With us today, we have Alex Gladly, head of sales of Keela. Keela is a rapidly growing organization on the cutting edge of innovation and software development for the nonprofit sector. AI is no longer a complicated tool built exclusively for large tech companies, data scientists and engineers. Keela has built intelligent tools specifically for nonprofits in order to help them make better decisions by being able to predict a donor's next move. Excellent. So hello, everyone. My segment, as we just said, is AI for the little guy. Just by being here today, we all know that you're interested in how AI can help you. But many of you are probably wondering how exactly it will help. Well, we've made it really easy for our users by building it right into our nonprofit CRM. So let's see how we did that for you. So the industry problem, and I've seen people talking about this in the comments, there's always been a huge gap in technology available for nonprofits compared to our friends in the for-profit sector. For-profit companies have fancy high-priced solutions that promote things like forecasting and data analysis and ultimately influence the strategies these companies use for their own missions. Unfortunately, many of you probably have the opposite experience. How many people here have been told we don't have budget for new technology, or when you finally get approval for the system, the one you get is 20 years behind the systems in the for-profit industry. This is why we built the capabilities you need into Keela. Many of you here have a ton of data, whether it's contact, donation, revenue, or maybe even volunteer data. It's usually just sitting somewhere and it's probably gathering computer dust, if that's a thing. At Keela, we say the issue isn't whether nonprofits are capable, smart enough, or technically savvy enough to use AI. But instead, this is an issue of access to technology. So let's solve that. At Keela, we measure all of your data and we bring powerful tools to organizations of all sizes. So feature one, contact insights. These are on all of our contact profiles in Keela. These informative metrics help you make better decisions about your donors. These little nuggets of wisdom are built on the back of machine learning algorithms to help you better understand your individual donors, as well as to compare and benchmark your donor database as a whole. The donor score is calculated based on how long and how much a donor has been giving, and then comparing those numbers to other donors in your system. This will let a development director or fundraiser know how to act. Maybe they need to reach out to someone with a high donor score to help get their campaign over the line. Or maybe they need to realize they're losing touch with someone important. I mean, they need to let that person know what their last donation did and who it helped, and that they are indeed valued by your organization. That person may need to build up to an ask. You can see them in action here on the contact insights. So feature two, fundraising and benchmarks. Many organizations spend countless hours calculating donor retention rates as part of their annual forecasts. Others struggle to pull an accurate number sometimes because of the lack of time or even quality of data. Keela pulls all of your key performance indicators for you. You can choose KPI such as donor lifetime value, retention rate, recurring donations, growth rate. Many more. Then you can benchmark yourself against similar organizations in our Keela database or even fundraising research and then set a goal to meet or beat. Benchmarking in Keela ensures that the data you log in the system will provide quality and consistent reporting so you can focus on how to get the numbers up instead of spending your day juggling spreadsheets. And we can have a look at some of the KPIs that you can see in Keela. So feature three, smart recommendations are our users' favorite feature. We figured nonprofit folks love metrics, but they're typically time poor and just want to be told what to do. So we leverage all of the data you've collected to answer the question, what is going to happen or what could happen? So have you ever found yourself wondering what an appropriate donation amount is to ask a donor for? What if you ask for too much or too little? It's going to certainly be tricky and that's where smart arts comes in. This season site is recalculated by our algorithms every 24 hours and provides a recommended donation amount and range to ask donors for based upon their giving behaviors. This saves our clients a lot of thinking time but also increases the revenue they make for each campaign. Unfortunately, research shows donors will give a smaller amount than what they're able to if they're asked for that smaller amount. Our smart recommendations even tell you when and how to reach out to your donors ensuring you can meet each donor at the right time and place to increase your revenue. So Keela tools are powered by machine learning algorithms that allow organizations to leverage data and make better decisions. Whilst we can tell you when people are likely to give and how much they're likely to give, let's not forget that the human touch is always required here. You know your donors better than anyone. We're just getting started on using AI and fundraising and we're so glad you're here today showing an interest and we can't wait to build a better future with all you lovely people.


This is JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Dean Peride, executive vice president at JSA, coming to you from ITW 2020, the virtual ITW. And joining me today is Mr. Jeff Mason. Jeff is the founder and CEO of TESPE. Jeff, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you very much, Dean. Pleasure to be here. You got it, you got it. So let's just jump right in here, Jeff. For our viewers that don't already know, why don't you tell them a little bit about TESPE? Sure. TESPE is a blockchain-based payment settlement system designed to serve specifically the wholesale telecom market. So by making use of smart contracts, which are a feature of the blockchain, carriers enter into smart contracts with each other. So this is a high volume but low margin business. And tier one carriers typically demand 30-30 payment terms. So tier two and three carriers that supply these tier one carriers have difficulty in supporting this financing requirement of 60 days. So this is where TESPE comes in because we provide the funding to the tier two and tier three carriers on a daily basis and we wait the 60 days to get paid from the tier one operators. So as a lot of the participants in the telecom industry understand, a long-distance call when it's made, quite often there can be a number of different participants in the chain and they all have to grant credit to each other. And so within the TESPE model, when the carriers enter into these smart contracts, they all get linked together so that this credit risk no longer needs to be taken by the tier two and tier three operators because TESPE will ensure that they get paid every day. So unfortunately in this industry, there's quite a bit of fraud, but our system protects the honest players by significantly mitigating these fraud risks. So an example of some of these fraud risks are like credit fraud, so for non-payment. So one carrier granting credit to another, I mean in this industry by its very nature, you're always dealing with an international counterpart. And it makes it very difficult to assess the credit worthiness of counterparts that might be on the other side of the world. And tier two and tier three operators typically don't have the balance sheets to support the lending, but nonetheless this kind of lending does happen in the industry. And if any one of these operators within the chain doesn't pay their bill, everybody that's downstream from the defaulted payment gets significantly harmed. So TESPE protects against these kinds of issues. There also can be other kinds of fraud like social engineering. So for example, somebody can send an email to their customer saying, hey, I've changed my bank account. Can you direct your next payment to this bank account number? And maybe that email comes from an email that looks very, very close to the actual email of their customer, but there's some small difference. I mean the fraudsters get very skilled at this stuff. So then the unwitting customer makes a payment to the supplier, to the wrong bank account. And this player says, hey, where did my payment go? Like what are you talking about? I made it to you. And the other thing that can happen on the telecom side of things is that all of the calls are authenticated by IP address and effectively like a password. And so what can happen at times is that someone will get a new switch. So they'll send, let's say an email to their supplier saying, hey, I've got a new piece of equipment. Can you authorize this please? And so they'll enter that new IP into their switch. And then if it's a fraudulent IP, what will happen is because the billing cycle is long, 30-30, at the end of that 30-day period, you send the bill to the tier one operator for, I don't know, let's say $2 million and they say, what are you talking about? I only sent you $1.2 million worth of traffic. And only upon further investigation do you find that there's a fraudulent IP that received a lot of that traffic or that the traffic came from. So again, test pay provides mechanisms to prevent this kind of loss. Excellent. I feel like I should be saying thank you for doing what it is that you do. Clearly there are people out there who, you know, don't have the best intentions in mind. So it's great to know that folks like test pay exist to help the rest of us out. But earlier this year you made a pretty big announcement regarding your secure payments platform. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about that? Okay, sure. I mean, we've actually been in commercial production for about seven months right now. And so we're currently processing about $12 million a month of transactions from tier one carriers. And we've now also secured significant funding to onboard significantly more contracts throughout the remainder of this year. Wonderful. Congratulations there. But let's look ahead. Some great things happening right now for you. But what do things look like for test pay, say six months or a year down the road? Well, I think we just want to do more of the same. We just want to onboard more and more carriers.  So it can take some time to develop their comfort to get to the point where they're comfortable to send their traffic through a new paradigm. But I think that it'll become easier and easier.  Awesome. So for our viewers that would like to learn more about test pay, where should they go? Well, that's very simple. They can just go to our website, www.testpay.io. So that's T-E-S-S-P-A-Y.io. And there's quite a lot of good information on our website. And also a very short video if they want to just spend maybe one minute watching that. Perfect. Jeff, thank you so much for being with us today. We appreciate it. You're very welcome. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV and for tuning in to JSA Podcasts. We'll see you soon.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixtape Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today this is another Easter themed project and because it's Wednesday it's using the hobby base monthly kit product from there as well so it's been really good because this month is an Easter themed box so the product the products worked really well for my themed week so this is what I've got here and this is my kind of sweet treat case I guess and basically you can see if I bring it up there sorry my lighting is probably you know it's not too bad this is a 3d I'm not 3d this is a die cut three times this bunny rabbit really detailed actually this isn't the kind of dies that I tend to go for it reminds me of tattered lace I'm not a huge tattered lace fan however I've really really fallen in love with this one I think once you kind of die cut them a lot and make them thicker for me anyway I tend to just like them more so I finished them off with flowers these come in the kit the sentiment the bunny the embellishments and this paper as well was all in this month's kit or some of the stuff that was in the kit so this is what we're going to make and basically you just open it up and inside it has these chocolate bars so not everybody always wants an egg for for Easter they just want just chocolate um so I've done these um things here and these twirl cabry's twirls now these are on their own to buy are really expensive now chocolate is not what it was years ago but these are a multi-pack that I purchased for a pound four or four from the co-op so that's widely available in the UK lots people will be able to get this they're slightly smaller than the normal ones but still much more better value for money so this was a pound and then you know the fun to make it this is just a really inexpensive um little Easter gift and also it's just a nice little case you could put cards in this um you know it's a three-quarters of an inch depth there so it can be used for other things as well and they're just stuck down with some glue dots so they can just easily be pulled off and then it's closed there with a velcro dot so it's just a really lovely little case so let's crack on and make it so I'm going to be using different papers again from the monthly kit so this is one of the things you get and these are the dovecraft um paper flowers so I used three of the yellow ones there one large one medium and one small probably not going to use them on this next one because this is more of a masculine um case it's exactly the same but you can see that I'm using browns because I want to give this one to a man and I just forget the flowers maybe wouldn't work so much but that's them on there and this is them there so easily added if you have them the stamp set is this one here Lindsay Mason designs and um when I done my um box reveal I really really like this one and I've used the really fun sentiment at the bottom here have an extraordinary extraordinary Easter um so that's the one there but again really nice set of photopolymer stamps there um and then this is the die so um there it is there it's a really nice size like I said I'd die cut that three times and then just stuck them on top of each other and it gives you this really nice thick hard you know um it's almost like got a wood veneer kind of feel to it now and that's just a really nice decorative piece now you could have that hanging off of a gift bag um you could you know make it into some kind of you know I mean there's loads of things to do with it once you make them harder um I think they work better that's my my theory anyway so that's the the bunny and also another little tip and I've mentioned this before in tutorials but this um came in this very strong plastic case and this plastic is brilliant for um using as your for your acetate windows for your shaker cards um and things like that so keep this it's a you know another good thing and I could actually incorporate it into projects because it has really come in the kit so there you go get some free um acetate um these are the little embellishments dinky dinky tiny ones these are two mil adhesive stones so I use them just to decorate you can see that just where it catches just around just thought I did a nice little bit of bling okay so I've got some scrap cards this is my own the the card stock the brown and this creamy color is from my own stash um you get card bases in the kit but I'm I everyone knows I'm a 3d um paper crafter more than anything so I'm using the other um papers so you had this printed one um like the gingham style here this one here with the chickens and then there's another one with polka dots on so I'm using this chicken one and I've just pulled out the colors and you know found this nice brown which is going to work well for this masculine um card and then I'm using a sheet of craft um card there so talking you through all the measurements your main case you need a piece this is a standard piece of a four so it's eight and a quarter by eleven and five eight eleven and three quarters they kind of fluctuate between that measurement so you need a piece that big then you need a piece of three by six and a half and then you're going to match on top of that a piece of five and seven eighths of an inch by two and a half then you need another piece of six and a half by one and three quarters and then you're going to match on top of that a piece of five and seven eighths of an inch by one and a quarter it's slightly just under but one and a quarter will be fine then I've just die cut two squares I'm not sure which color I want to use this is basically this square here that the bunny sat on and I'm not sure whether I want the craft card or the dark brown so I've just done it twice but this is a die that is three and five eighths of an inch squared but anything really I mean if you've got exactly this and you've got this kit and you're you are you know pretty much crafting along with me it's just something that sits that bunny inside like so okay so this is very easy to make and pretty quick as well so first of all with your card stock scoring along the eight and a quarter inch side you want to score at three quarters of an inch and at seven and a half then rotate onto the long side and you want to score at two inches two and three quarters of an inch and then four and three quarters just down to the first score line then flip it over and do four and three quarters again just down to that first score line this is just a cutting line and it's just there purely as a guide then flip it back over again and carry on scoring at seven and a half all the way down and eight and a quarter all the way down okay all the measurements and everything would be on my blog as normal that is all of the scoring done so we can get rid of that and then we just want to go along now and burnish all of our score lines so you'll have this thinner strip down the bottom and then you've got a big area which is your back and then this other one so basically that's going to be the flap coming down and this is the one coming up and it will go over like so okay so starting with this smaller one at the bottom we're going to do a little bit of cutting and basically just on these here these two and these two here you just want to cut in just to that first score line okay and tidy them all up a bit more in a minute you don't really need to be cutting anything off of these like I usually do you don't need to do that with this one then I'm just going to swap and get my bigger scissors because now rotate the whole thing around and you're going to cut from this score line here all the way down to that one here so we're cutting this whole strip out so let me just go down and do that one obviously you really need to make sure that you are staying nice and straight because this is all exposed oh yeah just cut up to sorry you cut up to that god is me going to rip it and I'm thinking no that's not right you just cut up to that score line you cut that all off and you won't be able to put the box together you're just cutting up to that that little score line that we done that um four and three quarter inch one um don't go past it so don't listen to me right in the beginning then okay and then the next one you just want to cut all the way down again just to that score line okay I'll put a little caption up at that point when I say cut all the way down to that bit because you don't don't do that okay again tidy that one up in a minute so that is now what you should have so these are all cut out like so and you got this big one like that then well you will do some decorating it's best to decorate it all when it's flat so flip it over and this big one here is where you're going to map that biggest piece first when you sit that on it should give you a really nice little frame all the way around so I've just popped some tape on the back of mine already so I'm just going to stand there the other one needs to go on top remember obviously that's going to fold down like so so make sure whatever um image you've got is facing the right way so best to have all that facing away from you and make sure your image is facing you and then you know you've got it all in the right direction okay and then flip it over you can fold this one up and the next piece is going to go in again you all know this is my favorite card to use absolutely love craft card okay and then this one again okay so now you will have your two mats like this you see this card coming together I love this print thing it's really really cute so now we want to stick in our side so what you want to do first is the tiny little tab this little square one put some glue on that okay and the back one you want to bring over like so okay so just fold that one and just hold it in place again make sure you got all your nice angles it's all nicely squared off I'm going to pop it on its side and just with my bone tool just work that card and spread out all that glue just so you know that this is all sticking down nicely like so and again the little one on the other side just pop a little bit of glue and again the back one first and again just make sure that all sticks down nice and then with these pieces now inside you want to put glue all on the tab and then you're going to stick it over that one again it should all join up nicely if you've got any overhang you can trim it off easily okay so again pop it on its side I can just pop my bone tool in there again make sure it's all spread out and just do the same on this end here you can see it's all coming together now what I did do on this one just because this card I've used although it was strong I think it's about 160 gsm still it just felt a bit flimsy I put a piece of card on the back I'm not going to do it with this one because the craft card is strong enough but if you did want to mat the back this is a four and a half by six and a half mats and it's just just kept that you know straight really but this one is fine so I don't need to do that but if you are using a thinner card because once you add these mats to this side obviously that strengthens it your back might become a bit thin you know flimsy so you can always do that so now what I'm going to do is add in the chocolate because it will help when you put pressure on the front here and basically these are the dairy milk ones again pack a four for a pound so it's just a very expensive gift these are slightly taller and not so fat but again it will fit most of our UK standard chocolate bars so you know everybody should be able to use you know use this so I'm just trying to evenly space them out here because you get a bit more a bit more room with these thinner ones like so and then that will come down but it means now I can push down on there but I think that looks really quite fun so now I just need to stick this down but I don't know whether I want to use that colour or the brown with the bunny on that's the brown I'm wondering whether I need to do a slightly no I don't okay so just been playing around I'm going to change this one I've just die cut smaller square again so this square now measures um three and one eighth of an inch squared I think because I'm not adding flowers to this one because I'm using a brown colour it can can sometimes look a bit flat but what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually stick so I put my double-sided tape on just just the partial part three quarters of the way on the back because obviously it's going to overhang and you're going to put the velcro dot on the bottom here so when you stick it down you obviously don't want anything hanging hanging over so you want to get it in the middle and you want to have an even cream at the top and the bottom and then evil evil even distance from the left and the right hand side there so just check that's all in place turn that over like so and then I'll grab my velcro dot down to my last one just get them all lined up so pop that one in the middle like so and then flip that back over and wait before you stick it down just make sure you do get it all up perfectly you know straight on your sides and everything and then you should have that little even cream border again at the bottom and just under your velcro and then you can just apply pressure on both there so they're all stuck down like so then what I was going to do is stick this one kind of off at an angle put the bunny right in the middle this time and then I'm going to have the sentiment coming off like so and then I just want to add like bling and stuff I think when I make mail kind of projects you always kind of it's like a little bit out of my comfort zone for me but it's uh we do need to do it so I'll pop some in the middle there because I'm going to be overhanging it I don't really want to put too much so it doesn't go all over the place like so and then I'm just going to put some on my hand just glue up the bunny rather than it's just easier doing it like this like so and then stick that so it's kind of all coming off I mean this has got lots of dimension to it which I'll bring up and show you in the camera in a minute because you might not be able to make it out too much but it looks really good close up like so and then with that scrap piece of cream here and some brown I've got my sentiment and I've just got this cherry cobbler ink color here and I'm just going to stamp that up on here it's a real deep deep brown color that one and then just cut this one you can obviously run this through your trimmer if you want I'm just doing this all by myself just put a little bit of glue on the back there and then I'm just going to stick it right up into the corner of one of these straight sides so it's already been framed on two of the sides and then all I have to do is just cut the same like so like so yeah so I'm going to pop a little piece of foam on the far right hand side just because obviously there's so much lifted now on this piece size will just put a little square I only need it on the end and then I can put glue on the rest and then I'm going to add a little bit of bling even though it's for a man man then like a bit of bling as well there's nothing wrong with that let's put a little bit there it just needs something I'm just going to these are so tiny but they really do give off a lovely little lovely bit of foam I'm going to put one in the eye like I did on the other one I forgot to mention that actually but one of these fits perfectly in the eye if I can get it back in there of the bunny just push it in right inside there we go I think that's enough I won't go too too crazy let me just bring that up now again the lighting dips we know there you go oh there we go you can see a little bit of sparkle it's got so much dimension there you go that just shows you exactly how it's lifted but it does look really good I'm actually really pleased with how that's turned out now so they have it two little cases to hold loads of sweets for a pound so it's a bargain little gift but I think it looks really lovely and whoever you give it to will know that you've put a lot of work into that so there you go so that's the first project this month using the new March kit if you are interested in subscribing to receive the monthly kits you have until the 21st of every month to subscribe to the next month so you've got until the 21st of March to subscribe for April's Box for next month so yeah so I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial another one for my Easter series 2018 stay tuned I'll be back again tomorrow with another project so I'm trying to remember then how many we are now um yeah please hit the thumbs up if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye


Hey guys, welcome to Snowbreak Containment Zone and we have a crucial update happening on August 14 UTC plus 8 between 1 p.m. To 5 p.m. Take note that the compensation is going to be digit cash to 40 Balder inhibitor large times 1 Silver buck 15,000 and take note. We have lucky coin bonus of 300 which will be crucial later So issuing time right off after the update then for the content guys We have this one I don't know if you were expecting this but this was already talked about in terms of how You know how the comment was before that Chen Sheng the fear cloud was only going to be good with her orange-tier weapon now the devs are giving us a Purple tier weapon so add new exchangeable item in the mean dang ritual event shop lucky for And luck and fortune purple tier assault rifle while they are dealing electrical damage and can be exchanged by 300 lucky coins so basically they're giving it to us for free unless if you have the the The orange tier ready you can use the 300 lucky coins for any other item in the shop But this is very good for our free-to-play players added purple tier assault rifle wild deer Dealing electrical damage and weapon parts. So in the weapons collection. So weapon name wild deer art assault rifle Purple tier electrical and here is the weapon skill level 1 to 5 increase attack between 12 To 20% so that is the attack increase given After hitting the targets weak spot attack increased by an extra 12 to 4 to 20% as well for five seconds Which is which is actually crucial because this is going to be Close Not really close, but you know in the line of what the orange tier gun gave us so Parts name. This is a new Support module from this gun once you reach level 50. So parts attribute accuracy 10 point 13% then you have an attack plus 10 So we have also some bug fixes and other stuff that they will be inserting in this maintenance So this is good news guys for everyone, especially our free to play brethren and sisters out there So anyway guys, are you happy with this update? The divs are listening by the way So can you comment in the comment section below and let me hear your thoughts? Thank you very much guys for staying this far Take care stay safe. This is the warden and I'm out of here


The system of exploitation and their political agents sitting in the government, CITU has gone through intense struggles of decent working class movement with the call of unity and struggle. After touching all the districts in Tamil Nadu, covering 2100 kilometers over 10 days, the Padayatra of the center of Indian trade unions, CITU concluded with a large public meeting in Trichy on May 30th. This campaign journey started on May 20th with 7 groups and more than 300 volunteers travelling throughout. The Padayatra raised slogans and distributed pamphlets against right-right unemployment, amendment of labour laws into pro-corporate laws, creation of non-permanent workers, the proliferation of contract labour and unfair exploitation of labour in the name of scheme workers. The Padayatra was enthusiastically welcomed in the stopovers with garlands, shawls, coffees and arcades at many places. They were provided with refreshments and local varieties of food, cultural performances ranging from folk to hip-hop, and themselves re-hydrating the attacks on the rights of the working class. They made 14-point demands. Tamil Nadu State Secretary of CITU, Gopi Kumar, explains about their demands. CITU campaign demands the rulers of the country as well as the state, BJP as well as the DMK to implement various welfare measures of the people of the country as well as the workers in particular as well as the farmers and workers, agriculture workers. The CIU demands, as per the decision of the All India Conference, the CIU demands the Modi government to repeal the four courts as well as four courts of the acts, industrial labour acts, as well as not to privatize the public sector units as well as the other demand is that to implement the Indian labour conference recommendations on minimum wages like 26,000 rupees per month or per mensum and to fulfill the vacancies. Almost there are more than 10 lakh vacancies PSUs, government and state government as well as central government bodies. So, to fulfill the vacancies and to decrease the unemployment rate we demand and mainly to arrest the price rise. The prices are skyrocketing and to arrest this price rise and to reduce the particularly mainly we demand to reduce the prices of the oil, petrol, gas as well as the diesel. And for the unauthorized workers, the Tamil Nadu state company of CIU demands the pension to be increased from 1000 rupees to 3000 rupees. To the unauthorized workers the benefits to be doubled. Twice it should be implemented to the unauthorized workers and most importantly now the labour acts and as well as the benefits of the labour acts are not even to a major section of the major chunk of the workers. The government, central government as well as the state government are introducing scheme workers who mainly a 90 percent, 95 percent of the scheme workers are women workers. For them there are no safety at all. There are no safety measures are implementing or even the labour acts not being implemented to these scheme workers particularly Makhali Thedi Marathom, ICDS, Anganwadi workers as well as the Asha workers. As per the state government's election manifesto they said there should be, when they come to power they will be regularizing their jobs particularly Anganwadi as well as Asha and Makhali Thedi Marathom. But that election manifesto, that demand has been not been implemented so far and not been fulfilled. So we demand the state government of Tamil Nadu to implement what they said in the election manifesto to regularize the Asha workers, ICDC workers, ICDS workers as well as the Makhali Thedi Marathom workers and last but not least a new section is coming into the area of working class that is gig workers as well as data entry workers like that without any protection for the ID act as a trade union act particularly Swiggy workers, Zomato workers, Danzo workers and data entry workers who are working in Tamil Nadu state governments who own the TAG TV and these workers have not been under the protection of the ID act they are not getting any benefits of the ID act or trade union acts like essential trade union acts like important trade union benefits like minimum wages, CL, EL, medical expenses or gratuity and so we demand the CI to this Fadiathra demands the state government particularly the central government to regularize them as workers to announce them as workers and to recognize them as workers and thereby they will be getting all the benefits of the industrial trade union act also and with the 14 demands we campaigned among the workers of the Tamil Nadu state in the public meeting held on the final day of the Fadiathra interview which is also the formation day of the CITU the general secretary of CITU announced that the union government is following pro-corporate policies and unfolding anti-working class he called for a united fight by all the sections to defeat the anti-people action by the Modi-led BJP government the system of exploitation and their political agents sitting in the governance CITU was born through intense struggle of the then working class movement with the call of unity and struggle and immediately after the birth of CITU CITU was sought to be isolated by all others but strength of the slogan of unity and struggle and the conviction with which CITU was born not merely to fight for the demands of the workers but also to fight for the uprooting the regime of exploitation the exploitative system that was the CITU's constitutional directive so the strength of that ideology and unity of struggle ultimately isolated those isolationist conspirator in the governance and within a period of seven years the entire country noticed all the trade unions was compelled to come on a singular united platform against the industrial relations bill in support of the Yellow Strike within four years the trade unions have to convert themselves most of the trade unions within seven years the total unity against the industrial relations bill and within 12 years the first ever national contrived general strike united general strike by the working class in cooperation with the peasants and agricultural workers baving the police bullets and atrocities of these governments where ten comrades were murdered four workers, six peasants and agricultural workers and Kamenharu also state of Kamenharu has its share among those martyrs three, three comrades died from Kamenharu this is the history this is the historic execution of the historic necessity of the time through foundation of CITU in last this fifth compression of 53 years we must cherish and take a pledge because today's situation at that time trade union movement faced a danger of derailment towards cross-collaboration again the country, entire country is facing a tremendous challenge a tremendous challenge of destruction a tremendous challenge of the poisonous infiltration of the DVC forces in every veins of the society only to help the corporate fathers of those in governments at this moment at the center a biggest challenge in defense of our country in defense of the democratic setup in defense of the people's unity and the challenge and combat against the nastiest poisonous element which is now governing the society governing the country almost all the central trade unions except the RSS one all the national federations of workers in the employees in the service sector all they are in the same platform and that platform another signal achievement in these 50 years that that platform of trade unions raising a political slogan that these enemy of the nation must be removed from the governance this slogan was given by the joint platform of central trade unions against the anti-national destructive DVC regime led by corporate communal nexus in governance must be driven out that slogan was raised from in the midst of the united platform of the trade union movement the unity has achieved a definite political height and consciousness today's task is to carry that slogan up to the micro level, grassroot level to execute that in operation and we are heading for that task before us


My name is Kalyan. I am from Intude. I was basically going to talk about what we are doing with observability at an Intude works at scale. We deal with the petabytes of data a day and billions of transactions and lots of diverse distributed data. And I wanted to talk about our experience. And we use open source a lot. We contribute back. I'll talk about some of what we have been doing in that space. And I have over 30 years of experience working in platforms and been contributing to open source and open standards all my career. That's briefly about me. So the agenda for today is we'll be looking at basically the theme or the topic is basically doing federated search over distributed data. As observability scales up, we are dealing with huge amounts of data that's diverse. We are going to look at the different data, the challenges that are there, and some of the solutions. And again, the idea is that instead of reinventing a solution for these problems, why not leverage what's already been done in similar areas? So that's the theme. And again, there's a lot of content. Since there's only five minutes, the slides that are also shared in the site will have a lot more content, and I've given references. So this is just to give an overview. But if you look at the slides and the references, you'll get a lot more data. So the challenge here is that we deal with a lot of raw data. We deal with a lot of derived and analytical data. And then we have data that's coming in the slots, traces, metrics that's coming in. Then there is also profiling data, performance data. And then for various reasons, we need to keep data on the edge in the cluster. We need to keep data in intermediate storage, such as an S3. And it could be a primary or a secondary storage. And also the metrics, logs, et cetera, needs to be correlated and stitched together. So essentially, you have data in a number of stores. And all of it needs to be stitched together for to have any meaningful analytics. How do I do that? And that's the challenge we're trying to solve here. So some of the challenges, as I said, correlation. I need to make sure that the data is correlated across different layers of the stack and different types of data, whether it's metrics or traces and logs. How do I make sure all of that can come together, can be correlated? And the other challenge is we are looking at the significant exponential growth of observability data. And I cannot simply move everything to one central place, because it's not very efficient. There's latency, and there's a huge amount of network and egress cost that I have to pay. So the general approach. And then we also need to make sure that we have data quality and governance. And data can be noise if there's no insights and AI ops accompanying it. How do I need to build that? And do that with data that is distributed. So some of the solutions that we have been working on, that we have implemented, I've done that in my previous jobs. I've seen it done in the industry. So one is we need to be cost effective. And one key concept is around data gravity. As data explodes exponentially, I need to do my computation. I need to do my processing where data exists. I cannot expect to bring petabytes of data into one place every day. I mean, it's just not scalable enough. So I need to make sure I keep data in one place so that that's cost effective. And instead of sending data centrally, can I send the insights centrally? Essentially, maybe a derived data. Can I do something with the metadata? So keep metadata central and data local. And then use, essentially, the federated search and various approaches like data fabric where you essentially have a virtualized view of this whole distributed diverse heterogeneous data so that you have a unified centralized holistic view. But data, you process data where it exists. And that you do with approaches that are popular in the industry, in the big data world, in so many other areas, concepts like data ops, data fabric, presto, and so on. And those are something that we have used. We've seen some gaps. We'll briefly talk about what worked, what didn't work, what are some of the enhancements we've had to make. So again, one data fabric has been very popular. It's used for a slightly different data ops problem where you have data that's distributed across. And you need to provide a holistic view for the data regardless of the location and format. And this is, again, spread across. And while it's a very complex area, but some of the key concepts are there's a virtualized view for the data, you need a data catalog, and you need a metadata. And the key part or the fabric part, which is the fabric is the glue that brings together all the different diverse data. And that glue is the metadata, because I need to know what the data is, how is it related to the other data, and how do I locate it, how do you bring it, how do you stage it together. So all of that is the metadata that's critical. And if you're talking about open source, which is what CNCF is about, one approach would be to do it using Apache Arrow, which is an extremely popular ecosystem nowadays that's used across a number of open source and commercial vendors. So again, in the interest of time, I've just shared the content. But basically, Arrow is an in-memory columnar format that's very good for vectorized parallel processing. It's zero copy. There's no serialization cost. And then if I need to send it over the network, I use something called Arrow Flight. There's also Flight SQL if I want to do a SQL interface on top of it. And then if I want to do query processing, I have data fusion. All these together make it extremely powerful. And there are a number of implementations. And one very popular one is what is called FDAP. That's used by Influx, DB, and many others. Velox uses it, and so on. Open Observe is another example. And here, again, the idea is to use Arrow for in-memory, Flight for networking, data fusion for query processing, and Parquet for storage. And these are all very well integrated together. And that works very well. So what are the gaps here? Some of the gaps we saw was that, while most of what we require in a data fabric or in a federated search, work with Arrow, but one key aspect is the metadata. That is something that is still not supported. Now, there are these open-source metadata platforms such as Datahub and Apache Atlas that you could use. So that's something that we are looking at. Similarly, distributed query is something that's important. The idea being that, when I send a query, I may need to make sure I have a query plan, I have optimizers and execution plan and all of that. And then I federated it over a number of nodes, and then essentially aggregate all the data back together. Now, all that needs to be done. And that's something that's still a missing piece. Now, within the Arrow ecosystem, there are things like Ballista and GlareDB that do it, or you could build something fairly easily. So that's one option. And similarly, the user defined types are supported in Arrow, but UDFs are still not supported. So that's something that's being worked on. I'll just quickly, the other option would be to use Presto. Presto is, again, a distributed query engine that's based on SQL. It's, in fact, it does, the distributed queries it does very well. It has essentially the concept of coordinators and workers, there's also a resource manager. So essentially, I can deal with diverse, distributed, heterogeneous data, and there are a huge number of connectors, essentially, that Presto support. So I can deal with all kinds of data. I can connect to it. And essentially, federate my query, send different queries to different components or connectors, essentially, send it to workers, and bring all the data back, aggregate it into a unified query. So that's where it works very well, and it uses a high meta store. Now, what are the limitations here? The one major limitation we saw was that the meta store is very rigid. So if I have, nowadays, if you look at these large systems, you need transparent partitioning. The partitions will keep growing and you need to change the partitions. You need to deal with schema evolution. And these are some of the challenges that today the high meta store and Presto cannot handle. One approach to do that would be use something like, Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is seen as a way to open source, way to implement a lake house, which is a mix of a data lake and a data warehouse. But essentially, for the purpose of what we're doing here, Iceberg is very good with supporting transparent partitioning. It supports schema evolution, and it supports asset transactions and things like that. So, and it has a very flexible meta data. And so, and Presto has a connector for Iceberg. So one possibility is that delegate the meta data handling within Presto to Iceberg. It'll do it a lot more flexibly. And then you'll get a lot of these federated query and distributed processing for observability. All of these benefits will come to you. Am I okay? I mean, I can go on and on, but I'll just, a click house is another key component that can be very useful. Velox is again a pluggable engine. Particularly if you're doing a lot of Java processing, Velox is based on C++. It supports Arrow. It does very well. And Iceberg, I just talked about it. Particularly the meta data handling in this use case, it's works very well. And if you put it all together, this is the Intude case study that we talked about where there are all these different domains starting from analytics, data, federated queries, and we talked about some of the possibilities that are there. We have gone more with the Presto possibility, but as I said, you can also use the data fabric approach with Arrow. Both of those will work for you. And I don't have time, but I've shared some interesting references and it's already uploaded into the site. The updated one I'll be uploading right after this session. So I hope you found it useful and you'll probably learn more if you're interested from what's uploaded into the site. Thanks a lot.


Hey everybody, it's Harish Swaminathan from optiontiger.com. We're looking at the SPX trading action for Thursday, August 15th. Fairly volatile day, it was chopping up and down quite a bit and even if you took a trade right here, let's say on the downside, you would not have gotten very far. The real trade opportunity came here. As you can see, once these two dots develop and then you don't want to get faded by one, so you would have gotten into the trade somewhere here, let's say 2844 level and you would have ridden that all the way down here and when you see the custom RSI or the ticks turning around, that's when you would have got out perhaps at the end of this bar. So that has still been about a 13 point, 12 point to 13 point move on the S&P. Pretty good for about $2,000 to $2,500. That was the real trade and as you can see, there was a up move there but the ticks being below zero, it wouldn't have really been a very good trade. Maybe a B trade, what I call a B trade but over here if you had taken something, you would have probably just stopped out for a small loss or at a break even because the moment you would have gotten into the trade which would be here on this third red and that might have been a little late already and so you would have come out right here and so that would have been a small loss but this trade would have made up for it. This would have been the good trade to take about $2,000 to $2,500 on a five contract position. Thanks.


In the name of Allah the Merciful In the name of Allah the Merciful Let us join each other in Da'a There are many people around the world who are very unwell There are many people who are going through trials and tribulations where they live We know two members of our community There is one elderly lady that is very ill And one young girl who also is very ill Please, inshallah Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Sincerely for the Shafa'a that can go to them In the name of Allah the Merciful In the name of Allah the Merciful In the name of Allah the Merciful In the name of Allah the Merciful All praise is due to Allah. All praise is due to Allah. Master of our age, my respect to teachers, elders, brothers and sisters. Peace be upon you all. Over these last three nights, we have been looking in a particular section of the da'a in which we have been discussing the reason for our existence, really from the angle of philosophy and trying to understand our own purpose within life, the stages of growth that take place within the human on all sides of existence. We have concluded that side, insha'Allah, and now we come to another section within the da'a of Iftitah, which comes to us from Imam al-Mahdi, Adjara Allahu Ta'ala, Fallaja al-Sharif. As we have stated in the earlier nights and on a previous night as well, this da'a is divided into two. The first half of the da'a is where it praises Allah, as the creator and the sustainer of everything in this universe. And the second half seeks to praise and delve into our relationship with the Divine Leaders, and particularly the Imam of our time. The section that we are discussing this evening, insha'Allah, will look at the departure from the first section and the entrance into the second section, meaning that we now begin leaving the discussion where we praise Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and begin our discussion on the praises of the Divine Leaders and in particular the Imam of our time. The section in particular is the one that bridges the gap between these two. Hence it is both a praise to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala but also directly linked to our relationship with the Master of our age and therefore brings the issues together in one hand. The section that we read in the Arabic says All praise belongs to Allah for He is the one who grants security, safety to those who are fearful. Where you not just saliheen and also this safety net is extended to those people who are the good doers. He raises those people who are deemed weak and He suppresses, He brings down those people who are the tyrants and He is the one who destroys the kings and He is the one who establishes other people in the place of the kings.  Mubirid b'alameen and He is the one who scatters the oppressors. Mudrikil harameen and He is the one who catches the fugitives. Nakaalid b'alameen He is the one who punishes the oppressors. Salih al-musta swiqeen He is the one who returns. He aids the call of those people who call Him. Mow the ihaajat al-qalabeen He is the place of the people who present the ihaajats and those people who ask Him. Mu'atama del-mu'mineen and He is the station, the place of reliance for those people who are the believers. This section of the Holy Da'a is one where we begin to observe how Allah SWT is speaking about the station of the kings and the station of the oppressors. And He also discusses how the believers can interact with Him in order to grant them the safety and security from these very same tyrants. The beauty is from the end of this section the rest of the Da'a begins to have that journey towards the praises of Ahl al-Bayt. As we find now Allah SWT or rather the Imam in this Da'a is speaking about the leadership qualities the station, the ranks of Ahl al-Bayt. For example, He begins to praise the Holy Ahl al-Bayt. Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin abdika wa nabiyyik wa akhirasu He begins to praise the Holy Prophet of Islam. And then He begins to praise Imam Ali alaihi salam Allahumma salli ala Aliin amin al-mu'mineen wa wassiyya rasulilabbil alameen abdika wa waliyika wa akhirasulika wa hajjatika ala khalkik. Then He continues to praise Lady Fatimah al-Zahra Then He continues to praise Sayyiday Shabaab al-Ahl al-Jannah Then He continues Allahumma salli ala imma tul muslimin Ali ibn al-Hussain and Muhammad ibn Ali Ali ibn Muhammad and Hasan ibn Ali until the end Allahumma wassalli ala waliya amrika l-qaim al-mu'mal wa al-adil al-muntadar wa haffahu bimalakitika al-mukarrabin wa ayyidhu bi-ruh al-Qudus Ya Rabb al-Alamin Salawat Hence we find that this Da'a is now being bridged between the praise of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for His characteristics the one who destroys the oppressors the one who we have confidence in the one we seek security from and now bridges this gap towards the praise of the Divine Leaders and engages in our relationship with them When it comes to this particular section we find the number of issues need to be discussed and we allow ourselves to now begin our understanding of our relationship with the awaited saver of our time We want to understand as a background how we need to think and our thought process towards the master of our time When we see this particular section of the Da'a the first thing that comes to mind is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is making a clear comparison He is stating that there are those tyrants, those oppressors and they have these characteristics about them and then you will see I will show you the characteristics of Ahl al-Bait the characteristics of the tyrants they are the ones that you cannot trust they are the ones that will be destroyed by me they are the ones who will not give you any support they are the ones who will bring you towards destruction meaning that if you side with them within this world you will share their fate and on the other side I will show you these Divine Leaders I will recite to you their wonderful characteristics they are my signs, they are my divine guides upon earth they are my repositories of knowledge they are the ones who will provide you a proximity towards me hence if you allow yourself to be allocated on their side you will find that everything that they go through you will go through if they are successful you will also be successful the choice is very simple I provide you two sets of leadership the choice is yours as to whom you want to side with also in addition we find that these terms are quite universal we find when Allah SWT mentions kings and the destruction of the kings or He mentions that there are oppressors and the destruction of the oppressors these are universal terms you can imagine that when the Imam is giving us these words when we go back into history we might specify that there are certain kings that we see are destroyed one after another after another for example in this Da'a he says he is the one who destroys the kings وَيُحْلَكُمُوا لُوكَمْ وَيَسْتَخْلِفُوا آخِرِيمْ he destroys the kings and then he replaces them one by one by one with others for example you will see we had Banu Umayyah they started their role as a period of kingship a dynasty of kingship one king after another after another after another from the family Allah SWT eventually destroyed this group of kings eventually after them came Banu Abbas and they were also destroyed one king after another after another he is the one who destroys the kings and he replaces them with others but in today's world when we actually spread ourselves wider we actually see that Allah SWT is talking wider than just the Middle East he is talking about kings of all leaderships within the globe he is talking about all autocratic systems within this world he is the one who will destroy all these autocratic leaders whether you like it or not even if you think that you are in power you are not the one in power you will very quickly notice even today how kings are falling one by another as an example in today we are seeing the exchange of one leadership within El Sa'ud to another we are seeing one king becomes very ill very quickly he passes on another one takes his place very quickly we are given the news of his passing one king after another is being destroyed and Allah SWT is replacing them one after another after another these ideas are universal ideas that whether you are someone living in any part of the world you will see that when you have poor leadership they are being destroyed one after another after another the beauty of this da'a is twofold in this light the first one as we stated on a previous night is that this da'a is molding us the purpose of shahram adhan as we read within the Holy Qur'an O you who believe fasting has been prescribed upon you as it has been prescribed upon those before you why? so that you can achieve taqwa meaning that in shahram adhan I am supposed to reach that level of taqwa and continue on until the following shahram adhan hence this da'a is supposed to mold me in those facets however when I begin to realize that it is my imam that is giving me these words it is the imam of my time that is speaking about the kings being destroyed it is the imam of my time speaking about the oppressors being separated it is the imam of my time that gives me confidence in these matters whether I turn on the TV and I see Bahrain or whether I see Syria or whether I see Yemen or whether I see Egypt or whether I see Saudi or whether I see Afghanistan whenever I see these kings the idea is that in these words I am the one being given confidence that although I am seeing such trials and tribulations Allah is the one in control and he really is the one who is destroying king after king after king just as we are seeing in the lifetime that we are living in today hence when we realize that it is the imam of our time giving us these words we really begin to contextualize these words in regards to Akhira Zaman when we say Akhira Zaman we are referring to the time in which we live in we are referring to the time when we are awaiting the awaited saviour of humanity to come we are talking about this one individual who is the prince of justice we are talking about the culmination of humanity we are talking about the human being that every single prophet is waiting for whether you are Nabi Allah Nuh he has been waiting for al-Mahdi whether you are Nabi Allah Ibrahim he has been waiting for al-Mahdi whether you are Aba Abdullah he has been waiting for al-Mahdi in the tent of Muharram there is a tradition that says that the imam brought all of his companions and all of his family members into one tent we hear many of these traditions for example he puts out the light and he allows his companions go! they are not after your blood they are after my blood I allow you, relinquish you from your bay'ah from your oath of allegiance that you have given to me, go the candle is put on they respond and say, yabna rasoolillah if we were to be cut into a thousand pieces and our bodies were burnt and then they were to scatter our ashes if we could ask Allah to be brought back into this world to fight for you again and the very same thing happened to us again we would still ask for that very same outcome in this tent, on this night the imam, Aba Abdullah he did not forget the awaited saviour he calls his companions and he says to them, oh my dear companions I want you to know that we will be killed tomorrow I want you to know there is no doubt about it we will be slaughtered by the enemies none of us will survive tomorrow to the extent that they will even kill Abdullah Al-Razi, Ali in Al-Azhar I want you to know this that though we will be slaughtered we will be victorious then he turns and he points to a young man in front of all of his companions he says, oh my dear grandson no, from your lineage will come a man by the name of Al-Mahdi he will bring about justice justice there is injustice and he will bring about revenge for our murder tomorrow every prophet and every imam awaited for the culmination of this point in humanity's existence just like you and I are waiting for the culmination of existence with this very same prince of justice when we see this we are talking about a universal imam and therefore we need to think about our imam in broader contexts how we have seen our imam and how we have been taught our imam is a very beautiful platform for us to understand it in but we also need to continue to grow in line of the thinking as the world continues to grow our last three discussions have been very pertinent we have been using very specific terminology it's not been haphazard we have been speaking in certain language in order to broaden the mindset we stated for example this universe is unidirectional it is growing in one way when we talked about our religion it is growing in one way and when we talk about ourselves we should also be growing in the same way however when we talk about this world when we talk about how this world is expanding intellectually when this world is expanding in term of its global capability it is also unidirectional we are seeing constant growth and change constant migration of mind and thought accessibility between one part of the world to another in fact we have a term for this we call it a global village the other side of the world is accessible to me now to the extent that all I have to do is turn on the TV and see what is happening in Myanmar I can turn on the TV and see what is happening in Mexico I can turn on the TV and see what is happening in the elections in the United States of America and I know straight away how this is affecting me as a Muslim and how this is affecting us as a Muslim Ummah and how this is affecting humanity at large I can turn on Skype or I can look within FaceTime and I can now speak to my family members and other sides of this world the world is now a global village the whole world is growing in the same state it is unidirectional the world is beginning to grow in the same level when I consider this I now consider the reappearance of my Imam imagine 1400 years ago imagine when companions of the Ahl al-Bayt were speaking with the Imams of their time imagine the fifth Imam conversing with his companions about the coming of al-Mahdi imagine the sixth Imam conversing with his companions about the coming of al-Mahdi how did they understand the coming of al-Mahdi what words were they given and what words are we being given we need to contextualize the coming of our Imam in accordance with the world in which I live in but also contextualize the coming of my Imam if he won't come for the next 500 years what do we mean look at the world today and look how it is scientifically look how it has grown and look how it is reaching the culmination of our existence intellectually as we stated yesterday there is no boundary that we are not breaking there is no science that we are not challenging where will we be in 200 years time do I have a guarantee that my Imam is going to come on Friday no my Imam may come in 200 years time have I begun to ponder as to what world the Imam will come into when he comes how will the United States of America be how will the United Kingdom be how will the continent of Africa be and when I have understood in that light how will technology how will economy how will global cohesion be our science is continuing to break forth you know what they are doing in science just give you a few examples as to what I mean so we can contextualize this discussion when they speak about military when they speak about military growth for example they are organizing they are creating such military devices that they are creating robots that are the size of mosquitoes that can fly from one country to another in order to spy on you they are creating this technology at the moment the militaries mosquito sized robots they can land on you they have a microphone so they can record what you are saying they have the ability to take pictures and send it back towards their military base they can even prick you and take blood from you so they can take your blood sample this is not a conspiracy theory it's there in all the books it's in all of the military reports and the fact is if they are giving us this report now it means that they had this technology for 10 years this is the military capability that they have today when you and I say our Imam is going to come and he is going to bring military justice how do I imagine he is going to do it have I really considered the coming of my Imam what about the other technological advancements as an example they talk about cryogenic freezing cryogenic freezing is whereby they can freeze our body for any number of years thaw us out and then let us live in 200 years time just imagine imagine the technology is capable whereby you can be put into a canister it freezes your body you remain alive and in 200 years time when the Imam comes you can be thawed out and you can be participating in his coming you like to do that huh this is the technological advancements that are being made this is the world that we are living in today imagine what our great grandchildren will live in and imagine what world the Imam will come into we need to understand these things that the world is progressing our mind needs to progress our heart needs to progress our institute needs to progress our ability to work with others need to progress we cannot become insular we need to bring the Imam in accordance with how he understands his own coming not how I think the Imam's coming is going to be when we've been talking in these tafsir sessions in the afternoon we've been using certain language again we stated that when I ponder upon the Quran I ponder upon any hadith I am limited as a human being I have lived in this world for 27 years you have lived in this world for 40 years or for 70 years the fact remains is I cannot know everything I will never know everything hence if I ponder upon Quran and I put my thinking upon Quran I place my limitations upon the Quran in a hadith then I make the Quran as limited as I am when I make the Imam conformed to my ideas as limited as I am my Imam becomes as limited as I am can you see that I become limited because I am a limited human being and when I impose upon the Imam I make him as limited as I am the Imam is only as big as I become then his justice is only as big as my own justice his thinking is only as big as my thinking when I broaden my thinking when I break the shackles of those thoughts and I begin to see the Imam as to how he sees himself as to how he sees his coming of justice as I see his governance when I begin to understand the Imam I understand him for how he wants to be when I see that he is Qasim el-Jabbadeen I understand Allah as he is ought to be and when I understand the Imam is going to bring justice for the entire universe I begin to understand the role of Islam in accordance with the rest of the universe you see we are only one facet of this universe when I think of my Imam's coming he is a universal Imam when I say universal Imam I mean he is not just an Imam for the Shi'a indeed he is a Shi'a meaning he is a Shi'a of Ali ibn Abi Talib he is a Shi'a of Imam al-Hassan he is a Shi'a of Imam al-Hassain indeed but he is not an Imam for the Shi'a and he is not an Imam for the Sunni he is not an Imam for the Muslims he is an Imam for the whole of the universe whether you be Muslim or non-Muslim whether you be white or you be black whether you be brown, white or yellow he is an Imam for the entire universe how do we understand this? this is stated within the Holy Qur'an for example within Surat al-Jum'a now Surat al-Jum'a let us contextualize Surat al-Jum'a is our chapter 4 Friday Friday is directly associated with whom coming of the 12th Imam when the 12th Imam comes I believe he comes on which day? Friday hence when I recite Surat al-Jum'a surely this verse, this chapter must have something directly in connotation with the Imam of my time if I was to ask you which verse speaks directly about the coming of the 12th Imam which speaks directly about the qualities of the 12th Imam the governance of the 12th Imam and the practice of the 12th Imam and finally the attitude of the Imam which verse would that be? as in we recite Surat al-Jum'a every single Friday we have been reciting it for all of our lives but if I cannot see which verse my Imam is mentioned in have I understood Surat al-Jum'a? the verse of Surat al-Jum'a says Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem He is the one who has raised a messenger from among themselves his job responsibility is for that he may teach them the signs that he may purify them that he may teach them the book and the wisdom this verse is about the Holy Prophet of Islam the responsibility of the Holy Prophet of Islam is to be raised from amongst the people and he has a job description of four things his role as a prophet is to teach them the signs to purify them to teach them the book and to teach them the wisdom what is the following verse? who is the one who has raised a messenger from among themselves and he will teach them the signs and he will purify them and he will teach them the book and wisdom and if they were before the scholar what is the next verse? and the last of them when they will be granted the power Hakim and from the latter generations we will also send someone from amongst them can you see this? the verse says he is the one who has raised from amongst the people the Holy Prophet of Islam he has four job descriptions and from the latter generations we will also raise someone from amongst yourselves who is that person being spoken about? none other than Imam al-Mahdi now here again we need to contextualize this verse the verse says he is the one who has raised from amongst themselves now amongst themselves at that time is what? the Islamic Ummah was confined to the geographical location of the Middle East as we stated in the beginning of this discussion the whole world has become a global village Islam is now in Canada Islam is now in Brazil Islam is now in New Zealand Islam is now in China Islam is no longer confined to the four walls of the Middle East Islam is now a universal global phenomenon hence when the verse says and from the latter generations there should also be a person raised from amongst themselves themselves is no longer confined to the four walls of the Middle East themselves now becomes the entire world we will raise from amongst the entire universe a human being that is universal for the whole of mankind just as the Holy Prophet of Islam had four job descriptions he teaches the signs of Allah he teaches man to become purified he will teach humanity the Quran he will teach them the wisdom Imam al-Mahdi will also perform exactly the same four job descriptions but not confined it towards the four walls of the Middle East but towards the whole of humanity in all of its existence Quran says and this earth the whole earth will glisten with the Nur of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this verse is solely about the awaited saviour solely about the awaited saviour our Imam is not only for the Shia our Imam is not only for the Muslims he is not for the Christians he is for the whole of humanity as humanity is we believe our religion is capable of coexisting with every religion didn't the Prophet in Medina have Jews living underneath him? yes didn't the Prophet have Christians of Najran living with him? yes in the verse of Mubahila abna ana wa abna akum wa nisa ana wa nisa akum wa an fusana wa an fusakum at the end of it when the Christians realize that they could not battle Ahlul Bayt because Allah Ta'ala would send the curse upon them then the Christians live in the city of Medina underneath the Prophet our Prophet lived alongside Jews our Prophet lived alongside Christians he welcomed them into the fold of Islam I am your protector I am the one who will give you security I am the one who will show you exactly how Islam is supposed to be if that was confined to the cities of Makkah and Medina can you imagine how the Prince of Justice will be when in 500 years time or in 200 years time 50 years time he comes and the entire world is a global village how he will govern everybody underneath his wings now if that is how the Imam will govern if that is how the Imam will be inclusive if that is how the Imam will be just to all people within society be you white, be you black be you yellow or be you green if there are Martians out there and we are calling them green little men and if they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, Hindu, Sikh whatever they may be if that is how he will govern with justice how should I be when I think about myself in regards to my own understanding of my time here we need to reassess we need to understand our role within society we need to understand Islam's role as a religion amongst humanity we have some Muslims that Na'udabillah the way they want to present this religion it puts people off can I use those words as diplomatically as possible there are some people who want to put people off religion women you can't be educated women you can't drive you don't believe you need to be cut you need to be killed it's permissible for us to blow ourselves up just because you don't believe in Islam is this what the Holy Prophet of Islam stood for is this what Al Mahdi will stand for how are we presenting our religion how universal is this religion how beautiful is this religion how encompassing is this religion we need to begin to understand how universal this Imam is and the universality of this religion how just the Holy Prophet of Islam was able to incorporate other people we should also be able to incorporate other people how the Holy Prophet of Islam allowed for people to arrive at the pedestal of their own thought and arrive in their own time at the beauty of Islam we should also be encouraging people to arrive at the pedestal of thought in Islam and not be distracting and putting people off the religion the true beauty of religion that is Islam there is a tradition that comes to us from our 6th Imam, Imam Ja'far al-Sariq Sallallahu Alaiha where he talks about the universality of the awaited saviour in my humble opinion this is probably the outstanding tradition about the awaited saviour if ever you want to understand the awaited saviour ponder upon this verse and I guarantee you will have a full understanding of the awaited saviour of our time he states he says he says he says he says he says the keyword in this hadith is in the Arabic language you have two words you can say you can say it's a likeness it's not exactly the same it's a close proximity it's a mirror image for example we say he says he says have mercy upon them just the way they had mercy upon me meaning my mother and father they had the full extent of mercy within their capability just as they were merciful my lord in your full extent you be merciful the word kama it's a very powerful word in the Arabic language al-Mahdi yasna'u kama saint urusulullah al-Mahdi will act just as the holy prophet of Islam acted hence when I understand how the holy prophet of Islam acted in his universality I will understand how al-Mahdi will act in his own universality having understood this as a basis having understood this as a key priority we need to reassess how I am as a Muslim how I am as a Shi'a ithna'ashali within the 21st century there are two key issues here that need to be understood the first one is the fact that the imam is a universal imam it means that for his coming the entire universe the whole world needs to want his coming there's a tradition that comes to us from the fifth imam muhammad baqarah please listen to this tradition and understand the value of this tradition a companion once came to him in my understanding when the imam al-Mahdi comes he will make the people think like him and then he will govern he will make the people think like him and then he will govern the fifth imam responds and says woe be upon you it's a statement where he's saying how can you have this kind of thought why do you think the imam is going to come and then wave his magic wand and make you and me think like him or he's going to click his fingers and then we're going to think like him and fall in line with his justice the companion used to think this fifth imam said woe be upon you the imam will come when the entire world wants the imam to come the imam will come when the world wants him to come meaning that just the way the Islam is a universal religion and we are calling out for our imam al-ajal al-ajal to come we need to export the concept of Mahdiism to make the concept of a human saviour that is bringing justice to become a household concept the entire world needs to want his coming now right now we the shia constantly call for the imam's coming however we need to export this idea where the rest of the world also wants a human saviour to come from within the beauty of this challenge is that all the religions the divine religions have their own belief system in their own human saviour whether you believe it's Jesus or whether you believe it's your own prophet or whether you believe it's another messiah every religion believes in a human saviour that is going to come and bring about justice just as there was injustice the difference is that they are not active in calling for him they are passive they are silent they don't think that he is actively there like we think hence they do not call him for example our brothers they do not actively call for the coming of an awaited saviour they think he will come at a certain time but they did not call for him our christian brothers and sisters believe in an awaited saviour but they do not actively call our jewish brothers and sisters believe in an awaited saviour but they do not actively call our fifth imam says the imam will come when the entire world is calling for our imam now it is even easier because of the time that we live in we the shias are going through a very tough period and the fact is we've always gone through a tough period we're always calling for our imam and rightly so if he doesn't come for the next 200 years believe me we will always be oppressed we will always be minority we will always be the ones slaughtered however around the world there are such trials that if we the shia were able to export the idea of a human saviour that is around the corner and if all of us in one human voice was able to call out for him then maybe his coming would be quicker than just one small percentage of humanity calling out for a human saviour can you see the importance of the universality the holy prophet of islam was a universal prophet but his time was confined to the four regions of the middle east al-mahdi is a human saviour the prophet was a human saviour but al-mahdi is for humanity he is bringing justice for humanity the 50 man calls upon humanity calling for him and then he will come we need to export this idea that an awaited saviour is ready and waiting he is begging to come he is begging to be unleashed without justice now here around the world when we begin to take a step back we see that the world today is in a very tough situation imagine right now if you lived in Japan what would happen a year ago your town may have been devastated by a tsunami completely obliterated would you not want to call for a human saviour that can bring about justice on earth if you were in Japan and be calling for a human saviour in Mexico there is so much death from drug related wars that in a city of Guatemala in the city of Guatemala there isn't one single policeman left just try to fathom that just fathom that imagine in Dar es Salaam imagine if there was so much drug related war that there wasn't one policeman left because either they had all quit or they had all been killed what kind of havoc would there be on the streets of Dar but that's there in a city of Mexico imagine how we call Al-Ajjal but imagine how painful and true their call Al-Ajjal would be I swear by Allah it would be 50 more times more powerful than our call they don't have anything there no safety and security they would believe if they were to believe in a human saviour that is around the corner and they raised their hands and said Al-Ajjal imagine how much of the heart they would be calling from in Guatemala recently, only a couple of months back read this on the news 50 men, 50 young boys my age, your son's age beheaded decapitated their bodies left on the streets so as sun rose and people began to wake up and come out into the streets they see 50 dead bodies decapitated lying on the streets can you imagine their call Al-Ajjal doesn't need to be Arabic it's from the heart, it's a universal language the heart can you imagine the people in New Zealand 7, 8 on the Richter scale in earthquake houses the whole of Christchurch levelled to the ground if they thought there was an awaited saviour around the world how quickly they would cry for him and I can go on and on and on we can bring Nigeria problems, we can bring Ethiopia problems, we can bring Myanmar problems, we can bring Burma problems, we can bring Brazil problems we can bring France and Spain and Portugal and Greece problems the issue is that we as a believer in the awaited saviour want to be so insular that we want to keep Imam to ourselves rather than realizing that he is a saviour for the whole of humanity and if we told them that there was a human being that is waiting to come and you don't have to call him Mahdi give him whatever name he wants just call upon the concept of justice maybe tomorrow or next Friday you will see that he comes quicker he is a universal Imam he is a universal Imam and we the ones who know of him so well we are the ones who are not exporting the concept of this divine leader towards all of mankind maybe here we need to reassess maybe here is leaders heads of families mothers are scholars we need to reassess how we are as a thinking community this world is going in a one direction it is going in a unique directional mode the world is going towards this man this human being that is this prince of justice but the longer we as a human body do not call out for justice the longer we will continue to kill each other burn each other break each other without the saviour of humankind coming the Imam is speaking of universal concepts in this da'a walhamdulillahi qasim el-jabbareen mubeer el-daalameen mudrik el-haalameen nakal el-daalameen sariikh el-mustasrikheen what does this verse mean sariikh el-mustasrikheen Allah is the one that aids the one who calls him sariikh el-mustasrikheen sariikh el-mustasrikheen mawdi el-haajatil qalabeen mu'atamadil mu'mineen he is the one who accepts the haajat of those people asking and he is the one that can be relied upon that they believe in him this is not confined to the shias this is not confined towards the muslims this is for the whole of humanity just the way Allah swt breaks the back of a king whether he is an illegitimate muslim king or another king he accepts the call of the one who is a shia a sunni, a wahabi, a bahura a isma'iliya or whether he is christian or whether he is jew hence if the imam of our time says in da'a eftita that he is sariikh el-mustasrikheen what should I be asking the whole of humanity to call for in order for it to be accepted it is the coming saviour that can bring us from the state in which we are in to the culmination in the peak of existence within humanity this is how we need to start thinking we need to grow we need to think in accordance with the time that we live in we cannot be bound by the shackles of thought that have come from 200 years or 50 years or 10 years ago we must live in the time in which we live in and we must look forward towards the time in which my imam is coming in when he comes imagine the world as to how he will come imagine how the governments will be imagine how economics will be imagine how science will be and imagine his role in bringing this humanity to the peak of its own culmination the imam is coming in the time that one of his responsibilities is to bring vengeance for the 10th and Muharram the line from Da'a says where is the one who is going to bring about revenge for the killings in Karbala where is this one who is going to bring about this justice injustice is prevalent around the universe where is the one who is going to bring about an established Quran as it is meant to be established which justice is he going to bring which revenge is he going to bring he is going to be bringing revenge for certain women who were chained and bound he is going to be bringing revenge for those young children that they were tied and when they fell from the backs of camels the tyrants didn't even wait to pick them up he is going to be bringing revenge for those tyrants that slapped the faces of young children he is going to bring revenge for those children that had their earrings snatched from their ears there is a tradition that says that as the evening of the 11th of Muharram descended as now the horses began to leave the river Euphrates and in their dozens began to attack the tents of Abba Abdullah one of his daughters by the name of Fatima Tasugra narrates that I stood outside the tent and I saw horsemen coming towards me and I didn't know what to do should I flee to the left or should I flee to the right should I seek sanctuary with my auntie Zaynab should I seek sanctuary with my uncle Zaynul Abedim should I seek sanctuary in the tents Fatima Tasugra says that she ran wherever she could can you imagine the granddaughter of Rasulullah stating I ran in whichever direction I could to the left or to the right she continues to describe she says that one horseman came towards me he drew his sword and with the flat side of the sword he beat me on my back and I fell towards the ground as I fell I landed in such a way that it caused me to fall unconscious when I awoke I don't know I don't know what they took I don't know how badly they ripped my ears I don't know how they took my scarf but when I awoke I saw that I was in the embrace of my auntie Zaynul Um Kulthum I looked to my auntie and said oh auntie Um Kulthum they have taken my charter from me is there any scarf is there any cloth that you can give me Um Kulthum responded oh my dear daughter oh my lovely daughter your auntie Um Kulthum doesn't even have a cloth to give you they have taken it from me as well there is one tradition that says that as the night fall Sayyid Zaynab sra could be seen running in and out of the tent in and out of the tent one man by the name of Muslim came and asked her oh lady what is it that you are doing she says surrounding us the tents are being burnt but there is a man inside this tent who is so unwell he cannot even stand up under his own strength I am running in and out wondering whether I should look after the children or whether I should look after this man the next thing this man reports I saw Sayyid Zaynab carrying this man up on her shoulders Zaynab is carrying Zayn Al-Rabidin out of the burning tents please raise your hands and join each other in da'a we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the hastening of the reappearance of the awaited saviour we ask you Allah allow us to be alongside him at all times in our life in our death if we are to pass away from this world help us to be raised from our graves that we may participate alongside him in his victory we ask you Allah through the wasila of this awaited saviour there are so many people around the world who are in such trials and tribulations there are the people of Somalia the people of Nigeria the people of Ethiopia the people of Mexico the people of Myanmar there are the people of Afghanistan the people of Pakistan the people in Saudi Arabia Bahrain and Syria the people in Yemen and Egypt the people in Palestine the people in Iraq grant them safety, security and victory for the sake of Muhammad and Ali Muhammad allow us to help them allow us to spread spread the message of Mahdiism as it deserves to be spread Ya Allah help us to understand this Quran shahramuddan and the fast that we are performing we ask you Ya Allah allow us the opportunity to perform the ziyarat of the Imam of our time Ya Allah we ask you the opportunity to perform the ziyarat of Ahl al-Bayt we ask you Ya Allah forgive our sins the sins of our parents all of our marhumi all of our ulamah all of our leaders and we ask you Ya Allah the final moments of our life as the shayateen are surrounding us and offering us drinks to take into the next world that it is the Imam of our time that is quenching our thirst we ask to die in the love of Muhammad and Ali Muhammad wa salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh the daughter of the commander of the faithful in Fatimah al-Zahra wa salamu alaikum