Welcome to NTM Nightly. I am Jesse Layance. This edition stops stories. Commuters on public transportation on the two-H castries to view forth route are being urged to get tested amid a possible COVID-19 community spread. The SSDF shows our boys' matter and sharing a culture of light and renewal. Solutions have been placed on a public health alert following the recording of the 29th case of COVID-19 on Island.  Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Bill-Mart George says this case poses high risk to St. Lucia, given the possibility for community spread. Health authorities are yet to determine the source of infection and are urging commuters on public transportation on the two-H castries to view forth route to visit the respiratory clinics for testing. Come and get assessed, get tested. We're trying as much as possible to widen the net of the possibilities of persons coming through between view forth and castries. So we made available those extended clinics from view forth, then we look there as well, but in a center to ensure that we can we can manage. We've also set up testing and assessments within the community as well to make it easier access for persons who may have been concerned or possible contacts of those cases. Dr. Bill-Mart George says despite the high risk of community spread from this latest case, at this time there is not sufficient evidence to restrict the movement of nationals by way of curfew or lockdown. Adherents to the protocols the CMO reminds will help keep individuals safe. The information that we have in terms of our results, we've not finished all of the results. We have not finished our assessments of the situation. I don't think we have enough information to make such a recommendation. How would we know when? We anticipate after a few days of testing, then we'll be able to give a better idea of the impact. So are we looking at numbers in terms of testing? If we say we've tested a thousand people, what sample size are we looking at? We're looking at about 500 to see what percentage, what positivity rate we get from at least 500. So maybe in the next few days we'll get a better idea of what the level of spread may be. But notwithstanding, our protocols are robust enough that if they are followed and if we get adherence to them, even with community spread, the need for a full shutdown would not be necessary. And I'm saying that although when I say community spread, it all depends. Is it sporadic cases? Is it a huge community? It all depends on how the level of spread is. Such a decision would be made. Such a recommendation would be made. And once again, anyone who traveled from the two H castries to view Fort Rout via minibus M481 during the period Monday, September 28, 2020 to Friday, October 9, 2020, please visit the Respiratory Clinics for Assessment. The five existing respiratory clinics are at the Grosally Poly Clinic, the LeClaire Wellness Center, Denry Hospital, View Fort Wellness Center and the Souffle Hospital. Individuals who are unable to visit the clinics can call the 311 hotline for assistance. Minibus operators island-wide are getting tested for the coronavirus. Health officials made arrangements for their testing to begin Sunday, 11 October 2020, a day after the COVID-19 diagnosis of their counterpart. President of the National Council of Public Transportation, NCOPT, Godfrey Ferdinand, encourages operators to not panic and avail themselves as health officials conduct investigations and contact tracing activities. I must say we had a very good response from the operators and the testing will continue today and into tomorrow because again, manpower is a factor. Also, we have this stigma that an old propaganda going across whether it is true or false. So you would have individuals being a bit reluctant. There are also people, persons that are fearful naturally of any kind of tests. So we are still working and encouraging individuals to go and get this particular test done. Commissioner of Police, Sever Moschery has announced a zero tolerance policy regarding mandatory mask laws on public transports, while leniency offered to the sector on seating capacity has been revoked. A maximum of 10 individuals may occupy a public transport. The NCOPT President hopes this will persuade minibus operators to run a tight ship. Presently going back to 10 or having a transport in 10 is a concern because profitability is at zero. We are just offering a service doing that. So the concern is that operators really, really don't spirited on the fact that they have to resort back to 10 and that there is a possibility that there might be islands community spread which creates even a greater concern to the operators. Who has it? Who doesn't have it? But what this particular case has done is allow persons to know and see the importance of following the protocol. President of the National Council of Public Transportation NCOPT, Godfrey Ferdinand. The St. Lucia Social Development Fund, SSDF, expands its targeted mentorship program, Our Boys Matter, to District Education 6, Viewfort. The launch was marked by a brief assigning ceremony on Thursday, 8th October 2020 at the Viewfort Comprehensive Secondary School Campus B. The success of the Our Boys Matter program is directly tied to the success of the beneficiaries. That word from Dr. Allison Mathura, Executive Director of the St. Lucia Social Development Fund, SSDF, as he urged its new recipients to make the best of this support now made available in the south of the island. Our Boys Matter, a holistic mentorship program spearheaded by the SSDF, was officially launched in January 2019. In its pilot phase, the initiative offered 100 at-risk students, educational assistants, meals, transport allowance, housing and psychosocial support in the northern and western education districts. Now, in October 2020, the program extends to District Education 6, Viewfort. Parents of three students at the Comprehensive Secondary School Campus B signed the agreements during a brief ceremony on Thursday, the 8th. I want the parents to understand that they're very privileged because there are a number of students and a number of schools. Even some of the schools that started the program, if they always want to add more boys, they have, of course, and I understand that everybody has boys that really fit the criteria. But we decided to come down here and invest our time and resources in you. And I certainly hope that you all paved the way for the boys that will come after you to influence the SSDF, to come on and take more boys from here. Acting principal of the Viewfort Comprehensive Secondary School, Ava Peter welcomed the initiative in assisting the disadvantaged within its school population. On behalf of everyone at Viewfort Comprehensive, I think this is a very touching day for all of us. And we definitely appreciate the SSDF as well as our boys matter initiative for considering Viewfort Comprehensive and for including us in this program. Acknowledging the disproportionate underperformance of boys in the classroom, Education Officer for District 6, Stephen O'Geest, lauded the program for addressing root causes beyond the education system. To deal with issues of male underperformance, it is necessary to identify the specific issues that are holding back the performance of our males and to address those issues. It is against this background that we in District 6 applaud the work of SSDF with the program, Our Boys Matter. The Our Boys Matter program is a collaborative effort between the St Lucia Social Development Fund, Massey Store St Lucia Limited and the St Lucia Electricity Services Limited, Lucillec. Still with the SSDF, the agency's assisting St Lucians in diaspora make a difference here at home. Anissa Antoine has the details. The St Lucia Social Development Fund has been working closely with the diaspora office to help facilitate the donations received from the St Lucia diaspora. The latest undertaking of the organizations is the establishment of a thrift shop in St Lucia with the aim of assisting nationals here at home. The Executive Director of the SSDF, Alison Mathera, noted that the St Lucia Association from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States have shown absolute commitment towards the initiative. I think the challenge was they wanted to find something that they could unify, come together on to make a meaningful dent in poverty in St Lucia and we were able to present that to them through a proposal that we set up a thrift shop in St Lucia that would be funded by the US LoE if you will through contributions and at the end of every year we would have discussions with a steering committee that has been that comprised members of the SSDF and the US LoE to determine what the funds would go to, the proceeds from that. That was to me one of the most amazing experiences at the SSDF and I think it's a watershed because there is no question that there are a number of St Lucia's living overseas that are very committed to help in St Lucia. Mathera expressed gratitude to watch radio and family and the St Lucia Association of St Croix who have already made donations. St Croix from the beginning when we attended the biennial convention in the UK from the beginning they indicated that they were committed to helping and they have sent, they have sent, they have sent free barrels. This is not the first time they've sent stuff to us and I'm very happy for what they do. They seem very energized also. The Canadians have also been very helpful. They've done a house and what have you. So there is the will, there is the will from the associations in the US, the UK and Canada. It is for us to march it here and we are the SSDF, the SSDF staff. We are doing all we can to make this happen. Ambassador for diaspora affairs, her Excellency Dr Joyce Lynn Clark Fletcher expressed gratitude on behalf of the Government of St Lucia to the diaspora for all the assistance received especially in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. So this is a difficult time but we are very positive. We are looking ahead. We know that things will get better. We know that all the things we had planned for St Lucia for the diaspora is on hold but we are not given up. We are holding on, we are praying, we are pressing on and we will keep on receiving. We have next week or I think it's a week and a half again. We will be receiving will chairs and things from the Diabetic Association UK, St Lucia Diabetic Association UK and so many others of you send it. This is what you can do now because you cannot physically come and if your holiday is very short you don't want to come and spend seven days in quarantine and you want to protect those in St Lucia that you love. Thank you for understanding. Thank you for working with us and the Government. Thank you for giving. The hand in over ceremony of the donations received from Watch Radio and Family and the St Lucia Association of St Croix took place on Tuesday October 6th 2020. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Anzuan reporting. Inspired by the National Day of Taiwan Lantern Competition, the Cultural Development Foundation has its sights set on additional Lantern competitions during the year and beyond the Christmas season. The Cultural Development Foundation's collaboration with the Taiwanese Embassy for the well-received National Day of Taiwan Lantern Competition held in St Lucia has reignited hope for an annual Lantern event outside the festive season. It has long been a tradition in St Lucia to create and display Lanterns as part of a celebration to mark the start of the Christmas season. This competition event, Festival of Lights, is observed on December 13th, the day associated with St Lucia or St Lucy, the patron saint of light. Executive Director of the Foundation, Ramona Henry-Winn, says the response to the recent competition is inspiring. If you would look around, you would see the excitement that came out of the creativity of the artist. The Lanterns are a lot bigger, more extravagant. It's better than we've seen in past years, so for us it's a wonderful opportunity and it drives home the fact that we've been saying that we can do it out of the season because it has a place and today has proven that the Lanterns do have a place outside of the traditional Christmas season. Henry-Winn further expressed to that the CDF always lamented that Lanterns had a place outside of the traditional season and platforms could be provided to display creativity. Lantern displays, she says, would be useful at events such as arc-race, cruise and airports, craft shops and prominent spaces and places. Meantime, the CDF is pleased to team up with the Taiwanese Embassy for the Lantern Competition Component of Taiwan's National Decelebrations here on Island. St Lucia gets to share its traditions, culture and talent, and the Embassy gets to honour its country's observance. The theme of this Lantern Competition or exhibition is proud of Taiwan and San Lucia, so we want to use this opportunity to demonstrate, to showcase the cultural relationship between Taiwan and San Lucia and we are so happy that 12 artists are selected by CDF participating in this competition. Taiwan's National Day is observed on October 10th. St Lucia's diplomatic relations with Taiwan date back to 1984. Up next we have Primus Hutchinson with the NTN novella playoff. Be aware of and follow water conservation practices. Here are a few tips to help you save water. Wash dishes in a basin of water instead of a running tap. Soak pots and pans instead of letting the water run while scraping them. Check toilets for leaks by putting dye in the tank. If colour shows in the bowl without flushing, there is a leak. A leaking toilet can waste thousands of gallons of water. Use a bucket instead of a hose to wash cars and reuse grey water from laundry to water plants. Water conservation reduces energy consumption and strain on the water distribution system. Conserve water whenever possible and remember every job counts. A message brought to you by the Water and Sewage Company Incorporated, Wasco. Welcome back. Time now for the NTN novella playoff with Primus Hutchinson. Visit a country where I have lived for more than 20 years. Apart from that, Dr. Belma George, the person who obeyed these protocols, who I have established, except for the one who refused to pay, but who refused to stay in quarantine. Dr. Belma George, the situation is very serious because a lot of people are still wearing masks and sofijayos because they are participating in public social activities that are not paid. But what makes the authorities even more are the passengers in the car. 100 masks and sofijayos. A public private service that is still being enforced. Dr. Belma George announced that despite all the protocols that are being enforced to wear masks, to stay six-spire distance, social, private activity, social, and public, and all the people who are in place should be observed immediately. Dr. Belma George, the public service who has already existed before, has paid for treatment. And all these clinics that have been opened by the government have continued to change their situation. Speaking of this, Prime Minister Onimab Allen Chasne declared that the situation should be the other way around, that you should be tested positive for the coronavirus that has passed the measure for the economy of this country. As the Prime Minister said, even if this situation has begun to be experienced, we should be able to prove to the economy that every business that has been done has more than 20 rooms, hotels that have been opened, and that this situation has the capacity to meet 10 countries of consideration. According to Prime Minister Chasne, the type of people that I have registered here, I have lost more than 400 million dollars in taxes that the government has lost more than 100 million dollars in taxes. According to Prime Minister Onimab Allen Chasne, we have continued to pay for the patients. So, according to the Prime Minister, this has led to a huge loss for the country, and now we have to accept that this is the most painful thing that has happened to the world. For this, Prime Minister Jamade, Chief Police Secretary, for the blood that has been shed, and now we have to do the other thing, we have to make sure that the passengers are still in the bus to Sofidjayo because the police officers have the action that has been given to you. Prime Minister Chasne made a point that the government has done all that is possible with the money that has been given to assist the world because there is not enough money to help the people who are suffering from this illness. In all of this, Prime Minister Chasne made a point that the country has to close again because this year, I started to wear a T-shirt in the economy, so the country has to close this economy to close the country as it did before. All this government has not yet achieved the situation it deserves to do. When this diverse production of goods in the country started its own activities on Monday to make the public happy and do the operations. When this is a 2014 service and offers the opportunity for this country to live in a country like this and other countries to be able to benefit from this diverse service to develop, for example, the construction, as we call it, the factory, the manufacturing, and the public pleasure a lot. The Prime Minister said that Madam Esther Rigabet explained significant activities to the country in a way that will help them to benefit. By service for all of us, both are key services at least, visitor services, visitors, and people who do not use the services at least, please use the access or shy services with the online, electronically. So it is a great pleasure to present these ceremonies in a way that the economy is set of a whole set of activities. Prime Minister, my name is Alan Chastney. I am from the officers who are addressing this issue in April. I would like to thank all of you for your time and for all of us here today. Thank you very much, Madam, for your time and for your invitation. I would like to thank all of you for your time and for your time and for your invitation. I would like to say goodbye. Messy appeal primus. Well, that brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Jesse Leon signing off for now, but do stay tuned for more NTN programming. Goodbye.


Live from the Javits Center in New York City, it's theCUBE, covering Inforum 2017. Brought to you by Infor. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Inforum 2017 here at the Javits Center in New York City. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Dave Vellante. We're joined by Christina Van Houten. She is Infor SVP of Industry and Solutions Strategy. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. So I want to start out by just asking what you do at Infor and how you fit in. So we sit in between the people who make products and the people who sell products. And we start with really understanding the market, what is needed for a particular industry, even for a particular role. And we work with our customers. We work with prospects. We work with our executives to understand the innovation initiatives they want to do. And we drive roadmaps. And then we work with our development teams very closely to develop and release our products and create everything that's needed for our customers to buy and deploy and operate them from there. So it's fairly broad set of things that we do. Right, it's not a small portfolio. And what's really great about what we get to do is we're really kind of at the nexus of the engineering teams, the marketing teams, sales and our services organizations as well as our partners as well. One of the things we were talking about before the cameras were rolling was this idea of adjacent innovation. And this is something that the CEO Charles Phillips talked about at last year's summit. And I know you've written several white papers about it. Explain this to our viewers. What is adjacent innovation? So many of us are familiar with it. I think Charles used the example of the Venetian glass community, which obviously dates back several thousand years. But this idea that if you put several people together that had certain skill sets, it would spawn new ideas that were sort of related but different. And you see that all the time in things with government investments in space, with dehydrated food and cell phones and all these things, geo-spatial stuff, things that we use every day. And N4 had this ecosystem of products that had been acquired over time when I started six years ago. And it was just this really rich opportunity to look at all the teams and what they had built. Some of the things were redundant. Some were really distinct and applied to one business but really had relevance in another industry. And because we're so disparately located around the world and seemingly disparate technology stacks and all those kinds of things, we had to really be deliberate about the way that we facilitated engagement. And so, and how we brought those teams together. How we were going to figure out how to integrate the products and ideas, the user experience. And so, we started doing things where we would hold end-to-end, sun-ups till sundown, demonstrations of our products. And have people talk about what they did and how they took advantage of certain capabilities. We're now, I think, in, we call them innovation summits. I think we've now done, just done our seven. And we do them twice a year and we set out with a very specific goal on each of them. And the last one we did, we evolved almost doing sort of like an iron chef version of solutions. So we'll say, okay, here's this core horizontal platform and we want to industryize it for these five industries. And actually, in one case, it was seven. And to be honest with you, I was really afraid that we were going to show up and people weren't going to have figured it out. And we were blown away by what people were capable of. And they took one ingredient. It was one application that they had to use across the board. But then they combined it with other ingredients, layered in all kinds of domain, built out some really unique functionality. And you ended up with seven completely, what looked like completely different solutions off a lot of the same core ingredients. The power of the crowd. The crowdsourcing ideas and insights. The other thing that we've realized, I think we've even created our own internal magic quadrant out of these events. So it's kind of fun to use peer pressure. And some people just show up the preparation weeks in advance because there's no tougher audience than your peers. And so, but we have a lot of fun with it. People really show up and have some amazing things. It's a great opportunity for other teams to learn from them. And it's become kind of a hallmark of our culture. And I get lots of notes after personal notes from different people in our development organization. I think it's a way for us to really feel connected. It's a way for people to feel like they stay up to speed. And then it's a way for people to get recognized for doing really neat things and driving our business forward. What's also interesting is we've been able through that to take advantage of certain teams and almost turn them into consultants for other teams and say, all right, you can do kind of a discreet engagement with this team. This team in Colorado is going to do an engagement with this team in Sweden. And because they've really figured out how to do this thing and we know that they'll be able to get them live on the same capability and a fraction of the time than if they were pursuing it on their own. So Christina, you're not an engineer by trade. You're not a software developer. But you basically run product management for this very vast portfolio. Do you speak geek? I maybe, that's a good question for my team. I think over time when I graduated as a theology and government major and I wanted to do economic development, public policy, I never ever imagined that I would be working at, I just turned 50 in technology. But I've had over two decades of working in software and I've just absolutely loved my career and it's unfolded in a way I couldn't have imagined. I think part of the thing is that it's really, within our teams, no one has the ability to do everything. And so there are super technical people. They're amazingly bright domain people from different industries. And then I think what I bring is sort of the ability to see connections and to bring people together and ideas together and see where we could take something that maybe somebody, other parts of our organization add value in more of a deeper way. So there's an opportunity for me to kind of bring those together and it's nice to be able to have that role here because otherwise we wouldn't be able to capitalize on all the capabilities that we have. So you dabble in geek.  Just enough, mile wide and inch deep. So in terms of what you're looking for in a previous interview, you talked about the athlete factor as something that you want to see in potential recruits and it's the sort of scrappiness. Can you talk a little bit about that? Yeah, it's, I sort of see that people can have three areas of strength. There's kind of three legs to stool. One is domain and a particular product or industry. One is sort of domain in this role and then the third is just this ability to be really entrepreneurial and go above and beyond and not draw strict boundaries around what your role is and what your day is going to be like and what your job is. And I think more and more we've been able to really attract that kind of person and in some cases maybe evolve people to really see things that way. And really, I think one of the things that our executive team is really focused on from the beginning is act like an owner. And I think that's the nice thing about this role in a technology company is you are basically a team of small business owners that comprise one big company. And so our teams really act that way. They're passionate for their products. Their sense of commitment to our customers and the quality and the pride that they have on how things have evolved is really very inspiring to me. And some of the people on my team are new and young and have been infused in the last couple years. Some are people who've been with the company for 20 years and I think that mix is really made for a very, talk about portfolio optimization and investments. And I think there's a really good analog there for portfolios of people working on teams and kind of getting that right chemistry and that right mix. Can you describe the strategy component of your title and your role? Is it primarily product strategy or? Yeah, first and foremost it's actually more global market strategy. So once we've decided what markets we're in you can imagine that the number of intersections that exist between geo and vertical alone and then you kind of layer in product. And so we sort of start with where should Infor would be doing business? What's our legacy presence been? What is our established customer base need? And then where are markets going within that? And then we layer in kind of products on top of that. And so we really that view of our business kind of globally but in those increments really helps us be very focused on where our investment is. Not just from a product engineering standpoint but in all of the other things that surround that that enable us to do business well. So whether it's cloud infrastructure or feed on the street to do training for our deployments. So that's kind of the strategy piece of it. I think that then evolves into the product strategy around what are we going to, what do we, there's a million things that people want. And so there's a real discipline around figuring out how to whittle it down and time those capabilities in a way that really deliver something amazing and give people what they want and balance across lots of different stakeholders and constituents. So when it comes to giving people what they want how does Infor think about the customer experience and what are you doing to optimize that? So there was a whole bunch of things actually in the last year that we took on and it's not that we weren't doing it before but we felt like okay we've had such a focus on our products and evolving feature function but we know that we could do a better job of being good to do business with I guess. And not just in the way the product works but the entire process from how do you first engage with a product when you might be interested in it? What happens when you actually close the transaction then the deployment and then operating it? So we kind of deconstructed all of that and then looked at all the places where we could do inject technology to make that experience better and then also change our processes and so one of the biggest things we've been working on the last year is something that a lot of companies have but usually it's sort of edge applications so something we call test drive, try and buys. And what's interesting is the initial use case for it was hey we just, Charles said we need to make our products easier for people to be able to just go and see what's the latest, how does it work? How do we spin? Yeah, and not just new prospects but our customers. They're trying to decide how they're going to evolve and so we are just launching, we're probably going to test drive, they'll be on n4.com and it will be core ERP as well as things like CRM and EAM and some of the edge apps. And what's really neat about the way we've done it, they're stocked with all kinds of data, we've thought about the role-based business processes, we have this entire experience when you log in that highlights the things that you can do in it and kind of walks people through. And the reason I mention this is because even though the initial use case was for sort of this engagement experience presale, the discipline around building those has also created entirely different experience around deployment and also post-go live because we are delivering a much more complete solution and that has really driven our experience too because if you're thinking through somebody coming in who doesn't know anything about the product and they need to know what to do and how to sign on and how to execute all the key business process flows. So those standard configurations that we've built out are something that is really driving excellence I think in our testing and all kinds of things. The other big initiative we've had is online help doesn't seem very sexy but it really is core to the user experience and a lot of our customers were coming to us saying I can't, my biggest, I would upgrade in a second but I need to know that my users are going to be happy that they're going to know what to do as soon as we turn this on and so we realize that we needed a more consumer grade experience around the entire tool tips and embedded videos and those kinds of things. So those are part of our test drives and part of our standard configurations as well. So as you think about, I know we're tight on time but sort of going forward. I mean when you look at your sort of block diagrams of XI, the architecture, there's a lot of AWS in there obviously and that's a platform that you don't have to worry about the plumbing. Well somebody does have to worry about the connections but from a product standpoint, where do you look at? Maybe just give us a little glimpse of the roadmap just subjectively as to where you see it going. Oh we're going, yeah. So what's been really amazing for me over the last six months is our tech stack just moved, finally got to the cloud and multi-tenant and it's increased dramatically in its set of capabilities. And so we've had this time, it's sort of like, I know people use the house analogy building a house quite a bit but it is kind of that point where you have phases and a rebuild process where a lot is going on but you don't necessarily see it and we're finally at that point since the start of this calendar year where our ability to just have an idea and then go execute it and prototype it is mind-boggling and it is finally, we finally hit that delight factor both I think for our customers and us internally where I've just said like in our latest innovation summit hey could we go and build this blah blah blah thing and within a day somebody had an environment up and was building it out. The tool set that we have available to our teams and to our customers to extend their platform in an easy way is really, really exciting and really a lot of people are going to be seeing it for the first time here in a lot of cases. Well great, thank you so much. Thank you. Christina, it was a pleasure having you on the program. Thanks for having me. I'm Rebecca Knight for Dave Vellante. We will have more from Inforum in a bit.


The Cable Cade of America Most Americans are familiar with the names of those courageous early American explorers Lewis and Clark Who are two of the characters in tonight's broadcast of the Cable Cade of America presented by DuPont? Lewis and Clark launched their expedition into the wilds of the Northwest in 1804 but even then the DuPont company had established its first chemical factory in Delaware The stories of exploration are bright pages in the history of the nation Important also is another kind of exploration the kind that takes place in chemical laboratories like those of DuPont Where the exploration results in better things for better living through chemistry? Our first story this evening takes place in the early days of the 19th century in the vast wilderness west of the Mississippi Our Cable Cade Orchestra sets the stage with Charles Wakefield Cabinon song from the land of the sky blue water Which is based on an American Indian theme come to us naturally But the very foundation of our nation was through exploration Columbus, Cabin, DeSoto, Hudson, John Smith, Coronado, LaSalle From those intrepid adventurers we received this heritage In the year 183 Thomas Jefferson then president of the United States obtained an appropriation from Congress For the exploration of the newly purchased territory lying west of the Mississippi and extending to the Pacific Ocean As leader of the expedition he appointed his young secretary Marriweather Lewis who sees upon a task with great zeal He chose as his partner and co-leader William Clark brother of George Rogers Clark of revolutionary faith on March 14 18 for a brave company 45 in number Started up the Missouri River We find them at La Charest the last outpost of civilization Talking with the chief magistrate of that settlement a brave pioneer himself Daniel Boone We shall we're young enough to go with you Captain Lewis. Are we so too sir? Hey Clark. Yes indeed, Mr. Boone Oh, one of our men was telling us how he fought with you fellow by the name of Gordon Cameron Oh, Scott. I know him well In daddy's voice I'm here Cameron with Mr. Boone And happy to see you again The guy says the wind is right cutting the we better be starting. We're ready. Who is your guy Captain Lewis? A Frenchman Who's more Sabineau? Hey a Frenchman we in India wait a way if you insist on taking on the expedition Sabineau says the tractor we are the better guy than he is himself a woman for that guy a woman on the expedition Brings battle up. Don't mind Cameron's growl and Captain Lewis. Come. I'll walk with you to your boat How fast you aim to travel? Well with luck 15 miles from the sun to sun luck indeed We have a woman on the path. I asked me here.  This is Charles, Mr. With his child the black sheep by the killer I buy her from them. How called you a name? I am called Saka Zawiya the bear woman You are very young to be guiding this expedition my child May your eye be clear and your senses keen for upon you and Charbonneau That's a great responsibility Westward the daring adventurers struggled against turbulent waters and virgin forests Against hostile savages death-bearing insects wild animals heat rain cold As the year went on a son was born to Charbonneau and Saka Zawiya Over the year Pat, it is June 185 We find Captain Lewis with Cameron, Charbonneau, Saka Zawiya and her Papout Standing in a ravine beneath an overhanging rock where they have sought shelter from a torrential rain When she rains so these brooks she soon become a raging tyrant There is no fear what may happen with a woman on the path and no with a bear Julie was safe here Often I see angry waters carrying huge rocks and trees before them bringing death to all in their path Even as she comes now you hear I hear it It is as if a dam had brought the path to the captain wife even now they want to cover their feet Hold fast, you'll lose your footing Cameron give him a hand Hey, that's primitive. I cannot swim. We must get to the island ground and quickly Each moment they want to see her eyes. Give me the child's like a deer. I'll hold him Thank you Captain Wait, wait! She can't just swim away. Come on hold calm I'll take my gun and pack They want it, they're carrying the boat this far, Mister I'll get her, I'm coming back with you later I can't get away later Now they'll boot me right into the rapid Captain, watch those rocks. Look, he has reached her I'll deliver sand against the torrents Here, hold the baby, here Mister Here you go Captain, turn the lift down to you Here you are I have it Here it is We'll come right Hey! Pull! No leaves! No leaves at all! Cut the rope! Once more, my brother. One more pull. Ah, we'll cut the same cutting board. Here. Here. Here now. Up on the bench. There. There. That's right, my brother. Not a lie. Here is the real you. You're welcome, my brother. You're welcome.  The party reaches the footnills of the Rockies. It's what is now part of the state of Montana. For days the expedition searches in vain, for a way through or across the huge mountains. Lewis, Cameron, and Sacajawea gave to the snow-tipped peaks that bore their path. Mountains. Mountains in all directions. Impassable baddies. That's what they are. Somewhere on the other side of those mountains lies the great Columbia River. Leads to the Pacific. Unless we reach it, our whole expedition is a failure. Hey, the woman guide has failed you. Lewis, look. Indians coming through the ravines in Gondor. Yes. On the knees of my people. Without numbers. Ah, let's see some cotton. Daniel Boone and I would have met for a favorite skin. Let's see some cotton. No, let's, no. They're cut here and cut it back into slavery again. Let's see some cotton. Sacajawea. Wait, Sacajawea, come back here. Please, please, my dear, my dear. Already she is too far away. Someone must follow her. They are black, my dear. They make friends with no one. Every man ready now. The chief is approaching us. Hmm, friendly. He may be treacherous. We have to rescue that woman again. Quiet, Reverend. Beyond guard. We have to understand what they're saying. Tell the chief that we are his friends. And that we bring gifts and food. Ask if he knows a path through the great mountains. Perhaps he plans to prick us, Captain. You can guess which way a man will jump. But a woman or a red-skinned man. Well, Sacajawea, the great river. The river we seek. I am never sure, sir. It is only defense against the black trees. Gold is one. Well, come on. Were we wrong now to bring the woman? To be a mean man who couldn't admit that he was wrong. 15th of November, Lewis and Clark finally sighted the Pacific Ocean. 18 months had taken them to traverse 4,000 miles of wilderness from the mouth of the Missouri to the western shore of the continent. No braver exploiters recorded in the cavalcade of America. This evening's second story concerns Greeley's Arctic Expedition in 1881. Much of the music of Grieg expresses the composer's impressions of his own Northland. Our cavalcade orchestra will set the scene with morning moods from Grieg's suite here again. American cavalcade moves onward. The will to explore is still a characteristic trait among Americans. It is July 7th, 1881. Adolphus W. Greeley, 37 years old, lieutenant in the United States Signal Corps, sets off for the Arctic region with a party of 25 men. The good ship Proteus, designed as a ceiling vessel, is almost ready to sail. On the dock, Lieutenant Greeley is bidding a last farewell to his wife. For three years, dear. It's a long time. It won't be three years, Henrietta. At the end of the year, the ship is scheduled to bring us supplies. If we've accomplished our mission, we'll return then. But you told the newspapers you were taking supplies for three years? Well, of course. We must always be on the safe side. Oh, it all seems so terribly far away. Why must mine have been gold? Why was he chosen? This is a big opportunity for me, darling. There's never been an expedition so well equipped. So sure of reaching its goal. I know you. Smile, dear. Smile and wish me good luck. Oh, man, a quite supplement, Lieutenant. They're ready to cast off. Thank you, Sergeant. Oh. Well, dear. Time to go. Where's that smile? Ah, that's better. Could you come back to me safely? That's all that matters, dear. Goodbye, dear. Goodbye. Yes, the baby's for me. Goodbye. Remember, keep smiling. Goodbye. Lieutenant Greeley established headquarters on Discovery Bay, Greenland. The work of Surveying and Scientific Research went on rapidly. Greeley's courageous leadership helped them pass that first long arctic winter. On May 13, 1882, a sub expedition under Lieutenant Lockwood landed the stars and stripes farther north than man had ever been before. They returned to Greeley's camp, only to find that no relief ship had arrived. One had been sent out, and six times it had tried to pass through the ice-intained seas, only to be battled by the flow. The second winter was worse than the first, and the spring brought no promise of better times. They wait for the relief ship that never comes. Trying to keep up their courage, Greeley goes among them. Captain Greeley. Yes, Lieutenant. The rice and jam of the Eskimo have returned. Yes. They report nothing but open sea on every side. No surprise we found. The last hope, Captain Greeley. Yes, Doctor. Lockwood is up to you. I'll go with you at once. Rain has heated the flag of distress and firmly planted on the highest ground. There might still be a chance. Yes, Captain. Well, Doctor, how is Lockwood today? Very weak, Captain. He's in this tent. Yes. Yes, Lockwood.  We can only hope, my friend, it is easy to die. Very easy. But it's hard to struggle to live. I expected privation. Yes, perhaps. But not abandonment. Parts of abandonment sprayed on their minds. And while they waited, the Proteus, Greeley's original tip, was set with supplies, but was crushed in the ice pack. Almost three years after the start of the expedition, through the insistence of Mrs. Greeley, President Arthur sent three vessels, the Theta, the Bear and the Alert, the latter, a gift from Queen Victoria and the British Nations. In August, the Theta floats amid the ice near Brevort Island, off the Greenland coast. The commander of the Relief Expedition, Winfield Scott Fly, is on deck as Lieutenant Caldwell returns to the ship with a searching party. Well, Caldwell, the board of searching party in Brevort Island says, fog-heavy, bad visibility, no sign of the Greeley party. But we did find this paper buried in a spot which was undoubtedly the remains of a supply cache. Give it to me. October 21st, 1883. My party now permanently encamped on west side of small neck of land, distant about equally from Cape Sabine and Cockhead Island. Rations for 40 days, AW Greeley. Written almost a year ago, and rations for only 40 days. Norman. Yes, sir. Hold speed as the ice will permit. Make for Cape Sabine. Aye, sir. Order the vessel to keep blowing. One man is alive. He may hear it. Aye, sir. 1884. The outpost of the law. Sergeant Long and Brainerd huddled together beside the one tent, weakened by hunger and exposure. Brainerd, don't you hear something? From the rear, I mean that whistle. Listen. The wind. It's always with me. I know the wind when I hear it. That's the ship's whistle.  You're going crazy. Crazy or not, I'm going to trawl to the top of a hill with the little strength that's left me. Go ahead if you want. I couldn't make it. What does it matter? Can't you hear that? Brainerd, Brainerd. I hear a voice. It's a monster, I've heard it too. In your own brain. I hear it now. Long, can you see? I've almost reached the edge of the hill. Brainerd, look at both. Brainerd, look at both. It's a boat. That's it, old man. He's ready. Oh, you're real. Aren't you? I've seen you so many times, only to help you this year. We're real right enough, eh, Colo? Yes, we sure are. How many of you left? Seven, sir. Where are they? In the tent. There, behind the bank. Come on, Norman, hurry. Help this man. Is Mr. Greeley alive? Yes, sir. Any other officers? No, sir. And you are... Oh, yes, this is Brainerd. Brainerd. Don't try to salute. Where's Mr. Greeley? Norman, on the east side of the tent. Really? Really, we've... We've come for you. Seven. Seven of us left. Dying. Kid, what we came to do, beat the best record. Of course you did, sir. And now we've... We've come to take you home. Home? Yes, sir. You're rescued, sir. Don't you see the ship? Lift me a little. I want to see... the flag. Greeley, old man, it's Norman. I brought you a message from your wife. She said that when you came home, you'd find her... smiling. Tenderly, they carried the survivors back to their country. They received the praise of his government. And later became chief signal officer in the Army. His diary and his own published description of his exploits were typical of a man's modesty and courage. No credit was claimed by him. All was given to the men who followed him to the outpost of the law. Heroes like these gallant explorers, Lewis, Clark, Greeley, Brainerd, make us proud to be their countrymen. Proud of their leadership and the cavalcade of America. The urge to explore founded our nation. And this same trait today burns on the research chemist to discover and create useful things. One of the most fascinating examples of exploration in the field of chemistry is the story of man-made rubber. For many years, scientists tried to find the substitute for rubber. But all attempts fell short of their goal until recently when DuPont Chemists successfully completed the development of the first successful man-made rubber. DuPont's name for this product is DuPrene. DuPrene is actually superior to the natural product for many purposes. Products made of DuPrene resist heat, sunlight, oils, and various chemicals better than those made with natural rubber. And they do not break down with age as rapidly. We take pride at this time in telling our listeners of an award made last Friday by a special committee of 13 figures in the chemical world sponsored by the publication Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. In making this award, the committee said, DuPont slogan, better things for better living through chemistry is a creed that molds and guides the work of thousands of chemists and engineers. The outstanding chemical engineering achievement during the past two years has been DuPont's successful industrial development of the synthetic rubber DuPrene, of synthetic camphor and organic chemicals and dye stuff. We know that many of you would like to see and handle this man-made rubber, so we have had a few erasers made up a sample. They look like, feel like, and do the work of ordinary erasers, but they contain DuPrene instead of natural rubber. We should be glad to send you one of these erasers free of charge. Simply write to DuPont, Wilmington Delaware, or to your radio station. Now remember if you would like to see and handle a product made from this man-made rubber, just ask for the eraser made from DuPrene by writing DuPont, D-U-P-O-N-T Wilmington Delaware, or your radio station. Engineers and businessmen interested in industrial uses for DuPrene may secure a special technical sample by writing on their company letterhead describing the problem to be met. Next Wednesday at this time DuPont will again present a double K to America. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System WADC New York


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question says A man wants to buy 62 shares available at $132, power value being $100. 1. How much will he have to invest? 2. If the dividend is 7.5%, what will be his annual income? 3. If he wants to increase his annual income by $150, how many extra shares should he buy? Let's start the solution now. We will solve part 1 first. In part 1 we have to find how much will he have to invest. We are given that market value of 1 share is $132 and the man wants to buy 62 shares. So the sum invested by the man on the shares is equal to number of shares into market value of 1 share. Now this is equal to number of shares which is 62 into market value of 1 share which is given to be $132. This is equal to $8184. So the answer for part 1 is sum invested is equal to $8184. Now we will solve part 2. In part 2 we have to find his annual income and we are given that dividend is 7.5%. First we will find dividend on 1 share. Now this is equal to 7.5% of the power value which is given to be $100. We write $100. This is equal to 7.5 upon 100 into $100. Zeros get cancelled and this is equal to $7.50. Hence his annual income is equal to total number of shares which is given to be 62. So we have 62 into dividend on 1 share which is $7.50 and this is equal to $465. So the answer for part 2 is annual income is equal to $165. We now move on to part 3. In part 3 we are given that the man wants to increase his annual income by $150. We have to find how many extra shares should he buy. So we can say that since the man wants to increase his annual income by $150 and in part 2 we calculated the dividend on 1 share is $7.50. So we have the income on 1 share is equal to $7.50. Therefore number of extra shares he must buy is equal to the amount by which he wants to increase his annual income that is $150 upon the income on 1 share. Which is $7.50. Now we remove the decimal. So this is equal to $150 upon $750 into $100. This zero gets cancelled and $155 times is $75 and $520 times is $100. So this is equal to $20. So we can say that hence the extra shares to be bought is equal to $20. This is the answer for part 3. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


Our current understanding of biological aging is that it's the result of different factors that interact with each other in complex ways. Malfunctioning mitochondria, which you can think of as tiny batteries that power yourselves, are thought to be one of these factors, and this idea has been around for a very long time. But what if mitochondria themselves aren't really the culprits? Welcome to X10, your one-stop YouTube show for all things life extension. Learn the science, keep up with new research, and live longer and healthier. This is your first time here? Subscribe to find out when we release a new video, and press the bell icon and select all notifications so you won't miss a thing. Let's start with the basics. Mitochondria are organelles, basically just parts of your cells, and the important thing about them for this video is that they have their own DNA. So there's nuclear DNA in the nucleus, and mitochondrial DNA in the mitochondria, and they don't necessarily replicate at the same time or speed. Each replicates by itself. Mitochondrial DNA replication is at the core of this story. See, there's an idea that accumulating mutations in mitochondrial DNA are one of the causes of aging. You can find out more about that in our video on mitochondrial dysfunction as a hallmark of aging. Scientists have made mutator mice, in which the enzyme that copies mitochondrial DNA doesn't proofread the copy it's making. This means that their mitochondrial DNA accumulates mutations, and in keeping with the theory, these mice age prematurely. But a team of researchers in Finland, Sweden, and the US wanted to understand how mitochondrial mutations cause premature aging. The theory is that the increase in mutations causes problems in the mitochondria, leading to increased production of reactive oxygen species, which cause damage. But the researchers noted that mice that have other kinds of mitochondrial malfunctions or mutations don't age prematurely. On top of that, there aren't increased levels of reactive oxygen species in the mature tissues of mutator mice. That led them to think that reactive oxygen species aren't the link between mitochondrial mutations and aging, so they'd set out to find out what's really going on. When they dug into what's happening in the cells of mutator mice, they discovered that nuclear DNA replication was stalling for some reason, and there were also signs of increased DNA damage. It's not exactly obvious why a lack of proofreading in mitochondrial DNA replication would cause trouble with nuclear DNA replication. The explanation that they came up with is actually pretty cool. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA copy themselves using building blocks known as DNTPs, and both processes draw on a shared DNTP pool. The researchers found that the common DNTP pool was drawn down in mutator mouse cells. At the same time, the mitochondrial DNTP pool was enriched. In other words, it seems DNTPs are being pulled from the common pool into the mitochondria. So the idea is that increased mutations in mitochondrial DNA lead to faster turnover of mitochondrial DNA, which shifts the allocation of DNTPs to favor mitochondria. This means there aren't enough DNTPs in the common pool when nuclear DNA replication happens, causing it to stall and leading to DNA damage. In a nutshell, mitochondrial DNA mutations don't directly cause aging. Instead, they create an imbalance that leads to nuclear DNA damage, which causes aging. But the story doesn't end there. A response to this study appeared alongside it. A team of researchers in Sweden used a different technique to measure DNTP pools in mutator mice and found that they were normal. They also point out problems with the method used in the original study and conclude that changes in DNTP pools are therefore unlikely to explain the premature aging phenotype. But in a response to the response, the original team defended their case by pointing out that the new measurements were taken using whole embryos of mutator mice. They argue that this isn't a fair comparison because it is known that DNTP pools are tightly regulated in a cell type, developmental sage, and cell cycle-dependent fashion. In other words, variation between different cell types in the embryo would hide the difference. They say that a fair comparison would use specific cell populations and they stick by their original conclusions. Who's right? We don't know, and we won't know until there's more research. That process is part of the beauty of science, but it also means learning to reserve judgment. In the meantime, it can be rewarding to discuss these ideas and think about their implications. 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This is straight-up mathematics. Let's do let's do some political mathematics game. I apologize if I'm not reading the chat I'm just gonna Connect this up to mathematics, right? So check this out in Canada. Okay, political mathematics This is where mathematics comes into play, right? Canada considers itself, right states that Canada is a democracy Democracy, right? Okay Here's Canada In the last elections in Canada, we had The following parties we got the Liberals Liberals we got the conservatives Okay, we got the NDP NDP we got the party copacua. Okay, that's mainly in Montreal and Quebec, right? We got the greens Okay, and we got the people's party Okay, let me let me make enough room for this, right? So we got the Liberals Lib we got the conservatives. We got the NDP NDP we got Party copacua. I forget what it is. It's not party copacua It's anyway, the party is in Quebec, right? We got the greens and we got the people's party people's PCP people's We're gonna call them people's party. I think it's people's. I'm just gonna say PP. Okay people's party So we got one two three four five six different parties The Liberals want a minority Okay, I'm Going by memory. Okay. So these guys are in power. This is sort of an order of the set I believe So these guys are number one They ended up getting like 30% of the votes Okay, in Canada population is around 40 million 40 million 40 It's a little bit less than that 38 million or something but let's say 40 million the conservatives Got like 34 percent of what I believe and the reason these guys have power is because of Certain things that have been put into place in Western New Moxie County United States where Where You protect citizens of a nation From rule of the majority, right? So for example rule the majority is this let's assume 51% in a country Vote for a certain party and 49% vote vote for the other party. Well true democracy the 51% Get to rule, right? There's laws in place in Canada United States that says you know what you can't just have 51% of a nation Deciding everything for the 40 for the hundred percent of the population. It doesn't work by the way That's that's the idea Population because they could come out the 51% could say oh, yeah that 49% is an enemy to our country We have to kill them all That's the majority the majority votes. I think George Carlin Explained it best. I think it was George Carlin saying that Democracies like this it's like 10 people being in a room and nine People vote to sodomize you and one person votes not to sodomize you you being the one voting for People not to sodomize you 90% voted to sodomize you so They take care of business right majority voted for democracy, right? You have to have protections to protect people the minority from the majority, right? That's and no that's a no-brainer okay now mdp I forget how many seats they got how many seats did they get? I know they got around Three million votes. Okay, so we're gonna this is percentage. We'll we'll look this up as well So mdp got three million votes Million votes and they ended up having how many seats? I forget how many seats we're gonna look this up actually that way I'm not going by memory. There's numbers. I can't remember all the numbers, right? But I know this mdp got around three million votes the people's party got around 800,000 votes 800k Okay, the people's party got no seats in government the mdp Is supporting the liberals and the mdp with the liberals with the number of Percent of the votes and the number of seats we're gonna look this up and you tell me if the mathematics makes sense to you, right? They end up governing canada Right We'll do the math. Let me look it up. Let me look it up. Apologies. I wasn't planning to go in this direction but since we are Might as well get you the data. I wish I realized Canadian election Results Here we go, so the liberals got 30 3% of the vote 33% of the vote The conservatives got 34 The A block of a quack block of a quack god bring this out. Are they in order? Yeah, yeah, this is gonna be in order. Cool. The mdp got 16% of the vote Okay, the the green That should be the greens greens got 6.5% of the vote 6.5 the block of a quack got 7.6% Of the vote Okay, and the people's party got 1.6 percent of the vote The number of seats is like this Seats one these guys the liberals won 160 seats The conservatives won 119 seats The ndp 25 seats The the greens won three seats The block coba quack won 32 seats Right and the people's party won zero seats Okay, the number of people that voted the popular vote Check this out. Check this out The popular vote was this 5.5 million 5.5 million Okay, we'll do it with decimals that way. It's clear. Okay 5.5 million voted for liberals 5.7 million voted for conservative 3 million voted for ndp crazy 1.3 million voted for block of a quack 400,000 0.4 voted for the greens and 0.84 Okay voted And I'm rounding this one up Okay, and I'm rounding this one. This is legit, right? So look at these numbers you tell me Where there might be issues here Where there might be issues here, let me scroll down Okay, I'm skipping a whole bunch chat because I want to get caught up with the data that I'm putting up here Greetings, Nakushka greetings. Voidhook, how are you doing? George Carlin was a gifting man of the sql. Indeed politics of math results Particle bakua. Thank you very much, uh, plutonic florist Maybe maybe the autism will have to play a large part in the new rebel indeed Indeed Makes zeros makes zero sense lord sql indeed Right, so take a look at this thing if we do a little bit of mathematics right here Just the simplest dinghy's calculator. That's all you need Like a little dinghy calculator like this You'll get you'll get you'll you'll understand the ridiculousness of this thing, right? You'll understand the ridiculousness of this thing. Now the way it works is These guys These clowns here these guys are clowns Together with these clowns, actually almost everybody's a clown These two clowns And I should have Reordered this together with Particle bakua Right They've teamed up and they're doing whatever it is they're doing Right, they're doing Whatever it is they're doing these C's are not given by votes and I not know Of much dependence on them. Yeah Not diet. How are you doing? A plutonium C's can be distributed District wise for example, but the percentage in relation to the absolute numbers of votes indeed indeed A scale in belgium currently the three smallest parties are running the country while the two biggest ones Not the people who want or locked in Opposition, right? So over here if you want to find out how this works, right and how this works check this out So NDP NDP versus people's party people's party PC I think it's pc people's Let me let me get the right Thing for it Where is it? Let's see if they give the right thing for it Pp. Yeah, it is p. Oh no, that's pp. Oh, I don't know what the Ppc ppc people's party of Canada ppc. Let's call it ppc officially ppc Ppc Ppc Right versus ppc Right, if you do this all you got to do is just take This and divide it by this if you want to look at the The numbers that way the percentage that way. Oh, let me bring up the chat as well We went behind point Right, so if you want to look at it this way you could go Okay, two ways to look at it really you could go three Divided by 0.84 That'll give you how many more How many times more How many times more people voted for NDP than ppc. So you just go three Is it gonna work? Oh, yeah, there it is. Nice Three I haven't used this forever like this. It's not even it's not even working Three divided by 0.84 I don't use the calculator very often and I do is usually computer. So let's use the computer calculator I should have brought myself for this. So check this out three divided by three three divided by 0.84 Right So they got 3.6 times 3.6 Times so NDP got 3.6 times more votes than ppc. They end up getting 25 seats PPC ends up getting zero right or you can look at it this way 0.84 right You could do Should we do it that way? Let's see 0.84 Divided by divided by three Three Sure, let's do it this way divided by three and this gives you 28 percent right so 28 percent Ppc got 20 percent of the votes at the NDP. They get zero and these guys get 25 It gets worse if you do it compared to block of a quad right block of a quad Versus ppc right You do it this way It's 1.3 over 0.84. We'll just do it this way. It's simple enough, right? So 1.3 1 point three divided by 0.84 Doink so This ends up being 1.5 times 1.5 times So Block of a quad got 1.5 times the votes of the ppc But they got 32 seats and these guys got zero Right and these guys are the true opposition in canada by way true opposition These guys are the ones that are challenging Mandates and all this jazz right really true opposition is these guys. There is no opposition here really this one's slowly coming about but In the last three years Everything that these clowns and these clowns with collaboration with these two clowns, right liberals with these two clowns We're pushing these guys. We're pretty much supporting as well as these guys, right? so The only true opposition really in in canada the only true opposition in canada is these guys right now Okay is these guys And they have been the opposition Since day one Okay, they met with the truckers They they opposed Mandates they they did a lot of things, right? What's the solution to this? What's the solution to this? Okay, what's the solution to this? now There's a precedent set throughout history Where people of a certain mindset When they find out they're being discriminated against They talk to each other and decide to start moving into regions And populating those regions so they can control The government the local government and then they slowly expand from there, right? So one of the solutions here is people who voted for the ppc If they all get together and decide to move to a certain province That has a certain number of seats mandated to In the federal government and they all vote the same Right, and then they're going to have representation in government right They'll have power Right right now. They're divided Right, so one of the places that we know this took place in recent history Was I believe with the Mormons where they were being persecuted So the leadership there said, you know what let's pack it all up.  I think they went to Idaho, right? Is that where the Mormons are set up? But I'm not pushing their philosophy by the way. I'm just I'm not pushing anything out. I can honestly tell you right now as a disclaimer. I voted for these guys Right. I'm one of these guys, right? So in the last election, I voted for these guys right because they True opposition to draconian mandates draconian measures, right? But I'm not telling you which way to vote for because majority of canadians voted the other way right Utah, Utah. Thank you very much. Idaho. What am I thinking? Oh, I know So they moved to Utah, right? They moved to Utah Latter-day Mormon saints with the metal tablets and John Brown or something like this. I don't want to gloss because Right, they packed up and they all went to Utah And in the last few in the last few decades, they slowly built power Where they control Utah They have a huge say in policy They have multi-billion dollar. They control multi-billion dollar corporations Okay, and they're protecting their community Okay, so that's one of the solutions to People that do not have a voice right and This has occurred in different places as well. Sometimes the centralized governments come in and Crush them Right, uh, it is what they do. It is what they do. Thank you very much. I wish you as well the far far Farm New York City pharmacy. Is that the pharmacy? First time I'm sedutations first time chat. Thank you for popping in to our live stream Plutonic policy Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith Jr. was American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter-day Saint movement at the age of 24 Smith published the book of Mormon and by the time of his death 14 years later He had attracted tens of thousands of followers. Yeah from tens of thousands of followers to controlling the state and building multi-billion dollar corporations Ronnie, how are you doing? Welcome. Welcome back. I was just catching up with chat interesting Canadian politics and this occurs in a lot of Western societies With the elections and stuff like this, but there are rules in place to protect the minority from the majority, right? Really, there are rules in place, right? It's called I forget what it's called. I put a video out in 2016 because people were asking me about or 2017 or something like that People were asking me about the elections in the united states how the results were for the 2016 election and I put out a video saying that people were saying oh, it should all just be and I don't agree with it all being just the number of votes that people get should represent anything because again Centers of power will have a higher population and if we just go with Center of power then they will be able to control Everyone and that doesn't work. That doesn't work at all, right? Just take it on a global scale, right? So for example right now China has one point let's say five billion people India Going getting close to 1.5 billion people. There's like eight billion people in the world, right? So three billion people live in China China plus India Control three billion people three billion, right total population in the world eight billion Total eight billion right That's what is that three divided by eight what percent? three divided by eight three divided by eight That's 37.5 percent in the world, right 37.5 percent in the world If if if That's assume we had a Crafter, how are you doing? I heard China actually actually has only 1.3 billion Like they over counted their population or something possibly I would say my guess would be that they may be under counting, right? so We'll round it up to one and a half Because I can almost guarantee you India is under counting Like no way down the statistics to India to count them, right? Uh, most likely anyway, but let's assume together they control three billion people That's 37.5 percent of the global population according to Canadian type of results that you see here 37 if in Canada if a party gets 37.5 percent of the votes Usually they'll have a majority that means they can do anything they want So if we just go by one vote one person one vote And whoever gets control gets to do anything they want to anyone they want Right, if there's no protections put in place for that government, right then China and India have to do the world government They would get to decide what everyone does in the world That that's tyranny of the majority All right, there's laws in place. I know in the united states in Canada. It's not looking very good They took the charter rights and flushed it down the toilet Right these guys these clowns these clowns and these clowns with collaboration of those clowns and with the silence of these clowns They took the Canadian charter rights and flushed it down the toilet Right these guys were the only people that were opposing it and they had no seats in government Right, they're they're just a political party and they were giving interviews and they were being blacklisted and labeled as Everything under the sun to silence them. Okay, so keep this in mind. This is mathematics in politics extremely important extremely important and this is just The the tip of the iceberg when it comes to once you understand mathematics you're you're able to look at the numbers and come up with your own conclusions And try to think about different types of systems if they make sense or if they don't make sense Right, and why certain things work a certain way, right? Why, you know, why are there Rules in place. I know in the United States to protect the minority from the majority Then why there was rules in place to a certain degree in Canada as well, but these clowns With the silence they these clowns flushed That down the toilet, right? They said No protection of the minority From the majority they even flushed down the Nuremberg code Right, they said no Nuremberg code new look at the Nuremberg code and you'll understand what What just happened in Canada since we're talking about Canada? Okay I'll end my political slant on this for now, and I don't go this political slant with individual students personally I would just give them because my students no mathematics The ones I work with anyway that if I was going to give them this type of data I would just give them this data and ask them why they would think that this is legitimate or not legitimate And then I would explain the role of the majority aspect of things fun Love math Just gives you a certain perspective That you will not get If you didn't know any of this and just look at the names and went oh Okay Right, you look at the numbers. You look at the mathematics. You look at the data.


So, good afternoon everybody, first of all, I will like to welcome you all for a very comprehensive and comprehensive tube for the getting selected purpose. So, for the number of tube and apply, there are a few that we pick up to give you the chance to participate in. So, today I am going to just give you the brief information of the line of project So, let us see what exactly CDP is. So, CDP is the center for distance engineering education program in the department of IIT Bombay. And basically it looks after the saving the knowledge base or technology available in the IIT Bombay outside IIT Bombay. So, how exactly different type of technological solutions can be developed and employed so that we can communicate with the distance people sitting at the corner of the country from IIT Bombay. These are few portals that we are currently posting for different kind of thing just to give you the brief information. This is the talk to teacher portal where exactly we have mentioned everything related with the talking the different students sitting across the country with the people sitting in the IIT Bombay. The other in the process on view is more or less video portal which is available for educational video like in MIT courseware or the Stanford for you or the connects or whatever. Similar kind of IIT Bombay courses are being developed on the courses on view. Whereas, the search scope is a spatially developed portal for the research program. All PhD students from their work and related thing on this portal you can visit this portal later. So, I don't want to waste most of the time explaining this. And the flagship project which is very popular these days is the ASCO question. ASCO question is the program in which any student or any individual sitting at any corner of the country can directly interact with IIT Bombay professor once in a while solving his all queries. Currently it is running into the two discipline electrical engineering which naturally summarizing IIT system is electrical electronic instrumentation power and everything and physics. So, this is all about the small value of the courses available. These are different technologies which are being currently used to develop different type of solutions. But the actual type of technologies that we are going to declare for the summer internships and calculator. Now the opportunities which are available to work at IIT Bombay in senior group are listed in the next slide. What you have to do at this time is that you find out the search, analyze, select the best option. What you would like? You have to select yourself. We are just putting the things into for you and you can choose whatever you like. So, these are the different scripting languages we are providing at this summer internship to be worked on. So, these are the different we have got a PHP color, available, Python available, all Java. There is embedded CC++, then android, Firefox OS for the mobile platforms and then the OpenGL, OpenCV, Modedica, these are the some hybrid platforms which are available for working. Database is concerned. We have MySQL, SQL Lite and Redis. Based on different type of applications, these are the small canvas of the databases through which we will ask you to select something which best fit with the type of application you are working on. These are the type of different specialized servers on which we are expecting people to work on in this summer internship which includes the Astrick. Astrick is the basically software telephone exchange which supports to the telephone call, very on demand call kind of things. So, it is more or less a telephone solution into a software. Then RedFine which is equivalent to the FlexEngine, then the Node.js and OpenFire. OpenFire will come later because this we have exclusively included this time because of we are launching a different project this year. Now engines, as far as engines are concerned, unity 3D engines which we are going to offer you this summer internship. Then the Phoenix is the sub engine, whereas this OpenModelica is the modeling engine. So, these are the three engines we are offering this year. Frameworks, yes, Spring, Hibernate and these are the frameworks that we are expecting that you should use this year. Now how to bring the barrier, how to go ahead, how to find out what exactly one has to do. So, these are the project, these are the multi listed onto the website. So, these are the only four projects we have to be clear. First is the concept tutor, I will list out first and then we will move one by one in brief so that you will understand what exactly is there. Then the OpenModelica-based simulator development, then implementation of XMPP protocol for cross domain communication and for those who are from the electronics background hardware related people, we have a phonetic key load is the project we are launching. Now we will go step by step. Here is the concept tutor. Now what exactly concept tutor is? Basically, I would like to tell you that this project is into its second year. Last year also the summer internship same project was there and a substantial work has already been done in the last years of the internship batch. So, the one development is already in front of the director, already reference available and then we have to go ahead carrying the same project ahead. Exactly what we are expecting in this project is that you know very well nowadays the mobile gadgets are very popular. Even the kids are loving the mobile gadgets, they want tablets and gadgets we are also promoting you. And what they do with this? They play games, they like games. So, why mobile gadgets are being used for the games? We thought that why should not we use the gaming platform from the mobile or tablet based systems to teach them. So, can we develop the gaming engines? So, if we develop or mold a gaming engine into an educational game people will enjoy playing the game on the other hand they will learn once. So, by this motive this project has been launched last year and the potential amount of work has been done where in the gaming engine has been used to develop the games. What we expect here is that the based on Android we have only targeted right now in there and current as OS. Whereas the unit 3D is the gaming engine. So, we are using unit 3D as the gaming engine at on which we are expecting that the people if they can work on the open shear, ground directories or kind of thing will be added at on this. If you have got the knowledge of Android the last script you can learn unit 3D very easily because it is very simple gaming engine. The other thing is that what you should know about the interest into the games you should have played some amount of games and you should have good creativity. So, this is the project basically aims in creating educational games. Next is the open model of this simulator developed now. You people may have come across a lot of simulators especially the kind of people who use PSYS and other things AutoCAD is a good simulator or other people may be knowing that the MATLAB Simulator is very popular simulator kind of thing. Where in we have to just drag down some boxes connect them together and run the system get down. So, it is very easy for people to check their concepts on the screen itself rather than directly going to the field. So, open modelica is the platform which provides you a basic tools available to develop your own simulation software. So, what we are expecting this is that students should develop a simulating software based on open modelica as a platform. It is open source we have a little platform and based on this platform we are expecting that students should develop a simulator. I don't know how many of you have gone through the typical subject model human simulation at this level maybe this is in the final year or pre-final year in different universities based on their own curricula. But this will give you the sense how exactly simulator has been developed how exactly the work can be done. So, it is quite challenging and interesting work. Right now, we are also already working on this area. So, we have around three to four active students working on the open modelica. So, we have got one group which is working on open modelica. The open modelica itself is the open source software and the Peter Friedzahn who is the prime developer of the open modelica is also supporting and working with us. So, the thing is that it is the nature of original community with the IIT Bombay and we are working on different reasons. So, those who are interested in working on the simulation on modeling kind of project this can be a good opportunity. Next is the implementation of XMPP protocol for the cross-lumen communication. Now, just try to understand this is a very common scenario when you are on to the net you are online into the gmail and then your friend comes online and you start chatting. Suddenly, you change your tap and they are letting your other friend which is chatting with you. Is it possible that the friend on gmail and friend on Facebook and you together chat? This is what we are expecting here but we are expecting this cross-lumen communication. Right now it is only possible that gmail clients can talk or the gmail login ID people can talk with the gmail people, Facebook can talk with Facebook and so on and so forth. The gmail people can be bring together and they can have a common platform where they can interact with each other in the basic ideology behind this. This can be very much possible using XMPP protocol. So what we are expecting is a little bit of R&D kind of experiment where in those who have got interested in working on the protocols and web technology and other thing can take up this kind of challenge where we are actually aiming to have a cross-lumen communication. Initially we are thinking we should work on to the chat and then it can be extended on to the video and audio also. So you can have the people sitting on to the gmail and Facebook and can have the audio or video call or otherwise any other application also. Maybe it is Skype or maybe it is YAAB or whatever. Next. This is the last project that we are showcasing is the students belonging to electronics background or the hardware in the background. Now you may have seen that these days if you see the posts which are available on Facebook or anywhere 20-30% posts are in their regional language. You can find there in the things written into the Deon Agri rather than the English or Roman. So maybe you are coming from different part of the country. You may have a Tamil statement or the Marathi statement or Gujarati statement in their own local script. So how exactly people do this? It is a simple thing. Online, there is a Google Translate available or there are other standard APIs available, there are so many sites available, where you just type in your spading and press the space bar, it will be converted into your language. But for this what is required, for this it is required that you should have online. You should have the net connectivity and you should have those particular access to the site where exactly people do this. So we are thinking can we do all these things within keyboard itself? Why I have to go online? So can we develop a simple hardware which is plugged into your computer? Just type in and it will convert into your local regional language. If it is quite possible, then this can be a bigger breakthrough like a country like India where we have a multi-lingual situation. So this actually focuses on this type of application or solution development wherein there is as far as phonics phonetic based keyboard, whereas keyboard what we have available are called as the in-script keyboards. So from in-script to the phonetics, using certain small hardware is the objective of this project, where we are expecting that people should have at least the knowledge of embedding, all other rest of the things will be given by us and for this project also as far as the parallel part is concerned or the there is a group in IIT Bombay with a who is a CSE professor who is already working on this line from years to years that is going to come. Already there are two 3M tech students who have already done some kind of work which will be in process. So if you join this you can get a chance to work on this kind of solution. So what is that being displayed on the keyboard? You have to display something. Keyboards you cannot display sounds on the keyboard. Because phonetic keyboards everybody is using the steps. I have converted your own name into your own original language script. Whether you require any speaker, similar. The same thing the platform will remain the same. What we are doing this time using web API. In spite of using web API we have to do it through the hardware solution. Right? Yeah. Why hardware? If we do the hardware it will go straight into the keyboard and people did not have to have the javascript, install, configure whether it is the linux, windows, mac, whatever. Hardware is a rather robust permanent solution. That is the main thing. So I want that the mentality of the people. Keyboard just plugins works. Keyboard just plugins software. Yeah but there are software also. There are local software already available that we can download and use it. But hardware will be a rugged permanent solution kind of thing. So basically this can be done in the ecosystem wherein there are a few work already being done. There are a few student from IP Bombay some are interested. People have already done some project. Every year we start with project, we carry on the older project and kind of thing. So although it looks very complicated but it is a fun. It is a simple. So how it will work? So since the experience and the differences are in the interest of what exactly we are going to do and create discrete models of every project exactly we make it simple. We create a very independent discrete model of every project. Establish program parameters and the goals what exactly you know how to do and what you know how to achieve in a small small daily steps and then assign a mentor or the buddy for every mentor. So you will have a mentor. Everybody will have a mentor who will closely associated with you, guide you and work with you and conduct the performance review and feedback in the end and there is a process that we make also. So it is not the thing that the assignment has been given and end of the internship we know as the result. It is a continuous association with us wherein the mentor will be with you, he will support you and the revision will be done every week so that there should not be any backlog if there is a problem some kind of solutions can be given and kind of thing. We have got a number of mentors available I would like to introduce before I should go ahead. Harish is actually an android and mobile platform holder that is a mobile holder also. So basically specialization is on putting mobile platforms. We have got almost all the mobile platforms currently we are working on android, iOS then Windows, Firefox OS and so on and so forth whatever. Next is the Santosh. Santosh is basically a stronger person into the area of the Zawa. Zawa is the main domain. He is a Firefox open source community member very active and conducted Firefox cycle last year also in 90th of May another thing. So these people are more or less related with some open source community. So Santosh is going to be one of the all Zawa platform and Firefox platform. Next is the Amit. Amit is basically a network guy. He is basically interested in networks, protocols and finding out the solution. He is good on Python and so on. So Amit is also going to support the acceptability of this protocol already he is working on. So next is the Pathik available. Pathik is basically from hardware back out. So you are working in the industry for a long time you know. So hardware development process and programming and analysis he works from guys. So he is going to look after the electronic scope. Now we have got two ladies sitting behind one is Madhulika. So Madhulika is again one of our mentor. She is an educational technologist and she basically looks after the technology related in the education. How exactly technology can be appended in the education and other things. So the concept tutor is the her brainchild that the game engines can be used for the education and for another thing. This year also we are trying to root in her to get some more exposure of utilization of the technology to the educational system. But we call you Jagrajila that educational service. She is again a specialist who works on all kind of databases and other things. She is a Wikipedia. She lives the women's critical effort of Wikipedia in India. So these are also related to the Wikipedia community and other things. So in all in all this I am going to help you carry out the research. This project will be joint implemented by these people based on the type of assignment you are going to handle. We are not going to provide you the mentorship or the support or the things at this point of time but we will assure you that we will provide a mechanism for saying connected with us after the internship. This is not the case that after the internship is over the last day we will say you would buy and we will not recognize you. So if you also want to get some help or some queries or questions or something to be done we are there to help you out. The working style, how exactly we are going to work. So there will be a project management tool there actually the assignment will be uploaded and then the assignment will have some timeline. Based on those timelines you have to do the submissions. After the submissions the performance and monitoring will be done by your mentor if it is okay the next assignment process which is going to turn around during the entire period of your summer internship. Now what you have to do you have to follow the rules of this interview. We have seen last year previously also some people have got their own habits occurring from different campuses. So when you are in IIT company you have to follow our rules. Then they follow the basically the punctual respect all others and the most important thing is working team because we believe into the team work. Individuals can't do anything. So the team work we are highlighting here desperately because unless you didn't learn working into the team work that is at your back. So thank you before I should go for the question and answer session I will just have some ellipses. These are the small photographs of last year's summer internship where this is the Firefox hackathon happening in the Wikipedia hackathon happening for summer internship. Here is some summer internship fairway. So working with us is fun. People enjoy the work rather than work is not the load work is the enjoyment. So this is the 2013 summer internship photograph. I think I have got one small film also to show you two minutes small film and we will go to the question and answer session. Yes, basically what we do is we get attracted by the names and the objectives of the project. So what happens once they get the choice what we do we do internal assessment of the people what kind of skill sets they are going to do anything like that. And then based on that you can swap the things. We don't do anything like that. It's a process which normally I would take about 8 hours to complete this time I want to do it in 2. So what we have given you is 3 choices. Choice 1, choice 2, choice 3. I sort them on choice 1. I have on the front on the top a list which lists all the groups what is their requirement how much of the requirement is full and how many people are there with first choice. I try to match first choice. Wherever if nobody chooses a project only 2 are there then I will allocate. I have the totals also. I have been told that I should write an algorithm for it. I have not done it. Now basically earlier this time as I said this time we are in a mess. Last time we had we had asked people who are going to come for 8 weeks and 6 weeks. I had asked the projects whether you want 8 weeks or 6 weeks. So I had a color coding where 8 weeks people were green other people were red. So I had a color coding in the projects. I will allocate the green people to green projects that kind of thing. There is nothing to do with anything you have done it is the numbers that are there. So if all of you going for first is project, second my project third somebody's project then it will be waste on choice. What I did last year is I that to be of no time. I asked the actually it was done as the project with the best chaos goal there with the largest number of first choices to come sit on my terminal and select which people they want. Since you are the most popular project I gave them that choice. This time I am not going to do that. Otherwise it would be the project which has got which is the least favored will get allocated first. So if for example I want 30 and only 15 people choosing me. Those 15 will get their first choice. Because if I allocate those 15 somewhere else I will have to go to second and third choice. So the algorithm is the least favorite project will get allocated first. Because the most favorite project has got more chances than the second choice I can fill. So within the group within the group within the group is totally his discretion. Within the group you can let them move. Across the group is difficult. Obviously he would take electronics people and put them in a non-electronics person. No, no, no there was no discussion long time back. Whether what we should do. So according to me I said to students let the students choose what are their strengths and this thing. Why do you think we are giving complex, not complex etc. Because earlier it all said students were allowed to choose between 20 23 projects last for one year. So basically the person is not that confident. We will choose a project which is less complex. Person is good whichever the project is. Let the student choose. Because he knows his strengths instead of us going and interviewing so many people. So does I answer your question? Is it done in 2 hours? I guarantee it will get done in 2 hours. Anything else? Sir you mentioned we need to know embedded C. Is that a necessity or could we learn it along with the... Which background you came from? Electronics. Not much of an idea. Do you know C++ at least? Yes. C++ and embedded C is more or less simpler but you have to do extra work. And sir what about the hardware interfacing? Hardware interfacing in terms of... Hardware part basically it is a microcontroller this. Microcontroller is different. So that we have to decide which controller we have to... So for the microcontroller part we need to know the... No it is the actual code. Because see most of the things what we have been right now is by software. Whenever you are using the online API also it is a software best solution. But we are going to put those software So naturally it is again a software written in the embedded C. Posted by the hardware. That's all. By embedded C you mean after coding it? By embedded C you should know then you can choose the processor in the embedded C whatever for target one device you are going to write. Embedded C should normally work on any processor. There will be compiler for that processor. That is why you will see. You will see the process language to all processes. Anything else? Thank you. Have a nice day. Thank you.


It's January 9th in short shorts it's almost 70 degrees in Denver don't tell anybody don't tell anybody it's insane how nice it is we have had no snow it's 70 degrees it's crazy anyway just had a great run it's uploading sinking to Strava right now okay we got it oh we got it and where we going sushi day sushi day coming for you like a fancy January date night right as true love just mentioned walking out of the house you know usually we need to break up date nights into simpler locations for food meaning a little more affordable yeah like hot bellies cutoba and a little fancier like a sit-down where you would tip we attend yeah and tonight we're going sushi day where we go out and didn't we just had the greatest showman and the reason we can go is because every month when we budget our date nights whenever there's extra money we we just leave it in the date night envelope so it kind of rolls over in some months it's like three dollars and some months I got sick and we didn't go so it was a whole date night's worth so at the end of the year we have like a little bundle or extra padding to the date night which is fun because in January we can do like some more fancier or more sit-downs or not have to break it break it up with you doubles as much as we do in the regular life of the year second question of the day whoa whoa come out if you're from Denver have you ever been to sushi den and where would you it's on South Pearl Street in Denver Google it if you've ever been there what how would you rate it and rank it rank it better word amongst other sushi places in Denver because frankly we think it's the best sushi place in Denver it's called sushi den it's the type of place where like you know your roles Rolls Royce and what else rolls up fancy fancy cars Audi's Range Rovers Range Rovers Landro which is the Range Rovers fancy cars roll up for the valet we don't valet everybody calm down although wait is it free we roll over two bucks but we're not rolling over that much no yeah okay we're dancing we're not that big oh we just love you all thanks for tuning in I did 60 walking alone into the restaurant because fellas you always drop the lady off that's why especially especially if they're regular drop the lady off and you're so bright I'm so bright here's the headlights drive got it hey oh tasty so good sushi den I'm telling you you've got to come here come in Denver sushi then there's true love on how was it picked up thank you on anytime delicious I'm telling you you know my scores are tough ten out of ten that's good that's pretty much like the edge the edge is right there it's actually probably like a meal in the Tuscany hills of it like literally in Italy all right I think we're gonna close it out you lay down your life