops. So you can see the same thing has has happened. So I'm just going to go for right to left. And we can see that it's laid out nicely. So I'm going to click on publish now to publish those subtitles. I'm going to click into the view on YouTube button. It's going to populate the video. And now I'm going to turn on my YouTube subtitles by clicking on the settings button going over to. And again, sometimes it's a little bit of a lag, so I'm going to need to refresh here. And now we can see our Hebrew subtitles. And again, they're matching. So it's the YouTube subtitles you're seeing on the top. Shallow them here. I can toggle them off and toggle them on. And the ones below are the ones that rendered on the video layer through Caden Live. And so on and so forth. So basically you can add subtitles in Hebrew or other RTL languages just fine using Caden Live. And as I explained in the last video, even adding subtitles, you don't need to actually render them out onto the video. You can just choose to store your subtitles in Caden Live, export them as SRT file and add that to YouTube. Alternatively, if you prefer to work within YouTube Studio, you can actually add subtitles there in Hebrew. You just need to make sure that after you change your keyboard over to the Hebrew layout, if stuff is not laying out correctly, right click on the mouse if you're in Chrome and then make sure that the writing direction is configured as right to left RTL. And then everything should lay out nicely and you can add also a title or description in other languages, including those that are written from right to left, as opposed to left to right in English. Hope this video is useful. If you want to get more videos from me about YouTube technology and other subjects, please do consider subscribing to this YouTube channel. Thank you for watching this video.


The main goal of the Russian Volunteers' Corps, the liberty of Russia Legion and the Siberian Battalion that recently raided the territory of Russia, is to overthrow the current government. This was said by the spokesman of the General Intelligence Department of the Ukrainian Army, Andrey Yusov. Specifically, if we talk about these operations, it continues. The hysteria of the Russian propagandists, who often make statements on this issue, the hysteria of the person who looks like Putin, the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin Peskov, is a clear confirmation of this. The intelligence officer said, Yusov also added that the insurgents raids on Russian territory were successful, a number of objectives have already been achieved.  Many techniques have been demystified. The most important thing is to continue the operation. According to him, shortly before the start of the operation, Russian General Lapin was sent to the border regions to make sure of the reliability of Russian defense in this direction. Lapin said that the border is completely closed, no one can cross. But the Russian Volunteers' Corps, the freedom of Russia Legion and the Siberian Battalion showed that this is not the case at all. After that, they were forced to transfer units from other regions, especially from the occupied territories of Ukraine. Recall, Russian Volunteers' Corps, liberty of Russia Legion and Siberia Battalion attacked Russia's border regions of Belgorod in Korsk in early March. A clash took place between the units that crossed the border and the Russian army. Although two villages were taken under control, they were recaptured by Russian troops.


Hi, I'm Rusty Komori and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou Boys varsity tennis team for 22 years and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my book Beyond the Lines and it's about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence and finding greatness. My special guest today is a graduate of Punahou School and she is achieving incredible success as an actor, singer and model. She is Sumiri Matsubara and today we are going Beyond the Fame. Hey Sumi, how's everything going in Japan? Good, how are you doing? Thank you for taking time to join me on the show today. Of course, thank you for having me, I'm very excited about this. I know that you're full Japanese, I'm half Japanese and I've been to Japan twice and it is, I absolutely love Japan. I want to know Sumi, what is it about Japan that you love so much? I mean everything. You've got to love the food, you've got to love the people. People are so kind and so polite. The culture is so immersed and it goes back so far, the history and the culture and it's very, yeah, it's just such an interesting, beautiful place. You've got to travel along all around Japan, you can't just stay in Tokyo, you've got to go to Kyoto, you've got to go to Hokkaido, you've got to go see Okinawa, you can go everywhere and it's such a different place, everywhere you go. I need to go to Sapporo as well because the two times that I've been to Japan, I felt so proud to be Japanese, I mean you said it right, the culture and the people, I mean they're so polite and Sumi, I know that you graduated Punahou school in 2009, what are some of your high school highlights? My high school highlights, well I received the President's Award as a senior, yeah and oh that's my step-dad and my little brother and that is my acting teacher, Paul Palmore, I think that he's still there and my biggest achievement in Punahou was actually I did a few plays while I was at Punahou but my favorite one was West Side Story, I played Anita and that was my favorite musical that I've ever done in my entire life and I've done professional musicals after that as well but that was probably my highlight of my whole, one of the highlights of my whole life. So you love performing in Dillingham Hall right? Yes in Dillingham.  I studied, I was a double major, I was acting in musical theater but I was there for two years and then a big earthquake hit Japan and my grandmother passed away and my mother was going through some you know emotional changes and she was going through a lot so I came back to Hawaii after that and I spent some time with my family, my mother mainly, and then I moved back to Japan to pursue a career in acting and singing and modeling. Now Sumi, your mom and dad, I mean they were famous people in Japan you know when you're growing up and how, what is it about your mom and dad that you learned probably like one nugget that you learned from each of them? I learned a lot from my mother because I was, she was kind of like a single parent. My father and my mother split when I was young but I think one of the biggest things that she taught me is that I you know I need to just make my own decisions and be happy with them and really go for my dreams and to not give up and yeah she was always just so supportive of me throughout my life and I've had some really big hardships about you know kind of my father not being there and a lot of things have happened in my life but she was always there for me no matter what and yeah and it really taught me to trust people and it really taught me to really be there for other people too when they needed somebody. They were both actors in Japan as well. Yes. Wow so you got some acting I mean that's really how you got interested in acting is it? Yeah it is well since I was a little girl my mom would take me to musical theater shows she would show me some Disney movies and I got so like I was so inspired by you know music and by acting and when I went to Punahou I discovered musical theater again as actually somebody being in a musical theater show and I got bitten by the theater bug that's what we say the theater in the theater biz but um but yeah I I just got so hooked on on acting as well and then it was just it just flowed from there I just continued. Yeah and so you had a role in season five on Hawaii Five-O and then you you had a role in the movie The Shack and then you're also on Marvel's Inhumans and how was it you know doing all of those different different shows or different movies? Wow doing Five-O was so much fun because I got to go back home and I got to be a bad girl I got to hold a fake gun and shoot people and it was a lot of fun and I got to work with the best crew in the cast and after that I got my big you know break in The Shack it was the biggest film or the first film that I've done ever and it was really just amazing I mean the cast in the crew were incredible I got to work with Octavia Spencer who I've looked up to forever even before she won her Academy Award and I got to work with Sam Worthington who is a great like kind of like he was like an acting coach for me in some ways and he taught me a lot and yeah and I got to work with some really amazing producers the producers of The Life of Pi and The Blind Side were on that on that movie so yeah it was just an incredible experience first movie experience I think and we got to shoot in Vancouver in a beautiful area and I got to play the Holy Spirit which was the first time that the Holy Spirit of the Holy Trinity was being portrayed in the film ever so it was a big big honor yeah. Wow absolutely fantastic there Sumi and let's talk about your modeling career I mean you are absolutely photogenic I mean so super photogenic what are the best parts of modeling? Modeling for me is just really like a self-expression you just you know you can really express yourself you can really show your clothes and in a beautiful way and you can you can really you know show yourself and in a way that it's different from acting I think because you don't have words you don't have your lines you cannot be moving you have to be still so it's it's a very different type of it's kind of like acting though but it's it's a different type of acting I think and and it's just really a lot of fun for me because I get to just be myself and or be a different character so there's different types of modeling obviously but but yeah I really enjoy it and it's it's a way of me expressing myself it's a way of me letting go of some things that you know that I've been thinking about or just like I can release and relieve stress and just just be. Yeah and you know you're able to chameleate into so many different you know visuals and I want to know Sumi what's the what's the worst parts the most challenging parts of modeling? Okay the worst parts is that we have to be in a bikini in the winter time outside in the snow sometimes we have to be in hot hot winter clothing in the summertime sometimes because we are you know always reversed so whenever we're filming something we're shooting something for the winter we're shooting it in summer and when we're shooting something for summer we're shooting it winter so it's it's really hard to um keep a straight face and not sweat sweat you know a lot or freeze and you know be shivering a lot so it's that's that's really tough so it's not always glamorous right? No it's not and sometimes when you have to wake up at like three or four in the morning you're not awake at all and sometimes you know I'm like trying to drink coffee and accidentally almost drink my my lotion or you know you're just not all together at all. And Sumi you have been on the cover of numerous magazines and I you know I mean I want to ask you Sumi what what is the secret of being a great model during photo shoots? I think um for me as a as a like well I used to model and now I I kind of sometimes model but I not focused on modeling as my main job right now but um while I was modeling I realized that it's just so important to really um be kind and polite to everybody who is at your work at your job which I think is applied to um everything that you do everything that anybody does but for modeling especially because you really it's a team effort you know you have your makeup artist you have your stylist you have the photographer you have the producer you have the director you have the creative director you have everybody is is there to create something amazing together so you really have to um you know work together and I think it's it's you never you should never think I'm the star and I you know will you know be shining so bright and you know everybody will bow down to me it's nothing like that at all it's mainly actually the model has to work really hard to make everybody else happy too you know and I think and I think that's so important yeah it's a big it's a big team effort and obviously you're very humble and you bring the aloha to to each photo shoot right yeah I hope so so if what would be two of the biggest magazines that you would like to be on the cover of oh my goodness I would love to do I would love to do Vogue of course in the States and Vanity Fair is also a big one that I've always dreamt of doing because it's such a beautiful magazine and yeah I think those two are the biggest ones that I would love to work with one day when I get more recognition in the States well I think it could happen because you've been achieving so much success and popularity and in my books Sumi I talk about achieving and sustaining success and you you know in this when you reflect back on your career so far why are you achieving success that is a very difficult question to answer I think I mean I think it's because I've worked really hard my whole life and I never gave up and and no matter what hardships came my way I would really try to take them on graciously and to learn from them learn from mistakes learn from the hardships and and move forward and and yeah I've struggled with a lot mental health wise I've struggled with a lot emotionally because as an actor it's really hard to you know be so vulnerable all the time and I think that we have to learn this this balance that we I think we should learn in life as well to balance emotion emotion emotions and vulnerability and yeah I think that everybody who wants to be successful in the business in the entertainment industry really needs to just study and work hard and do all they can and hone their skills and really be the best and the greatest at what they do and and that's that's the best advice that I've been given as well so yeah and Sumi you know I I know you have high standards for yourself and you have a great personal culture of excellence and you know you mentioned that you know you work hard and and you also mentioned some you talked about some challenges what what is one challenge that you know you really had to deal with that was tough that you overcame well um one challenge that I had to go over was or had to overcome was um the big earthquake that hit Japan and um that really it really ate me up because I was so far away from my home in Japan and I was in Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania at school and um this whole this earthquake happened there were so many fatalities there were so many injuries there are so many people who lost their homes and it was a big um a big challenge for Japan I think to go over to get over and um and I was I was so hurt and I was so I was so affected by that because I couldn't do anything and I was so far away and um I realized that I wanted to do something and that's why I wanted to be in the entertainment industry in Japan and and have a name for myself so that I could do something I could do a charity I could do um I could do a charity event I can raise money I can raise awareness I can do something I can do something more is what I I've I realized and that was what I got out of that earthquake 311 hitting Japan yeah that was definitely uh devastating and I like hearing that you know that insight about how you really wanted to make an impact and let's talk about your your singing career you know some of your music videos have millions of views and how did you get interested in singing Sumi well I I've been singing my whole life just um just like any other little kid who would be doing oh my gosh that's that's from Puno but uh I grew up listening to Disney and watching Disney movies and going to musical theater shows with my mother and I really um just love to sing and love music and I always wanted to be a pop star that was my dream growing up and I was listening to a little bit um I was listening to like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and just getting inspiration from them like the pop you know sensation and um yeah and I and then I became a Japanese pop star a little bit yeah you know what I'm impressed with is you can sing in you know so many varieties of singing I mean it's it's very impressive you know you can do the pop you can do the I don't know what it's called where you're just I mean it's so meaningful but you're able to hit so many different notes I mean is I mean how long have you been I mean you said you started singing you know early on did you have singing coaches as well yes I um I trained classically actually I was trained by well I was trained by a voice coach and then I trained with an operatic voice coach as well so I actually came from a classical background from from middle school and high school is when I trained um classically and then um when I went to college I went I was I had a voice voice coach then as well and then I came to Japan and I still continue to um train with my voice as well see everyone always needs coaches it's a coaching is it's always a necessary part of success yes I mean I have acting coaches as well so whenever I go to the States I get my acting coaches and I have them help me as well so and Sumi I know you love to dance and you love to perform I mean what is it about dancing and performing that you love so much dancing for me is also another form of expression and it's just so like it's it's just it you can relieve so much you can release so much and um and it's just so much fun and uh and I've always I took ballet and it's it's a great form of discipline for young kids I think and um and it really helps you to hone down your skills and it helps you to it's a ballet is a basic skill so when you dance ballet you can dance basically any other dance um so it was a great stepping point for me and a great starting point for me to learn ballet Sumi you know I want to ask you this too you know us being Asian I mean you know in your life early on did you ever experience any bullying yes I did I I experienced bullying even in Japan because my famous my my parents were famous and I experienced a lot of bullying in that sense but then when I moved to Hawaii I couldn't speak English at first so I was bullied because I couldn't speak the language and when I went to school in the States I felt very different because there weren't as many Asian students in in Carnegie Mellon and especially in my acting program there weren't that many Asian students so I felt very estranged wow geez so you so after that I mean have you had any experiences of being discriminated against as well well being in Japan I don't get discriminated because I am Japanese but I do get a little bit of discrimination sometimes just because I grew up in the States and because I speak English and because I'm like international I kind of act differently than the Japanese like the normal Japanese person would act so um I definitely feel you know that I get treated almost as a foreigner sometimes even in Japan even in my own country well so obviously you've heard of the world famous tennis player Naomi Osaka yes and I you know I I mean I think she's I mean similar to you too because you know she's grew up you know in Japan but in the United States as well and kind of caught in between I mean what what advice would you give to someone like Naomi I mean I don't think I can give advice to Naomi because she's probably dealt with much more um you know of that than I have and I think that she's probably much stronger than I am I mean she just seems like a very strong woman um but uh I guess like my advice to anybody who would be going through some sort of discrimination or bullying especially cyberbullying because I've gone through that as well um I think it's just you have to really think that that person was not educated the way that you have been educated maybe that person is going through something really difficult such as their their family somebody passed away or somebody has a disease or maybe they are going through something in themselves emotionally or or physically or or mentally that they cannot deal with and so they take it out on somebody else and so you really got to I think pity that person a little bit and think that that person you know and you have to just really empathize and sympathize with them and um and just try to see it from their point of view and try to try to um yeah try to try to empathize with that person you know a few years ago you were honored and received an award at the Asia World Film Festival and I felt so happy for you that you know you were recognized for all of your efforts that you know what you're doing with your with your career how did it feel to be among the some of the best Asian actors uh in in the world at that event? I was very honored as you said and um it was my first award ever it was my first film ever so I was very taken aback that I was even um invited to that uh event and um and nevertheless receiving an award receiving the um the Rising Star Award which they um they were so gracious enough to to give to me and um and I was just so you know happy to be there with amongst amazing actors amazing Asian actors people who are helping to represent us well and um and it was such an honor to be there and it was it was so much fun and and I got to see some friends as well I got to see some people that I knew as well so that was really nice too. So being able to travel the world and you know going to Italy and doing all these fashion shows how are the parties like the Bulgari parties or the Dior parties are they fun? Yeah um of course they're fun but they're also very nerve-wracking because there's so many beautiful people there's so many people that are just very elegant and you feel like you need to like be on your game you have to be perfect sometimes but it's really fun and it's and it's it's just so glamorous that world is so glamorous fashion industry is is very glamorous I think and sometimes backstage it gets very cluttered and very crazy but um but for the parties I think it's just it's the time for you to relax and it should be a time for you to let go and have some fun. Yeah hopefully hopefully you can relax at those types of events but I can I can see how stressful it would be it's interesting to see that perspective as well and Sumi I want to ask you what's a what's a valuable lesson you learned in your life so far? A valuable lesson that I've learned um I mean I've learned so many lessons in my life but I think the biggest one is just to to be kind to to one another no matter what and I think after you know seeing everything that's going on in the world right now with corona with with the discrimination with with you know cyberbullying in Japan at least there there was a big um there was a big story about a girl who committed suicide from cyberbullying I think it's just a lesson that I've learned is like you have to really be kind to whoever that you bump into because you never know what they're going through and you have to assume that whoever you see you whoever you meet might be going through something really hard and um and just to be just gracious to them and kind to them no matter what and um yeah I think that's that's one of the biggest lessons that I feel right now is really um portrays well to society right now I totally agree be kind yeah and Sumi what's what's something that you want to do personally that you just haven't been able to do yet well um my biggest dream growing up was to be a pop star right but then my second dream after that was to be on Broadway nice so I've I've done some musical theater uh professional jobs in Japan but I hope to be able to do some musical theater in the states someday as well okay now I want to ask you one more thing okay so besides that what's another future goal of yours that you want to achieve in your life that has nothing to do with a career yeah it could be anything just a future goal that that you want to achieve besides what you mentioned I want to be a mom of four oh there we go why four I want to have lots of kids I grew up I was an only child for a little while for 10 years and then my mother had a a child later on but um I always wanted a big family a big happy family and uh I think the more the merrier so I really hope that I can have a lot of kids yeah I love hearing that Sumi I want to thank you so much for you know taking time in your schedule to join me on Beyond the Lines I mean it was super fun hearing your insights thank you thank you so much so looking forward to you visiting Hawaii when the corona thing uh finishes okay yes yes definitely I hope to meet you in person someday soon hopefully sooner than later yes definitely thank you Sumi thank you so much Rusty and thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii for more information please visit Rusty Komori.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble I hope that Sumi and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs Aloha


बिस्मिल सोग लगाग माड़ें! भे परइप़टा बडर श्मनज मेंट! आज हमार तोपीक है मुल्ती पक्टर मोडलि़्स अमने धिस्तिः के सिंगल फक्टर मोडल्स की बात की थी बागी को रवत बोगाग नीक श्थाज आद नहीं जी छोगाग just yet we talked aboutoundly when we talked about next stage that is multi-factor model. multi-factor model permit announced view of the risk that is granular more granular than single factor. single factor see isadha diversified hota while spread hota and capturing hota better hota. these describe return on risk in terms of risk as it with respect to factors that factors ka sadh risk ka kya relationships naya usko ye capture ka rah hota hai in order to give us a better indication. such model generally include systematic factors and prized risk. prized risk se murad kya? wo risk jis ke liye investor kahenge ke hum ye risk leh rahe hain to we should get a return. so these are prized risk. so multi-factor model unko capture ka rahenge aur mainly systematic risk to ye tek rahe hota hain. arbitrage pricing theory. one of the starting point for this multi-factor is apt. apt describe the expected return on asset aur portfolio as a linear function. kye relationship develop hoti hai uske through ye returns ko calculate kar sekte. like cap-m cap-m humne baad kaafi jaga ki bhi hai cap-m ki domain be hai. apt describe financial market equilibrium. but apt make less strong assumption. cap-m ki tera assumptions tori si zada strong hai. apt ki itni rigid assumptions nahin hai to thotta sa relatively ye flex hai with respect to assumptions. iski major assumptions hai kya asset returns are described by factor models. ke ek factor nahin hai multi-factor model hai jiski through ye determine hota hai. there are many assets so asset specific risk can be eliminated. jisko in simple word aap kate hai diversification possible hai aap spread out kar hain to individual jo risks nahin aap eliminate kar sekte. assets are priced such that there is no arbitrage possibility hai. ne ke wo fairly priced hai. arbitrage opportunity exist nahin kati hai. apt ki assumptions hai. equation iski kya hai with this in front of you right in front of you abhi meski detail se baad karenge main gist kya hai that we want to calculate the expected return to kya se nikal aega. expected return asset jo hai wo humara iski jo main humara jo calculation hai for this formula. rz rfp use kate hai is risk free rate. then it is the sensitivity jisko beta ki form mein hum use karenge aur risk premium hai jo ke humare us particular factor ka with respect to i. esko zara formula ko ek doa duwara dekhlein. expected return nikal nahin hai if this is the way we compute it. having the factor incorporated humare pas expected return aajata hai. multi factor models are broadly categorized according to types of factor used as follows. to income further three categories mein divide kattein ke kisth raha ke factor use kiye mein. to un factors ki base pe main sko subcategorize kare. macroeconomic factors, fundamental factors aur statistical. these are the types of factors jo ke humin sab ki different types aur aage for the examples ko dekhene. in macroeconomic the factors are surprised to macroeconomic variables ke jo hume surprises aate hai aur wo surprise se murad kya hai humare actual minus the forecasted value and that has expected value of zero. yani ke originally mara hai ke surprises nahin honge. so macroeconomic indicators hai unki saad hum apne linkage ko develop kare haute in macroeconomic factors. fundamental factors kya hai? factors attributable to stocks aur companies that are important for explaining cross sectional differences in price. yani ke fundamental factors mara hi yani ke unki jo specific related to the companies yaw stocks related jo hai wo un factors ke saad linkage create ke jaati to fundamental factors ke saad multi factor model use rata hai. in statistical factors the statistical methods applied to set of historical return to determine portfolio that explain historical turn in one or two senses. matta mein jo statistical models ko historical se link karke then we try to come up with the solution on factors ke saad linkage create kate to the three main categories jo multi factor mein exist kafi hai. multi factor model have application to return attribution risk attribution portfolio construction strategic investment decision yani ke bada critically utilization hai iski ke portfolio ka return kaha se aar hai risk ki kya attributes hai kise links hai aur mari decision making mein hame ye help out kata. a factor portfolio is a portfolio which unit sensitivity to a factor and zero sensitivity to other factor. unit sensitivity matlab ke ek factor ke saad uska sensitivity hai baki on ke saad sensitivity zero hai. so this is also one of the method we are going to see. to hum ye multi factor models ki further detail mein bhi jaayenge aur hum isko work out karenge to make sure we have a basic understanding ki ye factors work kese katne aur inka jis spirit kya. thank you