Good day fellow investor. In the video where I analyzed India and its economic outlook and Indian perspectives about investment we analyzed Indian ADRs and I said I will look into them more deeply. So in this video I will analyze Make My Trip Limited and Yatra Online which are two online travel agents in India. So first let's start with the analysis of the Indian tourism situation. Travel and tourism in India is expected to more than double its contribution to Indian GDP in line with GDP growth in India. What is especially expected to grow is the air travel forecast. So especially these companies that offer online platforms to book flights. India is a very big country so we can expect a similar boom in the air industry as it happened in China and still happening in China. Technology adoption is surging from a low base so very fast growth in smartphone ownership penetration rate is still low when compared to the rest of the world and the number of internet users is still low. So let's start immediately with Make My Trip Limited and you can see how volatile the stock price is. It IPOed at around 33, 34, 6 years ago then it dropped to a price of 12 then it went up to 30 again then it dropped again to 12, 14 and now we are again around 33 after reaching 38, 40 a while ago. This is normal for a growth stock and the stock that is not profitable so you must take notice of that that this stock isn't profitable. Nevertheless Make My Trip showed excellent financials. If you look at growth then their numbers are staggering. Revenue increased 35% in the last quarter, 36% here over year so that's excellent numbers. All those numbers are growing, growing and growing so it's a really growing online company. They also expect the markets to boom domestic air international airlines and they want to take advantage of that market. Here you can see their gross bookings they have been constantly growing and their revenue has also been constantly growing especially what is growing is the hotel part of the revenue to travel part but also the airline part so really a growth content. Nevertheless the adjusted operating profit is not that good they are losing a lot of money for what they are doing so they are betting that one day as a typical online platform that one day they will break profit and they will be huge. If we look at the earnings per share they are losing $2 per share currently they have been losing 2.12 in 2016 book value per share jumped from 2.23 to 15.32 thanks to an acquisition and issues of share so that's not to take care this is all intangibles. And in addition they recently completed a 340 million equity capital raise so they found investors one of the investors is Ctrip International the Chinese online travel platform so that's very interesting if they're investing in the project and if we look at what Ctrip did in the past we can see how they grow from a very very small base they exploded and also the stock price exploded however the profits were higher prior to explosion than they are now nevertheless the cash flow is pretty higher so there is potential and now with the Ctrip invested into make my trip it looks very very interesting especially as we know that they invested these high prices nevertheless Ctrip is also very overvalued they used 20 billion in renminbi to grow to keep their growth they're not as profitable as they could be so it's a very very competitive environment so to finish with make my trip yes it has a lot of potential but then it has to be such a part of your portfolio this is the part of portfolio that I invest in huge potential online platforms and make my trip is certainly such a platform however their market cap is now 3 billion and their revenue is only 448 million so in order to reach the price earnings ratio of 10 that would make it an interesting investment they need to grow 10 times will they grow 10 times probably they will in the next 10 years but who knows how many ups and downs will they more be so a bad quarter something going not as planned would really drop the stock price down as it has been already case two times in the past six years so be very careful and look at a specific part of your portfolio if you're interested in such investments the second company I will discuss is Yatra which is the second largest online travel platform I think it's 10 times smaller than make my trip so a small player nevertheless it's constantly growing over the years the average transaction is growing they are focused on lower budget hotels and I think on lower budget airlines they are also not profitable they are losing money with their operations they lost one billion rupees in the last 12 months so they really have difficulties in breaking a profit and they lost one billion on revenues of nine billion so that's a very big hurdle to reverse so both companies are losing money they're interesting place because they are growth place they're very very exposed to what's going on in India however this reminds me too much of all the online booms and busts that I have been seeing in the last 15 years platforms jumping out everywhere growth yes customers yes money hemorrhaging money all over the place so be very careful when you invest in such stocks I as a value investors will never invest no matter the potential return because I know the potential loss is very high so I hope I shared some info with you some interesting investing ideas thank you for watching click like if you like the content even if you don't agree with me and please share your comments then in the comment section if you don't agree thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video


In modern society today, fear of death is not an uncommon thing. In fact, we'll often go to great lengths to avoid thinking about it if we can. The subject itself generally isn't even handled much in movies, except, you know, in horror flicks or crime dramas, where the treatment is usually violent and sensational rather than sensitive or thought-provoking. Yet, The Fountain is one of those movies that handles death really well. It's so good that it may even be deeply moving and healing for anyone going through the grieving process, as it inspires and educates on our transcendent nature. And so, as always, spoiler alert, and here we go. At its heart, The Fountain is a love story spanning lifetimes and dimensions, drawing upon ideas of reincarnation, life, death, rebirth, eternal love, and ascension. So, you know, it's our kind of movie. The plot revolves around a doctor named Wolverine, wait, no, sorry, Tommy, who is trying to save his wife Izzy from dying of a brain tumor by experimenting with a tree from Guatemala that seems to reverse aging. However, this story is also reflected in two other ways, and they weave together so intricately that you don't really know if any one in particular is the quote-unquote real story. Rather, it's far more likely that each of these stories reflect the trinity of mind, body, and spirit. One story is set in our present day. Another during the Spanish Inquisition, where he's searching for the Fountain of Youth, or Tree of Life to be more specific, and a mystical and seemingly futuristic story where he's traveling through the stars in a magical orb with a special tree who seems to be the spirit of his wife and the time that she has left. Despite it jumping from one story to another seamlessly, the whole movie does have remarkable self-awareness, as Izzy is spending her final days writing a story called The Fountain. Roll credits. Which is about the quest for The Fountain of Youth during what seems to be their past life. Now, to be fair, we're never told if Spanish Tommy is modern Tommy in a past life, or just a character in Izzy's book, the same way we're not sure if Future Tree Guy is Future Tommy or the personification of Tommy's own spiritual awakening. But that's what makes The Fountain such a brilliant movie, weaving these stories together perfectly and still leaving room for you to interpret it how you wish. Then sometimes the story throws you clues, like that scene in the office where Bald Spirit Tommy takes the place of his present self for just a moment. The director even said that the story is a bit like a Rubik's Cube, where you can solve it in several different ways, but ultimately there's only one solution at the end, which itself is kind of like life, you know? The one thing that connects all three of the lifetimes together, though, is that all of the Tommies have a fear of death. Spanish Tommy wants to find the Tree of Life so that he and Queen Isabella can forever live and escape the Inquisition. And present-day Tommy naturally wants to heal his sick wife, because he's afraid to lose her. And Future Tommy really wants to make it to Shabalba quickly before his Tree of Life dies. Interestingly, Izzy is very much like his spiritual guide in most of the lifetimes, in that she accepts her fate and embraces death as a part of life, and understands and shares the Mayan priest's view that death is simply the road to awe, and that it's simply a part of the journey of our experience. The whole structure of the movie very much emphasizes this idea that death is simply a part of the experience of life, and a temporary one at that. It balances three storylines that challenge the notions of time, or the division of past, present and future. Despite every lifetime taking place in different time periods, or dimensions, everything kind of blurs into a now, since there's a lot of scenes that are repeated later in the movie, like the fight with the priest, which gives us a more insightful understanding of the actions and context. It isn't even really hidden that this is speaking to reincarnation, but more than that, perhaps there's even a sense here that separation, time and even death are all just illusions, as our various lifetimes and dimensions of existence spin forever on the wheel of time, but are ultimately all connected to the soul in the center. Generally, we see our lifetimes as occurring at different times. I mean, come on, it's literally right in the name. Or at least we often see them as separate events, like we can't be in two lifetimes at the same time, right? But maybe all of our lifetimes are happening simultaneously, and what we perceive as the past or future are really just different angles of the present. If this were true, then it would most likely take our fear of death out of the equation. We wouldn't be so scared to die, because we know that we'd simply return to being a being of consciousness until we decided to have a physical life again. Even Aronofsky, the director, weighed in on this idea back in 2012, saying that ultimately, the film is about coming to terms with your own death, often times driven by love. When he was researching inspiration for the movie, he looked at people who were dying young and learned from doctors and caregivers that such patients find new ways of coping. And most of the time, he saw that the patients often die more alone because their families can't recognize or understand what's going on with them. As weird as this sounds, it's not really our fault. A fear of death is programmed into us by society. So much so that, just like Tommy, we often see death as a kind of disease that we try to cure. Every day people are looking for ways to extend life or feel younger. Just look at the popularity of shows like Extreme Makeover or Nip Tuck. People often literally pay to be young and try to deny that death is a part of life, which is probably where a lot of the anxiety and fear ultimately stems from. Hospitals spend huge sums of money trying to keep people alive, but by becoming so preoccupied with sustaining the physical, we often forget to nurture the spirit. As cheesy as it sounds, a lot of us spend so much time actively trying to avoid death that we forget how to truly live. Perhaps it's because we see death as separate from life, rather than life and death as two sides of a spinning coin. This idea of duality, or triplicity in this case, is pretty common in the movie. You have three lifetimes, the three stars of Shibalba, and multiple events that happen at the same time. An interesting parallel is when Spanish Tommy finally finds the Tree of Life at the end of the movie and drinks its sap thinking it will make him immortal. Only to find that, in a reenactment of the mind creation myth recounted earlier, his body is turned into flowers and grass that burst forth from his stomach as he literally gives rise to a new life. Killing himself in the process. Whoopsie!  But he too is dissolved into the tree, giving it new life, from which Izzy's ghost then picks a fruit to give to present Tommy to plant at her grave. The point here is life is cyclical. We see it as separate, little individual experiences, but actually everything is existing together in a macro and microstate, just like the old hermetic saying, as above, so below. And while not directly relevant to the plot, there is an awesome background detail that mirrors this idea perfectly. You know those cool trippy visuals at the end when the nebula is exploding and everyone sees that beautiful golden light and sacred geometry that we assume is God or consciousness? Well, those awesome visuals aren't actually CGI. They're water, chemicals, and bacteria that the design team blended together to create reactions. The team then used macro photography to look at the fluid dynamics under a super, super zoomed in lens and blew it up onto the big screen. Yeah, it's so awesome because as one of the designers explained, when these images are projected onto a big screen, you feel like you're looking at infinity. That's because the same forces that work in the water, gravitational effects, settlement, refractive indices are happening in outer space. The effects themselves are rooted in the duality of our universe. That which happens on the tiniest of scales also happens everywhere in the cosmos, in a way connecting everything together in one whole big experience. And that same image was also included in NOAA in one particular dream sequence which was also created by the same director. Subtle, but nice. Honestly, it's both funny and a little awkward for humanity that the fountain got fairly negative reviews when it first came out, mostly because it's about the fact that it's okay that we die and we should come to terms with it. But a lot of people don't want to think about that, so why pay money for a meditation on losing someone you love?  Like a lot of things though, it's aged like a fine wine, giving us the beautiful message that sometimes, in order to understand life truly, we have to accept death as a part of it. Things aren't beautiful because they last, but it's scarcity that gives something value. The fact that our time is limited is what makes life so much more valuable and ultimately what even gives life meaning. Even though today it's only got about 52% on Rotten Tomatoes, which personally I just find to be kind of weird, I have high hopes that in another 10 years we'll see the score get at least as high as the audience score of 74% if not higher. If anything, the fountain portrays wisdom and enlightenment as coming from acceptance. Towards the end, we see future spirit Tommy meditating in a lotus position and interacting with his past selves through what we can only assume as some kind of astral projection or remote viewing. Or, again, if it's mind-body spirit, then it's his own higher self interacting with his lower selves in the present. But he only gets to that stage once the tree has died and ghost Izzy has finally comforted him enough that he accepts the reality of death with acceptance through love rather than fear. Even Izzy herself is fairly enlightened having accepted death and realized that her soul will soon return to the source. She is able to become Tommy's ghost and guide him to his own rebirth. At the end of the day, the fountain tries and in many ways succeeds to show us that our fear of death is simply something that's programmed into us rather than something innate and natural. If anything, fighting death is simply a resistance to life as it is only another part of the journey on the road to awe. By showing us the true nature of time and our transcendental self, Hugh Jackman and Rachel Wise really give us a cathartic masterpiece that helps alleviate that fear of the unknown that is usually present with death today. Further teaching us also that death goes beyond the physical for while Izzy physically dies Tommy experiences a very powerful ego death. And even the director himself argues that death is what makes our experience intrinsically human since when talking about the Genesis narrative he pointed out that if we drank from the tree of life as well as the tree of knowledge what would have separated us from our maker? We'd be immortal and have knowledge of good and evil. We'd effectively all be God.  It's what makes our experience special although if we are in fact spiritual immortal souls living infinite perhaps we ourselves are God's soul experiencing itself as temporal. And so with that, thank you so much for watching. Personally, I feel like the fountain is one of the unsung masterpieces of the mid-2000s cinema. And in our current social climate perhaps we're all due to go and give it a watch again and see what kind of thoughts and feelings it brings up for us. Let us know what you think of it in the comments below and what else you'd like to see us cover. Toodles!


086 60 25,000 is our number for your text messages and on WhatsApp.  Well Martin Okton at just nine years of age was one of those children and along with his younger sister Barbara he was sent to an institution in Dublin far away from his Irish speaking home in Spiddle but Martin wouldn't be sidelined and with the help of some unexpected characters along the way he began to change the way that a generation of young people with a disability saw themselves. Now there's a book about Martin's life it's called Never Know Your Place and written by himself with the help of Joanna Marston who joins me now on the line. Joanna good afternoon to you. Good afternoon to you John nice to meet you. Likewise now tell us a little bit about well I suppose the the early years in particular and it was very very tough on him at a such young age to be taken from Irish speaking Spiddle and landed in an institution in Dublin. Absolutely I'd say it was a complete culture shock to him because the book opens with him going on this train journey where he and his sister Barbara they leave their lovely family home in Spiddle which is an Irish speaking community and he's had a pretty normal upbringing until that point and they go on the train to Dublin and it's a kind of long lonely journey where the whole world changes and they arrive and they go to this institution in Bal Doyle which is a very anonymous kind of place where people feel like they're kind of cut off from their families they're all medicalised the language is English obviously it's not Irish he has to adjust to this language it's all very routine orientated you know they get their hair cut they get their hair checked for nits they get the wound put on it they have to have their meals at certain times they have to go to confession there's a whole sense that you're part of a big machine a big sort of institutional machine and after this informality of living in a warm community and being kind of free there's this huge sense of shock for him you know and all because he had a disability. Yes yeah and I mean that's the really it's just so harsh isn't it it seems so harsh now but then I think we have to remind ourselves that it was a time when they didn't have services it's you know I mean I know let's be honest there's still an ongoing struggle for so many people to get the services they need but there were no services available so you know in order to get things like physiotherapy they couldn't get those in spiddles so it wasn't a clear choice it wasn't just send them off out of the way from the family's point of view it was that they thought they were doing the best for them and this is the way that society offered those services and obviously the effect was that they were so cut off and it was just such a painful experience. He thought hard for his freedom and eventually got to to move on from the institution but it wasn't just from within that he was fighting it was um his whole lifetime that he was fighting for people with disabilities for for them to have independence absolutely I think it's that feeling he had that he learned in the institution what it was like not to have that freedom about when you eat your dinner where you where you go how you live your life and I think that became this like really profound awareness of what freedom is and we know for most of us that you might think it's big things like you know going on holiday and stuff but actually a lot of the things are just the daily routines of having a cup of tea the way you like it and you know you're sitting in the space and all that that you enjoy being in and with people so he really understood what it meant to have freedom what freedom was on a day to day basis and he fought to get that in for himself and that was a really hard thing for him to get and when he got it he could have just chosen to go on with his own life to move to America which is what he really wanted to do but in the end he said no this is where I'm from these are the people I grew up alongside in the institution I want to go back and support them to leverage you know a different model of life where we have personal assistants which can support people who can support people in their own homes so that you know automatic institutionalization isn't something that people have to face anymore um yeah in a way PA's um you know many people take them for granted now but back when when Martin started speaking out about the value of PA's it was um it was groundbreaking it was and I think it there's he talks in the book about this first time where he tries to explain the concept and a few of them get PA's or that Martin starts actually paying for them himself and he kind of realizes this is my PA when he sees him in America but he's got to introduce the idea to Irish people who haven't seen this they've no idea and it seems like he's aware that they might think it's just mad money or you know but he's actually saying no this is actually cheaper to have them people supporting you in your home so that you can work so that you can be part of society um but it isn't something that people can get their head around so the first few years it's all about being seen so everybody in Dublin knew Martin and it wasn't just because he was campaigning it was because he made sure he was seen everywhere because if you've seen someone you know going around with a PA you kind of get your head around it we've all seen it now in our towns we're used to it but I think if you go back a lot of people have sort of said if you go back into your childhood if you're around in the sort of 70s or you know like you know people around even you know at the 60s in the 60s at the same time they wouldn't have had any sense that people with disabilities were visible in society they were just hidden away and and now they're visible and that's because Martin began that process of saying you know we're here we're not going to be locked up anymore we want to be seen and you know that's what the book is about really he helped to change a lot of people's perspectives of people with disabilities and also those with disabilities themselves and get them I suppose get them a look at what was possible and what could be achieved and what they deserved yeah I think that's true and you know what I've learned that I don't have a disability my many friends who do but I I think I learned a lot myself from this book and one of the first principles that applies regardless is that if you want to change the world around you the first thing you have to change is how you see yourself and that comes across in relation to the disabled people who grew up alongside that they first had to kind of think I do not belong in this place that I've been put cut off I can actually expect more um you know the idea of the book never know your places don't accept where society puts you question and then try to see yourself in a different light and then try and expand your worldview make it bigger and mix with other people so that kind of process of changing how we see ourselves applies to anybody who gets stuck in any kind of place in society and I think it's something that whether you have a disability or not you can learn from you know shake things up in order to change you know how you see yourself and then other people might see you differently but they're not going to see you differently if you don't see yourself differently you know the United States um we're way ahead of us in in in rights for people with the disabilities and and Martin looked at the state slot made a lot of friends over the years in the states and looked at various campaigns over there and then I suppose you know brought the ideas back here and said listen if it can work there it can work here absolutely I I often think it's amazing how it can be one person who brings an idea that comes from you know because now we kind of assume that ideas spread through technology and everything but at the time Martin actually went to the U.S. and he went to the U.S. looking like loads of young Irish lads at the time wanted to make a business have a liper himself he just answered the whole idea but while he was over there he got kind of stuck back into the disability world and he met these amazing American activists who were influenced themselves by the civil rights movement and they just they were very much want people who would do like kind of protests in public buildings they they had much they just said they were so far ahead of the way things were in Ireland and he imbibed all of that and he kind of had his own mind opened I think I mean at one point he actually describes going in to meet this activist called Fred Fay and Fred Fay is lying on a sort of a stretcher sort of set up and that's the way he has to live and Martin himself says like he he has his own prejudices he says this is so depressing you know he's like get me out of here and he whispers to his sort of PA I'll be you know don't hang around we're going to get out of here and then he ends up being so fascinated by a guy who actually has charisma and kind of energy for life despite these huge physical restrictions so his own prejudices are lost and he brings back this and Fred keeps saying to him what's your story ask people what their story is and what's your story Martin and I think Martin starts thinking well my story is that I'm allowed from Spiddle I'm raised in an institution and that is who I am and maybe we have a kind of responsibility to do something with the story because we don't choose our story it is who we are and I think there is that kind of process in the book of him saying well this is who I am so I go back and so and that's you know what what he makes it he wants to be a person of use and influence he kind of has that sense about him as a person you know and over the course of his lifetime I think achieved a lot more than he ever realized that even at the time I think he just kind of accumulated and became who he was and yeah I mean it's obvious he achieved so much because I've had some lovely comments from young activists who kind of are realizing that things that they took for granted this is where it came from and a few of them maybe that kind of the ones in the late 20s would have known Martin but the younger ones don't know him but they're actually saying starting to connect with this sense of this is where things changed in Ireland and I mean yeah there's a lot more than needs to be done but it is that start of a movement that's actually quite important to people having a sense of identity but I mean a price was paid for it and I think it's one of the interesting things in the book is that there is a sense in which Martin maybe sacrificed some of his own personal kind of his own his own personal wishes in life he doesn't say it a lot but he lived his life very publicly you know he focused on advocacy and I think he would have liked to have done other things in life he would have liked to have gone to America and you know there are things that get given up and he doesn't go on and on about them but they are there in the book I think you know isn't that the way with all the the biggest campaign is that they give over so much of their their life to the cause as it was and yeah you mentioned there about the United States he died in 2016 but a matter of months before that went on on something of a pilgrimage to the United States he did yeah he went on the Selma to Montgomery Trail and I think that was about him kind of trying to connect with the civil rights like he would movement he really took a lot of inspiration from not only from disabled leaders in America but also from the black kind of civil rights movement that was very he he considered that to be very much a kind of something that came from the ground up in in life he was inspired by a lot of things that was one of them you know Celtic football club was another but he had these places that he kind of went to for inspiration and I think towards the end of his life there he was kind of looking for that going back to the world so so to speak to pay tribute to other activists because he knew he'd given his life to that and I suppose he was probably hoping that he might get another few years and this would maybe give him the inspiration to kind of go back for another round because he was worried about the next generation coming up behind behind him and that they wouldn't they weren't getting enough hours of the PA service so you know he wasn't like retiring and saying didn't I do a great job he was thinking about the future um you mentioned Celtic there tell us about the connection with Celtic because it was it's while he was in an institution in Dublin that I suppose that that really made a lot of people set up and take note because it was a trip over to Celtic Park and he got Celtic Park and he got to meet the the captain then Captain Billy McNeill who was really good to him he was Billy McNeill was amazing and I found it quite interesting hearing about the story even though I'm not like a big football person I really I really have a soft spot for Celtic now having heard how amazing they were and it actually started before he went over there they came to Ireland on Patrick's Day and they were on their way to visit de Valera in the Phoenix Park um this was after the whole European Cup the Lisbon Lions team and the whole team came over and somehow somebody must have arranged for them to stop in the hospital and they stopped and they visited the the kids in the hospital and that was like Martin describes it as like a light that was over these these kind of big guys who would have been like superheroes at the time and to you know to this day to some extent and it made them feel as if they hadn't been forgotten because if these guys knew they existed and so for Martin it's a bit of a light bold moment and it changes how he sees himself and then he kind of tries to build a rapport and actually Billy McNeill takes a shine to him and he buys him his first power wheelchair and he invites him over to Celtic Park and he gives them pieces of advice that are kind of funny you know because Billy McNeill was a big guy and he had like a lot of presence and Martin says he was very when he came into a room he kind of had a quiet way of controlling the room and Martin is known for that I was known for that as well and Billy McNeill said to him you got to remember like when there's one moment in the book where he goes he's about to bring Martin into the locker room in Celtic Park and he says remember these guys are more nervous of you than you are of them and it's that awkwardness around disability and I think Martin thinks hold on this could be used to my advantage I'm not in an evil way in a in a cheeky way but in it in the interest of good and I think we have to laugh at that and sort of say yeah he took advantage of awkwardness to make things better and you know and that Celtic visit was just you know it's very symbolic occasion in its life and I suppose it was a community in Bal Doyle as well there would have been a lot of Celtic supporters and like the one of the nice characters in the book there's a couple of ordinary people like the nuns can be quite harsh obviously but there's like a hospital porter who's a big Celtic supporter and these are the people who actually bring real sort of human warmth into Martin's life and the life of the children and Celtic is what unites them it's this love of football it's this sense that even if you come from a really poor background that you can actually change things if you kind of have a power of community so that's another big influence on him you know well his love of Celtic never left him and that story about getting to go to Celtic Park and meet Billy McNeill and the rest of the team in 1973 is detailed in the book as are a number of other great stories about Martin and his life and his campaigning it's called never know your place memoir of a rule breaker uh Joanna Marston thank you very much it's been a pleasure thank you for having me get with the best Virgin Media Ireland's best broad


In the meantime, a non-governmental organization, NGO in Edo State, South South Nigeria, has embarked on roadworks across the city center to create awareness on protection of human trafficking victims to mark the world against trafficking in persons in Edo State. The national agency for the prohibition of trafficking in persons, NAPTIP, IOM, UNHCR, and other sister agencies were on the road shows to educate women and girls on the use of force, fraud, or cohesion to obtain some forms of labor or the purpose of forced labor and sexual slavery. Speaking to a reporter, Friday at Pomegeru, the Zulu director of NAPTIP, Chidi Berry Ifood, noted that today is a day set aside by the United Nations to create awareness against human trafficking and child labor as NAPTIP has rescued 14,688 victims of human trafficking between July 2003 and December 2019. All over the world, awareness is being created against human trafficking and we have them back on our own road work today. The whole world is watching and people will no longer be deceived, especially the youth among us. As you can see, the people that participated in this road work, it will show that at the end of it all what we are doing will bear fruit. It's giving credence to the voices of survivors, it's giving credence to the voices of victims that despite the trauma they have encountered, they still have a role to play in the fight against human trafficking and also the government has more role to play in terms of the eradication of human trafficking by creating support systems within the structure for survivors when they return. Victims' voices lead the way. IOM believes that the voices of traffic victims is a very strong force and one of the things that we have done as the level of IOM, we have supported government, we supported NAPTIP, we supported a those day tax force. Just last year we launched a legal hub. That legal hub is made up of different actors, actors from MBA, FIDA, actors from NAPTIP tax force and a whole lot of others, immigration service. The essence of that hub is that victims of trafficking can go there and get pro bono services in terms of either civil matters or criminal matters. We've partnered with the those day tax force against human trafficking to organize different symposiums, different town hall meetings, schools, outreach, and lots more.


You can or you cannot all right. You can hear me. So I'm I'm very excited. We've got the humongous crowd here But that's okay, you know come over. Yeah, come on come on come over So I'm looking at the time I know that we are on a tight schedule, right? And I think I should get started right and I I'm sure that as I get To talk a little bit about what brocade is doing with open stack people are gonna get excited And we're gonna get more people joining us for this quick presentation. All right, so Welcome welcome to the demo theater, right, and I've got the privilege to kick it off here So what we're gonna be talking about here for the next 15 minutes or so is You know what brocade is doing with open stack. So the title of my presentation is Open stack at brocade and you will be learning a little bit more about what brocade communication system Is currently doing with this infrastructure as a service Orchestration engine, right? So my name is did your store. I am in a product management role at Brocade. All right. So without any further ado, what I would like to basically provide you with is a very simple Very high-level paintbrush description of what brocade is doing with this Solution right and how we've been engaging within the community to deliver a solution that are open stack based Which basically in a nutshell allows you to build those open cloud, right? And it's basically here a Way for me to reinforce the fact that brocade is really committed in terms of adhering to standards and also Supporting open source efforts. So in a nutshell you can build those open clouds that are vendor agnostic and technology agnostic so What I propose we do here is to quickly go over the multiple projects that we have in flight with open stack And as you can see here, I have categorized them into two major buckets There is the the brocade plugins that you can see, you know right there in this red box But also those brocade extensions that we've been working on, right? So let me go quickly over the first category the first buckets right and go over The multiple projects that we currently are working on that basically in a nutshell enable the Interoperability between the open stack framework itself and it's going across multiple of those components There is neutron, but there's also cinder and that enable those components to interoperate with our brocade Products right and you will see that the interoperability that we are creating goes spans across the entire Brocade product line and compassing IP devices, but also stand storage networking devices, right? So the first one that I would like to mention here is this Driver the brocade plug-in that we have contributed back in grizzly for orchestrating layer 2 Services on top of the brocade virtual cluster switch, right? So hopefully you've heard about the the brocade VCS virtual cluster switch that delivers Ethernet fabric services, right? And as the underpinning technology for delivering Ethernet fabric services We do leverage trailer and really this great technology that enables layer 2 Multipathic across the brocade VCS domain, right? So that's one as a matter of fact the brocade VCS Plug-in has been contributed back to the grizzly release So if you go opensack.org Dance download grizzly, then you will automatically get this brocade plug-in So the next one that I briefly wanted to touch on is the work that we are doing in terms of integrating with our load balancer technologies and product family Load balancing takes two form factors at brocade. There is the classical physical chassis But we just released a virtual adx adx being the name of the product that enables layer 4 to layer 7 Services, right? And we are currently working on a Brocade driver that we're gonna be able to contribute back in the ice house Release, right? So very exciting tough As a matter of fact load balancing as a service within opensack is still a nascent Project right and the community is still working on it But if you join us at five o'clock in the main hole You will understand how brocade has been working with Yahoo Japan to make this a reality And we have a common project between brocade and yahoo Japan where we have materialized if you will load balancer as a service and this module has been fully deployed in a production large scale environment again You know, it's at yahoo Japan Wanted to quickly move on to the VietAvi router, right? We're also working on a plug-in that basically enables layer 3 services Onto the VietAvi router VietA is a company that brocade acquired a few months ago The VietAvi router really really instantiates if you will NFV network function virtualization, right and Supports multiple features and capabilities like layer 3 services VPN firewall net and many others that if you're interested you should actually reach out to us and Take a look at our booth the brocade booth, right? And last but not least we are having also in planning a Brocade plug-in for our MLX Solution the MLX is a core router that is definitely positioned as this Core solution for a classical data centers, but it also leverage for when interconnect or data center Period, okay So as you can see lots of work that's going on in terms of basically creating relevance from a Brocade perspective into this open stack infrastructure of the service open source solution So we went over those driver those plugins, right? And what I would like to do now is to really draw your attention to the second Bucket the one on the right-hand side of this slide here that talks about the brocade extensions Okay, so not only brocade is willing to consume those open-stack it API those Thrustbound API's if you will that are really designed for vendors to hook up their platform But we are also taking the leap of faith to expand on the open-stack capability adding more Capabilities and functionalities into the framework itself, right? So one that I would like to mention here is the work that we've been doing in terms of Putting the support in open stack sender that manages block storage for fiber-channel support All right the way we went about this has been quite unique What we've done is basically a rallying tier one storage vendors such as IBM EMC HP and Etachi and we've been connecting weekly meeting with them in such a way that we've been Defining as a group as a subcommittee if you will as part of this open stack consortium what fiber-channel Support in open stack me means so lots of good work has been done already most of the fiber-channel storage piece has been taken care of in Cinder in the grizzly Where this support in the framework has been added but many of those company have been able to also Contribute their own driver right and we brocade We are actually taking the lead in championing the support of Storage area networking into open stack and what that means is that what you are adding in the ice house Really is is a fiber-channel send zone manager because obviously the most common operation that you can think of in an Orchestration context is really zoning where you need to attach your host to your targets, right? So the the last one that I would like to touch on here really briefly is some very interesting work that brocade is By yearning in terms of adding a new Module if you will that makes a lot of sense and that doesn't exist yet in open stack What I'm getting at is Capacity planning so let's talk a little bit about the dynamic network resource manager or DNR M All right and to go back to the the premises of this project what we really need to do and understand is What open stack as well as any cloud management platform is really? Is really meant to add right and One of the big prerequisite for any cloud management platform to work is that you have the capacity Already within your infrastructure right that capacity has been pre-staged and then open second kick in and start to massage those Resources a cross-compute network and storage to really deliver this application to the business Okay, so now what happens if you do not have that capacity, right? So let's take a look at what brocade is doing in terms of capacity planning and auto scaling for networking So and we need just to go back to the classical usage if you will or the classical use case of Open stack right when a VM gets to be deployed Nova kicks in do you know it's magic and then you know Calls automatically neutron neutron will actually call the brocade plug-in and will basically reconfigure The networking device so now you can create the connectivity between end users and this application Okay, so now we are taking here the case of Network function virtualization where those networking services are residing within the VM now wait a minute What happens if there is no VM available to be activated by the brocade plug-in and that's exactly what we're adding in open stack We have a prototype that's gonna be delivered that's gonna be shown at our booth Here is the way this works as soon as Nova calls in neutron then we Capture that signal because we know that this signal is representative of Capacity that's gonna be consumed in the network right so we propagate that signal to the dynamic network resource manager for resource code monitoring right so this DNR Mpc split into two modules. There is the Network resource pool manager. It's an inventory System if you will and there is the network resource allocator, which is responsible for Recreating capacity that is now missing into the infrastructure the whole system is policy driven You know and initially those policies are gonna be fairly simple This could be as simple as let's say you've got a low watermark and a high watermark And if you're outside of those boundaries for networking capacity then something needs to happen So say in that case we we have consumed the last Virtual machine posting the VR a VR so what we want to do is relocate one Okay, so the network Resource allocator will actually call back Nova which in turn is gonna spin a new VM hosting the VLV router This time around the VM is in idle mode right and is ready to go whenever the need will arise Okay So there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to expand this to the entire NFV portfolio of brocade Including the virtual adx But what we really want to do is make sure that we design this solution in such a way that it's fully Multivendor capable right what we have in mind is basically working with the community Making sure that we are designing and building a system that any vendor can leverage to its own advantage really the you know the The spirit in which we are working at the moment on this On this project. All right, so wanted to thank you looks like I just Exhausted my time I'll be you know by the side ready to answer to any question that you may have Thanks again for joining this brocade session on open stack. Thank you


I looked at the flyers and it was saying Georgia Power Home Efficiency to help save energy and if you was at a certain income it was free. I said sometimes free has a little catch but it didn't. For eligible income qualified residents what we typically do is we'll come into the home and evaluate the current conditions of that home and we'll do a first round audit just to determine what's needed. So when the Georgia Power Representative came out he pinpointed the things that was making me lose energy. It was one thing that he alarmed me was I had a gas leak and I didn't know it. Just imagine Georgia Power never came out here the house probably wouldn't be standing now. We don't want to just install things in the home we also want to talk to customers about their behaviors the current condition what we did to the home and what are their behaviors need to be after we leave there because the behaviors are just as important as the measures. The first thing he did he installed light bulbs they did the nest or thermostat when they installed the nest thermostat my light bill went down now they installed the installation it did my attic they sealed a lot of the doors and everything so now I'm looking for my light bill to go down even more. These programs can help customers throughout the state just conserve energy overall so we're lowering those utility bills and making sure that the customer is spending their monetary resources on the things that they need to spend them on and not necessarily worrying about the efficiency of the home. We want to leave them with the confidence that day in day out they're using those products more efficiently and when they open that bill it's not a surprise they know that they've done whatever they can to minimize the impact and not waste energy. There are multiple ways customers can learn more about these programs there's a host of information on our website that go through the many programs that we offer and we also look to partner with as many community agencies as we can to deliver our programs and to make sure that you're aware of what programs we're offering your community. Georgia Powell I really thank you for helping me save energy and to help me explore saving money and I would recommend this to any and everybody.


The reason that this is so important is that I could buy a plant from abroad. It could look absolutely fine But the problem can be absolutely tiny one that I wouldn't be able to identify with my eyes Some of the pests and diseases can be microscopic So bringing them into my garden here could cause devastation or bringing them into a farm couldn't cause Untill damage to our food systems So before you order and purchase get to know the plant health requirements in your country And if you're in doubt contact your government office for more local information So let's all be mindful when we're buying plants or plant products online Things you can do are checking out the reputation of the supplier We all have a role to play in keeping our gardens and our farms and our food sources safe When we protect plants we protect our food our environment and our lives


People may remember a few years ago the Farrington family decided to sell the mobile home park that they had owned for many years and there was a lot of concern when they put that on the market that that might be bought up by investors and displacing the owners of mobile homes that were on the site. The city was able to move quickly with these flexible dollars to support the residents as they really took control of their future and put in place an agreement where they actually purchased the park from the Farringtons. The city's money was a tiny amount of the overall purchase. They did the heavy lifting and the hard work but the fact that we had some flexible resources that were available immediately played a key role in them being successful at that and being able to put agreement in place quickly that has really allowed them to take control of their future and now if people have been through there recently they're really doing a lot to upgrade that property. They've brought in some new, very energy efficient homes that have resulted in new investment in that property and they're doing other things now to upgrade the infrastructure. It's exciting to watch and I think the result is more than 100 homes that are not actually regulated permanently affordable but they are sort of by the nature of what those homes are they are likely to be a really unusual form of quite affordable housing in this community for generations to come. So that's one recent example. Thank you so much. So we have just to recap their four ballot questions and Burlington voters will be voting on on the 3rd of March. The first is the school budget approval which the mayor has spent some time explaining but if you want more detail you can certainly watch the school board presentation from the city of Burlington. Of course we have all the school budget presentations from communities around us that are voting so you can tune in here at Channel 17. And then there will be number two. Question two is an increase in the public safety tax rate for new ambulance and the staff to support the ambulance which is firefighters so those are pretty highly qualified and technically I mean they're compensated at a rate that reflects their expertise. And then the proposed charter change in the housing trust fund which is to really codify it move it from a half cent sort of informally to a cent. That's right and have it rise with inflation. Have it rise with inflation. Question four is the charter change regarding the local election dates which if I remember correctly why don't you sum it up one more time. Yes that will allow the city to have local election ballots available at the same time as state election ballots and streamline our early voting process as well as give voters a longer opportunity to cast their early ballots. And that really plays out in the November elections the general elections. Yes. State level, national level and also local issues. Exactly. Wonderful. So I want to thank you both so much for joining us. Thank you for working so hard. You know it's kind of nice and neat on a piece of paper but the backstory in all of these represents a lot of work and a lot of democracy in action really. So thank you so much for joining us and thank you for watching and stay tuned here to channel 17 for continuing coverage of town meeting 2020.


Hi and welcome to the session, let us discuss the following question. Question says, in figure 6.62, two codes A, B and C, D of the circle intersect each other at point P. Outside the circle, prove that triangle P, E, C is similar to triangle P, D, V and P, A multiplied by P, V is equal to P, C multiplied by P, D. This is the figure 6.62. Now let us start with the solution. Here we can see in the figure angle P, A, C plus angle B, A, C is equal to 180 degree as they form a linear pair. So we can write angle P, A, C plus angle B, A, C is equal to 180 degree. You also know that sum of opposite angles of cyclic quadrilateral is 180 degree. Now clearly we can see C, A, B, D is a cyclic quadrilateral. So sum of angles B, A, C and angle B, D, C must be equal to 180 degree since they are opposite angles of this cyclic quadrilateral. So we can write angle B, A, C plus angle B, D, C is equal to 180 degree. Now clearly we can see in these two expressions, sum of both pairs of angles is equal to 180 degree. We can write angle P, A, C plus angle B, A, C is equal to angle B, A, C plus angle B, D, C. Now B, A, C and B, A, C will cancel each other and we get angle P, A, C is equal to angle P, D, C. Now in the first part we have to prove the similarity of triangle P, A, C and triangle P, D, B. So we can write in triangle P, A, C and triangle P, D, B angle P, A, C is equal to angle P, D, B. As we have already shown above, we have already shown that angle P, A, C is equal to angle B, D, C. Now in these two triangles, this angle is common. So we can write angle A, P, C is equal to angle D, P, B. Now by A, A similarity criteria triangle P, A, C is similar to triangle P, D, B. We know if two angles of one triangle are respectively equal to two angles of another triangle, then two triangles are similar. So here clearly we can see two angles of this triangle are equal to two angles of this triangle. So by A, A criteria triangle P, A, C is similar to triangle P, D, B. Now this completes the first part of the question. Now let us start with the second part. We know ratio of corresponding sides of two similar triangles are equal. So here these two triangles are similar. So we can say P, A upon P, D is equal to P, C upon P, B. Here P, A upon P, D is equal to P, C upon P, B. Now this implies P, A multiplied by P, B is equal to P, C multiplied by P, D. If we multiply both the sides of this expression by P, D, P, B, then we get this expression. Now this completes the second part of the given question. So this completes the both the parts of the given question. Hence proved. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Take care and have a nice day.