What's good, Josh, you brought us back again with another video and today I wanted to switch something up I am gonna get to some more wrestling videos best belief. So be on the lookout for that But I wanted to switch it up. I actually wanted to do a commentary This is something I actually been thinking about doing for the past couple of days and the reason why I've been thinking about that is I've been hearing some unsavory things about what the fellas are doing in the deep DMs, man, and it's it's quite transworthy like Come on guys. We got it. We got to do better man. The title says it all we need to talk fellas Some of my lady friends have been telling me that Guys be doing the most in the DMs and it'd be people you wouldn't think that would be doing the most But they'd be doing the most And the reason why this conversation comes up is if I'm conversing with someone if I'm shooting my Best shot RP Kobe if I'm shooting my best shot I'm more just kind of straightforward straight to the point direct You know, I may put a little gift here and there again I'm saying maybe something light-hearted and go from there and I shoot my shot And if it lands it lands if it don't it don't that's just really what it is But some guys they go above and beyond when that first shot don't land They'll sit up there and do the most for example One of my ladies friends told me she would get hit with the good morning beautiful Hard emoji hard emoji or hope you slept well and it's like What are you doing like? That's that should not be a thing. That's cool to tell your girl. Good morning beautiful. That's cool But when she's not your girl and you just trying to get to know somebody you hit somebody with the good morning beautiful Hope you had a wonderful night. I was thinking about you like this. It's too much. It's too much guys You gotta gotta chill man.  You're the most beautiful woman in the world like no That's that's so cliche. You know I'm saying a lot of women get those type of DM So you want to set yourself apart? You don't want to blend in with everybody that you DM and man So it's like fellas. We got a chill got a chill like there's nothing wrong with finding someone attractive that you want to pursue But y'all be Doing too much the thirst like you guys will be so thirsty Another thing that some of my female friends to be saying is the multiple Messages what I mean by you you don't just send one message. You send two three four five six seven eight messages in a row and multiple emojis and it's like I'm sure they saw it and if they didn't see it I'm sure they will see it and if they did see it and they didn't respond Don't keep shooting the shot man. You guys just keep shooting the shot over and over and over and over and over And you're missing your air ball and actually it is It's bad I only say this because it'd be so Rageously cringe that is I yo man. I gotta put this out there in the world So PSA to all my fellows man if you're shooting your best shot and you don't make it It's okay. It's all right You're not gonna always make the half court shot at the buzzer in overtime sometimes you got a you know Pull back go back to the drawing board and maybe talk to somebody else that you may be able to land a shot If you're shooting your shot in the DMs, that's all I'm saying because at the end of the day you're making Just a male species look bad, bro. You're making us look bad, man Like we can't be out here. You know saying just shooting reckless shots and then Keep going like you know sometimes you got to chill out if you don't get a response. Let it go move on It's okay. It's life.  If you keep shooting shot at the same person It starts to get a little bit annoying and a little bit weird So I'm just putting that out there for all the fellas man Be careful when you shoot your shot, bro. Just take your time Breathe if you don't make it. It's not the end of the world Chill out with the good morning beautiful and the beautiful text and stuff. Stop all of that Please man, please. I'm just trying to help you guys out But just a little quick commentary nothing too crazy. I wanted to get your guys opinion Let me know comment down below any other topics. I should discuss or any other Topics that you feel like would be interesting like new topics that you feel like would be interesting I have plenty of things that I feel like Should be done in a a more Effective way. I actually want to get into a topic of first dates like Where should you go and all those type of? Type of avenues that come with first dates and how should you present yourself? I actually want to get into that so comment down below if y'all be interested in something like that But yeah, man Fellows, bro. It's chill, bro. It's okay. Just chill. Who is who is messaging me?  Oh, by the way, follow me on Twitter I'm back on Twitter now at what underscore now underscore Ross Follow me on Twitter back on there if you're not following me on Instagram Follow me on Instagram as well. But yeah, appreciate y'all kicking in with me and fellas chill out for real, bro Stop because they telling us as guys here that be chilling they they tell us the cringy stuff that y'all do And it hurts because we hate to see our fellow men Lord themselves to such cringe stop See y'all next one


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Today's video is brought to you by Picmonic. Imagine having an extra two hours of free time that you didn't have before to spend on yourself while still being an effective student. In med school, I use these extra two hours to get in the best shape of my life, write four books, spend quality time with my now wife, and most importantly, be super happy at the end of medical school. And in today's episode, I'm gonna show you exactly how to do the same for yourself step by step. Let's get into it. Hey guys, welcome back to channel. In case you're new here, my name is Lexian, an internal medicine physician, and here on this channel, we make content to help people succeed on their medical journey or whatever journey you're on, but doing it with less stress. If you're new here and you enjoy the episode, I promise you there's so much more where this came from, so definitely consider it in that like button as well as subscribe and notification button. But in this episode, I wanna share with you the exact same approach that I use when I was a first year medical student because when I first started, things just weren't going my way. I wasn't getting the grades that I wanted but spending way too much time and had very little time to spend on myself. And while the traditional thought process is while I need to spend more time, use more resources to get better grades, I challenged myself to come up with a system where I could instead study more efficiently, we'll talk about it in a second, but then have more free time to then be able to spend on my favorite people, favorite hobbies, like working out, as well as just being able to just do absolutely nothing, like watch a basketball game and not feel guilty about it. So if you feel like your performance isn't quite there, but you just don't wanna make the commitment of taking away whatever free time you have left, then this episode is for you. So step number one to increase your free time is to do reverse planning. Now reverse planning is a three step process that I have taught myself as well as other medical students on how to increase and guarantee your free time without sacrificing your results when it comes to grades. Now step number one is to schedule your non-movable tasks and activities. Now even if you don't use a calendar, I recommend at least trying this for the first week or two on Google Calendar or iCal if you're an Apple user, but essentially step number one is to go ahead and book all of the things that you can't negotiate out of your calendar. So if you have to go to class with mandatory, if you have certain activities like an appointment or review session, a lab activity, or if you have personal obligations, like in the setting we have to go to our best friend's birthday dinner, or if you're religious and you go to church on Sunday, or if you can do another activity on the weekends, you would just book those off. So that's step number one. You wanna first have a visualization of how busy am I when I don't even have the time to be flexible. So if you have classes that are mandatory, other appointments, put those in first before we get into step number two and three. Now step number two, typically for most students, is to schedule in the time that they study. And when I was a medical student, this is what I would do. I would just call all of this study time. I probably should have put all of that in all caps because that's pretty much what it felt like. But really there was no start or end time or any type of goal of when I would have time for myself. And like I said before, even though my grades weren't ideal, I knew that spending more time wasn't necessarily the answer, or at least I challenged it. So the first thing that I now recommend doing for all students, especially if you are struggling with more free time, is to now schedule in an hour at the start and end of your day that's dedicated to yourself. So for a lot of people, an hour at the start of the day may be dedicated to something like working out. So for example, I would typically wake up around 5.30 or 6 o'clock when I was in medical school. And so I may have scheduled a workout from 6.30 to 7.30 and call that my gym session. And so we can put that in a certain code. We'll just say glue makes me happy. And so all of the 6.30 to 7.30 slots will be for the gym. To now I've already dedicated an hour to myself on something that I really enjoy for this setting is my personal fitness. And I feel happy at the start of the day that I'm actually focusing on something that I actually wanna do versus going to class. Now the second part of this is to dedicate some time and a latter happy day for something that you really enjoy. Now this can obviously vary. So for example, you may actually enjoy going to your best friend's birthday dinner. So you may not actually really need something additional to be fun on Thursday, but on Wednesday you may say, oh, there's a basketball game. So I love basketball.  If you're not, I'm sorry, it's okay. But on Wednesday, I'm going to watch a Lakers game. On Tuesday I may dedicate an hour to read a book that I've been wanting to read. So I really enjoy reading. And then on Friday I may spend a longer session. So instead of an hour, it may be a dinner day with my wife. Now for most students, I recommend starting with an hour because most struggle with finding that much free time. But once you start getting a hang of this, you'll start to say, okay, it's okay for me to have two hours dedicated to spending time with my wife.  So now when we look at this calendar, we can already see the things that you have to go to as well as the things that you want to go to and you've already dedicated free time to yourself. Now the anxiety comes from what a Lakshman and how do I study with this amount of time where I'm usually used to studying all the way to 9 p.m. I don't have time for a Laker game or a dinner day or reading for fun. Honestly, all of that is bogus because here we'll have to talk about how to really get efficient with the time you have remaining. Most of us are familiar with idea Parkinson's law that says that work will fit the time that you allocate to it. So if you give yourself 10 hours to do something, it's gonna take 9.99 hours to do. If you give yourself five hours, you're gonna somehow figure out how to do it right at five hour mark. And so that is really where this concept applies. Now, if for example, you realize that Thursday you have less time because you have this dinner date on Wednesday, you pretty much have no time to do additional studying because you want to watch that Laker game, then you may have to force yourself to say, well, Tuesday is where I have the most amount of free time. So where can I make sure that I study and doing it super effectively? Now, this is a good point to talk about how to have an efficient study system. If you're new to this channel, I definitely recommend checking out some of our study playlists, which I'll link down below, as well as some of our top study videos that we have here on YouTube. It's really an idea of how you can become more efficient without necessarily spending more time. And one of my favorite ways of helping students identify that they're actually already wasting the time that they wish they could have had for free time is before they do this activity, is that they go ahead and put on the calendar things that they're currently doing. So what are they doing for class? What are they doing before and after? And then ask them, how effective was this time slot that you were previously using here doing whatever method? If you're reading your notes or watching a specific video on an external resource, how effective was that to your upcoming quiz that you had or your test? If you can identify a few things in your schedule saying that actually wasn't worth my time, that is a good thing to start taking out. And you can start to do that with each and every single one of activities. That would be step number one. Now, after removing those least effective or least important tasks, if you're still having trouble saying, well, I don't really know how to use this time effectively because I feel like I need this much time, then one of the things I would recommend is checking out some of our programs down below, including the rapid study accelerator, essentially helps you identify what type of study techniques you're using, which ones are essentially bogus without you being realizing or which ones you should start actually doing more. And if you need even more help where you know your current study approach is not working and you need some ideas of what other things you could be doing and do things that I recommend is checking out the level of your studying program down below, as well as our one-on-one coaching. If you really need that one-on-one kind of help to help improve your studying, all those programs would be linked down below. One of the favorite strategies that we like to show students is how to take this time that they spend in class, absorbing information, to something that they can come home and immediately start reviewing. So ideally, you're taking notes in class in a way that you can easily come back and essentially quiz yourself, whether that's through flashcards or an outline or a Word document or whatever it may be, but essentially you would be then force yourself to review the lectures from that day. If you don't have a good approach of taking notes yourself, sometimes the best use of your time is to use a high-yield resource to really fill in those gaps and that's a good time to bring in today's sponsor, which is PicMonic. Now, if you're not familiar with PicMonic, they have hundreds and hundreds of videos on any topic you need to know for your medical school or medical career and essentially you can find any topics of you're learning about diabetes and metformin. You can watch the relevant videos from the lectures that day. So if I went to class in the morning and I was learning about different diabetic meds, I can essentially watch this minute and 52-second video about metformin and get an idea of all these interesting images that are purposely made to make sure that I understand those key concepts of metformin. I have the text down here in case I forget or lose something and then I can quiz myself to make sure that I truly understand that lecture and then I can go and learn about the next medications, whether it's like sulfonylureas or liposides, et cetera. So that would be a great time to use a high-yield resource like PicMonic down below. Now, if an all-in-one resource like PicMonic is something that you're interested in, then definitely recommend checking it out using the link down below. And if you're interested in getting started and use the code, the empty journey at checkout, you'll also get an additional 20% off thanks to our friends at PicMonic. And as always, thanks to PicMonic for being a sponsor of today's video. But as you can see, my friends, the schedule really started with the stuff that you couldn't move and then forces you to actually schedule into things that you really want in your life, which is you, and then using that extra bit of time saying what is really necessary and what can I truly get done in five hours? I was studying for 10 hours, what was the waste of time? How can I become more efficient? You really start to think a little bit differently. Again, if you need more thoughts, if you need more strategies and ideas of whatever things you're doing, all the programs down below, both paid and free, you guys can check out for more info. Now, the last thing I wanna leave you guys with is with an idea from one of my favorite books called The Slight Edge, which focuses on small things that we can do, truly make a big difference in compounds over time. Medical school itself, for example, is four years. You focus each and every day of trying to get just a little bit better on how efficient you can be in focusing more on your happiness and free time. You'll be both a happy med student and as well as more efficient with the time that you have left. So again, if you're somebody who's not quite getting the performance, it's not really about putting in more hours, but using the hour you currently have and using it more effectively and making sure you have that time for yourself so you can remain motivated and happy throughout the process. As always, guys, if you have more questions, make sure you drop in on the comment section down below. If you did enjoy this video, probably enjoy this video right here on how to use Onky Like a Pro, as well as this video right here on how to study in medical school step by step. But with that, my friends, as always, thanks for being a part of my journey. Make sure you hit that like and subscribe button. I'll see you guys in the next one. Take care. Peace.


Hello, welcome everybody to story of civilization volume 3 the making of the modern world I am mr. Philip Campbell the author of this wonderful book and I am going to be your guide on a journey through Through modern history we're going to be starting at the the Reformation and the Renaissance in this volume and going all the way up through Through the modern world right until almost today It's going to be quite a journey and we've got a lot to talk about so I'm just going to dive right in if when When we were together last we were discussing the Middle Ages and we talked about nights castles Kings Queens Marvelous new inventions like the printing press the clock gunpowder and many other wonderful things We met many great Saints like Saint Ambrose Saint Benedict Saint Patrick and many others who helped spread the Christian religion around the world and establish the social and political reality that we know as Christendom We learned about great conflicts like the Hundred Years War the War of the Roses and the Crusades and Some other really scary things like the Black Death which killed one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century We even explored the world a little with the likes of Marco Polo and other famous Portuguese explorers And of course there was a lot of talk about the church church architecture like how Gothic and Romanesque architecture flourished how Popes and kings and emperors Interactive with each other and held important councils and even how the papacy was removed to France for a period of time instead of instead of Rome We talked about the great Western schism Which that was this period when there was first two and then three Rival men all claiming to be Pope and how this fractured the unity of the Catholic Church And we'll see more of that fracturing in this volume as well as we talk about the event known as the Protestant Reformation and It's aftermath We did a lot and we studied a lot in volume, too The medieval world was an amazing and adventurous time But as I've said, it's time to continue our journey on now into the modern world So what are we going to be talking about in this volume? Well lots of things I'm going to show you how the modern world that we know today Came into existence how it developed this volume focuses mainly on On European history our next volume in the series volume four will be focused on United States history Of course as we move into the modern world European history and US history kind of come together a bit so we're going to mention the United States but But US history is going to wait until until volume four Now there's a few main events that really really characterize this This period if you think of a building held up with various pillars We could we could identify several main pillars that really define this era The first would be the Protestant Reformation Then the French Revolution the World Wars and there was two of those the first and second World War the rise of communism and Also the Cold War These are the major things we're going to cover in the book But of course there's going to be lots of other things we're going to discuss lots of people and stories and events We will talk about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the new world The religious conflict that that plagued Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries the many Unfortunate battles between Catholics and Protestants and we'll learn about powerful and often ruthless leaders like King Henry the 8th of England Queen Elizabeth and more modern dictators like Hitler and Stalin and More new inventions things that changed the way we live and work like the computer of course and Many other things to do with the Catholic Church like the Second Vatican Council and the lives of many many marvelous Saints like St John Viani St. Margaret Mary Maximilian Colby and John Paul II so this is going to be a really fun Action-packed journey through the modern world. So let's begin shall we? So in the first chapter we picked back up at a time in European history known as the Renaissance and Renaissance is a word that means rebirth the Renaissance took place in the 15th century and the 16th century It's sometimes known as the Italian Renaissance But this name can be a little misleading because many other of the the nations in Europe Participated in the Renaissance as well. It was a time of great renewal in learning and art Many people were beginning to read now the printing press was invented in the 1450s So there was many books being printed and more Europeans were were literate than than ever before It was not necessarily a religious movement But we also note in the book that many new pious groups form groups dedicated to better living the the Christian life for Laman and for priests and religious as well So it's this beautiful era that's that's a renewal a rebirth of of piety and knowledge But it's also it's also a maturing of the Middle Ages. It's not just rediscovering old things It's a it's a flowering of everything that was good and true and beautiful in the Middle Ages that came to fruition in the Renaissance just like a flower that blossoms in the Sun Now if there's one thing the Renaissance is known for it is its art There are still to this day all over the world paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance that you can see most of them are Religious in nature not all of them, but a great many of them one of the most important Advances in art during the Renaissance was the discovery of perspective and perspective is the It's the technique of being able to create the illusion of three dimensions in art to really make Make art look realistic in terms of its depth its three dimensionality and the artists of the Renaissance made great strides Towards perfecting the art of perspective and this really just opened up the possibilities for what art was able to Accomplish everybody was art crazy in the Renaissance the cities competed with each other to have the best art in fact in in this chapter we have a story about two artists who had a personal competition with each other Brunelleschi and Donatello and as the story goes Donatello who was a famous sculptor He had been commissioned to sculpt this this wooden Crucifix and he he showed this wooden crucifix to his friend Brunelleschi and the Christ on the crucifix was He was very much in agony He had he had messed up hair and his his muscles were strained And you could really see the the pain of the crucifixion, but Brunelleschi kind of chuckled and Donatello said what's the matter don't you like my crucifix and Brunelleschi says well if you're if you're making Christ into a peasant I guess it's okay, and Donatello was so angry and he he said if you think it's so easy you try And so Brunelleschi gets angry and he decides he's gonna do do do his own sculpture And so he he goes and he works on this on his own crucifix and then He invites Donatello over for dinner and reveals the crucifix that he made and it's so it's so beautiful and Perfect in its form and proportion and capturing the essence of the crucifixion that Donatello is is is flabbergasted And he admits that Brunelleschi is the master The Renaissance is full of these kind of wonderful stories of competitions between artists between cities And of course Donatello and Brunelleschi are only two of the most famous artists, but there's many many others Like Michelangelo, Raphael in Botticelli in the early Renaissance and and of course Leonardo da Vinci often wealthy or influential people Would pay famous artists to decorate their cities or their homes or in the case of popes their churches this system was called patronage where where The wealthy put their money at the disposal of their city to to beautify it It gave the artist's work and helped to spread the cultural beauty of the Renaissance Cities could commission beautiful works of art and as I mentioned some popes even gave gave patronage the Sistine Chapel in In the Vatican was painted due to the patronage of Pope Julius II to Michelangelo As I said before it was not just Italians who were doing all the painting the Renaissance was a was a European phenomenon Dutch and and Flemish Painters painted some of the most realistic art by the way Where are the Dutch and the Flemish from the Dutch come from from Holland and the Flemish are from a region called Flanders Which is north of France But the Dutch and Flemish did very realistic art They painted religious works, but also many just lovely charming paintings of common life some of the The Dutch and Flemish painters we mentioned in the text are Jan van Eck, Peter Breugels and Hieronymus Bosch Now these painters might not be as as famous as Leonardo and Michelangelo, but their paintings are every bit as good So this was just a very Exciting time to be alive, especially if you were Into the arts and literature there was increased literacy the study of all kinds of different languages and this great Interest in the heritage of classical Greece and Rome their architecture their literature their languages There was a renewed sense of of Christian piety lay people especially trying to trying to find better ways to live The Christian faith in their state in life as I mentioned there was new techniques in in painting There was advances in sculpture the patrons of the church and the wealthy the competition between cities and artists Oh, this must have been an exciting time to live They all came together to make the Renaissance just a glorious time to be alive Getting excited a little worked up In our next chapter we're going to meet perhaps The most famous explorer who ever lived someone you are probably all familiar with so hang in there I'll catch up with you next time


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Welcome to the show. This is Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Durasian and I am the host for this show. It's every other Tuesday at one o'clock and it's called Finding our Future. So we, I bring on guests that are really leaders in the community and or experts in various issues and we talk about solutions to problems for us in the future here in Hawaii and beyond. So really happy to welcome Will Caron on the show. Hi Will. Hi. So Will and I, we went to school together. Yeah, we were both undergrads at the same time. Is that right? That's right. Yep. Yeah, we worked in the school paper for the school paper together and various projects, but Will, is it co-founder or just founder of Young Progressive Demanding Action? I'm the co-chair. I wasn't the original co-chair, so I can't claim that, but I am the co-chair now as of now. Our organization was founded at the very end of 2016 and I joined the first board and I was a committee chair, a secretary, and eventually the co-chair along with my co-chair, Teresa Frick. Awesome. Yeah. I guess for some back for folks, you can share why Young Progressive Demanding Action started and if there was a reason it started around that time in 2016 and what you feel is the main goal of it. Yeah. I mean, Young Progressive Demanding Action kind of grew out of an electoral campaign, the work that some students were doing at UH Manoa in support of the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign actually. And I think the message that Senator Sanders was broadcasting in 2016 and is still broadcasting this year too of people in general, but young people in particular realizing that we actually do have power if we exercise it, if we work together, if we get organized and we are able to fight for the values that our generation believes in in a constructive and organized way, then we can actually make a difference. And I think that message really resonated with people. And so after the primary election in 2016 and Senator Sanders wasn't the nominee, the people that had organized the Students for Bernie movement on campus wanted to continue doing some work to advance the values that the campaign really kind of showed us were within us all along. And so rather than let that energy disappear, we decided to continue to organize. And by the end of 2016, the general election when Donald Trump became president, I think that was kind of the second shoe dropping for us realizing that we really needed to continue organizing and continue doing work because not only did we realize that we have the power to make change if we do take on the work and do participate in the system and try to reform it as well from within and from without. But if we don't do that, if we do nothing, if we just allow things to happen and don't take our seat at the table as young people that represent the values of our generation, then someone like Donald Trump can become president, which everyone at the time was saying was impossible. It was not something that could ever happen. He was too absurd. I mean, he was too outside of the normal sort of political class for it to make sense. But that obviously was completely wrong. And so I think it really awakened something in us that, hey, this is a moment in history where the stakes are really high, where we're facing down the threat of climate change, where we're facing down the threat of nuclear armament, we're facing down the threat of global unrest because of the socioeconomic injustices that are just ramping across the globe these days. And so it's a really tenuous time for us. And if we want the outcome of this sort of hopefully just four years, but we'll see of kind of peak struggle and try to reduce the struggle from here on out and not let it get worse and worse and worse, we really need to get organized and we really need to do something. So the very first event we did was a big march. It was the first thing that I participated in personally with young progressives demanding action. And it was just a week after I think the general election. And it was a march that was labeled as the love Trump's hate march. And it was kind of a unity thing. People were upset. People that showed up to the march were upset about someone like Donald Trump becoming our president. And so it was kind of an outlet for people to express some of that disappointment and some of that fear, quite frankly. And so from there, we organized our first board. We had elections. As I said, I joined as a secretary initially. Wasn't exactly sure what this organizing thing was, but I knew I could show up to meetings pretty regularly, take good notes. I'm a communications person. As you mentioned, we worked at the school newspaper Kaleo Hawaii. So I have media experience and so I could do sort of like our social media and email list work and stuff like that. And then the work really sort of pivoted away from electoral stuff into legislative stuff. We sort of reduced our partisan slant. We weren't really associated with the Bernie Sanders campaign after the summer of 2016. But once the 2017 legislature got under way, we really sort of relaunched ourselves as a legislative advocacy organization that worked on bills and tried to organize average citizens, everyday residents of Hawaii, to participate in the legislative process, to submit testimony, to come to office visits, to call their legislators and just tell them their opinion on a given issue, the important issues of the day. And so we really sort of rebranded a little bit and but doubled down on our belief in community organizing. And really the values and the goals didn't really change. It was just kind of the arena that changed went from electoral to legislative. And so we've been doing that ever since. Every year we have a presence at the legislature. Yeah, yeah. So that's what we're doing now. Yeah, I want to go into, Sid, before we get into that, because I do want to get into the policy specifics, because I think you guys are following and influencing some of the most important policies that affect everyday people here. You know, we're coming off of a day after the Iowa caucuses for the 2020 election. So while we're talking about 2016 and Bernie Sanders, we're here four years later. Bernie Sanders has run again, which I think maybe for us as individuals at least is really exciting. And there was a big chaotic disaster for the Iowa caucuses where results weren't posted, they're still not completely posted today, which what are we at now?  So there's a lot of suspicion, there's a lot of crying foul. So what are your top of the line reactions about what happened there? My top of the line reactions are that it's much, I think it's probably much more likely that the app legitimately just doesn't work very well as someone who has dabbled in the sort of the confluence of organizing and technology, trying to find new ways to organize people digitally. I can tell you firsthand that these kinds of apps break all the time. They just sometimes they never work to begin with honestly. And for people, for poll workers and volunteers who are probably a little bit older and maybe not super familiar with app technology to begin with, with mobile app technology. It's also entirely possible that a fix could have been found earlier had the right people been on the ground on taking a look at it. So it's, you know, it's possible that there was some sort of interference. And I think certainly the Buttigieg campaign, which has some sort of connection with the app developer, there's, you know, some kind of payment that was made from his campaign to the app developer. But, but I mean, that could be a mobile app that they were using to Canvas, you know, it could be anything. But so while it's possible, I think the real thing that people need to remember is that there's a paper record. Not only was the app being used, but the Iowa caucus volunteers were collecting ballots by paper as well, based on how people were caucusing. So there is a paper trail and I'm not too worried about it being, I don't think it's the disaster that everyone is kind of going off on on Twitter about it. I think it's probably going to be okay. I last I just checked right before we came on and they're about 60% of the precincts reporting in. So in the next, you know, a couple hours, we should probably know who won. But it's really close. It's neck and neck. So it's really important that they have those paper ballots and double count them, make sure they get the count correct. So I think everything will be okay. Yeah, I guess my conspiracy theories are, you know, some of the issues that happened with 2016 with the DNC, you know, getting involved more heavily than they should have in helping Hillary Clinton get elected. And in some ways sabotaging Bernie Sanders campaign, which led to a lot of progressive voters not participating or voting for third party candidates or even Trump in 2016. So I guess I'm just concerned that things are happening again, even if it is that the results are accurate, the fact that they're delaying it could mean that what definitely means that Bernie and Pete and whoever is ultimately the winner has have lost a significant percentage of the media coverage they would have gotten if the Iowa caucus results were released in a more timely manner. So I guess that's my greatest sadness around it is just that there's candidates, whether I support them or not, have all put in so much work to Iowa specifically because it is the press coverage that comes out of the results that evening that help them gain that momentum and the fact that it's become so confusing, whether it's the technology or not, it just makes me a little bit sad for all the candidates who have put in millions of dollars and thousands and thousands of hours to canvas and campaign there. So that's my feel in Iowa. I hope it's innocent and whatnot, but we'll see. Anyway, so I guess coming into local elections 2020, we know that there's some unique things about Hawaii elections this year that will be brand new. So can you just share a quick overview of that for the average new or existing voters so that they're equipped with that information? Yeah, definitely. I mean, the baseline for getting people involved in the political system is to get them registered to vote. That's number one. So we definitely have been going around to a bunch of different events, some of which your organization has invited us to. So thank you for that, to table and register folks to vote. And yeah, one of the things that I've learned is that despite statewide outreach through the government, a lot of people still don't know about some of the changes that are happening in our electoral system, and they're really good changes. So we're taking it as an opportunity to educate people and would encourage folks to learn about the changes themselves so that they can educate their friends and family too. And the biggest one this election is going to be the change over to all male voting. And that's MAIL, so vote by mail. And basically what that does is it eliminates the precinct level election sites. So like your school cafeterias and public libraries and such will not be open on election day for you to cast ballots in because your ballot will have gotten mailed to you about a month ahead. I want to say maybe three weeks ahead of the actual election date. So the election date is still there, right? It's August 8th this year for the primary November 3rd for the general, pretty sure.  I should maybe do some research first. And you have a couple of weeks to look at their websites, to call their campaigns and talk to them if possible, talk to your friends about them, and get a little bit informed so you can make a more educated vote. So I think that's that's going to be really, really nice for people. But you do need to make sure that your address on file with the office of elections is accurate. And you know, you'd have to do that anyway. But there are people who show up to their precinct location and you know, they've moved like just across the street. So their precinct location is the same, but their address is not. And that in the past was not such a huge deal, especially with same day registration, the polling workers could just re register you there on the spot and give you your and give you your ballot. I know that happened to me a couple of times as a student at Manoa, I would or I'd even go to the wrong cafeteria and they would be able to actually basically just pull my ballot format or send me to the right location of the street. The problem this year is that if your address is not correct, you just won't get a ballot. And what they're supposed to be doing is they're supposed to be sending out postcards ahead of time, like well ahead of time, like this like in the next couple of months, I think, to your whatever address you have on file. So you should get this postcard and what they're going to do, but I know people who have so it seems like yeah dispersed. I think I think it's going to be kind of like on a rolling thing. Yeah. But people should be getting them relatively soon, I think.  If they don't get a postcard back from you, they're going to try to they're going to follow up.  And if your answer is I never got a postcard, then they know that the address might not be accurate and they can check to make sure the rules are correct. So that's supposed to happen. But you know, the easier thing to do would be for folks just to log on to the Office of Elections website and just just put in your current address and make sure that your registration is up to date. So that's the biggest thing is the vote by mail. And then and just to clarify that piece of it, people will the timeline for getting the ballots is about three to four weeks before the election. Is that correct? Yeah, I could try to look up real quick for the actual date is but it's on the Office of Elections. They have a calendar schedule for the election cycle. And one of the dates that they present is the drop date for ballots. So that's the day in which you should start getting ballots. You might get your ballot a couple of days later, because that's just how the mail works. But I want to say it's a couple of weeks ahead of the election three or four weeks ahead. And I just want to share with people that, you know, the mail in voting thing is the intentions are really good. I think there are pros and cons to it. But I actually really want to share this like visual of like, you can have your coffee on your couch with your friends or with your laptop, you have a discussion, do research and really have the time you need. Because I found myself, I'm aware of a few races, but many races are surprising to me. I didn't know there were like 15 races on the ballot sometimes. So I'm doing research in the ballot box, which is just like wasting time. And it's also probably inappropriate to be doing it in that moment. So I really like ballot or like ballot initiatives, you know, like, nobody knows what the ballot initiatives are going to be until they they're in the box looking at it. And then sometimes I'm sitting there like looking at op-eds for and against because it's so vague. So anyway, I think this is like such a great way for people who want to be informed to like get that ballot weeks in advance, have that time with their friends, family, and loved ones to like make these decisions and have these robust discussions. So I'm really optimistic about it. I do think there are some barriers to overcome, but I really recommend and encourage people because Hawaii has a bad rep for being a low voter turnout state to just take the opportunity for the convenience, vote in your pajamas. All you have to do is walk out to your mailbox and go to the Hawaii office of elections website. It's all available online.  But anyway, I'm feeling really good about that. One other thing about that that I should mention too, just for informational purposes, although the precinct level polling locations will not be open on election day the way they have been in the past, there will be early walk in voting the way that there has been in the past still for about I think for the 10 days leading up to the election like it like it always has been, right? So if you for some reason don't want to send your ballot in by mail or maybe there's some reasons why people just absolutely have to vote in person and cannot vote by mail. The early walking locations are still going to be open. So that's Kappalei and Pamalu Halley about 10 days leading to it. So it is still possible to vote in person is just that you can't go to your local school cafeteria to do it anymore. And most I think for most people that should be fine. I think most people would even prefer that. It may take a little getting used to, but I think overall it should be good. And it'll actually save the state a bunch of money too. So in the long run, so yeah. So that's happening this year. That's happening this election cycle. It's the first time. Can you share also quickly about the presidential preference poll timing? You thought that's mid-April. So is it the same in terms of the mail-in or is it more of an in-person experience again? So that's a little different, but it does use vote by mail as its primary process. So what you're talking about is the presidential preference poll is the Democratic Party's selection process for who will be the nominee for president to go up against Donald Trump. So that process is internal to the Democratic Party. If you are a registered Democrat, then you would be participating in that, but otherwise not so much. But it's interesting because they are using vote by mail. Registered Democrats will get a ballot sent to them as well, but they're also using something called rank choice voting, which is another one of the suite of good government electoral reform initiatives that states are testing out here and there in small batches. So the first one is vote by mail, the first of those. The second, you could say, would be rank choice voting. And what it does is instead of when you get your ballot, normally you pick one candidate for each office. And that's just it, right? Even if there's like five or six people running for it. And with rank choice voting, what happens is you actually get to rank your order of preference. So you say, I think that, let's say, you know, for me, it would be Bernie Sanders, I would put him first. But I can also pick from the other remaining candidates and rank at least up to the top three for the Democratic primary. It'll be the top three. Rank choice voting allows you to rank every single candidate choice, though, from one down to 10, 11, 12, and so on. And it'll still work. The process will still work. So what happens is after everybody has ranked their candidates software program, it can be done manually, but it takes a long time, but a software program, and they've had these for a long time. So they're very reliable. You can test it out for free online. You can, you know, rank your order of lunch preference or something fun like that and test it out. But what happens is each, the ballots are collected and then the process goes through rounds of voting. So the first round, the software looks at everybody's number one choice. And if any one candidate has broken the threshold, then they are declared the winner. But more likely, especially when you have a bunch of candidates running, more likely what happens is nobody is able to break the threshold for victory. And so you have to go to the second round of voting. And so the way a ranked choice voting operates is after that first round of voting, whichever candidate has the fewest number of votes gets eliminated from the election.  So let's say you're supporting Joe Biden.  So let's say he got eliminated in the first round because he didn't have enough votes. The people who did vote for Joe Biden, their votes would get redistributed to maybe Amy Klobuchar, maybe Elizabeth Warren, maybe Bernie Sanders, whoever they put as their second choice. And then in the second round of voting, the process repeats. And once again, whoever has the fewest number of votes after the second round of voting, and that includes the redistributed votes from round one, that candidate gets eliminated as well. And then that candidate's third choice votes get redistributed to the remaining candidates and so on and so forth until there's at least one candidate who has broken the threshold for victory and has declared the winner. So what that does is it allows people to really vote their conscience. You don't have to worry so much about a spoiler effect. You don't have to worry so much about electability. You vote for the person that you think is best, genuinely best because you have a almost sure likelihood that your vote will still count.  But that doesn't happen all that often. Most people will end up with their second or third choice if not their first choice. So what you end up with is a candidate that at least most people can live with if not support, if not outright love. And it's just much less likely for unintended consequences of electoral campaigning to happen. And that allows candidates to campaign genuinely and to not worry about spoiling the election and say, I believe in these things, I'm like campaign and not worry about it. And like trying to weave in people from all sides, you know, like it allows them to be more authentic and for people to vote in a way that's not based on fear, but more based on like alignment of values and beliefs. So I think, you know, that the right choice voting, the vote by mail, these are some of the ways in which Hawaii is really leading the way in terms of policy. So it's, it's great that we're moving closer to a more direct democracy. Obviously, there's still some barriers in place, like the electoral college, which puts Hawaii in like a funny position. But I think for April, like, you know, what's unique about Hawaii is that the primaries tend to be more important because we tend to just be a blue state, you know, it's really rare that Republicans went office in Hawaii. So that's just something to know as well for folks who aren't super deeply involved that, you know, the general election is not as significant of an influence, at least for your individual vote, because we tend to swing blue most of the time. So just getting involved in that presidential primary as well as the primaries that are local. So that's April for presidential, and then August for the general election, as well as all the other races that are happening in for our local government. Kind of, just a quick clarification. Yeah. So the, yeah, so the April, the April event is, like I said, Democratic party only, and it is just to, is just to decide who the presidential nominee is. That's all, it's a presidential preference poll. The Hawaii has a primary in August where all the other races are decided. So, you know, Democrats going up against Democrats for state house, for state Senate, and as well as mayor and prosecutor, what it does is it basically just eliminates, unless somebody wins outright with 51% of the vote, it moves on to like an elimination round. So you'd have two candidates, the top two candidates face off in the general and then the generals in November. So it's weird.  So they actually don't have one this year, but normally they do. But then there's the primary in August and then the general in November. So it's a little confusing, but I just want to make sure that people understand that the April thing is Democratic Party only and it's just for the president. And then the August primary is, like you said, the real actual election where we're deciding basically what Democrat is going to sit in power because we are such a Democratic state. So that primary is super important. Yeah. And we're coming up on our last minutes. I'm going to have you share last thoughts, but I also just want to share one quick note that there's so many elections in Hawaii that are lost or won by 20 votes, 40 votes, or even closer. It's really, really common because we have a small voter pool. So people who say their vote doesn't matter, your vote really does. And it especially does in April and August. So please just be aware of those dates rather than the November one if you're a Hawaii resident. So yeah, one more minute, share maybe living wage, anything really, really quick that you want. Yeah, sorry, I blathered so much about other stuff. But yeah, there's some really important bills coming through the legislature now that people should look out for and try to support, including there's a bill that would raise the minimum wage. Currently the language is $13 an hour by 2024, which is really just not even close to enough for people to survive on. And it just takes too long. So we're pushing for $17 by 2025. And if people want to support that bill with that particular amendment, they can go to raiseuphawaii.org. So raiseuphawaispelledout.org. And there's a bunch of different actions people can take to get involved. There's a bunch of different research there for people to look at if they have questions about the actual public policy itself. There's also another really good electoral initiative called automatic voter registration, which there's a couple bills going through that that people should really support because if people are automatically registered to vote, they are much more likely to participate. And we've seen evidence of that from states like Oregon. And it's just it would it would make things a lot easier for people to just participate in the process with fewer barriers. And that's that's kind of what YPDA is all about, actually. So we really support that initiative too. Yeah, so follow YPDA Hawaii on Instagram, find them Young Progressive Demanding Action. Thank you Will so much for being on the show. It was really awesome. Maybe we'll have another one of these conversations soon. Thank you. Yeah, sure. That'd be great. Thank you.


What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today we're gonna be unboxing a Funko mystery box. This is from EB Games slash GameStop. So I'm really excited to see what is inside here. It's an EB Games exclusive. So I can't wait to see what it is. And that is the fantastic for Venomized Mystery Box. I know this has been out for a while, but ironically, I don't think I've seen them where it's this small. I thought there were bigger boxes before. So whenever I've seen this at EB Games, here in Canada, which has since switched over to become GameStop once again, whenever I've seen this in store, it was regular $40 on sale for 30. I decided to pick it up. I think there is at least one Funko inside. So I thought that was a great deal to see what is gonna be in here. I asked the employees if it is something that has been around for a while or if it's new, or if there is at least one Funko inside, they had no clue. They thought maybe there is at least a key chain inside, given the size of the box and the fact that it says there's four items inside this box. They weren't so sure. I decided just $30. Let's take a risk and I will see what is inside. Out of everybody that is in the Fantastic Four, there is certain ones that stick out to me that I'd rather have a Venomized version of, but I can't wait to see. And of course, there's chases, there's metallic versions, so I can't wait to see what's inside. We're just gonna open it up here.  It's probably gonna be, as soon as I open the box, I'll see everything, just like I thought. So at first, right on the top, we see that there is a sticker of the Fantastic Four logo with the symbiote on it. So that's really cool, Venomized Fantastic Four logo. Stickers are stuff that I collect, but you usually get them in any mystery box. So there's stuff that's common, but I haven't seen one that's a Venomized version. Next, just like any mystery box, there's a keychain, but I really like this keychain. This is gonna be one that's gonna be really nice to display in my opinion. And that is a Venomized Galactus. And it looks like the blue ends the white, not the red, I thought the tongue would be too, but the blue that's on him and the white eyes are all metallic, so that's really cool. It just really pops. I'm not sure, yeah, it's not really showing on camera, but that is really cool. That is one of the nicer quality pins that I've received. It's actually from Marvel and Funko, so it's not like some of the ones that I've received from Loot Crate's, where it's Loot Crate branded. This is a way better quality one than what I've received from Loot Crate. Next, we do have a Funko keychain. This is a special edition, which I know some of the special edition ones are metallic and they're more like a chase. I'm not sure if this is, but it's a Venomized Dr. Doom, which Dr. Doom is one of my favorite Marvel villains. It kind of does look metallic, so maybe it is a special or more rare variance of the Venomized Dr. Doom, but that is really cool. So that is definitely gonna be staying on my shelf.  I leave them in the box. Just a personal thing for me. I'd rather display them that way than open them up and display them like that. I know that would probably save a lot of room, but that's just what I do. And one thing that I didn't know with the keychain ones is it still is a bobblehead. So I did not know that. So I am gonna be keeping that obviously in the box. And last, but not least, the last item that's in this box is a Funko Pop, a regular sized Funko. And it's actually one that I would have wanted. So that makes me really excited. And that is a Venomized The Thing. Look at that. Now I do have the regular thing on my shelf in my collection for my Funko Pops. So I can tell just by looking at it, it is a metallic version. Of course, it does say special edition on it here. But just by looking at it, you can tell it is metallic and that is really cool. On the back, whenever it shows all of the other ones that you could receive that are Venomized, that's what the regular thing looks like. Kind of looks like that here. But what we received is the special edition. It is the metallic one, which in my opinion is a lot cooler. So this is the first special edition that I have picked up and actually got from a mystery box that I actually pulled. That's really cool. Better than a regular one. So I don't know if it's considered a chase. Obviously it doesn't say chase, but it's more of a rarer one than the regular one. So that's really cool that I got a special edition. And in my collection, I do have other ones, some Walmart exclusives and some other ones that I've picked up while I was out, but I purchased them at like $15, $16, whatever they were worth at the time. But I never pulled anything out of a mystery box. So that is really cool. So I'm gonna have to make room for this. I think my Iron Man from the Avengers game is gonna switch over to my PlayStation shelf and this will have a nice spot on my Funko shelf. Obviously I love Venom. You guys know this. I like the Fantastic Four. You guys know that. So this is a great one for me to pull. That is out of this. The other ones, of course, is Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl and Human Torch. Human Torch would have been iffy, but at least I got the thing, which I'm a huge, huge fan of. The only other thing that I am noticing just now, just glancing at it, is they have a spelling mistake on the back here. Of course it won't zoom in. They have it, T-H-N-I-N-G, which is obviously spelled wrong. That's not how you spell things. So I'm not sure if that is anything. I just happened to glance and see that. So that's just weird that there's a spelling mistake on a Funko Pop. But nonetheless, that's really cool. It's gonna have a nice spot on my shelf. So I don't know. Comment down below what you guys think. Should I go back to EB Games, which I keep saying EB Games. It is now GameStop. And see if they have any more. I think they were on clearance and they were $30. I got the one that I wanted. So I'm not really sure if I wanna go back, see if I can get a whole set of them. Or if I just wanna say I got the one that I really wanted and leave it at that, which is likely what I'm gonna do. But let me know if you guys wanna see this. Obviously I will go and purchase more if you guys wanna see me unbox more. If you guys enjoyed this video, I'm gonna leave this here and I'll see you guys in the next video. Hopefully I find more things like this. Now that EB Games is no more and it's GameStop. Hopefully we will get some of the US GameStop exclusives here in Canada whenever it comes to mystery boxes. But also they did mention that there's gonna be a lot of Canada only exclusives with the new GameStop here in Canada, which is gonna be interesting. So anything else that I see like this, especially if it's on sale, I'm gonna pick it up and unbox on the channel. But I will leave this one here. I hope you guys enjoyed. I'll see you guys in the next one. Please take care. Peace.


It's not a lot of Army divers because it's a very high standard. Being an Army diver is sort of like a brotherhood. Everybody knows everybody is extremely small. So it's a very close-knit field. It's not for everybody. You have to have a certain mindset to be able to do this job. If a land-based engineer can do it, we can do it. Yeah, that's the normal reaction. The Army's got DC divers, what?  That's pretty accurate. So they throw you right into it right away. The instructors here, they're very knowledgeable, and they expect a lot, and that's completely understandable. This job is not for the faint of heart. My dive school class started with 96 people and six of us graduated. So that's just because they show you the caliber of soldier it takes to do this job. Your attitude is the most important thing when you're underwater.  I can remember a lot of days, a lot of times when we would be doing over-unders where we're swimming all the way across the bomb, this is the one. I'm done. I'm quitting, I'm quitting, and I just wouldn't. I just sat there, and I waited, and I caught my breath. Then when we were told to go on there, I went under again and thinking the same thing. This is the one, I'm done.   You just got to keep calming yourself down, you know, and just tell yourself that your air is only three seconds away. Just stay calm. It's incredible because every one of these jobs that we do, you're working in a buddy team and that buddy could be the difference between life and death for you, so you have to trust each other in situations like this because there's no one else. Teamwork is a huge part of this course. You're always going to have a dive buddy. You're always going to be able to depend on that person to your left or your right. And if you're not depending on them, then you're putting them at risk and putting yourself at risk. I was fortunate enough to have these guys, Olinger and two others here to kind of counsel me. It did help to have somebody to come to with questions. I think I went back and forth questioning whether or not I bit off more than I can chew, but now that I'm here, I'm happy and confident and looking forward to the next step. I mean, you see the trainees, you see the instructors, you see the people in the field and they're all the best of the best. We're trained by the best to be the best. And that's what I like.


Hey there, welcome to this demonstration video for the new ID-Core 100 and ID-Core 150 amplifiers. These are new additions to Blackstar's best-selling and award-winning ID-Core range. Both in the form of powerful combos they are perfect for the gigging musician as well as keeping the home guitarist in mind. The original compact ID-Core amps featured full-range speakers which are more suited to low-volume practice and recording. These new models feature 2x10 Blackstar designed high-power handling guitar speakers. This makes for a very compact and lightweight combo perfect for the modern gigging musician. At around 12kg and 15kg respectively, it's a possible two-finger lift. All features from the existing ID-Core 10, 20 and 40 carry across to these new bigger brothers with no limitations between models. Both combos have exactly the same features. We're talking super-wide stereo, 12 studio quality effects, patch storing up to 36 patches, USB for insider connection and stereo audio for direct recording, a tuner, headphones, emulated line-out and MP3 line-in. Plus there are some exciting brand new features. We have enhanced voices for an articulate live sound which reacts well to the guitar volume and player pick attack. We've added an inbuilt looper with 30 seconds looping time with unlimited overdubs. Create a loop and then overdub with a completely different sound. There is even an undo function to remove your last overdub from the active loop. Both models include a two-way foot controller, the FS13, for looper control and patch effects switching. We've updated the effects section and added an up-taver effect. Both octave up and octave down can be added to your original guitar tone or a mixture of all three with control over the ratio by the user. A mix control will allow the user to adjust the range from hearing the original guitar tone to only hearing the octave tone. You could even combine the up-taver with the looper to add a bass line to your loops and jam along. To complete the feature set, we have a stereo effects loop for including your favorite stompboxes into your live rig. Finally, there is an optional five-way foot controller, the FS12, for expanded switching, for patches and effects, plus looper control. The foot controller features a digital display to access the chromatic tuner also. This is completely user-programmable and ideal for patch switching, toggle and effects and tap tempo, all controlled and edited via the insider software. But don't fret, the included two-way foot switch will not become redundant. Connect your two-way FS13 to your FS12 to make a seven-way control foot switch, which hosts many possibilities. I've been Steve at Blackstar and thanks for checking out this video. Cheers.


السلام عليكم رحمت الله وبركاته Welcome to Echqam S2 Ramadan Special I'm your host Mohsin Shah Enjoying me as always is شيخ مأش السلام عليكم شيخنا السلام عليكم رحمة الله هواي تلي الحمدلله اوظ العام دي الحمدلله فانتًا قبل الله Insha'Allah to all our viewers as well تقبله عملكم إن شاء الله إن شاء الله we're having a very very spiritual and beneficial Ramadan شيخنا last time we were discussing from the Al-Rusali Ameliyad of Sayt Saadiq Shiawazim and Allah prolung his life نحن نتحدث عن المسلمة المسلمة في حالة التفاصيل والحكم الذي يقوم بذلك دعنا نتكمل وما أريد أن نتحدث عنه؟ إذا كان شخص يعمل now يفعله صحوحه ويأتيه ونرى أنه يتحدث عن فجر الآضان ويحدث عن فجر ما يجب أن يفعله؟ الى المسلمة المسلمة المسلمة المسلمة في هذا السؤال، إذا كان شخص يعمل ويتحدث عن فجر في اطفال صحور ومعرفة أنه يجب أن يحصل على فجر الآضان أو أنه يصبح يحضر على فجر يجب أن يحضر بالخيئات في صحوحه ويجب أن يحضر فجر يجب أن يحضر بالخيئات كفارة لأنه يساعدها باستخدام فهي يجب أن يفعله بسرعة وكفارة إذا كان يأتي وكفارة فهي يجب أن يأتي وكفارة وكفارة فهي يجب أن يأتي وكفارة وكفارة وكفارة وكفارة وكفارة وكفارة أي شيء that will be reaching the throat even a small bit of rice or small bit of bread يجب أن يكون يجب أن ينضل من الهل شكرا شكرا شكرا شكرا لكم برامضان نحن لدينا هذه المطابة تقولنا that it's the time of Fajr al-Adha and also the time of Maghrib هل هل هذه actually quite reliable هل يمكننا ان نتعجب عليهم أو تعتقد ان نجد علينا نفعل التمويل إذا كنت متأكد بما تتصوير المطابات لكي توجد خارجي ايضا المنزل من أولئي لتصرر في أية حال في مغرب time حوالي في مغرب time لا ن jugaد if انه is exactly a time of immigration لأنه The signs of the time of immigration in western countriesoka especially in the north of Europe في هذه المرحلة تستطيع أن تنظر لتناول كلوكل time table ولكنه يجب أن يأخذ الوصول والحتياط في موقع المغرب لتعطيه أكثر من الثلاثة ثم تقوم بإمكانك to break fast في موقع المغرب وكذلك قبل فجر الموقع لتعطيه أكثر من الثلاثة ثم توقفت تأكل وإمكانك تأكل من تأكل مقاومة إذا فتح الكلام التعديل من احد ي would not break the fast It's not one of those invadiators of fast So they can actually go to the hospital on a day-time of the month from Oman And do the test of blood tests that should be fine Shakhnie, if someone's not fasting during Ramadan Delivery on delivery هل يمكنها ان يتعبينها بعد العالم المسلمين في الوقت يا اخس وصوات؟ نعم من تلك الثانية وفس العام؟ و Should they refrain from eating in public؟ اذا ادوار وقت موضوع اضبار الحرمة شهر المحاربة حرمت شهر المحاربة إذا كان ذلك اضبار هذا العام الكثير من its not permissible is not allowed يجب ان تخفضوا اذا تفضلي أنت تساعدة أو تساعدة عائلتك أنت لديك اشارة اشارة أنت تذهب to your own home or a hotel أو أنت تجد مكان where nobody would see you those who are fasting and then you can eat or drink but in public where you cause the breach of the sanctity of this holy month no, it's not allowed then you have to make sure you respect the holiness of this holy month and avoid eating in public that's very important why is it that the sayyid allows injections and even injections of nutrition and minerals isn't this actually breaking the code of fasting well according to the sayyid he mentions that this is because the evidence which was given in the شريعة and the hadith for example and it was only and mainly to do with eating and drinking and these injections in overall except the enema that we spoke about the enema is separate exception in terms of the injecting from that particular place and so forth and are not known to be eating and drinking let's say somebody was injected by some kind of vitamins I don't know you won't tell the person that he is eating or drinking it's just an injection in the vein that's not to be known as eating or drinking so that's what the sayyid did not consider it as a muftar and it validates the fast are we allowed to adopt the advice of our doctor let's say the doctor has proscribed to me that in your condition you are not allowed to fast or you shouldn't fast I advise you not to your health will deteriorate or the disease won't go away am I allowed to not fast then based on the doctor's opinion who may not even be Muslim or Shia well yes it is permissible for the one not to fast by taking the advice of the doctor of the specialist if that specialist or the doctor is trustworthy the one you can trust but the case sometimes that the doctor would advise you not fast but you feel that you can fast then you have to fast because the doctor doesn't know inside or out of your body so sometimes you have an illness but that illness you can overcome it and somehow by medications let's say you can use and in the daytime you can fast you can sleep fast and then you break fast around the time normally so sometimes it depends on your situation can you cope with fasting you can fast that's fine even if the doctor advise not to fast and vice versa maybe the doctor says that well you can fast but you feel you can't continue fasting in the daytime then you shouldn't fast so it depends again but mainly if the doctors are trustworthy and you can't take the words that's fine you can break fast very good what about brushing your teeth and toothpaste are we allowed to because it does bring some sort of freshness to the mouth also and coolness especially when you're gargling and you're spitting out the toothpaste well it's better and recommended to use the toothpaste or the brushing just in the before the Adana of Fajr so you would avoid any kind of you know toothpaste or liquid water to reach the throat otherwise if you wanted to use and to brush your teeth in the daytime of the month of Ramadan you have to make sure that nothing reaches your throat so you have to slowly brush your teeth and rinse the water out from the mouth and making sure nothing reaches the throat area that's important what about when you know sometimes because we're eating at irregular hours sometimes you know we burp we have acid reflux something comes to the throat what is to be done are we allowed to swallow this back down or are we supposed to spit it out well in this case if somebody feels that something is in his mouth a small piece of bread or rice or anything else they must make sure that they throw it out nothing must be left in the mouth either it was brought out and ascended internally or externally at the end of the day you must not make sure that nothing goes through the throat whatever the size is small bit of food or large quantity and even drop of water for example you have to make sure nothing remains in in your mouth and to be thrown out immediately if unintentionally this happened and you swallowed that piece of bread or let's say rice then the fastest ballot because it wasn't by purpose so that's fine in this case okay you were saying that the sanctity of the month of Ramadan is very very important and also if you get guests you meet people you shouldn't really give them food to eat or drink but what about if you have a business to do with food what if you own a restaurant or a cafe it's Ramadan time now should you be open and open for business well to be honest this is a major issue we can face this we see this in many of the countries where you can see that from the day one of the month of Ramadan you still see some restaurants and cafes are open and they are serving food according to say it's Fatwa he says to open the cafe or the restaurant in the daytime of the month of Ramadan and such like so maybe you want to serve food on the street for example you have a thawab to give for example well any kind of serving food in the daytime of the month of Ramadan a breach of the sanctity of this holy month again as I mentioned they say it's Haram it's Haram to serve food in which it breaches this holiness of this great month so they have to close until the Maghrib time when the Adhan Maghrib time was called they open they serve Iftar till the Sahar time so it's just for them they have to change the timetable until the night time and they can stay awake till 2 am and serve Suhoor الله سبحانه وتعالى who sustains the Rizq he will give them more Rizq and they will gain more customers especially for the Iftar and Suhoor okay but even here in the west where we are dealing with non-Muslims we should keep our restaurants and cafes closed I've mentioned this mess in this case in the previous episode I think about serving food to the Muslims and non-Muslims that the Said says allowed to serve for either of them so even in the west if you have a restaurant or a cafe you shouldn't serve food at the end of the day serving food to Muslims or non-Muslims is an issue that the Said spoke about it so as I've said the best advice is to begin from the Maghrib serving Iftar till the Suhoor time and I've said that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will replace that closure of the daytime with the night time and they might get even more Rizq and Barakah due to the blessed amount of this great holy month from Allah I'll send Sheikhna because we are coming to the nights of mourning for the martyrdom of Amirul Mu'mineen and also we have the nights of Laila Qadr any advice or tips or any wisdom that you can give to the viewers according to the Holy Quran in Surah Al Qadr where it says the night of Qadr is the best night over 1,000 months imagine the importance of this month so we have to try to take this opportunity to open our heart and seek nearness to Allah سبحانه وتعالى try to take this opportunity at least for these couple of nights and Shahada as well to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Ali in these nights to read dua as much as we can if we can take one or two days off due to the Shahada and due to the work of the Laila Qadr where you have to be awake all night and that's mustahab but it's better for the one to stay awake all night that's great and to ask Allah forgiveness whatever حاجة you need it's the best time of the year so let's take this opportunity and seek nearness to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and ask for forgiveness إن شاء الله تقبل عمالكم إن شاء الله إن شاء الله and to all the viewers thank you for joining us on this episode قدر will be returning with احقام SOS until then please remember us in your dua and insha'Allah all your amal are accepted سلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


Alright, so today I'm doing four things, this is going to be the first one, which is Cali Converters. Okay, so let's see if I can draw a car. Woo, bright green. I'm not very good at drawing cars, this one you can see, but anyway, that's a car. We'll make this a gasoline vehicle. How about we make this the tailpipe? If it's a gasoline engine, we're going to have emissions. The emissions we worry about are certainly going to be things like carbon monoxide, VOCs, that's volatile, organic compounds, otherwise known as unburned fuel, perhaps, but it could be a range of other things as well. And we are also going to have some NOx emissions. Now, the cattle converter helps to lower those emissions. Often it's going to sit here, and in some of the newer vehicles it might be closer to the engine, just because it'll help warm up a little bit quicker, and that's going to be helpful in the winter when we have carbon monoxide issues. But anyway, here are our emissions, and of course, we might also get some emissions when we fill up, so we might get some VOCs that way. They're going to cause some environmental challenges, but they're not going to get dealt with with a catalytic converter, of course. So, a three-way catalytic converter, what does that mean? Well, we have three things we want to take care of, and we are going to use three different catalysts to do that. So, carbon monoxide is going to get oxidized to carbon dioxide. The VOCs are going to get oxidized to H2O and CO2, while the NOx is going to get reduced to N2. So, this is an oxidation, this is an oxidation, this is a reduction. Now, it's impressive that we can do these oxidative and reduction steps together, and for that to happen, our oxygen levels have to be at the right level. And so, somewhere we're going to have an O2 sensor that's telling us we have enough oxygen in the system, but if not, it adds in a little more.  Now, if it was a diesel engine, in this case, it's very difficult to have a catalytic converter. We're still going to get our NOx emissions. We're going to get a lot of particulate matter. We're also going to get carbon dioxide. Particular matter would overwhelm a catalytic converter. We're starting to see some improvements in that area.  And so, that's how it works. We'll talk about catalytic converters in a little while.