فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن وثناء الجميل واشدوا الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل واشدوا أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد سم الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم دين أما بعد الله سبحانه وتعالى my beloved brothers and sisters he bestows upon us many blessings and if we as his creation sit down today and we try to count the blessings of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we will never ever be able to put a figure on it and that's why Allah said in the Quran وإن تعدوا نعمة الله لا تحسوها إن الإنسان لا ظلوم كفار if you try to count the blessings of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you will never ever be able to put a figure to it because it's so much in number and the blessings of Allah سبحانه وتعالى they come in two types blessings which are fundamental blessings and there are blessings which are and there are blessings which are and there are blessings which are whichever of those blessings we speak about there's never a the ability in a person to ever know how much they are whether it's the the fundamental blessings of Allah you will never ever be able to say this is how much it is and if you look at the blessings which are there are sub branches you will also not be able to you will also not be able to put a figure to it and now that Allah تعالى has given us these blessings there is something that we need to come and return with it and that is why the scholars they say الشكرو gratitude is قيد للموجود and صيد للمفقود the scholars they say that patience, sorry gratitude gratitude it holds down for you it holds down for you the blessings you already have if you come with شكرا gratitude the blessings which you already have will stay with you and they won't go and you will also receive the blessings which you don't have that are missing from you and Allah will give it to you because of the gratitude that you came with so this is the blessing of gratitude it brings you what you don't have and it also holds down for you and keeps for you what you already have and from the blessings that I'm going to be speaking about today is الولد children children are a blessing from Allah who is my beloved brothers and sisters have you never not seen have you never seen a person who's wanting to have children and they've been trying to have children for a very long time have you ever seen their face whenever the issue of children come up how sad and emotional they become because they know they are missing a great blessing this is a blessing my beloved brothers and sisters who even the prophets realized they have to give them children look at Nabi الله his ذكرية for instance in سورة الأنبياء الله سبحانه و تعالى he says و ذكرية إذ نادة ربه and when ذكرية called onto his load رب لا تذرني فردا و أنت خير الوارثين ذكرية ستو الله سبحانه و تعالى do not make me a person who is alone don't leave me as a barren person who is alone in this world و أنت خير الوارثين and you love inheriting so ذكرية عليه السلام a prophet of Allah he humbled himself to Allah and he begged him for children so this is something even a prophet of Allah سبحانه و تعالى realized so it's a blessing my beloved brothers and sisters to have children but as I said whenever a blessing comes a gratitude is needed and the gratitude it comes in many forms and we all know the difference between gratitude which is حمد and شكر شكر means that you come with gratitude verbally you come with gratitude from your heart you feel that Allah has bestowed a blessing on you and last but not least physically you show that you are in a state of gratitude for what Allah has bestowed upon you سبحانه و تعالى so children are from those blessings you need to show gratitude regarding and Allah تعالى and his messenger if you look at the religion they've given a lot of importance regarding children الله سبحانه و تعالى he says in the Quran الله tells us in this verse he says all those of you who believe protect yourselves from the Hellfire and your families so Allah تعالى commands us in this verse after referring to us as his believers saying all those who believe in this verse after referring to us saying all those of you who believe so the minute you hear the verses like what did he say bring your ears close because you're going to be commanded something or you're going to be prohibited from something so here we're going to find a command or a prohibition one of the two so what is it going to be a command protect yourselves from the Hellfire and also protect your children from the Hellfire what have the scholars of Tafseer said regarding protecting your children from the Hellfire how do I protect my children from the Hellfire and what does it mean to protect your children from the Hellfire it means as the مفسرون say those who've commented on this verse they said it means by teaching them by teaching them the religion of Allah and his legislation and that you man them and you cultivate them upon that so it means that you educate your children about the religious affairs the religion of Allah you educate them and also man them teach them manners and how they should come with manners and also you cultivate them تربية upon that so this ayah is the first evidence to show the أهمية the importance of تربية الأولاد cultivating your children correctly بخاري المسلم both of them collected in their authentic book on the authority of الله بن عمر رضي الله تعالى عنهما أليس فاضا he said I had the prophet of Allah saying عبد الله بن عمر is saying I had the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم say كلكم راعن وكلكم مسؤول الأرعيتي every one of you is a shepherd for a herd of sheep and every one of you is responsible for his herds of sheep and the prophet went on to saying والرجل راعن في أهله وهو مسؤول الأرعيتي a man is a shepherd over his own family وهو مسؤول الأرعيتي and he will be questioned that responsibility the day of judgment so a man is responsible for his wife and his kids and the day of judgment he will be questioned regarding that responsibility الله is going to ask him سبحانه وتعالى about this responsibility also الإمام المسلم أن بخاري on the authority of معقل بن يسار رضي الله تعالى عنه may Allah be pleased with معقل بن يسار and this is the wording of Imam Muslim the messenger said there is not a person who Allah has placed responsibilities on his shoulders there is not a person who has been burdened with responsibility and he comes the day of judgment he comes the day of judgment without fulfilling his responsibilities except جنة has been made haram from him anyone who comes and he has not fulfilled his responsibilities and he comes the day of judgment he will be questioned about that responsibility the day of judgment and not only will he be questioned he will also be prohibited from entering jannah so this hadith is very serious scary and worrying so from the things that are part of the responsibility are your children they are your responsibilities and you are going to be questioned about the day of judgment the hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said this also is another hadith that shows us how Islam has given importance to children the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said command your children to pray the prayer to pray to Allah and to pray the Salah for 7 years when they are at 7 years of age when the child is 7 command him to pray the Salah وضربوهم عليها for 10 years and when they reach the age of 10 man them educate them and man them upon what وضربوهم عليها ل10 سنين at the age of 10 so now first of all it was just command them but then when 10 comes in it becomes forcefully the parent now takes it to 8 وضربوهم عليها ل10 سنين 10 years of age وفرقو if the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم has said وفرقو بينهم في المضاجع divide them in their sleeping the brother and the sister if the prophet of Allah is commanding you to divide a brother from his sister when it comes to their sleeping where does it come into the equation to allow him to free mix with his cousins and this is a common practice amongst amongst us that the boy is not taught the difference between man and male and female that there should be no free mixing taking place in your household that the brother and the sister are at a very young age already learning everybody's room the boys don't go into the girls room and the girls do not come into the boys room and so this small is what the sharia is placing so this religion it's a religion that places every single thing in its place it speaks about everything it deals with everything it's a solution for our problems and wallahi because of this point because of this point alone the lack of importance being given to this it was found brothers and sisters doing something wrong with one another cases that I've personally been told brothers and sisters doing wrong things with one another and also cousins doing something wrong with one another because the dividing of the beds were not taken serious عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه he said ادب ابنكة فإنك مسؤول عنه you are responsible regarding that child manna your child educate your child for verily you are responsible over him what are you going to be questioning the day of judgment عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله you will be questioning the day of judgment what manners and what etiquettes have you taught your child وماذا علمته and what have you taught your child and he is also responsible in being obedient towards you and he is also going to be questioned as well and he is responsible of obeying you in what you are telling him to do but which one comes first the thing that comes first is you as a parent have to cultivate your child correctly you have to raise your child correctly you have to educate your child correctly you have to take the responsibility of your child very serious and then once he has grown up he is responsible of listening to you obeying you being obedient towards you that is what بن عمر رضي الله سفيان بن السعيد الثوري رحمه الله he said ينبغي للرجول it is necessary for an individual أن يكره ولده على طلب الحديث فإنه مسؤول عنه it is necessary that an individual a parent doesn't matter that they burden their child on learning the hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم فإنه مسؤول عنه because you are responsible of your child and the statement of سفيان بن السعيد الثوري here حديث it doesn't just mean حديث it means it's science and it's commentary and everything I will speak about that so here what we learn is from the things that when الله was saying in the ayah أملكو أنفوسكم وأهليكم all of this is an explanation the hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم مر أبناءكم بالصلاة وضربوهم عليها لأشهر سنينة وفرقو بينهم في المضاجع تأميز كو أنفوسكم أهليكم how do you protect your children and also the statement of عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله عليه وسلم أدب إبنك فإنك مسؤول عنه ماذا أدبت وماذا علمت ومسؤول عن بيركة وطواعية إلك and the statement of سفيان بن السعيد الثوري ينبغي للرجل أن يكره ولده على طلب الحديث فإنه مسؤول عنه فإنه مسؤول عنه يأيو الذين آمنوا كو أنفوسكم وأهليكم وأهليكم نارا الإمام سلطان العلم العز بن عبد سلام يزبكوا قوائد الأحكام في إصلاحي الأنام ومن this book of his by العز بن عبد سلام رحمه الله تعالى is a book where he tries to prove مصالح ومفاصد how it enters every part of the religion so he is trying to prove مصالح ومفاصد are from قوائد الكبرى رحمه الله تعالى and he talks about many things in that book of his it's a book that one should sit down and read and truly will benefit from but there is something he mentioned in this book that stood out for me and that is when he was talking about the rights that the community have on you and this is a point that many people forget that the تربية الأولاد the cultivation of the children is an issue that the rights of the children are not just between you and the children no no no no it's a rights that the community have on you as well I have rights on you in regards to you cultivating your children it's one of the rights I have on you because your child is going to live with us he's going to be part of the community it's either me or my children or my cousins or my family members he's going to rob if you don't cultivate him correctly and if you cultivate him correctly the people who are going to reap the benefits from him pray behind him in the salah listen to his lectures are going to be us the community members so it's a rights that we have on you and this is what he mentions he says حظانة الأطفال from the rights that the community have on you is حظانة الأطفال وتربيته وتأديبه وتعليمه والسعي في بصالحهم العالية from the rights that the community have on you is what that you cultivate your children correctly and you educate them and you manner them in what حسن الكلامة to speak good you teach your child how to speak correctly that when he asks people for things you always remind him to say please at a very young age you teach him in these manners والصلاة والسيام and you teach your child how to pray and you teach him how to fast والسعي في بصالحهم العالية and that you also strive to the great benefits that the child needs whether it be his worldly knowledge as well his health his food all of that you take care of والله my beloved brothers and sisters it's sad because these scholars when they're talking about cultivating the children and educating them and teaching them remember their society automatically helped them they were in an environment where the father would teach the child etiquettes and manners and then when he went onto the streets the community would also start to push that principle those teachings that you already taught your child at home the community will help you as well so your child is consistently learning good from the streets as he is learning it in the house but we're not in that kind of society anymore we're in a society today where if the child doesn't get good cultivation at home he's most likely not going to get it on the streets so it's very sad of us as parents to take that child and bring him in a society like this throw him in this society and not give him any preparation and then still tell him to protect himself and to be careful and to not get caught up with the problems of the streets and to not misbehave we're throwing him into this society like this and we have not taught him anything and not benefited him benefited him and we're not only not done that for him but rather we're trying to tell him and expect from him to not get caught up in the bad company the streets and what's taking place and this reminds me of the line of poetry that the scholar said this reminds me of a person the poet said you tied a person from the back you tied them from their arms like this and once you tied them crossed their arms you took them from the collar from the back you threw them into the water and you said to that person hey be careful do not let the water touch you be careful don't let the water touch you and that's exactly what many people do in terms of the cultivation of children they brought their children into a society like this and to a country like this and to an environment like this they've not educated their children they've not benefited their children and then they expect from their children to behave to not be criminals to not be a problem and a havoc in society what you're doing is actually work towards him becoming this evil individual who he has become and that is why the great noble scholar he one day saw a gathering where people were sitting he saw a gathering and it was adults that were sitting there and what they did was they got rid of the children and the young kids they told them to leave the gathering and so he just became a gathering of elders he said to the elders that were there he said to them he says why is it I have seen you disperse getting rid of the young children from your gatherings why have you got rid of them from the gathering don't do that don't get rid of them rather give make space for them and bring them close speak with them converse with them and if you think they don't understand what you're talking about try to explain it to them as well for verily today they are young kids maybe for a people they are young for a generation but very soon they are going to be elders for another generation to come we were once young for a generation of people ثم أسبحنا اليوم كبارا قومن and here we are today we are elders for a generation so taking your children to the beneficial places you go to whether it be the salah and the masjid whether it be حلق circles of knowledge now a lot of parents don't take their children with them because they know why they can't take their children with them because they speak filthy language or they sit in a cafe where they are not adhering to the Islamic principles so they know if they take their children to those gatherings which they go to their child is going to their child is not going to take good from it so you as a parent why are you in that gathering in the first place and this also brings me to another point which is a lot of parents they themselves do not go to that circle of knowledge there's a where there's a gathering that's taking knowledge is being taught a book of hadith is being taught or تفسير is being done the parent will grab the child by the hand and he will drag the child to the masjid and he will tell the child to sit in the masjid and listen to the benefits that are being given here and automatically the parent will walk away where has he gone? he goes to a cafe and picks the child up from there if only the child saw from you sitting with him in that gathering and benefiting with him that would be more beneficial for him than the whole lecture probably because what you're preaching to him and what you're telling him to do is something he does not see you do so this is the same as the statement of Amr al-Bu'as what are the things that a person needs to cultivate his child on whether the child is very young this brings me to the next point the first point was what أهمية تربية الأولاد the importance of cultivating a children correctly we've taken that point we're now going to move on to the second point the second point is التربية الأولاد the cultivation of the children what angles can one do it from where do I need to focus on cultivating my children the first thing that a person needs to cultivate his child upon is العقيدة الصحيحة is a correct عقيدة that the child is cultivated and is nurtured upon a correct methodology a correct عقيدة and that is why the message of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم و ترمي the narrator in the Sunan من حلية عبدالله من عباس that the Prophet said to Abdullah إني أعلموا ككلمات and he said to the beginning boy I'm going to teach you words إني أعلموا ككلمات إحفظ الله يحفظك إحفظ الله تجيطو تجاك إذا سألت فسأل الله و إذا استعانت فستعم بالله so the Prophet told him oh boy I'm going to teach you some words and what was it that he taught him توحيد العقيدة إذا سألت if you ask only ask Allah don't associate partners with him فسأل الله و إذا كانت تحطى إذا كانت تحطى و إذا كانت تحطى و أعلموا أن أمه اجتبعوا على أي فعوك بشيء و لن يفعوك إلا بشيء و إجتبعوا على أي ضرورك بشيء رفع عاتي الأقلاء و جفة الصحف كيف يوجد شيء that the Prophet told him يجب أن يفيدوك في إجابة التي لا يساعد و لا يوجد مالاً ما هذا الخيار لك. سيأتي لك لا يأتي لك و سيأتي لن يحدث لك. و أيضاً لو يأتي لك معاً لتحاملك ولكن لم يكن لن يأتي لك في عزة الله و لن يأتي لن يأتي لك. لأن مالذي يحدث هو ما الله تعالى تعالى once. و then the Prophet said to him رفعات الأقلام. The pent have been lifted و جفت صحف و the scripts have become dry. Just this hadith alone. Just the statements of the Prophet عليه الصلاة و الصلاة و السلام. الإمام ابن القائر رجب الحمبلي رحمه الله. He wrote a whole book. He wrote a whole book مشكات المصابحة I think. What do you call it مشكاته? في اختباس حديثة وصية النمسة حتى اللعبة سمت اللعبة. When he just explained after he explained it in his كتاب جامع علوم والحكم ابن رجب went and explained it by itself separately. You see? So that is to show you that ابن عباس was a boy. A young boy. Very young. Remember when the Prophet died he was only 13 or 14 or 15. So he was very young anyways. But the Prophet عليه الصلاة و السلام عليه educated him upon correct. سفيان الثوري. He said this statement. And also Abdulahim مبارك سديت as well. And also Abdulahim مبارك سدي. Which is what? إن من سعادة لحدة والأعجبي. أن يوفقهم الله لعالم من أهل السلام. The blessing for a young child. And a person who is new to Islam. Those two. The young child who is growing up right now. And the new Muslim. Both of them. The greatest thing for them is what? أن يوفقهم الله لعالم من أهل السلام. That Allah brings to them a scholar from أهل السلام. That if Allah blesses them. By allowing them to take knowledge from a person of the sunnah. سفيان الثوري said this. And Abdulahim مبارك said this. So look at it. The young kid. The first benefit that سفيان الثوري or one of the greatest benefit for him. Is to have a person of the sunnah to take knowledge from.  Is to grow up upon innovation. And to grow up upon misguidance. Abdulahim نشوذب. He said ان من نعمة الله على الشاب. Abdulahim نشوذب said. From the blessings of Allah upon a youngster. A youth. إلى تلسك أي واخي صاحب السنة يحمله عليها. For a young youth. For the blessings of Allah تبارك والتعالى. All of him is that. Allah brings to him. A person of the sunnah. Who takes into the sunnah and not educates him upon the sunnah. عمر بن قيس الملائي. He said اذا رأيت الشاب اول ما ينشى مع اهل السنة والجماعة فرجو. عمر بن قيس الملائي said. If you see a youngster. On his fast stages. Young kid growing up. Fast stages. He falls under the hands of a person of the sunnah. من اهل السنة والجماعة. Farjo hope for him good. You see a young kid. He falls in the hand of a person of اهل السنة والجماعة. Then he said. Hope good for him. وإذا رأيتم مع اهل البداع. But if you see him as a young kid. In the hands of the people of innovation. فأي اسمن. Then give up on him. فإن الشاب على اول ينشوه. Because. The person is how he is at his fast stages. Remember if innovation corrupt it creeps into you. And it enters into you even as a child. It takes hard effort and hard work for it to be taken out of you. So that's why it's important. That the child at a very early stage. He's taught. اقيدة الصحيحة. And of course this goes hand in hand with the statement of the messenger. صلى الله عليه وسلم which is. مام المولود إلا وهو يولد على الفطرة. There is no child who is born except he's born upon the. Natural disposition. Which is the. اقيد الصحيحة. فأبوه يهوه داني اول ينصراني اول يمجساني. His father. His mother are the ones who play a role in either making him a Christian. Or a Jew. But the child is born upon what. فطرة صحيحة. A correct natural disposition. The second. The second thing that the parents need to cultivate their children online. The therapy of the children is is. القرآن والسنة. They teach the children the Quran and they teach them the. سنة. ولذلك ابن خلدون في مقدمة. He says. إعلم. No. أن التعليب الولداني للقرآن الشعار من شعار الدين. No. That teaching the children the Quran is a symbol from the symbols of the religion. أخذ به أهل الملة ودرج عليه في جميع مصارهم. This is a path taken by the scholars and the people of knowledge. And this is the path which they tread on. In all over the Muslim world and all over the world. The scholars that's what they did. They first of all started to teach their children the Quran. Why? لما يسبق فيه إلى القلوب من رسوق الإيمان وعقائده من آيات القرآن. وبعض الموتون الأحديث. The reason is because. The Quran goes directly to the heart. And it solidifies the correct إيمان. عقيدة. The child gets it from the Quran. And then he says. وبعض الموتون الأحديث. And then after that. The child is then taught. إبنو خلدون سيد. وبعض الموتون الأحديث. Some of the books of Hadith. أربعين النووي. عمدة الأحكام. وبنو المرام ونبتو. You see. أننا اللقل والمرجان فيه متفق عليه الشيخان. And then he goes to. The Hadith which Bukhari is on the loan on. إفرادات البخارية على المسلم. The ones that Muslim are on loan from Bukhari. And then he goes to other books like that. وصار القرآن. وصار القرآن. أصل التعليم الذي يبنى عليه غيره من العلم. And he goes. And the Quran becomes. The foundation. In all of the educations. In which the child is acquiring. For everything else is built upon the Quran. عبد الله بن عباس. رضي الله تعالى عنه. He says. من قرأ القرآن. Anyone who memorized the Quran. And learns the Quran. قبل أن يحتلب before he reaches age of puberty. فهو من من قوتي الحكمة صبية. He is a person who has been given wisdom at birth at childhood. The third thing that the child should be taught is. اتقال اللغة العربية. That the child is taught to solidify himself upon the Arabic language. He solidifies himself upon the Arabic language. And he learns the Arabic language properly. الإمام الماوردي. In his book. لصيحة الملوك. He says. فإذا بلغت تأديبة والتعليبة. فالوجه. أن يبدأ بتعليم القرآن مع اللغة العربية. If the child reaches an age of. You know he understands things now. And you are mannering him. And he teaches an age where he can now start acquiring knowledge. He goes. فالوجه. The correct way is. أن يبدأ بتعليم القرآن. You teach him the Quran. مع اللغة العربية. But whilst you teach him the Quran. You also teach him the Arabic language with it. He says. لأنها اللغة التي أنزل الله بها كتابه. Because the Quran is. The sorry. The Arabic language is the language in which. اللها ستناد القرآن. وخاطم بها في شراء ديله وفرائض من التي. And it is the language which Allah addresses. The legislation of his religion. And the obligatory matters of this religion. وبيها بلغ رسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم. صلى الله عليه وسلم له. And it is this language. In which the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم. I conveyed his message. صلى الله عليه وسلمه عليه. So the language. And last but not least. What are effective ways? This is the third point and I'm going to conclude with this. What are effective ways? In which parents need to take in making sure. They cultivate their children correctly. These five stages are what a parent needs to do. In order to cultivate their child correctly. And these are وصائل التربية المؤثرة they affect. They work properly. The first one is التربية بالقدوة. You're a role model. You do it by action. The child looks up to you. And he sees you doing it. The second is التربية بالعبادة.  Access it. You pray. You fast. You do extra عبادة. And you always remind your children. When you're doing the عبادة. That you're doing with two conditions. That I have to be there. So you start. When I'm praying the salah. Who am I praying it for? Allah. In what way am I praying? According to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. So you always remind the child this. That I'm doing this action sincerely. For Allah's sake. And I'm also doing it in accordance to the sunnah. Of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم. The third one is التربية بالموعدة. The third one is you cultivate your child. By giving him reminders. Just like لغمان. Said to his son. يا بني لا تشرك بالله. إن الشركة لظلم العظيم. Or my son. Do not. Fall into a shirk. And oppress Allah. Fall into shirk. So this was the موعدة. That was a reminder from a father to his son. So you use those words such as father. Daddy. Aba. Whatever language you speak. You use those words to get the heart of the child. It's موعدة. It's not meant to scare him. It's not meant to be shouting at him. It's just to speak with tenderness and kindness. The fourth one is التربية بالموعدة.  You are consistently looking at him. And you are observing him. And this is مراقبة للأولاد.  You are looking. And from this is the issue of gadgets. And social media. Parents buy their children laptops. They buy their children mobile phones.  So parents have to be engaged with their children and know what their children are up to. You don't just buy them a big television and you put it in front of them or you buy them a laptop and you don't find out what they're doing with it. There was a mother who thought her daughter was doing her assignments every night. So she left her there. So my daughter never leaves her laptop. She's always reading. She's always. No, she's not. She's on social media. To the extent that nowadays for people to have to go outside to do Haram they don't need to. Everything is brought to the house. The child may not even move from that position. And he can do everything from the tip of his finger. So it's ملاحظ. It's very important. That if you see your child used to read Quran and then now he started to sing. He automatically have to know that. And say oh, something has changed. What's happened? Everyday you came to the house you're reading Quran when you're walking on the staircase you read Quran. I used to hear it. What happened? What has changed? But a child apparently would only know that if he and the children were always spending time together. A parent who's always on the television. A father who's always away. A mother who just gets a screen and places it in front of the child and says watch it. We'll never know what's happening in that child's mind and what every progress that he's making daily. Five years later she realized her child insults. No, he's been doing this for five years. Where were you these five years? A parent comes up to you at the age of 18. The child's at 18 years of age. So the parent comes up to you and says to you my 18 year old child I want you to advise them. What were you doing as a parent for 18 years of age? 18 years. When this child got to this final conclusion this position right now of what he wants to do he doesn't want to listen to anybody. He's stubborn. Where were you as a parent? Where was the ملاحظة? Why were you not observing anything? So the parent has to observe the child. Last but not least التربية بالعقوبة there has to be punishment for children. There has to be what? Punishments. The same falls under the عقوبة which is the opposite holds truth which is that if he's good he gets a prize for it. And then he's what? He's given a gift. He's given something to be happy about. The same way if he comes with something wrong he's punished for it. And there are things that a consequence he has to bear things that he likes that he's going to lose and things that will happen happen to him. That is a summary of the concept among the topic التربية للأولاد. I hope I gave it justice إن شاء الله سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إلي.


Hello friends, my name is Arpata Karwa and welcome back to my channel. I'm going to start today's video by asking you a very simple question. Are you someone who is looking forward to join a B-Owner's English course or a MA English course? Are you someone who is already a B-Owner's English or MA English student? If yes, then this question is for you. What made you choose English literature as your career? Most of the students I interact with on a daily basis choose to pursue a career in English literature because English is most studied language of the world. In fact, 20% of the world population speaks English. And wouldn't we all love to belong to that talent pool that is demanded in every sector of the economy of every country? Any person who can speak fluent English or has the ability to write creatively in English is in high demand. All these reasons encourage us to build a career in English. But in this video, I'm going to burst a lot of myths of students who are really fascinated by English language and want to become fluent speakers. And I'm looking forward to achieve this goal by enrolling in B-Owner's English or MA English course. So in this video, I'm going to talk about three things. Firstly, I'll talk about who should not take up a B-Owner's English or MA English course. Then I'm going to talk about who should actually take a course in the field of English literature. And finally, I'll talk about the real content that is taught in a degree program of English literature be it BA English or MA English. So the objective of this video is to actually burst a lot of myths that students who are not familiar with the curriculum of English literature degree program have in their brain so that they are able to make an informed career choice. I do not want you guys to make the same mistake that mostly people do and they end up regretting the same in the future. Generally, people make the mistake that they start the course with 13 myths in their mind and once they have completed a year or a year and a half in this course they finally realize that the course does not meet their expectation. And as a result, many students drop out before completing the course or they even continue with it without any passion or interest. In either case, they face huge challenges in life and they end up creating a lot of issues for themselves. So let us first understand who should not go for this course. If you are somebody who wants to improve your English language skills you should definitely not enrol in BA Honours English Literature or MA English Literature program. Surprising, right? Friends, you need to understand that there is a huge difference between English language and English literature. Language is related to grammar. It is related to how we speak and all of that. Whereas literature is related to the text written in that language. So all the books, novels and poetry that are written is a part of English literature. English language is not a part of this course. So if you are thinking that you will be taught grammar, pronunciation, big vocabulary words or spoken English in BA Honours English or MA English then it's time to wake up. After spending two or three years in a degree course related to English literature you will not see yourself speaking fluent English. I would not say that your spoken communication will not be better. Definitely, it will become better since you have been reading so many texts in English, you would be writing on a daily basis but all of this would be an indirect benefit that you will derive from the course. So anyone who is eager to become a fluent English speaker should not enter this course with the aim that this course will make them fluent in English. Now let us move on to the second topic that we will cover in this video wherein I am going to talk about those who should go for this course. Now instead of just telling you all about it, I will ask you a bunch of questions and if you answer these questions positively that means you are an ideal candidate to opt for this course. Okay, right? Let's begin. So the first question. Do you love reading novels, poetry, short stories, fiction and non-fiction books? If your answer is yes, then this is the course for you. A person who loves books, who enjoys reading should definitely think of joining an English literature program. Friends, I remember that I used to be so eager to attend English periods, English classes throughout my school days. I used to enjoy it a lot when my teacher would read and explain poetry like Daffodils by William Wordsworth or plays like Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and those passages, those lines written by these famous writers were instantly imprinted on my heart. Can you believe that as a kid, I used to memorize those lines? I used to go back and read those lines again and again, feel fascinated. I would often wonder how someone could think so deeply about such simple things like a flower like Daffodil. So if you have that kind of love for literature, then this course is just the right thing for you. Another important question that you must ask yourself is if you love reading stories and analyzing these stories from different different angles. This is very very important friends. A lot of us read stories, but we don't bother to interpret the meaning in a degree program related to English literature. You will have situations where every day you will need to reinterpret these stories, these novels, these texts in different different forms. So it is very important that you have this love for interpretation. I'll give you a very simple example. Harry Potter is a very very famous book that all of us have read in our lifetime. Now most people would simply read the book and they would find the story very appealing. But students of literature would look at Harry Potter's life very very minutely. So when they look at this car on the Harry's head, they would interpret it as a badge of honor, as an emblem of having survived a great battle. Similarly, if a literature student will look at the four houses of Hogwarts, each of them having an emblem of an animal, he would pause and think about each animal and how that animal represents the innate nature of the students who are a part of that house. For example, a lion is the emblem for Gryffindor, an eagle for Ravenclaw, a badger for Hufflepuff and a serpent for Slytherin. Now Slytherin is the best known house as an evil house. Why? Because Lord Voldemort was a member of it. So it is no coincidence that Slytherin is connected and associated with serpent. Why serpent? Serpent is one of the earliest symbol of evil, dating back to Satan who disguised as a serpent and entered the Garden of Paradise. So a literature student would look at these my new things that the author might have thought before writing. J.K. Rowling didn't choose Snake as a symbol for Slytherin just for fun. She gave a lot of thought before choosing Slytherin as the symbol. This is what literature students do. They interpret text, they question things. So if you have love for such interpretations, then English literature is perfect for you. Or I would rather say that you are perfect for English literature. If you are not so fond of reading but still love interpreting movie stories, even then you can enroll and be a part of English literature course. Why? Because interpreting movies and interpreting story books are almost the same thing. We all go to movies and we love to discuss them with our friends. Next time you are discussing any movie with your friend, then question yourself. Do you enjoy looking at movies from different angles and like sharing your interpretations? For example, one of my very favorite movies is Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor's Ki Enka. That movie breaks so many gender stereotypes. We see that a Mangal Sutra which is worn generally by married women around their neck was worn as a hand bracelet by Arjun Kapoor. Here the gender role was reversed. He is seen as the homemaker and Kareena Kapoor is seen as the bread owner of the family. So when you notice these small things that the producer or the director is doing and it fascinates you a lot, then you can opt for English literature. And finally, the last and the most important thing that you must ask is whether you love teaching as a profession. Because the most promising career option after studying English literature is to become a professor. If you love teaching as a career, then you should definitely choose a profession like this. I've always loved teaching from a very young age. When I was in class 10, I used to take soft skill classes at a nearby institute. Then when I was in class 12, I taught spoken English to various job aspirants. I was having my own institute at the age of 16 and I was teaching people who are much older than me. But because I loved teaching them so much irrespective of my age, people loved learning from me. And that is how I discovered that I have a dual love for learning English literature and teaching. Friends, this is the reason why English literature is the best possible career option that I could have chosen. So in this particular lecture, as we move forward, I would want to talk about the third topic which is related to the syllabus of English literature. Let me tell you what it consists of so that you know what you will be studying in the two or three years course that you choose. This will help you make a very informed career choice. So basically as a part of English literature, you will be studying the history of English literature. Which means you will be studying the socio-political and cultural background of different periods in the history of UK, that is United Kingdom. And then you would be studying different writers who wrote during different periods and the kind of text that they were writing. Those texts would include poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and even short stories. So you will be studying all these different kinds of texts. Further, you will study the life of these authors. Friends, another important thing that you must note is that you won't just study the works of authors from Britain or from America. Whose native language is English. You would also be studying text or literature from across the world, including Indian literature and their translations. So you would be studying the text of writers like Prem Chandra or Kalidas who wrote in Hindi and Sanskrit. Similarly, you will be reading the works of French writers, German writers. And this is because English literature covers not just literature written in English, but also the literature written and translated in English. So if this fascinates you, if this excites you, then you should definitely enrol. And if not, then it's time to question yourself and see what all other career options you can opt for. On that note, I would like to take your leave. 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This is what my life has come to I should have listened to my teachers in high school I should have went to college. I wouldn't have to be doing this right now. Now. Let me stop playing guys What's going on? Welcome back to yet again another vlogmas video if you guys are new to the channel Make sure you guys hit that subscribe button and join the family as you guys can tell by title and thumbnail the video as Well as my costume today your boy is dressing up as buddy the elf and we're gonna be playing a little prank Well actually not like why does my hat keeps lying back? It's really annoying We're gonna be playing a little game on team Janice So if you guys have never heard of elf on the shelf basically elf on the shelf is a little elf a little toy elf that My parents put out further kids during the holidays and the whole background story behind elf on the shelf is basically the kids think that the elf Is alive because the elf keeps moving to different parts of the house during the whole holiday season So we're basically going to be playing a similar game with Janice today. So right now guys Janice is in the bedroom I told her earlier today that I was going to go to auto zone to pick up some car wash stuff So I was going to step out for a little bit.  I'm actually going to recall and be like oh, babe You know I already stepped out the house, which I really didn't and I left her like a little elf on the shelf And she has to find out where the elf is the elf is obviously going to be me and again wait till you guys see my hiding spot It's the craziest thing ever. It's actually really funny So what Janice is actually going to be looking for the little elf on the shelf I actually have cameras all around the house So we're going to be seeing everywhere she's checking and I honestly want to see how long does it take for Janice to find the elf on the shelf which is again me I am the elf on the shelf. I am buddy the elf So guys if you guys are ready for today's video and you guys want to see Janice Basically try to find me this is going to be the craziest thing ever Make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button comment down below team is a all day every day comment down below as well Hashtag buddy the elf and I got to figure out how to stick this hat on me because if he's falling is really annoying Be a hashtag buddy the elf down below in the comment section and let's get into today's video So I have all the cameras around the house already set up I'm going to go ahead give Janice a call right now and we're going to see this all go down Wait till you guys see when I get up to my hiding spot. It is the funniest thing ever Babe, I'm going to go out to auto zone right now and get all my car wash stuff Okay, um before I actually leave though. I'm actually in the driveway, but um I actually have a surprise for you laying around the house. Have you ever heard of well you have heard of elf on the shelf, right? Okay, so basically I hid an elf somewhere around the house and while I'm gone at auto zone I want you to find it and if you find it by the time I get back you get a reward Seriously, what is this? It's just like a little Christmas game I want to see if you could find the elf by the time I get back from auto zone So what who says you can't have fun? That's true. That's okay. You hid it somewhere? Yeah, so I want you to find it when like when I pull off, you know, and I actually leave, you know, the house or whatever Okay, all right, so just give it like I don't know give it like a couple of minutes And then you could go ahead and start trying to find the elf that I'll give you a hint though Because you're in the bedroom right now, right? I think that's where you were before I just walked out All right, so I'll give you a hint the elf is obviously not in the bedroom Well, I would hope not It's not in the bedroom obviously. I couldn't hide it if you're in there Okay, all right, so go ahead. Wait a couple of minutes and try to find the elf while I'm gone Okay, oh my god, it's gonna be crazy.  All right ready. All right. I love you. Love you too ready Yeah, all right All right, I'm gonna go to my hiding spot right now because she about to start in a couple of minutes So I'm gonna hurry up The spot is crazy. I really hope I don't break the cabinets. Okay guys now we wait Daddy said that there's an elf somewhere There's a fire there's a rubber tree You wanna help mommy look? Come on, let's go look for the elf Look at the lights, come on Okay, you check there mommy check around the tree I don't see an elf.  Nothing. Okay. Be honest with you. I'm scared to get down Babe, I'm squished up here out of a thing Like on top of the microwave like that shelf over there But then I'm like, yo, I feel like that was like too like I don't know revealing because if you would have just came down the stairs You would have saw me like right up there at least this one I have this wall right here like blocking me. So you will see I'm scared to get down if I break the cabinets. It's gonna be bad sit right here I'm scared. How do you're gonna find me like sooner? I'm your prize. What you mean, bro If you found the elf you'll get a surprise and I'm I'm the reward Bro, if I break the cabinets, oh my god, these types of the good on me They a little loose. All right, bro I gotta eat more My Velcro's popping. Oh, did you hear that? And he sticks the landing bro. What's up? No, you're sweaty. I can't get a hug All right, guys, so I am really really tired after all that I didn't do anything but just lay there But just the fact that she was looking for me was like really nerve-racking I don't know if you guys do you ever get that feeling when you're playing hide and seek when you were younger Like you that mean like anxious that nervousness. Yes, I might just find you whenever Yeah, I still get that and I play hide and seek with my baby cousins all the time guys It's the best feeling ever. I don't know. I kind of want to play hide and seek now But yeah guys that is it for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed it if you guys did make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button And it is not time for today's post notification shout out today's post notification Shout out goes out to lima parties shout out to you girl Thank you so much for the love and support if you guys want to post notification shout out All you guys got to do is like comment share and subscribe and turn your post notification bells on So you're notified whenever we post a new video and with all that being said guys. We'll catch you in the next vlogmas video


Hello, and welcome to this video explaining how to get started with the Stepper Motor Driver STM32 Nucleo Expansion Board. This board is part of the STM32 Open Development Environment, a fast and affordable way to develop innovative devices and applications with ST components. The information on how to obtain the board can be found on www.st.com.x-nucleo under the reference XNUCLEO-IHM01A1. The board is built around the STL6474 Stepper Motor Driver, a power supply and motor bridge is connector, a power OK LED and a fault LED to check the alarms reported by the STL6474. The board is equipped with an Arduino Uno R3 connector, allowing it to be plugged into an STM32 Nucleo Development Board. First, connect the Stepper Motor and its power supply to the expansion board. Next, connect the STM32 Nucleo Development Board to a PC using a mini USB cable. The board is automatically detected and seen as a disk drive. Visit ST.com and search for the keyword XNUCLEO-IHM01A1. Click on the main part number link. Then, go to the Tools and Software section and click on the XCube link. Finally, go to the end of the page and click on the Download button in the Get Software section. When downloaded, just unzip the file in the folder you want. In the software package, you will find directories with all the required material. Now, let's try a sample application that allows you to drive one Stepper Motor connected to a Motor Driver expansion board. The firmware to be installed is called IHM01A1, example for one Motor, and can be found in the Examples folder of the projects directory as shown here. Select the STM32 Nucleo Development Board you are using and drag and drop the binary file onto the Nucleo Disk Drive. Once the firmware is downloaded, just press the Reset button of the Nucleo Board and the Stepper Motor will automatically start to move. It will execute the demo sequence which is coded in the main .c file of the project. This sequence includes commands such as moves of a given number of steps in forward or backward direction, go to specific position, and many others. The package also includes a sample application which provides an example of daisy chaining. It is called IHM01A1, example for three Motor and can be downloaded in the same way as previously described. It should be used with a configuration where three X Nucleo IHM01A1 expansion boards are stacked. A comprehensive set of documentation for the STM32 Nucleo Stepper Motor Driver expansion board including a user manual, application notes, quick start guide, and data sheet is also available.


guys shiver 1,000 here weekly update on the sunflowers that one kind of grew funny on there looks like there might be one coming up down in here this one's he's done something eight him something's been chewing on this guy's leaves but he's growing he's growing good this is weak I don't know you probably seen the title something's eating her trying to get him to something's eating something's eating hell out of our plants bars are doing well she only had one die that was it right there and I think it's because we had so much rain and that thing didn't have holes in it remember we had to put holes in it but this our garden is uh yeah she said something took a bite out of that so our garden just got way too much rain I mean it's still it's still doing but we didn't get any big tomatoes we got what two big tomatoes so these are about done see looks like something ate that one see it hope they have heartburn but yeah we only had like two big tomatoes we've got one of these starting up here I don't think it'll make it though we got one out of this one we ended up getting two two out of this one the cherry tomatoes we we got a lot of them but these big ones like that one we just took off I don't know man something just ate them then again we was getting way too much rain so but next year they're going to be in the ground I'll probably start over here you know till it up and I'll mix a bunch of this potting soil with the fertilizer and the cow manure in it now I'll start over there and come down through here it was kind of a test I think next year I'll just put the I'm just gonna put some peppers in this one it's all gonna be peppers and then the garden will have some some more tomatoes cherry tomatoes and stuff like that but this is what we're looking at right here on the on the sunflowers so I don't know how well they're going to do because something I don't know I don't know what it is I don't know what took a bite out of that tomato over there but something's eating our stuff this is bugs most definitely probably ladybugs you know so there we go and again there's monkeys all right guys just a quick update for you Shea Bear the myth man legend gone for now stay tuned for more videos coming up I've got some projects so stay tuned for them I think you guys will like them while the gear heads will shoot our bananas good ones on there these are all good here and these are good these are good these are getting to be a little bit soft there so I got to get them cut off and we need to eat them monkey want the story after damn bop bananas all right guys there you go I'm gone bye bye


Hi, this is Hoseb Mibhartiya and welcome to TFI. Let's talk today. We have two members actually co-chairs of the CNCF technical advisory group for observability Alolita Sharma and Matt Young. Alolita, Matt, it's great to have you both on the show. Yes, thank you. Looking forward to it. Very nice to be on the show and thank you so much. Yeah and today's focus is going to be the recent observability micro survey. But before I go there, I would love to hear from you folks is that how have you seen the evolution of observability in the cloud native space? So observability today, you know, it's been a science for a long time and you know, it's not new, it's not a new area of science specific to cloud native computing. But that said, with the evolution of new services that have evolved in the cloud space from different providers as well as, you know, a traditional APM vendors, observability is very much live and well. It's the new incarnation, if you will, of monitoring. And it also incorporates a lot of the systems level monitoring, you know, techniques and tools and ideas that have then been scaled up and incorporated into the cloud native space. Observability data only continues to grow. There's just, you know, all the way from the edge networks to the system services that are used for infrastructure as well as container services, you know, it's a whole swath. And looking at the types of observability data, whether that's traces, logs or metrics, there is just a tremendous amount of telemetry that we can collect today, which really leads to the opportunity for being able to build at scale cloud native, you know, observability services. Matt, I want to hear your opinion as well. How have you seen it evolve? As she said, observability is nothing new, but in the cloud native world, it's kind of, you know, totally different beast. Certainly. Well, I think I've seen a few trends kind of that have been, as Alolita had hinted at moving and coalescing towards each other for some time, right? The technology building blocks found in the CNCF umbrella and open source in general. In this domain have really accelerated their capabilities and their ability to deliver value quite dramatically, you know, almost in lockstep with Kubernetes itself. You know, Borg and Borg bond kind of seeded all of this and not surprisingly, you know, what you can do with platforms and how you can understand what's happening or not have both been, you know, coupled. So, you know, I think one of the biggest shifts in the last few years that I experienced as well as many in the industry is as a technology leader, building out platforms for teams so that they can solve business challenges. Initially, it was almost entirely vendor driven, and sometimes maybe only one or two at a particular enterprise or business. Obviously, not a rule, but increasingly, teams are shifting to having the ability to run their own platforms in concert with a richer ecosystem of vendors. They can go a la carte if they want, they can do it all themselves if they want. Perhaps they need to be air gapped or their industry is regulated. So some portions, they actually want a vendor driven open source solution that they run on their own infrastructure. So we're seeing all of these different use cases become possible now. So now technology decision makers, when they're looking to deliver value, have a deeper catalog with more deployment options. And so they can really make solutions that fit the demand versus a one size fits all approach.  But it also is not to, you know, under recognize the fact that open source projects in observability, specifically under the CNCF umbrella or, you know, having evolved as, you know, projects from the search space or other monitoring or Kubernetes spaces have intersected into really paying a huge part in the technology innovation that's happening in the cloud native space, right? So if you look at open telemetry or you look at Prometheus, or you look at, you know, some of the very fast growing observability projects under the CNCF umbrella, salium, you know, with EBPF and other projects with Pixie joining in, again, it's phenomenal to see the diversity of different projects and the same time addressing different, you know, solutions that they were trying to address and build in an open standards and an open source way, right? And that intersecting with traditional vendor based solutions where the customer actually has a tremendous amount of choice now to be able to select through a baseline of open source solutions and also services that are, you know, scaled up to support the kind of scale that they're looking for. Yeah, that's absolutely, I completely agree. And in addition, it's kind of, it's an interesting salient point that this entire landscape and many of those workloads are themselves cloud native workloads. So the same observability tools that one uses to observe your own code, your own product, your own services, you know, you can use across, you know, the breadth of these services. And I think another expansion that we're going to be seeing happen, it's already happening is the sort of the rise of control planes and having Kubernetes orchestrate not just containers and their initial surrounding workloads, but really all manner of things. And all of those things are then observable cloud native workloads. So the reach and the scope of what they're being asked to do is going to expand. So they need to be increasingly, the solutions for observability need to be increasingly broadening the tent of practitioners for which they are accessible, right? And not requiring a super steep learning curve. So again, huge opportunities for the entire ecosystem to innovate and compete and move forward as a domain. Thanks for, of course, explaining, you know, what observability is in today's you know, cloud native workloads. Now let's just switch focus and talk about this survey. What was the goal behind this micro survey? What were you trying to like gain? What kind of insights were looking for? I think that, you know, again, if you look at the survey, we were, you know, looking at understanding, you know, what are some of the observability challenges that, you know, the end users are trying to address in their organizations. As, you know, as the amount of data grows, for example, the challenges and the complexity of addressing, you know, an observability solution at scale grows, right? So if you look at some of the practical challenges or the technical challenges or the cultural challenges that are, you know, different, different organizations are trying to look at and arrange there and take solutions based on those challenges that they're trying to address, what kind of tooling is available, you know, what kind of projects are available or, you know, in going strong in terms of supporting that. So that's, that was really to understand what are the challenges customers and users are facing, right? And the other aspect that I think that the, we focused on was really, you know, looking at any other concerns in the growth of cloud native, you know, observability projects and what were some of those practical challenges, you know, in the growth? Is it complexity of the technology? Is it lack of resources or just the maturity of code features or projects, you know, or is it integration? Because typically, you know, when you have existing large-scale monitoring systems already, what is the cost of integrating, you know, new solutions, say for collection or for modern, you know, observation or processing or alerting to be able to send that, you know, to an existing legacy system that you have, right? And that's typically very expensive for organizations to also be involved in. The other aspect, you know, that I think we focused on in this survey was really to look at some of the daily operations that, you know, typically are happening on the, you know, using the cloud providers versus the on-prem, you know, setups that customers or users have and or, you know, self-managed, right?  So really understanding what kind of tooling exists there and does it intersect with the cloud-native, you know, projects and the tooling that is being built for a new generation. Matt, did you want to add any other areas? I think we looked at tooling also, a fair bit. Were there areas that we, you think we focused on otherwise also? I think as to why do these or why engage in having these microsurveys and these check-ins with the community, I think the points you've raised are all spot on. I think another aspect of this is around, you know, the explicit goal that the CNCF has who sponsored this activity around community building, right? I mean, by taking a pulse, by capturing this feedback from practitioners, you know, attempting and successfully in many cases, you know, using these LEGO building blocks, you know, to assemble solutions that make sense to them and then meet their needs, it's good to highlight this up and bring more people in, you know, one of the connectedness and the shared ethos of open source that pervades all of these projects, that's a shared value and an advantage, I feel, to having that as a core value is this open communication and collaboration, right? So in the end-user community, there are case studies and you can trade notes and you can talk about your experiences, what worked and what didn't and why.  Here we have this superpower. So I think our goal is to coalesce these communities and engage in further discussion with additional actors.  Like one of the examples I'd like to call out is, you know, open telemetry where I am very active on, as well as the Prometheus community. We actually have worked closely together to make sure that in the metrics observability world, we have a common standard of interoperability on the data protocol that we can actually interoperate on and the collaboration across, you know, all these projects which have been very innovative in themselves is also very obviously interoperable across the data that is being shared by across these different stacks, right? So I think that that's very important to recognize because typically, you know, you had this separation between open standards being done in something like the W3C, open source projects running in parallel, you know, doing their own thing, solving a particular problem and then vendor-based solutions which are, you know, building out, you know, their stack on their own. But here in this, you know, generation what we see is that there is a very close harmony and work that is ongoing between open standards, which are also, you know, often part of the open source projects that are in the observability space and also vendors being stakeholders in these projects so that they get the best, you know, they contribute to the standard and at the same time also to the open source code base that the end users and benefit most from. And I think that that's phenomenal because that's something that, you know, we actually in previous generations of open source hasn't been as aligned. So we talked about what is observability, we talked about the goal behind this survey now. What are some of the takeaways or your findings very likely like, hey, you know what, this is something, of course, you were expecting and this is something you were not expecting. So let's start there. So I think one thing I was expecting to see from this, you know, as both an end user and talking with colleagues and observing the industry, you know, the general concern around the complexity. You know, one of the dangers of an ecosystem that's growing so rapidly is without active explicit communication and, you know, training and or, you know, dialogue, it's difficult to understand how to use all of these blocks or if you're even using the right thing in the right place. So that didn't surprise me at all. And I do think that different projections of that theme kind of are throughout most of the responses. But that's also a good thing. It's a huge opportunity for things like the technical advisory group on observability, you know, to help provide not all the answers, but to provide the forum and the meeting place where those answers come from. One thing that, yeah, I could leave it there in the interest. Do you want to add to that, Alida, or were there things that you didn't expect, just so I don't answer both sides? One of the things that I didn't expect was also complexity, right, being called out as one of the major, you know, aspects of deployment of use and also configuration, right. And but it's again, I also would say given the state of where all the open source observability projects are at this point in time, it's very important for these solutions to be able to solve the, you know, areas where users go and use these solutions the most. And those are really deployment complexity.  And, you know, that is not only Kubernetes, but then the observability, you know, solutions built for Kubernetes also kind of emulate that, right. It's difficult to use an operator for most end users. So complexity, I think, is an area which is something that we need to address because we do need to, you know, as open source projects, be able to handle, reduce the complexity of deployment, reduce the complexity of configuration management, have better instrumentation and make it as seamless as possible for an end user to use an observability solution out of the box, right. It should not be that we are reinventing Nagios again for the next generation and we still have the same complexity for the end user to be able to spin up observability and solution and instrument it, right. It should be that observability is actually baked in into the systems or the container infrastructure or the infrastructure that you're monitoring, right. And that's where we want to get to. I could add, too, that another thing that did stand out to me that I didn't expect but I'm thrilled to see is, you know, if you, in the question that asked folks, you know, what are some of the challenges in any regard to moving forward with some of this tooling in this cloud native approach in an observable way, two things that didn't really make the lists that are actually the two lowest was the fear of bugs, you know, buggy code and the fear that their management won't understand the value of using open source. Those are just, give me, those are table stakes now, right, for modern managers and modern companies and organizations that they just have assumed now. So I think that is probably a dramatic shift again over the last, you know, three to five years or even 10 years when the debates around should I use open source or not were quite a bit different and mired on those two points. So that's encouraging. Because of this ongoing geopolitical crisis, cyber security is becoming a very big issue. What role do you think observity is going to play in the whole DevSecOps sorry space, because sometimes when we look at cloud, things are not like there are no silos here. Everything is, you know, so if you can talk about that, I would appreciate that. I think that we're going to see, you know, solutions being incubated in the space and brought to market very quickly for a few reasons. One, they're, you know, as you pointed out, current events do make clear the necessity and the importance of this of this capability. But, you know, I think that much, there's been a lot of innovation in the last five or six years around ad tech and tech machine learning, model training, and all of the associated infrastructure and learnings and best practices around how to implement those, that whole technology stack and the thought domain into solving those challenges that can all be brought to bear quite quickly, I posit. In addition, much of the data that is needed to train all of that obviously comes out of these observability systems and tools. So it's kind of a lined up in my view that this would be a natural place to see a lot of innovation this year and next year, either by taking, you know, off the shelf capabilities and mixing and matching them. We're having people bring, you know, tailored solutions to bear. And just like with, I think the other, the previous question, you know, I think a differentiator for these projects that will both help their communities grow, but will also help the projects themselves be more sustainable and more trusted and vetted is how they go reach a customer job and the practitioners that are trying to use them. I will, you know, make great points around what the technical communities need to do around aligning on open standards. I think at the same time, really, some of the liberties that have been enjoyed by a rapidly growing ecosystem are beginning to expire of it. And many of these projects are going to have to consider a critical role for the success of their product to be product and or pms and, and really folks that can help ensure that that not only are amazing technical achievements being accomplished, you know, but, but that they're able to be translated and made practical and actually solve problems, not just say, hey practitioners, here you go, because an overall industry trend is a move away from a centralized, you know, IT or infrastructure or even a DevOps group that's forward looking, you know, that's still a centralized place. And we're seeing an inversion of control and a democratization, depending on which side of that line you're looking at of these capabilities out to lines of business who will make their own decisions. And so, you know, increasingly, you can't rely on that centralized function within an enterprise or an organization to take on the cost of training and documenting and saying, what this is, why do you care? Who does it help? Why? All of those things are now, you know, in an a la carte world, even if it's with with with similar open standards, you know, for people to use it and feel and know and be able to demonstrate to their peers that it's worth doing at all or it's worth doing with this particular solution. That's things that people are going to need. And I think projects that provide that final minor or that enabling collateral will see a good return on the investment for sure. A couple of interesting things I'd like to call out in the security space, especially one is that I think there is a lot of work that is ongoing, especially in the eBPF world, to be able to actually handle, you know, specific security use cases and also data which needs to be, you know, is coming from sources which are secure or need to guarantee an end-to-end secure, you know, pipeline even for telemetry. And that's something, again, both from a services and systems level as well as from an end user device level is something that needs to evolve, right? Because those are, I think, complex use cases, logging typically has been used in, you know, those use cases for collecting telemetry data, but you also see the evolution with eBPF, you know, projects as well as others to look at the kernel space, address security use cases, to look at the collection of, you know, telemetry from the other parts of the stack, whether that's network, network layer or, you know, distributed different systems running on top and being able to actually handle not only logs, but metrics, traces, and then being able to correlate and process and be able, you know, in a secure way, not only end-to-end for the pipeline, but also in terms of specific use cases where the data is secure, right? So there is a lot happening here in addressing those, but I think that we're not there yet.  Excellent. Before I wrap this up, one more question I want to ask you folks is, since you brought it up also, is the cultural aspect, as you're talking about Matt and also a lot of that you talked about, open source for me, like it solves day one problem, right? Day two is where a lot of vendors come in to package as a service or product because, but more importantly, that cultural shift within companies, organizations where they look at observability as part of, you know, their workflow pipelines through the survey or beyond the survey, how much cultural shift you're seeing towards observability where once again, you don't have to educate folks about it and companies do understand the importance and they are doing changes internally.  It's something that is intrinsic to writing, you know, credible, workable solutions. You know, I think that that something should be observable, you know, to the consumer of that thing is now also just, you know, it's not a check the box anymore. It just has to be there or you're not looking at it at all. I do think that will be the mindset that folks have. Like I just, you know, if I'm going to invest in something, I shouldn't also have to invest in figuring out if it's even working. Right? So that day one experience really needs to be, I do think, solid. And so I think those expectations and practitioners and IT groups and DevOps groups and cloud groups, however they're called, or folks that are self-servicing for their teams, you know, that's kind of a common expectation. You know, I ask my kids sometimes imagine life without a cell phone and they're just, you know, I think it'll be that way with observability to the point where the term might not even be relevant because it's assumed as to, you know. Yes. Yes. And then that's what it should be, right? I mean, observability should be as core pillar of computing as, you know, computing itself, right? And it should be just baked in.   Like I think we are, we are now walking around in a cloud native system, right? So we're, so from a cultural perspective, you know, because it's so ubiquitous now, I think it raises both some ethical, another ethical challenges to us in industry to build the right systems that protect privacy and whatnot. But really, observability is so important because it's going to be how we observe ourselves and how we interact with each other. And, you know, the increasingly automated, potentially robotic points of world that we're going to be walking around. Right? So it's very concrete now. Yeah. And I think that again, you know, addressing the question you asked about culture, right? It's always been the case that, you know, you have several challenges in being able to have an observability first culture, right? Because traditionally, it's been always taken for granted that, hey, you know, if you're doing monitoring of a system, if you have SRE in the company, then it's the SRE's problem to, you know, go and figure it out and use the tools that they need to and just use whatever. But as you also see, you know, from a cloud native perspective, as you build out these large cloud native, you know, infrastructure investments for every organization, you also need to shift the skillset, the mindset of the leadership of the organization, the understanding of the complexity, you know, shifting at a different layer and really, you know, continuous support from your leadership and understanding benefits of, you know, why observability first approach day one matters, right?   And these are areas that, you know, have been, as we have large scale computing, which is being deployed, you know, at a cloud native scale, these problems become even more complex to address. And that is a continuous balance and learning that needs to happen in every organization.  And even your end-user devices that have to be observable, and that's a whole mix, right? So it changes the equation dramatically. We should mention this Tuesday at the tag, we've got the Hubble project, as well as the Pixie project, at the beginning of an update of the last almost year of development since they last joined us. So that should be really great. And we're going to be getting an overview of a portion of the Sillium project that's focused on network observability from that project we'll be presenting. And then lastly, one of the work streams that has launched recently around making a five to 10-minute news segment on Accadence. Hendrick's rather will be giving an update on that. So first and second Tuesday of the month. Excellent. Lalitha, Matt, thank you so much for taking time out today and talk about not only this micro survey, actually that survey was a micro on this discussion. We had a much wider discussion about observability. Thanks for sharing those great insights. And as I said, I would love to have you folks back on the show, but thanks for your time today. Anytime. Thank you so much. Thank you, Stephanie. It's really a pleasure to chat with you.


Most what of what we call introversion is literally social anxiety. Okay, so those of you who, for example, would be nervous speaking to a large group of people. Very common reaction humans grow up. Evolutionarily, most of our ancestors lived in small groups. It's called Dunbar's number. Robin Dunbar, the sociologist, 150 person groups. So of course, the average human is petrified to speak to 10,000 people because in our evolutionary past, there was never, and I repeat, never a crowd of 10,000 people. It's very unnatural to have crowds of 10, the largest group I spoke to about 30,000 people in a stadium. That never happened. In the 1500s, the average person never, there's a good book called Guns, Germs and Steel, the average person never traveled more than 15 miles from their home. Guns, Germ and Steel, he's a Pulitzer prize winning UCLA professor. I actually interviewed him for his book for Mentor Box, a company I own. So I've had pretty interesting conversations with him. And so you can't naturally be good at speaking to large crowds. Out of this group, let's say we had a thousand people on the Zoom call, there'd be under 5% who are naturally good speaking to large groups. It's not in our genes, okay? It's really not. And if you think you're a good speaker, the simple test is can you speak to 10,000 people and get a standing ovation 80% of the time? Then you're a good speaker. Now what I was telling to this guy earlier today, he was too much diagnosing himself. He was saying, Ty, I'm an introvert. I have, you know, imposter syndrome. I said, no, no, no, stop it. You don't have, you're not really an introvert. Okay, not by Jung's definition. And you're not really experiencing imposter syndrome. You just aren't that good at it because you don't practice. So when I lived at the Amish for two and a half years, the Amish would have a barn raising and they'd build a house. And they would build a house so fast, it's pretty amazing. There's documentaries on the Amish in the United States, how they can build a barn in one day. Well, the reason is, is they have like 30,000 hours building barns by the time they're 18 years old. Because when you're at the Amish, you start picking up a hammer at five years old. And they don't have imposter syndrome or they're not introverts. When you show up, I just did one this year in the last year, there was a, I have a farm in the middle of an Amish community. And they were doing, they call it a workday. It's in German, right? They call it Schauffer. Schauffer is the Amish German word for work. So they have these Schauff days, work days. And when you get there, there's nobody who's like, yo, I'm an introvert. I can't build this house. I'm a little nervous. There's no panic attacks. Nobody says, oh, I have imposter syndrome. I read that in a book. Imposter syndrome is where you doubt your own skills or more sophisticated terms. Dunning Kruger's, none of that. They all been building houses. They all have 10,000 hours in by the time they're 18. And so your competence is your confidence. And we live in a world now where people are like, I don't feel confident. That's good. You shouldn't feel confident. Confidence brings confidence and what brings competence, reps and sets. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the great biographies. It's on my tidalopis.com slash books. Okay. I recommend it in my top. I'll put the link. If you ever want to see my free book recommendation list, I just added a new book to it. Number 50 out of, I've ranked my 100 top books. Added a new book called the Frabbecker reality. But in there, Arnold Schwarzenegger has his autobiography. It's called, uh, he has a new one. I'm confusing. What's the one somebody helped me out that the, uh, I just call it the Arnold Schwarzenegger autobiography. I'll remember a second. He says in that book, yeah, total recall. Thank you.  You know, he just says he wasn't an introvert in the gym. He wasn't an extrovert. He didn't struggle with low self-esteem. He just went like this a lot with heavier and heavier weights. And he would do about, you know, let's just say 10 sets on his chest. Uh, more, sorry, 20 sets. I think he used to say like 20 to 30 sets on a body part in one day. And about, let's say about 10 reps. And so if you do that, okay. If you do that, you get a big chest is pretty much, unless you have physical handicaps or you don't sleep or don't eat.  My dad was on the cover of Mr. Universe. Um, my dad was Mr. Canada, Mr. Junior USA, Mr. Puerto Rico. He had the world record bench press. This is before I was born. I found, I posted on my Instagram. I found them and dad didn't brag a lot when he died. I found in a closet, his Mr. Universe magazine, Joe Weeders, Mr. Universe. My dad and another guy was on the cover of school, but my dad was born and had a scarlet fever in his heart. So he had heart problems. The doctor told my grandmother, his parents, that he'll be dead at age 14. And so my, the old school way doctors would not let you exercise because my dad had a weak heart. So as a very sick kid, my dad grew up in Harlem, New York, rough area. He was bullied a lot. And then around age 12, 13, 14, he stumbled. He decided to ignore the doctors. He found some books by like Jack LaLaine on bodybuilding. And my dad started to just lift weights. He didn't listen to anybody that said he had genetic weaknesses and he just ignored it and he put in the work and he went like this. My dad had a huge chest. He was strong. I told you for his weight. One year he had the world. This is before steroids. He had the world record. He benched about 400 pounds when it was 150. That's a lot. Okay. With no steroids. And how do you do it? He just ignored all the psychology and the genetics and that this and he just go like this and every week I put a little more weight on at another pound and slowly but surely the muscle just builds. It's called hypertrophy. And it worked for almost everybody, even somebody like my father who was told he'd be dead at 14. And by age 16 or 17, my dad won Mr. Junior USA. That's like that. That was like a teenager thing. I posted a few times on Instagram. My dad's pictures. And so a lot of you are overdiagnosing yourself. Okay. You're overdiagnosing yourself. You're going. You understand. I got to feel a personal brand, but I don't like my face. I got introvert. You know, I did myself diagnosis. Who's ever heard this bullshit? I'm an introvert when I'm out in large crowds. I have to go back quietly and recharge my social batteries. I mean, who made this up, man? What is this? You know, all humans have to recharge a social battery. You'll never meet somebody who can be in large crowds forever. It doesn't exist in our ancestral past. The largest city, you know, there's been 100 billion humans estimated to live. A lot of you will be surprised by that, but Google it. Estimated humans on earth was a hundred billion humans. Most humans lived in pre-industrial times. There was never large crowds. There's no human acclimated to being in New York City all the time. Everybody, but now some people have social anxiety, but that's a separate diagnosis. And obviously there are people on an extroverted introverted scale that are more one way or another.


The whole world is going to meet on the smartphone. We have the freedom, we have the power of choice. The wealth of knowledge is at everyone's fingertips. We are no longer constrained by the walls of an office. We can work at any time, anywhere. Consumers are no longer just passive receivers. There is now quite a rise of people who call themselves digital humanitarians. Young people see participation as almost an inalienable right. Children who have a mobile device frame their self-identity in a completely different way than the previous generation. That kind of changes the skills that children need. Social media makes us promises that are very hard to refuse. But each of these promises come with cost. That constant sense of connection is both empowering and utterly confusing. We're at a cusp moment on some of the questions about privacy and permanence. We've got filter bubbles where we expise to things that are algorithmically selected and that tend to reinforce our existing belief systems. People are becoming ever more sceptical about the new things put in front of them. How can you add something valuable to the consumer's experience?


Welcome to the Laurel Martin show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson field hockey head coach Laurel Martin and coach Season started off on a hot start started three and one currently sitting at four and five Right about the halfway point of the season right just talk about your team's play so far so We came out strong had a lot of good leadership from a pretty strong senior class and gained some confidence in and Had secured some wins and then we started to play some nationally ranked programs. So at that point stage I think we we competed with them, but we were handed a little bit of a step back With you know, I and I don't know for sure but I think we were contemplating and questioning how good are we because of the results from the nationally ranked programs and Now we're bouncing back from that and the recognition that we can compete with the best of the best and So hopefully we're on an upward swing because we face a tough one on Saturday You're talking about those nationally ranked teams you played Salisbury and Rowan The result if you look on paper probably not what you would want But talk about the teams play and what what playing those type of opponents does for you moving forward, right? And we and we played Catholic as well Now they dropped off of the nationally ranked things but they were nationally ranked earlier in the season and their program is strong And we took them to overtime and actually should have defeated that team You know against the Salisbury's and the Rowan's I think that the you know There's just a there's a difference between that caliber team and ours right now just with the I believe the mindset and just the perseverance and the overall ability to finish or stop the finishing so all three of those things but we're close and I think if we can put it into place and and kind of prove to ourselves that we can do it Then then we would compete with those types of programs, but right now. We're still working on that Yeah, moving into the field and talking about some certain players Sarah McVeigh Yeah, you called it at the start of the season you moved her back to forward from the midfield She has eight goals right now. She loves it there. Yeah, talk about her and her contribution to the team Well, you know Sarah is one of those Silent type of leaders, so she's not gonna be a type of kid that is You know yelling at her teammates and encouraging and that sort of a thing. She just shows by action So she is a naturally gifted athlete. She's got speed. She's got stick skill and she's you know And she's also as the season the progressing learning how to play some defense as well, so she's scored some brilliant goals and And she's really kept us kept us in many games. Yeah, offensively you have 17 goals just from four goal scorers Brigadier Rock has two goals. Brooke Morris has six Is that by plan? Did you feel like going into the season that you would have only a handful of goal scores? Or would you like to see it kind of spread spread throughout the team? Well, I mean I think if the the best squads usually have a widespread version of goal scores We're not being very successful on our specialties our attack penalty corners, so we're adjusting them But the goal scores are typically the forward line I would love to see some midfielders overlapping and scoring as well. I think Ashley Meyer has that capacity Katie Byram showing that she can eliminate and and get into the the top of the arch and take some shots and Lexi certainly can as well So I'd love to see them take the risk and and and get some goals themselves But the forwards aren't doing the job that they're supposed to do so and then move back to the defense It's the trio of Ashley Gladfelder Jordan Hershberger and Nikki Jones have started all nine games Yeah, talk about their contribution and how they've defensively been keeping you in games So those three are probably the most consistent players on the team Especially Ashley Gladfelder who was really I wasn't even certain if she would start this year She'd always sort of been vying for a main part of the program for many years and We tried her out in the spring in the middle of the field and she loved it and we loved her there so she's really worked hard always works hard and Is probably one of the best hustlers and just sort of I would call her a grinder on the field And then of course we've got Jordan who I can't ever say that I've seen Jordan have a bad game She's just consistent. She's steady She steps up at the right times. She's she's a calming force back there She's she's a wonderful attribute to the program and and then of course we've got Nikki who is just speed for speed She's as fast as any center forward out there. So there's no one that's gonna outrun her And she's got great low defense. She's fearless She'll take many a ball to the body as you probably witnessed last night and just keeps on going so She's she is a tough defender and one of the most challenging Well, probably the most difficult to get around from an attack perspective And then in the cage junior Kelsey year has been a constant for you coming off a season where she split time last year That started every game talk about her play So Kelsey's really really starting to establish herself and with any any player Really elevating it to the next level takes doing it and getting the confidence by by showing that you can make the big saves And and she's starting to make big saves and and she's practicing hard. She is loved by her teammates She's very much a team type of person when she doesn't start She doesn't complain she accepts her role and when she's out there starting she never brags She's just she's just a great great person and a good team person Now as we flip the page you already have one conference game under your belt the rest Yet to come yet to talk about talk about the goals that you have set for for your team for the second half of the year so We really want to make postseason You know and and then you you've got the really big lofty goal of going to the NCAA tournament Which would mean not only defeating the the number two ranked team in the nation with Messiah But that would mean beating all of the rest, you know making it to postseason In the top four for our conference and we have Arcadia and Alvernia and Lebedal and Weidner and Albright and you know and and hoods You know fighting to improve as well. So this is a tough conference and nothing's given for any game So we want to make it to postseason whether it's NCAA or ECAC We have the potential to do so we just have to do it Well coach, we wish you the best of luck the rest of the way. Thank you for head coach Laura Martin I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Laura Martin show