So ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this press conference on this special meeting on unlocking resources for regional development in Turkey. Istanbul, my name is Yan Sop, I'm in charge of media at the World Economic Forum, and I have the pleasure to welcome you to this opening press conference. This press conference has two parts, so that you're all aware we will start with the first part, which will be an introduction to the meeting with a few highlights. And after that we will invite our program champions to explain us a little bit more about the program and especially their program topics. At the end of each part I will open the floor for a few questions. We will have about 10 minutes for Q&A, and after that we will close obviously this press conference. So for the first part we have three distinguished panelists with us and they will explain you the context of this meeting. We have Minister Volkan Botskyr, Minister of the EU Affairs with us, we have Mr. Sapsu from Sapsu Consulting, and we have our director and head of Europe who is in charge of this meeting for the World Economic Forum, Nicholas Davis. We will start with Nicholas Davis to give us an overview and after that Mr. Sapsu will give us some thoughts and then we will conclude with Minister Botskyr. Nicholas. Thank you Yan, thank you everyone for being here and thank you to Mr. Sapsu and to the minister for being with us here today. It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the World Economic Forum's special meeting on Unlocking Resources for Regional Development. Today and tomorrow we will be convening over 600 leaders from around the world but particularly from Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa under this theme around how we make the most in these three regions of underutilized resources, natural resources as well as human resources and other untapped or unrealized sources of growth and prosperity. Among those 600 leaders over the coming days you will see over 60 public figures, ministers heads of state and we are particularly delighted to be here in Turkey and Istanbul and to have such an excellent representation from the Turkish government, from the Turkish cabinet and of course President Erdogan as well as Prime Minister Davutoglu attending today and then tomorrow. There are three important reasons why we meet here in Turkey at this point in time. The first is dramatic shifts and challenges have been emerging in and across all these three regions that are impossible to tackle alone. And in light of conflicts, humanitarian crises, challenges which are affecting both individual human lives but also having significant knock-on effects to economies and to governance, it's important that we take an opportunity here in Turkey, one place which is very affected and very close to many of these issues, to look at how we can help set the preconditions for long-term growth. It is impossible to unlock resources to realize these collaborations without peace and stability. So this is the first reason why it's important for us to be here together and why it's so excellent to see so many of you, so many participants joining us. The second reason is that Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia are all great regions but they are all fragile on their own in different ways. Take demographics for one small short example. Europe has only 15% and falling of its population under the age of 15 and 18% over the age of 65 and rising rapidly. That is the opposite in many parts of the Middle East and North Africa which have a large number of youth here in Turkey more than 25% of the population, a great resource that can be used for wealth and future prosperity but one that needs to be balanced and absorbed and used in the most constructive ways as individuals have the opportunity to realize their highest potential. So here by looking at the three regions together and the four themes that we have looked at in the program, shifting energy dynamics, infrastructure as a driver, as a platform for growth, entrepreneurial and inclusive economies and more broadly the future of Turkey and the region, we hope to be able to find new partnerships, new ways of working together to make the most of these resources and through collaboration find that balance. The third reason is of course that Turkey itself is a country in transformation and it's a country of great and rising importance both regionally and internationally. We have since the end of last month a new directly elected president, President Erdogan, a new prime minister and a number of new cabinet members. And so here is an opportunity also at a strategically, a strategic point of time in a strategic position geographically and in terms of regional relations to look at the future of Turkey as well, the future and plans of the new government including the forthcoming G20 presidency which Turkey will take up in December this year. I also just want to finish by recognizing the four program champions who will come up later in this press conference and it's incredibly important to us at the World Economic Forum that at all our meetings we identify leaders who are able to speak to the important pieces of content and represent the key themes of a meeting and today we have with us four of those Majib Jafar from Crescent Petroleum, Yuvay Kruger from WS Atkins, Tarek Sultan Alessa from Agility and Afshin Yurikal from Habitok. So thank you very much to you for being here and I would like to finish by thanking all our members and partners and also Minister Bosqer and his team at the Ministry of EU Affairs who have helped us prepare for this meeting as well as of course Mr. Zapsu, our advisor and someone who's been with us on this journey for many years. So thank you Jan and thank you everyone and welcome to the meeting here in Istanbul. Thank you very much, Nick. Mr. Zapsu if you would please share also a few thoughts and give us a little bit of context about this meeting. Well dear friends, thank you for the possibility and as a 22 year old forum fan and it's been its senior advisor I also would like to take the opportunity to welcome here. And you know the name is the Special Meeting on Unlocking Resources for Regional Development. We need a lot of unlocking resources here I think and the next one and a half days you're going to be sure you will hear very very interesting sessions on that. And the forum liked Istanbul as you all know this is the I think one to third, third Istanbul meeting if I'm not mistaken. I just would like to hope that next time it would be a bigger one than this one. But still we have more than 650 people come in here today and tomorrow and discussing the world's latest issues. And we have I think eight governments or head of states and over 30 ministers from the political side and I believe it is the first please correct me if I'm wrong. It is the first international event for our new elected president and also prime minister here in Turkey. And why Turkey? It's not only because we like as the forum we like Turkey. I think today more and more and I don't say it just for fun more and more I hear it from everybody that Turkey back again since the Cold War has a different possibility is you know between West and East and South and North in all the energy resources coming through and all the it's back against security which I think a lot of people will have to talk during the next one and a half days. Not only economy and you know just look at Ukraine, Caucasian, Nachivan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Libya as Nicholas said aging Europe, very aging Europe and lack of leadership all over. I think there's a lot of stuff to do here and the next one and a half days the sessions will be that's why very interesting and I urge you to look at the sessions. You know we have four different items building entrepreneurial and inclusive economies. We have infrastructure as a platform for growth, shifting energy dynamics and of course the forthcoming G20 presidency. I'm happy to see that also my country's the Turkish business community is much more interested in the World Economic Forum than it was before so it means we did something right in the past. And again I'd like to thank also our ministry of EU which we started back with the German Bush then went over with Meylut Bay and now thank you very much minister. Thank you. Thank you very much Mr. Sapsu and we will now ask minister to share a few words about his thoughts for this meeting. Thank you. Thank you minister. Ladies and gentlemen I would like to welcome you all to Istanbul and wish the forum participants all the success with fruitful discussions. Of course it's very difficult to contribute after two able participants making very good explanations of the meeting. But I think in diplomacy we have the experience to say that I agree with all what has been said before and make life very easy. However I'll just add to what has been said. We attach great importance to the World Economic Forum meetings as it works for a very valuable objective and which is the improvement of the state of the world. And especially at this juncture of time when we have a lot of difficulties in our region and which is probably affecting the whole of the world security and stability I think having this forum with this title of making resources for regional development is meaningful and I think we will all leave Istanbul after this meeting with a lot of food for thought and a lot of new vision. Of course why Turkey has been chosen to be the host of this meeting is also important and I would like to put Turkey in a context at the very beginning. Turkey is situated at the epicenter of the Afro-Eurosian geography where opportunities and challenges are interact in the most intensive way. And of course having been a Muslim country 99.9 percent of the population being Muslim but also being a democratic country where rule of law is applied and applying the free market economy for so many decades now and also moving towards the European Union membership I think is unique and it separates Turkey from other countries. So that is why I think as the first item why Turkey has been chosen here. Also Turkey will take over the G20 presidency as of 2015 which of course contributes also to our endeavours today here. Other than that the EU accession process has been renewed with strong statements from the new president of Turkey first time elected by the people in the Republican history by the government's program and we call it New Turkey where I think this New Turkey has to meet with the new visions and new possibilities and new efforts for stability and peace in the world. So from that perspective as well I think our meeting has other important significance. To sum up I think challenges of the 21st century necessitates a deeper partnership and cooperation. We acknowledge the importance of dialogue provided by both regional and international meetings including the World Economic Forum. So this special and timely meeting offers us the opportunity for developing our partnerships in key areas that are crucial for boosting growth and employment in our region and beyond. I am thankful for everybody who has contributed and spent really long hours and days for the preparation of this meeting and I wish all the success to the participants. Thank you very much minister. We have actually exactly following the timing so we have about 15 minutes left for Q&A if there are any questions. If there are questions I would ask the person to stand up asking the question to introduce him or herself and tell us for which organisation you are working for and then we will answer that question. I would ask also the questions to be linked to the topics of this meeting. Any questions on the floor? If there are no immediate questions actually then I would ask to proceed immediately to the second part and then I would invite our programme champions to join us on the stage. I would like to thank again the minister, Mr. Sapsu and Nick for their words and then we proceed to the second part of the press conference. Thank you very much. Okay, I would invite people to stay in the room because we will get some interesting insights about the topics, about the programme and you will have the chance also to ask a few questions. If you kindly could stay or at least close the door now. For the second part I would like to introduce our four programme champions that have been already introduced briefly by Nick. So we have Asin Yurka-Kul, who is the chief foreign editor of Haber-Türk TV, Tarek Sultan Alessa, who is the chief executive officer and vice-chairman of the Board of Agility, Mr. Uwe Kruger, who is the chief executive of WS Etkins and Mr. Majid Jafar, who is the chief executive officer of Crescendant Petroleum. I would like to start in that order, so Asin Yurka-Kul is called the future of the region and Turkey's forthcoming G20 presidency. I think a very interesting topic if you could give us a little bit of insight about that. Thank you. Hi everybody and hi my colleagues, I'm here I guess as the only journalist in the panel and it will be slightly difficult to articulate on this after Minister Bosker he gave a great kick start to the debate, however I'll still do my best. So in terms of Turkey's vision and with particular regard to its G20 chairmanship that I will assume next year. The reason I chose to lead the pillar is because I'm mainly interested in what direction Turkey will be taking in the region and what in terms of its diplomatic vision it can offer to the greater region, sorry. With regards to the G20 especially, which is what I would like to focus on but we can definitely take a wider angle if you're interested in that. It's two thirds of the world population and about 90% of the global GDP, that's what the G20 represents and I think what's going to be most important for Turkey in that regard is it's going to be an opportunity for Turkey to really highlight the importance of democratization of global governance. And I think that is something that Turkey it's very close to the heart of Turkey. Most recently I'm sure you've been following the President at the United Nations he made a statement directly addressing that problem especially with regards to the structural issues of the Security Council saying that the world is bigger than five. And I think this might be an opportunity for Turkey to say that the world is bigger than eight. Well perhaps bigger than 20, minister. I'm understanding from the way you smiled that this is probably going to be on the agenda. So I think it will be an opportunity for Turkey to be a voice for the developing countries and emerging economies. So Turkey is well equipped to do that and I'll give you a brief overview as to why I think Turkey is well equipped. Well first of all its strategic location is one plus right next to it. It has a long history with the European Union with ups and downs obviously. It's right at the heart of the Middle East. It can very much relate to the pre and post Arab Spring picture in the Greater Mina region. And it has ties, close ties with the Black Sea region and it's quite familiar with the situation in Ukraine and how the relations between the West and Russia are evolving with the Ukraine crisis at the table. And it's also quite familiar, in fact very, very involved in one of the most pressing issues today in terms of security and regional well-being that's the crisis unfolding in Iraq and Syria. So Turkey's familiarity with these issues allowed the country to have a deeper understanding of the issues and also a better ability to empathize with these issues. So having those I think Turkey's leadership will be important because it will be able to stimulate dialogue about these issues that are not of concern only to Turkey but also the greater region. That being said it will also have to lead a challenging agenda and I'm sure all of you following the region are aware of that. But most importantly the situation in Iraq and Syria and how in terms of the security in the region and Turkey's borders it will be one important agenda. It will be one important item on Turkey's agenda as it takes up the leadership next year and it's also the rising threat of extremism in the region. It's not only something that Turkey is concerned about, it has implications for the West and the United States and Turkey's role is pretty crucial with regards to that too. And again having a challenging agenda ahead of it Turkey will have to demonstrate robust leadership to create constructive dialogue about these issues at hand. So overall I think these are the reasons why the pillar on Turkey's vision is one of the most exciting ones at the summit and we could definitely elaborate on those if you have questions after the rest of the speakers. Thank you. Thank you very much Shafsin. I will introduce you now to Tarik Sultan Al-Assa who has certainly not a less exciting program pillar to represent. It's called Building Entrepreneurial and Inclusive Economist. So I'm also at the heart of our program. So if you could please explain a little bit your insight about this topic. I think first of all this is something that's near and dear to my heart. And I think the first is to focus on what are the characteristics of inclusive and healthy economies. I think they're economies where people have jobs because it's easy to start, run and trade in business. Where women and men are both well represented in the educational system and in the workforce, broadening the overall talent pool that the economy has access to. And where young people have opportunities and hope that safeguards stability in the long run. Where there are fair labor standards, whether you're poor from a minority or a foreign worker in a new country. And finally I think given the times that we are facing today, it's important that we, economies, that people have something to lose from extremism. And I think opportunity is something that will help sort of minimize the risks going forward. So how do we do that? I think the first step is we need to focus on creating jobs. The World Bank tells us that MENA region needs to create 100 million jobs by 2020. Now I've heard that statistic for a while. That means we're well behind that. If we're going to try to make up that much ground by 2020, that's a lot of work that needs to be done. So I would say clearly we have a problem there and we really have to focus on this issue. So how do we do that? I think the first thing we need to do is focus on the low-hanging fruit. And that's in reducing the trade barriers. It's very clear that if the sub-Africa and MENA region alone could get up to 50% of world practices when it comes to basically trade facilitation and reducing trade barriers, that they would get anywhere from a 6% to 30% GDP growth rate. So that's a pretty powerful message. Make it easier to do business and you get 30% more opportunity. I think that's a good deal for anybody. Secondly, actually before I get to the second point, I think it's important, if you take China out of the equation, growth rates in the emerging markets and the developed world are roughly the same. So it tells you that we're missing something in the emerging markets. We're not really capturing the full opportunity that we're confronted with. So secondly, I think we need to make it easier to run and start businesses. And why is that? What do entrepreneurs do? They start businesses. And in the emerging markets, 9 of every 10 new jobs are coming from small and medium-sized enterprises. So it's kind of a perverse situation that we're in where in the part of the world where we need small and medium-sized enterprises to really develop, we're actually doing everything we can to almost rifle that the medicine that we need to basically get the economy going in the right direction. We also need to do better at investing in soft infrastructure. We're doing in parts of the MENA region, we're doing well, I think investing in hard infrastructure. But there are countries where we are really challenged when it comes to investing in education. And investing in education is not just the financial aspect of actually funding these programs. There are many countries in the Middle East, in the GCC in particular, where the expenditure on education is among the highest in the world. Yet the output of that education, when you measure it in terms of standardized tests and what have you, are really not up to international standards and where they should be. And I would imagine that something to do about government incentives and whether it's really worthwhile to, what do you get by educating yourself? And if there's no incentive to educating yourself, I think at the end of the day, you're not going to be putting the effort in and focusing on that. Thirdly, I think we have to make sure that as we grow, that we create opportunities for all segments of the population, in particular women. They're among the most educated parts of our workforce in the Middle East and in the MENA region. And yet we are really not giving them the opportunities that males are getting in these same markets. So we need to do much more about leveraging the resources that we have and that has to start first by taking advantage of some of the most educated segments of our population. I think also we have to do more with young people and giving them a vision that there's an opportunity down the road. There's something that you can actually look up to and actually strive to develop because without that opportunity and without that I think we're really seeing the results and the fruits of that today, the bad fruits, to be honest. So I guess the final message that I'd like to leave is that an entrepreneurial and inclusive economy is not a nice to have. This is an essential for our part of the world. If we don't have it, we're going to be in a mess. And I think that's why we need to really focus on that. Thank you. Thank you very much for that. We will come now to Uwe Kruger who will speak about infrastructure as a platform for physical and digital growth. Also another very important and interesting topic of our program. Thank you, Excellencies. Ladies and gentlemen, infrastructure clearly is at the very core of providing the basis for prosperity and the well-being of societies. And as we just heard before, the minister aptly stating that Turkey is looked at at the center of stability in this region with very strong and democratic, fully legitimated leadership. And so this is the right point in the region to look at how infrastructure and technology is developing. Just three thesis that I would like to put in front of you and that you will see reflected again in the panel sessions that we are going to have on infrastructure, the life cycle approach to infrastructure with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and then the digital infrastructure developments. First of all, in the whole region, be it here in Turkey, Eurasia, Mina, we will see an even accelerated trend to urbanization. So urbanization specifically demands investments, intelligent investments in the transport and energy infrastructure again in order to provide the basis for growth of these economies and to relate to what you just heard before in order to accelerate growth in order to live up to the full potential of the region that will be crucial. Now, a major ingredient to that is that we embrace technology more here in this development. So digital infrastructure sounds perhaps a little bit unfamiliar to you. What we are talking about is applying big data, so the availability of lots and data, how the public is utilizing infrastructure, how to best use resources in infrastructure. With the computer power that is now available, this will provide a much more prudent utilization of taxpayers' money in the way we develop infrastructure, in the way we focus on what really matters to better infrastructure in the very near future. The iconic projects, as you well know, that are being realized currently in the whole region, if you look at the Middle East, large airports, Jetta Airport, for example, large metro projects from Kuwait, Riyadh, Doha, clearly here in Turkey, the projects that will improve the connection between the Asian and the European part. The airport development, by the way, the first serious consideration again of a large scale PPP project here in the country and again in Turkey is leading that. Very important that we use technology and a data-driven approach to make best use of money and of resources. And finally, to build on what you equally heard before, it is about skills and knowledge management. It is obvious that specifically here in Turkey, we saw momentum building again with regard to economic growth. Unfortunately, there is still work to do to address Yauz unemployment, and that has to do with the skill sets that we need. I can tell you from the perspective of my company, of Etkins, that this is exactly what we are facing. We are hiring engineers across the globe, specifically also here in the region, and we see this skills shortage as a major impediment of addressing more prosperous growth. It is also what you heard before, the question of tapping more in the female talent pool. Very important. And again, here as a comparison, I can tell you that in my company, we have crossed the point in our Asia-Pacific region of more female than male engineers being employed. It is an enormous talent that we have here, and we need to find an appropriate approach in order to invite them. Math and science are the basic basis for everything that we do in engineering. There is a fantastic opportunity for societies here in North Asia and in the Middle East and North Africa, and it builds on a great tradition. If you just think about the export-driven construction and engineering that we have seen coming out of Turkey, and enriching construction and engineering projects in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is a great basis and fantastic track record on which this improved skills and knowledge training can be based. So again, the three drivers, urbanization as the fundamental driver for infrastructure development in transport and energy, embracing technology and new materials to be efficient in what we do, and thirdly, making the best out of the skills we have in our countries here in the region to facilitate and to improve and accelerate growth. That is what you are going to hear more about in the panels. Thank you very much. Last but not least, we will conclude with Majid Jafar who will speak about shifting energy dynamics across the region, the fourth important pillar of our program. Thank you. So some people find it hard to focus on a meeting about unlocking resources and achieving regional development when in two of the neighboring countries where we sit today, there is all-out conflict involving many countries, and that is what is hugging the international headlines at the moment. But I would argue that this sort of focus and this sort of meeting is even more important because it is only with sustainable and inclusive economic growth and development that we can move to a more stable political situation, particularly in this region. Turning to the topic of energy, and it is what comes to mind for many people when you hear unlocking resources for development, it is an extremely apt place to have such a discussion here in Turkey for several reasons. First of all, Turkey itself is a major and rapidly growing energy market. The demand has doubled twice over the last couple of decades, and given the target of 2023 goal of increasing GDP per capita to $25,000 and exports to $500 billion, it is very likely to double again in this short space of time. But Turkey has another important role to play as a transit country and as potentially an energy hub, especially for natural gas. Within less than 2,000 kilometers, which is doable with a pipeline, you have half the world's oil and gas on one side. That is not even including Russia, which is of course another neighbor of Turkey's. In fact, if you look at Turkey's immediate neighbors, they could supply gas for more than a thousand years for Turkey's needs. So clearly there is a role beyond just as a market itself. And then on the other side, Europe, the EU plus the neighboring countries is the largest energy market. So there is an extremely interesting dynamic to be discussed here and there will be several interesting topics following that theme and representation from several ministers, including of course the Turkish energy minister, also the minister of natural resources from the Kurdistan regional government, other countries Somalia, Tunisia and so on. And it will highlight I think the key question which is how to unlock some of these resources with good policy and how to avoid that getting locked with politics. And that is I think the interesting question. The distance from where we are today to Berlin is less than the distance from Houston to New York and we've seen the fantastic revolution in energy in the last few years in the United States. But there are many more borders and a lot more politics from here to Berlin without even looking at from here eastwards to the resource countries. So how to achieve the right policy to unlock those resources and enhance regional development will be the key question. And the final point I want to make to echo some of what my colleague said is that the true resource, the true only sustainable economic resource that all these countries have, whether it's Southern Europe, whether it's the Middle East, North Africa and Asia is its young people. And so the energy resources or the oil and gas that's an important lifeblood for the economy but it's not the brain and it's not what's going to create the growth. So this is why these different themes and indeed with infrastructure as well. These different themes are very linked and interdependent and it's very appropriate that they should feed in together in this meeting. Thank you very much. I think there was a very interesting overview of the different topics for our program and you can follow those program pillars through the program with different sessions. Do we have any questions on the floor? We have some more minutes left. If we have any questions, you can ask them now to our program champions. If there's no question, you will obviously be able probably to interview them or follow them in the different sessions. So I wish you all a very interesting meeting here and I wish you all the best for the two days to come. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE covering EMC World 2015 brought to you by EMC, Brocade, and VCE. Welcome back everybody. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. We're at EMC World 2015, our 60th year, I think, community EMC World. That's really where theCUBE got started. We're always excited to come back. It's bigger and better than ever. Two cubes, just like we had last year. And we're really excited for our very special guest, the Dean of Big Data himself, Bill Schmarzo. Let me get this right. The CTO of Global Services, Big Data Practice. That is right. If the name was any longer, I'd need two cards. Well, welcome as always. I think this is a repeat of a session that we had a year ago. I think we had two for it. I think you have me on every year. I haven't bored you enough yet. You keep bringing me back. So as everyone knows, we love to get customers. We love to get practitioners on theCUBE. And you spend, as we know, all day, Monday through Thursday, not in the flyover country actually, right? You don't fly straight to the other coast. You land, wheels down, you're in the hinterland. So tell us what is going on? Well, the Big Data journey continues to mature. We're seeing that more and more the shift in the focus of Big Data, as far as from a championship perspective from the champion, is definitely moving from IT to the business. The business users are becoming front and center and are the ones in many cases who maybe aren't leading, but they're definitely arm in arm with the CIO helping to drive these things. And is that because they're hearing about it from other people? Is that because there's enough use cases that they can grab onto? Or what is giving the business owner enough information that they can really drive this adoption? So I think, Jeff, there's two things.  I think there was a high degree of disillusionment, because all the press and the analysts and the books are talking about all this Big Data nirvana. And I think what happened is the business people said, okay, let's reset. We're obviously doing something wrong. It must be the approach. It's got to be more than just a technology. And it is more than a technology. I mean, I still scoff at organizations and they say, oh, we're going to do a proof of concept, proof of technology on Big Data. Are you kidding me? Google, Yahoo, Netflix, NSA is spying on us right now using the technology. Technology works. Technology works, right. So it's not a proof of concept challenge. It's a proof of value challenge. And when you get into the proof of value discussion, the business has to be front and center, because who understands the value more than the business? Right, right. And then it becomes the standard kind of early adoption process, right? Find an early win, find something that's easy to go after, where you can demonstrate the technology and the business values. Exactly. We go through a process we call a vision workshop, and it's about a two or three-week engagement process where we go through and we look at use cases, trying to find those use cases that have both high value and high feasibility success in a nine to 12-month window.  So when we focus on nine to 12 months, it really limits and forces us to focus on things where we can deliver quick wins and then build on that success, like you said. And then what are some of the attributes that you look at when you start that process to get the people in the room thinking about potential projects? I'm sure there's a laundry list of kind of priorities or things that you can decide to really drive you to that successful early adoption. So there's two important things that I think distinguish a successful engagement from a failure. Number one is the business and the IT people actually have to like each other. They actually have to get along, right? If you think about it, the business owns the value termination process. They're the ones who are going to make decisions based on the analytics that we glean out of the data. And IT owns the feasibility. You have the right skills, the right data, the right data governance, all the right things. So first off, it can't be done by business or IT. It has to be done by business and IT. So that's job one. The second thing is we encourage organizations to pick a use case. Don't worry about picking the use case. You can spend a lot of cycles trying to figure out is this the right use case? Is this the right use case? You know, in a certain extent pick one and we'll go from there. Because what's going to happen as you go through that use case, you're going to build expertise in data.  You're going to build your analytic capabilities, your data science team. All these sort of these residual exhausts from the project are going to slowly build out your data science and your big data capabilities. So don't worry about picking the use case. Pick one and get started. So once they get started, what are some of the big surprises that you see over and over and over again? Is it where the data is? Do they even know where the data is? Is it schema? What are some of the kind of consistent themes that you know you're going to get in day three of this process? So it wouldn't be schmarzo without telling a story. Oh, absolutely. So I got this marvelous story to tell. So we're running our vision workshop process and we're working with a gaming company. And the gaming company is focused on how do they create a more predictive customer lifetime value. That's their focus, right? So we're doing a vision workshop process and we have, we must have 12 or 13 executives in the room. And it's free form thinking, ideas all over the place. It's a very creative process. And there's this woman in the back in the corner, way in the back. And of course my job as a facilitator is to bring those people out. And so I say, you know, what ideas, Susan, do you have? She says, well, I got this data source. And she says it's, it's on a PDF. So I'm not sure how usable it is, but it lists all of our, all of our players we have and their lines of credit at our gaming facility as well as all those around us. Now she says this, and it was funny, because the whole room. So this is gaming like Vegas style gaming. This is not a World of Warcraft game. Yeah, this is like, this is gaming game. This is like Casino's, right? And the whole, the whole room goes quiet. And everybody turns and looks at her like, what? We have access to all this line of credit data for all the players for our casino and all the casinos around us. And she says, yeah, but it's on a PDF. And you can see all the data scientists are drooling. We'll scrape it off the PDF. If you're thinking about trying to calculate a customer lifetime value, knowing not only what the line of credit they have with you is, but potentially have other casinos is gold. Right. So what, my takeaway is the best ideas, our best ideas come from our users because they live this business every day. They wrestle with it every day. It's not our data scientists. It's not me. Right, right. It's not our subject. It's the people who live it every day who know this stuff intrinsically. Right. So all our job is to put them into an environment where we can get those ideas out of them. It's interesting because we talk all the time about people processing tech, right? And it's always about people and the biggest barriers to execution are people and the greatest assets to bring to bear are people. Why? I'm curious in this case because we also had the women of the world on earlier today in talking about using diversity as a way to get different points of view so you can explore a wider set of data and a wider solution set that maybe just men or whatever would not have identified. So I'm curious if you can share more light. Was she not senior? Was it some random thing she had? Did it fall off the back of a truck? I mean... So I think what happens when we were born, everybody's young, we're naturally curious, right? We put our hands on the hot stove, right? We stick our head in the dog house, right? We do all these dumb things, right? Yes, I got proof I stick my head in the dog house, right? So wrong kind of dog house. So what happens is people have these sort of creative thinking ideas and they get into a work environment and a lot of times organizations spend too much time telling them what they can't do. Swaddling creativity. When we run these vision workshops, one rule we have in place is no filtering. You can't filter an idea, so you capture everything. And that woman back there had a great idea. Now she didn't know it was great, she didn't think it was even great, but she had an idea. And what happens when you get people in an environment where they can freely share ideas, creativity is contagious. It is contagious and you'll see people all of a sudden start coming up with these great ideas that be honest with you, our data scientists would never figure out because we don't know the business as well as those people do. Right, right. So it's all about putting in place an environment where they're free to share ideas, they're free to make mistakes, they're free to say dumb things and no one's there to criticize them. Right. And then talk about some of these second order effects. Like you said, the exhaust of the process has a lot of value in it beyond just kind of the core, you know, running the train down the track, if you will. Some of the things that people have found and kind of that tangential second iteration of value. What we find is as soon as we open up what we can do, the possibilities, especially after we do the proof of value stage and we're ready to move into operationalization. So we do the vision workshop to find the use cases and quantify them. We do the proof of value to show the ROI and analytical lift and then we operationalize it. Out of the proof of value, we've proven the technology, there's value there, the analytics work, that's where the use cases come out of the wall. Right, we were sitting in the meeting, I was meeting with the executive, the executive management team of this casino and we're doing our presentation update on where we are with things. After it's over, he pulls me inside and says, hey we're running a marketing campaign, do you mind looking at our collateral? Right, like I don't know anything at all about marketing collateral for a casino, but they wanted us our opinion. And then the guy who's the head of vice president player development said, hey, come up here with me, and he takes me to his office and he has all these great ideas about how he wants to leverage all his analytics. And it's when you start freeing people up to think about what they could do to envision the realm of what's possible, the sky is truly the limit. And I tell you Jeff, it's a blast. I love these engagements because you can see, you can literally see people's eyes start to sparkle. Right, let's talk about the naysayers. The gut feel guy, the old guy in the back of the room who's been doing it by gut feel and has been in the industry forever. Talk a bit about do they transform, how does that transformation work to move to a more kind of data based decision making even though we all know that without inferences, without historical reference, without some basis, you really can't get to the true value of the data. So at the risk of tweaking some of my clients, the most dangerous person in the company is what they call the hippo, the highest paid person's opinion. Usually some senior vice president who like you said, Jeff, has always done it this way. This is the way we're going to do it. We're always in this way and they block all ideas. That's the most dangerous person and the viability of a company. Now what we see sometimes, not all of the time, we'll get into a meeting and the data science team will have found a better predictor of performance, something that's going to help in true performance and the hippo comes out and says, no, no, we're going to do it this way. The data scientist is getting pushed down, the business person getting pushed down and then somebody says, hey, let's try them both. When people realize that you can try them both, you can literally see the weight lifted off people's shoulders. They're all going like, yeah, let's try. Let's try them both to see if they work. Now the hippo's put into a box. What's the hippo do then? The hippo's put into a box. We're going to still do your idea. We're going to see if it's actually going to work. Now some hippos, they play the executive order card and they throttle it, but at that point in time, the genie is out of the bottle. That you can actually test both. And then all of a sudden you again open up the creative floodgates of people who have all these creative ideas and how we can improve customer acquisition and retention and predictive maintenance and teacher performance and drive down health care costs and all these ideas that are bottled up in the organization, they just explode. It's so great to have you here, Bill, because you are literally out in the field. When I say every week, Bill leaves on Monday and he comes back on Thursday. Should have worked for a center. That's kind of a travel schedule.  This is not about do you get a latte when you walk by Starbucks, it's got the right amount of sweetener. This is life and death decisions moving diagnosis much quicker. Share with us some other stories, because you have the best kind of customer stories and you see a breadth of them as opposed to just one instance with kind of a traditional practitioner. Well, I like the hospital ones because I think there is such a bevy of opportunities inside hospitals to leverage data and analytics to really improve the quality of care and driving down costs. I was just meeting last week with a CIO of a hospital and their number one issue is how do I reduce falls in the hospital? We have a bad... Falls in the hospital. People falling in the hospital, right? Because people fall in the hospital, they get hurt and they want to be able to apply analytics to create literally a likelihood of fall score, a propensity to fall, right? Looking at how old they are, what kind of health conditions they are and if they've got a high probability of they might fall, maybe you put them in a wheelchair, maybe you guide them differently. A very heavy focus on falls because they didn't share with us, but they quantified what it costs the organization from both a financial as well as a PR perspective from people who fall in the hospital. I never had thought about that before as being a major issue. Trust me, as our population is aging, as we're getting more and more fragile people into the system, fall is a real problem. When old people fall, they break their hips. And guess what? You've got to replace them. So we see hospital-inquired infections, how do we do staff infections, how to get people out of the purgatory place when somebody checks into admissions in a hospital. Sometimes, especially in ER, they will sit in the hallway on a gurney waiting to get to a room. Well, guess for your real susceptible to captioned staff infection or other disease. Sit in the hallway. So how do I figure out how do I prioritize getting people out of that purgatory into the rooms and being cared more quickly? They're just full of opportunities to really drive down costs and drive down costs and improve quality of care. Right, right. Well, it's interesting because people love to diss on the medical profession as being really late to the game on innovation and technology and leveraging technology. Do you think within your kind of broad base of experience are they at par? Are they really that far behind? Or do people just not give them credit? A lot of medical folks on the Cube at all these different shows that are implementing new technology and innovative and creative ways. I actually think that the healthcare industry is still far behind. Especially compared to retail and financial services or the gaming industry, they are far behind. But on the other hand, I think the opportunities are even more fruitful. Right. Because not only are they lead to financial benefits, they improve quality of care. They're changing, literally changing people's lives. So, while the healthcare industry may be further behind than others, the number of opportunities that are there are almost boundless. And there's no reason why they can't start today. There's no reason why they have to go through that, oh, I got to build a data warehouse with BI expertise first. Why? Right. Let's just start right away with the data science and analytics. Let's just go right after it. And do you think it's the culture? Do you think it's the finances driven by insurance?  Is they risk averse? I mean, why do you think that's caused them to lag? And what do you think might kind of open the floodgates a little bit there? So, if you look at the healthcare industry between payers and providers, who has all the money? The payers do. The payers, right? The providers have operating very low margins. Right? So, they've historically had to make, they've had a hard time making technology decisions. Especially ones that don't have a clear, well-defined ROI. So, yeah, I think they've been behind because the hospitals, the providers, just don't have the financial resources. When we come in now, we can show how we can literally use the use case to finance the project. The ROI is so compelling that, you know, we will help them find money. But it's an industry that the payers still have the bulk of the money, and the providers are still operating on very slim margins. Yeah. Okay, so we had you on a while back. You launched your book on, The Cube at Big Data New York City 2013. You've been lazy. Where's the next book? What's going on? Give us a quick update on the dean. We're getting the hook, but you've got to be working on something because I know you like to write books in there. I've held off on announcing this, but I've saved it for The Cube. Yes, I'm in the process of working on a second book. I'm in discussions right now with a couple of publishers. The book will be, if I can retain the rights, it'll be called The Big Data NBA. And one of the themes of the book will be getting business people to think like a data scientist. We're not going to convert business people into data scientists, but we can teach business executives and business users to think like a data scientist so they're better partners with a data scientist. Awesome. I think that's first use, right? So first use, Bill's got it, the dean. The dean of Big Data, Bill Schmarzo. Thanks for stopping by, as usual. I'm Jeff Rick. You're watching The Cube. We're DMC World 2015. We'll be back with our next guest after this short break.


It is a little tricky getting this bottom circle on because all six legs have to be lined up in these holes. But it's pretty easy if you put it on loosely with the screws loose and then kind of get one in place, then tighten the screws next to it, get the next one. Nice. Ooh, nice liking gears. Okay, these gears are these ones in here. There's two up here and then two kind of in here. And I noticed when I was going through the files on my computer that these ended up having a different hole than the original one, which is on these. So the original one that's on there is this hole up here, which is one centimeter from the centimeter, center. But I ended up doing nine millimeters from the center. So I've printed out some new ones with a nine millimeter hole, so I can use that. Because when I'm running this, this part in here is kind of hitting the housing, so it needs to move slightly less. So that means I need to take those gears and replace all these ones. And since these are like the first pieces to go together, I basically have to just disassemble the whole thing. All right, gears all replaced. And oh, yeah, that is nice and smooth now. Oh, that is excellent. Steering. Oh, fingers crossed. Let's go. The steps are a little bit higher with one set of legs in there. Yeah. But this one steps higher than that one. It's just lower. That could change something a little bit, but that's pretty good. I got a shoulder. Uh-oh. I got it. I got hands on it. You need a shoulder. Okay, wait, which legs go higher? Those ones. All right, those ones go higher. So that means... You need to have to lower the thing a little bit. I'm not even numbering. All right. I want to see it turn. Steering works easiest if it's up on three legs. All right, now I should go that way. Now I should go that way. Yeah, I got to fix this so that one leg isn't stepping so much higher than the other one. Other than that... All right, one set of legs steps higher than the other set of legs. I can fix that with an adjustment in here. Now I'll figure that out. I just need to make sure there's enough space. Blah, blah, blah. It doesn't matter. It was also struggling a little bit, although it was only doing that when it was doing the higher step. So I think it'll be fine. Although even besides that, most of it's running dry. Like no oil or grease in it, so there's a lot of resistance. So if I put a bit of grease in the joints and everything, it'll loosen it up. Other than that, I think everything's working great. Just a little adjustment in here to adjust the step height. Yeah. And then I have to make the top part that does the blaster and everything. Oh, I also have to do something to keep these from coming apart. There's nothing really holding them together right now. I don't know if I want to do a screw thing or... I could just melt them together with a soldering iron a little bit in a few spots. I don't know. Or I could just wrap a rubber band around them.


Hello. My name is Alan Soriano. I'm a field applications engineer with ST Microelectronics in the America region. Today I'll be covering the TSC 2011, a high voltage precision bi-directional current sense amplifier. I'll discuss the key features, a list of potential applications, and briefly discuss the block diagram and connection pads. I'll also highlight the bi-directional currents of each phase flowing through the 10-milli ohm sense resistor of the TSC 2011's evaluation board, the STEval AETKT1B1. This evaluation board will be coupled to another evaluation board, the STEval Spin3201, an advanced brushless DC controller with an embedded STM32 microcontroller. I will not be discussing the STEval Spin3201 in any detail during this video. However, detailed information is available on the ST Microelectronics website. The key features of the TSC 2011 include the following. The bi-directional current sense amplifier senses the current flow through a sense resistor, also called a shunt resistor, which is located between the inverting and non-inverting inputs. The difference voltage is amplified and presented at the output. The supply voltage range is from ground to voltage levels between 2.7 volts and 5.5 volts. The TSC 2011 is designed to provide a wide input common mode voltage range from minus 20 volts to 70 volts, well beyond the aforementioned supply voltage range. In particular, this feature enables reverse polarity protection for batteries. The embedded first-order low-pass EMI filters at the input terminals are included to minimize the effects of changing input offset voltage. The device has a fixed gain of 60, a gain error of 0.3% and guaranteed not to drift more than 5 microvolts per degree Celsius. Its offset voltage is plus or minus 200 microvolts maximum and guaranteed not to drift more than 5 microvolts per degree Celsius. The amplifier bandwidth is 600 kilohertz. Its operating temperature range is minus 40 degrees Celsius to 125 degrees Celsius and the device includes an active low shutdown pin. Some applications include the following high-side current sensing which is a common application. Low-side current sensing, this is a common application as well but some limitation exists. It also has been used in data acquisition, instrumentation, test and measurement equipment. It also has been used in industrial process motor and solenoid control. Some of the key aspects of the block diagram with respect to the EMI filter, current sense amplifiers are commonly subjected to changing input offset voltages caused by a electromagnetic interference. The EMI filter minimizes susceptibility to this phenomena. The TSC 2011 enters a low power shutdown mode when the shutdown pin is pulled high between 0.7 of VCC to VCC. Again this is an active low current sense amplifier. Connecting the voltage reference 1 and voltage reference 2 to VCC ground and a recombination will set the unidirectional or bidirectional current flow configuration. More discussions on settings to follow. Firstly on this slide I'd like to point out the correct evaluation board is as noted. The STEval AETKT1B1 the original identifier is no longer valid but legacy boards are still around with the incorrect name. The evaluation board is actually a main board that features the TSC 2011 but it can accommodate two other daughter boards with current sense amplifiers to allow for testing and evaluation of different gain configurations such as the TSC 2010 which has a gain of 20 and the TSC 2012 with a gain of 100. Selecting a sense resistor is a trade-off between dynamic range and power dissipation. In high current application the smallest value reduces power loss. With low current applications a high value sense resistor minimizes the impact of the amplifier input offset voltage. Minimizing power dissipation is the priority when selecting the smallest value sense resistor appropriate for the application. For comprehensive calculation of the sense resistor please read section 5.4 on page 26 of the data sheet. The key to selecting an appropriate sense resistor is to maximize the current dynamic range but minimize the power dissipation. The balance between these two competing priorities depends on the application and is for the hardware designer to decide the balance. There are four operating configurations as described in the table. More details are on the next slide. As mentioned in the last slide there are four TSC 2011 configurations that can be set. When voltage reference 1 and voltage reference 2 are connected to ground current is unidirectional. It answers the non-inverting terminal through the sense resistor and onto the inverting terminal. The output common log will be ground. Next when voltage reference 1 and voltage reference 2 are connected to VCC current is also unidirectional but opposite of the previous current flow entering the inverting terminal through the sense resistor and onto the non-inverting terminal. The output common mode will be VCC and the output will be inverted. In the case of the voltage reference 1 connected to VCC and voltage reference 2 connected to ground current is bidirectional as with alternating current. The output mode will be set to half of VCC. Finally voltage reference 1 and voltage reference 2 are connected to an external reference voltage. This setup, like the previous one, can track bidirectional current. The output common mode will be set to the external reference voltage. In this slide we have the TSC 2011 and practical examples measuring current in six different locations, two measurements in each of the three phases of the BLDC motor. With each of the three high side currents and sample fires, the current flowing from the motor power supply through the shunt resistors and into the drain of the N channel MOSFETs are measured via the voltage drops across the shunt resistors placed between the input terminals. Since the current is flowing into the negative terminal and in one direction only, the TSC 2011 is configured with voltage reference 1 and voltage reference 2 connected to VCC. To measure the bidirectional inline current of the three phase motor driver circuit, a shunt resistor must be placed between the half bridge switch node and the corresponding motor phase. In this application, the ability to cope with fast transients and offer a high common mode fits within the capabilities of the TSC 2011. The configuration of this application means voltage reference 1 is connected to VCC, voltage reference 2 is connected to ground and the output mode will be half of VCC. In many applications of the 2011 and shunt resistor is often implemented between the source of an N channel MOSFET and to ground in a low side configuration. Sometimes, however, when a ground connects to a system chassis, another option just as a low voltage operational amplifier merits consideration to the additional ground currents that could exceed the TSC 2011 limits, such as in automotive and industrial applications. In this practical application of a brushless three phase motor, the TSC 2011 could have been utilized as well. Please see the recently available application node 5423 current sensing in BLDC motor application, which is available on ST's website. This motor control application consists of three TSC 2011 current sense amplifier evaluation boards and advanced brushless DC controller with an embedded SDM32 microcontroller evaluation board and an Anaheim automation induction motor. In addition to the hardware, there are GUI software firmware and an updated version of Java that is required to operate this motor control application, which are all listed here. All are available without charge, but the IAR embedded workbench has a time limit. The brushless four pair poles, three phase induction motors available through Anaheim automation and their website and model are listed here. Siding up and running a BLDC motor will require information such as the motor parameters, startup parameters, current sensing parameters and additional advanced detailed parameters. It may take some time and effort to become operational. Here's a fully operational demonstration. To the left, the laptop shows the ST motor control workbench GUI, which contains several gauges displaying the motor shaft revolutions per minute, final ramp speed, heat sink temperature, motor power and bus voltage. The GUI also displays variables such as PWM frequency, sensor selection, torque and flux and other operational information. The display on the right contains the brushless DC evaluation board, the three TSC 2011 evaluation boards and the connected motor, which spins a pin. The oscilloscope screen shows the inline bi-directional current in each of the three phases, which are 120 degrees apart. The TSC 2011 sends the changing current via voltage drops across the 10 milli ohm shunt resistors, displaying results in real time. The gauges and graph also display the real time operating conditions and the results of starting, stopping and then starting the motor again. Here you'll see a video close up of the three inline current sense amplifiers measuring the bi-directional currents entering and exiting the motor in each of the three phases. And finally, here's a screen capture of the three inline phase currents at 120 degrees apart. Thank you for your time.


Mr. Valentine Uzibo, the governorship candidate of the PDP in the just concluded Anambra poll, has felicitated the governor-elect Professor Chukumar Soludo. In a statement issued in Orca on Tuesday, Uzibo stated that he called Soludo on phone and wished him well. He further stated that he decided to go into active politics two years ago with the objective of setting an example of excellence in governance and unifying Anambra and Igbo people around a shared vision of greatness. He expresses determination to always hold the incoming government accountable to ensure that the people's well-being is foremost in his actions at all times.


Hi, this is David Rosales. I'm the pastor of Calvary Chapel, Chino Valley, California. Today I would like to answer the question, is it permissible to have intimate sexual relations with someone that you are engaged to be married to? Well, obviously, we live in a time when the thought of abstaining from sexual intimacy before marriage is considered by the majority of non-Christians to be unnecessary and even ridiculous. The argument often is placed in very basic terms. We have sexual urges that are natural and it is only natural that we express them. So what is wrong with expressing them with someone that you love? Isn't that the best way to do so? A growing number of Christians express the same sentiment and believe that if they are formally engaged then sexual intimacy is allowed and because they love one another they feel that engaging in intimate sexual activity is not sinful because they love one another and because they're planning on being married. Many professing Christians have made the decision to first move in together and then to have a wedding ceremony. They seem to think that it gives them opportunity to see if they can live together and believe that they are working out their relationship in a kind of trial run, that they hope will help them to have a better marriage once the ceremony is done and the license is signed. Is this true? One study found that 40% of women living with a significant other for the first time between 2006 and 2010 transitioned to marriage within three years. 32% of those relationships remained the same and finally 27% of those relationships were dissolved. It would seem that the odds of making it to marriage are not in the favor of those who make decisions to live together. Which brings us back to the original question. Is it permissible to have intimate sexual relations with someone that you are engaged to be married to? In the book of 1 Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul in chapter 4 told the church we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more just as you receive from us how you ought to walk and to please God for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus for this is the will of God your sanctification that you should abstain from sexual immorality. Interestingly, one of the more common questions that I have heard as a pastor is what is God's will for me? Here is one of the portions of Scripture that very very clearly tells us what God's will is for us.  When Paul says abstain from sexual immorality the word used to speak of such immorality is the word pernea. Pernea speaks of every form of sexual practice that lies outside the circle of God's revealed will. It includes adultery, premarital intercourse, homosexuality, bestiality and sexually physical activity outside of the marriage covenant. When Paul wrote this letter sexual immorality was common amongst the pagans as it still is. It is possible that the Thessalonians had slipped back into this this kind of mindset after their conversion. This is not improbable because sexual restraint was almost unheard of in Greek culture. For pagan Greeks, it was unreasonable to encourage people to sexual restraint because it was naturally assumed that a man would find sexual pleasure outside of marriage. Because of this casual sexual activity was widely accepted as natural and harmless. Some even argued that sexual fulfillment was natural and neutral for them. It was simply an appetite. Paul addressed this when he wrote the first letter to Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 13, Paul quoted the saying when he wrote food for the stomach and the stomach for food, which was the mindset of Corinthians. After writing this, he went on to say, but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body. Sadly, today the overwhelming majority does not believe that sex outside of marriage is sin and it is glorified, make it seem desirable and sophisticated to casually engage in. It is presented as normal, neutral, enjoyable, harmless, and permissible in almost every movie, television, program, song, and college course related to sexuality. Salom, if ever, do you see the repercussions of casual sex portrayed in movies? You do not see the broken hearts that are left behind. The shame, the deep loss of self-respect, or the depth of conviction at its wrongness. You almost never are witness to the venereal disease ravaging the innocent partner, the HIV AIDS that is contracted, the unexpected pregnancy, or the aftermath of the abortion, or the broken lives of the babies that are born to such casual affairs. Hollywood pretends to be outraged at sexual injustices and then continues pouring millions into producing movies that glorify it in every form. In one year, they could impact sexual mindsets by producing movies that held up purity as the preferred model but are more interested in making money than encouraging morality. And they call Christians hypocrites. Even in the church, there's a tremendous lack of understanding about this subject. The fact is sexual promiscuity is incompatible with the life of holiness or purity. Why? Because sexual sin destroys the foundation of intimacy established in marriage. By virtue of creation, marriage is God's design and is more than living together. Sexual intimacy is intended to be enjoyed with God's blessing between a man and a woman. Genesis 2.24 reads, A man shall leave his father and mother be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh. God's command concerning marriage is intended to produce a godly couple, that makes it their aim if they are able to conceive or to adopt children, to raise children who love, fear and serve the Lord. Solomon in the book of Proverbs repeatedly warns his son and future readers about sexual immorality and consistently states that sexual immorality destroys marriages and often leads to divorce and to painfully broken children. Our common culture regards immorality as normal, but God makes it clear that it is normal only in the sense that it is driven by biological drives, but in the end it is highly destructive. So is it something that believers can casually involve themselves in with no repercussions? No. The writer of Hebrews in chapter 13 verse 4 wrote, Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept here, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. Paul wrote in Ephesians 5 verses 5 through 8, This you know that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idolater as any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God, let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them. The Christian is to live a blameless and holy life before God and man, which provides the contrast of the lifestyle of a believer with the one who does not fear God and is unprepared for eternity. It is so important that Paul said in Ephesians 5, 3 do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you as this proper among saints. In 1 Thessalonians 4, 6 Paul said no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter. There are plenty of men who tell the woman that they tell them they love them and will marry them and then after getting bored with them or finding something about them, they find unattractive, they leave them. One day another man meets her and cherishes her and loves her and wants to marry her and finds that she has been taken advantage of and hurt by somebody else. The other man defrauded his brother by robbing him of the virginity that ought to have been brought to the marriage. The future partner of the woman has been defrauded of that which should have belonged to him, her purity. The fact is to have relations with a woman outside of marriage is not only a trespass against God's law, it defrauds a fellow Christian who eventually will take this woman as his own wife or perhaps has already done so. The simple fact is sexual purity reflects on the purity of the whole person. Your character and faith in Jesus is revealed by your obedience to God's word and your obedience is made possible by the help of the Spirit of God and your willingness to walk in his spirit. So in answer to the question, is it permissible to have intimate sexual relations with someone that you are engaged to be married to? The answer is the proper place for sexual intimacy is within the bonds of the covenant of marriage. Since God created marriage, it is obvious that God's instructions concerning it should be closely followed. If you have fallen in this area or are presently involved in this kind of sin, it's not too late, you can and you should repent and seek the Lord for forgiveness and for restoration to fellowship with him. If your partner resists you doing so and refuses to do so, you need to ask whether this is the person you should be with. If they are believers, they should desire to do what the Lord says. If they refuse, then you must decide to follow the Lord and trust the Lord in all of this. This is David Rosales, pastor of Calvary Chapel of the Chino Valley, California.


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jasper's Case Breaks.com. Shows an $18.80 Optic Football. It is a 10 box blaster half case break, random teams number seven that sold out. And we're giving away a free spot with our early bird giveaway. So buy one of the first 16 spots in this break to get entered in a free spot. So we randomize the customer names before the break number one gets the free spot. So good luck. There we go. Here's the 16 customer names that bought in first. Three is the same dice roll for the list of 16. Plug in the name and randomize the teams and names again. So let's roll it and we got a two and a four for six times. Two, three, four, five, and six. Boom, six times. Christopher Bay free spot for you. Boom. Now let's go six times now. Here. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Curt down to Chris. Six times here. One, two, three, four, five, and six. 49ers down to the Detroit Lions. So Curt with the 49ers, Quinn with the Packers, Matthew with the Steelers, Travis with the Broncos, Curt with the Chargers, Chris with the Cardinals, Matthew with the Jets, Nick with the Raiders, Giants, Chris Maxwell, Alas, Malmojo Bangles, Corey with the Saints, Peter with the Browns, Justin with the Dolphins, Nick with the Falcons, Tyus. You have the Ravens. Christopher, your free spots Cowboys, Andrew with the Colts, Monty with the Bugs, Matthew with the Rams, Chris with the Jaguars, Matthew with the Redskins, Monty with the Patriots, Chris, you have the Vikings, you knock with the Texans, Allison with the Panthers. Travis with the Bills, Chris with the Eagles, Chris on Nick with the Bears. Chris with the Seaogs, Peter with the Titans, Allison with the Chiefs, and Chris with the Detroit Lions. So there you go. Boom. So if anybody wants to trade, this is the time. All right, man. Well, Chris, I don't think anybody wants to trade, right? Just close it then. Actually, I think it's better this way. All right, so there's 10 boxes on this side. 10 boxes on this side. It's a half case break. See if I can do something to ricochet off of these. One, two, three for the left side, four, five, six for the right. Six, one, two, three, four, five, six. We'll go with the right side. These will be for the next blaster that's up on the radio on the website. There you go. Jeez, Chris, are you a Cowboys fan? That makes sense. That makes sense. That's for five boxes at a time, blaster-wise. Stalock having a shutout right now, guys? Against the Knux? Knux having scored nothing? With Pettersen, Besser, you even got Tufoli there now? The lights went out. The gamer out of the hockey game, the lights just went out black. And the guy said, it's not your TV. Actually, the lights went out for a split second. Yeah, but it went pitch black, like there was no lights. But then it turned back on. All right, you guys, good luck. Josh Rosen, Raider Rookie. And we got both Scarborough. Marlon Mack, Michael Gallop, and Logan Woodside. Dallas Goddard, Raider Rookie. Jamal Moore. Alvin Gordon. And we got Austin Kroll. Nice Dallas Goddard, Raider Rookie here. Stud tight end, gonna get so much better. You got Vida. Sony Michelle for the Patriots. Monty with that one. Little Baker Mayfield. Cam Newton. And Danny Etling. James Washington. Tyler Compton. All right, guys, halfway through. Come on, Knux, get at least one goal.  I think Patterson's gonna do it right here. Or maybe not, but it's heavy. Oh, Blaster Boxes are still around. It's just that depending on the sport and what rookie class you're looking for, they are not gonna cost $20 anymore. So they're still available. They still make them. It's just that people have realized the value in Blasters. So it's the blind demand. Prices will go up if you can't get them and people have them. The hobby has blown up within just the last six months.  So yeah, guys, it's changed for sure in two years, but even more just in the last like four or five months from before COVID to now. Philip Rivers, Josh Rosen, Alden T, Kiki Cootie, Trey Kwan Smith, Camerawake, Pettis. Yeah, people are just scavengers, man. They already know when the day is to drop off. They probably pay the people to let them know. It's very complex now. It's like, it's like, it's probably considered straight up like dealing and stuff. Katelyn Vallage, Marcel Aitman. All right, last chance, guys. Good luck. Naheem Hines, and Josh Adams. All right, well there you go, guys. Here's all the pinks, the raider rookies. Bigger Mayfield in there. Nick Chubb. This was the first half of the kids, guys. Number eight is in the store. Jaspy'scasefreaks.com.