Good morning and welcome to today's products and focus. So last night's Apple earnings were certainly kind of interesting where it saw a stronger growth in iPhone sales but weaker take up in China which caused Apple shares to initially tick up and then actually end up slightly lower by the end of the session. Looking at the US 30 you can see that there's not a huge amount of activity as we head into tonight's FOMC session which is widely expected not to show any increase in interest rates and in fact not to actually give too much clarity as to the next rate hike. Some traders are hoping for December to take a balance of a stronger US dollar especially when quantity easing is taking place across the rest of Europe and potentially over in Asia but many traders still believe that it will be early 2016 before the US strong enough to justify any rate hike but nevertheless that is a very important figure that is due out and you don't want to miss that so that's due later on in tonight's session right about 7 p.m. So looking at the US 30 we are drifting towards 17,561 which is potential support. Other technicals are overbought with a slight divergence showing where we might get a crossover on some of those important kind of sell signal levels such as a 70% level in the RSI and 80% level on the slow stochastic. Moving on to the UK 100 a very different picture to what we've actually seen there in the US where we've already just come off a few days of negative candles. Yesterday was quite bad because commodity prices have taken a little bit of a tumble if I'm completely honest with crude oil and gold kind of copper lure as well and we're getting close to that 21 period SMA. 6,300 is a potential support and the other technicals we've got a negative crossover on the MACD with a histogram just about to show we've not had the crossover yet but very close whereas a slow stochastic obviously came off there earlier on last week. Moving on to Japan 225 another negative day yesterday slight bounce this morning we're in between two ranges 18,648 potential support other technicals relatively neutral with the slow stochastic just about across the 80% level with 19,104 being potential resistance Japan 225 is not that exciting at the moment. Moving on to dollar yen another negative day yesterday as people were buying safe haven yen to hedge against the sell-off and equity markets whereas if you look at it today we're not really doing huge amount either. 119 spot 76 is the short-term potential support though if you look at some of these levels here you could arguably have that as a broken resistance and we're maybe on the wrong side of it right now maybe you could take 120 spot 55 as being a level of interest which is also coincide with that 55 period SMA. So moving on to West Texas crude which is probably the one that most traders are looking at if you're looking for a commodity play right now we were down much lower earlier on in the session to have a late rally almost a hammer formation but it's been followed up by yet another negative day so far 41 spot 42 dollars is a potential support level this is a very strategic level for West Texas crude it was a low of March if we get closer to there again that will be an interesting level for traders to keep an eye on. Then having a quick look at gold actually gold ticked up yesterday it's ticked up a bit higher this morning getting a kind of unusual move but I guess coming before the FOMC maybe some people are buying it as a hedge against some surprise from there 1168 remains to be the potential support slash resistance level other technicals are kind of all over the place right now. Gold's a really tough one to get a handle on I think certainly looking at from out from a trend wise you say well it's in the middle of an uptrend this could be a retracement and then move higher but with in the backdrop of what's happening elsewhere in the world I would have expected gold to be much higher than it is already so it's a very ambiguous move right now on the yellow metal. Looking at Euro dollar however on the wrong side one spot 11 this looks vulnerable should the FOMC surprise tonight with some bullish or hawkish comments about December which is more clarity as to the Fed stance and rates in general might have some interesting impacts on Euro dollar so one spot 11 very strategic finishing up with GBP USD it's also moving a little bit lower maybe almost in a kind of a downward channel formation it does feel like we could be in a kind of descending triangle pattern right there with one spot 51.85 being potential support we still have a sloping trend line moving lower we're trading both moving averages that's negative the MACD cross and a zero line that's negative and we had a bearish cross over of the 80% level in the slow to cast it just a couple of sessions ago from a technical perspective GBP USD doesn't look that bullish but obviously the MACD data events can have a big impact on that it's in the middle of two ranges right now which makes it almost tough to trade but certainly from a technical purely technical perspective things are beginning to stack up against cable so economic data wise you do of course have your crude oil inventories and don't forget about your FOMC announcement tonight the rate is going to be it's going to remain the same but remember it's all about the statement and then tomorrow Thursday you've got UK house prices employment claims GDP data consumer CPI from Germany housing index loads of data due on Thursday so make sure you don't forget about that so keep your eye on the chart form as ever make insights part of your layout going forward lots of really cool information on here from our global analyst team and join me again tomorrow to find out what happened next


So we see here, the verse before that talks about ministering, being hospitable, we're looking at 1 Peter 4 and verse 11. So the verse before that talks about being hospitable to one another without grumbling and ministering the gift to one another. So it talks about whatever God has put in our heart to really share that, to steward that well. Okay, and in the same vein, Peter says, if anyone speaks, if anyone speaks or communicates or proclaims, we can say whatever, let them speak as the oracles of God. So we've seen this before, that let them speak as an oracle of God in the sense what is in the heart of God, let them be a mouthpiece for God, a spokesperson for God. So which means that which requires for us to really seek God, it requires for us to really seek him and pursue him and know what's in his heart. So we know that it cannot be a casual seeking, it cannot be a very superficial kind of relationship. So while we journey through time, in a sense, which is a fancy way of saying that while we spend, as we go on in ministry, as we continue to minister and in through the years, it is possible that we come to a place of, okay, there's something happening and so I minister. There's an event, I'm going to minister, there's a Sunday service and I minister, and I need to do it, let me do it. But here we see that if I need to minister, Peter's exhortation is that you minister as the oracles of God, you minister as a spokesperson for God, minister, let him speak with the ability which God provides. So which means that I need to seek him, I need to pursue him, I need to receive from him and receive what's in his heart and the ability, the power aspect of it, the anointing aspect of it. So that also, I seek him, I pursue and I receive from him and I minister with the ability that he gives and the end result of this is that God will be glorified. So we are called to this and maybe never get jaded, maybe never get complacent in this area, but let us minister as the oracles of God and there's nothing more satisfying, accelerating, exciting as we when we do this. So let's pray and let's say God, I want to be this, I want to be your spokesperson, I want to speak as the oracle of God. Father, we thank you Lord, we thank you that you called us to this, invited us to this, and it's a privilege for us Lord to speak as if you would speak in that place God, to minister or as you would minister in that place Father God and so we thank you that you've called us to this, to speak as the oracles of God and Master to this end we commit ourselves Lord into your mighty hands God, to do what it takes Father God, in the natural God, to do what it takes O God in the spiritual Lord, Master that we might ask Lord minister with the ability that you have given us God. Your ability God is limitless Lord and it's far beyond Lord what we can even imagine and Master we ask O God for an impartation Lord of that ability in us Lord and I just pray today for those of us who are all of us here in this class and I just pray for each one of us O God that utterance will be given O God that we each one of us O God will be ministering as the oracles of God Lord that we would seek to know you God that we would pursue you God with all our hearts and mind and soul and strength of Father God and Lord seek to know what's in your heart of Father God and even as you reveal these to us Father God by your spirit maybe be careful to treasure these Lord maybe be careful to esteem these Father God and yeah maybe be careful to steward O God these things for Father God revelation and truth and everything God in the best way possible Father God. Yes Master we thank you that you will do this in our lives and we commit ourselves Lord to journey with you Father God to walk with you to see this Lord God work out in our lives each and every time we minister God we thank you Lord in Jesus' matchless name we pray amen amen okay so last class you know we've been looking at some of the keys to effective preaching like and so we've been looking at some of the practical things and so we we saw you know how humor will help humor will actually help us in various ways it'll help us to bridge some you know difficult things it'll help us to bridge all those you know gaps and and also difficult content you know it'll it'll put the audience at ease right and to help them to relax especially when you know some difficult things some convicting things some hard things have been communicated like it helps to do that as well the smart humor does that as well so we saw that the word of caution was that that let humor be in you know like a spice and not the main thing okay otherwise there's no well there's no seriousness and whatever truth we declare also seems to be watered down right people if it's something very something of a significant nature something that is serious then it's not received in that with that seriousness right okay so use it you know be discerning in the use of humor okay the next thing we saw was that we need to plan on a good level of content per minute so in other words we're saying that you plan out your the message in such a way that there is time for each and every section there is time for each and every point okay so some of these things which which hinder us from actually delivering in the right way or completing even the message is when we are repetitive okay when we repeat things over and over again right so some some things we say over and over again repetition is good to some extent right how does it help it helps in memory it helps to highlight the importance of things right so repetition helps in those ways it helps people to retain fine but then if you are going to repeat it for the sake of you know repeating then it's going to fill up it's going to take time it's going to steal time right so be careful of repetition be careful of losing the audience attention of the audience be careful of that because repetition tends to do that when people also would feel you know why is this person saying this over and over again you know I've got it I've already got it and it might come as a very patronizing thing you know like okay as you would talk to a child right over and over and over again and instructing a child over and so they might feel it's very very patronizing they might feel as you know condescending manner right so to avoid all that you know you you think of it okay have I said it too many times let me just stop here move on okay and plan different sections how much time can I give this how much time can I give the other thing well this is certainly a time a difficult concept or maybe something that is new something that requires a bit of explaining so I'm going to spend so much time and some things are simple some things need not be you know explain just mention keep going okay when it comes to again delivering content and planning your time well we need to be thoroughly prepared you know that goes without saying that we need to know the content you know we can't be not prepared certain things and we can't postpone certain things and okay I'll do it later I'll do it later and then suddenly realize oh I didn't even you know I didn't even go through this I didn't even you know prepare this well I should have read this I should have you know all these things come and then you get getting all tensed up right anxious so prepare thoroughly so that you can be relaxed but also preparing thoroughly also leaves us or gives us the freedom to to make some spontaneous you know take some spontaneous route okay so since you know the content and you prepared it well it also enables you to speak certain things maybe not there in the outline but you sense the lot speaking these things and it gives you that freedom to do that as well okay okay then some practical things about notes well if you're going to write down word for word okay what would happen is that you normally you know you would feel tempted to glance at the notes over and over again right so if you've written down okay like maybe initially we can write down okay hello how are you you know everything word for word apparently like in some in some scenarios it would work you know I've I've read that Joel Osteen you know in in his early days of the TV ministry like after he took over from his father he used he used to write down each and everything right because it was television and it was very time bound he had to you know convey certain things within those whatever three minutes four minutes whatever be the time frame right it was it was short and and so he he actually wrote down word for word you know line for line what is it that he needed to convey so that he can actually do that he knows that okay he can time it he can say it and it can be conveyed in that manner well that would happen in certain contexts right but that doesn't have to be so all the time especially when it's let's say you know you call to speak somewhere and you have sufficient time like 30 minutes 40 minutes whatever and so if you have a verbatim sermon outline the temptation is to just be locked into that right and you don't want to take your eyes off that so instead of communicating with the audience you know you're constantly looking into the notes and you're reading out it's good content and you're you know you're prepared well but having that kind of a notes really you know if you if you're not careful you'll be locked into it you know you need to make a you need to make a conscious choice not to do that say okay these are some things I understood it or I've you know prepared this I've written this down and yeah so so that I can prepare it well these are some things that I need to speak these are some points but I'm going to now communicate that with the audience and I'm going to speak that now I'm going to preach that now I'm going I'm not going to be looking into my notes all the time okay I'm going to glance at it when I'm done with this point I'm going to look at the other point so I know this is the flow of things that I want to give you I don't want to miss out on anything right so so that's those are some things that we need to do so that we don't get locked into a content or locked into the what we have written down as the sermon notes okay okay and some sometimes you know people say 20 minutes is what right now you know people say that 20 minutes is what people can actually give attention 20 minutes now that's a short span which means that every 20 minutes if you're going to be speaking for let's say one hour okay so every 20 minutes there needs to be a shift there needs to be a transition okay so people can if they're going to give attention only for 20 minutes then we need to have some kind of a shift in transition and so that people can I mean be attentive okay like you know in the notes there is this quote the mind can only absorb what the seat can endure in the sense physically you know if a person can is comfortable you know let's say 20 minutes 30 minutes that's it otherwise you know they start shifting fidgeting and now you know what we've noticed is with social media with you know all these instagram and everything the that has come down even now you know the attention span is so reduced like I remember you know sharing a video with my daughter and I asked her okay she said that I think it was fairly I don't know it was just maybe 10 minutes long and and she was done you know I think within two three minutes she was done so I asked her you know how did you finish it she said I just forwarded I just forwarded it to where the way it was and then and that's it done so people are very very you know impatient they just want to you know get to the end finish it so we're living in such a time you know and you guys we're addressing such audiences you know with such such a short span I'm not saying that everyone is like that but we have such folks in the audience and more and more you know as more and more people start using these media you know things they will be they will be the tendencies to scroll up you know scroll to the next one scroll scroll to the next story right skip to the next part so so be mindful of that and so when you speak you know people might be there physically but they are there emotionally and you know mentally right ask yourself that okay the next one the next key to effective preaching is a voice okay is my voice loud enough okay is my voice comfortably loud right it should not be painfully loud right if it's painfully loud especially with the PA and everything if I'm going to be shouting you know screaming I know that you know that is a style or you know a characteristic way of preaching you know in some cultures which is accepted norm in some in some cultures as well so which is it's okay but it should if people cannot endure that for a long time right so it has to be okay maybe certain things you are proclaiming preaching you are you know emphasizing go ahead do it but then be mindful of the fact that people cannot endure that if you're going to be uncomfortably loud all the time people are going to tune off okay there's only so much they can take in right so be loud enough come be comfortably loud so that the furthest person in the hall the furthest person sitting in the you know in the congregation the audience can hear comfortably okay so anyway every audience every every place now we know we have a PA we have a mic and loud speakers and so on so so that they can hear comfortably loud enough right okay then the other thing is also I think what we were looking at earlier like John Paul mentioned last class was about the rate of speech the rate of speech is it's too slow is it too fast if it's too slow people are going to again nod off sleep sometimes you know doze off and also lose track right but if it's going to be very fast then again the same thing happens right they're not able to grasp what did he say that oh he's already moved on you know what what are they what is he saying next it's already moved on to the ring so it's very fast and also if it is going to be too rapid and fast the words that we use the sentences that we use are not going to be clear so well the rate of speech and also the clarity of the words and also the tone okay so that's another important thing I think I mentioned right one example where I preached a message on a Sunday and then after soon after that this person came and said that gave a feedback you know the content was good you know I really enjoyed the message the content was good faster but then your tone is very very monotonous right it's the same tone right throughout so there's no up or down no variation so he was actually at that time I think he was teaching some soft skills and all that so he said you know I find that very very very boring the tone and also I find that I'm not able to you know I sometimes doze off and he was brave brave enough and bold enough to you know just say that I need to tell the pastor this I need to tell him that and and and thank god he did that right so I couldn't at least you know I even though and I have a tendency to go into a monotone every time I'm reminded of that and say okay is there variation in my voice right does it go up and does it come down where it needs to right where it needs to so that it doesn't sound artificial but at the same time wherever there's an emphasis am I you know changing the tone am I changing the pitch am I you know what is my volume and what is my speed the speed at which I speak all that okay so something about language is use words that are clear and use words that are simple which communicate the message emphasize certain words if need be and when we are speaking we can use repetition right to emphasize certain things we can use a pause right so you're making a statement saying that um because where I'm just reading you know you are a chosen generation you are a chosen generation so there's a pause after you are chosen generation so we could say it without a pause and okay you are a chosen generation you are a chosen generation but what is the difference when you add the pause anyone when you say okay let's say the first example you are a chosen generation you are a chosen generation so what's the difference sorry it's clearer okay okay so jeffina says it's clearer anyone else anyone else what is the difference it gives the audience to think on that word it chosen generation right yeah so it kind of emphasizes those words and the audience gets to think about that okay you are and then it's like okay I am a chosen you know and you think on that word okay chosen and generation and you're thinking about these words these words kind of stand out it's like you have a highlighter in the notes and then you you highlight you know or you highlight the verse in the bible you underline something it's like that right so you you're highlighting it you're focusing on that and and it changes the the whole you know communication of that thought right so you are a chosen generation this emphasis this clarity there's also focus right so this word so so it kind of it you know this is a small thing it's a practical thing but it goes a long way in communication of the truth right so so maybe we might think oh am I just manipulating things right well it's a fine line okay if I'm using these abilities if I'm using these practical things it's a fine line you know if your motive if your heart is is clear right if your motive is okay I need to communicate this this message the meaning and there's a thought in this in the best way possible okay now it's not like I want them to think in a certain way or I want them to behave in a certain way you know I want them to do this and because of that I'm just going to put in all this emotion and do it no the truth itself causes you you know for all these emotions to come out and you're just not holding back you're just you know communicating that right so you yourself as a as a person as a messenger right and and carrying that message your and it's it's your personality your your emotions and everything are intertwined with that okay which is fine okay so so the thing is this are we emphasizing you know are we emphasizing the words are we and also you know we're going to look at the next one which is what about gestures right what about gestures you know I think in our in-person class one of these years we you know the previous years we did this exercise okay like we just grouped up into two by two and each person had to speak to the other person and without using any hand gestures no hand gestures no face gestures but they had to talk for some time okay they had to talk about something that they were very interested in something that you know so their favorite dish or something like that and they had to talk about that and they had to you know emote that but without using face gestures without using you know hand gestures they had to do that it's very difficult right very difficult to do it so it comes naturally for us to to any kind of gestures but the thing is this you know when you're in front of a audience you kind of feel inhibited you want to put your hand out and you want to lift your hands maybe then you're feeling inhibited oh you know it's like oh I'm in front of this large group so sometimes right we feel inhibited and you don't want to do all that okay so the thing is you know these gestures also help these gestures also help communicate in a powerful way to to preach in an effective manner okay so so that doesn't mean that you're doing some you know what do you call you doing some over the top gestures or you're just you know doing some gesture or gesturing excessively now that can be a that can be a you know a point where people are not able to have any distraction and people are not able to concentrate so with that let's let's look at you know some gestures okay and posture okay and see what what is it that's really the choir one thing is this that if we if we hunch over or slump or you know maybe there's a podium and then you're just you know leaning over the podium then it it doesn't really convey that you're serious about something that we are you know going to speak about whatever we message we have it doesn't convey that okay so it comes across as too relaxed right and not really something not really something that exudes you know that this is a serious thing this is something that that I'd like you to listen right that has a congregation that we'd like you to take notice of and it's it's overtly relaxed and and it's like taking things for granted right so our gestures or body language should be something that actually translates or communicates confidence and it's something that enhances whatever we are saying it should go hand in hand right our gestures can enhance like they say that the bigger the audience you know let's say you're speaking to thousands of people let's say there are 2000 people the bigger the audience is you naturally need to have some big gestures right um the smaller the audience you don't like if it's like say 2000 people and and you're speaking to them it's like if you want to say something you can throw your hands out you know welcome everyone you know it makes a big impact kind of big audience big congregation how are how's everyone doing but if it's if it's you know two people or three people you know sitting and then you're doing that it comes as something that is excessive right so use gestures that are appropriate for the size of the congregation and for the for the nature of content as well right so these are some practical things also be careful that you're not doing anything that is distracting okay so suppose I I keep fidgeting with my button okay or I keep you know let's say I have a pen here and I keep removing it putting it or if I just put my hands in my pocket and I do something with it if I'm fidgeting then it becomes something that people are noticing they are not paying attention to I'm sure all of us did that right in college or school we noted down you know that that teacher who was fidgeting that teacher who would say repeat certain things and I know my daughter did that you know in a in a notebook she write down okay this teacher said this so many times in this class okay she said this so many times she did this gesture so many times people start doing that instead of actually taking notes instead of actually you know paying attention to the content so so then you don't want that right so fidgeting maybe some kind of a mannerism maybe somebody can give feedback okay or maybe you can just record yourself you know put your phone somewhere there and just record it and use that as something to reflect upon and also something to change you know something you can always it'll be very very very useful right very useful sometimes when I we don't realize it because because in our minds we think that okay we're doing everything okay we're thinking about the content we're thinking about especially when it comes to you know recording something we think that okay everything is fine but then you you hear yourself and you realize oh there are so many things I wish I you know I didn't do that or there's so much of mannerisms that are part of me that I didn't notice right so so do that right why are we looking at all this big picture right it is so that we can communicate effectively because the message of the content is is worth communicating effectively the truth that we are called or it's a it's a privilege for us to communicate it's worth communicating effectively so are we looking at it in the in in the correct context okay it's not to make us look great it's not to call attention to ourselves it is not to make us feel special or in any way okay so so let's look at it in the right way right context the reason we are looking at it we are studying this and we want to put it in practice is because we want to communicate effectively and we are communicating a message that is worth communicating effectively right that is worth you know causing all distractions to cease right okay okay so what about facial expressions you know for some of us are we're naturally very expressive naturally you know we frown we we smile we you know some of us are like that but some of us it's it's a deadpan expression right you don't emote too much even in our you know usual conversation like I know I've spoken to some people who are like so serious throughout and so you wondering did I say anything wrong you know because they're not used to you know smiling or you know they're very serious even when they say something funny you know they're just so serious and you're wondering like you know so so I understand that like oh sometimes it's cultural you know I remember once speaking to a congregation and and this congregation you know I found it difficult because every time I look at someone and you know eye contact they would look away right so I look at someone and I'm saying because I want to respond right so you you want want to realize you want you want to kind of observe and see is it making sense you know are people interested or you know are they finding it difficult to understand so you're looking at people you know are they nodding are they so every time I look at people they would turn away through their expression they so no eye contact right so so I'm wondering you know what is happening every time and I then I realize okay culturally they if you need if you're looking at them you know eye to eye that means that you know if looking at a person of authority eye to eye that means that you're you know you're kind of rebelling you're not showing respect and so if it's a person of authority they would not normally they lower their eye you know it's an act of humility lowering the eye and you know talking but I was I found it very difficult right so maybe you know this kind of a gesture you know maybe if you're from that kind of a culture and then you're not looking into the eyes of the person to whom you're speaking and you're you know maybe lowering your eyes you're not contacting you know you're not making eye contact then it's it's not really you know good communication right so you know so so I understand okay maybe some cultures we're not really expressive maybe we don't meet I we don't make eye contact right all that but put all that aside right when it comes to this way because it's a message worth communicating it's a message where all hindrances are taken up especially when you're ministering you know multicultural and you're coming from that culture but you're ministering to another culture and you need to be mindful of that right okay so okay some practical things you know like if you feel that something is hindering okay if you feel that okay there's a table there is a chair something you know physical environment which which is not really allowing you free access to the to the congregation you know probably you can request that to be moved you know maybe it's a podium and you don't want it right in front but you want it on the side you feel that you can do that another thing is to actually move away you know you we keep our notes or Bible and phones and everything on the podium and we move away and speak to the congregation so it's not as if we are hiding behind a podium or you know allowing that to so what happens is when we are moving away we are actually saying that okay I'm open I'm accessible and I'm sharing this and I've got nothing to hide you know it's all comes through when we do that okay so we can we can learn from this we can always you know kind of progressively improve in this area we can do that right also I think when it comes to gestures when it comes to body language we can also think about clothing right appropriately addressed for the occasion well if it is going to be just get to know okay what kind of dress code is appropriate right as a speaker well if it's a suit and tie kind of thing go formally dressed okay if it is a informal thing where people are people don't mind people come in you know jeans and t-shirt or then you go appropriately appropriately dressed because showing up in a you know suit and tie and that kind of an audience would be may not be appropriate right so I remember once we had a guest speaker and church and so he came dressed up in suit and tie right so and he was telling me and in church we don't normally do that like everybody's casual is some guys walking in shorts and so all that so he was feeling very over dressed and then he was telling me thank god you know god sends a fuma praise god that day was graduation Sunday so and all the students were in their graduation gowns and you know caps then he said oh praise god I was really saved by this otherwise I would have stuck out as one you know as a sore thumb as someone who is overly dressed but praise god for this at least you know now I can take off my jacket and you know this I'll be okay so so that you know just to find out what is appropriate and yeah so okay oh this is earlier okay okay okay I just noticed this sorry okay okay then the next thing is okay this is quite useful and I think it's very important for those of us who are probably starting off you know you just you're a beginner to public speaking or a beginner to ministering and publicly in gatherings don't disqualify yourself okay maybe it's your first time or maybe it's your fifth time don't disqualify yourself you know what do we mean by that you know many of us yeah we some of us have this tendency to say okay you know I'm not a great speaker and I'm not a orator but I'm just so and so and I've come to share okay you don't need to do that right or you might say okay this is my first time so I please kindly you know excuse me I apologize for any whatever errors or things like that you know I'm not an expert on this subject and we don't need to do that right because we're actually you know lessening our impact on the on the congregation and also we are reducing our own confidence level you imagine you're just going and there and then saying this and then you have a very important message you know a message that really is impactful it's a it's a god-given word and just imagine the impact of that right so so you don't need to do that avoid all these things right and and just go with confidence and share whatever needs to be shared right don't discount yourself okay so those are some ways by which we discount ourselves we we talk about our lack of experience we talk about our lack of maturity we talk about our lack of expertise in an area lack of knowledge in something and we don't need to do that the audience also is not really interested in knowing all that right you can just go ahead and share what needs to be shared and with God-given confidence and knowing fully well that he is communicating to the you know the Holy Spirit is confirming the truth that you've spoken you're declaring he's confirming it and so there's no need to apologize for some things just go ahead and do it in confidence right with with God's confidence knowing that you're a spokesperson you know that verse that we see that we read just now you know before we started that you're ministering as oracles of God oracle of God so you're speaking you're there on his behalf and you're there as a spokesperson for the kingdom of God for the king of the kingdom right so do that with all boldness we're not saying be arrogant you know looking down condescending manner sometimes that's the other extreme okay all of you just sit up and listen all they have to say we have a very important message now you better listen right and you know kind of bossing around and it happens in certain rural settings I've seen it right so people are so they're just treating them like children these are adults and you're bossing over them don't do that right remember that you're it's a privilege to be the shepherd of the sheep and you know first Peter chapter five this is what it says shepherd the flock of God which is among you serving as overseers not by compulsion but willingly not for dishonest gain but eagerly not as being lords over those entrusted to you but being examples to the flock okay first Peter chapter five verse two so have that you know art have that heart when we minister okay right and it's good for us to include ourselves okay so we're looking at you know not disqualifying ourselves and also we're looking at the other end of the spectrum which is the other end of that particular thing line of thinking which is where you know we fault on err on the other side where we are too authoritative and too aggressive and arrogant sometimes we come across as arrogance now don't err on that side also right but include yourself right include yourself so what do we mean by that you know the message that you're sharing you know are we using words like we let us let us give up or let us move here let us do this or is it only you need to do you need to do that you better you know you better you know give up these things right well I know that there is a place for that you know God is saying you need to do this like maybe it's a message for you know it's a message for that congregation it's a prophetic let's say a prophetic word it maybe it's a prophetic rebuke right so there's a place for that but we can speak the truth in love and we can speak the truth gracefully in a gracious manner right so be mindful of that okay and include ourselves let's include ourselves in the message instead of saying I want y'all to do this you know let us do this why don't we lift our voices and give a shout of praise you know why don't we do this why don't we lift our hands you know so include yourself okay don't exclude yourself and say okay us and them kind of a mentality you know me and you include yourself you're a fellow believer you're a fellow you know you know learner together fellow disciple so do that communicate that okay so without putting yourself down right you're saying that I am learning along with you I have this message I'm boldly sharing that with you okay so we us very important right and there are places where we need to use you you need to do this you need to do this you need you should not do this use it but just make sure that it's appropriate right okay again be sensitive when it comes to you know people in the audience who are maybe not of the same world view as yours not they're not Christians they're not believers and you know this like I shared we were doing this series on faith and science and I realized that you know I should not mock people of you know if they're going to be believing in these things you know it seems ridiculous it seems illogical to believe in certain things you know to not believe in create a God do not believe in you know somebody with so much of intelligence and design it seems very illogical but I should not end up mocking you know we should not end up mocking putting down that person right so yes the truth is that maybe the person is worshiping something or considering something is steaming something which is not the truth but don't put down that person right so yeah speak the truth speak the truth and love okay okay okay any any any doubts or anything that you might want to add or any practically let's say challenges that you have you know faced that you might want to share when it comes to preaching when it comes to you know presenting something yeah personally I think for me the challenge was I used to repeat you know these things these words like I used to say you know that was one phase of my life I say you know this you know that you know and you know that that became a kind of a behavior practice and a stubborn habit which I had to drop intentionally and also yeah some things like that you know so so get some feedback don't be close to feedback so people can sometimes it comes in a very harsh manner it comes in a very you know it comes from a place of criticism sometimes harsh criticism not constructive criticism but it's okay if there's some you know some truth to it receive that it's it's always great to receive that okay okay so I guess we'll stop here and then we'll continue with certain other things that will help us to be effective also I think we'll just pick up from where we left off when it came to some spontaneous preaching so I think we had John Paul we had okay some questions chat okay what about when a pastor gives an example of somebody or about his own life like any incident do you want to make a most sermon is it possible to pass making up stories oh okay okay no I think if if a person makes up something see you can do this you know you can say it like this you know let's say there was there's a person named John and you're just talking about an imaginary thing that's fine you know but but if you're let's say if John goes there and does this so everybody knows that it's a hypothetical thing right but if you're saying okay I met this guy called John I know about this John who did this and that's completely false then you're not being authentic when you're not being truthful like it's okay to talk about like even this Sunday I shared about you know again John about little John who was very very very hyperactive and who was running around in school and the teacher pulled him and made him sit it's a completely hypothetical thing you know sit down and say John sit down and John sat down but then John said teacher I'm sitting on the outside but on the inside I'm still standing and running around hey there was a completely hypothetical thing but everybody knew that right so I'm not saying you know I met this boy called John so that would be that would be untrue and that would be inauthentic we should avoid that yeah is that okay Rosalind any other questions fine right okay so we'll stop here and then we'll continue next class thank you so much God bless you guys bye


Laura, think tech. It's the one o'clock block. It's looking to the east and we are in touch with Steve Zercher in Kobe, Japan, where he is a professor and dean at the Kansai Gaidai University there. Welcome back to the show, Steve. Nice to see you. Yeah, thank you so much. Always a pleasure to share stories with you, Jay, about what's going on in Japan and contrast that with what's going on in the United States. Yeah, and well, sometimes the operative word would be to compare rather than contrast because Japan follows the United States in so many ways. But can you talk about the current situation in terms of the number of coronavirus cases and deaths right and how the government and the community is reacting. Sure. Yeah, I agree with your point that politically from World War Two America has followed in the footsteps, especially when it comes to foreign policy and other major issues but at least on COVID. Japan has not followed the United States, which has been a fortunate thing. So like for example, I just want to show your American viewers. I'm wearing a mask. I'm in my office here by myself but I'm still wearing a mask. It's funny to see in Japan. I'll be driving on the road. People are in their cars by themselves wearing a mask. It's just it's so fundamentally a part of the Japanese culture that they wear masks, even when they're by themselves. It's like my wife when she's talking on the phone. She's bowing. You know the person of course on the other side of the phone doesn't know that she's bowing but it's such a part of culture. She'll say I didn't get those I must thank you so much. So this mass culture is certainly an example of something very distinct. If you want to compare to United States right where masks become a political issue. This is a statement isn't it. It is. It's remarkable. Yeah, but they're really saying is look at me. I am community minded. Look at me. I care about the people in the community and I'm a good person because I'm wearing a mask. Yeah, there's a subtle maybe even stronger than subtle social pressure in this country to adhere to community goals and standards.  For two reasons, and it was usually during this time of year 50% of the people were using masks. The first reason is because of allergies. So they're trying to protect themselves from breathing the pollen. The second is if you're sick. You don't want to infect others. So you wear a mask to protect other people. That always when I've got here as a student and I recognize people are wearing masks, not to protect themselves always, but to protect others. It was like, wow, this is very different from where I come from from America. Yeah, but you know, from a medical point of view, that's pretty much so people think that it's going to protect them but it's actually protecting everybody else from yes. That's right. And you're wondering where that where that fits in terms of the Japanese perception, but let's let's talk about, you know, what's going on in terms of the case. Sorry, I kind of, yeah, I was, I was going into my professorial role there and avoiding that the question from the student and talking about things that I want to talk about but anyway, let me address your question. I just took take a look at the last statistics. So in total, so far, you know, the Japan is at 18,476 infections. Now just to put that into perspective, the US yesterday had 36,000 infections. So the US yesterday in one day had more to twice as many infections as Japan has had this entire period. It's remarkable. The number of deaths to it's it's completely off the scale difference between Japan and the United States so Japan even though, as I was mentioning to you before we went on air. There seems to be a little bit of an upward tick. In terms of the infections for a long run there they were in the 20 to 30 range. They're going into the 50 and 60 range. This is just in Tokyo alone for the country is probably 80 to 100. But overall Japan is still considered to be a success in terms of how I wouldn't say the government necessarily but how the culture, how this mask part of the culture has helped to defeat COVID. If you compare Japan to the other G seven countries which are all in much more difficult situation France and Germany, United States and so forth. Well, when you you've been parallel to us in so many ways. So, okay, we were hesitant to start doing anything. You were hesitant to start doing anything. Correct. Then we got into a kind of national lockdown. You got into a national lockdown. Right.  Okay, and then and then the next step was reopening, you know, and I think Trump had a lot to do with that. He got up and said we're back. We're done. Yeah, all finished, which was really an absurd statement because there was no evidence whatsoever to support the fact that we were done and we finished and we had beaten it we won the war. It was kind of ridiculous. And I think that affected the world. Everybody, you know, so many countries took that to heart, even though there was no evidence to support it. And the, and the word of the day was reopened and Japan reopened. Okay, so the question is when Japan reopened the Japan take off the masks, stop doing social distancing. It was interesting to observe the mask phenomenon still continues, even with the lifting of the national emergency. So, as I mentioned, people in their cars are using masks at a much higher level than before. When you go on the streets in the train stations, 99% of the people are wearing masks so even though the government is not saying that or repeating that as a message. The Japanese society as a whole has incorporated that into a protective measure so that is continuing after the national emergency was lifted though. Incrementally you could see day by day, the business was increasing so traffic was getting heavier the trains were were more filled a business activity was picking up. So it took about a week or so of kind of incrementally regaining the same kind of economic energy that existed before the national emergency before COVID actually took place. So, I think you know I'll be is influenced by the United States America, Japan is influenced by the United States strategies and policies, but also in Japan just like in the United States the influence of business on the Japanese government, especially the current party actually the only party that's run Japan since World War Two, the LDP the Liberal Democratic Party, I mean they're funded by the government by the business and so forth. So, Abe had to balance the interest of public health against the interest of business. I think in the United States case Trump really didn't care so much about the public health. He was more interested in the economy returning to a higher level as soon as possible I don't even know if he was pressured by the businesses to do that. Maybe it was just because of his own political concerns, but Abe waited the appropriate period of time. The incidence of COVID infection had remained flat for quite a while. So we followed international standards here in Japan before the national emergency was lifted and there was complaining from the business community that he was taking too long. But I think he actually did did balance things appropriately and if the WHO was to take a look at what Japan did. They would give Japan a thumbs up whereas if they look at the United States it's a disaster. Everybody who looks at what's going on United States considers it to be a disaster. Well, just one point. You know in the United States, the people who run the big companies, you expect that they would lobby anybody who held the reins. They would communicate with Trump and they would say you've got to open the economy. And I think in Hawaii we had some of that. The hotels, you know, they may not be locally owned, but they do provide jobs. Luffy Hanuman, right? Luffy Hanuman, I'm sure he was part of it to say we got to reopen now. This is these are my constituents, the hotels got to reopen. So there was pressure on David Hegay and various others in government from, you know, from essentially lobbying groups. But it didn't work that way in Japan, does it? I mean, the big, what do you call it, KK? The big KK wouldn't come around and try to lobby Abe, would they? Not as strongly, not as directly, but the LDP is very closely affiliated with business interests and it always has been from the 1950s. But Abe has to weigh those things out. I don't think it takes Toyota calling Abe and saying, look, you know, you need to open things up so people buy cars again in Japan. But he's conscious that that's his base, one of the bases of power for their management of the government and their control of the government. But I would agree with you, I'm not a political scientist. So this is my own speculation on this, that the influence of business is there, but it's not as explicit. You know, I'm sure Trump gets phone calls from his buddies, you know, like the casino industry, even though he was a failure in that and maybe he's not regarded very highly by the casino companies, but I'm sure there were a few phone calls saying, hey, look, you know, we're losing X amount of money every day because we're shut down. You know, can you kind of push things along a little bit? I'm sure that that happened. That wouldn't happen here, though. Yeah, yeah. So now, you know, so, okay, runs a parallel worth comparing. Yeah.  No surprise. Yeah, it's a lag. It's a lag of about six to seven weeks. But yeah, that's what we're experiencing right now. So does that mean that there's a pause right now? They call it pause, right? A pause in the reopening? Does it mean he's turning it back a little bit or a lot? No. What is he doing to deal with the problem of increased numbers? Right now, there's just a kind of a cautionary approach, okay? This is not good, that these numbers are now picking up. This is not what we expected. Many people in Japan have concluded that Japan had won. You know, so this is not welcome news. When the consensus comes to an agreement that, okay, we're Japan, we don't know how we did this exactly, but we defeated COVID. We're better than the other countries that are struggling. Now there's some evidence showing that maybe that's not quite as true as what they had hoped. So there's no comment yet so far. And as I mentioned in Tokyo, where of course the biggest problem is there's an election next week and the governor, the incumbents, who is a heavily heavy favor, not a word. She's quiet on this. She's not saying anything about this. Maybe after the election is over, she'll say, hey, look, if these numbers continue like this, we're going to have to go back and I'll have to encourage people to stay home again. These businesses where the infections are occurring at a higher rate than we expected, we'll have to close again. That's possible. Right now, we're in kind of a wait and see mode.  Graphically, we're following the same curve. But in terms of the numbers, it's much, much smaller. We're talking hundreds, not tens of thousands, like the US has faced. So I was telling you about an article that somebody sent me this morning from the Atlantic, which has very thoughtful, very perceptive articles. And this article was entitled, Something Along the Lines, has the US given up on COVID? I mean, have we decided that we can't do much about it? Right. And we might as well just lay back and enjoy it. And I mean, it's really sad to think that, to even to have, even to positive as a proposition. But there is evidence in this country that a lot of people, mostly the Trump followers have, it's been politicized and they have given up. They don't care about social distancing. They don't care about masks. They don't care about community events. And yeah, right. They don't care. And I'm not sure exactly what their mindset is. Like part of it is they, they follow him. He doesn't wear a mask. And he puts it down. And he doesn't take this thing very seriously. He never did. So they follow him on that. So it's a statement of, in their view, patriotism, that warrior like mentality, we're at war and I'm going to show you how strong I am. I'm going to ignore all this liberal talk about how we should care for each other and help people survive through a pandemic. I'll take my chances. It's just kind of interesting because the Atlantic, the writer in the Atlantic puts it slightly differently. You guys are, you're giving up on something you could be doing. And this is a very dramatic kind of result, but there are a lot of people in this country, actually both sides of the aisle who go out in the streets, participate in community events, including demonstrations and counter demonstrations, who talk at each other without masks, who sprayed droplets all over each other with virus. It's not a surprise that the virus sort of multiplies in that context. And before you know it, you have a reinfection.  Anyway, so I'm wondering if that phenomenon existed any degree at all in Japan. No. Yeah, it just doesn't. If Abe was to go out there and say, let's say the secondary infection rate continues and increases. If he doesn't do anything, he will be harshly criticized, even by the conservative media because fundamentally, his job is to protect the welfare of the citizens of Japanese people. And already his ranking, his rating rates have sunk significantly, because the government really hasn't been proactive in the sense that Taiwan was or New Zealand or Korea, or, you know, China belatedly. You can compare Japan to other Asian countries that did a much better job in managing this. Japan fortunately has been overall successful, but I think there's more cultural reasons for that, or actually there's unknown reasons for that. No one really can say explicitly why Japan's done so well. So if he was to say, oh, well, you know, there's nothing we can do, throw his hands up in the air, and Japanese people die as a result of that, he'd be out. His own party would kick him out. That is unimaginable in the political context of Japan. You know, again, it gets back to this community sense. His responsibility, just like every other citizen in Japan, is to wear the mask, right? And he wears a mask. He's not like Trump who doesn't wear a mask. He wears a mask because he's also contributing to public security and public health symbolically, and also he probably believes that's the right thing to do as well. So that kind of fatalistic, you know, kind of libertarian-ish, frankly irrational thinking that you're talking about in the Atlantic article apparently is addressing, that fortunately doesn't exist in this country. You know, sometimes when I'm talking to my parents, I mentioned that I'm living in the civilized country and you're not. You know, America sometimes behaves in ways that are just totally inexplicable. But Jay, you know, fundamentally, this, when it comes to politics, you might study economics initially, you know, we, one of the assumptions in order to support all the economic theories is that we're humans were rational and they'd make the right decision. You know, if you don't have that assumption, then of course, economic theory just falls apart. But the fact is, behavioral economics has proven that humans are not rational.  And what you're describing is a perfect example of people behaving in this partisan way to find logic, to find their own interests. You know, it just proves how irrational we are as a human race. Some are more irrational than others. I mean, there's a gradation on this. There's some parts of me, I'm sure, that's irrational. But when it comes to protecting my family's health, or even as a foreigner in Japan, I wear a mask. You know, I do that because I want to also be a part of a functioning community. So I make that commitment as well here. You know, this is a really a study and we don't have it so starkly presented as now of the way human communities make decisions. You know, if you leave it up to the crowd, you know, query whether the crowd, you know, the uninitiated, maybe untrained, maybe leaderless crowd, will they ever be able to find consistently good policy. The answer is I'm sorry but probably not.  You have to have experts and you have to have experts who will tell people what to do, because people want to listen. I mean, even in Japan they want to listen they want to, they want to delegate it all to Abe, you take care of it. You don't do a good job will let you know, but you know, we are just, we are delegating this power to you so that you will do the right thing and we will follow you. And that, you know, to a large extent, it works in Japan but it also works in the other Asian countries that you met. Yeah, Singapore would be the example that comes to mind immediately. They're having a bit of a relapse too. But, you know, in the US, it's libertarianism it's the independence is the exceptionalism is, you know, we'll get through this no matter what what we do or what I do. The problem there is that would work if you have a leader who says wait a minute, wait a minute.  I'm going to tell you what to do, and then you want to do it. Even that is imperfect because a lot of people in this country won't do it anyway. Never. But what when you have a president like we have now. It's really out of control. He's wrong on everything. People are going to listen to him and most people. And so you don't have a single voice speaking public policy is being made in the street. How exactly can that be right. It's not working. You can look at the results. I mean, you can't argue with the lack of results that the United States has had it's number one in terms of infections number ones in terms of deaths. 36,000 infections yesterday J. I just looked at it before the show started. That's incredible. It was below 20. I mean, that's still horrible. But now it's almost doubled. Well, and the guy from the CDC said, you know, for every case that we know of this 10 we don't. Yeah, 10 so it could be a multiple huge multiple of that. Right. Infection. So J of this means I when am I going to be able to visit the United States I don't know. You know if I if I went to the United States today. I could do it of course and America would accept me and have to go through quarantine, but you know who would not allow me to come back. Japan. I wouldn't even allow me to get on the plane. Oh, you can always go to Europe. I'm only kidding. Yeah, so all these doors are coming down between continents between countries and to some extent between states, despite the commerce clause in the Constitution. What we have is a general shutdown. And, you know, again, it's a question of leadership. Again, it's a question of nipping in the bud, you know, stitch in time saves nine problem is though and I would like to ask you about this. This social social experience that we're having where people people do not respect the leader or the leader is not worthy of respect whatever it is. There is a single voice telling us what to do. Are we going to be able to recover from that. How do we recover from that. How do we change it, change it to a place where people are so desperate. Okay, that they'll, they'll take advice from a credible leader and there are credible leaders somewhere who emerge right now I don't see that happening. Yeah. What I have there is that I look at my business career. And I've worked for startups. So that takes a certain amount of energy when you're starting from scratch to try and address a problem or accomplish a goal, which is what the United States had the opportunity in February, March, April, you know completely didn't do anything. I've worked for turnarounds, you know where I go into a situation where the GM had been fired it's a complete mess the reputation of the company is horrible. That is so much more difficult to do.  It takes a tremendous amount of energy it takes strong qualities of leadership. So, you know, if we do have a new president. If Biden becomes president does he have the charisma, the capability, the leadership quality to try and write the ship. You know, without that kind of leadership at that level. I don't see how the problem can be solved and I frankly, we haven't talked about us politics I don't know if Biden's the right person to do that. Maybe he designated to someone else in his cabinet or staff to be the corona virus czar you know to have someone in a leadership role to try and lead the country out of the mess that it's in right now. But even if that person was the best person possible and had all these skills and it done this type of thing before. I don't know Jay. It's it's it's tough. It's really hard. Well you raise a very interesting thought. And that is that sometimes you have a bad leader. And the public sort of shoves off from that leader they criticize that leader won't take advice for good reasons. Okay, then that leader is out. The public throws them out like somebody else. To me, I've seen this happen I won't name names but I've seen this happen, where now there's a better leader, theoretically, a better leader in office. But the public and the media. They're there in a culture of criticism. They're in a culture of let's bring that guy down let's bring him down. They're all politicians are bad. We can't trust anyone. And so the second guy who was pretty good leader and straight shooter and all that. He can't make traction, because the community around him is so negative on politicians in general. And I suspect that, you know, we may see that in the case of Biden, the elected, and, you know, everybody, a sigh of relief, but then you get back into that rhythm of, well, he didn't do this right and he didn't do that right. And let's get some raw meat news, even though it's small stuff and criticize them for this that and the other thing. And before you know it his credibility is is just as bad as a fellow who preceded him. I worry about that. Yeah, yeah, I think that's a that's a practice, a phenomenon in United States politics, you know, like like with Obama and Ebola virus in hindsight that was handled as as well as it possibly could have. And the results of that were minimal. You know, in the beginning stages of that there was a fear that what's happening now with COVID would happen with Ebola but he was very proactive but at the same time J to your point he was constantly criticized by the Republican Party by Trump even saying you know it's a disaster so that's a that unfortunately is a phenomenon of American politics that even a good leader will have to face. Yeah, I, there's no way around that, because if Biden becomes president, you know, at the minute after he becomes president the Republican attack media machine Fox News and all the other associated news sources the the great what Clinton call it the the great right wing echo chamber will begin to target Biden or whomever and they'll have to fight through that. Yeah, I since I live in Japan and I look at American media. Well actually started with the Iraq war and how badly that was mismanaged by the New York Times even the you know the papers you would think would do a better job. I'm getting a little bit disillusioned with American media now and of course I read the New York Times in the Wall Street Journal, but I'm cynical about that I don't trust them. So, because even they were swayed by the trends at that time and were doing things that actually made things worse. Again, just briefly there. There isn't much of a opposition media here. It's been kind of pressured out of existence there is a slightly liberal liberal left wing leaning newspaper called the Asahi newspaper but during the Abbe administration. They've been attacked several times again not not legally the kind of indirectly so it's somewhat silenced them so we don't really have that that play of interaction of media generally the media Japan is supportive of the government and supportive of business. Well you know it goes down to what one more point we're going to be out of time but yeah we're over time Jay. But one more point is this though that you know to have an effective leader you have to have followers. And if nobody is going to follow somebody for a good reason or a bad reason. It doesn't work the system doesn't work. And it's all about the social compact. It's like we get into a deal to embrace a given system. A system of laws a Constitution what have you some principles and that means that we embrace leaders who are selected by that system. Okay, and I think we are now in a place where we can see pretty clearly that the system that people don't respect the system. The social compact for many people in this country I don't know I'll ask about Japan. For many people. It's not worth the powder. They no longer have confidence in it and therefore they no longer have confidence in the leaders that are selected, whether they be on one side the aisle or the other. I mean if the social fabric is torn. It goes beyond one administration. And all I'm saying is I think there's real issues about whether you can repair Humpty after after after this administration is the same kind of thing happened in Japan. Um, no, not to that degree. There is recognition that their government fails. I mean there's many, many cases like mismanagement of the pension fund or periodically there's corruption. That's exposed by the media so that I think Japanese people recognize that the government is fallible is corrupt in many instances. The leaders are not strong. They recognize that but I don't think this culture this society is at the point where there's a disbelief that the government will fail or that the government doesn't represent us or the government is not important. Probably over my years in Japan the sense that the government is ineffective that sense is grown, but it's nowhere near to the point that you're describing in the United States. So obvious numbers are going down and there's jockeying going on right now within the LDP to replace him so he may be out maybe by the end of this year or early next year. And a new leader will step in and probably the people initially will embrace that new leader and his numbers will be in the 60 to 70% range. The cycle will begin again until he proves to the people that somehow he's also not as effective as what they initially had hoped. So I would say that that breakdown in democracy, which is so clear in the United States. There should be a topic maybe J you explore with your other groups potentially that is democracy still effective in today's world. I mean you can make a strong case looking at America that maybe it's no longer effective. But here anyway that sense of cynicism and that sense of disconnectedness with the government effectiveness or the government ability is not as strong and that's part of Confucianism kind of the social cultural history of Japan, as opposed to this libertarianism or this, you know, this exploration sense that you know Americans were people who came from another country and settled it, you know settled it. No Chomsky talks about this. Also, you know genocide was an element of that I don't want to get into the harsh politics of that but anyway that conquering sense of mentality and exploring mentality. It's not something that Japanese have historically because according to Japanese history they've been here forever. Right, they've been here forever. It was their country. Of course there were natives here but that's kind of, you know, put over on the side. I think I so enjoy our conversations I look forward to our next one. And we certainly we should track on how this is all changing because it's so dynamic changing from day to day and I, and I feel that there'll be remarkable events in the interim, which we will need to talk about. It's a dynamic time that we're living in and you know most of the news is bad I try and focus on the positive aspects that are coming out of this to change that's now increasing in Japan within businesses within universities. But yeah overall this this is really tough. It's a tough period of time so we all need to draw an inspiration from somewhere I don't know maybe the leaders that we're looking to might not provide that. But maybe it has to come from within somehow. But anyway, I'm waxing philosophically now. valuable Steve Zercher, a professor and Dean at Kansai Gaida University in Kobe. Thank you so much for joining me and having this discussion I'm looking to the east.


XIMA analytics is an IIT Madras incubated startup that is enhancing industrial automation using patented ultrasonic waveguide based sensor technology. Temperature is a critical parameter in any manufacturing industries which uses high temperature processes. Because this temperature is unable to be controlled in an accurate manner, they lose in their business as well as in the asset values. We at XIMA analytics have developed an ultrasonic waveguide based technology which can measure these temperatures in extreme environments and at high temperatures at multiple points and also using a multiple parameter configuration. Our sensors are typically applied in the oil and gas sectors also in the metal sectors especially with aluminum, steel and zinc. We are looking at more options with copper as well. We also work with glass abrasives and ceramic industries in which all these process industries use high temperature processes and corrosive environments to process their products over here. We are the world's first and only waveguide based ultrasound sensors for temperature, rheology and level measurements in process industries. For the first time we are able to measure molten metal temperature using a redistributed sensor configuration in a molten zinc bath in a steel industry. This technology can be applied to measure viscosity at very high temperatures. For example, the same material can be converted into a ceramic sensor to measure the viscosity of molten metals or even molten salts at temperatures above 1000 degrees Celsius. We have the capability to convert any structure that may be a wire, that may be a rod or it can be a thin wire of even 1 mm in diameter which can be used to measure multiple point temperature measurements. For the first time our user can actually attach these sensors on the external parts of a vessel or a structure to measure these parameters in a non-invasive manner. Let's get to know how UT maps work. Pipeline corrosion and related catastrophic failures can lead to a huge loss of money. The waveguide is inserted under the insulation to protect the surface of any pipeline likewise. This waveguide produces ultrasonic waves onto the surface at three different locations. UT maps alongside accumulates the ultrasonic data, computes and monitors the surface temperature generating a thermal map that a technician can read on the dashboard. In case of an insulation damage and humidity buildup, UT maps monitors sensitive and unusual variations in temperature at early stages which help in taking precautionary measures. In these high temperature processes, the typical sensors or the conventional sensors which are thermocouples, RTDs or the fire emitters are infrared grunts, they either use a single point type of measurements or they need a line of sight to do these measurements. But at high temperature processes, these thermocouples and RTDs tend to fail within weeks and months of operation. This is due to the presence of a joint or a weld at the location of measurements. But at XIMA, we have developed a sensor which does not have any junctions or a welds to do these measurements. We can measure at high temperatures for up to five years whereas the current sensors can fail within three or four months. Persistent mentoring support from IIT Madras helped them in their journey forward. The infrastructure, the mentorship and also the facilities provided by IIT Madras Incubation Cell has helped us evolve the product which has been a lab to market concept and we have been able to validate these sensors with the help of IIT Madras in different industries. And the infrastructure provided by IIT Madras Incubation Cell has played a key role in expanding our team and also expanding our business with different connects that have been established at this very site. For their great work, they have received several accolades. Our technology has been awarded the National Technology Award by the Department of Science and Technology, which has been an immense pleasure for us to be in the stance of different other innovators. We have also been selected as one of the top 19 most promising startups in Tamil Nadu and we have won multiple grants with the central government and the state governments in the past. The Aegis Graham Bell Award was awarded to us for developing a low-cost sensor for level measurements in different industrial vessels. Apps like these are proving to be the stepping stone in our country's overall development. This technology has been developed by Indians in IIT Madras indigenously. We are proud to say that the product is designed, developed and manufactured in India for global markets. We strongly believe that our products will be able to scale globally in different manufacturing sectors like the oil and gas, the metals, the manufacturing industries and refractories, ceramics and glasses as well.


And the friend boy, William Foreman shows. The video shows are fortunate enough to have your dollars and that power you can do with all of these favorites. Wood, Matt is sometime this week stopped by your neighborhood R.C.A. Victor dealer. Pick up a 27-inch television set or a record player or something like that. We'd like to be up here next to you at the same time. Well, as you know, this year, Phil is out on his own. We're starting our new season. So I don't know if you want to send him off with a great big fanfare. So what do you say we all get together? Give a big welcome to the man who discovered this house. Phil has sex here. You're all applauding. You've got those smiles on your faces and your glasses. See me? And I just want to tell you I love you more because I need you. Jack Benning for 16 years. They ain't no money connected with that. Only that's on paydays taking a darkrook. If you want me to see that money, then I'll be down to fight. I want to make people right now.  I don't visit that because, you know, that's like Benny being cheap. I mean, it's not like Benny being cheap. But I do not depend on Alice. I've had my own job. It's a very important job and I've had it now for 10 years. A lot of people try to take it from me and my boss says, no, there isn't anybody could do this job like Phil has. I'm a test pilot for seniors. Tell you, I don't know if you're... But don't stop me. I want to hear it again myself. You hear the story about the guy who walked the barber shop. He said, how many ahead of me? The barber says three. The guy went out and he don't come back. The next day he comes in again. He says to the barber, how many ahead of me? The barber says three. The guy goes out and he don't come back. Now the barber's going crazy, you know. The whole day on his feet with the scissors and all, you know. So he walks over to the boot black. He says, look, every day a guy comes in, wants to know how many he's ahead.  If he does it tomorrow, follow him. I want to know. Next day the guy came in, said to the barber, how many ahead of me? The barber says three. The guy went out to boot black. He came back in about 20 minutes. The barber says, where'd he go? Where'd he go? The boot black says to your house. And he got tired of it. He went to the barber and he had the barber put the part from here over to here. Then he had to give him bangs in front and bangs in the back. The kid said he got awfully monotonous because people kept coming up whispering in his nose. This guy's blind drunk and he fell out of a window. 12 stories up. He hit on the ground. Boom! He got around. He got up. He brushed himself off. The fellow walked up. He says, what happened?  No, I just got here. I love you.  Whatever little success that we've attained, ladies and gentlemen, Alice Nye, in the past few years on our show is due to the listening of you nice people and to the fact that we have a wonderful organization which I'm very proud because... Oh, incidentally, I see a few fellas sitting around like sailors. And I want to tell you guys, it's always a pleasure to have you here. Especially in the Navy because I was in the Navy during the First War myself. I fought the Battle of Catalina. But... You're laughing. We lost eight lobster traps. But anyway, I do... You might get a kick out of this. They had a very unique way of collecting there and listed, man, according to what they'd done in private life when I went in. For instance, I went in with a couple of buddies of mine and one up was a street cleaner and they put him on a minesweeper. And this other buddy of mine was a construction guy. He tore down buildings and broke them up and everything and they put him on a destroyer. How I ever wound up on a ferry boat, I don't know. I loved it because we never got in rough water. It was always common. And all getting back to my organization that I am very proud of. Now you take for instance, everyone you see sitting on that stand does an outstanding job on his or her particular incident. He... We're very proud of him because we find that we have a genius on our hands. And I mean just that because, ladies and gentlemen, this boy has a tremendous record of him as much as he's already had two of his own competition plays in Hollywood Bowl. And he has been nominated six different times for the Academy Award. Motion Picture Academy Award. And last year he was nominated again for the Academy Award and just missed it by a few votes for the wonderful job that he did on the arranging and directing of all the beautiful music that you heard in a wonderful hands Christian Anderson story. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Walter Sharpton. He has to do that until he gets me in one of the pictures. It's been a long, long time. This is who's fault it is because without her, I don't think it would be possible. We've been married for 13 years now. And I'm just telling you this much that she's not only the most beautiful gal in the world, but this kid's got the talent. And Alice Spade. Here are the two little girls that play the part of Alice and still is on the program. They've been with us ever since we started. And night two, our two of the most competent little actresses we have in the business, Jeanine Roos and Anne Wittfield. Come on. Oh, it's a prize. She would get the prize, but okay. Here it is done. What's the matter, Alice?  Just because he loves the game so much, just because he loves the players, he loves everything that baseball stands for. He has taken time out, although he is in demand as an actor, he has taken time out to make a full study of the game. And if you like baseball, you saw him as one of the umpires at Hollywood last year on the Pacific Coast and a boy that is considered already after one year in our baseball out here being one of our outstanding umpires, aside from being a terrific actor, a wonderful kid, a nice hand for Gil Stratt, ladies and gentlemen. You're not supposed to applaud, you're supposed to boo. Now we get out and let's see where we are now. Oh yeah, here's a little kid who steals our show every week. We're very happy about it because we not only love him, but we know that he is clever and deserves it. Here's the kid that plays the part of the grocery boy, Julius de Bruzio, four boys who have been with us ever since we started. They also are responsible for all of those cute commercials that you hear on the Jack Benny program. Whenever we go out to play any dates, not like the Bears or anything like that, we wouldn't think of going without them. And if you ever see him bill like in Las Vegas or any place that you see him in the hotels and all, you'll see him because they are entertaining the latest style, the four sportsmen. Next little fella's the leader. Thanks for being so nice to me. I hope you enjoyed the program. Thank you. Ah, Julius, what do you think? Miss Faye, you'll make Daris quality day. All right, Mr. Sharp, I'm ready. I don't want to be a lonesome banana. I'll just hang around with the bun. And now the stars of the RCA Victor program, Alice Faye and Phil Harris. Phil Harris and Alice Faye are known as Phil Harris and Alice Faye. In private life, however, they are known as Mr. and Mrs. Alice Faye. They have two daughters, little Alice and little Phyllis. But time doing what time does, they're not quite so little as Phil would like to think. Phil, thanks. Harris, you are divine. You are sublime.   Honey, if it ain't me, how dare I be so handsome. Oh, sewing something, huh? No, no. Just running a needle in and out of Alice's coat to improve the ventilation. Oh, that really helps, huh? Every time. Well, then what's the rush? Why don't you do it tomorrow? Well, it happens that Alice is going to a dance tonight with a date. Honey, I got news for you. No baby daughter of mine is going to no dance with no date. Not as long as I got anything to do with it. And I've got news for you, Mr. Van Winkle. A 14-year-old girl is not a baby. 14? But it seems like only yesterday I was putting her in her playpen. It wasn't. She's getting pretty tired of it. I just can't believe it. In only 14 years, how could she get to be 14 years old? He doesn't count the way you do. Telling people you're 25. I don't tell people I'm 25. I tell them that Alice is 14 and I was a father at 11. And they figure the rest out for themselves. Well, you can't be as juvenile all your life. Even Mickey Rooney grew up. Yeah, but not all the way. Pull down all them shades. What's the matter, Pop? Some of the guys from the band might be outside and she can't run in them high-heeled shoes. I like my strapless evening gown, Dad. Isn't it cool? Why shouldn't it be? There ain't enough of it to keep a hand. Isn't what you mean. And if you ask me, it's too far gone. I'll put some of it back on. You don't like the way I look. Yes, I do. Alice, honestly, I do. Well, it's just that...  Different from all the other girls? And this is a coming-out party. She's coming out all right. Looks like she's getting squeezed out of a tube of toothpaste. And what's more... Wait a minute, hold it, Clyde. Now what's the matter? Her lips, she's bleeding. Stop carrying on. That's lipstick. Lipstick? My baby daughter is wearing lipstick. Looks like you put it on with a trowel. Honey, he's here, he's here. And furthermore, I'm not...  Look, honey, I've... We'll talk about it later. Sniffy and... Why do I have to... Who? Sniffy. Poppy's wonderful. You call him Sniffy. We won't call him anything if you don't let him in. Now come on, fellas, come on, come on. Let's finish putting the... Finish touches on Alice, huh?  Hope he's a doll. Oh, mush. Sniffy. Oh, there's a classy name. Sniffy. All right, I'm coming, I'm coming. The day's over. First thing you know, I'm gonna have gray hair. Or no hair. I'll be a grandfather. Oh, crawdad. Hi, curly old kid. Who you calling old? What's matter, something wrong, dad? And don't call me dad. Okay. You got a lot of nerve coming in here making cracks about how old I am.  Wait a minute, let's start this thing all over again. Hi, curly house tricks.  Beautiful night, ain't it? Not that I care one way or the other, but it seemed like a reasonable way to open the conversation. All right, Ellie, don't open no conversations. I'm full of problems. I got a lot of problems. Bad, huh? Oh, it's Alice, my little daughter. She's growing up. First thing you know, she'll get married. She'll be a mother, a grandmother. She'll be older than I am. What are you talking about, curling? Little Alice, she's going out with a guy. Oh, I see what you mean. What do you mean you see what I mean? What's wrong with her going out with a guy? Well, I remember the first time I went out with a girl and if I was you, I wouldn't let her. You may not know about these things like this, but there are some kids who don't go around peddling hot hubcaps and there are some young men that respect American womanhood. How about the first time you went out with a girl, Curly?  Now, let's figure this thing out. What do you know about this kid? Where's he taking her? Just to a school dance. The place will be loaded with chaperones. Uh-huh. How much can a loaded chaperone watch? How old is he? I don't know. 15, 20, 25? I'll tell you, I don't know. He's just a kid that... What do you mean 25? He's in the ninth grade with Alice. When I was 25, I was in the sixth grade. Yeah, and at the rate you were going, you'd gotten out when you were 50. See what I mean? Oh, Elliot, what am I going to do? About what? About Alice.  You know, it's a good thing I showed up, Curly. You're going to watch these things. You suppose his wife knows about it? Whose wife? The kids. He's got a wife? Curly. You don't think he got to be 50 years old without a wife and kids, do you? The kids got kids?  Look, Elliot, you've got to help me. You know me, Curly, my right arm up to there. Okay, but now we've got to be clever about this. You bet. Real clever. Biabolical. You know, something will be so clever that this guy will never know what happened. Right. There's only one other thing I've got to figure out. What's that, Curl? How do we do it? That's a problem. Maybe... I got it. We'll take him in the garage and stuff him inside of a tire. No! We'll work on it with sledgehammer. No, Elliot, no. We'll question him. That's all. We'll find out all about him. Hold it, Curly. There's a guy coming up the front walk. Let me see. See? Yeah. That's him, Sniffy. Pardon me? That's the guy, Sniffy.  Hell! Now look, Elliot. Yes? Go outside and grab him. Right. And Elliot. Yeah? I'll meet you in the garage in two minutes. I've got to get in the mood. Right. The story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the actors. It was late when I got back to headquarters and I found three bodies piled in front of my desk. That was peculiar because I don't have a desk. It was Harris. My name is Friday. I mean it was Friday. My name is Harris. Suddenly a voice rang out in the dark in a weird mysterious voice. A voice that seemed to say... Is that your chief? Right here. Okay. Let's go to work. Close the door, Joe. Okay, Chief. Seven car garage. We don't pull around with no small stuff. You ready to start, Chief? Right. Shine the light, Isaac. Right. All right, sir. Start talking. Gosh, Mr. Harris. I don't know what this is all about. I came to take Alice to the dance and this man told me that I had to wait in the garage and I'm very confused. Besides, I don't like garage. I don't like garages because I'm allergic. Won't talk, huh? Now look, sir. Yes, Mr. Harris? This boy needs a new washer. Keep going, Chief. You're doing great. Okay. What do I do next? Ask his name. Right. What's your name, sir? Sniffy. You hear that, Elliot? His name is Sniffy. A clever alias for one whole water. Sniffy. Yes, sir. I can't keep calling him Sniffy. What's your right name, sir? My right name, Mr. Harris, is Odell Sneedon Hathaway. The third. Odell? Sneedon? Hathaway, the third. Look, Sniffy. Yes, sir? How old are you? I'm 15, sir. The likely story is 16.  Elliot, did you stop interrupting? Sorry, Chief. Go ahead. Okay. Take over, Elliot. All right. Sniffy? Yes, sir? What more are you with? What? Take him, Chief. Right. Where do you work? I... Where do you live? I... Where were you on January 16th? Elliot. Sorry, Chief. Slip down. You want to take over? No. Go ahead. You're doing fine. Okay. Sniffy, now pay attention. What are your intentions toward my daughter? Well, if she don't bother me, I will bother her. Chief, might as well face it. We're not getting anywhere. We'll have to use force. Force? What kind of force? Oh, nothing elaborate. Maybe a few of the basic torches, like the Iron Maiden, Chinese Water Cure, listening to Guy Lombardo. Art Linkletter won't get it, huh? You better let me out of here, or I'll tell my father. Now we got him. I didn't want to go to any old dance in the first place. Just crackin' wide open. I don't like dances, and I don't like girls.  Keep going, sir. You're doing fine. My father's the district attorney, and when I tell him what you did to me... Do you hear that chief's father's the who? The district attorney, that's who my father is. Uh... Take over, Curly. Paul came in the first place. That's what I should have done. Curly got it already. That's Sniffy. Oh, no, boy. You got us all wrong. As the ally, it's so wrong. He doesn't know why we brought him out into the garage, does he? He thought we were going to torture him. Well, all the time all we wanted to do was give him some tickets to the football game. In the garage? No, in the Coliseum.  Us? Mad at you? Do you hear that, Elliot? He thought we were mad at him. Good old old Del Sneedy. Yeah, now look, Sniffy, here's a couple of tickets for the Rams game. Now go ahead out of here and have a lot of fun. Yeah, live it up. Have a ball. The Rams? Gosh. Thank you, Mr. Harris. Thank you very much. Yeah, give my regards to your father. Yeah, say hello to the DA. Goodbye. Curly. We did it. Oh, we got rid of him, didn't we? Wait till I tell Alex. Hey, boy, will she be tickled, huh? Hey, wait a minute, Elliot. What's that? We forgot one thing. What's that, Curly? We never found out how many kids he had. Alice, honey. Well, have you seen Sniffy? He was supposed to have been here 15 minutes ago. Tell her, Curly. Hey, honey, will you hear what we did? Just wait till you hear what... I can't understand it. He promised he'd take me. Oh, Alice, baby. Listen, you got nothing to worry about. We fixed that Sniffy character. We sniffed him good. You what, mother? Yes, sir, it'll be a long time before he comes messing around here again. You didn't send him away. Send him away? You hear that, Curly? Hey, honey, you should have heard it. Man, Elliot started that torture business on him, and what do you... Bill, Harris. Oh, mother. Well, wait a minute. Alice, you didn't want her to go out with that drip, did you? Oh, Bill, if you'd only keep on to the things that don't concern you... It concerns me as much as anybody. She's my daughter, and she ain't going out with no strange guys. With your information, Bill, they went to kindergarten together. Like I said, Curly, a pickup.  Honey, don't... No, honey, gee, Wes, I was only trying to help.  I tried to help, too. All right. All right, get going, both of you. What? You've got just five minutes to produce Sniffy or a reasonable facsimile. She makes the kids sound like a box top. Now, look, honey. Get. But I... Wait a minute, Alice. I'm the head of this family, and I'll look for Sniffy when I'm good and ready. Bill? I'm ready. Come on, Alice. Curly, oh, how do I know? Come on, let's get real-ad lib as we go. Alice. I'm so miserable. What am I gonna do? Well, gee, maybe a song would help. Snuggle up, kitten.   Do, do, do. Watch out a do, do, do. Take me in your arms, please do.  For each other, sure as heaven's above. We were meant for each other to have, to hold, to love.  You could make my dreams come true. If you say you love me too.   Watch out a do, do, do. Take me in your arms, please do.  We were meant for each other sure as heaven's above. We were meant for each other to have, to hold, to love.  Make my dreams come true. Drop it a fifth. Drop it a fifth. What makes you think so? They never found Chloe, did they? Hey, wait a minute, that's an idea. Any good swamps around here? No. But why don't we look for them at the Coliseum? Well, for. Well, ain't that where the Rams are playing? The Cucamonga Rams? You mean you gave him tickets?  A clever? I'm as sharp as a sack of wet cement. I get news for you. If I don't produce sniffy, I ain't going home. Hey, Curly, what about that other thing? You know, the facsimile. What are you talking about? Where are we going to find a thing like that at this time of night? Curly, when she said a facsimile, she meant, look out. A facsimile is look out? No. No, it means the same thing. Then what's the difference? Curly, look, what I say, look out. That's Julius. Why, that little runt tried to run us down. I'll point. He's a facsimile. Curly, we got it. Julius is a facsimile? In a nauseating sort of a way. If we can't find one of them facsimile things, how about using Julius?  So, buddy boy. Can we speak to you for a moment, please, sir? I must have mangled the both of them. Julius. How would you like to go to a dance? Can you lead? Come here, Julius. Just a little closer. I'm close to the tuition, didn't tell me. No, no, no, kid. Not today, no. No, you got us all wrong, old buddy. We're your friends. He gave me intuition as dead, or I'm going to be. Julius, we're going to make you a real happy kid. You're going to let me back the truck over here. Got a wonderful sense of humor, that kid. Well, laugh a minute early, nothing but laughs. You? You, our buddy, our pal. Our facsimile. Hey, Julius. Now, listen. How would you like to take a beautiful young lady to a dance? But we already made the date for you. Julius, look. We'll do anything you say. Name your own terms. Ooh, this day must be a dark. Why are you going to go, aren't you? Will you wash me truck? I'll wash and heal wife. We'll go. We will call you dear, Mr. Abruzio. King of the supermarkets. How about it, Julius? I still ain't interested.  Leave him alone, Elliot. Leave him alone. Just leave him alone. If he won't, he won't. Just means poor little Alice won't go to the dance, that's all. Well, you'll get over it. Oh, Alice, huh? Wait a minute, my good man. I have decided to reconsider your proposition. I shall be only too happy to accompany the Fair Danzo in pursuit of Tate's Aquarium Delights. Huh? That means yes. Oh, oh. Well then, go ahead, Julius. What are you waiting for? You want I should take poor little Alice in the truck? No, no, no. You can take my car. But look, hurry up. You'll miss the whole dance. Oh, dear. You got any intuition? Why? My mind tells me something is all loused up. Who is it? Anybody is it? Well, that's funny. Where do you suppose? Hi, Uncle Elliot. How's every little thing? Oh, great, Phil, great. Little Alice could take care of her, all right? Sure. She and Sniffy went to the football game. Sniffy? Oh, you said you gave him tickets, didn't you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Hey, look, fellas. What happened when Julius showed up? Well, he and Mom went to the dance, like you said. Oh, no, no, no. Look in just a moment. Every one of the dollars you'll invest in a television set is mighty important to you. So make sure you get full value for your money. Make sure you get an RCA Victor. New RCA Victor television costs as little as $199.95. Yet it's the finest TV you can buy. And remember this. When you buy one of the new RCA Victor television receivers, you can enjoy America's finest installation and maintenance through an RCA Victor factory service contract. This exclusive factory service is another reason why every year more people buy RCA Victor than any other television. This is Phil again. To encourage Americans to speak up for freedom, Freedom's Foundation is currently offering its fifth annual awards program. Cash awards and honor medals are offered in 15 categories. 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