Welcome to this Omix Visualizer tutorial. This will be a hands-on demonstration of how you can use a Cytoscape app to visualize complex Omix data on networks. If you've never heard of Omix Visualizer before, I recommend that you go watch my brief introduction to the app before continuing with this tutorial. Here, I'll use Omix Visualizer to first import an Omix dataset as a table. As an example, I will use a phosphoproteomic study, which can of course have multiple sites per protein, and happens to also compare three different experimental conditions, which makes it more complicated to visualize. After importing the data, I'll retrieve a network from string and then show the site-specific data on the protein nodes using the so-called donut visualization. In this visualization, each node is shown as usual in Cytoscape, but with donuts around it where each slice represents a different phosphorylation site and the different rings represent comparisons of different conditions, showing the lock-fold change values with a color gradient. Let's get on with it. Welcome to Cytoscape. To use Omix Visualizer, we must first install it by opening the app store, searching for it, selecting Omix Visualizer and clicking the Install button. A short moment after, the Omix Visualizer app will have been installed and we can close the app store again. If we now go to the File menu, we will find a new option that is called Import Omix Visualizer Table from File. Selecting that, we can now choose the file with the phosphoproteomic data and click Import. A preview window will show the data and clicking Import will import it into a data table in Cytoscape. As you can see, the table has many columns, including the uniproduct session numbers of the proteins, the modified residue numbers, that is the phosphorylated residues and two different lock-fold change values representing two different pairwise comparisons of the three conditions. If we click the string icon inside the Omix Visualizer table, we get a dialog allowing us to use string app to easily retrieve a string network. It has already selected human as the default organism and uniprod as the column to use to query with names from. I thus only need to adjust the confidence threshold, which I changed to 0.8 and click Retrieve Network. A short moment after, I get the string network. Since this is a rather big network, I need to go to the View menu and turn on Always Show Graphics Details. I adjust the side window of a string and turn off the string colors to make the visualization less confusing later and turn off similarly the show structure images. Having now a simpler view of the string network, I go and click the Donut button in Omix Visualizer, select a data set that I want to visualize, select the other column I want to visualize, select a column called AA Positions that I want to use as labels on my visualization, go to the next page in the dialog. Here, I adjust the color scale for the color gradient to go from minus 5 to plus 5 on the lock-fold change scale and when I click Draw, it will draw the Omix Visualizer Donut visualizations onto the nodes in the string network. The network is a bit dense, so to improve the layout, I use the Wi-Files option to reduce overlaps and further use the Layout Tools to scale up the network by a factor of 2 to spread out the nodes. If we zoom in on a part of the network, you can now see how for each protein I have a node with two different circles around it with different segments representing different phosphorylation sites, all of which have been colored according to the data from the Phosphor Projomics data set and labeled with amino acid residue numbers. That's all I'll be showing you today. If you want to learn more about how you can visualize Omix data on networks, I recommend that you go take a look at this presentation next. Thanks for your attention.


I welcome members to the third meeting in 2015 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. As always, I ask everyone to turn off mobile phones, please. Agender item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. It's proposed that we take items 11, 12 and 13 in private. 11 is a consideration of a Scottish Government's response to the committee's report on community empowerment. Scotland Bill at stage 1. Item 12 is further consideration of the Delegated Powers provisions in the Assisted Suicide Scotland Bill. Item 13 is consideration of a draft report on the Air Weapons and Licensing Scotland Bill. Does the committee agree to take this in private, please? Great. Thank you very much. Agender item 2 is the legal writings, counterparts and delivery Scotland Bill. We now turn to the formal stage 2 proceedings of this bill. I welcome the Minister for Business, Economy and Tourism, who is accompanied by Rhea Phillips from the Civil Law Reform Unit and Neil McLeod from the Solicitors Constitutional and Civil Law Division of the Scottish Government. Welcome, colleagues. We have no amendments to deal with, but in terms of standing orders, we are obliged to consider each section of the bill and the long title and agree each formally. Before we do that, I invite any questions members may have or any comment which the Minister may wish to make. Minister, would you? I have no comment. Thank you very much indeed. Do members have any comments to make? No. We will take the sections in order and then the long title. Standing orders do allow us to put a single question when groups of sections are to be considered consecutively. The first question is therefore whether sections 1 to 7 are agreed to. Are we all agreed, please? Agree. Thank you. The second question is that long title be agreed to. Are we all agreed? Agreed. Thank you. That completes stage 2 consideration of the bill. Thank you very much to the Minister and his staff for coming. Thank you also to members of the Scottish Law Commission for coming along to witness this historic day. That is where we have got to. I look forward to stage 3. I look forward to more meetings like this. Thank you very much indeed, Minister. I shall briefly suspend simply to enable us to move out as far as you need to. Thank you. Welcome back. Thank you. Turning now to agenda item 3. This is guidance subject to approval. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the Scottish regulators. Strategic code of practice, SGE 2015, number 10. However, the committee may wish to note that this redrafted code of practice addresses concerns the committee reported in relation to the previous draft, SGE 2014-236, which the committee considered on 25 November. Does the committee agree to note this and report that it is content with the code of practice? Agree. Yes, Kim. Agenda item 4, instruments subject to affirmative procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the Equality Act 2010, specification of public authority, Scotland Order 2015 draft. Is the committee content with this instrument, please? Agenda item 5, instruments subject to negative procedure. The Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Transitional Provision, Scotland Order 2014, SSI 2014-377. Articles 3 and 4 of the order do not implement the Scottish Government's intention to additionally make transitional provision for contracts for land transactions that were entered to on 1 May 2012. Does the committee agree to draw the attention of Parliament to the order on reporting ground I, as the drafting of articles 3 and 4 appears to be defective? Agree. Does the committee agree to note, however, that the Scottish Government has undertaken to correct this by laying an amending instrument, which will come into force on 1 April 2015, the same day as this order? Agree. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the Land and Building Transaction Tax Administration, Scotland Regulations 2014, SSI 2014-375, nor on the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Amendment, Scotland Regulations 2015, SSI 2015-1. Is the committee content with these instruments, please? Agenda item 6, instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the act of sederence. Sheriff Court Adoption Rules Amendment 2015, SSI 2015-5. Is the committee content with that instrument, please? Agenda item 7 is the Budget Scotland number 4 bill. The next item is consideration of that bill, and the bill confers one delegated power set out in section 7 of the bill, which makes provision for budget revision regulations. This power is subject to affirmative procedure. Does the committee agree to report that it is satisfied with the power in section 7 of the bill and that it exercises subject to the affirmative procedure? Agenda item 8, Public Bodies Act consent memorandum. This is consideration of the Public Bodies abolition of advisory committees on pesticides order 2015 draft. The United Kingdom Government order under the UK Public Bodies Act 2012-2011. The consent of the Scottish Parliament is required to make an order under part 1 of the Public Bodies Act 2011, where such an order makes provision, which would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considers and reports on such orders under the same grounds as instruments laid before the Parliament. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on this order. Does the committee agree to report its content with the order, please? Agenda item 9, Serious Crime Bill, which is UK Parliament legislation. Under this item, the committee has invited to consider the powers to make subordinate legislation conferred on the Scottish ministers in this UK bill. The committee may then report to the league committee on these provisions. A briefing paper has been provided that sets out the relevant aspects of the bill and comments on their effects. An amendment to the bill was tabled on 8 January, proposing a new clause 11. That clause would enable Scottish ministers, by regulations, to confer power on sheriff courts to make a telecommunications restriction order. A telecommunications restriction order is an order requiring a communications provider to take the action specified in the order for the purpose of preventing or restricting use of communication devices by persons detained in prisons or young offenders institutions. It suggested that the committee may wish to find the power proposed in new clause 11 to be accepted in principle and to be content that the power is subject to the affirmative procedure. However, the committee may wish to draw the terms of the proposed power to the attention of the league committee in respect to that. One, the power enables Scottish ministers to create offences for the breach of telecommunications restriction orders without specifying the maximum penalty which may be imposed for any offence created. Two, there is an apparent discrepancy between the scope of the power and the stated policy intention in the supplementary LCM. Does the committee agree to report to the league committee accordingly? My colleagues made a call that the Tribunals Act introduced similar provision during the passage of the bill that did not provide for a limit of penalty and responded to the committee's indication that it was uncomfortable that secondary legislation done in this way should have that effect. Similarly, we should invite the Government to consider whether, in fact, there should be a much more substantial explanation of what the plan and or provision to make sure that there is a limit to the penalties. However large that limit might be, rather than it being an unlimited penalty. I would agree with absolutely what Stuart Stevenson has just said. I suppose that the unlimited penalty may reflect what might be the content of a call and the importance of the significance of such calls being made from prison, and that is perhaps why. However, I agree with Stuart Stevenson entirely that we need an explanation, and it may be that there is a reasonable explanation as to why there is no limit on the penalty at the moment. On that basis, does the committee agree to report to the league committee in the terms that I had suggested? I agree. Thank you very much. 10. The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, which is also UK Parliament legislation. This legislation confers powers to make subordinate legislation on Scottish ministers. A briefing paper has been provided, which suggests that the committee could seek a written explanation of matters relating to sections 149 to 151 of the bill and on a proposed new clause. The committee would then consider the response at the next week's meeting with the attention of agreeing a draft report. Clause 149 to 151 and a proposed new clause provide the Treasury and Scottish ministers with powers to make regulations requiring a public sector employee or office holder in receipt of an exit payment, as a result of leaving work or the relevant office, to return the payment or a proportion of it. The supply is where they return to be an employee or contractor of a public sector authority as prescribed in the regulations or a holder of a public sector office, so prescribed. These regulations would have significance. For example, they would prescribe the public sector authorities and office holders in respect of which the regulations would apply, which exit payments would be within the scope of the repayment requirement and which exemptions from the requirements would be available. Does the committee therefore agree to ask the Scottish Government why it has been considered appropriate that the regulations made by Scottish ministers under Clause 149 of the bill should be subject to scrutiny by Parliament by the negative procedure rather than the affirmative procedure? I think that this is quite important because it does appear to be quite wide-ranging powers. Sometimes the sums involved are quite considerable and they also attract quite a lot of media attention often when somebody leaves one post and enters another, so I think it would be good to have an explanation as to why it is the negative procedure rather than the positive. Am I right in thinking that the committee is happy that we seek that explanation? We are, student. Similarly, although the sums of money are probably rather less than the ones that John Mason referred to, we do not appear to have an explanation and I think it would be appropriate if one were given as to why parliamentarians leaving office and returning to office are caught by their proposals, but ministers leaving office and returning to office are not caught. I think that it would be useful for there to be an explanation as to why that distinction is being made.


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The third round of consultations for the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, facilitated by the East African Regional Block, have begun in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, with a plan to discuss reforms that will facilitate this amendment of rebel groups. Kenya's President William Ruto and Burundi's Everest Ndashimi attended the Monday opening session in person while the presidents of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda attended virtually. The leaders reiterated their commitment to support and ensure lasting peace in the DRC. We need this Nairobi 3 to achieve the following objectives. To identify firstly the political process and institutional reforms necessary to create an environment conducive for the disarmament of armed groups at regional, national and provincial level. Secondly, to consolidate support and active participation of communities in the disarmament demobilization, reintegration and community stabilization program and address the political and institutional requirements for reintegration of armed groups into the communities. The recent presurgence of one armed group among many others has received a lot of attention globally and this comes on top of other unresolved security and political challenges. We therefore welcome the region's swift response and the robust mechanisms being established to save lives in eastern DRC and address the dangerous escalations that threaten neighboring countries.


Last class we started off with Philippians So we've done with Galatians and Ephesians and we've started off with Philippians and we looked at the background of Philippians we looked at about the city and We also learned a little bit about about Just one minute So we learned about how the the work of Paul started in Philippi and during his second missionary journey and We also looked at The believer the early the first few believers in were mentioned In the book of Acts as Paul went there and ministered there in Philippi, right we read about Lydia in Acts chapter 16 Lydia who becomes a believer who's a businesswoman who's selling textile if I'm in fabric and and She comes to know the Lord and she and her household they are baptized and from verse 16 onwards we read about the slave girl who was Possessed with a spirit of divination and she's set free. She's delivered and And then Paul and Silas are thrown into prison, right? And then we see that After that Then the jailer and his household they come to know the Lord like sees Their their whole Response and they're the even he sees them and hears them praising God and worshiping God and and and what happens at midnight and After the earthquake, you know, he comes to know the Lord and he and his household are baptized and You know, all that happens in all this happens in Philippi, right? So So we moved on to Philippi chapter 1 and then we we see that Paul is actually remembering the Philippian believers very fondly in his in his episode and We we see that it was You know It was after his problem. I mean it was after his missionary journey and Maybe it was, you know, it was written Maybe 80 60 or 80 61 62 around that time In Paul's life and and it was written From prison, right? He mentions that in the in the epistle itself that his chains are in Christ and he is, you know He's he's in fact encouraging the Philippine believers to be to be strong in the Lord and so on and he's saying that you know The whole God the prisoner, I mean the guards who are there guarding him In fact, they also know why he is why is in prison the reason for his imprisonment and so on, right? So so we see all that Paul mentions all that in chapter 1. Okay, so Just to review a few things in chapter 1 like Paul Talks about the believers and he in Philippi and he says that, you know, he always remembers them fondly, right? He says I thank my God. That's what we seen Verse 3 and he says I thank my God upon every remembrance of you and always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, right and In for their fellowship in the gospel, so the the Philippine believers the Philippi we see is in the region of Macedonia and we see that Paul talking about these believers in in second Corinthians, right? So he mentions that they were not Very I mean, they were not very rich. They were quite poor most of them and yet Out of their poverty they they chose to support the work of the gospel like even at a time when Paul was not You know reaching out to the Corinthian church for his support. He never asked any of them, but the Philippine Believers the believers from Philippi they were supporting and on all the other churches in Macedonia. They were also, you know, they were supporting Paul's ministry and so he talks about the fellowship of the gospel that they shared along with Paul, right? so and he also says, you know, I In verse 7 and it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart in as much as Both in my chains and in the defense and con confirmation of the gospel You all are partakers with me of grace. So he's reiterating that They are partakers of the ministry partakers of the ministry of the gospel, right? Okay, let's Let's just move on to Verse 12 Okay, or maybe from verse 8. Let me just read from verse 8 for God is my witness How greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ and this I pray that your love may abound still more and more in Knowledge and all discernment that you may Things that are excellent that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ Being filled with the fruits of righteousness Which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. So this is something that he he prays over the the believers the church in Philippi and He says that that his prayer is that their love will abound more and more will increase more and more in knowledge and all descent discernment, right? So it's That the the law will increase in knowledge and in discernment that the love for God love for people will increase with the knowledge of God and in all discernment and in the expression of all discernment or in the use of discernment in their lives He prays that that will also increase in their lives Right, so he says with the knowledge and the discernment that you may approve those things that are excellent and That you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ So this is something that he prays he says that that you may approve those things that are excellent you know with the knowledge and with the discernment and and your love abounding more and more that you may approve those things that are Excellent, right? So you use your discernment and you and you approve those things and meaning accept and also Receive and accept and and make a choice Make a choice saying, okay, these things are good and these things are excellent and so it's it could be something do with the Lord or it could be anything to do with their life and The life choices right in knowledge and discernment helping them to make Those things, you know make those choices and approve those things that are excellent. So And then he goes on to say being filled with all With the fruits of righteousness Which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God Okay, and before that in verse 10 he says Second part of verse 10 that you may be sincere and without offense sincere and without offense Till the day of Jesus Christ. So till the Lord comes back Okay, that you may be sincere and without offense meaning that You know that you may be faultless that you may And the word offense that is used then it's like that you may You know not do something leading to sin Or if you you know that you may be faultless And till the day of Christ, so it's not a short-term thing, but Saying, okay, let this be your life Like being sincere and being without offense. Let this let it be part of your life. Let it not be just You know a short-term thing, right or Only on certain days. No, let it be part of your life. Let it be your lifestyle That's what Paul means by that So he prays that over them. Okay, and with the fruits of righteousness that The outworking of the of the very nature of God, which is righteousness or right standing a right doing right, so that you may be filled with it right, and that's his that's his prayer and wish that That they will You know and the word that is used there Filled it in the Greek it means literally means to You know to stuff something in Sometimes you you know you let's say you you take a box or you take a You know a plastic bag or something and then you you just keep stuffing things in it, right? That's the picture Just cramming things in And he's saying, you know, that's what I you know I want to see that the the fruits of righteousness or the works of righteousness in your life That you be filled with it. You know that literally Let it be crammed up. Let it be just stuff, you know, so that is that is what comes out Right, so the fruits of righteousness. So in other words, he's just saying no, let it just overflow this good works or The very Christ likeness and the character of God and everything let it just overflow and let it be let your life overflow with it so saying that you will be filled with the fruits of righteousness and this work of righteousness or the fruits of righteousness is is not something that You know that comes from you It's not something that is manufactured by you or produced by you which these are by the Lord Jesus Right and it is to the praise of God. So God is praised He is glorified when your life Is filled with these fruits or the outworking of Righteousness, right? Okay, so let's let's read from 12 to 17 Right verse 12 onwards. Okay. I'm just a minute. Let me just Share this screen Okay. Okay. So verse 12 to Say maybe 18 But I want you to know brethren that the things which happened to me Have actually turned out for the furtherans of the gospel so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard and to all the rest that my chains are in Christ and Most of the brethren in the Lord having become Confident by my chains are much more bold To speak the word without fear Some indeed speak Christ even from envy and strife and some also from goodwill the former Preach Christ from selfish ambition not sincerely Supposing to add Affliction to my chains But the latter out of love knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel What then only that in every way whether in pretense or in truth Christ is preached and in this I rejoice. Yes, and will Rejoice So an amazing perspective that we see here So Paul says, you know, I want you to know that the things which have happened actually Happened for the good Well, I might be imprisoned when I might be I might have lost my freedom But if you look at the big picture, excuse me Saying if you look at it, it has actually turned out for the furtherans of the gospel okay, and and it says that And it's become clear it has become evident to the palace guards that my chains are in Christ So, you know, they they realize that he is being imprisoned for the sake of the gospel So maybe he had a conversation or they might they might have been curious Okay, why is this person in prison? What crime did he come in and then that was also an opportunity for him to Talk about Talk about Christ. So he's saying, you know, all the things that have happened have actually happened for the furtherans of the Gospel I've actually turned out for the furtherans of the gospel so, you know, and and also what has happened is that So that is one side of the thing that people have come to know even the guards and everyone has come have come to know Why he's been imprisoned and the reason for his imprisonment, but and on the other side Even those who are free even those who are the other believers, they have become bolder So he says that, you know, most of the brethren in the Lord having become confident by my Chains are much more bold to speak the word without fear somehow the Paul being in prison and and Going through this, you know difficulty and being persecuted Somehow that seems to have, you know, Paul being the role model that he is and that seems to have emboldened The church emboldened the other believers. So they are also Very confident and speaking and the word of God and they share the gospel without they are beginning to share the gospel without fear At the same time, you know, not all is Good because there are some believers, you know, he mentions just like how we studied in the Corinthians that some Preach the gospel from envy and strife right, they are envious of others and maybe they is talking about strife or they are quarreling and not getting along and Intense quarrel. So there is strife and some some are preaching for the wrong reasons Even out of envy Maybe they're comparing their their lives with others lives and their ministry with others ministry and You know, the the fruit of their work the effectiveness of their work with others works and and he's saying they preach out of envy and strife, which is sad and From selfish ambition. Okay, so they are the motive for Their ministry and preaching is that they will get something out of it that their name Becomes famous It's a selfish ambition And and not really serving the purpose of of the kingdom of God And also supposing to add affliction to my chains. Okay, so So saying, you know supposing to add to my suffering, you know, when I hear about all these all these things And maybe the they they are comparing themselves with Paul and they are comparing themselves with other believers and preaching out of envy and so you know, there's For Paul it was it was when they maybe, you know, even maligned his name or discredited him and Like we saw in the you know earlier epistles that they were speaking ill of all and so on So trying to discredit his ministry and maybe they were doing that also So saying supposing to add affliction add to my suffering, right? But then this is what he says Was 17 right there are but there are some who are Preaching out of love knowing that I'm appointed for the defense of the gospel So they are preaching with the right reason for the right reasons Excuse me and And and then and Paul says that what then Only that in every way whether in pretense or in truth Christ is preached Excuse me, whether in pretense or in truth Whatever be the intention Whatever be the motivation He's saying I'm happy That Christ is being preached Right The gospel is being shared so So the thing is the truth is Is being spread Right even out of even out of wrong motivation something good is coming out of it Um, and so saying and in this I rejoice Okay, in this I rejoice and and will rejoice So, um, so he's saying I I rejoice in this Right verse verse 18 Whether it's in pretense or whether it's in truth Uh, since I know that the gospel is being preached. I I rejoice in this right so and the word there again rejoice which means to to be to be happy to be Uh, to be cheerful right to and So it's he's he's saying that I'm happy and I'm being cheerful Uh, because of Christ's message or the gospel being Preached okay, I'm rejoicing in this Right Okay, verse 19 For I know Um, let me just move the Yeah For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance Through your prayer and the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ according to my earnest expectation and hope That in nothing I shall be ashamed and But with all boldness as always So now also Christ will be magnified in my body Whether by life or by death For me to live is Christ and to die is gain But if I live on in the flesh This will mean fruit from my labor Yet what I shall choose I cannot tell For I am hard pressed between the two Having a desire To depart and be and be with Christ, which is far better Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you And being confidence confident of this I know that I shall remain and continue with you all For your progress and joy of faith That your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again Okay so Paul verse 19 says that I know this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer So the church has been praying for Paul And it says that you know through your prayer And by the work the ministry of the spirit of God Says the ministry or he says by the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ by the You know ever present Work of the Holy Spirit so I know that this will turn out for my Deliverance okay that I will be delivered From prison I will be set free so that was his faith that was his expectation And also that was that was something he firmly believed in Through the church's prayer and by the work of the spirit that he will be set free He will be delivered from prison According to my earnest expectation And hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed but with all boldness As always so now also Christ will be Magnified in my body whether in life or in whether by life Or by death So that was this thing that I know that you're praying and then You know, I know that God is working and he is pouring out his spirit So I know this will turn out for my deliverance And my expectation is that you know nothing in nothing I'll be I'll be ashamed but with all boldness Um As always that Christ will be magnified In my body that Christ will be magnified meaning that Will Christ will be made big For all our put on display for all to see Whether by life or by death Okay, so that was his earnest expectation And hope His expectation and hope His joyful expectation That this is how it will be that whether by life or by death that Christ will be magnified so And then verse 21 for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Okay, so So for him to live is is christ meaning that That it it'll be according to the will of God and in the purpose of God that Christ will be made manifest Right to for me to live his Christ Right what the Lord Jesus would do in every situation what the Lord Jesus would do to To minister to reach out To deliver to heal For me to live Is Christ Right, it'll be the manifestation of Christ. It'll be the display of Christ each and every day each and every moment You know, it's such a bold and confident and yet a humble declaration right of of the truth of You know of his life because that is what he has seen And that is what was his present because Even in prison that is what was happening that Christ was being glorified that the gospel was being Shared and preached and he had seen people in every situation, right? Just by looking at his ministry at Philippi itself You see that in every situation people have come to know the Lord right, uh, whether it was in prison whether it was, you know, seemingly like a Seemed like a You know a situation which seemed like defeat which seemed like failure right Even in those times even in those moments Christ was being preached Christ was being glorified in times of persecution Christ was being glorified and People were drawn to the Lord just imagine the you know the the jailer right of the prison in Philippi the jailer had his family coming to know the Lord and What what happened it it came out of that prison experience for Paul and Silas Like they were in prison And they chose to praise and worship God. They chose to glorify God in prison Everybody was listening and they knew that something was different and they experienced, you know the supernatural Deliverance Brought out by God and and they saw the exemplary character of these two men If the jailer was about to kill himself and Paul says don't do that, you know, we're all here You know, we've got to run away so Immediately immediately the jailer's response is what must I do? What must I do now? So he was so drawn to Christ through the life of these two men in prison so so Paul says with absolute confidence that For me to live is Christ I know that every moment that I live that every day that I live, you know, Christ will be magnified The gospel will be preached You know through my life, I know for that I know that for sure You know, so it's an amazing declaration and and our prayer should be that Lord let our lives be like that Let my life be like that To be able to say for me to live is Christ right It's an expression of Christ my life and it is an expression of Christ How Christ would express himself day in and day out that is what my life is right, which is Which means that truly the flesh is put to death each and every moment Right the flesh is put to death because the flesh also wants to express Right in strife in anger in pride in arrogance Right the flesh in rebellion The flesh just wants to do that So it means in Paul's life the flesh was really put to death Flesh was crucified each and every moment so that Christ And the life of Christ The love the character the nature of Christ was put on display each and every moment He says for me to live is Christ Okay, verse 21 the second part and to die is gain Okay, so For me to lie live is Christ. Yes. This is what it is Well, the second part of it the other side of it if I were to die Now that would be Again That would be something beneficial right And that let me and that word gain Okay, which means Which means profit Right It's it's it's something that is profitable It is an advantage So for me to live is this but then if I were to die Then it's an advantage Then it's you know Something that is Beneficial to me Why Because he's going to be with the Lord. He's going to be with the savior whom he's been preaching about Talking about whom he's been you know pointing people to He's going to be in the presence of God right so For me to live is Christ and to die That would be gain Right, so not just the physical aspect of death or everything coming to an end or all human suffering and Human struggle coming to an end not that not that you know It's not just that but to be in the presence of Lord and savior to be Seeing him face to face to be in his presence That would be gain Okay Then he goes on the rest of it. He goes on to say something about about his life, you know And he goes on to explain how For him to live is Christ and how that is beneficial Right, okay, so he says in verse 22 But if I live on in the flesh This will mean fruit from my labor Yet what I shall choose I cannot tell Okay, if I live on in the flesh This will mean fruit from my labor that there will be Fruit meaning there will be effectiveness. There will be positive results from my labor Yeah, so several things we we understand that Paul His life is going to be one of working for the gospel Is not going to put up his feet and just relax No matter what right, so it is going to results results, sorry in fruit meaning You know The positive effect of positive result. There will be positive result from his labor so labor which means that You know that the word that is used there talks about business or toil or employment You know some work that is being done hard work that is being done So for Paul, you know ministry Of course, you know, he's talking about the work of ministry which he was engaged in and and that was hard work That was toil that was um, you know something that he was engaged in and saying The things that I do the hard work that I do the labor that I do what I toil in there will be Result out of it. There will be positive result out of it Okay, if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit for my labor yet What I shall choose I cannot tell you know when I Is looking at, you know, both both these options, you know, if the lord were to call him and he for him to die is gain and But if he's going to live it will mean result It will mean it will mean both more lives being saved Through the gospel. It will mean that more lives are being built up Right. So saying, uh, you know, this is going to happen So but then I'm I'm just being pulled in both directions right Whether to be here and you know to be with christ I'm just you know, both these desires are equal. So You know something for us to reflect on right, so the reality of heaven the reality of Being in the presence of god He had experienced that right he had experienced a taste of heaven right The presence of the lord and and what it means and And uh, uh, so for him that was not something boring And sometimes people wonder, you know, what will I do in heaven? I'm just worshiping or singing or Sometimes our mind is not able to comprehend. What do I do that? Well, paul seems to have had a very strong revelation understanding And also the lord that he has preached He has you know, he has prayed to and he walked with every each and every moment and every day You know for him his presence for him His person everything was so so real That he longed to be with the lord And he was actually pulled in both directions And says no yet what I shall choose. I cannot tell Verse 23 4 I'm hard-pressed between the two Having a desire to depart and be with christ, which is far better just far better I you know all this earthly struggle and everything and things of the flesh everything is Not there anymore. So he's saying to depart from all this And to be with the lord is far better. Nevertheless verse 24 to remain In the flesh is more needful for you the need of the moment is that lives Need to be touched lives need to be ministered to people need to be ministered to n edified churches being edified Which was his paul which was his ministry, right? He was doing the very he was taking the gospel to be where to places where it was not heard And where it was hostile Meaning people were not friendly. They were opposed to it Anybody took the gospel to such places as an apostle as a pioneer And he was also building up the Believers right The doctrine and revelation and he was building up the believer in the deeper things of god Right, whether it's the work of the spirit or life in the spirit or Gifts of the spirit or a revelation of the cross and identity and so on so He was getting the believers getting the church To be rooted firmly in the word of god So he was doing that as well, so So he says that nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you the church And being confident or confident of this I know that I shall remain and continue with this with you all for all for your progress and joy of faith So I I know that and I'm confident of this that I will continue to minister I will continue to remain and minister that's me with you all for your progress for your development for your progress and joy of faith That you're rejoicing for me may be more abundant in jesus christ by my Coming to you again. So he was he was expectant He he had faith that he will meet them again that he would be delivered from prison and that he would meet them again Okay, um, so verse 27 says Only Let your conduct Be worthy of the gospel of christ. I think this is something that he Over and over again in In various epistles. He talks about that That he talks about uh, like even in galatians. We saw that now galatians four um Sorry, not galatians efficiency four.  This is great news. This is the best news right, but Your life should reflect it If this is the greatest news if this is the best news possible for the entire humanity Then your life should show it The way you live your life for this savior Like for this lord and savior who gave himself to turn things around in your life to remove sin to remove curse and you know for eternity to be with him and So that you will you know, you will spend eternity, you know, he's changed the destiny. So if if that is the greatest news That you are not lost that you are not hopeless then let your life Be worthy of it Live your life in a manner that is worthy of This savior that's worthy of this great news um, so that Whether I come and see you or am absent I may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind Striving together for the faith of the gospel Okay, so whether I'm there In and I'm present there with you or Whether I'm absent Even if I'm not present physically that I that I may hear this You know a good news that I may hear of your affairs the world how you conduct your lives All right, how you're going about your daily lives and how you're going about Ministry that I may hear of your affairs That you stand fast That that you're standing Strong that you stand fast with one heart and one mind, you know with one spirit Okay, um Let me just uh hear a fair fair that you stand fast, okay So that word there which means to stand firm to persevere and Not fall down To be strong established So you're saying I I just want to hear this It just means un-mobile un-mobile standing firm Um Established so this is what I want to hear Like that in the long run Like that you stand firm Right So let your so when we say, you know, let your conduct be worthy. It's let it be consistent Right, let it be consistent. Let it not be up one day and down the other day Let it not be on one day and then off the other day or let you know Let it be consistent Even if I'm not there with you Even if I'm not there physically in your presence when I'm when I'm absent um, you know when I'm elsewhere That that I will hear Of your affairs that I will hear that you are doing good spiritually That you are strong that you established that you're firm Right with one mind say says one spirit Stand fast in one spirit With one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. Okay, we'll take a break And then we'll come back and continue with that verse Right, we'll take a break right now for 10 minutes


All right, how's this mic doing? Okay big room and As as far as I get started Congratulations to the French on a great new president. That's pretty awesome And how about a big round of applause for the great organizers and volunteers at WordCamp Europe? It really really takes a lot of effort behind the scenes to put something like this together. So as I said As my introduction said I've been a 14-year entrepreneur I've made a lot of mistakes some of them almost fatal, but I've managed to survive this far So we're gonna go through five of those What I call life lessons or the school of hard knocks so you guys familiar with that expression here Apparently I have a master's degree from the school of hard knocks. I had to learn every lesson the hardest way possible so learning is a gift even when it's even when pain is the teacher and Then we'll finish up with two items that I think anybody should do everybody should do and if you do those I guarantee you'll have a little bit of success so my my first hard lesson That I learned as an entrepreneur was about burning the candle at both ends didn't if you guys have Mike Jack, how are you doing? All right, so How many of you guys have side projects? How many of you guys and gals have side projects on your side projects? Some of you might be in the agency space. Some of you might be plug-in authors. Some of you might be theme designers Some of you might work for a company totally outside unrelated to WordPress But in the evenings you're probably working on whatever your passion project is and Since so many people raise their hand There's probably a lot of future billionaires in this room is as they all start to take off Well the hardest lesson I learned here was When we were in a design agency for about six years and then for about the last nine years We've been doing page leave for those first six years The pain work always came first right you had payroll to hit you had Client projects you had to get out the door and As much as we wanted to kind of do something else do do more of a service model or I'm sorry Software as a service model or recurring revenue model It always took a backseat and you never got around to it. So it didn't We were stuck The have any of you felt stuck sometimes in your business We were stuck Working the client side even though what we thought you know what we wanted to go in that direction We could never get to it And so burning the candle both ends is that expression where you're lighting a fire here and you're racing to try to Kind of serve this master and serve this master And we all know how that ends up you end up serving none or you serve them both poorly it wasn't until About 2010 a little bit after page. They'd already launched The Sally and I made the decision to stop contract work. So page. He was a brand We had launched managed WordPress hosting yet. I was still doing some contract work on the side to kind of float the bills and Page they just kind of sat there. It went out to the market just kind of sat there And it wasn't until we made that conscious decision No more client work. No more contract work. We need to go all in and focus over here It wasn't easy at first, but we managed to do it and now nine years later all you people think I might have something worth to say so There's a little tip there extreme focus Cut some of the side projects cut some of the fat make the decision to go and do one thing very well And be the best at it, and I think that's a valuable lesson that anybody With some advice shouldn't have to repeat like I did as I said For about six years. We're an agency Doing design SEO light development work. We started using WordPress at WordPress 1.2 be So we've been using this great CMS for quite a long time Who here in the agency space kind of Thinks they need the newest chair or the newest laptop or the newest tool or They need a nice office so that people would take them seriously Sometimes we surround ourselves with the appearance in the in the facade of being successful When maybe that's not necessary to perform our duties and I Got caught in that track I Thought we had to have a office and a really nice zip code. I thought we had to have You know the latest computers The fanciest chairs well, what happens when The clients check is late What happens when your client on net 60 decides to be net 90? Or what happens when that 90 turns into nothing Well, we had a couple business lines of credit set up. I'm sure you guys are familiar with that is you know They essentially gave us a big credit card against our earnings and said have at it Why they did that to a 26 year old? I have no idea So I proceeded to spend myself into debt. I Had the nice computers. I had the nice this I thought I was being successful When the client checks were slower didn't come on time We drew on that to hit payroll You know at the time that was only maybe 40 50,000 a month in payroll But where did that leave us always behind always catching up So I can see now Debt is a wonderful instrument if used properly Use it in it to fund the appearance of success It didn't work out ten years later as of Was it on three or four days ago? We sat down and have a little celebratory moment and I opened the computer and I logged in I said hey We're gonna make the last payment on this line of credit that we've carried ten years almost So my advice here is don't I Hope that's a pretty apparent Spend within your means on what you really need The must haves not the nice to haves. I think this is probably the hardest lesson. I had to learn in business It's important to attract the right people and the right talent, but it's more important to get the wrong people out Sounds kind of harsh In America, we're mostly a right to work set up so you can it's at will employment We can fire people they can quit and I understand in Europe. There's a little bit more protections for employees but in how this applies is How many no, I won't have you raise your hands. You might rat somebody out But I'm sure some of you work with others on your team that maybe don't pull their weight Or that are maybe drags on company morale Or maybe they're just really pessimistic and always just negative Think about how that affects how you see your job How you go about your day-to-day? Now look at it from an owner's perspective if I got 15 20 employees and One of them is just the sour pus all the time even though maybe they're really performing maybe they're a high performer But they're an a-hole That happens you get people that you just like I couldn't imagine not having this person But gosh, he's so terrible to deal with That's just dead weight We had an employee Nice enough guy. We hired him. He was a little green as a support agent and after two four six weeks It was kind of clear he wasn't progressing on his skills, but more importantly We had to care more about his job than he did As owners it was like our our responsibility to make sure he was doing his work That's a recipe for disaster his team lead was coming like come on. We got to get rid of this guy I'm like, no, no, you know give him one more chance. Give him one more chance Finally we let him go and what do you know it all the metrics that we track and support started improving We had another employee who we felt like we really had to have he was kind of a key employee But frankly, I didn't like him. I didn't trust them. I Would keep him out at arms distance. Oh He was never part of the fold that it was page And sure he did well and you know, we grew several million dollars in revenue while he was with us and a lot of it was him driving that but I didn't like the company. I didn't like what I was doing. This is seven eight years in to page Lee well six six years into page Lee Ten twelve years into my entrepreneur career and I wanted to quit I didn't like what I was doing anymore Because this one individual was just like sucking the soul the life out of what we wanted to do and Again, if I felt like that How do you think the rest of the team felt? More importantly, what was that saying to our customers? If Sally and I if you get to know us, hopefully We espouse a certain set of values on how we should run a company how we should take care of people how we should treat our customers Those values are very important to us if a public-facing employee is not towing that line and is Saying presenting a different message now. It's incongruent with the brand Now we look like fools The the customer saying I've heard these great things about page you but why are you such a douche? And it got so bad that a good friend of mine what Here in this room, maybe if I can't see him He came up to me last night.  Whoa so the the lesson here is obviously You got to stop the cancer before it spreads A bad attitude is not worth any amount of productivity Because the culture of your company is so important. It needs to be protected. It needs to be nurtured And it needs to be viciously defended internally Because without a good work culture What are we doing? Right, nobody wants to just go punch a clock and You know say yes to the man you want to be excited where you work and you want to work with people to get it So as uh managers or Founders make sure you you viciously defend what you've created This one's great There was a time Four or five years ago Maybe some of you remember There was a big kerfluffle in the wordpress community between a prominent theme author And our fearless leader over the gpl And It was a very vocal and very messy time in the community People are choosing sides people were saying things it was it was it was the peak of wp drama And uh, I thought I'd save my two cents I thought I had something valid to say well Put it this way it didn't make me any friends It didn't make me any friends to the point where In hindsight it probably cost us millions of dollars Not directly but indirectly because once you get a reputation as that guy that rabble rouser Puts a target on your back as tony told me last night He's like man, you just you're too abrasive You're you quit being such a rebel You just got a target on your back so This is not a call to be a wet noodle and just lie down It's okay to swim against the current It's okay to fight the good fight. It's okay to have conviction and say what's on your mind But mind your tone right or or mind the venue in which you say it I shouldn't be up here saying negative things about anybody Maybe in private would be a better situation to air my grievance So in any community in any situation What what what have you? It's it's important to play to the audience and For a long time we didn't we thought we knew better. We thought we were the best We thought this we thought that And all around us are competitors Perhaps you know some of them We're out smiling and giving away shirts at word camps And just eating our lunch Because I you know I got this whole self-inflicted Target on my back and it took me a long time and hopefully We're past that but it it took a long time for that kind of stigma per se to wear off so Whatever you do in your business, you know play nice Be strong have conviction, but Certainly play nice. The old proverb is something like You catch more flies with honey We got to move along a little faster here. This is a picture of Chris Wallace at Pressnomics He did a great talk on workaholic being a workaholic This is not a badge of honor. It certainly is not When we were launching pagely I was working the 85 90 hour weeks. I thought that's what you had to do I have to do this. Who else is going to do it? I work and I work I start shrinking because my back hurts so bad I'm not sleeping my guts starting to hurt. I think I'm getting ulcers Problems with my wife because I'm just not available It's not a badge of honor to work to work that much. I have a strong work ethic, which I'm proud of But that work ethic does not mean sacrificing everything else Um You're no good to anybody if you're not at top form parents know this anybody with kids We got two kids of ourselves ourselves and Would you agree we're better parents? when we've slept And when we when we've had a little personal time, maybe you went to the spa or maybe you got to go for a drive We're all better parents when when we're in the right frame of mind Same thing with work. We all work better when When we're feeling good so Yeah, those are the five things that I think I did that sunk us, but surprisingly we're still here You know in 2006 we came up with this idea in 2009. We launched it Now it's a billion-dollar channel Managed WordPress is a billion-dollar channel when you had go daddy blue host Wp engine pantheon page leave VIP that did it did it. There's a billion dollars a year here a little something that Sally and I came up with in phoenix, arizona We also did press nomics. That's a lot of fun global team 900 percent over three years and Our pitch is essentially we help big brands scale wordpress These are the two. This is the first the two things that I think you absolutely should do if you want to succeed in business Obviously iterate iterate and iterate and I'm not talking about your product I think iteration on your product the next killer feature it's passe I think the next killer feature Is your new marketing message is your new positioning statement. That's where you should be iterating It's an arms race You're never going to have as many features or check as many boxes as the next guy And even if you did is that really going to help your business? But what you can do Is tweak your messaging tweak your positioning identify your market more appropriately how this worked all this this first one I went to art school and We'd sit down and the professor would say okay. We're going to do x give me a hundred thumbnails You guys understand what those are? Sit down and draw 100 examples of whatever we're working on That was just a warm-up before we started weeks and weeks of work So your first 20 attempts you're just warming up And you're going to get advice and you're going to get data points and people are going to tell you You should do it like this. You should do it like that That's all just noise What you need to apply is not the advice but apply the learnings So what did you learn by going through this process by iterating you tested this message? Did it work? Did you test this message? Did it work? You go to our website right now or a be testing two new headlines We'll see how they work Most importantly is to seek the blue ocean. Is everybody not familiar with that concept? Right pagely crowded market There's dozens now of hosting companies that do what we do How are we going to succeed? There's hundreds of plugins that do the same thing. There's thousands of themes that are geared towards real estate agents The blue ocean is seeking the empty space To innovate to position to change find the next empty space that's uncrowded And position there for page. We said, okay. Well, if everybody's going to do it for 20 bucks We'll do it at 100 and add some features Okay, if everybody's going to do it at 100 bucks, we're going to do it for 500 and move to amazon Okay, well if everybody's going to do it at this price point We're just going to go right to the top and tackle vip We're just going to expand our enterprise services and we just kept going finding room To fit and and and grow our business and it took a lot of tweaks and iteration and zigs and sags for us to get there So again, don't Don't iterate your product but iterate your Your value proposition What is it that you were really good at? What is it that you do better than nobody else?  Yeah, today's killer feature is the story Your story how you did it how your brand does it better And uh, don't be afraid to ask for help Along the way again this data You shouldn't necessarily apply everything you hear But use the advice ask for help and use the advice to maybe inform your next set of action And then apply the learnings from that and keep going This is the final thing that I attribute All is a perfectly acceptable word here all our success to Sure sally and I you know worked hard in the early days sure. We caught some breaks But all of our success is due to our team you need to invest in the people In your company To such a degree That they could not see themselves Doing anything else And i'm not talking about financially While that is very important when we pay our team exceptionally well way above market There's other things that go into it. It's about creating a space It's about creating a culture. It's about defining a mission That people can get behind It's about standing back And letting other people Get out front and flex their wings Think about if you're an employer Do this exercise Think about a conversation imagine a conversation Between your employee and their friends in private Right there at the dinner table talking to a buddy the buddy's like how's work Your employee answers Imagine that If you don't like that scene You got work to do Because what your employees are saying privately is how they feel and if it's Negative to such a degree You're not getting the productivity. They're not on mission. Your business is not going to succeed to the level that it could As founders you need to be really careful to mind the greed You know i look at the bank account statements coming in i'm like crap i can do xyz But we have to remember No, just reinvest it reinvest it reinvest it and the people reinvest it in the product Because it's not about us and i'm sure everybody's familiar with the golden rule Do one to others as you would wish them to do one to you That's that's how we try to run everything at page league with our customers with our brand with our employees And this is the final thought which i think So many companies get wrong And if you get it right i guarantee you're gonna unlock it's it's like a switch It just goes from red to green It's a switch and you'll be surprised at how quickly Things start to fall in place In a typical corporate structure corporate hierarchy Business organization unit whatever you want to call it You have some people at the top And you might have some people in the middle and you got people on the bottom All the decisions Are made up top But the people down at the bottom are responsible for those decisions And held accountable for their results So what are we saying as an employee you get no stay in the matter, but you get fired if it doesn't work As an employee In that situation You're responsible for executing somebody else's vision And you're fired if it doesn't work out or you don't get your raise if it doesn't work out What we've done at page league is follow a philosophy, which i didn't even know what it was at first One of our recent hires Essentially handed me a book and said whether you know it or not. This is how you run the company So now I have names for these things that we just kind of did inherently But how we organize our company is There is people at the top There's nobody in the middle So there's people at top and just everybody else Those people at the top their only job Is mission planning Defining the mission What is the mission? What are we trying to accomplish? And that's it. I think we need to go into x market I think for us to prosper as a company. We need to do y thing Then it's up to everybody else to figure out the strategy to execute that mission And then we give the authority which in the old way is always at the top We give the authority to everybody to make decisions to act To interpret that mission to change the strategy on the fly As long as it's against our corporate values and our mission goals Everybody from the newest hire to the most senior hire has authority to do whatever it needs to be done to to achieve that Mission so then they're held respond or then they have that realm of responsibility And then they're held accountable So now look at the equation You have a say in what you're responsible for That which then you're accountable for What is what this has done is create a culture where there's no excuses nobody passes the buck Everybody practices what we call extreme ownership You own everything within arms the rate you own the outcome you own the the strategy You own the results There's no well No excuses being made if you can somehow Design your company structure your employees to that degree I think you will find that productivity shoots to the roof. The culture is amazing And there's really like nothing that can stop you everything just clicks into place instead of two people pushing You have a team of 40 or 50 or 60 all marching in step towards the same goal So the key lesson there is obviously investing your team always Let go of control And your ego which was hard for me To allow others to excel So that's it. Sorry if I went over Thank you Too late for questions or no, we are perfect in time You did not run late. Thank you so much that was so inspiring and interesting and You have great knowledge and experience and I'm quite sure there will be a lot of question here in these rooms for you so therefore We have two standing microphones here in front of the room and we have two standing microphones On the upper rows. So I would love to encourage you to use these microphones If you have questions to ask to joshua and please don't feel shy And especially not because you're maybe not an english native english speaker like me as you heard So please if you have questions use the microphones. Thank you kasper. You're the first one go for it Hey joshua kasper from wb media. Thanks. That was a Amazing talk. Thank you very much and the only question I have for you is when you're going to write your book Good one. Kasper was it? Yes, sir. Kasper. Thank you. Uh funny you mentioned that no We sally and I uh if you don't know this we're co-founders and husband and wife So for 14 years we've been entrepreneurs and husband and wife having two battles Rather than just trying to figure out how to be married. We're trying to figure out how to run company together So we've always teased that we're going to write a book called from the bedroom to the boardroom And any other married co-founders out there can submit chapters, right? I want to pre-order that book Yeah, thank you. It's That I can do a whole another talk on working with your spouse. It's it's so great and please do that Good one. Thank you. That's a question up on top. Please go Hi the I'm page I come from cancun and there's a Question that I would like to ask you you were talking about how being a workaholic is not a batch of honor I would like to know how is it that you reform from that? What what is the first step? right His question was how do you reform from workaholicism? You know, what are the 12 steps? I'm gonna have to be honest with you. I kind of cheated We found a little success and I could hire people to do more of the work That I was taking on and then that allowed me to step back That's not always feasible. Obviously if you're still grinding away So then I think it takes additional self-discipline if you're a solopreneur and you're working really hard on something You just have to have the mental wherewithal to stop Analyze your your your process analyze your results and say You know, maybe if I went and slept for a couple days or maybe if I went and took a vacation for a couple days Or maybe if I stopped and went and reconnected with my kids and my wife for a couple days This this problem You know, you'll solve it so much faster. How many of that's common, right? You're working and working and working. You're like fine. I give up. I'm going to bed And then the answer comes to you.  Thank you. Thanks um If there's any more questions, I would love I would like to because you were talking about and investing into your team and that unfortunately, it's necessary sometimes to fire some employees that are not good for Um For the for the whole concept. So what traits are you looking for when you're hiring new members for your team? Okay, so the question is what traits do we look for when we hire the new team member? Pagely is 100% distributed. It's pretty common now in the WordPress space. So we don't have a physical office. Everybody works remote Two employees of mine are here that I just met for the first time here But they've been working for us for seven months several months and I just met them in person now So if that's the context if it's a distributed team Then what do we look for? Most definitely self-discipline The discipline to get the work done without direct supervision But the discipline to know when to take a break Because as you mentioned, we don't want people burning out what we asked for in our hiring process is I ask of you potential employee 125% of your effort for six hours a day that sounds normal in Europe In america that blows people's minds Because you know, we're known as a workaholic culture and you got to stay late But we're like no work-life balance have the discipline to be On point in the time allotted and then have the discipline to know when to just check out Uh what our senior What's his title Director of hosting operations if this guy got hit by a bus we'd have a bad day put it that way We had to take his uh ssh keys away And kick him out the door and say go take a vacation.  No, I think we're done. Oh, here's one. Oh, there is one. Good. Sorry. Please. I have I have two things. Um The first thing is uh, the guy writing this text I was just thinking like everyone in here must be thinking what happens if we challenge that so Uh, this is a challenge for the techs guy So try to try to follow along here. All right. I'm gonna say a bunch of names and then try to write it down all right brandy hillach and in brandy and for subpoena millenia decor a sherry vane to chrisen That's man. That ought to move a tear to our table or a shelf until Come on Ah, sorry I just always be wondering about that the second question is for you because you talked about what you did And the kind of things that you regret doing But we all know that we make some errors that we learn from and we also make some errors that we don't learn from So my question to you is what just the which is the error that you have done in your life That you don't think that you have benefited from Something that you have done that you would rather live without that is a total waste that you would live without Just uh, you're asking what's the hard lesson that Had nothing valuable come out of it Okay Good one God that's a tough one While i'm thinking about that you should have seen the stinky eye. She was giving you She was not happy um I don't know sally you want to help me on this one? What's something I regret? What do I what don't what gets me? I guess Golf Yeah, my golf game is so bad. No, that's not No, I just said You know if sit down over a beer and let's have a chat and I I could probably unload on you I just nothing's coming to mind right now. Sorry Good, so thank you so much. It was an honor to have you here Yes, thank you big applause for joshra's travel. That was amazing


distance with each other. Now I'm not talking about people you live with. I'm talking about people just that second. You don't know them like that. Six feet, right? Second, we may or may not trust the people who do not like what we're doing. We don't care that they don't like it or we're not going to be evil about it. If you do hear or see something, say something fast. I won't very fast. Two people. So I'll pop your first one there. But I have several constituents with me. Some of them have our logos on. Most of the people have purple satin.  Okay? Third, just like Queen said, we got little ones out here. We are not doing the things you saw on TV. We're going to keep in people because at the end of the day, that's all we're really asking for. Peace.


Talwami constructed a table of chord lengths in a circle with a radius of 60. Indian astronomers of the 5th century began considering the half-chord of the half-angle. The earliest documented appearance is in the work of Aryabhata. Aryabhata included the value of 24 of these half-chords in his Aryabhatiya. Aryabhata himself did not describe how he found these values, but the computation of these half-chords is described by Bhaskara in the 12th century. To produce the half-chord length, Bhaskara begins by dividing the circumference of a circle into 12 equal parts, which are known as harases. Horizontal and vertical lines are drawn to form rectangles, and additional lines are drawn to form triangles. Since the length of a chord depends on the diameter of the circle, Bhaskara chose a circle with a radius of 3438. This number might seem to be a little bit arbitrary, so let's take it apart. This number actually comes from the following process. If we let one minute of arc be equal to one linear unit, then the circumference of the circle, well that's 360 degrees times 60 minutes of arc per degree, 21,600. And if our circumference is 21,600, the diameter will be approximately 6,876. So the radius will be half the diameter, 3438. And Bhaskara's general procedure begins with the whole chord of some number of rasas. Half of this gives the half-chord of the half arc. Now it's important to remember that the half-chord of half the arc is actually half the chord of the full arc, and importantly not a chord. Also typically the half is implied, so while we could say the half-chord of half of four rasas, we know that half of four is two. So we would just call this the half-chord of two rasas. So for example let's try to draw that half-chord of two rasas. So remember two rasas are two of the 12 equal arcs. But since we're talking about the half-chord, this amount is actually the half-arc, so the full arc is four rasas, and the half-chord is half the chord of the full arc. Now this half-chord forms one side of a right triangle whose hypotenuse is the radius, so we can find the other side using the right triangle theorem. And note that this actually gives us another half-chord, and if you look at the geometry this is actually the half-chord of the complementary arc. There's one other important quantity here. The arrow of the half-arc is the remaining portion of the radius. But again this is one side of a right triangle whose other side is the half-chord of the half-arc. So we can find the hypotenuse again using the right triangle theorem, which gives us the actual chord of the half-arc, and half of that is the half-chord of the quarter-arc. What this means is that starting with any half-chord we can repeatedly apply the right triangle theorem to get additional half-chords. So Bascara begins with a division of each rasas into two units. Now as our starting point we might recall that the chord of one-sixth of the circumference is equal to the radius. Since the circumference itself is 12 rasas, then one-sixth of the circumference is two rasas, and since each rasas is two units then two rasas is four unit arcs. And so that means the chord of four unit arcs will equal the radius 3438. So we'll mark out that chord of four unit arcs in the central angle. Now from here we can find the half-chord of two unit arcs is 1719. And this gives us a right triangle with hypotenuse 3438, the radius, and one side 1719. And so the other side satisfies x squared plus 1719 squared equals 3438 squared. And we can solve this for x. And the value of Bascara used is 2978, which is actually the value we'd find rounding up. And remember this is actually the half-chord of the complementary arc. So the quarter circle is three rasas divided into two arcs. It's six unit arcs, and so this amount is the half-chord of six minus two four unit arcs. But wait, there's more. The remaining part of the radius is, and this is what we would call the arrow of two unit arcs. And we now have a right triangle with sides 1719 and 460. And so our hypotenuse can be found. And again, if we solve this and round up, we get the value that Bascara used 1780. And the important thing to understand here is this is the full-chord of two unit arcs. So half of this is the half-chord of one unit arc, 890. And again, this is one side of a right triangle with hypotenuse equal to the radius. And so we can find the other side. And this is the half-chord of the complementary arc. And again, since the quarter circle is six unit arcs, the complementary arc is going to be five units. And so now we know the half-chord of five unit arcs. And so we now have the half-chord of one, two, four, and five unit arcs. But what about the half-chord of three unit arcs? To find the half-chord of three unit arcs, we'll need to find the full-chord of six unit arcs. So the chord of six unit arcs, remember, it's two units per rosses. This is three rosses. Well, that's the hypotenuse of a right triangle with two sides equal to the radius. And so the chord length satisfies the right triangle theorem. And we solve. And so using the same division of the circle, the Ascara finds the chord of six unit arcs, is 4,862. And that gives us our half-chord of three unit arcs, 2,431.