This message tonight. I'm going to minister to you It's something that I believe that will become foundational to your spiritual life We live in a time of great compromise of great deception and of a great falling away even in the church Yes, even in the church the enemy has Assaulted the body of Christ with deception and there are people Whose roots don't go deep and Because their roots don't go deep when trials come when opposition comes when the world Threatens their faith They're gone Lord, don't let that be me Paul the apostle said lest I become myself a castaway Paul wrote that What you're going to hear tonight is Something the Holy Spirit wants you to hear take very seriously the Word of God Take very seriously the Word of God Or if you are not rooted in the Word of God you are easy pray for deception And so I want to minister a word tonight in my prayer is that this message will stoke the fires of your love for Jesus That you would be so passionately in love with Jesus that you would carry with the martyrs carry That you would carry such a love That no request is too much No sacrifice too great No command is too difficult. I Pray that your love for Jesus would be a mighty force that would overcome even yourself God help us To be people who love Jesus more than anything else What does Romans 5 5 say the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost There's no one on earth who loves Jesus more than the Holy Spirit loves Jesus And it's my prayer that the same love with which the Holy Spirit loves Jesus would be our love too That everything in us Would be for him My goal today is to agitate your holy jealousy That you might say Lord, I want to know you more. I Don't want to be on the outer circle Lord. I want to be on the inner circle Jesus loves us all equally. I want you to know that believer Jesus loves each and every one of us equally But he can only trust you in Proportion to your obedience It's one thing to say Jesus loves me. It's another thing to say Jesus trusts me. You want to walk in his power You want to carry the glory on your life You want to be a mighty weapon in the hand of the Father with which he brings Destruction to the kingdom of darkness Then he has to be able to trust you with his power in life Your passion for the Lord does not have to ebb and flow. I Think all too often we buy into church culture myths Cliche's and we say things like well, I'm on my back sliding fades Saying I'm in my back sliding phase as a Christian is like saying I'm in my cheating phase as a spouse There's no such thing as the cheating phase There's no such thing as a period where you can go and do whatever you want to break that covenant No, when I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus. I'm in covenant with him I want nothing and no one else to move me from that place I Want to know him and I see in Philippians 310 this verse and when I see it Everything in me burns to have what the writer is talking about in Philippians 310 that I may know him That I may know God That I may know him and the power of his resurrection You have to know him before you know his power and the fellowship of his sufferings being made Conformable unto his death. This is the mystery of the fellowship of his suffering You know Jesus has an inner circle Much like I pray you have an inner circle you're not going to announce on Facebook some of the things you would only tell your spouse Some of you do and we call that drama, but that's a different sermon for a different time But you're not going to announce to the world those things about you that are only known through intimacy the way you think the way You feel your insecurities your hurts your worries Those are things you reserve for those who know you intimately And let me tell you something though. We may not like to hear it. Jesus is the same way I have my inner circle There are things I will tell certain people there are things I will trust with certain people But if I were to announce it you would say, huh, he's got issues And that's true of everyone you see there are invitations that Jesus has given to the church Invitations that Jesus has given to the world really if you can just follow him He draws you deeper and deeper into his heart in John 1 39. We see that Jesus says come and see This is his first invitation come and see This is where the sinner becomes a saint This is where the one with a broken marriage the one with a broken body the one with a fractured mind can come to him and see That Jesus is the deliverer that Jesus is the healer that Jesus is the Savior But this is where many people get stuck and for the rest of their lives They go from deliverance to deliverance all the while never really surrendering to Jesus They go from experience to experience while never maturing in their faith They want to come and see and they want to get just close enough to be comforted Not close enough to be challenged. I want to come and see the miracles and that's wonderful I want him to restore my marriage and he'll do it But Jesus sends out another cry another invitation That we see in John 1 43 just a few verses later This is where Jesus says come follow me Now this is the change of direction in your life and for some of us This is actually a better situation than we had before Which is why it's so easy to follow Jesus when you're a new convert Because it's not that difficult to give up darkness for light But it is difficult to give up self for him When I first get saved you mean Jesus will take away my addiction. You bet You mean Jesus will heal my body absolutely Jesus will restore my marriage. Yes He's a miracle working God come and see But at some point he will say to you Come and follow me And this is the point where we change directions now becomes a little inconvenient But at the beginning this is much easier than it is toward the end because We still are in that infant stage Yeah, I'll give up my drug addiction for your joy Yeah, I'll give up my confusion for your peace Absolutely following him Will bless you But at some point Following him will confront your selfishness It's then that he says to you After saying come and see Lord. Thank you for touching my body. Thank you for touching my life After he says come follow There's a challenge that arises because as we follow Jesus Along that path we begin to recognize that there are things in our lives that contradict his will Too many in the church are preaching how to build your dreams how to build your life How to get everything that you want accomplished and they give you 12 steps to this and that And they're trying to teach you how to build what God told you to crucify The promise of the gospel is not come follow me and I'll make all your dreams come true It's come follow me and you're going to crucify that will He says come follow me and as he says come follow me along that path There are some things that we find as obstacles and we begin to hesitate And there comes a point where after he says come follow me he gives to you the third invitation Come and deny yourself everyone wants to hear come and see Some love the come follow me very few celebrate When he tells you to deny yourself because it's never anything that's going to be easy for you Denying yourself means just that denying yourself Your desires what you want Matthew 16 24 through 27 says Then said Jesus under his disciples if any man will come after me Let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me For whosoever will save his life shall lose it And whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it For what does it profit a man he gains the whole world? It loses his own soul Or what will the man give in exchange for his soul?  This is the death of self So many are saying fill me holy spirit, and he's saying right back.  What they mean is make it better We talk about breakthrough and breakthrough and church lingo today is simply code for the day I never have another struggle again But those who will respond To that call to come and deny yourself We'll hear that fourth and final call Matthew 25 21 his master replied Well done Good and faithful servant You have been faithful with the few things. I will put you in charge of many things come And share your master's happiness One of these days you're going to hear those words And I want to stand before him knowing that I gave it all I'll tell you when you look in those eyes of fire Your concern will not be that you didn't make more money Your concern will not be What your academic achievements were Your concern will not be based in the things of this world You look into those eyes of fire All that will matter to you in that moment Is what you did for him You see the crowds come and see It's one group They come to see the miracles They come to hear the message There are spectators in every crowd who simply out of curiosity want to catch a glimpse of what people say is happening But amongst the crowd Are people who will never draw closer to him They hear about the miracles they want the experience, but they don't want the sacrifice John 2 24 through 25, this is what the Bible says about Jesus's thoughts about the crowds Listen to what it says But Jesus didn't trust them Because he knew all about people No one needed to tell him About human nature For he knew what was in each person's hearts Come and see That's the crowd And there's nothing wrong with that There's nothing wrong with coming to Jesus with an issue or a problem I ministered a message which will be released soon On the fact that God wants to give you signs We've been taught that it's immature Unspiritual doubtful selfish to ask God for signs Because we quote that scripture a wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign But Jesus was talking to Pharisees there and he was very specifically challenging the fact that they had hard hearts But all throughout the scripture God wants to give signs to people Come follow me Is what he says to the next group Now if you're in the crowd You're following Jesus at a distance You're there and you're close enough to get a miracle Not so close to be challenged And we follow him amongst the crowds Thank you for what you're giving to me. We eat the bread that he multiplied We receive his healing touch. We watch his power. We stand in awe and then If we follow the next Command if we respond to the next invitation we move in even closer and there we see the 72 disciples But Jesus says come follow me Now consider the fact that there was People among that group who didn't necessarily follow Jesus for Jesus Think about the fact that even among the 12 there was a betrayer among them named Judas I think it's safe to say that among the 72 not everyone was sincerely following him I'm sure there were some among the 72 who loved Jesus But if even the 12 had a betrayer among them It's safe to assume the 72 was filled also with those who were insincere These are the people who pursue the power of God with no love for the presence of God All gifts no glory they can demonstrate his power, but they don't walk in his presence What does God say to those who do this depart from me? I never knew you Now guys hear me when I say Everyone who begins in ministry that loves Jesus begins with sincerity If they love Jesus One of my greatest fears is that I would become a performer instead of god's servant And if you don't think it could happen to you You're in danger You think it's easy to stand On a platform that reaches hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people And not have a little issue with pride Let me tell you There's such a thing and I'm not saying this literally there's a phrase that We hear going around these days It's a new phrase. So it's probably from tiktok But they say some people are possessed by the clout demons People who follow Jesus not so that he can use them But so that they can use him Do you know what the message translation says? When it comes to that text in Matthew 7 depart from me Workers of lawlessness and then it says this all you did Was use me to make yourselves important God help us in this day and age of influencer culture. Hear me now servant of God Preachers are servants not celebrities We're called to go and be among the people We're called to go lay hands on the sick. We're called to go to those who are demon possessed If people can't reach you it's because you're not called you're in a career and you need a repent of your pride If people can't come to you If people can't be served by you if you care more about crowds than you do about people find something else to do Competing for likes and wanting the platform. I rebuke that spirit in the name of Jesus This generation is turning turning into Simon the sorcerer Let me buy this power that when I lay hands to the holy spirit might flow through me What did the apostle say to him they said you have you're bitter with jealousy And these preachers who get into ministry to compete instead of soul winning. They're on the wrong track Guard your heart servant of god lest you two become corrupt By this influencer culture You can't pay a registration fee go to a conference and then come out with the anointing You can't buy an online e-course on how to do this or how to do that pay that money Download the material fill it out pass the test and then walk away anointed of god The power of the holy ghost is found only in the presence of the holy ghost I've been in the back rooms the green rooms Ambitious hungry self-centered people Jockeying for position Trying to get to the top passing out their ministry cards like business cards You're not called to a new level of favor just because you took a selfie with the famous preacher You're not called of god just because you're good at marketing and can garner a following online You're not called of god just because you bought the camry equipment Can I just be real with you tonight? the problem is The internet has given the ability for anyone to have a platform And so what's happening is many preachers men and women are skipping the process Because they have immediate access to a platform. That's the 72 Come and follow. Okay. I'll follow you So long as it benefits me I'll follow it just the distance so I can carry your power, but I don't want to carry your cross I'll follow you so that my gifts can be stirred and people can be wowed at how I'm being used But I don't want to get so close as to actually be called to do something that will inconvenience me the question is Are you using the lord or is the lord using you? That's what it means to be stuck in the group Called the 72 you can do what jesus did But that doesn't mean you know him Come and see that's the crowds come and follow me. That's the 72 Come deny yourself. That's the 12 Now this is where jesus begins to really challenge the selfishness in you when I first started in ministry I remember lying on the floor for hours And I would pray this prayer with such passion I would say god There's a little selfishness in me Please don't promote me until you kill that Here's the problem You can cast out demons, but you can't cast out the flesh The flesh doesn't come and go The flesh shrinks and grows And you have to keep the flesh Subjected and weak You have to keep it there Because if you don't it will overpower you If you don't it will take from you if you don't it will pollute what god is doing in you God crucify those things I prayed lord Let my hands be your hands Heal through them Lord Let my feet be your feet Take me where you want me to go Let my ears be your ears Let me hear your voice with such clarity That if you whisper in the spirit I can hear you loud and clear Father let my eyes be your eyes I want to see things people in situations the way you see them Let my mouth be your mouth I want to speak the truth even when it offends even when it makes me when people start to dislike me Cancel culture rearing its ugly head you can't cancel the gospel And once you've denied yourself there's this point that comes Where he says come and share come and share come and share in my happiness Come and share in our reward To share in his reward You must first be willing to share in his suffering Think about the fact that it was only the three peter james and john who went with jesus to various places When jesus went to raise jairus's daughter from the dead It was peter james and john that entered the room with him and he threw everyone else out Because he trusted them to be there for that moment When jesus ascended to the mountaintop And he was transfigured in the fullness of his glory And he was seen with moses and elijah The disciples who were there caught a glimpse of him his image changed and he began to beam with light It was peter james and john who saw him on the mountaintop transfigured They come back down from the mountain and what did they find? They find other disciples trying to cast the devil out of a boy You're ever having trouble casting out devils It's one of two things either it's the kind that only comes out through prayer and fasting Or you yourself are not being a person of prayer If it takes you hours to cast out demons, it's likely because you're only spending minutes in prayer When you should be spending just seconds casting out devils because you're spending hours in prayer No one can fight the holy spirit like that So these disciples are trying we can't get it out of them And then jesus comes down from the mountain and drives that spirit right out Only those who have been with jesus on the mountaintop Can cast out devils in the valley? Valley problems require mountaintop solutions But who was welcomed up there it was peter james and john Peter james and john were the ones who were welcome to the mountaintop Do you know where else peter james and john were welcomed in the garden? Moments before jesus would be taken away to experience the anguish of the cross Do you realize friend That jesus was sweating drops of blood Saying to his father if it's possible Let this cup pass from me It wasn't just the physical pain of the cross It wasn't just the fact that they were going to drive nails through his hands It wasn't just the fact that they were going to put nails in his feet It wasn't just the whipping And the beating The crown of thorns. It wasn't just the sense of suffocating that he feared It was more than physical pain That anguished him Do you realize that when he was on that cross he said two startling things that people often overlook My god, my god, why have you forsaken me? god the father Turning his all-knowing eyes away from the sun And father into your hands. I commit my spirit the holy ghost left him too And there on that cross in the anguish of that physical pain He experienced the culmination of all of our guilt All of our shame All of the mental torment that comes about as a result of sin all of our sickness All of the darkness All of the loneliness He felt it all in one moment But he carried it not just for you but for every man and woman who had lived or ever would live in a single moment Forsaken by god He received the fullness of the wrath of god that cup Was the cup of god's wrath poured out onto his son A wonder he sweat drops of blood And who did he bring? Peter James And john and he says to them Could you pray with me? Think about the fact Jesus the son of god asked them be with me in this moment You want you want me? I saw you on the mountain You're the son of the living god I saw your glory I saw you open the eyes of the blind Jesus you raised the dead And you are asking me Wait with me Watch me may know him the fellowship of his suffering There comes a point And he will call you to these places In luke 8 18 jesus says that If you use well what he's told you More will be given and he was speaking specifically in luke 8 18 you look at the context He's talking about revelation of who he is he reveals himself Jesus The son of god invites you to know him when I first started in ministry and believe it or not It's almost been 20 years I started young when I was 13 preaching all over the world I was only released to share this a few years ago back when we first started these meetings The lord called me And I remember one night I'm seeking him in prayer You know when you have those moments where You could the only word I can use is his presence. There's just a sweetness to it You know what I'm talking about that you you you can't explain that there's just a sweetness to him You don't want to be anywhere else You don't want to be with anyone else You just want to abide And I'm praying and suddenly I'm caught up in something whether it was a dream or a vision. I don't know and I don't say that to sound like paul the apostle I admit I say that because I don't know if I fell asleep or not A dream or a vision. I don't know All I know is I saw room Filled with light So much light it was difficult to make out the details. I saw only outlines of things As I walked into this room filled with light I saw before me an enormous throne and sitting on that throne I saw the outline Of a man Now you've heard people tell you you know a vision is from god when you sense nothing but peace. That's not true It's a nice church cliche, but it's not true Approaching this throne I began to feel a heaviness A weight and the closer I got to this figure The more I could hear This man was weeping to hear him weeping and the holy spirit allowed me to feel Just a slight heaviness Just a small sample Of what he was feeling And I began to weep And I began to shake A heavy burden I can't explain it and I asked the lord What is this? What am I feeling? Why do I feel such sorrow such anguish? And the holy spirit told me He's weeping For his children You want to know why I preach the gospel with such passion? You want to know where this fire comes from? It's because for every soul that is one to him It's a tear being wiped from his face A little ship of his suffering You want to know why I come alive when we see souls being one? It's because I know that my heavenly father is rejoicing You share in his suffering and he'll say to you Come and share in your master's happiness Thank you for watching Encounter TV. Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell Also, help us spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the holy spirit Make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now


Yeah, because the vision I'm about to give you, please no, I might get nasty. Pastor Mike Todd of Transformation Church found himself in a heap load of controversy this past week for a stunt he pulled during a sermon. Today, I'm going to react to the sermon clip, his apology, and share with you the lesson that we should learn from this whole debacle. The sermon clip went viral on YouTube, TikTok, and across social media platforms with people verbalizing their disgust at what they saw. This video came across my feed more than once, and each time I hesitated to watch it. I knew what was coming, and I didn't have the stomach nor the desire to put myself through something that gross. But now I venture into the unknown because I think there's important lessons that we should learn. If you want to watch the sermon to get full context, you can certainly do that, but for the purposes of this video, I'm just going to be reacting to the actions in question. Now watch, but you hit. Yeah, because the vision I'm about to give you please know am I getting asked how is the most gross thing I've ever seen in my life. Now he did make an apology video which I'll react to in a minute. But first I have three takeaways. Keep in mind that these takeaways have applications for us personally. They are not simply critiques against Michael Todd. If you walk away from this video with the idea that you're good and Michael Todd is bad, you miss the point. First takeaway. This is what happens when you put method over message. To put it another way, they put cleverness above depth in content. Trendy churches by and large put much of their effort into the way they present something. There's no problem with putting careful thought into how you present something. I've said on this channel before that I greatly admire the creativity of some of these churches. But unfortunately, too often these methods distract from the message. The method of presentation should complement the message, not distract from it. Similar to how in worship songs, melody should complement its lyrics, not distract you from the content. There's a tremendous amount of pressure put on pastors of big churches to be seen as clever and innovative. But there's a big problem. People often walk away from these churches saying, I can't believe the pastor did that or wow, I can't believe the pastor came up with that. He's so smart versus man, it's amazing what God has done in our lives.  In this context, the pastor garners the praise and God becomes a means to show ourselves off.  The question you and I need to be asking ourselves is this, will we let our attempt to come across as clever, intelligent, insightful, entertaining, get in the way of people's gaze being placed on Jesus. Second takeaway, accountability and guidance are so essential. We need to rid ourselves of this idea that God gives a special vision to one man, and everyone else either has the decision to get on the bus or get run over by the bus. Most of us don't need more yes men in our circle. We need people with a gentle, yet firm temperament that can approach us in love, helping to guide and helping us to discern. Pastors need this too, and I think that Mike Todd would have to agree. This has direct application for our lives.  Or do you nurture an environment where people can lovingly and humbly come to you and help guide you and lead you to good discernment? Take away three, stop obsessing about celebrity pastors. Even after his apology, which we'll watch in a second, people still contested that he shouldn't need to apologize because of how greatly God has gifted him. We feel personally attacked when someone criticizes one of the teachers that we love. We connect our identity with these communicators, and when their actions are questioned, we feel like our identity is being attacked. We lose a sense of clarity because we're so emotionally invested. It's a good practice for all of us, regardless of how theologically sound your favorite teacher or preacher is, to take a step back, to take a deep breath, and to come to the realization that your favorite teacher or preacher could be wrong about some things. Oh, do you feel that straight to the heart? We've built up our favorite teacher or preacher so much that when we admit that they might be wrong about something, it's almost like admitting that God is wrong about something. But there's good news, friends. They are not God. They are not your savior. Let's hear Mike Todd's apology to see if he touched on any of these points. Hey, what's going on, everybody? I hope you're having an amazing Monday. I just want to acknowledge what happened yesterday when the spit hit the fan. I watched it back, and it was disgusting. That was gross. I want to validate everybody's feelings that that was a distraction to what I was really trying to do. I was really trying to make the word come alive and for people to see the story. But yesterday it got too live, and I own that. And I just want to make sure people know that we want to help people. We want people to see Jesus. We want people to feel loved. We want people who are desperate to be able to find hope. And I'm passionate about that so much so that I try to do extreme things to help people get it. And yesterday it crossed the line. So I love you guys. I appreciate everybody that's been praying for us and sending us messages. And to anybody who just saw that three-minute clip, I really encourage you to go back and watch the whole message. There's some truth and some life in there that could potentially change your whole life. Two takeaways on this, and you can watch the full apology on his social media platforms if you want to. First thing, I'm glad he apologized. Some people might speculate that it was only because of the backlash that he received that he apologized, but we don't know that. Perhaps he had a conversation with older and wiser Christians behind closed doors that helped him come to this place of repentance. You might have noticed as I did that he never actually said sorry in the apology video. Well, I looked into it and in the caption that he posted alongside the video, he actually did formally actually apologize for what he did. So that's good. Second takeaway, I really hope that this is going to enact transformation in transformation church. You see what I did there? Where they would be more discerning to make sure that the method they use to present doesn't get in the way of the gospel message because they have an opportunity to share the gospel with so many people. It would be such a shame for them to continue down this road. Pray for not only transformation church, but your church as they're wrestling with this idea of method and message and making sure they're not overshadowing what we're all here for, which is Jesus. Pray that they would use the resources at their disposal to help point to Jesus, not distract from him. Our mission is to show the glory and beauty of Christ in everything we do to point the attention off of ourselves towards Christ and say, that is who you've been looking for. May we desire to step into that mission daily and when we fall short to rest in God's abundant grace. Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe. And thank you so much to everyone on Patreon that makes what I do possible. If you want to help support my ministry, head on over to patreon.com slash daily underscore disciple link in my bio. I'll see you next time. God bless.


What is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose today is July 9th Which means it's my birthday and coincidentally it's also my twin sister's birthday over there and for the cherry on top Alexia is visiting and spending a couple weeks here with me in London We've got a full day of activities planned. The first thing we're doing is going to have brunch at the ivy So yeah, come along and enjoy the vlog. Say hi guys Norski, so how old are we now? We are 26. 26. Let's go What are we gonna spend our birthday doing? We're gonna go and we're gonna play resident evil. We're gonna play video games So basically out of the last like seven years or something like nor and I have only spent two birthdays together last year And this year as you guys know if you fold the channel for any period of time We absolutely love playing video games and she's a really busy lawyer I'm a pretty busy medical student and so we often don't get as much time as we'd like to play So today is the day What's good, all right, so this game resident evil the village I think it's called Yeah, basically I've been playing it over the last couple of weeks and it has been so scary Like I've screamed at the top of my lungs. I'm like throwing the controller He's refused to play it made me play a lot of it I've made nor play most of this game because I just can't like it's way too scary And yeah, now we're like in the final boss or something right? We're near the end. We're getting near the end Are you feeling brah? Oh All right, okay, that's enough playing video games Alex. He is gonna give me my birthday gift which I'm very very excited about What is it? That's so not me All right Fine hello, and it has track and trace. Yes crying Yes, I don't know Okay So I want to guess what it is Give me a bracelet Little summer bracelet Thanks, honey, thanks, babe Cheeky little bracelet. All right, so Alexie and I where she There we've just gone out for a quick stroll and walk around the neighborhood We've gone to a little park here got some coffee and it's quite a few activities going on as well Who are we up to a walk ski? Does anyone else do this where they add like ski to the end of like a bunch of words they say I'm like walk ski Don't ski hike ski car ski pretty much everything. Anyways, I'm just blabbing now. See you at the park Yeah I know it I know it I know it right when I let go Look at this machi machi or in versey in versey I should say In quite some time since the last video clips that you saw actually ended up having way too much fun on my birthday and didn't end up Vlogging for the rest of the day Alexie and I are now out for brunch in Sloan Square We're going to Granger and co and for a couple things planned for today So I thought I'd pull out the camera and take you guys along with me Just finished lunch and now we're heading to the Natural History Museum It's about a 25 minute walk or so and so we're just doing a leisurely stroll there enjoying the summer heat And maybe on the way we'll find one or two spots to do a cheeky photo shoot If so, they'll be on my Instagram page. Make sure to follow me somewhere over here at Karma medic and yeah Being an Instagram boyfriend is hard work on this link Ladies and gentlemen, we got it that took one second nice and easy I'm a good model. All right guys. We've made it to the Natural History Museum and look what's happening right outside It's kind of like a roller coaster ride, but it's your job. I'm very much in my happy place Dinosaurs are the coolest thing to me when I was younger the only books I would read in the library where dinosaur books and space books That's it Do me a side profile So big chillin with the homie Bro, how big is this fish like what? As well it is so so so so hot we're like had bubble tea and I've heard very very good things about it So I think today's gonna be the day. I'm gonna try it for the first time I think that's the one. All right, so I was just grabbing some bubble tea and I ran into You watch is the vlogs he goes to Imperial studying business Thanks so much if you guys ever see me in public, please feel free to come say hi I'd love to meet you get to know you a little bit more and have a chat keep up the good work Thanks man All right guys so I kind of cheated I didn't get bubble tea bubble tea They didn't have the small balls that you put at the bottom. I'm not sure what they're called So I decided to just go for a non bubble tea bubble tea drink. I'll try it again in the future Alexia is melting in the heat. Look at her inspecting the flavors. Thank you Lex, hold a headache while we were out. What's new? Look how little water she drinks with her pill. I guess we came for a quick browse Harvests, but I think we're both about to pass out from tiredness. We've been out all day Pretty dehydrated need some water and some rest.  Do it Wait, good night All right, let's go home sweet home dinner Alexia is making these duck pancakes that we cooked the other day with one of our gusto boxes This one over here, but nor and I we've ordered sushi Bring me the goods All right guys, this is it. This is what dreams are made of sushi a good show to watch and bae I'm stuffed. All right guys, we're both completely stuffed from all that food It's time for our classic evening session of cards. Now if you've seen my self-isolation vlog I don't exactly have the best track record against Alexia for this game. Hopefully did I can turn that around and win Running two almost two full days of filming. Alexia and I are gonna sit here and play cards for a little while longer And then I'm gonna get into bed really early because tomorrow I need to wake up at 5 30 I'm on the surgery rotation this week and handover starts at 8 So I need to get there for quite early. Anyways, that's it for me I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you did don't forget to leave a like on it And subscribe to my channel to see more content like this from me in the future And I'll catch you in the next one face Into the death star we go munch Yeah


Okay, good morning all. I hope you're all doing well. Thanks very much for joining me as always this morning A couple of really important things I want to talk to you about This morning and the first of those is a public meeting Coming up this Sunday in the blacksmiths pub in Hartley-Poe. I have Organized this Because I've been attending a lot of Stunning the park meetings, for example local rallies local events of people who want political change They won't change and a lot of this has been prompted by the issue where not allowed to talk about which is of course coronavirus and Because we're not allowed to talk about because we're on YouTube at the moment. I'm not allowed to talk about that I will be talking about it tonight and every Wednesday night for the foreseeable future on Rumble and I'll add a link to that Below this video this morning. The problem I see when I attend these rallies is a method by which people may take back the power that they want to take back and From what I can hear from talking to people The idea seems to be some a kind of non-specific Revolution but there's the specifics are most often absent but a revolution a rising up and Reclaiming of power But the specifics aren't there And I end up asking How? How are you going to rise up and take back? Your power That's what's missing is the how we know what we want to do. We know why we want to do it What's missing all too often is the how we can have a Violent revolution which it seems to me some people Want I don't and I think deep down and having if thought about it for a couple of minutes The vast majority of people don't want that either So that leaves us with one option political political revolution And that's what this party Began this is why this party exists to provide a method of that facilitating and achieving that political revolution It's hard work, but it's incredible work and it's rewarding work and it's a journey, you know, you never if you focus on a destination solely You probably won't be extremely happy about the journey the journey matters. It really matters And you've got to be proud of the journey and enjoy the journey So that's why this party exists, but one thing we have to do if there's going to be a political revolution We've got to be honest. We've got to have integrity. We've got to have our principles in place We've got to know who we are and what we stand for and that's something that this party is very very clear about Our new manifesto for 2022 is now online. Have a look at it for Britain UK slash manifesto Have a look at it. If you agree with it get on board If you're in the northeast, this isn't solely for people in Hartlepool if you're in the northeast even near the northeast if you can make it along for one o'clock Sunday afternoon this coming Sunday Please do come along blacksmiths pub Hartlepool I will go into great detail on three points Which I think are crucial And those three points are what? Let's clarify. I'm all for clarification and focus. These are my two nothing is achieved without three things belief Clarity and focus You've got to believe you can do it. You've got to be clear about what you want to do and you've got to focus On the steps you need to make In order to achieve what it is you want to do So we'll clear away the fog And focus and what it is we need to do that is what I will do on Sunday and what I will do in the new year Around the country This is a unique party I know how wonderful this party is I'm now going to go out And tell other people across the country This is an honest party a decent party a principal party And one that believes in that radical political change that we need But we know how we have to do it. We're clear We're principled and we're focused and that's my primary and key message for 2022 Furthermore this idea that we must wait for the media to give us some sort of big break is done Done the media is the problem the media the state same thing Simply the same thing you cannot have a revolution against a corrupt establishment By waiting for that corrupt establishment to help you it's on it's like waiting for the conservative party to help you Succeed against the conservative party. It's like waiting for the labor party to help you succeed in overthrowing the power of these corrupt political parties that have been in power for too long and are irredeemably corrupted You do not ask the Tories and Labor to help you on seat the Tories and Labor asking the media to help you Do it is the same thing. They are the same machine So come along on Sunday if you can And as I say we'll be doing this all over the country in 2022 Okay, I want to thank this is my last Wednesday morning stream this side of Christmas I want to Take the opportunity to say thank you to the people who have helped me fundraise On go fund me here is the link if you can help. Please do I have already been in touch with some families in the town um And a few days before Christmas I will be going out and buying them Christmas dinner I know they have large families and a lot of children and uh As I said like A few days before Christmas, I will go out and I will buy them their Christmas dinner And some toys for the kids, etc. If you can help That is the link below and thank you so much To everyone who has helped me so far Here is um, just the link to the manifesto That I mentioned my apologies for the Fuck in the throat Still hasn't cleared up absolute pain Um, so that's the link to our manifesto Please have a look right. I mentioned last week that um we I would encourage people as much as possible To get behind small business And I also mentioned last week and I'm going to mention it again There's a company called knights bridge beds And last week just before I started my live stream. Actually, I was coming back from the shop And I met Jim who Pulled up beside me and the car opened his window and and sort of waved at me uh, he is his business was dismantled by COVID and and lockdown, etc And he's now trying to sell off his Last stock some of it. He's even going to be giving away Um, and he is in the business of beds and mattresses And he asked me if I could help him Get rid of this stock if you are in the Market for bed or mattress give me a shout and we'll give jim a hand if we can Right on that on the small businesses what I Said I would do and what I have done is go away and have a look at Small businesses in this area and as always I would encourage activists across the country to do similar things I've had a look at Resources for small businesses and like it's difficult to find one. There are some resources. So if you want to uh Give your money this Christmas to a smaller business to help them get back on their feet after what's been a terrible couple of years Or even if you just prefer to support small business generally It's not easy to find them short of getting on a bus or getting in your car driving around It's not easy to find Which small businesses are available and who You need to know which ones are velvet not to support them. So who you can support I did there is a resource I'll put the link to it here. This one specifically for for christmas gifts um But it's not a bad resource It's shopoutlypool.com Having a rummage through it What I saw like I say it's not a bad resource um But it does have The big corporations in there as well. I'm not against you shop where you are. I mean it's this is But for people who want especially at this time To specifically support small business I'm struggling to find a resource and I've had this on my mind for some time a resource a community a A website for example that is exclusively for small business I've I've had on my mind for a while that I would like to create this And I still do want to create this um the website I've asked this to be I've put in in in motion The wheels for this there is a website Need ready to be Added to it's going to take a bit of work or for me to contact small businesses and see if they're interested in this and but a resource exclusively for small Business and a little bit of maybe a profile of the people who run these businesses Where you know the background where they what their their ideals are just a resource, but it's got to be We've got to get it to the top of Google searches and things like this I'm going to keep Working on this and and it's going to be a priority for me In the new year.  There are small ones in there, but costa is in there for example This one like I say small ones are in there, but big ones also And mcdonald's is in there What I would like to do Is have not just an exclusive resource for the smaller businesses But to put a human face to it so we can have people supporting other people To bring the smaller businesses in the town together with the customers and build a community of both customer and business And make that sort of human connection I think a it would bring us back together Community-wise, but also I think it would be very good For business and this has been on my mind for some time And like I said the website is there now. It's just a matter of Is it needed? Yes, I think it is looking at resources available. I think it is I think it will bring the town together in a way that this current resources don't And yeah, I'm going to pursue it. I'm going to pursue it's going to come priority for me Like I said, it's going to be a bit of work. I'm going to have to personally get in touch With as many small business owners across the town as I can and bring this thing together But I'm going to it's going to be a priority for me in 2022 On the small business issue If you are in the area, there is a fantastic market series of market stalls Which I've actually only just discovered And I have gone shopping in this. It's called Middleton Grange Centre I've gone shopping here several times and I've lived by accident Discovered that it has a market stall section Which had the most beautiful things in it And I would greatly encourage people if you're in the area to go to it It's absolutely fantastic and I'll certainly be going again But I could say I discovered it by accident This shouldn't have had to discover it by accident This is exactly the kind of resource That I'm talking about All right, a little bit of news then Before we finish up for Christmas Hartleypool Labour Group Leader Joins calls for under fire Cleveland Crime Commissioner to resign Now, I'm going to give you the Details of this. This is in the paper this morning Now police and crime commissioners are a bad idea anyway They bring politics into policing And it is for Britain policy to abolish police and crime commissioners And de-politicize policing Because these police and crime commissioners They are elected on behalf of political parties They are members of political parties Usually the big two political parties Labour and the Tories And they're in charge of policing You cannot have political Politicians should be in charge of policing in this way Directly and regionally in charge of policing As Mike Speakman A fantastic policing spokesman himself A former accomplished policeman Is disgusted by this He thinks that this collapse Of policing collapse of justice That accompanies a collapse in policing Is because of the politicization of policing And that police and crime commissioners Are a huge huge and destructive and dangerous part Of that politicization They need to go And it's our policy to get rid of them But have a listen to this story And I'll read it directly because it's It's quite serious So I don't want to create a I don't want to create a false impression Whatever about the press So let's read it So Labour group leaders from four councils Covered by Cleveland police Including Hartlepool Say conservative Steve Turner Should stand down Following revelations of a police caution And a sex allegation Investigation Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald Used parliamentary privilege in September To claim Mr. Turner was sacked By a former employer for systematic theft Mr. Turner called the allegations Unsubstantiated at the time But last month added that the police caution He received 22 years ago Was for handling 15 pound worth of stolen goods While he was a manager At a former Safeway store in Norton Right To be clear Not condoning handling stolen goods But really 22 years ago 15 pound Doesn't say whether or not he knew they were stolen goods 22 years ago 15 pounds worth of stolen goods That's what Labour is complaining about That's why Labour want this person to stand down We go on The independent office of police conduct Has also, this is the crucial part Also separately begun a quote managed investigation Into an alleged sex assault dating back to the 1980s The Labour councillors, including Brenda Harrison Labour group leader on Hartlepool borough council Said residents need a crime commissioner With integrity and a clean record The statement also signed by Labour group leaders on Stockton Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland councils Said he quote He is now also under investigation Over an allegation of sexual assault We have no faith that he can discharge the duties of the PCC The statement added Mr. Turner must now do the right thing And resign for the good of the force And to restore public trust and faith in the office of PCC Turner for his part has said he will not stand down And that he's going to do the job The people of Cleveland elected him to do it Right, there's so much to pick a part in this This is when you This was my You know, I've said that we're living in some sort of Orwellian weird upside down world where The one of the one of the best comparisons I think it's that old Hans Christian Andersen store The emperor's new clouds No wonder the country is so confused And the hypocrisy and the inconsistency Of politicians is genuinely Staggering, it is staggering Let me go back through this Let's just pick this apart a little bit So there is a apparently a managed investigation Into a sex assault dating back to the 1980s On this police and crime commissioner If that is substantiated There is no doubt in my mind That he should stand down Like I say these roles shouldn't exist in the first place But it's the Unbelievable hypocrisy of labor on this Unbelievable How can you stand up? And quite rightly if he's guilty of sexual assault Quite rightly he should not only stand down But be criminally punished But even with that Being the case How can you as labor Stand up and pretend to care But a historic case alleged case of sexual assault And be all moral and high and mighty How labor how can anyone in the late How can anyone be in the labor party at this point Is frankly beyond my imagination But it takes some front Some gall to be labor And to stand up and talk about integrity And talk about sexual assault And talk about justice And ask for people to have clean records And one quote We have no faith that he can discharge the duties Of a police and crime commissioner You are part of a party that still Still to this day Overseas to the point of facilitation The gang rape of girls and women all over this country Especially in areas governed by labor You absolute shower of immoral rape facilitating Rape apologist traitors Of the working classes of Because it's mostly working not much exclusively Working class girls and women who are subjected to these gang rapes Labor at best has done nothing about it At worst and more accurately Facilitated the cover up And therefore the continuance of these rapes It is too much too much to listen to labor Saying that other people can't be trusted Because there's an alleged sexual assault in their background And once again to be clear if this is a substantiated accusation He should not only stand down But be subject to criminal proceedings But that's not the point I'm making The point I'm making is labor Labor are going after people for this Anyone who remains a member of the labor party Knowing this is colluding Morally colluding with this cover up of these gang rapes Which by the way is still going on And which will grow and grow and grow As the population of you know who Grows and grows and grows a population An increased population demanded by the labor party Even though they know it will result In more and more gang rapes of girls and women in this country Labor is a cesspit of immoral corruption And rape facilitation That's what labor is And for them to stand there and claim some moral high ground on this Is absolutely disgusting And we see you labor People see you Don't think you're getting away with this Don't think you're pulling the wall over everyone's eyes People see you for what you really are Okay Time to finish up I'm going to put my fundraiser up one last time So I can say I need money raised in this And thank you people have donated And thank you very very much for doing so I will use that money to buy Christmas dinner and toys For some families that I've already been in touch with They already know that I'm going to be And getting them their Christmas dinner this year So that's what this money will be used for So please do donate if you can Finally, this Sunday, one o'clock Blacksmiths, Hartlepool Public meeting How are we going to rise up claim back our freedoms? That's crucial We know what we need to do We know why we need to do it Now I'm going to tell you how Exactly how we're going to do it It's a long road It's a challenging road But it is also the most incredible journey And it's a journey that I am honoured Honoured to be on And honoured to be joined on by so many wonderful people Okay, that's it And that's it this side of Christmas Thank you all for a wonderful Year, thank you too The wonderful people of Hartlepool I hope you all have the most magnificent Christmas And I shall see you on the other side of it With a year of Well, how shall I put it Revolutionary planning A revolutionary is a word that's been Stolen by the loony left, hasn't it? So we do need a political revolution And the other word revolution is tainted with leftism to me Big year in 2022 again Great year We've got an amazing We're blessed Blessed to be on the journey that we're on Thank you everyone I shall see you in January Have a very, very happy Christmas And don't forget to donate to me To help local families if you can Take care, see you in 2022 And Merry Christmas All the best for now


Live from the Javits Center in New York City, it's theCUBE, covering Inforum 2017. Brought to you by Infor. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Inforum 2017 here in New York City. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Dave Vellante. We're joined by Mike Rogers. He is the CIO of Pilot Flying J. Thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for having me. So tell our viewers a little bit about Pilot Flying J and your relationship with Infor. So Pilot Flying J is a travel center. We cater to basically over-the-road truckers. We do have a big gas business too. We operate about 700 locations. Most of them are owned fully by Pilot Flying J. Some of them are dealers where they have a relationship with us. They're in our network, but we don't own them. So we run the majority of the locations. And we own about 40% of the over-the-road diesel market. In the U.S. and Canada. In the U.S. and Canada, right. And talk about your relationship with Infor. So our relationship with Infor really goes back to Lawson. I've been with the company about two years. We've run Lawson, David Clothier. I'll tell you, probably 25 years. And the company has grown very rapidly.  Well, now it's a rather large company. And we knew we had to make a change relative to our human capital management and our financial systems because we basically outgrew it. And we like to write a lot of things. So we wrote a lot of applications that are very disparate, siloed. And of course there's a lot of technical debt that goes along with them. So when I started with the company, we started an evaluation process and picked Infor as the partner to replace all of our financial systems and all of our human capital management systems. And so are you migrating from sort of traditional legacy Lawson to sort of cloud suite or? Pretty much, I would characterize it as a migration, but we had very little in the vein of human capital management. Right, okay. And what we did have, we wrote ourselves. For example, we wrote our own applicant tracking system. Right, which of course have to integrate into Lawson. So we have an integration layer that we have to support there. And that's just one. There was a slide put up this morning that showed that we're going to eliminate 26 systems that we either bought as a best-of-breed type of application or we wrote ourselves. So how painful is that? Is that why you- It's extremely painful. They brought you in for this task and you saw obviously new this coming in or? I knew this coming in. No surprises. No surprises. And by the way, Pilot is no different than a lot of the retailers and other companies out there. We've got a lot of technical debt. And I will tell you, the more I see about Infor, the more I think we made the right decision. I really like the cloud strategy. I like the integration associated with all the different functions within the H, specifically within the HCM suite. It's not a roll-up like some of the other guys have rolled up, they bought, whether it's PeopleSoft or whatever. And they may talk about it being integrated, but it's not as integrated as the Infor suite. So if I may, sorry. Do you want to stay in the migrations for a second? Because it's non-trivial and people, the conundrum of migrations is nobody wants to do them because it's just such a heavy lift, but the longer you wait, the more technical debt you accrue. Right. I used to say you have to get off the treadmill. You have to stop and say, we're not going to keep digging ourself in this ditch. And it's going to be painful. It's going to be expensive. It's going to be disruptive. And I used to say, the guy at my seat usually gets fired. That really isn't, and I say that laughingly, but it's hard. It's a hard thing, not just for the IT guys. It's a hard thing for the organization with respect to change management. So an incredible amount of planning, obviously. You're freezing code? Pretty much, because I mean, why would we continue to develop something on, I wouldn't say we were 100% frozen, things come up, right? Especially in HR where there's a regulation change. Compliance, right? Right, compliance thing, you got to do it. So, but we got pretty good at saying, we're going to wait for in for it. And we've got a lot of it implemented. We're continuing, we've got a nice plan, an iterative plan. We're not trying to boil the ocean and convert everything all at once. Very good engagement from the business. We have a lot of business partners here with us. In fact, the IT representation at this conference is the smallest compared to the business. So I would think a key there, though, is because when you freeze code, it slows your business down. But then, so when you actually go to the new platform, you want to be able to move faster and leapfrog your competition. I would argue that it really, because we really didn't have much, it really hasn't slowed much down. Where we had to do something from a compliance perspective, we've done it. But it hasn't really slowed us down. But the leapfrogging that we're going to do when we implement the whole cloud suite is going to be enormous. Sorry, Becca, so I was just going to, I wanted you to step back a little bit and tell our viewers about some of the specific HCM challenges you have. And talk about the pain, I guess, is what I want you to describe. I mean, we run travel centers. They're open 365 days, seven, or 365 days a year, 24 seven, they never close. Okay, they all run food operations. It's up to three quick service food operations. It could be up to three. We don't have three in every store. Someone said that we may have one in every store plus a daily operation that we run ourselves in. We actually create the food, whether it's pizza, meatloaf, whatever, that the truck drivers really want with respect to a food offering. They want something different, what variety. So yeah, so it's a very complex business. It's hard. And we're very spread out throughout the country. We're not necessarily in big cities like New York. You're not going to see a pilot in New York City, right? You're going to see a pilot or applying J on major interstates throughout the country. So we're spread out. So connecting with our team members has been a challenge for us. And our owner, Jimmy Haslam, would tell you that he'd give himself a five and we are on connecting with the team member. So we're doing a lot to facilitate that connection. We've actually partnered with the Disney Institute to help us with that. And we've actually called Infor Project Connect. So it's going to provide that connection platform for those team members that are spread throughout the country and Canada for that matter. We don't get to see very often, or if ever. We're hearing a lot at the keynote. Retail has been highlighted a lot. And Pilot J is a form of retail in that sense. And talking about how important it is for the customer experience. The truckers themselves who come in to apply at Pilot Connect J. So I mean, our strategy is focused on making it a great place to work. In other words, doing the right things for our team member. And the investment in Infor is really going to provide that platform. The other part is making it a great place to shop. And we want our customer to come back. We sell a commodity. Let's face it, we sell diesel. Buy it down the road. We want the experience when they come into our show. We want to take care of our guests like nobody else takes care of them. Truck driver, there was an article written in the New York Times about throwaway people. These guys, you got it. You're wearing it.  And these guys need to be, they're great people. I've talked to a million of them. We want to be the place where they come and it feels like home. And we want to make a better day for the driver. It's a tough job. They work hard. They're away from their families. When they come into a pilot, it should feel like somewhat of an oasis. Right, so it's super clean, I understand. We, yeah, we try to make them clean.  Okay, so those showers are cleaned and maintained after every shower.  The rest, it's challenging. We have 3,000 people come through our doors every day at every location. So it's challenging to keep the restrooms in particular clean, but the showers are clean before anybody gets in them. And you own the real estate or you lease it? We own, we own, I'm sure we lease some. I don't know, that'd be a question for David. We own most of it. But you're in the real estate business too. Yeah, we're definitely in the real estate business. What about the data? How is the way in which you use data evolving? It's evolving very rapidly. And we are a data-rich company, especially with respect to the professional driver, which is the majority of our profitable business. Are they scan their loyalty card, whenever they come, we have like a 92% swipe rate. And that's because they use those points to buy food, to buy showers, they're rewarded. And it's lucrative to them, they're managing every payment. They're managing a business, so they use that as currency. So that data provides us with the ability to solve needed utility along the customer journey. For example, we may know when the guy needs a shower and we may have a fuel buying advantage at a certain location.  We're going to give him a free shower or a free slice of pizza, if he fuels it. We have an advantage with respect to purchasing petroleum. Building loyalty. Right, and it builds loyalty. So that's on the customer side. That's the nudges they need to walk into. Then be able to use our digital platforms, our digital properties to take the data and drive behavior. And loyalty, it's really about loyalty. We want to give good things to our loyal customers, take good care of them, and solve problems they have. Because they'll come back.  That's how he says it, and we do things that are going to solve problems they have. They're going to come to us because it's at least friction. Are you using data for logistics in any way, for these truckers in other ways? Yeah, now that's not in for, however, for the truckers. We're using logistics with respect to how we procure petroleum. And I'm probably not going to get into a lot of that because we feel there's a competitive thing there with respect to how we do it. And we're investing a good bit of money into how we procure and manage how we distribute petroleum to our various locations. Oh, so that's a data lever. You've got advantage, competitive advantage through data. That's where the data, that's where data rich and we can use that data very effectively. So data literally is oil. We just, we had a guest on it. Well, data's abundant insights aren't necessarily, so that's where you're making money. You mentioned before, Mike, that you said you're more confident after going through this migration that in for was the right decision.  Can you double click on that? Yeah, it's a couple of things. Number one, we talked about the technical debt, right? So lifting everything to the cloud gives me a unique opportunity to eliminate the technical debt because we're not going to write it. We're going to stay current on the latest release of the software. Whereas if you looked around here, everybody will tell you they're behind releases, releases, releases on enterprise software that they've purchased from somebody else that's not in the cloud. So number one, elimination of technical debt and staying current on the existing platform. Lack of, you really can't customize it. You can customize it within the tool itself with that customization or configuration or extensibility carries along with the, as they upgrade the software. So that's the biggest advantage. And I think being in the cloud, I was showing some data to my boss the other day regarding how our infrastructure costs have grown, infrastructure investment has gone up. Really been able to manage the actual investment with the number of servers, VM, where all that we're running has grown exponentially. That's because we hadn't retired anything, right? We're going to retire within four. We're going to retire 26 platforms. They're going away. They'll be out of the infrastructure and it'll be in the cloud. I don't have to manage it anymore. You're getting rid of stuff. Wow, GRS we call it. That never happens in IT. I took personal responsibility for the decommissioning aspect of the project. It is the, I want to ask you another kind of IT question. Is that that latest release, so because you're in the cloud and you're multi-tenant, you have to go to the next release. Does that create downstream problems for you? I mean, how do you plan for that? We're new into it, okay? We're working with Infor on that and it's perfect, no, but they got to be careful when they make the release so we can be prepared for it. So far there have been upgrades and it hasn't, it's been nerve-racking because it's a new release of code that we hadn't really tested or whatever, but I think we'll get that resolved. Like you said, it's new. We got to become efficient at how that happens. We need a little bit of prior notice. Forced agile. Yeah, forced agile, here it comes. There's a lot of buzz about artificial intelligence here at Inforum. Where would you say pilot flying J is with regard to using artificial intelligence as part of your workforce? I mean, giving your workers access to it and also more tools to make the right decision at the right time. Yeah, I think it's at the stage now where it's really cool and it's somewhat of a buzz thing, AI when machine learning. I think it is going to be very relevant and probably not the too distant future. It's not on my immediate roadmap to worry about artificial intelligence. We thought about doing a project with IBM on fuel procurement and pricing with Watson. It's just really not quite ready yet. What we can develop is deep insights with the data we have to make better decisions and put power in the hands of our pricing team or logistics team to make really good decisions. I think that's first, let's get that perfected. And then when you talk about the voice recognition that we heard yesterday, that I think is eminent and I think it's important for us and it's going to be on our roadmap because as a truck driver, I'm driving and if I can have the ability to ask questions of our app and convey information back to that driver without him having to touch his phone, there's a value to that. Now that has to be architected through the right type of data, how we structure our data to be able to be accessed via natural speech. But it is something that that is on our roadmap. How large is your IT organization? Roughly. A number of people? Yeah. We have about 250 people in our IT organization but we do have significant use of partners. And they're distributed? No, they're in Tennessee for the most part but now we use offshore resources with certain integration partners. We have a couple of primary integration partners that we're using. So the reason I'm asking is so as you move to this cloud SaaS platform, how are you thinking about protecting your data and is it changing? It's a good question and I've said in for a while that I think that we do a great job with security. We've invested a significant amount of money protecting our data. I think I'd be naive to say that we could do a better job than Amazon web services. I would agree, no offense. So I mean, and I think one of the gentlemen who was speaking yesterday said the same thing and one of my guys looked at him and says, yeah, that's what we've been saying. So yeah, I think there's always a risk. I mean, security is a big deal, especially with what's happened with WannaCry and the subsequent Nepal that there's going to be more. I think that Amazon can be on top of it. And I think together we can do a good job on security. It doesn't worry me anymore than it worries me every day with respect to my own infrastructure. And it does worry me, it's not anymore. Great. Well, Mike, thanks so much for joining us. It's been a really enlightening conversation. Thank you. I'm Rebecca Knight for Dave Vellante. We will have more from Inforum in a little bit.


we have completed the shinking core model I think except Renitha others were not there so you have to take notes from her and we also discussed the extreme conditions like which are rate controlling how do you find out the mechanism which one is rate controlling all that we have discussed so based on that now I would like to give you an assignment so I will give you the parameters you have to plot this assignment it is graphical but each graph at least you should able to you should able to write on that graph at least 10 to 15 sentences it is not that simply go to excel and then plot and then give it okay so that anyone can do whoever knows the computer programming but what your expertise comes there is that if you are able to predict why something is increasing something is decreasing something is not increasing decreasing all that physical phenomena right so the assignment is you take for example that equation number dimensionless equation number what is that number 23 or 24 in terms of biot number and damkohler number s equation number 23 okay take equation 23 and plot x b versus theta theta is the dimensionless time x b of course is the conversion okay so the parameter the range for theta will be 0 to 5 in the steps of 0.2 okay that means you know 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 like that right okay and x b is of course 0 to 1 anyway that I do not have to tell so what we have to do is a 1 biot number equal to infinity there are 2 numbers biot number and damkohler number so and damkohler number equal to 100 you have to keep biot number infinity and change damkohler number 0.1 and 0.01 so then come to biot number equal to damkohler number is same 0.01 then biot number equal to 10 damkohler number is very does same ranges 10 1.1 0.01 then we have biot sorry biot number equal to 1 damkohler number equal to 100 10 1.01 then we have the fifth one biot number equal to 0.1 damkohler number is same again 110 1.1 0.01 I think from this you will get almost all the information x b is varying with biot number in that equation x b is a function of theta biot number and damkohler number that is all nothing else is there in that all are in the form of dimensionless numbers so then you vary and now you have to say that for the comparison when you are plotting these graphs for example if there is a change between this and this why there is change the physical phenomena or if there is no change between this and this why there is no change what is actually happening and you know very large damkohler number means which one is controlling what is the damkohler number definition yeah large number means mass transfer diffusion control diffusion through the ash layer controlling okay so when diffusion through ash layer controls then what kind of phenomena what kind of things are going on within the particle so all that information you have to write you have to write at least you know 1 2 or 3 or 4 pages and then attach these graphs and then submit okay it is left to you okay if you do not submit then examination if you are not doing well please do not ask me right yeah for the people who want to definitely pass I think it is very difficult I do not consider at all if you are not doing all this this is only for your help I may give the same thing in the examination okay at that time this is a practice and the physics if you understand after plotting and after writing then definitely you will understand and do not think that you know you are heroes when you copy copying is not heroism actually solving and writing is heroism but most of the time we will keep quiet till last day and then last night we will just ask someone else's assignment copy and give as if you fooled me actually you are not fooled me you fooled yourself first without doing so that is why these assignments even though there are marks I think you cannot only measure everything in terms of marks you do not learn anything if you do really that okay so after this what we have to do is one other type reaction type D reaction if you have no notes can you tell me what is type D reaction we will derive an equation for type D reaction so yeah so this will be a gas plus b b solid going to gaseous products right yeah what is the example gaseous yeah combustion gasification there are very nice reactions where you are the end you will not see any particle everything will be disappearing so that is the one for that kind of reactions now we have to develop a sinking core model right what is the difference what could be the difference gaseous diffusion will not be there okay because every time the particle outer layer is first converted then slowly it moves and there is no because everything is becoming gas and coming out there is no solid product so that is why and how we derive that we will see and before that let us imagine our particle how it is moving this is particle at time t equal to 0 may be cool particle so then after sometime t then we will have this is the size then after sometime t this is the one and finally disappears into nothing okay yeah so now this is t sometime t yeah okay good so what is the difference is at time t equal to 0 just when you have the reaction started t0 plus for example that is the film then this is the film then we will have this is the gas film right it must be easy for us now to derive this because there is no one more resistance there there is no ash forming so there is no diffusion and if you are able to plot the profiles this is r equal to 0 that is the and this is at any time I will call it as rc and here we will call this one as capital R that is initially at time t equal to 0 then only the core is the particle is shrinking overall but I am trying to maintain the same notation rc is the diameter of the core which is shrinking but the overall particle itself is core for us not like in the other case where inside the particle you have your core unreacted core which is shrinking but here the entire particle is shrinking so as usual now if I draw the profile like that that is all this is c as when it touches the surface then reaction is taking place and particle is slowly disappearing because everything is becoming gas gas is product so you will have this kind of situation at up to sometime t good so what are the steps now we have step one is mass transfer m t of go to abbreviations now gaseous product sorry m t of gaseous mass transfer of gaseous reactant step two is reaction on the surface reaction on the surface is there step three why you know yeah see the gaseous products have to come through the film again right yeah they have to yeah but we do not take that one step three equal to m t of product gaseous product gaseous through film but it does not matter for us because it is not reversible reaction so that is why okay so that is why only these two steps you have to take and at steady state mass transfer of reactant a going through the film must be equal to rate of reaction on the surface so that we know we already are masters of that so then at steady state rate of mass transfer through the film equal to rate of reaction on the surface correct yeah so we know the equations now so this will be minus d n a by d t if I write in terms of equations the simple rate 4 pi r c square okay and that is the area and mass transfer equation this is k g c a g minus c a s equal to if I assume first order reaction then this will be 4 reaction is on the surface every time 4 pi r c square okay yeah so 4 pi r c square k s c a s okay so this is equation 1 so now of course we have to eliminate this I think I will write that in a slightly different way so that some of you can get what is going on so this is if I write like this this will be minus d n a by d t divided by all this 4 pi r square pi r c square k g this is equation 2 okay you have to remember that c a c also equal to c a s so I think let me write that at least once okay then you are comfortable no problem yeah it is on the core but now for us core itself on the outer surface okay good so let me write this once yeah so now c a s equal to again minus d n a by d t divided by 4 pi r c square k s correct yeah so from these two equations from equation 2 and 3 what we can do is minus d n a by d t equal to 4 pi r c square c a g divided by 1 by k g plus 1 by k s so this is equation 4 so this is our rate equation but of course if you want to make this one as a intrinsic rate so then I have to divide by some area or volume of the particle or weight of the particle whatever okay so 4 pi r square that means I have just added these two and then separated again d n a by d t that is all very simple okay so now there is a problem here I cannot directly integrate and of course you have another thing here our normal procedure is this equation just gives me what is the concentration profile or how the rate of reaction is taking place with respect to gaseous a it is d n a by d t right d n a by d t but what we would like to have is also d n b by d t how the particle is shrinking how the particle finally disappears so that is what what we have to relate so for that we already have that equation minus d n a by d t from this stoichiometric this comes from this stoichiometric equation equal to minus 1 by b d n b by d t which is nothing but minus 1 by b d of once more I will write rho b v c correct no d t which is again nothing but minus 4 pi r c square by b d r c by d t here also we have rho b yeah correct thank you rho b good so this is equation number 5 now if I take equation number 4 and 5 d r c by d t can be written as from equations 4 and 5 minus d r c by d t equal to yeah can someone quickly tell yeah b c a g by rho b into 1 by k g plus 1 by k s so this is the equation which I am supposed to integrate to get the relationship between conversion and time or shrinking core and then time this is equation number 6 yeah here only straight forward integration I cannot do okay why because now the procedure is take if there is any r c terms I have to take this side and time I have to take this side and then simply integrate is there anything which is changing with r c in the other side yeah why why it is changing with k g changing with r c film thickness is changing yeah so film thickness changes means what is directly changing what is it changing what is the quantity yeah k g k g is changing with r c do you have any relationship between k g and r c yeah we go again to Ranjana marshal correlation okay so then we will see for small particles for large particles what is the relationship between k g and r c and that relationship we have to substitute here in k g and finally we have to integrate because now this k g is varying with r c that means if you take small particle or large particle you will have and I do not know some of you would have done already something in Levenspiel using Levenspiel book in non catalytic reactions you have done this non catalytic reactions he gives some very nice conclusions there at the end of the kinetic chapter he has divided that into one is the development of kinetic equations other one is design two chapters are there are non catalytic reaction so at the end of the first you know kinetic model chapter he he comments that when you have film film control the power to the the power to the r to the power of you know t is directly or there t is proportional to r to the power of 1.522 it goes many people do not understand that I think now this is one of the basis is how you can derive that that I do not derive but I will just mention and then give it to you so that I can ask that in the examination okay so t is t time is proportional to r to the power of 1.522 that means as the particle size is decreasing the exponent falls okay yeah so that you can get from this derivation good okay now what we have to write here is k g is a function of r c in equation 6 and you cannot directly derive that I mean integrate that unless you know that functionality right. So that functionality can be this functionality can be obtained from from range and martial correlation what is that Sherwood number equal to 2 plus 0.6 Reynolds to the power of half and Schmidt to the power of 1 by 3 this is equation 7 the same equation I can also write for me for easy solving this is d p k g divided by d that is diffusivity equal to 2 plus 0.6 Reynolds number it is d p u rho by mu to the power of half and Schmidt number is mu by rho d whole to the power of 1 by 3 so this is equation 8 okay now we have to solve this okay let us see first for small particles for small particles the other term Reynolds number term is neglected small particles means Reynolds number may be very very small so this entire term may be smaller when compared to 2 the one extreme very very small particles right for small particles for small particles Sherwood number equal to 2 which is nothing but again d p k g by d equal to 2 so from this what you find out k g is proportional to 1 by d p correct or proportional to 1 by r c radius that is 1 and for large particles this is what is the number 9 this is equation 9 for large particles Sherwood number equal to d p k g by d 0.6 d p u rho by mu to the power of half mu by rho d to the power of 1 by 3 yeah now can you tell what is k g proportional to yeah this is 1 by d p to the power of half correct also proportional to 1 by r c to the power of half good so if initially our radius equal to capital R right initially then in both the cases initially k g is okay I want to convert this into based on initial particle yeah so for small particles I think I may write here for small particles I can write initially k g by k g not equal to k g not I will tell you k g not is the mass transfer coefficient initially right so you will have here R by r c to the power of 1 right initially and similarly here so this is of course also an equation 9 a 9 b I will write here yeah so here also I can write the same thing k g I think below also I can write k g by k g not equal to for large particles yeah can someone tell capital R by r c to the power of half okay so in general what I can write this may be 9 okay this I will say 10 so in general what I can write is what I can write so in general what I can write is k g by k g not equal to if I take the ratio R by r c to the power of n so this is equation 11 and we have the two cases if n equal to 1 the other way for small particles n equal to 1 correct for large particles n equal to half so I try to integrate this equation using substituting this and then you will have both the cases by substituting for n equal to half you will have large particles and vice versa there is another important thing also which I have not mentioned to you there are some books like carberry books carberry carberry is slightly I found a book so there he also takes u variation with dp or dp variation u particularly that is correct when you have you know moving bed reactors and also fluidized bed reactors it is reacting becoming smaller so when it is becoming smaller then the terminal velocity yeah I think is higher and higher because the particle can be easily thrown out so that variation of u with respect to u how the r c is changing the relationship between u and r c that also is taken care of but here we are assuming that u is constant for us and only d is changing the other things are properties rho and mu they will not change right here also diffusivity and all that they will not change only u can be changing and that probably I will give in the examination some other nice trick there and then I will ask you to do that okay yeah good because everything if I tell you know you may not appreciate that okay so now it is only integration that is left now so that means from equation 6 I will simply write from equation 6 minus integral I have 1 by k g plus 1 by k s d r c equal to integral I will take the other thing that is okay b c a g rho b integral d t this is 0 to t correspondingly 0 means capital R at any time t means r c that is what I have to integrate but I cannot integrate this straight forward because this k g is a function of r c so that is why now again minus r 2 r c here I will substitute for k g equation 11 so if I substitute that it becomes 1 by k g not into r c by capital N that is 1 term plus 1 by k s into d r c equal to b c a g rho b into t okay yeah we also have an equation we also have an equation for r c in terms of x b or x b in terms of r c correct no you know that so what is that equation yeah we have r c by capital R equal to 1 minus x b power 1 by 3 yeah this equation I will call it as 12 yeah so now this is 13 so substituting equation 13 in this and then integrating directly you will get in terms of time and then conversions okay so when you do that what you get is substituting equation 13 in 12 okay I will write here using equations 12 and 13 what you get is t equal to this mathematics you have to do r b b k g not c a g 1 minus 1 minus x b to the power of N plus 1 by 3 by N plus 1 plus 1 minus 1 minus x b k s by k g not so this is the equation this is equation number 14 that is the equation I think we will stop here you have to go no yeah we will stop here and then try to discuss this in the tomorrow tomorrow we will try to discuss about this particular equation and k g not you know k g not is based on or initially a time t equal to 0 right yeah so again of course you can also simplify this saying that okay when film alone controlling or reaction alone controlling that we will discuss tomorrow