So we'll go through as many as possible. All right, Stada Hussai, how the sister is asking how to advise, she says, how to advise my sister who doesn't dress modestly, and I want to see her and do well for her, Akhira, I want to see well, like, you know, you just want good for your sister, how can she advise her? I always have so many follow-up questions. Who would get these, like, is this your real sister? Are you close to her? Is it your friend? A lot of those variables matter because Hadid and Asihab, and we have to be very delicate when we're advising people. So the closeness of the bond really does matter. And I would just say, continue to be a good sister to your sister. When we reflect all the virtues that we've talked about and we are loving and kind and supporting, you're definitely going to get more reception and if that opportunity, yeah, the better, the more you focus on just being a really good model, modeling the virtues of our faith, that inshallah, when the opportunity, if the opportunity presents itself for you to give advice, she will likely receive it better. But if every time you meet with her, you're just focusing on her not wearing hijab and in your heart, you're kind of judging her, even if it's coming from a place of wanting her guidance, then you may lose that opportunity to really create a bond. Hamdallah, I have relatives who do not wear the hijab and to be honest, it's become something that I don't really focus on when I'm with them. I just want to enjoy my time with them and create that bond. And I feel that over the years, we have definitely built a very strong bond and there have been times where, yes, conversations go into different directions and I find that they genuinely are listening and they want to hear what I have to say because they haven't felt judged by me the entire time that we've been friends with or I mean, that I've been close to them. So I would just say, continue to be a good sister, and then also the other part of it, make a lot of dua. Your dua in her absence could be the very reason why Allah's power turns her heart to wear the hijab and just continue to just be a good sister, insha'Allah. Hijab is definitely far from the butt. It's not something that we should make as a, or prevent us from feeling close to someone who doesn't wear hijab because everybody's on their own path, insha'Allah. This question has to do with the, probably just like the rule following. Sometimes people get, have questions about that. So how important is it to pray towards the qiblah and is it important to do what we'll do with water all the time? It's a valid question, so we'll answer it. Definitely, absolutely. So is it, let me tell you something. If you can, it's not a filth class today but we're gonna go into filth or Islamic rulings for a moment. Across all the schools, the rule is that you have to determine the location or the direction of the qiblah in order for your prayer to be valid. Interestingly, it means that you exert your best effort. So, dear sisters, these phones that you carry, they have a built-in compass, yeah? And in your prayer app, it also has a compass and I am old enough to have carried compasses, actual compasses with me forever, everywhere I went in school, college, whatever, everywhere we went, everywhere we went. Before these smart phones happened and then we became kinda dumb and we forgot how to figure out the direction of the qiblah, SubhanAllah. They're right here. These compass apps or whether an actual compass or even better is learning the shadows which is how people before compasses used to figure out the directions of the qiblah and also the timings of prayer. They'd figure out northeast, west and south. One time, I'll tell you this very quick story, one time I came, I was in international travel and my transit was very, very short and when you're in an airport and you have to like run from one gate to another really quickly and I had to catch prayer right in that little tiny window or prayer would have left and when you come out of an airport and you're like discombobulated, it's international, you don't know where you are, it's not, you can't even speak what the language is, what's going on. It's kind of discombobulating and I thought to myself, okay, at the very least I'll look out and see like the shadows. Well, it turned out that by then it was very cloudy and I couldn't figure out the direction of anything where the sun was. So I said, y'all Allah, y'all Allah, please help y'all Allah. The interesting thing is in about an airport is that people especially in an airport know the directions, they know which way is east, north and south. And I said, what is the direction of east helping? Just give me one, just give me east, do something, you know. And so SubhanAllah, as I came out of the airport and the person who asked me my question said, are you looking for the qiblah? And I thought, wow, it was almost some brother. I couldn't tell SubhanAllah, but he could see I was razzled trying to figure out the direction of prayer, at least a direction. And I thought Allah sends you people SubhanAllah. With a good intention, try your very hardest. Now I'll tell you a follow-up story. One time, two of us, we're taking a fifth class together, we're in another conference and we had to pray. And we had nothing with us to figure out exactly the direction inside of a building. It's all like close and it was actually nighttime, it was a night prayer. So there was no sun to exactly see where it came up and where it's set. And so anyway, the rule in the fifth book is you have to do your best effort to figure out the direction of the qiblah. And if the two of you disagree, each one has to pray according to the qiblah that they figure it out is the best. And so I tried to convince her it's this way. And she tried to convince me it's this way. And we couldn't agree. We had both studied fiqh, we were both students of fiqh. And at the end, we both said, we know what the rule is and each one prayed on our own. And it counted for each person because they did the prerequisite. So I always tell people, don't walk into a room, just go, hello, you gotta give some effort. Some effort of figuring out East, North, West and South. Now in terms of wudu, the answer is the same. It requires a full wudu always, right?  And if it does not qualify for teyamum, then a full water wudu is actually required if your wudu was broken.  You'll carry wudu for a little while. Otherwise it is hard. And nowadays in the university where I work, there's a lot of same gender, like one gender bathrooms, right? Listen, the rooms of the bathrooms I mean, that have the one person stalls and they say for everybody, all genders, I'm like, fine, because at least it closes the door and I'm able to use this. I use this in airports, I use this in bathrooms, in schools, colleges, everywhere, wherever I am. If I can find that, it's easy because you can close the door and easily make wudu, right? And if not, then it's hard. Yes, it's hard, but it is part and parcel of being Muslim. Of course, Jadah Miriam. How does one start or work on surrendering to the law and just letting go? I think it really depends on the circumstance. This is super general. And it really, really could depend on what the person is asking about. Sometimes people ask me this when they have a specific da'a that they've been making for a very long time. And they're wondering if the fact that it's not being answered means that Allah's panna wa ta'ala just doesn't want to give it to you for whatever reason. Maybe it's not good for you. Maybe it's not good for your akhira. And so this is where they're asking that question from. I'm gonna answer it from that perspective because there's no other context and that's the one I'm asked most. But number one, recognizing that Allah's panna wa ta'ala loves you so much that he always decrees what is best for you. Even if in that moment, it doesn't feel like it's the best thing. And I'll give you the example of somebody who, you know, wants to get married to get this question all the time. Wants to get married, wants to get married. It's been like 10 years they've been making da'a. It's been 15 years they've been looking and they're just looking and looking. And now they're wondering, should they just give up? Should they just stop? Now they're in their mid 30s, they've been looking since they were like 20. And they're wondering whether or not Allah has willed marriage for them. And whenever someone asks me this question, I always ask them, do they want to get married? Is this something they want? And if the answer is yes, they actually wanted, it's not something that they feel pressured into. It's not something that their parents are, you know, begging for them to do. It's something they've been open to and they've really sincerely been trying. Then I suggest that they keep asking and they keep making istikhara about any opportunities or anything that might open because you never know what Allah's panna wa ta'ala wills for you. You will never lose a da'a. So if it means that Allah's panna wa ta'ala has willed that marriage is not the best for this person, then maybe he's going to open a different door, but while you're making da'a for marriage, you say, if it's best for me, open this door. If it's best for me, facilitate it. If it's best for me, give me better than I can ask for. And in the process, if it's not best for you, then Allah will give you something better. He absolutely, well, you literally cannot lose with da'a.  Or he will give it in the hereafter or he will give something better than you can imagine while you're making that da'a or he will delay it for a better time. He'll give something different. You can't lose with da'a. So the first thing is just keep making the da'a with the clause, if it's best for me. If it's not then take it away from me and bring me something better. And the secondly after that, what actions are you taking or not taking? I know I'm giving the marriage example, so I'm sorry if your question was about something totally unrelated. But a lot of people I know are only open to marrying someone of their specific race or of their specific state. They don't wanna move out of state. They have to marry someone who has the same type of career background or a specific type of income level. Those are fine. It's fine to have those general interests but that's gonna close the opportunities for a person who's looking. So what does the person looking and making da'a for also need to do to open kind of like those doors? Maybe Allah is sending someone over and over and because of specific requirements they're just closing that door over and over themselves. So constantly make istikhara, keep your options open and always make da'a but also in the process, please, I'm really big on this, I always talk about Maristan to everyone and their mom, please go to therapy, go contact Maristan. Sometimes the reasons why people are saying no to individuals is actually not because the other person but because of something they need to work through. So going through therapy and navigating that is really important so that inshallah you are at a place where you can sincerely consider who may actually be good for you. So maybe it hasn't happened yet because you're not at the right space, yet only Allah knows, I don't know, I'm no idea. And maybe it's not meant, it's not meant for every person and that is why we have so many examples in our history. A woman and men who did not marry but who were scholars, who were da'a, who were so involved in Islam, they could travel, they could do so much more because they didn't have the responsibility of family and in this particular way.  Another one first other medium about book recommendations. Mashallah, your talk was like packed with so many interesting people and figures and history. So several questions actually about your reading list maybe for the recommendations. Yeah, I'm gonna ask everyone else if they have recommendations. I generally read in Arabic only now because the sources in English are so limited. There are more and more that are coming but I know a last time I said I'm done with my book. I was not done, I thought I was done but now I'm still working on it. Inshallah when it's out, inshallah it'll be a resource. Inshallah please make to offer it, it's taking forever. But in the book I've translated so much because so much is just not in English. However what I do know in English that I really recommend is al-muhadithat and I say this every all the time. A-L-M-U-H-A-D-D-I-T-H-A-T al-muhadithat it's by Sheikh Akram Nadoi and it's in English. And then there's also tahrir al-mar'a is just being translated by Adol Salahi and I don't know it's what it's called in English. What is it called in English? Women's social participation or something like that but look up A-D-I-L-S-A-L-H-I Adol Salahi. It's a six volume book in Arabic and he's translating different volumes slowly. And then there's also reclaiming the mosque reclaiming the mosque by Dr. Jassar Aouda a huge scholar of maqasid in our time, reclaiming the mosque. And then there's one more in English which is help me what's another one in English? There's one. Just like a woman's issues, women's scholarship women's scholars of the past. I know there's one more that I'm missing. It's like a biography or bibliography not bibliography, it's a biography. I'm sorry, if I think of it all, I'm so sorry that it's, yeah, inshallah all of you will be those who contribute to the literature that we desperately need in English but it's getting out there just slowly but there's definitely more that I just don't know at the top of my head. Okay, I was just thinking we need a book list. Forstada Hussai. I've been wearing hijab on and off for a couple of months. I'm at the point where I don't know how to answer people who see hijab as black and white.  How long is the correct amount of time to take to make the decision of starting your hijab journey? This is a tough question because what I really want to say is don't answer them. I mean, I feel like people just need to respect boundaries. It's odd, like you couldn't imagine someone going to someone with their prayer and asking them, when are you going to do all five of your prayers? Just the idea of someone doing that is just very intrusive and I don't know, I find it just intrusive. But I think it depends on the person and I would say to the sister, this is your journey with hijab. It's very private. It's between you and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala.  It's yours, own it, claim it and you can respectfully just say, I'm just in a transition in my life and it might take me more time but you'll know when I start wearing it all the time. But again, these are the types of questions that it really depends on the relationship you have with the one who's asking you but if you can and if you feel comfortable. I'm a big fan of being in control of your own narrative so I am an open communicator and if I felt like this was me, I would likely announce to my siblings for example or the people in my close immediate circle like listen, I'm gonna be wearing hijab maybe here and there and it's a very personal thing for me and I would love your support in Da'a and I would include them in that way. If you're comfortable that could be an option. That way they feel like they're partly with you but I do feel sometimes people especially around hijab, if they don't wear hijab, they might feel uncomfortable because they don't know if you are going to continue to change and they are not on the same path as you. So they sometimes I think people may put their own comfort before your comfort and that's why you have to kind of assess the situation. What is the motive of the question or are they really curious about your path or is it more that you're making them uncomfortable and they're just kind of putting you on the spot. We don't wanna necessarily have Su'adhan or think the worst of people but I would just say when questions are posed like this it's difficult because there's so many follow up details that I think would make it easier to answer but generally speaking hijab is very personal and I think we have to as women own that it is a personal decision and somehow in the most graceful way let our loved ones know that it'll take time and I encourage you to continue on your path. Insha'Allah and if it takes you months, alhamdulillah if it takes you years, alhamdulillah but if you want to really kind of have a solid plan I would say and I have advised sisters and it's worked set a deadline for yourself. You don't have to share that with everybody but you could just say I'm gonna give myself two months, three months or by this point maybe it's a personal milestone for you, a time in your life where you feel like you really wanna by that point commit to the hijab and that's your personal deadline. You don't need to broadcast that to anybody because as soon as you do it or if that time comes and then you're not ready, everybody's gonna come and start judging you again so I just feel like we have to kind of be very careful with over sharing but if it's again a relationship where you feel comfortable then just let them know that you're on a journey and just like all journeys, it takes time. So alhamdulillah. Dr. Rania, how does one become an Islamic psychologist? Really? That's an answer. Sure, happy to talk about it, alhamdulillah. First of all, there's the Maristan booth out there and you can talk to them, masha'Allah. It's actually outside in the four year and you're welcome to chat with the folks at the table. Yeah, so how do you do this? So I always talk about how if you're going to put the word Islam before anything, so in this case, Islamic psychology, then it has to be something that's actually starts with and is grounded in Islam. There's a lot of discussions on, let's kind of throw in a little bit of hadith here and a little bit of Quran here and make mental health kind of Muslim and there is a field actually called Muslim mental health which is for Muslim people and kind of their mental health but it's not the same as Islamic psychology but Islamic psychology means is that the foundation of the actual field starts with Islam and then a psychology is derived or built upon it from Islam itself, if that makes sense. So how does one go about doing this? It does require, in fact, every week in Maristan I teach the therapist, I go through the book. The book that we, alhamdulillah, were able to finish and complete is called Introducing Islamic Concepts in Clinical Mental Health Care and what that's about is basically talking about exactly what I mean. Here are the foundations of Islam and how do you integrate them into clinical care? So in that training that we're doing, it identifies and says how do you become an Islamic psychologist and it gives you three main things. It says first, you have to be able to ground yourself in Islam which means a lifelong journey of Islamic learning. None of us, nobody here, nobody on this panel, alhamdulillah, and none of you either, inshallah, start studying Islam and say, okay, now I'm done. The minute you say you're done is actually the minute you know everything is lost, alhamdulillah, you've got to keep going and keep going in your studies even if it's adding little by little. So it's a commitment to a lifelong journey of Islamic learning. Secondly, in this country in America, you cannot become a psychologist, a therapist, a psychiatrist, a counselor of any sort unless you are certified and credentialed by an actual program. So that's either a master's degree or a PhD degree or in the case of a psychiatrist and MD, a medical degree. And you need those certifications to be able to practice in this country. So, alhamdulillah, I hope, we are having less people going around the community saying, I can be a counselor, I can counsel you. Alhamdulillah, they can give you an asliha, they can give you a religious counseling or maybe some coaching, but they're not actual therapists or clinicians unless they've actually done their degrees, certifications, licensing, and exams. Right, they're board exams and they're boards that govern this practice for ethical behavior and correct practice.  And that's actually learning the way, so it's basically the training that I was talking about. We call it the traditionally integrated Islamic psychotherapy or TIIP model for those interested or taking some sort of diploma or course in Islamic psychology so that you can bridge your Western secular psychology training and bridge that to the Islamic training and actually learn the concept. So there's three steps of how you become an Islamic psychologist. There's a few questions about study advice. Like, where's a good place to study people that wanna memorize Quran, people that wanna just learn their front of dying, make sure that they're grounded, just maybe recommendations from the panel. Obviously the Rahmah Foundation, but also Rabotah, Masha'Allah, amazing institute. Everyone knows Dr. Tamara Gray and the work that she's doing with centering women's voices in Islamic history and what that means now. It's online, it's accessible. So between Rahmah and Rabotah, Masha'Allah, we have resources we never had in the past. Also, As-Salam Institute is Dr. Akram Nadawi's online institute and if you'd like to do a higher level like a series that have to do with other texts that he specifically has teaches, you can also study with him. I didn't mean to say higher level as in Rabotah doesn't have higher level, they both have higher level. They're just different types of tracks. Kind of, we wanted Dr. Haifid to be here today but she wasn't able to join us because of her schedule. So I will say Genet Institute. And now that you've taken all the women ones, which is great, they're usually the ones that I give first on the list, Alhamdulillah. Other places that I always tell people who ask me, especially high school students, college-age students or anybody who was in a stage of life where they can actually take what we call a gap year, I really encourage people to take a gap year in their studies because at the end of the day, whether you graduate at 21 or 22, no one's gonna remember. Or if you could finish your graduate degrees at 24 or 25, no one's gonna remember. But that one year that you spent studying Islam, and I'll give you some of the names of the seminaries in just a moment here, is going to make a massive difference in your life. So I really encourage people to literally pause for a bit and take a gap year if they can, inshallah. And if you can't, then do the programs we're talking about here. At Rabata, you take one course at a time, one course at a time, like a semester, right? You can, every woman in this room can literally add a Rabata course in their year. Every woman can do that. Also, Genet Institute does something called the Year of Knowledge. So you dedicate a year to learning the foundations of your Dean. The other seminaries that are both online and in person is the Qalam Institute, which is based out of Texas. And that can take you from step one, literally alif-bata, literally letters, alif-bata, to full-on five-year alim-alima program. I was visiting them in Texas just a few months back, and I went into the beginner class. They said this is year one. They said they started, so I was visiting in November. They started in September with the academic year. They said these students here only knew alif-bata when they came, and they could only recognize the alphabet. And I said, what? Because I'm standing in the back of the class, and they are literally legit reading texts. And I'm like, how in three months did you get people going from alif-bata to reading? It's amazing, right? But that's what happens when you dedicate to a strong, good program. So I encourage you to look out for Qalam, and do a virtual, or you can do an in-person in Texas. And then you can also, if you have a year, go to Tessir Seminary, that's in Tennessee. Mustafa Zaynab Ansadi, who's one of our dear teachers and beloved friend of ours, is the resident scholar of the Tessir Seminary. So a woman, Masha'Allah, the resident scholar, and it's a year-long program in Knoxville, Tennessee. So I'll add those two to the list as well. Tessir Seminary. You've said them all. I can't think of any others. Those are all the ones I was gonna say. As well? Oh, we forgot Zaytuna, of course, which is in our neighborhood. Masha'Allah, if you're hoping to do a bachelor's degree or a master's degree, of course, here in Berkeley, that has to be in person, is Zaytuna College. Tessir is spelled T-A-Y-S-E-E-R, Tessir Seminary. That's in person, in Knoxville. Qalam is the one that has both. And another one, if you want to send your kids in person, is Miftah. I think a lot of you have heard about Miftah. They were in this semester before, and they're in Michigan. And they have a full-on boys program and now a girls' program as well. But they're in-person program. Let me forget. The earlier ones we said. Yeah, the earlier ones, yeah. Yeah, Rabata Jadda Institute, Friday night, Rahmah. Come here, Friday night. This one, I think, speaks to our time. If a Muslim man who is not responsible hasn't been a provider, doesn't take a leadership role in making the kids religious or anything else in the household. What is otherwise a good man? Is that man still superior to his wife? And does the hadith about his woman not being grateful to him still apply? And that's the first other medium. So there's a difference between Philk and relationship advice therapy. Philk is law, it's dry, it doesn't look at what are the dynamics of this? If you say this and he responds in this way, also actually it does mention some of those things for some rulings. But it's not going to say, respond to him in this way and then his heart will become soft and then your heart will become soft and then you're going to fall in love more and Philk doesn't deal with any of that. It's law. So from a dry legal perspective, if a husband is not financially providing fully for his wife, it does impact Philk. It absolutely impacts the rulings of the rights that he receives. But I'd like to go back to the end of the question which was something like, does that mean he's superior to his wife? Allah's Panawata either doesn't make the husband or the wife superior to one another in his sight. Both of you are equal in his sight. There is a level of responsibility that the husband has over the family and over the wife and the questioning that he will be asked as a shepherd or as the leader of the family and the way that he makes decisions that will impact the whole family with the support and the guidance and the discussion of his wife and his children and the family. Now there are going to be men and women who are abusive, who abuse their trust, who abuse their roles and their rights, including two children. And there is a legal system in place for when that takes place. But if we're not talking about abuse, we're just talking about he's a good man, which is what was mentioned, but he doesn't take care of financially providing his not in the role of a spiritual leader, which is I think what the question was alluding to. Then really in today, if you're asking this question and you're in California and you can't go to an Islamic court system and you're asking what to do, there's two things I would recommend. One, go to therapy. If you cannot go to therapy with your husband because he doesn't want to go or he refuses to go, go on your own. It's very important that you go and you seek what you can do differently or what you just need to hear for yourself and how that may or may not change the dynamic. So you going to speak to a professional is really key. That's much more important than you hearing, asking me who is not a professional in anything related to clinical science or relationships or marriage therapy, any of those things answering this question on how this going to impact your relationship. Please speak with a professional. That's the first thing. The second thing is this is a very general Q and A. Your specific situation should also be discussed with a person of knowledge. If there's an Imam or a sheikh that you trust, Dr. Rania herself, go to them and speak and ask about the specifics of your dynamic and seek advice because it sounds like you're saying he's a good man. That's not someone who you're afraid of. It's just maybe he's not giving you all of the rights aesthetically. And the third is looking at the rules of fiqh. So one, if he is not fully financially providing for you and you are contributing to the household, there's a few things that happen. One, scholars discuss that he no longer has the right to certain rights that he receives due to giving that provision. But again, when I say scholars say, I'm not going into all of the details. Scholars say is a huge statement. Which scholar? Which meth hub? How does the meth hub look at that issue? This is not the place for that longer discussion. I'm just giving you generalities that there are scholars who discuss whether or not the provision happens, how that impacts his rights. That's the first thing. The second thing is if you decide that you are going to contribute to the household, yes, it is sadaqa from you because you are not required to do it. So it's sadaqa from you. But some scholars also say that he cannot accept a sadaqa and it has to be a debt that he has to pay you back. And so in that case, you would need to write a contract that at some point he would need to repay you if that is what you're asking for. So these are just interesting ways that Islamic law looks at this issue. I'm not, I'm sorry, this isn't the place for like a long filth discussion on it. I guess the minor point is you have rights and Islam recognizes your rights to the mentality that he is somehow above you is unfortunately something that is absolutely seeped throughout Muslim, you know, many Muslim mindsets. But Allah s.w.t puts the honor and responsibility on both individuals in a marriage. The issue of who is going to make the final decision with certain aspects or who holds the more, who holds more weight in terms of responsibility is one that of course is a discussion within Islamic law, but also that falls on, are they fulfilling their rights, the rights and the responsibilities that they have in a household. And finally, please make sure that you speak with professionals. And I'm actually should have passed this question before even answering it to everybody else. I feel like, no, I feel like you're just such an amazing job. Literally what I was going to add was not exactly professional because it's like, that's the first step. But I just wanted to have one more thing was actually related to du'a which is something we talked about earlier in the questions. But I just want to tell the sister who asked this and any sisters who have a similar question or something else that they're dealing with similarly, please don't underestimate the power of du'a. Remember that people are, when you see them right now or in the years that you've known them, these are also stages or seasons of life. And people do have the propensity to change. Allah is so gracious to us. He allows for du'a, repentance and kind of coming back all the time. And so we hope that the person you're asking about is somebody who sees the light at some point, right? And is able to actually change. And the reason why we would tell a sister to really, if a person, if a man is good to her, husband is good to her in every other way, of not just sort of walking away from it, it's because if he has the propensity potentially to change, this could be a very powerful and wonderful marriage potentially, even though right now in this season it's very difficult. And so the reason I say that is because we have counseled women subhanAllah. And I sometimes share that some of you have heard these stories before, where year after year we see them in women's conferences and they have very difficult things happening at home. But how many times have I had a woman subhanAllah who I've met year after year after year with very difficult circumstances and I would say du'a, don't have to stay du'a. Make sure you're taking all the steps, the counseling and all the steps we talked about, but don't underestimate the power of du'a. And how beautiful is it? And this has truly happened, like it's a real thing that I've experienced in a women's conference like this, where after several years subhanAllah, she came and said, my husband is here? Here he is, Alhamdulillah. He's turned a corner.  Something happened in subhanAllah. Sometimes they're hard things or bad things that things ever bad with Allah subhanAllah. He sends us sometimes heavy things to wake us up, right? But they woke him up out of the stupor he was in subhanAllah and he turned a leaf. And I think that's really important subhanAllah. So just give some hope and advice that our teachers give us, Alhamdulillah. You know, many of the women who mentioned studying overseas, but there are being more barriers to travel and study now, even the countries that were named Syria and even Yemen, a difficulty to go there now because of the situation. But in the Bay, mashAllah, where there's so many different programs, there's still the issue of access. Like not everybody knows about the classes. Not everybody is able to come here. So what can we do to sort of connect? They mentioned the inner city youth, children that are coming or girls that are coming from immigrant families who don't necessarily have transportation or just their locality doesn't have classes. I can just, we're trying to branch out. So what we're doing currently is we're working with a group of sisters who are being mentored as part of our Friday night program. The pre-class, our teachers do take a class. Right now they're taking with Dr. Rania to mentor their teaching. And then they're running their own halakha in Oakland. So we do have that on the radar. It's something that we've done in the past in different communities and we want to expand because we know that access is difficult in terms of families coming to Pleasanton, especially on a Friday night, we all know the traffic situation and such. So it's definitely something on our radar. I wanna just answer that question. What did Susanne go? Did she run? We gotta get her back. There are some questions related to what about nail polish, other like flip questions. And I would just say those type of questions really need a course of study because there's a lot of what ifs to your Avada. And the best thing and the best advice is just to complete a program so that when you stand in your prayer, you don't have to deal with doubt. And then you focus on being mindful in that Avada. So I would say that. And then


Okay, welcome back. We're here live in Las Vegas. This is SiliconANGLE in Wikibon's theCUBE, our flagship program, we go out to the advanced district of SiliconANGLE as I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm Joe, my cohost, Dave Vellante. Our next guest, Bruno Kurtik, founding VP, product strategy for Sumo Logic. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much. Pleasure to be here. So, you guys are in the same hot market right now. Splunk went public. We just covered the Splunk conference. They're competitive viewers. There's plenty of beach for everyone, right? The fruits are coming off the tree, as they say in the paradise they'll call big data. So, you guys really are in a hot market.  There's data flying around everywhere, certainly more than ever, certainly with cloud. Again, more connected devices, internet of things. You name it, it's thrown off data. Machine data, people data, log data. So, hot market. So, tell us about what you guys are doing as a company and then the role here at AWS. Sure. So, we're focusing on the machine data. So, as you say, the exhaust of IT infrastructure and other things such as the internet of things, machine to machine data, things like that. So, we have a different angle on this data set, right? We fundamentally believe that human and a query language simply can't conquer this data set. That the data growth is so big and exponential in nature that in order to actually mine it for insights and actually be able to solve availability and performance issues, security issues as they emerge, you need to have more than just a human looking at the data. So, we've invested heavily into machine learning capabilities essentially to augment what a human does by applying a very smart algorithm to pre-process the data, to boil the ocean and really try to find areas of focus for a human so to dive deeper on. So, you're not taking the human out of the equation. No, we're not. You're trying to dramatically compress the time it takes a human to get to the right decision. That's right. We believe actually that it is, you know, you can have a very smart algorithm, but that smart algorithm isn't going to do anything without really a human expert input. So, we believe that ultimately it's the combination of human and an algorithm that will enable enterprise to find insights in this data set. Somebody said to me the other day, I wonder if Bruno, you could comment on this. We're down in the Hadoop world, we had our own event, Big Data NYC. Abhimeta, I think, John was on the Cube and he basically said, look, algorithms are free. Really, it's what you do with that algorithm. It's how you integrate them. It's the applications that you write. Do you agree with that? Oh, I absolutely do.  It was a great algorithm, but it's the fact that they harvest the human feedback and merge that with the algorithm to actually makes them the most effective search engine, right?  It is how you use it. It's how you collect the data. It's how you collect the insight and the feedback to the algorithm that actually makes it more powerful. So, internet of things, obviously, is, you know, all the rage, industrial internet.  Talk about your play there and what that means to you. So, one of the reasons why we are actually built in AWS and why we decided that we're going to make this as a cloud offering was not because we wanted to bake a cloud version of a non-premise software. It's because the cloud fundamentally offers us the architectural methodology or architectural possibility to actually keep up with the volumes of data that we're facing today. So, we are in AWS and we run our footprint across multiple physical locations. We're actually able to scale our footprint on demand as our data growth goes up. We can expand our footprint and as it winds down, we can contract it as we need. So, it's an on-demand compute and it's all about the architecture and how you actually try to leverage that compute. So, we've architected the product in order to keep up with the data volumes that are, you know, for the next decade. So, how do you guys deal on the platform? So, one of the things that we find interesting in this market is that it's kind of a use case where it's a tool, it's a hammer, everything looks like a nail, that's the old expression, but in reality, the initial use cases that we've seen in this market is it's a big aspirin, pain relief. But really, it's about not just that it's enablement. So, talk about what you guys are enabling because what ends up happening in all these cases, we talk to your customers and Splunk customers is like, hey, this liberates me, I get to find stuff faster, I get to do something else. And so, really, it's not just solving a problem, it enables them. Can you talk a little bit about how you see that evolving? What is that enablement? What's that next step? What are customers bolting on top of your platform? So, that's actually a great point. You know, we obviously start with those core use cases that every customer of ours wants to satisfy. We start with availability and performance, making sure that they reduce downtime, reduce the amount of time that it takes to repair issues, moving to security to detect security issues and all of that. And so, yes, of course, we start with compressing the amount of time it takes our customers to find those critical events. But it doesn't stop there, right? Part of the whole SaaS offering aspect of our product is that not only do we compress that time and free up your time, free up IT time to actually go chasing the right issues, but we also reduce their dependence or their requirement for them to actually manage the underlying infrastructure to manage those laws, right?  And from our perspective, I believe in Adam Smith, right? Specialization, we don't want to rack and stack servers. We don't Amazon do that for us. We don't believe that our customers should learn how to run big data technologies. We will do that, they just get to benefit from it. So we sort of give them that opportunity on a couple of different angles. Let's talk about cloud trails with the announcement here at Amazon. Obviously, Amazon is dipping their toe in the water in a real way. You got VDI and managed desktops with workspaces they announced. The cloud trail also shows you that, hey, we're serious about compliance. We're serious about getting the little things, the minimum table stakes, as we say in theCUBE. What's your relationship with that? Operationally, how does that make organizations behave differently? How does that scale your opportunity? So, I think cloud trail is fundamentally a strategic enabler for AWS. I think it's beyond just providing data for compliance use cases and others. I think the inability or the lack of visibility or the opaqueness, if you want, of cloud infrastructures around the world, not just Amazon, but everybody else's, has been a major roadblock in adoption of these technologies or cloud by large enterprises. And when you run on premise, you can see everything. You get the audit data. Who's doing what? Who's touching with infrastructure components? Who's changing passwords? Who's doing what to our network? You couldn't do that in Amazon or in any other place. So with this announcement today, what they've actually done is they've removed a massive roadblock from serious companies adopting this and gaining a comfort level about what the users are doing and what's being changed in their infrastructure. And everybody in their right mind wants to have that for their production system. How are you guys competing with Splunk? Obviously they're going public. How do you compare against Splunk? How do you talk about the competition? That's my favorite question. So Splunk is a good company, right? They've sort of paved the road for this market. We think that we're fundamentally different than Splunk in a few core ways. First, we're SaaS. We talk about that. Everybody understands that it's, we reduce, dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership that our customers have to sort of spend on running these technologies and gaining the benefits. Second is that we're highly elastic. So for a lot of use cases where there's a lot of bursting, a lot of seasonality, like think about online retail where a company might have 10 times more data that during the Christmas season than during the rest of the year, it's really hard to plan for that. It's really hard to deploy, sort of build out the church for Sunday for the rest of the 10 months of the year. So we don't force them to do that. We provision for the mean and we expand and contract our product footprint and as such translate those cost savings to our customers. But that's ultimately not fundamentally. So it's really SaaS, but they announced their availability of cloud trails thing with this, but they use Amazon machine images. That's different. That's API based. So they're bolting their deal on to the software, right? So that's fundamentally the difference. Your SaaS cloud, their enterprise. Well, you know, it'll be up to the customers to decide what's the right way to SaaS, right? We believe that, you know, we from the get go architect our product to leverage the Amazon services as an API. So to us data center is this virtual thing that we can spin up 10 times as much capacity as we want on demand, right? Porting on-premise technology into the cloud is an entirely different proposition, right? And we've seen how that goes. And you know, we'll let the market decide what the right way.  So we'll see. We'll see how it's going to go. I mean, but fundamentally the way that we compete with our main competitor Splunk is that, you know, we've invested into the machine learning capabilities, which we believe are fundamental in actually conquering this data center. Humans simply can't get along. The game is just starting.  I always say to people, this is the next Google is in this market, because that's a search paradigm. You guys have discovery, technology, all the contextual behavioral data. I think the next revolution is going to write in your wheelhouse. So be fun to watch. We're tracking you guys Bruno. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate it. Tech athlete, another tech athlete. I love talking to the guys who run strategy and founding product theme. That means they know the product and they can talk about the chessboard. Thanks for coming on live here in Las Vegas with CUBE. We'll be right back after this short break for the next guest.


Now, look at how many businesses have written letters to, for example, Commission President Fonda Line complaining about reversals in the Green Deal because they have made the investments to make that transition happen. So you shouldn't disincentivise that and you need to show the costs of going backwards. And that's a very interesting point, because we spoke to Roman Pardo. He represents the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability and he actually speaks on behalf of companies like IKEA and Amazon. We can take a listen to his take on these targets. Hiberdrola, who are investing 47 billion euros in renewable energy between 2023 and 2025, or on the demand side, IKEA, which is working with its suppliers to use renewable energy throughout this value chain. So it's really practices like this that a robust target will encourage. Climate action yields competitiveness benefits. The global market for clean technologies is worth trillions of euros. It will become exponentially worth a lot more as we move forward in the future. So we really see that as a business opportunity rather than a cost for businesses. So Roman Pardo making the case, the business case for clean take Tommy. Exactly. And where we should go?


Welcome back to the NPTEL lectures on Bioelectricity. So, in the last class I introduced to the curriculum what I am going to follow. And I talked to you about the five modules under which this course we dealt with and I also highlighted the fact that each of the modules will be stand alone. So, you really can pick up any module and go through it.  So, that will kind of give you an idea where everything fits in because whenever we do a course kind of we lose track like what is the central theme how this whole course is being structured. And especially in a field like bioelectricity which is so diverse from inanimate object to animate object the insect world the world of plants and everything. So, where this all these things kind of converge where really why we devote time. So, today's class will be kind of giving you an overall outline the flow diagram how we are going to progress of course your five modules will remain there those are the five modules we are going to follow, but all those five module can be put under one graphical representation and that graphical representation is extremely essential for you people to kind of appreciate or the integral theme or I should say the central theme behind this whole exercise of 40 lectures where kind of you know you should be able to correlate each and every component of nature. And either you can go on a very fundamental research fundamental studies about it or based on the fundamental findings you can think of how this could be used for different kind of applications like biosensors or you know prosthetic devices or bioenergy plethora of application all over the place ok. So, the way I am going to put the graphical representation just give let me give you a verbal idea about it. So, first of all it will be in a in a tabular fashion will depicted. So, in the left most column we will talk about the system which will be studying it could be an inanimate system it could be insect system it could be the systems of animals it could be a plant system. Then we will talk about the examples under those headings. Then we will talk about the exact physiology or the exact bioelectrical aspect we are going to study in that aspect and what are the techniques which involved in those kind of a study and result of those studies where we can take it ok. So, overall starting from the basic identifying the system characterize the system understanding the mechanism system and the tools employed in the system and last, but not the least is where we can take it from there. So, let me start with slowly drawing the chart with you at every quarter of a stop and I will give you my opinion on it and let us get the whole graphical sketch of the whole course. So, coming back this is where we are bioelectricity this is lecture 2 and the title of the this class will be graphical representation sorry sorry graphical representation of the divers bioelectrical events implications. So, to start off with as I told you so will be the system identification that will be our first system identification this is the first system after the system identification we will move on to bioelectrical phenomena of that system. Next we will talk about the measurement techniques how we are you know measurement techniques then we will talk about the advance applications I expect you people to kind of keep this so what I expect is that I want this to be act as a guiding principle or should be part of your brain map. So, whatsoever in the next rest of the classes what I will be teaching rest of the course you should always try to correlate it with where exactly all those small pieces of information or puzzles are fitting. So, at the end of it you should have a very holistic picture of nature how nature is surrounded or pretty much bioelectrical phenomena is should say integral part of the evolution of nature itself and whatsoever we study in basic physics they are all over the place in biology all over the place it is just we have to identify the system and kind of you know quantify the system and establish a link with the existing laws of nature which have been governed in physical world. So, coming back to the first system identification part this is our system one. So, basically we will be talking about inanimate object as the first one inanimate objects of biological origin. So, in this context I will take you back to some of the most fundamental studies which were done almost I should say 40 to 45 years back while there are some people who are studying the thermoregulation behavior in the hornet nest. So, all of you must have seen a hornet nest at some place or other you know the hornest kind of in the corner of the buildings or somewhere and a very intense study was taken up somewhere in the Mediterranean in Israel by Jacob Ishe and other co-workers to figure out how these different nests of nature maintain regulate their temperature and in that journey of last 40 years what all has been discovered what are the different bioelectrical phenomena. So, in this the example will be the first example out here will be temperature regulation temperature regulation in hornet nest. So, the bioelectrical phenomena is out here is thermo electrical event. So, talking about thermo electrical event. So, we will be talking about some of the very basic events of nature like seabake effect, peltier effect. So, these are some of the most fundamental properties where thermal energy is being translated or transformed into electrical energy and vice versa electrical energy is dissipated in the form of thermal energy and there are materials which showed such behavior and those kind of materials are being utilized for refrigeration for active cooling and likewise there are several other applications of such devices. So, nature indeed has such interesting mechanisms to regulate temperature. So, the bioelectrical phenomena which will be dealing in the hornet nest is relevant to that what are the different current and voltages how they are regulating temperature and all those things and one of the instrumentation what will be involved in it basically will be talking about the electro meters which has the ability to. So, talking about the electro meters. So, electro meters are devices which can measure current of very very low amplitude very low magnitude like pico ampere nano ampere with high high end fidelity they can measure it. So, we will be talking about electro meters. So, now if you look at it in perspective. So, if you look at it that section one falls under all the different phenomena section two falls under the different events and section three is about the instrumentation because they are all interlinked with each other and advance applications of it. So, advance application of it is one of the applications is inspiration sustainable buildings. So, this is one of the major inspiration using bio compatible thermo regulatory mechanism. So, here I wish to highlight something. So, most of us who live in tropics or temperate countries during the summer we are totally dependent on an air conditioner. So, which basically essentially it does only one thing it pulls out the air molecules and reduces the collision and between the air molecules within a room using a very strong pump they sucking out air and thereby reducing the collision and making the room cooler that is what an AC does. Now, think of a situation and this process of pulling out air from a room needs enormous amount of energy these are all high power devices. Now, think of a situation if you can replace amount of energy which it needs could be replaced by something which is which can maintain the temperature of a room at within a very comfortable biological regime how that room will be how our life will be. So, these are some of the inspiration which we derive from nature and they intensely involve a whole lot of biological phenomena. So, this is this will be our first topic what we will be dealing with under the heading of system identification, biological phenomena measurement techniques and the advance applications the imagination tomorrow what will happen we do not know, but if we keep on doing this intense research one day the world may be a very different place. So, let us move on to the next one exactly under the same heading. So, again the system identification I will just put system ID as the first column then bio electrical phenomena as the second column then techniques I am just putting the short form and advance application a. So, the second thing we will be dealing with will be the world of insects what we learn from them. So, talking about insects, insects have evolved or probably one of the most evolved species on the floor of earth they have survived millions of years of turbulent weather turbulent climatic condition geological changes and they still survive and they have adapted several mechanism of energy conservation energy harvesting and several innumerable known and unknown survival strategies in order to ensure that they survive the onslaught of time the changing time. So, in that process some of these insects specially some of these hornets have developed certain mechanism by which they can perhaps sunlight and converted into energy exactly the same way a plant does. So, in other word within their body specially in their wings and in the abdomen they have certain specific molecules which functions as solar energy trapper they can trap the solar energy and they can convert that and in other word essentially what you are talking about they are living mobile solar cells. So, we will be talking about these kind of solar materials which are found in nature which has the ability to convert light energy into electrical energy. So, specially we will be talking about in the hornet and we will be talking about solar cells in hornet. So, in other word here we will be talking about the phenomena will be solar energy to electrical energy and of course, the different techniques which would be used will be mostly electrical measurement electrical signal measurement sorry and apart from it will have light signal quantification. And among that advanced application future energy harvesting to energy harvesting I should say strategy. So, we will pick up one example from the insect kingdom and we will talk about how the insects harvest energy from nature and this is something which could be a big inspiration for the future where as all of you have seen that silicon industry is almost hitting the roof crystalline silicon's efficiency is around 70 percent and 70 to 20 percent may be maximum that to in the lab conditions. So, there is intense search for molecules which are much easily available synthesized above more green and more biocompatible which does not need the extensive cost of processing silicon. So, in that line one approach I inspiration from nature is what I just now explained is in that lies in the cuticles of the hornets and if we could synthetically develop those compounds they may have immense potential to look forward. So, let us identify the third system from here again there will be four columns this time again the same thing system identification the column one s i system identification the biological or bioelectrical phenomena the instrumentation and advance applications. So, here we will be talking about the world of plants another very diverse kingdom and the only known biological system with its fullest ability could harvest sunlight gets the light converted into electrical energy in terms of flow of electron and helps us to synthesize helps to synthesize food in the food chain they are the auto tropes auto tropes auto means self tropes means they have the ability to synthesize food and we all depend on these auto tropes or our livelihood. So, they are kind of the pillars of the ecosystem based on those pillars all our the whole food chain is dependent upon. So, that is one of their most fundamental contribution apart from it they have wide range of sensors in their body they have touch sensors in the form of mimosa boutica they have touch sensor as well as mechanical can say touch sensor coordinated with a mechanical door in terms of venus fly trap where they could you know trap an insect, but that whole mechanism by which biology ensures a fantastic micro electromechanical system which all of you comes to the name of MEMS. So, biology already had these kind of MEMS in built in their system. So, that is an inspiration for those who are working in the domain of MEMS or miniaturization or mesoscopic devices it is a big inspiration. So, that is a third thing we will be dealing with apart from it the whole world is. So, beautiful because of the beautiful flowers all over the place and these beautiful flowers that is something very amazing actually they are the inspiration for dye sensitize solar cells those of you have heard like a grad cell cells after the name of grad cell who has done pioneering work in the field of dye sensitize solar cells. So, what are those different I should say different components of nature which contribute to develop different kind of dye sensitize solar cells because that is as I was telling in the previous slide that silicon is silicon technology is hitting the roof. So, we all are looking forward for next generation. So, dye sensitize solar cell is another one in that line. So, different ruthenium dye is different floral dyes and all those things which are derived from nature which is a basically an inspiration to develop the next generation of high end dyes. So, talking about the plant kingdom now that is what I have just narrated you. So, plant kingdom. So, within the plant kingdom will have a we will be talking about photosynthesis. Then we will be talking about the Mimosa pudica or touch me not for touch sensor this is for light to electrical to food. Then you have venous fly trap which is basically a biomems trap and then we will be talking about dye sensitize. So, the flowers flower dye or dye sensitized solar cells. So, the instrument here there are multiple instruments which are being used which are fairly common. Of course, you need the electro meters amplifiers whole lot of bio chemical techniques to study photosynthesis and you need the high end mims microelectromechanical systems and likewise several other instrumentation which is needed. And among the advanced application in terms of photosynthesis we are talking about artificial leaf I am coming to this or does that mean. So, say for example, we talked about photosynthesis. So, essentially what is happening on the leaf surface light is falling and this light energy ejects an electron a photon is being absorbed ejects an electron. And this electron through the cascade of to a pathway along the chloroplast leads to the formation of glucose molecule which is being consumed by our body. And of course, it goes through for system 1 for system 2 and the output of this is you are splitting a water molecule to oxygen as a by product and you are evolving hydrogen. So, there are two inspiration here the first inspiration is that making synthetic chlorophyll molecules which could be used for trapping solar energy and ejecting an electron that is one approach. The second approach is that So, coming back let me the second approach is that whatsoever we get inspiration in terms of the manganese cluster for splitting water. So, let me talk about at this line let me make one correction here and if this is one aspect of it is another aspect of it which is water splitting. And this is all taking place within the domain of photosynthesis and artificial leaf or we can add something else here also synthetic chlorophyll for solar energy artificial leaf or water splitting. So, understanding photosynthesis and emulating photosynthesis could have profound impact in our understanding of nature. This is one of the most fundamental reactions of energy conservation which is being followed by nature. So, we will go in depth into photosynthesis and we will talk about it and from there we will move on to the water splitting cluster which is part of the photosynthetic machinery. So, then we talked about Mimosa pudica or the touch sensors. So, these touch sensors they have been studied for almost last 100 years and some of the pioneering studies were done by Sir J. C. Bose and he made some very pioneering contribution and we will talk about his contribution where he talked about whether plants have nervous system or not. As a matter of fact in some of his philosophical transactions he had kind of hinted upon that these are rudimentary nervous systems of plants which could sense touch and we will talk in depth and what are the different devices which are being used and what is the current status of the field and which could be an inspiration for developing touch sensor for the future. So, we will talk about J. C. Bose's contribution touch sensor and while talking about these touch sensors I wish to highlight one more point that he is among those very first people Bose's among those first people who could show a functional semiconductor device in the form of gallon and we will talk about a little bit more. So, now coming back to the Venice flight trap here. Venice flight trap is a kind of device where which has a inbuilt touch sensor as well as a mechanical event. So, whenever an insect comes and sits there it stimulates the some part of the flower and there is a hood which closes in like this. So, in other words this is a touch sensor coupled with a mechanical door touch to mechanical door and this whole connection is could be an big inspiration future for developing MEMS based devices and which is purely an electrical and mechanical phenomena. So, we are talking about here a touch coupled with mechanical action this is what Venice flight trap will be studying and then we will be talking about some of the contribution made by professor Gratzel who is among the pioneer in developing a dye sensitize solar cells or Gratzel cells which is commonly known. So, we will be talking about some of those dye sensitize solar cells and basically talking about some of the contribution of professor Gratzel and his Gratzel cells or sorry and we will be talking about energy harvesting and in the previous slide while I was talking in previous to previous slide while we were talking about inanimate objects of biological origin I will have one more column which I have not mentioned. So, if this one is the first one. So, we talk about this will be the second one which is the world of insects and we talk about the third one insect plant kingdom. So, there are two more which are left actually I have not talked to you about the kingdom of animal which I will be anyway I will be talking in the next class and there is one more section which I will be introducing which is not very clearly highlighted in the course part is about some of the very primitive inorganic molecules which has some amazing electrical characteristics which has wide range of implication in biological processes and we will talk about those. So, I will close in here today we will continue here with the same graphical scheme of things in the next class and then we will move on to the different steps of the course. Thanks a lot.


The coalition of non-energins residing in the river state has said that the minister of transportation, Chibi Akiyamechi, is more qualified than other presidential aspirants. The group disclosed this at a briefing in Portaqot, adding that he is eminently qualified, having had a rich experience in government spanning over 20 years. Having Esre his qualities, he has a very tall credentials. Most of the things that we are moribund in the ministry, today they have come alive. He is a dogged and fearless fellow and when you trust him with a position, he do his best and we are calling him in a strong term without any hesitation. He has the capacity. He is capable.  Not just that, employment of teachers was great. I think he employed about 13,000 teachers here in river state. We have so many reasons why we call him. During his tenure as governor, Rotimi Akiyamechi has built more than 120 clinic in river state and free of charge for everybody, both indigent and non-indigent. To me, I describe him as a David of our own generation. He did well for everybody, especially women. Different empowerment for women, for our men, our youth, he did well.


Well folks, we have a couple of rumors for you. Well, one of them is technically a report, but report and rumor are pretty much the same thing and there's nothing we can verify anyways. But we got some new stuff going on out there. One of these rumors, and we're calling this a rumor even though it's coming from Pioro, is about what might be shown in tomorrow's Pokemon Presents. It's interesting at least. I don't know if people are gonna be really excited about it, if what he has heard. And again, he's noting that this may not be what's in the Pokemon Presents. But he says he doesn't even know what's in the Pokemon Presents just that he heard something last year. So we're gonna talk about that. And yes folks, we have some more stuff on Nintendo Switch 2 when it comes to release timing. And also why the system was delayed. This is coming right out of Japan. So pretty fascinating. But first, let's go ahead and dive right into our 100% leaker here in Pioro. Now he went out there and he said, I don't know anything about the Pokemon Presents. Well, I heard of an outsourced Yanova related game. The info was from last year, so it may turn out to be inaccurate. And then this guy says Pioro being straightforward and not speaking in riddles. This is both shocking and extremely disappointing. And now I'm very curious as to what's going on. And Pioro goes, this is not a leak and should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm just sharing something I'm aware of. Now this is obviously fascinating. Pokemon Black and White were pretty good games. And this is something people have wanted to see a remake of for some time. The thing is, is when you hear outsourced, well the last remakes, remasters, whatever you want to call them, that they outsourced ended up being Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, which ended up pretty much being the exact same games, not really like new content. And it was literally the same perspective and everything. It was a chibi art style, which look, some of you guys really did enjoy, but some of you were also like disappointed in it. I know I was very disappointed in it and I played through it and beat the game and thought it was just ridiculous. Granted, I don't really enjoy Diamond and Pearl in the first place, but this did nothing to make me enjoy it in the modern day. But I did note that they went on to sell like 14, 15 million copies. And I sat there and I'm like, you know, for how much money they probably spent on the outsource which is probably fairly cheap, they probably were super happy with the return. Now, there's a positive spin to this I want to get to, but first just note that I do think that this could potentially be the games that come this year. We could get it announced tomorrow morning at Pokemon Presents. We will be live streaming that and we'll put a link down in the description to our live stream of it. But I'm just, I'm very fascinated that this is the route they're going, especially since, hey, they could use some positive buzz around Pokemon, especially in Wake of Powell World and all the issues with, you know, Scarlet and Violet. And instead they're going to be dropping a game that looks some people might be looking forward to and it probably will sell all right, but isn't exactly the big, exciting game people were hoping like for a Legends game. Now, of course, he does note, hey, Pioro's not actually treating this like he treats all his other stuff. This is old information. Of course, it be an older to me kind of makes it more likely, but I guess we'll wait and see what happens tomorrow. Now, I said there's a positive to this and this is that if the Pokemon company is continuing to outsource games, it also means that Game Freak is spending more time on the games they are making, whether it's the next Legends games or whether it's the new generation that people expect to come next year or the year after. What's very fascinating when you actually look at that is we've been asking forever for them to give more time to game development and outsourcing some of these remakes and remasters does just that. It gives Game Freak more time to spend on the new games, right? The new Legends game that we hope happens someday or the new generation that will happen someday. So, look, it does kind of suck, but also at the same breath, what do we want? Like we want them to spend more time making games that are still gonna have games come out in between. They're not gonna give up game revenue in order to do that. So, the compromise from the Pokemon company, if this ends up being true, is that, hey, we're gonna outsource this stuff which you guys might complain about, but it keeps our revenue models flowing. Meanwhile, we're actually spending more time developing the big games. So, I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there as this might not be the worst thing in the world and is definitely something that we should, at least note heading into the presentation, especially since Pioro has a very big, 100% track record and on top of that, this is just like, hey, he's even warning us, he's not treating this like other information. All right, now we go out there and we gotta talk about Nintendo Switch 2 because we're brand new ports coming out of Nikkei and Nikkei tends to be fairly accurate with their reports, but again, you can treat it as a rumor because we can't verify any of this. And we got this all translated over here and taken care of by Video Game Chronicle because the article is behind a paywall and I tried to become a paid member over there but I don't have yen in converting cards overseas. It's really complicated. So we're gonna rely on Video Game Chronicle here and he said that Switch 2 is targeting March, 2025 and was delayed to avoid shortages and new report claims. Nikkei corroborates previous reporting on Nintendo's successor, console. So, Nintendo's Next Games console is targeting a launch in March of 2025. That's according to a new report by Japanese news publication, Nikkei, and again, it notes its paywall which claims that the Switch successor's internal delay first reported by Video Game Chronicle and others earlier this month was partly so that Nintendo could avoid potential hardware supply issues. Although Nintendo had planned a launch in late 2024 for Switch 2, according to Nikkei, priority was given to ensure the initial inventory of the successor console and a lineup of software titles at the time of its launch in an attempt to avoid widespread reselling. So Nintendo's delaying it supposedly, reportedly rumored to be because, hey, we saw what happened with PlayStation 5. We don't want that to happen to our system. We wanna have so much stock, it's impossible to happen. That is certainly a way to handle things, that's for sure. Now it goes on to say that Nikkei says it expects the next Nintendo console to be a hybrid portable home device similar to Switch as reported by previously by VGC. The publication also corroborates the machine. We'll have a larger screen than the original Switch's 6.2-inch display which, again, has already been reported. Eight-inch screen, LCD, all that stuff. That's some prior reports and rumors. Nikkei notes that the Switch 2 could yet slip beyond March of 2025 and is dependent on manufacturing and how much software is ready for launch. So if we go down here as reported earlier this month, VGC have removed multiple sources that Nintendo had told publishers its next console will not launch in Q1 of 2025. According to those sources, third-party game companies were recently briefed on an internal delay. And Nintendo's next-gen launch chiming from late 2024 to early the following year. One publishing source suggested the delay was so that Nintendo could prepare stronger first-party software for the console. And what's missing there is Andy Robinson added some context where he couldn't get anyone else to corroborate that that was the reason and he wouldn't understand why any of these third-party companies would even know what Nintendo's software pipeline is. So you can look at that for what you will. I don't know that the source is super strong on that. But now you have Nikkei also saying that, hey, software-related things could be part of it, but it sounds like manufacturing might be the biggest reason. Like, yes, they are making Switch 2s this year, but Nintendo might want 10, 20, did I say 30 million? Are they banking that high that they're presuming? Remember, we use sold 13 million. So imagine they make 30 million of these and it doesn't fly off shelves. And now they're in discount bins for 50 bucks. That would be a nightmare scenario for Nintendo. But they're banking on supposedly, if they're trying to combat scalping, that means they're banking on this thing flying off shelves. And if they're banking on it flying off shelves, that means they're gonna have a massive supply at launch. And that would just be insane.  So imagine that Nintendo's way to combat scalping is, we're just gonna put so many systems into the market that it's impossible for that to happen. That's a very interesting business strategy because also if you flood the market with too many, you can also end up overstocking. And overstocking has a negative effect on businesses because when you overstock an item and flood the market, it usually ends up driving the price of your system down because retailers aren't gonna maintain that level of shelf space if the systems aren't moving quick enough. So you really have to assume that things are gonna fly off the shelf. Look, maybe Nintendo's confident it will and that's because of the software. Again, we don't know what the software lineup is, but whatever Nintendo's preparing, maybe they're just that confident because they know the big, massive games. People are gonna wanna buy these systems to play. And so maybe Nintendo just knows, yeah, we're gonna sell 30 million because we know what our first year lineup is and we know how many people want it. And imagine that in the year one, they sell 20 plus million even like that is, that would be insane to me if they sell 20 plus million. I mean, even 10 million at launch would be like an all-time record. So I'm just gonna sit back and see what's happening here. What I will say is as much as it sucks that the system is reportedly coming out in 2025, if the reason is to make it not hard to get, I don't actually mind that. I don't mind if that is actually the reason I would like to see scalping reduced as much as possible and Nintendo taking measures against that to me does make me smile a little bit. Obviously we have to consider the other part of the report as well as that Nintendo is willing to delay it beyond March of 2025. But obviously that doesn't mean anything at this point. And it is something that was already talked about in the prior reports. Like, yeah, it could always slip out of that window, but the chances of it actually slipping out of that window might be pretty slim. And yeah, Nintendo should be announcing it at some point this year. And that seems to be pretty consistent across the board. So once it's announced, I think it's fair to say it's coming out within a year maybe of it being announced, if not less time. So we'll see. All I know folks is I'm pretty excited for this system. I'm a little tepid on what's happening with the Pokemon presents tomorrow. But of course, even if a black and white, Chibi style remaster, remake, whatever you wanna call it is announced tomorrow. That doesn't mean that's gonna be the only Pokemon game announced. So there could be some other exciting ones. Heck, a Pockin Tournament DX2, or just they probably wouldn't even use DX. Probably just use the number two. That would be pretty sick from Bandai Namco. So there could be a lot of really fun announcements tomorrow on the Pokemon presents. So we'll see. For right now though, the expectation at least based on a rumor is black and white being kind of not that great, unless they went with a different company. They could have outsourced to a different company and maybe they're treating black and white even better. Maybe they outsourced to Bandai Namco. And if they did that, well Bandai Namco has been fantastic. So I would actually like to see what they could do with a remaster if they were given the opportunity. Anyways guys, thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nathan Rebel Jance. Let me know your thoughts down below and we'll catch you in the next video, live stream or whatever we end up doing today.


We're just like this, if you pop down, pass to the side. Raise your seat too, man. You'll be able to see more, it's cooler this way. All right, go ahead and take us straight forward. You can give it plenty of gas. Just bear in mind, once we start turning, we don't want to make super sharp turns, okay? So just take us dead ahead. I want to be going to the right of that building that says, yeah, yes. So right, this heading is good. Going straight, straight on, right in the middle of those two clouds. Do that while moving.


Are you a high performer because of your habits? Or are you a high performer in spite of your habits? If you were to list the things that you do consistently, especially on the book ends of your day, your morning and evening routine, the things that you do on a very regular basis, which percentage of those are helping you become the best version of yourself and which of those are hindering you? Which one of those are moving you in the right direction and which one of those are dragging you down? Here's your first actionable takeaway. I want you to write down a list of the things that fill your bucket, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. The things that charge you up, the things that give you energy, the things that make you smile, the things that add to your confidence level. I want you to write those things down. Then on the other side of the paper, with honesty and vulnerability, I want you to write down how you've been spending the book ends of your day.   And then to complete the audit, I want you to compare the two sides of the paper. Compare the two sets of notes. And I want you to ask yourself one of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself. Are you doing the things that you know you need to do to be your best self? Are you doing the things you feel you should be doing to become your best self? And I can almost promise you, even the highest performers in this room, if you do this with honesty and vulnerability, you're going to start to uncover what's called a performance gap. And a performance gap is the gap between what we know and what we do. And even the highest performers in the world have a series of performance gaps, but they have worked relentlessly to make those at a razor's thin edge. You need to start closing the gap between what you know you should be doing. Remember, you came up with this list. I didn't come up with it. You know that you need to do the things on the left side of the paper. Now it's up to you to make the time to prioritize yourself and emphasize self-care so that you start doing the things that are on the right side of the paper. And you don't have to change everything at once. Start to sprinkle some of the stuff from the left side over onto the right side, even if it's only five to 10 minutes at a time. But you owe it to yourselves, you owe it to your families, you owe it to the groups that you work with to show up to everything as the best version of yourself. And the only way you can do that is through your habits. The only way you can do that is by making the time to fill your own bucket. So those are our habits.


So I'll ask this question. Should MLB alter its voting process when it comes to the All-Star Game or the end of the year awards? No, and no. The All-Star Game, as JD talked about, is for the fans. This is, fortunately now, no longer determining home field advantage in the World Series. This is a showcase for the fans, a celebration of baseball, mid-sember classic. It should be in the fans' hands there. Now, the post-season awards, interestingly, Mike and Rob, those are of course as Rob knows, we vote on those. They are handed out by the Baseball Writers Association of America. So it's not MLB that hands them out. It's the writers. If JD wants to have his own awards, they call him the JD Awards, he can start his own awards if he wants to. But there are awards, and Rob and I vote for them. So, and from that standpoint, we have realized a tradition in this game for a long time. The writers, they don't always get it right, but they usually do. And Rob, I think for now, we're okay in both areas. No doubt about it. First of all, you're right. The All-Star Game is about the fans. There are some fans who would rather see Aaron Judge strike out three times than somebody else hit. I'm serious. So we should allow the fans to see who they want. It's their game. Let them enjoy it. And as far as the awards, here's whenever I hear players say, oh, the writers shouldn't vote. What do we know? We should leave it up to the players and coaches. Barry Bonds was a great player, but wasn't a friend of the media. Not at all. Am I right, JP? Right, correct. Not at all. Barry Bonds won seven MVPs voted on by the writers. Why? Because he was that good. His numbers were that great. Yes, Ed. And I would say this too. In talking about the writers voting for Bonds, Rob, and you know this from that generation and even today, our votes now, because of social media, thank you very much, are now even more transparent than ever. We have to answer it on social media, on shows like this, because as you know, Rob, your votes are all made public. So when you cast that ballot, any biases that may have existed in the past, to me, I think they're rooted out even more now than they were before because you have to answer for it to everybody. And here's the problem when you talk about players voting. The NBA gave the right to players to vote in 2017. There were 324 players. 128 didn't vote for LeBron James. 154 didn't vote for Kevin Durant. So there's an issue there. There's a conflict of interest. People are jealous. There's all kinds of cliques. So here it is. You think the players would know and everybody would do the right thing. It doesn't work out that way. I gotta police you a little bit on that because when it comes to the players, yes, there's a little jealousy sometimes when it comes to some of the star players and they wanna vote for their buddies and not vote for guys like LeBron James. But can you tell me without a doubt that you guys as esteemed as you are and as great as you are, that there isn't a little bias when it comes to the way you vote. If there's a guy, if it's between one guy, two guys and there's one guy that you like a little bit better personally that you'll give him more of an edge over some guy that might be a little bit of a, you know, what, butthole or something like that. Well, to me, I know for me and Rob, I know you feel the same way. We study this so much and we really do take a lot of pride in this. There was one year and Rob, you may remember that. Not you personally, but I'm talking about other guys. It could be. It could be. You know it is. There was one year in 2012, Sion voting. I was one of the Detroit voters on that and I voted for David Price. Had I voted for Verlander, Verlander would have won. I was a Detroit voter, I voted for David Price, then at the Tampa Bay Rays. Oh, that went over well, didn't it? My grandfather almost uninvited me for Thanksgiving that year, okay? But you gotta do what you're writing, what's honest? Exactly, and I told my grandfather, I said, listen, grandpa, I did what I thought I had to do. David Price won 20 games. He won the ERA title in the American League East. I felt like he deserved it. And he said, son, you voted your conscience. I'm proud of you. So I really think Rob, for us, we talk about the press box all the time. You gotta defend yourself to your colleagues, to the public, and I think by and large, I know we take it seriously, I think we do a pretty good job. I do too. I think the writers really care. Those votes are precious. My baseball hall of fame vote is the most prized possession that I own and I really take time at it to make it to be right. I try to do it the best job I can. You guys have morals and dignity. That's why I love working with you guys. There are some like, especially in NFL, when they waited so long for T.O. to get. I get it. Tell me, that wasn't just about things on the field. But their process, the football writers, I don't know.