Hey everyone welcome back to alchemy stars, so We have a pre first anniversary event Happening in alchemy stars, and this is going to be dropping on May 23 So let's go through the patch notes and notice for this one So a new main story by the way is dropping Twilight interlude And it's part of your main story. So the description is There's going to be New stages are unlocked in the same way as the current main stages So navigators who meet the unlock conditions will be able to challenge it any time. So If you've finished almost all of it, I'm sure that you guys can Do this already so note there are two There is a contrast between there are two levels within the new Story you have day and night system So to add it to the special stages. So what this means is your Eclipse sites will change their forms and actions and combat abilities accordingly and depending on if it's day or night So there's a countdown to switching from day and night. So that's just it. Okay, so complete all stages complete all stages in main story episodes 10 and We wish come come true special chapter availability. This will drop on May 23 So take note of that. So another one number two is going to be your our glass of faith Available for a limited time as well. So during the event. So this is a reward event So clearing main story stages episodes 2 to 10 and Twilight interlude that have not been cleared yet So if you haven't cleared it yet, therefore you're going to earn more rewards Okay, so cleared Grants our glass of faith times one once a certain amount of our glass of faith are obtained Navigators will receive up to times 300 lumamber recharge packs or your upgrade materials and many more So participation method enter via main secret our glass of faith event portal So my question is what if you finished already? Can you just have a rerun of the past episodes and you'll get the rewards? We'll see we'll see so number three By the way, that was a good. It's going also going to drop on May 23 So May 23 by the way is going to be a Monday. So that will be two days from now three days from now number three is Anniversary event preview is here So this is going just going to be sign in sign in bonuses sign in rewards not signing bonuses signing rewards Kind of meh. It's still the same as any login. So Lumamber 600 blah blah blah. So just sign in to get rewards This will start on May 27 So it's not going to happen on the 23rd, but it's going to happen on the 27th, which will be on Friday Okay, so I think we're gonna be having a fun week next week preview I just feel that Anniversary is happening next week. I just feel this because of the rewards that they're giving up anyway That is just speculation guys. Don't take my word for it Illumina recommended recruitment is here in a short note. This is just your targeted recruitment But this is actually by faction already. So this is going to be Illumina faction. So the Rates are the same as your any regular, you know banner or recruitment So we're gonna be moving on to who you're good getting from this one Or is it, you know, is it really a trap again for us? So for six stars You're gonna get the possibility of getting hero Charona, Grunru, Charon, and Shoban so for this hero is terrific, I think followed by Mmm Charona and Charon probably next is Grunru and Shoban. So this is worth getting Again at this point if you are saving for, you know, for for currency for saving your Lumambers For the anniversary event. This is not highly, you know, highly encouraged But if you need them again I still think that this is a good Good banner to have. Okay, so five star This is going to be a problem for me because I need one more copy of Nemesis. I might be pulling Probably watch once or twice We'll see. So you have Nemesis Barton, Phyllis Shai, Cordy, Ben Incuru, and Vivian. I don't care about the rest. I just need Nemesis Just one copy of Nemesis. So I hope I get her get him in the Guaranteed five star for the first ten pull. So you're gonna get a There is a five star Aurora one of the Orion specified in the pull guaranteed within your first ten recruitment So I'm just banking of that. So again, if you if you still need them This is a good banner. If not, if you don't need the copies or you You're if or if again, if you're if you're saving up for For the the anniversary event, then you can definitely skip this one So moving on to store returning outfits you have here for Hero So hero is dropping on the 23rd also for Sharona and Also for Barton. So what I think I'll be I actually am interested more on sure on is you know sure on is Outfit here. Here's outfit. I don't like And I'd actually rather have her existing one So that is it for those who are you know for interested in these outfits Definitely not interested in the outfit of Barton. You can use any outfit. He wants and number six The last one is bonuses for everyone a bonus for new main story twilight inter lube navigators The main story twilight intern has now officially begun and has some gifts for everyone to enjoy So gift content avatar Vivian at work Lumamber 500 nightium the charger pack and Availability is going to be on the 23rd okay, so just a The claim period for this is going to be 30 days Rotating recruitment update bonus during the rotating recruitment period Starting on May 24 chances of recruiting the following will increase Okay, so another another bait statement. I think Revy Narok sale and Regina. I don't think This is going to be you know People I don't think are going to be going after them Narok sale kind of is actually good for some uses Revy not so much for a detonator Regina. I'm not familiar with her kit so far So to thank all navigators were prepared the following bonuses So star flare one which are your pack one and this is on May 24th during the rotating Recruitment period starting from May 31 chances of recruiting the following will increase Paloma I think this is going to be interesting. I need Paloma actually during the routine. Okay Paloma Maggie and Barton To thank all navigators again, they will give out star flare charger pack and availability is this one Seventh seventh is anniversary celebration in community events The anniversary celebration will be and a series of events will be begin soon So be sure to follow the official community to get late the latest information on these exciting events Gotta be do you know trying to get Paloma for Starting on May 31. This is I think one of the things that I need to have Aside from getting Giles Recently so that is it. So this is just to wet your palette guys in Terms of the first anniversary event. So here it is I know everybody's excited with this event even me because I missed the six-month anniversary. So That's it. Thank you guys for staying this far. So if you haven't subscribed yet, please do and Take care. Stay safe. This is the warden and I'm out of here


What's going on guys know from kicking their bass TV doing something a little different changing up the scenery and Coming out towards the boat got a little bit better lighting back here right now So I'm gonna go for it. So today's video is going to be over the top five baits in my opinion for Fall fishing since we're about to hop into it guys summer's almost over and it's gonna start cooling down You guys know how this is already starting to cool down and the weather here has just been bad lately It's been raining it's been disgusting, but before you know, it's gonna be cold. It's gonna be winter time I mean heck it's already October and so it's gonna be fading in the fall going in the winter soon To start off with the first baits it says shad bait and on this is a shad wrap by Rapala and I have a few different types here Let's have a standard shad wrap and then I have one that's split in the middle So they give it a little bit more action and when when I use shadow wraps there's there's plenty of different ways you can use shadow wraps and Most of the time shadow wraps are really good on rock. They're really good on those There's walls those little rocky walls and stuff like that's really great I'm really great in the wind and pretty much when you're just imitating chat in general And it all depends where the fish are in the water column Like another bait I have here have a jerk bait and it just all depends I'm just giving this as an example. Let's say I was using a crankbait or like the shadow I've been let's just say it went 15 foot this jerk bait went 5 foot and you just pretty much adjust to where the fish are Located in the water So shadow wrap definitely on my list for fall baits second bait and I'm not really going to call this I Guess you could say a designated bait. I'm going with something very finettes I'm talking about jigs wobble heads Shaky heads and the shaky head that I'm using is actually the one that I make and the links below to my website if you'd like to go check them out and To be honest, they're really high quality guys and I caught the shake down This one's in 3 16th ounce and this one's green pumpkin Really great design pretty much simple as it gets those fish are on the bottom if those fish are really lethargic They're a shaky and you can't go wrong with it. I'm one of the most finessed baits wobble head You guys know I love the wobble head and pretty much not only am I gonna say this is one of my top five fall baits I can say this is pretty much one of my favorite baits year round and not many people not many people fish it at all And I just started fishing it start catching a lot of fish on it And I believe a lot more people started to fish and realize that it's actually a really great bait And the trailer I have on it is just a standard rage curl and summer curl That's what I have on it right now and it has a lot of action But if I'm going for something more finesse, I would go with like a gear Yamamoto hula grub or something like that That's just a little less more action, but this rage tail Has a lot of action and now we're gonna move on to a jerk bait But this is a soft plastic jerk bait, which you guys know as a fluke and there's plenty of different brands I'm not really going to go into the brands, but like you guys know like zoom Gambler they they all make pretty much a similar bait just a regular fluke style bait And when is this good? It's when those fish are at the top of the surface, you know This fish are looking for the bait. It's also good on those Brock walls as well We really we try to one tournament up at linear and we caught we caught three and three cast up on rock Walls with just a fluke just a weightless fluke guys. You're not I'm talking about a weightless one You can wait But I'm just talking about a plain old weightless fluke is really great as well And then move on to the jerk baits the ones that I use are by mega bass for the most part I also use some of some bills jerk baits But the mega bass ones are really high quality and I catch a lot of fish on them especially on the near And pretty much there's different ways to work them depending on how the fish are wanting it Like in the winter and stuff when it starts to get colder the fish are more Lethargic they're wanting it a lot slower so you may jerk it and you'll have a long pause But personally a lot of the times I'll straight really jerk bait Sometimes I'll jerk it a lot. Sometimes I'll jerk it with a long pause, you know, just Just depending on how the fish are reacting, but once those fish are at the top of the water column say they're chasing bait say Yeah, like there's bait at the top of the surface great choice Say there is your fishing some brush There's bait around the brush or you just know those fish are on the brush Definitely great baits a jerk bait those fish are active and they're wanting to eat and the last bait that I want To go over which not many people think about and this is really saved my body many of tournaments I haven't to be honest. I haven't talked to it talked about it at all And this is actually one of the base that I make it's just a standard old Jiggins boom guys and nobody nobody thinks about it I mean some people use it, you know, and you'll think oh it's for strikers for hybrid Oh, it's for stuff like that and that's not the case guys I there's been many of tournaments where I was really struggling saw some fish on my graph dropped on them caught them and I can definitely make a video on that if you Guys are wanting me to just like the drop shot. You guys know I'm a true believer in the drop shot. Yes It does catch a lot of small fish. Yes, it catches a lot of big fish.  I'm gonna be throwing that a lot this year. I know I am it's pretty much one of my favorite Bates guys. I know you can't throw it year-round. I mean you can But this prime time is not year-round the jig and spoon Definitely give it a go if you haven't like I said I have it on my site the website links below The fluke which is a weightless jerk bait Pretty good as well, and I do recommend white just in general and also another thing to talk about that if it It all depends on the day all depends on the fish are acting But mostly if it's cloudy, I like why if it's a little bit of sunny I like more this natural color of the Sun's gonna kind of reflect off of it But that's just my opinion on it and how I see it what's worked best for me Going on to the wobble head the wobble head is really great You guys haven't given it a go definitely go try it out go pick some up The rage crawl in the backs really great out tons of videos over the wall ahead if you want to find out more information over that Also, the shaky heads that I make just a standard old shaky head I'm not saying that mine's the best or anything. It's just a standard shaky head works great You're round in my opinion, but really great in the fall as well, especially if those fish are really finicky. I'm just a jig I don't have it out right now. It's just standard jig Also a shadow rap Especially in some dirty water if you're wanting to fish some of that Shad wraps and crankbaits little crankbait square bills stuff like that. I'm definitely shallow water dirty water dirty water big key Has a lot of vibration it puts off but pretty much that's the top five baits I would say that I would use in the fall So definitely take these tips out on the water and let me know what you think please comment below Thank you guys so much for the support Just hit like 125,000 on Instagram and I can't thank you guys enough And if you guys haven't checked out my giveaway if you guys are watching this recently as I'm putting it up Definitely go check out my giveaway. I've got a huge giveaway going on and I'm giving away two rods a reel literally over 150 baits It's just a lot a lot of stuff guys and then I have some of my Hats teachers hats teachers from my sponsors. I'm some of the fish head spin stuff like that But thank you guys for watching Please give the video a thumbs up seriously guys support means the world and if you guys are one see any other videos Leave a comment below and I will be back on the lake making some good videos because once I finish all these tournaments I'll definitely want to be doing that, but I'm just so packed right now I'm gonna try to get some footage out to you guys. So thank you guys for watching See you guys next time


Right. Hello everyone. Thanks for joining our Korea's open community session. We are from four different communities. Can you see me? Yeah. So, including CloudBankRever, women's group Seoul, C++ Korea, and women's Korean community. And we have only 20 minutes and we are going to talk about all our communities. So, time is running out. So, let's hurry. So, first of all, I'm Justin from CloudBankRever. So, I'm going to talk about what we are doing and why we started this community on behalf of the Cloud community. So, let's think about this number. Can you guess what this number is about? 52 million. Right. So, I will add another number. 26 million. So, can you guess this time? That's correct. So, this is the total population in South Korea. And surprisingly, the half of this population live in Seoul metropolitan area. I don't think this is a good idea because the rest of the land are utilized in efficiency. So, this is an infographic has become, which has become the popular last year, and which is about nine ways to see South Korea. And I got my eyes caught in the sixth one, which is this one. So, this is how Seoul people see the whole country. And as you can see, at the bottom, this is the Jeju Island, which is known as Tangerine. And the blue one is Busan, which is known as B.H. And can you see the red one? This is Incheon, which is known as Airport. And the yellow one is Ahol Provence, which is known as Potato. And the other place is just simply as North. That's how Seoul people see the whole country. And I live in the area of North. So, what does this mean? It actually has a sort of serious issue in terms of the information flow. So, it has results in the information only stays in Seoul. So, as a result, we've seen these kinds of social phenomenon called digital divide or digital extremization. So, it's not a level. So, all the information should be transparent and accessible from everybody. Therefore, we started this Cloud Bandwagon community to let the information flow out of Seoul. But how can we do this? We cannot do this by ourselves solely. So, we need to make a relationship with developer communities in the regional area as well as student communities. Right? And we have these six people for within these Cloud Bandwagon communities. And a few of us are working as a developer, which is a developer relations. And the other three is industry experts, specializing in like cloud infrastructure or program language or AI or machine learning. So, as the Cloud Bandwagon activities, we focus on these three categories because these are demand from the local or regional developer communities. First is the cloud technologies. And second is open source technologies. And the last one is career development. So, what we have done so far? We have a few, several of these sessions. And this is the first one. We chose in May last year and we got the target people. This is the beginning. And we ran another one in July in Daegu. And this time, we collaborated with GDG Daegu. And this is the one, another one in Jinju last year. This time, we work with Gyeongsan National University. And this is the latest one. And this time, again in Daegu. But this time, we work with local council and as a result, we got a lot of attention from the local communities. So, we just started this community. And we are, it seems to be, we are growing. But I think this is illusion because we need to think about, we need to think about how we can make sustainability. And we still need to long wait for. So, how can we do this? Please keep an eye on it. And we need your support. We need your attention. Right? So, please stay tuned. And depend on that cloud. Right? And we will be able to see and share a lot of information. Also, we can open to expand to across the whole Asian region. Thanks for listening. I'm really hand over to Yeonjung from Omanaco South. Thank you, Justin for the amazing introduction. Hello, everyone. I'm Yeonjung, AI lead from the Omanaco South. Before I get started, I would like to introduce about Women's Code, which is the largest and most active community for a technical woman in the world. So, Women's Code is an international non-frontal organization funded in 2011 to inspire and empower women and technologists. So, our mission is empowering diverse women to excel in their technology careers. And we aim to make a tech industry where diverse women and excluded people thrive at every level. Women's Code started as a small community group in San Francisco and quickly expanded around the world. As a result, we now have a strong and expanding global network with 320,000 members across 147 countries around the world. And in South Korea, we have a Seoul Network, which is one of the most active. So, I'm going to introduce about Women's Code Seoul. We launched it in May 2019, and currently we are one of the fast-growing and leading women's tech community in South Korea. Now, I'm going to share what we did for the last few months. So, first of all, First Asia. We collaborate as a community partner with First Asia and deliver a five-minute talk on who I'm gathering in the last year. And NAID-IP. We are providing information about different factors by interviewing with women from a range of positions. And next, content production. We have been creating inside-person content such as DEI, which is diversity, equality, and inclusion. And some other technical information such as screen framework, NFT, and more. So, next, translations. We translated Women's Code's official blog from English to Korean in order to provide Korean tech papers with easy access to valuable content. And Women's Code started on big events. We had a variety of interactive workshop and networking sessions that enabled women in tech to connect, learn, and grow together. And next, collaboration with Samsung. Our leaders share insights stories such as their career journey, community stories, or deep tech. And we have a networking session together with the different community in South Korea. Last but not least, mentoring session. Our leaders share their experience on front-end and AI to support and empower next generations of tech professionals. So, yeah. Still, we are trying our best to inspire more women in tech in South Korea. And in this year, 2023, we plan to organize more accessible programs to support more women in tech and focus on the global movement to empower leaders across the industry. So, please stay connected if you are interested in collaborating with us or reaching out to us to support more women in tech together. So, you can connect us to our official email, Women'sCodeSoul at gmail.com. So, yeah, keep turning your eyes on and support us. Thank you for listening, and I'm going to turn our work to Dongha. Greetings, folks. I am Park Dongha from South Korea. Let's start my part. There are some very common questions we may see why you started this community. Honestly, C++ program language is quite hard to study, and it has multiple standards from ISO comedy, literally, or I still chance in multi-environments. And each has some level system and you realize, for instance, in Apple platform, you have to run the Xcode in Windows, you can run Visual Studio, and in Linux, you can sort of combine multiple touchings. And most of all, the language is one of the all-days, which means the spectrum of C++ users is really a problem. You may have heard about the book series, Teach Yourself Something in 21 Days. The humorous cartoon describes how it actually works. Beginner will learn this language in 21 days and start the person's career for two years. And professional developer will use this language for about 10 years, multiple projects, and learn from their colleagues. At some point, you sort of may start learning physics and quantum gravity for another 10 years. And next, spend another 20 years to learn biochemistry, genetics, or another two genetics. Finally, you go back to 21st day and replace yourself. What a story, isn't it?  Can I mean a Korean language? We started in Facebook 2013 because it was an easy platform to create community for years. If posted questions, it's constantly in comments. Of course, Korean C++ users will step up all or they're simply like sectional. After the foundation, we focused on archiving some useful learning materials, especially for beginners. Seminar, translation and readings together. After the pandemic, we wrote our code of conduct for online activity. Sometimes open a study group in video call. Currently, we are moving back to online, organizing some small meetings every two months, planning to open one-day technical seminar, and sometimes YouTube video creation. Okay, finally, this is our recent concerns. Our first goal is to follow the nonprofit cooperation. We need to gather some sponsors, and we have to have a duty to provide some clear financial reports about it. The second reason is making ease of compliance with companies. There are some long stories about this. If you are curious about it, you can visit our booth and share some knowledge with me. Okay, and the next one is for better communication. We are trying this world to support more instance chat-based discussions or questions, rather than basically. Okay, this is expert listening. This is the end. Next is Ubud Korea Community. I forward this remote control to Yongbin. Thank you. Thank you, Jongbin for the introduction. My name is Yongbin, and I'm going to talk about the Ubud Korea Community in both of its organizations. So there are many local Ubud communities around the world, and we are one of them based in South Korea, and we started our community in 2005. We usually organize some local Ubud leaders and activities to promote Ubud to leaders and create obstacles in South Korea. So we're usually active on most online and in-person. For online, we have our online forum where people can ask some Ubud to questions like Ubud to not cooperate with our data or deliver some answers, meet-choose, like the group chat also available. We have IOC and Matrix, and we also have our on-viking for documenting some specific case studies for the Korean users. For the person activities, we organize seminars where people can share their experience around Ubud to and workshop to have some newcomers to get used to Ubud to. Since Ubud itself is a platform by wide range of users, we also frequently collaborate with other Ubud communities in South Korea for some joint events. Soon in Indonesia and Ubud Summit, we also exchange with other local Ubud communities such as Ubud Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and much more to share and run. How do they use for Ubud to? We are mostly people of Ubud to users, so we encourage people to contribute to projects by participating local agencies or calling calls, which is important to the visibility for the Korean users. For past few years, we have been putting many efforts in Ubud, Asia, which is started in 2021 to make a place for gathering Ubud users and contributors from many countries in Asia. Ubud to local community in Asia is actually not much active compared to other region, even if it will be active, it will be more difficult to reach out, but we see success from our first two events when we are seeing many local communities getting back slowly. Ubud to local community will be a good example as they are trying to reserve their community by urbanizing Ubud-Kon Asia in South Kandah, Asia, East Aktobe. There are many large gathering for Ubud to call such as Ubud to Summit, which is formally Ubud to the development of Summit, and there are also other many Ubud-Kons in the other content, Ubud-Kon Askil, Ubud-Kon Europe, Latin America, and Korean community is also thinking about urbanizing Ubud-Kon Korea this year. While we have been focusing on global activities by this year, we are now trying to put both of us on local activities this year, starting from representing our online forum using this course, supporting a better development day, which is organized by South Kandah, South Kandah, already this year. We plan to start organizing our periodic seminars and training workshops to gather people in person. We also continue to represent our online services like Rwiki and our online chat, which is outdated a bit, or with some new approach. As I mentioned, Ubud-Kon Korea is also planned, and also, if you have any details on Ubud-Kon Asia or Ubud Summit this year, we also plan to participate and exchange with other stakeholders. So, that's for the Ubud-Kon Korea, and if you would like to learn more about us, you can feel free to text our website or contact us via email. So, that's all for the Korea Open Competition. If you would like to know more about us, you can click your phone right here, or we have our booths right there on your back. Kind, would you like to raise your hand? Yes, yes, yes, you can see that. Please feel free to visit our booths and ask some questions about us so that you can learn more about us. So, thanks for joining our session. See you around or see you at the booths. Thank you for joining.


In business news, Niger's import of agricultural goat between 2017 January and March this year surpassed its export in the period by 3.9 trillion Naira. The total value of trade in agricultural goat in the period on the review was 6.2 trillion Naira, comprising 5.04 trillion imports and 1.14 trillion exports. These figures were arrived after an analysis of foreign trade data obtained from the website of the National Bureau of Statistics. In 2017, Niger generated 125.88 billion Naira from the export of agricultural goats and spent 891.87 billion Naira on imports. Niger's agricultural export in 2017 comprised largely sesame seeds, cashew nuts, soybeans and ginger which were exported to China, India, Russia and Greece among others.


A very happy Mother's Day to all of you beautiful mothers out there, but today I want to dedicate this video to a very special momma out there, my baby momma. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And typically, typically what my channel is about is taking different topics from the YouTube community or pop culture and trying to see what lessons we can learn from them.  So if you're into any of that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So yeah, I wanted to make a video dedicated to my baby momma and one of the many reasons is because like kind of the norm, kind of the norm is that when people split up, right, like the relationship's awful and like I know that, you know, there are many children who have grown up with like divorced parents and things like that and it was very difficult growing up because you got to pick sides and all that stuff but my situation's very different. And like I'm just so, so grateful for that that I can't even fully put it into words. Like next month I'll be seven years sober and I have given my son's mother every single reason to hate me for the rest of her life but she is just this amazing mother, amazing person and we co-parent like champs together. So those of you who don't know me fully, I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic, I got sober on my 27th birthday. When I was in my final months of my addiction, I was on the path towards hitting my rock bottom.  And I was just furious, furious, right, because she's an amazing mom that was protecting our son from me, you know, like because as an addicted father, you can only do so much or addicted parents, you can only do so much, right? And it's dangerous. It is. But I was so angry at her because the disease of addiction was so strong in me. I couldn't see. And like any logical normal human being would have said, oh, okay, this is causing me to lose everything, including my son. I'm going to stop it. That's not what I did. I started drinking and using more and sitting in self pity. Like this is why this is why I preach about like this personal accountability and responsibility. Because I wanted to blame her like in my addiction. I want to blame her. It is your fault.  How dare you keep this kid away from his father, right? Because I didn't want to look at myself. That's one of the reasons I make these channel, these videos on my channel is because so many of us want to sit here and watch all the drama, all the tea being spilled because we don't want to look at ourselves and what we're doing to screw up. So I finally got sober and things were rough. Things were rough for quite some time. Like when I first got sober, I was unemployed. I wasn't able to pay child support. I was in California away from my son. I wasn't able to like watch him or anything. She had to take on the full responsibility of our child. Well, I had to go to California and get my act together. And you guys like this, like real quick, we're just with all the James Charles stuff going on. Like this is why like I'm such a huge advocate for forgiveness, right? Because I look back and as I share this story and looking back at where I came from, like I would not have the amazing life I have today if it wasn't for the forgiveness that people like my son's mother gave to me because I was gone. I was in another state and her new husband, like he came into the picture right before I got sober and imagine this. Imagine like put yourself in this dude's shoes coming into a relationship, helping raise my son while the deadbeat dad is out in California, miles and miles and miles away getting sober. This guy had every reason to hate me and that guy has been nothing but kind and respectful to me as my son's father this entire time. And I'm so grateful for that as well. But in the early stages, she still didn't trust me. She was very upset. And I remember I would get so mad because she was so mad at me. I would call my sponsor and I would just rant because she would say something to me on the phone or through text or whatever. I would call up my sponsor just screaming and complaining and he would listen to me vent all this BS and he would sit there and he would just say, Chris, have you given her any reason in the past to be upset with you? And I'm like, you SOB, right? But he was reminding me that I caused this. Like she wasn't just upset for no reason. Like I did this, right? But we don't want to think about that, you know? And something that I would teach my clients when I was working at the addiction treatment center was like, people aren't going to forgive you overnight. They're not going to. Actions speak louder than words. It's going to take time. So I knew, I knew. It was hard, but I knew I had to prove it to her. I had to prove to her that I was working hard on this thing. That's why actions speak louder than words. When I finally moved back to Las Vegas, she still didn't fully trust me all the way. And it was difficult. It was rough. Like she wasn't, like I had over a year sober when I moved back to Las Vegas. She still didn't fully trust me to watch my son by myself. And again, like I couldn't blame her. Like I was just coming back to be a father again. I've been in California for a year, you know? And even after a year sober, a lot of people from the outside looking in are still waiting for that shoe to drop, right? The other shoe to drop for you to relapse. Because how many times did I tell her that I was going to stay sober? And it hurt. It hurt, but I knew that I had to go through this, right?  I had a job that was paying me like minimum wage and everything.  And like, so even though our relationship wasn't like awesome yet, like that was just a glimpse that I was doing a little bit better and she didn't completely hate my guts. And to be honest, my son's birthday is New Year's Eve. So she did the same thing for his birthday, you know? When her and I were together, I was making amazing money, amazing money. And when I came back and I started working this part-time or not part-time, it was a full-time job just making crap money. I thought that she was going to be mad that I wasn't making that much money and couldn't provide for my son as much as I used to, but I was doing it. And like, she respected the fact that I was going to work every day. I was riding a bus an hour and a half each day to work, not calling in sick, all these other things, right? And she respected that about me and she saw me go on this journey and eventually get the job at the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center and just having her tell me how proud of me she was, it meant so much to me, right? Because this woman, not only did she have every reason to hate me forever, but she saw me at my worst and she saw me build myself up and then eventually get into a job where I was able to help other people who were currently at where I used to be. You know what I mean? And that just meant the world to me. And man, I remember when we first, or when I first got sober, I was a mess. Like, nobody came to me for advice or suggestions. She would basically just call me up and say, what's going on with our son and then just be like, bye. And I'm like, right? But today, because she's seen that change in me, like she co-parents with me and she'll call me up and say, hey, here's going on with Dylan. What do you think we should do, right? And we could sit down when I go and I pick him up and, you know, I can sit down and talk with her when we work through stuff. And we talk about co-parenting with our son. And if I can give any advice to anybody out there who is like, you don't even have to be in recovery for this, but I truly believe one of the reasons that her and I have such an amazing relationship and why our son hasn't been royally screwed up yet is because no matter how angry we've ever gotten at each other, we've always put that kid first, right? We've always put him first. Like, I get so heartbroken when I see other people who are split up and there's a kid in the middle and they're using the kid as a weapon against each other. And maybe it's because her and I both came from divorced parents and we knew how that messed us up. But we've never fought in front of that kid. We talk things through. We hang out together. She invites me over because my family's in California. She's invited me over for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Her family is still there for me.   It's because I have been just blessed with this amazing life that sometimes I don't even deserve. You know what I mean? Or I feel like I don't deserve. And like, she is just this amazing, amazing mother. And I wouldn't be a great dude if I didn't take the opportunity to use my platform to tell all of you how amazing this woman is. All right. But anyways, I hope I hope you all have had a fantastic Mother Day. And if you're watching this on Mother's Day, call your mama.  All right. But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you like it, give it a thumbs up. If you don't like it, what is wrong with you? But anyways, if you're new here, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. Huge thank you to all our patrons out there. You are all amazing. You want to help support the channel? Click the top right there. All right. Thanks again so, so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


Seaburn is chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear, so the majority of us in the core are specialists in those four special fields, particularly what we're doing out here today is decon or decontamination. So basically what happens if a unit goes up against one of those elements of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear warfare, our primary goal I should say is to help those units decontaminate themselves so they can give themselves back into the fight. Basically what we want to do is enable lethality amongst our brethren on the front lines so they can go ahead and continue on with their mission. So it's us as what soldiers, that's our primary function in the world today. So today the goal was to test the troops ability to run an operational decontamination seaburn exercise. So right over here we had some tanks pull through for our exercise. We have our blivet and our generator set up. Our decontain would pull the vehicles up and they would begin wash down the driver and all the TC's and crew would exit the vehicle and they would move over to our troop decon lane. At that lane they would be getting out of their JS list in a clean and safe way, transferring to a new set of JS lists and then from that point the driver goes back to the vehicle. He decons the inside of the vehicle with a mitt that we provide and then he gets back in the vehicle, he meets up with his crew, everybody is able to safely get back in that vehicle and roll out to continue the mission. Everybody out here today has been trained in mop gear exchange, operational decontamination, all the different seaburn exercises. This gear, it takes acclimatization, you know, this gear is hot. Soldiers aren't used to operating in this kind of heat with this extra gear on. We want to keep soldiers safe. The best way to do that is to put them in the gear more often. Have them trained, have them acclimatized. The more they put on this gear, the more they get on their mask, the more they run these exercises, the more comfortable they're going to be doing it, the less panic you're going to see on the battlefield and the better we're going to do overall as a troop at bringing our soldiers home safe. Mustang Focus has just been a tremendous opportunity for us to get out into the woods to train at our basic soldier through platoon level tasks and make sure that we're ready for any eventualities should it come be a chemical attack, you know, or on a battlefield anywhere in the world. And so events like this are critical to making sure that our soldiers are ready to use this modern equipment that we've just received from the army and get it into operation and also provide feedback to the army on what we learn actually out in the field using this equipment in an environment such as this.


Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, al-hamdu lillahi rabbi l-alameen, wa-afdabu s-salati wa-atamu t-taslimi ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in. We praise Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and send the blessings and salutations upon His Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So today we are in session two in Tafseer Surat Yaseen. Last week we talked briefly about the Surah that Surat Yaseen is a Meccan Surah. All of Surat Yaseen is a Meccan Surah. And we read the first eleven ayahs. Today inshallah we'll start from the twelfth ayah and then we'll move into the story, the story of Ashab al-Qariyah, the dwellers of the town. In verse number twelve Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Inna nahnu nuhyi il-mawta wa naktubu ma qaddamu wa aasarahum Wa kulla shay'in ahsainahu fi imamin mubin.   Wa naktubu ma qaddamu and we record what they have sent ahead. Wa aasarahum and their traces, i.e. what they left behind. And their traces left behind that affect others. Wa kulla shay'in and everything have we preserved to the last detail in an all-expounding primal record. Everything have been counted in a clear registry. So this ayah follows the first eleven ayahs. As we mentioned last week, Surat Yasin focuses on the fundamentals of the religion. It focuses on Tawheed, on Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. It focuses on Prophethood, the Risala of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And focuses on the hereafter. And for this reason it's called Qalbul Quran, it's called the heart of the Quran. If the heart is sound, the body is sound. If the fundamentals of faith are sound, our iman is sound. And on the day of judgment, we will have a happy face. Here we get to the ayah that talks about what the disbelievers hate to hear the most. Most disbelievers at the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, before the time of the Prophet, at the time of the other prophets, even today, they deny the existence of the hereafter. So this, this, this, this topic of Al-Baas-u-Wal-Nushur resurrection and gathering and the day of judgment and that life and that human beings can be brought back to life again, that's one of the thing that the disbelievers do deny vehemently, like with passion. And in the Quran, we see that the day of judgment is mentioned in so many places, more than a hundred places. And talking about the day of judgment is mentioned also in different ways. Sometimes Allah swt is talking to humanity as a teacher talking to students. Sometimes is talking to them with certainty and force. Sometimes it's just stating a fact. The Quran approach the day of judgment from different angles, depending on the audience that may read the Quran. Allah swt in this ayah is answering their denial and focusing on this particular matter, saying Inna Nahnu Nuhiil Moutah, we give life to the dead. And if we look at this ayah, we see that it is, it is embedded with emphatic words. The first word is Inna, Inna is a word in Arabic that is used to emphasize something. And then it's followed by Nahnu, we, because Allah swt could have said Inna Nuhiil Moutah. There was no reason to mention we. And we is another mu'akkid, is another way of emphasizing the statement, i.e. we, no others. It's only us, it's only we. And this we is the royal we, is Nuhiil Nuhiil Moutah, Inna Nahnu Nuhiil Moutah, Nuhiil Moutah. And that's something very easy for us, Inna Nahnu Nuhiil Moutah, we are going to do it. And this is going to happen, whoever wishes to believe, Allah wassala, whoever wishes to deny it, Allah wassala. And the time will show them whether it's true or not.  In that Allah will resurrect those who are in the graves, Inna Nahnu Nuhiil Moutah, we give life to the dead. This is as we mentioned in reference to the resurrection. There are also other meanings that can be attributed to this ayah, Inna Nahnu Nuhiil Moutah, that don't they see that Allah swt brings the earth back to life? Every year, in winter the leaves fall, in autumn the leaves fall, in winter the trees are dead, in spring the earth goes back to life. And we're used to it. We take it for granted, but had Allah swt created us in a way like the trees, in autumn we get weak, in winter we die, some animals hibernate. Let's say Allah swt created us in a way that in winter we dies, and when spring comes we come back to life again. And if we were to see this day after day, day after day, we get used to it and we take it for granted. While the tree is coming back to life, is itself a miracle. But because of repetition, we don't see it as something unusual. Inna Nahnu Nuhiil Moutah, Allah swt Ali Amran says, yukhrijul hayya minal mayiti, wa yukhrijul mayita minal hayya. And the ulama explains yukhrijul hayya minal mayiti out of the disbelievers, come believers. Sometimes the parents or grandparents are disbelievers, the children are believers. Wa yukhrijul mayita minal hayya, and out of believers the children could be disbelievers. The son of Prophet Noah became a disbeliever, but the son of Ibrahim is a believer. Sometimes this could refer to bringing a person out of ignorance to knowledge, because knowledge is life and ignorance is death.  Dying of ignorance, dying physically, dying spiritually, we all need to revive ourselves by reciting the surah. Wa naqtubu maqaddamu, naqtubu maqaddamu. And we will record, we record that which they have set forth. Everything that we do in our life is being recorded. And Allah SWT has assigned angels to record all our deeds. Ma yalfizu min qawlin illa ladayi hiraqeeb wa nateed, as he mentioned in surat qaf. Said, no word. Does he utter without a ready watcher beside him recording? In a way that we don't know how, recording everything we do. Wa naqtubu maqaddamu, whether all the deeds are recorded, whether they're good or bad. And recording is for all. Then on the day of judgment, Allah SWT may reward, may not reward, may forgive, may not forgive. The point here that Allah SWT is taza mazalik. That's something that's going to happen for all humanity. All of us, our deeds are being recorded. So basically we write our own book. Each one of us is writing their own book, the book of deeds. And on the day of judgment, this is a work in progress. It's a draft. Once we die, it's published now. It's no longer a draft. It's ready for publication. And good deeds will make us look handsome on the day of judgment. If we want our face to shine and look handsome, we want to write a good book. We want our book of deeds to be full of good deeds and not the opposite. But the point here is that the deeds are being recorded and they have been preserved. So there is no probability of error or forgetfulness or increase or decrease. It's exactly as it was done. We can think of this for those who are in accounting and business as a retirement fund. This is your account. And every deed you do, you're depositing something in your account. And when you retire on the day of judgment, you're going to see what's in your account. Is it good or bad? Is it up or down? When act to move, and on the day of judgment, our deeds will testify, either for us or against us. While our deeds are being recorded, when act to move, act to move, Allah SWT, since He gave the command, it's attributed to Him. However, it's not Allah who Himself record these deeds. Allah's angels that record the deeds. Wa-a-sa-raham, and also the traces. I.e., these are deeds that we haven't done it, we haven't done those deeds directly. Those are deeds that are being done indirectly. Those are implications of our deeds, or the results of our deeds, or the fruits of our deeds, or the traces, the footsteps of our deeds. I.e., whatever we earn in this life in terms of deeds, the fruits of what we earn in our life and after we die is also recorded. So, the deeds that are done by us, and so, as well as the effects of those deeds, that we may not have, they may not be done by us directly. As Allah SWT mentioned, as the Prophet SAW mentioned, that إذا ما تبني آدم, إن قطع عمله إلا من سلاس. In a well-known hadith, when the son of Adam dies, all his deeds عمله إي عمله لنفسه, not عمله غيره له, لكن عمله لنفسه. His deeds for himself, for himself or herself, come to an end, except three. This will continue after he dies. A knowledge that is beneficial. If someone teaches another person or another group, when parents teach their children, when community facilitates for a session of knowledge, knowledge that is beneficial.  Or ongoing charity, sadaqa jaria, that's the third. Or ongoing charity that he leaves behind, like he opens a school or opens a free clinic or opens a mosque. Or has a wakaf, has a trust. إذا ما تبني آدم, إن قطع عمله إلا من سلاس. These are as-sara. Whatever we do in this life is written in our book of deeds, as well as the effects, the deeds that are done as a result of our deeds. And they're not done by us directly, but they're done maybe by our children or by some knowledge that we benefit others. And then those people benefit others. And those people benefit others. Whatever we do today, the Prophet has a share of what we do. Everything we do, he is the reason why we're teaching. The companions through their effort and through their sacrifice has a share of what we do. The Prophet, alayhi s.a., also mentioned, and the opposite was also true, whether parents or leaders or anyone in a position of authority, if they implement bad policies or oppressing policies or make people life uncomfortable, this also has effects on them and also on their book of deeds. The Prophet, s.a., mentioned in a hadith narrated by Jareer ibn Abdullah al-Bajali, من سنة حسنة فله أجرها وأجر من عميلة بها من غير أن ينقص من أجورهم شيء. Whoever initiated a good practice in Islam, he will have its reward. And the reward of whoever acts in accordance with it after him without the least degrees and the reward of others.  And the opposite is also true. ومن سنة سنة سيئة كان عليه وزرها ووزر من عميلة بها من بعده لا ينقص من أوزارهم شيء And then the Prophet recited the verse وَنَكْتُبُمَ قَدَّمُوا وَأَسَرَهُ The verse in Surat Yasin. And whoever initiated a bad practice on him shall be its sin, along with the sin of whoever acts in accordance with it. So it's like compounded interest, you know, it gets compounded without the least degrees and the sins of others acting upon it. So they get their own sins. وَاَنْ لَيْسَلِ الْإِنْسَانِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَهُ وَلَا تَزِرُوا وَا زِرَةٌ وِزْرَهُ أُخْرَهُ But you also get the traces of those. نَكْتُبُمَ قَدَّمُوا وَأَسَرَهُ This is a very serious verse. إن نحن نحي الموتى There is no escape. وَنَكْتُبُمَ قَدَّمُوا وَأَسَرَهُ And we write our own book of deeds. And then the ayah continued to say وَكُلَّ شَيْئِنْ أَحْصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَا مِنْ مُبِينَ And we have counted all things in a clear registry, in a clear book. There are two books. There is a book that is called أم الكتاب.  This book is fixed and does not change because it reflects the knowledge of Allah SWT from eternity to eternity. And there is a different book. And that book can change because we have an input into that book. And the book of deeds, this is our draft, our work in progress. Now, some people may ask everything, like everything is recorded.  We have 7 billion people. And back to the time of Adam. Now who is going to record all this and manage the recording of all this? كل شيء احصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَا مِنْ مُبِينَ This is not your business. This is not our business. Allah SWT is telling us كل شيء احصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَامِنْ مُبِينَ The angels will take care of it. Today we have a glimpse of what can happen with technology. The angels have different technology. On the day of judgment, our books, it's like we're living our life again. We see everything. It's not just something writing, something in writing. So this is the end of verse 12. So in the beginning, verse 1 to 11, it talked about the prophethood of the Prophet SAW that he is a messenger in Nakailamina al-Mursaleen, then talked about his mission, his mission is only to deliver and talked about who's going to benefit from that message and who may not benefit from the message. And whatever the case, don't feel sad or don't be worried too much out of grief that those people are not listening to the message. Your responsibility as a prophet, as a messenger is to deliver. So now comes the story. And this story is emphasizing this point. Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, says, wa dhrib lahum masalan ashaabal qariyati is jaa ahal mursaleen. I dhrib lahum masalan and strike for them a signal similitude. Set force for them a parable or as a parable, the people of the town. Or we can say set force for them a parable. Karma, the people of the town. I.e. set force for those who disbelieve from amongst the Arabs, from amongst, since the prophet, alaihi s-salam, is the universal prophet for all those who disbelieve, whether they are Arabs or non-Arabs, whether they are Chinese, whether they exist in the seventh century or the 21st century. Anyone who negate or in denial of resurrection or in denial of the day of judgment, adhrib lahum masalan. And the word that is used here is the word adhrib. Adhrib. Adhrib is to hit, to strike. Whenever this word is used, it connotes something. It connotes, there is a force, and there is a contact, and there is an impact.  When we say, I hit the ground. I dhrib bi'ashaq al-hajr, or dhrib bi-rijli, al-ardu. You hit the ground, there's a force, there's a contact, and there's an impression, there's an impact. I.e. there'll be footsteps and traces left behind. If it doesn't leave an impact, what's the benefit of hitting? The same thing, this word is used when you issue currency. You say, dharab al-nukudan, i.e. the machine comes, and there's a force applied to the nickels, and an impression is left. And this becomes a nickel, or a dime, or quarter, and you have currency being issued. So here, the connotation or the implication is that the example being set forth is an example that's going to leave impact. If an example doesn't leave impact, it's not, we're not just here to hear stories, but we're here to hear stories that can leave an impact. The Prophet, a.s. was commanded in another ayah, fast da'a bima tu'mara, or in sort of a hashar, la wa anzalna hazo al-Qur'ana al-Jabalin, l-ra'aytahu khashi'an, mutasaddi'an. Mutasaddi'an means cracked. The Prophet was commanded, fast da'a bima tu'mara, deliver the message in a way that shows sada'a. Sada'a is like cracking something. When you have a glass, you have a window, and you crack it. When you crack it, the window shatters, the glass shatters. What does that mean? It means it can never go back to its original state. Once it's shattered, it's now in a different, there's a before and there's after. Before, the window is a window. After it's cracked, the window is gone. So the Prophet, a.s. was commanded to deliver the message in a way that will crack the heart and the intellect of those that listen. In a way that after they hear the message, they're no longer the same person that they were before. That's how delivery of a message can or should be done. It's not like our delivery. We just say, we do something and say, I've made da'a'a for Allah. No, we haven't done anything. So here, it says, ud-dhrib lahum masal, and set forth for them a parable. Only one example, only one parable, not many. And what is this parable? Ashab al-Karia, the people of the town. And most commentators mentioned that this town is what we call today in Arabic, Antakya, or in English, Antioch. Antakya can also be called Antakya, has different names. And this town was a vibrant town at the time. If we were to compare it to today's towns, would be like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Dubai, Paris, Rome. It's a vibrant town. It's not any town. And this town was part of the Byzantium Empire. And also represents the civilization that existed in the Byzantium Empire. ud-dhrib lahum masalan, ashab al-Karia, is jaa ahal mursaloon. So here, there's a tambi, that prophets and messengers were not only in the Middle East, did not only come to the Holy Land and the Middle East part, as some may mistaken misconceptions about this. Because if you read the Quran, Quran mentions 25 prophets and messengers, and they're mostly, most of them were in the, in a particular area, particular region. Allah swt also tells us that there are Rusulan lam naqsusum aleyk, wa immin ummatin illa khalafiha nazir. There is no umma that was left without a warner, without a nazeer, without a messenger. Whether it's in China or Japan or North America, before Islam, the number of messengers are 300 plus, the number of prophets over 124,000 plus. God knows how many prophets were sent. ud-dhrib lahum masalan, ashab al-Karia. So prophets are not just sent in one particular region. They're sent all over the world. Wherever there is a need, Allah swt out of His mercy, out of His grace, did not leave any nation without a warner, without a messenger. This surah, because it talks about the fundamentals of the religion, there are many points that relates to the tenets of faith, to our faith that are scattered in the surah. And we will see now, in this story, many points relate to Aqidah that are scattered. And the Quran wants to bring them back to light and make sure that we're aware of them. It's called the heart of the Quran. And from the heart, there are veins that go through the bodies, that gives life to the body. Same thing here. And the surah that you're seeing, it has veins that talks about various topics that strengthen our iman and make sure that we have the right, there are no misconceptions or no misunderstandings. So it says, ud-dhrib lahum masalan, ashab al-Karia. The word karya, in colloquial Arabic today, it's understood to be a small village, not so in the Quranic sense or in the ancient Arabic sense. A karya is any place where there are houses and people settle in there, whether it's a small area or a large area, whether the city is huge or tiny. It's all called karya. ud-dhrib lahum masalan, ashab al-Karia. So here, we will see that the stories doesn't focus on who they are, or the name of the city, or the name of the messengers, or the name of the people, or the name of the person, jaya min aqsa al-madinati rajulun yasa, doesn't focus on any of this. Because the point is not to name the city or the people. That's not the point. Because the Quran is not a history book, or it's not a geography book, teaching, telling us the geography of places. That's not the point. ud-dhrib lahum masalan, ashab al-Karia. Is jaya hal-mursalun in the plural, that messengers came to them. Why? Because it talks about three messengers. As you know in Arabic, we have the singular, dual, and the plural. So plural is three plus. So here there is a story. And stories are very powerful. It's attributed, ancient Greeks actually understood this very well. They used to say, those who tell stories rule society. That's a quote attributed to Plato. Because we are hardwired to be captivated by good stories. If we hear a good narrative, a solid narrative, we get captivated by it. And many doctors or research institutes, they do research on these things. And they find when people are listening to a story, somehow they get aligned. And in an experiment where they scan the brains of people listening to stories, the same area were lit in everyone. As well as the speaker. So that we become aligned. And we become, we get the message embedded in the story. So with stories, you can have power and influence. Why? Because we are, we love stories. We are the product of stories. When I see somebody, I tell him, what's the story? What's going on? When we go to bed, I wanna hear a bedtime story. Mommy, I wanna hear a bedtime story. And the right stories evoke an emotional response in you. The Quran adds another dimension to stories. So when we read, we read stories in the Quran, and the stories create a mental image of what's going on, evokes an emotional response, and also evokes an intellectual response. So if we imagine now ourselves, picture yourself now in Antioch or in this city, and in this story, we're gonna see two chapters, chapter one and chapter two. Chapter one is talking about the messengers, introducing them, introducing their message. Chapter two is talking about this person who came from Aqsa al-Madinati. Rajulun, yas'a, yas'a. It's like you know Sa'a, when you do Umrah and Hajj, there is Sa'a between Safa and Marwa. Sa'a is not somebody walking calmly. Sa'a is yas'a. It's a type of walking. In Arabic, we have 10 types of walking. There is Mashi, and there is Sa'a, and there's Qaqqara, and there are so many types of walking. There is Nas, and Sa'a is one type of walking where somebody is walking with interest. He's walking with passion. There is, he's, he's, he's, he's, hurrying a little bit.  He wants to contribute, and he wants to contribute something. He wants to make sure that his contribution is whatever he wanted to say, he wants to make sure that people can hear it. And he's afraid that they may do something to the messengers before he says what he needs to, what he feels he needs to say. So here it says, So what happens? So Allah swt has sent one messenger followed by the second one, and then he strengthened both of them with the third one, the third messenger. And they said, This, this can tell us a lot about the audience that they're facing with. The audience is not an audience that is accepting the message as is. No, they're denying it. Accepting the message as is. No, they're denial. They're denying the message, and they're refuting the message, and they're resisting the message. So the messengers felt the need to affirm and emphasize that we are more saloon. Inna ilaykum more saloon. What was the response of the people of the city? They said, They said, You are just mere men like ourselves. What does that mean? They said their argument. This statement by the disbelievers, if you stretch it, it leads to a circular argument. So their argument is not valid.  You're lying.  It's like they want to say, If you were really messengers, then you should have been from a different species. Or you should be aliens. Or you should have been angels. As in the case of the Prophet, the disbelievers in Mecca said the same thing. So what is this messenger who eats food and walks in the market? He's like us. So how could he be a messenger? And because he's like us, therefore he cannot be a messenger.  Therefore what should we listen to him? So Allah SWT in the Quran showed us how their argument could lead to a vicious circle. He says, He said, Let's agree with you for the sake of argument. Had we made him an angel, had we made the messenger, the Prophet SAW an angel, or any messenger an angel, we would have sent him as a man. I.e. had we made the messenger an angel, how is an angel going to communicate with you? How are you going to communicate with him? How are you going to understand the angel? There must be common language. Like if you have an alien as a messenger, like these post-modernist they have, they're obsessed with supernatural dramas and movies, multiple verse, parallel universes, aliens visiting life on other planets. And if there's an alien that comes here, he's going to find himself out of place.  And he'll try to speak in the same accent or the same language as we speak. He said, had we made him an angel, we would have sent him as a man. I.e. let's say for the sake of argument, we sent an angel as a messenger. Are you going to listen to him? How are you going to understand him? He speaks a different language. How are you going to take him as a role model?   And then you would say, well, he's also a man like us. Why should we follow him?  So whether we send an angel or a man, it's going to end up to the same argument. It's a circular argument. And then Allah SWT says, they would have fallen into the same ambiguity and they would have said, thus obscuring for them that with which they themselves obscure. And then they said, and this has been the case for many communities, many communities reject prophets because they are human, claiming that if Allah SWT had wanted to send a message, he would have chosen an angel as his messenger. Why should we listen to a human? And this same objection is attributed to the disbelievers of Makkah, who raised it against the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. They said, What makes him different than us? They think that the messenger has to be different than us. And then they said, This ayah is showing us that those people believed in God. They are disbelievers, but they believed there is a Rahman, there is a creator for this universe. Even though their belief is a corrupted belief, it's distorted belief. What does this tell us? It tells us that atheism is actually a new phenomena. In the history of mankind, atheism is not there. There was no atheism in the sense of today's meaning. But what used to exist before is laghwan fil deen, or laghwan fil iman, or laghwan fil. So up to 300 years ago, 300 years plus, there was no atheism was not registered in the history of humanity. There was a conception that there is a God for this universe, the creator for this universe. And every community, through the corruption of their message, came to conceive of this creator in a different way. So some thought the creator is a sun, some thought it's a moon, let's worship the sun, let's worship the moon. Some thought it's humans, some thought there is the angel of good, I mean there is the God of good and the God of evil. Some thought that we have a number of gods that come together and they form a united company of gods. And some, like the Arab, thought let's worship the idols, let's make idols and worship them. But atheism in the sense that this creator, this universe exists without a creator, without a manager for this whole universe, one that manages the affairs of the universe, this idea didn't exist before. And then to the previous generation, this is insanity, like how could you think this way? So even John Paul Sartre, when he wrote the book on atheism, talked about the history of atheism, he could not go back more than 300 plus years. John Paul Sartre, as you know, is the father of philosophy, and he died recently, 1980, born 1905 to 1980. And he won also a Nobel Peace Prize. In the book of Allah SWT, we find that Allah SWT is always engaging the disbelievers, and those that deny prophethood, deny messengership, but he doesn't pay attention to anyone who falls under what we call today, atheism. He doesn't take them into account. Let's put it this way, because they cannot be taken into account. They're not worthy of being intellectually engaged, because their issue is not intellectual. Their issue is psychological or psychic. Someone might say, well, atheism maybe did not exist at the time of the Qur'an, and that's why he did not engage them. No, Allah SWT had engaged ideas that came way after Islam, but did not engage atheism. This is a lesson for us to find out why what made this person an atheist before you talked to him. So you need to ask many questions before we engage with some people to understand where they're coming from. What is the real issue that made them take that decision or made that jump? What time is it? How could you be messengers?  No, our Rahman did not send anything. That's a result. If you are mere humans like us and our Rahman did not send any message or any messengers, what's the logical outcome? You must be liars. In Antum illa taqzeebun, now the response of the, this is now, Qalu Rabbuna Ya'lamu Inna Ya'laykum Lamursalwan. This is now the second statement, and it's more emphatic than the first one. It says, Rabbuna Ya'lamu. That's the first emphasizing. Inna is the second one. Ilaykum Lamursalwan. This is called Lamu'l Qasam or Lamu'l Taqeed or Lamu'l Muzahlaqa. They're all the same thing. Inna ilaykum Lamursalwan. It's a reaffirmation in the face of denial and rejection. They said, our Lord knows that we are messengers to you. And then they stated their message. We are not responsible for those who deny the message. We're only responsible to deliver the message. We do not change people. We can't even change ourselves. But if we say the right things, if we deliver the message in the right way, Allah will create a light that will penetrate the hearts of people who listen. And Allah is the one who changes things, not us. So, the Prophet was advised, لعلك باخر on نفسك على أسرهم. Don't kill yourself out of grief for them. Don't worry too much about them. Just deliver the message. All we have to do is our best. فذكر إنما أنت مذكر لست عليهم بمصيطر. What does this mean? This means that Allah SWT wants us to believe but not by way of force. Not by way of being strong. Not by way of being compelled to believe. But He wants us to believe voluntarily. The messengers deliver the message. We think about it. Reflect on it. And I say, this must be true. I want to believe. Allah SWT will guide me to Eman. So we have to take the first step. When أتان يمشي أتايته وحروبا. When تقرب إليه شبران تقرب إليه زرعان. If He wants to say, Where is the mercy of Allah? All you have to say, Oh Allah, I seek your mercy. Make the first step. Allah will give you mercy. But we want the result without putting any effort. This doesn't work. No pain, no gain. So the إيمان that Allah SWT wants from us is إيمان اختياريون. It's an iman. It's voluntary. And not an iman that some parents may force their children or some communities may force their members in the previous days and the old days. This iman doesn't count in the sight of Allah SWT. And that's not the iman that we want others to have. I think the time is up. So we finished, almost finished chapter one of the story. Chapter two has many points of عقيدة that are scattered in every word of the story. And also has a way of engaging people and others. How to talk to them, how to deliver the message. And also tells us through what's not been said about the audience. It tells us a lot about the audience and their reaction and how how strong they were in their denial. To the point that when they killed this man they killed him in a way that's شرا قطل. In the early Christians used to be killed by sea-sawing. By cutting them in half. So some people are very, very violent when some communities. So we'll, inshallah, talk about that next time. But maybe if there's a question or two. No, for the sady. We die and we live and nothing causes to perish except the passage of time. Does that, would that count amongst those who would be considered people who don't believe in a God or? Yeah, those are the hariyah. The only way to talk about them, inshallah, maybe next time I'll mention a little bit about them. That's the point, no. Apologies, it seems there is some feedback. Any other comments or objection or feedback? Bring it closer. It was from last week. You're mentioning how siraat is a wide road that the person would walk down. Can you also just comment maybe on the difference between there being one siraat but then many subul in the Quran? Yeah. The siraat is one. The subul are many. So these are exits or other small ways that may take you away from the siraat. But what is it that you have in mind? Any questions? Like for example, let me look into it. Don't I say something that without reading first? Any other question? No, I'm not saying. I'm not saying. How they are. Like when you tell stories, you want the story also to be personal. The more personal it is, the more impactful it can be. So the story became personal when that man came. As for the name of the man, it could be any name because the name of the man is a foreign name. It's not an Arabic name. It's a kind of seer. So they say he was a man of profession. He was a carpenter. Some say he was a sculptor. And his name translated into Arabic would be something like Habib. Someone cheerful person. Most commentators mention this. Most commentators also mention that the city is Antioch. These are things that we can find out on our own. Quran is not here to teach us these things where Antioch is or where what's the name of the person. There's a message behind the story that the Quran wants to deliver. So that's the value of the anonymity. It's not to... Because sometimes when you mention the name of some people, our minds get distracted. You want to know more about them instead of the point that's being conveyed. So here the Quran wants us to focus on the story itself. Not on the people because this is like an archetype. It can happen in any community. And it's not specific to that particular city or that particular people. Can I ask you that? The Qalam, cosmological or any argument of that type. Anything must have a reason. So all of them all people accept that. Anything that comes from non-existence into existence must have a reason. Regardless of their believers or disbelievers. So the believers will say Allah SWT is the one that brought things out of non-existence into existence. Some people will say it's tabia itself. But everybody believes that there is a reason for coming from non-existence into existence. Some people today will say it's chance. That's the reason. The reason for coming into existence is by mere chance, coincidence. Some people will say it's mother nature. Mother nature is so smart she brought us from non-existence into existence. But nobody said there is no reason. There is like this cause and effect thing people accepted. Whether it's a real cause and effect or a parent cause and effect. And some people will the reason is interpreted differently depending on where you come from.  Mother nature is the one that brought us from. Because they have no other, once you eliminate the possibility that God exists what else is there? So either the universe created itself and this is mentioned in the Quran I'm khuli kumin ghayri shay'in I'm humul khali kumin I'm khalaqus samawati wal-arba Balla yuqinun I'm khuli kumin ghayri shay'in They created without nothing. I'm humul khali kumin Or were they the one who created themselves? And that's a da'ura, that's a vicious circle because you have to exist in order to create yourself which hasn't existed which is not in existence yet. I'm khalaqus samawati wal-arba Or were they the one who created the heavens and the earth that came back and created them mother nature created them. That's also da'ura. This is mentioned in Surah Al-Raka these arguments for showing that this is all fallacies. That's not the first thing you would engage in atheists. And there are other questions that need to be asked to know where they're coming from what's the real issue they're facing. And then we can have an intellectual discussion. I mean Jean Paul Sartre, he tried his best and he couldn't trace it back more than 300 plus years from 1950 or something so like 1650, 1630 That's when the first atheists started to appear in the form of atheism as we know today. That's what Sheikh Bouti thinks He thinks it's psychological. It's not. They may deny it whether it had an impact on them or not. It could be that particular experience, it could be different experience that they had in their life later on. If you have comments, please share those comments. The word nothing has different meanings to different people. So our nothing is nothing. We can't even conceive of nothing. Actually nothing is something that we invent. We see something that exists and we say if this thing was not to exist, that would be nothing. That's how we conceive of nothing. We see nothing. We see nothing. We see nothing. That's how we conceive of nothing. So what they call in Latin, ex nihilo. Allah created the word ex nihilo, out of nothing. Complete nothingness. But in physics, nothing does not mean this. In physics or in science when they say this is nothing or nothing can come out of nothing or something can come out of nothing. Their nothing is not the same as our nothing. In physics for you to call anything something it needs to be detectable or measurable. Once it's measurable we can call it a thing. If you can't measure it yet it's still in the realm of nothing. It's like quantum mechanics before they were able to observe. There were nothing. Once it becomes measurable and detectable it takes now a different technical term. It's now something. So when they say something can come out of nothing and if they mean by nothing, some fog or something that is already in existence that's not the same nothing we're talking about. Our nothing is different. I hope that clarifies. Every science has its own terminology. When we hear the word nothing we should not assume they're talking about the same thing. We need to clarify terminologies. Especially when we deal with sciences or with sciences not just physical sciences or also religious sciences or any other sciences because everything is a science. Let's stop here. Allahumma Laka Al Hamd Wa Aalayka Al Mushtaka Wa Anta Al Mustaan Wa Aalayka Al Tuklan Allahumma Jumaana Aalayka Wa Farikna Aalayka Wa Lataj'a Al-Huwa'i Jina Ilaa Ilayka Allahumma Mattyana Wa Aasma'ina Wa Aabsaarina Wa Quwatina Wa Jallu Al-Waarisa Allahumma Takabbal Salatana Wa Siyamana Wa Qiyamana Jazakullah


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Weird desires and laziness drive innovation and while we do still have the laziness part inside of us I feel like most people don't have weird bizarre desires anymore bizarre aspirations and things Wants because we normally come up with ideas to satisfy our desires Right say I want to have a chair that bends in different ways and say that the chair doesn't exist on the market right now And if I want to generate a few solutions on how to solve this problem I can either resolve it myself and start prototyping a chair that fits my needs and then start building the actual thing I can then go and reach out to a chair designer and explain my needs and work together on building a new type of chair And I can also do the lazy thing where I'm simply responding to surveys that are sent out by Furniture companies asking me stuff like how would the ideal chair look like and with me doing the brain dump for my Weird needs and improvement suggestions in regards to a simple office chair And what I'm trying to say what I'm trying to convey is that without quirky desires like without weird desires good ideas are also Put on pods because if there's no new desire I don't have to come up with solutions on how to solve that particular problem that particular desire because there's no Desire to solve but if I personally don't need it that doesn't mean that everyone on the planet is on the same page Now culture and the internet have transformed desire into a commodity they play around with your cravings all the time They adjust and tweak them out gradually pointing you in the direction of their choosing And we end up having sort of like the same wishes the same desires that the culture of Advertising has no implanted inside our skulls for generations. We want to have an awesome job great relationship kids Great friends and we want to see the world. This is now a default This is now a standard and then you go to the next step and say that you want to become a Podcaster and it's not weird anymore for say someone to want to become a podcaster because you know everyone can do that today pretty much It's kind of easy to set up your own podcast And it's just like a few clicks away, but this desire like 10 years ago or 15 years ago This was a weird desire, right people who didn't know what the podcast is and it would be weird Have that desire in the first place and this is true for a lot more jobs that did not exist 10 or 20 years ago And now have become the norm stuff like data scientists app developer or you know content moderator These are part of the new normal and with that comes more competition But one thing to consider when talking about stuff like this is that ordinary desires have already been satisfied And we hit a plateau and there's going to be a lot harder to become a popular podcaster today Just simply because there's a lot of competition and optimizing the fulfillment rate of a simple desire such as how can I create a more popular Podcast than Joe Rogan's is a hard daunting task and no one wants to do it as we are in general Satisfy with the good enough and again the reason why they are difficult to fulfill is because most of them have already been Fulfilled so first you can simply keep this in mind right weird desires drive innovation one other example I like to point out is the good old toothbrush And I'm oversimplifying this right if it wasn't for the guy who was too lazy to brush his teeth We would not have the electrical toothbrush and while this is not internally accurate I bet that back in today when the guy came up with this proposal and did some sort of demo to one of his friends or peers I bet that a handful of them thought that this is kind of weird automating your toothbrush Come on. That's a weird desire, but this can also cascade into multiple other layers, right? such as facilitating the toothbrushing for people with motor skill impairments and those with Bracers and this type of technology and micro improvements sort of set up the path for us to Develop new desires and also come up with solutions for these new desires and some might say that through our campaign of generating new desires We might end up to a point where we will start addressing problems that don't exist But I don't view that to be true for everyone because we as human beings are constantly evolving and with our evolution to a new Metal human we will have stuff that we want that we never thought we want before Who'd have thought that a desire for software that can do live captioning for zoom calls would be even brought to life that was also a geeky desire to have maybe a few years ago and Now that desire is not weird anymore Now we are living in times where digital communication is the norm and there are plenty of reasons why an individual would want to Have a file containing the text version copy of the presentation he missed now I'm not saying that we should all start randomly generating weird desires clearly desires simply because we want people to find a solution for them Because that's not practical. That's not functional I simply want to sort of go in sync meaning that you should think about a weird desire you might have an often thought yourself that is too weird to discuss it with people and Think about its importance and scale and then do the best you can in trying to start at least discussing that desire and Who knows you might end up with a new project that can expand into something you'd never thought before And this will sort of drive you to learn new skills so that you can come up with Solution that will solve that particular desire and I want to conclude the video with a small clip taken out of Lex Friedman's podcast Where one of his invites Ryan Schiller talks about how he learned to code Simply because he wanted an app that would allow Yale students to chat Anomously and share what they really think about what's happening in their college community And also tackle topics that are not being discussed during seminars and are sort of taboo the fascinating thing about your story I think it should be truly inspiring to like People that want to change the world is that you don't have a background in programming You don't have even maybe a technical background So you saw a problem You explore different ideas and then you just decided you're gonna learn how to build an app Like without a technical background like you didn't try to That's so bold that is so beautiful man, can you take me through the journey of Deciding to do that of like learning to program without a programming background and building the app like detailed Like what do you actually like how do you start sure? I mean, I wanted you to be able to Say a passing thought, you know in class make a passing like you're walking around and you have a thought and you can Express it or you're in the dining hall and you have your phone out you can express it So it was clear to me it should be an iOS app definitely had it in mind that what I was trying to make was I'm trying to prove Out an idea. I'm not trying to make a finished product I'm just trying to get to the first step because I figured if I keep if I keep getting to the next step At least I won't die now, you know, like at least things will move forward. I'll learn new things Maybe I'll meet new people I'll show a degree of seriousness about what I'm doing and things will come together And that is as you'll see what ends up happening So you got this Mac and you what like go to Google.com and you type in load Xcode and then code Yeah, and then I type in on YouTube like Stanford iOS Swift Enter


Hello team, my name is Anshul Bahel and I'm a technical marketing manager for the Ansible Automation platform. In this segment we'll shift our attention to deploying the CoolStuff app to the Edge devices. I'm acting as the release manager for the Edge deployments of the CoolStuff tour. Business is expanding for our CoolStuff organization after the launch of our website and these are exciting times here. Based on our recent success, we have launched two retail stores for CoolStuff in Johannesburg and in Dublin, which have self-serving kiosks located in them where customers can visit and order items available in the inventory. My job is to make sure that kiosks are always up to date on the inventory available and always have the recent version of the CoolStuff store running on them. In our Edge deployment workflow, we have automated the configuration and deployment of the CoolStuff app on this kiosk through Ansible Automation platform. As an organization, we want to make sure that all these devices are running a standard configuration and we want to reduce the time to deploy IT resources when expanding or relocating. As we have recently updated the CoolStuff application in the previous demo, we also want to deploy the new CoolStuff app on this self-serving kiosk. Let us first check what is currently visible on these kiosks. There are currently five kiosks in our Dublin store and three in the Johannesburg one. We have the web addresses of the kiosks number one in Dublin and in Johannesburg visible here and they are showing that they are out of stock on the Red Hat Fedoras. The image of the Fedora SKU seems off as well and we have new styles of Fedora available now. Let us try to deploy the app on this kiosk with a new image and a refreshed stock. We have designed an Edge pipeline that updates the app deployment on this self-serving kiosk. I will trigger this pipeline that starts an Ansible automation work. This is the automation controller component of the Ansible automation platform. It acts as the central hub for automation of a kiosk system and can automate multiple types of systems for us. Whether they are on-premise or multi-cloud deployments, it can also automate network and security devices or the devices at the Edge in this case. You can divide automation tasks into job and workflow templates. Work templates are Ansible claybooks that hold a set of automation tasks for target systems and workflow templates are a way of organizing the job templates in a desired sequence. In this case, we have a cool stuff store as deployment workflow that we use for configuring and deploying the app to this kiosk. Our Edge pipeline triggers this workflow for automating this kiosk. If we check out the workflow visualizer, we will see that the job template to configure and deploy the app on Dublin and Johannesburg stores are attached to this workflow template. Ansible claybooks or job templates are item-protent in nature. This means that this automation run will configure all the Edge devices in the same manner and if the configuration on some of the devices is off, it will bring them back to the desired state. If there are new kiosks that are added to the store, this will configure them to run the course of the app as well. The automation controller has a concept of dynamic inventories, which we have set up for the Dublin and Johannesburg stores. This means that the automation controller will always be aware of the kiosk present in the Dublin and Johannesburg stores. If we add more kiosk to the store, the automation controller will update the inventory before an automation run to make sure it's configuring and deploying the app on the new systems as well. This is the topology view for the automation mesh. Automation mesh is an overlay network intended to ease the distribution of work across a large and dispersed collection of workers through nodes that establish peer-to-peer connection with each other using existing networks. It provides scalability, reliability, and security global automation happening for the coolest of organization. To its bi-directional communication layer, native pairing capabilities, and TLS traffic encryption. For this deployment model, we want to make sure that the automation is executed close to the Dublin and Johannesburg kiosk devices for a reliable automation. In this topology view, you'll see that the Dublin and Johannesburg stores have their own execution nodes, which helps in scalability and a reliable automation close to these edge devices. We can check the health of these execution nodes from here, and pairing capabilities allows for a reliable automation in scenarios where an execution node is not reachable. It will automatically fall back to the next closest one. We can see that the job templates that have the inventories and instance groups attached to them. Then make sure that each job template will use the closest execution node and automate the target host that are in that store. So for the Dublin deployment, we see that the Dublin inventory and the Dublin store instance group or execution node is attached to this job template. This makes sure that execution is happening close to the Dublin node and the devices that are getting automated through this job template are only the Dublin kiosk. As a release manager, I want to get notified through Slack if the edge deployment pipeline has started and what is its status. For this, we have set up Slack notification message and attached it to a deployment workflow template. This will notify us about the systems that are configured once the job run is completed with their web addresses. Let's see the job runs now. In the job runs, you can see the logs and check if configuration and deployment of the app on the kiosk happened as we intended. So we can see the logs of what happened in this job template run. As we can see, our workflow is finished now. Let's check if there were any new messages on our Slack channel and also check if the kiosks are updated with the updated inventory and the new image of the Fedora. As you can see, the job run configured the kiosks first and deployed the new Cool Stuff app on the kiosks in Johannesburg and Dublin. By clicking the web addresses of each kiosk, we can see the job run configured all the kiosks. The addresses of the kiosks show that they were updated with the new application because you can see the new Fedora image as well as the new updated stock. I'll hand it back over to Ian for his segment.