The festival of Deepavali reminds us fireworks and brings joy to all of us, however for those working in the industries involved in the production of firecrackers, the story is different. The industry faced a setback through a petition filed in the Supreme Court a couple of years back seeking a ban on fireworks due to pollution. The petition had led to widespread panic that the jobs in the sector would be wiped out. After filing an affidavit with substantial evidence, it was pointed out that there are various other reasons and circumstances for air pollution in the country. Thus, the industry started rolling again even after competing with the low-cost imported crackers from China and by overcoming the brunt of demonetization and implementation of GST. But this year there is another setback facing the industry due to the pandemic-induced lockdown. 95% of total firecrackers production in India is in Sivakasi, which comes under the Vidinagar district of Tamil Nadu. Around 8 lakh workers are directly and indirectly involved in this industry, which estimatedly earns up to Rs. 5000 to Rs. 6000 crore a year. However, it has been in doldrums due to insufficient domestic and export demands due to lockdown. On top of that, many state governments have banned crackers citing COVID-19 on the verge of Deepavali. We visited a few workers from Sivakasi. We couldn't go out and play with our children. It was very difficult. It was very difficult for us to eat. We only ate after receiving the residency. Then, someone would come and help us. We had to buy and sell the products that were available for the 10th time. We had to sell the products that were available for the young people. We had to buy and sell the products that were available for the young people. They had no job. If there was one worker, they couldn't manage it. In Sivakasi, there are no other jobs. The government is doing it by itself. They are doing it by themselves. They are not thinking of doing something else. Now, they are the ones who are doing it. They are the ones who are doing it. We can do something by themselves. We don't have any other option than this. For the past three to four months, we have been working for a short period of time. We couldn't even manage to buy the products that were available for the young people. We buy the products that we used to buy and we have to wait for three months. Because it is raining, we have to wait for three months and get the products that we bought. We don't buy the silvers. We only buy the products and we eat them in the next few months. The government is very generous with the children. It is good that they have provided you with some kind of help. After the lockdown, there were three days and two days of work. Now, if we say that we have three people, it is two days for you and two days for me and two days for them. I get two days of work in the week. It is a very low income. Can you imagine how much my salary is spent? That is what I am asking. The challenge is that I can live with the income that I have today. Next, we are the businessmen who are in self-employment. I cannot pay that debt. I am asking you about the corporate businessmen who are in self-employment. They are in self-employment. They are in self-employment. I am asking you about the situation.  Why do they have to go to the hospital and meet the people who have come to the hospital? I have been working for eight years. These days, the company is very poor and the workers are poor. The company is in a hurry to stop the work, so the company has stopped the work. In the CBM, the company is not in a hurry to stop the work. Before the lockdown, the companies are very poor. And the income is also low. In our family, there are 5 people. We have faith in this. The income for the 5 people is 8 rupees per month. But the income for the 5 people is 6 rupees per month. It will be 1 hour to go to school. From 1 am to 5 pm, they give us 5-5 rupees. We will be able to see all the finishings. After that, we will be able to see the income for the whole week. We have faith in this. We have faith in the people who are lakhs. We can't do it. We have faith in this. We shouldn't use the green salt for the Ferrym night. It will be used for the month of the forest. We don't use the Ferrym night salt. The Ferrym night salt is very important for the village. Only after that, we can make a 60-way road. If we close it, the 60-way road will be stopped. When the 60-way road is stopped, our businessmen will go to work. We don't know any other job. We don't know if it's business or not. Only the people in the village are there. If the wife and children see the Ferrym night salt, will they come back or not? The Ferrym night salt is very important for the village. It's a very healthy salt. It's not for the family. It's not for the family. We don't have a job. We don't have a job. We don't sell the salt. We can only give the salt. We can only give the salt to the family. We can't earn the salt for two days or three days. We have to pay the rent. We have to pay the rent. People don't believe it. It's very difficult. It's very difficult. We have to pay the rent. We have to pay the rent. We don't have a job. If we pay the rent for four days, they will give us 50 rupees. If we pay the rent for two days, they will give us 50 rupees. If we pay the rent for one day, they will give us 20 rupees. We can't work for 1000 rupees a day. Even if we pay the rent for five days, we can earn 190 rupees. We are not busy taking the ration. We are not busy taking the ration. We don't have any time. But in any way, we give money for the ration. We have to pay the rent for the ration at a time when the fire was on. We used a small amount of salt to fill the ration. We used a small amount of salt to fill the ration. We gave it to the people with money and sold it to them. That's how we filled it. We get a good amount of money by paying 10 or 12 rupees. We won't get a good amount to drink. The main thing in the business was that the demonstration was very painful. The potty was burnt. The fire was also lit inside it. After that, when the meat was cooked, the potty was burnt. It was a very painful experience. The potty was one of the tools used by kids. The potty that was used by kids was burnt. The potty that was used here was a bit down. That's why the demonstrations were held. The protest was also in the business. But the GST came here and faced a huge struggle. The workers were faced with a huge struggle. After that, when the protest was held in Balwasava, the main thing was that the potty was burnt. The sodium nitrate was not to be used. The raw material was not to be used. The protest was being held in Ucchanidhi Mandar. That's why the protest was being held in Ucchanidhi Mandar. We saw that the protest was being held in Ucchanidhi. In Ucchanidhi Mandar, the protestors in Sangam Sarbalan, re-enacted in the Bank of Patas, Attaas and reported to the authorities. Patas, under the circumstances, was the main reason for the protests. The main reason was to avoid the spread of the accident. The carbon dioxide was used to convert the protest from Maalipuram to Ucanidhan. We will use the AC in the Delhi women's market. We will use the Kulisadhanas as well. The government has made all these mistakes. The government is the main reason for this. The government has made all these mistakes. The government has made all these mistakes. It tries to get rid of the government and that's why the government continues to break the law. In February of last month, Pattaasthulil, who was unable to live due to COVID-19, came to work due to the spread of the virus. The government refused to work due to the spread of the virus. The people who came from different provinces went to their own village.


Thanks everyone for your time. Thanks Finos for that awesome organization So and thanks for the the opportunity to really speak about open source technologies Obviously otherwise that will be probably the wrong forum, but open source technologies in the context of accelerating trade cycles And especially relevant as we are moving towards towards T1 settlement So with me today the clicker doesn't work with me today Ashley trainer or Solution architect for financial services at Databricks Me Antoine Amanda technical director for financial services at Databricks and Ashley and I are absolutely thrilled to co-host this session with Steven Goldbaum and Efrem Stanley Respectively a distinguished engineer at Morgan Stanley and a technology fellow at Goldman Sachs To talk about legend more fear How are those different open source initiatives can coexist can be integrated and harmonized when coupled with Databricks back-end So we have a packed agenda. So let's get started right away with that code or probably more of a statement than a code But something that we've seen in Wall Street back in 2015 when the industry was moving from t3 to t2 So two days to close and settle all those trades as a way to minimize that risk risk of those trades failing and Therefore minimize all those margin codes, right? So time equals risk reducing that time makes sense But that was back in 2015 built specifically for period of high market volatility What have we seen since 2015? We've seen a Brexit. We've seen geopolitical tensions We've seen a global pandemic and with it a frenzy for retail investment from meme stock from ready post We've seen an explosion of data and that explosion of data Really pushed our trading systems to the edges really exposed clear limitation of what our back offices are able to cope To scale to adapt to those changing conditions But volatile market means that we need to bring that time even further down to one day So initially suggested by the DTC see no on route for being enforced by mid 2024 and that gives us practitioners just one year to design to implement to test Not one or two or three systems, but an entire ecosystem shared with all market participants So from the buy side the sell side the custodians the clearing houses Somehow all those different services and systems will need to work in harmony The challenge we see is that back office are plagued with legacy technologies plagued with silos data silos people silos Across asset classes across regions and plagued with manual processes. I Wouldn't be surprised if today I hear some analysts are physically running from one mainframe to another with a floppy disk Right or sending that via FedEx or recording an entire Excel spreadsheet on a database on every single day So the way we're gonna achieve T1 as an ecosystem as an environment is through automation and Automation would be kind of naive to think everybody will be using the same technology and the same proprietary model Automation will need to be about standard and open source is key So somehow it's aligned with those those key values of open source technologies Creating new standards that enable that Interoperability across different systems that may be using different technologies, but harmonized around those those different standards and driving that collaboration So legend and Morphe are great examples to enable that Interoperability data as a contract models as a contract logic as a contract that can be interpreted across different systems And before I hand over to Stephen to talk about Morphe Just want to stress really the importance of having that right data culture We've seen that over and over whether it's data driven whether it's about cloud whether it's about open source Organization that went through that kind of behavior shift that transition in term of a data culture win Why because they can adapt to all those changing Condition much faster than anyone else and to put that in perspective of T1 when DTCC estimates that the margin calls can be reduced by 40% by moving to T plus one day That's billions of dollars that could be reinvested somewhere else Assuming we can connect the dots Assuming we can cut the middleman kill those manual process and streamline that entire process throughout that entire trade lifecycle So let me hand over to Stephen to talk about Morphe We will be looking at an example that is not necessarily a both T1 settlement But you will be looking at this through the context of regulatory reporting But the principle is that all those technologies are generic and can be adapted and we can use that for LCR calculation today the same can be used for trade settlement tomorrow all those different technologies can be Interoperated a choice different system. So without further ado over to you Steven and Thanks Okay, so yes, so we're here to talk about how we can bring the Finnaz ecosystem together to do new and interesting things and What is more interesting than regulations and what better regulation is there than the liquidity coverage ratio, right? and so the liquidity Otherwise known as the LCR because it's a mouthful it's really about Categorizing cash flows so you take all these cash flows and Categorize them into groups and then once you've categorized them You will apply haircuts to those groups and then you aggregate all that up And then you apply some math on top of that to eventually come to a single number That's what the whole thing is. So there's a lot of different kinds of processing there and Excellent excellent. Thank you. And so One of the things you might ask is well, how can we implement that and that's where morpher comes in So what we've done is coded the LCR and morpher And just to kind of highlight some of the things you can do with that is with morpher You can interact with it interact with the logic in a non technical way So what we're looking at here is a subset of the of the regulation Specifically about assets and what we're looking at is the section that Takes those assets and based on the attributes of the assets figures out what group it should be put into And so one of the questions that you often get as a developer is you know, the business will come to you and say Why did this particular asset get categorized that way and instead of having to go dig through code? We can actually give them this tool and say, you know what you can go and interact with it and find out and then they can Go click on this thing and this is all generated from the business logic But they can go in and they can see exactly why we got to certain results the way we did and On top of that We can then unit test it. So then we can plug in values into this inputs area and Put those in a unit test So all of that is just a way to make sure that everybody's confident that we got the rules correct And we do that by having an interactive session with the people who know the rules so that they can go in and Understand that we what we've implemented and then put in their own test cases to that So the next thing you might ask is okay, that's great, but then how do we execute it? Well, what we can do is we can use more first tools to generate into different execution contexts And so in this example, we're going to generate spark so that we can execute into the data bricks lake house platform and by doing that we're handing off execution to a managed platform and then the other thing you might ask is well, how do we integrate that and The answer to that is well We can take the information of the the structure of the assets that needs to be Handed to this calculation In order for it to run and we can hand that to an integration technology like legend So we can take this this is the structure of the asset by the way We can take that information and hand it to legend and then let legend pull that data in from on-prem And put it into the lake house for execution And so that way we've got the entire ecosystem again This is all open source technologies and we've got this all working together in a way that Provides value to everybody and with that I will hand it to Ephraim Sorry Thanks Hi, everyone. Thanks for having me. My name is Ephraim Stanley. I work for Goldman Sachs I'm also a contributor on the legend project So today what I want to do is give you an overview for the legend data platform and walk you through a real demo of building a data access API that we called a legend service So legend is a data modeling and data management platform and a data model is a systematic way By which you describe the logical shape of data now data models are super important because they allow multiple parties Whether you are users within the same organization or even across multiple organizations to have the same consistent view of data Now what legend let's us do is access the data that's in different physical databases Through the lens of a logical model And the way we do that is by creating a mapping between the logical shape of data and the physical shape and using this mapping Legend can take a logical query convert it into a physical query run it against the data and get you the data back Right and this is again like super important because no matter where your data is It respect of how it's laid on desk you get a consistent view and today thanks to our Partnership and collaboration and Antoine's personal contribution like legend now supports data and Databricks databases using a JDBC connector So with that I'm going to have Antoine help me with a live demo So what you're seeing right now is an application that we call legend studio Which is a very interactive rich data modeling environment You could do many things with studio like you could define a data model You can manage the life cycle of the data model through its through its integration with a get back in like get lab And we can also execute data access queries, but let's just start by looking at a data model. So here we have a very simple Data model of an asset which is modeled as a class with a bunch of attributes and now we move on to a mapping So on the left side we have the logical shape of the data and then on the right side we have the physical model which in this case happens to be a Relational model with a database table and then in the middle you have all the mapping rules in the simplest case You can take an attribute like business line and map it one to one with a database table column in the more complex case For example Maturity date you can map it to a sequel join Now with this mapping in place then we move on to what we call a connection or a runtime So a connection is where data lives now in this case We're saying our data is in a Databricks cluster and you can authenticate with one or more supported authentication schemes Now with all of this in place we can then move on to define a service. So let's look at a definition of a service So the job of a service is to define the data that you want in this case We're saying we want to project certain attributes of the asset class But to execute this query we need to map it with the mapping that we just described And then we also need to point it to where the data is which in this case is a Databricks cluster Now with all this in mind with all this setup will see the magic happen now when Anton executes the query We'll just blame the Wi-Fi here. Yeah So what legend is doing here is taking the logical query Converting it into a sequel query running it against a database and giving you a data back Wifi. Yeah, maybe the Wi-Fi, but So we're seeing that so Steven created Almost an input data model for your job, right? So you were expecting data to come in a specific shape specific strict your specific schema You define that schema a frame as a target class and we've mapped that physical model that physical table into this So that means that if we can pass that data that information to a more free application the rest becomes seamless so I think that that really leads to What we wanted to check at what could be that kind of glue in between? How do we pass and integrate all those different open-source initiatives and make sure that the schema of one can be fed into the Protocol expected by a different different service different systems And with that if actually you can elaborate a little bit of the role of Delta Lake and the importance of Delta Lake as an open-source Technology as we are seeing in financial services Yeah, okay, so everyone. Oh, I'm too short for this. Um, so my name is Ashley trainer I'm a senior solution architect here at Databricks and before I get into Delta I first want to just give a little background on Databricks So Databricks is a data and AI company We were founded by the creators of the open-source tools spark Delta and ML flow and the Databricks lake house Platform really aims to bring the best of a data warehouse with the best of a data lake So the reliability the performance the governance the strong governance of a warehouse But with the flexibility and the openness and the machine learning support of a data lake And today we have over a thousand customers in financial services who are using the Databricks lake house to power their data use cases The foundation of the Databricks lake house is Delta Lake And Delta Lake is an open-source table format that brings reliability and performance to data That's directly in your data lake instead of putting it into a data warehouse There's over a hundred and ninety contributors from 70 different organizations And actually as of this summer Databricks announced that all of the Delta Lake APIs We're actually going to be open-sourced to make sure that no matter who's using Delta and where you're using it You're getting all of the functionality and performance that comes with Delta Delta Lake Now that includes things like z-ordering and change data capture and dynamic partition dropping all that kind of stuff and So when you think about and one other thing and Databricks also ensured that all things going forward will be open-source in Delta Lake And it's that openness the insurance that everything's going to be open in Delta that really makes Delta an integral part of your Strategic decisioning when you think about your tech stack in data moving forward and it's not let's replace our old technology with Delta Let's bring in this open-source tech It's actually harmonizing the technology that you've decided on by the underpinning of these open-source technologies like Delta So what we're going to demo today what we're going to hopefully show in a second if Anton can switch the thing one more time is Bringing legend modeling together from Goldman Sachs and more fears transformation of business logic into spark as an engine to actually tie these two technologies together To actually do LCR So let's let's see here. You scroll the other way than me, right? Alright, so here we go So the first thing we want to show so the model that we saw earlier in legend that model has been Okay Created into a jar file which been added as a dependency to our Databricks spark cluster. Oh wonderful So what you can actually see here is that we have all of the entities of this legend model available to us in this Databricks Notebook that is full access to a Databricks spark cluster So we see here are the entities the services The functions that were predefined and these are all actually going to be powered by Spark and Delta on the back end So this will allow us to do things like create data models in Delta tables execute queries all powered by spark So we'll see here This is the actual service that we were looking at earlier And so really simply and programmatically we can create this spark data frame called inflows by executing this legend query To get inflows with buckets so under the hood what's happening here is spark jobs are kicking off We're reading data from those Delta tables and we're bringing in this data frame that complies with the input That's required for our Morpher transformations But we haven't actually had to write any of that as a user that's all been abstracted away in this legend model So now we have that data frame. We're going to pass it off to Morpher So Morpher can actually take that business logic that we saw earlier and Transform it into Scala spark code, right so that we can run it on a spark engine And so that's exactly what's happening here And we've actually compiled that spark code into a second jar that we've added to this cluster as well So with a simple line of code we're able to transform that initial data frame Into our final value calculations here again with no joins no data sourcing no Understanding the logic simply just applying this model to the data frame So now that we have our results we want to persist this report somewhere so we actually go ahead and persist it into a Delta table and that gives us a lot of additional Functionality so one of the things that Delta does really well is gives us full basically DML and DDL support on top of What our compressed parquet files really? so we're able to Do things like evolve this report schema over time We're able to do things like add access controls on top of this report and one other thing That's really interesting is Delta has this concept of what we call time travel which is basically the ability to every time we update or Overwrite or delete this table. We record that transaction as a separate version of this Delta table So what we see here when we describe this table is this table actually has three versions The most up-to-date version is whatever we wrote last But if for some reason we need to audit this report as of a different point in time either because it was updated or maybe it was deleted We can actually go ahead and query that really simply using either a timestamp or a version number Just like this in SQL so we can actually see this report here as of December 2nd You can also query it by the version number itself The last thing I'll say about putting this report into Delta is it also gives us the ability to use Another open-source tool called Delta sharing in order to provide this report out to Other users who may need access to this report But we don't want to actually copy this report to another location or maintain data pipelines to deliver this Potential for data stillness all this kind of bad stuff that comes with data delivery So Delta Delta sharing is another open-source tool that Databricks open sourced in 2021. It is an open Protocol for data sharing that allows for real-time sharing of even large data sets Without ever having to copy it or move it to another location And the really powerful thing about Delta sharing and that it's open source is that because it's open source It can be integrated into all of the tools that you see in your toolkit today tools like spark and pandas and power BI and Java and Databricks of course all have integrations to Delta sharing so without copying this report at all We're able to create a recipient create a share Put this table right in that Delta share and then grant them access to this data without ever taking it in this case Out of our S3 bucket Yeah, so this is really really great right because first what we've seen is that full reproducibility reproducibility aspect of Delta enforcing that reproducibility of your data But because we version controlled all the morphia logic unit-tested that logic and because we can compile and automatically deploy that logic into your underlying environment and Same with legend. We have all the evidence of the Reusability the reproducibility and audit requirements from a code from a data from a data model perspective So we are in full kind of Comfortable position to know exactly that report at that specific point in time But one actually just showed is really critical to enable that last mile that delivery whether it's from the back of his Back to the front of his or whether it's from a An organization to other organizations elsewhere Regardless of the underlying technology so you mentioned Excel which is a good example When people are using Excel on a day-to-day basis and to use that information usually we will be sending that data over Someone will be responsible for bringing that data coding that into a database and then exporting that to excel here We're not even transferring that information. We're pointing Excel directly to where your data sits With that specific version that we agreed. So I think we that that concludes the demo that we wanted to do Again coming back to T1 settlements. It's really about automation and automation means Protocols and standard and interoperability of code of data of models So those capabilities are generic enough to adapt to all those different Environments and different systems that you may have so this is what will drive that automation So we want to thank you all for your time today If you have any question, please feel free to Visitors downstairs at the booth will answer any question that you may have if you want more information about all those Those great initiatives So I think the best bet is to go at the Phinos website and all the Phinos GitHub Organization where you'll find legend you will find more fear you will find that legend Delta Contribution that we announced last year as a labs project. That is no a top-level Phinos Project, and you will see all those different Announcement and partnership moving forward on those models and calculations Thank you very much for your time today Fantastic panel


Friends, the India story is strong today and stronger tomorrow. Let me explain how today the FDI regime has been very well liberalized. We have created a friendly test regime for sovereign wealth and pension funds. We have undertaken significant reforms for developing a robust bond market. We have come up with incentive schemes for champion sectors, schemes in sectors like pharma, medical devices and electronic manufacturing have already been in operation. We want to ensure high level of tension and effective handholding for investors. For these, a dedicated, empowered group of secretaries has been made. We are proactively monetizing assets across sectors, airports, railways, highways, power transmission lines, so many. Real estate investment trust and infrastructure investment trust have been fully enabled for monetization of both public and private assets. Friends, today India is undergoing a rapid change in mindset as well as markets. Today India has embarked on a journey of deregulation and decriminalization of various offenses under the company's act. India has risen from 81 to 48 in the Global Innovation Index rankings in the last 5 years. India has risen 142 to 63 in the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking in last 5 years. The results of these improvements are there for everyone to see. India received around 70 billion US dollars from institutional investors in a year and a half between January 2019, July 2020. This is almost equal to that received in 4 years, between 2013 and 2017. The continued confidence of global investor community in India is seen by the fact that FDI into India went up by 20% in 2019 and this when global FDI inflows failed by 1%, India has already received over 20 billion US dollars during the first 6 months of this year from across the globe. This is also the time when COVID-19 has been at peak globally. The International Finances Services Center at Gip City is one of our major initiatives. The Center could utilize it as a preferred platform for transit globally. We have recently set up a full-empowered unified regulator for it.


Right now at Appalachian Wireless, you can get the Samsung Galaxy S7 for just $99.99 and get a second one. Free! Service agreement is required on both devices, serving you for the last 25 years with better service and bigger savings. At today's Appalachian Wireless, 21-year-old Johnny Mullins was arrested Tuesday evening in Jenkins. The charge? Second-degree arson. Kentucky Forestry notified Jenkins police on Tuesday that the forest fires that had burned around the city for more than a week were finally out. Just a couple of hours later, a new fire started in Wheaton Hollow, near the residence of former City Councilman Terry Braddock. When police and firefighters responded, they found an active forest fire and contained the blaze. Police Chief Jim Stevens also allegedly found 21-year-old Johnny Mullins, who after questioning admitted to setting the fire. Mullins gave a voluntary statement taking responsibility for the fire and offered his apologies to the community. At this time there's no indication any other fires other than this one in Wheaton Hollow area is connected to Mullins. Mullins was a part-time resident in Terry Braddock's home. Braddock said he was surprised to find out that Mullins allegedly had a hand in setting the fire. I never suspected that he was doing anything, but after I'd seen the fire last night and stuff, the way it was burning, I could tell that it was, I mean, it was created. Mullins is relatively well-known in Jenkins. On his personal Facebook account, he posts weather-related videos and field reports. In several recent posts, he reported on the forest fires around Jenkins. I don't want to get so close to the fire because of the smoke, but as you can see behind me, this is what we're dealing with. We're dealing with some very, very dangerous conditions. In another post, he stated that he did not believe the fires around Jenkins were intentionally set. Chief Stevens said no motive has been established for Mullins' alleged actions, but Mullins' alleged role in the latest fire will be taken into consideration into the investigation into other fires around Jenkins. And charges from other agencies, including the federal government, are possible. This time this is the only one that we can positively connect him with, but investigations are still ongoing. We were in contact with the U.S. Forest Service. They had requested us contact them if we did make any kind of arrests on this. They will be contacting us again, and they also have an open investigation into this fire, as well as the others that have been set in the area. Mullins remains lodged in the Letcher County Jail, reporting in Jenkins for EKB News. I'm Chris Anderson.


Okay, here he is, white hat. Salaamu Alaikum guys, traditional Catholics and Protestants are currently quite upset about an incident that occurred in a church in America. Both Christians and Muslims have entered into the discussion regarding the legitimacy of this action. It's evident that some Catholics were generally surprised by the decision of an archbishop stay meth to offer the holy communion to a well-known Islamic shake during a Catholic mass. The Catholic world is shocked as am I that an archbishop of the Catholic Church would knowingly give the Holy Eucharist the body of Jesus Christ to a Muslim shake. This just happened. The videos are all over Twitter, all over the internet. And what's really disappointing in this is that the archbishop in Brazil doubled down and defended it. He even cited Vatican II to defend this situation. Let's take a look at the video of the shake and the archbishop. Here it is. Well, this is Telo Marshall. He is a traditional Catholic apologist who uses his platform to highlight errors and sacrilegies he believes are being committed by contemporary custodians of the Catholic faith, particularly bishops and priests in the Western Church, especially America. I typically don't engage with individuals like him, but in several of his videos he has used examples from Islam and obedience of Muslims to the revelation of Allah to set a precedent for his Christian audience. In this particular video, his criticism was not directed at Islam itself, but rather aimed at other bishops who offered Holy Communion to a Muslim, knowing that their individual was an active Muslim at the time of receiving it. Telo Marshall expressed his viewpoint from the perspective of his Christian faith, where only those who are baptized and believe in Jesus as God are typically allowed to participate in what is known as the Holy Communion. It's worth noting that he did nothing to insult Islam in this context, so that's why I am looking into this video. Stand by. This was a funeral mass. There were well-known dignitaries there, including the Muslim shake, and he comes up to the, he's known to be, it's not like a random Muslim walked off the street. Okay, here he is, white hat. Put his hand out, thank you, kind of does a fake commute. What do I do with this? All right, let's watch that again. Okay, the Archbishop knows that a Muslim shake is there, gives the body of Christ to an unbaptized man. He rolls out. What do y'all think of this? While this individual is focused on criticizing the Archbishop for offering what he refers as Holy Communion to a Muslim shake, I would like to use this platform to provide some education about his misconceptions regarding both Islam and Christianity in general. If he's willing to listen, I would like to inform him that a Muslim who possesses the belief in the oneness of God and recognizes Muhammad as the last messenger is following a different faith from someone who believes that a mere man became God and can be consumed as a meal in a ceremony called the Eucharist. The Archbishop doubled down and cited Vatican II. All right, as if this is going to make it better. Here is what the Archbishop cited. It's Vatican II, it's Nostre Atate, and I've talked about it quite a bit here on the channel, but this is the section of Vatican II, Nostre Atate, on the Mohammedans, the worshipers of Allah and the followers of the Prophet Muhammad. It reads, this is Vatican II. All right, the church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God living and subsisting in himself, merciful and all powerful, the creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men. They take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even his inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, his virgin mother. At times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their desserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life in worship God, especially through prayer, almsgiving, and fasting. Since in the course of centuries, not a few quarrels and hostilities have risen between Christians and Muslims, the Crusades. This sacred Synod urges all to forget the past and to work sincerely for mutual understanding and to preserve as well as to promote together for the benefit of all mankind, social justice, and moral welfare, as well as peace and freedom and quote Nostraetate Vatican duo. Let's go up to the top here.  But look at the doc, their church regards with esteem also Muslims. Is that true? I mean, do we hold heresy in esteem ever before 1960? We're like, you know what? We esteem those heretics. Read the epistles of St. John, 1st John, 2nd John, 3rd John. He says, don't even Greek the heretics. They adore the one God living and subsisting in himself. But we also know that God is living and subsisting as the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is the reality. St.  Jesus Christ says, no one comes to the Father except through me. No one comes to the Father except through me. And Jesus is the Son of God. If you deny that reality, you cannot come to the Father. You can aim, I've used the analogy before, you have a bow and arrow, you can aim the bow with the arrow in that direction. But Islam is a broken bow and a broken arrow. It is not going to fly and hit the target. What is the target? Worship of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. That's the reality. Machel, I have a unique perspective to share. I was once a Catholic seminary and started to become a priest of the FSSP. I understand the argument you are making regarding the Catholic faith. Yet what I want you to consider is that there are differing perspectives within both modern and traditional Catholicism and Christianity, to say the least. And not all beliefs are universally accepted as truth. Well, the Imam doesn't need to consume the host because apparently he doesn't require it for his salvation if he generally lives according to the truth and in the spirits of Allah's words. No one can go to the Father except through Jesus Christ. I've always been confused by this passage in No Straitati. Since when does the church begin to define the dogmas and the doctrines of other world religions and heresies? Is that really the role of the Catholic Church? The role of the Catholic Church is to preserve, protect, and transmit the gospel of Jesus Christ and every single dogma, doctrine, and moral teaching given to us by Jesus Christ through scripture and tradition. Since when is the Catholic Church defining, clarifying, and decreeing what other religions believe in saying we esteem that? Marshall, you may not agree with this, but it is important to note that Jesus is not considered God in Islam. In Islam, Allah is God and he has no partners, no human being, not even Jesus, can be compared to him. The small round wafer you consume in the Church is not Jesus, may peace be upon him. Jesus is viewed as a righteous man who finds favor with God. Assigning godly character as Jesus is seen as a serious deviation that leads to internal domination. With that being said and assuming you share my perspective on this matter, I would like to extend an invitation to you to explore the one through faith of Jesus, Muhammad, and other great prophets of God. In Islam, the concept of associating a human with divinity is rejected and the guidance of the Holy Quran provides the light that dispels such misconception. I encourage you to rip this book and if you are interested, I am willing to send you a personal site copy to any address in the United States. Thank you for considering my message. Please guys, help spread this message until your tele-mashal sees it. If possible, tag him in the comments section on YouTube or go to his YouTube channel and do so. Like the post so that it gets to a wider audience. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, assalamualaikum.


Live from the JSA Podcast Studio, presenting Data Movers, showcasing the leaders behind the headlines in the telecom and data center infrastructure industry. Good morning to our brand new podcast series called Data Movers. I'm your host, Jamie Scott of Cataya, CEO of JSA. And along with me, my co-host, my friend, top B2B social media influencer, Mr. Evan Cristel. Hey Evan. Hey, good to see you. Welcome everyone. Data Movers is where we sit down with the most influential men and women in the telecom and data center world, delivering the requirements of our modern world and the new normal. Jamie, how are you doing? How are things on the vaccine front? It's pretty exciting. I just got shot number two, Visor, yesterday, yesterday afternoons. Actually, I was sending a note around to everybody. I think I'll be totally fine for tomorrow morning, but just in case. But no, I feel good. It was actually a second shot. We're hearing that it's usually the one that comes with the food-like symptoms, but I'm feeling really good. And now the world is my oyster, right? Great. Speaking of oysters, I've just had my third shot because it's Friday and I'm drinking. But no, in all seriousness, I've had my second shot and I'm a few weeks in, so I am allegedly immune and I can go back to nightclubbing. Yeah, I was gonna say, have you done anything that? No, absolutely nothing. I'm still at home. But we do have a guest who's also at home, so I think maybe we could chat with him. Yes, let us bring in our amazing guest, our good friend, longtime friend, mine actually. So let's welcome Mr. Ben Edmund, of course the founder and CEO of Connected to Fiverr. And welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to you. I appreciate the invites and glad to be here with you and Evan today. Thanks, Ben, and we know each other actually going back a bit and both in Massachusetts. So this is gonna be the special Massachusetts edition of Data Movers, right? So what is so great about, why are we the best state in the union in Massachusetts, Ben? Share your thoughts there with us. So many reasons. Great seafood, great institutions, fantastic place to live and the sports is pretty amazing as well. And a million Dunkin' Donuts. So there you go. Every day. Every day. Wasn't Dunkin' Donuts Rhode Island? No, it was founded in Massachusetts. Oh, seeing when you're Rhode Islander, everything's founded in Rhode Island. But I did go to Tufts. So yeah, Memphis, Somerville, you know. So big, big, big heart love for our Massachusetts family. So let's talk about, you know, it's towards the end of April now, 2021. And we just passed the one year anniversary when COVID really first hit the US last year, March, March 2020 time. How has connected to fiber really managed through it all? I mean, it's profound change, the way that we do business, obviously the need to connect, the need for telecom never, never greater in many, many ways. What impact has it had on your current and future strategies as a critical resource in our network broadband buying, selling ecosystem? It's, you know, really had a pretty profound impact. I mean, from a company perspective, you know, we immediately just started a, a really a perspective around, how do we keep our employees safe? You know, let's enable them to work from home, let's get them the tools. And you know, we have an advantage over other companies. We're a software company in the connectivity industry. If we can't figure it out, you know, no one can. So, you know, right away, we had everyone working from home. We had the collaboration tools in place. We had communications. We do a weekly all hands call to keep transparent, keep people engaged, good things, bad things, just, you know, talking and being transparent and open about it really helps through any situation. And that's exactly what we did.   And none of it works without connectivity.   That's fantastic. And Ben, connected to Fiber, you just announced a $12 million series B round. So congratulations. Thank you. And just remember the little people on your way up like myself. So is that funding earmark for something special, maybe a company jet or a shiny new headquarters or what are you thinking? If anyone knows me, it's probably not gonna involve a company jet or fancy new headquarters. What it will involve is an investment in us as a company to support our customers and really focuses on three core elements of it. We're gonna continue the aggressive buildout of our platform. Our roadmap is, you know, aggressive and our ambitions are pretty bold. You know, we want to be that industry cloud that helps the ecosystem automate how buying and selling a connectivity happens. You know, from each of the service providers own unique perspectives. And so there's aspects of the platform that we're gonna continue to invest in, grow the capabilities and expand the use cases. The second investment's really, how do we tell that bigger story? How do we show more people? How do we expand the go-to-market efforts so we can build this ecosystem bigger and bigger and bigger? So we're gonna invest in our sales and marketing. We're gonna invest in our customer success. We're gonna invest in our implementation teams that support that bigger thought process. And then the third aspect is really, you know, investing in data science. So it's one thing to have data. It's another thing to move it around with workflow. And it's a third element to really extract insights and drive automation with intent. And that's what exactly what we're going to, you know, start leveraging our capabilities around being able to predict demand so you can allocate sales and marketing resources to the most effective locations. Being able to understand optimal packages or pricing, not just automate what is, but, you know, look at the context of the data flows and enable our customers to take advantage of that.  And for sure, the work and the growth that you've even done to date, it's amazing. And I can just imagine what this new investment is going, the impact is going to be amazing. When I think about connected to fiber, the word ecosystem really pops into my mind a lot, you know. And yeah, in this industry, we hear a lot of ecosystem talk, right? So let's define ecosystem as it relates to partnership support that connected to fiber ecosystem. How does it work? Sure. You know, the ecosystem we operate in is fairly complex, as you guys probably already know. Lots of different layers, lots of different, you know, components to make connectivity work. And then you have data center operators, you have fiber operators, you have managed service providers, cloud companies, all these different entities orchestrating, you know, from right away up through the application layer. Where we play a role in is helping to establish digital blueprints. So if you think about connectivity, it starts with physical reality of you got to connect things together. Understanding who has what where, putting it in a digital format, associating it to a location level, whether it's your own locations, you've already physically built fiber too. It's something you could deploy capital to reach or a location that you're reaching through a third party relationship across the ecosystem. It needs a digital record. So we establish that as a starting point and help you create that network fabric from your own service provider point of view. Ultimately, those third party relationships with the service provider is a core part of our ecosystem. How do we connect through APIs, buyers and sellers within the service provider community together? So when people are trying to respond to an RFP, transact with the next price quo, they can do so not just with their internal capabilities, but reaching across their partners with real-time intelligence around, this is where I can serve, this is what products are available, and this is the pricing that I can buy that connectivity from. And what that does is when that ecosystem continues to build greater and greater, it allows us to automate more of that digital blueprint in real time, creating a better experience. And we often associate it to the cloud companies that are ultimately influencing a lot of our ecosystem and a part of it, where you can go into Azure, click a button, spin up a new VM, get a new application set up in really seconds or minutes, and then the traditional experience of waiting for connectivity to be installed 90 days later doesn't associate it. Our ecosystem is being enabled to operate in that real-time API economy, to integrate into the user experience. And when we think of ecosystem and what we're building, we're building that physical layer to operate seamlessly across the different parties and embed with the service providers consuming those resources, whether they own them or they're buying them so they can have a customer experience similar to and integrate with the cloud community. And that's really where we're building to and think that the whole market's pushing towards this seamless ecosystem where people can interoperate across cloud, across physical network, across the services that are being delivered, whether it's UCAS, security, internet, private land, doesn't matter. It's ultimately about reducing that friction and allowing people to have the best experience possible. Wow, that's phenomenal. Congratulations. Thank you. One thing that's become pretty evident through the pandemic is the digital divide. I mean, not just socioeconomically, but even between metro and suburban areas and rural America. And one of the things that proposed Biden $2 trillion infrastructure spending bill does is set aside $100 billion to really close that digital divide in rural America with broadband services. What are you guys doing to kind of think about empowering providers and really the country to extend the reach of broadband intelligently into these rural areas? Great question. And we're doing some super important things that accelerate and improve that digital divide battle that's going on today to help the reality that people everywhere need access to the right connectivity to live and thrive in today's economy. It's not just about getting Netflix at your house. It's about, I wanna work wherever I can and want to be and participate in this digital economy and they need the right connectivity to enable that environment. So our creation of a digital blueprint for service providers helps them identify a starting point. This is accurately where you physically can serve. This is where I need to deploy capital that's not being served. This is the context around the other connectivity that's currently available. So I know where I should spend my resources most effectively and that transparency of the market which is happening already in our ecosystem as service providers share with other service providers we're in a position to help those service providers share transparently back with the government. And government policy was more area based around the census tracks previously because they picked that policy. Ultimately what we enable the service providers do is to adapt the new policy around precision reporting that aligns to the deployment of more capital to expand the reach and serve the community. But in addition to that transparency it's really about enabling a digital toolkit across your organization. So the data, the analytics, the workflow that we power can be shared to other systems, other GIS systems engineering systems, provisioning systems making the whole process more efficient to actually get that network bill delivered for the customer. And then the third aspect where we have an impact is in rural America where that digital divide exists it's not just about direct selling and supporting the local community. That's important, but it's also about enabling the wholesale ecosystem because we need each other to execute. So if there's a Walmart or a Starbucks in that rural community, more than likely the local infrastructure provider whether it's a municipal network, a broadband provider, telephone company, a cable company they're not gonna sell it directly. They're gonna sell that connectivity back up through the ecosystem to the service providers that have the national relationships. And unlocking the friction there improves the return on capital, accelerates project deployment and improves the actual facilitation and more connectivity in and around those locations. I just love it. Love it, makes total sense. And I'm just so glad someone with your expertise is on it to do this because it needs to be done and talking about your expertise. I've been friends with you for many years and to watch you go as we grew together up in this industry has been wonderful. Now you founded Connected to Fiber about six years ago and worked with other companies like Frontier, MCI, Time Warner, Telecom, of course FiberLite. What caused you to branch out and develop what's now the industry crowd for connectivity? It was really a passion to solve something for the industry. I've lived in this industry since I walked out of undergraduate school. MCI recruited me. I went to work there and I've never left the industry. And what I've recognized along that journey is a lot of friction points, a lot of challenges that we've had to manually overcome. We've had to piece the solutions together to try to help the service providers that I was part of grow effectively. And it didn't always create a optimal customer experience in the process either. So even if we could get the job done, it wasn't a beautiful masterpiece of instant answers and reduced friction. And what I wanted to do is solve for that. I believe that there was a need. The industry needed transparency because it relied on each other. And building Fiber at FiberLite gave me that perspective of location matters, that infrastructure and capital intensity. The experience at global capacity or MCI gave me that broad perspective of needing other people to finish the end result for multi-location customers. And the experience at Expedious and Time Warner Telecom really shined a light of this infrastructure plus ecosystem at the lack level.  And there was friction across every one of those steps. So I wanted to invest and really take the opportunity to go and solve something that I thought could really transform the industry. Indeed, and it needs transforming because in my humble opinion, the Telecom broadband business market does a terrible job at understanding its business customers locations and network. So my words, not yours, but that's my perspective. And now you're really helping and supporting really who's who in the industry, the top MSOs, the top fiber providers. You've gotten very high satisfaction and retention rates. I'm reading here on G2 Crowd, you have five stars, which is no small achievement. You've even grown 108% over the past year in particular. So what's your secret sauce? Like what's been your secret to success, particularly lately? Yeah, I think three things stand out. One is a culture of customer centricity. I mean, ultimately we're here for a particular industry that we know we've lived in it, we've walked in these shoes and every step of the software, the data, the process, the engagement is thinking about how do we get our customers to value? And just that mindset is not gonna change has been with us from day one. And I think that brings a certain amount of execution to the table instead of us trying to be a location system for everyone or being a pricing engine for everyone. That's not our mission. Our mission is to really help the service provider community transform and create value. I think number two is hiring great people. Ultimately the code doesn't build itself, the data doesn't curate itself, the customers don't get implemented or sold themselves. You gotta have the right people and the team in place and create that culture for success. And we've been fortunate to build a great culture, have the right people that care, that want to deliver quality and want to take the vision to the next step. And I think third is this element of, we're actually solving something that needed to be solved. The need was clearly there. Early on we've identified fit that we're solving something that the largest providers in the world are our customers today for a reason because they needed something solved and we're actually solving it in a way that reduces friction, adds value, creates a better customer experience. And it allows us to continue to extend that. That serves as a platform that we then continue to introduce new ways to add value to. And by delivering it, we ultimately get to keep winning. So knowing what you know now, if you could take a time machine back into time and go and whisper to Ben Edmond, fresh out of college, about to be recruited into MCI, what would you tell yourself? What piece of advice would you give yourself? Oh, that's a good question. I think I would tell myself to become a product manager earlier than I did. I think that was transformative to my personal career, to think about the customer, but in terms of how things work and what the economics of making money and the cost drivers of it, that gave me a different lens as I left that role into leading sales and marketing organizations to really think through. It's not just about the cost. It's not just about the price. It's not just about the customer. It's the orchestration of all three of those things to create value in the marketplace and for yourself. I think the second thing I would probably tell myself is do it faster. I should have started this company five years before I did it. There was a need then. There was a need in the 90s. There was need in the 2000s. There's a need now. And ultimately, it just took the courage to stop my nice job and go for it. And that's what I did. Amazing. That's great. I would tell my younger self to buy Bitcoin. But that's not what's coming. Buy Amazon, buy Bitcoin, buy Microsoft, buy Apple, yeah. Exactly. Stupid.  But in all seriousness, so we were returning in the US at least to some kind of new normal. We don't know what that will look like. But we know that the trend towards digital transformation won't slow up. We know the hunger for broadband is incessant. So what will the industry look like from your perspective in a year or two out? I think the industry is going through massive change right now. And that trend is going to continue over the next couple of years where new actors are going to be participating in our industry for the first time. There will be significant consolidation that continues in the industry to counterbalance those new actors. The access medium will become somewhat blurred, meaning that 5G with wireless, the access to fiber, and even the advances of Coax will create this broader spectrum of ubiquitous connectivity infrastructure that is being leveraged to deliver the experiences that we care about across all aspects of our life. I think the reality that will set in my humble view in a couple of years, though, is that purposefulness in that connectivity will matter more than everything. So the move to the edge is being done for a reason. Latency, control, the private SLAs associated with that in tomorrow's reality of use cases, of augmented reality driverless cars. Driverless cars, just think about it. If it's relying on connectivity to stop your car, you want to make sure that that happens. And our infrastructure and our connectivity fabric is not perfectly aligned to that today. Over the next few years, you're going to see that execute and is going to transform not just the driverless cars, but it's how we access Salesforce and Azure and all the different things that power the productivity of the business from an office, from home, from a mobile place, seamlessly. And that seamless nature with the analytics to make sure it's executing is going to change our economy. For sure. I wrote down purposefulness and connectivity because I think that's a whole nother blog, that's a whole nother interview because it's critical. And you're right. It's economical, changing, shifting. It is. It's everything. It's tomorrow. And you have a great seat, my friend, right in that driver's seat for sure. All right, so we come to the rapid fire section of our podcast, which I love. It's kind of fun. So tell us the very first thing that comes to your mind when we ask you these wacky questions. My question first, if you could have a lunch with a famous person in history, who would it be in line? Oh, jeez. I guess I would have lunch with Thomas Edison. And just because of his creative desire to build, invent, and change the world on a constant basis, whether he failed or succeeded, pretty inspiring of what he did and what he created. But he would probably make you buy lunch, too, so that would be interesting. He probably would, that's direct. And I'd be happy to. Dunk of Donuts is serving. Yeah, what's on your iPhone home screen or your Android home screen? What are your top apps? Maybe you can hold the phone up and show us. It is an Android, not an iPhone. I am a Samsung fan, and I love it. I have a Slack is one of those. I live and interact constantly with it from my phone. Outlook, of course, email still rules the day and is an important part of the tool. Ring Central is my unified communication, so that's right up there. Google to search and find and all work no play. Come on, this is a pretty boring guy when it comes to that. I love what I do, so that tends to dominate my world. And there's a picture of Susie and the boys, so that rounds it out for me. Oh, nice. And Ring Central, by the way, I feel like we should get them to advertise here. Yeah, there you go. Thank you for the job for me. And what is your favorite hobby or class time when you're able to break away from getting all this work? Yeah, so spending time with my family, so whether that means it's a trip somewhere or just in the backyard or going to the lake. But two boys, 13 and almost 15, and my wife, she's going on 24 years now. We love to spend time together and happy to do it anywhere we go and where it can. Love that answer. Nice. Now, besides data movers, what's your favorite podcast? Tough question. Or a book or a movie if you're not a big podcast junkie. Yeah, I'm an espionage, mind candy, audible listener that allows me to enjoy. So anything with a born, Jason Bourne-like theme, I will listen to and love. I have a couple of suggestions. I'll send you on audio listening, interviews, CIA spies, and Cold War stories and that kind of thing. It's a good listen. And that wraps up our fabulous session here with our amazing Ben Edmund, CEO and founder, again, of Connected to Fiverr. Thank you so much for your insight and perspective and just being you, being you, and all that you're doing for our industry. We really greatly appreciate you, Ben. Thank you very much. I appreciate the time today. And guys, if you enjoyed today's Data Movers podcast as much as I did, please be sure to check us out at jsa.net slash podcast for upcoming Data Movers episodes releasing every other Wednesday morning. So check us out there as well. Yeah, and just a footnote. It was so great to hear an entrepreneur story that wasn't about some app from Silicon Valley or some hype, a practical, useful, utilitarian sort of startup. And it just goes to show, entrepreneurism is alive and well in every industry, every facet of what we do. So yeah, great, great to hear Ben's story. And be sure to continue the discussion on Twitter at Evan Kerstel and Jay Scotto. And we'll carry on there. And as always, guys, stay safe and happy networking.


Welcome back everyone, so yesterday the left-wing Democrat Party state media was up in arms over the Supreme Court's ruling that New York Cannot discriminate against houses of worship and its anti-pandemic restrictions So of course over at DNC and then they brought on one of their frequent Republican bashers to claim that the ruling was quote anti-science and Devalues human life. We'll get right into that But first this very quick message from our sponsors at Noble Gold if you're anything like me You're wondering what's going on with these markets. Will they grow or come crashing down? That's why Noble Gold is inviting you to get safe with gold this time. They're gifting a solid 24 karat American Gold Eagle coin in a spectacular display case with every qualifying IRA or 401k Started before the end of November. So go to www.nobelgoldinvestments.com and get this special coin offer or you can call<PHONE_NUMBER> I want to pivot sir to the Supreme Court's ruling overnight. They block New York's coronavirus restrictions Limiting attendance at churches synagogues and other houses of worship. I know a lot of folks that have discussed this with They're asking about religious freedom and how certain officials are appearing to prioritize commerce over worship, correct me if I'm wrong There are specific reasons why going in a church a synagogue or a mosque can be problematic Compared to going to say a liquor store. It's absolutely crazy. This is not about religious freedom. This is not about Civil liberties. This is about all hands on deck to save lives over the next few months Do we get everybody vaccinated? You know, I can say with with firmness and clarity that Human life is not cheap and that Supreme Court ruling did just that it devalues human lives Okay, so first off they never mentioned that New York churches are limited to 10 people Unlike in most states where it's limited to 25. That seems deceptive to me right off the bat But then the doctor goes on to say that going to church is problematic Compared to going to say a liquor store his implication obviously being that when you go into a liquor store You're in there quickly and with a small amount of people well That really depends on how busy it is doesn't it you could potentially be standing around in a big line for a while It's happened to me before when it does come to churches It appears to me that they've been taking all the standard precautions This New York Times article shows a church that appears to be social distancing and everyone appears to be wearing masks My other question would be how is it any different than going to a grocery store or a department store? It seems like this doctor used the liquor store example because he knows that people are going to grocery stores Or they're gonna be with a lot of people for a long period of time According to these New York state guidelines for retail grocery stores They only limit the people to 50% of the store's capacity So there's definitely gonna be more than 10 people in these grocery stores that being said. I'm not a scientist I'm not an epidemiologist, and I'm not even particularly smart However, one can plainly see the partisan double standards being applied to these restrictions and see that this science that they keep talking about Isn't as certain as they keep leading on for example over at CNN in September They declared that BLM protests are safe from COVID outbreaks, but somehow Trump rallies aren't it is important for us to As public health experts to lead with the science and the science tells us that this is a virus that does not discriminate It doesn't care why it is that people are gathering so outdoors much safer than indoors Wearing masks obviously much safer than not wearing masks And I also in this case would distinguish between the behavior of the participants while at protest versus rallies of the risks and are doing everything they can to reduce that risk Versus at many of these rallies. We're seeing people going in defiance and it's their behavior during those events Dr. Lena Wen thanks for breaking through the fog of confusion and disinformation to lead us back to the facts It's like I always say the only legitimate protest is one pushing a left-wing or Democrat party agenda I mean just look at how differently these lockdown protests were covered in Michigan They were outdoors and relatively small some people were wearing masks and others weren't but when you look at the reporting It's all very negative accusing them of being racists or otherwise demonizing the group as armed and dangerous Just look at this hit piece on the anti-lockdown protests And you'll even see in the picture that while some people aren't wearing masks many of them are while stories about BLM Are always positive and running cover for the group But if you just look at this picture that they provided you're gonna see that while many people are wearing masks But you'll also see that many people aren't wearing masks if you just look through the picture You're gonna see many that aren't and there's definitely no social distancing going on here Yeah, if you look you're gonna find story after story claiming that none of these mass protests were to blame for any COVID-19 spikes But again looking at this picture that NBC provided you're gonna see that while some people are wearing masks many aren't Thanks for breaking through the fog of confusion and disinformation to lead us back to the facts medical professionals Even united to declare that any risk of spreading COVID pale in comparison to the importance of protesting racial injustice Which by the way has never been proven and any of the cases that have been used as excuses to burn Loot and pillage for the last six months just because a black person or any person for that matter is shot by police Doesn't automatically mean that racism or injustice are to blame. Sure. It's a possibility But these left as media outlets just assume for the purposes of pushing a political agenda My point here is that all of these restrictions and the media's shaming all appear to be very partisan and agenda driven If there is a real danger here Then it's the media and the Democrat politicians played a big part in why people are distrustful of these restrictions later in the show They brought on another Democrat posing as an analyst who declared that the Supreme Court is now far, right? It clearly is now a court controlled by a five-justice majority Without Chief Justice John Roberts, which is a very new development for this court Five justices on the far right saying no The overriding free exercise concerns are what's important here and we're not going to defer to local officials And it's time to stop what the majority believes is a nationwide trend against religious Services, I only wanted to throw this in there to demonstrate how Partisanship is playing a much larger role in all of this than they'll ever admit I mean on what basis can she claim that this goddess really proves that the Supreme Court is now far, right? What about the Constitution and ending discrimination against these churches is far, right perhaps from her vantage point as a far leftist Everything looks like it's far, right like all the other labels used by these Orwellian creatures Lobbing it is supposed to instantly discredit their target I've pointed out before that the media regularly uses terms like right-wing or far, right interchangeably as a weapon but rarely if ever say things like left-wing or far left as we head into a possible Biden administration His mass media complex is already ramping up propaganda efforts on his behalf as long as this channel exists I will continue to call them out You can support me in that mission by using one of the links in the description or pin comment turn off your TV And let me watch this crap for you. That's all for this one. If you enjoyed it, you know what to do Thanks for watching. I'll see you all next time


Hello everybody! In this video you will see how to clean the system memory of free up some space for an Android smartphone or tablet PC and clean the device from junk files. One of the widespread problems with Android devices is the lack of system memory. The problem is especially serious with low-budget models equipped with 4, 8 or 16 GB of memory. Such small amounts of memory are filled up very soon. And when installing another application, GameWay Update users see and notice that their device is running out of free space. I'd like to point out that I will show all methods for cleaning memory with the example of an Android smartphone. As there are many versions of Android and some devices may have their own firmware, the appearance in many items may differ a bit. However, you can find all of them in more or less the same locations. Dear friends, if you need to recover deleted data, use utilities by Headman Software. Follow the link in the description to visit our website, download a utility for free and install it. When the process is over, it will show the files available for recovery, and you will be able to bring them back. Our blog features quick guides to solve all kinds of problems faced by Windows users. Our channeling blog offers solutions for any issues from installing the operating system to remote administration and connecting mobile devices. Our specialists will be glad to answer your questions in comments to videos and articles. The usual symptoms of your device running out of memory are corresponding system messages or symbols appearing in the system tray. To make sure this is the actual cause of the problem and not a glitch of another app, go to Settings and find Memory, Storage or Storage in Backup. Go there and you will see the total memory amount in your device and how much of that memory is still free. You will also see what takes up your space. I'll show you how to clean it from junk files or free up some space. The first step is to clean the cache. To do it, go to Settings, find Memory, Storage or Storage in Backup. Go there and select Cache Data or Junk Files. Some versions of Android let you choose the type of junk files you are going to remove. As you can see, there are many of them. After that, Android will suggest you to confirm your decision to clean cache data. Now I'm going to say something trivial, but that's a necessary thing to do. To free up more memory, uninstall the apps and games which you don't need. To do it, go to Settings, Applications, select and remove the ones you don't need or those that take up too much space. Don't get upset when you have to uninstall some apps that you don't need now. You will always have the chance to have them back, even if you forget their names. The matter is that Google Play Market saves all Android applications you have ever installed. To do it, go to Google Play Market. When you are there, go to Menu, My Apps and Games, Library. You'll find all apps you have ever installed with the use of your Google account. Click on Install next to an application name if necessary. You should also clean the device gallery from unnecessary photos and videos. Modern smartphones have powerful cameras. The pictures and videos they create, often in full HD resolution, are quite big, which makes storing them all in your device unnecessary and even impossible. That is why, to begin with, go to Gallery to view your photos and videos. Delete the ones you don't need. If you want to have all of them or most of them, then transfer them to the computer. In one of my previous videos, I have shown you how to connect a smartphone to the computer. You will find the link in the description. You can also use one of the many cloud services available nowadays, such as Google Drive or Google Photo. By the way, Google Photo has a very useful function to delete from your device the photos and videos which you have already uploaded into the cloud storage. To do it, start Google Photo. Go to Menu, Settings, select Free App Space and confirm your choice. As a result, all pictures and videos already uploaded to your account at Google Photo Server will be removed from your device. If your device has got a memory card large enough for your needs, you can move your files or even applications there, but we will talk about it later. You can set up the camera on your smartphone or tablet PC so that it saves pictures and videos to the memory card instead of the system memory. To do it, stop the camera, go to Settings, and set the SD card as priority location. All the methods of cleaning memory that I have described are either built-in or standard. Sometimes one or two applications fill up the internal memory of an Android device as they work. We begin with the two apps that most often cause this problem – Viber and WhatsApp. The matter is that photos, images or videos received ascent with Viber or WhatsApp are saved in a gadgets memory. Logically, they tend to take up more and more space. What is interesting? Removing an image or video from the messenger does not mean removing it from the smartphone memory. Viber media files are stored in the gadget memory, in the folder Viber, Media, Viber Images or Viber Videos. To see how much memory it takes up, tap on it and hold. After that, go to the folder Menu – Details. Remember, if you delete the files from here, from the smartphone memory, they will not be shown in Viber anymore. The same is true about files sent or received in WhatsApp. The only difference is that they are stored in the folder WhatsApp – Media. If you accidentally deleted Viber or WhatsApp files, it's possible to restore them. Read an article about it in our blog. I will give the link in the description. If you are an active Internet user, your browser cache can also take a lot of space. I recommend cleaning it. You can visit our channel and watch a video about cleaning cache and web history in popular browsers – Google Chrome, Yandex, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge. I will give the link in the description. If you used all methods of cleaning the memory, but you feel there should be more free space, here are two more tricks which people don't usually pay attention to. 1. If you often use a navigator or Google Maps, your memory can be full of cached maps for offline use. To delete them, open Google Maps – it seems to be Android users' favorite. Go to Menu – Offline Maps. You will see all saved offline maps there. Tap on the menu next to a map and select Delete. 2. Things are similar with streaming music services. For example, Google Music, Boom, Yandex Music, Dism Music, etc. The point is that streaming service playlists are saved to your phone's memory for offline use. Certainly, they also take up some space. To delete such offline playlists, for example, in Google Music, stop the application, go to Menu – Settings, Clear Cache. This way, everything will be removed. To remove only some of them, go to Menu – Music Library, Playlists, and delete the ones you don't need one by one. For the future, you can change the location where the application data will be saved. Menu – Settings, Storage Follow the link in the description to watch another video in our channel about downloading and listening to music on Android devices and a brief review of Android music apps. The last method to clean the memory of an Android smartphone or tablet PC from junk files is to use special cleaning applications. There are many such programs available. I'd like to point out the two of them – the most popular – CleanMaster and the one we know well from Windows – Ccleaner. CleanMaster has a user-friendly interface that anyone can understand. Besides, it is absolutely free and you can get it at PlayMarket. Find the link in the description. The application scans the entire system – cookies, file manager, browsing history, cache, and so on. Just press one button to remove all junk files. As a result, your system will be optimized and you get more free space and your phone works smoothly and quickly. You can quickly close the running processes which you don't need. In the menu, this function is called Phone Boost. This application can also give you a lot of information about your smartphone, for example about the memory size and processor temperature. The higher it is, the slower your smartphone becomes. To see cleaner for Android is not as popular, it doesn't need a special presentation. Almost everyone knows about its version of Windows. In Hetman Software Channel, we often speak about its functions. This utility is very useful. Start it and click Analyze, and the program will show you the amount and type of data that can be removed to free up some space. Besides the program features, a convenient application manager, a storage analyzer, system information on your device, and a cleaning scheduler. If your smartphone or tablet PC is totally run down and full of junk files, and all of the tricks I have shown in this video can't help you, then your choice should be to reset it to factory settings. To do it, go to Settings, Storage and Backup, Factory Reset. Often, this function is divided into two variants – Reset Phone and Erase Data. Before you do it, make sure you have saved all important data – photos and videos, contacts, files and so on. That is all for now. If you found this video useful, click the like button below and subscribe to Hetman Software Channel. Thank you for watching. Bye!


So if we have the harmonic oscillator version of the Schrodinger equation, and we've convinced ourselves that functions of this form ought to be solutions to the Schrodinger equation, let's convince ourselves even further that that is the case, and plug this wave function in both to the kinetic energy term and the potential energy term and on the right side of this equation. So to do that we need derivatives. So we'll take the derivatives of this function, the first derivative of the wave function, derivative of an exponential is an exponential times, so the same constant out front, times the derivative of the exponent. So the derivative of x squared is 2x, and I've got a negative alpha and a divided by 2. So the 2 from the x squared and the 2 from divided by 2 cancel each other, and I've got a total of, leaving room for my negative sign, minus 2 alpha n times x e to the minus alpha x squared. So I've pulled down an extra factor of minus alpha x by taking the derivative of this exponent, minus alpha, not 2 alpha. So minus n times alpha times x e to the minus alpha x squared. Second derivative, the derivative of this derivative, again the derivative of the exponential is again going to pull down another factor of minus alpha times x. So I've got now negative times negative is positive, alpha squared, x squared times n, still times the same exponential. But I've also got this x out in front, taking the derivative of that one, leaving the rest of it alone, gives me a minus alpha n e to the minus alpha x squared over 2. So that should be the derivative, the second derivative of our hypothesized wave function. If I look a little more closely at that, I see that n e to the minus alpha x squared over 2 shows up in this derivative. So let's simplify that a little bit by writing it as alpha squared x squared times the original wave function, minus alpha times the original wave function. That'll help when we go to plug the second derivative into Schrodinger's equation. And when we do that, Schrodinger's equation becomes negative, some constants h squared over 8 pi squared mu.  And that should be equal to energy times the wave function. So we've got constants. In fact, let me go ahead and write, let's collect some terms. We've got constants times an x squared times psi, constants times an x squared times psi, and other terms that just look like constants times wave function, constants times wave function. So if we collect the terms with similar powers of x, the first term in parentheses here, negative constants times alpha squared, that becomes minus h squared over 8 pi squared mu alpha squared. That's going to multiply x squared and the wave function. But I have another term that multiplies an x squared and a wave function. That's this term here. So I also have plus 1 half k, also multiplying x squared and the wave function. So I've collected the two terms that look like x squared times the wave function. In addition to that, I have a term that looks like constants times wave function. So negative times negative leaves a positive sign, h squared over 8 pi squared mu alpha times wave function, and all that should equal energy times wave function. So is it true that the stuff on the left equals the stuff on the right? Constants times wave function could easily equal constants times wave function if we have the appropriate value for e. But this equality is only true if the stuff in parentheses, these two terms cancel each other out, leaving the term in parentheses equal to 0, so that the x squared times psi term is 0. So if this whole first term is 0, then in fact, the Schrodinger's equation is satisfied. So we need for it to be true that this term in parentheses needs to equal to 0. So how can we guarantee the term in parentheses is equal to 0? The only term in here that we have any control over, we've been given this function for some molecule that behaves as a harmonic oscillator. It has some mass. It has some spring constant. We don't get a choice over what the value of k and mu are or h and pi. The only constant here that we have any control over is the constant that's in the wave function that we are trying to write down, that we're trying to write down the solution for the Schrodinger equation. So we get to choose the value of alpha. If we rearrange to make the term in parentheses equal to 0 solving for alpha, we'll find that, let's see, first we need that h squared over 8 pi squared mu alpha squared has to be equal to 1 half k. So if we rearrange and solve for the alpha, alpha squared, putting everything else over on the right, I'm going to get an 8 pi squared mu on top, h squared on the bottom, and I've still got a 1 half k that was on the right all along. That'll simplify a little bit to 4 pi squared over h squared times k times mu. I don't want alpha squared, I want alpha. If I take the square root of both sides, the square root of 4 and pi squared and h squared are easy to do, and then k and mu just give me the square root of k times mu. So what I've determined here is specifically what the value of alpha must be, so not just any old e to the minus alpha x squared over 2 will be a solution to the Schrodinger equation. Only if alpha is equal to this collection of constants will the x squared times wave function term from the kinetic energy cancel the x squared times wave function term from the potential energy. And if that cancellation happens, then this function will solve Schrodinger's equation. With that particular value of alpha, we've also in the process of inserting this wave function into the Schrodinger equation, we've also determined the value of e. This is a solution to Schrodinger's equation. Only if e is equal to this collection of constants, so I need this collection of constants to be equal to e. So the energy of the wave function that we've now determined is h squared over 8 pi squared mu times alpha. But now that we know what alpha is, that's h squared over 8 pi squared mu times 2 pi over h square root of k mu. So there's a lot of cancellation that's going to happen here. Let's see, we've got a 2 divided by 8, so that leaves me a 4 in the denominator. I've got a pi divided by a pi squared, so that leaves me a pi in the denominator. We've also got h squared divided by h, so that's one factor of h in the numerator. I've got a square root of k. There's no k cancellation that takes place, but mu, I have a square root of mu here and I'm dividing by mu here, so I have 1 over square root of mu after some cancellation with the mutes. So if I rearrange that a little bit, I'm going to write that as 1 over 4 pi. I'm going to write as 1 half times 1 over 2 pi. For reasons that'll become clear in just a second, I've got a factor of h and I've got square root of k over mu. That should look a little familiar. 1 over 2 pi square root of k over mu, that quantity is what we called for the classical harmonic oscillator, the equilibrium vibrational frequency. So that quantity, 1 over 2 pi root k over mu, that's the frequency with which this harmonic oscillator vibrates. So I can write this now as 1 half times h times nu. The quantity in pink I've just rewritten as the vibrational frequency nu. So the energy of this wave function that we've written down when alpha takes on this particular value is 1 half times Planck's constant times the vibrational frequency of that same oscillator. So that combination of this wave function and this constant and this energy now compose a solution for the harmonic oscillator. This wave function solves the harmonic oscillator wave function with this particular energy. You may already be wondering is this the only solution? Is this like other quantum mechanical problems where there's more than one solution and you probably won't be surprised when I tell you there are more than one solution. This is one solution but there's a whole family of solutions that are somewhat similar to this function. So the next step will be to explore what those other solutions to the Schrodinger equation look like.


During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Inland Revenue Department like many government agencies had to review its work arrangements and adopt remote working where possible. This impacted normal operations as we were not able to carry on business as usual in all areas. Experiences during the COVID-19 crisis have influenced the IRD's future strategies and ways of engaging taxpayers. From the outset, it became clear that the digitalization of the IRD can significantly help in dealing with the crisis like COVID-19 and help to improve on the service delivery of the department. The timely and efficient provision of services to taxpayers and other stakeholders has always been a critical part of our tax system. Thankfully, over the past years, the IRD has moved many of its processes online with the introduction of its e-filing platform. So when COVID hit, taxpayers were encouraged to use the e-filing platform to file their tax returns and make the monthly payments. The department also promoted and encouraged taxpayers to utilize the department's email addresses to request information and request tax clearance letters instead of visiting the department to put in that request. Through it all, with the dedication of staff and the availability of our online platform, the IRD has been able to create greater resilience for itself.


What's up my foundation lovers? I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee today and today We're gonna be reviewing a new foundation by NYX. This is the NYX Stay Matte But not flat liquid foundation. I think the title is really cute. So this is supposed to be oil-free It's water-based full coverage Mineral enriched and has a matte finish. I'm someone's very oily skin So I always I'm looking for something that says matte finish This foundation is only seven dollars and fifty cents. You could buy this at NYX stores You could buy it on Amazon you can find them at Ulta and that's pretty much only places. I've seen NYX Lately I have this foundation on right now Obviously and I'm wearing the color cinnamon spice But the cool thing about this foundation is that there's actually 30 different colors to choose from so I love when there's a foundation that gives you a nice Variety of skin tone colors to choose from and there's actually seven colors darker than my skin tone Now when you go into the website, it actually breaks everything down by the undertone So like for mine, it says cinnamon spice medium deep skin tone with neutral undertone And like the next color up has warm undertone There's another one that has golden undertones So they really took their time to figure out how they could really make each shade a little bit different Now this little bottle is a squeeze container Which is my preference to really squeeze out all the product and is one point eighteen fluid ounces Every other foundation I reviewed thus far has only been one ounce. So they slid a little point eighteen in there Look at NYX trying to stay above the competition. I don't know how much more point eighteen is but I'll take it So now let me jump back to this morning where I can show you how I apply this foundation Starting on a moisturized face I'm going to use the primer that I use in all my foundation Fridays, which is the Rimmel stay matte Let's also address the elephant in the room.  I will be applying this with a beauty blender Starting with about that much. Let's go ahead and start applying Well, this is a good color match One of the good parts about having acne is that I could show you how full coverage these foundations actually are So I'll put a little bit more in my problem areas. Oh, yes Yes, cover it up.  So here's the completed application of the foundation. I went on it's really easy It was nice and creamy. I really like when a foundation is easy to blend out I don't have to use too much product to cover my entire face has really good coverage It's looking really matte right now. I just hope that it stays matte throughout the rest of the day So now I'm gonna go ahead and do the rest of my hair and makeup And that's how we got here. So it is currently 11 a.m I'm gonna keep on this foundation for as long as possible, and I'm gonna see how shiny I get throughout the day And we're back. It is now 8 p.m So I've had on this makeup for a total of nine hours. So as you can see I am pretty shiny. It was so hard not to blot today But I still walked around looking a little crazy for you guys But I always get oily right around here on my forehead on my chin Those are just like my normal oily t-zone kind of spots but the coverage is actually still there and I think it's probably gonna look good Once I blot so let's go ahead and do that Grabbing my Walgreens oil absorbing sheets I use these in all of my videos if you guys are new and I'm just going to Dab it on here and see how much oil gets removed and how much makeup gets removed Oh, I wanted to do this all day So much better. So here's all the oil that came off of my face It is a very full sheet of oil and I do see the makeup on here Now when I do see makeup on here This does let me know that this probably will transfer and I will admit I did give someone a hug earlier today and got makeup on the shirt. I didn't confess to it So I hope that I'm watching this video. I will be using this foundation with a different primer Maybe different powder doing different little experiments to make this last even longer But if you want to see me use this again You got to follow me on Twitter Instagram and snapchat so you could see how my opinion may differ with a different primer or powder If you have a particular foundation you want me to review make sure you leave me a comment and subscribe I post new foundation reviews every Friday and curly hair product reviews every Sunday So I hope to see you all next week. Thanks for watching beyond grenade today


Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh welcome to malls and minutes I am Muhammad Ali and today we will talk about the importance of giving loans in previous episodes we spoke of the importance of helping a fellow brother a fellow human in need we narrated the golden narration from the tongue of the commander of the faithful peace be upon him wherein he said a human is either your brother in faith or equal in humanity this narration that holds great weight and meaning today we will stay in the same category of brotherhood but we will discuss the category of giving loans we want to show the world the true face of Islam and what better what to do so but to provide to you my dear viewers narrations from the messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his progeny peace be upon him we also want to cure the sickness we see in our communities wherein people say I am your brother yet they don't act upon what they say when a brother of yours in the community is in need of money and once alone it is incumbent upon the believer to aid him and to provide to him especially when the money is there to give a more clearer picture I will narrate to you from the tongue of the messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his family wherein he say he who is referred to by his Muslim brother to borrow but he doesn't give him a loan Allah will forbid him entering paradise on the day when righteous will be awarded you see it isn't very simple issue as the words of the prophet are very clear this is what true brotherhood means and I truly hope that both are and you my dear viewers are able to practice these lessons in order to be considered brothers and so that the world may understand the definition of brotherhood we ask Allah to continue grant us guidance to be able to act upon these traditions so that we may be able to emulate the messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his family