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Hello everyone, so now I am going to discuss about lactation nutrition, okay. So in this like a mother who is lactating, her nutrition is as important as breastfeeding, okay, because here she is, she is producing so much milk with our proper techniques of breastfeeding, she is waking up every hour or two, you know, she is using lot of her energy, you know, so we want to make sure that she gets a good amount of nutrient dense food in her diet and, you know, in this tutorial we have shown what is the requirement for protein and energy and, you know, what kind of food that we recommend. Of course, in this we have added some galactogongs.  So just, you know, of course, focus on protein and other nutrients which are required for mothers. Lactation, you know, we have again even in non-veg recipes we have added some galactogongs, some of the galactogongs like moringa powder, you know, methi, those definitely has some effect, you know. But as I said, you know, tell mothers that even if she does not have any galactogog, she will have beautiful baby as long as she focuses on the technique and emptying, complete emptying of breast, okay. So more she empties, more milk she will get, okay. So that is important. Another thing about lactating, lactation nutrition is many times, you know, mothers ask if she can have satawari powder, if she can have that powder or she can have this powder. Normally I do not, kind of, in the beginning I am not too negative about it, you know, because whatever the culture is, I mean that is okay. But what I try to bring that focus on is on latching, okay, latching and complete emptying. So just, you know, you can slowly then once baby starts gaining weight, you can tell them that you can stop satawari or whatever powder and she can just focus on the proper latching and then she have a relaxation, that relaxation is really, really important for the mothers, okay. So that is it. Enjoy our tutorials. Thank you. Welcome to spoken tutorial on vegetarian recipes for lactating mothers. In this tutorial we will learn about importance of nutrition during lactation, preparation of vegetarian recipes such as mixed sprouts chila, garlic flaxseed and sesame chutney, peanut spinach and fenugreek cutlet, pearl millet and amaranth leaves muthia, sprouted fenugreek seeds curry. During lactation a mother requires additional amount of nutrition for milk production to provide enough nutrients for the growing infant and to maintain mother's own health. Essential nutrients required during lactation are protein, vitamins, minerals, omega 3 fatty acids and choline. Additionally sufficient iodine and vitamin D intake is also essential because iodine helps in the making of thyroid hormones and growth and neurological development of infant. Hence it is recommended to include iodized salt daily to prevent iodine deficiency. Similarly vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and calcium absorption. The best way to obtain vitamin D is exposure to sunlight between 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for 15 to 20 minutes. After essential nutrients we will now discuss about mother's diet. It is highly recommended to include different vegetables daily. Vegetables contain essential nutrients that help in building immunity. They are also good sources of antioxidants and they reduce the risk of diseases. Although all types of vegetables should be eaten, over here we will discuss a few only such as capsicum, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower, amaranth, pumpkin, carrot, fenugreek leaves and brinjal. Besides vegetables we will learn about galactogogs. Galactogogs are substances that help in milk production. Mother can get it from diet by including garlic, fenugreek seeds and leaves, fennel seeds, garden crest seeds, drumstick leaves, dill leaves and carom seeds. Other than vegetables and galactogogs mother should drink 2 to 3 litres of water daily. She should have a glass of boiled and cooled water before every feed. After learning all that is important for lactating mother, we will start with the preparation of recipes. The first recipe is mixed sprouts chila. To make this chila we will need 1 cup mixed sprouts of Bengal gram, green gram and moth beans, 3 green chillies, 3 cloves of garlic, half onion, half cup gram flour, 1 tablespoon curd, salt to taste, half teaspoon curry leaves powder, 1 teaspoon garden crest seeds powder, 2 teaspoons of ghee. To prepare garden crest seeds powder roast 1 tablespoon of seeds on low to medium heat till they change colour. Allow the seeds to cool. Now grind them into a powder on a stone grinder or a mixer. To make sprouts soak green gram, Bengal gram and moth beans overnight separately. Drain it in the morning and tie them in a clean muslin cloth. Leave them in a warm place to germinate for 2 days. Please note moth beans may take longer time to germinate compared to green gram and Bengal gram. So plan your recipe accordingly. After the sprouts are ready, make a paste of sprouts, garlic, chillies, curd on a stone grinder or mixer. Now add gram flour and water and mix it well. To this mixture add chopped onion, salt, curry leaves powder and garden crest seeds powder. After all this preparation is done, heat 1 teaspoon ghee in a pan, pour the mixture and spread it. Cook the chila on medium heat until both sides are cooked. The mixed sprout chila is ready. In case the pulses mentioned in this recipe are not available, then you may use black beans, chickpeas, horse gram, soya bean, whole red lentil and kidney beans. Please note duration of sprouting depends upon the type of the pulse and weather conditions. This recipe is rich in protein, fiber, omega 3 fatty acids, folate, magnesium, zinc. The second recipe is garlic, flaxseed and sesame chutney. To prepare it we need 3 tablespoons of flaxseed, 3 tablespoons of sesame seeds, 5 garlic cloves, 4 red chillies, 5 to 6 pieces of soaked tamarind, salt to taste, half teaspoon oil or ghee. First roast sesame and flaxseed separately. Allow the seeds to cool. Next heat half teaspoon oil in a pan and fry garlic and red chilli for 2 minutes. After cooling mix this with the seeds, add tamarind and salt to it. Make a paste on a stone grinder or a mixer by adding water. Chutney is ready. In case, sesame seeds are not available, you can also use one or a combination of the following. Shredded coconut, peanuts, black sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds. This recipe is rich in omega 3 fatty acids, calcium, folate, protein, fiber, zinc. The third recipe which we will learn to make is peanut, spinach and fenugreek cutlet. To prepare the cutlets we need half cup peanut powder, 2 tablespoons gram flour, 2 tablespoons wheat flour, half cup spinach chop, 1 fourth cup fenugreek leaves chop, 1 tablespoon coriander leaves, 1 teaspoon red chilli powder, salt to taste, 1 teaspoon seeds powder, you can use a combination of sesame or flax seeds, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon garlic paste, 4 spoons oil. To make peanut powder, roast half cup peanuts in a pan till they change color and aroma released. Allow them to cool. Then rub them in between your palms to remove the outer covering. Grind them on a stone grinder or a mixer to a fine powder. Now add peanut powder and all the other ingredients in a bowl. Using little water, make a dough out of it. Divide the dough into 4 portions and shape it into cutlets. Heat a tawa, add some oil, cook each cutlet on it till they turn golden brown on both sides. Peanut cutlets are ready. You can eat these cutlets with lemon pickle or gooseberry chutney. The vitamin C present in the lemon will help in the absorption of iron present in the cutlets. This cutlet recipe is rich in protein, iron, folate, good fats and potassium. The fourth recipe is perl millet and amaranth muthia. To prepare this, we need half cup perl millet flour, 1 small onion, half cup amaranth leaves, half teaspoon turmeric powder, salt as per taste, 1 4 teaspoon drumstick leaves powder, 1 teaspoon red chilli powder, half spoon mustard seeds, half spoon cumin seeds, 2 teaspoon sesame seeds, 1 teaspoon oil. In a bowl, take the flour, onion and amaranth leaves. Now add turmeric powder, lemon juice and drumstick leaves powder. Mix them well. Need a dough out of it by adding water little by little. Apply a little oil on your hands and divide dough into small portions. Shape the portions into cylindrical rolls. Steam the rolls in a steamer for 10 to 15 minutes on low to medium heat. Let the rolls cool and then cut them into circular pieces. Now heat 1 teaspoon oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, sesame seeds and cumin seeds. Once they crackle, add the muthia pieces. Saute the pieces till crisp. The perl millet and amaranth leaves muthia is ready. In case perl millet is not available, you can also use sorghum flour or finger millet flour. This recipe is rich in protein, phosphorus, folate, iron, fiber, beta-carotene and potassium. The last recipe we will see is sprouted fenugreek seeds curry. To prepare this, we need 1 cup sprouted fenugreek seeds, 1 medium onion, 1 tomato, salt to taste, 1 teaspoon chilli powder, 1 half teaspoon turmeric powder, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon mustard and cumin, 1 teaspoon oil. To make fenugreek seeds sprouts, soak fenugreek seeds in water overnight. Rrain the water and tie it in a clean muslin cloth. Set aside for 2 or 3 days till they sprout. To make the recipe, in a pan heat some oil, add mustard and cumin seeds and let it splutter. To this, add onion and fry till it changes colour. Now add the tomatoes and cook till they turn soft. Next, add the spices and cook for 2 minutes. To this, add fenugreek sprouts and 2 tablespoons water. Mix well and close and cook for 6 to 8 minutes. Turn off the heat and add lemon juice. The sprouted fenugreek seeds curry is ready. This recipe is rich in protein, fiber, phosphorus, calcium, iron and omega-3 fatty acids. Fenugreek sprouts are excellent galactogogs. All the recipes in this tutorial are rich in nutrients which are required for milk production, growth and development of the baby and keeping the mother healthy. This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Thanks for joining. Welcome to spoken tutorial on non-vegetarian recipes for lactating mothers. In this tutorial, we will learn about importance of nutrition during lactation, preparation of non-vegetarian recipes such as chicken curry with drumsticks, chicken in peanut garlic masala, fish coconut curry, mixed vegetables curry with egg and fish spinach curry. During lactation, a mother requires additional amount of nutrition for milk production to provide enough nutrients for the growing infant and to meet mother's daily needs. Essential nutrients required during lactation are vitamins, minerals, omega-3 fatty acids and choline. Besides nutrients, we will learn about galactogogs. Galactogogs are substances that help in milk production. Mother can get it from diet by including garlic, fenugreek seeds and leaves, fennel seeds, garden crest seeds, drumstick leaves, dill leaves and carom seeds. Please note, nutrition for lactating mothers has been explained in another tutorial of the same series. After understanding the importance of nutrition during lactation, we will begin with the preparation of the recipes. Let's begin with our first recipe which is chicken curry with drumsticks. To make this, we need 100 grams of chicken, 2 pieces of drumstick, 1 sprig curry leaves, 1 teaspoon black pepper seeds, 1 chopped onion, 4 cloves garlic, salt as per taste, half teaspoon turmeric powder, half teaspoon chili powder, 1 green chili, 1 handful coriander leaves, 2 teaspoon oil. In a pan, heat 1 teaspoon oil to this add onions, garlic, pepper and green chili. Saute till they turn golden in colour. Now add curry leaves, coriander leaves and fry for 2 to 3 seconds. Cool them and grind it into a paste by adding a little water. Next, pressure cook or boil drumsticks until cooked. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a pan, add the prepared paste and cook for 2 minutes. To this, add all the spices and chicken. Now add half cup water and mix well. Cover and cook till the chicken becomes tender. To this, add the boiled or pressure cooked drumsticks. Let it cook for 2 to 4 minutes. Chicken curry with drumsticks is ready. The second recipe that we will learn is chicken in peanut garlic masala. To prepare this, we need 100 grams chicken, 2 tablespoons peanuts, 5 cloves garlic, 1 tomato chopped, 1 onion chopped, half teaspoon turmeric, salt to taste, 1 teaspoon red chili powder, 2 teaspoon oil. To prepare peanut garlic paste, roast the peanuts on a pan on medium flame. Stir them continuously to avoid burning. Allow them to cool. Rub roasted peanuts between your palms to remove the outer cover. Now in a pan, heat 1 teaspoon oil and add onion, tomato and garlic. Fry till tomato becomes soft. Allow them to cool. After cooling, mix this with peanuts. Grind it into a paste by adding little water. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a pan. Now add peanut garlic paste and cook for 2 minutes. Next, add the spices and mix well. To this, add chicken and cook for next 2 minutes. Now add a little water. Mix well. Cover the pan and cook till chicken becomes tender. Chicken peanut garlic masala is ready. The third recipe is fish coconut curry. For this, take 100 grams rohu, half cup grated coconut, 4 red chilies, half teaspoon turmeric, salt as per taste, 4 cloves garlic, 1 small lemon size tamarind ball, 1 onion chopped, half teaspoon fenugreek seeds, half teaspoon cumin seeds, 1 teaspoon oil. In case rohu is not available, then you may use any one of these, mackerel, pomfret or bombay duck. Clean the fish, add 2 pinches salt and leave it for 10 minutes. Dry roast red chilies, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds till they change color. Grind the roasted ingredients along with coconut, tamarind and garlic into a paste. In a pan, add 1 teaspoon oil and heat it. Now add onions and fry till onion becomes golden. To this, add the ground paste and cook for 5 to 6 minutes. Add the spices and mix well. To this, add marinated fish and cook for next 10 minutes. The fish coconut curry is ready. The fourth recipe is mixed vegetable boiled egg curry. To make this, we need 2 boiled eggs, 2 florets cauliflower, 1 medium onion, 2 french beans chopped, 1 medium tomato chopped, half small capsicum chopped, 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, 1 teaspoon chilli powder, salt to taste, half spoon turmeric powder, 1 tablespoon poppy seeds, half teaspoon garden cress seeds powder, 1 tablespoon oil. Dry roast sesame and poppy seeds in a pan allow them to cool. Next, add half teaspoon oil in a pan and saute tomatoes. After cooling, grind the tomatoes and seeds in a mixer or stone grinder. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a pan, add onions and fry till they become golden. Now add tomato paste and cook for 5 minutes. Add salt, turmeric, chilli powder and stir well. To this, add some water and vegetables. Cover and cook till the vegetables become soft. Cut the boiled eggs into two halves and add it to the curry. Cook for a minute. Mixed vegetable boiled egg curry is ready. The last recipe that we will see is spinach fish curry. To prepare this, we need 2 pieces salmon, 4 to 5 leaves of spinach, salt to taste, 1 teaspoon chilli powder, half teaspoon turmeric powder, 1 teaspoon flax seed powder, 1 teaspoon ghee or oil, 1 handful coriander leaves, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1 green chilli, 1 teaspoon garam masala powder. Wash the fish pieces, rub some salt and turmeric and keep it aside. Wash spinach thoroughly in water, boil water in a pan and add spinach to it and cook it for 5 minutes. Next strain the water and let it cool. Grind the spinach, coriander and green chilli to a paste. Heat 1 teaspoon ghee or oil in a pan and fry the fish until cooked. Simultaneously, heat 1 teaspoon oil or ghee in another pan. Add the spinach paste and little water and let it cook for 5 minutes. To this, add the spices and mix well. Now add the fried fish pieces and cook till the masala coats the fish. Add garam masala and flax seed powder and cook for 2 minutes. Turn off the stove and add lemon juice. The fish spinach curry is ready. All the above recipes are rich in protein, vitamin B12, good fats, iron, folate, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin D, zinc, magnesium. These nutrients help in growth and development of the baby, milk production in mother and keeping the mother healthy. This brings us to the end of the tutorial. Thanks for joining.


Live from Orlando, Florida, extracting the signal from the noise. It's the Cube covering Pentaho World 2015. Now your host, Dave Vellante and George Gilbert. Welcome back to Pentaho World everybody. This is the Cube. We're here live. Day two Pentaho World. Dr. Ben Miners is here. He's the vice president of innovation at IMS. We're gonna talk about connected cars. Dr. Miners, Ben, great to have you on. That's wonderful to be here. Thanks for the invitation and it's an exciting space to be with. I love the title, you know. What's that all about? Innovation is our future. Companies that, you know, don't invest enough in innovation stagnate. Progress halts and others come in to take their place. So innovation is the way for organizations to succeed long into the future. Innovation is what allows us to define the road ahead, to shape that path and bring all of our partners along with us. So tell us a little bit more about IMS and what you're doing in telematics and insurance business. Lay that out for us. Sure. IMS is an organization we've been around for 15 years now making transportation safer, smarter and greener. It's a broad range of topics there, but we do this in many different ways. Everything from at IMS's origins, looking at intelligent airbag deployment systems, occupant safety, occupant classification, understanding even where the head is in three dimensions within the vehicle. We've leveraged those automotive routes to augment that with direct aftermarket solutions. Solutions that actually look at how the driver is behaving, how those individuals in the car are using their thought processes to control the vehicle. Because ultimately, on all issues on the roads today, it really comes down to a human decision. What human decision was made to influence that car's reaction and the resulting outcome? So what we really focus on now at IMS is driver behavior. What can be done to analyze driver behavior? What can be done to influence driver behavior? And what can be done to make our roads safer, smarter and greener through this wealth of information? We do this in several different ways. We leverage a platform that we've developed called DriveSync. The DriveSync platform is a connected car platform that contains a number of relevant services. Services from usage based insurance, a model that transforms the insurance industry from an industry that traditionally looks at age, sex and location or perhaps credit rating information to an industry that actually uses direct measurements of how the vehicle is being controlled, how the vehicle is being driven to get better insight into the risk level of that individual. Uptake has been amazing in the insurance space. You know, actually being able to understand that yes, you are a good driver. No, it has nothing to do with your age or location. It has to do with how you control your vehicle. It has to do with how much sleep you had the night before so you can be focused on the road ahead. Some of the other services include new driver education or young driver's intelligence. But this is a service on the same platform that enables parents or supervisors to better coach their new drivers, to enable those teen drivers to gain experience effectively, to be able to go from a beginner driver to an experienced driver in an accelerated period of time. I want some of that for my teenagers. So, okay, so how does it work? So how is the data gathered in the vehicle? Is it a dongle that goes in the car and then what happens? Well, the information pulled into the addressing platform comes from a wide range of sources. We support everything from a small self-installed dongle that the driver can reach down underneath their steering wheel and plug in themselves. Right to smartphone-enabled applications that can be a quick, simple download from the app store to be able to collect information about how the vehicle drives without anything in the car at all. We also collect from existing sources, so existing telematics and fleets or existing built-in telematics systems. The real value that we add and that we contribute to this ecosystem is in the platform, in the transformation of that data being collected from the vehicles to drive driver insights and actionable intelligence for the parent, for the insurance organization, for the fleet manager, for the vehicle owner, for everyone. Somebody said in the keynote yesterday that, and I love what you said about sort of trying to infer data from, you know, credit history or age or sex or whatever it is. Those are really lightweight indicators. Somebody a long time ago said, watch, big data is going to kill sampling. This is a version of that. Instead of inferring from, you know, some lightweight indicators, you're going to get the data. Love that. Somebody said in the keynote yesterday that if you are a better driver than the inferences, say so you can get a rate reduction and there's no penalty if you're not a good driver. That part made my brain twist. I said, wait a minute, is that true? Is that true? It's absolutely true. In fact, in almost every usage-based insurance program across the U.S., the insurance organizations have already identified a business case, a return on investment to adopt a program, a program such as a use-efficient-insurance service from IMS through our dressing platform that allows them to realize direct benefits from policyholders. You know, upwards of 30% to 40% reductions in cost on those policyholders. The ability to not only identify which drivers or which policyholders are better drivers, but the fact that now that rich information is coming in, minimizes the chances of large claims coming in because drivers themselves, once they adopt these programs, you're self-selecting into a program that you know you need to continue to be a good driver to get those benefits. Oh, so it's behavior that's changing. Because I think what David was asking is, how could there be a net reduction in premiums if there's no net change in accidents? Why is it not a zero-sum game? What you're saying is... You're modifying the game. The cost, of course, of the entire base improves. There's an obvious next step. It's not clear technically how easy it is, which is, help me make a better decision while I'm driving. What, you know, have you guys thought through that? And what would that look like? You guys got a self... In the innovation lab, you got a self-driving car that's next.  So it's funny you asked that. In fact, we just recently demonstrated risk-based routing algorithms in the Chicago Insurance and Telematic Show back in September. So this actually informs the driver. You're using information about collected risk location information on roads and road networks to allow the driver to not only choose to route based on the fastest path or shortest path of destination, but also route based on minimum risk path. So speed, you have options for speed and risk. Yeah, risk-based routing is something coming on a road map ahead. It is something that makes sense because allowing the driver to make that informed decision empowers you as an individual to take a path to minimize your risk. Would you expect a driver to pay more for that? Of course, an individual makes a conscious decision to drive on a riskier route, may have different insurance implications than a driver that makes a conscious decision to drive on a least risky route.  I'd pay for ways, I think I'd pay for ways, don't I? I'm not sure. Anyway, so this is, again, a fascinating topic. When you think about innovation, you know, in the technology industry, innovation has, you know, for decades marched to the cadence of Moore's law. But innovation increasingly is coming from combining various technologies that's that combinatorial effect that's adding value. I wonder if you could talk about that. What are those combinatorial technologies that you're bringing together that you see that excite you? Well, it's, the whole space is exciting. From an innovation perspective and the ability to combine, you know, multiple aspects from diverse industries, we're seeing a lot of this in the real world today through our services. I talked briefly about the insurance space, about the young driver space. Well, there's also this whole other industry, the ability to collect revenue on roads. You know, some people consider it a different space, you know, fuels tax, paying gas tax to the pump. It made sense decades ago, almost a century ago, it made sense because every car consumed about the same amount of gas, the amount of gas tax that you're paying is proportional to the amount of damage you're doing on the road. So what we've done to help transform that industry is adopt a similar model, leveraging the same driving platform with a usage-based service to enable drivers to pay a usage fee based on the road. To enable a driver to pay proportional to the amount of damage they're doing to the road, you know, a fair and equitable amount, instead of paying a gas tax. It's a program we've launched in the state of Oregon now and it's quickly gaining adoption across the U.S. because unfortunately, revenues to replace and repair roads are nor near what's needed to actually repair them. So it's a different industry, it's pulled into the same platform. What's interesting is the fact that we can pull all this information together, it's all drawn in the same vehicle and driver behavior information to deliver multiple services. Beyond that, there's also home and health and lifestyle. You know, it's one step to look at how the vehicle is being driven, how that individual is making conscious decisions to drive more effectively or safer. But now imagine being able to understand the health of the individual while in the car or the individual state of mind before getting into that car. Imagine being able to have your vehicle remind you or recommend that maybe you should take Uber today because you only had two hours of sleep the night before. Or your blood sugar level isn't where it needs to be. We really recommend that, you know, you take a cab or get another route to work because now it's not the time to get behind the wheel. So there are some interesting techniques and a whole realm of data and data insights that are coming with this convergence of automotive, telematics, IoT, health, and home. So you talked a lot a couple of times about transformation. I want to ask a kind of an academic question but you've had a lot of years of schooling so you may be okay with it. I saw a chart the other day on the vertical axis that had degree of disruption, not transformation but disruption and the horizontal axis was time and it had mainframes and minis and PCs and obviously very disruptive personal computers and then internet, highly disruptive. And then it had IoT, lower than internet. So I called up the guy who did the chart and said, I don't get it, IoT, everybody's talking about IoT, it's a huge market, you're in that space. And he said to me, it's not disruptive as much as people might think because it's the existing organizations and infrastructure players that are going to take advantage of IoT. So that's kind of, again, academic but interesting thought. Are you seeing that in the industries that you serve that it's transforming them but it's not disrupting them like Uber is disrupting the taxi industry? I wonder if you could comment on that. It's an interesting perspective on IoT. IoT on its own, I agree that yes, IoT is not as disruptive as some other areas but the services and applications that the whole IoT space is creating, those are disruptive. So you have to look at IoT, not just as IoT on its own but all the services and applications that are being derived because of this enabling space, services that include the ability to get those insights into individual behavior. But he's asking, if you take the Clayton Christensen definition of disruption, there's sustaining innovations where the incumbents have the advantage to exploit the new technology versus sort of new entrants or in a new market. And it sounds like you're saying the technologies are disruptive but it sustains the existing companies. Not completely. So the technology is the IoT enablers? Yes, they do help sustain existing organizations. They do help sustain existing paths but there are new services and new complete new approaches that are now being realized. I mentioned home and health earlier. An organization that can come in and provide home insurance or health insurance based on understanding occupancy levels is disruptive to the entire industry. You're no longer limited to saying well, how many fire alarms or smoke alarms do you have in your house? So that is a disruptive service that's enabled by the whole IoT ecosystem. Then new entrants into that space will cause that disruption. Yeah, and so those in the industry that don't adopt that and embrace that, you know, might see hard times. I mean, there's an interesting topic because we just saw the biggest acquisition announced in the history of the computer industry, you know, $67 billion Dell buying EMC, essentially $25 billion company that's going to disappear. I mean, they'll be around but not the name. So we like to talk about these notions in your sort of innovator, a futurist. So what about Pentaho? Where do they fit into your world? We've embraced Pentaho to empower our partners and our customers with insights into how they can operationalize, how they can understand the health of their programs. So for example, an insurance organization now gets the ability to drill in, the ability to get real time information on geospatial deployments, where their vehicles are lit up, where there may be delays in activation, where a person may have left a in-vehicle enabler on their countertop or in their kitchen, haven't plugged it in their car yet. So there's a whole wealth of information around the operational aspects of the program that we've leveraged Pentaho to empower our partners and our customers with that information and those insights to make their programs even more effective. What are you, we were joking earlier about self-driving cars, but what do you make about that? I mean, it's sort of related, it's an adjacency to the future to what you guys are doing. What do you think about self-driving cars? Self-driving cars in autonomous vehicles are a very exciting space. It's a space where the culmination of all of our software and algorithm investments as a transportation ecosystem player come to the realization. And help to disrupt the traditional automotive industry. It'll be interesting over the next five to 10 years to see how well we can cross from an emerging space into a mass market space. That will be the interesting element because it's one thing to demonstrate, it's one thing to deploy and to trial. It's another thing to overcome that mass market piece. And we're excited about enabling a range of connected vehicle in addition to self-driving autonomous vehicle services. I mean, five, seven years ago people didn't think it was going to ever happen. And now you probably see them all the time driving up and down one-on-one if you ever leave San Francisco. I don't know if you do, but I see them every now and then out there. And it's quite astounding. I'm going to see them on Starro Drive pretty soon. But to get to scale is going to, there's a lot of implications there. There's social, there's perceptions and the like. But there are some real immediate advantages in terms of improved transportation, improved efficiency on the roads out there, being able to leverage the same network. Up and down one-on-one in rush hour. I'm not sure if you call it driving. Yeah, it's sort of like walking on, it's like, it's slower than walking. Yes. Well, but the potential for reducing, you know, accidents, I mean, the Google self-driving cars only had, I think, two accidents and both when humans were driving. Well, not one was when they got rear-ended. But so how far away is that in your view? There's many different perspectives on the duration of time between now and critical mass and self-driving autonomous vehicles. In my view, it's at least 10 years out. I know it may not be the popular opinion, but the time it takes to get the legislative approval, regulatory approval, and then to phase out the existing deployment of what 250 plus million vehicles in just the U.S. market with about a 10-year lifespan. Yeah, fleets have a 12-year lifespan. So that transition is, it's about a decade out. So we have a lot of time to plan and prepare. I think we'll see adoption in the autonomous vehicle, self-driving space, in the commercial space, much quicker than we will in the personal life space. And in commercial space, do you mean like taxi lanes in cities, or do you mean like trucker lanes on highways? Both. There's an urgent need in both transportation of goods and services and long-haul transportation to be able to make that transportation more efficient. Imagine being able to, instead of taking a large transport truck and having a half-full of equipment and shipping it across the country, imagine being able to get a fleet of smaller vehicles using telematics, using the information from the vehicles, platoon those vehicles, and get them to drive across the country. But being able to adapt the size of your vehicle to the size of the load. Being able to optimize your transport is a possibility that now becomes available when it may not have been available in the past. Right, as opposed to some inflexible chunk of capacity that's going to go half empty. Very interesting. Any other things, Ben, that are exciting you? I mean, I'm sure there are a lot, but maybe Sierra, we talked a lot about autonomous vehicles, but what else is on your radar? Well, the personal aspect. And we talk a lot about data. We talk a lot about deriving insights from data, looking at actual intelligence. The one piece that's often neglected is the human aspect. Even in the self-driving vehicles, even in autonomous vehicles. Will humans be comfortable giving up control? Will you be comfortable giving up control? No. I want that co-pilot stick in case something goes wrong. Yeah, and that's a popular opinion. So that human element, regardless of if it's a vehicle from today, a vintage vehicle, or a future vehicle, embracing that human element is still extremely important. So no matter what technology we bring to play, whether that's the driver's team platform delivering a range of services in vehicles today to make those vehicles connected vehicles, or for looking concepts in self-driving vehicles, embracing the human elements, being able to deliver services to those individuals, whether they're driving or not, being able to deliver information to those individuals, and being able to empower those individuals is something that we as an industry have to put a more concerted effort around. No, we look around, there are the great technologies, there's great data scientists, there's great insights, but if we can't take those insights and turn them around to influence behavior, to influence change, to inform and make drivers and individuals make better decisions, what good is the data? So that's an area that I think as an industry we need to look at more, the human factor, the human element. So it's not just trying to take the human out of the loop, it's trying to make the human better where he belongs. Absolutely, empowering that person to be more productive, to be safer, to be more efficient, so they can be informed while driving, so they can be safer in transit, so that if they don't need to hold the wheel, they can have access to the information that they need, and if they do need to hold the wheel, they can listen to that information and interact with it in a safer manner. That's a very, very rich perspective. Well, it opens up a whole new line that we don't have time to talk about, but just the whole notion of machines which have always replaced humans seems to be happening at an accelerating rate, so what are those areas where humans are going to excel over computers? But what's most interesting is he's not saying it's binary, he's saying it's Vell Augmentus. Oh, absolutely. Which is refreshing to hear. But there are examples like the kiosk at the airport. Yes. You don't need a human anymore, and there are examples where there's going to be a hybrid. It's interesting to start forecasting what those examples are, because as I said, five years ago, nobody thought autonomous vehicles were even possible. Now they're maybe as soon as 10 years away, I think 10 years is pretty soon. And so that's a challenge for society is what are those things that individuals are going to be able to do and sustain better than computers so that they can maintain employment and all those other things? I mean, what do you think about that? What's the answer? Obviously education is the answer, but educating them for what? Well, I think as long as we keep our focus on the goal, not the technology, and I feel bad saying this as a person that loves technology, but we focus on that goal, so we're focused on making transportation safer, smarter, and greener. We focus on that, and then use the technology as a tool to achieve it, and use the technology as a tool to empower individuals to be safer, smarter, and greener as they drive. Then we can achieve that without being distracted by, is it a kiosk? Is it audible information? What's the chip set in that device? What algorithm are we using? Those all empower the overall solution, which is making drivers and transportation safer, smarter, and greener. I love that answer because you're saying that the innovation is the idea, the vision, the outcome. That's where the innovation is being able to realize that vision is enabled by technology, but the technology in and of itself is not the innovation. Ben. Absolutely. You're an awesome guest, really. Thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate your time. Well, it's my pleasure and it's a wonderful event here and look forward to next steps. All right, great. All right, keep right there, we'll be back with our next guest. Right after this, this is theCUBE, we're live from Pentaho World in Orlando. We'll be right back.


Okay, I guess we should get started, it is after 12.15. Welcome, good afternoon and welcome. My name is, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Richard Schoenig. I'm a professor of philosophy here at SAC, and I'll be your host for today's presentation on world religions, facts, comments, and questions. And I expect my presentation to be 20 or 25 minutes, and at any time during the presentation, if you have questions or comments, just raise your hand and I'll entertain those. And when I finish, there will still be time for questions and comments. In fact, in the course of the presentation, I have highlighted certain areas that you might want to think about for asking questions. If you so desire. All right, so I have two goals in the presentation. I want to present eight general facts and four questions that I think are useful with respect to world religions. And also, I want to invite your comments and questions at any time, as I mentioned. So, some facts about world religion. Let's start with fact number one, and I think I need to. Okay, so fact number one, it's difficult to define religion. If you've ever taken a course in world religions, there is usually a section, sometimes a chapter, devoted to pointing out how difficult it is to get a definition that there is a consensus about. I'm not going to wrestle with it directly, but I'm going to suggest that one way of distinguishing those kinds of institutions that we want to call religions from others that are maybe like a religion is what I'm going to suggest here. So we would want to accept Christianity as a religion, Judaism as a religion, Hinduism as a religion, Islam as a religion. We don't want to accept vegetarianism as a religion, or rooting for the cowboys, or being a passionate stamp collector. We might say those are... I think there's a new religion that just came out where the lady can wear a... You know, to drain your...  Like, she took a picture of it. Okay, yeah, see, a colander. A colander, yeah. Some kind of religion about food.  Yeah, yeah. And then there's also free thinkers have introduced the notion of the flying spaghetti monster. It's called pastafarianism. Yeah. Well, at any rate, I think we can talk about finding a way to separate the two out so that we get a notion of religion has this particular characteristic and those that are like a religion don't. And what I'm going to say is religions have a two-world view of reality. As far as religions are concerned, reality is divided into two worlds. I'll expand on that momentarily. Non-religions then have only what we would call a one-world view of reality. So could you be more specific, Shurnik? And the answer is yes, I can. In fact, I will. All right, let's take a look at the religious view, the two-world view here. And again, I think maybe I need to make this a little smaller so it'll fit more comfortably. All right, so in this two-world view that religion has, the two worlds are the supernatural world up here in sort of the yellow or gold and then the natural world down here. The supernatural world, and by the way, up here, down here, that's not just a throwaway. Generally speaking, when religions talk about their two-world view, the supernatural world is always up there. And that's why, for example, worshiping on high places was initially very important to religion before they settled into using temples and so on. They would try to get higher, closer to the supernatural. And you see that in the Old Testament where the claim is that the Mesopotamians try to build a tower to get to heaven to battle. All right, so in the supernatural world, this is the world which contains gods or god, the supernatural, other supernatural beings such as angels, devils, ghosts, jinn, which is a Muslim supernatural being, and so on. The natural world is the realm of matter and energy and time and space. Virtually everybody who's not institutionalized acknowledges this world exists. The big question is whether the existence of this world. Notice also that from the religious world view, there is connections. There are communications between these two worlds. So the denizens in the supernatural world can communicate with the natural world by incarnations, by divine beings taking on bodies as either avatars or messiahs in some cases, revelation that somehow they can communicate to people down here, signs, miracles, those sorts of things. On the other hand, those of us who are down here, we can communicate and have contact with the supernatural world and prayer, ritual, meditation, sacrifice, those sorts of things. All right, so in this sense then, the religions, the institutions that I said we all kind of agree are religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and so forth. They all have some version of this two world view. Whereas the institutions that I said are like a religion for some people but not religions would include vegetarianism and rooting for a particular sports team or a passionate stamp collector. Those have a one world view. Now there are some people, obviously if you're a stamp collector or a root for the cowboys or a vegetarian, you can still have a two world view. But I'm saying to be a vegetarian, the definition doesn't involve having a two world view. You could be someone who has one. All right, there are people as you probably know who reject the two world view and we can see that lined up here. So people who are atheists or agnostics will maintain that there's only one world, it's the natural world and it exhausts reality. The supernatural world is rejected on the basis of the claim that there's insufficient evidence to suppose that it exists. Where might a pantheist fit? Yeah, that's interesting. Pantheism is the view that, as I understand it, that the entire physical universe, all the matter and energy and time and space exhaust reality. So it's sort of like this, but that somehow or other this is divine in some sense. In some instances people may invoke that there's a personality involved with the universe. I think some of the Gaia theories are sort of like that or even when we talk about mother nature, we seem to be saying that there's something that is kind of a person but it's still not really a person. I confess that I'm not clear about pantheism because it seems as if the pantheism is true then virtually nobody is an atheist, right? I mean, who's going to deny the existence of the physical universe as such? But I think we get into trouble here because sometimes scientists who know an awful lot about the universe are very sloppy in their use of language. They start throwing the term God around when they really are just talking about nature and then it gets us all into knots and so forth. Hawkins does that and even Einstein did it to some degree and it's something that I hope is avoided in the future to get clear on this. Alright, so fact number one, it's difficult to define religion but I think the notion of a supernatural two-world view can separate out what is a religion from what isn't for the most part. Fact number two, historically, religions have been found in virtually all societies. Some notion of a two-world view or a supernatural kind of world view is something we find in all societies. We might want to at some point address the question of why that is the case. I'm not going to get into it right now unless you want to talk about it. Fact number three, we can sort out different types of religions. So we can talk about those religions that are monotheistic. Prefects mono is a Greek prefix meaning one and theos is the Greek word for God. So monotheism means that there's only one divine being or one major divine being in that supernatural realm. These religions then embrace that, the religion of Sikhism and sometimes it's called Sikhism but I've heard people who are close to that religion and they tend to use the word Sikh even though in English, of course, it leads to snickering, I suppose. By the way, I live out by UTSA and a Sikh community has built a nice place of worship and gathering there and they've been very friendly in the neighborhood. They invited people in for supper and explaining Sikhism and so forth and they are distinguished because the males wear turbans and they have beards and they also carry a ceremonial dagger and just recently the U.S. has allowed American Sikhs in the military to keep their beard and keep their turban as well as where they're uniform so they're given sort of a dispensation for that. Then, of course, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or monotheistic. Some people have trouble with Christianity being monotheistic and the reason for that, of course, is the Trinity. The Trinity is a kind of metaphysical, difficult area to describe how you can have one god but three gods and so on and again, that'd be far beyond what we can get into here but Christians maintain very stoutly that they are monotheistic and that if you're having trouble with the Trinity they'll join the party. It's a mystery. One that I would mention here that is not often mentioned is Zoroastrianism which is essentially a religion that originated in what is today Persia and its importance is that there's a good case to be made that the kind of monotheism that Judaism eventually developed into had and borrowed a great deal from Zoroastrianism and I'll get to that a little bit later on in the presentation for you to think about more. Besides monotheistic religions, of course, there are polytheistic religions where the word poly means many in Greek. Traditional Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism and most indigenous tribal religions have many gods involved. What about Theravada? Theravada Buddhism is probably the original form of Buddhism probably what Siddhartha, whose title is the Buddha, really taught and it's not even clear that that's any kind of theism. It seems like it's almost a self-help sort of thing. We've got suffering in the world, it's a real downer but we have to live in this world. Let me tell you, I got a book here that if you were around today, in Beyond Oprah, I have a book here that tells you how to deal with suffering and this is the important question of our time and for 1495 you get the Kindle Edition for 995 and so on. It's more of a self-help thing, really. When it comes to that, did Siddhartha have a two-world view? It's not clear. Then there are oddly enough non-theistic religions and this is what I was just talking about. Besides the Theravada Buddhism, Brahmanic Hinduism might be in that category depending on how you understand Brahman but I don't want to get into details beyond the time we have here but Brahman is a kind of basic reality in other forms that might simply be called being with a capital B, existence or something like that. Original Taoism, likewise, the Tao is not supposed to be a person it's a kind of part of the furniture of the universe, it's there and we need to react accordingly to it. And then Confucianism, which once again seems to be more a remedy for a society that's not functioning well. Confucius comes along and says well this is what we need to do to get China back out of its chaotic state and it had very little to do with any kind of a supernatural realm. It's not clear if Confucius believed in that and if he did it was only because it helped cement us together and he didn't really make it clear that he believed in any of that stuff. Do these have a dual worth to you? I don't think... well again, if you think of the Tao as a sort of a supernatural thing then yes, if you don't then no. Likewise with Brahman. And Confucianism certainly doesn't. It's somewhat surprising that it's included in books on world religions because I think a good case can be made for the fact that it's more an ethical and a political statement than a religious one. Alright. Fact number four, religious demographics for those of you who might be interested, Christianity has the most adherence today. It comprises about 30% of the world's population. Islam is fairly close behind at 24% and it seems to be catching up. The reason for that in part is because Islam is most prevalent in developing countries where the population is growing rather rapidly. Christianity is growing but more as we'll see in a minute in certain parts of the world. In the developing part of the world Christianity seems to be declining in numbers. And then you see Hinduism has over a billion. Hinduism is, basically you're not too far wrong to say it's the religion of India. And so as the Indian population grows Hinduism will grow. It's not as much of a widely spread religion as Christianity or Islam. And then you've got the others there. What is spiritism? I'm not sure. I don't know. I could speculate but... Probably not. Is it sort of being non-religious or spiritual? That could be. I'm not religious but I am spiritual. You've been here before. It seems so. Don Dylan? Does that African angelicism have anything to do with Protestant evangelicalism? Yeah. Yes. Well, it does to some extent. As you may know Britain or the United Kingdom had numerous colonies throughout Africa. And the official religion of England at any rate is the Anglican church. Because Anglican is just another word for English. And so where the English colonies were they brought their churches and to this day you find in places like Nigeria, Uganda and other of those areas there they have an Anglican presence. But that Anglican church presence is much more evangelical meaning it's much more emotional it's much more a matter of witnessing and converting others whereas the English Anglicanism the kind of Anglicanism that you find in England is much more subdued and laid back and isn't quite so evangelical. So I don't know if that answered your question or not. I think the answer to your question is yes it's very evangelical with a small E. It's still calls itself Anglican so it has priests. Why did they change it Why is there a difference? Between English and Anglican? Well I think England originally comes from the word the land of the Angles Anglos land, Anglos land, Anglican it just was easier for some tongues to get around that I'm guessing. Alright so that's the demography how about the geography of the religions you can't quite see the colors it's dramatically here but this gives you the broad outline there are some mistakes on this but by and large this mustard color represents where Christianity is the predominant religion it doesn't mean everyone there is Christian it doesn't even mean that a majority of the people there but it means whatever religions are there Christianity is a plurality and in some instances a large plurality so you can see how widespread it is compared to the others The next biggest religion, Islam is the green here and by the way that's not an accident Islam is a religion that has an unofficial color associated with it and it's green for various reasons OACs are very nice places and it includes Indonesia North Africa West Asia Central Asia I think that's a mistake Muslims are a majority there the line goes more across here below here is either Christian or animus meaning tribal religions and above it is Muslims and then you've got Hindus here in India you've got Buddhism here Shintoism appear too and then Taoism and Confucianism here and of course alright, fact number six I mentioned Zoroastrianism and the fact that when you study world religions it isn't often the case that Zoroastrianism is studied and one of the reasons for that is today the number of Zoroastrians in the world is probably only about the population of Corpus Christi or thereabouts but that notwithstanding it is important I think to study Zoroastrianism because I believe scholars have made a pretty good case that Zoroastrianism had a profound effect on Judaism and if so, that's important because Judaism of course had a profound effect on Christianity and Islam so to know something about Zoroastrianism is important in this respect so what is the case just laying it out in general what we can do is we can identify writings in Judaism that were produced before the so-called Babylonian exile you may remember from your biblical history that in the year 587-586 Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonians came and conquered Judah, the kingdom of Judah remember the northern kingdom of Israel that had been conquered by the Assyrians 150 years earlier and the 10 tribes were lost to history they were probably incorporated and spread around the Assyrian Empire and basically just became the religion that they lived around but Judah, the kingdom of Judah hung on for another 150 years but by 587 they were overtaken by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians and the Babylonians did what they usually did when they conquered a people they selected out anyone who could be a focal point for resistance and in their mind that meant anybody who had wealth or power or prestige or high standing or learning those people were oddly enough you would think they both wanted to just execute them but they didn't do that they took them and they migrated them over to Babylon and settled them in around the city so and it was sort of like a house arrest it wasn't they were in prison or anything like that they were able to set up their own community and they did and they were there for about 47-50 years when the Babylonians were overthrown by the new strongmen country on the block and that was the Persians under Cyrus the Great and so Cyrus told the Israelites or the Jews if you wish they could go back if they want and he would even help them rebuild the temple which Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed not all of them they went back oddly enough they kind of liked it there it was like what go back to to Nebraska when we've been living in Manhattan I'm not sure I want to do that but okay some of them did anyway they did go back so then we see the writings that occurred after they were in Babylonian captivity and compare the two and we can see maybe the influence of being in Babylon and of course that the major religion in Babylon at the time when they were in captivity was a form of Zoroastrianism so let's put it together in a quick form here before the Babylonian captivity Judaism lacked a significant satan figure it lacked a resurrection of the body after death it lacked much of a concern at all Jews basically used to talk about going to Sheol which is very similar to the Greek notion of Hades it was some dark dank cavern down below the earth and your soul went there flitted about in the shadows and the darkness and eventually just like a plain candle that went out but that will change after they get back from Babylon they didn't have a real notion of heaven or hell before they came back there was no reference to God's plan to end the world there was no final day of judgment there wasn't much mention of angels and demons however once they come back from the Babylonian empire Judaism did start having references to these things in their writings and by the time of Jesus it was an important part of Judaism at least for some versions of Judaism and most importantly for the phariseic versions remember the pharisees it's kind of ironic that the pharisees get very bad press in the New Testament they're always fussing with Jesus and Jesus is always sparring with them and he has some very accurate things to say about them they're whiteed sephalicas they're all white and shiny on the outside but inside they contain filth and degradation and that sort of thing but it turns out that phariseic Judaism is the kind of Judaism that eventually permeated Christianity probably in part because of the great influence of Paul of Tarsus who probably declared himself a pharisee and having been educated that way so all of these kinds of things then go into post Babylonian Judaism and then from Judaism into Christianity and also later on into Islam so the Zoroastrian connection is a very fascinating one and it's one that very few people in the West know a whole lot about and yet it is important I think alright fact number 7 of the 8 facts worldwide Christianity is becoming and I'm corning the term here forgive me Southernized so what does that mean Christianity in terms of numbers of adherence and vitality is relatively stagnant or slumping in the northern or developed tier of countries such as Canada Australia, New Zealand and most of the countries of Europe notice I didn't include the United States in there some of these are not in the northern hemisphere but they are considered the developing countries and somehow or other the term northern is used alright on the other hand Christianity still does well in the southern or developing tier of countries such as the poorer countries of south and central America and the Caribbean countries of black Africa and the Philippines now the US outlier here to some degree we are obviously a developed country but we still have a pretty robust Christianity however if you peek behind the curtain it turns out that of the indigenous Americans the numbers of Christians are dropping the reason why in aggregate it doesn't show is because we're bringing in lots of immigrants basically from the Philippines and from central and south America who are religious and who are Christians and so the number of Christians is maintaining in the United States but that's mostly due to immigration that has a lot of I think important ramifications given that religion plays such an important role in our country in terms of domestic and foreign policy if indeed religion is diminishing then that might change how the US interacts with the rest of the world spoke a little bit about that in a presentation I gave earlier in the semester alright the last question here is or fact is that the US is much more religious than any other developed country in the world so when you compare compare even the US with Canada which is probably culturally the closest to us and there is a discernible difference in the number of adherents the number of people who pray daily the number of people who say that religion is important in their lives and when you move over to Europe it's even more dramatic especially northern Europe and part of the quality we sometimes have with our European friends is that they think we're a little bit religiously and we think that they are craving secularists who lost all their values and guided so there is that kind of attention especially with the French oddly enough because the French consider themselves very secular and for religious people in this country they tend to look at the French and think that's what happens when you go away from religion while the French don't seem to think their country is all that bad alright so those that essentially completes the facts that I wanted to share with you by the way if you want to contact me more to talk about any of these things but you'd rather not do it in this communal environment my office is upstairs at 2.30 and my email is there and I'd be happy to meet with you in any way as philosophers have mouth, we'll talk and that operates with me all the time so I pointed out certain questions that you might want to pursue here including this last one I'll end there and I'll let you guys start getting involved here and participate who would like to start anybody? yes good question what about Catholics as it turns out and this is a kind of a misconception that students not just students but people down in this part of the world this part of the country they'll say something like well I'm not a Catholic I'm a Christian and the fact of the matter is that Catholics consider themselves to be Christians and they have a good case for so you can talk about Catholic Christians you can talk about evangelical Christians you can talk about intercostal Christians it's all in the same vein and it turns out too that Catholic Christians comprise about half of all Christians so they're not to be forgotten as being a part of the house of Christianity anybody have any ideas about 3 and 4 why is it that Christianity is flourishing in the developing countries but not in the developed countries? anybody have any thoughts on that? I think there's a lot of hope in Christianity and so I guess in the poorer country you kind of need that type of hope whereas here we're more about ourselves and we already have luxury so yeah well but it's not so much here because the United States still has a pretty high level of religiosity but it would be those other areas Europe and Australia New Zealand, Canada but still I think your point is on target I think like you said Christianity is more evangelical so they're going to go out and spread the word and they're going to go to those countries that are hurting because Christianity is a faith of hope and so they're going to go out there and reach out to those people why am I going to go to someone who's already established and has a way of thinking trying to change their mind and they won't whereas I can go somewhere that someone's looking for hope and then Islam I'm sure I mean I'm sure they're spreading their word but I don't think it's as evangelical as Christianity yeah they don't have the formal apparatus that Christianity has but they're also still pretty effective the main battle area by the way between trying to get converts between Christianity and Islam is Africa the rest of the world is pretty well settled in one way or the other but in Africa there are still a lot of tribal religions and the western religions see them as potential customers and so they kind of scramble and it causes trouble because the two are competing against each other it's like two sales people in the same mall trying to sell the same thing or similar things it becomes a real problem that way both of what you said are backed up by studies that claim to show that religion tends to be more prevalent as you especially pointed out where people are in need when you look at most of Europe especially northern Europe when you look at Canada, Australia New Zealand you find that those countries have political and social institutions that pretty much allow people to live a free and prosperous life and so religion doesn't seem to be nearly as necessary there's also a connection between amount of education and religion even in the United States if you survey people you see that the most religious groups are those who have only an elementary school education when you move up to those who have a high school education the number of strong adherence diminishes when you get to a college education it diminishes more when you get to graduate it diminishes more and so in the developed countries where the formal education is more readily available you have more formally educated people I'm not saying they're smarter people I'm just saying they have a more education and therefore generally they'll have less religious connections Is that because science is now an education of studying now? I think that there's something to that Dylan that when it's a combination of when your needs are being taken care of by the social and political institutions and your intellect is aware of scientific explanations that very often seem to eclipse the religious explanations it's pretty hard for most educated people for example to accept a literal interpretation of a sub 10,000 year old universe when science is virtually unanimous that the universe is 13.8 billion years old and the earth is 4.6 and they've got plenty of evidence so that diminishes people's that and also their willingness to put their credibility into organizations that contradict science People like with math degrees I guess it goes lower and lower than percentage of people that believe in religion but we're just so used to having empirical evidence because you see studies after studies proving this or that and Christianity is a religion based on faith so that's why it's hard for people to accept Well it's hard for some people to accept for sure and I think as I was saying and you indicated too again as long as there's food on the table and you have freedom in your life there's not a whole lot to pray for and furthermore again you've got the education to see that some of the more restricted interpretations of religion are untenable with science now I will add that many Christians, Jews and Muslims try not to pick a fight with science and try to reinterpret the earlier scriptures well it's not really 10,000 years old it's just that a day is a thousand years for God but of course notice by the way that doesn't get you out that means it's still going to be less than 4.6 18 years old but they'll do that reinterpretation and say it was a metaphor or poetry or something like that and that's helpful to people who have a good understanding of the physical world but still want to be religious they can say you know that's it I don't have to believe it literally but that causes a problem because the literalists then think that those people are not really true Christians if they're going away from understanding dynamics going on with respect to all of that okay again I thank you for being here and if you want to contact me once again feel free to do so I love to talk about this stuff and I hope you have a good rest of your day enjoy the weekend and do well for the rest of the semester


Zeolite Supplement Review. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here. Today I want to do a little review on a supplement called Zeolite, and Zeolite's kind of like a class of supplements, but the specific kind we're talking about, I think it's called Cliniptolite, something like that. I know I'm butchering it, but that's kind of like the most popular versions of Zeolite. Now a lot of people kind of want to inch into supplements, basically see how it works for them and then see if it's something they want or not, but Zeolite, the way that it works, it's actually meant to be taken a lot at once, especially when you first take it. Now Zeolite, from my understanding, it's, I think it's like a volcanic type of ash or like a volcanic type of rock. It is kind of like nature's way of like cleaning out heavy metals. I think it does other things besides that, but the main use that it has is basically like cleaning up heavy metals.  So you end up peeing it out. It kind of will seek out heavy metals, try to trap them and then release them from the body. It almost seems too good to be true. I know I was watching another podcast, I'll try to link it down below where they have some amazing research on this stuff. And I think at one point in history, a lot of people were getting like a very famous disease and they kind of lined the bottom of their water and their aqueduct with this mineral and it helped clean the water, purify the water and the main disease was kind of, you know, gone and pretty interesting stuff. I don't know if that's true, but I did a whole review on suspended solutions version, but I don't think I can really give it the full go because of how many grams you need. I've only taken maybe a gram, gram and a half at the most in a day and I'm taking just so so much because I ended up getting like a one pound tub on Amazon and I'll kind of link it down below. I meant to bring it with me today, but I ended up forgetting it. One version has very, very, very small particles and the other, the other version has slightly bigger particles, but they're both very, very small. So anyways guys, that's, that's pretty much the basic rundown. What did I feel on this stuff? When I first took this stuff, I actually felt very, very tired and I didn't do enough research on it. Again, I had researched it before, but I don't know what it was. I didn't think I fully understood it. So when I was first taking this, it made me super tired. I was actually taking it in the morning. One time I took it in the morning before I went snowboarding and I just could not resurrect myself. I was so, so tired and out of it. Kind of looking back at it, it seems like I was probably should have taken a large dose and especially when I was first taking it, I ended up starting taking it at night just because in case it made me tired, I wouldn't have been going to sleep and I wouldn't really mind it as much. But it would be if I took it in the morning and I felt tired in the day, that would be something I didn't like. It definitely seemed like detox symptoms. And in the beginning of this video, I was saying that zeolite, something that you want to kind of take a lot of in the beginning. Now, the reason that they say that is because, let's say you have lots and lots of toxins in your body and you don't take enough zeolite. So it's basically, it might pick up one like toxic metal, then it finds another one, it attracts the other one, but it doesn't have room for both. So it basically leaves the original toxic thing and takes the more toxic thing. But now, you know, basically toxicity is moving throughout your body and it's not getting eliminated. So if you take enough zeolites, it will have enough for every heavy metal basically, or at least most of them and it'll flush more of them out.  You know what I mean? So that's kind of why you want to take a lot at the beginning. And I kind of felt that way. It took me about three or four days taking it, maybe five. And then I started to feel the effects. You feel so, so good on this stuff. My skin felt like a lot lighter, a lot clearer. It just felt like way softer than normal. I know I have them right now, but usually I, this is kind of like a bad problem I have is I get like bags under my eyes.  Now, I think zeolites supposed to actually clean your blood, which makes sense because it's going to suck all these toxins out and eliminate them from the body, but I have noticed that the more I take it, I actually will have super, super clear under my eyes. So it seems like it's cleaning out my blood and very few supplements actually do that. But yeah, and I felt like the legitimately like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. Like I felt like I had this kind of tension and something on my back that was released now. Again, this was like four or five days afterwards. But seeing how many possibilities of heavy metals are in the air. I mean, it's just countless the amount of ways you could get a little bit in your body and like, what if they build up? What if there's some toxicity, things like that? Like let's say that a mother lives around like a toxic area. Well, she's going to have that built up her whole life. And then when a mother is pregnant and she has a lot of toxicity in her body, the body will put that into the infant just to save the mother. So now it's like just the toxicity and the environment is just constantly passed on. You almost need something to go in there and start to remove all these things. You know what I mean? And like, I feel like every area has its own toxic thing. You know what I mean? I think even toxic mold is attracted to these bad metals and things too. So anyways, guys, I highly recommend this stuff. This was jumped to being one of my favorite supplements of all time. It's one of the only ones that has like a metal cleaning effect. I know it's kind of weird to say, but there's a lot of antioxidants, a lot of things that help the body. But this is one thing where you actually feel like it's taking bad things out of your body. And I think zeolite is also like studied a little bit in the medical field. I think if you get chemotherapy, they'll also give it to you because it'll help eliminate some of those toxins from the body.  It'll only detoxify what's in the bloodstream right now. So you had a lot of toxins in your fats and the toxins actually are pushed away from your body. When you start to lose the weight, they'll start to be released in your bloodstream. So that would be a very good time to say zeolite as well. So anyways, guys, I highly recommend this stuff. I felt great on it. I felt like my skin was better. I felt like just the overall weight was taken off my body. It felt absolutely great. And I highly recommend that almost everybody take it, especially if you have some sort of disease. It could be influenced by having too many of these heavy metals. It's a possibility who knows. Thank you guys so much for watching the video. We're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys. I hope you guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.


Hey everyone, it's really late But I was up making stuff. This is the one piece. I'm working on So that generated this guy in AI using Dolly, I said man floating vertically with body back Pulled backwards as if it was the wind was blowing on it Something like that and it generated this for me. I've painted over it a bit added some hair and Played with colors, but what I that's what I was doing today is adding that So I got a bit more to do on that one this one's done Finish this one They added just I added this dirt yellow here and then it felt balanced So I'm going to resin this one.  Then there's this for one back there. I'm just starting to I Gotta start sketching the the female figures on those ones soon. That's my next step So I got I'm gonna I'm working on the bodies that are gonna go on there So this is what I have so far I'm kind of working with shapes and stuff and it's gonna be a Winter spring summer fall and again, they're done to the exact same size as Alphonse mute muca did Alphonse muca is the inspiration for this and it's called them the four seasons So I'm redoing it my style and then this one was fun. I just keep adding things to it I just added these black circles to it and then I'm gonna Just add a couple more layers of color and some white Then clean up the edges and then resin it and that will be done. So This is day four of hundred days of art Mental health challenge and today was a really hard day. It was a really hard day But I set my alarm 15 minutes and I came in the studio I'm gonna end up staying for an hour and I didn't feel a good while I was doing it But now that I'm painted I feel a good when you make stuff Feels good. I guess just like if you exercise feels good. Anyways, thanks for following along and Have a good night. I'm gonna go to bed now. Okay


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What's up guys Mike the Coder here today? We're gonna do trying try count counting triangles This is this I'm not actually gonna go over this problem So this problem is just like just use the formula There's really not much else to it. So basically you're given the the Number of test cases and then each line is n which is the level of triangle in that test case and you want to find Basically you want to find the number of triangles For all of them right so like here we have level one which is one triangle level two is like here We have one two three four right two so then it's gonna spit out four triangles right two is gonna spit out four triangles Actually, there's five five triangles right one two three four and then the Total big triangle five and then level three is like this is level four one two three four And then you have to find how many triangles is for that So to solve this problem, you're just gonna have to count and then try to find the pattern I'm not gonna actually do that because that takes a while and a lot of time But I will put a link in the video down below About a guy who goes over this problem and he goes over how to actually find the number of triangles For each of these levels. So yeah, I'll post that video down below In the meantime, I'll just show you guys the code on What the formula does so here? This is how what I did I read in integer t and a while t minus minus and I read in the integer n and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do n times n plus 2 times 2n Plus 1 divided by 8 so this is the formula for finding the number of triangles at the nth level So yeah, you're just gonna have to Derive this formula. I'll pull I'll post the link to the video down below about how he how to come up with this formula But there's a guy who actually went over in depth So yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah, I don't really have that much time today to go over video So yeah, but yeah, I hope you guys enjoy this video break up subscribe I've been going through a lot of work currently finals exams are coming up. So yeah, I need to figure that out But yeah Today there was a recent code forces contest Maybe I'll go over that go over probably in B. I was able to solve a I was so close to solving B But I didn't and I see see I definitely could have solved but I didn't skip for that Yeah, yeah, anyway, Rick comps scribe. I'll put the link down below for how to derive this formula and yeah peace


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They left hockey day Minnesota with a 6 and 13 record used a nine game winning streak to propel them to state and now the Greenway boys hockey team was just one game away from advancing to state championship game as they took on top ranked Mata Midai. Lot of green in the crowd to watch the Raiders play. Scoreless in the second. Greenway strikes first. Ben Trombly back to Dante Lawson. Richter beats the goalie to take the lead but the Zephyrs tied up then take the lead as Corey Polarski deflects the pass in. They lead two to one. One man in the 50 seconds left. Greenway on the power plate. Trombly steps up. Fires a cannon of a slapper to tie things up and we would head to overtime. We're just 23 seconds in. Trombly from the bad angle. Follows his shot. Snatches the rebound in and tucks it away. Greenway wins an overtime. The Raiders are heading to the state championship game. It's been amazing. Our seniors came together. They've been great leaders and they've taken us through all this and carried us and we just I don't know we're just figuring it out. We're clicking at the right time I guess. We've had a rough season but we're coming through. We got to keep playing like it's do or die and that's what's kind of been the whole time. We're believing that we can do it and it's kind of just been our thing throughout. And Greenway will take on St. Cloud Cathedral tomorrow at noon for the state title. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


All the CCF projects whether it's community any projects we need more people to collaborate with we need more people more contributions Code contributions docs contributions with the excessive growth of the projects. We definitely need more and more Contributors, so just ask just ask like I want to get involved in this what to do Where to start and the maintainers the community will definitely help you in giving some pointers like okay Read this talk first, you know do this thing go through this repository I think there are tremendous ways to get involved just don't be scared. Everybody starts at some point So you have to just take the first step just ask anyone in the CNC if slag, you know, I'm new you can change careers You can you can do anything


More plug plates. So basically these plug plates were originally used on SDSS and instead of throwing away we're upcycling them into a way to represent redshift to those who are visually impaired. Each one of these holes has a value of redshift because each one of them is associated with a star, galaxy, and a quasar. Each one of these pulls triggers a sound associated with that redshift value. So as you can see if you pull it here you have a lower sound, it's pretty quiet, and then this one won't pull as far. Galaxy has a less redshift. It has a higher tone. And so this is our first integration of this upcycling of this plate. It's an extension of the Yerkes Upreach Program and kind of keep it moving and this is what we've done in a couple months. Where will this be installed? So basically we're just trying to reach out to schools. I think that's our end goal and make it so it's easily transportable. Do you have the tactile telescope, do we? I think it's over at the poster. Yeah, so if you press down on each of these try to order them by how easy it is to push down on it from easiest to hardest. I'm going to go with this one's the easiest because the key fell out. Okay, that one's easiest. Then this one, then this one. Then this one, then this one. Amazing. Good, you got them all right. The constellation one. You good? Okay. So one of the things that we've learned with teaching astronomy to blind and visually impaired students like myself is that you have to teach a lot of really basic concepts before you can move on to the more advanced things. So one of the first ones is when we're observing we look at the sky and it's a dome. Well, how do you explain that to a blind person? You give them an umbrella, which seems perfectly appropriate for being in Seattle, so I'm going to get seven years for this, but we're looking at the outside of the umbrella right now, which has the constellations on it. And these tags here are brailed representations of the RA. So you can move it around to show how the sky rotates and actually you can measure where you are with these brailed buttons here. And then along the outside here, you have just the constellation. So you can show, you know, how the stars connect and I don't think they look like anything that anyone says they do. So in the inside here, we've got buttons to represent the stars and we've messed around with ideas of having them up here at, you know, different sizes or different shapes, but it's just got kind of convoluted and confusing. So just to demonstrate the stars themselves, we went with kind of this basic pattern so that you can reach up and you're literally putting yourself at the center of the dome and then you're able to reach in and touch the stars literally. So this allows a lot of people with blindness or low vision or just people who are kinesthetic learners to have a better concept of what the sky looks like as a dome. That's amazing, it's an awesome dome. Thank you. It's so portable too, it's brilliant. Okay, that was super cool. That tactile astronomy, that visually impaired astronomy thing is super, super cool. And it's really exciting to see the work continue and some new innovations.