SiliconANGLE Media presents the CUBE. Covering Alibaba Cloud's annual conference. Brought to you by Intel. Now, here's John Furrier. Hello everyone, I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of SiliconANGLE, Wikibon and theCUBE. We are here for exclusive CUBE conversations at the Alibaba Cloud Conference here in Hangzhou, China. We're here with Dr. Wang, who's the chairman of the Alibaba Group Technology Committee, as well as the founder of Alibaba Cloud, here in the new Museum of Inspiration at the event. Thanks for spending the time with me. Oh, thank you for coming. So before we talk about Alibaba Cloud and all the goodness going on here at the conference, talk about this Museum of Inspiration. It is new and it has kind of a display theme. You kind of walk through time. What was the motivation and the inspiration for the museum? Yeah, I think the keyword for the Museum of Inspiration is really on the inspiration instead of the museum. So I would say that that's a true, really the origin of thinking about that. The first thing is really about when people, people take a lot of things for granted. And so one of the goals for this museum, it just shows the people they probably see every day. But just when you get, wow, okay, that's different from what I saw. So I think a lot of people take for granted, but it's really the great invention or great human contribution to the whole society. So I think the one thing is really about that people understand why we got here today. So that's the first thing. The other thing is really about science and technology. So when people talking about science and technology, people often will say, okay, when we can combine science and technology or that. But I don't think that's the right way to describe the relationship between science and technology. I would say science and technology is really the two sides of the coin, okay? So I really want to see, let people to see two sides, instead of mix it together and got one thing, okay? So that's two things that's parallel, just like zero and one. There are two things, okay? When they put together in a computer, the amazing things happen, okay? So if you mix the zero and one as like half something, then the word is just not that far, okay? So I really want to make sure it's the museum of science and art instead of the mixture of science and the arts, okay? So that's the one thing. The other thing is really about the inspiration of future. Most of the museum is really about the past and just show how we have in the past. And with less on the inspiration to help people to think about the future. So this museum is really, when we think about everything over here, so we did talk about the past. We want to make sure people think about the future. So that's the whole idea of our day. And the computer industry is fairly young if you go back to modern computing. But you kind of have a take here about how technology really is embedded in life. Yeah. Talk more about that in tech because that seems to translate to the conference here at Alibaba that technology isn't just about the speeds and the feeds, it's about the integration into life. Yeah, and I think that from this museum, you can see that actually I traced back the origin of all the technology. So when people talking about the computer technology, I'm really want to talk about the computing technology.  So if you look at the same thing is different, you can really can see the origin of that. So I think in this museum, we talk about two really original things. The first is about the nature origin of the internet. So when I'm talking about internet, you're talking about our current technology for our internet. So let me look at the human history. So I always said when people walk, you create the internet for our earth, okay. So you can see that a lot of things can trace back and then with this kind of trace back, you can help us to think about what's going to happen next. So the trace, the original idea is actually a very important thing if you're thinking about technology. Talk about the story of Alibaba Cloud.  Amazon has had it for around early 2000s, but you guys came right after Amazon, 2009, still young and growing. How does the Amazon, I mean, the Alibaba Cloud take the culture of this inspiration? What are some of the design principles of the Alibaba Cloud? Yeah, actually, I would say the Alibaba Cloud is different from the Amazon Cloud. In a sense, we have different vision about the future. And unfortunately, we are put on the same umbrella called Cloud Computing by media, okay, I would say that. So we are different. In a sense, when the Amazon, actually I show great respect to Amazon, okay, but when the Amazon started Cloud Computing, we are really talking about the utility. We're talking about how to cut the cost down, okay. So basically it's not, they start with the low cost of IT infrastructure. That's what I understand, okay. Well, when I started Alibaba Cloud, we know that actually cost is important, for sure. But we know that actually the computing power is more important than the cost. If you're thinking about the big data area, okay. So we started with thinking, it's the data-centric Cloud Computing. When you look at our first brochure, and we put word that over there, that's almost nine years ago. So we call the data-centric Cloud Computing instead of the IT-centric Cloud Computing. So this actually is not just an idea difference. It's actually eventually influenced of the underlying technology infrastructure. So our whole underlying technology infrastructure is designed for the data, instead of just for the IT department, yeah. So Jack Ma was talking about this industrial revolution, just digital transformation. And what strikes me is you guys have that same art and scientists kind of dynamic artists and science coming together. Reminds me of Steve Jobs, technology, liberal arts, thinking that spawns new creativity. Certainly the iPhone is a great example of that, is one of the many things. But now the new generation is coming together. You have a big artist focus here at the event, music festival, not just technology. How is that part of the focus at the event here? And what does that mean for new developers? Okay, I think it's really the crossing behind that. If you're thinking about technology and our e-commerce, what's really the one thing behind that is really changing the way of people's life, okay? And so in that sense, computing is not just technology. It's really something that changes the way of the life of every people, okay? I think that e-commerce changes the way of life of other people. In that sense, they are the same, okay? So if you look at the people's life, they won't live just on technology. They won't just live on the arts, okay? They need a life, okay? Life means everything. So by nature, we have to make sure that consumers, they need something that more than just one thing. So I think we're very lucky, we understand that. And if you're thinking about the young people, and I wanna give you a few numbers about this conference about young people. And you know that in China, we have a very specific word talking about the young people a couple of years ago. We call it the body and bones. It basically means the generation born after 80s, okay? And then with people talking about the Jiu-Ling-Ho, that basically means people born after 90s, okay? And then with people talking about the Li-Ling-Ho, it's basically people talking about people born after 2000, okay? And I think that most of the visits for this conference Li-Ling-Ho, Jiu-Ling-Ho, and Faling-Ho. So this is all young, all young people, you know? The digital culture. It's a digital culture. And I would rather, using my own word in the book, I would say instead of digital, from a digital generation is already an old generation, I would say. And I would rather to cause online generation. They do everything online. And even the last generation do a lot of things digital because digital is everywhere. But I would emphasize it's an online generation to do everything online, yeah. Dr. Wang, talk about data. You mentioned that's the key ingredient is the fuel for innovation. And that's impacting the city brain project that you guys are doing. Talk about the city brain and the role of data and how that's impacting the societal users out there. Certainly here in China, the traffic is big. But this is just an example of where else is out there. Okay, so city brain actually is, again, it means different things based on the perspective thing. So I think one thing probably is important is about the data. And this is the first time, actually, I think it's time to use the big data. It's better to use what I call the data resource. It's a better word than the big data, okay. So I think the one fundamental thinking for the city brain is we finally human army, human finally realize actually the data resource is the most precious resource for the city instead of land and water supply. And because we already know that the land is limited, water supply is limited, okay. So this is very important. And we don't view data as not essential thing. It's just not part of your IT system, okay. But we finally realize actually data is part of the city instead of part of your city IT system. So this is, I think it's the leapfrog thinking for that, at least for me. And I feel when it got to that, and then you realize actually today, all the existing IT system cannot, I have no, cannot actually really embrace the data. So IT system is just support people do the work they used to do, okay. And then you realize, okay, we need the infrastructure to really make the value from the data, just like we have water supply system for the city. Then you can use the reservoir, okay. Otherwise reservoir is useful for the city. So I think city bring just like on a water supply system for the data. And so the city eventually can consume that. And so we start thinking about, okay, it's not new infrastructure for the city, just like water supply system, just like a power grid, just like, you know, underway system, you know, that's how we're thinking about it. Okay, it's the first thing. The reason we got to the traffic system is this is the problem every city has around the world, okay. And from my yesterday's presentation, I just joked about we built two roads for the city, okay. Just too many. And I think a lot of people realize that's why Boston had the project, they want to get out the road on the surface, okay. On the surface, but it's still road, okay. It's still expensive. You know how much money they spend to just move all the road. The big dig, I remember that was the big dig. Yeah, that's a big dig, okay. I don't think that's good for the transportation system, but I don't see a sustainable way for the growth of the city, you know. I think probably not made a lot, most of the city don't have the money to do that, okay. So what the data city will want to do, whether we can take the resource of data and we can optimize every aspect of the city so we can use less resource to support the city growth, okay. So when we start with the traffic, it's just make sure, so you know that when we use the data to optimize the traffic lights, the idea behind that actually, we use the data to optimize the time, how to just use the time. It's not just the lights, okay. And then if you're thinking about, when we show the eventually, okay, if you have enough data, then we can have less road in the city but still got the same, you know. So the Internet of Things is the hottest trend of machine learning and artificial intelligence are part of that and the cloud powers this new edge of the network and the data has to flow. So the question that a lot of technologists who are architecting these solutions ask is, how do you make the data go at a very low latency? And that takes compute power, that takes a lot of technology. How does Alibaba Cloud think about the architecture? Also you have strategic partners like Intel, obviously with a lot of compute power but you got to think differently around making the data move. If it's like water, it needs to flow. So real time and it's really important with self-driving cars, real time is down to the millisecond, nanosecond. So how do you think about that as a technologist? Oh, I think the, if it goes back to Internet of Things, I think it's still the Internet. So I would say eventually, if you're thinking about the word cloud computing and people use edge computing and people talking about Internet of Things, for me it's just the computing on the Internet. So cloud computing is a computing on the Internet and edge computing is a computing on the Internet. Even the IoT is a computing Internet. So if you're talking about the data, I think eventually it's really about data on the Internet. So it's not a data on the sensor. It's not data on the cloud. So basically data on Internet. So I would expect that eventually the Internet infrastructure will be improved significantly. So it's not improved the cloud. It's not improved like edge computing or it's improvement of the IoT but it's really... Together. It's a together process. So Intel, I was covering them at Mobile World Congress earlier in the year and I'll say 5G, you need the mobile overlay. That's super important. But you also have the end to end inside the cloud. So obviously Intel is a strategic partner. Can you talk about the relationship you have with Intel and also your philosophy, technically speaking with the ecosystem because it's not just Intel, it's everybody now. So there's a lot of people here at this event, American companies as well as international companies who are now going to be part of your ecosystem. Yeah, actually we sort of have a good relation with the Intel and I think we share the same vision of that. I think the number one thing is really about people really about how important the computing is. So for me the Intel is not a chipset company. The Intel is really the provider of computing power. That's what I understand. And we can expect to eventually the whole ecosystem is really about who is going to provide the computing power and who is going to provide the infrastructure to make the data flow okay. Instead of just an equipment supply because the eventually the needs for the computing and the needs for the data will be the challenge for every company including the Alibaba cloud. We are not immune for this challenge okay, but we will feel the same challenge. So what we want to do is really make sure that with all these partners provide enough computing for the next 10 or 20 years. And we want to make sure that enough data flow for the next 10 of years. So in that sense it's not a traditional ecosystem as like you do this and you do that. It's basically how we can work together to really make sure we have the challenge for the data and computing in the next 10 years. Yesterday we covered the news that you guys announced 15 billion in R&D over the next three years which is a lot of money. And it also has a very international and global view academics with younger folks. Alibaba cloud is going to be a part of that I'm assuming. Love to get your thoughts on how you see that intersecting. But the question for you is the cloud world today is moving at very, very fast speed. We're seeing Amazon for instance has been the best in terms of new announcements every year. I mean not one or two like a ton of announcements a lot. How are you guys going to continue to keep the pace to move faster because the city brain is a great project but it's gonna have more evolution. It's gonna move fast. How are you guys keeping up the pace? Yeah I think the only way, that's not just for next 10 years. Actually when I started Alibaba cloud actually it takes the same philosophy. Actually the user moves very fast than I was. And if you look at the users in China and they move very fast probably than anywhere else around the world. And if you use the city brain project, I would say city brain project is basically tell the people we need the computing power more than any other task okay. And so you really can see that people want you. So if you can't satisfy their demand and somebody else is going to do that okay. So it's not something we want to move fast. You have to move faster. You have to move faster. So that's why that actually, but China is a special, so I always say China is not just a place for the market. It's China is the place that push you move faster okay. That's probably more important that it's a market side okay. You mentioned data technology and information technology kind of transferring to a new world. Software is also a big part of it. Software you have to compute, I'll see what the Intel and the relationships you have. But software is growing exponentially. Certainly in open source, we see a cloud native foundation here, the proper Linux foundation. Open source is going to grow exponentially. More code will be shipping. But you have more data growing exponentially. So software is eating the world, but data is eating software. So that means software is better, data is greater than software. If you look at it that way, that's super important as the new architects, you and I were just talking about how we've been in the industry for a while. You certainly have an amazing career from Microsoft now at Alibaba. A new generation of architects and developers are going to create new innovations around this dynamic of data. What's your advice and how do you view that if you were 21 years old again right now and you were going to jump into studies in the academic and to our field. It's a whole new world. Yeah, I think the two suggestions may not necessarily be for the young generation, but I would say it's just a suggestion for the young generation to push that habit. The first thing that you mentioned about the data-eating software, but I would put this in a different perspective. I would say for the last generation, for the last two or three generations, I would say the computer era. We are really talking about computer plus software. That's pretty much everything. But for this generation, I would say, okay, we are talking about computing plus the data. So that box is not important, but the computing power is more important. But for the computer era, the box is important.  Let's cycle out. So that's one thing, okay. And the implication for this is, I would like young generation push is then we need the new infrastructure. Thinking about the build has a great vision that have the computer in every home, okay. That's infrastructure. But today when you are in the computing plus the data era, the infrastructure not there, okay. So I think the one of the vision for the Alibaba Cloud is make sure that we have this infrastructure for the next 10 or 20 years so the young generation can take advantage of that and to do their innovation and invention, okay. Just like computing in every... And that's very important. I think that also speaks to businesses, how enterprises, I mean, I remember my first startup, I had to buy all this equipment and put it into the telephone closet. Now startups and small businesses don't need IT departments. This has been a big growth here, certainly for Alibaba Cloud. And but now all businesses might have a small closet, not a big data center. So this is gonna change the nature of business. So work and play are coming together. This speaks to the Museum of Inspiration theme here where you can have work and play kind of integrate but yet still be separate in an analog digital world. What's your vision on this new dimension of everything doesn't have to be just digital. You can have an analog life and mix it with digital. Yeah, actually I was always said, okay, it's not, the world never would have just one side, always have two side. And the difference is which side is important at a particular time, okay. So just like when people talk about digital and analog, the analog will exist forever. It's hard for you to kill, okay. The question is whether you can find the most beauty from the digital at the same time, you can find the most beauty part of the analog. And I will say that the people, just like when talking about software, people still love the hardware. And people still love the touch. They still love to make sure it looks good, okay. When it works, you know, versus the work, it works good, okay. So I will say we want to make sure people live in a world that with the two side, in standard just give them one side of the world. You mentioned people still love hardware. I was always say there's always a car drives but there's still an engine and people like to understand the engine. As a maker culture in the United States it's been growing over the past two decades. And now even more accelerated is the maker culture because of the edge and how technology has become part of the fabric of life. How do you see that maker culture being enabled by more cloud services because anyone can make a skateboard or a motorcycle or a computer or a device now. And powering that with a cloud is an opportunity. How do you view that? And I will say that eventually, you know, if we have the broad definition of a cloud, I will say eventually everything the maker makes will be part of the cloud. So when talking about cloud, we're really talking about internet. So every hardware, every piece of hardware will be part of the internet. So I will say, if you look at the evolution of the internet, internet is just a backbone at the very beginning. Actually the first revolution the internet made is really make sure that every piece of software is a part of internet. That's how we got the World Wide Web, okay. And I will say when talking about the maker culture, I will say eventually every piece of hardware will be part of the internet. So internet won't be complete without the hardware. So that's what I, in that sense, you know, the cloud is really the essential part of that yet. There's some really interesting things happening here in China that I'm excited about. One of them is the nature of the user base and how close you guys are to that. In the US, similar scale, but it's kind of spread out a bunch of other cloud providers. But the interesting phenomenon as data grows exponentially and as software grows exponentially and open source, things are becoming more decentralized. So without talking about the whole initial coin offers, I know China has banned it and Russia's gonna ban other countries there, putting a clamp down on cryptocurrency. Putting that aside, there's still blockchain as a potential disruptive enabler. You're seeing decentralization becoming new architecture dynamic because you have to support the growth of these devices at the edge. So distributed computing has been around for a while, but now a decentralized architecture dynamic exists. How do you steer that technology direction? You have to separate from the distributed architecture versus it's a physical location. So I would say, I like the blockchain idea very much and I think eventually it would be part of the internet. It's not just that something sit on top of the internet. It would be very fundamental, just like TCP, IPOP. It's at this low level, okay. So it would be the part of the internet. It would stand on the top of the internet. So eventually, in that sense, internet would be very distributed, okay. But by thinking that it's not saying there's no decent existence, okay. You still need, even though the physically, it's in one place, but... It's almost decentralized, not a hundred percent. Yeah, yeah, so obviously that would be different. So without internet, without like new software, that basically, just like PC. PC is really in a single box and we use all the software in a box, okay. But with this distributed architecture, now we could have a day center, but everything actually is distributed. You cannot trace that, okay. So if you cannot, you know, you put like a meeting, a service in an end-day center. It's actually distributed over this one meeting, service, okay. So in that sense, it's completely distributed. And serverless, too, is a big trend where, you know, if you talk about the edge of the network, you gotta move compute to the data sometimes. Or have compute on the edge. So this is gonna be continued growth. You see that as well, right? Yes, but I still think, you know, if you use the silicon as a measure for this computing power, okay. I would say, if you can see, there's more silicon on edge. But I would say, when you put in one silicon on edge, you probably have to put a hundred silicon on the cloud. So it's still kind of balanced. It's a relationship. It's a relation, which is like, you know, the, our body's very important, but the brain consumes the most oxygen, okay. That's it. It's important what's in the cloud then. You gotta have the computing, you gotta have those ratios. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It depends on the architecture. Yes, yes. Final question for you is, as the folks in Silicon Valley where we're based in Palo Alto wanna know is Alibaba, what it means to them, if you have a chance to say a few things about what Alibaba Cloud is to America, what would you like to say? Oh, I would say that actually, they would just put the cloud computing aside. Just look at what's really means behind that. I think the cloud, we do have no understanding what cloud computing really means, okay. And at the very beginning actually, I wouldn't call the cloud computing company. I would call it, it's a general computing company. It's really to reflect one thinking in China. So again, my comments is not just to view China as the market to sell your product, and to view China as the place to inspire having a new product, yeah. And it's a global world now, the world is flat. Yes, just like in the United States, it's not praise inspired. All the people around the world to get to have a new idea, okay. I think the people in China just love news things, okay. They love to try new things. So it's really can show your psyche of innovation. And it's a global collaboration. It's interesting that that phenomenon is gonna continue. You've done amazing work here. Congratulations on the Museum of Inspiration and the projects you're working on. Personal question for you. What are you excited about now? I mean, we kind of joke about how old we are now, but the young people certainly have a great future ahead of them. But you have a lot of experience in your steering, Alibaba's technology committee across the group, as well as being the founder of the cloud. What are you excited about right now, technically speaking? What's the big, or just impact? What's the way, what's the big way that you like it? I think it's very exciting in a couple of things. Okay, three things I would say. The first is really about just look at technology itself. And just like what I just wrote about both, it's really, really exciting in your life. If you can see the internet, plus the computing, and plus data, could sit together, okay. You know, just like you have this engine, you have the airplane, a couple of things sit together in the way of errors. It's a very, very exciting error. So this is not just about an error, a technology error. It's an error that all things happen at the same time. So that's very exciting. That's one thing though, okay. The second thing is really about the city, the one over here. And I think the Alibaba, you know, Hangzhou is just a very special for Alibaba. But I think it's special for the profits or for the other companies as well. So this place is a very special. And let's just give you an idea where you are, okay. You know, this area has the most networked river in the past, okay. If you look at the map, it's like internet, okay. So I would say that all the people over here, they, the mindset is just an internet mindset even goes back 100, 200 years ago because the river is the only way for them to travel for the communication. That's the data back then. That's what they say. Yeah, so if you look at the map, so this is very exciting. The other thing is about the Alibaba, you know. For me, the Alibaba, you know Alibaba, we have a very broad business, okay. You can feel that. But from technology point of view, that basically means it's the place you can touch every aspect of technology.  You have a great surface area aperture to look at the impact of life. Yeah, so you're thinking about the three things together and it's hard to say, okay, you better to get excited, okay. It's great time to be in technology, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I mean entertainment, e-commerce, web services. Yeah, so for me, when I work on the city burn project, it's just the beginning of machine learning. So a lot of people, they are fighting for like, you know, when people talking about speech recognition, they are fighting for the last one meter for the speech recognition.  It's just the beginning. So we just start with the 1%. It must be a lot of fun. I mean, you got a lot of data to work with. You have real life integration. It's super exciting. When are we going to see you in Silicon Valley? Yeah, I pay regularly to Silicon Valley and do it two or three times every year. And we probably see sometime early next year, you know. Great, well thank you very much for the time. Appreciate it. Thank you for coming to the conference and coming to the museum, you know. Thank you very much. Thank you. Great inspiration. Thank you.


The mysteries of Islam fascinate us time and time again. This is no different from the life story of the Prophet. Who was Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alihi wasallam? An illiterate dozen merchant who one day stumbled upon amazing Arabic rhetoric? Or was he the creation of Allah's greatest light? Sent down to earth to pull man out of ignorance and bring them to the purest of truths. I Ali Burji am on a journey to discover the real story behind the Prophet, the real story behind our religion, the roots, the beginning, the cradle of civilization. We will continue from our last discussion. We're still in the marriage of Amir al-Mu'mineen and Sayyid al-Fatima alayhi as-salam. And we stopped at the maher. What we said was basically something like the dowry, but the other way around. Yeah, it's not one. We keep it as a maher. It's not a maher. Okay, so basically what is the seal or the agreement of the whatever the husband is going to offer to the bride with her acceptance, of course. So insha Allah, we wanted to go into a very beautiful narration regarding the maher of Fatima al-Zahra. As-salamu alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi wa alayhi. As we mentioned in the previous episode that Imam al-Alayhi as-salam went to sell his armor and he sold it to someone and it turned out to be Jibrail and he brought the money and gave it to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa alaihi and the Prophet gave him the armor which he said to him, he informed him that it was Jibrail who bought the armor from him. When the Prophet instructed Imam al-Alayhi to go and sell the armor so that he can bring and the Prophet informed Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam that Imam al-Alayhi is going to do this. The Prophet, Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam, said, oh Rasulullah, I accept Ali for marriage to be my husband but I don't accept the maher of Fahmah al-Durham and she said other people would agree money of silver this kind of maher, other girls if you like. So what's the difference between them and your daughter who is the daughter of Sayyid al-Mursaleen and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said that Allah has said that the homes of earth forever, the homes of earth is your maher and Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam which is if you like from the material point of view is a huge sum but Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam said that I still am not content with this and then hearing that Jibrail al-Salam descended on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and he said oh Rasulullah and Allah says that Paradise al-Jannah and whatever in it is the maher for Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam Allah and in here at the stage Fatima al-Zahra said I'm not content with that either so not only the earth but she wasn't even content with the heavens and the Paradise the Jannah and whatever is in the Jannah which is beyond our imagination and then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi alayhi as-salam said oh Fatima al-Zahra what do you want she said deep down really what I want is Allah ask Allah to give to set the maher for me is that the Shafa'a Allah gives me the Shafa'a so that I make this the intercession for the sinners of the Shia of you the Shia of the Prophet she wants she wants the authority to intercede and seek forgiveness from Allah subhanahu alaihi wa alaihi for the sinners of the Shia of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa alaihi that is that is humongous you can't even comprehend it the amount of mercy Allah bestows on his creation but you see also the understanding and compassion and wisdom of Fatima al-Zahra that she rejects all the riches of this world and the Paradise and what she asks for is to be able to intercede on our behalf on the day of judgment for us the sinners subhanallah and that shows the amount of love they have and honestly it's justified when you say that Ahal Bayt are the manifestation of Allah's attributes they are the manifestation of Allah's mercy Allah's love compassion subhanallah and look at from this beautiful hadith how it Fatima is telling us listen inshallah I'll take care of you inshallah all of you lovers of Aba Abdullah lovers of Amir al-Mu'mineen and all the holy prophet we understand that you know there'll be difficulties we'll sin but the end of the day Fatima al-Zahra will take after we'll go after now obviously we're not saying this to encourage our brothers and sisters to just carry on living life without being considered to the religious obligation but this comes to show the amount of love and mercy Ahal al-Bayt have and also a very beautiful statement that if it wasn't for the love of Ahal al-Bayt we wouldn't really have much of a chance of seeing Jannah or even smelling of a flower from Jannah subhanallah and it's truly a beauty of and how blessed we are the more we learn the more we understand how blessed we are to call ourselves Shia of Ali and inshallah not just keep you on the name we want to be by action inshallah inshallah on this issue of Shia of Ali and us Shia and so on and that you said we're not encouraging people to be dismissive of their obligation we have hadith which in which case someone asked Fatima al-Zahra al-Ali salam am I one of your Shia so it's very important to see what's what's the definition of the shea and she said if you comply if you do what we instruct you and refrain from whatever we prohibit you from then you are our Shia otherwise not that's quite see the thing the last thing is Shia or the love of Ali would want is on the day of judgment to not be recognized as a Shia that would have been devastating yes so in order to be recognized as she I know to be classified as Shia is we must basically do whatever they have instructed us to do and refrain from whatever they have instructed us to refrain from basically to comply with their teachings this will make it will make us Shia Shia of Ali Shia Fatima al-Zahra Shia of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi so it is said that Jibrail al-Ali salam went back to to the heavens and this time came back with a document in which it was it was written that Allah has set the maher of Fatima al-Zahra to be the Shafa'ah of the sinners of the Shia of her father and it was that which Fatima al-Zahra was content with that she get this promise that she will have the authority to intercede she will have to ask Allah for forgiveness for the sinners of the Shia of her father sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi also if you think about it doctor it shows as well the status of Fatima al-Zahra sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi that she she she anything she'd ask Allah SWT would have accepted yes that's what I understand from this narration that Allah already has offered her everything he died of a paradise yeah everything and whatever's included in it and she she obviously chose the Shafa'ah subhanallah and it's very good for us to to acquire this knowledge to understand the position of Ahlul Bayt and how blessed we are to acknowledge them and follow them inshallah and may Allah SWT bless us all with the Shafa'ah of Fatima al-Zahra sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi so inshallah now we want to getting a bit excited now so we got the approval Amir al-Mumineen inshallah should be getting ready for the marriage ceremony yeah so when Imam Ali came and so brought the money the 500 dirhams and what happened and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi said to him go to the mosque said to him about the the armor and so on and then he said go to the mosque and I'll come so that we will announce we'll make this announcement and the Prophet Imam Ali left the house and headed for the mosque and on the way to the mosque Abu Bakr al-Amir saw him he said what's up was the latest was happening where are you going where you're coming from he said that Imam Ali al-Salam said to them that I have just come from the house of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi he has agreed to marry his daughter Fatima to me and he has said just as he's before that Allah SWT has executed this marriage in the heavens and he's asked me to go to the to the mosque so that the people gather and he will make the public announcement about this obviously they were not very pleased at this news because they had been rejected on numerous occasions by the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and so the Amir Mu'minin alaihi sallam went to the mosque and then there were group of people there of the companions and so on and then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi came to the mosque and he asked Bilal, Meqdad, Salman and Abu Dardiyah these are some of the true companions and loyal companions of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi he asked these four to go to the four corners of the city and invite people to come and gather in the mosque to hear the public announcement that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wants to make and when all the people gathered the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi delivered the sermon it's a relatively long sermon I'm not going to read all of it and it's given in here it's almost two pages of small front size the Prophet in here in the sermon said that I am not I am like you when I want to marry or give my step-dotus in marriage I can do so but when it comes to Fatima al-Zahra alaihi sallam her business is in the hand of Allah as far as marriage is concerned Allah s.w.t has ordered me to marry my daughter Fatima to my brother and cousin and the first man to become Muslim announced Islam who is Ali ibn Abi Talib Allah s.w.t has executed the marriage in the heavens and he has instructed me in your presence to make this announcement and I take you as a witness that we'll do this marriage and the maher of Fatima al-Zahra will be 500 dirhams and I announce this marriage if Ali agrees to it and Ali sallallahu alaihi sallam immediately says I agree and then when the Prophet finishes his sermon Jibrail descended on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi and he said Allah instructs you to tell Ali to deliver a sermon for marriage also the nikah would have been recited yes during the yes and then the Prophet said Ali go for the pulpit and sort of deliver a sermon and he said I should do that in your presence he said yes this is Jibrail instructing me that this instruction comes from Allah s.w.t and of course Imam Ali sallallahu alaihi sallam delivered the sermon again it's about nearly two pages and he said I have sought the hand of Fatima al-Zahra from the Prophet in marriage for a maher of 500 dirhams and I'm doing this in your presence and the Prophet has agreed and and then he said I ask in the presence of these people I ask the Prophet again that in your presence he agrees to this marriage and and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi agreed to that as well and the Prophet again said that I accept you as a husband for my daughter and Allah has married you to Fatima al-Zahra in the heavens not only has married you but paid for the maher of Allah that's right yes very true so now I'd imagine that Amir al-Mu'minin needs to make preparations for his new household yeah obviously we understand how difficult must have been for them migrating from Mecca coming into Medina with nothing anyway they didn't have much in Mecca anyway so I wouldn't be expecting materialistically for a lot of things to be summoned for the household and now with regards to the house did Amir al-Mu'minin built the house was was the house given to them how did it start how did the household come to be yeah the house was given by one of the Ansar I think it's come later on it's called Haritha I'm trying to remember the name of his father but it was given by one of the Ansar and he said I obviously Imam Ali al-Salam was not a wealthy man if you like from the material point of view so that was one and of course they wanted to go and sort of buy the necessary items for the household items and whatever which of course the Prophet sallallahu alaihiwala gave from that 500 dirhams some money to Bilal some money to Meqdad some money to Amir al-Mu'minin to go and buy some of the items which are necessary in fact in this work there are they've listed 26 items that were bought you know household items if you like for for use for the benefit of the new couple and of course I can list them I've listed them as they have listed in here and I can go through them to tell you sort of thing that they have bought some of the things that they have bought for example in the list that are given water sack a blanket a clay pot for cooking two silver bangles a mat what's a civil bangles sorry two silver bangles yeah there's some bangles that they wear on day on the hands oh like a bracelet bracelet okay okay you know bracelet usually is kind of a chain but this is um a cup of tea for hair dyeing milk bowl a water can a cloak or chador you know like the chador that are worn by so iran or the abaya that were worn in iraq for example in other countries by the sisters by the by the women yeah two clay jugs a clay water cooler I don't know if you remember but in the old times there were some sort of large um um clays to store water and in the summer it kind of keeps it cool and um and the water the there are investments or the particles they were settled down and to the bottom of the and you can pick up the water from the top that's right you can clean and do it so presumably that's the sort of thing that they bought as I said if you knew you're talking about 40 50 years ago up to then there were this kind of clay water coolers in various parts in iraq today in villages for example yeah probably yes in villages which you have to they were there and presumably it's one of those that they are referring to in here also there is another green colored water clay or or jug a cotton mat sheepskin rug headscarf a shirt four pillows two were filled with date uh palm leaves and two were filled with animal skin pieces a sieve a handkerchief stone handle stone handle to um ground the flower they ground the wheat or barley probably they probably barely used wheat uh yeah to ground the barley to turn them into powder so that or flower so that they could use for making bread um four leather cushions filled with scented herbs a towel the drinking bowls two mattresses one filled with date leaves date palm leaves and another one filled with animal skin pieces two wooden garments and a bottle of perfume so these are if you like 26 items that were bought um for their life to sell their life to their household and if you sit and pawn them reflect upon it subhanallah the best of creation look how simple and humble and pious they are that they just basically require the essentials and that's something beautiful for us to take as well and you know keep reminding our brothers and sisters because nowadays it's getting a bit ridiculous doctor to be honest with you i can understand the frustration of the brothers we have in the community because so much is expected from them today and the thing is the mindset of us we need to constantly look back to our masters and see that the materialistic things are not really you just need the necessary ones there's no need for extravagance there's no need like today people will not be happier if you just have the essentials you you want to have the best car the best sofa the best tv of course the family could build up to that later on but starting your life with your you know your spouse you you know create your household you just need the essentials and obviously the rest of Allah subhanallah takes care of it's beautiful subhanallah yeah so now we have a middle mutmini and Fatima to zahra building the house and what what what what else occurred so once they've got their things that went in the house anything else that may have occurred well i don't know how much time we have we wanted to basically between after doing the nikah marriage or the reciting marriage contract and preparing the household items and the house and so on and actually when the wedding take place and the wedding ceremonies there were some a lot going on i don't know how much time i have whether i can sort of continue this well we could briefly say something um basically those there were those people who were uh very unhappy about being rejected okay by the prophet okay there were those who were rejected and they just gave up and went left but those who were closer if you like to the prophet and who were rejected by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala they were very unhappy and unfortunately they continued to be mischievous in the sense that they tried to do something so that this doesn't they can put a stop to it if you like it doesn't get to the wedding and basically what they were saying is that they used to send their wives and they used to go on the why the the women used to go and see fatma zahra privately and they had one agenda basically very basically saying that you know ali is a poor man he doesn't have much wealth much property and you rejected and there were suitors who were very wealthy who had a lot of many properties and states and so on uh but you rejected him you rejected them and married ali ibn abi talib so this was the theme and fatma zahra used to get upset by that because there were people were belittling amir al mu'mineen ali sallallahu alaihi wa ala they were belittling amir al mu'mineen and presumably the aim was hopefully uh she changed her mind she changed her mind little did they know little did they know uh so basically they said look at you you you've married you've agreed to marry the poorest in qoraysh and you have very little ma which is 500 silver coins which is nothing and then all you have is one sheepskin rug okay and pillows filled with date palm leaves okay and and the rug that you have underneath you is nothing uh so this they adopted this kind of attitude towards fatma zahra alaihi sallam and she that would cause stress and she used to report it to her father sallallahu alaihi wa ala and uh and her father of course used to respond in kind and in order and she used to at least feel happier and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala said even though he doesn't have um a lot of worldly wealth just as i don't and a lot of prophets didn't um prophet isa alaihi sallam i say most of the prophets yeah prophets musa alaihi sallam they went well off they didn't have they were really people like prophet sallam and for example here were given a kingdom yeah were given a kingdom but the majority of the prophets though when we prophets were uh leading a life um like that of the prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa ala and and in order to give uh to tell about the virtues of ma'am alaihi sallam and the merits from ma'am alaihi sallam he said the day that i went to ma'raj from the uh from betul maghdas i saw it was written on the uh rock that there is no allah no no god but allah and muhammad is his messenger whom allah will help and support um by his uh wazir by his vice gerund and i asked gibrael who is this wazir this is a time of ma'raj i asked who is gibrael who is this wazir and gibrael said he's this ali ibn betal and he said when i reached sidaret al-muntaha um in the seven heavens um i saw it was written on one of the columns of the arch on the throne that um there is no god but allah and muhammad is his messenger and allah will support his messenger with his wazir with his vice gerund which amir mu'min alaihi sallam and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi says that to continue in this hadith to say to fadr ma'zara on the day of resurrection the first people who come out of their graves will be uh i and ali ibn betal ab myself and ali ibn betal ab and ali ibn i myself myself and ali ibn betal ab will be standing on the bridge of which passes over the hellfire and for people to cross that the surat to the other side if you like to paradise and ali ibn betal ab will tell the fire take this or leave this alone take this this individual who is not one of the followers of mu'ma alaihi sallam says you take him and or the opponent of mu'ma ali and if he's devout of mu'ma alaihi sallam a loyal friend of mu'ma alaihi sallam he says leave that leave him alone so that he passes this so he he wants to show the merits of mu'ma alaihi sallam to fadr ma'zara sallam alaihi sallam and of course the hadith continues he says this is these are the qualities of mu'ma alaihi sallam even though in the world Allah has said that he shouldn't have a lot of wealth because this is he's been the sunnah of Allah many of the prophets and the vegetarians of the prophets were materialistically from the material point of view they went they went well off imagine if you if you had a bit of wealth what would the enemies of ali say up until today so yeah and the end of this hadith which i i summarized i didn't go through the whole thing and of course the prophet said that from this marriage you will have the two two sons which who are the chief of the youth of paradise hasan and hussein and the fadr ma'zara haven't listened to this hadith she was she became very happy and said i do not want anyone other than ali ibn abay talib to be my husband ali is from you like the station of haroon from musa or ali is to you like haroon was to musa um so call him by the name of the son of haroon and he said what's the name of salam haroon he says shuba he said but my tongue my language is arabic so jibrail alaihi salam said to him okay man call him hasan so if you like this is the equivalent of shuba in in hebrew


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. I follow weight watchers and I count calories and macros. Happy Monday, it's Monday, so it is meal prep day. I have three super simple, high protein, healthy recipes for you and I'm so excited to share them. So if you're excited too, give this video a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not because I upload a meal prep every Monday in five videos per week. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. This is how I've been successful losing over 136 pounds and I have one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links and discounts to my favorite things and come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. So let me flip you around. Let's get in the kitchen and start this week's meal prep. For my breakfast this week, I'm making berry cheesecake overnight oats. I love overnight oats. They're easy, they're ready to go, grab and go in the morning. So I'm going to make up a few jars for breakfast this week. So let me show you what's in our recipe. First, you're going to need honey, rolled oats, vanilla extract, low-fat cottage cheese, any milk of your choice. You could use almond milk. I always use Fairlife for the extra protein, frozen or fresh berries and some sliced almonds. So the first thing we're going to do for our overnight oats is in a bowl, we're going to add fruit. So you want all the fruit for all the overnight oats that you're making. So I'm actually going to make three jars. So I'll divide this mixture out between the three jars. I used frozen fruit, so I did defrost it in the microwave because we're going to mash this up. We want one and a half teaspoons total of vanilla. That's half of a teaspoon per overnight oat. And then three teaspoons of honey because it is one teaspoon per jar. And then like I said, we're going to take a fork and mash that together, getting that mixed together really well. So to the jar, I'm going to add half of a cup of milk, half of a cup of rolled oats, and half of a cup of cottage cheese. And then stir that to combine. I'm going to top it with one third of my berries because again, I'm making three jars total. And then lastly, I'm going to sprinkle just a few sliced almonds, about a teaspoon right on top. Pop the lid on and it's going into the refrigerator and I will have perfect yummy berry overnight oats in the morning. So let's put together two more jars. So here's my breakfast for the week. These look incredible. I mean, berry cheesecake packed with protein between the cottage cheese and the fair life milk. You're getting a lot of protein in these. You're getting some carbs from the berries, slow digesting carbs from the oats, really, really well-rounded, easy, portable breakfast. I will go ahead and put points, calories, macros here on the screen for you. For lunch this week, I'm making white chicken enchiladas. I'm so excited for this. I have been craving, and I mean craving enchiladas. So let me show you what's in our recipe. You're going to need some whole milk, beef broth or chicken broth. The recipe calls for chicken broth. I don't have any, so I'm just going to use beef broth, light shredded cheese, a can of diced chilies, butter, I'm just using carry gold butter. You could use light butter if you would like. Low-fat cream cheese, a low carb, low point tortilla, and then shredded chicken breast. So now we're going to put together the actual enchiladas. So you could have reserved some of the shredded cheese to put in the tortilla shell. I'm just going to add chicken to mine. But like I said, you could add some of the cheese for that cream mixture that's going to go over the top and then add some of the cheese into your actual enchiladas. So whatever your preference is, I'm just going to divide my chicken out evenly and then roll that up, place that seam down into my sprayed baking dish. I do have my oven preheating to 375 degrees. Have those in my nine by 13 baking dish. I'm going to pour this delicious cream mixture right on top. I'm putting it into the oven for about 20 to 25 minutes or until it's cooked through. The enchiladas just came out of the oven.  I am really excited for this cheesy, creamy goodness for lunches this week. I will go ahead and put points, serving sizes, macros, all the information here on the screen for you. But again, a really healthy, delicious lunch option. For a sweet treat, I am making chocolate chip peanut butter balls. These are going to have some protein in them. And again, a really easy, simple portable snack. So let me show you what's in our recipe. First, you're going to need some sugar-free maple syrup, rolled oats, flour of your choice. I always use my Kodiak power flour because it gives me a little punch of extra protein, salt, chocolate chips. I'm almost out of my Lily's chocolate chips, but I do have the Lily's salted caramel chips. So I'm going to add some of those. And then you're going to need nut butter of your choice.  You guys know this is my all-time favorite nut butter. I love how delicious it is. It is less points, less calories than traditional peanut butter. I'm using the S'moreo. This one has marshmallows and chocolate. It's an almond butter. They have peanut butter, cashew butter. I mean, if you haven't checked out American Dream Nut Butter, I will link them down below with 10% off. I cannot recommend them enough. Hands down, the best nut butters that you're going to find. This one's almost gone, so I'm going to go ahead and use that up. So to make our peanut butter balls super easy, everything's going into one bowl. Starting with half of a cup of rolled oats. Half of a cup of nut butter. Some salt. Two tablespoons of flour. You could also use protein powder if you wanted to up the protein and you can't find this flour. You can buy it off the Kodiak website, but you can also sub a protein powder. A couple tablespoons of sugar-free maple syrup. 120 lilies chocolate chip or salted caramel chips. Go ahead and mix that together. This is going to create the peanut butter ball mixture. So here is what your mixture looks like. We're going to roll this into 12 peanut butter balls. I'm just going to set them on some parchment paper. So I actually ended up with 16 of the little peanut butter chocolate chip balls. I'll put the points for 16 here on the screen, but I'll make sure that I include the points and all the macros for 12 on my recipe website because technically you're supposed to get 12. So you'll actually get a little bit bigger protein ball, but I'm really excited for these. They are a perfect, perfect sweet treat that you can take with you. Thank you for joining me for this week's meal prep. I hope you are as excited about these three recipes as I am. Don't forget, you can find all of today's recipes on my recipe website. It will be linked at the top of the description box along with nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And don't forget, come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Happy Monday, friends. Have an amazing week and I'll see you in Wednesdays, what I eat in a day. Bye.


This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Seth de Bolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky in the United States. He and other scientists wanted to find a source of fuel that poor people in rural areas of developing countries could use to make electricity. The United Nations Development Program says a billion and a half people have no electricity. A billion others have an undependable supply. Professor de Bolt went on a study trip to rural Indonesia. He saw that everywhere he went there was very little waste in the use of agricultural products. Everything that farmers grew was used for something. Even the remains of fruit that people did not eat were fed to chickens. Little waste meant there was little that could be used for fuel. Growing a separate fuel crop would take land away from food crops. That was something Professor de Bolt did not want to do. He says the people at most risk of energy poverty are often the same people who have food insecurity issues as well. Any change in food availability would hurt that group the most. But he found two items that were in plentiful supply and would not create competition between food and fuel. Coconut shells and mango pits are generally thrown out. Yet Professor de Bolt says they have a lot of energy stored in them. He says they have an excellent heating value which he compares to coal of low to moderate grade. The same is true for the pit of an olive, peach or cherry or the shell of an almond or walnut. All someone needs is a way to release that energy. Seth de Bolt says a company in India husk power systems is using small generators in villages to make electricity from rice halls. The process used is called gasification. Heating plant matter in a low oxygen chamber releases gases. These can be burned in an engine that turns a power generating turbine. Professor de Bolt says he and his team see possibilities for coconut and mango power. They published a study in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It says these small scale production systems could provide as much as 13% of the energy needs of a country like Indonesia. Other tropical countries with large crops of coconuts, mangoes and similar fruit could benefit as well. But Professor de Bolt says this is not a perfect solution. There are technical questions like how to safely deal with the hazardous waste that gasification can produce. And there needs to be money to get these projects started. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal.


Mr. Mustafa Ahmed, Director General National Emergency Management Agency, has stated that humanitarian crisis as well as human displacement in the country has remained a threat to achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030. Mr. Ahmed, at a one-day strategic workshop with disaster-risk management stakeholders in Abuja, said that the country may not attain the SDGs due to nature and human indecent hazards such as floods, windstorms, drought, erosion, epidemic, conflict and banditry. He called on stakeholders, states and local governments to get involved to mitigate and prepare ahead of disasters before it occurred. Speaking in a similar vein, Dr. Daniel O'Bott, Director of Disaster-Risk Reduction, NIMA, added that the workshop was aimed at sharing ideas with stakeholders on how to reduce disaster risk in the country. You see, disaster management, as they say, is local. It happens, it hits a community within a local government, within a state. So the first responders is always the local government. We have written countless times to states that they should set up local emergency management committee. NIMA cannot be in every community in Nigeria, there are thousands of communities. The local government must step in first. The state, when the capacity is exceeded, the NIMA comes in. Disaster-Risk Reduction is a new methodology, a new tool for addressing disasters, not only in Nigeria, globally. Before now, everybody knows of disaster in terms of relief intervention. So with this perspective that we have created this forum to speak to ourselves at the national level, it is expected that with what they have gained here, they will take back to their various institutions and realign their activities to key into disaster-risk reduction. Because when the risks are reduced, the impacts will be less, the effects and the consequences will be less. I think there is a general statement that prevention is better than cure. So this event is to stimulate preparedness, stimulate prevention and create awareness on mitigation measures.


Nintendo and Illumination Studios just released an official poster for the new Super Mario Bros. animated movie coming out. Illumination, love it or hate it, has a very specific art style to their stuff. This looks a bit different. It's very detailed. If you look at Mario, even his suit has wrinkles in it. You can see the fabrics. And the background is so rich in color. It's chock full of things going on. We have the Toadstools in the front. There's the Treasure Tracker Toad guy. I honestly don't recall those ladybug things being any of the Mario games. They probably are. In the background, we have a shop with a cheap cheap on it. There's a pal barrel suspended in the air. We got the music notes from Mario 3. We got the P block. As we make our way up the mountain, it's nice to see all the different colored pipes that are obviously very iconic to Mario Bros. And then as we get to the top of the kingdom, we see Peaches Castle. I like it. I'm excited for this movie. I know a lot of people are crapping all over it. I don't have any problems with Illumination. You know what you're gonna get with them.


Hello, welcome to Out of the Comfort Zone. I'm your host, Arby Kelly, and you're watching OC16 Television with Think Tech Hawaii. Now we have a really cool guest today, but first I wanted to give you our book of the week. Now this is actually, I'm really excited about this book because it was written by the person who trained me in body language, and the very first line, I love it.  So if you're an awkward person or you have awkward friends and you would like to help them not be awkward, I would recommend this book. It's called Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards. You can totally recognize the title, you can find it online, anywhere. If you have any problems with people, which let's face it, all of us have problems with people. This is a book to help you get through the first five seconds, five minutes, five hours, five days of any relationship to help you build stronger friendships, stronger relationships, and for those people who you just can't get rid of, here, have some tactful, easy ways to start weeding through your friendships so you're only surrounded by people you love and feel confident with. This is a really awesome book. I've read it like four times, loaned it to all my friends, so if you have any problems with people, this is a book I would absolutely recommend. Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards. And now for the body language tip of the week. Now this isn't so much of a thing to do with your body as it is a thing to do mentally.  And you do this by summing up their outer appearance or their nonverbal communication.  And then you look at their body language. And if they're talking, you listen to their voice tone. Are they over in the corner saying, hi, how are you? It's nice to meet you. Or do they have a low, deep, confident voice? And you sum up all of this information within just a couple of seconds and your brain compiles all of this information to give you a really good idea about who this person is, what kind of person they are, if they're good for you or bad for you. And these first impressions tend to be about 76% accurate. All right, so these first impressions, they're really accurate and they're really quick.  And we say to ourselves, I don't really like this person. And then we say, I'm a horrible person for feeling that way. I should give this person a second chance. I should be kinder to them. And so we ignore our first impression and we give them a chance or we get to know them better or we spend time and energy on them. And then it turns out later that hey, they actually were exactly as bad as our first impression thought they were.  Because I will tell you, it will save you so much time and energy, so much heartache. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Don't make them tell you again. All right, that is your tip. Listen to those first impressions. And now, let's go on to our guest. Now, I've never met our guest before, so I'm really excited that she's on our show today. This is Lynn Hurdle Price, and I'll wait for the camera to zoom in. All right, you're over here. Hi, Lynn. So. Hi, RV, how are you? I'm really happy to have you on the show. But first, can we start out? What exactly is it that you do? I am. Well, in many circles, I am known as the Conflict Closer. I teach people how to close the door on conflict. But not in the way that people think. People think I teach you how to end it. Actually, what I teach you how to do is to close the door on the techniques that you are using that just are not working. The things that we're doing that are making conflicts last longer in life. So I am CEO of HerCom Solutions. I am a communication and conflict resolution coach for high achieving leaders. And I really have to say that I love, love, love working with people around conflict because most people hate conflict. Oh. Seems like you're exactly right. I know personally when I'm getting gearing up for a conflict, like, it's so nerve wracking. So this must be something not a lot of other people do. You must be very unique in the circles you move in. You know what's interesting? I had no idea that I was very unique because I know everybody has conflict. But I also do know that a lot of people, really a lot of people are fearful of it. Most people, more than 70% of us are avoiders of conflict and not in the good way that we think where, well, you know, I'm so good that I never get into conflict. No, I just don't have anything to do with it. I run from it when I see it. That's the avoiders I'm talking about. So when they learn not only what I do, but how I do it, I am unique in the circles that I walk in, I think. You know, Lynn, as you were saying that 71% of people avoid conflict, I was like, yep, you're talking to me. So me. So can you tell us a little bit more about how you got into conflict coaching? How I do my coaching. So what I usually do, first of all, is find out people's history with conflict, which I think is an approach that a lot of people are not ready for. They're thinking that I'm going to teach them how to deal with that person that gets on their last nerve and how I teach how they get that person to just leave them alone or to just shut up or to admit that they're right. But what I really wanted to do is look at your history with conflict. Where did you learn it? I mean, most of us learned how you handle, think about, view, deal with, feel about conflict early in life. And I want to know what were the messages that you received? How did the people in your life, the people that raised you, the people that surrounded you, how did they do conflict?  What did you learn from the way that they did conflict? And what of that remains in the way that you do conflict now? So that's the first place that we explore. And then I want to look at what are the feelings that come up for people when conflict happens? And how do you deal with those feelings? And I want people to understand that those feelings often cause us to react rather than to respond in conflict. So once we start looking at reactions that we have, we want to begin to start looking at then how do we start to work with the emotion so we're not reacting and how do we then learn some techniques that will help us to respond? So once we're not reacting so much, how do we respond?  Like they provoked you and you don't even realize that you've been set off and that you're suddenly in a conflict. So it sounds like the very first step is building that self-awareness of what actually is going on in your head and in your heart. That's absolutely right. And what you're describing is a trigger. We all have triggers and we get triggered and what's the interesting thing is that if we really start to develop that awareness and pay attention, we know exactly when we're getting triggered. We know what those triggers are. We know who pulls the trigger more often than not. We know all of those things. But yet, when we're in conflict, we actually don't pay attention to those things. So my first work is for us to start to pay attention to it so that we can prepare ourselves to put some things in place so that we handle it differently. That's really interesting. From a body language perspective, that's the first step we take also is building awareness of what your current is. And I know from a body language perspective in my conflicts, I can feel it now. When you go from being totally relaxed, having a great conversation, then that trigger happens and you go from being calm and carefree to like, and you can actually feel the changes in your body. Absolutely. Oh, no. It's very chemical. It's very much about your physiology and those reactions because I talk about something when my clients are called anger mountain. And with anger mountain, right? It's not a Disney ride, by the way. It is, though, a ride that our body takes when we are triggered. And there's a very small window before we start to rise, and that heat starts to hit us in the back of our heads and our necks. There's a small window that if we are using our techniques of awareness that we can actually see that we're about to go up anger mountain and we can actually put some things in place so that we don't go up anger mountain because when we go up there, we explode. And then when we come down, we often come down to regret and fatigue. Like we're exhausted and then we're like, oh my God, what did I say? What did I do? And that's not how we really wanted to handle it. I love that. So anger mountain, and if you have a couple seconds before you start on the ride where you can recognize and be like, hey, this is not the Disney ride I want to be on. I'm going to hop off and do something else instead. Right. That's right. I got to get off of this. One of the things that I really want to clear up because there's a lot of misconceptions about conflict and conflict resolution skills. One of the things I want to clear up is that I never take away your right to choose. You always have choice, but don't you want to have more choices? You really want to be able to have more in your toolkit than a hammer because I believe in that expression. I don't know who said it or I give you credit for it. But when all you have in your toolkit is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So you just go around just hammering everybody because you don't have anything else to work with. So when you have conflict resolution skills and techniques in your toolbox, you still have the choice. If you decide you want to explode, you still have that choice. But it's great to have some other things to choose from instead of the explosion. That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. So it's not like we're saying you can't get angry ever. We're saying that we want you to have a choice other than angry. So you have at least one other default setting instead of just... I want you to have a lot of other choices. Yeah, a lot more choices. Absolutely. Can you tell us a little about some of the other choices you want people to make when they realize they're about to head up Inger Mountain? What are some other choices they can make? Are there any other directions they can head? Yeah. Well, number one, every time I teach this, I think more and more people are becoming aware that it's not as corny as it sounds. But number one, don't get in touch with your breath. You have got to zero in through your breathing and your body and what it's telling you. Because we all have signals for when we are being triggered and we're about to lose it. You got to tune into that. So tune in. And then the next thing that you want to do is to bring yourself to a calmer place. You may not get to calm like I'm strolling through the field. Today calm. But you can get to a calmer place of where you can begin to think about what do I want to do next rather than just exploding. What do I want to do next? And one of the things that I recommend that you do next actually is a thing that we never really want to do when we're ready to explode. And that is to listen, to lean in and listen more.  Like what, tell me more about what's bothering you or tell me more about what I did that you didn't like and that's hard place to go but it gives you time to bring it down and it also gives you time to clarify whether or not you really needed to be triggered or not. Maybe you misunderstood. Maybe you got triggered and you got ready to interrupt before they could even finish what they were saying which is really common because most of us only listen to the place and the point where we want to interrupt. I'm not saying this.  He said something and I was like no and before he was even able to finish I'm off on a roller coaster. Oh gosh. Yes, it's absolutely true. I have a 16 year old and he is his first thing he looks at me and he goes let me finish, I'm going to let me say everything that and it's a great reminder for me. I love that. That is a great reminder. So your first tip viewers is to don't get super angry, just pause, breathe and then actually listen to what they're really saying and there's going to be more. We're going to take a really short break but we'll be right back here on OC16 Television with Think Tech Hawaii on Out of the Comfort Zone. To the likeable science on Think Tech Hawaii. Every Friday afternoon at 2pm dig into the science, dig into the meat of science dig into the joy and delight of science we'll discover why science is indeed fun why science is interesting why people should care about science and care about the research that's being done out there it's all great, it's all entertaining it's all educational so I hope to join me for likeable science. Alright welcome back we're out of the comfort zone on Think Tech Hawaii and I'm with special guest conflict resolution expert Lynn Hurdle Price. Now Lynn I have to say sometimes we're in a conflict and it feels like I'm not the problem here what if I think it's the other person who's causing all this conflict what can I do? Okay well first of all check out whether or not it really is the other person right we're talking about triggers and so one of the things that you can think about is as I'm getting triggered so I'm getting ready to say this thing do I really need to say this thing like why do I need to say this thing and if you decide that you need to say it because they really are wrong and they really do have a hard time admitting it or they really are causing the conflict then fine then say it but say what it really is a lot of us put judgments in our statements we beat or we beat around the bush or we blame people in ways that shame them as opposed to hold them accountable or something that we want to hold them accountable for so one of the things that I think is really important is that we really think about the statement we're getting ready to make because I can say you know alright I heard what you said and I just have to say that that's just stupid and I'm really annoyed and tired of you I have to say that because I'm done right okay that may be where you're at but what's your goal in that is your goal to destroy the person or is your goal to try to get this conflict resolved so if your goal is to try to get the conflict resolved and honest to gosh I really want you to answer that question for yourself in that moment are you really trying to just destroy the person and beat them down or do you want this resolved and if you want to resolve then I think you won't say it that way you could say wow I'm so angry right now that it's hard for me to formulate what I want to say but I'm going to give it my best shot and my best shot is when you did whatever that was right here's how it affected me or the company or our family or whatever it is and that's why I need to bring it to the table I want us to be able to look at what happens very different than calling you stupid what you did stupid and being sick of you even though in the moment we can feel very like we're really sick of this person name the other emotion and anger is easy to reach for but underneath anger are much true emotions I believe so maybe you're humiliated maybe you're ashamed maybe you've left you feeling vulnerable maybe embarrassed those are much closer to the source of what's happening inside of you than anger anger is like the shield you use to keep that soft heart of you safe beautifully said I love what you do and I'm really impressed by everything you're telling me but I'm also really curious how did you get into conflict resolution as a job purely purely no okay no that's not true I used to say by accident but I'm gonna have to tell you it was truly by purpose when I was 17 I was involved in a racial incident where I could have been either very seriously injured or killed I don't know I was able to get out safely I can tell you that in getting out safely the first thing that I thought about was I I don't know how but somehow I have to help people get through these kinds of conflicts with one another my new I was on my way to Syracuse University as a theater major and that's all I did my whole life was entertain I was in the arts I sang I danced I wrote everything I was not thinking about helping the world through conflicts so this to me was like wow that's a purpose hitting you and telling you that this is what you're supposed to do so I went to Syracuse the theater for a couple of years and changed to a new major and nonviolent conflict can change and 38 years later I am still in the role of traveling the world helping people with conflicts I've done everything from implementing schools programs in conflict resolution to working in corporations and nonprofits helping them to learn the skills and also to implement programs in their workplace and it's been phenomenal and then I've used the skills in my own life so it sounds like you can use these skills at work at home what are the best places to use these conflict resolution strategies anywhere conflict comes up to be perfectly honest anywhere comes up because here's the thing that's why I start with yourself that's why when I work with my clients I start with them because everywhere you go there you are so if you can work at getting in touch with yourself in conflict and how you handle conflict and why what are the roots of the triggers and the feelings that come up for you in conflict and then work on the techniques then you always have the best tools if I teach you well when you're at work and you have a boss that does x y and z you should do this that's just one side of things and that leaves you without you knowing why when your boss says x y and z this even bothers you it could you could possibly get to the place and many of my clients to where you recognize this isn't something that should be bothering me and so I need to look at taking that trigger off the table and I've helped many people take their triggers off the table because they realize that these were things that really are things that should bother them interesting can you tell us a story about that? yes I can I have a client from way back so fortunately the chances of them recognizing themselves although there's a lot of common conflicts but I have a client who actually was having some problems in their office and one of the things that was happening was that their supervisor was constantly yelling and whenever there was a problem how the supervisor dealt with it was to yell and for my client that was particularly problematic because it was something that they actually grew up with now I know that because of the work that we did together and they know that because of the work we did together but they never tied that together before we did the work what they knew was that they hated the yelling and that it sent them underground they wanted to avoid what they didn't recognize was why the yelling was so offensive to them once they were able to look at the roots of it then what they began to do was to start to take fear off the table for them from them this isn't the person in your household or in your school that's yelling at you this isn't that you are the kind of person that people need to yell at this is a supervisor who is using this as a technique right and it doesn't sit well with you so once they were able to separate that out and not make it personal it's not personal it's not me it's the technique that they're choosing then they were able to put themselves in a situation where they were able to use some techniques to have a conversation and to say when you yell I find that I'm not able to actually help you because honestly I don't hear you I'm not really clear on what you're saying because you're yelling right and so what I'd love for us to do I'd love to know what it is that you're upset about but I'd love for us to do it differently did the boss change overnight? No but there was a change because the client my client wasn't avoiding anymore and was actually going straight for the conversation and the supervisor actually appreciated it because everybody else was running away and here she was coming to the table but coming to the table in a way where she could use some techniques because it was no longer this personal thing I'm being yelled at I'm always being yelled at it's me it's me it's me right that was the trigger for her and she was able to take that off the table for herself and engage and that's what you want to do you want to engage in conflict because it's not going away people I love that I love that story and you're so right it doesn't go away and if we don't find a way to handle it and get to the root of the issue and actually deal with it it's just going to keep coming back no matter how fast or how far we run away from it that's right and I truly also believe that if it's not coming back with that initial person you're going to continue to run into that same kind of conflict with other people because you haven't been engaging in handling it and learning how to be in it so you've got to learn how to be in it so that you're not having those same issues that makes sense so if you don't learn how to handle it the same things are going to keep triggering you so you can run from conflict but it will chase you so you have to deal with it while you can yes indeed do you have any last minute advice on how they can handle or start addressing their conflict yeah well here's my thing most of the time I live in New York City so it's a blessing and a curse but the blessing for me is that I get to travel a lot on the subway so I get to hear and listen in on people's conflicts all the time and what I've found is that people cut each other off it and they don't want to address what really is happening in terms of what the conflict is people never allow people to really get to the place of what the conflict is about because honestly the first thing that often comes out in conflict are the emotions it may be hard to sit through and listen to somebody who's emoting but if you listen more ask more questions don't interrupt and try to direct them to get to what this conflict is really about and when it's your turn to respond you'll be talking about the actual conflict not about all of the different diversions that come up when we interrupt someone so I'm reacting to something you said you've never really gotten a chance to tell me what's really the conflict here because now we're talking about the thing that you said instead of the conflict interesting so for our viewers if you are wanting to have a happier more peaceful 2018 if you want to stop running away from your conflict sit down and face it and listen to what people are saying don't interrupt just sit and listen and find out where people are really coming from alright thank you Lynn we are so happy I am so happy you agreed to be on this show thank you for coming this has been an awesome way to start out 2018 I love it thank you alright and for our viewers I want you to know that you can use these skills to make your 2018 the best year ever you can be happier you can have better relationships you can make more at work and I want that for you so listen to the skills you're learning practice them and use them and after all of that have a wonderful day I will message you later thank you for being my guest you are awesome


Okay, so I'm Dan Gilchrist, I'm an NHGRI Program Director. One of the key objectives of this workshop is to identify current and future opportunities for better understanding genome function and for applying that understanding. So the arena of genome function encompasses a very, very large conceptual space and that can be considered from many different viewpoints and it's a space that can be explored in many different dimensions from studies of model organisms to human tissues, studies that support work in basic biology to specific focuses on diseases.  But we hope that we can identify areas where we can make a significant impact and really catalyze research in parts of this genomic space that hopefully you will help us identify over the course of this workshop. So we have a lot of varied expertise in the room today. As people are coming from such distinct backgrounds we thought it would be a good idea to start with a really high level view of what the functional genomics landscape looks like now and what it might look like over the next couple of years. So everybody is very, very roughly on the same page for a jumping off point. So we're going to begin with an overview of the current phase of ENCODE, ENCODE 3 by Mike Snyder, and he's going to present what current ENCODE participants see as the likely contributions, both data generation and conceptual, when that phase of ENCODE ends in mid-2016. And then we're going to move to a series of very high level overviews of what we are referring to for lack of a better term as ENCODE related projects. So these were selected for a variety of reasons. First they have some similarity to ENCODE either in the goals, the type of data they're generating or the resources they're making available to different communities. Second they all share a key feature of an NHGRI type of project which is to provide a genome scale resource which enables work from larger scientific communities. And finally these all tend to be larger multi-lab efforts, and that is largely for a practical reason. Of course there is a huge, huge contribution to functional genomics understanding from individual labs, but that tends to be much harder to track. It's a little bit easier to keep tabs on these large multi-lab efforts. So I want to finish just by saying that there is a lot of crosstalk between these projects both at the level of PIs who serve in some capacity in multiple projects as well as program officers who are communicating about these projects. We think that this crosstalk is really important because it can help facilitate efficient exploration of this big functional genomic space and avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts. So because we have so much expertise in the room, please take advantage of that over the next couple days. And with that I will end and introduce Mike Snyder who is a longtime member of all things in code. I'm Mike Curtin, PI of an encode production center, and I will leave it to Mike.


I guess the next person that I want to talk to is Dreadnaught and would you like to tell us a little bit about your neurodiversity and how that sort of influences your creativity? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So as we mentioned before ADHD, to be honest, I was creative long before I even thought about ADHD, to be honest. It was only a few years ago that I actually got my diagnosis. And I mean, like, there were like major obvious signs, which I was completely oblivious to through. It tends to be that case. Yeah. I was just like, I didn't really click until later until I started like looking into it and putting everything together. And I was like, it was basically like a tick box when I was looking through symptoms and stuff. I was like, I guess I should get this looked at by a professional. Was there was there any like, ignition to you to doing that? Was there any reason why you started to look into it? Yeah, it was, I actually looked into it and got my diagnosis. My mental health in general was kind of deteriorating quite a bit at that point. I was struggling with quite a lot of stuff. I was like severely depressed, super anxious. And I wasn't myself, but I also kind of was aware of the person that I used to be. And I strived to be better. And there was that like hunger. So I was like, I need to get to the bottom of who I am.  I was like, yeah, maybe, maybe not who knows. But that was one of the first steps into it. And then it was more, I didn't want it treated. I just wanted to kind of be able to understand myself better. And that's what I know where you are in life. And yeah, yeah, yeah, things that you could perhaps a bit better. And which areas you might need a bit of support with? Exactly. When you know, when you when you understand who like in this case, when I understood ADHD better, I understood how it worked. I also was more open to speaking to other people with ADHD than like, suddenly it was like, okay, I've got this second, I can interact with these people and ask these questions, which relate to myself, which I otherwise might not have been able to like, understand that I was actually on the same level as them, if that makes sense. So yeah, it was it was an eye opener. And it definitely set me on a much better path. I like to think I'm pretty mentally healthy right now. Everyone has like, the days where it doesn't feel like that you feel like you're backtrack, but it's so much easier to get back on top of stuff. And I think having that understanding was a massive thing. And then I look back at all my music. And I'm like, Oh, yeah, actually, the signs are just right there. Besides like 150 BPM songs and stuff like that. But then it's just the mad things that I was trying as well. And I just thought I was just just being a bit creative and odd, but it's like, I've been trying to do like hard style metal and like, just merging like jazz with like, you just like all these mad combinations that I was just putting in, but then there'd be projects that were like a minute long. And I've come back to that. And my desktop was flooded with hundreds of projects. Most of them were unfinished. The ones that were finished were they were of different standards, but like they were ever growing. But the signs were always there. But that energy and that spontaneity, I think really, really helped from the production aspect.  It's like a sampled and a cow in one of FMA and 12 gauges songs. There was just a sample on the side on the list. I was like, you know what, it'd be really funny if I can work this in somehow. I put it through a thousand different plugins. It would sound like a cow at the end. But things like that, it was a really cool sound by the end of it. And I was like, yeah, the thought process that maybe I wouldn't have gone down with it went for ADHD. I had a podcast that came out a little bit more recently. I'm always a bit tentative around giving timeframe for stuff because the order in which I release things tend to be a bit like all over the place. So I don't want to release that one or this one or like, so sometimes they're not always like in order. And I was talking to a autistic rapper called SD Flame. And he also has ADHD and he was talking about the benefits and difficulties when it came to doing his rap music. He's very high tempo and he's very, very quick when he's speaking. Very sort of fast verbal. And so a lot of the people who come up in the rap and then trying to develop their skills, they're actually taught to go faster. They're taught to process things quicker and speak faster. Whereas for him, it was more about learning to breathe and chill out. And it's very cool. It kind of sounds a little bit like Eminem, which you really, really, really check him out after that. That's really funny that you say that though. Like looking back and like early stuff, I was just constantly like and that was like my natural like go to it was like, how many syllables kind of fit into this line to the point where I'm stage. I was like, I couldn't breathe through half my songs. I'm not going to lie. Turning into Busta Rhymes. It was very much the same kind of journey there actually. And now like, you know, I've just finished what I would say is my first official single after trying all sorts of different things. It's the first thing I'm really proud of.  And I tried the exact opposite. I tried some really slow flows and some other stuff. And that's something that I wouldn't have been able to do at the start. Because like you say, it's the speed comes naturally. I'm sure I can word from it all over for like hours if I wanted to. So I have to stop myself now. Fortunately, I'm quite good at just being like, right? Okay, let's bring it down. Bit of detance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think brilliant. There's a spot on it. I never thought about that. It's really interesting that you mentioned that. Thank you very much for that dreadnought.


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