Biggest obstacles that we face the chief obstacle that we face With regards to getting closer to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala with regards to getting to know Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala And with regards to actually finding a state of inner peace in our life is our own nafs our own ego this nafs that we have it's a part of us and It is also an enemy within us that many as many of the great sages have told us that the nafs between your two sides is Worse than 70 sheaateen than 70 devils It is the reason why even in the month of Ramadan when the sheaateen are locked up Why we may still have a propensity to commit sin or a propensity to talk bad or a propensity to still be lazy It goes back to the nafs. It is the reason in our life Why we are unable to control our anger and we are unable to maintain Peaceful homes and peaceful home environments with our spouses and with our children It is the reason why when we are going out and about throughout our days why sometimes our desires are not able to be controlled And to be tamed it all goes back to this nafs, but as we progress throughout life You and I can age in the material world We can age physically, but it doesn't mean that we are maturing Spiritually the two are very very different Somebody has to actually put effort in to mature spiritually and put effort in to taming our nafs If we really want to be making true spiritual progress So it will continue to be the number one Enemy that we have the number one reason why we have so many problems in our life will continue to be the nafs until we start to actively work on disciplining this nafs and even then the struggle continues It's a lifelong struggle, but the main thing is that we have to be ready to take part in that struggle It is known as a spiritual jihad a spiritual struggle that we have to take and Just like the physical struggle. It's not easy There's days where we might win and then there's days where our nafs might win There's days where it will have an advantage over us and there's days where we will have an advantage over it But the first thing in order to really begin this process of disciplining the ego of disciplining the nafs is to even understand What are we taught? What is the nafs? What exactly is this this entity this soul this ego? There's various translations for it. The lower self is how it's often translated the lower self the ego that we have this is essentially your nafs and you can think about it in stages that there is a nafs Which is known as the nafs al-amara the evil commanding soul the evil commanding part of us which is Animalistic in nature which inclines towards carnal appetites in nature and this nafs comes out Even as someone progresses into the later spiritual stages, it can still come out It can still rear its its animalistic head when it wants to but that's the first nafs and then you continue to put Discipline in to continue to work on worshiping Allah to continue to work on teaching the nafs that it does not submit to Its own desire But it submits to what Allah wants and the more you and I get are in accordance with what Allah and his messenger Salallahu alayhi wa sallam have sent down the more At peace we will be as the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says that none of you truly Believes until his or her desires are in accordance with what I've brought not only the actions But literally what you and I intend to do what we want to do Inwardly outwardly at the level of desire has to be in accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to attain the state of Truly perfecting our iman and truly perfecting our belief And so it the nafs will try to hold us back from all of these different forms of Spiritual progress so you and I are in a situation where we're talking to someone and then they say something We don't like and then we just want to lash out at them start yelling start arguing that anger Where's that anger coming from? It's coming from an undisciplined soul because the most disciplined of disciplined souls the say it of all of creation Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he was able to control his anger entirely He only got angry for the sake of Allah not for the sake of his own for the sake of his own nafs And his he was teaching the Sahaba in this mission to perfect their character how to control their anger What is the majority of the reason why we have issues in our homes? Issues with our spouses issues with our children largely is because of anger because we're unable to control ourselves when that argument begins We can't we don't know what to say. We don't know what rather what not to say We just want to say everything that comes to the tip of our tongue. That's an uncontrolled nafs That's that's an example that when we are on our phones when we're on social media We see an image that comes up that we really shouldn't be looking at but we let our gaze lap We let our gaze look and now it impacts us that a black spot is created in the heart. What is that? That's the nafs when it's not controlled We know we should be waking up in the morning in the early morning these days very early four slots of fudger And we just let ourselves constantly sleep through it or we have a desire to wake up even earlier to pray that the Hajr prayer But we don't prioritize it. Why because we just want to sleep and sleep. That's the nafs It doesn't like doesn't like early mornings. It doesn't like waking up It doesn't like any real restraint. It doesn't like it We we know we should only be eating a certain amount of food per day But we continue to overeat three meals plus two snacks plus this plus that plus this and until we've had seven different meals in one day What is that? That's the nafs because the nafs doesn't like to be restrained It doesn't like to be held back and we live in a society which teaches you the opposite of restraint This is not a restraint society. This is a society which tells you obey your desires obey your thirst Go ahead and follow whatever desire you and I have but Allah says in the Quran Have you seen the one who takes his desire as his Lord or their or her desire as their Lord that that's not We cannot take our desire either you and I are worshiping Allah or we're worshiping something else Everybody is worshiping everybody is in a state of servanthood or servitude or slavery to someone we want to be Abdullah we don't want to be that slaves to our own nufus or slaves to our own desires But many times that happens any time we prioritize something other over what Allah wants Especially if it comes from our hawa or from our nufs in that moment We are just saying that you know Allah is less important versus what I want is more important And a society which teaches me me me me nafs see selfie all this entire movement Even this this idea of being obsessed with taking pictures of our own self What is that? What is selfie translated to in Arabic nafs see it's just about myself This this whole movement is constantly putting our self at the forefront, but we're supposed to be selfless people We're supposed to be people who prioritize others But until we start to really tame ourselves it becomes very difficult So let's understand the nufs in a little bit more detailed There are a few different components of the nufs that are articulated by scholars like the likes of mama India Lumedin where he mentions what are the main faculties within the nufs that will really start to cause trouble for us The first is your appetite the appetite The appetite can break down into the appetite the the the appetite for food and which then eventually links into Your carnal appetites and your sexual appetites, and this is really the main area Where we're supposed to be investing in controlling that any time or the faculty of discipline all Discipline is rooted in our ability to control our food intake and the Sahaba May Allah be pleased with them We're more concerned about what they ate and how much they ate then in doing significant abundant acts of External worship and they were also very concerned about doing significant acts of external worship But food intake where the food comes from it being pure and then making sure to eat in in respectable limited quantities This is a core part of our spiritual discipline Which we forgot even in the month of Ramadan, which is a whole month that Allah is trying to teach us to restrain ourselves We skip one meal throughout the day and we replace it with four meals at night if thar and then and then dinner And then we go to tarawih then we have another huge meal after tarawih then we go to sleep Then we eat wake all what we're just feeding the nufs. We just delayed It's just delayed gratification. We're supposed to be teaching ourselves is actual discipline So discipline starts at the level of food intake. That's the first thing and the appetite will be restrained Will be completely unrestrained rather when food intake is not established You very rarely see people who are in a state of extreme hunger or in a state of poverty Who act with a lot of arrogance or who just follow every single desire that they have no They have they're very much focused and concerned on That there is a state of humility that has been attained when that desire is contained So this is one thing that we very very very very much lost And so as the scholars they mentioned that the full stomach now The is one of the main roots of evil and one of the main roots of things And problems that start to start to occur. So that's where the appetite happened This is directly then linked to carnal desires and to one sexual appetite that once someone stops Controlling their food intake now it becomes very difficult to control their impermissible sexual desires and especially in the time We live in where you don't even need to be that physically present with anybody You can literally just be on a device and be scrolling on a device or watching a show or have access to the internet and all sorts of filth exist out there which can completely pollute you to a point where you can actually ruin What is meant to be a a faculty that's channeled in a permissible way You can actually ruin that through excessive following of one's sexual appetite and doing things such as pornography and others when When when when that will completely completely completely damage one's heart These are diseases if somebody was diagnosed with diabetes someone is diagnosed with cancer Someone is diagnosed with any other type of disease most certainly we would start to seek the cure We would go to a doctor we try to understand what are we supposed how can we improve? But these spiritual illnesses are far worse than physical illnesses Why because the physical illness once we leave this world it leaves with us But the spiritual disease it carries on the punishment continues or the effects of that continue into the grave and they continue into the Akhira and we ask Allah for forgiveness and that he pardon our sins because it can continue Perpetually into the next life if it's not tamed so it all goes back to taming these things in this life It's a little bit of work right now for an immense immense immense amount of reward an immense amount of blessings And it is not Haram to have a desire. It's Haram to act on the desire That's a very very important distinction to make that just because someone has desires doesn't make them a bad person Any type of desire it's when we say okay You know what I'm just gonna ignore it Allah says and I'm gonna give in and act on that desire so the appetite This is the first piece These are the two components of the appetite the physical appetite that starts with food And then it continues into these other carnal appetites and you usually see this is the Maqam of animals the Maqam of the station of animals that they have no constraint over their food They just want to keep eating and eating just this morning at my my cat I had forgotten to feed him and he's just loudly meowing meowing meowing meowing coming into my office Well, I'm working just loudly once he wants his food and there's no discipline There's not like a you know Let me just wait five minutes or ten minutes and just wait for him to be done No keeps going keeps going keeps going the human being when we don't eat We're not supposed to be like the animal We have to have a little bit of supper and a little bit of patience if we start to get angry and Upset just because we missed a meal that that shows we have a major major major work to do because we've missed the point Of what discipline actually is right animals They have to learn discipline and we have to teach it to them But Allah has taught us how to be disciplined through the his majestic book and through the messenger Sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wa sahbihi salam and so we have to read it and apply because the default setting of the human being that you And I are just operating under with especially having grown up in in the world that we've grown up in is to just give in to our Appetites it's to give in to our desires The second big area with relates to anger and relates to just an inability to control our Personality and anger is the root of arrogance Anger is the root of Argumentation many of these diseases these big big big diseases which are considered major sins of the heart many of these diseases stem from an inability to control our anger the one who can discipline their nuffs They do it by disciplining the appetite and by discipline disciplining their anger now real discipline starts to take place Real discipline starts to take place But when anger is out of control this results in a whole another set of problems usually problems between us and other individuals usually problems between us and our families and so you Evaluate where you and I are at with anger with how quickly we want to lash out at people and then with how much we actually do So there's one thing to want to do it and to restrain ourselves Hamdulillah, that's a very good thing if we can restrain ourselves there's a whole another thing if something happens to us and we just Completely unleash on somebody and we have no ability to control our anger and this is especially the case in our home environments, this is especially the case as the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said the best of you Are those who are best to their families or the best to their wives and I am the best to my family sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He that was Extremely accommodating at home Extremely accommodating at home. It was not this type of environment where a little slip happens and just lash out lash out lash out Where are we at with our anger? There is no spiritual progress if we cannot channel our anger in the appropriate direction Which only means that we get angry for the sake of Allah to the right amount at the right time Applied with wisdom in the right way, which which is very very very difficult to do And so the vast majority of us the main goal should just be to control our anger to control our anger And this stems very much from what from the ego that sometimes you get offended. Don't you know? I am don't you know this what are you saying to me? This is all the nuffs. This is all the nuffs one of the that it's mentioned in the mention in the books That a man was walking around with with with a whole entourage, you know and someone got in his way Don't you know who I am don't you know just this this ego coming out or getting upset that how dare you get in my way? And and and one of the people of wisdom reprimand and say I we know who you are you were created from a drop of fluid From a drop of dirty fluid. That's what you're created from while you live this life You carry in between you in between your true sides excrement and you will go into the ground and you will rot as a corpse So that's who you are as a human being So if you if the ego comes out and this you many times tends to be a trait in us men I would say more so But but not always but the desire to just want to show the ego the desire that has to be constrained this Arrogant kind of pompness that that exists that has to be contained that that contained because we are we are who are we? We are Abdullah we are full of ins that we created the human being weak Allah says by ifa weak Very very weak if Allah wanted to in any any one of our organs or something just stopped working We would be done for we couldn't do anything. We would be completely crippled So why do we let the nuffs because the nuffs is all smoke and mirrors. That's what it is at the end of the Day, it's all fake stuff. It's all fake reality. It's not real. It's Waham. It's just empty thoughts. We think something It's not the case. We are in reality We are we're humble humble slaves before Allah We are incapable of anything if Allah does not will it as Allah says in the ground the human being you can't even that catch That create the wing of a fly if a fly stole something from you You can't even catch it can't even get it back So then who are we thinking but this comes from the anger that the nuffs has and then most of the argumentation and the problems that happen in our life are Especially when our family life come from this. I know people literally they've cut off their own children Because they were offended over something that was set Some after after spending years and years and years and years putting in the hard work to raise the children and then offended over An argument that happened and then not talking for years Sometimes even living in the same place in the same home and not speaking to each other Why because the ego is offended the way to control this is to learn how to apologize To learn how to actually say sorry to somebody. That's it That is a few words, but the nuffs hates it. It hates to say I'm sorry does not like it at all It wants to be told it wants to be recognized you once we put in a pedestal No, I know you you know you didn't do anything wrong I was the one who did wrong and then the nuffs likes it But it hates to be the first one to go and say you know what I made a mistake You know what I'm sorry Even if it wasn't the one who made a mistake to actually do that But there are then multiple other ways would talk about just in a second what to actually began to control control the anger And then the third main area is sloth and laziness and just distracted just general distractibility and this is the time that we are living in that the nuffs inclines towards not wanting to do anything at all Procrastination and just having everything done for it So it doesn't want to wake up in the morning. It doesn't want to pray fudger It doesn't want to recycle or on it doesn't want to pray any of the other prayers really all it wants to do is what? Keep pressing a button and clicking next show Okay, and then without even saying the next show now it the next show just starts and you just keep doing it Just wants to let it sit in a world of entertainment keep give them circus and give them food and let them just let their lives Pass away. This is the way that that that the Romans they they used to control the masses They just let this is how to control them you give them entertainment And so it just wants to keep scrolling the next video the next video the continuous continuous scroll the endless scroll next thing You know two hours have gone by and we miss the prayer we miss this that's what the nuffs wants to do distractibility this is a the amount of distractions that exists in the time that we live in it's unparalleled compared to what used to exist in in In the past that you'd need a person there or something there to distract you again We can just be completely by ourselves and still not be able to find ways to use our time wisely And so these are the chief ways some there's just three of the different ways the appetites the anger that then results in argumentation and arrogance and an immense amount of distractibility which results in just overall spiritual sloth and Percastination and now these these trade stakes when they are all existent inside of us We really struggled with spiritual development and when you struggle with spiritual development all sorts of other issues start to emerge anxiety stress Depression worry a lack of purpose not knowing what we're supposed to be doing all of these things began to happen And but the route is very clearly there Allah and his messenger Have told us exactly what we need to do in order to discipline the nuffs That the reality is that this concept of taqwa is the cure for Taming the nuffs because taqwa is to be conscious of Allah and mindful of Allah in every single moment and when someone is Really really witnessing that Allah is present and Allah is watching them and Allah knows exactly what they are doing Then it's becomes we will not want to just follow our desire. We will not want to lash out We will not want to be lazy We will want to have a we will have a very very very deep purpose and so the way that we go about establishing this we've been you know doing this Hamdullah for the most part in some portion of our life throughout throughout our life, but we have to then create a Dedicated plan there is the general kind of over-the-counter medicine for these diseases and then depending on how deep rooted the disease is in someone There's the very specific prescription The general medicine that to tame the nuffs begins as we mentioned with disciplining the food intake This is mentioned by mama Ghazali in the area that on his book on controlling the appetite to discipline the food and it sounds That especially in our time it doesn't always make sense But that's why we have a whole month of this of literally not eating for That that from early morning until the evening from literally not doing that because it teach supposed to teach discipline So we start with that and all we need to do is cut back a little bit especially on days when the desire Beat us don't and this is what the scholars say they say literally don't give your nuts a dessert on a day When it didn't obey you so if you always eat ice cream every night or cake or whatever else it is There's has to be certain easy. Nope not having it just like an animal when you discipline You can't just give them treats all of the time because if you do that Then they're never going to actually listen to you when you need to use the treat for some type of incentive You have to treat the nuffs and exchange exchange with it in that way It is this constant exchange going back and forth with the nuffs and so limiting the food intake in some way shape or form Missing a snack that we usually eat whatever else it is keeping the stomach light to a degree But for those the that for the children in the room This is not an excuse for when your parents say to eat lunch to say no no no I'm gonna skip lunch or skip a meal. That's not what we're talking about This is when you're actually trying to just control our intake right listening to the listening to our parents our elders That takes takes precedence over over all these things and it's a major sin to disobey our parents So I just wanted to make sure that's very clear the second thing then That with regards to disciplining the nuffs is to sometimes just give it a lot of worship to do and a lot for us if we're struggling to pray five times a day may just be the five daily prayers if we're already doing the Five daily prayers and nuffs is now starting to find other ways to mess up our Ibadah or to mess up our relationship with a lot Through ostentation and through arrogant display of our actions and so on then we increase the amount of worship We now add in that the night prayer that the Hajj prayer We add in other dicker that we have to do throughout the day Whatever state that we're at we should always be ready to increase and to do more that as our teachers have taught us We should have a year that within a year Okay We have a certain amount that we do and then the next year comes around and we say okay I'm now I'm gonna add another 10 minutes of Ibadah or another dicker that I'm supposed to do or another Sura that I'm gonna recite every day or another portion of the Quran that I'm going to take on but increase it because what Happens is this is spiritual exercise and just like anybody who's ever done physical exercise You get to a point where if you continue to lift the same amount of weight for a long period of time You're not gonna have any impact on on if you're trying to get more more muscular strength or whatever else it is It's just going to remain flat You have to now increase the weight and then increase the weight more same thing spiritually You can't just do the same thing our entire life and expect it to work We have to add more both quality and quantity So this is the second thing and it starts with the five daily prayers And then all of us should have a portion of reading the sunnah do as of the prophet Alayhi Salatu As-Salam in the morning in the evening compilations like the where the Latif of mama haddad At the Rats of al-haddad some of these other compilations are good one the where the mama No, we we should take on these takes seven minutes to do They could be done in a commute and just listening to it till one memorizes it But this is better than listening to NPR or whatever other music whatever we're listening to just have a little extra Vicar that we do and then the third way to do it is by decreasing the amount that we speak by decreasing the amount that we speak And this is not that we just sit there and be silent But rather when we want to say something that is to praise ourselves or to make our self the center of the conversation Just hold back for that conversation when you want to say something to lash out at someone else Just hold that the restrained the restraint control the tongue control the tongue because enough what it likes to do is You're in the conversation. You're hanging out with people and now it likes to be no I want to be the center of the conversation.  I did that it's all about me me me No, no, let it be about other people every now and then just give it And now the nests will actually start to be disciplined and it won't want to be the center of conversation The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke seldomly. He did not speak that frequently He said whoever that believes in Allah in the last day let let them speak good or remain silent or let them Mind their own business. So when we want to get into a conversation about other other people or topics that have no relevance to us Just to control the tongue these might seem like small things But the food intake being controlled increasing our Ibadah and then controlling our tongue You will start to see literally a spiritual alchemy begin to happen a spiritual purification Starts to happen internally and that is the point of our religion that the worship We do is not just for physical movements or ritualistic outward practices There is meaning to it and these are the meanings can be unlocked when we apply these things in the right way Just like when medicine is applied in the right way healing actually happens that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the best spiritual healer And he gave us all of these different things to do and when we follow what he wants us to do Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we will now start to have this internal healing and you will now go from a state where It seems like a drag to worship. It seems boring. We don't want to do it It's just I got to do it because I told I was told to to now someone actually wants to They start to taste the halawa the sweetness of faith and that is the direction that we want to trend towards And then what the best thing that happens and we'll end with this is that the problems that happen in our life Either that are just between ourselves and our own issues or between ourselves and other people ourselves and our family They start to be mitigated They start to go away actual harmony starts to enter into our life Because the nafs start to become disciplined and we start to realize the purpose of our life The purpose of our life is to worship Allah and to attain a state of purity in this life Whoever purifies themselves is successful And whoever does not is destroyed We want to be among the people who are successful in this life And the next and we want to be with Allah and his messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam In the next life and all it takes is a little bit of extra effort and making the intention and then putting in the Work right now for whatever moments of life that we have left We come from the Our desires to be in completely in accordance with what the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam brought and that you give us An immense immense increase in love for the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam yara


Your Coca-Cola bottler presents, Claudia, based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken. Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola. Relax, and while you're listening, refresh yourself. Have a Coke. And now, Claudia. Goodbye, goodbye, my little chickadee. I don't know how you can be so gay when you just said goodbye to me. My heart is breaking. I'll say it again, goodbye, goodbye, my little chickadee. If you just wait ten more minutes, you could watch. Watch what? I wouldn't want to be in the way. Be in the way? Ridiculous.  I certainly hope so.  Make the most of your fatherhood. Going to have years and years and years to make the most of my fatherhood. Listen, before you know it, he'll be eating off a knife. I mean, with a knife. Oh, he makes the funniest little faces.  He falls asleep in the middle of everything. Oh, sounds charming. It isn't. But I can't blame him. I don't see how he can stand the stuff we feed him. Condensed milk. Glucose. Heaven knows what. Glucose. If I were he, I wouldn't touch it.  You see that he takes every last drop of the bottle. Yes, darling. Make a drunkard out of him. Go ahead. Just because you don't like it is no reason why he shouldn't drink it. Yes, darling. Maybe I should hang around and see that you don't dip him. Yes, darling. Oh, I know he's not much, but he's the best we could do. So I'm going to try and like him. That's a good girl. Try very hard. Very hard. Maybe you'll get so that you think he's pretty good. Sort of the crowning of the day when six o'clock comes around. Oh, I wouldn't miss the six o'clock bottle for a million dollars. I'll write you a check. One million dollars. Thank you. Maybe that's he now. Mm, getting pretty strong is quite a knock for a week, old child. Come in, come in, come in. Oh, I've been just dying to give you your bottle, darling. Mm, that sounds interesting. What's in my bottle? Oh, Dr. Rowland, I thought you were my son. Claudia thinks there's a faint resemblance in the way you knock on the door, darling. Well, I'm very flattered that my right forearm has been compared to a weak old child. I'm very flattered indeed. How are you feeling today, Dr. Rowland? Just a moment, young woman. You're the patient, not I. I feel terrible you have to take time out of your busy day to come and see me. Well, we do that every once in a while. There's some aspens in my night table if you want one. No, no, no headaches today, thank you. Are you getting your strength back, Claudia? I've got it back, but nobody's letting me use it up. We're thinking of buying Claudia a straight jacket, Dr. Rowland. I'm afraid that wouldn't keep Claudia down. Last a little respect. Well, how's the woman down the hall, Dr. Rowland? Uh, how'd you know? I've just seen her. Uh, uh, David, did I tell you about her? She's Mrs. Godwin. She lost her baby. Well, she told me. It's a rather serious case, isn't it, Dr. Rowland? Yes, very serious. She not only lost her baby, but she's lost herself completely. She's put herself completely out of my reach. How often? She finds escape in closing herself up in a world of her own. And she won't let herself feel anything. She won't respond. And if she doesn't find the will to live... Well, she's got to find the will. Well, my talking to her is of no use. Dr. Rowland, just a minute ago you asked me if I was feeling strong. I'm feeling very strong, so strong that I think I... I might be able to bring a little of my strength to Mrs. Godwin. I... I think that I can help her. David, give me my slippers and my robe. I don't exactly know what I'm going to say or do, but... I think you'll say the right thing, whatever it is. Oh, David, it's almost time for our son to be fed. Do you want to do that first? No. No. My legs are really getting stronger. Look, I can walk with no trouble at all. Just stay a moment, Claudia. Not too long. I'll stay as long as I have to. Stand back, darling. I don't want to see you. David, wish me luck. Yes? Oh, excuse me. I thought this was my room. That's all right. Oh, isn't this a lovely room? You can see the river from this window. Yes, you can. Would you mind if I looked out a little? It's such a beautiful view. No, go right ahead. It's been wasted on me. I don't pay much attention to it. This is the whole world we're stretching out at your feet. I guess I better introduce myself. This is not my room. It's right next to yours. There's a building between me and the river. There's always something between people and what they want. Have you been here long? A week. Oh, me too. Well, then you'll be going home soon. Yes, sir. I'll be going home soon. I can't wait. It doesn't make much difference to me. Oh, I bet it makes a lot of difference to your husband. It's not important. Oh, you're wrong there. It's terribly important. It must be, or what's the use of trying? What's the use of anything? What's the reason for anything? Babies live. It's only to find out there's no reason to it. None at all. You mustn't talk or even think like this. Of course there's a reason. What's the reason? I don't know, but I don't think we have to know. There's so much to life. There's so much love in it, even without babies. After all, before we had them, we loved and we lived, and we're going to for a lot longer. I don't feel any love. But that's not right. None of us are allowed to deprive those who love us of their privilege to be loved in return. It's our great responsibility. There are too many responsibilities. I feel too tired. Maybe you feel too sorry for yourself. I don't blame you. What's happened to you is terrible. I'm grateful. It didn't happen to me. But if it had, I'd still have David, and I'd have to try to keep right on going too. But why should it have happened to me? He could have been such a beautiful baby. I could have had a son now. But you didn't. Are you going to call it quits so easily? I'm tired. I'm sorry. Maybe I'd better go now. You can stay. If you want to look at the river. No, I'd better go. It's time my son had his bottle. Your son had his bottle. Your son. May I come to see you again? Why not? Well, darling. She doesn't want to help herself, David. Dr. Rowland is right.  You've done enough. Nobody's done enough until they've helped. The baby's in your room waiting to be fed. He is. It'd be so good to hold him. David, bring him to me, would you? Darling, you look tired. I think you ought to get back into bed. David, bring him to me, please. Are you sure? Just might work. I think he's asleep. He'll wake up. I hope he feels like having a good cry. Here he is. I can hold him. He's so small. David, keep your fingers crossed. Hello? It's me again. I wonder if you can help me. Help you? My nurse had to go down the hall and I feel sort of dizzy. It's time my baby had his bottle. I just don't think I can handle it. Would you help? You... You want me to give his bottle to him? Would you please? I need your help. He's crying. I just can't do anything for him. Maybe you can. It's quite a strong little cry, isn't it? Yes, he's quite strong. He's quite heavy, too. You're looking pale. You'd better give him to me. Do you mind, Terrapia? I hate to ask you, but I just haven't the strength to... Here, quickly. Put him in my arms. There he is. Oh, he's so very little. Here, I'll... I'll prop him up on the bill. We can just rest him on it. Now, here. Here we are. Now, give me his bottle. Here it is. This is awfully brave of you. I just don't know how to thank you. Look. He's taking his bottle very well. He is, isn't he? I think he's going to fall asleep on it.  Come on. Come on. Wake up. Wake up, baby. Wake up. Would you... Would you mind, Terrapia, if I just left him here with you? I just can't wait to get back to bed. No, go right ahead. We're getting along fine. Your son and I... Come on, take some more. I... I think your son and I... are going to be great friends. Yes, I think you are.  Don't worry about anything. I'll call the nurse when he's finished. Come on. Oh, thank you. I... I won't worry about a thing anymore. Not a thing. Well, darling? Yes, darling. David, I... I guess babies can explain life maybe better than anybody else. It's amazing to think that... that that little thing could explain anything. Do you... do you think he's safe? He's safe. And so is she safe, too. Oh, David, I told you that his six o'clock bottle was the crowning of the day. And you wouldn't give it up for a million dollars. What's a million dollars? How much less work there is to housekeeping today than there was years ago. We're less formal. We make fewer demands in the way of hospitality. The popular hostess of today brings out a tray of ice-cold Coca-Cola and her guests drink it from the bottle with pleasure. They like the fact that this delicious refreshment has cost their hostess no trouble. They enjoy the pause that refreshes. It makes them feel at home, which you'll agree is the first rule of gracious hospitality. Well, Mr. King, my hunch about Claudia was right. It was, Doctor. Yes, she turned the trick. Mrs. Godwin didn't need a doctor. She needed what only a woman with Claudia's innate wisdom could give her. You know, it's a strange thing about Claudia, how quickly she's able to learn without experiencing first. It'll stand her in good stead. I think particularly tomorrow when Claudia hears for the first time the story of Fogarty Fagan. Fogarty Fagan. That's a familiar name. And a great name, too. A war hero, wasn't he? Well, I'll answer that question, but no others, Doctor Rowland. Yes, he was a war hero. But if you want to hear his story, drop in tomorrow. I certainly will. So long, Joe. Bye. Every day, Monday through Friday. Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola. So listen again tomorrow at the same time. And now this is Joe King saying, or of war.  When you think of refreshment, think of Coca-Cola. For Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes. And ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere. And now, here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola.


The education sector was also affected by the passage of Hurricane Elsa, which battered St. Lucia on Friday 2nd July 2021. Chief Education Officer Dr. Fiona Philip-Mayer on Tuesday indicated that a number of damage assessments have been conducted in an effort to manage the conditions at education institutions across the island and restore conducive learning environments. The Chief Education Officer explained that the majority of the damage was incurred at schools in the south and at the Bocah Secondary School in District 3. We have a few of our schools, particularly in the Sufer area, where water was impacted. So as of today, that school has to remain closed. In District 7, we have four primary schools that suffer a lot of water damage and debris, so it had to be cleaned up. But what we looked at were individual schools and what their needs were. For the most part, all of the cleanup happened on the weekend, so our students were able to come in, and for example, at the Viewfort Primary School, we had part of the roofing of one of the buildings being lifted, so we've cordoned off that area. Dr. Philip-Mayer said that the Department of Education is currently working with relevant entities to repair the infrastructural damage caused by Hurricane Elsa. So it's really working with our building people, our technical officers on the ground, our health and safety officer, our education officers to make sure that we can offer up until the 9th of July a safe environment for everybody, our students and our staff. Schools nationwide are actively preparing for the closure of the third term of this academic year on July 9, 2021. The Chief Education Officer informed parents that they will be informed when a definitive date has been decided upon for the release of the Common Entrance Examination results.


Appalachian Wireless has a plan to make your life simpler. It's called forward pay. No contract, no credit check, no problem. Plans start at $19.99 a month and include unlimited talk and text, or ticket to the max with unlimited data plus for only $89.99, which has 50 gig of high-speed data because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. One local filmmaker will be producing a feature-length film titled Midas Cove this year. Tuesday Mountain Top spoke with writer Ben Hicks and producer Patty Starr about the film and about how you can get involved. The story of Jake Carter, it's about a corrupt town, corrupt politicians and Jake Carter, his wife was murdered and he decides to take vigilante justice that route and go after him because the courts and stuff won't help him. According to Hicks, Midas Cove is in the last stages of pre-production. He adds that casting positions are still available and he emphasizes the importance of keeping his film local. We really wanted to show Kentucky off, Kentucky has some beautiful scenery, especially down Somerset and Lexington and we're going to go to other parts as well and kind of just basically show that Kentucky has a lot to offer as well as you know filming wise and you know Cumberland Lake has got some of the most beautiful lake you ever see and beautiful views and we're also going to be shooting up here in Floyd County where I'm from. During this year's ScareFest Horror and Paranormal Convention, Hicks as well as other characters from the film will be making their debut. We'll have Ben there and several of the stars are coming in to sign, I think they're going to have posters and things like that to give out and you know have the other stars sign their names to it. We also have Kayla Perkins, now Kayla Perkins not only is representing Midas Cove but she's also representing herself. She's a fine actress that has been in many Kentucky series and movies and even in Tennessee and so the booth is set up to create like networking and to create you know the awareness of what we are doing here with this particular series and hoping to get more and more interest in maybe investors and other stars so that's what we're hoping for to get them going there in Lexington with the ScareFest. To learn more or to get involved you can visit the Midas Cove page on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Korgel.


They are called B.C. Swag, ya tu kwanza jani pamoja, tu kwanza kwa niya mamo, but by that time, doi li kwa kwanza hila bado, nengia studio, badata wu zikti yote studio.  Do wu kwanza wakuna producer flani apu, ni kwa introduced kwa ke, anatoka kampala, anatoka BIT music, so ni kwanza kwa kuna e, e kido kido goso ju e piya kwa na watua waiwaganda, wakwa sani waiwaganda, nami nukwa awaku so, tu kwanza at least kwa ingiana kwa niya kazi pa moja tuli.  Okay, si kwa chaa grupe. What happened? Kwa ni ni wu na fanya, why decide kido go kido go you want to do music on your own, as much as badum kwa pamoja? Distance sana sana, wunu ju asusa like for them, seizi wakwa still located in Busea, de ni mi ni kuna Nairobi. Na wunu jua hasu lazima yendele, manze. So kani kuna Nairobi, do ni kwa mo at least piya. Acha ni fanya ni kipiga shuguli zengi ni manze. So do ni kwa mone ingi studio, ni pigeimra de ni metua kasa izi. So badu kenda Busea uneza wakna wao? Eh, in case kazi come through, kuna pigatushi guli. Wao badu wana do music? Eh, wana fanya muziki ya, fanya muziki ya. So between fanya kazi pehiyako and other than the fact that distance nuli fanya uwa ache, differences ya kukua, advantages na disadvantages ya kukua. Solo na kukua working in a group. Ok, kitu neza sema, when I was working in the group, so many things were easier. Jwata wunu na kama kwandikan goma. Situ li kuadlai kitu na kama klas. Klampa na leta topik, klampa na nandik. Nika composition, klampa na nandika kusu. Yeni, ika lafuni kama producer ni kama do, mo li u manamak. Ii ko mo, mo relatable, ii ko poor, ii ko poor them. Una pata, oku kua group, sometimes it's one verse. Sazeng na ta wimbi, una peyana tu, advice. Iiwe na iiwe na iiwe. Bata, oku ya kuangalia ukiwa solo man. Niwe u na fufanya kila kitu. Niwe we sound, niwe we content creator. So niwe we na producer mkwa wili. Then, mukiwa group na pata, like neza kwa ni kuna shuguli flani, ama shida flani, then my brothers can continue. Mi mendo kama kampuni, niki lala kampuni, note ni lala. So niza kampuni, it doesn't have differences. But still, in a group, it's enjoying, it's fun. Kwa kuna group, mukiwa wengi, it's enjoy.   And in terms of muzikiam to kupika raka, is it easier muzikiam kupika raka as a solo artist or when you are in a group? Ni bidi na na fanya mziki na pi. Apo ni bidi. Apo ni bidi na kwa solo, ama kwa in a group. Okay. Umesema umewak na producers, producers of Busia, producers on Nairobi, na producers in Kampala. Nani weni umenjoi kufanya kazi na wawa. And who would you go back to time and time again? Okay. Mimi niki wakuna producer, first of all, see and create a relationship. So wakeni wakusia na itwa Obri, Obri on the beat, then wakampala na itwa BIT muzik. Na uki angali ya awa wili, niki kwa introduced to muzik, nili meet Obri, baku na li kwa Busia. So piya in search of greener pasture, na kwa wakumu moved to Nairobi, jwa li kwa ama manzaku outgrow Busia. So do tukaletewa BIT. So Obri, nikamanda li kwa na ali hand in, ali hand over vitu kwa, kwa BIT. So uki angali ya relationship nili kwa na by that time na Obri, do the same relationship nili pastu to BIT.  So all of them, they have a special, a special part in your heart. So na pata, sezi choos at wind wa na shinda wu uju maze. Wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wote, wapu wapu wapu wapu wapu bado kia hangalia, kuna like mutu kama magiksenga, biya kabisa ei na kuna wengine wei ingisana So aonezatu kapanyakazi nao? Magiksenga, jegele ei, in case tu ni rumi patekane tunapige kazi, maze jumi na jua wata ni kukariyango penye iko wata ni pelika, another step further okey, so lo umetulete ya a new project that umetujaku lunch It was out of your wild back, but video is here with us. Na ume zaku waak na anatis from Uganda. Ya anatis from Uganda. Um, the fact that wu kwa kampala ume juwana na BIT, right? Yes, yes, yes. Um, was that the reason ni nyemili zaku waak na na na, msa nimi ume waak na e on your confessions? Ya, okay, so like to answer that question, wuna kuja kuja kwangalia like in music, studio, studio ni kama field, pitch, pitch, kamsa pitch. Wuna pata ma futbolas wakoa po wengi, yama kama nwa kimbiyaji wakoa po wengi. So wuna pata na meetpale, you create relationships, ju mziki, sik tutengia studio lafu seme, if, come to hime, si if olazima kukuna, your connection, juwana wu juwe, wu jama, this is the kind of sound na fanya, mimi ni sound, this sound is kiblend, they can bring out something great. So wuna pata like that collab will happen, mimi often li, li kwa na nda ga kucheki BIT. Ya ange, aga kadiwa na piya eni aze bro po e, busing to keki asi, ataka matua fanya kazi, but we can catch up, apart from music pia, we are still brothers, ya. So nge kuatu, so ya time li kwa nimi nda, nimi nda ingia studio, I think ni li fika Kampala kitu kama Friday, Saturday then, Sunday li kwa birthday ya, the producer BIT. So people came in, kwa studio apu, so on Monday, tumetulia tuile watua me chokachokaji ya, shireya jana, so tu be katutuna piya story, then al kwa menu dia beata, li fika tifika na be man, kuna ii biti kwa apa, there is a certain sound na taka, to build up na wewe. So nge kwa like, ah okay, nge kwa iskiza though, time li iskiza for the first time, nili kwa very blank, juil kwa, I think it was a new sound kwa maskiwa yanga. So nge kwa very blank, so lazi man nda ni meditate, nifiki ye hiti tu, na ii approach ya.  Sokeshwe ake, kuna wewe tu mekolabuna ya, nga itua Hill 16th, nga he's from Uganda, a very close brother of mine. So, tukatuka kuwana, tukatuka tu kuwongia tu, because we had met, aliakidogo, tukatuka bongatu, but now he was a very good, he was a very good rapper, by that time. I think by that time, alkwame we in MTN hip-hop awards. So, tukatuka piya na nge, asadu hiru tu gana brother time, ya kumkongradulatini, tukongia, tukongia, tuliongia for more than four hours, trapega to story. So, nge kwa maenia zi, kuna kitu studio apwe bui, twingi etua nekama, uskiza tu yubita lafu, u nipe, u pinionia ako, ea kaskiza bita kasi ma, ea man, iyo bitini poa, but samimi na fanya hip-hop. Wewa at least, wendo na, wendo na fanya iti, John Zengine, iyo kuvasata ya at least, but mi na fanya hip-hop, but tuliza kumbe, bitini kisikiza kumaskiyo, something good is something good, nge kumbe, okay. So, hiru ekitu kama 6, 6 30, ba ekitu kama 9, ni milikwa na mekama sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, ba hablo ii kwa ikuji, na hekala kimi, ba dana filikuna, something is missing. So, ni kamuiti, nge kama mbia, kuna time, iyo penda kwa freestyle. So, ni kama mbia, kuna vastu flanuli freestyle, ebu freestyle iyo vastu. Akana mbia u vastu nili freestyle, batu most of the words nili kwa na, na meza meza. Nge kama mbia u just freestyle, aka freestyle. So, after wume freestyle, nge kama mbia, okay. Tema lkwa na freestyle, nge kuna phone, nge pana recordi yo, moment kwa studio. So, ni kasi kia iyo, tune na flow vene naenda, nge kama mbia suno na itu na flow e. Nafatwa ni kekitu, kusuhi staf na tu, tu e keapa. Nge kama mbia, aishwa braban, nge kama mbia, am very sure. Nge kaita baiti, e baiti ya kama mbia man, e taza very good combination ni, tuka anza kupige shuguli, sotuka pige shuguli, that night ata, kuna kitu tulia, kumplisha ata one percent. Tuka kwa zileza, tumewdika like, ya ni i energyote, am from Kenya, ni me vuka boda, ni me kunza apa, at least ni meka ni umsa ni, umsa ni mkubasa easy at the moment, tuka uku yuganda, but still something is not coming out. Ile tu ku kuatu disappointed too. Anka mbia baiti ata funga uprojerimina na kulala. Mi ni kenda kulala, ea akuna, ea akuna na kulala, ea kaba kikwa studio. Akanza ku, ku at least ku chesa drumster fao tita fao tita fao tita fao tita. In the morning, ea akulala at the whole night. So in the morning, tuna pata jamana ni amusha, amka, amka, amka, kama mbia buka. Kuna kitu. Hei, ni meka ikitu hivi. Ebu, ebu, tell me ni story ni mehape nani time recent. Kama bia hea, I've been this and that and that, these Sunday utu kakumana ea, yo chorus. Like she won't get it, lawyer. Vita via amusha. So ni, ni personal experience for you, confessions, ni personal experience for you. Sunata heading niya song, akuna place niya itu kwa song, ni heading to tita fao tina venina. Sega kwa ni, lemi confess about my, my real, ea, my real experience.  Tu kwa kwa duki, duki taftambali and we have something to nezaongelia, tu saizia pana, kwa kumthuru. So even though, even though confessions will come through. Okay, so, what do you think makes you as an artist unique? To make me as an artist. What makes you as an artist? In very few words, what makes you as an artist unique? Kitu ya kwa anza ni, venimina mix languages, most artists, na standout na most artists, ya pata most artists on atumia, kama ni English in English, kama ni Soil in Soil, venimina mix zote, alafu the sa, bado na rap nana, nana, nana sing. You're that talented. So, so, but see what on neza, um, tombe about, mali what on neza pata, the new song, before we listen to it and give you a chance to perform, na on your social media, oto pata wapi, so that they can support. The song is on YouTube, Devere's music. Devere's music. Then, you can go and watch it, comment, subscribe.  Yuki like it. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Okay, so thank you so much. Then on social media, on neza ni pata on Instagram, at Devere's music, Twitter Devere's music, Facebook Devere's music, Snapchat still Devere's music. Any person you want to shout out? Yeah, I want to shout out to my producer, be it on music. Yeah manze, thank you for the great work. Manze one love. Then to my fellow artist, hit 16th, na jo uko yuji na na jo na streaming, kitu sa easy manze, big up brother. Thanks for giving me a good song manze. Then to my fans manze, na wapenda sana, and without you, I'm a nobody manze, so support you manze. Mwende leku shia yu link, mwende leku fanya venye mna fanya ga mambuen yu. Then to my producer here, obri on the beat, yo big up to yourself brother manze. Yeah. And kazi mob zina kuja zin ni me fanya na hei apa evi. Yeah, so majama, msubscribe tu na mweke yu beli. Wakairada. Wakairada. Wakairada. More projects coming. Nakuja kukuja. And to my family, my friends and my manager, Mr. Robert, ya manze, kabisa kabisa manze. So thank you so much for coming through. So, confections by Dave Gray's music.


what is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose today i'm going to be making a video all about work experience what is work experience how can you get it what should you do to go about getting it and just some general tips and advice that you guys should keep in mind when looking for work experience and when actually on work experience if you guys don't know who i am my name is nasir i'm a second year medic at king's college london and i make these youtube videos to try and help you guys in your goals of getting accepted into medical school hopefully find them useful and if you want to follow me on my journey subscribe to this channel if you don't follow me on instagram quickly quickly quickly go go go hit that follow button let's get right into the topic of this video which is all about work experience so when you're in high school and you're doing your applications for medical school one of the biggest things and one of the increasingly important parts of the application is gaining work experience now there are many reasons to get work experience one of them is that you almost have to in order to apply to medicines become a requirement for a lot of medical schools now so what really is work experience work experience is when you go to the place of work where you hope to have a career in the future to sort of see what it's like to get a feel for the area to get a feel for what it is that someone in that position does and this is really beneficial for you it lets you know if this is something that you actually want to do for example i have a lot of friends who when we were in high school everyone wanted to do medicine i want to be a doctor i want to do medicine blah blah blah and then some of them went to work experience and they came back saying wow that's not at all what i thought being a doctor was i don't want to do this anymore and trust me you want to know what you're getting into before you begin the path to medicine because it is a long one now like i said work experience is becoming increasingly important in the application and that's because it's a very good way to show the admissions team that you actually know what you're talking about you have to show the admissions team that you have a realistic understanding of what studying medicine is that you know that medicine is something that you want to do and that you don't just think of scrubs or Grey's Anatomy or whatever when you think about medicine you actually know that a hospital is extremely chaotic you know that you're going to have to be faced with difficult decisions you know that you're going to have to be managing people leading people medical schools want to see that you are aware of all this stuff before you apply to medicine it's also an amazing opportunity for you to develop yourself you can build on your interpersonal skills shut up you can build on your interpersonal skills you can practice you know talking to people who you don't know who might be different than you from different backgrounds ethnicities mental states whatever it is so i want this video to kind of act as like a fyi or by the way about work experience just to tell you guys some advice and general tips and things about work experience that you might not have known that'll hopefully help you get started on your journey to finding work experience and knowing what to expect when it comes to it okay so the first thing you want to do is decide what the actual work experience is that you want what is it that you're looking for is it shadowing someone for example a doctor or healthcare assistant or a pharmacist is a volunteering at an elderly home at a youth disability center or do you want a sort of taster of multiple different things a sort of traditional work experience shadowing means that you follow an individual for example a doctor throughout the day for maybe a couple of days or a week and you see exactly what it is they do every hour of their day and that gives you a really good insight into what medicine is and what it could be like for you to be a doctor in the future the second type of work experience is what's called like volunteering which is where you go and you basically try and help out with whatever the staff needs throughout the day but it's also a good way for you to get involved in that area and see what it's like for yourself whatever it is just try and immerse yourself in the medical field really any experience where you're talking to other people where you're dealing with other people is going to be very useful and translatable directly to medicine the second thing is that different schools require different amounts and different kinds of work experience and i'll post a link in the description below showing all the different schools in the uk and what it is they look for when it comes to work experience so if you know you want to apply to a certain set of schools make sure you check that list first but anyway have a read of it so you know what kinds of things they're looking for for example you see that many schools want you to work in an area where dealing with other people and helping other people is the main or primary focus you might see that some schools specifically maybe for graduate entry medicine students want to see specific shadowing or specific volunteer experience in a hospital it really depends so check out this list and make sure you're familiar with it the third thing i want to say is apply early early early early and i can't stress that enough these places are so competitive there are many other students just like you who want to find work experience and believe me they're going to be applying early as well so really apply as early as you can these places get filled up very quickly and you want to give yourself that advantage the fourth thing is that when you're searching for these work experiences of course google is very useful and you can reach out to people by email but i would highly highly recommend placing a call in via your phone or whatever or going into the place physically and this i think is a huge advantage because very few students are going to be willing to place a call and even fewer students are going to be willing to go in physically to the location it's so much easier for a staff member to hire a face that they actually know that they've dealt with them to respond to and hire someone from an email so really if you can go in and make that first impression you may be bringing a cv with you or something like that it's really going to go a long way when it comes to finding work experience try and make that physical connection whether it's over the phone or in person i know it can be scary going in person but trust me putting a face to the name is extremely extremely valuable so tip number five is about how do you get work experience who do you ask who do you talk to and the answer to this is really anyone and everyone anyone who you know who's even remotely related to the nhs talk to them and see if they can find someone who you can work with or shadow or volunteer to help you get that work experience if you have any contact with from your family or from your school this is the time to use them visit your school talk to the person involved in helping you get into medical school and they should be able to help you find work experiences they should be able to help connect you and of course in the end you need to do your own research you need to go and google scavenge the different local hospitals the different local gps in your area give them calls send them emails going in person and talk to the right people to make sure you get that work experience the sixth thing is that i know that some hospitals have a requirement of being 18 or older before you can work or volunteer in them and some gp practices have requirement of being over the age of 16 so make sure you look into those things make sure you know any requirements that you have to have before actually applying or before trying to connect with that area really just make sure you know what it is you're applying to number seven is that before you actually get accepted into any of these hospitals or volunteer positions you might get interviewed and this probably won't be super formal it'll probably be more like a casual conversation just to see that you're an okay person who can enter these environments but you might want to practice a little bit your formal speaking skills you might want to explore your reasons for wanting to do medicine your reasons for volunteering just in case they ask you so that you have something to say number eight so once you actually make it to your work experience obviously you want to dress smart you want to be polite you want to be searching for opportunities asking people where you can help where you can do things just to make a really valuable experience for yourself but the most important thing and I can stress this enough can't stress this enough the most important thing you have to do is reflect on your experiences the end of the day it doesn't matter where you volunteered who you volunteered what you did the important thing is how you reflect on them and how you show the admissions committee what it is that you learned from those experiences so what I recommend is that throughout the day you have a notebook if anything cool or interesting happens just jot it down a little bit but at the end of the day you want to really sit down for like half an hour and pick your brain about the experiences that you had throughout that day reflect on everything what did you see how did it make you feel what did you learn is there anything that made you uncomfortable is there anything that made you happy just anything reflect reflect reflect write down all these thoughts and feelings because when it comes to interview time these notes are going to be invaluable to you you're really going to wish you had done this so trust me reflect every single day on all the activities that you did do it number nine is if you can try and obtain multiple work experiences the goal isn't to just shadow the same doctor or multiple doctors many different times you want to do different experiences that give you different insights and aspects to medicine if you can do shadowing maybe a pharmacist or volunteering at a care home and then working in a gp and then maybe working at a disability center or in an elderly home you want to try and get a wide range of experiences a so that you know that you actually want to do this because your work is going to involve all these different things but b so that you can show the admissions committee that you actually know what it means to be a doctor you know what it means to be in the medical field and you know that this is something you want to do so i would advocate to get a range of experiences if you can and number 10 work experience is obviously very useful it's something you definitely want to do and it can help you a lot both for yourself and for the application but if you can't find a specific medical related work experience don't worry too much a lot of other experiences are directly useful and directly translatable to medicine anything you do can have applicable skills and can be translated to medicine and being a doctor there's leadership there's management there's communication there's searching for detail there's adapting there's all these things that you can learn in other kinds of experiences other kinds of work experiences that aren't necessarily related to medicine anywhere where you're out of your comfort zone you're dealing with different people and you're having to adapt it's just going to be very very relatable and useful for medicine also if you do something a bit different it can really give you a unique advantage when applying to medical school you want to have something that stands out something that's really unique on your application that makes the admissions committee say wow like let me let me think about this twice let me read this again because when they're reading hundreds of applications they want to see something different that stands out for example when i was at university i was working on the aerospace team we were working on building some experiments that would go on a satellite that was going to get launched by nasa so that was really cool something that was really out there just have something unique and different on your application if you can that'll go a long long way and the last thing i want to say i'm going to put some links in the description for some useful resources by the bmj even medify has this page where you can search for for work experiences that are near you they have this map and you can like click your address and you'll see what's close by to you that might be a good place to start also do your own research on google and whatever but i i'll post a bunch of links in the description that will hopefully help you all right guys and that's it for this video if you liked it make sure you leave a like on this video subscribe to the channel if you want to see more videos from me i hope you liked it hope you found it useful and i'll see you in the next one peace


Right, so we're now up to the last lab of the day or the last hands-on lab There's still a DDR lab to go and this one's about the Interprocessor communication so this is sending information from the a7 to the m4 and from the m4 back to the a7 So we're going to illustrate how the interprocessor communication controller works for the Communications between the two cores We're going to show you again using the cube ID and system workbench to generate the project and then show you the Linux framework That goes around all of this So this one we're actually going to compile directly some firmware for the m4 and Load that firmware into the target device Again as in all the other labs our color coding and our icons are going to tell you which terminal screen And if the slide has some Theory or some practical parts to it. So this is what's actually going on when we do the communications For this project So we will have an application Running on the left-hand side, which is in our a7 side when that wants to send a message It'll use a section called stm32 remote program message That will then disappear into some community drivers called rp message and our proc core Which will then control our IPCC hardware, which is the st driver The st drivers really all it's doing is sending the control flags So the information to tell you the other side in the Cortex-M side so on the right hand of the screen if there's an interrupt that the rp message block will be using a buffer or a section of RAM to store the message that you want to transfer across from the a7 to the m4 then on the m4 side You'll have your separate application running This will be using a virtual ur which is part of the howl drivers for Cortex-M devices and again using a Community block called open amp. This is where you will have a receive the buffer data from the RAM into the application or Where you'll transfer it if the communications are going towards the a7 and again you'll have a howl IPCC driver Controlling all the flags and the interrupt stages that's going on There's also a version that runs an i2c protocols as well So it'll have an i2c rather than a virtual ur type procedure So what we're going to do we're going to initialize Timer one again So it's going to be the same timer we've had before rather than using the green LED this time We're going to use an orange LED to toggle so this is going to be on a different location on the board It's actually on the top side near the buttons and Timer one is going to be assigned to the Cortex-M4 and It's going to be stopped and restarted by messages received Through the virtual ur procedure you've just seen from the a7 side So actually you're going to send the message on the a7 and The control of the timer is going to be controlled by the Cortex-M4 Also, we can send messages from the m4 Echoing it back over the virtual ur to the a7 so as well as sending the data one way We're going to send an echo of a message back to the a7 side so this is what's going on with the messages in here you can see the Bit of software that's doing the virtual ur channel and this is going to be our callback routine down here We've got the commands based on our buffer that we've received to either stop or restart our timer So there's our timer interrupts, which is either stopped or started depending on which of the messages We've got through and both of these routines are in main.c of our code which will open in a second Again in a terminal window. We should already have one of these terminal windows open We want to go and unzip the lab material that we've got for the hands-on lab m4 So we need to go and unzip that first then we need to launch our system workbench I'll go back to my terminal window and go back to my root directory I'll go and unzip My project so that's my project now unzipped. I should already have a system workbench probably open here last time there we go and Before I do anything I'm going to I'm going to close that project that's currently open there so it doesn't interfere with our new project and to do that it was right-click on the project name to bring up that menu and Now what we want to do is we want to import that project We've just unzipped into that workspace to right-click anywhere in this right-hand side of the screen now select import Existing projects into workspace and then go to this directory where we've just unzipped our project So I shall right-click anywhere in that white box and import and under general Existing projects into workspace Next now we need to browse to our location which was in desktop desktop DK2 Timer 1 op-amp solution and then say okay So it's found the project and we can now hit finish and it's now brought the project in and expand the tree again and In the source file we should hopefully find main.c You can see there all the information in main.c You should be able to see those found those routines further down that we've just looked at on the slides for the messages Virtual UART messages And then down here in the while one loop we can see the start blink and stop blink Right down at the bottom You can see the set and reset The UART now we want to build the project So I shall highlight my project name again and click the hammer And hopefully when everything's built you should see that we've generated a .elf file or .elf file And it should have a size of about 26k There we go 26 676k and it's DK Timer 2 open amp solution .elf So that's built the software that we need for our project So now we want to plug in a USB stick again into our host laptop We want to copy that .elf file across to our USB stick I'll attach my USB stick There's my USB stick arrived So I go back to my workbench So on this side you might have to select refresh to actually see the .elf file Remember this is a view exactly of the directory structure So you can right-click and do a refresh Hopefully in here now in the debug folder We should now be able to see our .elf file which is there And I want to just drag and drop the .elf file Which is the one I had highlighted there Is that one and drop it on to there So I've already got one from the previous example back in September So I want to say replace now I can unmount my USB disk and reconnect it back to my Terminal window, so if I unplug it reattach it to my target board You should see my terminal window was recognized and memorized it plugged in Go back to the root directory of that one as well And as we've done before We need to mount the device and then we need to copy the file across to the lib Firmware file on our target device I will mount the device again. It's warning me because I didn't unmount it correctly earlier on I'm now going to copy to the lib firmware file of the target board And as always once you've copied something onto the target you need to sync and Now we need to specify the name of the firmware we want to load So we want to Specify the name which is our L file and then we want to start the firmware That we want to do and that should start the orange LED blinking on the top side of your board So you're noticing there sometimes I'm getting a bit of word wrap on my lines Just the window is not big enough that we're pasting into so that's done the cop the load of the firmware and Now I'm going to start the firmware running I'm going to echo start across And now hopefully we should have an orange LED Up near your micro USB cable connector Flashing on and off at about one second so it should be next to the blue LED that's flashing away on the target board Here you can now play with different commands to see the state So we can have a look at the state to see if it's offline or running Then you've got the command for stop and then you can have a look at the state again to make sure things have worked So if we go and check the state out So we can now see that according to the state My board is running, which is what I'd expect the device is running My orange LED is flashing on my target board at this time and if I want to stop my device I can enter the stop command That should have stopped my LED flashing and if again if I check the state I can now see that the device is offline So I can see that both things are enabled or disabled I'll start it running again With that command And now we've got various other commands We can see to send the messaging backwards and forwards so we can send our virtual messages between our M4 and our A7 using these remaining commands here So we'll now echo some messages around between our target boards So with that message we can now see hello UART has been echoed back and it's been received on the virtual UART channel 0 Send the stop command It now tell me the blinking state is off and then if I send the restart command again It sends the command to say that it is restart again My blinking should now be blinking on and off again on my target board


Theog, ddigonwch ynglyn принodeu wedi cael gweithio'r Ewfyr, a dywedd wedi dechreu i ni. Beddd Thanks to you very much, I am very happy and very proud about this day.  We absolutely love seeing your celebrations when we score a goal at the other end. It is clearly obvious how much you love playing for this club. I always love to be here and the people receive me amazing, so that is the passion that I can transmit, so I'm very happy and very proud about this achievement. If you think back to the last few months, what's been your most memorable moment so far in an AFC Bournemouth shirt? I arrived here in August now, so it's very intense these months. I had bad moments, injuries and come back and play again and help the guys. So it was a very amazing moment if you could say just one, so I think it's about it now. I'm very happy and I can feel the commitment of the people and feel the people close, it's very nice and I always enjoy this moment here. How have you found the Premier League in comparison to all the other leagues you've played in? You know the league is everywhere. Can you tell us a little bit about how you've adapted to life in the Premier League? The intensity is amazing and the quality, everything. I spoke with the people close of me, I wanted to arrive here earlier because I'm really enjoying about the games, I really enjoy the football again. So the things happen in the perfect moment, the right moment so I'm really enjoying the football so it's the best thing for me. And just tell us a little bit about your team mates, I know you're particularly close with Mathias, Jefferson, Marcus and Essie. You've got a great group of you and there's a fantastic wider group as well. How much of a part have they played in helping you settle? When I arrived here my English was worse than now so they helped me and our culture is very close from South America but all team mates, all players, they always help me, they always feel them close of me so this is very important when we change counter and we arrive at a new place. So I have to say thank you for everybody and it's a pleasure to be with them all days. Now you've embraced life on the South Coast, how much are you enjoying exploring the local area and living here in Bournemouth? Look, me and my family we are really enjoying, I think in the moment of our life is the perfect place because we have kids, we have a young baby and we are really easy people and it's very quiet, it's very nice. My daughter is enjoying the school, my wife is enjoying the place so this is the most important when we have and we create this connection where everything is perfect. We've seen you out in the community recently, you visited elderly people in a local care home, how much of your job does that involve? It's such an important aspect of this football club. We are very much a community club and you seem to have absolutely embraced that. It was a very nice experience, I enjoyed that moment with these people and see with small things we can change the day of the people. He's a community team here and it's the thing that I need in my career and for my life as well so I'm really happy. Now we've got a couple of months till the end of the season, how much are you relishing the challenge that's ahead of us? We have the biggest moment for the season, I think we have 100% capacity to arrive in our objectives, of course it will be not easy like we could see our season, how was it but working hard like we are working with the right mentality, 100% we can do it. And just finally, what's your message to AFC Bournemouth fans that might be watching this? I'm sure the news that you signed a new contract will be going down very well. So the messages I'm really happy and I would like to say thank you for the first time here, like the welcome for me it was unbelievable and what will depend on the players to keep the club in the Premier League. In the Premier League we will give our 100% and we will do our best to do this.


Well we're pleased to be here today at the opening of 104 new cells at the Allouette Correctional Centre for Women. It's an important part of our expansion of corrections facilities across the province, $185 million in total in this phase. The Allouette part is a 43 and a half roughly million dollar investment but what's important is that this facility is designed to ensure that our staff are safe and the inmates have the support services that they require. I'm very excited today to see the secure building finally opening. The main reason for my excitement is the huge benefits this new building will have for staff. We've also been working very hard on the design over the past few years. We wanted to design it so that it was truly a safe and secure working environment. The safety features for women in this new building with vital programming and the right supports will help restore hope and independence, repair families and strengthen communities. We want to make communities safer and I want to share with you a little story. I want to tell you a little bit about Lisa. Lisa was a drug addict and a trafficker living in the downtown east side. She has been in and out of this centre over the past eight years and every time she walked through the doors of this this facility she felt relief because in her words, I was off the street, I was safe, I was clean. Each time she stayed here she took part in the programs offered and was able to learn something more about herself. Lisa has now been living in the community for a year and a few months ago she saw a card in a store that reminded her of the staff here at Alouette. The court the card had four simple words, I believe in you. Lisa sent that card to the staff. In it she wrote these words, you never gave up on me even when I did. Thank you all for encouraging me. She says staff here and I quote, always saw something that I didn't see in myself and that is who I have become today. A trustworthy, hard working, loving and compassionate member of society, know that your jobs can and do save lives. I should know. From the bottom of my heart, Lisa.


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