Coming up on DTNS, Sega's new Genesis is many-year-than-ever. Can AI consciously uncouple from humans? And Gen Z resumes are out of control. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, August 15th, 2019. From Studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane. From Oakland, California, I'm Justin Robert Young. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Tom Merritt is out this week and next. We've got Justin, it's Thursday, so it's a regular all Thursday. We've got a great show ahead. And before the show, we talked about all sorts of things on Good Day Internet, including how far away from a skunk you can be and still smell it, plus hippie drum circles and much, much more. As a patron, you get all of this wider conversation, patreon.com slash DTNS. But for now, let's start with a few tech things you should know. L.A. Bobba's quarterly earnings beat expectations as e-commerce and cloud computing business growth helped bring in 114.92 billion won. That's about 16.3 billion US dollars in the first quarter, ending June 30th. That's a 42% increase from the same period last year, which raised US listed shares 3% to $166.72. Analysts expected revenue to be around $111.73 billion won. TechRadar reports that at a press event in Shenzhen, Huawei announced that the Mate X foldable phone would not be released in September. The reports say that the device was unlikely to ship before November, but that Huawei was certain it would come out by the end of 2019. The Mate X was originally scheduled to ship in June and had previously been pushed back to the now delayed September release. Foldable phones, they are getting delayed all over the place. The US House Homeland Security Committee issued a subpoena to Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan as part of a probe into extremist content online. Watkins has until September 5th to appear before the committee, a resident of the Philippines. Watkins posted in an online video this week that he's currently in Reno, Nevada and plans to testify. That's specific. UBS has publicly announced that it is taking a minority stake in TwoSimple, an autonomous trucking startup headquartered in San Diego. TwoSimple's experience includes a previous partnership with the US Postal Service carrying mail between its Phoenix and Dallas distribution centers. TwoSimple uses Navistar trucks using the startup's own autonomous driving tech, including nine cameras and a pair of LiDAR sensors. The company says it's been helping UPS, quote, better understand the requirements for level four autonomous trucking in its network and quote, where level four refers to full autonomy that's locked to a designated geographic location. UPS, 21st century, look at you. Speaking of delivery, Amazon is launching fulfillment by Amazon or FBA donations, which is a program for third-party sellers in the US and the UK to donate their unsold or unwanted products in Amazon warehouses, of which sometimes there are many. Amazon often has to dispose of or destroy unsold or unwanted inventory. So starting September 1st, the donation program will become the default option for all sellers. They have an option to opt out of the program if they want to though. FBA will access a network of US nonprofits through a group called Good360 and in the UK charities like New Life and Bernardo's. Amazon currently charges 50 cents to return unsold inventory, I assume that's per unit to sellers, but only 50 cents for disposal. So you can see where often it would be more attractive to just say, I just get rid of it, but where is it going? Not only would it be attractive, Sarah, it indeed was attractive to me personally. And I've talked about this in the talk that I've given at various conferences about how to lose $40,000 on Kickstarter, which is the story of our contender Kickstarter, the card game, which you can get right now, their contender, the game of presidential debate on Amazon if you'd like. But part of it is that we way overordered.  The problem is price on the package starts going up the longer that you leave it in there. And at a certain point, we found ourselves looking at a very steep bill to keep our items there that we're not selling at the rate that they were supposed to. So we had to look at our options. It would have been great. Cause one of the things, whenever we talk to our friends about, hey, we have a bunch of inventory, what people said was, oh, donate it. Why don't you donate it to schools, donate it to nonprofits, donate it to places where kids could experience the game for free. And boy, we would have loved to have done that. But there wasn't any obstacles contacting charities. It was a whole nother job, to be totally honest with you. And there is probably some work to be done by nonprofits in terms of accepting these items. Here's the only thing that I would question about Amazon in this specific situation. If we were to dispose of our excess inventory, which we thought about doing, Amazon still retains the right to sell your items at auction before they dispose of it. So basically they take control of it. It's disposed of it off of your hands, but you have no say over where it may land. They will take your product from you for a price. And then on the way to the trash can, they will text anybody who wants, hey, anybody want to put a bid on this garbage? And if people do, which often happens, there's a whole business of buying unsold items and selling it for cheaper than it's being sold on Amazon. But that's where a lot of that comes in. If you see something that's five cents cheaper, a dollar cheaper, $5 cheaper, but it's the exact same item, that's where that happens. And I wonder if that's the case with their donations as well. And more and more as sustainability and the issue of landfills and recycling needing to be better comes more into focus. A company like Amazon, obviously, they need a program like this because if they didn't have one, eventually people would just, you know, they'd complain about it as if they weren't already. But I've noticed this on certain clothing websites, for example, who offer either free or for a very low price a way to donate unused clothes, stuff that maybe isn't even really good enough for goodwill. But you don't want to just throw in the trash because that's wasteful and it could still have new life somewhere else. So more, particularly the larger companies, but more companies like this, I think that they should have their feet held to the fire to be able to say, yes, this is what we offer. These are the organizations that we work with and have that very clear to customers. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Gen Z set commonly understood as folks born after the year 1997 is making their resumes more visually appealing and exciting by using colorful backgrounds, Instagram photo layouts, and even Bitmoji. What? One employer in the report received a digital resume with a sweating Bitmoji on it to show that the applicant was willing to work hard and hustle, but the journal noted that those in positions to hire were generally of an older Gen X set, maybe turned off by what they considered to be unprofessional first impressions. Oh, clutch your spoon albums, Gen X. This is so unprofessional. Some companies are proactively trying to combat the flashy new resumes by running submissions through tools called applicant tracking systems that remove photos and other design embellishments to reduce hiring bias. Oh boy, yeah.  You know, I lost that fight a long time ago. I decided to just join the train and have a little bit of fun, but I don't know, the hiring bias is, that's an interesting part of this. If you see someone's name, if you know someone's gender, if you see a photo of somebody, that can all introduce bias into a hiring process, even unintentionally, even if the applicant wants you to have that information. So I get that there is, I get that there's a strategy here at the same time, flashy resumes have been around for a long time. I don't know, I can't tell you how many resumes I've seen where it's somebody's, I don't know, like class senior portrait where it's a funny color and you kind of snicker at it, but at the same time it does stand out. Unsaid in this is that Gen C is going to be the most digitally aware and competent generation. They are going to understand programs and apps that effectively replicate what used to just be one option, which Photoshop or a typewriter or a Microsoft Word template. So you're going to get more complicated resumes just because the people that are making them are far more familiar with the tools than any generation that came before them. And in fact, are probably finding, inventing and adapting more tools to do exactly that. Sure. And it goes without saying hopefully that for the most part, it's all digital resumes. When you say Instagram photo layout, on a piece of paper that you mail to somebody, no, we've gone into an age where yes, the resume is fully interactive. The bitmoji, you gotta read the room, right? There are certain jobs that that might go over well. There are other jobs where it would not. So in that sense, hiring is like it always was, but the hiring bias conversation is important. The hiring bias thing is a whole nother thing. And by the way, if that's the case, then you should probably be paying more attention to resumes as opposed to recommendations. But yeah, look, I mean, every interview, every resume is a two-way interview. If you're not willing to hire the person with the bitmoji, then maybe the person with the bitmoji was not a fit from a hiring perspective. And the Gen Zers are eventually going to become somebody else's bosses. So there you go. I'll be annoyed with all the holograms they're getting. Right, yeah. Why do we have to have all these 3D resumes? Sega's Genesis Mini is launching on September 19th. Some people are very excited, not only because it's $79.99, it's also 55% smaller than the original Sega Genesis. It connects to your TV with an included HDMI cable. It has two three-button USB controllers that mimic the original Genesis game pads and features 42 built-in games. Sonic the Hedgehog, Echo the Dolphin are included. That's not a big surprise, but some third-party titles like Castle of Illusion, Castlevania, and multiplayer games like Streets of Rage 2 all are part of the library that comes bundled in. The price is about the same as the SNES Classic and cheaper than the $99.99 PlayStation Classic. So, Roger and Justin, will you buy it? I probably, I mean, really, I probably would have bought the SNES Classic if it hadn't started selling out almost immediately. And I would say that this will probably be yet another hot Christmas present. But look, I was always a Genesis guy before SNES, and I will be very excited to get another run on Echo the Dolphin.  I have Steam and they sell all these games on Steam. So, yeah, there's a nostalgia factor, but the thing is you can get these games in a multitude of locations now. It's not just, it's exclusive to this one device. And so- No, but these are, these are throw it in your bag when you're going off on the road, man. You know what? You can get some of these off the Google Play Store. Altered Beast. Altered Beast. Yeah, my man, Earthworm Jim. I tangentially knew the guy who actually created Earthworm Jim, the cartoon character. Weird flex, but okay. But, well, you brought it in. You brought it in. It's not that weird.  Gold bag. Well, this is the thing. At some point, these are all very much of a nostalgia play, but the truth of matters, you can get a majority of the games if not all of them somewhere else. And if you already have them on your phone, you already have them on a device that's attached to your TV set, top box. You have them on your PC, whatever.  This isn't about the IP. It's not about the games. It's about the portability and it's about the HDMI port. That's what it's always been about. That's what all these little mini consoles are. It's not, yes, you can have them on your phone. And sometimes that experience is not the same as having that controller in your hand. Look, retro gaming is a big thing. Oh no, I believe me. I know it's huge. I'm part of it. But at the same time, it's like what you're buying is an emulated box that you can emulate just as well on something else. Well, so then it comes down to is the price point something that you, you know, is it low enough for you to say, yeah, one more device is actually gonna work well for you? $80 is a little high for an impulse buy, which is, if it was down to 50 or 40 or 35 bucks, yeah, it'd be an easy sell. But at $80, kind of price it. St. Louis University is continuing to offer Echo Dots in student dorm rooms for a second year in a row powered by Amazon's A word for the business platform. A private SLU skill Echo Dot can answer more than 135 questions about campus events, building hours and food operations nearby. No personally identifiable information is recorded or shared with the SLU IT team. And the IT team can collect some statistics across a group of devices like how many devices are listening to music but not from specific dorm rooms or what times of day. Streaming music is limited to the university's iHeartRadio subscription unless you connect your phone to the Echo Dot as a Bluetooth speaker. The team says that they can also see what school related questions can't be answered. Well, they can't see what school related questions can't be answered. Oh, they cannot see. Meaning, yeah, if you ask a question as a student that's not part of what the skill set is designed to answer, they can't collect that information from you. Although it would make the skills murder but yeah, it's privacy stuff. It is interesting. Apparently, and those in the know call it SLU, that's something I learned today. Yeah, the Kids at St. Louis University, the IT department sounds like it's pretty robust there. And after, first of all, before the project began, which is last school year, so just over a year ago, they did a poll of at least a segment of new students coming in and the students all were used to smart speakers in their houses. Oh, these are kids that they're like, yeah, we use this. This is something that we're, you don't have to train us how to use a smart speaker or ask certain questions. And the school being able to use a business platform that is, you know, the echo, they're echo dots, I think they're second gen. So they're not exactly the newest and greatest, which would be third. But they work normally, but they're also specialized, you know, to take care of what you would have previously maybe had to go to the help desk with the student union to figure out, you know, or access the school's intranet or anything that's kind of school specific. It's a little thing, but I can see this coming in real handy considering that they've obviously put some effort into it to have over a hundred customized school related questions about like, when does the library close or, you know, what's food nearby and things like that. I never lived in a dorm room. So this seems like something I would have liked, but I would love to hear from a younger person as to, you know, why this would be invaluable. Never lived in a dorm room? No, Roger and I went to a city school. So there were dorms at San Francisco State University, but most kids didn't live on campus. Did not live in, all right. This is gonna be a good, after good day internet topic. Well, continuing in the smart speaker realm, Google assistant now allows users to assign reminders to others within a family group. Reminders appear on phones and smart displays and can be set to appear at a specific time or based on location. Now a user can block another user in the family group from setting reminders for them and children under 13 need a privacy compliant account created using Google's family link platform in order to participate. The feature begins really not next month in English speaking regions, including in the US, UK and Australia. Google also announced in an email to owners of Nestcams, Nest Hello and Dropcams that it will deprecate the ability to disable the status light on those devices, meaning you can't turn that status light off. Status light is gonna stay on. Google announced a new consumer privacy commitment at IO back in May, along with the integration of Nest into Google and promised a clear visual indicator when Nest products were capturing content. So now you can, it is harder to use them as like spy cams, right? Like these are meant to be recording and surveilling things that you own, not necessarily keeping them for subterf... Clandestine surveillance, yes, on an unwitting subject. Yeah, I do not, I have exactly one Nest product. It's a thermostat. There's no camera involved. So this is not something that I've got. But Roger, you have a Nest camera. I do have a Nest camera. I bought it four or five years ago. It's fallen down a few times, but currently it keeps a watchful eye over my garage. Is this something, you get an email notification from the company, is it something that changes the way that you use it at all? Not really, but it's nice. It's nice to know that they're at least thinking about it. Oftentimes with some of these products, they can kind of go into a purgatory of sorts where there's no development on it and you don't know what's going on, but it still works, so you keep using it, but you're not really sure how long it's gonna keep working. Right. I mean, the privacy aspect of the light is great.  But I'm glad it's still operating. I can still go to a Nest site and see an image, like something I paid for five years ago still works. Roger, could you see yourself using the Google Assistant Family Group, setting reminders and stuff for various members? Maybe, I don't know, because currently my smart speaker usage is basically yelling at my shield to change what I'm watching right now or my daughter yelling at the shield to change what she wants to watch. Well, let's say somebody in your family group was close enough to the Albertson grocery store and you're like, don't forget to get the butter. It's definitely handy. It's probably more handy, at least in my case, if it was on my phone and it automatically alerted me when I'm at the store, like, it's like, oh, you're near this store. You should pick up the butter and the ice cream. Which it would, just for other folks. And so for stuff like that, that would be perfect. But as for my whole family, I don't know. Yeah, I guess it depends on how many folks are in your household that are active in tasks that are assignable. When my kids are older, maybe. It reminds me of one of those, and it certainly is a better thing to have these than not. But solutions that are technically more simple and yet culturally are more complicated. And we see these all the time in terms of phone features of like, oh, it's the easiest way to share something. Just tap your phone next to somebody else. And it's like, wow, that does in a demo kind of seem like that's the easiest way to do something. But culturally, I don't know, I'm already on my phone. Why don't I just hit a button and it shares and we don't have to touch phones. Well, folks to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. So yesterday with Scott Johnson, we talked about the Facebook Messenger story of transcribed audio messages being heard by humans and then transcribed by humans because they started out as audio messages. In some cases, the human moderators and content listeners were like, there's some sensitive information that I just heard. So Facebook is not alone. Now the conversation is a bit wider and has gotten a little bit more attention in the last 24 hours. So there's a really good slate article that kind of breaks down some opinions about this wider issue. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, they've all been criticized for allowing humans to listen to users' private conversations, even if it's just to make sure that the AI products that each company is working with is up to snuff. The quality is good and if it isn't, it gets better because humans are still better at understanding the sentence or request or what another human is trying to say than AI. Now Amazon is now allowing users to opt out of sending their voice recordings to humans for review. Google and Apple said earlier this year that they'd end human review of recordings. Microsoft had its own Skype thing. So a lot of the companies are rolling back this. Okay, this makes people uncomfortable. In some cases, the content moderators are themselves uncomfortable and feel that they're hearing stuff out of context that they shouldn't be hearing with personally identifiable information being shared. Companies all claim though, recordings are anonymized. Well, that's a step in the right direction. But again, if I'm getting recorded, even if it's inadvertent when I'm trying to talk to some sort of AI system in my house and let's say I'm on the phone with the IRS and I have to give them a bunch of my information, it could potentially be very easy for me to spell out exactly who I was unwittingly. AI doesn't understand everything though. So a lot of these companies say, well, yeah. I mean, we don't really want the humans to be the answer here, but that's the easiest thing we have right now. This is the cheapest way that we can solve this issue right now. In fact, Meredith Whitaker, who's the co-founder and co-director of the nonprofit, AI Now Institute says humans are just the cheapest and most possible way to do this because AI systems are trained by being told that they gotta answer either right or wrong. And the understanding of what someone said correctly and there just isn't an automated system that can replace a human at this point. Justin. Yes.  So you wouldn't really be able to know if I was, you know, what my gender might be or what my voice sounded like. All right, so this is a personal thing for various different people because privacy is not a one size fits all concept. We want to have privacy for many, many different things and we should be allowed as consumers to have more of a say on this. So I'm going to propose here for you guys, this is my smart speaker, Bill of Rights, right? I'm going to lay this out. Here's what you should have. Number one, I'm very uncomfortable by the fact that these are contractors. Either you are going to put the care and time by hiring employees that you are understanding, they are going to take on the kind of job to hear possible sense of information and they are vetted or at least have some element that they are not immediately going to, if they do hear a social security number, they're not going to flip it to somebody else, right? Or you have some kind of redundancy to know that if something does get sold that there is a recourse. Number two, everything that is recorded, and this happens for many of the smart speaker, wild clips that are sent for accuracy purposes, we should be able to know what they are and we should be reminded that that tray fills up every once in a while and it is there for our review. But on the other hand, obviously, this is an arms race. All these companies are going as fast as possible to set up Market Share because they want you in their walled garden as fast as possible. And this has happened with Apple, with Amazon, with Google, with Facebook. Everybody wants to be in this game and they are trying to make their version as good as possible. Humans are the way to do it. So here's my proposal. I will allow humans to do it, therefore creating the better version of it. And when there are updates to make the product better, I get them faster. Maybe if you don't want to participate in making the product better, then you just understand that the product's going to be at exactly the level you bought it at and that's the deal. That is what our trade-off is, is I will pitch in to make this better if I get a better version that updates quicker. Oh, so it's like you end up with the opt-in people getting the firmware update and the others are in the second wave? And that's fine, right? Like if you care about privacy, you do have to understand that there's a trade-off. Like these are, at least to what we know right now, this information is, there is an attempt to be siloed, although I think that there's probably a better way to do it again. And they are doing it to make the product better. They're not selling the information for right now, at least we don't know that they are feeding it back into cookies or algorithms to feed you ads. This is to make the voice assistant more accurate. Right. I like this idea. I'm not totally sure how it would be implemented. I'm sure a certain company, the thing is that yeah, this situation of company saying, okay, well, we won't do this anymore. It does slow down the technology for those of us who are like, well, it's a good enough trade-off. I actually just wanted to get better and this is the best way to do it. And again, experts say this is the easiest way for a company to do it, not the only way, but it's the easiest way. Eventually there'll be an AI, eventually there'll be an AI that knows how to do it well enough. Yeah, exactly. But you still, it's like a chicken and egg thing. AI, human, AI needs humans, humans need AI. Do you think, Sarah, that there is a worth for being the organic voice assistant that does not do the promises that never a human will do anymore? Ask your raise. Ask your raise, cage-free voice assistants. I do. I feel like, you get this with the browser folks, right? People, there are certain products that are marketed specifically for, there's privacy-focused or this is fastest or this is, it has bells and whistles that you can't get anywhere else. And that's software and that's a lot easier to update. So it's a different animal. But yes, I do think that in the way that people care about different things, that there is something that is privacy-first, that is anything smart, anything AI that would be in your home is gonna be attractive to some folks anyway. Thanks everybody who participates in our subreddits. You're privacy-focused folks. I would say that as a rule, as a blanket rule, that's what I would say about y'all. You're wonderful. Submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Join the conversation on Facebook as well, facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show. So Daniel wrote into our mail bag about our conversation yesterday about biometric data being unencrypted. It was a company called Suprema in the UK and quite a bit of information was publicly accessible. Daniel said, based on the 1 million people in the UK having their information stored unsecurely on a publicly accessible database, I work as a kind of operations engineer using programming language to build infrastructure for products. I could say a lot about how easy it is to build system infrastructure, both in the cloud and locally. Suffice it to say that with less than two hours of reading and copying and pasting, anybody watching or listening to DTNS could build the backbone of an app or a website either at home or in the cloud. And said backbone would include a password protected database with network access restrictions. There's really no excuse for what BioStar 2 did with their database. That was Suprema's product. No excuse at all, says Daniel. And there you have it. Yeah, Scott, if you missed our show yesterday, Scott Johnson invoked the voice of Tom Merritt to say the fact that researchers caught this, it wasn't something that was leaked out to the public and that's where the story came from is a good thing. Researchers are doing their job and companies have more tools to secure themselves as a result. But yeah, Daniel, you're right as well. It's a bit baffling why something like this was not closed in the first place. So thanks everybody who participates in our mailbag. Send your mailbags in. 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براي ازيك شما بيهتري بيهترامي كدم داره مبارك رمزان ده غرفتان روزه، بمواصده كفاره روزه بسهو مشكله، وبسياره كفاره دريقة مناء جبران يعني شما يكاره ميكونيه جبرانه وغناه ويكونيه ودوره قمهست اوليه كي شيزه ايك دوزه روزه فساد ميشهزه وقزاء وكفاره هروضه شو بيلاهزه ايها براي شيست؟ قستن يأك شيزه ميخوهن، ميفهمت روزه ميستون ديجه ميخوهن واختقا قستن يأك شيزه خرده خاق أوه باشه، شاي باشه، نان باشه، ارشيك باشه خرده ايك شخص يستلاه امراء فاميله خود رواوة جنسيره انجامه ايه بسرعة قستيه در حاليك ميفهمه كي شيست؟ ده موزه روزه وباعيسه شي ميشه؟ باعيسه اذي ميشه كه روزه روزه مشه كنه وباعيسه قزاء وكفاره هروضه شي ميشه كه جزاء سنجن داره كفاره ارطسان تر ميخوهن، كشي قدره كفاره الشي ايه شيزه واه اگر همي كاراره امي مسائله اگر بصورة بنسيان فراموشي انجام ده ايه دروزه اشتسيله ده ايه نفاره ميبينيمسه ماي رمزانه سمراسه قسن بيوتر ششتس قرار نان ميخوهن ايه شاي ميخوهن، ايه باعيسه فراموشه ده در حاليك وادم خوة ماشه امه طرفش ميبينيم وبرده اتو خروجهه وبيعه ده بنوغ ده خلاص ايه نواصيس دي هو شيزه. امه در ايه ببيونيم, بيونباره كامس السلام رحمة الله ورحمة الله والالمينه است. يك توشسيه ده يك يعليه ميغه اكسر دي ده يك روزه ربقه بصرزه صحويه اگرد ادم ذايي فبسيار شي بيوته ننتهي بايشنانه فوزرش كانه مشكنه ب Jinping بيوت أزيه ذايي فبت.   وإذا كانوا دواهات يأخذون جلاقيراً من جزء، يمكنهم أن يأخذون ذلك. إذا كانوا يأخذون بساحتهم يأخذون أمراء صحرين. دواهاتهم يمكنهم أن يأخذون أمراء شب. لأنهم لا يأخذون. لا يوجد مشكلة. يمكن أن يأخذون في الجزء موزمن. يمكن أن يأخذون ذلك. وطبعاً يأخذون. يمكن أن يأخذون بسيارة. يمكن أن يأخذون الهواتف. يمكن أن يأخذون الهواتف. بأغواخته ديقى. ديقوى كدهم سوال ديقانه؟ اتكاف بماء رمزان تن. اتكافه سنة بماء رمزان اس. يجيب ام داريم اتكافه واجيب بماء رمزان نست يجيب نفر ميجيكه اغر خداوان كاريمرا اي كارة انجام داد مبيرم اتكاف ميكوم. بره شنفوز. اونومو اس تس كمير اونومو اس اس انك بروزه غرفته نتانستن. اغر فرس كوني برشان اي قزائي روزه باشه. برشان وقت روزه قزائي داشتن. اما بيش از تا وقت كونه فوتمشن وقت داشتنك روزه بيجيرن. اما سلنغاري كردم. لا غرفتن. انا هالي بطرير رميش كدر زمان يخان زمان كاياتشن خاطمة مياوة. يجيب اغوشيات كونن. كما اي قدر شي دارو. بازو وقت اس كه اي واضح شو ده ورسش باز فديه بت. اما ورسش استرفة كسي روزي غرفتن امتانه. شما هيجيب اقت كسي اي واضح كسي ني نمازخان ده ميتانه. ني روزي غرفته ميتانه. اما دو كارك ده ميتانه در إبادة مالي ميتانه كه نيابت هست. يعني ميتانه كسي ده بيقوله كه زكات ماله مربوطه. او كارك ده ميتانه. او بار إباز يواضح حج بارو مشكله داشتن باشه. إيه كارك ده ميتانه. اما در نمازه روزه نميتانه كسي إباز ده كه نمازه فرزي شنجان بده. الحمد الله رب العلمين وعلا قبت البناء والسلام على قير قرق السيدنا محمد المعالى والسخاب الجين اللهم أفضلوا للخير والرحمة اللهم أجعلنا من الصالحين اللهم وافقنا بالشحبات السيد المرسلين في يوم الحشف بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله عليه وسلم على السيد المرسلين وعلى عاليه والصحبين باين برحمة تجارهم الرحمن إنه زالكالو خيراً كانت بشكل بلس to hear our teacher about the فق حانف الفق of Ramadan most of the stuff that I was going to talk about was about the same subject matter and then we will see where we go I just want to summarize some of the points that he made based on the فق of Ramadan that there's the many types of fasting one of the things is people don't know that there are many types of fasting so one is the fast of Ramadan which is far in the other one is the fast of the Ramadan the fast that you miss in Ramadan then you make up after Ramadan so that's also far from you to make that up so people especially the woman who can't fast in those days or the man if they get sick or traveling or anything like that that they have make it up that's the fast then the wajib is if you make an intention to say I'll fast if I get this job or if you have a child in tribulation if a lot removes it I'll fast for it so you can do another and that becomes a fast of the wajib which is very close to far and then you have the sunnah which is the like he was talking about the sunnah is the like when we fast you fast the two days not the one day the one day is the two days is this the sunnah and then so then you have the which is the the recommended days so then you have like نفل type of نفل and then the three days of the month also the three days of the month was really good really good practice for those who want to fast because there's a beautiful hadith a man came to the Prophet ﷺ and he asked يارسول الله I want to give me I want to fast and the Prophet ﷺ told him يارسول الله I want to fast and the Prophet ﷺ told him then do the fast of the with the ﷺ fast every other day when he got older and his older brother when he got older when he got older when he got older when he got older when he got older when he got older when he got older when he got older when he got older and his old age he said يارسول الله I want to me I should have taken the first advice because that was the best advice and the advice of the Prophet ﷺ was always in gentleness and there's something that you can actually keep because it became very difficult for him when he was old to fast every other day but if he fasted those three days of the month it would be easier to keep it حيث هناك شيء أخر that I saw, I read an article about the study they did on cell reversal. Do you know how people do this fasting for health purposes? Because the cells actually they reverse and they start healing. People who are diabetic and people have heart problems and other issues, they do fasting. And one of the things that it says in that article is that it has to be a minimum of three days you're fast in order for this to work. So which is one of the miracles of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. So those three days are good soon as people who want to fast. Our teacher here recommended that. He said that we should start practicing that as an أمة to do those three days. And then obviously then you have the fast of which is مكرو which is the days of عيد. There's two types of مكرو. Explain تنزيها and تحريمة. It's not close to حرام but تحريمة is close to حرام. So those are the days of عيد. We're not supposed to fast on days of عيد. And then also the three days after the عيد of قرمان which is the days of حج. Those five days. But then another thing that he said that was very beautiful is that he divides the fasting in three categories which is the fasting of the عام of the خاص and the خاص الخاص. The ordinary people, the عام, everybody, you know, we are. And then the elect and then the elect of the elect. So for the people of عام what they fast, we just fast from not eating, not drinking. And we don't get close to our spouses for our desire of our bodies. That's our fast. But the fast of the elect is not only those but they control their tongues. They don't speak anything unless that's beautiful. And if you look at the Qur'an when they ask Maryam, the mother of Jesus, she says I'm fasting, therefore I'm not going to speak. In other words, they didn't, literally they didn't speak when they fast. But our religion, because it is the religion of our Prophet ﷺ and it's the religion of mercy. We speak. When we say that which is beautiful and good. Or they keep silence. So we speak but we speak beautifully and we do thick air and we say things that are beautiful. So they control not only those three things from upstanding from eating and drinking but also in sexual desires but also from controlling their tongue and their ears from not listening to Haram and basically controlling their limbs. But then there's the خاص الخاص, the elect. These are the saints. On top of all of that, their heart is in the state of fasting. Their intellect is in the state of fasting which means their presence but Allah. They're always, they're so connected with Allah that they can't even have a bad thought. So it's the heart, the mind, the body and the soul. All of it are in the state of fasting. So the next thing is what we call the condition of fasting. Who should fast? Who is his father? And there are three conditions plus one. Some added it. As a matter of fact I had a discussion with my teacher last night about this because in the شرح of نور العيدة he talks about the fourth one and he gave a beautiful explanation. But traditionally it was only three condition which is you have to be a Muslim. You have to be a Baliq. You have to be someone who had puberty. And you have to be أقل. You have to be intelligent. In other words, you're not a madman. Because mad people, they don't have to pray. They don't have to fast. They're mad. They don't make sense of the world. But that madness what the doctor was saying is not someone who says like you know how some people they're like kind of gullible but they went to school and they can read and they can write. That doesn't give me an excuse not to fast. This is really مجنون. People who are crazy. Or another thing that he said which was very beautiful is you know one thing about فق is that a lot of the stuff in فق if you are a doctor, an MD in a فق it's just a beautiful, it's a gold mine. And he is an MD in a فق. So he said that for example today we have Alzheimer. They are excused from fasting because they will fall under this condition. Although they are not mad. But they can't remember anything. They fall into this. So the fourth one what they say is that to have the knowledge of fasting. So that's a good example is someone becomes Muslim. They just meet a Muslim. They were interested. Wow, that's a good religion. They take their Shahada. But nobody tells them that they tell them okay we believe in Allah in the last day and the Prophet SAW. But they don't explain that fasting is farmed on you. It's mandatory on you. So they don't know anything. They don't even know what farmed is yet. And Ramadan comes and they are not fasting. They are excused because they don't have the knowledge that's mandatory on them. Until they know and one of them the doctor said which is beautiful is that be gentle with the converts. Don't just put them all the rules in their head that they might just leave Islam say oh man I can't handle all of these. So slowly by slowly. The Prophet SAW said give converts four years. In other words it takes time for them to learn all of these practices. The other thing that was really amazing because this a lot of people get this question if somebody is instead of Jinnabah so let's say they have some kind of relationship with their spouses or they have a dream that gets them instead of Jinnabah they wake up in the morning in this Ramadan and they're fasting. They're like oh my God I'm not pure after I make ghusl I didn't make ghusl in my fast valley. The fast is valid even if you don't make ghusl all day your fast is valid and it was beautifully said by the doctor that everything in Islam is separate if you're instead of Jinnabah and you miss your dohr prayer you sin for dohr that doesn't take away from your reward of fasting so your fast is separately rewarded your prayer is separately rewarded or anything that you do is separate. It's not all oh no if you did this everything is wiped out no so the sinfulness of the person who miss a prayer because they're instead of Jinnabah that's separate they get punished for that but the fast is not invalidated obviously it's highly recommended to do ghusl before but some people forget or they wake up in that state their fast is valid so now what breaks fasting there's two types of fast I think that breaks fasting it's so good to have a faqi you just copy them you don't have to do any studies and no I actually did he told me to read I've been reading The Noodle either in the past week it's good every year to repeat Ramadan and whatever you know when Hajj time comes to do the Hafeq of Hajj and all that so just to be acquainted because you forget so what breaks fasting one is that you make qadha you make it up the other ones you make it up and there's a punishment for it the punishment is basically it's 60 days of fasting for men consecutively so you have to fast for 60 days consecutive the reason why they did that is for you not to do these stuff these are such big crimes don't do it that's why Allah when they look at these rulings they say this is grievous don't do this otherwise the punishment is great so people would have fear I'm not going to do this I can't fast for 60 days so obviously freeing a slave is not in our time fasting for 60 days and if you can't then you feed people and we will talk about that as well and if you can't there were people there's a famous story of a Sahab who Shaykh Hamza mentioned this story many years ago to us and it was really eye-opening that he comes and said I've destroyed myself I'm a messenger of Allah so what did you do because I slept with my wife and while I was fasting and the Prophet ﷺ you have to free a slave I don't have any slaves to free and then he says I don't have any money to do that and then he said the Prophet ﷺ said fast for 60 days and he said I couldn't fast in Ramadan I made a mistake fast for 60 days consecutively and then so the Prophet ﷺ says okay the free a slave you can't do it then he says okay go ahead and feed 60 people so he he says okay but he didn't have money to buy food for these people so the Prophet ﷺ he helped them with money to buy these things and he said go ahead now get this food and go give it to 60 people he said who should I he said give it to the poor the poor people he said my family and my tribe is very poor can I give it to them he said go give it to them to do your own family in your to the tribe so the religion is about ease it's not about hardship and then if you are unable to do any of those if you are poor you can't afford to do anything and you are sick and you can't make up 60 days you know all of the book they say just ask Allah for forgiveness but instead of brokenness and I just Insha'Allah so if you eat or drink to break your fast purposely so your fasting you know what I don't care I'm going to drink in Ramadan you do that that's 60 days plus the one day of the fast that you missed that you just broke for the sisters because they can't fast for 60 days consecutive they are away from that but they have to make that 60 days basically and then if you get close to your spouse while fasting that you actually do the actual action then there are Fasad that actually you just make Qada like you know they those are the things that you it breaks your fast but it doesn't like one of the things that he said and I love this very much this explanation of him again being a doctor it makes much more sense that if you're swimming or you're taking a shower and water goes into your ear your fast is fine it doesn't break your fast but if you put drops in your ear like you know if you have earache or something like that you put drop it actually breaks your fast and he said the reason why is because there is between the throat and the ear there's a canal but when you get infection or earache that there's there's a little curtain between the ear that's that actually gets there's a hole in it it gets ripped once it gets ripped that drop goes from the ear into the canal the throat so it will actually go inside your your body so that's the reason but if you're not sick it doesn't allow it to pass that through the canal which is really beautiful but also he mentioned from the book شخب دولة من بيه حفظوا الله صناعة الفتوة and the book he mentions about a fatwa that was given by the European Fatwa Council that they actually do allow the use of ear drops eye drops ear drops and also the the spray for people who have asthma so that's they allow it but in the tradition they don't allow those spray although oxygen is allowed because oxygen is just air correct oxygen is just air you just you know people have those oxygen that they need to to help them with breathing that's allowed because there's nothing added it's the same air that you breathe it just helps you so another beautiful he said which is also a noodle it says if you break your fast accidentally it it doesn't break your fast so for example you're sitting there you're drinking tea you forgot it was Ramadan and then you remember oh my God it's fast somebody reminds you and then so you stop at that moment you don't chew or so you spit out whatever you have in your mouth I think every year the first day I had either something in my mouth or just ate it and oh my God it's fasting so people it happens the person that have a beautiful they say that you're a guest of God like if it happens you're a guest of God Allah is just letting you eat while you can't eat He'll let you eat in your your fast it's still valid but he said about the gentleness of our Prophet SAW and his mercy that the Prophet SAW they see somebody that is while in Ramadan they're eating in the daytime he said if they're if they're young immediately tell them hey hey it's fast it's Ramadan why aren't you fasting but he said the Prophet SAW said if they're really old and they're weak let them just be gentle let them eat and this is so beautiful of our Prophet SAW until they they remember themselves and then traveling obviously خلاف on the mileage 48 miles 52 miles 56 miles it's around that that area I usually do the 50 56 miles 57 miles if you're traveling you have a roxa which means you can not you can you choose not to fast or you can fast but here's what شيخانزا told us if you're traveling on the plane and it's long distance they say you're going to New York or you're going to Europe and it's 8 hours and so on he said you must break your fast because a lot of people if you don't that's why on the plane they keep bringing why they bring you water just keep bringing you water if you don't drink water you can get sickness is where it can have heart attack literally it can kill you and people died on the plane from if they don't drink water so if it's a long travel but as the doctor said if you're traveling to Sacramento an hour and a half drive you don't have to break your fast you can just go and fast as long as it doesn't harm you in any way you can you know you shouldn't you shouldn't fast if it harms you and then also those people who are sick the sickness they don't you don't really need adopters notice if you know that you're really you can't fast Allah knows and you know and that's that's your notice but also if your doctor says that hey if you fast this will make you worse then you shouldn't but then about people who are diabetic and we have a lot of people in our community if you're type A type A is the medicine type 2 is the injection right yeah type A if you're taking just the medicine he said you can reverse the medicine and do it at the start time instead of doing an evening so you can take the same medicine it's the same distance you take your one pill at the start and the other pill you do that and you can fast it actually helps people lose weight and actually it's good for them but if it you can everybody should just see how things goes if it gets bad don't do it if it gets better why not I know that you know I know quite a few people that actually do fast and they feel much better in Ramadan than other times and they have those kind of sicknesses and then the Sadaqa is basically is people who can't fast so if you're young and you're sick that doesn't mean you just give Sadaqa and say you know what hey here's $10 I'm done and no if you're young you wait until you get well and then you make up those days alright but if you're old and you have chronic diseases and you're healed and you know that you can't make up these days then you have to keep you have to pay which they say some places they say $5 it's two meals some say $7 but he always told us the past few years at least do $10 so people have a hardy meal right and donate that to the Fokara and then Itikaf is Sunnah in the month of Ramadan obviously people used to do it at the Masjid and then there's another Itikaf that that was my question for him there's a second type of Itikaf that you do you say if this happened I'll do Itikaf instead of fasting so then that becomes a wajib on you if you say it it becomes wajib you have to do it and then you would do that at the Masjid for the man and at home for a woman and you have majority of the fasting and do the Itikaf even if it's not in Ramadan okay so that was the Fik and if you have any question at the end we will take a question about Fik and doctors here you can answer the Prophet يبشر أصحابكم ويقول قجاءكم شحر رمضان شحر المبارك he used to give good news to his companionship we always campaign his Sahaba that the month of Ramadan is blessing and everything in life like this Masjid as a door you have to enter through the door to the Masjid if you go to a mall there's a door you have to enter and so لكل شيء بابو عبادة أسيام everything has a bobbin entrance and the entrance of عبادة is fasting this is really fasting is the pinnacle of worship because every act of worship right كل عملي ابني آدم all of the action of children of Adam is theirs إلا السيام except fasting it's a hadith except fasting right fasting is whose Allah says it's mine fasting is mine and I'm going to give the reward for it now that hadith why is everything yours and fasting is his because everything that you do you do prayer 10 times the reward you do an amazing prayer spiritual heart 70 times you can get 700 times the reward but where's the number that Allah put for fasting there's no number for it he said I will reward it and because Allah's reward is infinite because his treasure house is inexhaustible when he gives he gives beyond numbers and that's why they say it's his and there's a beautiful tradition of a man who comes on the day of judgment and he has a lot of good deeds but people come and say oh he cheated me get this oh he did this to me and he started losing all his deeds it's kind of like you know when the government puts a levy if you owe them you can't even what happened to my banking and I had money but no the government you owe taxes and they take it away from you even though it's your heart earn money but you didn't pay your taxes they take it away from you they were people will put levy on your action on your on your rewards on the day of judgment because it's a day of nafsi nafsi everybody wants it and then this man is left with nothing and they put his little weight on one side of the scale and his acts of disobedience outwaze it and say oh my God with all these things I'm going to go to hell and then Allah says wait he says bring those treasure houses that nobody has access to he said what is that he said I thought this was all my this special reward for your fasting and they bring these treasure boxes that nobody can touch nobody can take away and he says open it and when they open it they keep pouring into this and it just keeps coming all of the rewards into the other side of the scale until it outweighs his sin and then Allah says enter my paradise so the actions in the month of Ramadan nobody can touch it it's Allah's and he will come to save you and this is why السيام الجنة the Prophet SAW said that the fasting is a shield it's a shield between you and the fire of hell it protects you from the fire of hell from the fire of hell and the other hadith that the Prophet SAW said in this everybody can testify to this إذا دخل شحر رمضان فتحت أبواب الجنة وغلقت أبواب النار وصفتت الشياطين that when month of Ramadan enter all of the doors of heavens are open and every door to the fire of hell is closed and all of the شياطين are locked up and you can feel it there are people that we know that they never do anything good and then in Ramadan they're fasting they're praying they're doing tarawih they're doing reading Quran they're giving charity because it's a time really the شياطين have no influence over you and the Rahmah is coming because of the mercy of paradise it's open now you still would see people that would do evil in Ramadan and they're Muslim and you wonder how is that possible those are the people that have ruined their souls if you have a good soul if you have a good heart and your heart Ramadan comes and you're good that means شياطين got the best of you in 11 months you're just being tricked by shaitan but you're actually good that's why you do good in Ramadan but if you're doing bad in Ramadan that's a bad sign that means that you've lost your you've sold your soul to shaitan now you become a human shaitan you don't need shaitan to misguide you so the prophet said that لسائمي فرحتان that a fasting person has two joys this hadith is very beautiful very beautiful فرحة عند الإفطار وفرحة عند الإقائر ربي that one of the فرحة one of the the joy is when he breaks his fast and one of the joys when he meets his Lord I always had I always like wondered why would eating food be the same as seeing your Lord like it just isn't it didn't it's two different things like seeing Allah meeting Allah and then like eating something it's not about eating this hadith is not about eating it's about completion of the fast that's how amazing these days of Ramadan are the fact that you complete the fast and all day you're sitting there you're working you're doing things you're thirsty water is there you're not drinking it food is there you're hungry you're not eating it and you're abstaining from all of these and you're waiting and waiting until it says الله أكبر and in that moment what a delay immediately you say Bismillah and you do your dua and you drink your water or your chai or your ru'afza or whatever or you're with dates and that is the joy of completing that ya'alhamdulillah I completed the day of fasting and that day of fasting the meaning of it is so amazing that we will only know on the day of judgment so there are many benefits to fasting Suha is one of them that you know it's really for people for good health now you know there's a whole movement within the non-muslim community that they do intermittent fasting and it's just fasting it's become a phenomenon in the world everybody's fasting now and and then there's also another benefit that it's actually it's actually really good to fast because you would know about the seed of those people who really don't have food and drinks one of the tragedies of our time is that our children grow up with refrigerators and they think food and drink is always there they never experience hunger they never experience that concept oh there's nothing one of the advice that our little jiffrey gave us when he first came to America about 25 years ago he said one day a week have nothing in your house no food nothing no drink no for nothing no juice everything cleared up hide everything from your children and just have bread water and maybe some yogurt and that's it and children come to their food and say that's all we have let them see that not always this luxurious time so they can get used to this idea we might not have food one day and they have this connection with the poor with the poor people say نعمر اخشوش be rough on yourself because blessings do not last because not always is going to be this rose garden of life where everything oh I want water and the water comes in and then they can the water doesn't come from fridge so let's figure this out they think that the water is always supposed to come from the fridge so we have to teach our children that concept that in Ramadan especially that you know to be connected with the فقرا إن شاء الله تعالى but the primary purpose of Ramadan is not for health nor it is to know about the state of the فقرا these are secondary the primary purpose of Ramadan is the primary purpose of Ramadan is تقوى كتب عليكم السيام كما كتب علي الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون that we have prescribed this for you now in medicine you have two types of drugs you have over-the-counter drugs and you have prescription drugs over-the-counter drugs is anybody can go and get it is good like what we call like doing vicar is over-the-counter like seeing شبهان الله الحمد لله it had no side effect but prescription is specific you know it's like if you get if you get really sick and you can't go and get hate give me some antibody to get healed from the sickness this is prescription Ramadan we prescribed it for you right it's a prescription that what is what does it bring out at the end of it because Allah says we have prescribed it for you as we have prescribed it for those who came before you so from Adam علي السلام to Prophet Muhammad all of them fasted but in different format the fast that we have is very unique لعلكم تتقون in order for you to become God conscious in order for you to know who Allah is in order for you to know if you know who Allah is then you know who you are and if you know who you are then you have a connection with Allah it's a two-way street knowing yourself إقبال رحمة الله علي he said همك السحبات سحبة عشانة طلب همك خدا خدي طلب همك خدي خدا طلب he said بعنة وكل شخص and seek the companionship of the only familiar one Allah is the only one who knows you Allah is the only one who knows you nobody else knows you your reality right he said seek the companionship of the only familiar one then seek to know yourself براءة الله و يترى براءة الله بسيطة فرامضان يأتي في موضوع طاقة where we get to know ourselves we get to know Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this connection is built because without طاقة human beings is in loss human beings is in loss and that connection is essential and that's why Allah constantly every year He sends a Ramadan that if He's disconnected with me I'm going to give you another opportunity to connect if every year it comes and that's the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that He sends down Ramadan every year in order for us to get connected back to His mercy so the virtue of Ramadan Ramadan شهر الرمضان اللذي أنزل فيه القرآن the Quran says that we reveal the Quran this month in this month of Ramadan and we also know that the Suhuf of Ibrahim was revealed in the first of Ramadan we know that the Torah was revealed in the 13th of Ramadan we know that Zabur was revealed in in Ramadan as well Suhuf was Torah was revealed in the 6th and Zabur was revealed on the 13th and Injil was revealed on the 18th and on the little Qadr Allah revealed the Quran all of them because revelation is you know Sayyidina Abu Bakr was with the Prophet ﷺ and his knee was under the knee of the Prophet ﷺ was sitting next to each other and then Sayyidina Abu Bakr said my knee I thought it was going to my joint or going to break it's just this heavy just start getting heavy and heavy and heavy and it was revelation that was coming to the Prophet ﷺ right this this vibration that that of revelation and then you know it's like when he said it was like a camel sitting on my knee that's how I mean imagine the heart of the Prophet ﷺ that can take this was just his knee touching the knee of the Prophet ﷺ of Abu Bakr said this revelation that when Musa ﷺ said I want to see you Allah say look at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai just turned into dust literally just with revelation لو أنزلنا هذا القرآن على جبل نرأيته خاشا متصدع من خاشية الله that it will turn it into dust this Quran this is how this is the power of revelation and yet the heart of the Prophet ﷺ was stronger than Mount Sinai that could contain that in this month imagine this month the power of this month that Allah chose this that all of the revelation was revealed in this month the merit of it is so much that Allah divided it into three portion أوله رحمة ووساته مغفرة وآخره اتقومي نهار that the beginning of it is رحمة is mercy the middle of it is forgiveness and the end of it is freeing from fire if it was a month of mercy it would have been good enough but Allah said no I just give one third mercy the second third is مغفرة forgiveness and at the end I just keep freeing you from the fire this is the nature of this month the beauty of this month and this is the mercy of Allah ﷺ so one of the one of the thing that this this month does is is when you are practicing this because the path of perfection it's you know like when you start martial art they do all these moves and you just keep doing this and you keep doing that and then at one point the kids they quit a lot of the young people they quit and say okay what's next but they don't know what the master is trying to do right he's trying to he's trying to teach you to become a master and at one point if you stick with it then you would see that's how you become a master martial artist but you have to keep repeating these things so that's where Ramadan comes you keep repeating and keep repeating keep repeating until you turn the you turn this walk into a diamond it takes time it takes time for it to to to to change and and and and he he said that you know and and up home he said أهل مفلك الدكادو أساري سيقال إشق سنجي إمروس كو آييني فرضا كرده he said the the the author the effect of سيقال سيقال is you know مولان رومي سيقالي كنسيقالي كنسيقالي keep polishing keep polishing keep polishing that heart you keep polishing he said if you keep doing it today's rock will turn into tomorrow's mirror right and that's the whole point of Ramadan is that at one point we will become like a mirror from a hard rock into a mirror but it's hard work polishing is hard it's not easy and we just have to continue doing this and be grateful that Allah has given us life to see this Ramadan in the famous tradition they say that the Sahaba the first 6 months of the year before Ramadan they used to make dua ya Allah keep us alive to see Ramadan ya Allah keep us alive to see Ramadan after Ramadan was finished the next 6 months of the year they would say ya Allah accept our Ramadan ya Allah accept our Ramadan the entire year was revolved around Ramadan so that's the that's the the power of this month it's a month of the Quran it's a month of mercy it's a month of forgiveness it's a month that everyone I don't care what people have done in their lives you can become a saint and enter paradise in this month if you just practice if you just get close to Allah in this month because we have a we have a night in this month this is the greatest month of the year and Abdullah Ansari said that he said when Allah created the heavens and the earth he created the 12 months were there from the beginning and he said but he veiled month of Ramadan from everybody it was veiled nobody knew the merits of it until it was unveiled when the Prophet ﷺ and in the second year of Hezra 18 months after they migrated to Medina when Allah revealed the verse of month of Ramadan that what this month is and the merits of it was was actually all of them were were were not revealed to to anybody else until it's exclusive for our Prophet in his Ummah ﷺ so let's make an intention that you know we actually benefit from this month and in Laylat al-Qadr is a night for sinners is a night for people of disobedience is a night for people of forgetfulness is a night for people who you know just ordinary people mazlum you know just miss masakeem just for Qara'a people who just okay we made a mistake we forgot and Allah gives a second chance that in one night He'd give you a lifetime reward like literally He gives you a lifetime reward and the Hadith says that if you fast in Ramadan Allah will forgive you entire sins in the past but if you can't fast there are people who can't fast right the people who are sick and old then if they do Qiyam in Ramadan that Allah will forgive their sins of the past but then the mercy of Allah He says okay if you even do Qiyam and Laila تل قدر I forgive all your sins of this is the beauty of this religion so Allah is is trying to make an excuse in order for us to enter paradise so He's just given us all these opportunities just one night stay up and Laila تل قدر and you can you can Insha'Allah get the reward of 83 plus years of worship Insha'Allah يزاك الله خير and I don't know what time it is yeah if you have any questions Insha'Allah we can entertain that otherwise now it's a good question أكتر سر because the teacher is here so I want to answer that I'll ask him مجمع مستبقى جوانا عي كاسي كار ميكانا مجانا ميتانا بكار روزة بيجرم ميشكة فيديا بدن yeah so the question was if somebody is you know people are working they say I'm working they're young then at all and they say oh I can't fast well I'm working you know go early to work and to late or whatever difficult construction working people who do things like that can they do فيديا and not fast so she said no because they they're not old or don't have like a chronic disease that they can't fast in the future so they can actually even if they can't fast they have to make it up if they miss it so only for those people who cannot fast in the future they can do فيديا but people who can if they're young then they should just make it up if they miss it I know I know a lot of people who fast and they they go to work before Suhu like actually do Suhu at work and they're like an hour before I've thought but they do so fast so it's a choice but those who can might be a very difficult position but they can make it up إن شاء الله and then another thing that Dr. Suhu was very good is that like people who who travel for work so he give a good example that if you work in Sacramento and you're like in here that's like an hour 45 minutes drive by شريع you're a مسافر you're a traveler but that doesn't make you a مسافر a traveler to to make you fast because you do that every day so you're not you're not really a مسافر because this is part of your work you go every day there and and then the same thing with the prayer you can you can if you're working Sacramento you're coming here you have to do the full prayer you're not doing traveler prayer yeah the eye drop you can actually but even you're also you can put the eye drop is fine the the the eye drop is fine is fine as as as as as as as as as as as as as as as is basically that you can do serma it's fine the the serma but the eye drop you should do it in the after you break your fast and in the super time but the new Fatwa in the European Council Fatwa Council they said that you can do it so that's you have to just you know choose yourself people that a lot of people who have Taqwa and they really want to follow the classic and a lot of the you know what if if it's not necessity then then don't do it you know follow the classic the classic Fatwa that's what I follow mostly yeah yeah yeah so just to be more careful and more you know it's better than to just you know take the the easier route they say that you know always take the harder route when it comes to worship and you know and and yeah so he said that that there's a canal from the eye into the nose and from the nose into the throat that actually will go from there and they said that sometimes you feel that saltiness in your throat is because your tears drop that goes from the eye into your nose into your throat that's the reason so those things will go and it can nullify year fast so the best thing is to stay away from it but one of the thing is that there are these Fatwa is that all of my gift that is on them and not on us so people need to just depend on on how you want to be on the issue yourself yeah the the the thing is that in the the the nose in the in the mouth is is far to do you have to gurgle and you have to sniff the water but in what do is not a so you really you don't have to sniff the water into your nose in in would you just have to be careful and then you're gurgling as well as well yeah just washing your mouth is fine yeah so yeah just you have to just be you you while is you have to do the but I'm just saying you don't have to you know and like you know it's not like in you have to gurgle the water so you can just wash your mouth but just be careful about gurgling because sometimes it does people accidently it goes through their throat yeah dental procedure but but your vaccination vaccination or or when so it comes but be normal Yeah this is the issue and so he said that in the hand there's there's a ID that bring changes to your body you can do that like four sorry if you put if you get لا يمكنك التطبيق التقنية ويوما أو إذا كنت تنظر على الحصول على المستقبل فهذا يجعله تغيير من حياتك في فتوة العالم العام التي قلت من أصبحت فتوة يقولون أنهم يمكنون أن تقوم بعمل هذه هي الموضوع المرحب ونحن لا أستطيع الحصول على المساعدة لأنني أتعلم أنه فتوة ولكنه يوجد فتوة مرحب فهذا يبدو مرحبا و لكنه يحتاج للتصوير، لا يحتاج للتصوير لهم لكن هناك فتاة بين هذا و العالم أحاول أن أقول مع العالم بشكل أسهل لن يكون هناك أي طريقة يقول أنهم يستخدمون إذا تفعلوا بطريقة صوت، يمكنك أن تفعلوا بطريقة صوت و كما تفعلوا بطريقة صوت، فلا يمكنك أن تأخذ بطريقة صوت لتحديد من المأكدر. هذا هو المأكدر. عندما تذهب إلى المأكدر، يجب أن تكون أخذر لأن الكثير من المأكدر سيكون في المنطقة. لكن كما يجب أن المأكدر لا يجب أن يكون فيه بلدات أكثر سبيلت، تصميم جيوبية وفتوة. لكن تصميم جيوبية، بلدات أكثر سبيلت، أن تصميم الجيوبية. لا يمكنك أن تفعل هذا. أو جيوبية؟ بالتأكد. إذا يجب أن تقوم بتأكد في المنطقة في اللقاء الأخير ، أو لو يكون إجرام أو أحدًا بحاجة. إمارجانية يجب أن يفعل هذه الأيام أكثر سبيلت ، يجب أن يتخلص يجب أن يأخذ أكثر سبيلت. بلدات أكثر سبيلت تتعامل الغضب دي لتقبيل هذا thinks so you have to make that day up so you can fast if you do operation or something like that And if you have the next day you have an operation he said that night do not make intention for fasting because you know it is going to break you fast You have to make up for that one day that's a very good question هذا جيد هذا جيد إذا ت forget أنك تنسوا مدينة لكنك تنسوا أفس the whole month و لكنك تنسوا مدينة و لن تنسوا دكتور عد了 في السعر أنه عند شخص مدينة أنه في أعلى حنفي مدهب هو في القراء ليست في القراء إذا كنت في قراء و في القراء هو مدينة و لكنهه فقط في القراء فلما أنك تنسوا عندما يجب على سهور، لماذا يجب على تفاصيل؟ هذا هو الوصول. فهذا هو الوصول. عندما يجب على سهور، هذا هو الوصول. even if you don't say anything, you already did the intention. but if you say it, it's obviously better. نور وعلا نور. but that's the intention when you get up. so the question is this, can they make one intention for the whole month? or because the Malik I think they can do that. so it's good to me. I always have forgiveness. and a couple of times last year I got up for Fajr, it was Fajr. it happens. so I make the intention at the beginning of the month that I forget stuff. I intend to fast for the whole month of Ramadan but every night I try to make the intention. and I actually make my kids say the same thing. so just make the intention for the whole month the days that you are able to fast. you are fast. so when you come for prayer let's say there's a Jama'a going on and you come for prayer you don't have to make intention because you came to pray. that's your intention. so you walk in that's the intention that you came in you can just stand in line and start to pray. you don't have to say oh I intend to pray for units above Asr and I faced a couple. that's good. it's additional but for the Hanafis the fact that you are coming for the Masjid to pray that's your intention. the intention is very easy for the Hanafis for other Madahibs it's a little bit difficult. they have to say it on their tongue. if the Hanafin is so they show off your son. alright. five moments. so the question is that if you have a blood work you have an appointment to get some blood and do blood work on yourself and you're fasting. obviously when they do the blood work your wudu breaks because the blood coming out for the Hanafis it breaks your wudu. so yeah then the fasting doesn't break because nothing enters you. they take it out. so your fast is good it doesn't break the fast when they take the blood out but if they put something in that's when it is problematic but you know just like cupping when they do cupping or bloodletting you can do that and it's still your fast is good. it's a very good question so the Quran actually when it came down it was on the لوح محفوذ it's in this protected tablets that Allah has put it on on this protected tablet so then from there on the 27th night or whatever night that Laylat Al Qadr was right in the Anzal Nahu Fi Laylat Al Qadr we revealed this Quran on Laylat Al Qadr they came to the Samaa Aduniya to the worldly from this heavenly it came to this world from there it took 23 years portion by portion to come to the Prophet ﷺ so that's what Allah is talking about in the Quran is that whole Quran coming from the لوح محفوذ into the Samaa Aduniya into the worldly sky and then from there it took 23 years but then one night it all came down to that well Quran the Quran is because it's the uncreated word of God the act you know not the Mushaf that we have like the book that's the print out but the actual Quran when we talk about لوح محفوذ that's uncreated word of God so this is beyond time and space right but then when it comes into the world as revelation it comes in a specific time and space yeah yes yeah it's about the Samaa Aduniya yeah no the Quran is a revelation but it's the word of God is not is uncreated because God is not created he's a creator so anything that comes yeah yeah well I can because my time I have one minute yeah but that's that's a it's really actually a nice topic it's on about the our belief in the Quran and because this it is a lot of people it's very hard to understand because when you look at the Mushaf they say oh so this is no this is a paper that's printed this is we're not talking about this so you have you have the form and you have the meaning right so these and so a good example I can give you when you open your Quran on your phone right so when you open it you have you have you have the Quran written in there right but is that the Quran or is it<PHONE_NUMBER>1001 right so what do we what we see is different than what it is inside of this right so that's where people kind of like they're saying oh is this is this the uncreated word of God but they they can't penetrate the one layer of them to the meaning of that to see beyond that and and that's part of i mean i mean i mean i mean you go through these umணش دان ran umon it's a fascinating subject it's a fascinating subject you know but umHold I wish we had more time I wish we had more time I wish we had more time I wish we had more time but maybe we can a class on that this go in under فإنك تقصد معك من خلالك ، فهذا يمكنك فتحكاتك بأبسل. فإنك تقصد معك من خلالك ، فإنك تقصد معك من خلالك ، فإنك تقصد معك من خلالك ، فباً يمكنك أن تفادرها في حالك. و aik夠 if you are melting somebody else, if somebody says there are people who melt other people's children you can still break your fast for that as well. In terms of children who are half on let's say powder milk, you said that depends on the situation that if it's going to harm the baby not to give the mother's milk then you break your fast and you get to make sure that the child gets what they need.  يتحدث عن one is رمضان إتكاف ، which is سنة ، one is واجب إتكاف ، which is نزري ، when we say نزري ، if we have like ... if this happens I will do it a cough, right? so that becomes واجب ، it's actually higher than the sun. so you have to do it so ... I know a person who had their son in jail or something like that in juvenile hall and they say if he comes out I'll do it a cough so then when the kid comes out then you have to do it ... it's واجب for you to do the إتكاف. so when you do the إتكاف you fast, that's what the majority of the أولامة they say. you fast and you do the cough, you do it properly. but now a lot of people I know there's all these young kids they're like we do need to cough, they do need to cough in a masjid and then two hours later they're playing basketball outside and they go to Denny's and they come back today I'm like what kind of إتكاف is that? but you know I'm happy they're doing that at least they're in a masjid so young people, Alhamdulillah. حسناً يالله أعطينا جميعاً لكي يحاولونكم في this blessed month of Ramadan يالله تساعد كل من who is in this gathering من all of the evil of their time تساعدهم, تساعدهم أهلبيت تساعدهم أبناء and their families يالله من all the facade that fit now about time من all of the airborne diseases from Corona and all its variants يالله anybody who's here has any hajj يالله make it easy for them يقصر ولا تعصر and remove all the problems from their lives يالله anybody who's sick here يالله يارشاف يارخم الرحم يمشفه يالله healing from all of the diseases whether it's spiritual, mental or physical يارحم الرحم يالله make the affairs of life easy for everyone and give us so few to worship you and put your love and the love of your messenger in our hearts, in the hearts of our children in the hearts of our offspring until يوم القيامة that we all live with كلمة الله إلهي لله محمد رسول الله and we die with كلمة الله إلهي لله محمد رسول الله and we are raised on the يوم القيامة with كلمة الله إلهي لله محمد رسول الله and y'allah on that day يالله from all of us يالله in our children يالله makes amongst the people that you're pleased with us and your prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is proud of us to be seizes يارحم الرحم صلى الله تعالى لسيدنا وحبيبنا وقرت العيوننا محمد وعالى وصح بجمين برحم الرحم يارحم الرحم صلى الله عليه وسلم سلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


Hi, this is Jill Bates, ESU 8 Assistant Administrator and Nursing Coordinator. Thanks for joining me today to today's Wednesday webinar entitled, Get Up and Take a Stand – Understanding Our Sedentary Lifestyle. We'll learn why it's important to get out of our chairs and take a stand. Let's start by thinking about our own personal sitting behaviors. How much do you sit in a typical day – 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours or longer? As the photograph even displays, small children are sitting longer hours because of exposure to technology including computers, tablets and TV. During this presentation, I'm going to refer to the JustStand.org website. This website is packed with resources, one of which is the tool, Sitting Time Calculator.  It also includes sitting behaviors during commutes, watching TV and while working on the computer. Let's see how it works. I like to think of myself as a fairly active individual. I take the time to exercise every day and I also try to move away from my desk when I'm in the office. However, when all of my daily sitting is added together, my personal risk for sitting disease is high. Yikes! 10 and a half hours of sitting each day? I find that unbelievable and kind of frightening. According to researcher James Levine, humans have only sat for about 200 years. We are not designed for chairdom. Sitting is more dangerous in smoking, kills more people than HIV and is more treacherous than parachuting. We are sitting ourselves to death. How did no one notice? The typical American is active only 3 hours per day. And we don't like that we're so sedentary. According to their research, 67% of Americans hate sitting, yet 86% of us sit all day at work, only taking breaks primarily to visit the restroom or get a drink. Sitting can be uncomfortable, disrupt our workflow, and limit focus and productivity. Over half of those surveyed said they'd rather stand more while working than do 30 minutes of cardio exercise. Many even reported a willingness to go without coffee or give up social media for a week if they could stand more often. So why is standing so important? Let's find out by watching this video from JustStand.org about you, that the information shared in that video really grabbed my attention. I even feel a little bit of guilt sitting here recording this webinar. I should be standing, right? All the information in that video we just watched is based on this list of references, including the CDC Take a Stand Project. For me, one of the most alarming facts in that video is this one. We've become so sedentary that 30 minutes a day at the gym may not counteract the detrimental effects of 8, 9, or 10 hours of sitting. I mentioned earlier that I try to exercise at least a half hour each day. And now I find out that because I sit so much when I'm in the office, the daily exercise that I get may not impact my health as positively as I originally thought. Also, for people who sit most of the day, their risk of heart attack is about the same as smoking. Unbelievable. In James Levine states, today our bodies are breaking down from obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, depression, and the cascade of health ills and everyday malaise that come from what scientists have named sitting disease. So what is sitting disease? Medical experts have started referring to long periods of physical inactivity and its negative consequences as the sitting disease. A study of 6,300 people published in the American Journal of Epidemiology estimated that the average American spends 55% of our waking time in sedentary behaviors. A 2010 study by the American Cancer Society found that women who were inactive and sat over 6 hours per day were 94% more likely to die during the same time period than those who sat less than 3 hours a day and their mild counterparts were 48% more likely to die. Ladies, we need to pay attention. Standing a little more each day tones muscles, improves posture, increases blood flow, ramps up metabolism, and burns extra calories. How many calories? Well, let's use the juststand.org calorie calculator to find out. I've entered information for a 160 pound individual who works 8 hours a day. If this individual stands while working, he'll burn an additional 320 calories per day and over 10 days, that would mean a one pound loss in weight by simply standing. So what's the remedy? The remedy is sit less, stand more, start now. The American Medical Association Centers for Disease Control and American Cancer Society agreed that we should reduce time spent sitting by using standing desks or other alternatives. In fact, research shows if people sat 3 hours less a day, it would add 2 years to the average U.S. life expectancy. Do we need to break up with our office chairs? Comfortable too fast. I know you're soft, but it's just not right. I feel like I'm with you 55% of my day, then look at me. I work out all the time, but no, it's not good enough, is it?  I heard I could be even more fit without you. Fact. Yeah, well, I think we're done. Goodbye. Listen, we're probably going to see each other around the office, so don't make this weird, all right? OK, that's kind of a humorous way to take a look at prolonged sitting in the office, but perhaps a standing desk is an option. This is a photograph of a desk that we have here at ESU 8. Now I recognize that purchasing or even building a standing desk isn't always an option.  Do we all need a standing desk? Probably not. Maybe we just need to consciously think about standing periodically throughout the day to harvest some of the benefits. The CDCs take a stand project, identified these positive results from increasing non-sitting time by just one hour per day. 87% of participants felt more energized and more comfortable. 75% felt healthier. 71% felt more focused, and 66% felt more productive. On the flip side, 50% felt reductions in upper back, neck, and shoulder pain, while 38% felt a reduction in fatigue. And not surprisingly, 100% felt better, and two out of three participants reported feeling much better. Participants reported increased focus, reduced pain, and improved posture. Increasing non-sitting time by just one hour a day was the impetus for several participants to increase physical activity in other areas of their lives. So how can we easily add standing to our day? Juststand.org suggests the following ways. A very simple and easy way is to stand every time the phone rings and remain standing throughout the call. Stand up during meetings and when you drink coffee or have a snack. Wash the clock and stand up from your desk at a predetermined time interval. Juststand.org also recommends that we stand when our frustration levels increase, simply to clear our heads and get a different perspective. Another suggestion is to install a timer or a browser extension or app that pops up on your computer and asks you to perform a simple exercise. I have the Move It Chrome browser extension installed on my computer. You can customize the exercise interval for five to 55 minutes and enable or disable the extension when appropriate. On my computer, every 55 minutes, Move It asks me to get up and do something, like perform 10 wall push-ups or 10 knee lifts. Well, now sometimes it can be annoying and it can interrupt my thought process, but you know, it also makes me think about my health and that's a good thing. We adults need to think about our health and our physical activity levels. But what about our students? This Juststand.org infographic states research shows physical activity can strengthen key parts of the brain that help us learn. Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in the U.S. have tripled and nearly one in three children are overweight or obese. Also frightening is the statistic that two out of three kids today are inactive and do not receive enough physical activity. Now we know that learning plus movement that causes increased oxygen to the brain can lead to higher academic performance. Researchers found that active children show superior motor fitness, academic performance and attitude toward school over those kids who don't engage in daily exercise. So perhaps we can give students an opportunity to stand periodically too. Even low-level physical activity can have a positive impact on student health, engagement and academic performance. A Mayo Clinic estimate indicates that a standing child will burn 15 calories an hour more than when he or she is sitting. Over the course of a school year, that's equal to a five-pound loss of fat. So an active classroom can help reduce childhood obesity. You might want to check out a previous Wednesday webinar from last spring to learn more about incorporating brain breaks to help keep students engaged and focused. Now we all need to remember that standing all day may not be healthy or practical. Sometimes we just have to sit. We naturally want to sit at times to rest or when we are concentrating intensely. However, let's all try to add one hour of standing to our day. To recap, here are some easy ways to do just that. Walk more at work. Park your car farther away from the building. Use the stairs or take the long route to the restroom or your mailbox. While computing, set a timer to remind you to stand up and stretch. Or use this time to pick up and clean your work area. Stand up when you talk on the phone. Don't send emails if the recipient is near. Walk over and talk to him or her. When you're watching TV, lose the remote. Get up to change the channels, just like we used to do in the old days. Stand or exercise while you watch TV. Or just stand and move around during those pesky commercial breaks. I purchased James Levine's book. One of the final pages states the following. As a society, we sit at a juncture. If we stay on this course, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular death, cancer and dementia will ravage our generation, our children, and all those that follow. If we get up now and plan an active way forward, there is hope. Charalessness will not cost money, in fact, the opposite. At a personal workplace and national level, a chairless revolution, a national uprising of human movement will improve productivity and generate revenue, better health, clean air and enhanced happiness. The good news is that there are scientifically validated solutions for your company, school, community and self. Strategies, technologies, tools and plans exist that can help you get up and stay up. I offer you a promise. If you get up from your chair, you'll be better for it. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments about this webinar. And check out the JustStand.org website for additional information and resources. Thanks so much and remember to take a stand.


This is stock number 1032-4, we are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used SUV headquarters. Today we are checking out this extremely clean 2014 GMC Acadia. This vehicle has the 3.6 liter V6 motor, which pumps out 288 horsepower. And from this HD video you will be able to tell that this SUV is extremely clean all the way around. Right diamond, tricode is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is like you're right here. Looking at the vehicle with me, and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person, comes with the 20 inch factory alloy rims with the chrome covers. And it has Michelin 255, 255 R20 tires with just about all the tread left, I'd say 80 to 90% of the tread left on those tires, didn't see any dents or dings on that front fender. Headlight lenses are nice and clear, it has the LED running lights, projector lamp head lamps, the projector lamp fog lamps, no dents or dings on that front bumper, nice condition. The hood is in excellent shape, I didn't see any dents on that. Passengers side fender, no dents or dings on that. And the passengers side rim, no scuffs or scrapes there. On the rest of this side of the vehicle, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the vehicle, hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. One more time down this side, very, very clean, didn't see any dents or dings on the doors, lower rockers look good, back rim is in excellent condition, four wheel disc brakes on these Acadias and the back tires are just as new as the front tires, lots and lots of tread left on those tires. As we come around to the back, it does have the dual rear exhaust, the towing package which includes a seven pin wiring and receiver hitch, backup parking sensors, rear gate is in really nice condition, didn't see any dents or dings on that, it is a power lift gate, all wheel drive of course and the back storage area is very clean, no rips or tears in the carpeting, these seats do go down nice and flat and they come up really easy as well, you do have rear audio controls back here and to get this gate down there's a button right here, press that and it will come on down for you, as we come around to this side of the vehicle just as clean as that passenger side, no dents or dings on the rear quarter and for full disclosure this back rim is in really nice condition as well, down the rest of this side doors look good, has a built-in directional signals, the blind spot monitoring in the mirrors, inside the Denali package gives you the cocoa, tan leather interior, no rips or tears on the seats, it has heated and cooled seats, driver's side lumbar, memory driver's seat, weather tech floor mats throughout, there's your memory driver's seat power windows power locks power mirrors, these mirrors also power fold in like so and it does have the Bose premium audio system, auto headlamps telescopic and tilting steering wheel is power and this vehicle has 72,652 miles instrument clusters, very nice and clean, comes with the wood grain trimmed and leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth audio controls on the right cruise controls on the left, comes with the factory navigation system, this is also where your backup camera shows up, has a CD player, AM, FM, Sirius XM radio capabilities and has an aux jack right there, do your climate control down here and you get your heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your traction control rear wipers, tow package and you can turn that rear gate off and on automatic transmission, weather tech floor mat on that side as well, no rips or tears, this Acadia has never been smoked in, it does have the power sunroof and the second roll glass roof, home link buttons, map lights and on-star capabilities in the rear of the mirror, we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood, back seats are just as clean as the front seats, it does have the quad seating back here with the captain's chairs and the armrests, no rips or tears on these seats, super clean, weather tech floor mat back here, rear air and audio controls with two aux jacks for headphones and then two USB ports, like I said it has that second row glass roof and to get these seats down you just pull the strap, it'll fold down like so and the third row seats, no rips or tears, carpeting is nice and clean, no seats go up really nice and easy, it does have the child safety lock for the second row and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, hopefully from this HD video, you'll have been able to tell just how clean this Acadia is all the way around inside and out, under the hood we have the 3.6 liter VVT motor, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, this vehicle has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this one is 100% ready to go, to see more pictures of this vehicle or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name what we got, go to our website www.summodauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summodauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summodauto, remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there, in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left, a link to more used inventory videos like this one on right, if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2014 GMC Acadia Denali, thanks again.