Imagine the year is 11 after Hidra and you are in the blessed city of our Prophet, Medina. Our Lady Fatima Tassahra, alayhi salam, has just passed away from her martyrdom and of course our Lady Zaynab alayhi salam, she was only a small child when her mother passed away. I want you to imagine that you are in the house of the Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam and Sayyida Zaynab is asleep in her bed while Imam Ali alayhi salam is burying the blessed body of his love Fatima Tassahra in that blessed graveyard of Jannah al-Baqi. Imagine that Sayyida Zaynab has woken up from a dream and she's so distressed and crying, where is my mother, where is my father and you are the only one there to comfort her. What would you do to bring her comfort and ease her pain? I think I think I would with her some Qura'an to calm her down because when I'm when I'm very upset or stressed I like to read Qura'an to calm myself down and I think I also would I think I also would talk to her about her mother so she could get everything out how she feels and to not keep it all in because obviously losing your mother is very hard it's extremely painful because your mother is like the light of the house so I think I would just ask how are you feeling? I would think I would ask her I would I think I would ask her to tell me stories about her and her mother because I know that would make her happy remembering her mother. That's a lovely suggestion about reciting the Qura'an because the Prophet says the Qura'an is like a polish for your heart and whenever you read it or listen to it it does bring a calmness in your chest and it's sorrowful as well when you think of how history repeats itself say the Fatima alaihi salam lost her mother say the Khadija at a very young age and then the same thing happened with say Dizaynab with her mother. I now want you to picture that you are now in the city of Khufa that city which is the cradle of history so many prophets and the Ahl al Bayt have graced those streets you are in the city of Khufa and it is the night of the 21st of Ramadan and Imam Ali he has just been martyred he has died from the stroke of Ibn Muljum Imam Ali alaihi salam was like a father and mother to say a Dizaynab alaihi salam so you can imagine how she would have felt on a night like this what would you say to her in that moment when she's feeling so lost and hurt and alone I think I would tell her to stay patient I also think I would tell her that God gives the most challenging fights for the bravest warriors I think I would tell her that I think I also would not only just tell her all this and try to calm her down I think I would take her with me get flowers and we would go to the graveyard maybe that would also come her down it is true that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he loves someone he afflicts them with hardships and you can imagine the love that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bears to this great lady who we know as Umul Masayyimp the mother of sorrows as difficult as this is now sister I now want you to imagine that you are standing on the plains of Qadbala now the year is 61 after Hidra and the day is the 10th of Muharram Sayyid az-Zaynab alayhi salam she is lost Imam al-Hasan alayhi salam years earlier she saw the poison rip through his body and she saw the men shoot arrows towards his janaza and stop him from being buried next to his grandfather she has lost Abul Fadlil al-Abbas the brother who shielded her whose greed protected her his body is lying by the furat with no hands with no one to look after him and now Abba Abdullah al-Hussain alayhi salam Sayyid al-Shuhadah he is making his way to the battlefield and he turns to Sayyid az-Zaynab alayhi salam and says oh sister bring me my horse I want you to imagine that you are the one holding the horse of Imam al-Hussain and Sayyid az-Zaynab comes up to you and says please give me the reins of this horse so I may take it to Abba Abdullah how would you feel how would you feel in that moment if she had said that to you I think I would be completely devastated I would have no words actually I would have no words at all I really don't know how she could deal with that because I would stand there frozen I don't know I think I think I would really just hug her and comfort her because I am if I was in her situation I would never be able to even say a word because because that's just so hard and painful so maybe I think I would just hug her because I would have no words what a situation to be in when you think of the fact that Sayyid az-Zaynab alayhi salam is asking you to do something surely you would rush to do it straight away yet in this situation you think I don't want to give this horse to her because you know that horse will take Imam al-Hussain to his death now I want you to imagine that you are standing on the streets of Shahm and everyone around you is joyous they are celebrating as if it is a day of Eid yet you can see the caravan of the Ahlul Bayt alayhim salam walking down those streets captive and in chains riding on camels and horses with no saddles you see Sayyid az-Zaynab alayhi salam the light of the eyes of Imam alayhi alayhi salam with no veil to cover her face and all these strange men looking at her you see the men slap the cheeks of Sayyid az-Zaynab you see the whips of shimmer on the caravan you see the cruelty and the jeering of these crowds towards this blessed family if you were standing in that crowd and you saw this what do you think you would do if it was possible I would want to go and defend them I would stand up for them I would tell them everything they're doing wrong I would stand up for Sayyid az-Zaynab and I would tell them how can you do this to a woman how someone that comes from from such an honoured family she's the daughter of Fatima to Zahra and Imam Ali and her grandfather is the prophet of Islam I really I just I would try to defend her I would bring all the courage I have in me and just try to stand up for them and for the children as well and I think I would also tell Sayyid az-Zaynab to stay strong for the children as well and tell her and remind her about what God has written in the Qur'an about patience and that he really has given this fight for his strongest warriors I would keep reminding her that because I want her to stay strong for them and for everyone to show that yes she's a woman she's a woman and yes she's lost everyone she's lost her mother her father her grandfather her brothers but she still has this patience in her which shows everyone else that you know when you're going through things just stay with with Allah and know that Allah has something good for you isn't it strange that Yazid on that day rejoiced at the death of Imam al-Hussain alaihi salam because he thought that he had killed the voice of justice from Ahlul Bayt and yet Imam alaihi salam had left that daughter Zaynab behind Zaynab who was the essence of Haidah the essence of that bravery and patience and dedication that we know and love today as hard as it is to narrate and reflect on the sufferings of our Lady Sayyid az-Zaynab alaihi salam one thing we all we must always remember is that one day these crimes will be avenged for by the Imam of our time the use of of Zahra Imam al-Mehti may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hasten his reappearance on the earth now all of us want to be companions of Imam Mehdi we want to bring joy to his heart we want him to be pleased with us what qualities that you have seen in Sayyid az-Zaynab alaihi salam would you hope to display to our to our Imam Imam Az-Zaman Sayyid az-Zaynab really cared about her modesty so I think I would really I really would secure my modesty she also she was really really strong when I came to reading Quran praying so praying on time reading every single day that's something I would do also her patience is something very significant whenever something happens to me I will always remember her I remember God and know that the reason I would actually try to be very happy about it because I know that God didn't just give me this so just so I can go through it no it's because I I'm going to learn through it and experience and grow to become a better person out of it that's one thing I would also do I thank you so much sister for agreeing to be with me on Imagine today and I thank you for your honest your and mature way of thinking and for expressing your love of our great lady and I pray that Sayyid az-Zaynab al-Qubra alaihi salam is pleased with your efforts and that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will continue to guide you to be the best Muslima that you can be and may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la keep us all firm and steadfast on this blessed path of the Ahlul Bayt alayhim wa Salam a path that we don't deserve to be on and yet by his grace we have this in the palm of our hands and may he hasten the reappearance of our Lord and Master Sahib Az-Zaman may he remove this grief of occultation from this community and may he bring justice to this world and avenge those horrific incidents of Karbala and Shah


In our previous video, we introduced the idea of dominance when it comes to functions, right? How with power functions, the biggest power, the leading term is always the dominant term. With exponentials in logarithms, it gets a little bit more subtle, right? But we only dealt with functions that have sums and differences, for which you just added together a bunch of power functions, exponentials and logs and things like that. What happens when you start having like multiplication or in this video, I want to focus on ratios? When considering a ratio's in behavior, the in behavior will be the ratio of the dominant term in the numerator and the dominant term in the denominator. And this is something we saw when we had rational functions previously. So if I had something like y equals, we'll say like 2x cubed minus 7x plus 5 over, say like, we'll take 3x to the fifth plus 2x squared plus 3 or something like that. In this situation, we looked at the terms on top and bottom. So we have a 2x cubed on top, a 3x to the fifth on the bottom. So we'd say this function's approximately the same thing as 2x cubed over 3x to the fifth. If you simplify that fraction, you end up with 2 over 3x squared, for which as x goes to infinity, this thing will go towards zero, right, as x goes to infinity. And so this is what we called earlier, this bottom heavy function. As another example, let's say we have instead y equals, we'll take the same numerator, 2x cubed minus 7x plus 5, and this will sit above, we'll change the denominator. We'll take 3x cubed plus 2x squared plus 3. So I just lowered the power of the leading term there. For which then you see the dominant term on top is still 2x cubed. The dominant term on the bottom is a 3x cubed, for which that tells us that this will be approximately the same thing as 2x cubed. Over 3x cubed, which that fraction reduces down to be 2 thirds. And so that would then be the horizontal acetote. This thing approaches 2 thirds as x goes towards infinity or negative infinity. So, and this is exactly the case of what we called a balanced rational function. There was also the case of a top heavy, but that's because if you're top heavy, this ratio of dominant terms will simplify to be a monomial. And so it'll go off towards positive or negative infinity based upon the coefficients. So this is exactly what we were doing before. We just might have not realized it. For rational functions, there's just the three cases, bottom heavy, top heavy, and balanced. In more general ratios, we still do the same thing. We have to look for dominance. But we have to be careful though, because dominance can change its hand. You could pass the baton as you go from negative infinity to infinity. Dominance in general doesn't have to be the same as you approach infinity and negative infinity. For rational functions, whoever was dominant as you went towards infinity, will be the same as you approach negative infinity because of how power functions work. But again, it can get a little bit more subtle. So let's look at this example here. So f of x equals the cube root of 2x cube plus one over 5x to the fourth plus one. So let's determine the in behavior of this function. We'll do this by looking for the dominant terms. Ignoring sort of the cube root for a moment, just looking at the ratio, we have a 2x cube plus one over a 5x to the fourth plus one. Who's the dominant term? As x goes to infinity or negative infinity. Well, we see here that as x approaches, as x approaches, we'll start with that one here, as x approaches infinity, right? 2x cubed is the biggest power in the numerator. It's the dominant term. And then in the denominator, the dominant term is going to be this 5x to the fourth. And so what we can see here is that as x approaches infinity, f of x will approach, it'll be, it'll be asymptotic to, let's say that way, the cube root of 2x cubed over 5x to the fourth. Okay? And so that then would give, that's going to be the asymptotic term right there. And let me emphasize this is just asymptotic. So this is approximately equal to this. They'll be about the same thing. Now let's simplify that ratio. So you're going to get the cube root of, well, you have x cubed on top, x to the fourth on bottom. So this would simplify to be 2 over 5x, like so. For which if we rewrite it one more time, you're going to get the cube root of 2 over 5 times x to the negative one-third power, if you prefer. That's one way to do it, or you could keep with what we started with. Either one, I think would be perfectly fine here. We then have 4x cubed over 5x cubed over 5x cubed. We then have to ask ourselves, as x goes to infinity, what happens? So this friend right here, this 1 over x to the negative, or x to the negative one-third here, this is going to approach 0 as x goes towards infinity. Or you can see it right here, right? This is a bottom heavy, this is this bottom heavy ratio, right? The denominator has a degree bigger than the numerator. And so what's going to happen is as x approaches infinity, this thing is going to approach the cube root of 2 over 5 times 0. Excuse me, not 0 there, that would look like infinity. Which when you basically divide by infinity, we're not really dividing by infinity. We're just kind of getting some idea that as the denominator is bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, the ratio gets smaller, smaller, smaller. This is going to look like the cube root of 0, which is equal to 0. So in summary here, what we've then mentioned here is as x approaches infinity, y will approach 0 right here. And we could also emphasize it's going to approach 0 from above, because this is going to be a positive quantity, right? The denominators can look like a positive infinity, the numerator is positive too. So this would look like we're approaching 0 from above, which can be helpful as we graph this thing. Great, that gives us, that gives us what happens as x approaches infinity. What would happen as x approaches negative infinity? Well, we have to be concerned about domains to some degree, right? So notice that as x approaches negative, or negative infinity, the denominator, the same basic thing is going to happen, right? Because there's no, there's no issue with domain here. Because you're taking cube roots, you can take a cube root of a negative, no big deal. If this is the square root, we would have some issues going on right here. We'd have to determine what the domain is. Because we wouldn't go all the way to negative infinity. But in this situation, we'll be C as as x approaches negative infinity, right? You might have a little bit more space here to write. As x approaches negative infinity, the same dominance is going to happen. As x approaches negative infinity, we still see that f of x will be approximately the same thing as the cube root of 2x cubed over 5x to the fourth, which that would simplify to be the cube root of 2 over 5x. And so now this will approach the cube root of 2 over 5 times negative infinity right here. So the reason I'm actually plugging in infinity here is so you pay attention to the signs, right? This time as we divide by negative infinity here, we're going to be getting 0 still, right? But this type of 0 is approaching 0 from below. And so this ends up giving us, we're going to approach 0. So the in behavior there is still 0. So as x approaches negative infinity, y will approach 0. But if we want to emphasize here, we're approaching 0 from below. So we have this horizontal asymptote. Let's describe it a little bit. We have this horizontal asymptote, which is the x-axis. Our function's going on the right-hand side, it'll approach the asymptote from above and from below, it'll approach the asymptote on the left-hand side. So we can get that, we can find that information just by looking at the dominant terms here. So let's look at a second example of this. We were looking for dominance and ratio. This one's a little bit different because we have these exponentials in play here. So if you ask the question as x approaches infinity, what happens? Well, the dominant term in the numerator would be 2e to the x. The dominant term in the denominator would be 3e to the x. And so what we see then is that g of x, as x approaches infinity, will be approximately the same thing as 2e to the x over 3e to the x, for which e to the x is common divisors cancels out, and we see that this right here is just going to be 2 thirds. And so this then gives us a horizontal asymptote. We have a horizontal asymptote at y equals 2 thirds, okay? That's if we approach the right-hand side. When we approach the left-hand side, though, we have to recognize that there's a difference as opposed to the power functions we saw on the other side where dominance doesn't change. For exponentials, dominance does change as you move from one side to the other. Because when you look at e to the x, for example, its graph would look something like the following, right? On the right-hand side, it's going to approach infinity. But on the left-hand side, it's going to approach zero. So as we approach, as x approaches infinity, e to the x became dominant in that situation. But as you approach negative infinity, e to the x, these things are going to disappear, right? This thing right here, these things are just going to go off towards zero. And in fact, the dominant terms, as x goes to negative infinity there, is going to be the constants. Because the constants don't go off towards zero in that situation. So as x approaches negative infinity, we see that g of x will be approximately one-seventh. Because again, the e to the x's will vanish as x goes towards negative infinity. And so this graph is going to have two distinct horizontal acitotes. On the right-hand side, if we were to sketch the picture here, on the right-hand side, we have a horizontal acetote, which is y equals two-thirds. But on the left-hand side, we have this horizontal acetote at one-seventh. That's a positive one-seventh, isn't it? So we get something like this. So we can anticipate that our picture is going to do something like the following maybe. On the right-hand side, it goes towards two-thirds. On the left-hand side, it goes towards one-seventh, like so. And so when you look at ratios, you want to look at the dominance as you go towards infinity and negative infinity. And you need to recognize that the approach towards negative infinity could be different than the approach towards infinity. Because the baton of dominance might shift into a different hand when you approach negative infinity. The thing is, as we talked about rational functions earlier in this lecture series, that's not something that happens with power functions. Power functions never pass the baton. But exponentials do. They're much more generous. They're much more team players in that regard. And so you have to watch out for logarithms and exponentials because the baton of dominance can shift as you consider positive infinity versus negative infinity.


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Hey everyone shape everyone thousand here. We're back on the toyota again. We're gonna try to get that head off of here today I'm just working slawing this thing, you know, just doing a little bit at a time I've got a valve spring compressor coming in today So that way we can pull the valves out put new valves in lap them in But right now, let's see if we can get this head off of here Of course, I'm gonna speed you up through that, but I'll show you what we've done so far Okay, sir about the lighting So I took the I had to take the tensioner the timing chain tensioner out that gave me a little trouble I had to keep on back and forth it's over here and I took the The cam gear out, but Yeah, just you know half a million miles. It's So hopefully that's still good. I'll have to do some checking on that before I put it back together but I Gotta get that who's off in the back There's a clamp down there that I think I can just take that off and the head will come off And then I have to take I've got a loosen this belt here. I'm gonna take this. There's a little bolt here I've got to take it off So I can move this out of the way I've got a loosen this take the belt off and then I Can get to this pump You have to pump off there's a bolt that goes through right through here through these holes you take that out and Then you can get to the To the bracket. I'm not sure if the brackets got to come off yet But yeah either way That's what we're looking at. So I'm gonna put you in the stand. Let's get started. Okay guys.  I see some leakage Down there.  Like I said, this is kind of a project but You guys probably saw me using that Using this and a big old wrench To break these loose because I could not find 12.5 inch drive 14 millimeter socket So I had to use that 3-8 drive it held it popped off a couple times, but it didn't break And I looked in the truck to get it to get a 12 millimeter out of there and sure enough There's my 14 millimeter 12-point half-inch drive socket. I could have been using my big burger bar on it, but that's all right So all we got to do is pull them up out So I'll get you back down here.  I know it's aluminum, but that's a big block of aluminum. So Now's when I can use a good cherry picker, but I Don't have a place to put one if I had a place to put one I would buy one in a second roll it off into the corner and when I needed it for something like this I could have it but There's I'm not gonna go rent one and just for this thing. You know what I mean? I Just don't have the room in the garage Maybe someday I'll find some room for it in there. I doubt it because they do take up a lot of room But anyway guys, so let's get these bolts out here and see if we can get this head broke loose Lift it up out there. That should be a treat Was easier than I thought That's good. I gotta set a table up so I can lift this off and bring it over set it on the table And then we'll lift it off together. All right now We'll take a look down inside. I got to get some paper towel and clean out the Cylinders because of course all the you know a bunch of antifreeze sorry bunch of antifreeze ran down in it but Then we'll flip the head over to work What I think is the issue? Well, I know one issue Let me get some paper towel first Get my hands cleaned off. I don't know what you can see in there Yeah, see there's that just got in there That wasn't you know from before it's when I pulled the head off That's what went in there. So Let me get that cleaned out. We'll take a good look at the pistons Then we're gonna flip this head over and check it out together See if we got burnt valves or See if we got burnt valves or bent valves or whatever Sometimes you can't tell until you take the valve out once you take the valve out And then just roll it on something really flat a table whatever and if it does this thing It's bent. I'll be right back. Hi guys. So this is amazing now Up here on the top of the cylinders Right around here. You can see that dark spot. There's usually a lip there There is no lip there. I mean other than this carbon, you know, that's Built up there, but there is no lip on any of them That is amazing. This thing really does have a half a million miles on it guys 530 some thousand I think half a million I Don't see, you know, I'll have to move the pistons. I'll have to turn it Move the pistons up down first. I want to clean all that out. So nothing scratches it and I'll have to see if there's any I See a little bit right there. I don't know if you guys can see it right there. Maybe There is a little movement in that piston Now there's a little movement in all of them. I'm not this one's not as bad. I see some Scoring right there, but it doesn't catch my finger. So I think it'd be alright What I really want to do because I think I think I can pull that pan off The oil pan off with this still in it And what I'd really like to do is put new piston rings in it Hone them cylinders out. I can still hone this just put that piston all the way to the bottom room I still under home Down in there and clean that up. I may do that But let me get you on stent. Well, here. Let's flip this over and see what we can see. Here's the head Here's the valves Stuff's coming out. That's all right. I'm not seeing any crack. I thought I'd see a crack the valve I Mean I got them. I'm putting them in but because it did have one cylinder that was I Know it was slow on compression. I Took that plug out. So This is the broken one If you can see down in there Yeah There's the broken one So what I'm gonna have to do I think what I'll probably do is I'll cut this Electrode off here And then just drill that that way and get a straight Because I can't put this up in my press So I'll just you know drill the straight as I can get it to get that what's left that plug out of there and as you can see It wasn't all the way down in see like this one. It's even there. This one was not all the way down in Could have been losing compression there. I'm not sure but Okay Let me take a look at this see what's going on It definitely had it definitely was losing compression on a cylinder and then I'll have to get this head cleaned off Excuse me, and I'll have to run a straight edge across and make sure it's not warped So hang on guys, and I'll be back with you. Okay guys. I decided I'm gonna go ahead and pull these valves out I'll show you how to do one and Then I'll just go ahead and pull them out I don't have to keep these in order because I'm putting new ones in But we'll start with this one here see that little gap right there There's that's two pieces see there's a gap on each side Those are called keepers and they're at a wedge and I'll show you what we got to do This is a spring in here What we have to do is compress that spring so we can get these out and that's what this tool here is for It will go on here, and we get this the adapters we need and One end will hold the valve from coming out this way and the other end will press that in and Then through here. This is I think the one we're going to use Yeah then When I press his end you can get in between here in Between there to get those keepers out with a little magnet so let me get this set up and And I'll show you how to take that valve out of there Okay guys, so I got My compressor on here And I got the other end on the head of the valve this in on the spring There it is Now we're going to get our little keepers out do not lose these things And here's the little keepers See it's like a wedge now. I'm just gonna put these in here right now Now we're going to take This back off and it should let the spring Is be too easy for and put a couple ball bearings in there. So This doesn't fall out all the time. Let's pull this spring out There's the spring Don't lose these pieces either now Take this off Let's turn this up. We're gonna take this intake valve out Sometimes you have to Then we're going to inspect it The valve looks good, but it doesn't seem like it's seating very well. There's there's not a clean spot around it But that valve looks good But it's getting new ones anyway. I'm just looking for burnt valves right now This is so I'm going to get these off of here I'm gonna set these over here and Okay, I do see some pitting on the valve seat Okay, I'll show you that Let me back you out so I don't I do see a lot of pitting there Which I guess a half a million miles that's to be expected right there that silver part around there See there's a lot of pitting so hopefully When I lap these valves whoops That pitting will come out See that pitting that shouldn't be like that Okay, and then down in there's our valve guide And it should have valve seals it should come I don't know if it comes with the valve guides or not. I'll have to see but right now. I Want I'm gonna at least get these four out and then we'll see what we're looking at.  I've got all the valves out Now I was looking at these spark plugs number three and four and They look good really good and Number two I took out and put in a vat and it looked just the same as these two This one I could never tell because you know Work the plug trying to get it out. But what are you gonna do? I mean you got you have to do something, you know But from the looks of that it wasn't too bad either There was a lot of carbon on the exhaust side, of course, you know, that's to be expected There was one that was kind of bad I Don't think that one was it one of them was Pretty bad. So there could have been a piece of carbon Because if you look down in there You can see all that carbon build up like right there Like see these intakes, they're not gonna be as bad because they're intake But if you look at that down in there a lot of carbon on the exhaust on The number one cylinder more Than on two three and four. See these aren't too bad. They're carbon, but not bad But the number one cylinder was really carboned up. So it could have had a piece of carbon Stuck under one of the valves also these These intakes the seats They are pitted Now a lot of people want to say well, that's a lot of carbon. That's a lot of gunk build up No, really, it's not because remember this is a half a million mile truck. This head's never been off and When she got it had less than a hundred thousand miles on it So when she would go to work like she would fill up she may have to stop and get gas while she's out She can't go to the gas same gas station all the time. So it was always running You know 90% of its life. It was running, you know At least four fifths of its life. It was running different fuels, you know and Also this truck When it was on the highway, it was running between 80 85 as long as it was on the highway I know when we took it, you know, we took this thing to gamesville many times and we took it to Georgia when we went to go spook bridge this thing was running 80. It's registered for 110 this thing was running 80 85 miles an hour on the highway and You know, I mean she was on a schedule tight schedule and she didn't she didn't let any grass grow underneath it That's for sure. This thing was always running hard so You know say what you want to You know about all this all this carbon and you know the gunk and stuff like that say what you want to about it But for half a million miles I've tore down engines with 120,000 miles that looked 10 times worse than this than this engine And that's no joke. We're talking v8s and v6 is four cylinders, you know 110 120,000 Excuse me and I mean they looked, you know a lot a lot worse than that all that sludge and stuff I mean, you know, sometimes she would say I got a Stop and get a quarter oil for the truck tomorrow Like you check it. No, but it's ticking. So whenever it starts ticking it needs oil And it didn't leak any and it didn't smoke. It just you know, I mean Between oil changes this thing would go 50 60,000 miles and she would put that on it, you know in a few months So, yeah You know, I got somebody stopping here I'll be back with you. Yeah, some younger boys and the rest of my Scott outwater there But yeah, I mean since I didn't find any burnt or cracked valves Hopefully it would just been a piece of carbon stuck under one of the valves Because if not You guys know what I'm thinking The only thing that I could think of it be a A cracked compression ring so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and move on with this as planned I'm gonna see if I can get that out drilled out and and get a repair kit in there That's not my main concern. I'm gonna run a straight edge across and make sure the head's not warped Could there be a crack in it? Yeah, but it wasn't acting like that, you know the the only problem I had was number one cylinder wasn't firing right and You know, I think it was because this is the plug that her dad put in And cross reddit. You see it's not all the way where it should be. So I Was like well since we we had the Chevy now I thought you know center later this is you know, it's gonna have to be done because it wasn't you know It was only now once you got it up to higher speeds like 60 70 mile an hour That that cylinder would pick up that plug would start firing apparently and it would run fine down the highway But taking off, you know, it was a real jerky and idling When I would pull the coil off and on it wouldn't do nothing. These was all fired.   You could not see it But you could see it with that stuff on it. You can't do this because of course it's aluminum You'd have to have this pressure tested So what I'm going to do is move on with this Excuse me go ahead and move forward with this Then I'm going to put it all back together. I'm going to torque now I'm not going to put it all back together, but I'm gonna put the cams in and everything and that's all I'm gonna do I'm gonna You know after it's all cleaned up and all the valves and everything's done then I will go ahead and torque that down on here and And then I'll run a compression test on it And then if I still got a low compression on one cylinder, then I'll know it's a ring If I don't if it's all got good compression, then I know I'll be you know, I'll be able to just go ahead and Throw it all back together But that's what I'm gonna do But so I'll bring you guys along with me on that, but I'm done for today You can see I got a lot of stuff to pick up here and I'm gonna Put these pistons up to the top as far as they'll go. See these Number one and number four is down lower than two and three But I'll bring two and three clear up to the top and then I'm gonna shoot it down with oil This is going to go inside the truck I Didn't have to keep these in order since I'm replacing them, but it's just to have it. These are all in order here Which is not really gonna make that much of a difference on them So but once once I get the valves lapped then yes once once like this intake valve on number one is lapped in Then yeah, you you want to keep that? You because now it's lapped into this one and not this one, you know what I mean? So hopefully I can get them cleaned up. We'll just have to see but that's where we're at right now So anyway guys, thanks for watching. I appreciate it Doctors appointment tomorrow I Do have a couple videos I have to make and get out So I'll do them when I get back from the doctor. So this this may have to sift a little bug I guess some valve grinding compound So but I'll bring you back on to that. I think it's what part two Part three. I don't know part two. I don't know. Anyway, it'll be on the title Thanks for watching guys. I appreciate it. Shea Bear the myth man alleged I'm gone for now We'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye guys. Take care


The classroom is no longer a one-size-fit all. I saw a result that was issued to a special child from the school that he attends. In the result, the boy was issued an F for all the 10 subjects he offered. And the teacher commented that the child needed to work harder. I asked myself, how else is this child to work harder? By the way, there are no dole in us, only dole teachers. If you have taught a child and his scores F all round, this is a sign that you, the teacher, have failed in your responsibility and nothing, absolutely nothing, has been taught. This is 2021 and teachers need to upscale their teaching methods and techniques. If the kids do not learn the way you teach, it is your responsibility to figure out how to teach the child. Also, understand and educate yourself on teaching special needs children. I realized that the teacher and the school are oblivious of special needs and the best way to teach them. It is also emotionally draining and discouraging to send such a callous result to the parents. We need teachers to be trained on special needs education and how to navigate teaching children with special needs. We also need to be empathic as individuals. If the teacher was empathic, he or she would have known that such a result should never be sent to anybody, talk less of a parent. We have even seen now more than ever that academic success does not equal life success. So we must ensure that we do not write off learners in the classroom. The classroom should no longer be a one-size-fits-all. You know, when I listen to your advocacy, I was blown away because I think this is a topic that we've ignored a lot. It's only in Nigeria where special needs kids are not good in arithmetic. Across the world, they top the charts. NASA. They are super smart. Yes, but they can't be taught the way we teach other kids. So it begs the question, if they are so super smart because they are usually geniuses as seen with their very good with math, some very good with pictorial representation, they are massively intelligent. So it just means that our educational system cannot handle geniuses. That's what I translated for you. But to also be very honest, you find that a lot of the no-needs students go to school in Nigeria and they do badly or they just manage. People come with a third class and then they go and do masters abroad and they are by far the best. True. So I think that the way we teach or we expect people to learn might not really be the best for critical thinking. So you are thought to take it as is given. So let me tell you one of the things that I experienced in the university. If your lecture attitude is something in a certain way and then you find another way of experiencing it, you might be penalized for not even putting that word forward. So that also shows that generally we might have a problem with how we expect people to learn in Nigeria. What I think what it shows clearly is that Nigeria spends less than 10% of its budget on education. Where are you going to move it to 50% in the coming years? 50. Yes, I have. 15, not 50. Oh, 15? How can it be 50? I thought it was going to be a new Nigeria. No, no. I think that sadly this issue that has been raised here is something that is deep, is painful. And it now also for me says that as people, especially in the education space, there's that drive, that need for education to become different. The skills of the future are so different from what Nigeria is even understanding or identifying. And obviously we're still using outdated teaching methods to be able to teach children in this time and in. 2021. And then of course, now with all the myriad of issues raised here, is it any wonder that people are trying to jump out of Nigeria? Yeah. My case at last was very red, but then me, it's sad, it's unfortunate. And for special needs children, I've always had a heart for it and I've been like, okay, but I think because I've been involved in a lot of things around education and development, I believe that there is a gradual, but no change occurring in the education sector. Yes, maybe from the private system, private school system, but somewhat somehow, special needs children are becoming relevant. I know quite a number, a few right now that parents are identifying and they don't also forget that the issue of stigmatization from society and also an inadequacy in terms of teaching teachers themselves. What teachers this is, let's give them some credit, I believe. It's a painful experience. It's a painful experience. It's a painful experience, but I know because I have been in that space and I do have people in that space that a lot of teachers now and these are personally obscuring. Now, can we do better? Can the school system, can we as society begin to hold the education system through every form we know? Say, you know what? We want a difference. Can we begin to push ourselves to get that say? But you can only hold. I want to take off from where you started. So what I got from the advocacy is that it's too prompt. There's the issue of special needs and then there's the issue of even just general education itself. One Koduna State governor decided to be brave and take a step in that direction and say, okay, let me even find out the people who are inside this place that is teaching the next generation and all people were interested in is how to collect their money. It wasn't an issue of, it's even true. Let's go through the system, let's go through the exam, let's go through the fire and see who will come out of it. So your education system already is in a huge, there's a huge problem there. There isn't enough money to even, what do you call it, to standardize it. Then you've left the space to entrepreneur people, not educationists. When I was growing up, I was taught by teachers, people who loved, who had the passion, who understood and that's what is also missing. And so when you now spoke about not sending F9 to the parents that it is not fair, if the child has made F9, it's F9, you let the parent know, I'm not one of those people that thinks that there's a standard, there's a minimum standard that a child needs to be educated on because he or she is going to go out into the world. If you don't know how to add, if you don't understand how to speak basic, you put your tenses properly and all, that needs to be done. But as she said also, the issue of feeling sorry for the teachers, our teachers here are honestly battered, they're like, they're honestly battered. They are not, what do you call it, motivated enough, they are not being carried along and the parents again, everything is the teacher. If the child is not behaving properly, it's the teacher. If the child is not, it's the teacher. Where is the role of the parent in ensuring that, we're not at home to even help them with their homework. We're not at home to even understand, okay, what did you do in school? Where can I help? Can I go and meet your teacher? We've left everything, we've outsourced it to a system that is already in problem. Yeah, I'm sure if you have special needs children, should you as a parent actually put your special needs child in a mainstream school without actually making sure that that mainstream school has the capacity to take in special needs children? And if they don't, what can I as that kind of parent actually do to that system? So, you know, it's a myriad of issues. Or should we actually scrap formal education and really look at it and say, is this the working force? You know, but I've seen some developments in the sector. I have a friend in Abuja who has a special needs child and she's about 13 now. But their system, what they did was, he and his wife started a school. His wife went and started reading online about special needs education. And they started a school. And right now, they're the foremost in special needs education. You see, that's it. I know people who've done that. And so that is one person. But with the kind of, it's like sometimes this issues raise opportunities, doors that we're not looking at. They begin to, and what I believe strongly in the last one year, people in the education space outside of government, you know, government and people should understand that technology and the change in dynamics have created avenues to change things. So if we actually have the opportunity to, in that space, as this advocacy is going on and as educationists are listening or watching, there's a lot of change that can be created because half of the children today are homeschooling anyway. So can we actually take advantage of what we're having on ground and change the narrative? But then again, if a school, that particular school, that parent is not enough to just be angry, there should be issues taking up with that school. Now, why do we have a regular teacher taking this child and giving them regular, you can't grade the child on what the child doesn't know. So definitely, we've all agreed that the parent, the teacher, the society, the government and private institution, all of us have to come together to make education for special needs better in Nigeria. We bring these issues to your plates because we all want a better society and a better Nigeria. So we will always want to see some of your opinions on issues we discuss here. Emo Obubete says APC and PDP members are already wired a certain way. The honest youths have to infiltrate both parties and diplomatically alter their mindsets. Unfortunately, is it true these parties that we should stand a chance to improve, that we stand a chance of improving the system because they own everything? Dotsun Ajamuna says, I like how we talk about things that should be done as if we don't know how the contraption works. You expect the National Assembly to bite the hand that feeds them who honestly believes that a bunch of people are unqualified to be representatives to begin with to embark on a process that will not favor them. Man, I laugh but hope springs internal, I suppose. We have now come to the end of this week's episode of The Advocate. However, the advocacy continues on our social media platforms on Facebook plus TV Africa, hashtag The Advocate NG or on Instagram at plusTVAfrica, hashtag The Advocate NG. To catch up with previous broadcasts, go to plusTVAfrica.com forward slash The Advocate NG. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel plus TV Africa. Till next week, same time on this station. Let's keep advocating for a better society.


Coming to you from San Jose, California. It's the queue. Here is your host Jeff Trick. This is the primary data. Launcher Ramah has launched in the company. A lot of excitement. Join here by Clint Smith, the CEO. Excuse me, Lance Smith. Great event. Thank you so much. It's been an all-day event. We are coming out strong. And everyone's launching themselves with us. I don't know if you can see, there's people launching behind us. There's motorcycles, bicycles, guys on a wheelchair. It's a lot of excitement. So, talk about it. It's a lot of excitement because the bus here is obviously, you got the band back together. We did. It's the old Fusion IO guys. You executed well before IPO. Great success. And now you're doing it again. I'm gonna tell you, we're starting again with a great technology, a great set of people. And we got the WASP back on board. Rick White, David Flynn. We're here to do it again. All right, so just, we won't go too deep because we're too busy launching and jumping and eating pretzels. But what is the big idea? What are you guys gonna execute this time that you didn't do before? You know, it's real simple. We've created something called data virtualization. And that allows us to do many things. One of the key things is data mobility. Allows us to traverse all different types of storage and allows it to actually, you don't have to change anything in your infrastructure. Same application, same operating system, same file system. Everything the same. We make data move where it's needed and make it fast. Which everyone always talks about. Do you move the computer to the data? The data to the computer. It's hard to move the data. No longer hard to move the data. We don't care where the data's at. We put it where it's needed. It can be in the cloud. It can be like a capacity array of hard disk drives. It can be in flash. All we do is we take it policy driven. We make sure when the app needs it, it's where it belongs. So this is the launch party. So where are you actually in the stage of the company? Are we GA? Is there product out? What do people do? Yes, we're in the development phase right now. So we've already done our proof of concepts with customers. We've hit a number of very specific verticals. Oil and gas, media and entertainment, bioinformatics. These types of companies need solutions to deal with millions and billions of files across all different diverse types of storage. We're going to be in POC for about the next six to eight months and then next year and then next year, we're going to go GA. We have some work to do to prove the technology, to prove the reliability, and set the reputation for the company. Awesome. So you were launching earlier on the motorcycle. Yeah.  I think they're all saved in about six to eight months. We can look forward to GA. That's right. Awesome. So any last words for the fans that are twiddling their thumbs? Can they get involved? Do they have to sit and wait? Yeah, we send you a new request for, can you move my data? What do they do? We got a new website up. Check it out. We have all kinds of your job listings there. If you got talent and you want to bring it to the top and shoot to the moon, you can launch it here or launch from our website. Launcherama. Thanks for stopping by. Thanks for inviting us to the party. It's the Launcherama in, again, kind of in the back slot at the San Jose Convention Center here in San Francisco. I'm Jeff Frig with Lance Smith. You're watching theCUBE and we're on the ground.


And besides the nice things said already, I'm also the chief product officer at MoveGuides now a company that recently acquired Telpo but picture a 26 year old graphic designer they Get off an airplane you open up your computer You continue working for the same client that where you're working for at your source where you boarded the plane Maybe you wish had what you wish you would have worked on the plane as well But the Wi-Fi sucked and now you're in this new city and you have a car waiting for you You're making the income exactly the way you were doing 8,000 kilometers away and you have a place to stay for the evening So that's like a very typical situation in this sort of modern work environment if I hope you agree What's special about that though is that by that moment in time that graphic designer does not have to know What the name of the city is? So nowhere in the human history We've been at the point where you can so swiftly change your location get to a new place not interrupt your normal life Set up everything you need to actually stay there while not even knowing what the city's name is and that's that's what technology has done in the Last decade so in a in a way that is just getting Into our brains now in a more systematic way even though many many people are living like that More precisely about the billion people today are living in a place other than the one they were born in and it's roughly a split of a quarter of a billion people have moved abroad and Freak waters have moved domestically inside of a large country So inside of us inside of China inside of India you have much more internal mobilization or inside EU this country and country Movement is somewhere in between and I would even argue That this number is grossly underestimating because I don't think that graphic designer who might work six months in another city He's actually included in that because usually this sort of stats are based on a change of permanent residency and some some relatively slow moving macroeconomic numbers The other thing that is interesting about that To one billion people is that over the last 15 years That number has been growing steadily at the rate of 2.4 percent year-on-year And why that is special is our world's population is growing at 1.2 percent a year So basically the number of people mobile the pace of that growth is double the price of humans on the planet So it's an definitely an increasing trend so Three years ago. We observed that trend and living that life ourselves like I've lived in four countries and I spend my life in a typical year Maybe half a year. I'm on the road and so were my co-founders and we started this company called teleport And what teleport does and you can go to top of the door against they'll use it today Is is a search engine where people can go in and say that given who I am who I am what I want to do Where should I be? If I'm a software developer and want to make more money, where should I move if I'm a nurse and I want to save money on rent if I'm a Rider and I want to be anywhere because I can work anywhere But I want to give the best education for my kids like what are the places that I could choose on and we built software tools for that And now through the history of teleport We have had over 300,000 people who have populated their profiles and tried to use the software and Thousands of them have actually moved to the places that that they have When people move It's actually a bigger deal than just like people fulfilling their personal sort of goals and and and having a Maybe a $10,000 bump in their annual income or lowering the cost if you look at the aggregate impact like one way to do that is to flip the switch and Flip the side and look at the what is the impact to the company's employing them and what it comes out Is that 230 billion dollars are spent every year by companies just relocating the people Just trying to attract work from workforce from abroad Or Choosing that okay, we're gonna open up this new plant in the new country Let's send a few managers or we're running this Wall Street Bank and our Hong Kong branch Lacks this options trader. Let's move two people from New York to there And that sort of internal movement in companies attracting new people to come in is a 230 billion dollar market And it's called corporate relocation the reason I'm laying this out for you is that That market that corporate relocation market that mobility market is this classic Space which a software entrepreneur like these thousands of people here We look at that says that this is utterly broken. We can fix it with software The globe globe that you see is a visualization of all the moves that now at move guides Which teleport is a part of we have served over the last few years helped them to get from a to be using software and we're doing that in a space which Just to get some sense of that. There are a number of high 500 million dollar companies operating in this space They're typically 50 or 60 years old. They Have people who are really good at understanding what it takes to move somebody from Amsterdam to Helsinki And they need know how to call a shipping company and and operate on a visa But but but they do that by phones and they send emails and it's like this this this old school Hard market of very complex problems that humans who are very talented in that space have been solving manually And so what I want to talk to you about today is that how you take a segment like there's this massive trend of people moving there is this Existing industry that moves billions of dollars of value just to relocate people on this planet earth How do you look at that as a software problem? And what are the things that you can do and what we are doing at move guides to sort of change that and disrupt that industry? so basically There are free things when I look at an industry like that and in my past I had the joy of being with Skype for the seven earliest years and it's kind of the similar way how we looked at Telecom industry or how you go into an old incumbent industry and try to change things and I would argue or the examples I'm going to bring our data Then what can you do with integrations once you have the data moving and then what does it do to the decision-making? So first off data When move guides acquired teleport back in March We started integrating our products and as I said we were building software that And and data sets were in order to help people to move to a place We had index about 800 dimensions of cost and quality of life data about 250 cities on this planet So what we did was over the last six months We've taken all of that data and built that into the tools that corporations can use so that the way you can now Navigate where your people are where should they be working is that? For example in San Francisco Bay area in New York and it does another cities We can tell you that in relation to the office that you have in that city This is the most cost and commute optimal place for your employee to live So we can go down to like a very tiny kilometer by kilometer cells and pinpoint This is the best place for your employees to be this is the optimum of what they need to do for work Compared to what the life quality will be compared to how much time they were wasting on the commute at all of that And because it's all software and it's all data We can run millions of those queries and do that fully automatically So or any employee can play with your destiny and have these ideas secondly integrations One thing that you see in this old incumbent industries is that because people operate manually They take notes on post-it notes and send emails and data is not stored anywhere in a structured way Then throughout this complex space of things that need to happen when one person moves from one country to another You it's super hard to get the single overview of what's happening So this entire two hundred thirty million billion dollar business and moving people around shipping stuff and temporary housing and all This sort of logistical complexities That's just one part of the story because if you want to send the fin to Saudi Arabia You also need to figure out the visa in order to figure out the visa You might need to know if they're married or not if they're married or not You might need to know what's the nationality of that partner and oh by the way What's the gender of that partner because that might change completely how the process works and that date? Data lives somewhere on paper or is in silos today, so it doesn't exist anywhere Another example of that is tax When you are a knowledge worker who's who's spending time in in let's say eight countries a year There are different countries of different claims on your residency and the residency of your company So my personal hypothesis is that in the next decade that's going to be a massive industry That's going to be disrupted itself is nation-state taxing because when we look at the hundreds of thousands of users moving around the world like like these people will not be Taxable if you only look at their physical location you have to understand where they're doing the business Where are the customers? Where are they living their lives? But until that hasn't been solved Somehow you need to navigate this complex mess of taxes and there are different scenarios when you're moving people around you need to Understand ahead what taxation will look like you need to be able to estimate costs You need to be able to say that okay if we send one more sales guy to Moscow We're gonna our companies become a Russian resident so we need to pay all these other taxes in Russia So so all of this complexity needs to be managed by software We believe and eventually this data needs to come together So once you digitize all of those angles and once you integrate all of those companies and all of this law firms and tax firms And be for consultants and everybody who is operating with these complex data sets Like once you bring those into a single software platform a beautiful things can happen that completely like Changed the way this industry works and What will happen is that all of a sudden this entire industry that is focused on how do we get the person from a to be? Like if you talk to anybody in corporate relocation space and try to get any help for your move the questions are asked that Okay, so how many people are gonna move from Europe to us next year? Like this transactions. It's this a to be moves But if you talk to the humans on the move It's not how they think like just act of getting on a plane and getting your stuff shipped is not hard What's hard is what happens before the move the decisions of where should I be where should I go? Where when my family have the best life? Where will I have the best income that they can deserve like all of those questions before I'm way more important And then every time you move to a new country there is all this life that happens afterwards So this interesting shift that we're seeing by implementing our software into this world Is that instead of people thinking about these transactions of getting from a to be how can you start thinking about? What will my life look like next year? How much time will I spend in these locations and what's better for me? Should I if I live in Paris should I move to London for that job or should I commute one week a month? And when you think on a corporate level the large fortune 500 organization might have 20,000 people on the road at any given time So having this oversight that what's happening with my workforce? Where are they? What are the implications of that and what is the more like getting into sort of fancy machine learning AI topics? What is the better place for my people to be where can they add more value to my organization and live happier work lives? Like these are the kinds of questions that you only start You only will be able to answer once you've sorted out this complexities of this transactional world underneath that is happening today and the beauty of that is that We live in this world where Every day brings news about some country trying to build walls and some country trying to block other people not coming there And then some aggressive little happy countries trying to attract more talent and this sort of fluidity of people happening around the globe The more hassle the more complexity the more pain the more political turmoil the more terror the more More all the scary things of the world We believe that the more people need actually modern technology and software to help them to make the right decisions in this complex world When you wake up in the morning, and you don't know which country you can enter with your passport this week Like how do you navigate that and that's something that we we use software to solve for both individuals on the move But also for the tens of thousands of organizations around the world who need to somehow manage the worldwide workforce, so This is my email if you are interested in chatting more about this topic or joining that that effort then I would love to hear from you Thank you