So, coming to the lateral quadrant of the ankle, we are left with peroneal tendons. Before we begin with assessment of the peroneal tendons, let's revise our bony landmarks which is your lateral malleolus, the peroneal tubercle and the base of the fifth metatarsal. Now, this is a volume rendered image showing the peroneus brevis tendon and the peroneus longest tendon over here. So, in the retromalleolar segment, the peroneus brevis lies anteriorly to the peroneus longus and the peroneus brevis has a shorter course as it goes and attaches over the base of the fifth metatarsal whereas the peroneus longus as it goes into the inframalleolar segment, it goes inferior to the peroneal tubercle and it goes and enters the foot. The peroneal tendon sheath consists is a Y-shaped structure. So, in the supramalleolar segment, it has a single limb whereas as it goes down, it splits into two. So, it is typically an inverted Y-shaped kind of a structure. The peroneal tendons are stabilized by the superior and inferior peroneal retinaculite and these retinaculite prevent subluxation or dislocation of the tendons. This is another diagram just to show a better depiction and we see the peroneus brevis which is closer to the bone, that's the peroneus longus, this is the tendon sheath and these are the superior and inferior peroneal retinaculite. When we take a cross section, this is what the peroneal retinaculum looks like, that's the fibula. Located in the groove, we have the peroneus brevis which is close to the bone and the peroneus longus tendon, they are surrounded by the tendon sheath and this orange shaped outline structure is a peroneal retinaculum which goes and attaches over the fibula with the help of a fibrocartilaginous structure. So, this peroneal retinaculum allows lateral subluxation or dislocation of the peroneal tendons. The peroneal tendons are evaluated in the short axis so what we see over here is the fibula, that's the peroneus brevis tendon close to the bone, that's the peroneus longus and we still see the brevis muscle belly. As we go down further, we see the peroneus brevis, peroneus longus and this hypoechoic structure as it attaches over the lateral malleolus is the peroneal retinaculum. On the long axis, the peroneal tendons are not seen typically as any other tendons, fibrillary patterns set into bundles over here, that's the smooth cortex of the lateral malleolus. As we go to the inframalleolar segment, the peroneus longus is seen inferior to the peroneal tubercle whereas peroneus brevis is seen superior to it. In this case, the peroneal tubercle is slightly shallow hence really not that well seen but then this is an anatomical variant that we should all be prepared for. Some of the peroneal tubercles might be really prominent while some might be almost flat so we should know that. Of course, peroneal tendons also need to be evaluated on dynamic scanning, we see them while asking the patient to avoid the foot and in this case we see the peroneal retinaculum and we see some intra sheath subluxation of the peroneus brevis below the peroneus longus tendon. So with this, the take home message would be if you want to scan the ankle or any joint for that matter, knowledge of anatomy is a key. You should have a systematic approach and you will do a good job without getting lost anywhere. We should know about the anisotropy at various levels at the attachment of the Achilles tendon where the peroneal tendons curve around the lateral malleolus. Focus at the site of the symptoms. In musculoskeletal ultrasound most of the times the findings are going to be at the site of the pain and use dynamic imaging wherever necessary. So these are the last couple of images that I would want you to see. This is the orientation of the probe for the anterior inferior tibia fibula ligament, the anterior tarafibula ligament and that's the orientation for the calcane of fibula ligament and this is the take home slide that you need to know. Now all these structures have been mentioned in the ESSR guidelines. Hence you need to know how to evaluate them. Thank you.


created the human being to two different dimensions. The first dimension is the obvious, in terms of what is known as, perhaps, the bodily dimension. Allah is the kind of what the other has given us a body. He has given us hands. He has given us trans fingers. He has given us the ability to see and to hear and to taste and to smell and to touch and so on and so forth. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has also created the human being with another dimension. And this dimension can perhaps be coined as the human being's spiritual dimension that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created within the human being a soul which also has the ability to see, which also has the ability to reflect, which also has the ability to understand. Which is why the narration from Amin al-Mu'mineen, Ali ibn al-Qalib, Ali al-Saratu al-Saran, he states, adjib tu liman yatafakkar fi maqoolihi walam yatafakkar fi maqoolihi. But I am amazed at the one who always reflects upon that which he eats but never thinks about that, which enters into his mind or into his heart, doesn't reflect upon his ego. But today we have human beings, today we have, you know, humanity perhaps in the majority, you know, who find different techniques to make sure that they stay healthy by means of exercising, by means of eating a good diet and all these other wonderful things. But at the same time, we also need to reflect and we need to be careful about what enters into our heart and what enters into our mind. We see, as he mentioned, a human being in terms of the physical aspect of the ability to see. Through the eyes, one of the greatest blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we can see the creations of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We can see things that take us closer toward him and so on and so forth, but the heart also has the ability to see, the heart meaning spiritual. In terms of what is known as al-Basinirah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And our issue would be, I think, the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala explained to us that the true human being, the one who has reached perfection, the one who has elevated his heart and his soul to learn the matter of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he is gifted with this inner silence, this insight of the heart. What is this insight of the heart? What's this understanding that the human being We see that one day, about me comes to Imam Ali Ibn Musa Huda, Ali Salatu As-Salaam, and he says, And he says to the Messenger of Allah, Question. He says that Allah said, Halabu Wata'ara, compel you to never sin. The imams at the end of the day, of course, are infallible there. Ma'soom. What is Islam and so on and so forth? That's for another discussion. When we hear the imam comes and asks the, the imam comes and asks the imam, a very delicate question. A very important question for us to understand our theology. He says, Allah said, Halabu Wata'ara seems to be infallible. As he compel you to sin, to be force you to sin. He says, Let me explain to you, it like this. If you come to me in the morning, As-Salaam Ibn Fajr, come to my door, and I will demonstrate toward you the reality. It's the next morning, the man who leaves Islam, he goes to the house of Imam, of your mother, he walks to the door, the imam says, Come to me. We begin to walk on the streets, and all of a sudden, they pass by a butcher shop. Outside of the butcher shop, there is the staff and the extra meat and all of the wastage of the animal that was just slaughtered, and of course, the good meat and the good chicken, whatever, the name in the shop to be sold. Outside, that's where the dumpster is, all of this garbage. Around it, there's worms crawling in this flies flying all of this. The imam, alaihi s-salatu wa s-salam, is there watching down the street.  He says, whatever the question is, that absolutely not.  Man, whatever, eat that. Man, in the form we think about, committing any action, we see the reality, we have the insight to understand the result of the performance, the same way you would never eat that. You would never even look at it, you would never even think about eating it, or approaching it, for that matter, is the way that we see what separates the imam out of your mind, what separates the imams and the imbate. What separates the ODI from the loss of time over with that of everyone else, the fact that they have been honored, the fact that they have been blessed, with the ability to have this type of insight, where they're able to understand reality before reality shows itself. And in other instances, I said that one day, the famous story many of you must have heard, that one day the Holy Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is in the company of his companions and they're walking by the graveyard and so on and so forth, and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, let's stop by this graveyard and recite some of them. Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam walked by it slowly. They all go to the site for the prayer and they continue their journey. On the way back from the journey, like I said many of you must have heard the story, on the way back from the journey, they're walking by the graveyard and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam tells his companions, quickly let's walk away, very quickly. Let's not stay next to the graveyard. They say, oh, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the way of going, you told us, let's walk slowly. This is something that Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and so forth. And now on the way back, you're telling us, so let's quickly and let's get out of this region. Why? He says that right now I am hearing the screams of someone receiving the punishment within the graves and we need to quickly remove ourselves from this area because it's not the place where Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam without us. Right now, it's something that's not. We don't see anything. How do you know? We're purified. To reach us and to take us to this level, we understand it. If your hearts were pure, you'd also be. This concept of the seerah, this ability to have this inside of the heart is not limited to the installable household of the Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but also we, the followers of the Ahlul Bayt, we human beings also have this production. Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam without a space in the Holy Qur'an. Wa maa halaq til jinnah, when ends, it may be out to do. We did not create man, nor did we create jinn, nor did we create creation except for the sole purpose of the worship of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. It's the human beings, you and I, every moment of our life, we fulfill our purpose to Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, which is to worship Him, and we also have the potential to reach this truth, to have this characteristic within our hearts, to have the ability to have such insight. The religion of Islam, the word Islam, the Arabic language means submission. The Muslim is the one who submits. The human being according to this verse, Wa maa halaq til jinnah, when ends, it may be out to do. Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam first being very clearly explains exactly why He created us, for one reason. For worship. To get closer to work.  When we sleep, we should be sleeping for the purpose of worshiping Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that's the way you can wake up. You can have the energy to provide for your family which that in itself is worship of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, so that you can go and study, studying with keeping a sincere intention, that you're studying for the sake of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, also worship and so on and so forth. And when one has this type of a worldview, where every single one of the moments within his life are a means for him to get closer to Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, or every single step that one takes is solely for God, then who has that ability to attain, who doesn't know, that can speak about worship. And when you speak about this particular potential to reach this great spiritual height, the question that many might pose exactly in which way, in what method, in what perspective do we take in terms of worshiping Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The famous question posed by theologians for the last several centuries perhaps is when we go to worship Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, are we supposed to worship Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam by feeling his wrath or by hoping in his mercy of the Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He said in the famous narration, La Ya Koonu Mu'min Mu'min Haqta Ya Koonu, Haas-e-Imraja, that a believer cannot become a believer. This is just two traits. Number one, he's hopeful in Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam yet at the same time he is fearful in Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. What exactly does this mean? We often talk about spearing Allah. We talk about having a hope in Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We throw around these words, but what exactly does it mean? We're talking about the Imam of Hajjar, Ali Salatu wa Salam al-Dua, Abu Hamza, the Mali.  We take the time to reflect upon our sins. The last thing I mean worthy of is that at the same time when I'm looking at my sins and I become fearful and I become worried and I become frightened, all of a sudden I begin to reflect upon your mercy and begin to reflect upon your grace and I become worried and I forget. The human being has to constantly be within the state of having fear of one's sins or having fear in Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but at the same time hoping, desiring for the mercy of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. I do uqa, raghada, mraja, and kha'ifah, the Imam Ali Salam says also in Dua, I make him go out to you in all of these different states when we're praying to Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and we do uqa, raghada, when we're starting death and we're starting any of the supplications, we have to be moving our heart constantly between these states. Allah, at one moment I'm fearful, I begin to think about your wrath and at the next moment I speak about your mercy and I become hopeful and I say there's no way Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and at that moment I say who am I to receive the mercy of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. To constantly replay this game, looking between the mercy and the wrath of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And let's take a look at this in a little bit of detail before we get into the focus of our discussion which is a reflection upon the Dua of Arafah of Imam Sayyid bin Ali bin Arafah, Ali Salatu As-Salaam. When we think about this concept of dearing Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam before we speak about this concept of hoping or having hope of His mercy, we see that theologians and philosophers have broken it down into three different states. They say number one, perhaps are the three different opinions. The first opinion is that the human being should be fearful in Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam by means of fearing His authority. There was we, for instance, or Semen, or we, for instance, yes, we're Semen, for example, to the court. We become fearful, not fearful, with great fear that we weren't able to sleep the night before, but standing in front of the man with a position of authority, you begin to humble yourself at the very least. For instance, we see that the man hasn't had much to grow, Ali Salatu As-Salaam, he would come toward the message and he would stand at the door of the message and he would come down from his horse and his face would turn yellow, they would come toward him and they would say, why is your face yellow as you're about to enter into the house of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? He would raise his hands and say to the people they took, that this is your house, this is, and I am your slave and would look toward those companions of him, or others, who are posing this question and he says that do you know what was the presence like, entering into the presence of the king of all kings, the master of all masters. Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was fearful toward a particular individual, he was fearful to Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the basis of the authority that they have, a certain type of fear, which is perhaps a higher level of fear at the imams that I have made, also displayed as a fear of one's own sins, of course, the imams, they don't commit sins, but in order to humble themselves in front of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and we ourselves, when we look at our sins and daa, if I am right in the movie, it's a fact that I've looked at my own sins and I've become fearful. And look at our sins and then you read about the ahadid, the advice of the prophet, the advice of the imams, we recite the a'araat of the whole of Quran that says the one who performs this particular action, they receive x and y and see punishment and sorrow and so forth and all of a sudden you become fearful of the punishment, it's also as a means for us that we get closer and the third type of fear as broken down by theologians they come forth and they say that the third type of fear is the fear of one's sins and this is the highest form of feeling in Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or meaning what. But you never think that whatever you have done is enough. An individual, for example, you see that the most looked up imam in the community, the one who every act is constantly seeking forgiveness from Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the one who you've looked at and you've never seen him take away the rights of anyone, his family, his spouse, his children, they all love him, they all respect him and so on and so forth yet we take a look at these type of individuals and we see themselves constantly seeking forgiveness from Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam because they think that they're the worst of the creatures. They're constantly humbling themselves in the sense that they come forth and you see the example of Sheikh Abbas al-Khomni, Sheikh Abbas al-Khomni, of course, the compilers of al-Mathafi and Jinnan is the most natural work that we have within our school and it is said that one day Sheikh Abbas al-Khomni was standing in front of the shrine of Imam of the city, alaihi sallatu wa sallam in the holy city of Canberra at the door of the shrine of Imam of the city and the two hands that come through over the years from there they dance to do something like this and we play this openly you lose a family member we've never seen you act like this I said no Sheikh, tell us is everything okay with your students? we love you, we care about you he says today you did not wake up to perform Salat al-Khomni in front of the shrine of Imam of the city we did not wake up to perform Salat al-Khomni because I was unable to perform Salat al-Khomni and I'm wondering why Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is still fearful he is fearful of his own child he thinks that whatever he has done is not enough this is the highest form of fearing Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam because in reality what we are fearing is our own self and the fact whether or not we have truly reached our responsibilities toward Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam never becomes forced to be left upon the hope or the desire and the mercy of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam of course it mentioned again that it says haqqa yuku na haa is that haqqa that the believer cannot become a believer unless he is fearful on one phase and on the other side he is also hopeful firstly what exactly is hope and what is hoping in the mercy of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam we see that the hope is a characteristic to the human being can can potentially attain and can truly drive him to a mark of life if a human being hopes in something we find that oftentimes that hope that intends hopefully hide in something will often come into fruition for example we put it in perspective for you but if someone had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and been told to go to the doctor that you have X disease and you only have this many months to live one group of people immediately would begin to despair they would begin to think that there is no way out they would begin to become very depressed and so on and so forth and unfortunately what happens very often is that they pass away even before the time which is expected for them we have those who when they come and they hear this type of move X disease you are going to pass away after 6 months for instance they tell the doctor they tell the doctor there is no way I am going to pass away because I have a war that was greater than your disease and it was greater than your medicine and what happens oftentimes we find that those individuals who have hope and they have a desire to live oftentimes they are able to overcome all of these types of different trials and tribulations on their life just because of that positive energy that is still happening hope has the potential the focus to farm some heights surely we are unable to understand that that is hoping in the mercy of Allah also arrange those qualities which allow us to attain great heights in the eyes of Allah and the comfort that we see that these narrations come out from the imams of the Bihar-e-Bihar we are hoping in the mercy of Allah in reality the demonstration of one's love toward Allah and love itself comes in many different phases on one level for instance we see that we love someone or we love something because we will attain some sort of benefit from them but I love you know my boss because he gives me a really big paycheck I love my boss because he gives me a lot of days of vacation you love someone because we will attain something on behalf of them furthermore we come forth and we see that some people they only love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala of course on a very basic level on a very basic level of the love of Allah is because that they know that they love Allah because Allah for instance is going to give them things is going to give them life is going to give them stuff you have to give them tangible and physical rewards in paradise for instance or in heaven for instance for example there is a highest one of love for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this is one of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because it is something naturally embedded in the human figure Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala creates every human being with a nature that leaves us to work him Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created every one of us with this ability to know him and this ability to understand him reflects upon divine and sublime quality we mentioned one of the previous nights but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala demonstrates his mercy upon us Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the trust Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is beautiful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is all of that which are the culmination of divine qualities are only with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the human being naturally inclined toward these qualities which is why we hope them which is why we love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we love him for the sake of him this is an even higher level of love we put it on a human perspective on the day of Asherah amongst the greatest companions of the Abdullah Hussein alaihi s-salatu wa s-salam is a man by the name of Abbas Abbas and that was upwards of 8 years old a warrior in the battle with Saffim next to Ali bin Adha Ali s-salatu wa s-salam on the day of Asherah he goes out onto the battlefield and he begins to fight the enemy and he begins to fight luck but everyone on the camp in the army of Amar al-Busad they begin to run away they begin to run away because this man he is fighting with such intensity and with such energy and then we begin to remember that this man is ours one of those individuals who fought with Ali bin Adha Ali s-salatu wa s-salam Ali removes his helmet Ali removes his armor they begin to scream out what is wrong with you you are removing your helmet you are removing your armor you are removing your shirt what are you doing have you gone mad yes I am going crazy he loves someone because he is someone he loves someone for the sake of that person Abbas doesn't love it Ali s-salatu wa s-salam he is coming from you nor does he love Ali s-salatu wa s-salam because he is fearful of the moment he is saved he loves the moment he is saved because he is saving his life we have to elevate ourselves in terms of our Ma'ara s-salam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because he is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or as Amir and Minin Ali s-salatu wa s-salam states in that famous narration that I worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because he is worthy of that and maybe we come to the highest form of the love or the hope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which according to the traditions does not have anything to do with us necessarily but has everything to do with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala observation of our character this highest form of love this highest form of understanding this highest form of of Ma'ara s-salam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is one Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala without his spouse places his love in Allah s-salatu wa s-salatu someone asks the question exactly how can I be amongst those who know that Allah loves me and I reciprocate my affect on this date to take a look when it comes to the time of worship for instance how many of us we time ourselves so we can get out by 10.30 and 11 so we can sleep so we can wake up and go to work the next day and how many of us wait the entire year for the feeling of how many of us during the time of Hajj when we are unable to go and perform the program is to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala they have a pain within their heart because they remember the days when they were performing at Allah s-salatu wa s-salatu and performing the s-salatu how many of us desire to have been present on the day on the plains of Arafa on the day of Arafa how many of us we are constantly looking forward to having another opportunity for the next four days we can raise our hands in forgiveness in the midst of the darkness if we are amongst those who have these type of desires and have these type of quality then this is what blessing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has placed in our heart because he loves us and at the same time to me to worship him to get closer to Allah s-salatu wa s-salatu to spend a couple of moments of our day to recite Quran or to read ahadi to that new day and we never find the opportunity to do so perhaps because Allah s-salatu wa s-salatu has removed the tawfeeq from our heart to become amongst those the greatest manifestations of the perfection of worship of Allah s-salatu wa s-salatu has demonstrated in the da'a of Arafa recited by Imam the same adab s-salatu wa s-salatu we are going to take some lessons from the da'a of Imam Hussain in the day of Arafa it is important to understand the context of this particular da'a of Hussain we see that the religion of Hussain after the martyrdom of Amir al-Minin when Ma'awiyah ascended the pulpit of the Holy Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi we see that the religion of Islam had lost its excellence even when Ma'awiyah comes and takes over and he has noticed that the religion of Islam in itself perhaps doesn't exist anymore except in the hearts thus we come forth and we see that Imam Hussain in da'a Arafa Imam Hussain they tried to present toward their community but they revitalized them and bring them back to Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi Imam Hussain is uprising on the day of Arafa this tragedy is kind of an out of place is for one purpose and that is to lead or to resurrect the religion of Islam and bring it back to the forethought and the facts of it one of those means or one of the steps taken by him is also very interesting with a 70% Jardina and by the recitation of the da'a like da'a you know Ma'awiyah this is number one number two we come forth and we see that the da'a of Arafa many people they come forth and they pose the question and this is a very common question unfortunately which really holds no value but what is the authenticity of the da'a Arafa we are not even getting into the details of the response and this gives that if the da'a of Imam Hussain that he resided on the day of Arafa is not from Hussain ibn Abi then tell me what was it he's made many people absolutely no doubt that it comes only from the tongues but I think we come forth and we see that it is in the same style as da'a of Imam Hussain it is in the same style as the da'a of Sahih al-Sajj Ma'awiyah the two sons of Arafa and Asadi and it is another way to do several classical works amongst them of the da'a of Asaid of the da'a of Sahih al-Tousi excuse me and secondly by Al-Qas'ani in his work and Benad and Amin let's take a look at some of these lines from the da'a of Imam Hussain the narration begins and it states that Imam Hussain on the day of Arafa and again all of those of you who have been here you will know that this is one of the most important supplications that we will cite on that day Imam Arafa left at the time of Salatullah he left his tent and he went toward the right side of the mountain Arafa and then he began to humble himself in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as he is surrounded by his close family members and his companions the narrator is Bisha or Bashir they state he went to the side of Mount Arafa and he raised his hands to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to ennahu miskinan yathlubu ta'ala Imam Hussain Al-Qas'ani he goes toward the mountain he raised his hands to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the narrator states as this who is a poor man begs himself for things himself instead of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala lesson number one is that if the whom he desires to attain perfection in worship in walking into which steps of Imam Hussain it means to constantly be humbling himself in front of his Lord constantly seeking forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala humbling himself to a lower and lower school in your sight for instance in Dua Makarab al-Akhlaq from Imam Zain Al-Aabidin Al-Isra'at al-Isra'am that Allah do not raise me amongst the people unless you are low and new within them never hadith that serve them Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raises him amongst the people the most honorable people in the history of the Prophet in his house why? perhaps because they are the ones who are constantly humbling themselves except for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and don't be ashamed to raise your hands to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the middle of the night raise your hands as if you are a beggar as Imam Hussain does in a narration in the sub Imam Hussain or Imam Hussain Al-Aabidin Al-Isra'am they narrate that one being saw our grandfather Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he was admonishing his companions and his followers that to even make Da'a to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when their slippers became broken something like this always looked to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala again the narrator states that he's torn at a moment he's saying he begins to even recite the Da'a the narrator states that he raises his hands toward Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to have him say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as his companions they keep going then Imam Al-Isra'am Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Allahumma salli ala wa salli ala wa khamda min wa'ala Muhammad. Alhamdulillah, ila bi yadil alayhi sadaqa da'ili dasha. Wa laadhi ata'ili ma'ana. Praise be to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who has nothing to stop this decree, who has nothing hinders when he desires to give. We can unfortunately see that the adab al-Ahmadayt always begin with the word or with the phrase, Alhamdulillah, we can always in all places, all things, to always be in a constant state of thankfulness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thankfulness for everything that we give to Him. How many of us, on a daily basis, place in Iran, and Iran must help me before Iran? In your view, we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the stuff that we woke up in the morning. We thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when He brought us toward the Magistrate, what a great blessing that we have. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, He blessed us and we thank Him for instance, that we have the sun, for without the sun, we'd be cold. Without the sun, we wouldn't have energy. Without the sun, we wouldn't have, not. Without the sun, we wouldn't have heat. Without the sun, we wouldn't have the process of photosynthesis taking place. Meaning we couldn't eat bread. Meaning that we couldn't benefit from all of the other benefits that derived from the sun. How many of us think Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, for instance, for oxygen? If we didn't have oxygen, or we made it to what would happen? None of us would find that the other day, they always begin a supplication by reciting the phrase Al-Khandari. All thanks and all praises are due to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Banda Imam al-Tibluz.  Before I was given life.  How many people came to your parents to give your parents gifts before you were even born? They began to pray for you, they prayed for your health, they prayed for a safe delivery, and so on and so forth. The Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, by means of community, by means of individuals, has constantly been blessing us far before we were even created. The Imam al-Sarja was one of the opinions. And you recognize my meanings. You created me from nothing, from the droplets. You created bones at the top of these bones. You created flesh to protect my bones and so on and so forth.  And it explains to us the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and all of these blessings that He provided for us even before we were even into this event. What merciful Lord, that demonstrates towards us in the midst of this time, all of the blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created and has honored us with before we even became present in this thing. And it seems to us that today, because we go home, we leave the message. And we go home. And we're entering into our front door. And all of a sudden, for instance, we see a brief case with a million pounds. Pick it up, and it says, here's the yard. This is a gift for you. If I go back and I see such a thing. What was the first question that I'm going to have? After I pick it up, and after I celebrate, and after I scream, and after I, you know, perform sajjika, sugar, you know. What's the first thing that I'm going to do? What do you just come from? Naturally, the first question that comes to someone's mind, when they receive the gift anonymously, or when they receive the hate mail anonymously, is who is the person who sent this to you? Yes, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created us. He's presented to us all of these blessings and so on and so forth. But some people, they have absolutely no concept of even thinking or reflecting about where did it all come from. They just go on with their days.  They're just getting ready for the next day's grind without thinking or contemplating about where did it come from. And the same way that if I go back and I receive a million dollars or a million pounds or whatever, the first question that I'm going to pose, and the first responsibility of mine is to seek exactly who gives you the gift of what practice? At the very least, I'm not going to say take your money back. I'm going to say, thank you. At the very least, you didn't do it. He's thankful for whatever seat we give. In the name of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. He's presented to us all of these blessings at the very least thing that we should be thankful for. I'm not going to say thank you to all of you in the States. It's a gift ready. You are really blessing all of these gifts before it even became something worthy of notice. And so on and so forth. And then the Imam, Ar-e-Isra to Isra, in this particular line, he states something very important. He provides a response. It's a common question that are posed amongst many people today. Amongst many young people, amongst many academic humans, many of those in universities studying philosophy and theology and so on and so forth. And that is what is the greatest evidence for the proof of Allah's plan on the God. What is the greatest evidence for the proof of Allah's plan on the God? It somewhat comes to me. It's just proof to me, your Lord, how exactly to respond to a very common question. We ask ourselves this question, but we ask that amount of pressure and so on and so forth. The Imam, if you're saying, Ar-e-Isra to Isra, responds towards this question in a way that no longer we're ever going to be the first left one. Ar-e-Isra to Isra to state, Ar-e-Isra to the Jamear, who is the one who would be the most accurate. He says, how can I begin to reflect on a means to explain your evidences when I am myself and limited? I am pouring some to you. How can we, with limited by time, I'm only going to limit a couple of years, I'm limited by space, I can only grow a certain length. Unfortunately, as much as I wish As much as I wish to be a little bit taller, this is never going to happen. I can only grow a certain amount of weight. The human being we're limited in so many different phases, unless I eat a lot or unless I lose a lot of weight, or so on and so forth. But eventually, that's what we're going to be. It's limited by all of these different dimensions, with all of these different dynamics. Not if I say, not if I say, not if I say, not if I say, how can I come forth and try to prove your existence when I myself am a limited creature, which I had to prove as existence. But who are we to prove existence? I'm all off the parable of God. We can't even prove our own existence. We can't even understand our own worth. And that man becomes the thing of the story. He comes to the moment of Sadaq. And then he set out to his parable. And he said, Jaffirah, Jaffirah bin Mohammed. Is that right? Jaffirah, he doesn't believe in the moment of Sadaq. He said, oh, Jaffirah bin Mohammed. You speak about your Lord? Tell me, show me your Lord. I want to see him in time for me. He said, what do you really need me to do? Prove your point. What do you want to show me?  And you can't put a look at another limited creature. If you want to understand God, why don't you take these signs and move closer to Allah as the prophet, by means of them, the signs that we mentioned yesterday. Look at nature. Look at the verse, look at the Quran. Look at the greatest creations of Allah as the prophet. Look within your own self. These are all means for you to reach Allah as the prophet and with Allah themselves. You need to be able to understand Him by means of what this philosopher and what that mystic say and so on and so forth. The Imam of the space came, he said, you are a student of Allah. You know what he would do to be a Muftiqar. The link of Allah is something else that is more apparent than you that I need to provide evidence to explain who is more real. You are also Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Rather than everything says that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, I can hear there a pound for anyone who opens up their heart. Imam Ali Salaam continues, metah, hentia, hentah, tahdaj, ila bilini, nidin, you are. O Allah, when will you feel that I need to show exactly how you are present? It's us who have not been there. It's us who weren't alive 10, 15, 40, 57 years ago. Imam Ali Salaam continues and he explains exactly how it is to understand Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, how to humble ourselves in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and so on and so forth. And we come forth and we see that Imam Ali Salaam within this da'a is constantly humbling himself toward him and he demonstrates toward us exactly what it means to become amongst those who are the greatest worshippers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and he combines us with the path to become amongst those who are fearful in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, yet at the same time hopeful in his mercies and in love with him, because he is worthy of worship. Sada'ala Muhammad Wali Muhammad Hussain, Ali Salaam, close to toward Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We recite nidah or we recite nidhiyah, but before we even get to that point, many people they come and they pose this question toward us, the believers, the followers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. These things, why do you go and why do you state nidhiyah is the same when they're told to perform the ziyah at the moment of sin? Why do you state nidhiyah is the same? You should only state nidhiyah, as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, nidhiyah means here are your exercises. As we recite for instance, in Al-Taybiya when we go for Hajj and we're in the state of Ahram, nidhiyah is Allahumma, nidhiyah is the day, nidhiyah is the day, nidhiyah is the day, and then Hamda, and then Metallica, and Mulk, and Al-Shariq, and Al-Qarabbiya. Why are you saying nidhiyah is the same? Are you saying that you're saying that you're saying that nidhiyah is a response to someone who is inviting you towards something? We state nidhiyah along with nidhiyah in the day of Hajj because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hasn't invited us to perform the pilgrimage. We state nidhiyah because if calling us the ziyah, I believe the ziyah of the 15th of Salmane, we state that they pay at the imam in knowledge toward us. This is from the YouTube tab, beg any nidhiyah, nidhiyah is the wasariq, or the salami, nidhiyah is the ahriq of it, so that the ahriq of the Qayyadi who was sent, that he was blessed to be, that here I am at your service over the one who calls to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If we were not there with our physical bodies present when you sought our help, and you were, and we were not there when you made the call for help, and you were unable to respond with our tongue in our imam, and saying here I am, my sight and my body and my everything is sacrificed for you because you call us to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You recite the nidhiyah, the ahriq of Allah, for instance. As-salamu alaik to ya'u wa ta'ala. I don't just look at that, I don't look at that. As-salamu alaik to ya'u wa ta'ala. What is the moment for saying, a'ai-salaatu was-salam known as the water? The inhaler of the prophets, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Very clearly. Then what is the role, what is the responsibility of the 124,000 prophets of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? They were responsible. And I was to bring people from darkness and darkness and darkness and darkness and darkness and darkness and darkness, And I was to bring people from darkness and to light. I was to bring people from ignorance and from knowledge. I was to bring people from sharp and polytheism. When Hussain alaihi s-salatu wa s-salam was the inheritor of the message of all of the prophets of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, that the people filled their call to bring people to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. And I just said to them that they are not affronts when he claims towards us this to us. To be visited again on the day of Hussain alaihi s-salatu wa s-salam, was the rest of the religion of Islam. He opens up the facts and the souls of people from that day until this very day, reminding us everything. Reminding us that everything is focused around Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. On the day and just before we get there. Which is why the moment Hussain alaihi s-salatu wa s-salam is known as the character of Allah SWT, we find a response in our ancient states of 124,000 prophets of Allah SWT. 124,000. And for the love of Muhammad, some of them are who you are. And there are! It's just any there problem, bringing the people, the ashrar, every moment on that day with a reflection of the love for Allah SWT. One imam in Hussain, lost Ali and Akbar, we would call out Hussain Na'a or the Na'a or the Hussabili Na'a or the Al-Aminah, also the Na'a. One imam in Hussain lost his picture with the old infant, who began to call out Hussain Na'a or the Na'a or the Hussabili Na'a or the Al-Aminah. When the imam of Hussain was on the horse from the last moment, he would call out Hussain Na'a. When he was falling down from the horse and his right cheek hit the ground, he would call out Hussain Na'a. One imam of the day was Al-Aminah. The imam of Hussain Al-Aminah was Al-Aminah. It focused his heart and his existence upon Allah SWT. An inheritor of all of the prophets of Allah SWT. But I'll tell you this in other situations. I'll tell you this over and over. The imam of Hussain Al-Aminah was Al-Aminah. It's not only the inheritor of the prophets, Ali and Al-Aminah was Al-Aminah. Because he carried on their message. The imam of Hussain Al-Aminah was Al-Aminah. With the reflection that he reflected on one day all of the trials and all of the tribulations of the prophets which came before him. We see for instance that Prophet Adam had lost one son. It might have been difficult for him even though that son, even though Allah SWT had blessed him with another child who would carry on his legacy of prophethood and so on and so forth when he lost heart. But imagine how many sons the imam of Hussain Al-Aminah survived. We see for instance that no, it comes out that he preaches for 950 years. They would abuse him, they would shame things for him. They would marginalize him from the community in the imam of Hussain Al-Aminah. He preaches of the trials that many people have lost. But what do they do in response? They don't just ignore him, they begin to throw rocks at him. They begin to throw spears at him. They begin to shoot arrows at him. They begin to surround him with swords that the greatest and most perfect is. Ibrahim Al-Aminah, Allah SWT, asked to destroy the idols that were placed into the fire. The angel of rain, the angel of rain, they all came to Ibrahim and they said, Ibrahim, what can we do to help you as he's been catapulted into that fire? We will disuse this fire for you. He began to continue his misdeed. So I tell you Allah, trust me. I've entrusted all of my affairs by Allah SWT. Eventually, we find that Allah SWT makes the fire cool and peaceful but the fire wasn't cool and peaceful for the rain up and the children of the imam of Hussain Al-Aminah. When Isa, Allah SWT, when Isa, Allah SWT, was about to become crucified, Allah SWT saved him but on the 10th of Muharram-e-Maman Hussain had 30,000 surrounding. It is said that on the 2nd of Muharram-e-Maman Hussain Al-Aminah, he reaches a barren desert, narration state that Imam Hussain's horse had stopped moving. He descended from the horse, he called those in the city, and he said, What is the name of this town that Imam reached upon? They went and they said, O Allah al-Aminah, which is known as Al-Aminah. He just told me another name. They went and they called him Al-Aminah Hussain. This is known as the land of stuff. He said, O Allah al-Aminah Hussain, I said, Tell me another name. This is Shafiq al-Farah, the land which is nearby to the river in Hussain. Imam Al-Aminah Hussain al-Aminah said, Tell me another name of this land. They said, It is said that Imam Hussain, Al-Aminah Hussain, he goes down to the ground, he picks up some soil, he smells it and he says, Al-Aminah al-Aminah, Al-Aminah al-Aminah, surely this is the land of trials and tribulations. It is said that Imam Hussain, Al-Aminah Hussain, he looks back towards his companions, he looks back towards his family members, and he tells them this is the region where we need to settle. They begin to pitch their tents, begin to get prepared on the 2nd or 3rd of Muharram, then Imam Al-Hussain, Al-Aminah Hussain, Al-Aminah Al-Farah, enters into the tent with Al-Aminah, and he says, Al-Aminah, let me tell you, come and walk with me. Imam Al-Hussain, Al-Aminah Al-Farah, begins and starts to tell him about Al-Aminah. This is the land where our children will be killed.  This is the place where I could go, this is the place where the six-month-old will be stuck in my hands, and it is some bit of Al-Aminah Hussain. Al-Hussain walks to a nearby hill and says, Al-Aminah, what is this? I see you on the tent of Muharram standing on top of this hill as you are watching the permission of the new generation sitting at foot. Al-Aminah, Al-Farah, and Al-Aminah, Al-Aminah, and Al-Aminah, Al-Aminah, and Al-Aminah, Al-Farah. Yes.


Hi everybody, we're back. This is Dave Vellante at Wikibon.org and this is theCUBE's SiliconANGLE's continuous coverage of the O'Reilly Media Stratoconference Live from Santa Clara, California. We have a great guest coming on. Somebody who's been in this business for quite some time, Bradford Stevens is the CEO and founder of Drawn to Scale and my colleague, David Fleurer, is back. Bradford, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you so much. It's a real pleasure, guys. Yeah, it's nice to meet you and good to have you here. So this is, let's see, our third Santa Clara strata, I think our fifth or sixth strata plus a Duke world that they've merged in. So we've been watching this for quite some time now. You were mentioning off camera that you've been at this since the beginning, one of the early Hadoop practitioners. So come quite a ways here. Yeah, I was lucky enough to be asked to help organize this conference from the beginning back when we didn't really know what big data was and perhaps today still a lot of us don't know. And it certainly changed a lot. I can tell you as sort of somebody who was traditionally moved from hacker to engineer to CEO, it's really been an interesting growth at this in terms of both revenue and size, like just the sheer amount of lack of a better term, I guess, energy that is both coming from the conference and just if you walked around the Exville Hall, the amazing amount of cash people are pouring into their big data problems. I haven't seen anything like it, I guess, since the cloud days. Yeah, I mean, actually you're talking about the practitioners pouring cash in. We were seeing deals, numerous deals, over $50 million, $100 million deals going on, not just from three letter government agencies. I mean, it's really started to get pretty serious. And I think that talks to the value propositions and the productivity impacts that you can have. So how does drawn to scale play into that whole thing? You're seeing some really strong themes around SQL and Hadoop. You're seeing the platform wars around the distros. Still a lack of great apps. Exactly. But let's talk about all those things. So start with sort of drawn to scales, participation and angle. Sure. So you may have noticed, and this called even us by surprise, I didn't think it would have moved this quickly, but this seems to be the year of SQL on Hadoop. Everybody has a SQL something on Hadoop. Which is pretty cool. And there's a lot of different things. There's people with SQL interfaces to map reduce, like Hive. There's folks like Green Plum and Claderism Pala, which are data warehouses meant for internal facing analytical applications. And I think you've noticed there's now nine or 12 or 15 different distributions in data warehouses. And it's very, very crowded. What we're focusing on at drawn to scale is solving the key problem you mentioned of there's no apps on top of Hadoop. I can't take my legacy ERP platform and copy and paste that onto Hadoop. That doesn't make sense. I can't take my website and run it on top of Hadoop scale data. There's no database there. And databases are what everything is built on top of. So we have built Spire, which is the first application database for Hadoop. We're not really focused on analytics. That's, it's a pretty solved problem. And we're going to leave that to the guys at Green Plum and Teradata and Oracle. What we're focused on is being an application database. Transactions, hundreds of thousands of reads and writes a second, full SQL support. You know, something that you would build a social network on, your telephone call management system on, things about high volume and real revenue generating user facing applications. So how did you decide that this is what you wanted to build?  And what you must love, did you predict it? Did you just have a passion for it? Did you see a problem that needed to be solved?  When you said, I'm doing this. Our marketing copy would be better had I predicted this.  I grew up in Amish, Pennsylvania, like writing software on my 386 when I was eight years old. And for some reason I've always loved crazy, complex stuff. And there's really nothing more complex than a database. And I started my career at Microsoft and worked on SQL server there. And the thing I saw at Microsoft and, you know, for the next several years of my career is that when something breaks, it's always the database. When engineers complain they can't build some new feature that's really important. It's because the database is crashing or it's because, yeah, the stand. And really when you put too much data in a traditional database, it just falls apart. So around 2009, I said, all right, Google has solved this problem. Google has the unified platform that can hold petabytes of data and everybody at Google writes their software on this one huge giant database. At the time it's Bigtable, now it's Megastore and F1. And then I looked at Hadoop and HBase and said, Hadoop is a great tape drive. You know, I can, I can batch process my data in it. This is cool. And then we've got HBase, which is great if I have a background in distributed systems and understand what ones and zeros I need to place where. But SQL is the Rosetta stone for data. Why can't I have a SQL database with the scale of Hadoop and HBase that the average Rails programmer can just write an app on top of and suddenly scale to petabytes of data in a period of milliseconds. It's very difficult and to do that you have to build something from the ground up but I think that's where the real value is. So you're competing in the space with people like Couchbase or Aerospike or MySQL, trusted MySQL. Exactly. So why do you think something different was needed? Another instantiation of MySQL is pretty well known. So there's two key things, sort of two converging industries that were sort of happened upon. You mentioned there's the distributed NoSQL stores and NoSQL in some ways is like no features, no understandability by developers. Aerospike is great, Cassandra is cool, HBase is a NoSQL store but the average developer can't write code against it. There's no SQL. If I want to do something really simple like, I want to know who my top 10 customers were last month there's not really a way to do that without writing a whole bunch of custom code on top of it. And likewise, if we look at things like MySQL cluster, even to an extent Oracle Rack, operating a MySQL cluster at the dozens of terabytes, the petabyte scale, is practically a business of itself. And when you go to a distributed MySQL, what you don't learn right away is that you throw away much of SQL. You can't do joins very easily in distributed MySQL. You know, doing group buys or filtering out data becomes this huge difficult task because of the distributed nature of things. In a lot of cases, and something we've seen with our customers is that they come to us from MySQL cluster where every query is running on every single machine in that box every time.  It's just, the way databases were built 30 years ago, which is how MySQL, which is how Postgres are architected, this isn't compatible with the distributed world. So, you said you were sort of Bradford joking about your marketing copy, but this is a great page on your website, who we're for, and it lays it out, you know? Thank you.   Talk about some of the use cases that your customers are pushing you towards. I mean, for instance, is ad serving one? Is that, I mean, clearly would be an obvious one, others that you can talk about? Yeah, so we'll start. I think there's three big use cases and verticals that we're seeing. The first is web apps and mobile apps. You know, I'd have millions of people accessing this application on my phone. One of our public customers, Flurry, does this. You know, I have millions of people accessing information from my phone, like I open my Angry Birds app and throw a bird, how many points do I have left? All that stuff.  Flurry is one of the largest HBase users. They have two petabytes of data. And what they said is, you know, we need a way for developers to write mobile apps that use SQL and don't have to worry about the data backend. It just needs to scale as they have more and more users. That's really where we shine. By being a SQL database, there are customers who are developers know how to use this. And by scaling to be really large in real time, there folks can concentrate on writing mobile apps and not being database experts. So web and mobile apps is a big one. Another big one you said is, we're doing something with a large finance company on sort of a take on advertising serving. It's a real time recommendation engine. And it's really cool. I usually have some prop to tell this story with because I have it so many times, but imagine I go to the Apple store and buy an iPhone with and buy an iPhone with my card. That transaction has been recorded in the say, hey, you just bought an iPhone. Next door to you is an accessory store. Why don't you go next door, use that same credit card and get 20% off an iPhone case. So you can imagine these guys, they don't want to be a payment gateway anymore. They want to control commerce from end to end. And as you can imagine, filtering through hundreds of thousands of credit card swipes a minute to return recommendations in a few seconds is not an easy task. You need a giant database just to handle that volume of data. Yeah, people talk about real time or in time data. I like David Floyd's definition the best, especially in this use case, is real time is before you lose the customer. Yeah, customer time, human time. And there's so much noise around what is real time today. And even I feel guilty as an engineer for abusing it. For us real time, we think of as a few hundred milliseconds or before somebody thinks something is broken or before they leave the website. A lot of other folks, if you've probably seen with the vendors, with Impala, with the new green plum thing, they think of real time as an analyst gets his answer in three seconds to a few minutes. That's an entirely different kind of real time. That's fantastic for analytics. We think of it more in terms of, you know, web scale real time. Okay, so we had web apps and mobile apps ad serving sort of a derivative of that. There was a third? Yeah, a lot of stuff going on in telecom, which is surprising, because they've always had big data needs and they've always been terrified of using anything that's not Oracle or DB2. So one of our customers who was a huge telecom out in Europe said, we want to be a data company. We have so much amazing data. And right now, you've probably seen this, if you log into your Verizon billing statement, that's maybe updated once a month. Like everything in the telecom world is actually giant batch processes. And when you're a customer service rep there trying to diagnose a problem, or you're a business user trying to see how many people are making calls from which departments and all that, you can't actually do that because that information is scattered across 50 different Oracle databases across Europe. So what we're doing in a telecom field with the several customers is saying, hey, we need a database that scales that we can put all of our data into one place for because we want to build better customer service apps. We want to do better diagnostics. We want to do predictions. So if there's a soccer tournament in Nice, France, we want to know how many cell phone towers to build to support that. And traditionally they would have to go get an analytics team together, query 20 different databases, and then make some kind of decision. But with our database spire, they're able to update all that data in real time, look at the usage in real time, and build applications on top of that so they can make those predictions so that they can manage their company better. So one of the things that I've been talking about is the migration from the traditional transactional system which then puts all its data onto disk and then weeks or later you get it back again to combining transactional and analytics essentially in one pass through the data and then making sure the metadata is held in active memory. So is that the sort of model that you think is coming and that's a huge change in the marketplace. What are the steps that you think you can do to use Oracle, for example, from its primary position in the current stack? I don't want to say I'm usurping Oracle in any way because they have way more much money than us and I don't want to get crushed yet. But what we're seeing is, and we've seen this at several of our, especially customers in the telecom field, they're being told can you stop spending so much money on Oracle, we're not getting out of it what we need to, it's not letting us scale, we feel really locked in. And to your point, people, especially at these larger organizations, data is siloed into lots of different OLAP and transactional databases. And so when you need to update information or make a decision or build an application, you may have to pull from 10 different databases. And the reason why in the first place there are different OLAP and transaction databases is traditionally we've had to have the one giant mainframe that has a database for a single purpose. But in a world where everything is distributed, you don't need to custom build super high efficiency transactional and analytical engines because if I can have something more general purpose that's 5% slower, I'll just buy 5% more machines. And so what we're seeing is this sort of convergence of this used to be transactional, this used to be analytical, and instead we want to put this data in one place so that we can build apps on top of it so our analysts can see what it is and not have to wait months to get all the data into one place. And I think it's going to be a huge shift and it's because we're starting to build things to be distributed from the ground up. Brad, for great perspectives, we're out of time, but thank you very much for joining us on theCUBE. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to meet you and I'd love to have you back sometime. Absolutely. And thank you, Brad Samora. All right, and thank you, David Floyer, for sitting in. Keep it right there. We'll be right back with our next guest. I believe Ed Dumbill is up next and we're going to wrap up the show. We've got a few more guests. Pauline Nist is coming on as well from Intel, so keep it right there. We'll be right back. This is theCUBE from SiliconANGLE from Strata in Santa Clara. Right back.


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Good morning, the first item of business is general questions. 1. Jackie Dunbar Will the Scottish Government, whether the Scottish Government will provide an update on the work that is doing to support elective representatives to take parental leave? Thank you, Mr Joe Fitzpatrick. The Scottish Government remains committed to increasing the diversity of councillors I am breaking down barriers that discourage people from standing or re-standing. I support the introduction of proxie voting for councillors. The Scottish Government has been working in partnership with COSLA to look at how that could enable elected representatives to take parental leave without risking their democratic mandate in local authorities." I thank the minister for his answer and I am aware that he's previously suggested the use of section 43 to enable proxy voting may be an option. However, it has also been suggested it may open a local authority up to legal challenge either directly or as a means to challenge decisions where a proxy vote is the difference. So can I ask the minister whether the Scottish Government could offer any support to help protect local authorities? Utilise in section 43 to enable proxy voting from the risks associated with such a challenge. As I said, the Scottish Government is supportive of proxy voting for our local councillors. Given the variations in approach to council meetings across Scotland, it is for individual local authorities to satisfy themselves that any pilot is within their existing powers. Although I want to be as helpful as I can, only the courts can authoratively interpret the Scottish Parliament's legislation. However, in the interests of partnership working and in line with our commitment to increasing the diversity of councillors in elected office, I am meeting with Aberdeen City Council and COSLA next week to identify how we might be able to better support the local authority to run a pilot proxy voting scheme. To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to spend the £295 million in Barnett consequential funding arising from the UK Government's 2002 spring budget. Of the consequentials confirmed as part of the UK Government's spring budget, £237 million was derived from health spending. That will be passed on in full to health spending in Scotland. That is £235 million less than the in-year consequentials from health in 2023-24, which, unfortunately, were not baselined, even though they were largely related to pay. Those consequentials also include £48 million arising from local authority spending in England, announced in January, which will also be passed on in full to local government, as part of a package of additional funding worth up to £62.7 million. I will provide a further update on the 2024-25 Scottish budget next month with formal allocation of any new funding to be included in the 2024-25 autumn budget revision. Alexander Stewart. I thank the cabinet secretary and Deputy First Minister for the response. The SNP Government consistently likes to mislead the public about the amount of funding that it receives from the UK Government, but the facts speak for themselves. In 2024-25, the Scottish Government will get £40 billion in a block grant and will receive more than £2,000 per person for public services. However, that advantage has been completely squandered by the SNP Government, who have to raise taxes on hard-working Scots due to their wasteful spending. Therefore, cabinet secretary, do you really think that spending money on independence papers while cutting NHS funding in real terms is the correct priority for this Government? Well, let's return to the matter of facts, shall we? Fact number one is that the health spending that we have got in terms of the consequentials leaves us with a shortfall for our health service, given that it is nearly half of what the health consequentials were for last 2023-24. Fact number two is that the lack of capital funding included in the spring statement means that there is a forecast £1.3 billion at real terms cut in our capital funding over five years. That means that whether it is housing or health infrastructure or transport, I think that any Tory MSP coming here demanding any funding for any infrastructure projects should be looking at the UK Government's decision to cut our capital budget by that £1.3 billion over the next five years. I hope that is enough facts for Alexander Stewart. I wonder if the First Minister would agree with me that it is also a fact of whether it is a Labour or Conservative Government that we have got five years more at least of austerity. It is also a fact that the IFS has outlined that the UK Government's spending plans amount to a real terms cut to net public sector investment of £18 billion between 24, 25 and 28, 29. Can the Deputy First Minister outline what assessment has been made of how much this amounts to per person and can she outline how an SNP Government would prioritise investment if it had the fiscal levers of other independent nations? It is a shocking fact that the UK Government is planning a real term spending cut, which in 2028-29 would amount to a cut of around £250 for every person in the UK. Of course, in Scotland, we are taking a different approach. We are demonstrating our priorities through a record £6.3 billion investment in social security and over £19.5 billion for health and social care in 2024-25, a real terms uplift of £316 million in the face of UK Government austerity. We could have gone much further if we had the full range of fiscal powers that other independent European nations have. To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Audit Scotland report, decarbonising heat in homes and the recent report by the regulatory review group regarding the forthcoming heat in buildings bill, what action it is taking to further assess and develop the supply chain for decarbonising buildings? Minister Patrick Harvie, both reports highlight the importance of long-term policy certainty for developing the supply chain. Our proposals for a heat in buildings bill will create a clear long-term legislative framework, giving confidence to the supply chain and enabling investment in its growth. This approach was welcomed by stakeholders when I hosted a recent round-table discussion for members of the industry. Along with our enterprise agencies, we continue to provide support to innovate and accelerate skills and capacity. That includes the funding, the development and adoption of innovative clean heating solutions, as well as considering new approaches that are needed to develop supply capacity. Over the past few months, I have submitted many written questions to the minister on such topics such as how many businesses are operating within the zero-carbon heating centre, how many heat loss surveyors are working in Scotland and what economic modelling has been undertaken to understand the future demand on the supply chain. Can the minister tell me how he intends to deliver on this bill, as he said urgently, if, by his own admission in answering those questions, the Government is not gathering this basic data? If you are beginning a journey minister, it is not enough to know where you are going, surely you need to know where you are starting from. We are, indeed, very clear where we are starting from. This Government is under no illusions that Scotland and the UK would be in a far, far better position not only to decarbonise our heating but to ensure affordable heating for people. If, throughout Scotland and the UK, decisions have been made decades earlier as the most progressive European countries dead in responding, for example, to the energy crisis of the 1970s, Scotland should have been building highly energy-efficient homes of the ability to decarbonise for decades. Those long-standing mistakes of successive UK Governments are the reason that we have an incredible challenge now. However, what the Government is doing is giving the long-term certainty that it will enable investment in this industry. A far cry from what the UK Government is doing of watering down, diluting and delaying action on heating buildings just this month. Indeed, it delayed the clean-heat market mechanism for an entire year, sending exactly the wrong signals to industry about the need to scale up, scale up and invest. Can I ask the Government whether it is continuing its work on its supply chain development programme, which focuses on building Scottish manufacturing capability to supply products that are needed for the net zero transition, and which learns the lessons from our success in rapidly building Scottish PPE supply chains during the pandemic? Indeed, the supply chain development programme does continue its work to align economy and innovation policy interventions with public sector spend, including both using more strategically important approaches to improve the capacity and capability of Scottish manufacturing supply chains. Prioritising the opportunities in low-carbon heating and housing means that we are working to make sure that procurement opportunities are made visible in the Scottish supply chain, including with manufacturers. There is also a huge amount of innovation happening in Scotland to develop the products, processes and services that will enable us to meet the challenge domestically, but we will also offer export opportunities. In late last year, I attended the Energy Efficiency Association conference, an important part of that supply chain. It identified extensive delays in the awarding of grants from Home Energy Scotland, and it said that it was having an impact on its capacity and the supply chain. What improvements is the minister making to the operation of Home Energy Scotland so that we can get those grants out much quicker, so that customers do not cancel their orders as we can get on to meeting those targets? We have a good track record through Home Energy Scotland of meeting the targets for grants. Some suppliers choose to count the entire customer journey from application rather than the award of grants from the point where an application has been accepted and processed. That is a bit longer than the UK Government's boiler upgrade scheme, for example, which does not include the direct individual bespoke advice and support that Home Energy Scotland provides. We provide more and that whole customer journey takes a little bit longer, but we have recently improved the Home Energy Scotland application process to further improve the time that it takes and the smoothness of the customer journey. The minister has just mentioned that the UK Government has delayed its clean heat market mechanism, a scheme that uses reserve powers to regulate the industry to increase the installations that we desperately need. That delay came after months of briefing and counter-briefing on whether the scheme was to be scrapped altogether. The minister has just highlighted the need for certainty and clarity in regulation. Does he feel that the UK Government is really providing that? Mark Ruskell is absolutely right to point this out. The clean heat market mechanism was a mechanism by the UK Government. We supported it and said that it would help not only to achieve its targets but to help us to achieve our targets with the potential to shape the growing market for clean heating systems. It uses powers that are reserved to the UK Government that we cannot use here.  It will discourage existing boilium manufacturers from increasing their investment in their ability to supply clean heating systems. I would encourage the Prime Minister to drop his culture war on climate at the launch last autumn and give long-term certainty that the industry needs. The latest report by the Royal Bank of Scotland and the private sector activity that showed that employment growth in Scotland was faster than any other UK nation or region. I have a note of the first question in writing. I welcome the data that shows that employment growth is faster in Scotland than in other parts of the UK. The Scottish Government is using all the powers at our disposal to grow a fair and green wellbeing economy, but the fact remains that Scotland is tied to a UK economic model with stagnating productivity and lessening living standards and is facing a number of self-imposed challenges, chief among them Brexit and self-defeating migration policies alongside. We are continuing to pay the price for Westminster mismanagement and for Westminster austerity. Independence is the route to higher living standards, better public services and a stronger fairer economy. I thank the cabinet secretary for that reply. I am sure that she agrees with me that, while it is great to see the positive reports about Scotland's economy, we would be better as that independent country, part of the EU, rather than this post-Brexit failed state that is a united kingdom. I absolutely agree with that. The UK Government's reckless decision to take Scotland out of the EU single market against Scotland's democratic will is damaging Scottish trade and the economy. Indeed, modelling by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research shows that the UK economy is now 2.5 per cent smaller than it would have been in the EU, a gap that could increase to 5.7 per cent by 2035. That is before we even touch on what we have lost socially and how far the UK has fallen in terms of its international standing. Scotland's future should be as an independent country back in the EU so that we can emulate the success of our comparator countries and seize that future prosperity, which this Government is in no doubt away at Scotland. Although the growth of employment in the latest figures is very welcome, the cabinet secretary will know that the employment rate in Scotland still lags behind the UK as a whole. Indeed, the latest CBI Fraser of Allander productivity index showed Scotland lagging the rest of the UK in 10 out of 13 productivity indicators, including business investment, exports and R&D investment. Instead of moaning about the position in the UK, can the cabinet secretary explain why Scotland lags behind other parts of the UK and what is she going to do to turn the situation around? Murdo Fraser comes to lecture me at a time when the UK has recently fallen into a technical recession. Indeed, after his party has, for half of my life, all of my adult life, overseen 15 years of austerity, a self-imposed Brexit pursued during a pandemic, tax cuts over public services and, ultimately, living standards plummeting, so that we now have a UK which, analysis in the Financial Times, is described as a poor country with pockets of rich people. I will take no lectures from Murdo Fraser or the Tories. To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that the voices of Highland communities are appropriately considered by the energy consent unit when assessing applications from developers. It is vital that everyone has the opportunity to engage in decisions about future developments. We are clear that this engagement must begin as early as possible by developers at the pre-application stage. It should be effective, collaborative and meaningful in order to truly influence the final application. Once a section 36 or 37 application has been submitted to the energy consent unit, members of the general public or groups may make direct representations and comment to Scottish ministers. Scottish ministers take those views into account alongside all other application documentation in making their decision. The minister may be aware that the Highland Council has objected to SSEN's application for the Sky overhead line reinforcement. What is the minister's response to the firm belief of campaigners that, as a result, schedule 8 of the electricity act 1989 requires a public local inquiry and that, in view of the overwhelming interest and response on the Isle of Skye, the energy consent unit should send the application for a public local inquiry? The Sky reinforcement project is currently the subject of a live application under section 37 of the electricity act 1989. Ms Forbes will know that in my role as energy minister I am unable to comment on how such applications are being or may be considered as this could be viewed as prejudicial to the decision making process. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of the immediate priorities plan developed with disabled people's organisations. The Scottish Government is working hard to improve the lives of disabled people. The independent living fund, which supports disabled people, will reopen to new applicants after receiving a £9 million investment as part of the 2024-25 Scottish budget and will support around 1,000 new applicants. Later this year we will implement an immediate priorities plan that will deliver a range of actions to support disabled people. In addition, £5 million from our equality and human rights fund supports disabled people's organisations to tackle inequality and discrimination, furthering equality and advancing the realisation of human rights in Scotland. Disabled people across my West Scotland region have been in touch with me to express their frustration at a Government that they feel is not taking the issues and concerns of disabled people seriously. Although they have welcomed the intent behind the immediate priorities plan, it has become something of a misnomer because there is no immediate sale on something that you have been discussing for a year and we have seen very little progress. Indeed, the minister's answer suggests that later this year sometime we will see further progress. Will she listen to the concerns of disabled people who are raising those issues with their MSPs and what she is going to do to energise this work as a matter of urgency so that she can deliver on the action for the challenges facing disabled people in Scotland? The member will appreciate that this is a plan that is being co-produced with disabled people's organisations. On Tuesday this week, I met those disabled people's organisations along with the First Minister and the Cabinet Secretary to ensure that we are moving forward as quickly as we can with publishing and then implementing the plan. I want to point out that this is not the only piece of work that we are undertaking to support disabled people. Indeed, I covered a few in my initial answer, but I will be more than happy to share even more of what the Scottish Government is doing with the member if he is interested.


What's up everybody once again is Bram and Sean and this is another episode of Inside the Network where we share exclusive content from Inside of Bram and Network.com. Now this is another snippet from an interview that I did with George Goodwitch, founder of playlist push.com and this is where he talks about how they approach quality control. I think this snippet is useful not only for artists but just for businesses in general so I really wanted to share it because I have some other things to talk about so let's hop into it. Just from your experience, how do you guys even, how do you qualify playlist for their quality? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah it's a good question. So what we do is like when a curator signs up to Play This Push they're on like a week trial period so we make sure they're listening to songs, we can see if they're copying pacing reviews and then the most important thing for us is we can actually measure their playlist and see how many monthly listeners it has. If it has like less than 1% listener to follower ratio we'll remove them from the platform. So I mean we've had play listeners that have over 100,000 followers and we've kicked them out because you get on that playlist and then you get 10, 20 new listeners from it. You're going to be pissed, right? It's like going back to managing expectations. So that makes sense. I think that's been our biggest thing is managing the network, making sure we only have people that want to actually help indie artists and aren't just seeing it as like oh wow I can make money from this website and really vetting those people out before they even start getting paid to review songs. So yeah that's interesting going back to that managing expectations part. What is the hardest part about that process? Do you guys have it down to a system where it's just easy to vet out those people or is it still a little difficult at times? Yeah, no. I mean everything's systematized, we actually added something new so that if you change the name of your playlist to something completely different then we actually automatically remove it until someone physically, until one of us logs in and checks it. If it's like Top Hits 2019 to Top Hits 2020 like okay cool we can keep that person in but if they're just trying to create the name of like new albums, like a rap album comes out and like every week changing the name that's not really helping us out, right? Like yeah those playlists are cool because it's going to get you a few streams right out of the gate but it's really tough to actually maintain that audience so it doesn't make sense for us to have those playlists in the network.  It's like yeah dude you signed up we scanned your playlist it sucks we're automatically removed so you know they're always like hitting on the chat and want to know because they don't know what we're doing on our end right we're just saying hey your playlist isn't that good and you can't sign up so sorry but I mean it's nice that we have that because if we didn't it would it would be a shit show it would be extremely hard to figure out who we can work with and who we can't. Gotcha okay so what are obviously okay you have these things like the whole murky business article and I mean so many people who speak negatively on playlists in general how has there been difficult times right as play as a company or like where your playlists might fall off in quality or or do you guys ever have trouble trying to give certain results or how does that work or did you I guess the best way to say it in your own language did you guys ever have trouble where expectations were mismanaged. Yeah for sure I think the we had we've had a few rough patches where you know someone would use Playlist Push and then they would like blog about it right and what happens is like people will see like oh Playlist Push review and click on it and read it but like I swear at least 90% of those people don't listen to the actual record we promoted right it's not linked in there it's just saying like hey I didn't get on that many playlists and this is what happened it's like dude go listen to the song and then we can chat about it right so that's been tough because we do run a lot of campaigns sometimes and it's tough to like keep track of like every single thing and and who's coming to the website and who's saying what so you know and it goes both ways like if someone has an amazing experience and each song goes out does well they're not gonna like write about it right and say oh wow these guys are amazing they're just gonna keep using it like oh this is dope I'm not telling anyone about this so that's kind of that's been the tough part and I think you know we're working on building that out and starting to tell those stories of some of the artists we work with if they let us and that's kind of like where we're going now but I never wanted to get to a point where like oh yeah we have all these case studies and look how great these artists did because really man's based on the music like the people that get results and do well they have good music they get it like they're in it for the long run yeah you know there's other people that you know they're in it to promote whatever you know courses they're selling and they see an SEO land grab and you know they can write about our company and know that it's gonna pop up so that's that's been super tough but also I think that sometimes it's been good because I feel like that's weeded out a lot of junk or people that don't 100% believe in what they're doing from not using the site so it's actually kind of like a blessing and a curse right I don't want I don't want there to be all it's really weird if you only see amazing things about playlist push right it's like we're music promotion like do we hit everything out of the park no but what happens is we try to take care of the people that don't have good that you know might not have a good campaign or only get added to a few playlists like we have systems in place to communicate with those people and help them out interesting all right so if you want to check out the full interview you can actually check it out at the link in the description below typically these types of interviews are actually inside of brandmannetwork.com exclusively but since this is something attached to artist services specifically that you might decide you want to use or not I want to make sure that you have as full perspective as possible and be able to judge for yourself whether you want to try playlist push so I think it's helpful to see where George is going his background and even other more expanded thoughts on how they approach the company so you can decide for yourself whether that's something you think is useful or not however one thing that I do well actually a couple things that I do want to talk about from this particular interview is the way you judge and pay attention to feedback because he noted something that I've seen so many times before and of course it's not just a music thing but when it comes to artists especially sometimes a lot of times you know the disgruntled people are the people who are more likely to leave feedback right and if the service is actually quality if the service is actually quality in music most of the disgruntled people are likely the people to be people who don't have quality music who are need to do some work on their music that's an issue and I think artists should make sure when they're looking at feedback in terms of these services especially if it's negative right well positive and negative but especially the negative right you need to make sure you listen to the artist music first go check it out so you can see who you're talking about because if you say oh man I use this service and I didn't really get any listens or you know once they stop using me just it didn't seem like anybody stayed with me well if you go to listen to their music and you're like yo I don't like this at all then maybe you can consider the fact that fans probably thought the same thing potential fans probably thought the same thing so just be sure that you understand the quality of the feedback not just the words that get said right but the the type of person in the user profile saying that and of course on the other end you know just be aware of a lot of fake positive feedback as well but that's more the company doing wrong more likely than just the individual person that's a whole another problem now the last thing I want to talk about from this particular snippet is just the idea again of the quality control the intent and thoughtfulness that they put into systems to make their life easier it makes the artist life easier what makes their life easier is to be able to serve the customer and have less issues with the customer and all of those things that they went through and things that they've talked about that will create less problems and not having to deal with those things again and again and again right those are the types of thoughts and the way you should approach right your same systems that you're building you guys know I'm huge on building systems if you've watched this enough because getting fans right or getting awareness is easy it's not the easiest thing in the world but it's easy in comparison to getting awareness and keeping awareness building a sustainable fan base right there's a lot of people who pop and they're going tomorrow because they don't have something to capture the people they don't have something to capture the money that comes in once that awareness gets created right even for a small example one thing that an artist trade little on his tiktok campaigns he said he did right when he went viral he made sure that he went live at those moments to have all these new people come in to because now they're going to be able to interact with his live because it's one thing to do it when you have your regular fan base but you have more people coming in right now my system is to go live as soon as I have as many of these people come in as possible whenever I have a video that's popping off and goes viral because that's going to allow me to connect in a different way with them on a different level and frankly it actually converts into money when we're talking about tiktok and tiktok lives but that's a whole another conversation you guys can check out that particular interview on tiktok in the description below I'll probably have that out by the time of this video so yeah it'll be in the description below as well and as always this video is brought to you by 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