Yes, many thanks for your time and your wonderful citations Sayyid Jalal Ma'asoolmi really really appreciate your time Now we're at the part the shows are aware. I think it's one of my favorite parts where we really take a deep dive into the da'as the supplications The ziyaras within the school of the Ahl al-Bayt that we can take lessons from and we kind of handpick ones that People don't really know much about Today on the contrary It's a it's a da'a that we've chosen that everyone knows about but because it's Friday We want to shed light on on some aspects of this da'a That perhaps can make you think oh, I didn't know and maybe Get some thoughts going regarding the the da'a. So Zahra myself and yourself Keep saying myself and yourself, but we are going to be welcoming Ibrahim Alansari on to the show Ibrahim Salam A'aykum. How's everything? You okay? Alhamdulillah by yourselves. Thank you.  So I'm not talking but I'm welcome It's your energy for the day Absolutely. Thank you so much for joining us once again. Thank you very much for having me once again. And so yeah as Ali is saying that we are hoping that you can shed some more deeper wisdom into the da'a al-Farj And yeah, what's your what's your actual thought of it and okay? So da'a al-Farj With with many of us we believe it to be a da'a for any day So usually The question I usually get asked from yourselves is when is this best to recite? Yeah now In fact, it was actually it's in the books when it's narrated. So for example Al-Kolayni narrates in Al-Kafi It is narrated in Kitab al-Isbaha and in another book, I believe which I cannot remember at the moment Where they narrate it from the mausomeen they don't actually specify which mausome it is And all of them they state from the infallibles we narrate this from the infallibles we narrate this from the From the imams and it comes in To be the da'a to be recited on the night of the 23rd of Ramadhan Which is Laylatul Qadr So it is best to recite it then then it carries on sorry you're not going on then it carries on to say however You could also recite it in any other night in Ramadhan So here I stopped for a second. I said well, we recite this every day. So where do we get this from? but then it carries on in Fact it adds in fact. It is also good to recite it for your whole life. Wow. It literally says this is So for your whole life Meaning every single day of your life to include this da'a Is amazing and has great benefits. Yeah, that's that's very interesting because we always know da'a al-Faraj as A da'a on a daily basis or for example after Salah Yeah Where I've never seen it's even in prayers. Yeah. Yeah, I'd never have thought that according to Al-Kafi or Kolanic according to the Kitab al-Spaah that actually the The origin of da'a al-Faraj was was supposed to be recited on the night till the 23rd of Ramadhan And then it goes on further to say actually, no, it's any other night in Ramadhan Actually, no, it's recommended to do it your whole life.  Yeah, and we have no indication as to who which which one of the imams I didn't find personally I did not find Where which Imam it was because in in all of the books it states from the infallibles Or from the imams it narrates this However because of such issues And because of the whole senate issue a lot of people actually try to say that this da'a is very weak in terms of senate And that it should not be recited and there's a Scholar by the name of a Sayyid Ali ibn Musa ibn Tawus, I believe he says After talking about The amazingness of making da'as for your brothers and your sisters He said so if there is such amazing fadl if there's such amazing blessings from making da'a for your brothers and your sisters Then how about the fadl of making da'a for the imam of your time? he said therefore Throw away Anything that says there is no senate to this throw away anything that says that this da'a should not be recited Because if there's fadl of making normal da'a, so may Allah grant you health There's amazing fadl in that so how about making da'a for the imam of your time The one who you believe is the reason for your existence The one who you believe that it wasn't for him You wouldn't be who you are the one who you believe it if it wasn't for him The word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would not be On this world today Beautiful I'd like you to recite it. Yeah, I actually yeah, that was my question. Yes So if you can recite it and I'd love to find out more about the actual words itself Definitely Allahumma kulli waliyyika al-Hajjatee ibn al-Hasan Salwatuka alayhi wa ala aabai Fi ha'adihi sa'a wa fi kulli sa'a Waliyaan wa hafidha Wa qa'id'an wa n'asir'a Wa daliila'an wa'ina Hattatuskinahu arzaka ta'u'a Wa tumti'ahu fiha tawila Bi rahmatika ya arham ar-Rahmeen Wa sallallahu ma'ala seydina Muhammad Wa ala alihi al-taybeen al-tahireen Allahumma sallallahu ala Muhammad wa ala al-muhammad Hussent, Hussent Yeah, so can you shed light on actually what the meaning is behind this? Now before I actually go into the actual meaning People sometimes have some issues because it relates to the meaning People sometimes have issues. We're saying why are you making dua for the imam? Is he not sent by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? He is he in need of your du'as And even in the person, the scholar I just mentioned, Ali said, Ali ibn Musa ibn Ta'awuz He says, and do not think that I am saying this because the imam is in need of your du'as Then he says, hey heart, hey heart, he will never be in need of this It is impossible for the imam to be in need of our du'as However, the issue is that we sometimes tend to forget That first of all the imam is a human just like we are Meaning he can get ill, he can be in some sort of Injury, he's a normal human being He lives his life the way we do And for example in Ziyara Jam'a which we went through last episode We said to show that the imams live their lives and are normal human beings just like we are And therefore to always make dua for the health of the imam is amazing Other than the whole fact of that dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Is making a closer connection to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And in this case we're making a closer connection to Sahib al Zaman And we need to make this connection to Sahib al Zaman Because at the end of the day like the scholar mentioned He is the reason for our existence without him we would not exist So the the dua starts off by saying Oh Allah be for your representative the Hajj son of Al-Hasan Now here are two parts that I want to focus on First it says the Hajj Hajjah in the Arabic language and the way it is referring back to your Hajjah Hajjah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Meaning that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is using Imam al-Mahdi As one of his signs as one of his proofs So sometimes we just say it as yeah he's the proof of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala But no that's a big thing The Quran is the proof of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The miracles are proofs of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And Imam al-Mahdi is the greatest proof of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Especially in the life that we're living in And then we know that it is specifically talking about Imam Mahdi Because the dua specifically says Ibn Al-Hasan the son of Al-Hasan So there's no sense of ambiguity here regarding the son of Hasan right It couldn't be it couldn't refer to any other son No no it is very specific Very specific to Imam al-Mahdi Of course following the guidelines of our scholars Then it says your blessings be upon him and his forefathers And sending blessings upon them Is something that were ordered by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to do When he said It's an order Salu is an order Send blessings upon them Then it says in this hour and in every hour I feel like this is a lesson to us as well In this hour and in every hour Because it is not just about us saying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Always send blessings upon Imam al-Mahdi But we are also telling It's also the ma'sumin teaching us That we must always remember him in this hour and in every hour He must always be on our minds A guardian, a protector, a leader, a helper, a proof And an eye Sometimes we think an eye Seeming with an eye But it is the eye in terms of Hafod that we say Translate to protection Okay Yeah We it's the protection He oversees what what what what goes on On the day of judgment when when when we are when we are asked Or even even now today The Imam Is wary of our deeds Whatever good and whatever bad we do is presented to the Imam of our time And then it says until you make him live on the earth in obedience to you And cause him to live in it for a long time Ibedience Again Does the Imam need such a dua For us to say oh Allah allow him to be obedient to you No But once again That we create a a stronger bond with the Imam And in this specific section where we say make him be obedient to you Or make him raise in his taqwa Make him raise in his iman It is because Allah is limitless Meaning that no matter how obedient Imam al-Mahdi is He can get more obedient Even the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Who is of perfection Even he can get more obedient More iman More taqwa And everything this because only Allah is limitless Fantastic That's that's that's brilliant Actually it's very interesting to know because this dua is We read on a daily basis But we don't actually know the The kind of the true meanings behind it Even sometimes like I was Listening to a scholar who was saying that Allahumma kun li waliyyika Even that sometimes is pronounced wrong Yeah So people will say Allahumma kulli waliyyika But that's that's that's a total Wrong pronunciation So we have to actually make sure Allahumma kun li waliyyika And actually getting the translation for that It's quite interesting Oh Allah be for your representative the hojja So it's it's very interesting to know I want to recap Go ahead Some notes I think we've got there's got like two three minutes left Before we get to recap So we're asking for this connection But do you think that I remember seeing sort of like the benefits of reciting this Like you know Numerous Do you know any that are particular Prevalent to this dua Of who recited Of course there are many benefits to any dua that is recited Part of the benefits of making dua for Imam al-Hujja Is actually showing that you are being patient for his reappearance It is showing that you are in the state Of waiting for his reappearance And in fact Mentioning that note One of the best a'amal That a mu'min can do during the ghayba of Imam Sahib al-Zaman Is waiting for his reappearance But here there's a very important point When we say waiting for his reappearance Doesn't mean that we just say waiting and doing nothing But of course Part of it is being obedient to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala By being obedient You are showing that you are waiting For Sahib al-Zaman By constantly calling out Sahib al-Zaman shows that you are waiting for him And a very important thing giving Sadaqa In the name of Sahib al-Zaman Is also one of the best ways Of showing that you are waiting for his reappearance Beautiful, thank you so much I hope People have benefited just like we have I have personally 100% As you said we recite this And it can become something as like you know a repetitive Technique But you know to actually think about what we're reciting Do you want to quickly go over your recap? I guess it's just a couple of points Just for people to take away from Is that it's just that the The Colaini mentioned in the book of Al-Kafi And also in Kitab al-Asbah Is that this particular dua Was actually narrated by one of the infallibles And it's recommended Or it was initially recommended Or this person narrated that it's recommended To recite on the 23rd of Ramadan Which is the 8th It's the night Al-Qad But then it goes on to say no It's recommended to recite every day within Ramadan And then it goes no It's recommended to do your whole lifetime I think that's one thing That was quite interesting to know And also that There are certain words within The dua itself Like for example Wa'ayna Waqa'id and Wa'nasana So it's essentially saying that You know I guess send your blessings upon The Imam in this hour And every hour A Guardian, a Protector, a Leader, a Helper, a Proof And an Eye And this is the eye that for example is It's the connotations of the eye As being a Protector or a Guardian Overseeing the Imam at all times Overseeing the Imam at all times I think that was one of the main things That I guess people can take away from Brilliant, thank you so much But just two or three points Yeah, we're out of time, unfortunately Thank you so much Thank you so much Thank you very much Have a blessed day Thank you very much See you soon And off to the break We are having a break So don't go away unless you're making company But next I'll be speaking to Sister Barak Hussain in a specialist


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. It is Monday. So it is meal prep day I have three amazing recipes for you this week We have a breakfast casserole full of good food protein potatoes all the favorite breakfast foods We've got a lunch that is clean as clean can be full of protein, but is vegetarian There's no actual meat in our lunch now Of course you could add meat chicken whatever to you would like for your bowl But the breakfast at lunch are amazing and for a snack or sweet treat this week I have a clean eating healthy version of zucchini bread. You heard me right zucchini bread That's ww friendly clean eating healthy and let me just tell you how delicious it is So without further ado, let's jump right into this week's meal prep For breakfast this week. I'm going to be making an egg casserole. This is a super clean recipe Filling delicious cannot wait.  So let me show you what's in our breakfast first. You're going to need some sweet potatoes minced garlic Coconut milk you could probably sub almond milk if you didn't have a can to coconut milk on hand Of course, you're going to need some eggs an onion bell pepper Salt and pepper and the recipe calls for Italian sausage I could not find it anywhere with everything going on meat is pretty scarce in my area So I just grabbed this ground chicken and I'm just going to season this up To make it like a sausage and I'm gonna be using the Dax Italian blast This is a great seasoning to make a sausage type of flavor dupe I love Dax because it's all clean all natural no salt great before way in great if you watch your salt Just overall a fantastic seasoning really really nice clean ingredients. No MSG Love these so Italian blast is really really good It's got a little bit of a kick So it's perfect to make that sausage taste and texture in any type of meat that you're adding it Super excited about using this to make the sausage if you're interested in Dax I do have 10% off. I'll put that code here on the screen for you They're a great small business great to support them during this time and seriously you guys over 20 spices every single one is Outstanding so definitely check out Dax. So let's get started on this week's breakfast All right, so the first thing we're gonna do is do some chopping so I've washed my sweet potatoes I measured these out on my food scale. This is 600 grams. I am not going to peel mine I don't mind having the skin on my sweet potatoes So you can peel yours if you'd like but we're gonna chop those up put those in a bowl We're gonna chop up a bell pepper and an onion put that in a bowl, and then we're ready to start our casserole So We need to get our potatoes cooked so I have a baking sheet here lined with some foil to that I'm going to go ahead and add my sweet potatoes And I do have my oven preheating to 425 and we're gonna go ahead and just cook these Potatoes for about 13 to 15 minutes until we can pierce them with a fork before they go into the oven We're gonna go ahead and add just a tiny bit of avocado oil I like to just drizzle my potatoes so literally a teaspoon of avocado oil or any type of oil And then I just take my hands and kind of mix everything up that way the potatoes all get a little bit of oil And it really saves you on having to use a large amount of oil and take a big point's head So now all my potatoes have a little oil on them. We're gonna add some salt and pepper All right, so we're getting these in the oven at 425 and while these are cooking We'll start putting together the rest of our casserole So I went ahead and added my turkey to a skillet. I just sprayed it with some non-stick cooking spray I'm gonna go ahead and get this broken up And then we'll go ahead and season that with the Dax Italian Blast And we're gonna let this cook down just like you would if you were using a sausage And we're just gonna season it ourselves and make our own sausage because we have to improvise with what we're buying right now All right, I've got my chicken broken up So I'm gonna go ahead and add my Dax and like I said this does have a little bit of a kick So I'm gonna put about a teaspoon into my chicken stir it up And we're gonna let this continue cooking until it is fully cooked through I went ahead and added a big scoop of Garlic and I'm going to add in those chopped up onions and peppers and we're gonna let those cook down With the chicken it'll save us a step. They'll get nice and tender And then we're ready to put this casserole into our baking dish and by then Potatoes should be done and we are moving on all right So turkey is cooked through onions peppers are softened just pull these gorgeous sweet potatoes out of my oven So what we're going to do next is we're gonna go ahead and scoop up the potatoes and add them to the turkey mixture Just give them a good stir get them nice and combined and then we'll be ready to add that mixture into a baking dish and Prepare our eggs and then this is going to go back in the oven So make sure you do not turn your oven off when you pull out your potatoes. All right, so I've got my 9 by 13 baking dish I'm gonna give it just a quick spray with some non-stick cooking spray And of course I'm using my chosen foods avocado and then look at how beautiful this is look at that yum We're gonna go ahead and add that mixture to the bottom of the baking dish Give it a quick spread out and then we've got to mix together the egg portion And we're just gonna put that right on top. This is going to be so hearty and filling. I Can't wait. So I'm gonna go ahead and set this aside. Let's mix together the eggs. All right now We're gonna do our eggs. So I have six eggs here We're gonna go ahead and crack those into the bowl And then we're going to mix that with this delicious coconut cream from the Thrive Market Now if you guys are new to my channel, or you haven't joined the Thrive Market, it's amazing It's the best place for any type of good whole food. I find it to be at least 30 percent Oh, look at all these shells way to go Jen I find it to be at least 30 percent less expensive than anywhere locally So I generally do a Thrive order every couple of weeks or so or whenever I'm running low on my Thrive Staples There is a link down in the description box that will get you $20 worth of free product when you join the Thrive Market So highly highly recommend Thrive is seriously such a fantastic market and again super duper affordable So I have my six eggs to that I'm gonna add that one half of a cup of that delicious coconut cream I'm also going to add a big pinch of pepper because I like a lot of salt and pepper in my eggs and a big Pinch of salt and then we're just going to whisk this together until everything is nice and combined So once you've got your eggs all mixed together We're just gonna pour that right over the top of the sausage and potatoes and I'm gonna just give it a quick mix We want to make sure everything is combined as the eggs is what is going to form this into a casserole It's what's going to make it actual pieces that we can cut So we want to make sure that our eggs are mixed nice and good and with that sausage and those potatoes you guys I'm telling you this looks incredible. I'm so excited and how yummy and filling so I'm gonna go ahead and top this with some foil We're gonna pop this back in our 420 degree oven for about 15 minutes We'll uncover and cook for an additional 15 minutes. Look at how amazing this looks We got a little mountain for me here with the egg, but doesn't this look so delicious you guys So good so I'm going to let this rest for a couple of minutes and then I'm going to cut mine into six Servings and I'm going to pair this with some organic blueberries and that's going to be breakfast So I will be back to show you the completed meal prep for breakfast Give you a couple of different options for the smart points. All right, my friends here is meal prep So I have five meals prepped an additional slice for my husband He'll definitely love this but look at the size of this slice. Look at how Amazing that looks it fills the entire large side of my meal prep container And then I just backed up some fresh blueberries that way I can remove the blueberries when I go to warm up The egg casserole, so let's go over the smart points for six servings And then I'll give you a smart point option if you want to make it a little less large of a serving So one sixth of the recipe like I have here is going to be five smart points on both blue and purple and Seven on green because you have to count for the egg now if you decided to cut this into 10 Servings so it would be a little less I would say maybe like that size of the casserole Then it would be three smart points on both blue and purple and five on green This is my breakfast So I decided to go with the larger serving and take the five smart points Which I don't think is bad at all for this but I will put both of these options with the recipe on my website So this is breakfast for my lunches this week. I'm going to be making a clean eating chickpea basil quinoa bowl I've been wanting quinoa. I love quinoa and I didn't have any on the purple plan when I did that for two weeks What was wrong with me? It is zero points on purple But I am now back on the quinoa bandwagon, so I'm gonna make a bowl now This is a vegetarian lunch. You could certainly add protein of your choice to it I may pair this with maybe some hard-boiled eggs or a couple slices of turkey I'm not entirely sure yet, but the main portion of my lunch is going to be this quinoa bowl So let me show you what's in our lunch. But first you're going of course to need some quinoa I'm going to keep cook the quinoa in stock. It just gives it a lot more flavor You'll need some balsamic vinegar salt and pepper Chickpeas and some fresh basil. That's it super easy. So let's get started on lunch All right So the first thing I have going here is one and a half cups of dry quinoa and three cups of chicken broth We're gonna go ahead and bring this to a boil Reduce the heat pop a lid on it and let it cook and while we're doing that Let's go ahead and drain and rinse our chickpeas and slice up our basil. Okay. No judging my sink I've been meal-prepping all morning. So I have my strainer here and of course my can of chickpeas I just dump the entire can into my strainer. Give it a quick rinse off just to make sure that I'm getting any Any of the goodies that I don't want on the chickpeas off And then we're just gonna go ahead and set these aside and chop our basil So for our basil we want about a half of a cup finely chopped Basil now you probably could use dried But I just think the fresh basil is going to give it such a better flavor and you guys know basil is like my very favorite I love it on everything Speaking of basil, I found a really new fun way to have basil and I actually heard about this on Stephanie at holy crap.  Oh, it's delish So I'm gonna go ahead and get this chopped up and set aside for when the quinoa is done All right, let's put together these quinoa chickpea bowls. So I have my can I've drained chickpeas. Here is my quinoa. It is done. So I'm gonna go ahead and add that Directly here to my chickpeas now this recipe makes four servings. So this is going to be quite a large bowl That's why I wasn't sure if I actually would add any Protein or if I would just stick with the quinoa and chickpeas.  This is only four servings I'll get it into my bowls for my meal prep and I'll be back to show you the completed lunch and give you all the smart points You call me a saint, but you know I'm a stranger Think So here is our completed lunch. This is a lot. I definitely don't think I'm gonna add anything to it I will probably pair this with some fruits for zero smart points But this is a lot and super filling with the quinoa and the chickpeas So the points on this bowl for four servings is five smart points on the blue plan Seven on the green because you do have to count for the chickpeas on the green plan And guess what guys one point on purple because the only thing you have to count points for on the purple plan is the balsamic Oh, my hard-boiled eggs are done. So that is lunch and for me. This is five smart points I will make sure I list all of the points on my website, which is where you'll find this recipe For a snack this week or a sweet treat. We're going to be making a healthy clean version of zucchini bread I can't wait for this my husband's actually been asking for a few weeks for zucchini bread So I did a little research found this recipe did a little tweaking and walla my friends We have a ww friendly healthy zucchini bread. So let me show you what's in our recipe first You're going to need some almond milk or nut milk of your choice Flour this is just the thrive whole wheat organic flour some coconut sugar Unsweetened applesauce. I'm using Dax pumpkin pie in place of nutmeg. You guys know I love their pumpkin spice This is my favorite seasoning from Dax hands down. I always have it on hand year round Again, you guys have the code for Dax. I'll put it again here on the screen for you 10% off free shipping fantastic rest fantastic Seasonings fantastic ingredients love so Dax pumpkin spice, and then I'm also going to pump it up with a little extra cinnamon vanilla extract baking soda Salt I have some walnuts here from nut stop now nut stop also gave me a link for 10% off It's not an affiliate link. It's simply 10% off for you I'll put that here on the screen, and it is down in the description box. Love nuts off We'll also need some zucchini as well as some eggs. So let's get started on our zucchini bread So the first thing we're gonna do is go ahead and break up our zucchini. I started with two I may need more I need about a cup and a half of grated zucchini now I like my zucchini really really small. So I'm actually going to use my zester I just like the pieces a little bit smaller in my bread So I have a paper plate here. It's just the easiest way to Grate the zucchini so I simply chop off the ends Slice it in half, and then I'm just gonna take my zester here And I'm just going to zest it until I have a one and a half cups Which is going to take a while, but hey, it's a good workout for your arms You think To start our bread super simple, we're gonna need a large bowl to that bowl I have one and three-quarter cup of whole wheat flour you could use all-purpose flour use whatever you have on hand But this is the organic wheat flour. I need a teaspoon of baking soda I'm just going to eyeball that don't be like me if you would rather measure But there's about a teaspoon of baking soda I'm going to add in my Dax pumpkin spice It calls for a quarter teaspoon of nutmeg, but I want a lot of flavor So I'm gonna really put in about a teaspoon of the Dax And then I'm also going to put a teaspoon of cinnamon and it does actually call for a teaspoon of cinnamon So that way we're really just punching up the flavor of our zucchini bread. I like it to have a little bit of spice To the bread. It's my favorite. So there's about a teaspoon of cinnamon I'm going to put in a pinch of salt We want just a little tiny bit to enhance the flavor and last but not least I have a one-half of a cup of my coconut sugar And so we're gonna go ahead and combine all of our dry ingredients I am going to grab a new medium-sized bowl to combine the wet ingredients All right, so in a smaller slash medium-sized bowl, we're gonna go ahead and crack two eggs And We're gonna basically put together the wet ingredients and then we'll add that to that big Teal bowl of our dry ingredients. So we have two eggs. We have one third cup of applesauce That was in replacement of the coconut sugar or coconut oil in the recipe to help save on points I also have one quarter cup of that simply almond milk And then I'm going to put in the tiniest dash of vanilla extract about a teaspoon Go ahead mix that together get everything nice and combined and then we'll be ready to add this into our dry ingredients All right, so we have our dry ingredients. We have our wet ingredients So I'm gonna go ahead and add all of the wet into our dry ingredients And I'm gonna give that just kind of a quick stir We want to combine it just until it's combined. It'll be a really thick Batter it's because the zucchini is going to really help moisten that up and thin out that batter So give it a quick stir till everything's nice and combined once your batter is combined We're gonna go ahead and add in one half of a cup of chopped walnuts And we're going to add in all of this delicious zucchini, which is going to make our bread So moist and delicious again. We're gonna give this another quick stir I have my oven preheating to 350 degrees I'm gonna go ahead and grab out a bread pan spray it with some non-stick cooking spray and we'll add of this delicious Mixture to our pan. So we're ready to put the mixture into our pan I sprayed it with just the avocado oil that I always use and we're gonna go ahead and add the mixture Kind of tap your pan on your counter to get your mixture is even as possible So it bakes a nice even loaf and then this is going into the oven at 350 for about 50 minutes Or until we can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean So our zucchini bread is out of the oven. Look at this. Oh my goodness I'm gonna let this cool for just a few minutes before I pull it out of the pan Slice it up and I'll be back to show you our completed zucchini bread and give you the smart points All right, so I went ahead and cut my zucchini bread into 12 equal servings So this is a good size slice of zucchini bread. Look at that. Yum and look at how moist and delicious It is super super moist. It is so good. I'm about to have a piece. I tried a little bit you guys It is fantastic. It tastes like full fat high point zucchini bread must make Recipe and the zucchini bread is five smart points per slice when cut into 12 servings on all plans You guys you can't beat that this big slice of zucchini bread Here are my snack options for the week So I did pick up some more cottage cheese you guys know I'm obsessed one of my favorite ways to eat my cottage cheese is to dip crackers in it So this is the Mary's gum crackers and basil and garlic got these off of the thrive market You guys know I'm obsessed don't forget about the link down below for $20 worth of free products when you join the thrive market For one year membership highly recommend So I like to dip a couple points worth of those into a serving of cottage cheese This is generally a five smart point snack for me three for the cottage cheese and two for the crackers I also found these as you saw Or you will see I should say in my what I eat a day on Wednesday.  These are the cashew cookie and the apple pie This is the size of them now I will say they're small like literally they are that big but there are a hundred calories They're full of fantastic ingredients like literally it states almonds apples walnuts raisins and cinnamon the Lara bar minis are four points So if you want a sweet dessert, this is a great option for dessert for only four points. I mean, they're small Yes, but it's really good clean whole ingredients. So I have the cashew cookie and the apple pie bar So four points for that and then of course the bill bar. This has been a go-to dessert for me You're gonna see a fun way to eat these in my what I eat on Wednesday So you definitely want to check that video out, but I do have the coconut almond Which is very reminiscent of an almond joy literally tastes like an almond joy All of the bill bars are three smart points with the exception of the nut based bars And with the exception of the coconut almond the coconut almond is still three smart points But all of the nut based bars like peanut butter peanut butter brownie toffee almond Those are all four points, but look at the protein punch 20 grams of protein seven fiber seven fat I love the nut based bars. They keep me super super full So when I'm meeting something to sustain me for quite a while like between meals or pre or post workout I generally reach for the nut based if I just want a snack I'm craving something sweet but one a little bit of protein I do also like just the regular three smart point og bill bars So my code for bill bars here on the screen. It actually gets you 10% off and free shipping If you're new to bill bar There's a special link in the description box for you to get you $10 off your first order Which is a killer deal that makes these bars less than a dollar a piece Which you can't beat that and they literally taste like a candy bar So all that information is down in the description box So I have three or four points for built bar four points for my Lara bar minis and about five points for my crackers And cottage cheese. So these are my snacks for the week. Thank you for joining me on another weekly my ww meal prep Weren't those recipes outstanding? 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The next we will, I will reverse the Sikonaviru to make our presentation. We will be contributing a kind of thing so that we can have some time for discussion also. So, very good afternoon and thank you once again for the understanding of the university for inviting me. And I do apologize to an instrument created some confusion in between where I said I will not be there The last yesterday when my program was cancelled, I again proved people yes. Because as Chandrana mentioned, women, something to do with women is subject very close to my heart. And as far as possible I tried to, especially when one page of my life is already over, I worked with again in some entrepreneurship come out and now on a different organization and give as much as time for mentoring of women. I mentor mostly women entrepreneurs, but women in general. So, definitely when I work with women as Chandrana mentioned in something I thought I would definitely like to give my time here. A very apt topic being taken up, we need to discuss, deliberate and understand what is it, why women are not coming, are women not coming in large numbers, are women not getting into leadership roles. But these are questions which we really need to debate, discuss and have our own perspectives on that. Definitely at least we are somewhat repeating what Chandrana has said because as women when you reach a particular position you face the same challenges. And I think most women would be facing a lot of challenges yet. In spite of all challenges there are women who have excel. We have large number of examples of women who have excel. So the percentage may be less, but since they have excel definitely it's not just the country all the time, maybe the environment or the ecosystem. Let's look at the ecosystem first. When we say the ecosystem, what do we understand? We understand that a lot of the major factors which is influencing what we do in life as a women. So there is this, your family. She was talking about conditioning. We get conditioned by the society, by the family. So that's a part of the ecosystem when we grow up. So definitely that has a role as to what values are inviting us, what are the do's and don'ts which are constantly told to us by the time knowingly, unknowingly by the society. Few points which we already mentioned about when is the time to get married, when is the time to have a child. So I think today's society has the pressure on women is even more today because you are supposed to be super human. And I particularly when we talk about empowerment, is it only economic empowerment or is it also emotional empowerment, intellectual empowerment. So we have to look at the emotional empowerment, intellectual empowerment which is so very important. So let me just give now most of the jobs where people who are sitting here are from the next generation. Now when I look at you, I sometimes I think when mothers they talk about their doctors being educated, giving them all the facilities to have their education etc. and the time comes they say that no, it's time now to come back. I've seen a lot of my friends whose doctors have really done well, got a job in the corporate sector elsewhere but the mother would say that now maybe you need your job, come and do something here because now's the time to get married. Then she gets married, after some time again as she said it's time to have a child. So what are we trying to do with the doctor? What are we trying to do with the doctor? So that's the sort of conditioning which has an impact on us definitely. Then as we go to work, it's the work environment. We are lucky if the environment is more women-friendly not always particularly in the corporate, it's a cultural competition everywhere. Things are definitely changing now because the corporate sector is getting more inclusive but nevertheless unruly biases are there particularly in various governments and that's a little more and unknowingly it's there and then I always used to say our women often has to be more than a man to be proved that she's equal to a man. So that is some sort of a thing which I don't know when you hear about from others so that is one experience I always have. We consider people you have to be a little more than a man otherwise you are. Most of our biases are always there but the bias which is there is also on us to break that. For example, let me give an example when I was with me getting into entrepreneurship so we used to have a lot of events so whenever there was an event when the responsibility was shared amongst all the faculty who were there it would always say that we were two women faculty then because all of us were men then you know, putting the TAMUSA putting the class is always of women's responsibility she has to look nice, wear a nice make-up and then come finish in the entire time rest of the duties would be done by the airport, putting up the TXI by name so I protested then so I immediately said I'm not good at all this so I have to take some other responsibility and then someone who is good at taking care of all these things can take care of it. So it's also the voice that we have we have a voice so it's important for us to be also what I said you know empowered. Empowerment, let us look at empowerment from a broader perspective what's empowerment empowerment has a lot of other ones it's not just economic empowerment again I would share something which Chandranath already shared shared this as well I think this is a must read for every girl women work at the will to work it's eating in women work at the will to work women empowerment she very nicely defines by saying it's like a chicken and egg problem it says that once the external barriers are broken women will be empowered the second man also said we need more women in leadership positions so that the barriers are broken isn't it a chicken and egg problem so a lot of owners also lies in what I would say because the ecosystem or the environment will not immediately change yes there are attempts to change but then it's also on us do we have the aspiration are we empowered so this is something I don't know I would like to ask what do you think what do you think don't you think a lot of things are also on us remember what I said there are women who have done well women who have but again we look at the fortune 500 companies out of the 500 companies the latest figure states that only 28 have reached the zero position look at positions in which women have led organizations the percentage would be very less what could be the reason yes definitely there are so many issues like you don't have to have your family your child if you take a second seat sometimes you you know a delicately opt for something that you know will give you less responsibility because you have no other option sometimes you give the job take a break then you come back how much seriously you come back issues but then I feel it's a lot we have to be our own sort of masters here it's very very important let me talk from my experience since I in our world last movie 20-25 years we mostly with entrepreneurs and when we say entrepreneurs we have a lot of women entrepreneurs and Nantes has women entrepreneurs are more compared to the rest of the country but again in the I talked about the corporate space look at the entrepreneur space although the numbers are much more than the national average but if you look at the size of enterprises the type of enterprises which are led by the women you will find that women are mostly in you know clustered around certain sectors when we say women entrepreneurs what are the sectors which come to your mind hydromanicraft beauty then tailoring beauty parlour beauty parlour please sit down all over the Nantes so there I found only this sector and this is very true that though the number is very high in Nantes but the earning is very low so it is also you know why am I deciding only on these sectors is it a comfort level and what happens when I am only concentrating on few sectors women are not taken seriously women are not taken seriously they would mostly be said that they are women entrepreneurs so you do an exhibition so you will find all those exhibitions coming in all various senses that is not again women are not taken seriously there what about not getting into other sectors what about not getting into technology I am seeing from my experience even if I am from a technology background when I am part of women I am not talking about there is nothing wrong in that that is one the second point I am talking about entrepreneurship as a profession this is where we need to really think seriously is there an aspiration deficit is there an aspiration deficit amongst women and then we try to put it across that because of the environment because my husband is not cooperating so my dad is also cooperating so I am not being able to excuse somewhere I am trying to push a lot of women they are very happy some little audience is coming in so I am at it there society that I am earning something and that is enough for me so these are issues which we have to really look at and ask ourselves questions like you know what I would like to say is I think I am already crossing my limits but the owners is not on us any challenge which comes in and I converted that into an opportunity I have done that all my life and I think anyone who tries to make a little mark of a digital particular position is always that a woman needs the respect of which ever the respect of which ever profession you are so that is the message I already get an indication from charity that I need to go close here so thank you so much Thank you Baidu for this excellent insights we have had two things one was on ecosystem and Baidu was also talking about it is one part of the story of the ecosystem and at the same time of the impact to us to find out what are the issues that are preventing us


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Hello and welcome to NewsClique. The dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on sharing the waters from river Kaveri has a long-standing history. Again, the government of Karnataka has initiated a step, a project for constructing another check dam across the river called as the Meghadadu project. To discuss more about this and the dispute surrounding the project, we have with us Professor Dr. Jagadarajan, a former professor of Metas Institute of Development at Karnataka. Welcome sir. Thank you. So to begin with, the government of Karnataka has shown very keen interest in initiating this particular project across the river Kaveri. With a long history of disputes, what will be the impact of this project or what do you see as the reason for the government of Karnataka initiating such a project? I look at it in two ways. Actually, you know, you used a very mild language that he is keen in constructing the reservoir at Meghadadu and he is not keen, he is aggressive. Not only he is aggressive, all politicians combined together show aggression in constructing the what they call the balancing reservoir at a place called Meghadadu. Now, one can take a very lean in view of the matter, saying that go ahead. If you constructed it, it is not going to be a big deal for us. Please go ahead, you can do that. But you know, we cannot afford to do that because we are not opposing the Meghadadu project. That is Tamil Nadu government and Tamil Nadu people are not opposing the Meghadadu project for the sake of opposing. We are opposing because it is our livelihood issue. It is our problem of drinking water issue. Now, Karnataka is talking about the drinking water problem in Bangalore. And we are talking about the drinking water problem in the entire state. Almost 1.5 crore people in Tamil Nadu depend upon Kaveri water for drinking and about 5-6 districts, the agriculture depends upon Kaveri water and which means about something like 1 crore people depend upon agriculture for Kaveri water for agriculture, that livelihoods. About 30-40 lakhs people are small, marginal and landless agriculture labors. That agriculture depends upon the Kaveri water. Just imagine if the dam is constructed, I think it is gone. The river downstream of Karnataka will become dry. It will become a barren land and we cannot afford to allow it. We cannot do it and it is suicidal. If we allow this project, it is going to be suicidal for Tamil Nadu. I tell you why. You can ask me why? Because already as per the Tribunals Award, if you look at the original, the interim award, we were supposed to get 205 teams of water. That was the interim award. Now that became a big issue and there was a lot of woe and cry. In 1992, I still remember and people had driven out of Karnataka. There were lots of damages to property for Tamils and so on. Just ridiculous measure they took. Even the people said it is only interim award. People are not willing to listen, including politicians. Anyway, it got dragged on. In 1987, we had the final award. As per the final award, in 1997, we were supposed to get 192 teams of water. That was the final award. But we all thought that was the end of the matter and we were very happy and so on. Karnataka for a while felt happy but then suddenly they woke up and said we are not happy and we are going to go to the Supreme Court. And in Tamil Nadu, unfortunately, at that time, the opposition party was Jairalitha, ADMK. She was making big human cry saying that no, no, we are going to lose our rights over Cauvery Water and we cannot accept it. And it became such a big political issue. And then Karnataka had to budge. She then Chief Minister. She also had to really agree. And then finally, all of them went to the Supreme Court. So, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Pandicherry, Karnataka and everybody went to the Supreme Court. I must tell you something here. The tribunal constituted by the constitution and this tribunal is as powerful as Supreme Court in terms of giving the verdict. Now that we got the verdict, even the tribunal, they make a statement. If you have any problems with the award, please come back to us for a supplementary award and you can seek a review, you can file a review petition. File a review petition, we will reconsider. You can think about what can be done. This is in fact in the tribunal's award. They said it. But these states, instead of going back to the tribunal, which means instead of strengthening the tribunal, all of them went to the Supreme Court with what is called the special leave petition, SLP. So, Supreme Court in all its wisdom, Supreme Court in all its modesty should have advised all these contending states to go back to the tribunal saying that look tribunal is ultimate authority. We have no business to interfere. You go back to the tribunal and they will look into it. But instead of doing that, they allowed all special leave petitions. That is the biggest blunder. That is the biggest blunder made by us, other states and Supreme Court allowed it, I don't know for whatever reason. So, Supreme Court after allowing it in 1987, slept over it. Slept over it for so long until 2018. For 21 years, the Supreme Court stepped over it and finally in 2018, they came out with what they call the verdict or order. As per that order, they reduced, further reduced to the tribunal to share from 192 teams a feet to 177.25 teams a feet, saying 14.75 teams a feet has got to be allocated to Bangalore for the drinking purposes. So, Bangalore drinking water problem has been addressed and our share was reduced and we were worried and finally we thought, okay, let it go once and for all with this and let us be at least happy that there will be some water flowing. That's what we all expected. But at that time, I maintained that this is not going to be the end of the matter. I said it, I wrote about it and I knew that this was not going to be the end of the matter. For the simple reason that the government of Karnataka was always releasing the surplus water. After filling all the reservoirs only, they were releasing the surplus water. So, the surplus water was whenever the surplus water was coming into the state, I mean, we thought okay, it's very good and so on. But the tribunal has very clearly indicated month-wise scheduling of the release of water. Until today, I tell you, except for a few years, since 1991, I have looked at the data, until from 1991 onwards till 2018-19 until today, except for a few years, those were the good years. On most of the years, the monthly scheduling of the water was not released. See June, July, August, September, October. These five months are very crucial for us. During these five months, 80% of the release of the water should have been done. 80% of the release, that is 80% of 171.25 teams of water should have been released and should be released during these five months. June, July, August, September, October. But if you look at the data, it's abysmally poor. Abysmally poor. It is extremely low. And at the end of the season, at the end of the year, they will say, well, they have given you already water. They have given you 180 teams of it. 190 teams of it. We don't want water in November, December, January, when we got North East Monsoon. So, when all the needs are met, when there is heavy rainfall towards the end of the North East Monsoon, towards the end of the South West Monsoon, or at the beginning of the Monsoon, the North East Monsoon, they keep releasing the water and then tally the account saying that we have given you water. This is absurd. This is a cheating. This is a cheating. This is a disappointing. This is also in a way not adhering to the principles of equity and the order of the Supreme Court and the tribunal. This is not acceptable at all. This is what they have been doing. But let me tell you one other thing. They always claim that the river flows through us. First, we have to meet our needs and then only give you water. And they all think that the recovery is our water and so on. First of all, you cannot want water in a river. No state can want water. River is a river water. And no state can claim ownership on river. No state can climb the river. River water is only our water. And we will have to fulfill the river, our needs and then only we can give you water. And these are all absurd statements. They cannot really do that. But the simple reason that the rivers see no boundary, rivers flow according to the gravity and according to the topography. And there is no state. Nobody can really hold the water. Nobody can stop the river flow. This is a principle. This is a common principle of the hydrology. Now, on top of that, what Karnataka does is, if there is a heavy rainfall, if there is a heavy flood, then they let the water downstream. Let the flood water downstream and then we have to suffer. So, if you think that you own the river, if you think that you own the river water, keep all the water to yourself. Don't let not even a drop of water, even the flood water. Why did you reduce water in 2018? Heavy flood. Even now, see, they have released something like 36,000, 40,000 tons of water. Even today, as on day today, they are releasing water because the dams are full. Keep the water I say. Keep everything to yourself. Don't release it. That is where I maintain that river water cannot be held. You cannot. You always have to share and you always have to have a good will with your neighbors. You always have to develop a good will with the lawyer appearance states. Otherwise, nobody can survive. No rivers can survive. You will only be killing the river and you cannot create a river. So, this is the standoff between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Under these heated conditions, the very experienced Chief Minister of Karnataka with all his wisdom in the floor of assembly, making a statement, a radical statement, what he calls a radical statement that he would at any cost construct a dam at a Megadethu at a cost of 9,000 crores in the floor of assembly. This is unethical. This is unwarranted. You cannot do that. It's a political statement. You may have a political gain out of it because assembly election is coming next year. You may have some agenda behind it. You may have some kind of a political agenda. You may gain, have some political gain. But do you know how it has affected the downstream farmers, their psyche, that people have become so anxiety that their anxiousness has gone up so terribly, that they started worrying because already water is flowing. If you are going to construct a Megadethu dam, it's going to be disastrous. That is why farmers here are feeling terrible and that is why the entire state and the entire farming community are feeling not just anxious, they are feeling outrageous. So, the government of Tamil Nadu has passed a resolution against the construction of the project and they have met the union minister as well to deny, demanding to deny permission for the project. So, do you feel that the government of Karnataka has its rights to construct or even propose such a project? Not at all. So, I tell you, the Karnataka has no right. Karnataka government has got no right to construct a dam without constructing their neighboring states and downstream states, riparian states. They have no business, absolutely not possible, absolutely unethical and absolutely legally not possible without consulting any kind of intervention on the river, cannot be done and should not be done, shall not be done. The tribunal is very powerful. People don't understand and the Kaveri management board is very powerful. So, they have to approach the Kaveri management board or what they call the Kaveri management authority and the tribunal and the Supreme Court strengthen their hands. That is very important rather than talking to the political bosses at the centre. It is very important to strengthen these legal institutions and the government of Tamil Nadu should go back to them and file a petition, very strong petition after passing the strong contempt resolution in the floor of Tamil Nadu Assembly. In the beginning, you said that the allocation of water to Tamil Nadu has reduced over a period of time. In the interim award or in the final award, it has reduced. So, does that anything, is that related to the reduction in the cultivable land in the delta districts and the increase in the land?  You see, our agriculture command area originally was at 28 lakh acres. So, it has reduced to 17 lakh acres. 17 lakh acres, that's also uncertain. Kurve is almost gone. Kurve crop is supposed to be grown in 4.5 lakh acres in the delta region, particularly in Tanjavur and below. It is almost gone. Wherever groundwater is available, people try to grow Kurve crop. But otherwise, growing Kurve crop with the supply of the recovery water is a history. People and Tamil Nadu farmers are very happy if they get water for one full crop, that is samba season. So, they are happy at least if they can get water for one full crop for one season, at least in a year, they are happy, that is samba season. That begins in August, September and goes on to January February. And even for that, it is uncertain. Because only if you start receiving water in June, you can store water up to August to September and before the onset of the monsoon, you can release water for growing nursery and transplantation. And then when the northeast monsoon sets in, the crop growth picks up. But even that is not possible, even that is uncertain. See, unless you have something like 100 feet of water stored in the metro reservoir, you cannot release water technically, because then you will lose water. Because you will find at the end of the season, you will not have water. That is why it is important that we need water, we have to receive water from the month of June onwards as prescribed by the tribunal. That is not being done. You see, in many parts of Kaveri Delta today, and there are lots of people who say that, look, if there is no water, why don't you shift your crop pattern? I must tell you something. See, 70% of the soil type, 70% of the soil type in the Delta is a plastic clay. 70%, many people don't understand this. So, you have to talk to the agronomist. They know better. 70% of the soil type in the Kaveri Delta is a plastic clay. No other crop is possible except for padding. It needs continuous watering. If you stop watering even for a day or two, then the land cracks. It cracks actually. That is also cracking clay, plastic clay. It is a very risky proposition for farmers. They spend thousands of rupees and if they don't quarter, they lose. Lose the crop is going to compensate them. So people are living in the world of uncertainty. I think people, I mean, I have done a huge project in the Kaveri Delta. I spent three years in the Kaveri Delta. I know that that flight. I know how bad that living conditions are. I know why people are committing suicide there. The situation is terrible going from back to forth from day to day. It is a situation which I think you would not have, you would not really even imagine their flight. The conditions are really, really bad. There aren't a few who survive because they have access to groundwater. Those who have access to one-day canal water, their life is miserable. And 80% today, 80% of 75 to 80% of farmers in Kaveri Delta are small and marginal and whose land-holding size is five acres and below. What will they do? They do, they do look for all kinds of odd jobs. So this is the situation. On top of that, if there is going to be a reservoir in Magadathu, imagine what is going to happen. I want to, I must tell you one other thing. See already in Magadathu, already we are not, as I said earlier, we are not receiving water as per the monthly schedule. And I already said that from interim award onwards, our share of water has come down drastically from 205 to 171.25 teams a bit. So when they construct the Magadathu reservoir, their capacity, storage capacity is going to be 67 teams a bit. So you think we will get water without that reservoirs get filled? We will not get water. Not only that, I must tell you one other technical point. The Magadathu dams, Magadathu reservoirs, dead storage level is 7.7.5 teams a bit, which means 7.5 teams a bit of water cannot be used, cannot be let down, cannot be drawn from the Magadathu reservoir, which means so much of water will be stored but even in a normal year, if that much water is stored, your share will come down drastically. You will not get any water. I think it is mind boggling. If you go into the details, it is terrible, terrible, terrible. I mean, at any cost, we have to stop this product. When the water doesn't flow into the sea continuously every year, I said there are hundreds of backwater canals from Cauvery, joining the Bay of Bengal. Except for once in 10 years or once in 5 years, some water flows into the Bay of Bengal. Otherwise, for many years, continuously these backwater canals remain dry. Therefore, the seawater intrusion has already taken place. And not only there is seawater intrusion, there is also coastal flooding. Coastal flooding. See, this evening your land will be dry. Tomorrow morning, that land is flooded with seawater because of the dryness of all the backwater canals. And 100% of the groundwater in Nagapattam district is Alain. And 70%, 70% of groundwater in Thiruvavaru district is Alain. And in Tanjavur, 60% of the groundwater is not Alain but Brackish. That means seawater is intruding pretty fast. And most of the Brackish water lakes, like Veda Ranim lake and also Pichawaram, Manguru forest, have become almost a saline. Because in Pichawaram, the Manguru forest should have a brackish water quality but it is saline. I calculated the area under the Pichawaram forest compared to 1971 and 2014. It looked like the area under the forest, Manguru forest has gone up. But when I went to the ground pruning, I realized that it is just a sea. Sea just come in. It is just a sea water. It is not a brackish water. So that is the kind of a situation we are emerging because of the lack of flow from the upstream. So that is why I am saying the upstream, the water flow from the upstream is extremely important to maintain your riverine ecosystem, your riverbed aquifer and your rock coastal ecosystem. Now all these things are drying. All these things are dying. Not at all good for us. And in the long run, we will pay a very big price for it. See, there is also an ecological issue. What is the ecological issue? See, the Megadoth dam, if they construct, there is going to be land submergence to the extent of 52 square kilometers, 52 to 55 square kilometers of dense forest area, is going to be occupied, is going to be submerged or are going to be destroyed. It is a wild life, a Cauvery wild life sanctuary, bird sanctuary. It is the floor of our own biodiversity. Everything will be destroyed. You may have your Megadoth reservoir for your short term reason of providing water to your Bangalore city. But what is going to happen to this floor of our own biodiversity and the western gods, who is going to pay for it? Entire nation, all the concerned states, all the states who share the western gods will pay a huge price for this. Already, as per the Mother Gadigal report, we have lost three-fourths of the dense forest in the western gods. So, if you are going to lose furthermore, our water supply, rainfall conditions, everything is going to get disturbed and there is going to be more landslides. This is disastrous, I tell you. This Megadoth reservoir is a disastrous project, disastrous project. I don't know who suggested it and why I don't know. I mean, good, well-meaning people, people with wisdom will not approve this project. I am telling you today, if you don't have people, only those who do not have the wisdom and the long-term imagination, only those people suggest this. But otherwise, people with the wisdom, they don't suggest this at all. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much.


Fermentation is another way that cells can convert nutrients into energy that they can use. Fermentation is different from cellular respiration because it's completely anaerobic. It happens without oxygen present. However, it's very similar to what we've already learnt. So, fermentation is kind of like glycolysis plus. We've had a look at glycolysis, so we know that the process occurs in the cytosol. We know that it creates three different things. We get two ATP molecules, which the cell can use straight away. We get some electrons transferred so that we end up with two NADH molecules and two protons or two H plus ions. And we get two molecules of pyruvate. In fermentation, or glycolysis plus, the cell needs to find a way to use up that pyruvate and to access the electrons from the NADH. There are a few different ways that cells can undergo fermentation, two of which you're probably already familiar with. So one is alcohol fermentation, something that we rely on other organisms doing to make bread, beer, wine. And it's done by many different types of bacteria and yeasts. So to do this process, the cell converts pyruvate molecules created in glycolysis into carbon dioxide and a different molecule called acid aldehyde. The acid aldehyde is then combined with NADH and H plus and converted into ethanol and NAD plus. So we've harnessed the energy from that electron transfer and also created alcohol. Another option in fermentation is lactic acid fermentation. And you probably know about this as well from eating cheese or yogurt or maybe working out really hard sprinting before warming up or doing a lot of reps. In this case, the cell uses the pyruvate and NADH and that proton to convert them into a lactate molecule, which is the iron of lactic acid and NAD plus. So in fermentation, it is a lower payoff. We know that glycolysis only creates two ATP out of one glucose molecule compared to the 38 for a whole cell respiration process. So if our organism is using fermentation, it has much higher nutrient energy needs. Some organisms can survive completely without oxygen just by doing fermentation and they're called anaerobes. Other organisms can switch depending on what's available to them so they can do full cell respiration or if not, they can just do fermentation and they're called facultative anaerobes. So that includes yeasts, lots of bacteria types and our muscle cells. Do this when they can't get enough oxygen, perhaps because you've just started sprinting. If they need the energy fast, they'll go straight on to lactic acid fermentation because they can't get enough oxygen immediately and this works for a while and gives us a burst of energy but it can end up in muscle soreness because we then end up with a lot of lactic acid in our cells which needs to be digested again by the cell later on.


Hey folks, thanks for your patience. We're pretty much dialed in. We're getting ready to go here to close out the Worcester Arts Fest The very first annual I see some potential twirlers in the field. Yeah, I see you.  I finally get to play music I've been yapping all day long But watching amazing artists and poets and authors and So it's great roll on in and just within a couple minutes. We're gonna get going. Hi, Patty It's my great friend Patty She's amazing. Okay. We love you a lot And I can't wait to make music for you Hey folks, we had a lost necklace out there that somebody brought to me does this look familiar on the back It says ask Ask the raven Elena This is a personal. It's I'm actually about to put it on But this is a really beautiful necklace that was On the front, of course, it's not just a clever thing on the back. There is a raven ceramic Hey, we want to thank Orca for being here today They're captured the whole day. What's your what's your name? This is Simon Sean was here earlier.  Is that really nice him? Oh shoot, he's right All right Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger Did I just call myself Schwarzenegger? Muscular neck. Thank you. Sure Ladies and gentlemen close out this Worcester arts fest. I'd like to introduce My myself but really the amazing band that rocks my socks off I've been looking forward to all day to get to actually play some music as well And this is primo on guitar, that's JJ on the bass. It's Tommy drove all the way from Connecticut on the drums And this is Peterman Chris Peterman on the sacks together. We are Five-ninths of the Chad Hollister band So to close it out, we feel very honored to do so. Thanks for being here today This is a brand new song. I'm gonna ease you into our Said this is called inner sovereignty being released in a couple of weeks song I wrote with my sister and it goes just like this See It's called inner sovereignty I wrote that one with my sister kip Hollister and it's our first venture together and This is my beautiful wife Katie O'Rourke says kip operates on a different plane of just I Don't really know how to explain it other than I feel in a great way that I'm here and that she's kind of up here So if we can meet somewhere in the middle That's where we did on inner sovereignty. So it's so beautiful. We had the Principal cellist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra John I'm spacing on John's last name. Sorry John but Play a brilliant cello part and I will just say that my favorite instrument in the world Michael Close is cello It's like can you get any better? I don't know. I don't know if you can get any better than cello But man Michael Close is a dear friend. How about a hand for all the musicians playing today Michael Close is one of them And his daughter Rosie Insane man, it's just so fun. I can't believe I get to play more songs So one of the monikers of my life and of I'll say of my whole band's life as we travel around and get to play for people is About Kindness it's not hard. It's actually really easy, but as I As we've seen Out there for the piecemeal it's so There's so much people there. There's so much out there.  Do you really think that that person wants to be there? No, it's a job and they're making they're making some money to pay some bills but if you do my little trick and you see their name tag you see Dylan on their name tag you say hey Dylan and they like Like do I know you like am I supposed to know you and then you kind of just point at their name tag? They're like oh now here's the thing when you use somebody's name Do you know what happens? I learned this and maybe everybody knows this because people are like Oh, they will have talked about that for years Chad. I'm like, okay. Well, I didn't know it when you use somebody's name It releases endorphins in yourself And in the person. I think that's really cool so This song is the tip of the iceberg about being kind and It's called be kind That's called be kind so I have to say this gentleman has been to so many of our shows and Exudes the just we talk about him wherever we go in those beautiful of ways.  Anyway, we love him so much and I just As we were coming somebody we're today somebody was like man I hope mark's gonna be and I'm like, oh, he's gonna be there because he loves to dance But I just I love the energy of you mark and I just want to put that out to the whole beautiful community that Like you bring beauty to this community But you also bring it elsewhere and and I don't mind mark when you go and dance to other bands It was he went to like dance the cat right now. I was like, dude, you were totally cheating on me To say that because I was divorced for 25 years and didn't dance at all And then when I did like Dude, I love that That See look at that make it make a grown man cry Seriously, though, that's the beauty like this is what this is what's her freakin Vermont you guys scowls people This is amazing. It's been an amazing day. No, no, I'm not accepting that that wasn't enough. This has been an amazing day Thank you. I just can't thank a whole team enough And David book you are an inspiration Julia Hewitt good Lord. You are just Julia on the harp Like, you know when you don't know what people really do and then you see him do like their thing that you never dreamed that they could do Well, I saw Julia do that thing today when she played Julia. How many strings on the harp? Yeah, who's counting Julia does 36 strings like who can do that? No, no, not me I'm lucky to pluck six of them. Anyway, Julia and just our whole team Caitlyn and Julia you're gonna have to help me, but so Caitlyn Katie O'Rourke We have Michael close Alan Gilbert amazing author Yes, Rick Agrin joined us towards the end. Thank you, Rick And Neha Shukla was was help an immense help and when we Can you all believe me? I talked about my wife. I get in big trouble if I didn't trust me Yeah Anyway, there were an Amy. Amy was Amy helped us design our logo Amy's here today dancing her face off and helped us set up these tents and just was that that logo that was right out There was a it was an Amy design. So thank you. I'm just it takes I mean Taking a village it sounds funny, but it does take a village to put on a festival for a village And beyond but we just appreciate y'all so much Let's play some more music Hey, is Alex here Alex are you back from doing so? I don't think Alex is back yet So we can't know he know.  Come up here, buddy So there is life.  Okay, it was the two of us Rainey was open in the show and he said man. I was an awesome show cool Thank you. Thank you very much. And he said, you know, and we thought we chatted a little bit more in his lovely partner What is your name was an artist here today? How about a hand for all the artists on it right here? And he said he said the highlight for me That day he's you were you're 13 It was 13. Look at look.  I don't know how that and it all right ladies and gentlemen I am 55 years young And and so that's that's how that's possible. He's putting it out there man and So he said my favorite song that day was Jesus Bon Jovi in Tarzan and I was like Like 13 how many years ago was it? What are you like 55 now? 20 years ago. So you are 33 years young buddy. You look good But that's like that's what it's all about like Like you're remembered in one of my songs and not only that but this song Was written My beautiful wife Katie O'Rourke was one of our artists today. How about a hand for Katie O'Rourke? She's amazing We were living in Rutland, Vermont at the time and she woke up one morning and she said do you know Who my top three men are It's just at the beginning of our relationship folks. So I was thinking This guy, you know, I'm totally totally in the top three Uh-uh. She said my top three men are Jesus hard to argue with that dude Bon Jovi Could maybe put up an argument, but I really like him in Tarzan He argued with Tarzan, not really and if you do you're gonna lose Kid grew up in the job, you know the whole thing. I'm not gonna go into it. So I remembered those words And I wrote this song for her And I don't really I never win anything like competitions I have entered stuff, but I won in this one I won first place in the Billboard songwriting contest for this song and we were on tour in Colorado and my manager Said pull over and told me the news and I was like I couldn't believe I like I actually won something I want a guitar and I don't know pro tools or something like that That's out of date because it was 75 years ago But Alex this is for you dude, and this is the beauty of music and playing your original music I want to just thank all the artists today for just playing their own music and play whatever music they chose This is a really long-winded story Alex, but it is it is inspired by you But this is called Jesus Bon Jovi and Tarzan for Alex and Anna Thanks for buying art today to the first one usually doesn't go this well. That was the first one. You remember that one Thank you, Julia Now he's counting on Julia to laugh at my jokes and David books jokes Yeah, I know Dave Dave sometimes David's are not quite that is that funny. No, I'm kidding. Where is he DB crush DB has this he wore this shirt to a meeting one night that said crush orange crush, you know So his nickname now is crush Much to his dismay. Yeah, but I think he kind of likes it. So when you see DB say what's up crush See look Julia thinks that's funny.  I'm like You know, there's so many things and I'm not really great at details But my team's always so amazing Well, my team's Katie pretty much Katie's amazing, but so I was like, oh, so I I drove down to Willie's house Like what do you do in a local town when you don't have power while you drive to the fire chief's house? And really wasn't there as soon as he Q was there and she's like, oh, no, he's on a call Sorry, but it's two doors down from the firehouse. So just go over there, you know So that's what I did. So I got my van my minivan and I drove to the firehouse I parked and I realized there was something, you know Somebody got sick today and need to be taken away in an ambulance so power can pretty much come second, right? So that comes first and literally he had been on how many calls before that to calls before that And how many calls did you have today total three? That's still a lot on a Saturday, you know When you want to just chill and relax, but anyway point being that This community is always just rises to the occasion. So he comes out. He goes, I don't I don't really have any Extension cord. Well, I got a couple and so they worked and he gave us power. So thank you for the power Thank you One of my dearest friends a fling on the sound tonight Josh needling and I saw But when you tie yourselves up, so I met the beautiful Katie O'Rark when I was she was a waitress in Killington, Vermont And now she was working at this bar called the outback and people are like, oh, oh gosh You're so you're so lucky like lucky to be with me, you know, just because of music like oh, does he sing to you every night?  No, I I am the lucky one Let me tell you and so I cornered her into a brought her flowers It was it was not a weekend. It was not a holiday. Looked at me. She said, oh, what are these for? And I was in my eloquent musician way. I was like Seriously, I because I didn't know because I just wanted to bring her flowers, which was apparently really smart Because she said to me oh They're flowers for no reason And I was like, uh-huh Exactly. So it took me 21 years to write the song but uh This is called flowers for no reason for that gorgeous Redhead of mine, Katie O'Rourke. It just was that's Katie's whole things all the time She's like, I know I'm so like there's never like on the 4th of july It once over there. We oh was it over at the later? I did a solo thing. I think right here It was not good this one. I feel really good. I'm waiting for the apology. Oh, sorry. Primo's gotta fix my shirt Sorry, that's for four songs I just want to put a huge thanks out to kyle and his crew And uh to woodbelly pizza and also to celia Johnson's really for the amazing food today, right?  I like neither can we I mean, I I don't know Well, not that we lose our shirt, but we just appreciate that so much. So Eating that food is great. And also, I just want to put a huge thanks out to kyle for Bringing music to the landing down the road. So anything that's happened locally here. Go there. Okay We're shifting the set list. Everybody's there. Are you okay with that? Are you okay with that? Do you like your pasta? Did you get something did you get any pasta for me? No, that's good thing because you know, I don't totally don't even like pasta What's your name? You forgot? Alice the song's for Alice It's about dr. Bethesda. It's for you Alice and that amazing costume And all these amazing families here in Worcester, Vermont Moved here 18 years ago when Riley was six months old and she's graduating high school this year Bethesda for you Features tommy deal on the drums drove all the way up from Connecticut for one show I see their chairs are still here But uh, okay. Also, we'll be tight set list here. You know what I mean? That was in flows. You gotta do you gotta do what's called for, right? Some self-proclaimed mama's boy. This is called mama knows She passed. Yeah, I'm gonna pack up. But guess what? Two slices for the sax player They're gonna sell their slices for two dollars a piece That's a really great deal So get them while they're hot. No, seriously while they're hot slices are two bucks. Thanks woodbelly And her sweet boyfriend Maddox. How you guys I love you much to graduates from Montpelier High School and U32 So folks, I have to tell you about a very very special show And it's right here on this Sign playing the trap family lodge concert meadow. It is pretty much with this same band Although JJ Jared was one of our original bass players. This is Jared Johnson on the bass this evening all the way from Rutland, Vermont He filled in because Rudy our bass player had a party to do down the road and uh And uh, we love Rudy, but Rudy will be on the gig and it is it will be this Tommy will be kind of on a scale down hybrid kid But we are playing in the trap family lodge concert meadow if you've never been there, please come Um tickets are on sale this you can just scan this qr code And take you to tickets and here's the beauty about is you can just bring whatever you want in No glass no dogs, please But you can bring your food and your drink and your whole picnic your chairs Or blanket and sit in and then take it all with you and that's all you got to do So just just grab tickets to the show We'd love to have you sunday june 25 at the trap family lodge concert meadow And I will say if there's somebody that doesn't have that much money right now And I will guest you to the show If you've got money buy tickets But if you don't hit me up it chat it chat music and I'll guest you to the show And I mean that like this community is too powerful. So I'd love to have you And and and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. So, uh, you should see it Music is not about money folks.  It's okay And uh, he just uh, was it a week ago? Yesterday good god, no wonder shalom. He's freaking out. He tried to hug me really hard and she's like stop it honey Yesterday he had a tumor removed from his neck and he's here today And uh, so this song goes out to him and to his lovely wife.  I I strongly encourage it because it goes on for 14 weeks No, I'm kidding. It went on for a few days, but I was there for one of them So this is breathe joe you you you are so beautiful and shellony you are as well And uh, this is breathe for you too and for everybody else. It wants to uh, remember to take a deep breath Michael, I wish I had uh, uh, is your cello close Michael close just imagine Michael close playing cello on this one because He did his fru speak and he's a brilliant man.  Hey check out our Spotify channel I used to have a real hard time with streaming And patty's and my friend Adam Ezra taught me differently He's ridiculously great and you should listen to him and follow him But follow us first and then I'm kidding follow him first seriously, but um streaming is like a Crazy thing but the more that you guys do it We make like 37 more cents No, but it's about the whole community thing and Adam has taught me so much about I mean I always came from a community place but Adam Ezra is like I can't even describe him patty Yeah, I'm gonna stop but uh Get on the chat holster and stream that and tell all your friends to do it And uh, and then we'll make four bucks and take you out for a switchback No, stop it quit. No Hey sarah's in town Hey, sarah This is nahan right here. She's she's one of our best friends and nahan jack and chris ruby hey ruby uh the uh the uh girls lacrosse From u32 our state champions State freeing champions And the boys lacrosse are also state champions for the mission three Boney holster was on that team David book said I had to play till 4 a.m. So time to pace myself for the show's over So We're gonna do another song for you. Yeah, Riley's here. Let's do that one So we're gonna do we're gonna do another song for you. Is that okay? Three of you said yes It's been a long day folks Katie was here at 8 30 in the morning. I was here at 9 30. She's like, where were you? I'm like, I was at home She she is the whole team here. I just want to thank everybody at the Worcester arts fest for rock and it would you just put some love But it's been it's been a long long day and we're we feel so honored to close it out I just want to thank all the artists all the poets all the writers all the musicians and all the people for being here today in this strong beautiful gorgeous community that we uh Live thrive and survive if you told me 18 years ago I was going to move to a town outside. I want Montpelier reminds say no, I wasn't I grew up at Burlington snob. The only reason we came to Montpelier was to come on a field trip to the state house And man, I'm so glad that I was dead wrong And that tim heaney called this place a bedroom community. It's not a bedroom community It's the most vibrant family community that we've grown up in and uh, so thanks to tim for selling us our house Here and for introducing us to Worcester, Vermont Appreciate you You introduced my band one more time on the guitar and vocals. That's jeff primo po remski On the bass guitar. That is jared jj johnson on the bass On the saxophone. This is dr. Christopher peterman And back there on the drums all the way from shelton, canada kid a new daddy of ryan james Tommy deal on the drums My name is jab holster. I live at 58 hamshire hill road And this is riley odelia. We'll see you soon This requires dancing She chills you when it's time. She chills you when it's time That's you that sits on my studio speakers Able to take it to town hall. That would be amazing if you have a cushion chair And you're able to take it to the historical society society. That would be dreamy Please if you see garbage pick it up and put it in a Bin that says garbage if you see something that's recyclable, please put it in a recyclable bin Okay, we love you all. Thank you. Good night. Be safe you guys. We appreciate you so much Have a great time. I have a ton of merch that I didn't set up So if anybody wants anything come see us. Good night. This concludes the wuster arts fest 2023 first annual Thank you. God bless y'all be safe. Be kind peace


I'm a person. I never jumped to the assumption that someone's doing stuff maliciously or just wanting to. If they've been through these kind of therapy routes and they've been encouraged to by doctors and medical professionals, I see it more as an issue with the system rather than the person. I don't immediately jump and say like, oh, this is horrible. Get this out. We don't want to talk to you.  And, you know, it can go so far as even like people using different types of language or labels that most people that are not happy with. You know, for me, it's not something that I kind of focus in on too much. It's trying to be open and warm to other people wanting to learn.


Good morning, John. It's funny. I have also been worried about AI this week, which is actually not very weird at all because we have actual intelligences, not artificial ones, and thus we are bound to be anchored to different interests and worries. I wrote a couple of books about how when new things arrive, as they inevitably do, we tend to retreat to our camps. That new thing might be a pandemic or a large-scale social change or really powerful new technology or an alien. It doesn't matter what it is, the more confused we are, the more we head to the place where we feel safest. And from the safety of that place, we think about the concerns of that place, and then we ask questions specifically about that concern. And then the more powerful places tend to have their conversations be the ones that are dominant in the broader conversation. And then eventually it all bubbles out into there being two groups that have lots of internal divisions, but mostly are budding with each other. And you can watch these groups starting to define themselves and differentiate themselves right now in real time. And it will be probably five or ten years before we actually know what questions we're trying to get answers to and what the kind of dominant perspectives on it will be. And I don't know what they're going to be. I don't even know what questions we need to ask yet. I certainly don't know the answers to those questions. The idea of these models is they don't copy things. They look at a lot of different things, whether that's text or pictures. They learn how these things are structured and then they output things that have that kind of structure. But when they do that, sometimes their procedures make them copy. Like I asked Mid Journey to imagine an Afghani woman with green eyes and this is what it gave me. Mid Journey's model does not contain this famous image from the 1980s National Geographic cover, but it has been trained on that image and so it is plagiarizing it. Can you sue it for that? Is it okay for it to have trained on so many copyrighted works that didn't agree to have it trained on them? Should artists and rights holders be able to opt out of that training process? Is any of this a violation of existing laws or is it a call for new legislation? Who will use this? What will it enable? Who will it hurt? I don't know! People are going to disagree about this stuff like crazy. So here's my big concern, John, because of course you've got to have one big one. You're going to have a lot of little ones, but one big one. We have not yet gotten through the last massive revolutionary shift in human communication. We don't know what to do about last Tuesday yet. We are still actively figuring out how to be humans and societies with the current tremendously disruptive tools that we were given 10, 20 years ago. We are just realizing that we live a lot of our lives in places that are not democracies, that we do not get a vote where the leadership can change based on who has enough money to buy the thing that we live in. A lot of these platforms haven't really ever been through a recession. They've had so much money. They've been able to grow and grow and now are they at a ceiling and what will they do to punch through that ceiling? What? Like we don't know! All of that is very big, very disruptive. It's been difficult. And now it feels like we're about to have another tremendously weird, entirely new wrench thrown into the works of human communication. Now a lot of the things I see people saying chat GPT is good at, I don't think it is good at. Like it's not good at replacing Wikipedia. It very confidently states things that are both untrue and true and there's no way to know the difference without fact checking and I don't think that it has a good way of figuring that out itself. I don't just don't think it's going to be good at that. But that's a really hard problem and there are really easy ones that I think it'll be great at. Like for example getting people to dislike each other more. And there are lots of people who want people to be more afraid of each other and to dislike each other more. Both external and internal. Like a lot of get out the vote measures is about getting people to be more afraid and angry. And getting people to be afraid and mad at each other, very easy. Like trivial problem for an AI like this to solve.  We have not figured out how to be a society inside of the current communications revolution and while people and societies can and will change very fast, it's usually not fun. I for one wouldn't mind if things got a little less interesting for a little while. But we don't get to choose these things. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


Fluorescent nanoparticles light up the otherwise invisible processes that make our biology tick, or, in the case of diseases like cancer, that make a go rye. Some of the most powerful particles of this type are so-called carbon dots. They tend to be easier to fabricate and more compatible with our biological makeup than other similar nanoparticles used by scientists. Unfortunately, they also tend to be fairly dim, emitting relatively few photons versus the amount they absorb. Now, researchers report a new method that vastly improves the quantum yield of carbon dots, reaching a high efficiency of 94.5%. What's more, the bright dots intrinsically target certain cancer cells, paving the way toward better cancer diagnostics. The team from China formed the particles through a simple one-step method involving a single ingredient, folic acid. A B vitamin that helps regenerate healthy cells, folic acid is one way to track some cancer cells in the body. The receptor that locks onto folic acid is known to abundantly scatter on the surface of tumors associated with ovarian, breast, and lung cancers. Heating a well-dispersed solution of folic acid in water through a process known as carbonization yielded particles of carbon measuring about 5 nanometers on average, each sprinkled with folic acid residues on its surface. Tests showed that the carbon dots emitted strong violet light when pumped with higher energy light, all with extremely high efficiency. The quantum yield of 94.5% is much higher than that reported for similar carbon dots containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or sulfur. The team attributes the high quantum yield to the surface chemistry afforded by folic acid. The amino groups therein help boost the probability that electrons are excited by high energy light. As more electrons get excited, more of them relax to their lower energy ground state. That relaxation translates directly into strong sustained light emission. In fact, the dots were able to retain more than 90% of their initial intensity even after being pumped for more than two and a half hours and remained bright even after five weeks of storage. When incubated with human cells over-expressing folic acid receptor, models of certain cancers, the dots showed bright fluorescence as soon as within one hour. Comparison with cells not expressing the receptor highlighted the dot's strong target ability. This special ability makes the novel carbon dots extremely attractive for imaging applications in biological and biomedical studies, providing researchers a new tool for potentially scanning for cancer cells.