Hello, everyone. My name is Bill Micho from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and along with my colleagues, Mary Schlumbach and Elisandro Cabada, welcome you to this presentation on Biblical and Metric and Research Impact Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. First, a little background on research impact and research productivity. Universities are in many different contexts utilizing research impact metrics. Most of you have seen them being used, for example, in promotion of tenure. This is something that we do a fair amount of here at Illinois assisting departments with information about research. A number of articles published in Time Sighted H-Index. It's being used in funding decisions, recruiting and hiring decisions, comparative rankings, grant funding applications where they ask for impact indicators, and also just demonstrating the value of a particular university, particular area of university research. The libraries have become much more involved in these type of activities, Biblical and Metric and Research Impact Services. This particular session, the companion presentation is being done by the University of Waterloo people. We both have robust programs with a lot of overlap in terms of our areas of focus. I encourage you to watch their presentation. What we see is a lot of libraries partnering with University administration, colleges, departments in gathering and assessing research metrics. The beauty is that librarians and libraries now have the tools, for example, APIs, Scopus APIs, Web of Science APIs, patent grants, etc. APIs to pull out data. We've got visualization software, things like VossFior and Gefi, data repositories. We have a lot of resources and a lot of expertise to assist in the gathering organization and visualization of research impact metrics. A couple of things really important here, research impact metrics. I've got a quote here about even the most sophisticated metrics are not able to capture the diversity or richness of research impact. There is an increasing interest and concern about what's called responsible metrics. A lot of people have written about this. A number of organizations have been established to look at ways in which we can do more responsible research metrics. A couple of major organizations, the Declaration of Research Assessment, DORA, was established a few years ago to look at how scholarly research is assessed and evaluated. The Leighton Manifesto, I'll link to that here, Leighton University, and they have a Center CWTS for Science and Technology. They have distilled the best practices in metric space research assessment and they're looking at what they call 10 principles for the responsible use of bibliometrics. A couple of other organizations also involved in the science and transition and the end norms, research evaluation and our working group. The questions here and I'm going to show you our system would do a live demo of what are the visualizations that we put together. Questions is how do we actually define research impact? What are the indicators of the metrics that we use in these evaluations? How do we present these in a useful and accurate way? A lot of people are using visualizations and then caveat that we focus on quantitative measures but even the qualitative measures such as peer review and recommendations and other qualitative type measures, they're also subject to bias and error. We've been taking a sort of a matrix view of research indicators and looking at the literature, a view that incorporates a number of factors, a number of indicators. If you look at, for example, articles published by a researcher, in addition just to counts of these articles, you can look at the impact factor of the journals that they're publishing in and we use the Elsevier site score metrics for identifying a number of times articles, articles in a particular journal have been cited over the number of articles published. They're similar to the JCR from my aside journal citation reports. We can look at usage in times we see downloads in a particular journal or a particular article, the altmetric or attention score, looking at the position within the author list, acceptance rate of a journal and, for example, the Cabell publications now give you acceptance rates of particular journals or conferences. So in addition to articles published, the old standby, the gold standard really is a citation analysis, number of times particular articles have been cited. We can also look at the impact of the citing journal, look at citations per year. You'll also look at number of grants received and we've done custom NSF NIH and DOE databases of grants received by the University of Illinois researchers. We can look at the number of patents and we think in many ways the best way to measure innovation is to look at the patents granted, particularly in the engineering and other STEM fields. We use the patents view API and to generate specific custom databases of patents. We've just begun looking at awards and honors. We're now keeping track at the university level here at Illinois of national academy memberships by department. We can look at AAAS. We can look at Nobel prizes, obviously a very prestigious award. Start-up companies, intellectual property revenues, number of co-authors. One of the things we look at for NIH grants is co-authorship within a cohort or group. NIH wants this information provided to them, indicates the amount of collaborative research being done by a particular group or department and then their qualitative measures. Sometimes there's a measure of leadership within the field. Sometimes that's based on social media. Sometimes that's based on appearances in the media. It's often referred to as the voice of the person, peer review, and some other qualitative measures. If you look at the research impact metrics, there's a very rich literature on evaluation and measurement, a number of journals pretty much dedicated just to this topic. Again, much of the focus has been sort of on the gold standard, which is citation data, faculty publications. A lot of the quantitative research metrics have been applied in visualizations and dashboards. A couple of commercial systems, Elsevier, Cyvella Analytics, and ISI Insight. If you look at a couple of some of the research systems, the visualizations are quite complex. This is a system that tries to relate citations with a number of times published and authors in the field. Another very complex system that does a citation analysis and clustering of citations. Our system I'm going to demonstrate here is a dashboard where we try to provide a dynamic and interactive visualization. We've done this over a number of departments and groups, includes a lot of engineering departments, physics, chemistry, particular units such as the cancer center, where we've done a visualization of the research done by individual researchers within that center. We use the Scopus API and supplement that with the Cyvella Experts API to create a bibliographic metadata database, which includes some of the elements that we've talked about earlier, the research impact indicators. This all begins actually with one table with the person's name and Scopus ID numbers. We start building a database from that. A whole series of scripts that we've developed to create a co-authored grant patents received cited by tables. Early last year I did a webinar, Elsevier webinar, which is still viewable on a longer webinar in the system. Other important technical issues here. Our system is a database-driven and it's web-based. Database-driven means you can use pretty much the same scripts for display of information. Just read the information from a database of a particular department. I'm going to show you a display which features display bubbles. All of these are scaled and clickable to get to other information. Again, using the APIs from Scopus and Cyvella Experts in custom databases. Then we're using scalar vector graphics, HTML5, some JavaScript libraries to do some of the displays. The elements that are featured in our dashboard are articles published in a particular time period. The aggregate journal impact total, so we use site score to add up the journal impact for publications by particular researcher. Number of times the article is cited, the NSF NIH or DOE grants, patents received, co-authors, and then a co-author, cohort visualization that we're doing primarily for NIH grants. Let me try to do this demo. This is the bioengineering faculty, the University of Illinois, Nevada, Champaign. There's a fairly small department compared to a lot of the departments here. We are showing articles from 2010 to the present. Each of these bubbles represents a particular impact indicator, so I'll focus on a couple of people here. If I look at Stephen Bowe Park, there's 257 articles from this time period. I clicked here on the 257 bubble. I will actually go, again, these are suspended data taken from a scope of CPI. Articles, the 257 articles he's written in this time period, abstract, a link to the full text, a journal impact site score. I can start these by time-cited, so his high-cited article has been cited 213 times. It's in archipelago transactions of medical engineering. It's an article in Optical Express, IEEE transactions of biomedical engineering. Here's an article in PNAS. It sees the National Academy of Science. You see the site score there is much higher than the site score in some of the IEEE publications. And again, here the links are a lot. This is all totally interactive. A link to PNAS. I grabbed a PDF at this point. I can look at these 89-cited references, and we're getting these right out of scopus. Actually, it's interesting, since I did this database, articles have been cited a number more times. I've been cited 106 times, so a lot of metadata elements here. That's times published. The total journal impact for Stephen Bopart is 868. So these are the 257 articles. The site score added up from those articles. You'll see some of the other people. Rashid Bashir has a much higher impact total, 1189 with 170 articles. You see here, Bopart's article has been cited 356 times. Bashir's 5310 This link here for the times cited takes you into scopus author display with the total number of articles over the course of his career, the total number of citations. Grants. So I click on the 41 grants here from Bopart. It's 11 from NSF and 30 from NIH. I can look at a particular grant. This is a link into the NSF site. It gives more information about that particular grant. Same thing works for NIH. If I go down and NSFs are listed first, the NIH grant clicks into the NIH reporter particular grant project. So group co-authors if I look at the number of co-authors. This tells me that Rohit Bargama has published three articles with Andrew Smith. I click on the three here and get these three articles. All together he's got seven. If I had been Bashir to the center, you can see who he's written with. So this is an indication of the collaborative nature of this particular court. In this case, it's the bioengineering department. It could be within a group, for example, the cancer center. Number of patents works pretty much the same way. I click on the 24 patents here. Actually, it's now 51 patents. It's interesting. And this is a file we updated on a regular basis. Bullport does a lot of work on optical coherence tomography. So you can see fairly easy to do is sort of overarching comparison, eyeball type of comparison. Shumi Ney has published a very few articles or fewer articles than some of the other faculty. What has been cited 53, 5,000 through to 99 times. So this work is just as cited much more frequently. So back to the PowerPoint. This is a picture of the visualization, a visualization on our visual. You see this is a very large a cave of visual that we have in our, what's called our idea lab in the graduate engineering library. We have a version of the visualization that fits to the screen size. So it will fit to the visual or fit to a laptop or actually even fit to a particular phone if that was what you were looking for the visualization. So in summary, kind of think that the research impact services, bibliometric services enhance the role of the library. We're supporting scholarly communication. We're fostering campus partnerships. We use the same scripts and display software for all departments and research groups. We're also looking at the correlations over these research impact indicators. And I've got a couple of slides on that. And we've developed some mechanisms for weighting the indicators and generating composite impact values. So one obvious question is here is the researchers that have published the most articles also have the highest number of items cited. You saw the bioengineering that got some people that published fewer articles, but they've been cited more often. Is there a correlation between the number of articles at the age index, between the number of grants, number of patents? So we did a correlation analysis over 360 faculty. So we combined the departments of Bioengineering, the Cancer Center, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and then a correlation over these 360 faculty researchers. Looking at correlations between these basically seven elements that we have information on. Articles published, time cited, age index. We code the age index and build it into the database, although we're not displaying it in visualization right now. Site score, total, number of co-authors, etc. So if you look at some of the correlations, for example, between the number of articles, the age index, that's a person's R 0.594. Look at time cited in age index 0.5. So that's relatively low. It actually illustrates some of the known issues with age index, particularly with respect to younger researchers. And if you're only looking at work over the last five to 10 years, you may have a lot of very prolific younger researchers in terms of articles published in time cited, but they may not yet have a big enough age index that correlates highest with that. Whereas you might have some veterans of the faculty who have been in the field for a long time and have high age indexes, but haven't been as productive or prolific over the last few years. In terms of some of the other correlations, if you look at the number of articles versus the time cited, that's very high. So there are some variants across departments, but 0.897, number one is the highest. If you look at the site score and the number of articles to correlation between those two, that's R 0.836. So it's very high. However, if you look at the correlation between the number of articles written in the grants received, or articles written in patents received, those are very low, literally not significant. Even if you look at the patents of the grants, the correlation 0.388 is below a typical threshold value of 0.5. So those results show that the grant and the patents numbers, they actually can provide some useful alternative metrics when compared to articles published at time cited for evaluating research impact and innovation. We're going to expand on this now and add all metric scores. We now have acceptance rates from journalists as part of our Cabell service. We can look at position within the authorship. We can look at major awards and use all those additional factors in some of our visualizations, which actually kind of takes me to the point here. We've developed a system that lets you weight the research indicators. These are the seven that we're actually using here. You're going to assign a particular weight and then come up with a sort of a composite score for a particular faculty member or researcher. Again, this would be something that perhaps the department might want to look at where they might think grants are more important than the number of co-authors or grants are more important than patents or patents are more important than anything. You can use that to put together a composite weighted number for individual researchers. That pretty much concludes my presentation. Thank everybody for listening. If you have any questions, please send an email to my email address. Thank you very much.


Hi, my name is Danny, and welcome to Esoteric Moment. Today I am doing the second part of my wedding series and talking about our reception. But I really wanted to keep the reception as simple and easy and stress-free as possible. So for our wedding reception, we chose a local restaurant downtown that has a separate party room that we rented out for the evening. The nice thing about going to a restaurant was that they already had staff to do a servers, bartenders, they're used to cooking large amounts of food, and they already have tons of alcohol and other drinks. They're just prepared for doing this sort of thing. We have a very small guest list, which we did on purpose because an intimate affair is really what we wanted, so we would have time to hang out with our favorite people and not feel any pressure to just run from table to table to say hi and thank you and not have any time for us to enjoy the event ourselves. The restaurant we chose is the Old Fashion, which is downtown in Madison. It has a surprisingly high minimum purchase amount for the weekend. That's the only kind of downside to doing our reception this way is that it's a little bit more expensive than we really wanted. So there's a room fee and tax and a tip that goes on top of the purchase minimum. But otherwise, in that purchase price, we get to pick up a buffet of food, appetizers, and then we have enough leftover that it'll be an open bar for our guests. In an attempt to make our reception as easy as possible, we are doing just simple decorations. So at our ceremony, the bridesmaids and I are wearing a black watch tartan shawl and the groomsmen and groom all have tartan ties. So out of the same fabric, I made some square yard-sized table cloths that will go kind of on a point where it's like diagonals down the center of the table and that will go in the center of each long column of tables, so four total, and then some evergreens just down the center with candles. Centerpieces that are easily forged this time of year, very simple to put out and easy to take down at the end of the night. We have a couple signs that I just used poster board and Sharpie paint pens to make but tell our guests easy things like what our hashtag is and that we are, you know, what the evening has in store for them. Instead of doing dancing, we're gonna actually have people bring in some board games and we'll play board games during the evening instead. This is one because the space doesn't have a huge amount of room for dancing. We don't have to buy a DJ or a band and it's just easier for people to tell stories and talk if they don't want to do board games. I am also really against that clinking glass thing that people do to make the couple kiss. That noise is just really intense and I don't wanna break dishes. So we're actually rolling a large green D20 dice. If a guest hits 11 through 20, Brad and I will kiss. If they hit a one through 10, they have to kiss someone, which I think is great because consequences happen in life. So if you want us to exhibit PDA, then you have to be willing to do the same. Other traditions that we aren't doing is the garter toss that comes from this tradition of like basically molesting and attacking the bride because of how lucky she was and people would kind of rip her clothes off after a wedding to kind of get a piece of this luck and obviously a garter belt is a tamer version of doing that but it still really squigs me out. So we're not doing that. I also don't think that we'll do a bouquet toss because I don't think everyone has to get married. Like it's awesome that Brad and I found each other and we want to make this commitment but it is not the only way to be satisfied in life. So why pressure all of our single friends into feeling like they have to be next in getting married. Also my bouquet will be made out of pine cones and pine boughs. So that's not the most pleasing element to catch in midair. We're really lucky that a bunch of friends have volunteered to help set up decorations to keep track of our bar tag, play a playlist that we're doing on Spotify for us. So it should be a very smooth and fun night that Brad and I get to enjoy just as much as our guests. In this video, I also want to mention some kind of basic budget things. So weddings are really, really expensive and we spent probably when we're done with the reception, it'll be about $4,000 there and then we have our traditional outfits. Brad bought a suit since he didn't own one already and I bought a fancy traditional dress. So that was about $1,500 total there and we also splurged on some gifts for our wedding party and our parents. So at the end of the night, we're looking at somewhere between $5,500 and $6,000 which is way more than we wanted to spend but all of the costs that we put in meant that there's been less stress in the planning process and the actual day we hope. So I think it will be well worth it in the end. The other DIY task that took more time than I anticipated and I'm still not done is in these shaws that I made, they're like double layered. I wanted to make a fringe. So I just sewed along the bottom and I did some snips and I'm taking off the horizontal piece so there's this nice little fringe. It looks great, it takes forever. So hopefully that will be done. If it's not done by that day, I'll just take more snips to it or something and do it the lazy way. The other DIY project we did was super easy and fast. We purchased some carrot seeds to give away as favors to our guests. I did one of those print at home labels that say like thank you and what it is and then we purchased for like $4 little envelopes that are like made out of wax paper. So we just put a spoonful of seeds in, folded it in a sticker and it's done. That took maybe an hour at the very most because I was particular about how the stickers turned out. We're also doing a guest quilt instead of a guest book. So guests can use fabric markers and sign squares of regular cotton fabric and then I'm gonna sew that into a quilt afterwards. I think when planning a wedding and reception, the biggest things that you can focus on are like what are your goals? Is your goal to do lots of traditions? Is your goal to save money? Is your goal to relax? Or is there a theme you wanna focus on? Whatever your goal is just stick to that as you make decisions. So we wanted things to be simple and a lot of times our decision came down to will this be simple or will it add stress and time? I hope maybe this video gave you some ideas for your own wedding and that if you are planning a wedding or helping a friend with a wedding that you remember to breathe and just enjoy it and make as many decisions and get as many people to help you as we'll make it a stress free and relaxing day for you. Thanks for watching and as always, may you find peace in the sacred grove.


I want to speak about biblical worship, biblical worship. I want to share my heart about that. Like I said, it's not going to be like a very doctrinal super statement. No, I'm just going to share some thoughts from my heart and I pray he's going to bless you. So probably one of the greatest passages when it comes to speak about worship is in John 4. Remember when Jesus actually meets the Samaritan woman? Actually it's one of the passages that talks the most in the New Testament about worship. So I'm going to start reading from John chapter 4 verse 7. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a drink. Then the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you being a Jew ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? For Jews has no dealings with Samaritans. Verse 10, Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew, say to me, if you knew, the gift of God and who is who says to you, give me a drink. He would have asked him and he would have given you living water, living water. You know, I find myself a lot of preachers, when they speak from this passage, they usually go worship in spirit and truth, which is amazing. It's fantastic to go to that verse, which is part of this chapter. Actually sometimes we miss the fact that Jesus is talking about the living water that can be released during worship times. So my question to you today is, are you thirsty? Are you thirsty for the living water? I pray today the Lord is going to put like a strong thirst in our spirit for this living water. Guys, this is something that we need to learn. When we come in worship sets, we need to learn to come to Him and say, Father, I'm thirsty. I need this living water. And the beautiful thing is that He pours out this living water for us. So like I said, the main purpose in every worship set is not only to worship in spirit and truth, but actually is to drink this living water that comes from Jesus. Can we say amen? Verse 13, it says, whoever drinks, Jesus says, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. He was speaking about the natural water. Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. You know, the enemy has a water. The world has his own water. But the water that you drink from the world will never quench that thirst. Am I the only person, if I get more, I somehow need more. If I get some success, I find myself needing more success. If I get some money, I find myself needing more money. That's the water of this world. We come, we drink, but actually we are not satisfied. But the Bible speaks about a water that actually will satisfy us. And that's verse 13. It says, but whoever drinks, Jesus says, whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never listen to this, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. Who wants that? Who wants that? I want that. I want that. So we remember every time we come in a worship set, God has a living water that is ready to pour out. It's not about the songs. It's not about the style. It's not about the enthusiasm. It's not about that. It's about the living water that he is going to pour out in our hearts. Can we say amen? Yes, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Verse 19.  Interesting. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain and new Jews said that in Jerusalem is the place where Anu ought to worship. It's interesting. A woman with her problems, her interest meeting was worshipped. It's interesting. I found it interesting because if we know about this woman, she had a lot of issues. Five husbands, a lot of problems. But it's interesting. Something inside her was kind of pulling her to hey, I need to find out more about worship. I need to find out more about how these things works. How this thing called worship works. And Jesus said to her, woman, believe me that the hour is coming when you will neither mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship what you do not know. This is part of the core of the problem. We worship a God that we don't know. We worship a God that we don't know. And I want to challenge you. It's not about how many things you know about God. My question to you is do you know God? Do you know him personally? Because Jesus says that's the problem. You worship a God that you don't know. And today I want to encourage you. Know that God that you are worshiping. Because he has a living water prepared for you. So verse 23 yet the time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the spirit for they are the kind of worshipers that Father seeks. You know what struck me at this verse is struck me the fact that the Father is not looking necessary for times of worship. He's not looking for worship nights. But actually he's looking for worshipers. He's looking to find worshipers. You know what's the difference?  It's in you. It's part of who you are. It's your identity. You carry with you. That's why I want to challenge us me and you today. Let's become worshipers. Let's become worshipers. Actually if I can say I hope I don't mess it up to be addicted with that living water. This is what makes us worshipers. This is what makes us actually sons and daughters of the living God. When we become this identity we carry in us and we say yes Lord I come to you. Nobody needs to say kneel. Nobody needs to say raise your hands. Nobody needs to say shout to the Lord. It's inside of me. I carry it. I do it because I love the king of kings. And nobody can stop me. Nobody can stop you. I want to encourage you to become that worshipper. This is kind of the general idea but now I want to give you some practical steps because when we talk about worship we often think about what's my part and what's God's part. Isn't that true in any kind of circumstances? We kind of think about what's my part? What's my role to play and what's God's role to play? Well I believe we talked about what's God's part. He will send the living water for you. But I will tell you what I think from the Bible is our part. Yes? So what I want to say is during worship, during worship times the physical actions of your body carry profound spiritual significance. I'm going to repeat that. Let's worship the physical actions of your body carry profound spiritual significance. Let's go to Romans 12 verse 1. Romans 12 verse 1 it's a key verse when we talk about worship. Therefore I exhort you brothers by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God in the service of worship. Very interesting, it's not talking about your heart it's not talking about your mind it's not talking about your soul actually Paul comes and says I want you to present your bodies and let that be your living sacrifice which is your spiritual service of worship. Isn't it interesting? Did you ever thought about what you do with your body in these services has a very important part to play? Most of us when we think about worship we think okay it's a matter of style. You know young people they like to jump, they like to clap well the Bible doesn't say that I challenge you it's not a matter of style and we will see together that actually the Bible talks about what you do with your body is very important. So very interesting, three things the worship that God desires first it says like a holy, present your body as a living sacrifice. It talks about a living sacrifice what I want to share to you is that it will cost you. Sacrifice is something that costs you. So if you come here and expect that something will pull you or something will take your hands an angel will lift your hands it will never happen it will never happen you need to do it. That's your spiritual service that you do for the Lord. So it's a sacrifice it will it will cost you something. Remember at Jericho walls at Jericho walls they had clear assignment from the Lord to shut up for six days and there were a lot of women there I'm just saying there were also a lot of men who use a lot of words but I'm just saying for six days they had clear instructions from the Lord to shut their mouth. That was a sacrifice wasn't it and it's interesting on a seven day the Lord tell them now everybody shout even the introvert even the small children maybe even the dogs everybody needs to shout on a seven day and the power was in what they did it was a physical act but has a spiritual significance make sense? So why? Because the Lord told them to do it was a sacrifice for them it will be a sacrifice for us but I will tell you it will take courage to step out of your comfort zone it's not about jumping it's not about clapping it's actually if you feel if you feel your comfort zone is doing this in worship think about doing a little bit more next time. Amen think about okay I want to bring my body I want to present my body in a different way kind of stepping out of my comfort zone it's going to cost you but it will be good. Amen So the second thing that it says present as a living sacrifice and then it says holy let me tell you what I think is the number one thing that robs us for encountering very deep spiritual have a deep spiritual encounter with the Lord I think is this subject why? Because we forget we come before a holy God and coming before a holy God requires to be holy and the great news is that we cannot make ourselves holy but the blood of Jesus makes us holy the Bible says very clearly if we confess our sins it's an if okay if we confess our sins he is faithful and righteous to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all our righteousness 1st John 1st 9 if we confess remember you come before a holy God and we need his blood to cleanse us can we say amen so church I want to encourage you let's take 3 minutes before every time we come before the Lord and cleanse ourselves confess our sins it's his blood that is cleansing us but our part is to confess it can we say amen so I want to encourage you do that you know in the Old Testament there was this picture of the temple and there was the outer court was the holy place and the holies of holies wasn't it and we know today there is not that physical temple but we became the temples yes but the key where we encounter the Lord and when we drink that water is actually in the holies of holies and I want to tell you this in the Old Testament the way that they interact with the Lord in the outer courts was very different that the way they experience the Lord in the holies of holies and I want to tell you this sometimes because we don't go before the Lord to cleanse our stuff we don't experience the holies of holies and we have worship times in a courtyard and we walk in a court it's amazing it's good no responsibility to go in the deep we don't enter in the holies of holies why? because we are not cleansed and if you know something about a holy God he left a whole book called Leviticus that actually it's almost like a protocol how to come before him now the only thing that I think it's missing today aren't you glad that you don't need to bring an animal with you can you imagine can you imagine pastor Ed can I take you as an example can you imagine pastor Ed bringing a huge animal like a bull with him to the temple you know sometimes because in the Old Testament if you bring a big animal you really mess it up if you mess it up a little bit you bring a pigeon or something and that's it aren't you grateful that we don't need to do that aren't you grateful that the blood of Jesus actually took over and he became the sacrifice but hey church listen to me we need to confess our sins we need to come before him that's the only thing that changed amen and the third thing and I kind of trying to wrap it up here as quick as I can it's interesting that it says pleasing to him so remember as a living sacrifice holy bring your body and pleasing to him pleasing to him very interesting praise means expressing appreciation towards someone or something glorifying and showing reverence and there is not just one word for praise in the Hebrew language the Bible uses several words for praise providing insights more of worship that God desires what I want to say with this is actually in Hebrew language when we read in English or in Romanian or whatever language we read the word praise but actually the Hebrew people the Jewish people will receive clear instructions of the way how they needed to praise the Lord make sense so basically in Hebrew language there was 12 different words that give specific instructions how to come before the Lord because we want to make it pleasing for him amen and we want to give him a biblical worship so let's go in four of these words kind of go very quickly in four of these words to kind of check if we have a biblical worship or not okay first word is Zamar Zamar means like translated means singing with instruments making melodies celebrating through music and song this is clear we do it we celebrate him through music so we do that yes amen let's go to the the other one the second one is Yadah Yadah means like this raising hands in worship praising or thanking God for something specific here we go raising hands it's not a matter of style it's a matter of biblical worship so raising hands before the Lord should be one of the most natural thing that we should do in worship times can we say amen because it's something that is actually pleasing to him and there are a lot of verses yes so I put there verses that have this word Yadah in it so basically the Lord when he's instructing us to raise our hands he does it a lot in the Bible so it's there we should do it can we say amen okay the third one and now it comes a little bit more spicy Tehila to sing to praise through a spontaneous new song to sing a melody from your heart to add words from your heart to a melody in a special way of singing I'm prepared and unrehearsed this is something that musician don't like I'm prepared and unrehearsed but I tell you that there's so much power in singing a new song to the Lord the Bible is full of that so I want to encourage you next time I don't know if you know this or not but after songs we create a little bit of space why? that is the place when you raise voice and you start singing to the Lord imagine my relationship with my wife which I love her so much I go to her and I say dear let me tell you something and I read to her a poem and then the next day I come again and I read a poem and the third day I come again and I read a poem and she will be like okay nice with the poem but what's in your heart can I hear something from actually from your heart can I hear what you think not what poem or whatever not the songs can I hear what you have to say the Bible is full if you look in revelations there's a lot of new songs very simply doesn't need to be complicated holy amazing beautiful these are very simple things to do so actually the Bible is instructing us the healer to sing a spontaneous new song to the Lord amen and the last one which I think is the most dangerous one especially in charismatic circles is Halal so Halal means to boast about God in an extravagant loud joyous manner even to the point of appearing ridiculous in our expression what about that look at how many scriptures contain that specific Halal world you know some one 156 says let everything that has breath praise the Lord you know what that word praises Halal that's shocking isn't it everything that has breath there's no excuse it doesn't say about melancholic ones you know introvert no you can actually it says everything that has breath Halal the Lord praise the Lord in an extravagant joyous manner you know there's only one category of people who is allowed to not praise the Lord and now everybody is like tell me please let me be in that category of people so I can have an excuse 115 verse 17 says this is not the dead who praised the Lord that's the only category that I found in scriptures that allows you to not praise the Lord if you're dead but last time you checked you have breath so I guess you are in a different category oh my gosh God help us I will end with this because my time is up what is happening through our praise Psalm 223 says this but you are holy you who inhabit the praises of Israel church when God decides to make his home a church when God decides to go from visitations to habitation something amazing is happening I really believe from my heart that the Lord is preparing this church to go from a place of visitations you know the Lord visitations is amazing but we want the Lord to be with us amen to inhabit, to make his house to say I want to live at hungry Jen if you look at Old Testament you see it everywhere God's desire is actually to come and live among his people that's why he knew that he had only one problem he's a holy God so he needed to create a bunch of rules so why so you will not put them in danger that's why he created those because he knew I'm a holy God but you can see actually the Lord's dream was to live among his people I really believe this is our portion hungry Jen I really believe this is what the Lord wants to make this a house of prayer yes and a house of worship to raise up worshipers in this place that are so thirsty of that living water and once we get that living water now nothing else will satisfy more than that can we say amen let's raise to our feet


Let's try the next one. Aluminium plus oxygen goes to aluminium oxide. So aluminium is an element, symbol is AL, oxygen is also an element and it's one of the diatomic seven, so it's going to be O2 and they react to give aluminium oxide. Again this is an ionic solid, a metal and a nonmetal. We'll work out the ions, the first one is going to be aluminium, which is in group three, so it's going to be three plus. Oxide is oxygen and it's in group six, so it needs to gain two electrons to get a full octet, which means that it has a charge of two minus. When we do the crossover for that, that gives us AL2O3. Okay, let's balance it. On the left we have one aluminium and on the right we have two aluminium, so let's make that a two there. Okay, now for oxygen we've got two on the left and we've got three on the right. Okay, this could be a little bit tricky, but the way that we approach it is to look for the lowest common multiple of these two numbers. And the lowest common multiple of two and three is six, so we're going to swing things so that there are six oxygens on either side. So oxygen molecule has two atoms in it. To make six atoms we need three molecules. And on the right we've got three oxygen atoms, so that means we need two molecules. So now on the left we've got three times two, which is six oxygen atoms. And on the right we've got two times three, which is six oxygen atoms. Now let's just go back and double check the aluminium. We've got two on the left, but now because we put this two in front of the aluminium oxide, we've got two times two, which is four aluminium's on the right. So that means we need to go back and make a modification and make that four. So I'll just clean that up. There we go. Four aluminium's on the left, four on the right, six oxygens on the left, six on the right. Now notice that that balancing required a little iteration.  That frequently happens when you're balancing equations. Don't be afraid of that. It's just a normal part of the process.


We're here with theCUBE covering Commvault connections 21 and we're going to look at the data protection space and how cloud computing has advanced the way we think about backup, recovery and protecting our most critical data. Ranga Rajagopalan, who is the vice president of products at Commvault and Stephen Orban, who's the general manager of AWS Marketplace and Control Services. Gents, welcome to theCUBE, good to see you. Thank you, always a pleasure to see you. Stephen, thanks for having us, great to be here. Very welcome, Stephen. Let's start with you. Look, the cloud has become a staple of digital infrastructure. I don't know where we'd be right now without being able to access enterprise services, IT services remotely. But specifically, how are customers looking at backup and recovery in the cloud? Is it a kind of a replacement for existing strategies? Is it another layer of protection? How are they thinking about that? Yeah, great question, Dave. And again, thanks for having me. And I think, look, if you look back to 15 years ago when the founders of AWS had the hypothesis that many enterprises, governments, and developers were gonna want access to on-demand pay as you go, IT resources in the cloud, none of us would have been able to predict that it would have matured and become the staple that it has today over the last 15 years. But the reality is that a lot of these enterprise customers, many of whom have been doing their own IT infrastructure for the last 10, 20, or multiple decades, do have to kind of figure out how they deal with the change management of moving to the cloud. And while a lot of our customers will initially come to us because they're looking to save money or costs, almost all of them decide to stay and go big because of the speed at which they're able to innovate on behalf of their customers. And when it comes to storage and backup, that just plays right into where they're headed. And there's a variety of different techniques that customers use, whether it be a lift and shift for a particular set of applications or a data center or where they do very much look at, how can they replace the backup and recovery that they have on-premises in the cloud using solutions like what we're partnering with Convool to do or completely reimagining their architecture for net new developments that they can really move quickly for their customers and completely developing something brand new where it is really a brand new replacement and innovation for what they've done in the past. Great, thank you, Stephen. Raga, I want to ask you about the D word digital. Okay, if you're not a digital business today, you're basically out of business. So my question to you, Raga, is how have you seen customers change the way they think about data protection during what I call the force march to digital over the last 18, 19 months? Are customers thinking about data protection differently today? Definitely, Dave. And thank you for having me and Stephen. Pleasure to join you on this Cuban interview. First going back to Stephen's comments, can't agree more. Almost every business that we talk with today has a cloud first strategy, a cloud transformation mandate. And the reality is back to your digital comment, Dave. There are many different paths to the hybrid multi-term and different customers. There are different parts of the journey. So as Stephen was saying, most often customers, at least from a data protection perspective, start the conversation by thinking, hey, I have all these tips. Can I start using cloud as my air gap, long-term retention target? And before they realize, they start moving their workloads into the cloud and none of the backup and recovery SLAs are going to change. So you need to continue protecting the clouds, which is where the cloud needed data protection comes in. And then they start innovating around DR. Can I use cloud as my DR site so that I don't need to maintain the other site? So digital is all around us, cloud transformation is all around us. And the real essence of this partnership between AWS and Commvault is essentially to drive and simplify all the paths to the cloud, regardless of whether you're going to use it as a storage target or your production data center or your DR disaster recovery site. Yeah, so really is about providing that optionality for customers. I talked to a lot of customers and said, hey, our business resilience strategy was really too focused on DR. I've talked to all the customers at the other end of the spectrum and said, we didn't even have a DR strategy. Now we're using the cloud for that. So it's really all over the map and you want that optionality. So Stephen, go ahead, please. And so ransomware plays a big role in many of these considerations as well, right? Like it's unfortunately not a question of whether you're going to be hit by ransomware, it's almost become like, what do you do when you're hit by ransomware and the ability to use the cloud scale to immediately bring up the resources, to use the cloud backups has become a very popular choice simply because of the speed with which you can bring the business back to normal operations, the agility and the power that cloud brings to the table. Yeah, ransomware is scary. You don't even need a high school diploma to be a ransomwareist. You could just go on the dark web and buy ransomware as a service and do bad things. And hopefully you'll end up in jail. Stephen, we know about the success of the AWS marketplace, you guys are partnering here. I'm interested in how that partnership, kind of where it started and how it's evolving. Yeah, happy to highlight on that. So look, when we started AWS or when the founders of AWS started AWS, as I said, 15 years ago, we realized very early on that while we were going to be able to provide a number of tools for customers to have on-demand access to compute, storage, networking, databases that many, particularly enterprise and government customers, still use a wide range of tools and solutions from hundreds, if not in some cases, thousands of different partners. I mean, I talked to enterprises who literally use thousands of different vendors to help them deliver their solutions for their customers. So almost 10 years ago, we're almost at our 10 year anniversary for AWS marketplace. We launched the first instantiation of AWS marketplace, which allowed builders and customers to find, try, buy, and then deploy third-party software solutions running on Amazon machine instances, also known as AMIs, natively right in their AWS and cloud accounts to compliment what they were doing in the cloud. And over the last nearly 10 years, we've evolved quite a bit to the point where we support software in multiple different packaging types, whether it be Amazon machine instances, containers, machine learning models, and of course, SaaS and the rise of software as a service. So customers don't have to manage the software themselves, but we also support data products through the AWS data exchange and professional services for customers who wanna get services to help them integrate the software into their environments. And we now do that across a wide range of procurement options. So what used to be pay as you go, Amazon machine instances now includes multiple different ways to contract directly. Customers can do that directly with the vendor, with their channel partner, or using kind of our public e-commerce capabilities. And we're super excited over the last couple of months, we've been partnering with Commvault to get their industry leading backup and recovery solutions listed on AWS marketplace, which is available for our collective customers now. So not only do they have access to Commvault's awesome solutions to help them protect against ransomware as we talked about and to manage their backup and recovery environments, but they can find and deploy that directly in one click right into their AWS accounts and consolidate their billing relationship right on the AWS invoice. And it's been awesome to work with Ranga and the product teams at Commvault to really expose those capabilities where Commvault's using a lot of different AWS services to provide a really great native experience for our collective customers as they migrate to the cloud. Yeah, the marketplace has been amazing. We've watched it evolve over the past decade. And it's a key characteristic of cloud. Everybody has a cloud today, right? We're a cloud too, but marketplace is unique in that it's the power of the ecosystem versus the resources of one of Ranga. I wonder from your perspective, if you could talk about the partnership with AWS from your view, and then specifically you've got some hard news. I wonder if you could talk about that as well. Absolutely, so the partnership has been extending for more than 12 years, right? So AWS and Commvault have been bringing together solutions that help customers solve their data management challenges. And everything that we've been doing has been driven by the customer demand that we see, right? Customers are moving their workloads into the cloud. They're finding new ways of deploying the workloads and protecting them. Earlier, we introduced cloud native integration with the EBS APIs, which has driven almost 70% performance improvements in backup and resource. And when you look at huge customers like Coca-Cola who have standardized on AWS and Commvault, that is the scale that they want to operate in. They manage around 150,000 snapshots, 1,200 EC2 instances across six regions, but with just one resource dedicated for the data management strategy, right? So that's where the real built-in integration comes into play. And we've been extending it to make use of the cloud efficiencies like power management and autoscale and so on. Another aspect is our commitment to a radically simple customer experience. And that's, you know, I'm sure Stephen would agree, it's a big month at AWS as well. That's really together with the customer demand which brought us together to introduce Commvault into the AWS marketplace. Exactly the way Stephen described it. Now the heart announcement is Commvault backup and recovery is available in AWS marketplace. So the exact four steps that Stephen mentioned, find, try, buy and deploy, everything simplified through the marketplace so that AWS customers can start using Commvault backup software in less than 20 minutes. A 68 trial version is included in the product through marketplace. And you know, it's a single click buy. We use the cloud formation templates to deploy. So it becomes a super simple approach to protect the AWS workloads. And we protect a lot of them. Starting from EC2, RDS, Dynamo TV, Document TV, you know, the containers that the list just keeps going on. So it becomes a very natural extension for our customers to make it super simple to start using Commvault data protection for the AWS workloads. Well, the Commvault stack is very robust. You have a extremely mature stack. I'm curious as to how this sort of came about. I mean, it had to be customer driven, I'm sure, where your customers say, hey, we're moving to the cloud. We had a lot of workloads in the cloud. We're a Commvault customer. That intersection between Commvault and AWS customers. So again, I presume this was customer driven but maybe you can give us a little insight and add some color to that, Ranga. Everything in this collaboration has been customer driven. We were earlier talking about the multiple paths to cloud and a very good example. And Steven might probably add more color from his own experience at the Jones but I'll bring you to reference Parsons who's a civil engineering leader. They started with the cloud first mandate saying, we need to start moving all our backups to the cloud but we are worried that bad actors might find it easy to go and access the backups. AWS and Commvault came together with AWS security features and Commvault brought in its own authorization controls. And now we have moved more than 14 petabytes of backup data into the cloud. And it's so robust that not even the backup administrator can go and touch the backups without multiple levels of authorization, right? So the customer needs, whether it is from a security perspective, performance perspective or in this case from a simplicity perspective is really what is driving us. And the need came exactly like that Dave. There are many customers who have now standardized on AWS. They want to find everything through the AWS marketplace. They want to use their existing AWS contracts and also bring data strategy as part of that. So that's the real driver behind this. Steven and I were hoping that actually announced some of the customers that have actively started using it. Many notable customers have been behind this innovation. Steven, I don't know if you wanted to add more to that. Yeah, I would just add Dave, like if I look back before I joined AWS seven years ago, I was the CIO at Dow Jones and I was leading a fairly big cloud migration there over a number of years. And one of the impetuses for us moving to the cloud in the first place was when Hurricane Sandy hit, we had a real disaster recovery scenario in one of our New Jersey data centers. And we had to act pretty quickly. Commvault was part of that solution. And I remember very clearly, even back then, back in 2013, there were being options available to help us accelerate our move to the cloud. And just to reiterate some of the stuff that Rongo was talking about, Commvault has done a great job over the last more than a decade taking features from things like EBS and S3 and EC2 and some of our networking capabilities and embedding them directly into their services so that customers are able to more quickly move their backup and recovery workloads to the cloud. So each and every one of those features was as a result of, I'm sure, Commvault working backwards from their customer needs just as we do at AWS. And we're super excited to take that to the next level to give customers the option to then also buy that right on their AWS invoice on AWS Marketplace. Yeah, I mean, we're going to have to leave it there. Steven, you've mentioned this several times the sort of the early days of AWS. Back then we were talking about gigabytes and terabytes. And now we're talking about petabytes beyond, guys, thanks so much. I really appreciate your time and sharing the news with us. Dave, thanks for having us. All right, keep it right there. More from Commvault Connections 21. You're watching theCUBE.