وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ آيَاتُهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ المُنزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوْوَالُهُ إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستوشره ونعود بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات عمالنا من يهديه الله فلا مضلله ومن يضلل فلا هاديله وشدوا الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وشدوا أن محمد العبده ورسوله أما بعض وإن شرح عبد كتاب نباقظ الإسلام رتل باي شيخ الإسلام محمد بن عبد الوهاب رحمه الله تعالى نحن فقط في الثلاثة ناقض نتحدث about magic and matters pertaining to that نتحدث about four points regarding the seventh naqid وإن شاء الله today we are going to go into the fifth matter pertaining to the issues of magic المسألة الخامسة the fifth matter is it possible that the magician he can actually change something from method and being a human to a donkey can he actually do that can the magician actually actually do that or can he do the opposite the response to this is before I go into the answer you have to first of all remember the muskhaliz they all believe the overwhelming majority of them or a large amount of them believe as we mentioned that the magic is too tight right there is a type which is known as magic which is حقيقي it's a literal magic and the magic that we said is حقيقي is the magic that affects the person what does it do it affects the person it makes the person sick and ill it can cause the person harm it's a literal and there's also a magic which is تخيل the person sees things as it's as it really isn't so we spoke about that in details but what is it that also the scholars unanimously agree upon the scholars and the Muslims all unanimously agree upon that it's not سحر that which الله سبحانه وتعالى does the things that Allah does سبحانه وتعالى is not magic what he does سبحانه وتعالى مثل when Allah تبارك وتعالى changed the stick of نبي الله موسى and made it into a big snake we believe that this is not magic we also إحياء الموتى giving life to the dead is also not magic and etc these are great signs of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah gave to messengers these are miracles we believe these things we can't say they can't change things because they can these are the قدر of الله تبارك وتعالى this is what the ability of Allah what Allah did to the stick of موسى نعم it changed to the stick it was literally true it happened it's not تخيل what Mousa did that's what we believe this is إجماع الأمة are we all together we're not talking about the things that Allah does we're talking about magic and the magicians what they do now that that has become clear for us the scholars differed amongst themselves and the خلاص of this dispute the summary of this خلاف whether the magician can actually place or he can change sorry the reality of something is a مسأل أهل العلم يدفد فيما بينهم amongst themselves and the summary of this خلاف is brought by half of the حجر in فتح الباري the 10th volume page 222 half of the حجر he brings the خلاص of the خلاف the summary and the conclusion of this dispute amongst the scholars and he mentions that he says اختلافوا the scholars differed في سحر in magic هل يقعوا به in قلاب اعيني اولا they disputed whether the magic can change something from its essence if it can change it فمن قال there are those scholars who said إنه تخيّل that this is all what تخيّل it looks it's illusionary that's it and they didn't allow the fact that it can change it ومن قال إن له حقيقة remember the scholars when we say there were two types so there were two types of magic what was the first magic سحر تخيّل remember some of the scholars they said the magic is all of it is what تخيّل there's no حقيقة to it and we responded to them those ones they don't have this اشكال here for them it's going to be all what it can't change anything all of it is تخيّل that's what they believe all magic is are we all together the ones who believe that the magic is all illusionary they're of course not going to have this issue here right now which is can the magic change the reality of something okay they won't have that اشكال that problem will not occur to them why would it not occur to them why would they not have that issue the reason why they won't have it is because they believe every magic is تخيّل like in the ones who believe that the magic has حقيقة the reality to it other than it being illusionary it can actually be a reality they differed فيما بين them amongst themselves they are the ones who differed from amongst them are those who said it can change it and from amongst them are those who said it can't change it so half of them it mentions that the dispute here is between those who said that the سحر is سحر الحقيقة those who said إن له حقيقة that magic has a reality to it and when we said that the reality that we said that is in magic is what that it affects the person the effecting of the person is a reality there's no lie about that but they all believe that's all تخيّل illusionary it makes it seem that way so what is right in this particular issue and what are the evidences of both parties and what do they use the ones who say that there's no reality there's no changing something from another thing they say that the fact that there's no evidence on the parties of those who say it does change something from being a human to a donkey they've not brought anything that has happened like that when Allah did speak about those who did do it something like that Allah referred to it as what تخيّل that Allah called it تخيّل يخيّل إليه من سحر مأنها تسعى it looked like it to them so عدم الدليل the fact that the ones who said it can change its essence so a human can be made into a donkey they weren't able to provide any evidence but إذلك ابن الحجر he strengthened that there is no way that it can change that and it can do that he refuted that and also شيخ شيخ محمد ابن صالح رثيمين he also refuses that that can happen or that can take place ولذلك شيخ محمد عثيمين رحمه الله he actually in his قول المفيد which is شرحة في كتاب التوحيد he mentions that when he talks about تصديق الكاهن trusting the fortune teller he says that the trusting of the fortune teller from it is to believe that the magician's magic can actually change the reality and the essence of something since he falls under that that you actually believe the fortune teller or the magician when he tells you that he can change something from being something else he said it falls under that for example if he says I can make this wood into gold and you believe it or other than that he says it falls under من صدق كاهن and anyone who believes in a kahn a fortune teller because this is an ability only who has الله سبحانه وتعالى he says شيخ محمد عثيمين also المحقق الإمام the great imam العلمة محمد الأمين الشانكيطين أضواء البيان he also talks about this issue and he deals with it with a very scholastic approach رحمه الله in his تفسير أضواء البيان he talks about it رحمه الله when he came to the the ayat in Surah Al-Baqarah he talks about it المسألة السادسة the sixth مسألة حكم تعلم السحل والعمل به what is the rule what is the ruling in learning magic and implementing magic the scholars they differ اختلفوا على ثلاثة أقوال three views in this issue the first view is the person becomes a kafir by learning magic and doing magic whether he believes this حلال whether he believes this whatever he believes it doesn't matter he is a kafir for learning magic and he is also a kafir for doing magic this call is attributed to أبو حنيفا رحمه الله الإمام ماليكا احمد الرحمه الله الرواية of his الرواية of إمام محمد and it is also narrated by علي ابن أبي الطالب رضي الله تعالى عنه and this is the view that was strengthened by ابن قداما in his مغني حافظ الحكمي in his معارج القبول okay الإمام الذهبي الكتاب الكبائر he mentions that ولذلك إيسايد رحمه الله فترى خلقا كثيرا من الضلال يدخلون في السحر ويظلنون وحراما فقط وما يشعرون أنه كفر he mentions here الإمام الذهبي إنه كتاب الكبائر that he says فترى خلقا you see many creation many of them many misguided individuals that enter into magic and they believe it's حرام they only believe it's حرام and they look what he said after that وما يشعرون but they don't know and they don't I realize أنه كفر and that it's what that it's disbelief that it's what that it's disbelief ولذلك الإمام مارك رحمه الله وصف إنه تعلم السحر learning magic magic and teaching it is كفر وإن لم يعمل به even if the person doesn't implement the magic just by learning it and by teaching it it's كفر even if the person doesn't implement it and he mentions the reason why for that is because the person is honoring the شياطين and venerating the شياطين and he said that لا يستطيع عقل يؤمن بالله أن يقول فيه إنه ليس بكفر and he went on to saying that he's not able a person who has who's got rational mind who believes in Allah for him to say that this is not kufr for him to say that this is not kufr and the evidence that they use is the ayah اتبعوا ما تتل الشياطين على ملك سليمان وما كفر سليمان ولكن الشياطين كفروا يعلمون الناس سحر يعلمون الناس سحر they were teaching the people magic they were what they were what they were teaching the people magic and when they were teaching the people magic what would they say to them إنما نحن فتنة فلا تقفر we are a fitna from Allah do not disbelief so the teaching of the magic is of fitna and kufr so do not become disbelievers that's the adilla that they rely on half of the حكمي he mentions it greatly in his kitam عارد القبول and also so does الإمام العلامة محمد الإمين شانقيطي رحمه الله ونذلك العلامة محمد الإمين شانقيطي when it came to the ayah ولا يفلحوا الساحر حيث وأتها he says that ولا يفلحوا he says عريفا باستقراء القرآن it is known by following up the Qur'an أن غالبا that the majority of the usage of the word لا يفلحوا يرادوا بها الكافر is intended by the disbeliever خقوله تعالى like the statement of Allah in Surat Yunus قالوا اتخذ الله ولده هو الغني لهما في السماوات وما في الأرض إن عندكم من سلطاني بهذا اتقولوا على الله ما لا تعلمون قل إن الذين قل إن الذين يفترون على الله الكذب لا يفلحون متاعون في الدنيا ثم إلينا مرجعهم ثم ينضيقهم العذاب الشديد بما كانوا يكفرون صلى الله عليه وسلم قل إن الذين يفترون على الله الكذب لا لا يفلحون لا يفلحون it means the kuffar وصول الله سبحانه و تعالى إن سورة يونس أزواء فمن أظلم من من يفتر على الله كذب أو كذب بأياته إنه لا يفلحوا المجرمون سورة يونس آي سمتين أوصى سورة العام ورز الله سيء ومن أظلم من من يفتر على الله كذب أو كذب بأياته إنه لا يفلحوا إنه لا يفلحوا الظالمون إنسورة العام آي 21 سمحان أمين شقيقي و السيد أن أضن those vases all of them and that Allah used the word لا يفلح He is talking about the kufar إذن إث آية which is ولا يفلحوا الساحر the magician will not be successful the magician he is talking about the kafr لا يفلحوا إيضا كافر will not be successful حيث أتا wherever he comes from and as you all know the word حيث كلمة is تدل على المكان whereas حينة is to تدل على الزمان right so the magician wherever he comes from okay he is not going to find success And Allah تبارحوا إيضا ولا يفلحوا الساحر حيث أتا the word حيث is أسلوب العربي المعروف it's a usage that the Arabs use which is meant by التعميم that it's generalization to just leave it open حيث wherever it may be so whether it be studying magic or learning magic or teaching magic or doing magic and encompasses all of that that's what العلمة محمد الشانقيطي رحمه الله محمد أمين الشانقيطي mentions before him شيخ وليسام تيميا said that in the 29th volume page 384 to 385 he he wrote those verses before before also from the scholars that took that opinion is also ألمام البخاري رحمه الله he done a chapter in he's صحيح where he chapter باب السحري the chapter of magic and then he mentioned the ayat that we mentioned from صورة البقرة واتبعوا ما تتلو الشياطي العالملكي السلامان and حافظن حدر mentions that the reason why the author brought these verses is that he chose the ruling of كفر on the magicians okay and if you look at the سياق of the ayat what does Allah say after that ولو أنهم آمن واتقوا they didn't believe الله تباركوا تعالى they what they didn't believe الله سبحانه وتعالى also many of the سلف هذه الأمة like the companions they all believe that the magicians should be killed okay the magicians should be what he should be killed and the scholars صحابين who believe that was عمر ربط and the scholars who believe that was عمر ربط وثمان حفص عبد الله وجند من عبد الله ربط ونحد us and so the scholars of their appearance they said if the killing of the magician is permitted the prophet already told us لا يحل وذمرWhen bath and shower prohibition و orchestral that the blood of the believing is not allowed to be filled except in one of ويعفت ان lui هو شعر هناك اثي يبوزاني يعمل فزائر. يعمل ضلية عمل وفي بنافس الواقع ي epsilon Revolution ويعفت الثالث في تاريكو للدينية المفارق والجماعة ويقول انه يعمل فقط الثالث لأن هذا الجمال ايضا يعمل فقط لكنه يعمل الثالث في姐ينه ف فقط يعمل الثالث في تاريكو للدينية المفارق والجماعة وحديث يعمل فقط به بالإمام البخاري المسلم من حديث عبدالله من مسعود الرضي الله و تعالى عنه فهذا يظهر لنا ما أن المجيشن هو هذا المجيش المجيش الثاني هو أن الساحرة لا يكفر أن المجيشن ليست كافر بتعلوم السحر والعمل به أنه ليست كافر باستخدام المجيش و باستخدام المجيش أنه ليست كافر و هذا المجيش يستخدم من إمام أحمد الروايب حمبل أن ابن قداما يخبره فيه كتاب المغني وهي شرح مختصر الخراقي يخبره و بعده يخبره قولة فيما محمد و يخبره وهذا يدل على أنه لم يكفر و هذا هو مجيش أن أحمد لم يكفره أحمد لم يكن لن يستخدمه لأنه لو يكفره لا قتله و قوله في معنى المرتدي عنه في الاستتابة أحمد صورة أنه لم يكن لن يكفر و ابن قداما يخبره أنه لو أحمد لن يستخدمه لن يكفره و لم يكن لن يكفره و أيضاً المجيش هو ألمام ابن حزم الرحمة والله و هو محلّة يوجد كتاب مغني ابن حزم تظهر فيه كتاب المحلّة إذا كنت تأتي الثالث الثالث الثالث of the book باستخدام 469 إلى 480 2 أول of the ابن حزم is talking about it that's all the 10 pages تقريباً صح he talks about it very good and he's shunted that's not كفر أكبر and the strongest evidence that they use is the story of عايشة رضي الله عنها that بيحقين ريتين ابن حزم ريتين is محلّة أحمد ريتين is مسلد that عايشة رضي الله و تعالى عنها she freed a magician she freed who did magic or who's a magician she freed her عايشة رضي الله تعالى عنها so what they said was look this is an evidence for us and this also عبد الرزاق narrated it and an Imam Malik narrated it and شرناسر authenticated in his الواقع الغليل the third opinion the third opinion is the view that was taken by إمام الشافعي and the majority of his the aim of the إمام الشافعي and it's a call by the أحناف and it's a view strated by قرافي من المالكية إنه كتاب الفروق حافظ الحكمي إنه كتاب إنه كتاب إعلام السنة المشورة الشرقيطي إنه الضائق البيان الرزيخي إنه تفسير نووي حافظ فتح الباري عثيمين إنه كتاب إنه قول of الجماهير الحنابنة and the جماعة من المالكية which is قول which is صحيح إن شاء الله and that is إنه ساحر إن كان السحروب if the magician's magic is through the الشياطين and it's through statements and actions of كفر فوكافر he's a disbeliever وإن كان السحروب if he does the magic عبر الأدوية والتداخين he does it through smokes and he does other ways that he does it مدكيشن whatever he uses he does it through other ways he doesn't involve magicians or what not لا يقفر he doesn't become a disbeliever he doesn't become he becomes a disbeliever if he does it all عبر الشياطين but if he does it through other means he's not a disbeliever The Adilla of this call is the fact that there are some evidences on both sides for example the story of عيشة that the second party mentioned that the magician that عيشة freed was based on what that this magic was through it was other than عبر الشياطين that's why عيشة freed them okay that is why عيشة she freed the magician the evidence is to show that she's done through the الشياطين is what the statement of Allah واتبعوا ما يتتروا الشياطين على ملك السليمان وما كفر سليمان ولكن الشياطين كفر يعلمون الناس السه that's جمع بين الأدilla that's bringing the evidences together and that is a way to what work on it الامام الشفعي who spoke about this issue in depth in كتاب الأم the first volume page 294 also he talks about it in the second volume 226 ابن كثير عحمه الله he talks about it in the first volume سورة بقرة when he come to واتبعوا ما تتو الشياطين على ملك السليمان first volume page 131 ابن قداما the live volume page 35 المردوي in his كتابة الاصاف the 10th volume page 301 and he does تفصيل of the مسألة حافظ المحجر in فتح الباري the 11th volume 224 and امام النوي the 14th volume page 176 امين الشانكيطي he brings it in the fourth volume is عضاء البيال 456 and he brings a تحقيق on this مسألة he says التحقيق في هذه المسألة هو تفصيل محمد الامين الشانكيطي he says as for this issue the correct way is اتفصيل what is تفصيل here اتفصيل means that you break the matter down فإن كان السحر منما يعظم فيه غير الله if the magic is done in venerating glorifying other than Allah like for example the stars and the galaxies the jinn and other than that منما يؤدي إلى الكفر that which will need to what? كفر فوكفر بلا نزع then this is a كفر with that argument and this he said وهذا النوع من السحري وما من هذا النوع السحر حاروطة وماروطة حاروطة الماروطة السحر is from this time which was كواكما جنة شياطين which is mentioned سورة البقرة فإنه كفر بلا نزع this one is كفر with that argument وإن كان السحر بريف with the magic لا يقتضل كفر كالاستعانة بخواص بعض الأشياء من if this magic is not done in the aid asking for the help and the support of شياطين and what not it's not it's actually done through what other means فهو حرام حرم الشديدة this is a haram excessively haram ولكنه لا يبلغ بصاحبه but this will not reach the individual الكفر كفر وهذا هو تحقيق this is the تحقيق of the goal this is how to really settle the matter إن شاء الله he says في هذه المسألة التي اختلف فيها العلماء in this matter which the scholars differ upon حافظ من حد the push is that as well عبدالله ابن محمد وعبدوهب the author of this يسير عزيز حميد he also talks about in page 384 that the magic should be broken into those two going back to the statement of sheikh الإسلام محمد ابن عبداللهب رحمه الله he says ومنه from it is if you go back to the method he says ومنه الصرف والعطف and from the magic is what الصرف what does صرف actually means الصرف means to divert the man from his spouse the wife or the wife from her husband it's actually to what أن يصرف الإنسان عن زوجتي the person he has no desire for his spouse anymore his partner other than that he doesn't have love for her anymore that dies the matter becomes enmity and hate towards each other argumentations and disputes and عطف is the opposite عطف is actually to what to love your spouse somebody would do magic to make two people love each other to bring them together the man would love his wife excessively or the wife would love her husband excessively until the person becomes in the person's submission like the animal like that the person can actually control this individual as he wishes محمد العبداللهب فمن فعاله أو رضية به anyone who does this or is pleased with this كافارة he becomes a disbeliever as for the person who does سحر we already spoke about it صحيح we already spoke about this مسألة and what it means what about the issue of مرضية به the one who is pleased with it بأنه كافر that's correct and who is pleased with it that is a kafar لأن سحر is a kufr because the sikh is watch magic والرضى بالكفر كفر and to be pleased with disbelief is disbelief but that is if the magic is through the shayateen and that's the author's view here that's what he's trying to say are we together if the person is pleased with the type which is كفر أخبر where the person leaves the religion and is pleased with that one then ارضى بالكفر كفر to be pleased with كفر is كفر صح but if the person is pleased with the other one then he doesn't reach he doesn't reach kufr he doesn't what? he doesn't reach kufr ولذلك the evidence for that is الله says in the Quran وقد نزل عليكم في الكتابي أن إذا سمعتم آيات الله يكفر بها ويستهزو بها فلا تقعدوا معهم حتى يخوضوا في حديث غير إنكم إذا مثلهم this ayah Allah tells us وقد نزل عليكم في الكتابي as we sat down on to you on the Quran that if you hear the verses of Allah being disbelieved on and mocked then don't sit with people who are doing that until they go into a speech and things other than the kufr that they are saying if you do sit with them and you carry sitting on with them إنكم إذا مثلهم then you are truly like them ولمام القرطبي he said in the تفصيل of this ayah he said فدل بها that this ayah has indicated على وجوبي that it's obligatory اجتنابوا أصحاب المعاصي that you stay away from the people of sins إذا ظهر منهم منكر if evil comes from them لأن من لم يجتني لأن من لم يجتني بهم because the one who doesn't stay away from them فقل درضي فعلوم then he's pleased with their action ورضا بالكفر كفرون being pleased with disbelief is disbelief because that's why Allah said إنكم إذا مثلهم then what they're doing is kufr and you're here sitting with them in joining it not leaving it there's an indication that you're pleased with it and now that you're pleased with it then you're what you're pleased with kufr and to be pleased with kufr is kufr إن الرضا بالمعاصية هي معاصية because he says as for being pleased with sins it's a sin ولهذا يؤخذوا الفاعل والراضي بعقوبة المعاصية حتى يهلكوا بأجن معهم that the one who does the kufr and the one who's pleased with the kufr both of them are punished and the one who's pleased with the sin and the one who does the sin are both punished until he destroys them all so this this ayah is an indication and an evidence for that statement of the sheikh which is فَمَنْ فَعَالَهُ أَوْرَضِيَ بِهِ anyone who's happy and pleased with kufr is a kafir and anybody who's happy with sin is a sinna what was it that was upon you that if you hear somebody indulging into this stay go get away from it because can you be in a place where you don't like and you're not pleased with shouldn't a person want to be a person want to be in a place they don't like okay if this room's temperature gets very very very very cold and it becomes freezing cold would you stay in a room you'd go to another room that's hot the temperature's good صح so why would you stay in a place where you know that this belief of Allah is being spoken you want to be able to sit there and that's why this ayah the scholars used it with sitting with innovators the person shouldn't sit with innovators if you sit with the innovators then that's an indication that you're pleased with their innovation and if you're pleased with their innovation something like学 بال بداعات to be pleased with innovation is an innovation itself you become an innovator based on that you become an innovator based on that who will stop there inshallah for this za المسائل that the discussions وليذا فنكسل سنشاء الله تعالى anything which I have said that was wrong and incorrect is from me and shaytan that Allah has messaged our free from it سبحانك الله ومحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله استغفرك واتوب إليك


Item No. SCP-1173 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures Knowledge of the existence of the IDAS is to be expunged from all databases and sources at earliest convenience. This removal is to include online and print sources, containment will be considered complete when information regarding SCP-1173 is present in Foundation databases only. Active attempts to contain SCP-1173 are suspended at this time. Please consult Addendum SCP-1173-1 for details. 3D class personnel infected with SCP-1173 are to be kept at Site-38 for limited testing purposes. Any unauthorized use of the operative phrase for SCP-1173 transmission outside of testing protocols is to result in termination and replacement. While the current need to contain SCP-1173 is paramount, under no circumstances are Foundation personnel to directly engage in hostile action against individuals attempting to spread SCP-1173. Efforts to contain SCP-1173 should focus on discovering the nature of SCP-1173 and researching methods of eliminating SCP-1173, regardless of whatever actions may be required to accomplish this. However, all Foundation units are to refrain from attacking one another for any reason, including as part of an attempt to contain SCP-1173. Document 1173-A is to be deleted at earliest opportunity and all affected personnel treated. As per Protocol-1173 Amicron, until such a time as the nature of SCP-1173 can be more definitively determined and anti-mimetic measures can be carried out. That conflict between affected personnel and standard Foundation personnel is to be avoided. Discussion of SCP-1173 in an unofficial capacity is strictly forbidden to avoid interpersonal conflict among Foundation personnel. Description SCP-1173 is a mimetic phenomenon centered around a delusional belief in a political entity known as the Islamic Union of Eastern Samothrace, or IDAS. Affected individuals will possess varying degrees of understanding or awareness of the history or culture of the IDAS, but interviews with individuals under the influence of SCP-1173 have isolated several key characteristics that the political entity is commonly described as possessing. Geographically, the IDAS appears to be a primarily Greek-speaking nation, comprising a small mainland enclave on the Anatolian Peninsula and a series of islands in the North Eastern Aegean Sea. As the name would indicate, within the context of the delusion, a significant portion of the population practice is Sunni Islam, with a limited number of Shia practitioners, and a small group of Syriac Orthodox Christians, though the latter group has largely left the country due to religious conflict. Individuals can become infected with SCP-1173 only by hearing an operant sentence spoken aloud in their presence by an infected individual. Through research, the operant sentence has been determined to be, you hear about that thing down in Samothrace. Individuals have heard this sentence frequently express minor interest in the ensuing conversation, which invariably describes some sort of interesting military conflict, massacre, famine, drought, ethnic cleansing, or other atrocity occurring within the country. Uninfected individuals have what foundation researchers have termed a passive resistance to information regarding the IDAS. Such individuals will consistently and without fail ignore or fail to observe any data or information regarding the nation unless directly ordered to take in information on the subject. After becoming infected with SCP-1173, individuals will begin noticing references and details to the current status of the IDAS in news and other print sources. Individuals will begin noticing references to older versions of the nation, often referred to as Mahometin Samathras, in works of classic literature dating back to the 17th century, and will occasionally make casual references to Samothrace in the same vein as Timbuktu or Bangkok, meaning an obscure backwater of literal importance. The delusion of the existence of the IDAS is not directly harmful to most individuals. However, research into schizophrenia carried out by the Foundation for unrelated reasons generated a series of connections between SCP-1173 infection and certain previously unexplained psychological abnormalities. Specifically, a significant number, upwards of 800 of homeless or institutionalized individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, have been found to be infected with SCP-1173. Moreover, when interviewed as a part of psychological therapy, many of them describe themselves as veterans of an American counter-insurgency force in the IDAS. Individuals affected in this way frequently describe close encounters with children and pregnant mothers as suicide bombers, futile attacks by poorly armed partisans ending in massacres, and war crimes committed by the occupying US troops. Particularly lucid instances of these individuals make vague references to strained geopolitical relations with Russia, which feels threatened by the American incursion, and China, which is described as being engaged in large-scale combat with a heavily armed Uyghur Revolutionary Army inspired by the Samothracian Resistance. Addendum 1173-1 After the discovery of SCP-1173, a survey of Foundation personnel revealed extensive SCP-1173 infection at all levels of the chain of command. Attempts to establish and execute containment procedures were complicated due to efforts by other Foundation units to deliberately infect more individuals with SCP-1173. These conflicts developed in the sporadic armed fights between Foundation units before protocol 1173 on the crime was put into place, banning all unofficial communication between personnel regarding 1173 and agreeing to maintain the contemporary equilibrium between infected and uninfected individuals, estimated as groups of approximately equal size. Addendum 1173-2 If you're reading this, the computer had verified you to be uninfected through subtle tests of certain subconscious reactions you have had to key words placed throughout this document. Congratulations, researcher, you've been drafted. God help you. The Omicron Protocol was never intended to be permanent. Many of us tried to help our infected comrades, help to cure them, help them see the truth. Those of us that remain uninfected knew the idea of allowing Foundation personnel to remain under the influence of a dangerous memetic virus completely unchecked was madness. But a civil war between Foundation units was even more unthinkable to be compromised, temporarily. You are now part of a resistance movement, whether you like it or not. History has placed a responsibility on your shoulders. You cannot be told who is on your side and who is it, and you will never know in most cases. You will not be contacted at any other time regarding the subject, and you will never be able to prove that you received this message in the first place. The infected are all around us, every day, friends, loved ones, parents, even children. There is a way to counteract the infection, but it has its risks. You must procure a compound from Foundation Pharmacology, known as Class-O-Amnestic. If you put in a request for it and sympathetic personnel receives an order, they should deliver a box with several hypersprays to you. Whenever possible, you are to isolate personnel, engage them in conversation, determine their level of awareness regarding the Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace, how you accomplish this is up to you, determine their infection status, and deliver the antidote if necessary. The infected still believe that we are keeping to the truth. With a concerted effort, we can eliminate the infection from the Foundation. This must be done. We cannot allow the last line of Humanities' defense against the anomalous suffer at the hands of an anomaly. This message is approved by O-52, O-53, O-56, O-58, O-510, and O-513. This message is not to be kept in official records. This message is not to be copied or replicated. SCP-1173-A Item number SCP-1173 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures Knowledge of the existence of the IDAS is to be promulgated into as many databases and reputable sources as early as convenience. This spread of information is to include online and print sources. Even the SCP-1173 will be considered complete when information regarding the IDAS is present in the many scholarly databases, media outlets, and literature as is possible. Active attempts to contain SCP-1173 are suspended at this time. Please consult Addendum SCP-1173-A for details. 3D class personnel infected with SCP-1173 are to be kept at Site-26 for limited testing purposes. Any unauthorized use of the operative phrase for SCP-1173 treatment outside of testing protocols is the result in termination and replacement. While the current need to contain SCP-1173 is still considered a vital one, under no circumstances are Foundation personnel to directly engage in hostile action against individuals attempting to spread SCP-1173. Efforts to contain SCP-1173 should focus on discovering the nature of SCP-1173 and researching methods of eliminating SCP-1173, regardless of whatever actions may be required to accomplish this. However, all Foundation units are to refrain from attacking one another for any reason, including as a part of an attempt to contain SCP-1173. Document SCP-1173-1 is to be deleted at earliest opportunity, and all affected personnel treated. As per Protocol-1173 Omicron, until such a time as the nature of SCP-1173 can be more definitively determined and anti-mimetic measures can be carried out, direct conflict between affected personnel and standard Foundation personnel is to be avoided. Discussion of SCP-1173 in an unofficial capacity is strictly forbidden to avoid interpersonal conflict among Foundation personnel. Description SCP-1173 is a memetic phenomenon associated with the political body known as the Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace, currently the recognized government of the area traditionally known as Eastern Samothrace and associated island territories. The Greek-speaking nation, centered on a small mainland enclave on the Anatolan Peninsula in a series of islands in the northeastern Aegean Sea, is a resource poor region previously known for its valuable port cities. The majority of population practice as Sunni Islam, with a limited number of Shia practitioners and a small group of Syriac Orthodox Christians, though the latter group has largely left the country due to religious conflict in the area. The nation is largely known for its semi-constant warfare taking place within its borders, typically centered around religious, ethnic, or political differences. SCP-173 has the effect of completely erasing all awareness of the existence of the IDAS from the memory or perception of infected individuals. Infected individuals will not recall the existence of Eastern Samothrace as a region, the IDAS of the government, or the persistent conflict and privation of the country's populace as newsworthy pieces of information. The persistent spread of SCP-1173 throughout the human population has helped to minimize awareness of the country's difficulties and therefore reduce the amount of assistance people have received, increasing suffering throughout the region. The initial vector for infection is unknown. However, SCP-1173 can be countered through use of an operant sentence spoken aloud in the presence of infected individuals by an unaffected individual. Through research, the operant sentence has been determined to be, you hear about that thing down in Samothrace? Individuals that have heard this sentence frequently express minor interest in the consuming conversation, which invariably leads to a greater degree of interest in Samothrace in affairs and appears to permit individuals to retain awareness and knowledge of the IDAS. This will rapidly lead to the restoration of an individual's memory of the country's present situation and classical contributions to Western culture. An individual able to retain such memories is considered cured of SCP-1173. While most individuals infected with SCP-1173 are able to live otherwise normal lives, recent research has suggested a secondary effect from SCP-1173 infection. This effect has been observed specifically with individuals coming into close proximity with Syriac Christian refugees from Samothrace that have settled in the United States. While at least 20,000 Syriac families have done so in the last 15 years. In at least 21 separate instances, individuals with no commonalities other than SCP-1173 infection status have become extremely angry to the point of psychosis when in the presence of Samothracean refugees leading to acts of violence. Many of these acts were unaccompanied by any explanation for their behavior, and attackers frequently expressed remorse and confusion at their own actions afterwards. However, in eight documented instances, attackers were noted to shout, you can't be real, repeatedly in a grave volume during the assault. Addendum 1173-A After the discovery of SCP-1173, a survey of Foundation personnel revealed extensive SCP-1173 infection at all levels of the chain of command. As to establish and execute containment procedures were complicated due to efforts by other Foundation units to deliberately infect more individuals with SCP-1173. These conflicts developed in the sporadic armed fight between Foundation units before protocol 1173 Omicron was put into place, banning all unofficial communication between personnel regarding 1173 and agreeing to maintain the contemporary equilibrium between infected and uninfected individuals. Estimated as groups of approximately equal size. Addendum 1173-B If you're reading this, the computer has verified you to be uninfected through subtle tests of certain subconscious reactions you have had the key words placed throughout this document.  A civil war between Foundation units was unthinkable, so be compromised. Yet an uninfected Foundation personnel agreed to leave one another alone. We weren't sure what caused SCP-1173, but observed trends showed the number of infected was declining as a result of our containment methods. A simple sentence spread by civilians would contain SCP-1173 for us. We felt time was on our side, but they cheated. The infected are all around us, every day, friends, loved ones, parents, even children. They found a way to spread the infection to more Foundation personnel through a compound known as Class-O amnestic. They put in a request for it at Foundation Pharmacology, and there are frequently infected personnel there to receive the order. We sabotage the orders as often as possible, but they're still infecting the rest of us. You are now part of a resistance movement, whether you like it or not. History has placed a responsibility on your shoulders. You cannot be told who is on your side and who is it. You will never know in most cases. You will not be contacted at any other time regarding this subject, and you will never be able to prove that you've received this message in the first place. Whenever possible, you are to isolate personnel, engage them in conversation, determine their level of awareness regarding the Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace. How you accomplish this is up to you. Determine their infection status, and recite the operative sentence as described in this document. The infected don't know that we've found out about them. With a concerted effort, we can eliminate the infection from the Foundation. This must be done. We cannot allow the last line of humanity's defense against the anomalous suffer at the hands of an anomaly. This message is approved by O-54, O-55, O-57, O-59, O-511, and O-512. This message not to be kept in official records. This message not to be copied or replicated. Memorandum 117 regarding Project 025 Project 025 Codename Nowhere Guard Head, Ibn Rushddin Author, Bijan Destination, Janna Memorandum 0117 Page 1 of 2 February 11, 2007 Confidential Islamic Artifact Reclamation Directorate Shemaran Tawran Province Islamic Republic of Iran From Operative Bijan To General Actual Subject Status Update Special Equipment Slash Personnel Requisition Type KHE-08 Reference Project 025 Memorandum 0112 Memorandum 0115 Enclosed One Stash Report Wslash Rslash T Project 025 5.ya Personnel Requested for Project 025 1. Cooperation between Type 1 Standard Personnel and Operational Head Operative Ibn Rushddin Remains within acceptable parameters Reconnaissance of Kamario Tisa has yielded nothing of significance 2. Cooperation between Type 2 Special Personnel and Operational Head Operative Ibn Rushddin has deviated to below acceptable parameters Ibn Rushddin requests assignment of new Type 2 Special Personnel to replace current operatives It is in the opinion of Memorandum author that behavior of Operational Head is led directly to decline in cooperation Particularly the use by Operational Head of slurs and terms that Type 2 Special Personnel are understood to find demeaning and unpleasant Masnoudi Shaitani Jeani Summary of Current Status 3. 4 Type 1 Standard Personnel based at Safehouse 6655 and deployed throughout Port City of Kamario Tisa Island of Samothrace Everest Regional Unit Hellenic Republic of Greece All personnel report common conditions as expected Mining of Granite and Basalt Revenue generated through tourism and vacationing Visitors to the sanctuary of the Greek gods and hikers Greek citizens appear generally contented and do not demonstrate anomalous behavior or characteristics 4. 5 Type 2 Special Personnel based at Safehouse 6655 and deployed throughout Port City of Kamaria Largest city and most economically relevant port of a political body known as The Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace, IDAS This micro nation is considered the proper government of Samothrace Island as well as several islands in the northeastern Aegean Sea and a portion of the Turkish mainland by humans under the influence of a medic formula DEC-4 Type 2 Special Personnel operate under influence of chemical compound SSK-A8 This allows exclusive access to the nowhere world the Jeani term for the Samothrace phenomenon Type 2 Special Personnel are not susceptible to the medic formula DEC-4 for obvious reasons and our chemists have still failed to produce a method of relieving the chronic psychosis that comes from extended exposure to the Samothrace phenomenon by type 1 standard personnel Jeani have to date recovered from use of compound SSK-A8 with no permanent side effects 5. Intelligence regarding the Samothrace phenomenon derived from type 2 special personnel has gleaned copious information regarding nature of Samothraceian anomaly However, much of this information is difficult to comprehend due to after effects of compound SSK-A8 Deep briefings of type 2 special personnel suggest that the Samothracean anomaly is a subunit of a larger area and that the Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace is likely part of a larger area that is presently inaccessible to us However, the specific nature of the Samothrace anomaly appears to surpass standard alternate universe understandings of transdimensional space and is more similar to reality-unreality-dualistic states Memorandum author predicts that Project Matakia will likely shed more light into this concept as it develops 6. Despite shortwave radio instruction from base of operations outside the affected area type 1 standard personnel were unable to contact or visually locate any type 2 special personnel despite physical proximity and conventional three-dimensional space 7. Type 2 special personnel were typically capable of receiving type 1 standard personnel in other humans even when heavily dosed with compound SSK-A8 Type 2 special personnel on the Kamaria side of the anomaly described a feeling when near or on location occupied by a human on the Kamariotisa side Type 2 special personnel balked, mocked, or otherwise rejected suggestion that this determined or affected the question of comparative reality of the two sides 8. Type 2 special personnel have proven able to identify and either neutralize, incapacitate, or take possession of infiltrators from other organizations including the organization Kaida-SEP, though possession has not yet produced infiltrators in the Kaida-SEP sites to date. Operational Head Ibn Rustin has authorized such infiltration when opportunities arise 9. This memorandum drafted and transmitted February 11, 2007 Operative Bijan Footnote 1 Code phrase Have you heard of this incident in Samothrace? Communicate it interpersonal using any audible, linguistic, or manual communication method Requires physical presence of single-expressor and receiver on 1-1 basis Footnote 2 Exit from Interview 6355 We walk through this town and see an area alien to us An area we find unreal An area that is nowhere Just as one side of a strip of ribbon does not think the other side is real You humans have found an incantation that shows you part of the other side of the ribbon, but you cannot see both sides at once We see both sides in the places where the ribbon frays, such as here Your potions alone keep this sight from driving us mad Footnote 3 Exit from Interview 6370 Force us not to tread our feet across the ribbon over much While looking across both sides of this world instills madness into your minds, pulling still the threads that bind all we know together will yet instill madness into the world


From the CUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and welcome to this special CUBE Conversations. We're here with Dell Technology to share the news of an update to one of their product lines. We've watched for a number of years. Dell has taken their portfolio and what they said they've powered them up. So of course the server is known for a long time power edge and we've seen many of the storage products and the like going through their power up. And here we have is the power flex. So people that are familiar with what's happening in the software defined storage and hyperconverged space will remember the VX flex. So it's powered up. Joining me to discuss this important announcement, we have Matthew Paul, who's the senior director of product management and Anthony Cinelli, who is the senior director of business development, both with Dell Technologies. Matt, let's jump right into it. You know, power flex, powering up this segment of the market, give us the importance and what the announcement is. Great, thank you Stu, thanks for having us. Yeah, I'm really excited to announce that we're powering up our product and we're moving our VX flex product to the new power brand in the power name. Really responding to customers and our customers taking this product on and aligning it and using it. To be able to in line with our bigger portfolio that we have at Dell EMC delivering outcomes for our customers. So it's an exciting time frame and it really reflects this idea of customers adoption, the technology and our investment as Dell technologies in this software defined storage to kind of signify to the market that we're here to stay. And this is an exciting thing we're working through. The second part around this on top of kind of the rebrand is a new launch of power flex three five. So this new software and new software information is delivering some key additions to our portfolio, including a replication, including a new HDMI five GUI and including some really cool additions to our software management stack that customers have really been asking. Excellent. So AC, you know, in normal times, you're out meeting with a lot of customers. I'm sure you're still talking a lot of customers, even if you're in work from home mode during the pandemic. But help us understand, you know, one of the things we know that Dell has done is it is streamlined the portfolio. But when you talk about, you know, storage software defined storage converge hyper converge, there's still a few different options inside the Dell family. So tell us where, you know, power flex fits and how it differentiates, you know, in position compared to some of the other pieces. Yeah, great question. So, you know, I have a pretty nice role here for Dell, which is I am responsible for our entire portfolio of converged hyper converged and software defined offerings. And really what what that affords me is one particular luxury when I engage with customers and that luxury is that I can start every single customer engagement with a question, which is what problem are you trying to solve? And that's really important because having a portfolio at my disposal allows me to lead with that question and really focus the conversation and solution on what their business problem is and how best to solve it.  But I need to run a wide variety of workloads. I need to run virtual workloads. I need to run physical workloads. I need to run container workloads. I want to consolidate all of that onto a single modern software defined infrastructure. Or we hear workload specific things, things like I have an incredibly high performance Oracle database or I have a workload, you know, one great example of a customer was because of COVID, they had to go from 60,000 to 160,000 remote users over a weekend. They did that on flex with zero incremental infrastructure required for the storage. All the performance, all of the horsepower was fully capable of handling that increased capacity. Another customer, curbside pickup was a great application for their business. Saw a hundred X performance requirement increase essentially over the course of a weekend because of COVID. Running on flex, they were able to swallow that performance increase with no problem. So a lot of what we see when it comes to flex and the problems we're hearing are I need a platform that has a lot of inherent flexibility or I have a very acute workload problem that I need something very scalable and very performant to solve. But again, my luxury is I can always ask the customer the question first and then leverage the power of our portfolio to provide the best solution to solve for their business problem. All right. So AC appreciate you talked about, you know, scale and performance, two of the really big things. If you talk about what's happened in this space, Matt, maybe you can help us squint through a little bit as to how this differentiates compared to other solutions in the marketplace. You know, we saw software to find storage, hyperconverged infrastructure run through its wave in the last few years.  So explain how this, you know, is different from from others out there. Yeah, I think, you know, when we when we when we talk about how we manage and we work through this, it's our concepts of trying to really democratize this software to the masses, right? And be able to make it easy to use and simple to use. If you think about old or traditional software to find storage, all the knobs and all the tweaks sometimes make it difficult to implement. And so you get these, you know, really high and extreme customers that need all these knobs to tweak. We do that very, very well. But what we've been focused on the last couple of years is ensuring we can get that to multiple places through robust kind of investment in our flex manager space. So be able to automate and make things a lot easier and simpler for customers to use. That way we can go down and provide this technology to more people. And then the other thing is kind of meeting customers where they need to be. And so a couple key mechanism which people consume our products is through our appliances and our racks or integrated racks.  We have a full integrated rack that we deliver to customers to really drive that outcome. And then if you think about the difference between that and the appliance, the appliance has given us a little more flexibility. So if you want to plug that into an existing network or an existing environment, but both of these things give you that extreme scale and performance that AC was just talking about while that rich management experience. And so I think you kind of align the consumption models and the new management, which also brings a big differentiated value to the product. Excellent. So, you know, Matt, when I hear you talking about these solutions, what wonder if you can help connect this with how your customers are talking about cloud in general? You talked about consumption model, I talked about how to manage.  Yeah. So a couple of things come to mind here, typically what we see with PowerFlex is customers saying, I'm trying to achieve what we call this common platform, which is I want to build an on-premises cloud that gives me the flexibility to run all the workloads in my data center. And we say all the workloads, that's everything from obviously your virtualization stack through things like your physical bare metal workloads, typically your high performance databases, all the way through this emerging world of containers and those containers could be virtual, could be physical. And giving customers the value of running all of that on a single underlying software-defined infrastructure with all of the automation and lifecycle management to go along with it, there's really just nothing like that in the market. So really where we're seeing this adoption is customers who are saying, I want to build my own cloud within my data center that gives me the ability to run my workloads. And because I'm building them on a common infrastructure, I can build automation that allows my end users to consume that infrastructure in a very cloud-like matter.  Another approach is within that Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, which is how do we leverage the best of all of the assets under the Dell Technologies umbrella, namely assets from VMware, VMware Cloud Foundations and everything they offer in their multi-cloud story and providing a wide variety of options within the Dell Technologies portfolio to solve that. Obviously, we have our VxRail platform, which is the most integrated solution vertically within that VMware stack. We also have other offerings within our storage portfolio that have the ability to plug into that, PowerFlex being one of those as an option for customers to leverage within that Dell Tech Cloud Platform strategy. Excellent. Matt, you mentioned the new updates with 3.5. Maybe give us a little bit more on that, whether it's an existing customer, what things they've been asking for that are in this release, or maybe for some new people that might not have looked at the Flex family for a while that 3.5 might bring them to the table. Yeah, I think the great thing about this product, it's an end-to-end solution. So we bring all these things together to add that value. A couple of the key things that we've been hearing and driving towards our customers is around replication or asynchronous replication. So the ability for us to be able to align that and give that to customers is probably the most important piece of this release. We also did some really cool stuff in the management stack. So if you think about other competition or other products being able to align firmware updates, for example, or software updates, for example, because of the scale of our product, we've had to align really unique things in our management stack, like the ability to do rack-level updates. So really innovative, really differentiated, so customers can take racks out of time down to do updates because they don't have time when there's thousands of servers in their environment, they don't have time to do one note at a time in a round robin fashion. And a point to add on to that, right? What's really unique and Matt touched on it, this concept of democratization, we've always done large really well with this technology, right? In a way that really no other technology platform in this space can. What the team has built on the management stack is now allowing us to also do small and medium incredibly well, where we can bring this incredibly disruptive technology to the masses, to your general enterprise, to your general mid-market type customer who's not solving for hundreds or thousands of nodes, but may be solving for 10, 20 or 50 nodes and delivering this very disruptive outcome that helps them much more adapt or much more quickly adapt to changing demands they have, harnessing all this flexibility, but doing it with point-click operations that are incredibly simple across the full stack. Excellent. Well, we've heard from Jeff Clark when you get the power brand on there, that's a message to the customers that this is a platform that's going to be with us for quite a number of years. Give us a look forward as to both of you as to what we should expect to see from PowerFlex. Yeah, I mean, we're really excited about the future, right? To your point, aligning with the winning roadmap, the investment level in this technology is really high within the organization. How we work well within the broader Dell Technologies portfolio is really exciting. So we'll continue to innovate and drive this democratization story that Anthony was talking about, innovate in new data services, innovate in new management paradigms and stacks. Like the thing I just talked about in terms of doing rack-level updates. And I think just giving customers, listening to our customers and providing that on a reoccurring basis is a critical thing. So we're really embracing this idea of providing updates on a regular basis to be able to respond to customers' needs on a daily basis. And I think one thing to add to that, that I'm excited to see the team continue executing on, is delivering actual workload solution based outcomes, right? Very often customers will come to us and say, here's my workload problem, right? It's a Oracle, it's a Splunk, it's an Elastic Stack, or name your workload. The team's really done a great job of leveraging this platform and building full stack validated solutions, oftentimes in tandem with the application vendor. So customers can consume this technology with complete confidence. To run, oftentimes, their most important or critical workloads, knowing that they have the full backing of the vendor, they have the full backing of the infrastructure provider and the application provider working together to deliver this technology as an outcome. And because of its extreme flexibility, we can adapt it to so many different workload scenarios and customers have responded to that incredibly well. So for me, I'm excited to see the team continuing to build out that solutions portfolio because customers are really seeing a ton of value in that. Great, I guess final question I have for you, Matt, probably up your alley there. Availability of the product, is it available now at the launch? And if I was a VxFlex customer before, what does the move to PowerFlex move? How do I get from where I was to the future? If there are any hardware changes or is it all software? Yeah, good point. So it's available now, you know, on there on the 25th, so really excited for the customers. And we do support customers going from the existing version to the new version. And so the upgrades are pretty straightforward, pretty easy to bring in that updated management stack and then bring in the updated FlexOS. I'm sorry, PowerFlex version. All right, I'm sure customers will be, you know, going back and forth on the terms. All right, Matt and AC, thank you so much for the updates. Congratulations on the progress. Thanks, Stu. Have a good one. Take care. All right, I'm Stu Miniman and thank you for watching theCUBE.


This video is for anybody who thinks they should probably start using referencing software but they haven't got round to putting in the time to maybe figure out how to do that. For me personally, I got to that stage through a few experiences. Firstly, the experience of staying up till 3am the night before submitting my PhD thesis, manually sorting out all of my references and the more recent experiences have involved manually reformatting journal submissions for different journals or revising manuscripts and realizing that my one added reference early on in the paper means I've got to manually change every numbered reference through the rest of the manuscript. The software that I've been using recently is Mendeley, others are available, people have different preferences but I was introduced to Mendeley by colleagues and it's been working well for me so this is just a quick demonstration of how I use Mendeley. The first step is to go to Mendeley.com and then once that's loaded up we can click download up in the top right corner to download and install Mendeley for Windows or Mac and then lower down as well, we will need the citation plugin forward. It is possible to store all of the PDFs of your articles within Mendeley and get the citation information directly from there but all you need is a DOI or a PubMed ID and you can also get everything straight from there. So in this example I'm on an article website, I'm just going to take the DOI, copy that and then we'll put that straight into Mendeley. In Mendeley I'll just add an entry manually but without having to fill any of the other details in I'll scroll down just paste the DOI in and click search and then all of the other information about the article is now there so I can simply save that into Mendeley. If I then go into Word or wherever I'm working on my document I can then add it in. So with that last example a review of simulation models for sport, insert citation and then can search by author, title, etc. Okay so click on that okay and that is our first reference. To add in the reference list we just click insert bibliography and the reference is there. If I then want to add a second, so reference two and insert a new citation a counter movement jump will go for this reference here. It then adds another reference or if I want multiple references together then insert citation and just type in strength and I can add multiple papers together and they're all then in order. If I want to change the sentences around I can just cut and paste move that around and once I click refresh the numbers will update as will the order of the reference list. If I want to change the reference style say for a different journal then up here under references the style is currently for the journal applied sciences but I can change that to say sports biomechanics and immediately we now have surname and year instead of number and the reference style has updated as well. Obviously those journals were not automatically in word so if you want to get the style for a particular journal then under style you simply click more styles and then you can go get more styles search for say applied sciences is one that I've installed that any other journal can click on it install and then that should be there within word for you to use. Hopefully that was useful I know a lot of people already use referencing software but it's something I've only caught up with myself in the past 18 months or so I wish I'd started sooner and something that I've had to introduce a few people to recently as we've collaborated on various projects. If you'd like to stay up to date with any more tutorials then just click on subscribe and the bell next to it and you'll get a notification any questions or anything in particular you want to see then please leave a comment. Thank you very much.


Tea is an age-old symbol of well-being that appears in the arts, literature, music, and boasts countless colours and varieties. Around the world, tea is our most loved drink after water, but tea is more than just a shared experience. To millions of farmers in developing countries, tea is the main source of income. Over nine million tea farmers in the four main tea-producing countries, namely China, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, are smallholders and smallholders produce 60% of the global tea supply. From China to Sri Lanka, Kenya to Vietnam, whole communities depend on tea for their livelihoods. The tea sector has the potential to change lives. A billion-dollar industry that can support the economies and contribute to sustainable agri-food systems. Yet the sector needs innovation to better adjust to climate change, more sustainable production methods to better respond to consumers' needs, and improved access to finance for tea producers, in particular for women in business. Smallholder tea producers need our support to strengthen their business model and environment. International Tea Day celebrates the men and women behind the leaves. From field to cup, we must advocate sustainability of the tea value chain, protecting this ancient cultural heritage, so that small-scale farmers get a fair deal. The tea sector must be part of the needed transformation of our agri-food systems to become more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. For better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life. Realizing the 2030 agendas vision of leaving no one behind.


From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Informatica World 2018. I'll see you by Informatica. Welcome back everyone, this is theCUBE exclusive coverage of Informatica World 2018. Live in Las Vegas at the Venetian ballroom here, I'm John Furrier, the host of theCUBE, analyst here at theCUBE with Peter Burris, analyst, and also my co-host has passed two days. Our next guest is Bruce Chisholm, who's the executive chairman of Informatica, one of the leaders on the company. Great to have you back, good to see you. You're great to be here guys. It's like an annual pilgrimage, we get together here and here, the perspective I was, we had Jerry Heldon yesterday, board member, very senior in the industry. You guys are legends, right?  Yeah, I was just sharing with somebody, I was at Microsoft in 1983, so I guess I go back a little while. You've seen a lot of waves. Okay, so this wave is interesting because we were talking about the keynote and talking about the timing of how data is super important. There's no debate on what data, the role of data, but timing in the industry, you've got cloud, multi-cloud, you've got things like containerization, Kubernetes. You're starting to see that microservices model appear. The role of virtualization is not as prominent as it once was given, though it's happening in the stack, but certainly data is super strategic. GDPR, this Friday goes into action. So shot across the bow with GDPR, data at the center, and explain the phenomenon. Yeah, so look, what's happening is more data is being generated today than ever before. I think Neil Chakravati, our CEO, said this morning during his keynote, it's increasing two-fold every six months. It's just an amazing amount of data that's occurring both through data warehouses as well as real-time data through things like IoT and other streaming types of mechanism. And at the same time, every enterprise in the world is trying to figure out how to transform this business leveraging that data, and that data exists across so many different platforms, whether it's on-premise, whether it's the cloud, whether it's a combination of both, whether it's multiple clouds. So trying to homogenize all this data or to be able to capture it and get it usable in one place for analytics, for decision-making, is an incredible task. Fortunately, it plays into informatic strength. I want to get your thoughts on two dimensions to that because I agree that's all happening, but you add the pressure to scale with the cloud. Okay, that is a huge deal. Okay, as well as build on new applications faster. So this pressure, not just to kind of get it right in the data, you got to scale with the clouds. There's a lot of big things being built out. Yeah, and it's not as simple as the cloud. It's the combination of leveraging on-premise workflows with the cloud, with new applications or new workflows. How do you make sure you have data integrity between those two environments? And I'll add another layer to it. Most enterprises don't want to be held hostage to one cloud infrastructure provider. And what you're seeing is those enterprises leveraging multiple cloud infrastructures. So between the data that's on-premise, data that might be resigning in Azure, data that might be resigning in AWS, trying to make sure that there's one view of this data and that it's secured, it's cleansed, it's of high quality, is a greater task than ever before. So Bruce, let me build on that and see if you agree with this, that it sounds to what you're suggesting is that we've got all this data, it's growing very fast, but we have to be able to do two things to it. You have to be able to organize it, and we have to turn it into objects or things that have business value so that we can generate returns on it, appreciable, increasing returns on it. Is that kind of the centerpiece of what we're talking about here at Informatic World? Absolutely. And if you look at the quick success of the Enterprise Data Catalog that was launched last year and the number of customers that have already adopted the platform, which really is a catalog of the metadata that sits across data across the entire Enterprise. The fact that so many customers have adopted a 1.0 product that quickly is validation that they want to be able to leverage and take advantage all of this data that's sitting in thousands and thousands of different entities within their own Enterprise. So in your experience, you think the adoption's greater than what you've seen, but put it in comparison. Compare the magnitude of that adoption. Yeah, it's... Compared to what you see. We expect a handful of customers to adopt it in the first year. We have hundreds of customers that have adopted it in the first year. So well over the forecast. Well over our forecast. Well they've bought it. Are they adopting and changing their practices, evolving their organizations, imagining new ways of generating work as a consequence of being able to discover and apply data faster? They know they want to analyze their data. They want to use tools like Power BI, tools like Tableau. What they haven't been able to do is use those tools as effectively as they would have liked to because they didn't have a mechanism to capture all that data or to view all that data across their entire Enterprise. The other challenge they had was there was no data integrity that existed because the data in one repository was different than the data in a different repository. To be able to have one view of that data means that the information that they're analyzing is accurate, which didn't exist before. All right, so what's next? That's table, not table stakes, but the first low-hanging fruit value proposition is, okay, I can get a sense of the metadata. Where is everything? So let's check, good stuff. So there's two things in my mind. One is making sure that we make it easy for them to use any of the cloud platforms. So today the company announced a relationship with Microsoft, with Azure, with the Informatica's iPass, running natively on Azure in addition to what already exists with Amazon AWS. The second thing is to continue to add AI capability to that metadata. So instead of a person having to navigate and collect all that information, is to use intelligence to be able to make sense of machines. Streaming the data in faster, handling the volume.  So we could, everybody says, oh, we're going to apply AI, but they don't say what the AI is going to do. And I think specifically as it relates to MDM, as it relates to catalogs, it replaces some of these other things, it's identifying patterns, identifying inconsistencies in data objects. It's identifying how it feeds different workflows commonly, that kind of stuff. Are there other things that we're really trying to apply this AI to to improve data quality, data consistency, data flows, usability? I was going to do all of that, which is what required a human to do in the past. In addition, as the machine, as the AI engine or the machine learns, the ability to do this more quickly is we become a parent. So, with this massive amount of data being exposed, the last thing you want to do is to have the decision maker being slowed down. So AI is just going to speed it up significantly. Bruce, talk about the state of the company. Obviously we've had Bruce on, we try to get a little teaser out of him on what's going on the board level, stock option, grants, so on and so forth. I'm only kidding. Obviously a valuable company, we've been watching it and covering you guys and pointing out actually earlier on than others, the benefits of the data, certainly is becoming a very valuable private company. Once public, now private, you are involved in that journey, outcome for an offering soon or bankers must be licking their chops. I mean, prospects kind of, not saying when are they going to go public. I don't want to ask that question, but there's obviously a trajectory. What's the company's position vis-a-vis this financial health and growth? Informatica will be one of those rare instances in the world of private equity where a sponsor has come in and decided on a growth model top line revenue versus bottom line profitability. You mean shedding the parts? Shedding the parts, really squeezing the company for maintenance revenue for cash. What Primera and CPP, the two investors have done has really helped the company to continue to focus on growth. So when we look at R&D expenditures, they're close to $200 million, which is well above industry average as a percentage of revenue. So they came in to build the company? Came in to build it and more importantly, grow it. It's exceeded our expectations, haven't determined a timeline to go public. There is a possibility you could see an offering sometime in 2019. And we talked about also Jerry and others yesterday about this notion of timing, right? Timing's everything in life. You couldn't ask for a better time to be the Switzerland or whatever domicile you want to call neutral to multiple platforms. Certainly the data layer is a nice position. You got companies like NetApp underneath having a nice layer storage. So you get the data fabric there.  This makes it a unique opportunity now. Why is this time for being the Switzerland of data important and how should customers look at this? Timing of the movement for Informatica vis-a-vis the industry trend, yeah. Enterprises want to make sure they don't get held hostage to any one vendor that happened in the past with the likes of an SAP for ERP. They don't want to fall into that trap. They want to be able to move their workflows between Azure, between AWS, between Oracle and continue to have legacy workflows on-premise where necessary. So they want someone, they want a provider who's going to provide them with a solution that's not biased and it's not going to show any preference towards any one provider. Many years ago, I had the privilege of being the CEO of Adobe. And if you think about it, PDF Acrobat was the Swiss solution or the Switzerland of documents. And the reason why PDF became so popular and became the standard was because nobody was comfortable with .doc being that solution. The same is true. Because of the incompatibility of the operating systems. .doc, two reasons. One is nobody wanted to be held hostage to Microsoft. They already felt uncomfortable with Windows and Office. They're not becoming hostage to Microsoft anyway. But that's okay. And at the same time, .doc showed preference towards a Microsoft environment. And it was the wrong technology. And it didn't work cross-platform. Exactly. In the case of InfoManica, InfoManica is the only scaled provider in the data business that has a solution that works across all environments, all vendors, all providers, hybrid, on-premise, cloud, multiple infrastructure. So my summary of everything you said, Bruce, is that InfoManica today is a company that's going to help you organize your data so you can put more data to work. Absolutely. All right, Bruce, thanks for coming on. Great to see you, always pleasure. We got to do it again in the studio at Palo Alto, get you in, get some information out of you and what's going on with the public offering. I mean, great company, InfoManica, great company, congratulations. It's been a fun ride. I can't wait to hear all the war stories when it's all said and done. Great job, Switzerland of data here. InfoManica World is the queue out in the open, sharing you the data here in Las Vegas, more live coverage, stay with us. Be right back.


Behemoth? Bahamoth? Baphomet? Some people got very confused when I posted this short on YouTube. So finally here's the video you never knew you needed. What's the difference between Baphomet, Bahamoth and Behemoth? Now two of these words might be very closely related and describing the same mythological creature but the third one's origins might shock you. When words sound similar there might be an etymological link between them with one word evolving from another and the same is true for mythological creatures. Mythology and folklore are not D&D bestiaries. A dragon doesn't have plus 10 fire breathing and contrary to what people believe there's no set definition between a vivern and a dragon. In fact each of these words seem to have meant serpent in their original language and in later use they sometimes refer to the same creature and sometimes to different creatures depending on when and where the word is used. In addition each of the words might evolve in different directions and the meaning might shift becoming sometimes even the opposite of what it originally meant. One such shift might have happened with Behemoth and Bahamoth. Behemoth and Leviathan are possibly the two greatest beasts of the Bible. Leviathan is a huge sea creature and the name might be derived from words describing the breathing of a snake making Leviathan in fact a dragon. Behemoth is the land-based counterpart of Leviathan. Impossibly large and strong with a tail like a cedar tree, tight knit muscles and sinew, bones like tubes of bronze and limbs like iron. Behemoth may have been an invention of the writer of the book of Job or derived from much older tales of animals such as elephants, hippos, water buffaloes or even extinct rhinos. Tales that got exaggerated over generations through thousands of years. By the time it gets to us in the Bible it has become so huge and dangerous that only its creator, God himself, may overcome the beast and in modern times the word has become a general word for anything very large. Now before we get to Behemoth please remember to subscribe and press the bell icon because I would very much like to make more videos with mythology and storytelling like this. After doing thousands of videos on TikTok this is actually the first in this longer format that I'm doing on YouTube and it would mean the world to me if you subscribe and you know maybe leave a comment that would be thank you now. What about Behemoth? Behemoth is a great fish or whale swimming around the cosmos in medieval Arabian cosmology.  In size it can truly be described as a Behemoth but over the millennium separating the biblical narrative from the medieval Bahamoth the meaning seems to have shifted and it reminds us more of Leviathan the great dragon who is also sometimes described as a serpent, a whale or even a fish. Seemingly Bahamoth also went from being an enemy of God to just being impossibly large so large that in one fairytale Bahamoth makes the prophet Isha known to us as Jesus feigned in awe of seeing its massive head swim by and Bahamoth isn't even the biggest creature in Arabian cosmology but that's another story. And finally we have Baphomet it is believe it or not not related to Bahamoth Baphomet seems to have been an invention of the crusades likely a corruption of the name of the prophet Muhammad when the ninth Templars became too rich and powerful they were arrested by King Philip IV of France allegedly for worshiping the bearded head of Baphomet and Baphomet evolved as a sort of scapegoat, pagan deity which even the pre-masons were accused of secretly worshiping eventually becoming the image or manifestation of the devil himself but it isn't until 1861 with Elyphus Nevis classic occult book called transcendental magic that we get the modern image of the hermaphroditic goat head humanoid pointing to heaven and earth as above so below that finally becomes the almost universal image of the Satan we all know and love. 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There are now over 6,000 different cryptocurrencies across which Luca has mapped more than 27,000 different trading pairs. How do you make sense of all that data? What is a unique identifier, or a VWAP? Can blockchain data save money on taxes? Robert Matarazzi, Co-CEO of Luca presents his keynote speech on the importance of blockchain data from the Cointelegraph Crypto Traders Live event. Here's what you missed. I'm the Co-CEO at Luca and we're going to overview today a couple of the challenges that we're helping our customers solve specific around data challenges for post-trade operations. Just a little bit about us. We are a data company and we are focused on blockchain and tokenized asset data and cleaning it up to help support normal typical business operations. We collect data from all the various exchanges or trading venues that people are used to receiving. Often it's privately held data and not off of an actual blockchain, although we do accommodate actual blockchain data as well. We pull it in, we normalize all the data so that if Kraken uses XBT to represent Bitcoin and Coinbase uses BTC, and now you multiply that times the thousands of assets and all the different sources that are out there, we have data products that help to clean all that up so that when our customers, which are a lot of the big exchanges and institutions that are serving this industry, are solving their financial requirements, we cater to those needs and help them close their books. If they're funds, strike Nav, pass audits, and do all of the other post-trade operations that businesses require. So we have a suite of products. I'll just touch on this really quickly. We have our LucocryptoOffice product, which is really our main enterprise institutional software. It's very feature-rich. It collects all the data, and that's the one that we offer to a lot of the businesses that are out there. And then we have two data products that we created to support the software. The first is Lucor reference data, and the second is Lucoprime, and those are the two topics that we'll cover in today's presentation. And then additionally, we have some tax-specific products that are catering to 1040 filing. Our Lucotax DIY, which is a retail similar to a TurboTax, except for your crypto side of things. And then we have Lucotax for professionals, which were partnered with CPA.com, which is for tax professionals that are servicing their clients. And then we have a thought leadership subscription that talks a lot of the unique intricacies, such as tax treatments, but it's a lot more comprehensive than that. So accounting, data challenges, and a lot of the other things, and it's a content-based subscription. So those are some of our retail products at the bottom. Today's focus, though, we thought most relevant. We wanted to cover our reference data and Lucoprime products and the importance of the challenges that they're solving. And so the first one, why is reference data needed? And for those of you that aren't familiar, I mentioned this a little bit, but there's thousands of crypto assets as everyone are aware, so a lot more common than others. These are offered on various different exchanges or OTC desks or other businesses that are offering them to all the traders that are out there. But all those exchanges or trading venues get to pick their own tickers and their own ticker symbols. So that creates a lot of complexity when you're combining this, particularly when individuals in order to acquire some smaller coin might need to purchase Bitcoin on a large exchange like Coinbase that they bought for US dollars, transfer it to somewhere like Binance to trade for some other coins, and then do the reverse all the way back to turn it out to cash. And when you multiply that times all these different exchanges, all the different assets, it creates a lot of complexities when people are trying to do things that should be very simple like pay their taxes or what a lot of the businesses are accommodating in financial statements and passing their audits. And today there are no unique identifiers that are specific across the board. So there's no standard setters that are driving this currently. There's exchanges obviously all over the world that people have access to. And so all of these unique challenges really forced us to create a data product so that we could make our software work. And that's when reference data was created. We were our first customer at first and now it's very popular among a lot of the large institutions. And so our reference data is the golden standard of digital asset data. So we create this master listing of tickers. And really it has, so we have over 80 entities. So an example of an entity would be Coinbase, a second one would be Kraken. An entity could also be a pricing source like CoinMarketCap. And we've mapped over 26,000 assets that create the 5,000 plus unique assets across all those exchanges. Over 10,000 unique trading pairs. Additionally, we've recently added over 27,000 derivative ticker symbols to our reference data as well to accommodate that. And then we can, so we incorporate this into our software. But also institutions or businesses can license it to us as a direct data feed through something like an API or flat files are all depending on their requirements. And if we, here's an example of some of the tickers that are out there. So we created unique ID for each of those assets. And then in the background, we're mapping it to all those various exchanges so that from the customer's perspective, they're just using a single ticker for each one of their assets. And they know Bitcoin is Bitcoin. And this is incredibly important when creating tax lots, particularly with higher volumes of activities where you can take advantage of tax strategies by matching your acquisitions, potentially that you're trading or acquiring on various exchanges. The next product is our Luca pricing product. So this one is when we say pricing, we mean for valuation purposes. So when you have a crypto-crypto trade, so Bitcoin for Ether, and often you're charged a fee that's also in a cryptocurrency, it creates some unique situations where for tax or compliance or financial reporting purposes, we need to determine your cost basis or proceeds. So the value of that transaction at that point in time so that we can do normal tax or financial calculations. And so what we do is we will bring in a pricing source. It's very often that services will provide pricing sources such as VWOPs or average prices. But for tax compliance purposes, that's not considered a best practice.  So those are usually for the pre-trade side of things. And so what we have done is we've created Luca Prime and a number of other pricing products to create flexibility for these businesses so they can select from a menu of different pricing sources. They can bring in a VWOP if it's appropriate for what they need. We also have a Luca Prime product. Luca Prime uses a unique methodology that's designed to be aligned to GAP and IFRS guidelines. And what it does is using a bunch of qualitative and quantitative factors. It selects an actual executed exchange price based on those factors. So for every point in time, you're using an actual exchange of price. So it's selecting one of them from many exchanges that are out there. And that supports all of these tax or audit use cases. We also do custom pricing. So we can create an average based on parameters if a customer needs it. Or we can feed in third-party pricing data on a case-by-case as well just to create flexibility. So that's the end of the presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions or dive into anything. Great. We have an immediate question from Roger Brown who asks, why is the Luca pricing product superior to those offered by a VWOP? Sure. And I wouldn't necessarily use the word superior to be tactful. I would say that it's more appropriate for audit and tax use cases.  It's also not formal guidance, but in the FAQs, the IRS is stating that you should utilize executed exchange prices. That can be very challenging to do, particularly when you're trading across a bunch of different exchanges. And so these are satisfying all of those requirements. Where the VWOPs are very logical for other use cases in market data and other pre-trade operations. So it's just two very different separate uses, which both are. Thanks, Robert. I also have a question from my side. Since you are dealing with taxations, I was wondering, are your customers all U.S. companies or also companies based in other countries, other jurisdictions? No, we absolutely do service globally. I'd say we are U.S. based. So we have the majority of our customers are U.S. based, but we absolutely have many customers overseas and are happy to work with them. This pricing product, for example, we did design to accommodate IFRS, which is an international accounting standard opposed to U.S. gap. So we absolutely cater to companies overseas. Great. We've got another question from the audience. This one is coming from Wuk Chui, who asks, there are not many trustworthy data oracles, which are widely accepted at this time. How do you plan to keep the competitive advantage? Sure. I mean, I guess with any business, competition is usually good for the industry. So I'd say anyone that's operating a business should encourage that. It helps the consumers. It helps the customers that are out there. I'd say for our own competitive advantage, we have a special emphasis in catering to what our customers are asking for, and that's part of our culture. And so I'd say that keeps our customers happy, which keeps our business profitable. Thanks. We also have another question. What kind of target market does Luka have? Target market, sure. So all businesses that have financial transactions in digital assets. So anyone that's trying to solve those pricing and reference data are only two of the challenges, but ultimately managing all of that data for post-trade operations is very challenging, can be very costly. So our goal is to reduce those costs for businesses that are out there. Great. We've got another question from Roger Brown as well. He says, does or will Luka support thinly traded crypto assets? Yeah, that's a great question. So our Luka Prime today covers the more liquid assets that have higher volume. And we're absolutely in the process of rolling out. It's not available yet, but it will be very soon within months. We will be adding a number of assets to our pricing data in order to accommodate the more thinly traded assets that are out there. And we'll have white papers and thought leadership and would love to discuss that with anyone that would like to reach out to us. Yeah, so I think it's a great time to wrap up. Thank you so much for that presentation. I hope you guys out there listening to this learned a lot about Luka and their products. And thanks for sharing your presentation with us. Yeah, thanks for having me.


अम जीज़कोर्स को use करतें डिस्तीबुशन को standardize करने किब लिए अम की सीज़ीज़़न को जब जीज़्कोर्स में कनवरट कर लेते है, तो यो से further next step के अंग दर हम नीक स्थन्धडैश डिस्तीबॉशन में आपने देकाउगा के भैहासे psychological test कि लिए if the original distribution is negatively skewed, for example, then the z-scores distribution would also be skewed because we are converting the same raw score to a standard z-scores so the shape of your distribution will be exactly the same do the same as we have done in the previous examples if the distribution of your raw score is 70, 100 or 60 so when we convert it to z-scores distribution then our mean will always be 0 and the standard deviation will always be 1 all positive z-scores are above the mean and all negative z-scores will be below the mean as we have seen in the distribution that if there is a positive sign with z-scores then it means that it is above the mean if you convert the raw score to z-scores 1 then you immediately can have an idea that that the mean is above the mean standard deviation which means that if the middle point is 50% and the area from the mean to the one is 0.34% then almost 84% of the class is below it so if I tell you that z is minus 1 of an individual then you can immediately guess that the individual is below the mean standard deviation so its score will be pretty low standard deviation, the mean will be 0 and the standard deviation will always be 1 whenever we convert the distribution of the raw score to z-scores when any distribution with any mean or standard deviation is transformed into z-scores the resulting distribution will always have a mean of 1 and standard deviation of 0 this is the universal truth that when we convert any distribution to z-scores then the mean will always be 0 and the standard deviation will always be 1 one advantage of standardizing distribution is that it makes it possible to compare different scores which we have just talked about that when we convert to z-scores then we can directly compare different constructs different variables to the same person's performance on different tests to the point where they are providing and where their performance is and then we can do the same performance of the participant across different disciplines if my son has a grade in sports and what is his in mathematics and what is his in English language so what is in art and music I can compare one performance across no matter how different constructs are converted into z-scores we can directly compare them I have told you that how do we do standardization when we convert any raw data to z-scores then we convert it to standardized distribution why do we convert it? as you can see there are many test of intelligence there are your ways your ravens your autos and there are many different intelligence tests if you have done all the intelligence tests their mean and standard deviation are different then it will be hard for any person to make sense of any IQ when we tell our intelligence quotient first of all I tell you that I have 120 this means that universally all the IQ tests are converted to standardized distribution whose mean is 100 and standard deviation is 15 or 10 so when I will tell my IQ then immediately one can have an idea that if this is standardized distribution then it is above your mean similarly there are many personality tests we don't have one test so across different tests how we will make sense of my consciousness and my agreeableness so we convert a z-score distribution into a standardized distribution so the scores make more sense in universally the people who will understand where is the standing of any individual so to make a standardized distribution the first step is that we convert the original raw scores into z-scores whose formula you all know which is x-minus mean divided by standard deviation the second step is that z-scores are then converted into or transformed into new x-values how we plug in the new standardized mean and the new standardized distribution standard deviation so that it makes sense in this we convert z-scores into new raw scores in which x is equal to mean plus z into standard deviation I have solved an example for you that on a test you got a score of 70 with the mean of 60 and standard deviation of 10 so in the first step I will convert it into z-scores so that will be equal to x-minus mean which is 70-60 divided by standard deviation which is 10 so the z-score will be 1 now the first step I will transform this z-score in this distribution which I want 100 and its mean and standard deviation 10 so to convert it I will plug in values into this formula which I have done here to calculate the new x I will put I have put the mean of 100 your z-score is 1 and your standard deviation is 10 so I will plug in the values and I will calculate a new raw score it is a standardized distribution in your psychology psychological test we usually transform which means that it is universally understandable and people can relate and compare performances on different test can do as you have one more example that we talked of the distribution exactly this is the first step of the original raw score and on the other side I have converted it into z-score so shape will remain the same position will remain the same and every individual will be at the same place and then I have converted it into new raw scores meaning standardized distribution with the mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10 so the original distribution for example your zanup got a score of 43 and ali got a score of 71 with the mean of 57 and standard deviation 14 this is a test score on the first step I will calculate for zanup and ali so I have calculated their z and then on the second step I will convert them into new raw score with the mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10 but you see when I have converted them into z and then I have converted it so its shape and location and standing will remain exactly as it was before but the benefit of this is that if we do the rest it is an IQ test or more so intelligence test then we standardize the distribution universally we have the mean of 100 in IQ test and standard deviation 10 so what are the benefits the sample of z score will have the same shape as the original sample of the scores we have talked about the sample of the z score will have a mean of 0 definitely we have talked about it and its standard deviation will remain the same why we convert scores into a standardized distribution for example schoolastic aptitude test they are transformed into a standardized distribution with the mean of 500 because we transform it and make it comparable universally so that if you report an SAT score everybody has an idea of its mean of 500 what is your score so I can relate those scores I can see your standing in the distribution and that will be more meaningful and that will be more easy for me so this is how we convert into raw score into z and then z score into a standardized distribution