Okay, welcome to the morning session. The first talk today will be about non-negative practical and practical and graphic programs. And Sebastian will be here. Hello. So yes, hello everyone. I'm happy to be here. So I will present you some work I've done with Hervé Fournier, Guillaume Malau, and Mon Sous-Termin, who are in Paris. Me, in fact, I'm not in Paris. I'm in the University of Saint-Mont Blanc, still in France, but really smaller cities. So yeah, and I will talk about the relation between algebraic branching program and rank-measure in the non-commutative world, and particularly in the case of non-negative, when we don't allow negations. So just the plan will be to be in contradiction with what is a branching program and what is work by Nissan before, and can we get a characterization also in the case of the Monoton case. So I admit the complicity, so just to say two words. So if you are usually interested by problem, which can be said only by addition to actual multiplication, so in fact, it just means that if you want to compute some polynomials, I put here some polynomials which are quite used to, we're familiar for people who are doing arithmetic complexity, but in fact, there are a lot of other polynomials which are very interesting. And so the question, it is in arithmetic complexity, in general, we want to look at arithmetic model. So we want to say that the basis of our calculus, it's addition, subtraction, multiplication and not operation on bits. And so in fact, in this talk, we will consider this model. So this model is what it's called ABP, arithmetic branching program. So this branching program already exists for Boolean world. So in fact, what it is, it is a directive acyclic graph, which is there I think to understand on the figure. So it means that it's a graph, there is a source, there is a sink, and it's directed acyclic. So you can go only from the source to the sink. And along an edge, you compute some linear form, which is written on the edge. And in fact, the value which will be computed at the edge will be the sum of all the path from S to this gate. And the value of the path will be the product of the linear form. So if you want to say, at the beginning, we compute one. We look at the first linear form saying x1 plus x2, we compute x1 plus x2, here we'll compute 2x2, here we'll get to minus x3. So at this gate, we compute this plus this, which will get x1 minus x2 times x3, and so on like that. We compute all the polynomial, and we have our polynomial at the end. Something we'll use in the following, that's really important, but we'll really use it. It's a fact we'll consider branching program, which are layered. So it means that we can partition all the vertices. And each time we have edge from one layer to the next one. We don't have other edge. And in particular, if it are layered at each time for going to one layer to another layer, you multiply by your linear form, it will compute homogeneous polynomials. And so in this talk, always we'll assume that the ring when we are doing the computation, it's non-commutative. So for our algebraic branching program which really means that we are doing the product this on the left times this, which is the next one times this in this order. Okay. So in fact, non-commutative ABP, it was something which is very well-known because in fact, Nissan already in the 90s found some very good characterization. And in fact, characterization is based on some rank of some matrices. So it's what we call the matrix Mi of P of a polynomial P. This is called the Nissan matrix. In fact, it is just that we take a matrix, we put as index on the columns all the monomials of the degree D minus i. We put as index of the rows all the monomials of degree i. And now what do we put in a cell? In a cell we put, we look at in our polynomial, the monomial which is R which comes from the row of degree i times S which comes from the column of degree D minus i. We look at the coefficient in the polynomial and we put that in the matrix. And in fact, so Nissan proved that in fact we, people noticed after that it was already known is different notation by a fleece already in the 70s that the value of the rank of Mi of P it give exactly the smallest possible width for any ABP which computes this polynomial. Any ABP you look at the width, it can be larger or equal and it can be equal. Equality can be a shield. And in fact, you also notice that we can do that simultaneously for all layers. The first point only talk about one particular layer. But in fact, if we want to compute the smallest ABP, so we want to minimize the sum of all the layers, we can say exactly the sum of all the rank. So it's exactly, we can get this minimal size of layer at each time at the same time. But I told you in addition, in fact, I will be interested in monotone. So whatever we call monotone in general in this model, it means that we don't want to allow subtraction. So in fact, we don't want to allow negation. So at the beginning, we want to start with only non-negative coefficients and we want addition, multiplication, and not subtraction. And so we would like to see what will be ABP monotone because if you want to say like that, we can say the ABP monotone, the easy definition will be that all coefficients which appear in the linear form, they are all non-negative. The result by sign was the characterization of the size of the ABP by the rank. And in fact, it's a good thing because in the rank, there is a very natural definition of non-negative rank, the non-negative rank of a matrix. It will be just as the rank is the minimal sum of rank one matrices we can get, the rank of a matrix, you can say exactly the same that if you look at rank one matrices, it is a minimal sum of rank one matrices we get the polynomial. And you have to be the same. We can look at what will be rank one non-negative matrices, it's just that one of the columns times one row vectors to be rank one where all the coefficients of the columns, all the coefficients of the row are non-negative. And now we want to say the non-negative rank of main is just the minimal number R so that we can write M as a sum of R rank one non-negative matrices. And in fact, already in the same paper, Nissan proves that the characterization of the layer still works completely for the non-negative rank. It means that the rank non-negative rank at one layer exactly corresponds to the minimal size of one width at this layer. But in fact here, it doesn't prove we can get the thing simultaneously for all the layers. So we can say that the minimal size of a monotone ABP computing P, it has to be at least that because each layer has to be at least the rank. So the minimal size will be at least the sum but it lets open the fact that it can get equality or not. So resetting in fact, we know that the, we have a characterization for the minimal size of a branching program. It's exactly the sum of the rank and we just have a lower bound for the monotone ABPs. And so the question is, can we get the equality? And in fact, so we will prove that no is not possible. There are some times when the minimal ABP is strictly larger than the sum of the ranks. So more precisely what we'll show, we'll show that there exists one polynomial of degree 3M and 4N variable. So the sum of the rank will be in 7MN and the size of the minimal monotone ABP to compute this polynomial, it will be 8MN. So we gain an additive thing which is just a number of variable type degree. In additive. So to look at that, maybe the first thing is to really see what was known already in Nissan if this works. And so what was the result for Nissan if this works? So the first thing when we want to say about one layer, so about one layer is quite immediate because if the rank of MI equals R, it just means that MI, we can write it as R columns times R rows. And that if I expand each column with the corresponding rows, it's just a sum, that is really the sum of the rank one, of the column of one and rank one, that is just the definition. Okay, I know that MI, how it was defined, it was defined as a coefficient of UV. So polynomial, it is really the sum for all UV, U of degree I, V of degree D minus I of MI of P, UV. So if I use that, I replace here. I have the sum of R. I put this sum, what is MI of P? MI of P is just, so LA R is the same. And now there are single dependent UV only in V, I can factorize. And now immediately, it means that here, we have the sum of R things. And each time we have a polynomial that depends only on the first part of the polynomial, so we can compute it. All the CGU, here we can compute all the sum of a LGV. And the sum to regroup here is just outside R. And in fact, here, I put the implication, but you can notice that we can reverse all the implication. If you have something like that, we can decompose again. If you have this decomposition, we can come back, find the decompose along these things. And here, so if you have that, it means the rank is R. So we really have a characterization. Okay, what happened, they say in monotone? And in monotone, exactly the same, there is no problem. We start with the monotone rank, so we just know here that the coefficient on the column vector and the row vector are non-negative. So it means the coefficient with the L to the row here are non-negative. Okay, here it means the coefficient CU and LI are non-negative. Exactly what you appear here as the coefficient of the EVP. So we directly have the, the first thing is really directly for the monotone case. Okay, but the second part now, if you want to simultaneously get all the minimal size layer. So if we start from our matrix MI, so we can look at one column. And one column, you can notice that it will be, you can consider, I will always identify the column as the polynomial in the U. Each time you have a coefficient time a monomial in U, plus a coefficient time a new monomial in U. So we can really identify the column of the matrix MI as polynomial in U variables. Okay, one first, second thing to notice is, I say one value matrix MI characterizes the polynomial, but how we can go from MI to MI plus one?  So in fact, if you look at Y2 and Y2, this matrix will be exactly the same as this one. Because here we'll look at the question of U, I, Y2, V, and you're gonna get the same U, Y2, V. So in fact, to go from I, MI, to MI plus one, you just cut it along the first variable and we adjust putting the new first variable is there. It's just reordering the blocks. Okay, now what we know, we know that if the rank of the matrix is R, we can extract the CR columns, which generate all the columns. That is the classic definition of the rank. And so now to construct the IVP, what we do in fact is the idea just want to put the nodes which compute these polynomials. Because if you want to compute these polynomials, in fact, we want to compute it from what we had before. We just need to compute the column of A1, but we have it because it was all columns were generated. So just multiply by Y1, this column, so just multiply by Y2 and this column, we already have it. Because the first thing, generate everything. Why it doesn't work now in Newton? It seems that the proof is quite immediate and there is no problem, would be a problem in Newton. In fact, there is a big problem in Newton. It is the start. I claim that in general, if you have a family of polynomials, the rank, you can achieve the rank by finding the subfamily exactly of this side. And I think that is not true, in fact, at all in Newton's settings. For example, if you look at, you take R3 and you take the hyperplane which are cutting up to the three acts. And now you look at four points, A, B, C, D, like that, mostly in a square position along this plane. In fact, what does it mean that we can be generated by a non-negative linear combination? It means mostly we are in the cone of the other points. So in fact, here we can notice for these four points, if we take A, it's not in the code of B, C, D. If we take B, it's not in the code of A, C, D, and so on. So in fact, with A, B, C, D, if we remove one point, we cannot generate all of them. But in fact, the model rank of A, B, C, D is three because there is a family of size three. You just have to put these three points, S1, S2, S3, they really generate all the four points, A, B, C, D. Or one can start looking at what happens for already in a rank two. In rank two, in fact, it's quite easy because rank one, there's nothing, it means that there is one that is nothing. But in fact, in rank two, it means that you have only two points. We have a family. We know it can be generated by two points. So it means there are two points otherwise in the semax, we generate all of them. The side means that if you take the extremum points in our X, already generate all of our family. So in fact, in rank two, we can always extract a family of size two. We generate non-negatively of the family. And so after I write the formula, but I think it's easier to reconstruct seeing and looking at the M by as the figure as I showed before. Okay, but now we want to prove that it generates not true. In fact, we'll prove that already at rank three, we can get some counter examples. What will be our counter example? In fact, we'll make a polynomial H which will depend on 10 variables. In fact, it will be set with linear. People will know it means that I will start to multiply to use one variable from X1, X2, X3, or X4. After I will use one variable Y1 or Y2. And after all the monomials, they will use variable Z1, Z2, Z3, or Z4. So it will be of degree three with 10 variables. And in fact, here I want to show that the, so in this case, the rank of the matrices, M by matrices of H for the intermediate thing because there are two zero and the XMT, it will be always one. But it will be three. So they are small rank. But the size of the minimal ABP, uncotative momentum ABP, which computes the polynomial will be at least not nine. It will be nine. But that is, so if we did one plus three plus one, it will be eight. So we already gained one in the settings in the degree three and 10 variables. After we'll seek out to amplify this phenomena. I want to say that, okay. So to say that, let's look at these four vectors. They are quite famous in fact. They appear quite regularly in the commutative settings because the property is the simplest family. So that the momentum rank of this family is four. But the rank is three. How that can happen? In fact, I didn't put a link there. If you look at in R4, so it's always a bit harder to look at in R4. And you cut by your plane. So the plane here, we can assume what is it?  And the fact that, yeah, it's a, yeah, so it's not a, I think the plane.  We have two conditions. So in R4, it gives us a plane. And in fact, these four points are exactly the intersection of this plane with axis coordinate, the axis coordinate. That's the corner if you look at the intersection with R non-negative to the four. So in fact, it's the maximal point when you see S1, S2, S3 before is the maximal point we can get. But in fact, this thing, the rank is at most three because you can easily get this one. If you take this two, we have 111, everyone, minus this one, we have minus one, minus two. We have this one already. So the rank is at most three. Okay. So we are looking to matrices. I didn't put a drag, but baby, it should be easier. So in fact, ABCD are rarely, we take the intersection point like that. If you look at this plane, and you look at the values inside the plane. So now I look at the matrix M1. So with four rows like that, and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight columns. Like that. So the first column is A. The second column is B. A plus CD by B2 and C like that. What is this idea of this matrix? It is this idea of this matrix to generate it. I need A. I need to generate A. I need to generate B. I need to generate A plus CD by B2. I need to generate B plus CD by B2. I need to generate C. And I need to generate C plus CD by B2, which is exactly the same thing as A plus B by B2. So the rank, probably, yeah, modern rank would be three. It would be a small modern rank. It's what we want. And look at this matrix, which is already say M2. It's just always the same, I don't have choice. When you fix MI, I say MI plus one is fixed. You just modify the blocks. So you put the blocks there here. Okay, so what we know? We know that ABC non-negatively generate all the points. All the points are in the cones generated by ABC. It's the same here, AC, BC, CD. We can easily notice that you can generate everything. So the rank of this matrix, non-negative rank is three. The non-negative rank of this matrix is three. And now we want to show that we cannot compute in size eight. Okay, let's assume we can compute in size eight. So to compute in size eight, at least in a non-monotone, we have to be in this form, one, three, three, one, so we cannot do other things. So it has to be this form, one, three, three, one. And in fact, so we have computing some polynomial here, some polynomial here, some polynomial of degree one, some polynomial here of degree two. And in fact, the idea we want to show that P1, these three polynomials, they have to generate all the current of M1. And in fact, what happens in the same year, all this current have to generate all the current of M2. And in fact, what happens that P1, it has to be A, P2, it has to be B, and P3, it has to be C. In fact, there are really no other choice, we will say. And the same similar here, we want to say that P1, it has to be AC, P2, it has to be BC, and P3, it has to be CD. And in fact, the idea is just simple. That we really need to generate all these points. And we are already in the intersection with the non-negative, in fact, quadrant. So really, to generate A, B, and C, to generate A, we need to put the point A. To generate B, we need the point B. To generate C, we need the point C. We can put nothing here, take nothing here. So the first one is immediate. Now, to generate this, in fact, we need A. We need to be here at the top. Here, we need to be B at the top. We need to be C here, C here. Here, it's a more trust, because what happens there? In fact, yeah, formally, what you can say, but we can look at this vector space, and you can look at where are the zeros. We have to generate all these things. We know we start by AC, BC, we already have it. And we can show that we have to compute C from the top things, we have the A thing like that. And here, so it will fix the relation to compute these columns. And as soon as it will fix the relation, we'll get this relation below. And so we'll get the D, which will be below. And so now, the question is, here, we get one. How we can get to get more? And in fact, just amplifying a thing. What we'll get, we take that if we h with our R polynomial, now we'll take h to the m along the h to the m. So, and we'll sum along different set of monomials. One thing which is good in monotone settings is as we sum in a different set of variables. In fact, what I claim is in the ABP, if we are in the gate, we know in each summand we are. Because in the summand, you can look at variable which are used to compute until this gate. And in fact, variable cannot appear in different summands. Otherwise, we multiply as there will be a pass which use different set of summands and after another summand on the right. And that will not be able, because it will not be able to consolidate the monomials while doing some monomials we don't want at the end. So it's not possible. So already, if you have a sum of different set of monomials, we know that in our ABP, we already have the layers for the different levels of the sums. And now, as it's a non-commutative, in fact, the h to the m, we choose that we look at the partial part because we have to compute in the order, the first instance of h, the second instance of h, and so on. So in fact, we'll gain one m times on each sum and n for all the elements of the sum. This way, we'll get something in m times n. And now, to finish, it's just that when you do the proof here, it was easier to do the proof like that in the time. But in fact, we do it for the version which are a bit harder. We can model such that in general in non-commutative, there are a model which is really already interesting is the fact that we just don't want to allow cancellation. What we do is that I want that monomials which appear somewhere in the polynomial have some monomials of the target polynomial at the end. But I allow now to use negation, to use the non-negative numbers. And in fact, even in setting, we can get the best of the two things. In the sense that we know that there is a polynomial such that the weakly-monotone ABP is large. So even if we allow more power of the ABP, it's still large. And here, for the lower bound, we still use, in fact, the same polynomial, the monotone rank and with the strong definition of the rank. So do you like to separate from monotone and give it an approximation? And is it possible that it's a constant factor of approximation of the weakly-monotone? Yeah, I thought recently. And in fact, I don't know. And this is a good question.  In fact, you don't think about that when we do this work. And exponential separation between non-negative rank and rank. Yeah, I won't expect. I expect that we can approximate in some things. But in fact, it's not even clear how we can do it. Yes? Yeah, who sees the same ideas? It's what can we... I don't know, in fact. The separation, we can upper bound the separation between the monotone rank and the rank. But say anything less than trivial, but probably there is something. In fact, I don't know why. We don't think about that when you do the work. And at some point recently, I was talking to some people. They say, why, that isn't... Even what is this above only? I don't know. At which part? Yeah. At which part it's already not bad, completely. In fact, we're really focused on the characterization thing. We're really focused on the fact that it was not the characterization. And yeah, we didn't look at it exactly what is the error we're going to get. So I had one. So often, this non-negative rank is used to capture things like extension complexity and stuff like that. Yeah. Are there suitable analogs of that?  What does summation not negative rank capture instead, if not for MVP complexity? Ah, some of non-negative ranks. Because in fact, you don't know how yet to... For me, the main role, I don't know exactly direct relation between, for example, extension complexity and complexity like that. The main thing in general, they go by the proof to get lower bounds are quite similar. In fact, it's looking some matrices and mostly the other ideas often to get the rank, to get a upper bound of the rank is just to say that the matrix cannot get a lot of big rectangles. And so there will be a lot of zeros, and the wrong cannot be too large, which should be the same, in fact, already in combination complexity and so in extension complexity. So the relation, in general, more related in the fact that the tools for the proof are quite similar, but I don't know after the proof exactly how to relate both things. Thank you.


A lot of people that are looking for a fun winter vacation are considering Jackson Hole. And today we are going to talk about the activities that are available in Jackson Hole. Most of us want to do things that our families will remember, bond over, really have a great time that'll be talking about it for years and years. That's what we all want. So let's look at some of the activities in Jackson Hole that are top rated. We're going to look at the top 10 rated activities. Now it is the winter of 2020 and 2021. And there are certainly federal regulations, state regulations, county regulations that are going to change moment by moment because of the panic of 2020, the COVID-19 situation. And please do stay tuned to those government agencies to see what they will allow the following 10 businesses to do. The businesses want to serve you.  Number one on the list in Jackson Hole has to be skiing. One of the greatest ski resorts in the world is the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village. Teton Village is the little community that is about 10, 15 minutes drive from downtown Jackson. And it's not a real city. It's just a little community, which is perfect. There are a number of hotels there from mid-range to high end. And that's where the ski resort is located. And there are two other ski resorts as well. There's Targi, which is about a half an hour, 45 minute drive, if you're coming from Wilson, Wyoming, which is between Teton Village and Jackson. And when I say Jackson, I mean the town of Jackson. By the way, Jackson Hole is a long valley, about 50 miles long and about 10 miles wide. And then the town that is within Jackson Hole is Jackson. That's the county seat. And so when you hear people speaking about Jackson or Jackson Hole, that's the difference.  Jackson is the actual town in it. So from Jackson, you're looking at half an hour to 45 minutes to get to Targi Ski Hill. The third ski hill is Snow King Resort. And that is right in downtown Jackson. It's on Snow King Mountain, the south side of Jackson. Make sure you ski while you're in town. That's probably why you're thinking of coming, right? So the second activity, second rated activity in the town of Jackson and in the whole of Jackson Hole is the Jackson Hole shooting experience, which is a target shooting experience. And this is perfect for people with no experience or lots of experience. They provide all the guns and the hearing protection. And they just, they handle everything. You just show up and have a great time. And that is the number two rated activity on our list. They're number one rated on TripAdvisor. Third on our list is snowmobiling. Gotta do the snowmobiling while you're in Jackson. It is so much fun to get on these powerful machines and you're out there.  And you're flying through the snow and it's just, it's such a rush. Gotta try that while you're in town. Next on our list, number four is dog sledding. These dogs are incredible.  I did a rod, other races.  They know dog sledding. This is so much fun to get close, meet the dogs, have fun, watching them work. They love their work. Something you definitely got to do while you're in town. Sleigh rides, depending on availability. And do check before you build this into your vacation.  These horses take you out on a, on a sleigh. And I mean, how many places can you do this? This is, this is just a fun activity. If you can make that happen, check with your concierge or, or just check your, your favorite search engine go or whatever and find out what's available for sleigh rides in Jackson.  Have you seen these?  You can grant them on your own. All kinds of wonderful opportunities for fat bikes. Number seven on our list is tubing, tubing down snow king mountain. They have these fun inner tubes.  It's a lot of fun. It's a popular evening activity as well. Check with their schedule. See it's going to be changing week by week because of the craziness of this season, this year actually. So make sure you stay, stay up to date on what they're offering week by week. Next on our list is cross country skiing. Number eight on our list and cross country skiing is, it's tough. It takes some real stamina. This is how you work off all those vacation calories. Make sure you go cross country skiing. We've got the perfect snow and Jackson, these beautifully groomed trails. Definitely got to go cross country skiing. Be ready to be a little bit tired when you're finished with it. Number nine on our list, that's kind of unique. You don't get this just everywhere or is stargazing. They provide all the telescopes and the brilliant guides that can tell you all about what's going on up in the sky, the constellations and the stars. What a fun thing to do with your family. And then 10th on our list, but yeah, I, they shouldn't really be 10. I should probably move them up. I should probably move everything up to be in the top three because there's so much fun in Jackson. Are the wildlife safaris going out and getting to see the elk and the deer and the bald eagles and maybe a bear or something like that? It's just, it's a ton of fun that guides in Jackson Hole. Everybody wants to work in Jackson Hole. So it ends up being that the best guides in the country are in Jackson Hole. These are naturalists that really know their stuff. So you're getting just top shelf guides. Make sure you take a wildlife safari while you're here in town. Well, hopefully our list of the top 10 winter activities has stimulated your imagination and is getting you excited to come out and have fun in Jackson Hole with your family. We look forward to seeing you here in our beautiful valley.


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Good morning everybody, or good afternoon or good evening depending on when you're watching this. My name is Andrea Cherowski and I am a restorative dental hygienist. I've been a dental professional now for about 19 years, so I've been doing this since I was 19 years old. Well, time sure goes by fast. And in this video, I want to talk to you guys about permanent retainers versus retainers that you take in and out, more specifically talking about teenagers or it doesn't have to be teenagers. It could be adults after they get braces removed, okay? So this is what I posted in my recent blog article talking about why I highly recommend permanent retainers. And I'm very passionate about this topic because parents, I feel, just aren't made aware of the differences between a permanent retainer and a removable one. My stepson is now going through braces now and my stepdaughter, she went through braces a couple years ago.   They basically give you the price like, okay, it's going to be $6,000. This is what we're going to do. They go step by step, but you're initially shell shocked at the price. They're going through everything. And keep in mind, you guys, I'm a dental professional, so everything they were saying made sense to me. I can't even imagine what it's like for parents who aren't dental professionals. They're shell shocked with the price and then you have to make a decision such as, do you want your child to have the removable retainer or the permanent one? A, you probably don't know what they're talking about when we say removable or permanent or retainer.  And then you're thinking, I don't know, I'm not the dentist, I'm not the dental assistant. What do you recommend? So let me give you all of the facts, all of the bases of what you need to know to make that decision. And then I'm going to explain why I wanted my step son to get the permanent retainer. My stepdaughter had the removable one and as any teenager, you guys, they might be all gung-ho and say they're going to do whatever they can, but with the removable retainer, basically what I mentioned in the blog article is retainers are held in place after braces so the teeth don't shift. The teeth will move back after the braces are removed because they're still getting used to being in their new position. The purpose of braces in the first place, right, was to put the teeth in a perfect position, if you will, the most ideal position for straight teeth because their teeth weren't straight before. So two years or three years of braces slowly moves the teeth where they need to go. If a retainer is not worn, the teeth will shift back. How they were before, like not all over the place, you know, crowded, but they will shift. They won't be that perfectly straight, class one occlusion, all of that. And this is what happened to my stepdaughter. So she had a removable retainer that she was supposed to wear every single night, but every night it just simply wasn't worn. Maybe every once in a while, maybe one night a week, but then what happens is even after one week, a tooth will shift a little bit. It could turn around a bit. It could shift this way. It could shift that way. But one tooth at least will shift. And then another tooth will shift. The bone hasn't been taught yet to keep those teeth in the same position. It takes time, which is why a retainer must be worn. And once the teeth shift, they don't just shift back. Even if they say, uh-oh, my teeth are shifting. Okay, mom and dad, you're telling me to wear the retainer I'm going to now. Guess what? It's not going to fit. So they're going to try to put the retainer in either the top or bottom or both, depending on what your orthodontist has for you. And it won't fit in because the retainer was made for those perfectly straight teeth, right? So you need to get a new retainer made for the teeth that have shifted and then hope they're going to shift back eventually a little bit, but it's not just one retainer that has to be remade. It's going to be several to move those shifted teeth back into position. I could go on about this forever. But that's not what this video is about. It's about permanent and removable retainer. So you see what a mess that is.  It's true. I'm sorry. That's the reality of the situation. If they go camping and they don't have it for three days because they forgot it at home, guess what? Their teeth are going to shift and they will not just shift back. There's a series of new retainers that will have to be made or braces need to be put on again. And I don't know any teenager who would be okay with getting braces again, let alone the parents who are paying the bill for braces again. So a permanent retainer, my stepson will be going with a permanent retainer because what it is, and I have pictures in my blog article too, so have a look at that.  A permanent retainer is permanently cemented in on the inside of the bottom teeth and the inside of the top teeth. And what that does is it keeps those teeth in position. It's not the entire inside the front and back teeth. It's not the entire inside because it's those front teeth that you're concerned with shifting the most. Those are the teeth that tend to shift quite quickly. But if there's a permanent retainer placed cemented on the inside of those teeth, the teeth will not shift. You might be wondering, oh, that's not going to look very good.  You can't see it. Can you see the inside of my teeth? No. I don't have a permanent retainer because I've never had braces, but nobody can see it. So don't worry. They will feel the difference with their tongue, but guess what? Everybody gets used to it. And it's permanent. You don't have to worry about taking it in and out. You don't have to worry about anything. It just stays there and those teeth will not move. It's very easy to clean. There is something permanent there. So you do have to make sure to clean it properly, but just as you would your own teeth. You are going to brush every day twice a day front and back everywhere. You I do highly suggest getting what's called a water flosser because it does. It's a high stream pressure water that can clean those retainers very, very well. Using a string floss there is hard to do because there's now a retainer there. So you can't quite go in between the teeth because there's a retainer in the way, but a water flosser is amazing, much easier to use than floss anyway. So this is why I recommend a permanent retainer. It doesn't cost any more in most cases.  So that $6,000 or however much you're spending won't be wasted because the teeth will not shift. There's a permanent retainer there. Your teenager or adult doesn't have to worry about it. They don't have to worry about taking things in and out. They don't have to worry about losing their retainer, forgetting it while camping. It's permanent so it stays there. It's there. It's done. Nobody has to worry about it again. So that's the pro. There are literally no cons.  Like you do have to be diligent about it anyway, but you're going to be brushing and everything anyway. So you're not being any more diligent. You just have to keep it clean. I'm a dental hygienist so when I see clients with the permanent retainer top and bottom, I do have to spend a little bit more time cleaning it for them because it's easy for me to see. It's a bit harder for you guys to see because it's inside the mouth. You have to angle your toothbrush a certain way, but isn't that better than getting a removable retainer, having to clean your removable retainer, having to remember to keep it in the mouth where at every single night it's not the most attractive thing. If you care about that and somebody else is sleeping beside you, you don't have to worry about forgetting it, nothing. So I highly recommend permanent retainers. If you guys have any questions though, please let me know. Like I said, I have seen my fair share of them. Patients are fine with them. I'm a dental hygienist. I see patients all the time with permanent retainers. What I end up hearing about are those people that have the removable ones and them saying, I didn't know a permanent retainer was an option. Parents say to me, I didn't know a permanent retainer was an option. I was never asked about it, or they had said, which one do you prefer, a permanent one or a removable one? I didn't know which one to say. Obviously, removable sounds better because it's not permanent. And I don't know. I just didn't know any better. So with this video, my hope is you guys have, you know what's happening. You can make an educated decision on your teeth or your teenager's teeth. And if you have any questions, let me know. As I said before, my stepson will be getting the permanent one. He's starting his braces actually in about two weeks. So I did have a say on that. So people often ask me, what would you do if it was your own child? Well, that's what I would do. I would get a permanent retainer 110%. So comment below, you guys, if any questions. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you guys in the next one.


This is the month before the Teja, and it's one of the four sacred months. There are a few things historically that are important as a month for us to just keep recollection. In this month, we have the Aswab Khanna, a battle where the Sahab-e-Gham built a trench around the Prophet S.A.W. and the Munawwa. We have, in this month also, the Treaty of Hidayah, where the Prophet S.A.W. entered into a peace agreement. It was also the day of Rehwan. In this month also, in the seventh day, Urawa was performed by our Prophet S.A.W. And in this month, Hidayah's Nathan come in upon the Umrah, where we have to do this at least once in our lives. We are equal. There are many other historical components to this month, from another important component of this month, in the twenty-ninety-three, that we've identified that it was a martyrdom, as the Treaty of Hidayah, or in the Great, that would be out of Saudi Arabia, which was also the ruler of Saudi Arabia. So, we're going to go through a little bit of advice. This is an advice for myself, from the first coming of Muhammad al-Assad, and then also from the Mata'a, that's so difficult.  There's nothing more important for you to invest your time in than making sure your heart is safe. So, he says, the obligation of the heart after your faith, after protecting your iman, and after tawbah, making astaghfah, is fine. He said, number one, being sincere in your actions for the sake of Allah, say, Haim al-Mu'ta'a, having Islam. One of the things we do before most of our actions is just to make sure that we're doing them for the sake of Allah, to start all of your actions with this and that. One of the most often recited surahs and of our ummah is qudhu'Allah, qudhu'Allah, and these are the ways in which it matters. The second thing he says is, entertaining a good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala during situations that vex your understanding. Things that you don't comprehend, things that you simply cannot understand, having a good opinion of Allah, even in those difficult circumstances. The third is stressing in his promise. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us certain promises. I remember one day, sitting with Iman Zaid, and he recorded one of the promises I said, insha'Allah, he said, no, this is not something where you say, insha'Allah, this is something that's a promise directly from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the haqq that he has given to us. Fourth, he says, hafqah. Fear the punishment of Allah. And last, he says, and hope for the grace of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we're going to take each one of these. First, he says, say this mention, which is describing as the affirmation of his exclusive right, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to be worshipped. If you don't have anything else, there's no illa Allah. There's no except Allah. It's just la ilaha illa Allah. There's one Muslim Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in your worship, in your commitment to him, subhanahu wa ta'ala. There's nobody else. And then he says, the second part is repentance, his rubia, an affirmation of his lordship. He has power over all of his creation, in the la ilaha illa Allah. And it has not reduced one iota by any material creation. Anything that he does will not reduce any kudrat that he has. And amongst his most exclusive power is the ability to forgive. The ability to forgive our sins and obliterate any of your chasings or effects upon our forgive all of our sins and all of our faults and make us amongst those who are inside. There's actually a beautiful story that is told about a king in South Africa. If anyone knows about kings old, they had a deep love of birds. And as we know, the king of the birds, you know what they call them, Shambas, is like the eagles, the falcons. They fly high in the sky and they're not the same as the birds that fly low to the ground. They're two completely different classes. But the mother, the king and his falcon, he always would take care of them, allowed them to ascend his wings. He feared when their falcon is supposed to be fed, so specifically meat to hunt them. One day, the falcon lost its way just to sight it to revolt against the king. And it flew away from its master. And it flew to an old woman who ran away. She really found that this is a beautiful bird. She said that it's not been kept well. The first thing she did was slip it to its wings. The second thing that she did cut its talons. And instead of feeding it meat, according to her style, she started feeding it strong. And she said to this bird, it's unfortunate that your previous master did not treat you well.  The queen, in his goodness, looked for the falcon. He looked toward him many places in the kingdom. Finally he came to his woman's hand and when he saw it, he went. And he said to the bird, this is your order to use. How could you have flown away from paradise for a situation like this where you're receiving analysis of hell? He said, don't you know the incompetence of the fire and the paradise of nothing? And the bird's response to the pain specifically to God on his head is something to say and to sin. An antipentant. An antipentant. So he says, if you don't put our faith and our repentance in a lost time, you don't put all these things in his rightful place. We literally will do it. We will be bound. Our talons will be bound to the earth. And we won't realize our full potential to fly higher in the sky. He says that the next component is to be sincere in your dreams with Allah SWT.  Even the ta'ala says in relation to this, there's not even a mistake that counts. It's the response. If a person makes an error, it's to be in your ta'ala. If a person turns away from Allah SWT and his religious response is to turn back to Allah SWT. And one of the most beneficial ways of doing this is to set a well in the ta'ala. Habib was just here. He said specifically there will be a person crossing the sidaab and he'll stumble. He'll lose his balance and then his sadawad upon the Prophet's As-Salaam from this realm will come and act as a breeze and regain his balance of the day with Allah SWT. And he continues. He says that have a good in the name of Allah SWT. On the authority of the Qur'an we will not be seen or raised by the Imam of the Fahri. We will not be seen or raised by the Imam of the Fahri. We will not be seen or raised by the Imam of the Fahri. He says, I am as my servant thinks me to be. And he continues. Expect it from Allah SWT. Think of him as generous and gracious. He will be generous and gracious with you. He said that if you have this opinion of him being generous and gracious you will watch his grace and his generosity manifest in every aspect of your life. But you have to have this opinion of you. Imam Shafani continues. He says this specific hadeeb is an encouragement from Allah SWT not to his servant. He will treat them based upon your opinion of him. There are some people that have a bad opinion of that. They will never forgive you. They will never do this. They will never do that. This is not the way of the people of greatness. They have a tremendous, tremendous expectation from Allah SWT. Their hope is high. When they are making du'a for generosity it's not just for the lowest level. They are asking to be reunited with the Messenger of God to the Allah SWT. They are asking to be amongst the Sahaba of Karam and the afterlife. The people of greatness in this journey have been on this fire just to see cleanliness. They aspire for greatness even in the dunya. So what's our aspiration for al-Quran? He says so the one who has an excellent opinion of Allah SWT will find tremendous abundance and blessings for you. The ni'mal will come, just expect it. And he said he will send out upon him beauty and grace and showering with amazing manifestations and generosity and he will give to you unprecedented gifts in his days. He says and then put to the trust of Allah SWT. How do you do this? He says increase your dependency upon him. You know Ahmad and Hanbal he said, I rejoice in the day that I come to my home and open up my cupboards and find them there. Because ultimately what is your dependency? Hustle of Allah. Her name is Allah. He says and Allah will flow to you. Allah will feed you. Allah will nourish you. Allah will provide for you from sources known and unknown. We sit down in a barbershop. People take scissors and put them close to your skin. The barber slips even a little bit. You have a problem. No one has a problem sitting down literally inside of a shop with a human being with a razor sharp tool next to his or her head. What about Allah SWT? We have no problem sitting down in an airplane that has a success rate in the 99% time. But still it can crash. What if we do an airplane and we literally fall asleep? I travel a lot. Some of the best airplanes you can get.  Because what? The pilot is in control. Or you're trusting the machine on autopilot. As a child when you're falling on the swing you call for your mother. It's not shift to do that. But what about trusting Allah when we're falling off the swing in life? To increase our dependence. Very interesting. There's a person by the name of Michael Phillips. He is the founder of a company called MasterCard. He wrote a book called The Seven Laws of Money. The very first rule he has in his seven laws is don't have fear of money. He says do what you have to do with good intention and money will come. This is the person who's doing it. Go out there to the bank and see if I see them. What about our trust in Allah? And next, Imam Muhassab he says and here is punishment. And lastly he says Allah says Allah has hidden three things between these.  He's hidden his reward and good deeds.  Imam Muhassab he says specifically regarding hope and fear the two wings. They come together. If you don't have them together there's an imbalance. He says the two wings by which becomes the ability for the soul to fly. He talks about the falconry this is your enjoyment. He says it will take you to every station every darajah that you need to reach and it becomes the two mounts that you ascend before you get upon your horse to travel to God. And this voice will take you to the after. When you go in home in the presence of your parents there's a reverence that you have.  Hopefully if you burn the carpet it might make your life really difficult. If you break something in the home the mother and the father will overlook. But at the same time there's reverence there's respect. And this is how we have to deal with Allah SWT. He says Allah's punishment Allah SWT he says in the commentary Allah SWT has told us that he has preserved his own body. If you ever go to Egypt if you ever go to Egypt and you go to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo it was endowed and started by the Ottoman Empire in the 1700s preserving everything from the time of Sayyidina Musa from over 5000 years ago. The bodies of the Pharaohs are preserved so people can come and witness them and be reminded of people of old. They are for Ayah and Ayah to Allah. The Pharaoh mentioned the Quran is real. Pharaoh's body is preserved. All the Pharaohs that came before Abraham and his temple if you literally go to the Sacra Gallery in Washington DC they have on display big members cubits, blocks from this house. These things are all real. This is not all storytelling. Allah is speaking about this in the Quran. It's real. It will come to life. If you're thinking about the Khaum-e-Lud go to the Dead Sea you can literally a person has a chance to go to Jordan. They will go and they will see. This is a place where there was punishment. This is all real. His signs are here and we're told to look back at this human body. This is all addressing to us having abilities. We also have examples of hope put in the Prophet's of Allah who had told us to ask for great things to be with the ones that love. And if we make our Prophet's of Allah to be with the ones that love the child will be with him. And he says, the last hope which is what we have. And this will give intensity to the people. The Webster of the Dictionary defines hope as grace. He says it is this is literally the definition of the dictionary. He says it's unmerited given to human beings for their regeneration. Unmerited. You don't even deserve it. Unmerited divine assistance given to human beings for their regeneration. So this is grace. This is of Allah. When you're broken and you have nowhere else to turn the aspirations of Allah are you able to see miracles? Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar strength Tightness Confusion Thank you very much for your time.


From London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 London. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillis. Cover everybody, we're in London. This is the theCUBE wall-to-wall coverage, three days here at HPE Discover 2016. Dave Chopra is here, he's the vice president at Wipro and he's joined by Maya Barat, the vice president of Strategic Alliances at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Good morning. Maya, a lot of people don't know that Wipro and HPE have had, well, I guess HPE before HPE, have had a long partnership, almost two decades. Take us back, describe a little bit about the partnership and how it started and where you've taken it. What are the phases that you've seen in that journey? It's actually a very unique partnership both for HPE and Wipro. I think we are two partners who have grown together as HPE and then as Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It's also, I think, the uniqueness of the partnership is that it's a truly symbiotic partnership over the last 18 years. So there's a lot of give and take between the two organizations. And to me, I think the biggest part about the partnership with Wipro is that we really operate on a set of shared values. When I look at the way Wipro does business, yes, winning is important to Wipro, but it's equally important to them how they win in the marketplace. And that resonates very well with integrity as a HPE value. The other thing to me that's really unique about this partnership and the way it's evolved is really about the trust and respect that we carry for each other between the two organizations. And lastly, just the way we collaborate as one team in front of the customer, I think really sets this apart for a very unique partnership. Dave, can you comment on Wipro's evolution? I think many people would have sort of a legacy impression of Wipro as being an off-shore programming shop. 200,000 people, obviously, you've come a long way since then. How has Wipro evolved from those roots? I think that's a very interesting question. And the answer is very telling in itself. And if you look at the media coverage that Wipro has got in the last at least about one year, after our new CEO has taken over, there is a lot of strategic intent in trying to evolve the company into a more engagement-oriented company, a more digital transformation company than just being an off-shore, centric, rudimentary programming or support company. Not that we are shying away from that business, that remains to be a core of what we do. But just as an example, if you see Chelsea football, and that happens to be one of the cornerstones of the HP and Wipro partnership where we are trying to work together to really change the way fans engage with the football community. And now that's spreading to each and every stadium in the world, right, where the revenue models are just not buying tickets, but it's the whole ecosystem of what comes along with it. That's a reflection of how Wipro is evolving. If you look at the last acquisition we did about a month ago, which is a period, is in the business of cloudification and really taking customers from where they are today and taking them to platforms that help them do their business better. A part of that continues to be offshoring, outsourcing, globalization, as we call it. But a large part of that is really transforming the way those customers serve their end customers. So I would say that's the evolution of Wipro and these probably are two-telling examples, the Perio and the Chelsea Football Club, which should help people here understand how Wipro is transforming itself. Well, Mayor, that begs the question of when would HP bring in a Wipro as opposed to Accenture we just had on theCUBE, or one of your other consulting partnerships? Yeah, so I think the beauty about the Wipro engagement as I was saying, partnership goes back 18 years. We understand what strengths Wipro has. So Wipro is very strong in a couple of industry segments, take it the manufacturing vertical or energy and utilities. We know that Wipro is just cutting edge out there. So when there is a deal going on on the table in any of these segments, we actually make it a point to proactively partner with Wipro very early on. We know that they're the best in the industry in a couple of these segments and that's where the trust and also the relationship of the partnership comes in. What were the sweet spots again, manufacturing utilities? Manufacturing, energy and utilities and the financial services segment. So let's talk about those a little bit. What's happening?  What's happening in those industries? What are you seeing as the big mega trends? If you look at the financial industry, right? And this is not just the major economies of the world which is United States or UK. But if you look at even Latin America, if you look at the broader parts of Europe and now it's bleeding into the Eastern markets, the financial sector is under a pressure that was never before with Brexit happening and now the elections in the United States. If you just look at how the Dow moves, how the NASDAQ moves, how the DAX moves, the variability on those aspects is just mind boggling. Now to support that environment, just think about the infrastructure and the applications that turn at the back. Most of our customers are moving away from branch operations to branchless operations to digital mobility application. And I don't know, last time when I was in a bank trying to submit a check, all of those things are done remotely. It's just very intuitive for a consumer to think about the banking sector, but the amount of infrastructure applications, testing, digital transformation, engagement, GUI setup that happens of and years of planning and execution is a goldmine for partners like Vipro, HP and many, many others in the market space. If you look at the manufacturing world with 3D printing and elimination of, now you have restaurants serving food through robots and I'm sure with Vipro homes we're going to get there soon but the point is that the cost modeling of how the automotive sector or the broader manufacturing sector is set up is transforming itself to again, not only automate how those things are built but also automate the engagement and bring more life to it. So that's the evolution that you see in these sectors and I think it's only possible with cutting edge technology. And then energy obviously changing quite dramatically. Smart planet, smart infrastructure, smart cities. Vipro have in fact was the first one to set up or partner with the government of India in such segments. We have done massive engagements. I don't know if you know there is a gathering of sorts about 10s or 15s of million in India called Kumbh Mela. It happens on a periodic basis I think every four years. And there were losses of life property because it was just uncontrollable footfall. And now with IoT and the smarter engagement last year we won the government award for trying to manage video surveillance and IoT based people management not only to avoid such incidents but if it had happened try to control and narrow down and avoid mass panic attacks. So absolutely, absolutely. Typically in an engagement, who drives the engagement? Does HPE bring in Wipro? Does Wipro bring in HPE? Who tends to be the leader in the... As I said it's a very symbiotic partnership so there are instances where we bring in Wipro into one of our top customers and vice versa there are several instances where Wipro brings in HPE on some of their large leads. So again I said a very symbiotic relationship between the two of us. Dave you were talking about what's going on in India. What are some areas where US companies, European companies should look to India as a leader now as a technology leader? I would say the first and foremost should be in the area of automation. Robotics, manufacturing? I think it is very difficult to box the term automation today. It is all the way from robotics to artificial intelligence to the old school thought of robotic process automation so on and so forth. I think it's going to change the way it has been and it will continue to change the way that we do business. So that's one. And if you really look at the pace at which the outsourcing of the globalization market specifically in infrastructure and applications has been working is a telling story. The second thing would be, and I therefore don't call it an India based phenomena. It's a global phenomena of digital or digitalization not digitization. Where customers, partners and providers like HP or what have you are coming together to form something unique. A Chelsea club is an example. Chelsea football is an example and there are many, many more to that. The third is trying to become more vertically oriented, bring integrated solutions where today the customer will not come and ask for pointed, give me my stuff for less. But it's changed the way I am doing, run the business and change the business and therefore you need a lot more integration of everything that you have under the umbrella of Wipro and NHP to come together and resolve that problem. And last I would say is IP. If you really look at and we at Wipro have figured out a way of remembering it we call it D-I-D-I, which is digital, innovation, IP, domain and automation and intelligence. And if you really look at how these forces are coming together, they are changing the way our customers engage with us and are changing our business model. We don't necessarily have to measure everything by a body of revenue. We can now start to measure ourselves on outcomes and non-linear aspects of growth which are IP-oriented and domain-oriented. All right, Myra, we have to wrap up. Give you the last word. What are the areas that you're going to focus on in the next, say, 12 to 18 months in the partnership? Any levers that you want to churn, things that you want to accelerate and you go to market? Yeah, great question. So just before I go on to the focus areas I just do want to mention that, you know, Wipro is one of those partnerships where we've got excellent props down and bottoms up alignment between the two companies. So our CEOs are completely aligned. The executive sponsor from HPE who is Arun Chandra, the chief operations officer of the Enterprise Group, is extremely aligned with Bala who is the president of their manufacturing and high-tech vertical. And at an execution level, Dave and me are completely aligned. So I think that really augurs well for a world-class partnership. In terms of what I would really like to fast track is just the ability to move faster given the rate at which the world is changing and digital transformation is happening. Just on the way in, Dave and me were talking about how can we just have that ability to move faster than what we're already doing. So I think speed is of essence these days and I really hope that between HPE and Wipro, we are able to move at the pace at which the world is changing. All right, and it's changing fast. Gentlemen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It's great to see you. Thank you. All right, keep it right there, everybody. Paul and I will be back with our next guest. We're live from HPE Discover London, right back. Thank you.


I repeat again, ST has a very positive and encouraging work environment. They encourage us to have different thoughts, ideas and feedback. So people here keep an open mind and are willing to take action to change and drive for improvement. I'm energized knowing that I'm working in a big family where everyone helps each other. So no matter how difficult the task or issue arises, the different relevant departments will chip in to help to come up with a solution. Overall, I will say, job satisfaction and the colleagues surrounding me give me energy at work. A good understanding of the process. If fact bottleneck occurs, I need to understand why. This means I need to have good analysis skills and thinking logically and analytically. As I need to collaborate with different stakeholders, I need to have good communication skills, also be a good team player. My commitment to my job and never give up attitude. I focus on problem solving instead of finding fault with others. As long as we work together, things will get better. I always have the enthusiastic to my job and also have the good adaptability to the change. The first day in ST, I feel excited and also wondering how is the ST organization and what kind of colleagues who I'm going to work with. HR got off a good start by arranging a fair introduction to familiarize me with the workplace and also different buildings. I have that kind of feeling. I have entered to a red organization. So a typical day, I have a daily meeting with capacity team for updates and discussion on the issues and action items. I also monitor and follow up on issues fixed by operations. We have continuous improvement project to try for additional capacity. So our team is a key players in this program. As I used to have a busy schedule, so each day I go through my email to come up with a priority list of actions. A huge multi-link express we fill with cars. The cars is like the different products running in our factory. My job is to regulate the speed and the flow of the cars and the take-home traffic jams or bottlenecks to ensure smooth flow of the traffic. At the same time, maximize the usage of our factory capacity.