Nothing but ice. It's DDK and I'm back today with another Dordat video. Huge shout-out to you for tuning in to this video. Make sure you subscribe bud. Make sure you give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. Today is Wednesday, January 12th when we're both in Stardash and yesterday went okay. Cause we didn't do a full blown day of multi-app, but today is gonna be our first full day of multi-app, so you're gonna make sure Stay tuned. Again, if you aren't subscribed to me, subscribe and if you aren't subscribed, give me a thumbs up again. Do not. Matter of fact, today I'm gonna let you slide.   Let's go. Got our first one over after an hour and 15 minutes. Walmart, this is not a Walmart Insta pick up. It's actually a grocery order. 15 items, 5.4 miles for 1150. We're going to take this and hopefully we get an extra tip. Let's go. We also got a Walmart Insta pick up. It's going to be one item, 4.4 miles for $8 a week. Holla, let's go. We're here, baby. I ain't even gonna get no part. It should be. Hopefully it's one small item. I'll just carry that, John. He's busy. How you doing? See if they got us together. Hello. I'm going to have a door dash for Pete. There we go. Have you ever used one of these before? No. I wonder how this joint worked. I wonder if it says you can put wings as well. Yeah, you got to put the whole set of wings, pizza. That's pretty cool. I'm going to have to try one of these one day. All right, well, that's it and you're all set. All right, thank you very much. Let me scan this really quick. Like that. We gone. Thank you. Have a good one. Save water. Well, it's kind of warm today, so enjoy it. We are here, baby. We got to chop off all this stuff. Two big things are done. First, first, first, first, first, first, first, first, first. I just dropped my phone. I'm trapped. I'm going to get the rest of this stuff. Look at that wall. Somebody left that thing on Lucky Pro. You see it? That's crazy. A lot of dog dookies in this door. I'm just going to watch myself. Damn, let me look at them. I'm going to put that phone on. Y'all don't want to know, though. Wow. Not going to know, though. Okay. Now we are on our way to KFC to pick up this KFC. Order is 9.7 miles for $12.44 on Uber Eats. We're going to pick up this.  She has to drop that Walmart order off. So with the Walmart orders, you can be delayed a little bit. You don't want to be delayed too much, but we got to go get this money, baby. So I'll see you guys when we get to KFC. Let's go. Oh, here, baby. Oh, this door is closed. What? I'm going to go to the draw. Let's see what happens. Hello, I have a door there. I mean, Uber Eats pick up for Rudu K. Rudu? Yes, ma'am. Okay, please. Thank you. All right, thank you. You're welcome. Let's go to the draw, too. And they got 13 items, so hopefully it's not critical. Let's go. Walkiegan KFC on Lewis Avenue. I don't know if it's another one, but you are by far the best KFC I've ever been to. We pulled up. We literally got our food in maybe 45 seconds. They ain't there getting busy. Let's go. We are here, baby. Drop off that KFC. Look at this. Nothing but ice. Slide past this. If I fall, we gon' fall. I'm gonna put it on here just so they can pick it up. I don't know if the KFC box will fit right here. Pretty good. I'm gonna get in the game, coach. Then we'll put that photo on. Wow. Not gonna go though. Let's go. Oh. Watch out. Yes. Be safe or be sorry. Dude, I'm over it, man. Just freakin' get over it. I think there's, I don't know who rents what there's. Okay, thank you very much. No, it's not your fault. You can walk on the snow, but you might ruin your boots. No, these boots are just boots. I'm okay. Thank you. So, they didn't tell us if it was upstairs. So it's a mother-in-law suite like a duplex type of thing. So they didn't tell me that.  They got a little ice on these joints. Luckily, she stopped us before she left. She was confused. Stopped us right here. Bop. Here we are, here, baby. Have you ever used one of these things? You can make pieces and all that stuff, man. I didn't give you one of these. I'm gonna put it back in a little bit. I'm gonna open the double door, you know, because it's all in control. Hit him with the photo. Bang, bang, let's go. We got us one, baby. Tacos, El Norte, six miles with 12.51. It is two orders. So let's go get busy. Here, baby. In this house, baby. Hello. I'm gonna have two pickups. One we are for you. Singa, B, and Nicole, B. Alrighty, thank you. You have a good one. Here we go. We are here, baby. B, we're on this channel. 12. You're getting ready. Hello. I have an Uber Eats delivery for you, Singa. Delivery for you, Singa. Oh, I can take it from you. Okay, here you go. I like the gear, the boo, right? Oh, thank you. You're welcome. You have a good one. Thank you. Come on, for this delivery. Hello, I have a delivery for Nicole. Here you go. Thank you, you have a great day. Downloads one McDonald's, four items, 4.8 miles, 8.19. Let's get this green. Make it easy, let's get busy. Let's see if they got us together. See if they get something together. How you doing, sir? I have a door that's pick up 127. The last number, three is 127. Thank you very much. We have a great day. Let's get busy. Portillo's three items, 2.7 miles of 5.42. What'd it do? Let's go. Here, baby. Hello, Rob. Robert Blankenship, here you go. Sir, you have a good one. This is Mickey D's, baby D's. That's how I said, do not ring the doorbell. So, take that photo. We gone. Let's get it. Panera bread, 4.7 miles for 9.09. Let's get it. Get the guys together. Dude, they got these for us. Nine, oh, only for eight of them. Man, we on the way. Let's get it. It's gonna meet us at the door. So, we're gonna see what happened around this doorbell. I don't know if that works, huh? They have a beautiful dog. Hello. There you go. Thank you. You enjoy? You have a good one. It's a borrow 3.5 miles for 8.19. We in the mall, baby. We at the mall.   How you doing? All right, I had to overeat to pick up. Okay, got you there. You have two slices. Here's that for you. Thank you very much. You need a cup over, please? Yeah, I might as well. That's easier, yeah. That's the worst part. I don't know how the door does for a while, man. Now I'm like, nah. Yeah, it's the worst. I hope they don't got drinks, man. Yeah. All right, boss, man, here you go. All right, thank you very much. You have a good one, man.  Right here. What's up, this John? I think I'm gonna meet us at the door, so let's get busy.  It was a little too far away than normal. Like the other ones that I went to was a little bit farther. Yeah, it's mixed up, though. We're in calories. We're in fat. Hello. Hi, man. Here you go. You a gamer? No, I'm actually working. Oh, but I'm also a gamer, too. Oh, what did you play? Right now, I'm playing Madden. Madden? Oh, okay. Oh, sorry. All right, you have a good one. The dog will get out of here.  Don't hit yourself.  You got the fish on, though? Oh, my God, Angel got a fight. He usually does, so he should be good. Damn, nobody in there, son. My God, yeah. Hey, Angel. He used to be the one to come get us together. Yo, man, thank you.  They say to drop it off on the side door.  We got another one set. They got big cereals. They love it, cereals. Maybe some kids. They got kids in here to eat good cereals. That was one of my favorite meals, cereal. I could eat cereal, breakfast, lunch, dinner, anytime. That's when I could eat milk. I mean, drink milk nowadays. Not so much, no more. I got to sneak eatin'.  Hello. Hey, how's it going? It's going good. Good. Thank you so much. You're welcome. If you want me to, I can sit him right there in the front door. Are you sure? Yeah, that's no problem. That's a beautiful dog. He won't bother you. Ollie, what's up? Hey, doggy. What's up? Oh, man. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. So sweet. Thank you. That's how good it is. I mean, I ordered this the other day and I forgot what I ordered. I think I ordered a sandwich. Yeah, I did. I'm eating now. Well, I guess we have a little snack later. Yeah, I do. Thank you so much for doing it. You're welcome. And you have a tip on your receipt. On the receipt. Okay, you got it? Yes. Because they put a lot of juice in there for some reason. Okay. All right, thank you. Have a great day. So it is the beginning of dinnership, baby. And unfortunately, we did not hit our goal. We only got $77.19. The first hour, hour and 15 minutes, we didn't get any orders. So we're not doing too bad. Comment below and let me know if you think we're still gonna get the $200 today. We're getting some gas right now. We're supposed to get some gas this morning, but we had to move and grow. So I'm just gonna put it in $15, a little $15. And we don't get busy because we're gonna get the gas for cheaper tomorrow when we go to the gas station in Wisconsin. But again, if you are subscribed, make sure you make that subscribe button. If you are subscribed, give me a thumbs up and do not skip the ads. Let's go. Aja Sushi, 4.3 miles for $13.27. Let's go. I have a pickup for Natalia M. All right, let me check on that one. And then let me check on your order. I've been eating good, boy. They got three bags. I ain't got no game. It's like this one. Why? This one. Bop. Get in with the doorbell. I'm just kidding. Let's go. Full bill, Macalester Deli, 11 items, 4.9 miles for $12. We are hollering. Let's go. Macalester Deli, give me a deal. Hello. I have a pickup for Joaxi. Last name, Henry. Okay. Here's the small one for two. And these ones are bread bowls. She don't really have to be bread bowls. Three. Thank you very much. You have a great evening. We are here to drop off the Macalester Deli. See, it's handed to Customs. So that's exactly what they want to do, baby, when they're done. Oh, hold on, I'll just come back. Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm fine, yourself, sir. Bag number one. Thank you. And then let me grab these seats where they won't slip out. Bag number two. And bag number three. Thanks, man. You're up, you have a good one. We here to drop off this Chiquita Taco Bell. Whatever happened to that commercial, they made Chihuahua's popsicles. They don't even know it. They need a Chihuahua, the people need to get them cut. Get that photo. Let's get it. Got us one Panera Bread, TGR Fridays, 11.5 miles, 1707. Let's get it. We are here to TGF Friday. Look at this order. And this thing, baby. This is going to be low-key at night time. Oh, Clint, hey, Darcy, we going to skip. We are here, baby, to drop off the Panera Bread. Hello. Hi. Room 110, would it be this way, or this way? OK, thank you. Room 110, let's get it in. TURN RIGHT, TURN RIGHT, TURN RIGHT, TURN RIGHT. We are here to double TGF Fridays. Hello.  All right, here you go. You have a good one. Thank you. You got it? Yes, you got it. All right, bye-bye. Let's go on Burger King, two miles for 908. Let's skate. We are just going to put that Burger King, baby. That door is going to be slid right in. Hello, here you go. Bag number one, bag number two. All right, thank you. Have a great night. $1 General, seven items, 1.8 miles for 675. Let's drive. Number one, two, three, four. What y'all know about these? Comment below and let me know if you eat the little Debbie cakes. Five, stay alive, six, seven. Comment below and let me know what's the best ice cream you eat. What's your favorite ice cream? Let's get it. Baby, show off this all to the general. Throw me out. And just like that, it is the end of the video. Unfortunately, we only got $151.72. But I must say, he's trying to beat. Majority of that was from Uber Eats. So, that's his one. He's showing out. He's showing out. He's about to get busy. Turn around and look at him. He for sure is going to get busy. Let's see if he can. Big. You hear him? Doin' it. Doin' it. Stunned. You hear him? Big. Let's see him get busy. Let's see if he really owns something. Let's see him get busy. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Anyway. Unfortunately, most of that was from Uber Eats. So, this is what be happenin' when people be cheatin' and stuff. This is what be happenin'. First you be with your girl, or your band, and y'all be all cool and stuff. Then y'all get close to breakin' up. Then the side piece comin' and just get the actin' right. Door Dads, get it together. You gave us a lot of terrible orders today.  I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Again, if you want to subscribe, make sure you smash that subscribe button. If you want to subscribe, give me a thumbs up. And do not skip those ads. I see you tomorrow. We goin', we goin', we flowin', you already knowin'. They probably watchin', but I don't even care. Let's go.


Hi, welcome to the prosperity alchemist channel I am David Wong and we're gonna show you how to gain prosperity in your life how to generate and build and grow the life force in your body and your mind in order to gain health and success and prosperity so stay tuned and we can show you my Prosperity pyramid and how you can use it to do just that so here We have my prosperity pyramid at the bottom. We have life force. We talked about life force now In this video, I want to talk specifically how to get from life force up to level two up to level three So level one is life force. Okay, and we shared with you already things I can do to generate more life force even some technologies I can use that will automatically help you generate life force Next is once you have the life force you're gonna start to improve your health and transform your health from the inside and outside Here's the yin-yang symbol and then one side we have your body and you're one side We have your mind so with a good life force you will automatically start to create this engine Now like I said before here, we have the fuel and then we have the engine So the engine won't work unless you have good fuel Now if you want to gain success, which is level three success is like a vehicle It's like a car that gets you somewhere These are also success skills This is the vehicle and by the way success skills is the vehicle and success itself is a direction Okay, so we never achieve success completely. It's always a direction So how do you get from level one to two to three? Well, we talked about life force and Generating enough life force so you have a healthy body and mind Just naturally because with the life force this will happen naturally you have a balance mind body and spirit You have the connection that you need in order to have a good engine now What's the good use of an engine when it doesn't go anywhere? Well, it's just the engine that just runs and that's it You're gonna need to have some kind to sign kind of a vehicle in order to create movement and a And the Delta right so how do you convert your? Engine into success Into success skills while that comes from building momentum like I said in the last video It comes from being able to start moving so later We're going to show you what the success diamond is and how to get those success skills There's five main parts that you need there's five points on the diamond, but the key is this part here Many people get stuck at this point They have their mind and body But they never get up to the success part and the reason for that is they cannot convert the engine into a vehicle An engine is just something that can run it can convert this into some kind of energy Kinetic energy, but unless you have a direction unless you have a vehicle you still gonna not going to go anywhere with just an engine So what is the secret?  What a secret is that you need to be able to have momentum have be able to have a direction and that comes from Taking the first step They say that the journey of a thousand miles or ten thousand miles begins with a single step and Many people they get up to here But they get stuck because they don't take a step. They don't take any risks They don't take any action So without any steps without any movement you can never gain momentum So last time you talked about things that can destroy your momentum and things that can gain momentum but still knowing those things is good and Creating those positive energies like dreams and creativity and focus all those things are great But still you still have to take the step you still have to take action and Many people talk too much. They talk about the lack of energy You talk about the negative how to get over your fears How to get over depression and anxiety and that's all good nothing wrong with that you need to know those things But then all they do is just that just talk nothing's gonna happen until you take action Nothing's gonna happen until you convert this energy This engine into a vehicle and actually go somewhere That's why I'm making this video What's so important is action. Okay, so what action can you take while you're watching this video right now? So good job. You're doing something you're watching.  You're still watching it.  Maybe you are subscribing to this channel. Maybe you are going to think about this later That's action. Yeah, that's passive. What you need to do is start taking active action Okay, sure you can start with passive action, right? You start passive which is learning studying, you know planning all those things are good But then a lot of people plan for days and for weeks and for years, but nothing happens, right? A lot of people they think and they dream and then again inspiration for years and years But then nothing happens. A lot of people they're positive. They speak positive words the positive affirmations Those are good But still nothing happens is because they don't take active action. They don't actually do something that's going to make a difference Okay, so what are some things think you're for yourself right now? What are some things you can do? Okay, what can you do? to Bring you the success that you want and for many people. I think the problem Also is that they don't want to take action is because they don't know what to do you probably Are confused you probably Are asking What do I do to get to the success success level and that's true a lot of people don't want to take action because they just don't know What to do? Okay, there's certain steps you can do first of all you can figure out what do you like to do? We're one. What do you like to do? What are some of your passions? What drives you what gives you energy when you do it? Okay, once again, we go back to energy Can you think about all those things make a list? Okay, let's tell some things things. That's number one number two What are you good at now think about what you good at for example? Are you good at sports math? Are you good at speaking music? I don't know think about what things are you good at and make a list of that Now also instead of just thinking of what you're good at in terms of specific things Want to think about what you good at in general concepts for example, if you're good at music What does that mean? That means you're good with sounds Okay, if you're good at math, what does that mean? That means you may be analytical or you may be logical Okay, if you're good at arts, then what does that mean? That means that you are creative that means you have a Very active Mind's eye you can visualize things if you're good at let's say sports. What does that mean? It means that you are coordinated because if you be trained and you're good at it. Maybe you're disciplined Even you don't know about it. Okay, so start writing of qualities of yourself Okay, so instead of just things you things you're good at start thinking about qualities So these are qualities. So we have you know what you like. You know what? You make a list of things that you like that you have passion about that give you energy Then you make a list of things that you're good at specific things that you like that you do So these are things you do and then number three is you make start writing down qualities about yourself They come from things that you are good at Okay, so that's the first step and then later on let me show you how you can start thinking about Things and you can do so you can start connecting You ask yourself the question based on number one to three What kind of things can I do to create success? Okay, so make a list what things can you do? Can you do make success? So make another list of ideas? Okay, so a list of things would be Activities they can do okay groups they can join and Also communities as the same as groups and you can also think about maybe some jobs that are That will use all those things jobs. What else is there? There is business ideas And opportunities that you can explore that go in mind with those things that you discovered in number one to three Okay, and then what's the next step once you make a list the next step is take action Take action. Okay, so if there if you make a list of activities now you choose One to two things from the list here that you made and do that Go and do the activity Go and join that group Go and apply for that job Or go and go to that business meeting and learn more about that business go and research about that business opportunity So number fives to take action. Okay, so you don't know what to do. Hopefully those are some steps that will five steps here that will help you to learn discover what to do eventually Do something that is in line with what you'd like Have a passion for that you're good at that aligns with your positive qualities of yourself and it's something that is available for you to do if You can't find any activities any groups or jobs or businesses. Maybe then you can create it on your own maybe you can create something of nothing like I do here on the YouTube and Like you can do on YouTube to or on Facebook or create your own group create your own activity That's what I did because when I started my martial arts studio battle between Chun I Wanted to do something I love and I want to do something that was a good at it and I had the qualities to make it successful and But there weren't any schools and there weren't any activities or even People that were doing that. So what I do First I did the activity myself. I trained myself I went to different places to learn martial arts and then I started my own group of friends to learn martial arts And eventually I started my own school to teach martial arts and that's how I did it I went through this process. Maybe you can find out for yourself How you can do something that's in line with all those things for yourself Your passions what you like what you're good at and also to really know your qualities, right? Because these are your strengths. These are your qualities and these are your strengths. I know what your strengths are One of my mentors told me that if you work on your weaknesses in your life At the end you just have a whole bunch of mediocre weaknesses But if you work on your strengths, then at the end of your life You have a very powerful strengths that will set you apart from everybody else. So think about what your strengths are So that's the end of today's lesson. I hope you enjoyed it So today as a recap we talk about how to get from level 2 to level 3 how to take action To convert your life force your mind and body health into success skills And the key is to take action But the problem is that a lot of us don't know what to do don't know what action to take So we've gone went into five steps of questions You can ask yourself in order to find out how to take action and what to do next So I hope you enjoyed this lesson make sure that you come to my upcoming webinar and We'll show you some technologies they can use to speed up this process even faster and to do it automatically even the lazy way of doing it so Subscribe and comment and like on this video and click the notification bell to get all the new Greatest lessons are coming out and we see you soon in the next lesson


Hey, Greg, how do y'all work for y'all stopping to run today? It was the 200th y'all cut all the way in half today. Definitely wanted to come out and stop to run today. It's a big point of emphasis. Still could have been better in some areas, in my opinion. But definitely just trying to put them in a position where they had to throw the ball. So we had a good response in the second game. Just trying to build it every week. Whether that's getting better in the run game, in the pass game. So just trying to take it week by week and get better.  And to see young guys have success and make some big plays that impact the game in a big way. Marlon last week, Michael this week, and that's just going to continue to build for them. And the best footballer for them is ahead of them and build confidence in themselves and with the team putting them out there on the field. So it's been awesome to see them make some big plays the past two weeks. Where were you at on the Intercept, when you were back at the point? We had a blitz coming from the field. So I was like working, or I was like copping, or what do you call it? Working outside to contain. And by the time he threw the ball, I was in the quarterback face. I was like, I didn't want to hit him. I didn't want to get no penalty or nothing like that. So was that AJ Pick or Michael? I don't know, one of them, I was somewhere. I was on the field somewhere. I don't know, I'm not somewhere. But yeah, nice play. I'm not really sure, you know what I'm saying, on what, how deep ago, you know, he presented us with a game plan on Wednesday and we execute what was given to us. And you know, that's a coach's conversation and we're doing what we get to us. How much more comfortable is this game? How much more comfortable as the weeks go by? I think, I feel like we're building as the weeks go on, you know, and you just, I mean, each week you just want to get better. You know what I'm saying? So having some big plays by the defensive turnovers is always good, see. What is it about being on the road that you guys have just been really great on the road? It's not being on the road. We try to win every game we play, you know. And unfortunately, we haven't gotten at home yet, but we've been winning on the road. But I mean, it ain't like a special answer to it. You know, we go out there prepared each week to win and we got to win today and we're happy about it. I was talking about how, how do you? I think we did a solid job. Like I said earlier, I feel like we could have done better just because, I mean, I have to see and take, but we did what we had to do, you know, to get to win the game and respond and we got to win. How happy he was to see kind of the defensive turn.  And on the day of the game, you got to be the most physical group. And I think that's any team identity they will want. So it's part of the game. How excited was Michael Wallace with that? Say it again. How excited was Michael Wallace with that? Oh man, we all seem to play, you know what I'm saying? So definitely excited anytime you make a play like that. How can you not be excited? How can you not be excited for him? So his awesome play. Thanks, Ray.


often times we hear things from our parents or from our teachers about destiny, we say in Farsi and in Urdu but I think that as our teachers tell us that as students of knowledge, as Mufti's, as Mawlana's, our idea is that we sort of feel the pulse of the people and that wherever their understanding is lacking with vis-a-vis any concept of the religion, vis-a-vis any understanding of the religion, vis-a-vis any mafhum, al-mafhum al-islami bi'atibar al-deen, right? Any Islamic idea must be reformed and corrected vis-a-vis the light of the Qur'an and the shaksiya of the holy prophet, As-salatu wa s-salam and in that vein I think that two things I think need to be mentioned first is this idea of how do we understand destiny vis-a-vis the Qur'an, vis-a-vis the Sunnah and most importantly when we look at our condition as an ummah, as people who follow the holy prophet, alayhi s-salatu wa s-salam, yani fil-azal wa fil-abad, how do we understand that why is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala affecting us with so much grief and I think that these two notions al-mafhuman al-wa-ta-baran, yani yajib al-alina al-nubayyin al-amma makum and it's really critical for us to explain this, to explore this before you because we have 1400 years of history of ulama from West Africa to Hindustan who have explored this, who have analyzed this, who have tried to study this, but again because of for XYZ reasons you can say or whatever that we have lost that connection of deep knowledge, of deep Qur'anic knowledge, i.e knowledge that pulsates and blazes throughout the very fiber of our khudi and of our being, you know Mawlana Rumi said that literally ecstatically oh Muslims, oh Muslims I have to tell you something and the whole ghazal is just him shouting oh Muslims, oh Muslims that I have to tell you something, what is it? that I have this underlying grief that pulsates within me but this grief is sort of afflicting me from from the heavens like rain on my head right and so this you know I think that as Muslims as we as we reckon with our grief of the ummah as we reckon with our pain as we reckon with our ofsofs and our range I think it must really be grounded in how do we understand taqdeer and qadr and destiny in the Qur'an Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in about 10 to 15 locations uses the form of qadr Allah says you know for example inna kulla shayn khalaq naahubi qadar Allah has created everything with taqadar, we'll get to the meaning of this Allah also says in the Qur'an wallahu yuqadiru layla wa n'ahar Allah does taqdeer, Allah measures the night and the day Allah in the Qur'an also says wa khalaq kulla shayn fa qalaq naahubi qadar that Allah has created everything and in it he has created a qadar Allah also says fa qadarahu wa hadaa that he has done taqdeer of everything and guided it so what does this mean what do all these verses mean together the great Mughal theologian Shah Wulullah Mohd al-Dahlawi in his usul al-tafsir kitab al-fawz al-kabir he said al-Quranu yufasiru baaduha baada al-Quranu yufasiru baaduha baada he wrote this in the 18th century that the parts of the Qur'an explain other parts of the Qur'an but you can never have a true holistic and a paradigmatic understanding of the Qur'an unless you see all of these ayaat squared up before you right and this is why it's important you know as as we read the Qur'an to think of it in a very jama'iya manner right in a very holistic manner you know when we talk about it's al-qadar inna anzalna filayat al-qadar we often mistranslate it as a night of power but this is the same word qadar qadar does it mean power qadra in Arabic means power and we know just from one fat'ha to al-dammah the whole word can change ajala in Arabic means you know hastiness as the prophet said al-ajalatu minash shaytan alayh you know that hastiness is from shaytan ujla means a cart you know like a horse cartwheel just one dammah fat'ha change the whole word changes just qadar al-qadra qadar in Arabic it's very interesting if you look in the the shi'ar or the the poetry of the jahiliya before islam you'll see that it's a very singular meaning right and i say that umar radi allahu wa'a'am said that you can't understand the Qur'an unless you study the shi'ar of the jahiliya because the Qur'an is revealed in what Arabic right wa qadalika anzallahu huqman arabiya inna anzallahu Qur'an an arabiya la'allakum ta'aqilun and this idea of qadar um from what we see of of of this Arab civilization is that it means something like a measurement right that you're measuring something in Farsi we have something called qadar dani what does qadar dani mean someone who knows your worth who knows your value who knows your measure right and so when we when we read the Qur'an and we read this and we understand what that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created this whole universe has created this whole cosmos and has created us with qadar with measurement that we are of a certain measure we are of a certain isti'adad we are of a certain isti'ta'a these are all you know bahar hal you know very old theological terms that the muttikalli mean would use but the idea is that just like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created the entire universe with a certain measure so too Allah has created us with a certain measure right and and this becomes even more important right because many people ask that question if Allah has written everything then what's the point of me doing something right if Allah is that's what they say right if Allah has written everything then why should I do any a'amal why should I do any a'amal everything is a lokh al-mahfud right fi lokh al-mahfud as Allah says in surah surah a'la right so why should we do anything or if we do have free will then where is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's free will if we are if we are engaging in actions then where is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's qadra and his iqtiyar and his irada and his mashiqa right how does all of that interlace with our own free will and this debate started in the 8th century in you know in Iraq and especially in these two countries Afghanistan and Uzbekistan 1200 years ago in the north of Afghanistan in the south of Uzbekistan these debates started between three groups the jabariya the qadariya the mu'atazila and the maturidis 1200 years ago these debates raged what is the nature of destiny how do we understand all of these a'ayat all of these verses in the Quran for a thousand years it's been debated and by the way you know anybody who has studied comparative religion will know that the tradition of destiny or the concept and the robustness of destiny in Islam is not found in any other religion you can study Hinduism you can study Judaism you can study Christianity and all of its strands you will not find the sophistication that we have of the idea of qadar of destiny and of taqdeed right and anyway these these debates are very long you know we obviously don't have too much time to engage but basically there were two groups one was the jabariya they believed that insan or human beings have no free will right they said that if Allah swt has free will and you have free will then your will is dominant over Allah swt if you commit a sin Allah doesn't want you to drink alcohol but if you drink alcohol it doesn't mean that right that your irada or your volition or if your free will has dominated over the volition of Allah so this group went one way and then you have the qadariya right the qadariya they said you know critiquing the jabariya saying that look if you say that human beings have no free will then how can Allah punish us if everything has been written right if everything is means if everything is written then how can Allah punish us that if Allah swt has written everything in the law hual ma'fu then Allah has decreed everything then how can He punish us for our sins this debate happened 1200 years ago in Mazar-e-Sharif in Samarqand in Bukhara you have hundreds of books just this one masala on this one philosophical issue right and so they went the other way they said that Allah swt has no irada over us that we create our own actions and we decide our own destiny now obviously this also undermines the irada of Allah swt what's the point of worshiping Allah swt if you're saying that Allah has no irada and this goes against many ayat in the Qur'an wa lakinna allahu yaf'alu ma yurid la yusalu amma yufalu wahum yusaloon right wa lakinna allah yakhtaar all of these ayat that talk about you know wa man yushy'illah yudulil wa lausha'a rabbuka la'amana man fil audi kulluhum jami'aa faanat tukri hunnasa man yakoonu mu'mineen right all of these verses that talk about Allah swt's irada and His volition I'm not gonna go deep into this but this is basically the two major extreme camps and then you have the third camp of which you know the majority of Muslims have been a part of namely the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire made the school of thought in the Timur empire there's the school of thought mainly the maturidi theology Abu Mansoor Al Maturidi he passed away in the year 980-985 AD only 100 years after Imam Bukhari in the grave of Samarqand his tomb is still there if you go to Samarqand and he said that you know we're gonna going to take a Mu'atadil position a moderate position between these two extreme camps right wa qadalika ja'alaakum umma ta wasatah that we have made you a moderate nation and when you look at you know 1400 centuries of Islamic history you will see that every major theological issue that we have gained consensus on is really the Mu'atadil and the moderate stands on both issues you know there have been many sects in Islam there have been many you know Firaq Batila in Islam but if you see the dominant position is always is the the wasat position right the moderate position what now what did Imam Maturidi say radiallahu anhu wa arda that he said that you know I'm not going to deny Allah subhanahu ta'ala's irada nor am I going to deny the human irada right the idea is that what that Allah subhanahu ta'ala obviously has irada he has irada over everything and his irada over everything if Allah wanted he could he could put all the believers in half fire and put all the disbelievers in paradise that is the irada of Allah subhanahu ta'ala who can who can challenge Allah subhanahu ta'ala right but then he also said that I'm not going to deny the volition or the free will of the human being that we as human beings earn our own actions that we are responsible we are liable when you do something you feel bad about it right there is that fitri thing that our actions are attributed to us but out of adab right and but imam maturidi said this and this is imam ashaari and imam maturidi agree here of the you know of the two major theological camps that that Allah creates both good and evil that you are creating your good actions and your you know Allah subhanahu ta'ala is creating your good actions and your evil actions right and this is where the muhattasila went off right that you know but just because Allah subhanahu ta'ala is creating the evil actions that you're doing that doesn't mean that you yourself are not responsible for committing those actions and this is really where it sort of comes to a head you know the great indian theologians of the late 19th early 20th century also you know just like a thousand years before them insama khan took up this issue as well what does that mean what does destiny mean are we are we entitled to these actions are we are we responsible and liable to these actions if Allah creates everything then when i commit a sin is then he also creating that sin that i'm doing and if i you know if he's not then who's creating that sin am i creating that sin does that mean there are multiple creators in this world anyways coming back to the major point is that the idea of qadar and this is what imamma turidi says is that Allah subhanahu ta'ala has created everything in this world with a qadar with a measurement so just like you know a certain tree or a certain garden or or even you know Allah subhanahu ta'ala talks about you know the the sun and the moon and to do the night and day right that it's not it's not appropriate or it's not possible it's not logically possible for the sun to overtake the moon or for the moon to overtake the sun why? because because Allah has created a measurement Allah has created a qadar in the sun that means that the sun has a specific range of actions that it can engage in right so too with the moon so too with any plant right so too with any flower as you know the great scholar from north india Mawlana Shabir Ahmed Rathmani said in the late 1900s the late 1800s rather that you know if someone goes up to a mango tree and he says this you know very sarcastically can anybody say why the mango tree is not producing a pomegranate? why? right and this is he wrote this in his masala qadar that if you go up to a mango tree and you you can't ask Allah why can't this mango tree produce pomegranates? you can't go up to an apple tree you know or or a cherry blossom tree and say that you know why isn't this tree producing you know this other fruit the idea is what that و خلقنا كل شيء فقد ده له تقديره that Allah has put a measurement into everything right and that this measurement is the range of possibilities for every single human being but now that is just nature coming to human beings and this is really where it gets interesting because when we bring the life of the holy prophet sallallahu a'laihi wa a'laihi wa sallam it becomes even more fascinating one time this hadith is mentioned both in Bukhari and muslim and other sahi kutub the prophet a'laihi sallatu wa sallam is coming back from aghazwa and he stops and he has he obviously you know he has his asa'i mubarak his staff in his hand you know the afghan poet said sara'a sara jum la'alam sara'a sara jum la'alam poor zil madadas but he madaday tshum mousabaa asa'aku that this whole world is filled with men show me a man like that man with a staff a'laihi sallatu wa sallam anyways the prophet a'laihi sallatu wa sallam stops in the sand and he creates a diagram in the sand this is mentioned in Bukhari and muslim he creates he creates a diagram in the sand right and in and in that diagram he creates what they say is a rectangular box and in this rectangular box he creates what are what are you know diagonal lines And he says and he starts at one end of the rectangle and he goes to the other end with this staff And he says that this is the beginning of a human's life This is the beginning of a human's life and these intersecting, you know vertices. These are all the masai These are all the calamities of that will affect a human being and even if one man try, you know, misses one calamity He'll hit another if he misses two calamities who hit the third one, right? And this is the the sort of tafsid of the ayah and the Qur'an That two people, do people believe, right, that when they bring faith that Allah won't test them and this is this idea again That as human beings we are built with a qadr. We are built with a measurement and that with our measurement is also connected our calamities Right, and there is no missing that and this is why Mawlana Shabir Ahmed Ar-Rathmani. He says that you know people who say that You know if Allah has written everything then what's the point of doing any amal? He gives an incredible analogy He says that there is no doubt that Allah's knowledge encompasses everything Pre-eternally and post-eternally. There is no doubt about that. There is no question about that You know as Allah says in the Qur'an Allah's knowledge encompasses everything right, but then he says that let me give you an analogy He says that you know obviously this is in colonial British India and trains were a new thing then From the British and he says that let's say you have a timetable, right? And you have that timetable and the trains are also obviously supposed to make that time Right, they're supposed to let's say the train is supposed to come at 230 or the plane is supposed to come at 230 Just because you have a timetable there doesn't mean that has any impact on what you on what that train does or what That train conductor does so this is that this is the the parable and the analogy Right that for us to really understand that what does it mean for Allah? Subhanahu ta'ala to know everything for him to have written everything down in the preserved tablets But also for us to engage in deeds because just because Allah subhanahu ta'ala creates good deeds You know Allah Khalil khairi was sure just because Allah subhanahu ta'ala has created a chai and burai You know goodness and excellence doesn't mean that that you know burai is associated to him Jalla wa ala the great Alim you know from Lahore also says that If you have a garden right and you have many many sort of different kinds of flowers in one side of the garden And then the other side of the garden, you know, you don't have you know Let's say the the best of flowers or the best of you know plants or fruits and you have sunlight coming and hitting both Right or let's say the sunlight is burning one part of the garden. It's not burning the other part of the garden it's not the fault right of of each and every sort of fruit to To be responsible for what it is produced right because what's happening every human being is created with an isti ta'a Is created with a qadr with a measurement with a certain range of possibilities within their life That's why you hear stuff right when we when we sort of converse with people right that I you know I never thought I could do this but it somehow it just came to me Right you hear stuff like that that I never thought I would be in this place But somehow it happened. This is this idea of measurement right that certain things are now unfolding in in your world In your own taqdeer and that's why taqdeer. Hello. How do we translate it in Persian? Andaza, right? It's a measurement right because your whole life is measured According to what the Amar of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but you as a human being have cusp you can acquire those actions and You know, Allah my Iqbal and you know the 1920s would say that one of the greatest calamities of the ummah and he said this and You know And payam-e-mashrik is that they have misunderstood taqdeer that Muslims have become fatalist that they don't believe That they can do anything or achieve anything with Hamid because Allah has already written everything You know the fact that Europeans had colonized 95% of the Muslim world the Muslims then at that time had said that you know Allah had decreed this what can we do but he said that you know You don't understand taqdeer and that's why you know, what what are his last lines of his job is shekwa? To taqdeer hey to tadbeer hey, you know tadbeer theory that you yourself are destiny Right that you have that power to sort of engage in all of these sort of range of possibilities, right? And this is what this is the secret of the hadith when the Prophet Ali salat wasalam said when Sayyidina Uman converted to Islam khiyaruhum fil jahiliya khiyaruhum fil islami idha faquhuh At the best in jahiliya are the best in Islam when they get fiqh when they get an understanding of the religion Because that range of possibilities when it comes into Islam That unfolds that for them and for the ummah Right and so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to help us understand You know Iqbal also has an incredible poem where he sets up between himself and Maulana Rumi And he asked that how explain to me oh Maulana, oh Pirirum. What is the mystery of taqdeer? What is the mystery of destiny? And he says that you know a crow will go to a graveyard and you know Shaheen or or a hawk, you know will go to a Sultan Right and that this is this idea is that we all have a nature, right? And we all can interact with our nature as Allah says in the Qur'an Inna sa'iyakum na shatta fa'amma man a'ata wa taqa wa saddaqa bil husna fa'sa nooyasiruhu lilyusra Allah says that whoever obeys Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and fears him fa'sa nooyasiruhu lilyusra ason khardeen Fa'sa nooyasiruhu lilyusra we have made easy for him paradise Because this is this idea now his taqdeer is shifted towards that now the whole world Will sort of align to that and this is this idea, you know again that Iqbal and Rumi are saying that you know When you engage with taqdeer when you engage with the aqadar and that measurement the whole world Will align yourself, you know around you to you and before you and what more example? Can we see that then in the that in the seerah of the holy prophet? Salallahu alaihi wa sallam well the whole world bowed before him this I hope can clarify some form of taqdeer I'll say this and I ask for forgiveness of Allah for you Muslims and I ask for forgiveness of him and his forgiveness of the Merciful Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, we praise him and we ask for forgiveness of him and we believe in him and we rely on him And we seek refuge with Allah from the evil of our souls and from the evil of our deeds Who guides him, Allah, does not misguide him and who misguides him, Allah, does not guide him And we bear witness that there is no god but Allah and there is no partner And we bear witness that our master and our master are Muhammad, his servant and his messenger He sent him with the truth as a guide and a warner in the hands of the Hour Who obeys Allah and His messenger has lost his will and who misguides Allah and His messenger has lost his will and lost his will And the Arabic prophet, Hashemi, said to him, the best of prayers and the best of prayers and the best of prayers and the best of blessings Arhamu Ummati Bi Ummati Abu Bakr Wa Shadduhum Fi Amr Allahi Umar Wa Azdaquhum Hayaan Uthman Wa Qadahum Ali Wradwan Allahi Ta'ala Aalayhim Aajma'een Wa Fatima Sayyidah Nisa'i Ahlil Jannah Wa L'Hassan Wa L'Hussein Sayyidah Shiba'i Ahlil Jannah Wa Hamzatu Asadullah Wa Asadu Rasulih Allahum Makhfil Lila'abbas Wa Waladihi Makhfiratun Zahiratun Wa Baatina Laa Tugadir Zambaa Allaha Allaha Fi Ashabi Laa Tattakhiduhum Gharadum Min Ba'adih Fa Man A'habahum Fa Bi Hubee A'habahum Wa Man A'bghadahum Fa Bi Bughdi A'bghadahum Wa Khairu Ummati Qaruni Thumma Lathin Yaluna Hum Thumma Lathin Yaluna Hum Allahum Makhfil Lila'l Mu'mina Wa L'Mu'mina Wa L'Muslimina Wa L'Muslimaat Al-Ahya'i Minhum Wa L'Ammwaat Allahum Man Thur Man Nasr Adina Muhammadin Sallallahu Alaihe Wa Sallam Wa Jalnaa Minhum Wa Khadul Man Khadal Adina Muhammadin Sallallahu Alaihe Wa Sallam Wa Laa Tajalnaa Maa Hum Allahumma Bi Hormat Muhammed Allahumma Bi Hormat Al-Muhammed Nabbehnaa Minal Qawm Al-Ghafilin Imna Allaha Ya Amrul Adri Wul Ihsan Wa Ita Izzil Qurbaa Wa Yanhaa Anin Fahshaa I wal Munkari Wul Baghih Ya'idukum Laa Allakum Tadakkarun Udhkur Allah Yadhkurukum Wa Da'uhu Yastajib Lakum Wa La Dhkur Allah Ta'ala Akbar Maa Ta'sna'oon Tim Salah


Okay, we'll stop that Hello everybody Game electric Boogaloo where we did it. Oh, thank God. Yes We've got the friggin all foul muscle a new not only aquatic What you missed there it is So we got 2,600 VIP points food and we did actually get some books Okay, we'll be able to open it again Okay, yes, right. So that's what we're yeah, we actually got to open the pack.  Just park builder. Excuse me. I'm just eating I know very professional on three. Just park a builder has had this in the game for such a long time Or did you know it's like one of the first creatures I think ever to come out for the aquatics But this one It took so long and here it is a finally and at max level three thousand one sixty health and 988 attack. So we've got like five thousand five hundred bucks But we have something kind of waiting in the incubator So we'll have a quick look at it. We've got five days left to try and secure. Oh This is just started I don't have no Dessaurus apparently interesting and don't have that but like I said I think what we'll end up doing is and we can make at least one video a week where we unlock a new creature and Capricutius Gen 2 was the last one I think the last tournament that we did and it took a week In order to get all of this stuff for free, which has saved us box But when something you know because I felt as though, you know, this thing doesn't have a hybrid at the moment It's a creature that is basically just a reskin of what we've had in the past It's just got a different color on it. So instead of you know, wasting all my books getting that max level For you know, seemingly no purpose at the moment because it doesn't have a hybrid So for me, there's no point spending thousands and thousands of bucks on it However, if we you know end up doing that and we wait when something like our pharmacy comes out Which I'm quite surprised it took so long to get a farmer so I mean it only you know It's it's animation is just for it. So I'm wondering what other creatures We could have a peer That will also use the alphan was so animation because otherwise They've spent loads of work on a creature that has an animation just for itself Which is kind of ludicrous and something I did not expect so I'm not expecting that to last long May as well use alpha we can get some books get over 5,500. Yes. Oh, but there's some more 50 boss DNA So if we want to we can of course max of Mortar Rex even higher more towards that Let me see. Where is it? So it'll be in here. Oh, no won't even be in here because oh well Hold on we got we got another another one of these and some actually maybe I'm tempted to get some more enduraptors Because that tournament the ophthalmosaur tournament wasn't too bad actually out of everything I know could have been a lot worse a lot worse John But it wasn't it was pretty damn good. I think I only 1,500 cups and it was over Friday Saturday Sunday, and I think even Monday So they gave us loads of time to do it and if it was a weekend, you know, like Friday Saturday Sunday And sort of ended on Monday instead of ending on Tuesday. It probably would have been a lot harder I mean 1,500. Let's say you get 20 cups per battle. So 10 battles is 200 So you look at 50 battles is 50. You know, you're looking at a lot of odd We was oh we were so close damn it All the DNA helps at this point Usually when you unlock a new creature an event ends There's some sort of offer that goes on and there was yesterday, and I wonder if that was to purchase So we'll go in here. We'll go on reefs because I'm pretty sure it's a reef there It is hatch, so we'll do the instant hatch and yeah, we're gonna see all this new animation look at it It's so the model is actually really freakin good. Let's have a look at this model Wow Wow, look at the eye. Oh that looks so good. Oh Yeah, so I'm just sort of where's it going? Where you going babes on there? Oh, there it is. Look. Yes Wow the detail on the eye I mean if we compare this to something that came out when the game first came out There's no comparison. Oh god. Oh, it's through the camera There's no comparison And I don't know if it's just me it probably is my personal preference But there's something about a farmer so that I freaking love it's the design. It's the big eyes I don't know. I just really like the way it looks. It looks absolutely good Was that one of the only ick they saw in the middle Jurassic through to the Cretaceous period Wow, okay, I Think of a lot of Farmers who ended up dying off in the Cretaceous. I think it was Jurassic when they were all around So, you know, we're not just gonna get one we've got to get multiples But we're gonna first instant hatch all of these guys So it's 8,000 each so it's not so bad and the 250 bucks is really good So we can at least get this to level 30 and if we so wish We may be able to get it to a level 40. I think it's gonna cost extra bucks to do that So what we will do oh god We've got trades to do also we need to see it's eating animation I'm so sorry guys over we got ahead of ourselves because eating animation will be completely completely new It's it's you know, it's attacking animations will be new Will we see a return of the the water NATO the fish tornado thing that used to do and Jurassic Parkbuilder where three of them used to come around and then swirl up a storm and then have that go towards the enemy If that if they do that, you know, I don't mind that that it's a good Easter egg And why why can't we just have dinosaurs do crazy like attacks and animations and stuff like that Why do we have to be constrained? By realism when most of the dinosaurs in the game aren't realistic Even just design-wise and when they reach that level 40, they definitely aren't realistic So why could we just have a family saw go back to its, you know fish NATO days? That would be brilliant So let's go into here. Let's have okay. Let's have a look at see the animation ready. So is it one fish? Oh a little fish. Oh Yeah, oh Okay Ha bit disappointing You know after waiting so long for something to to happen like a new eating animation for it for it literally just to like Have the fish go in the mouth and have no like capture or the fish out the side or anything like that That feels a bit cheap to me Um Like you can see the point exactly where the fish's animation clocks on and it's like all of a sudden It's swimming that way then it's like that. I mean you could see it like watch so it swims out Here we go. Swims out and then Yeah, it's like I feel like if we had it swim with a bunch of fish, why not? Oh, but that's too much That's too much to ask Let's get it to a level 20. Oh, there it is. Oh The same colors. I think it might be the same colors. Yes a blue and a yellow Oh, it looks so good a drossick power builder. They perfected those colors. Oh Yes I'm so happy if it is this up at level 40. It's model change, won't it? What are we thinking? We think it's gonna go spiky or would it go like Curly like flowy Well, let's first get this to level 10 and then you do level 10 and then instant fuse you guys as well because why not? Do that You up to level 20 See this kind of lackluster for a better word Animation, but let's evolve it instant fuse to level 30 Looks more blue. I think Hard to tell level 30 is the nicer one before it goes into the crazy. Oh, I don't know what it might be Let's have a look at this one We have so many resources and even if we don't max up a thalmas or today What we can do is, you know, I'm just saving and we're gonna end up with a point where we'll we'll be able to Max things up and a lot better because I'm not Maxing up everything like I would with gripe asuchus and when we can really make use of our instant hatches and stuff like that So at level 40, sorry level 30 2233 help and 698 attack Really good for a tournament creature. That is really freaking good Well, look at a VIP stats even better than a VIP stat I might say so alphabasaur gave birth to its young in live births not by laying eggs, which is true Not because it's getting it from walker with dinosaurs But because there was a fossil found of a giving birth Found the alphabasaur deserves its name from its eyes the largest proportional eyes known among sea creatures of the late churrosic Are you ready? Are you ready to see what it looks like level 40 and? Oh Interesting so they didn't change much of it Wow, okay. Hopefully I'll be in post I'll make a brighter and stuff you so you can actually see it, but it has oh, you know, it reminds me of I Always you know when we played this in just pop build I put the echo the dolphin sound effect on it They're whip whip whip like the sonar beam, but actually at level 40 It looks like the flying dolphins from tides of time whatever it is They've got like a like longer doll dorsal fins or pectoral fin Sorry, and the dorsal fin on the back is like curved and harsh So they've definitely taken I think inspiration there Alphabasaur had large ring rings of eye bones which prevented damage from water pressure in the lower depths Which is quite interesting Right so 150. Oh, yes 5,500 with the boss DNA We will however purchase another alphalmasaur Because we definitely needs us 8,000 and do instant hatchet. It is 1,600 So in order to max this to level 40 what we would need to do is get 4 6,400 bucks and unfortunately we're not quite there, but what I will do is of course I will buy it We'll buy two more that we can do that so we'll activate that We'll just keep on do this so next week we can come back and have a look at a level 40 Alphalmasaur, but I mean you've pretty much seen it there so that I mean Just trying to save a bunch guys But what we can do is actually look at a level 40 capra sutures because now we have this all Leveled up so we can have a look at you get you to level 10 use all the food So in comparison at level 30, you know alphalmasaur 2,200 and 500 attack So we'll just use our remaining instant fuses for this guy So we have four extra actually so we're only going to need to do two more So we'll have to despair so even if there was something else that we wanted to fuse we could So all of our instant fuse you 160 Getting another to another level 30 so level 30 So it's 200 less health, but Yeah, I guess it's only 50 extra attack. So it kind of actually balances out Oh, maybe these new ones are just way better.  Oh My god, that looks so good. I am that is nice. Oh Yes, and we can get you know a hundred bucks back for this a covers with Jen to has a more rustic pigmentation rustic I Think we've used a wrong word there. You mean rusty rustic Is it really rustic? Could we say it's rust okay? Then the original making it an efficient hunter in any desert landscape Yeah, I think they meant like a more like burnt tones and rusty, but a rustic Rustic, that's an interesting word. So that's it a level. Oh, hold on. We need a level 40 2892 have a 904 attack So we are now ready for when this thing gets hybrid moving forward and that's really what we care about So we do have our alfalfa sore Getting ready to go which is great and we are still VIP and Yet we have not had Anything I think we're probably on month 24 or something like that. I think we're pretty far now and We're not getting anything which is a bit of a shame because we had up to month 12 Which didn't seem too bad Because we got a new building we got you know month 11 we got a new building and then we got new knew that we got New egg and I don't know what that is like a decoration Yeah, the end of the skylight, however Once you pass month 12 There's nothing but like extra mods maybe a new decoration there So the triceratops exhibit I suppose and the final month 16 Which sorry was the triceratops exhibit and the final one being the brachiosaurus sculpture again I guess kind of all things from Falling Kingdom the brachiosaurus and not being on the pier But being on a log which looks a lot happier than it being left behind and killed So it's a bit of a shame because I can't cancel my VIP. I mean it can but if I do I'm gonna lose all this And I know I will because that's what they're like. They definitely will do that But at the moment I'd be getting loads of XP all of VIP points I don't know whether it was a special offer. I was getting not two times It was getting the three or four times My bonus there, but what we wanted to really is just see how good we can make this a thalmasauce So this is my roster at the moment Heineckopryan Where is a thalmasaur so now there it is so it is kind of on par with a level 20 VIP Not bad at all So what we'll put you out first and then we'll put out some weaker ones just to carry Oh, you know to hold stuff so what we can do is put another fight on the alphalmasauce because we need to and then we can put on Alpha is how much a hundred extra attack or do we go from Vigorate, which is five hundred extra health? I think we go from Vigorate. So we give it three thousand extra health, right? Let's see Let's see what we're up against I'm excited. I mean we're gonna see one to two animation three to four Five to six and then seven eight Is that okay? No, that is not good. However, everything else. I'm good against. Oh, look at it. Oh It like dashed to the side that that was interesting. Oh They're putting like the the whooshes on the side when it moves. Oh wait. No, hold on. That's the nullify Never mind. So hold on. We've just nullified. It's attack. Did we but it's lost help anyway Interesting. Okay. So actually it goes first with a thousand one hundred. Oh, what do you need attack? Please attack me. I would love it if you did because I actually know I wouldn't I'd hate it Oh, why did you do it then? Why? Oh, damn Okay, that's cool. That's cool. I got the tongue sticking out the top. You see that I Mean we can survive one more hit two may as well go for one reserve, right? I Would have preferred to have You know not faced up against this thing instantly And we are gonna know if it's attack, which is great. So whatever it is. It's gonna do nothing. So Unfortunately Actually may be dead. I'm not too Nice little barge in but we need to definitely rig that damn that tongue So we're gonna nullify whatever that is It does have three attack. So What is that for Fiti? Even if it doubles attack in three hits, it's not gonna kill me So but it does do one. Okay. Okay. So we did the three attack. We did the three to four We can't kill it, which is interesting in one hit. So I'm just gonna switch to a Dacos. Oh Because we're below our extra health I'm wondering what happens when we lose this guy because we can't lose a thousand help because we'd be would be dead, right? So I think it just once we lose that build up. I think we're kind of good I think it goes back to our normal health, right? Like we're not just gonna die here. Are we? Good, okay So I went for a big number. I don't know how much that was but our cologne only has 43 attack So I'm gonna factor in two and then go for two reserve. So again, it's the three to four animation It's it's kind of all like I really could do. However We will do the eight animation here. So we've done three to four and then seven to eight So we still need to five and six and one to two So we will definitely buy back because we've got our refreshers again And hopefully we get some good prizes from this I don't remember what we were supposed to be getting Oh, it went for a full on attack did it? Yeah little buggy So I could I can block for one and still go for three reserves I mean, I think would be fine. I think maxi could do is like 400 damage even if it went for four That was three and it went that was not good. It was two actually. So let's go for the seven So that's 10,000 damage. Oh, is it 10,000? I think it also here we go with spin. Whoa Oh Double attack. Okay. Yeah, I mean, it's not a tornado, but it still looks pretty cool. It still looks good. Oh, there it is Oh, it looks so cute. I love it the model. They've spent so much time on that It's such a shame because they've put they put loads of time and effort into this model Erotine, I guess isn't so bad, but it's not gonna be dressed all the life Or maybe it will because it looks it looks like a decent model Like something they could import into raw into a lot. So I'm hoping I Don't know how I'd love if they just did aquatics. I don't care if they float in alive I honestly don't care. It would just be so good because it doesn't matter about type It's all about attacks and health and stuff Right So we'll go for a thalmas or again. We've got instant recovery We'll go for two lesser ones again nullify is it's it's just the best. It's just the best And if we go for maybe attack this time Should we go for attack? We'll go for alpha seeing as I've got 99 plus of that So that's gonna give me a hundred and a hundred and I could go for the other one We just give everything 10% extra, but even then it's only 60s It's probably just 70 attack instead of you know a hundred So it works really good for lower level creatures. Just give them a hundred extra attack But not when we're onto this so he doesn't go through block which is great and we almost kill him Oh, no, no, we do kill him. Yes. Yes. Now we kill him in one hit sweet So I think that that helicopter in at the bottom Has it so when it when I kill something I get to risk a mark point per defeated creature on opponent's team Okay, that's not so bad. I would say so here's the one to two animation Oh a tail slap again. If the tongue is fixed perfect. It looks gorgeous. So he's gonna have three I think Unless it only counts for him What? Wait only counts for him that makes no sense. Oh That's bad. That's not good. Okay, so one hit So we need we're gonna three four so we can go for two reserves if we need to go for two reserves To make sure we do the four to five attack animation. I Guess we could see it die and how it looks like when it dies because we haven't seen that either Which would be quite interesting. I love the tail shimmy shams. That's nice. So we you know what we may as well So let's go for the five attack at five to six attack animation. I haven't seen this one Yum yum yum. Oh It's a three here kind of okay a Bit not one of the most demanding animations. I've got to admit Also, this guy should have got two reserves, right? Should have he's not gonna kill me and I'm kind of I'm kind of stumped because I want to see my death animation But at the same time this guy's got 30 attack So even if it goes well, it's saying that if he goes for eight He could probably do a solid like 500 damage or something So six. Oh, let's say six attack. How much? Oh 400 oh sweet, okay Again, I mean what we haven't seen is a switch in switch out. So we'll switch back. Oh, I can't oh Okay, you can't just keep switching. Oh, that's interesting Is that because the bot's not allowed to do it and therefore would look weird if it only did if it only ever swapped in once Okay, so oh well we get to see in the swapping animation now So that's it swapping in or we haven't seen is it's death animation Which I guess we could have shown if it was the other one so you know We'll go for the eight 23,000 attack it does at max at level 30 anyway.  That's quite it. It looks good. I love that. I love that thing elite boosted prizes Not the best.  I think we might oh Yes, there we go get up to level 10. Oh 5,003 Oh, it's a little I love that Just do the glow gorgeous Okay, so we I want to see it's death animation. So there's another 60 bucks going helping us towards and we'll do the trade harbour Just to see if we can get any John Hammond statues. We'll get some of that If I mean maybe if we are very lucky We could max it up to level 40 I don't think so we need a lot of John Hammond statues to come through I'll trade 5 million for 700 That's fine Yeah, and at this rate, I'd have to open up so many VIP packs in order to get an extra 2000 the air books and they only get a hundred per. So yeah, that's that's definitely not worth it But we do need DNA. So we'll keep on doing that Anything oh, there's the John Hammond I think I have a lot of John Hammond at the moment. So we've got decorations. We'll just trade for VIP points That's the thing because if you trade for VIP points You may get DNA and you may also get books Whereas if you just trade for DNA, that's all you get because if I go in here and I go into this I open up the zipline for 2000 and if possible, I could get 300 bucks or I could get 1,500 DNA and if I just wanted 300 bucks the closest I could get I guess is spending like two quid So by doing that, I'm you know, I'm saving money and So let's see if we can get its death animation. I want to see his death animation So we'll put it in You know what it is. We'll go for boosted prize because we may get a micro Where is it? So we'll do one more time instant recovery. Oh It takes us straight to elite boosted. Okay So we want to make sure we survive this So we'll just use our one of our two best creatures or two of our top 30 best creatures um Well, I mean we don't need nullifying Spikes, what does this mean after being attacked deal 50% damage. Oh Oh, I like the idea of that. However, we've only got one of those We do have six of these remain at one HP upon receiving lethal damage and regenerate He'll all hurt I like creatures by 25% of their max HP. These things are brilliant However, however The net they don't seem like If those were in drassel world alive It would make so much more sense because to be like another level of strategy But in this game because it's so basic and so bare bones It kind of doesn't really work that much. Oh my god. It killed me into it And he's also getting more attack. Oh, well at least we nullify the the swapping so we can't swap out now Oops, I put the wrong one in. Oh, I'm gonna put nullify. Oops. What do I put on? I've locked him. He's also locked me. And if he goes first, I'm dead. Oh, well, it doesn't matter I'll go for one reserve and we'll die sweet. So yes, here we go. Let's see the animation and We're in good stead for the tylasol. So two attacks. What does it look like? Oh, no, it goes belly up It kind of looks like it sinks down a little bit, but you know at least it's not like a Onto the floor like I think we've seen with some other creatures. So we can go for two hits one reserve However, the lyptoclides, I don't think it's very good.  Never mind.  Oh, dear Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.  Oh, we need to do that next Um Right, you know what? I'm just gonna go for four reserves and then once we've seen that once we've seen it's like game over screen Oh defeated Um, I think we've seen all the animations it can do. I think eating all attacks Victory defeat takes damage Uh, right Well, we didn't get to do attack damage anyway, so that's sweet. Uh, oh spikes. There we go. Boom sweet So now we need two hits to kill it Uh one two factor in two just in case and then I'm gonna go for three block because I don't know how much this thing has Like coming in. I think it has a little bit less attack, but it still has Oh, okay. I was gonna say well, that doesn't bother me. That's fine. Um, it could kill me in two hits I think possibly possibly three to push But two hits Okay. Oh, I don't kill him in two hits though. I think I kill him in three So I'm gonna risk the biscuit. Yep. Come on. No more than two block. No, we've lost Oh Damn. Oh, it was so close. So I just I just wasted all that Well, well, there you have it We're just gonna see the death of high heinous or heinous or animation Why don't you three block one block maybe two block? And a push yes three three block. Come on. That's so unlikely that they go for three block, but there it is I sigh it even looks sad as it looks down Well, uh, anyway guys if you've enjoyed this video, we're gonna leave it there But uh, yes, if you enjoyed it leave a like and until next time. I'll see you cuties later. Oh, bye. Bye


My name is Dr. Charlie Sansour. I'm the Director of Spine Surgery and the Associate Program Director at the University of Maryland. I've been here for over 10 years as faculty and I can confidently say that it is a extremely unique and special place to work and train residents. I think this stems from a variety of factors. Most importantly we have some of the premier programs in trauma, spine, functional, vascular, and tumor surgery. I feel that one of the most important things that I get is feedback from some of the fellowship directors where we've sent residents to to train for fellowships and they commonly come back to me and say that these residents are the strongest and most well-trained residents that they've ever seen and they come back to me and say what's your secret. I think the secret is the fact that we have the perfect balance between complex neurosurgical problems and bread and butter neurosurgery and we're able to expose and teach our residents in ways that assume a very gradual assumption of responsibility. The breath of cases and the diversity of patients that we treat I think is unparalleled. There's no question in my mind that all of us as faculty are very dedicated to training our residents everything that we know certainly finished the program being extremely prepared for the future. My name is Aaron Wessel and I'm a chief resident in neurosurgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. I think the University of Maryland's Department of Neurosurgery offers residents a very unique and dynamic training environment. Not only do we gain exposure to a wide breath of complex neurosurgical pathologies but this is done so in a very intimate setting. The residents and faculty get to know each other very well and this allows the faculty to really help a resident develop as a neurosurgeon as they understand his or her unique strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore this unique relationship between residents and faculty fosters an environment of mentorship which allows residents to pursue various interests whether that be clinical or research oriented and in any given variety or a subspecialty of neurosurgery. My particular interests pertain to cerebral vascular and endovascular neurosurgery and as a resident I was fortunately able to complete a dedicated endovascular fellowship. Furthermore I've been heavily involved in the high volume of complex open cerebral vascular cases and I think this will lead me very well prepared to care for the sickest and most complex neurosurgical patients when I finish my residency. On top of the clinical strengths the University of Maryland maintains a very strong research presence in the Department of Neurosurgery. We have R01 funded faculty and our research endeavors range anywhere from the discovery of the SUR1 TRPM4 channel to the use of MRI guided focused ultrasound for treatment of movement disorders and also for enhanced delivery of chemotherapeutic agents for treatment of brain tumors. Overall I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to train here at the University of Maryland and I'm very pleased and excited for future residents to have this opportunity as well. Hi I'm Nicole Winger. I'm an intern in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland. When I was interviewing for residencies a year ago one of the first things I noticed about Maryland's program was the camaraderie of the residents. At the dinner the night before the interviews it was evident that the residents loved spending time together and really cared about one another. They were easy to talk to and they tried to make me feel at ease during what was a very stressful process. It was easily one of the most fun dinners during the residency interview season. Now that I've been here for a month I can say that those relationships are absolutely real. From the day you get here as an intern you're part of the team. One of the unique things about Maryland's program is that as an intern you're given a role in complex decisions and complex cases and independence early on. Another thing I've really enjoyed is that despite how busy this service is the residents and faculty remain relaxed. I don't know if any other program has the combination of support and independence from day one that Maryland does. I'm really glad that I picked Maryland. Good luck to all of you in your interview trail and on your residency search and I hope to meet you soon.


So, I was interested in how you found the young people to participate in the study. And I was also interested in, if I understand it correctly, that these young people were not that young. It looked like the youngest was 18, where I was thinking when you were talking YA that the youngest would be 12 or 13, 14, something like that. And I was interested in how you found that young cohort, but it doesn't seem to be there. Yeah, there's two populations. They're my population of the MLIS students who are really a sample of convenience. They were older, they were 18 through 35, right? Anthony worked with teens. So, Anthony, how did you find them? I would speak freely, but I think this is, Mark, this is being recorded, so we want to, yeah, okay. Asking about the methodological issues is kind of a sore spot for me. It's important to ask it. It's important as part of the study. It's important to the credibility of our claims. Our university, like all universities, require an institutional review board before you are able to even go out and ask anybody anything. I have huge ideological conflicts with some of those assumptions that are built in because it prevents us, particularly those of us studying youth, from getting access to the subjects of our studies. As a consequence of the barriers that we had to work around, and we did some kind of fast and loose steps to get around some of those things. The young people that participated in our surveys and in the people, the young people who took the videos were selected by the librarians. So there's a, you might refer to that as a bias, but that, we're clear about that in our writing, that the librarians selected people who were young, teenagers, were in the library already, the librarians probably already knew them, so there is some of that. So when we talk about, for example, evaluating the separation between what the young people expressed and what the librarians expressed, they're probably much further apart in reality than what we found. Much, we found some separation as it was, but we were limited by our own institutional methodological issues. Thank you. Hi, same population, the teenage young teens. I'm curious if you have any data that is highlighting what teens are going to the library to actually do in terms of the services that they're seeking. I love all the information about different postural choices that they can make, but what are they hoping to get from the services at the library? Totally different question, totally outside of our ballpark. Not, nothing. We're focused on the space, period. So not what they're doing in the space. Not necessarily. I mean, some of them in the videos told us what people like to do, what they don't like to do, and do this over here, do that over there, but that wasn't the main focus of our study. So I can't really comment beyond that. I mean, I can free, and I mean, that's my area of expertise, but it wouldn't be very satisfying. Free handing are what teens are doing in the space. Yeah, but it wouldn't be very data-based. Well, I'd get to the microphone over there. Talk about the multiple seats, multiple butts in a seat. What do you want to know about them? It's part of our own professional ritual. When you have young people and there's two people to a seat, inevitably someone from the staff or a security person is going to come over and say, one by two a seat. Based on what, I have no idea. In the 350 libraries that you got responses from, how many were urban? Were there representative of a variety of languages, a variety of cultural areas? Good, another methodological question. It's interesting to get these methodological questions, because when I make presentations in front of lots of professional audiences, that's the thing they want to hear the least about. They don't want to hear about the statistics. They don't want to hear about what you did. We just want to hear about what you found, or what you say you found. We have not done a social statistical analysis of where those libraries came back from. I can tell you though that in the whole population of new and renovated libraries between 2005 and 2010, almost, well not almost, but many, many of them are in suburban areas, which is again contradictory to the way our cities are now growing back, right? So there's a disconnect between that, but I couldn't tell you specifically about that. But I'm very interested that you're interested in the methodological questions. I'm surprised at that. I work in a high school library. I'm wondering if your study would suggest anything about how young people value study carols. So you didn't like the information trough concept? Well, I'm not saying I'm for it. We have some. They get used a lot, but I'm wondering if that's just because. School libraries are very different environment. We didn't do that. But I can tell you that the wider variety, the better. So if you can have some of this and some of that and some of this, you're going to hit, you're going to hit homers a lot more than you won't. But I couldn't tell beyond that. The postural choices, we're reading a lot right now about the benefits of standing while working. So I'm looking forward to using adult spaces. That's great. The postural choices is a whole other realm of good stuff that we have to learn to bring into seating, not just in libraries, but in public seating everywhere.  And actually here, there is a little ledge back there. But in most venues like this, you have no choice. My question is for Jeremy. I also work in a high school library and I may be converting a large college library to a high school library. And so I was very interested in the two slides that you flew through, which were the results of what, I guess, your older audience thought were best for teens, but the actual practical things that they were looking for in a teen space. Okay, put that up. Can you read those, or do you want the... Can you read those? Yeah, refurbishing of wall ceilings and flooring, more tools for media production. So this is by age. This is ordered by preference for the 36 to 55 year olds, the older people. And they disagree on things like a more exhibit space for youth produced. Okay. And we will be having all these slides up on the bay net site in a couple of weeks or less. So the big difference, people who were younger at 36 to 50 cloth or older, they were less interested in enhanced seating options at a 50% rate. They were half as interested. And virtual, visual merchandising, people who were older weren't interested in virtual visual merchandising for the spaces. So that sort of thing. So that would be interesting to you if we broke that out and made it more clear. Yeah. Another question? No, no, no. I have a question about, do you have any examples of teen centers and public libraries that are really awesome, like that are working and people are really excited about? So people can go look or check it out. Depends on which people you're talking about being excited, young people or librarians or library school students? Okay. Well, that's hard. That's hard. And again, this goes back to the methodological handcuffs that we are suffering with. We're not permitted to go out and just ask young people even unbelievably, voluntary, online, you can opt out at any point you want, taking it, taking the survey in a library about library stuff and our institutional review board would not permit that without jumping huge walls. So, and I wanna be explicit about what we are permitted to do and what we were not permitted to do. It's terrible. So I can't really give you lots of that, but the results that we're reporting out should be telling us something. You know, the stuff that I was just reporting on and our articles are going into much more detail of course about the rate at which young people reported back to the extent that they did. So there's some of that to learn. I've also published a book, an edited collection of young adult spaces that were profiled in VOIA, Voice of Youth Advocates. And I look back over the 10 years of those to take some patterns and what's popular, what's not popular. So those are some of the things that are out there. I wanted to suggest as I was explicit about today that seating is the most important thing. When we're talking about if you have one thing to do, focus on your seating options. And the more variety you put into that space, the more successful it will be. That's about as far as I can go today, but the other material is in more detail in our writing. I wanna also make sure that we're clear that there are three real populations that are part of this study. One of them is the librarian serving in new and renovated buildings. A second is some of the young people that were able to take the surveys and take videos for us. And the third is the population Jeremy's working with, we're our own library school students. So graduate students in a library school program, those three different populations. We have different scope and depth of data on each one of those populations. Given the logistical handcuffs, are there any ways you can get at the kids who are not coming to the libraries and find out why not? There you go. Good question, excellent question. We want that, but we can only go as far as we can go. And I think we did pretty well and we're gonna continue to do very well with what we have. You reported the various numbers of, on the separation of space, that a smaller number of the teens wanted separated space. What's the chance that a whole lot of them were saying that just because they wanted the chance to bug adults? I'm not sure I get the question mark. I certainly don't understand. I certainly don't like the implication, but. Well, actually I should say that it was just moments later that you answered that question with the way that teens are coming with their younger sibling to the libraries. In some cases. So I've been at conferences where people talk about spaces all the time based on whatever they feel that day and they almost always say that young people don't wanna be close to kids. They wanna be on their own separate. And you have no evidence for saying that. And our evidence is suggesting that it depends. In some cases, in very expensive, wealthy suburban communities where all the kids have their own bedrooms or their own wings of a house or whatever.  But in densely populated areas in cities like San Francisco and others where families live tighter together, kids share spaces and bedrooms and dwellings are smaller. The expectation isn't there. It's not such a big deal. Yes, I don't have questions. I actually got three comments. First of all, I think it's great you're doing more evidence based design. I work as a librarian in an architectural field and this is what we desperately need because architects are not researchers and they don't have the evidence that shows whatever the designs that are proposing will in fact work out as intended. So that's great. My second thing is related to what people said they wanted in the space and what was not mentioned at all, which was shocking to me, was nothing about lighting or access to the outdoors. I mean, the first thing I noticed in that teen space was the window. And for architects these days, allowing as much natural light into a space is critical. And I don't think people were even aware of it because they didn't comment on that. But that's from an architectural perspective, that's huge access to natural light. And I forgot, oh, the third one about the lounge seating. If you go to Twitter or to Google, any of these companies, they all have that kind of seating now. Informal seating all over the offices for informal meetings and such. So there's a lot of great seating options out there. You can buy, you know, you can buy four teen spaces. It's very common of various heights, shapes, very modular in design. So that's it. Let me comment on your first item. What architects know and what they don't know. Partly they've been able to get away with designing libraries for us because we haven't stepped up and challenged them and informed what we need from them. That's part of it. And under the best circumstances in terms of young adult spaces, you'll have a library saying that they want a youth component. So you have librarians who don't know very much about architecture and most of the time not very much about young people to tell you the truth. Teenagers who don't know squat about libraries and know nothing about architecture. And then architects who don't know anything about teenagers and very little about libraries. And you put them all together and what do you expect? So I refer to that as a triangle of incompetence. Or at very least a triangle of convention because what you're gonna get back in terms of a wide space is not gonna look very different from the rest of the library. And that is a killer. In terms of lighting, you're right about that. Lighting is something that has emerged a little more recently in our work and it'll have a higher profile than what we report out in the future. Getting from the macro to the micro, if you are working with an individual project and some of this depends on how fluent one is in using second life to illustrate things. More typically, in my experience, you're doing it with a new sheet and colored crayons and stuff like that on an easel with a captive representation of the clients of the library that your project is. How easy is it to use second life to get input and illustrate the concepts that are being discussed compared to, and effective, is it, do you think, compared to a typical new sheet and easel representation? So if you brought in four or five teens, put up an easel, show them a prospective site, got their feedback in some sort of a focus group. Yeah, it should read, is what I'm thinking of. Design should read, that's easy, a lot easier. It is, but it is easier, but is it as effective? I think if you wanted to do things that were A, B, and statistical and numerical, I think this is a possible option. It's difficult, those spaces took 50, 100 hours to rebuild out of video with specialized people doing it. So yeah, there's a steep cost. Just a brief question, you mentioned, Jeremy, the disadvantage of using Minecraft as a tool, and I was curious if you had anything more to say about that because I've been thinking about asking our younger teens to sort of share some of their design ideas using Minecraft. I think that's a great idea. Talk about less expensive. I mean, you could have them in there, yeah. Minecraft is evolving as a viable tool? I don't think it's evolving as an architectural tool for doing a charrette. I don't think it'll ever do that, but if you had a group of 10, 12, 15 year olds in who wanted to come in and throw ideas off of each other and interact in the space, I think that's a great idea. Be very innovative, yeah. Wow, or ask them to help you do that representation that you're trying to try out when you don't have the skill set yourself. Yeah, yeah. Hi, I was wondering if some or many of your examples are used as multi-purpose rooms. My school, for example, is used as a library and a meeting room, like board meetings and so, and if so, how do you work around those different settings? Like the board meeting, people want square tables, chairs, sitting around, and those tables and chairs have to stay there for the rest of the time when kids use them and could have a different sitting arrangement. That's a great question, I have two comments on that. First of all, that's a job for your designers and your architects. Put that problem before them and tell them to solve it for you or to address it. That's their job, that's what they get paid for, that's what your users need, that's what your use is, requires, that's their job. The second thing is, in terms of what we pulled in terms of the young people experiences we got back, they are very willing to share space with other users and other purposes. If their space is clearly functional for them, you can't have a wood table and chairs and a space and say, oh, here's your teen space, because that's not genuine. If the space is designed for them, with them and it's successful with them, as well as having this other layer of use, either before or library hours for staff experience of meetings or for after hours kinds of activities that adults need, that's okay, they're willing to share as long as they don't get erased. That's been the reading very strong from them and I've seen it over and over again. But usually they have to suffer the liabilities because it's a space that's really for everybody else but then we put young people in it. That doesn't. I think we better make this be our last formal question. Hello, my name's John. It's a question really for both Anthony and Jeremy. I'm interested, what are the acoustic implications of different architectural spaces in seating? Is that, for example, can that be done in second life, adding an acoustic profile in addition to the visual that could be evaluated? And secondly, what are the preferences of different stakeholders, different age groups and also librarians and how that factors in to evaluating spaces, thanks. That brings up sort of next generation technology and I'm really interested to see what the Oculus Rift and sort of wearables bring to the table. As far as acoustics, I have no experience with that, I can't answer you that, but I would look for that. That acoustic term is sort of like a third rail for a lot of these discussions. One of the things that I have found useful in advocating for separate purpose-built spaces for young people is that it takes the acoustical competition out of the situation. Whenever young people, whenever young people are in competition with anybody else's comfort, use whatever they lose, every time, every time. So the importance of acoustical separation is important. Seating can play a role in that. Other things that architects call implied barriers can do that, curtains, a whole variety of other things. But I'll tell you that this survey that we got back from these 350 libraries was very clear that when young people were involved in the process and libraries respected what they wanted, they were able to institute situations where the competition was greatly reduced and the behavioral issue rules were completely reduced as were, what was the other factor? Line of sight. Acoustics and line of sight are the two things you're gonna get out of librarians when you first talk about young people in space and yet when it's done equitably, those concerns drop to the floor. Drop to the floor. It's hard to believe and librarians will not believe it no matter how many times I say it, no matter how many, hundreds of people have reported that. They still won't believe it, but that's what they're telling us. So you can take that for what it's worth. I wanna conclude though by suggesting that the kind of questions that we ask, the kind of procedures that we engaged in terms of our users are not too different from the ones that we should be using throughout the entire institution. The last time you may have been in a haunted house and you walked on a squeaky, squeaky floor and you thought you were taking a step onto a firm piece of floor and your foot went through it, that's sort of the experience I felt in engaging the literature of this topic of spatial design and evaluation. Every time I put my foot down thinking that we were going to land, that foot was gonna land on something solid, it went through the floor. We don't know anything really about what our clients need, really even very much about how we operate in space. And it's a fabulous topic. It's one that we can all engage in. The data is all around us. And I think that we should be using it a lot more effectively and with a lot more robust analysis to help us design buildings. And I encourage you to do it. It's fun and your users will appreciate it. Thank you very much.


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