What's up, good people and welcome back to SPM Buzz. My name is Shiko Gitao and of course today we have the beautiful Nathra Yusuf Mambo Bipi. Pawa sana maide okwa. You're looking amazing. Thank you. You're looking amazing as well. Thank you too. Palivo Tik Tok. No Tik Tok on Instagram. Maluku me kukitupigia. Naskyanga Tuxema Igbo. Naskyanga you don't know. No I know. I know what I do. Of course we took up Palivo kwenye stage yu meza kuhu. Neza Tambe labda. What was happening today? It was a comedy night. Comedy show that was prepared by MCJC. So we were coming to support him. And yeah, we did our thing. Ya. Ime kwa jekwa kwa? Ime kwa pa sana. It's been long since I did like stand up. So anxiety but I'm done. Right now I'm okay. Ya. Are we probably expecting to see you more on stage this year? Definitely. Definitely. That is actually my plan. So I won't share right now because it is still too early. But I have so much coming. Insha Allah. Ya. And maybe one resolution you have for 2024? Has to, I just want to be different.  I want to be different in terms of my comedy, my brand, my personality, my self as Nastra. I just want to be completely different. Ya. In short it's a year you're working basically on yours. 101%. You guys, I just don't want to be the same anymore. I'm tired. Ya. And maybe taking you a little back to 2023. Your highlight of the year? I had multiple highlights. But I think one of them had to be working with very big brands that I never thought I'd work with them. So I really worked hard to get there. And I'm very grateful that at least I attracted the kind of clients that I wanted to attract. Yes. How do you get to attract big energy? What advice do you have for women out there? Okay. Comedy wise or career wise? Generally. Generally too. Just being yourself, being authentic, working hard, being consistent with whatever it is that you want to do. Just be living yourself, focus on you. Ya. Just focus on you. All the answers, all the resolutions and everything are just within you. So once you focus on yourself, you're going to reach the great heights that you want to reach. Ya. And of course it's 2024. The year is still young. But unfortunately in our country, ni kama moka kidogo ichanza visuri. We have had a lot of things happening. And of the highlights and asana is the killings that are going on around. We're calling it from inside. What would you say about this whole story? Because It is very sad. It's really very heartbreaking. And I would just say that it's wrong.  The fact that people are being killed, it's really not something to even start. You know I've seen all the conversations online and at times it's really sad how people are like zile direction wa saywa na nda ni direction baya sana. We don't care where ni nani. Even when we say baya sana. But as long as you're being killed, we'll never support that. So now I don't know. Like in any pair of chills, just thinking about it. It's a very sad occurrence. And of course apali for online because of course, we've had a team or a group of people who are trying to quote-and-quote justify whatever is happening. Yes, yes. And what to make waki jerebu kuangali labda hot could be the cause. Kus leo hapa. Kesho. Like it's not a single thing. As Nasra we mo niwa labda o meke tichini wuka juli labda hot could be the cause. Why ladies? Sana sana. Why? Kuse mokweli. I really don't know why ladies because as we know, murders happen all the time. Killings happen all the time. But now this one is just some incidences in a target women. So me I don't know why women. But what I want to advise my fellow women is to just be careful. Just be careful. You cannot meet a stranger in some closed places. Let's just go back to the old traditions and we will meet again. We will meet again. A group of people like maybe we will meet again in a public place and you have gone with a friend. So me I just tell women to be careful. We really don't know the kind of people that we end up meeting every day. Me sometimes raje mbe yangani kitembe ya. In my mind I just say what a 1000 meza pada kuna murder has come on that and you don't know.  Everybody looks the same. Everyone looks the same. They all look the same. So me I'd say just be careful because we really don't know the kind of people we interact with or we meet every single day. Atami na wezakatu mekapa so easy to kutusawa. Kejwa don't know pada stories ingi na uchintu. Yes, we only kutusawa leo. So if kwanza sana sana when it comes to strangers just be careful. That's all I can say. At times you know watu se ma madem huwangan na that stage when you're naive, you're new in love. I don't know whether you've ever found yourself maybe in a stage. A million times. A million and one. Kudanganyu wuku inje. Me by there I say every single woman has been in some weird places at some weird times and we thank God that the people that we were with at that time weren't murderers because every single woman kuna tumu jingaushe ya mini ukansaku fanya vituze nyanakwambia. 20 place plan all am forta but we just thank God that they weren't as malicious. But right now what we'll tell ladies is to just be careful. That is the only message me neza wambia tu. Naskwa siji labdaw neza tumu ya oba story atakamani. I mean it at times when maybe you found yourself in a situation you're being blind very blind in love before. Akiwewe. Ndachoma. It's the past. No, it's the past. We have to skip that. Alright, maybe next week on Saturday we have a walk in town and women are having a march to at least tell the world that no we need to stop this. Are we expecting to see Nassra there? Hopefully you said it's on 27th. I saw it was 27th. Hopefully I hope I won't be engaged. I would really want to participate. I really hope. I would definitely want to stand with my fellow women and support them. Do you think it's enough? Is the walk enough? Or maybe we could probably have them occasionally just remind the society that we are women here? You know me I saw a certain mamito shared on her mamito shared on her platform that someone was saying that the depression that people got from COVID has really messed up people's psychological minds so me I think the walk is okay at least we are showing solidarity we are showing that we are supporting our fellow women but at the same time I think we need to go back talk to the men talk to the women like people are really messed up so I don't know what we can do as a community but we really need your brain to be rewired manze sana. I think it's something I support fully that statement that we need to talk to men women because at times I feel we need to heal topo into a nukyambiwa no it doesn't mean that that's the end for you and being told no really hurts you know there was a research I was reading they said that rejection the pain of rejection is just similar to the pain of physical pain so it hurts but there are other ways and other ways of dealing with such you understand so what we can do is to go back I think we need to go back it's unfortunate that this whole thing that has been happening has turned out to be an online war partly an online war between men and women and it's very sad I don't know why men are justifying that I don't know why men are blaming women that have already passed under some very sad end you know ways we don't care what they are doing atatuza ma li kwa muchawi basi we don't care as long as someone amolewa akua me trust into mungine it doesn't make sense so I don't see the purpose of this war kwa ita madem sujima jina gani it sucks I think we can do better generally on that we can take ourselves through healing and things like that bach tukitaka kidogo kwa hiustu nasra of course juzi juzi piya wewe kwenye mi tanda or you had some statements you made about depression stress and things like that and I know it will be so bad of me to kumali the interview bila pujua first of all on you how are you doing am okay am okay that's what I've said that this year my goal was to focus on me because I've really been through a very dark phase in my life and it was tough but I thank God I'm doing okay I thank God you may be going through cancelling am I on it after two years ili place min kwan me fika sikituniza handle peke angu so I definitely do therapy I do some other methods of healing I've started doing so many things just to get me back so out of the fact that I'm doing these things I'm appearing at events it's a huge progress for me because kumata msi kwan leza fanezo it was okay it's okay it's well and it's okay not to be okay it's very okay not to be okay and we thank God now I know it might get emotional but Labda Nasra just to take ourselves out of that it's okay it's okay thank you for coming out strong thank you so much you're doing very well so much of it sawa tumia chaiyo story tumgeki dogo kwa entertainment tumgeki dogo kwa entertainment we have our beautiful lady Paliwa on Instagram our beautiful model Huda made a statement and said ladies please have children when you're ready even if it means at 40 just make sure you're ready yes I don't know what your kids are coming up we have tum bili here and aka se maapa and you just do it whenever you you're here so do you not sure what I'm saying what I'm saying me nime chokanezi advises me ngi 1 million zamadem can we just do what we want can we just stop being told what to do who to be with where to sleep who to hang out let women do what we want if you want to get pregnant at 18 if you want to get pregnant at 40 do it me nime chokanezi easy easy advises 1 million 2 dil na madem what to advise 22 dil na wana ume watu ite magina hea ni where will we go so me I'd say women do whatever whatever you want to do be you be you be you as in after jina took a photo photo instructions our two men say he life is short this life is so short that we can't keep on following what someone else is telling us me I say I love huda huda is actually my very good friend and I support whatever she said because getting a kid is not same chazo in ataka a lot of preparation psychologically ni ni ni ni ni but at the same time me musto ambiwa chanezi wana to jione ukumbele sit mo chokaku ambiwa ambiwa bana wana to jione wana to jione last question about the industry we have seen an actor from mother in law ras hiviliwa meza kusimakumba he has an issue on why actors are being paid less than actually the news anchors in studio when you wanna power script wana soma do you think kidogo actors wama ya changin? kusimu ukweli me to do anything about acting me nuliza kusu comedy yonda kudibu vizuri lakin I really don't others do an li pwanguangapi nizu jikua kwa safety acting I really I have no clue apa sta changia jusina tina tina pulu alright thank you so much maestra for your time and good job thank you so much asante sana you're doing amazing as well and you're a very good host by the way do not stop keep going I want to see you prosper I want to see you go far you're very good I've never been interviewed by someone that made me feel so good you're good thank you so much alright


Have you ever wondered what it's like to have bipolar disorder? Well, if you have, you might want to stay tuned because I brought along a special guest. What is up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And I am so excited. I haven't had a guest come on my channel for a little while. But today, today, folks, I have the wonderful Kim Charlson. So a little bit about how I met Kim. If you are not following me on Instagram, you need to. But I am very active in the mental health community. And I'm always trying to meet new people and learn new things and stuff like that. And I'm very familiar with a lot of different mental health issues, anxiety, depression, addiction. I'm learning a lot more about borderline personality disorder. But on my channel, I want to offer as much mental health help as possible. And I will admit when I don't know about something. So Kim actually has a mental health channel as well.   Talk about what's it like having a bipolar disorder. So please stick around. I will put links up here and down in the description and even in the comment so you can go check her out. Please show her some love, go subscribe to her channel.  Hey, guys, I'm Kim Charlson. Thank you, Chris, for having me on your channel. Today, Chris wanted me to talk a little bit about bipolar disorder. I am diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I got the diagnosis in February, but I've known for a while. I've self-diagnosed myself, I think, because I just knew that that's what was going on with me. I'll go over the signs and symptoms and things like that and what goes on when you have bipolar disorder. But pretty much I just knew that that's what was going on. And a therapist in my past told me that that might be what I was dealing with. And I kind of got mad and left that therapist. So until I was ready to commit to getting better and acknowledging what was going on with me, I didn't get a diagnosis. So, like I said, I'm newly diagnosed. So bipolar disorder is two poles. To have the diagnosis, you need to have both manic episodes and depressive episodes.   Not exactly. So bipolar disorder is huge shifts in mood, energy levels, how much you're doing activities and things like that. So when you're manic, it's not just being happy. You might feel a lot happier during your manic episode. You might, you might not. It depends. But it's all about energy you have and the lack of sleep you get and things like that. For me, my manic episodes are three days to maybe seven days. It depends. And I am go, go, go, go, go. I stay up a lot later. I don't get really a great night's sleep. And I always want to do new things. I started my YouTube channel, my blog, my Instagram, all of the stuff that I started to speak out about mental health was when I was going through some type of manic episode because I was ready to start all of these projects. A lot of the time you don't finish the projects because your concentration takes a hit during the manic episodes. And for me, I experience a lot of impulsivity, buying things. I shouldn't be getting tattoos, things like that, like an impulsive behavior. And also irritability is, is common. I experienced that a lot with my manic episodes. I'm very quick to anger.  For the depressive episodes, for bipolar disorder, a lot of the time the person is going to be depressed more than manic. For bipolar one, the manic episodes are super, super, super high and the lows are, you know, not too bad. Bipolar two, you're not going as high, but you're going pretty low with the depressive episodes. And there's also cyclothymic disorder, which is when you're kind of going up and down and up and down and up and down really fast. You can have mixed symptoms and signs and all of that. Going on during the same week, you can feel all different things, gets very complicated. But back to what I was saying, depressive episodes are pretty much just going through your depression. It feels the same way.  You're not doing much, you're isolating yourself. You can also be irritable with the depressive episode. A lot of things that you would experience when you're just very depressed is the same with a depressive episode for bipolar disorder. And to have bipolar one, you need to have a certain amount of manic episodes with the depressive episodes, but they both need to be present to be bipolar. So a lot of the time people will get misdiagnosed. And that's pretty much what happened to me for years and years and years. I've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder or chronic depression and anxiety. When really what's been going on is I've had bipolar disorder and it feels really good to finally have the diagnosis. I think if you think that anything that I'm saying sounds familiar, like you might be going through any of that as well, you should absolutely speak with a therapist or a doctor because they can determine if you're going through these things. And you can go through the right course of treatment because if you have the depression diagnosis and you think that it might be bipolar disorder, you're going to be treated differently, treated as in medications and things like that. I've already seen a difference in changing my medications and things. So it's really important you get the right diagnosis. Having the diagnosis of bipolar disorder is... You know, there's pros and cons.  I know that it seems like it's a roller coaster because sometimes it is, but once you are familiar with what your signs and symptoms are, what is pushing you into a manic episode or a depressive episode? What are those triggers and how can you manage that? You'll be able to live a great life. But it's important to know that you can live just, you know, just as much of a great life and you can follow the same dreams that you wanted to if you didn't have that diagnosis as you can with a diagnosis because it doesn't mean anything. And bipolar disorder is highly stigmatized just because everybody uses bipolar as an adjective. And I think that that's one of the main issues about, you know, mental illness is we use... That's the stigma. I think that's where a lot of the stigma comes from. People are using these words as adjectives, like my anxiety, my OCD, my bipolar, my mom's bipolar, the weather's bipolar, everything's bipolar these days. I think that's important that we do talk about these diagnoses and that you see a face for it because I am doing fine. It has helped me back in the past. I'm not going to deny that. But moving forward, I'm trying to manage it and I know that I can manage it and live just a great life that I wanted to begin with. So thank you so much, Chris, for having me on your channel. I'm so glad to be here and talk about bipolar disorder. I know that you can probably tell me all the things I just said that I'm very passionate about it. So I hope that you guys learn something and I'll give this back to Chris. See you guys. All right. So thank you so much, Kim, for taking some time to come over and do a guest video on my channel. Like when she submitted this video to me and I watched it, I was like, Oh, man, like I love learning about this stuff so I can hopefully not only help more people but also have more empathy. Like that's one of the main reasons I have this channel because there's a lot of people who look at different mental illnesses and pick and choose which ones they're going to empathize with, you know what I mean? And I really appreciate and respect the fact that Kim is very open and honest. But like what I really loved about her video is how she offers some solutions and insight into how she lives this like great life, even with her diagnosis. And I always try to teach everybody who watches my channel like, yo, like, yes, we could be diagnosed with a mental illness, but that doesn't mean we can't live an amazing life. So again, thank you so much, Kim, for coming over and doing this guest video. Like I said, you can check out in the info card, you can check down in the description or in the comments. Kim will be here. So if you have any questions about bipolar disorder, please leave them down in the comments and Kim will be in here answering questions and stuff. But like I said, go over, subscribe to our channel, show some love for the mental health community. OK? But anyways, if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. And if you're new here, if you're just now meeting me, make sure you click that little round subscribe button. And if you got some time, you want to check out some other videos on my channel, you can click or tap right there. But right up there, there's Kim's channel again. All right, thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


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Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering UiPath Forward Americas 2019, brought to you by UiPath. Welcome back to Las Vegas, everybody. This is day two of theCUBE's coverage of UiPath Forward Three. This is the third year of the North American Conference and the second year theCUBE has covered this. Anthony Abatista is here. Cube Alami was on last year from Deloitte. He's a principal there. Anthony, good to see you again. Great to be here. It's a great day. Yeah, so it is. I mean, we've seen the growth of RPA, generally UiPath, the whole automation. We're starting to talk about intelligent automation. AI has its wings and is starting to soar. But give us the update from a year ago. We talked about accelerating last year. I think it was, you had some really good statements around, look at, yeah, going fast is good, but you want to accelerate the right things. Speeding up bad processes, paving the cow path, as I sometimes call it, is really not the way to go. But what's new? So I do think there's still some issues around getting programs to scale and thinking about automation at scale, which has been a major theme here at the conference, is still in front of us. People are still figuring out how to climb up that curve. But what I think is new is when we thought about automation before, it was an or statement. Was it humans or automation? Is Abat going to replace the human? And I really think we've, Deloitte's always had a campaign about eye to AI that we kicked off a couple of years ago and said, yeah, how do we have automation and humans interact with each other? And I don't just mean attended bots, but how do we actually start to use automation as sort of the glue to hang together a much more rich experience to start to put the AI components in there? So that leads us to the age of width, which is how do we use the technology along with humans to change their role. And there have been some great talks, one of my partners earlier that was here with Walmart, his client, and they talked about how they're redefining the HR processes at Walmart. And that was, I thought, a really good presentation because they changed the workers' work, they didn't replace workers. So how was this concept of the age of width, how was that different than attended bots? Can you maybe talk about a possible use case or example? So if we think about a call center, you know, if we know who's coming in, we used to just look them up and say, hey, do we know who's calling? Now we can say, do we know who's calling? Do they have a history with us? We can use data, and that's another part of the width is data plus analytics with automation. And we can say, well, what else do we know about this person? Do they have a history of calling us? Do they have an open ticket? Have they had some issues or complaints in the past that we can deal with or get in front of? And basically start to put the intelligence in the front end, and that could be unattended, right? That could just be some screen pops around automation. But we start to introduce natural language, we start to introduce some advanced analytics, and that would be a simple way of enhancing that process. So let me double click on that. So normally what you would get is you're in the other end of the line of the call center, and it's like, hold on, I'm just reading the notes. Right.   See, it's faster for you to just explain. And let me tell you what, you know, what I'm imagining is in different experience where this is happening in near real time, you're either getting pop-ups, or, you know, some other messaging, is that what you experience, and how real is this today? This is real, and, you know, I always like to say, automating is easy if you just take the process, repave the call path, but it's very real, because the natural language components, they work up front now, you can ask some questions, you can start to do pre-searches on which materials might help with that type of question. You also can train the process over time. So data over time, you know, what's the call satisfaction? Did you actually complete what it was the call got, you know, started about, and how quickly did you do that? So you can train these models and start to use machine learning to actually improve that experience even further. So I think that's the, again, back to the whiff, it's adding these components. I like talking to folks with a consulting background, because, you know, when you talk into the vendor community, they get very excited about, you know, the ROI and how, you know, lack of disruption for to install some software, right? And so that's one of the advantages, I guess, of RPA is you can pop it into an existing process, good or bad, and get going right away.  When you can show immediate ROI, you start to see these rocket ships.  You don't want to just repeat, you know, automate bad processes. So it's, you know, how do you work with clients to sort of manage that insatiable desire for quick ROI and then the transformative components that, you know, could maybe defend you from disruption or allow you to be an incumbent disruptor? So I think what's interesting is transformation, use the word, we're really good at transformation programs. So starting to say how do we think of automation first, as we do a traditional transformation program is very near and dear to us now. And instead of saying, hey, we're going to bolt the ERP system in and then figure out if we can get some improvement by automating later, we're saying, you know what, let's sort of go backwards. Maybe it's a little old fashioned, but what does this whole process look like? And can we put automation in launch, not as a process improvement after launch? So I think when we think of these transformation programs, bigger ERP programs, we're really in there doing it. Automation's now on the front end of that program rather than afterthought, like reporting used to be. Right.  I mean, we happen to be at the UI path conference, but there are, you know, RPA, generally UI path specifically, it's not a panacea for all problems. I mean, we've talked about AI, we've talked about other automation process, automation capabilities, you've got existing systems, all this stuff has to work together. So, and people always say technology lasts, people process first, you guys live that. So how are you seeing automation evolve in terms of the adoption, how people are dealing with existing systems and some of the other technologies that you're having to bring together? So I think the first thing is the technology has to work. It has to be bulletproof and resilient if you're going to put it in these processes and make it part of your work life or serving clients or that sort of thing. So first it needs to be bulletproof. That's becoming a given. Second, I like to think it's well architected, more and more as you bring in AI or other advanced components. You need to be ready to have a changing ecosystem. You know, the best document processing right now might not be the best in six months. So starting to think of your automation solution as that technical glue and doesn't allow you to swap out your trade components as you refine processes going forward or something new hits the market. So now we're working in an ecosystem and I think for the RPA vendors that are having great success in the market, like UiPath, they sort of, they give you that platform and they give you the off-ramps and on-ramps to integrate the other technologies. And I think, like I said, I think that's table stakes in addition to being bulletproof, but the next piece of that is how do we get various people involved in the value proposition of creating automation? So various tools and studios, some for the business user that might not be as technical, maybe self-design a bot at a process description level and then maybe a more technical workbench for the technical bot builder. So I'm starting to see that in the product suite and some of the announcements here this week, how do we tailor the tools to different users and engage them in that process from one end to the other? So you mentioned scaling before, what are the blockers? What's the challenges of scaling? Why does it seem to be so hard? It's clearly an area of focus here at this event. So I think first of all, the technology is still new to some areas. There's still back and forth whether it's the business or IT-led initiative. I think there are some scars and wounds over the last few years of automation where people might've gotten started on the wrong foot. So there's even some redos to learn from. So I think people are looking for the business case. They're getting more comfortable with it. So the job sizes, the deal sizes are getting bigger for the RPA vendors and for us. But I think it's just an evolution. And like I said, there are a lot of stub toes early on in automation. What are some of the big mistakes that you've seen people make? People thinking that it's only a business tool or only a technology tool or technology to the point that they get started on something that becomes either a real technology problem or a real business problem. Maybe you build a bot out in the business and you attach it to your ERP system and you cause performance problems or you have security problems and then it becomes a real IT problem. I've also seen the reverse where an IT group will start and say, hey, let's do some automation. And they push it into some departments. It might not have a fully-baked business case. It might not have good support and it becomes a technology science project rather than delivering any real value. I've been trying to think about analogies and analogous ascendancies in software. I use service now a little bit, but that was kind of a heavy lift. It started in IT. It was very clear IT. You're seeing this massive rapid growth of UiPath, fastest growing, probably the fastest growing software segment in history. And it's striking to me that we're just now starting to see cloud come into the play here. If we just, UiPath, I think announced this week, it's got this new SaaS capability, which you would think would be born in the cloud, but people have explained sort of why that is. Do you have concerns about the pace of growth and a company like UiPath and its competitors, their ability to sort of keep up and continue to deliver quality? I mean, a big part of what you guys do is sort of risk management as well. So how do you manage that risk? So I think what you look for, if you're going to be an alliance partner, if you're going to work together and proceed things together, first you have to have the basics. It has to be bulletproof. It has to work. When you hit bumps in the road, you have to have escalation paths that make sense. And there's growing pains in any firm or any company that grows as quickly as UiPath. On the other hand, the question is, are your cultures aligned? Do you know how to fix problems? How do you put your customers first? And I think that's what we look at in the alliance, which is how do we, how do we partner with people that have similar DNA about customers first and you put everything else aside, roll your sleeves up and do the right thing. So that's what we look for in the alliance like this. We always talk about the buzzwords of digital transformation, which, you know, at conferences like this, it is kind of buzzy. But when you talk to customers, they're actually going through digital transformations. And then a couple of years ago, they started experimenting. They bought one of everything and they'd run things in parallel with legacy systems, but now they're starting to place their bets. They say, hey, actually we've got some use cases that are working, we're going to double down on the stuff that we think works, RPA in some cases fits there. We're going to unplug some of the legacy stuff and try to deal with our technical debt. But I guess my question is, where do you see RPA fitting in to that whole digital transformation matrix? I like to think of a matrix where you've got different sets of services and you've got different industries that are tapping, you know, all data-centric, that are tapping these new capabilities and formulating new businesses, new industries. That's how you see this disruption happening. And then the incumbents saying, hey, we've got assets too, we're going to tap that same matrix. And whether it's open source software or cloud or, you know, new security paradigms or data and analytics. So where do you see RPA fitting into that matrix? So I think at the glue level, at the architecture level, it can be the orchestrator of that experience of taking a variety of technologies and integrating them, providing, again, on-ramps and off-ramps, doing what a human can do, looking at screens, you know, analyzing content. So it can be the glue that orchestrates those processes, orchestrates maybe some of the, some of what used to be a void between legacy systems and new systems. And RPA helps take all that away or level the playing field on that. So X is another set of eyes and ears for process integration or technology integration. And I think that's what is probably its best place now. Are there good process tools there?  I think some people have been successful at it. But, you know, it requires a lot of care and feeding and planning to have, you know, your community stay on the rails or stay between the curbs and do useful things. So I think we're in the beginning of how far can we go with community development? But again, I think the technology is really the glue. So community development in terms of best practice, sharing. Yeah, and users, you know, developing their own bots. You know, what are the guardrails? Does the process, their automating matter? Does it introduce risk? Is it going to perform? You know, how do you make sure your bots are uneval that people are creating? It's a pretty powerful technology. Is there IP in there that you don't want to, we talked about this last year, that you don't want to necessarily share with others? So, now your role, you used to have focused specifically in financial services, now you're more horizontal, but how does Deloitte look at this opportunity? Is it an automation practice? Is it, are you cut across all industries with automation or is it more sort of broader than that? So my colleague here runs the offering, which is do we have the people, the training, the tools, the delivery centers, in the know-how to go out and do this kind of work and we've scaled tremendously in the automation space. The second part is how do we look to the adjacencies? So we work very closely with our colleagues in AI and ML, and we say, how do we go do the next generation of this out of the gate? How do we experiment? How do we say, do you want fries with that as we do some of this work? But then we look for the industry intersection and that's where a firm like Deloitte, we've got deep, deep industry expertise. We say, what are those intersections where we can go make something happen, we can work with our partners, our alliance partners in making something happen at an industry-specific level or can we go solve a specific problem? So I think that's what we bring, that's unique, but we do it both ways. Yeah, I want to ask you a question, it's kind of off the topic here, but I was talking about that matrix before and again, I'm envisioning technology, horizontal technologies and then vertical industries and it used to be for decades, if you were in financial services, you were pretty much stuck in financial services, you had a value chain that was specific to financial services and you knew it inside and out, whether it was product development or marketing or sales distribution, whatever it was. And same thing for automobiles and manufacturing and education on and on and on and you developed these industry areas of expertise and you had domain experts within there and you guys have been built up a global powerhouse doing that. But you're seeing as digital, as companies become digital, what's the difference between a business and a digital business? It's how they use data, data's at the core and you're now seeing organizations, companies, tech companies specifically, traverse different industries. You're seeing Amazon in content, you're seeing Apple in financial services, other companies getting into healthcare. How is that, first of all you see that and what do you think was driving that and how does that affect your business? Are your clients asking you to help you traverse new industries, get into new industries or defend against others, these big tech companies trying to, with a dual disruption agenda, trying to take them over? And at the center of all that you mentioned data though, but the center of that is who are the ultimate customers and what experience do they want and how do they want that experience integrated? So it's not channel by channel anymore, it's which pieces fit together and how do I want to buy things? How do I want to be serviced? You're getting whole crossed economies around what the consumer wants enabled by technology. I think the other thing that plays into that is you start thinking of the internet of things and how connected people are and how do you use, monetize, and integrate data about particular people and how they want to be served to make that a better experience. I think the consumer ultimately is driving a lot of that in technologies enabling it. Yeah, and as you think about that picture again, I like to use the metaphor of a matrix. I mean, I see RPA as just one piece of that. There's so many others, you mentioned IoT, we talk about AI all the time, we talk about blockchain, it's how you put those different capabilities together and apply them to your business that really makes the difference. Not that, I mean, RPA right now feels very tactical, but it's part of a much more strategic agenda. Absolutely, and again, it could be the glue and the ecosystem of emerging technologies. And again, I do see it as the eyes and ears, the fact that what you get out of the box from a regular RPA vendor can really integrate some really painful things, like looking at spreadsheets and looking at guys with green visors, looking at columns of numbers, it's really good at that stuff as a base task. Yeah, nothing wrong with tactical and quick ROI. So Anthony, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate your time. Thank you, great to be here. All right, you're welcome. All right, keep right there, everybody will be back with our next guest, day two from UI Path Forward in Las Vegas, you're watching theCUBE.


A very good evening aspirants, welcome to the Hindu newspaper analysis brought to you by Shankar IA's academy for the day 30th of July 2022. Displayed here are the list of news articles that we have chosen for today's discussion and note that specific topics are exclusively for your preliminary examination. Okay, now without wasting much time, let's get into the first news article discussion. Now have a look at this news article. The news article says that our Prime Minister launched the India International Bullion Exchange at Gandhi Nagar's gift, that is Gujarat International Finance Tech City. This is the first international bullion exchange in India. So in today's discussion, let us see some points about this India International Bullion Exchange. But before getting into that, let us first see what a bullion exchange is and then the need for setting up a bullion exchange. See, basically a bullion exchange is a market through which buyers and sellers trade gold and silver. So it is a place where precious metals are traded. See, we all know that we Indians have a huge appetite for gold. In 1921 alone, India imported 1069 tons of gold. To put this in perspective, just consider this. In 1991, we faced a balance of payment crisis and the country was forced to pawn gold to get money from the IMF. Am I right? During that time, India paid IMF 67 tons of gold. But last year alone, India imported 1069 tons of gold. What this means? See, this means that India's economic growth since the 1991 liberalization is immense. And the appetite for gold by our countrymen is increasing continuously. But the issue here is that, until now importing gold into our country is very rigidly controlled. Currently only nominated banks and agencies approved by the Reserve Bank of India can import gold. It is these nominated banks and agencies that sell gold to dealers and jewellers across the country. The jewellers cannot import gold directly. This is said to change now. As the India International Bullion Exchange is established, this is going to change. So right now after the establishment of India International Bullion Exchange or IABX, qualified jewellers will be permitted to import gold through the IABX. Or you can say India International Bullion Exchange. Here, qualified jewellers are jewellers who are notified by the International Financial Services Centres Authority i.e. IFSEA. Apart from the qualified jewellers, non-resident Indians and institutions will be able to participate on the exchange after registering with this IFSEA i.e. International Financial Services Centres Authority. Now having seen the basics, let us see the advantage of setting up an India International Bullion Exchange. First is with the establishment of this kind of exchange, all the bullion imports into India can be channeled through it. Next, the exchange will help in the price discovery process to occur organically. Here price discovery is nothing but the market price determined through interaction between the sellers and buyers. The next one is quality. See with all bullion imports into India channeled through this exchange, the quality of gold can be ensured. The major advantage is setting up of India International Bullion Exchange will ensure sourcing integrity. See gold can be sourced or bought from a variety of places. When the gold is sourced from a conflict area or if the gold is mined in war zones and if the gold is sold to finance conflicts, it is called blood gold. With India International Bullion Exchange, the presence of blood gold in India can be prevented and the sourcing integrity can be ensured. So that's all about this news article. See this news article is very much important for your upcoming means examination and also for your preliminary examination. See why I say this is important for upcoming means examination is it is the very first time that India is having this kind of bullion exchange. So you might be asked to analyze the advantages as well as the disadvantages in this kind of exchange that is initiated in India. See in this discussion we had covered what are all the advantages or what is the need of such a kind of exchange. You can directly utilize these points to enhance your main senses. Also if a preliminary type of question is asked regarding the India International Bullion Exchange, you can able to answer it with this information alone. Now with these key points in mind, now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Now have a look at this news article. This news article talks about the core sector output. See this graph here. It shows a month wise year on year growth of India's core sectors. It has expanded to 12.7% in June 2022. This is better when compared to last year's performance which stood at 9.4%. See coal, cement, electricity and refinery products rose to 15% or more and this is when compared with the June 2021 output levels. While if you take natural gas, steel and fertilizers all grew at a milder pace. And lastly take crude oil output it has dropped to 1.7% age from a year earlier. See this is the crux of the news article given here. In this context let us learn about the index of industrial production that is IIP. See the index of industrial production is an index that tracks manufacturing activity in different sectors of an economy. It is the key economic indicator of the manufacturing sector of the economy. It generally measures the industrial production for the period under review, usually a month as against the reference period. Generally there is a lag of 6 weeks in the publication of the IIP or the index of industrial production. This lag I am saying after the reference month ends. See the office of the economic advisor under the ministry of commerce and industry made the first attempt of compilation and release of IIP in the year 1950. This was made with the base year 1937 and the attempt to cover 15 important industries which accounted for more than 90% of the total production of the selected industries. And since 1950 the All India IIP is being released as a monthly series. And with the inception of the Central Statistical Organization in the year 1951, the responsibility for compilation and publication of IIP was vested with the Central Statistical Organization or CSO. See this CSO which operates under the ministry of statistics and program implementation is now known as National Statistics Office. That is NSO. See the IIP index data once released is also available on the PIB website. In order to capture the changes in the structure and composition of the industry over time, the IIP is periodically revised by changing its base. And this change of base is done to a more recent period. At present the IIP index is currently calculated using 2011 to 2012 as the base year. And note that the base year was changed to 2011 to 12 from 2004 to 5 and this was made in the year 2017. Among the various items included in the index of industrial production, electricity, crude oil, coal, cement, steel, refinery products, natural gas and fertilizers are the eight core industries. And these industries comprise about 40% of the total weight of items included in the index of industrial production. Remember mining, manufacturing and electricity are the three broad sectors in which IIP constituents fall. The NSO uses secondary data to reach the monthly IIP number and the data is sourced from various agencies in different ministries or departments of the government. The department of industrial policy and promotion is the source for the major chunk of data for the calculation. Okay, so that's all about this news article. In this news article we had discussed about the index of industrial production which is an important index to measure the performance of each sector. Okay, especially for calculating the performance of the core industrial sectors, this is very much important. And note that as mains is fast approaching you can utilize the data that we had discussed in this discussion. And also for your preliminary preparation regarding this index of industrial production whatever we discussed can be put up as a preliminary type of question. Okay, so with these key points in mind now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Now look at this news article. The news article says that CJI that is Chief Justice of India Mr. N.V. Ramana is about to retire. And yet there is no official announcement about who the next CJI or the Chief Justice of India is going to be. The memorandum of procedure of appointment of Supreme Court judges states that the appointment of CJI is based on seniority. So as per seniority next in line is Justice Yuyu Lalith. This is about the news article given here. So in this context let us see some points about the office of Chief Justice of India or CJI. First let us see about the selection process. See the office of the CJI or the Chief Justice of India is a constitutional body established under article 124. Article 124 clause 1 says that there shall be a Supreme Court of India consisting of a Chief Justice of India and judges of Supreme Court. See it is a convention to appoint the senior most judge of the Supreme Court as the CJI or the Chief Justice of India. This convention was followed from the year 1950 to 1973. See there are two instances where this convention was broken. First time it was in the year 1973 when Justice A. N. Ray was appointed as the Chief Justice of India by superseding three senior judges. Again in the year 1977 Justice M. U. Bed was appointed as the Chief Justice of India by superseding the then senior most judge. So although the senior most judge was appointed as the CJI the government had a discretion to change the convention. But this discretion of the government curtailed in 1993 by second judges case. So the current procedure for the appointment of CJI is the outgoing CJI recommends his successor. The union law minister forwards the recommendation to the prime minister who in turn advises the president about the CJI appointment. Finally as per clause 2 of article 124 the president appoints the CJI. See the Chief Justice of India has no specific term. He stays in office until he attains the age of 65 years. Having seen the selection and the term now let us see the powers of the CJI. The Chief Justice of India is considered as the first among the equals. He is also considered as the master of the rooster. He is considered as the administrative head of the supreme court. As a part of his administrative powers the CJI allocates the cases to the supreme court benches. The Chief Justice of India also decides the size of the benches. Finally the CJI is the head of the collegium and we know it is the collegium that plays the main role in the appointment of the judges of the supreme court. So that's all about this news article. See in this news article we covered an important topic for a preliminary examination that is Chief Justice of India. So we discussed about the appointment of CJI or the selection of CJI and we saw the powers in terms of the Chief Justice of India. So with these key points in mind now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Now have a look at this news article. The news article says that Manas Tiger Reserve has more tigers than tigers. In Manas the number of tigers is 2.4 times the number of tigers. This observation was made using the camera trap assessment stipulated by National Tiger Conservation Authority that is NTCA. So this is about the news article given here. In this context let us see some points about the NTCA. See NTCA is a statutory body. It has been constituted under the Wildlife Protection Act 1972. It was established in December 2005 following a recommendation of the Tiger Task Force. The Minister of Environment and Forest is the chairman of NTCA. He is assisted by a wise chairperson who is Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Environment, Forest, Climate Change. Now let us see the functions of NTCA. See the most important function of NTCA is the administration of Project Tiger. Then in regards to the Tiger Reserves in India all the Tiger Reserves are administered according to the guidelines said by the NTCA. Also note that no alteration in the boundaries of Tiger Reserves can be made except on the recommendation of the NTCA. See this recommendation of NTCA must be approved by the National Board for Wildlife. See each state that has a wild Tiger population must prepare a Tiger Conservation Plan. And this plan must be approved by the NTCA. The NTCA also evolves management processes to prevent the man-animal conflict that occurs in the Tiger Reserves. See the NTCA also facilitates research on Tiger, its co-predators, its prey and its ecology. So these are the functions of the NTCA. Before concluding let us also see about the M Stripes. See M Stripes is nothing but a monitoring system for Tiger Intensive Protection and ecological status. This app was developed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Institute of India. This was developed in the year 2010. The M Stripes program uses global positioning system that is GPS, then the General Packet Radio Services, GPRS and remote sensing in order to develop a database. This database will help in ensuring effective patrolling and mitigate human wildlife conflict in and around the Tiger Reserves. Okay, so that's all about this news article. In this news article we covered about an authority which is the National Tiger Conservation Authority. See and regarding the Tiger Conservation, yesterday Ketna Mam had exclusively covered regarding its conservation process. What are all the needs and conflicts in conserving the Tiger population? Okay, so if you are keenly observing our news analysis regularly you will be able to have a holistic cover of each and every topic that is mentioned in our syllabus. Okay, and regarding this NTCA there might be a direct preliminary question also for you. Okay, so make use of this discussion with these key points in mind. Now let's move on to the next part of the news article discussion which is the preliminary practice question discussion. See today we have four questions in which two questions I'll be discussing and two questions will be a quiz question for you. Okay, now look at this first question. See it is regarding the International Financial Services Centres Authority that we saw in our today's discussion. That is we saw in our today's Boolean Exchange discussion. Here two statements are given and whenever two statement question comes you have to go through all the statements before arriving at the answer. For this question the answer is option C both 1 and 2. See the central government has established the International Financial Services Centres Authority. This is to regulate all financial services in international financial services centres. Okay, and it was established as a statutory authority under the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act 2019. Okay, and it is a single window regulatory institution that would regulate the development of India's first IFSC at Gift City at Gandhi Nagar. Okay, so here the answer for this question is option C both 1 and 2 are correct statements. Okay, so with this question you will be able to know about this authority today. Okay, now let's move on to the second question. See the second question is framed regarding the judges of High Court. Here three statements are given. So if you just try to eliminate one statement or if you find that one statement is incorrect you will be able to eliminate few options and you can apply here the elimination technique. Okay, now look at the first statement. See the judges of High Court can resign by writing to the governor. This statement is absolutely incorrect. We know that the judges of High Court can resign by writing to the president and not governor. So if you find the statement is incorrect and look at the question they are asking for correct statements. So you can eliminate options whichever is containing the statement 1. So here I am going to eliminate three options and we will directly arrive at the answer which is option B, 2 and 3 only. Now let me read out the statement 2 and 3 which are correct. See judges of High Court has to vacate his or her office when he or she is appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court or when he or she is transferred to another High Court. That statement is correct. And look at the third statement. The process of impeachment of a High Court judge is similar to that of a judge of a Supreme Court. Yes, that is also correct. See the judges of a High Court can be removed when the motion seeking their removal is passed by a two-third majority in parliament which is similar to that of the removal of the Supreme Court judge. Okay, so the answer for this question is option B, 2 and 3 are only the correct statements. Now to split here are two questions for you. One question is a very easy question that is regarding the index of industrial production. That question you can easily answer. And the other question is a par-based question. See go through all the given tiger reserves and locate them in the India map and go through them and this will be very much useful for your preliminary examination. The answer for both the questions will be put up in the comment section. Okay. And I wish you all to go through the question and try answering the question. Let me give you 24 hours time to answer these questions. Okay. So that's all for today's discussion. If you like this video, do like, share and comment and don't forget to subscribe to the Shankar Ayes Academy's YouTube channel. Thank you for listening.


Everyone standing ready to worship? Merry Christmas. So glad you're here. Let's just go before the Lord right now Just asking him to you know, we sing these songs all the time these Christmas songs Sometimes he gets really familiar and we can just kind of go through the motions And I just feel like the Lord wants to remind us bring us back to the on-wonder of what he did incarnation what he did when he took on our frame and Became a man, so let's just go for him right now Lord we love you. We thank you. We worship you Lord. We stand all and wonder of you God Where we've grown familiar too familiar we're like, oh Yeah, we sung these songs before we've talked about that before Lord. Would you help us? Oh Lord, would you restore wonder and awe again to our hearts today Lord as we sing these songs as we look upon you as we gaze upon you We love you. We bless you. We worship you Jesus name Let's sing this together. Oh come let us adore him In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered This was the first registration when Corineas was governor of Syria and all went to be registered each to his own town and Joseph also went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David Which is called Bethlehem? Because he was of the house and lineage of David to be registered with Mary his betrothed who was with child and While they were there the time came for her to give birth and She gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger Because there was no place for them in the end and In the same region there were shepherds out in the field keeping watch over their flock by night and An angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them And they were filled with great fear And the angel said to them fear not for behold I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people For unto you is born this day in the city of David as saviour who is Christ the Lord and This will be a sign for you. You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger and Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and Saying glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased He takes on our frame humblest Himself little man. So glad you're here to worship. Go ahead and have a seat. Well, Merry Christmas everyone So good to see on Christmas Eve with your families and everybody looks so nice and We got beautiful weather. How many we're praying for a little bit of snow though. Anybody praying for that? How many we're praying no snow?   Oh you get okay? How many of you have to wait till morning do you have to wait till morning? Have you sent your alarm? For 545 right tomorrow or even earlier it could be earlier. Yeah, mom and dad will love you The earlier the more your mom and dad will love you. I promise I'm looking forward to tomorrow. It's gonna be a fun day with our families and opening presents This evening. I want to read to you guys a story called the Christmas promise And so it's gonna have pictures up here on the back here and you can follow along as I read the story you guys ready Okay, so this this is called a Christmas promise. It says a long long time ago So long that it's hard to imagine God promised a new king He wasn't any ordinary king like the ones that you see on TV or in books. He would be different He would be a new king a rescuing king a forever king And do you know what one precious night God kept his Christmas promise. Would you like to know how he did it? Okay, well the Christmas story starts with an angel Whoosh He came from God to see Mary you guys have to help me out tonight. Okay when I do this everybody look at my hand When I do this you say whoosh are you ready? So you got paid attention. Okay, here we go the Christmas story starts with an angel He came from God to see Mary and the angel had a special message Mary you're gonna have a baby. He will be a special baby and God promises that your baby is going to be a king Not for a little time, but forever and ever he will be the forever king Mary was going to marry Joseph and so God sent another angel He came to see Joseph and the angel had a special message Mary is going to have a special baby the angel said to Joseph her baby is going to be king and he will rescue his people He will be a rescuing king God had promised that his new king would be born in a little city called Bethlehem and that's where Mary and Joseph went But Bethlehem was very busy with lots and lots of people So when the baby was born he had to sleep in a manger instead of a bed All the other majors in Bethlehem held food for hungry animals to munch on but this manger held a tiny baby The shepherds in the field had such a surprise it was quiet and dark and the sheep were snoozing when Good job An angel popped into the sky now the sky was bright and the shepherds were so so scared But the angel had a special message for them Don't be afraid. I have wonderful good news for you the angel said God's chosen king has been born tonight He's going to rescue his people just as God promised and he will be the rescuing king Then lots and lots of other excited angels joined in the celebration the shepherds were really excited They went rushing to see the new king and there he was lying in a manger just as the angel said But they weren't the only ones who had heard the good news about the promised new king Some wise men living far far away like almost a battle Creek Hey, they had been sent a message and it was quiet and dark and they were watching the stars when a New stars popped into the sky and the star had a special message The wise men knew what it meant It meant that a very special king had been born the king for all God's people This child was the promise new king the wise men were so excited that they went on a long Journey to see the new king and there he was just as the star had shown them Everything that God promised came true and there are lots and lots of different kings in the world But God sent the greatest king of all he sent a new king a rescuing king and a forever king and Do you want to know what that king's name is What's his name? Okay, let's all practice it together on the count of three if you think you know his name Shout it out on the count of three ready one two three You guys are awesome so well done And you know, it's really amazing You know, it's really amazing about King Jesus is that he was born two thousand years ago But he's still the king and we still celebrate his birthday and you know what kind of king He is that on his birthday. He lets us open presents. That's pretty awesome, right? So here's what I want you to do tomorrow morning tomorrow morning before you open your presence at like 445 or so I Want you to start by saying happy birthday King Jesus. Can we practice that together? Here we go one two three You guys are awesome. Let's all stand up and I'm gonna invite mom and dad and everybody in the audience to stand up And we're gonna do an operation. It's called operation find your parents and For you parents, it's operation find your kids and while you're doing that then turn and greet and welcome others and say Merry Christmas to them Hey radiant We're the garrison family and the fourth advent reading is about love will be reading out of the book of John John 3 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life Merry Christmas radiant. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Thank you so much. Hey, I wrote that's my son. He said what's up? He's so funny Merry Christmas. Thank you for coming with your families. We know we may have some guests or maybe some returning guests Maybe this is your first time in church in a long time We're so happy that you decided to be here tonight And if you could and the seatback parking in front of you There's a communication card if you take some time during tonight's service fill that out Hold on to it and at the end of the service make your way out to the lobby to rating a central We have some leaders and some volunteers there that will love to give you a gift just to show our appreciation for coming tonight Church can we clap our hands for any guests that we have with us tonight? Thank you so much for coming here Amen, amen like to invite our ushers to make their way forward as we prepare to worship God through our giving Receiving our ties and our offerings just as the video just said for God's so loved the world that he gave we give In a response to his love towards us There's two ways that you can give you can give us the buckets make their way past you or you can give Online is set up. We're occurring giving online as well So I'm gonna pray for us. We're gonna continue to worship God through this service So father we again, thank you for who you are. We thank you for your love God We thank you for your grace and we thank you that you're here God, we don't want to celebrate you and worship you as if you're not in the room We thank you for your presence and I pray that every single person here would feel you and know that you're with them And that you're for them and those that are far from you tonight We're believing they'll receive the invitation to receive Jesus Christ as king. We love you We thank you for your love in Jesus name and everyone said Long ago in a land far to the east lived three wise kings who were devoted to studying the stars Night after night, they would watch the sky and chart the distant lights that danced above them One night a Celestial mystery started to unfold Suddenly a new star appeared in the heavens This star known from ancient prophecies Signified the arrival of a new king So the truth-seekers set out looking for this newborn king wanting to honor and worship him As they traveled farther than they ever could have imagined They finally saw it the same star that had risen in the east now rested directly over the place where the child lay Filled with joy. They realized they had found the one they sought the star maker Who entrusted himself to the care of a teenage girl? He was the one who spoke the galaxies. They had charted into existence He was the one who hung the planets they had studied in their very places The wise men brought with them rich treasures to present before the newborn Messiah Gold to acknowledge his royalty and recognize him as the ruler of all hearts frankincense to signify his divinity as the true son of God In myrrh which foretold of his purpose on earth to give up his life for the redemption of mankind The stars which they had so diligently studied now paled in comparison to the radiant light of this child Not just a king, but the embodiment of hope love and salvation and So on that holiest of nights when the Son of God laid his glorious side the world rejoiced Eternity whispered its welcome and see this humble king everyone I have two Christmas miracles to announce to you. The first one is the Detroit Lions are 11 and 3 My one is a Christmas miracle Hallelujah The other miracle is that this time of year here at radiant We something that's very near and dear to our heart is the big give offering It's at this time of year between Thanksgiving and Christmas That as a church we give in addition to everything else that we do we give to major ministries and organizations here in our own city that care for the poor and Help like the gospel mission and different things like that here in our own city a different adoption and foster projects As well as global missions around the world different Projects and partnerships that we have around the world and our goal this year was one million dollars in the big give offering And currently that total is one million one hundred and fifty dollars that y'all have given to the big give and That money is Already moving Pastor Joel Dorlag is Already dispersing it around the globe in here in our own city, and we just want to say thank you It is truly miraculous your generosity 100% of that is going to be in action to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to people around the corner and around the world And so we're so grateful for that And this evening I want to share with you a Christmas message Entitled Christmas invitations Christmas invitations you might actually be at church tonight because someone handed you an Invitation to come to one of our services, and I know this that at this time of year we see well we receive a lot of invitations to things whether they be concerts church services Christmas parties get-togethers Driving and going seen the Christmas lights Even Invitations that are commercials inviting us to watch Hallmark Christmas movies Which are all the same movie? repackaged 50 different ways But our attention is always being Drawns by these invitations and tonight. I want to share with you The greatest invitation that has ever been issued at Christmas, and it's found in Luke chapter 2 beginning in verse number 8 It's been a theme so far tonight of the songs that we've sung and even the videos that we've played it's the account of the angels appearing and Proclaiming the birth of Jesus to the shepherds in the field and it begins in verse number 8 Says now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields Keeping watch over their flocks by night and behold an angel of the Lord Stood before them and the glory of the Lord shown all around them and they were greatly afraid and Then the angel said to them do not be afraid for behold. I bring to you good tidings of great joy Which will be for all people For there is born this day in the city of David a savior who is Christ the Lord and This will be a sign to you you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths lying in a manger and suddenly There was with the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill towards men and So it was when the angels gone away from them into heaven that the shepherds said to one another Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing has come to pass Which the Lord has made known to us and they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph And the babe lying in a manger now when they had seen him They made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this child and all those who heard it marveled at Those things that they were told by the shepherds But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart and then the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen as It was told to them It's interesting that at this time of year especially in our culture and our city and really in America in general Western culture Christmas has actually become a holiday that everyone celebrates whether you're a Christian Whether you're some other faith. It's just almost become in many ways kind of a secular religion because whether you celebrate the birth of Jesus or You're just as people say celebrating the spirit of the season Christmas has kind of become all Encompassing in our culture and so we get drawn into it and we celebrate it in almost every single Home and household has some way of celebrating it. They put up a Christmas tree We sing Christmas carols or we listen to Christmas music on 105 point seven at this time of year We go and we buy presents for other people and and the spirit of the holiday has been generosity It's been remembering family and friends and getting together But I think what's interesting is if we're not careful We can actually celebrate Christmas and yet not see Jesus For who he really is because listen Christmas Christ Christmas is really the celebration of Jesus's birth the son of the living God and Above all things it's an invitation. It's God issuing an invitation to humanity To everybody to come and to see to come and behold him And that's exactly what the angels announced on this night to the shepherds. It was an invitation come glad tidings This wasn't a summons. This wasn't a you know a summons to appear in a court This isn't you know a letter demanding your attention This was a celebration in much the same way that when someone throws a party and they issue an invitation and With excitement and with zeal about what they are celebrating. They want everybody who's close to them everybody that they love to be there G. K. Chesterton who wrote in the previous century said this from England. He said Christmas is actually built upon a beautiful and Intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless Should be celebrated in every home Jesus who was born and laid in a manger homeless is today celebrated in almost every home But even though we celebrate this thing called Christmas that actually has his name in it It's actually possible to see Christmas be in Christmas Participate in Christmas But actually not respond to the invitation that the angels gave us which was to come and Behold him. I'm not talking about seeing him talking about beholding him. That's what the angels said behold Good news glad tidings. Behold. What does it mean to behold? Well, the word behold actually means to perceive Through sight in order to comprehend something to see or to gaze or to observe upon something to study something so that you can Understand Comprehend its significance and its importance and that's what I mean by participating in Christmas But not necessarily seeing or understanding or beholding Christmas it's about removing all the distractions and all the clutter off of Jesus So that we can respond to the invitation to come and see him I'll illustrate to you this way Everyone in this room with maybe a few exceptions arrived here tonight in a vehicle in your car And you pile in you get into your car you drive down whatever road near or far to go to church and on your way here Now that you're here, and if I were to ask you hey on your way here Did you happen to pass or see any other cars your response is going to be absolutely? Yeah, I saw a bunch of other cars on the road But then if I were to ask you hey, okay, tell me about one of those cars Well, I mean I I wasn't I mean I saw cars but no tell me like what kind of what kind of car did you see was that a was was it a You know a Malibu. It's like I don't know it was a car If I were to ask you to color to describe the people that were in the car that you saw maybe with the license plate number You'd say well, I didn't pay that close attention.  It was significant This is the difference between seeing and Beholding and so when God invites us when God gives Jesus and he has the angels announced his birth And he tells the shepherds come in and see become and behold him He's inviting us to do more than to just perceive who he is To just see him in passing. I think so many times We know we think we know a little bit about Jesus, but it's actually been cluttered Or we miss Jesus because we become distracted But if we will we will respond to God's invitation It was God's invitation to come and see what we'll find if we'll behold him is number one that Jesus Christ is the embodiment of God's goodness Here he is the gift the Redeemer the forever king the savior of the world who has been born this day a Savior who's been born. This is God's goodness to us This isn't God sending a judge. This is God sending a savior Full of mercy and goodwill He says goodwill towards man peace We actually through Jesus are able to find peace with God not through our best efforts But by his blood that was shed on the cross Jesus the gift of God made a new and living way for us to be Restored back to God Jesus came in a manger But he knew that ultimately his destiny would take him to a cross Why was he willing to do it because as we heard in the Advent reading? God so loved the world that he gave his own son, and you know what Jesus? willingly laid down his own life Actually the translation of John 3 16 should be this in this way God demonstrated his love what way that he was willing to give himself give his son This is God's goodness embodied and when we really behold Jesus what what else we see is we see God's kind intentions His kind intentions God could have just allowed history to unravel right before us I mean he could have looked at it and just thought what a mess they've made What a mess the rebellion has brought about the wages of sin is death and God could have left it there But the book of Romans says the second part of that verse is but the gift of God is eternal life This is God's kind intentions. Why does he invite us and send? Angelic hosts in the heavenlies to say come and see because he wants us to know his intentions for us I don't want you to remain in darkness anymore I don't want you to just receive the wages of your sin. I want to give you a gift I want to restore you back to me and It's in this way that when we come and behold Jesus. We actually behold God's very wide love Arms wide open Because when God makes the announcement and he issues the invitation he doesn't issue it in Jerusalem He issues it in Bethlehem And he doesn't issue it to kings and priests He issues it to shepherds silent sidelined shepherds He doesn't announce it to those who are well and those who are righteous He announces it to the sick and announces it to the broken. He announces it to the sinful He announces it to those who have no hope Shepherds in biblical culture were lowest on the totem pole A lot of times they had that job because they couldn't be trusted to work with other people in the city and in the community Nobody paid any attention to shepherds. They were very blue collar, calisthans, rough Isn't it interesting though that when God throws a party And he sends out an invitation the first people That he sends the invitation to are the last ones that everybody else would invite He starts there that gives me hope because Every single one of us in this room Have a lot in common with those shepherds But he says good news. I've got great news for you. This is amazing. Go into Bethlehem and see go and behold him see God's wide love that He's not just come for a few. He's come for everybody He's made a new and a living way for us to be reconciled to him Why is it important that we behold him because when we behold something Personal encounter leads to personal transformation Personal encounter leads to personal change You can know something about someone or something second hand But when you actually see them or you see it first hand now you've encountered them And you will never be the same these shepherds were never the same. They said let's go into Bethlehem and let's behold this Let's go see this Miracle this child this king that's been born and when they went and they saw him they beheld him Can you imagine what it must have been like for those angels? The shock and the awe of seeing angelic beings singing in the heavenlies and we're not talking about just a few we're talking about countless choirs of angels the supernatural experience phenomena and then to go up the hill into Bethlehem and actually find him and To see him lying there in a manger To look at him to watch him breathe to look at his eyes and To realize that what you are seeing is a miracle it changed everything it changed them and It changes us It says in verse 17 that when they had seen him They made widely known the saying that was told them concerning the child see it changed them because seeing Jesus Changes silent shepherds and makes them into boisterous evangelists. Why because of firsthand encounter We don't have a lot of confidence in things. We know from somebody else But we do have confidence in the things that we have personally experienced It changes us because seeing Jesus will change the trajectory of your life the Trajectory of your future when you really see Jesus for who he is the son of the living God Savior of the world the king That God has sent and when you see Jesus firsthand It actually changes the way you adore him It changes the way that you worship. It's easy to sing songs because words are on the screen or in a hymnal. It's easy to Be in a church building and see other people worshiping But it becomes different when it's personal When you can say I've encountered Jesus Only you know something the invitation to come and behold Jesus hasn't expired Every once in a while we'll find gift cards in our drawers They expired and psyched missed it or you find like a coupon remember coupons. We don't do them anymore, but Coupons, and you're just like oh this Missed it or you find an old invitation to a party a graduation a wedding and you're so ah Forgot the RSVP the good news is that the invitation that God issues Never expires still there come and see Come and see for yourself if you will behold him and perceive Gaze and observe him in order to comprehend and answer the question. Who is he? It'll change everything in your life and John 1 verse 12 John the Apostle whose life was forever changed Said to as many as received him To them He gave the right to be called the children of God. This is The gift that God gives are you ready for it?  He gives us his son and he gives us the right The privilege the honor that we could never earn we could never purchase and we could never dare ask for But he gives it to us anyways. He says Do you see him? If you'll believe I'll give you the right to be called my child not because you've earned it and not because you deserve it, but because God's just that good. He's just that kind to as many as believed and Received him to them. He gave the right to be called children of God. Do you believe tonight? Do you believe is Jesus more than a decoration that we'll put back in the Tupperware tub? This next week and move on to the next holiday or is Jesus the gift of Heaven that has changed your life. I invite you along with heaven today To come and behold him. I Want to invite you to stand with me all over the room if you would and if you have your Candle your Modern LED candle I'm gonna invite you to turn that on and we're gonna sing by candlelight Reminding our hearts That at the darkest moment in history Just as in the darkest moments of our life Jesus is the light of the world Let's sing together Stars are brightly shot. It is the night of our dear Savior's birth In sin till he appeared In the soul Felted a thrill Let's pray King Jesus Light of the world. We thank you so much for coming to save us from our sins To redeem us so that we can be a right relationship with you And we ask you that as we celebrate you that your light will shine in us and through us So that the world may see just how beautiful how great and how glorious you truly are We love you. We're so so thankful That you've given us the right to be your sons and your daughters and we say thank you again in Jesus name we pray and everyone said and alright blow out your candle There it is right there. There it is. I've been practicing that trick Thank you so much for coming. Hey before you leave as you walk out the doors You'll see some men and women there to collect your candles and on behalf of Pastor Lee and Jane and all of us here at Radiant Merry Christmas. We love you. See ya


And things like that, that she's trusting me to be able to do something like that, it's worthwhile. I am HM1 Jennifer Heiselman. And I am HM1 Whitzelman. We're Navy Liaisons at Doverport Mortuary, also known as Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations. Navy Liaison is a well-rounded person that takes care of not only the fallen marine or sailor, but also their families and everybody in the command that were to come here and witness the thing about transfer. If we do have a death, we would welcome the family to Dover. We would secure their logic. We'd take care of them while they're here. Take them to the flight line. We have a brief that we go over with them, all the details of what they're going to expect. Brief our escorts and make flight arrangements, travel arrangements for the remains in the escorts. We would measure the fallen and choose the right uniform. Most of the time they go in their dress blues, both Navy and Marines, unless the family decides they want something different. Every Irish pendant is snipped. We roll on the neck of it. We press and stain the uniform. We get it tailored professionally. We get the wards and decorations to make the ribbon right. And then we go back into a final once-over inspection and make sure that everything is just right. Everything has to be perfect, better than our uniforms, because it's going to be their last uniform. It's got to be right. I mean, it's got to be right. And if it's not right, then we need to fix it. And we do. We're trained for corpsmen duties, but we'll always be morticians. We're the only ones in the Navy that know how to do this job. We can embalm, we can do restorative work, and we can make those arrangements that nobody else can do. Let me be clear. I don't want to do anything else. I love it. I love it. There's not a day goes by that I hate my job, that I dread going to work. But you're a field director. Yeah, I am. I love it. I'm proud to be here. This is a dream duty station for any mortician. So much happens here, and you get to be a part of it. And to be able to bring fallen Marines and sailors home, it's just, it's overwhelming. I make a difference. And to me, making a difference is very important. It's no corners are cut here. We take care of our own. We can't bring them back, but we do the best we can to help the family achieve the type of closure, but this type of closure that allows them to grieve healthily and move on. You have to be strong and to be able to hold up a father that's falling on the flight line and be able to be kind of a rock in those moments. You have to be patient and the ability to just listen to people because really they just want to talk to you. I think you've got to be a compassionate person. You've got to be there for people that you don't know and people you may never see again. And you've got to help them through the most difficult thing in their life ever. And we help navigate that and we make it easier. If the unthinkable happens, we will take care of them. And not just the service member, but their family members as well. There may be only 12 of us, but we're going to make sure that you're done right. We're here 24-7 for active duty, for their dependents. No matter where you are in the world, we will get you home with honor and dignity, care and respect.