I'm so happy to inshallah be spending a little bit of time with you in these next few nights reflecting on the month of Ramadan and really hoping that all of this brings us closer to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and to receiving his mercy in this month and his forgiveness. Today inshallah I'm going to go through a couple of reflections on the meaning of the month of Ramadan and each night inshallah I hope to add a little bit more to that discussion. I reflect on how in this month of Ramadan my teachers had very specific definitions of how they determined or defined what this month really meant to them. Of course we know it's a month of fasting and a month of prayer and a month of Quran reading but there's more to this month than those very trademark and consistent features of Ramadan. And our teachers would say that unless we dive deeper into that discussion we may not fully reap the full benefits of what this month has to offer. So first and foremost I would often hear my teacher say that Ramadan is a month of little food and little sleep. Now I'm sure now that we are about a week into the month we feel the little food part of it Masha Allah and how our sleep schedule has really changed. If you are consistently getting up for sahur or sahri which I hope you are as the sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam then our sleep schedules have definitely changed as has our food schedule too. But the idea of little food and little sleep is really important to reflect on because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam reminds us that Allah is not in need of our hunger and our thirst. The point isn't to feel those pangs of hunger and thirst just because there is definitely an underlying conditioning and discipline that Allah is putting within us to really help us understand how others in the ummah are experiencing life. For those of us who have had the privilege of having much, then SubhanAllah it takes actually putting yourself in the shoes of someone else to really feel any different. And this is where I reflect on the difference between the word sympathy and empathy where sympathy you're cleaning back and sort of saying oh that poor person bachara, yaharam. As opposed to empathy which is literally putting yourself in those shoes so therefore you feel the pains of hunger, you feel the thirst, you feel the disrupted sleep and the exhaustion that comes with this month but it's a blessed exhaustion. It is purposeful and it is part of disciplining. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knew what he created and knew that he needed we as humans needed all 30 days or 29 to reach a point of change. That simply doing it for a day or night or a few weeks you know or you know every so often once in every 10 years wasn't going to actually make this work. It was something that had to happen annually and had to happen for at least a month for us to really feel that change. Our teachers also remind us that this is the month of patience. Why? Because we have little food and little sleep and we're exhausted that are bandwidth with our family members and loved ones and even in our workplaces shrink. And because of that we tend to be angry which is a play on the word hungry and angry at the same time. And that is important because we're taught that part of fasting isn't just letting go of food and drink in certain hours of the day. It's also letting go of anger, any sort of yelling or screaming or cursing or bad language or anything that's considered or misunderstood as bad mannerisms. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la takes this month and wipes it clean of those things. And that's really important because that's part of the fast. Otherwise you have a partial fast. And I think that's a very important idea too that this is the month of patience. And because we're taught patience Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is patient with us. And in his divine mercy does not have what humans have a decreasing of bandwidth in his patience with us as a Bisan and as we make mistakes and as we don't keep consistent with what we need to be doing and so on and so forth. So we are learning how to feel for the people in our ummah. And we are learning how to be as magnanimous as Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is with us. This month has so many underlying messages and real lessons to be learned. It's also month of kindness. This is the month that we reach out to everyone around us, family, friends, neighbors. We figure out who is in need of anything that we may help them. Yes, this is the month that it's a very charitable month. And this is the month where most Muslims choose to pay out their zakat, their alms charity if they owe it. Because again, that is annual just like the Muban is annual. So it helps to market all those that can be given any time of year as you know. So it's a time where people look out for the needs of others. What do other people need and let me be charitable either with my wealth or with my time. Or with my energy or with my knowledge. All of these are considered to be types of charity or types of Sadaqah that count for us as Sadaqah if we engage in them this month. And charity starts at home and kindness with our own family members, especially those who we are currently in this pandemic living with, whether they be roommates or family or others. Charity starts at home. And then there's a ripple effect where it extends outwards. Mashallah. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la teaches this and reaffirms it in the month of Ramadan. Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la this is also a month in which our teachers would say is a month of getting rid of lehu. Lehu in Arabic is typically a word that remains anything that's considered to be extra or wasteful, particularly wasteful speech. Things that we shouldn't be saying, things we shouldn't be doing. But then also our teachers say that the word lehu can be extended out to everything and anything that's considered frivolous. Anything that's an extra and unnecessary. Ramadan is very much a book camp where you're meant to focus in and really intensively engage in worship of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in the reading and recitation of Quran, in the extra prayers and of course the fasting and the charity. And really, in order to accomplish this you need, we need to get rid of the extras. The extra TV watching, the extra phone calls and chatting, the extra social media, the extra anything that's not useful or productive and focusing in on our betterment in this month. Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Right? And I think that's a really key component of understanding what does this month actually boil down to in its essence. And so inshallah, I will just end in today's reminder of reminding us that we are still in the days of mercy. The first third of Ramadan that is demarcated by the days of mercy to remind us that there are thirds of Ramadan that each have their own theme. And in this day of mercy, and we will talk inshallah in the next session about what does mercy or Rahmah actually mean. But in these days of mercy, one of the most important things that we take away from it is that Ramadan comes to us like a bath. It bathes us. It allows us to erase the sins we have accumulated from the year prior. It is a cleansing time, a purifying time. It is a time that if done well, we emerge on the other end purified and cleansed like the day our mothers bore us. Mashallah. So in that month of forgiveness, there's also the month, the days of mercy and consider this like a bath, like being bathed. Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, spiritually speaking. And we hope inshallah Allah SWT shows us his mercy and grants us his forgiveness and allows us to be people who enter Jannah and have nothing to do with Jahannam. Allahumma Amin. Inshallah Allah, please keep me and our community and our families all in your blessed du'az this month. And we'll see you all very shortly. Tomorrow, Ibn Allah. Wa sallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad. Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


This is stock number 90272A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM headquarters and light-duty truck headquarters for that fact. Today we are checking out this super clean like new 2019 RAM 1500 crew cab six foot four inch short box big horn. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around. Bright white clear coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the truck with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person. Gonna try and get done before the rain comes here. We got 20 inch rims on this one factory alloys with chrome covers like new Nexon Rodian 275 55 R20 tires with just about all the tread left only 800 some miles on this car 802 I believe so she's gonna be really clean all the way around but this video is just gonna confirm that for you and it is starting to rain pretty hard right now so we're gonna hurry up passenger side rim no scuffs or scrapes and on this side of the truck very clean no dents no dings. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here even with 800 40 miles you still want to be sure that it's gonna be dent-free and very very clean all the way around inside and out which is why we do the videos because we understand that everybody's busy hopefully the same season time so when you get here you'll be 100% ready to go back rim is an excellent condition as well no scuffs or scrapes in the back tires have just as much tread as those front tires. Bed on this truck is very clean once again she's starting to rain pretty good here full towing package which includes the receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring rear bumper parking sensors four pin seven pin wiring locking tailgate tailgate itself is an excellent condition didn't see any dents or dings on that and on this side of the truck just as clean as the passenger side notice that it does have the six foot four inch box so it's got the bigger box on it and this back rim is an excellent shape as well for full disclosure it does have the capitalist fuel fill really nice feature down the rest is side of the truck very very clean has the power folding mirrors with the built-in directional signals and they are heated inside the big horn package gives you the gray cloth interior no rips or tears on that seat as we hop inside the truck you can see that this one has 802 miles on it instrument cluster is very nice and clean you get the seven inch display on there range to empty outside temperatures play as well as the digital spinometer this one has the heated leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls and gear selector on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left and you can really see how much rain is coming down now didn't get to see it but this one has auto headlamps power pedals power windows power locks power mirrors and the power fold-in mirrors like so this is gonna be the rain addition of this video series has the heated seats heated steering wheel AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities on the 4C radio 8.44 C you also have Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities this is also where your backup camera shows up I want to point out that this backup camera is high definition and those grid lines are dynamic so as I turn the steering wheel they turn with the steering wheel to show you where the truck is going to be headed and that center line is lined up right with your back receiver hitch so if you got a lineup your boat or camper or whatever you may be hooking up to it's really easy to do you got your heated seats and heated steering wheel button right there also you got your climate control dual climate control if you like the more tactile buttons and knobs down here you have your stability control tow haul your rear and front parking sensors you can turn those off you get a CD player two USBs two USB C's and an aux jack there as well cell phone holder 115 volt 400 watt plug-in down there as well passenger seat is very clean too no rips or tears on that this truck has never been smoked in and is extremely clean inside map lights home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems and finally a power sliding rear window control we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood now I got a little time to show you the front seat here no rips or tears power driver seat with lumbar very very clean back seats are just as clean as the front seats minus the rain that's falling right now latch child safety system for your child car seats power slide rear window these seats fold up for extra storage you got your RAM bins back here two of them with removable bins for easy cleaning then you get two USBs two USB C jacks and another 115 volt 400 watt plug-in child car locks and we'll take a quick look under the hood I personally like to thank you for checking out the video today hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside out under the hood we have the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor this truck has been safety inspected is 100% ready to go to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and use cars trucks SCVs minivans wrangles you name it we got it go our website www.summodauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at Summod Auto.com you like to check out more HD videos go to youtube.com slash Summod Auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you will see links to subscribe to our YouTube channel and left link to more half-ten truck videos like this one on your right if you haven't been our website in the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those checks out and we really look forward to helping you with this super clean like new 2019 Ram 1500 crew cab 6 foot 4 inch short box big hole and thanks again


So auto retrieve, we've mentioned a couple of times. This is one of the stop gaps that we're putting in place so that in the short term, we can make content that's in Filecoin accessible to IPFS, to gateways and just more generally bridge some of the protocol gaps that we've got at the moment. It also serves a secondary purpose, which is it gives us a lot more view into the state of retrievals and lets us work with data programs to sort of help set up the right incentives to encourage storage providers to ramp up on their retrieval bandwidth and their infrastructure so that they can serve the amounts of retrievals that we're expecting to keep growing. So this is running, we've recently switched it to a Kubernetes deployment that we can keep running pretty stably. We're working through some ongoing resource management stuff so that it not only is running, but also serving at high quality. You can see some gaps in the success failure rate where it runs out of memory currently. All this work is thanks to Elijah on the OuterCore team and Kyle on the Bedrock team, but more generally what this is going to mean is that when you go to ipfs.io, what will happen is that will go back to the big IPFS node that is that gateway. It will be peered and so it's bit swap requests. We'll talk to its peers and one of the peers will be this auto retrieve node which looks like an IPFS node that is just sort of in the IPFS node. Right now, you need to be peered. What that means is it's serving currently IPFS nodes that are in the DHT server ring because it automatically connects to them. But if you're another IPFS client, you're not getting the full benefit quite yet because you won't necessarily be connected. Those bits off requests will then be seen by Outer Retreat who will ask to store the index indexing node for those sids. When those sids are found from a storage provider on Filecoin, it will then make a graph sync request to pull that content locally into its own cache and then we'll say that it has those blocks and be able to respond to them over bits well. So it acts like a block cache. It keeps a relatively large order of tens to hundreds of gigs of blocks that it knows about in cache that it's pulled from storage fighters. But the thought is that these are transient. We can eventually have them running in the same regions as gateway instances and just generally use this as a short-term over the next month's way to bridge until we get some vertical upgrades. I will leave it there. There's an Outer Retreat channel at Filecoin Slack.


So we're here at the CS 2019 and who are you? Hi, my name is Jeanette Wilson. I work for microchip technologies Welcome to the 2019 CES. Let me show you our booth. So you have lots of demos right here? We do we have a lot of demos on here Microchip is a semiconductor company and we really focus on effortless design for our customers In the areas of smart connected secure. So what we're showing here is a wireless network So my way is a Wi-Fi technology from microchip We also have Laura which stands for long range if you need to communicate over a longer range You know 10 kilometers for example, you can do that wirelessly and then through Wi-Fi When you actually take a look at this demo, we're measuring the temperature in different areas of our booths And I don't know how this will show up on your screen But you can see the different hotspots and where we're located and the temperature that's being monitored nice over here Here's an example of a device using our PIC 24f J64 GA 702 Now what this is is this is an application. It's one of our customers designs right here This is a 16-bit microcontroller and it's really being used to monitor the overall health of animals in the industry So this will be very important for dairy cows when they're looking at the production of milk You can think of it as a factory and so this technology helps them to be able to maintain and monitor the health of the of the animal Over here, I'm just going to hit these very quickly But we have a lot of sensors in here that if you're looking for precision control in your industry Factories or anything like that. We're able to very very tightly Monitor just like a weight measuring system right here. Yeah, so that's got a scale on it right here So you can see this it's also going to do some some different Cycling here and what we do is we do a lot of different designs Devices here and so we try to package them together very easily for our customers to be able to use this Sometimes things go wrong in the factory right maybe you lose control or things like that Let's just say something happens and something gets broken. I can pull it out And if you see over here It recognized that it broke and so it's going to now try to self-heal the ring using this ring technology So it's kind of like a meshing or rewriting. It's not a mesh It's actually a ring technology that we're using for this. Yes, so Very similar in terms of the ethernet here What we're showing is Amazon free RTOS So our lot of our customers are very interested in how do you connect to a cloud and as a semiconductor vendor? We are cloud agnostic, but we have a lot of examples. It looks like this one's being very Interesting right now. So let me show you this one Now this one is based upon a CEC 1702. This is an arm M4 core With hardware cryptography in it and with hardware cryptography in it What it means is that when you're doing hardware algorithms, for example a shop to do it in software We'll take you about 186 microseconds versus doing it in hardware is 33 microseconds or five times different When you start to do encryption and decryption of your data, you can start to see the scales Because it's a general purpose microcontroller There's a lot of things we can do but a lot of our customers will use this to do secure flash updates and make sure that you've got Updates that are good and then secure boot. We can also do key pads Because we have a lot of IO on this device so we can actually use this to control different things with a key pad So you can see some of the different things there What is this the single board computer here? So this is a single board computer from Konga Tech. Yes, absolutely Where is your solution in here? So our solution is the MEC 1705 This is also an arm-based product these will be used in conjunction with Intel architecture and Intel's in a Transition from one bus to a new bus called Eastby and we're one of the first manufacturers to have that Eastby capability and as such our customers has Use this and then it also has the capability to do secure boot. So if you're worried about root kit types of issues like the Stuxnet Virus or things like that. It will then you say Eastby. Yes. So and this bus solution means What does it mean the multi bus or is it what I see two chips here, right? These are actually the Intel chips right here. Yes. So our chip should be this one right here I'm struggling to look at it right there. So and so what it what it's really doing is That as a process node shrink down below 10 nanometers physics change And so you can't always support like a five-volt bus And so you've had to go down to a 3.3 volt bus or even lower bus technologies And so what Intel and AMD have on their architecture is done is they started to transition to those buses Nice, and this is with the the one with the Amazon free Why does it say Amazon free artist? What does Amazon have to do with a free artist? Well, so Amazon free our toss actually is a Development kernel so you can actually see this based upon the free our toss kernel And so the nice thing about it is very small and very light. Oh, it's very small and very lightweight. And so it's very easy to use with like the Amazon AWS Amazon web services So what this demonstration is showing is a development board using our Wi-Fi technology And a temperature sensor and it's taking data and it's connecting up through the AWS cloud and coming back down here through the gateway and being controlled and so This what's being shown there is controlling this and you can actually monitor the different temperature humidity and things like that So that's what we're doing is tracking that and these two devices are actually talking to each other And you have chips in there. We have lots of So this is a pic 32 MC. We also have our wireless chips on here as well We also have some other micro chip components on here So there's a significant amount of microchip content on here over here We've got some very unique devices. These little devices here are the ECC 608 family of devices which is fantastic for doing authentication Yeah, and to really secure your system and who you're speaking with in addition to this We've got the micro chip processors that are on here as well 32-bit micro processors on here So we have all of that here nice All right, and you have more more demos around I do. Let me show you actually Some of these is this arm solution this one. Yes. So these are arm solutions Now these are the same time Sam Elton Sam 11 devices, which has the trust zone in it So what that allows you to do is it allows you to have a portion of the Code that can really be protected in a customer environment in in a development using the new core I'm Cortex and 23 or 33, but it's as a microcontroller with the trust zone built in maybe it is And you also selling some Right here. Yeah, so this is actually showing water tolerant touch demo So the thing about touch is a lot of times It's very difficult to actually have water because water is a conductor But you know, even now you can see my buttons are changing even though it's wet So I still know is what's going on even though it's maybe in a harsh environment It might be also part of the firmware how you have algorithms that can figure it out and stuff. It is absolutely Right absolutely and over here and this is the Sam L 11 So this is showing an ultra low-power device right here. Now. This is also doing secure lower the long range capabilities So here's this is an arm chipset also. This is an arm Right chips at the arm trust zone with the immutable secure boot And it also has some hardware cryptography accelerators and a true random number generator in here Great, and this is a very important for the future of the IOT also and the Laura and stuff Absolutely, and you can see, you know, we were actually a 2018 winner for the Sam L 11 best contribution to IOT security And that was from arm tech console. You know, we're very proud of that award. Nice big partner with the arm, right? Yeah, absolutely, and you have more more demos around. Yes, so here's more touch demos So, you know, when you have different touch demos again You know sometimes in a harsh and environment like a factory environment You may have gloves on to help protect the users But sometimes you still need to be able to handle different things And so you want to be able to touch different things even though I don't have You know, it's not conducting right? No, it's just plastic glove. Yeah, just a plastic glove here You can touch it feel it and somehow it goes through right with with the touch capability that we have In addition to that and I think that this is really neat, too. Again, this is another Customer of ours that's using our haptics technology one of the benefits of touch technology is that it's quiet You know, but a lot of people say well, I don't know if it's working. I can't tell if it's working So these are really nice because they actually give you vibration and Unfortunately for the viewers on the camera, you can't tell but when I touch it it actually vibrates. It's like Touch it. It's nice. So what do you hear it? I can hear it. I can feel it So what do you do about that? Well, and that's part of the haptics technology that we've incorporated into our solutions And so what it does is it gives the users the ability to actually feel and sense these technologies that are associated with this Nice and this is a maybe potentially could also be printer electronics and stuff or like it looks It could be like in a I don't know in the shower or something. Absolutely. It could it's maybe waterproof Maybe but then here you have some other. Yeah, this is also another waterproof technology similar to what we've shown you before So again, you know, you can do different things and this is just showing that even when I touch it I can still work Yes, cool. Yeah, all right. So maybe you can walk around a little bit more And actually, I think that Brian will actually be sending you and we're gonna have a different person for you to show you our fan Fascinating automotive solutions. Nice. Okay, so let's go there. Okay. Thanks a lot He's actually from Europe so you might have met him at hi, hello, I'm Johan nice to meet you So who are you Johan? You said yeah, so so what are you going to show here? Yes, I'm Johan. I'm marketing for the automotive product group at microchip and I walk you through basically the Demos that we have Automotive solutions microchip is in many automotive solutions. We I would say countless basically We are one of the lead suppliers basically for touch applications touch the solutions and automotive And what do you see here is an example of touch buttons on a steering wheel With with feedback Depending on customer requirements. It's haptics. It's haptic feedback.  It's localized under your finger on On the finger. Yeah, if you touch next to it, it doesn't actually move. How does it work? It uses piezo piezo let's say feedback yeah, and And on top of that it's a surface. It's a surface is actually you know, you can you can program it Show more functions or use the function depending on the user. That's what we call One touch so you know one dimensional touch then we have here three dimensional touch, which is basically guesting Distur gets the recognition. You see here. We are I'm entering with my hand into the let's say electric field How does that work Create we have antennas here We create a capacity field and when I disturb the field it actually shows the disturbance It's in a car it can't be in a car. Yes It can't be in cars What a similar well a different technology is used today, which is based is camera based and which it Right-based which is a lot more expensive. So that is Like this How big is the area you can support here here, it's just around here Basically, it's you know the area is within the within the feet created by the antenna So depending on what size of antenna you use it, but from it is 15 centimeters from here 20 centimeters From this distance around That's really cool The third technology that we show here is is a touch display and we show here the first time basically knobs on display It has one connection to The display which is this this is the only electric Capacitive And it feel it gets it's got like nice mechanical feeling to it This the interior can be can be different Like for example like your HVAC system, you know now they are unsynchronized you can synchronize them You can actually Menus on it just one big tablet. It's one big tap it's cool them on put them on Put it on top of the tablet Once it's on is you cannot take it off it basically stays there, but you could have different options and you can have a Let's say a low-end version without that So basically these are the this is the let's say in general the touch area One-dimensional three-dimensional two-dimensional touch Here we show an evaluation kit In the corner where we have Customers right now. We show basically security technology we We saw it on a can network where basically messages are protected secured and all they reuse an authentication to a allow only Messages that come with the right key And communicate with the right key between the nodes. This is a big challenge to keep all these cars Safe absolutely. That's what what we so basically And on here Here is so inductive sensing inductive sensing An example of Application so here you see our oh, I see you the inductive A linear Let's say sensor here That that Sensor position position of the coin No, the coin is For the size You know This is why is this needed today's and you know, we already have all sensors Yeah, but this is a lot more robust than all sensors And then when you look at what what's expect what's happening is you have more electric cars Electric cars create more, you know stress more and more that's a emissions And with the with this technology the inductive sensor technology, you can filter on the better on the signal and work You know robustly in this environment What we Laser technology Basically, it's a mems mirror and in the market That's a solution is driving the men's mirror with You know to control the men's mirror It's heads up display applications heads up display, but also Lighting yeah, so so R2B lighting what we show here is this technology called isolate It's it's basically a Low-cost solution for interior lighting What microchip provides is we are We provide the microcontroller with an isolate firmware to drive the LEDs It's a it's the master Should be here. What is isolate isolate stands for integrated smart embedded LED. It's a It's a technology that was Invented by in over and the BMW And it's for interior lighting, you know for any like for example Having back background lighting to your to your knobs that you just saw over there could be done by it by you know This technology or if you the color inside the car you can choose the color inside the car out of 4096 different What we're so working for cars, right? This is the networking for cars for interior lighting. This is networking Classical networking can networking What are you doing mesh with it? Don't know what we show is can't caution networking You know we have we have a network where in a normal car not every Every node is active at the same time. You know some some functions are dormant while you're driving some functions are active This this technology that we're showing here is called can't passion at working It allows you to wake up nodes on demand when you need them and what it does to the to the user is let's say Reducing the power consumption of the overall vehicle. So at the end of the day, you're actually saving energy So and that falls down at the end of the day to saving energy on your fuel emission. Yeah on your on your fuel consumption You Jump in there Car access It's it's basically It's basically a remote keyless entry. It's passive entry passive go The system that we have set up here is basically you activate the system With the capacitive sensing technology here on the on the door handle Now your system wakes up wakes up from dormant from sleep mode in active mode You basically communicate with your key and your key fob and the on board unit and you can Without removing basically your key from from your from your from a jacket or from your from your suitcase You can you can enter the car you can start the engine press the start button then you start a car What my kitchen pass is one of the challenges here is basically Let someone on You know that the challenge with pep systems is someone could actually Let's say you read your your key while you're while you're actually let's say in the restaurant or at home and and use a router To actually open up the car that is distant from your from your from your key and you have a solution to make it we have a Solution for that. Yeah, that's a big deal. You don't want people to steal your desk. Absolutely. Yeah Moving on to the next one. This is wireless charging So What microchip has is is a number of let's say products that go into the wireless Chee Chee wireless charger and high power very high power of wireless charging Yes for automotive it wouldn't be 100 watt for automotive. Basically. We're targeting 15 watt. That's what basically the phone maker the city Smartphone makers would accept Our system is again. It's just flexible to be able to adopt the various profiles of the different let's say mobile Smartphone makers whether it's Samsung or Apple or UI can be it can be adopted to their requirement This one is USB power delivery So this one this over there we saw the wireless charging here We see the wire charging basically now why are you USB interface and what we show here are the different types of Charging profiles that you can that we can support without without I This is another element of basically power delivery USB charging but also flex connector For example, this this solution supports car playing car life Where basically your phone takes over control of your of the navigation system or the head unit So when you probably know about this when you when you plug into when you plug into the No, the USB port with your iPhone And you go into car play mode basically on the display on your head unit in the car you see basically a Mirror of your of your cell phone of your smartphone all the applications are available now So it's display board. Yes Yes Right Exactly, so This one does both data and and and charging this one is charging only What we show here is a secure isn't it application and I mentioned earlier over there that security is a key point for any networking system or any network in the car So what this solution shows is an ethernet network with this different nodes and Paired with our security. I see You know provides a robust secure solution We we not just rely on software TLS, but also do hardware TLS here Express is a Is a standard that is being used in the in industrial application today? Microchip has been in this market for the last 10 years As a key supplier of the technology and industrial application Now we are making this solution ready for automotive applications. So that means automotive qualification But we also provide Solutions with automotive standards like me piece. Yes. I to interface to camera ICs and back to the main unit so that gives Customers multi-gigabit in this case 10 gigabit Power 10 gigabit the speed In a small cable and this in the coax cable. So this is all over the car 15 meter coax cable with These are inserts in a very good for For insert in the 15 meter cable up to 12.5 gigabits per second that's correct That's the industrial speed for automotive. The speed is right now 10 gigabits per second What we show here is Technology that is the combined basically synchronous network and ethernet This particular demo here shows an ethernet network connected to the INI net On the same bus we have Streaming data we have audio video data, but also we have packet data. We have ethernet Data so anything that comes from from the ethernet Can go seamlessly basically into those nodes we could be for could be for example head unit or an amplifier Or or telematic unit because all these cars have Networking going on right there's more and more network jumps to the cars have much more faster network well, they actually have Many of the cars have by P-based Networks But for some applications I think that is a much more cost-efficient solution Because it actually can can work with native data a streaming data, especially For audio and video application We shot a variant of this INI net here, which is with voice with voice recognition and with with microphones those microphones for example could be used for emergency calls of course, but also for noise noise cancellation within the car And again the real-time Speed is is critical Streaming data is critical. This is why this INI net is so let's say is superior over other networks Exactly I can connect it with that Yeah, and then just this demo there Okay, but how about that one over there can we can we go back sure let's get this one So this is how you make sure that the cars don't get hacked This is our security is our modern example of our security application. This is a can network and Messages are being let's say sent around between the nodes. Yeah, these are the three nodes But imagine someone is let's say hacking This the system for example through coming in through your telematic units and changing Basically the data that are communicated between the nodes. Yeah, so your speed could be shown wrongly or Let's say the RPM Could shown but you actually could let's say stop the motor from external and and with let's say Authenticated messages that can be prevented and we have the solution that Authenticate can because can is kind of an unencrypted open networking thing. It's very easy to Messages are not encrypted first of all, yeah, but you can encrypt them with with this technology


Okay. Hey guys, what's going on? Drew here, thatanxietyguide.com with me today is my friend Leslie Gustafson all the way from Colorado who has agreed to spend some time with us today and talk about the topic of anxiety disorders and sex and intimacy. Yes, Leslie? Yes, absolutely. So glad to be here. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for taking the time. Really, really appreciate it. So I'll give you the 30 second version of where Leslie comes from. Leslie is a clinical psychologist, correct? Nope.  Okay. Good answer.  Strike one on Drew. Some people call me doctor, but it's not technically accurate. Yeah. Okay. No problem. So no problem. So Leslie comes from that background of therapy and you had mentioned to me in a previous chat that you had spent some time even treating anxiety disorders in the past. I still treat anxiety disorders because anxiety disorders are so prevalent and show up in my office all of the time. More specifically early on, I was doing only anxiety and depression and bipolar, but I work with couples a lot and also everybody walks in with everything. So yeah. Yeah. So it's good combo. So Leslie brings that to the table and that specialization in marriage and intimacy therapy and sex therapy and good. So one of the things that comes up a lot, one topic that comes up a lot in our discussion forum and around the podcast is the topic of how these anxiety issues, panic disorder, panic attacks, agoraphobia impact intimacy relationships and people's sex lives. So it appears to be a topic that many people have in their minds, not too many people for comfortable discussing. And I thought it would be worth spending 20, 30 minutes together kind of kicking it around. So I don't know if this is something that you see under, you know, as part of your daily travels or not, but I mean, it's a thing. It seems to be a real thing. Yeah. The struggle with anxiety and sexuality. Yes. Study in general, in general. Well, in general, definitely. And how it impacts relationships and intimacy and sex for sure. And I would say, I was talking on Instagram, I would say that I often run into over time when I'm working with a couple that the culprit, in fact, was anxiety that was getting in the way. And they couldn't move through it.  But it was really once the anxiety got treated with kind of the standard cognitive behavioral and medication protocols that they were like, Oh my gosh, I'm, I'm so different now. That's amazing. And available for sex, which was when you're in really heightened state, you know, you and I have talked about it.  In fact, we can't even function sexually when we're anxious. Because we need to be relaxed. Yes. Come in with anxiety in the bedroom at any level, but some of it's more manageable. But when it's too high, you can't even settle in to connecting. That's true. And so I would say it's a culprit for many, many couples. A lot of times I see it more, I would, I see it a little bit more with women where it interrupts. Men often make use of the anxiety, if you will, in a stress kind of level. And then they kind of act it out and it just adds to their sexuality or they take their anxiety and put it into it. Women more often will get shut down by it and not be able to move forward. I think I've seen almost exactly that. And my evidence is purely anecdotal from people who are interacting with me, you know, around the podcast, but I see that exact thing. Women will basically say like, I've lost my libido. I've lost the desire. I can't connect with my husband or my partner. Whereas men will often say like, oh, that's a huge stress reducer for me. Yeah, like I still like it because it's positive for me. So it's so interesting. I get calming and I get calmed down from it.  So it's interesting. And I think the two things that I see more than anything else that we can kind of address is one is a physical thing. And a lot of people are afraid. They become afraid of intimacy and sex because those physiological responses, rapid heart rate, heavy breathing, perspiration, the whole nine yards, they mimic the same feelings of a panic attack or an anxiety spike. And so they have learned to associate those bad feelings with bad things and they want to avoid them. And it really kind of triggers them. So a tough one to deal with, I think, you know, we can kind of take that one and we'll move on to that whole connection thing later. But you know, we talk a lot that whole connection thing, that small detail, right? We, you know, we talk a lot on the podcast about desensitizing yourself to those symptoms using exposure techniques and intraceptive exposure and things like that. But we do run into a problem where people are, they're terrified of their own heartbeat. And so therefore they really are terrified to engage with their partner because of how it feels physically before they get to the good part. Yes. And there is, there is a kind of emotional regulation issue in that, which is to, you know, how we interpret it, right? So if my heart rate starts to race, and I think I'm going cuckoo or I'm having a heart attack, guess what happens to anxiety? It just escalates. Whereas if I'm starting to get wound up or feeling aroused sexually, and it's interpreted as like, yeah, you know, you're going to have a different reaction of with your anxiety. And so it's, it's so much what we do with that arousal when the things are starting to get heightened, how we interpret it and what we do with it. If it's seen as excitement or something positive or like, you know, this was what happens when I experience a big pleasure, then it's going to be a lot different than, oh my gosh, this is a scary thing that's happening in my body. So there is an issue with getting comfortable with our own experiences inside of ourselves and not panic over them. And that's no small task. It's not. Right. And I think with people who have anxiety disorders, what happens is it goes so high that they start to scatter and it's just too much. In my experience, when the anxiety gets tempered down through usually medications or really great anxiety management plan and cognitive behavioral mindfulness dialectical behavior therapy also helps. Yeah. And it doesn't get so skyrocketed. There's it's tempered down. So it never gets to that place of where you're feeling out of control because that's what people hate. Yeah, yeah. Or that feeling of the those cognitive distortions that say that a heart, a rapid heart rate must be dangerous. They've gotten into that groove that says this is a dangerous thing. So when we learn to no longer fear it even when it happens, it becomes like, okay, now I can put it into a proper context. This is a good thing in this situation now. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Or it's excitement or it's the energy that I need to make this thing happen. Yes. Feeling like it's for you and that you are going to be undone by it. And I think it just takes so much work. And for some people who are really struggling, these are folks who can't get in the car or can't get out of the house or can't go to work. And they're they're engineering an entire life to make sure that those sensations don't happen. Right. It becomes very, very difficult. So yeah, because, you know, you have to eventually tolerate more and more. Yes. Of more and more empowerment is the more we can slowly over time tolerate in our emotional experience, the stronger we become and the more we habituate to that. Yeah, more. Yeah, yeah, that acclimation. Yeah. So we talk often about using exposure techniques, I will admit to having a strong anti medication bias, but I'm just a technology guy. I have no I did not have the qualifications that you have. So I will say that upfront, we often steer the discussion away from that in certain aspects, you know, at least in my in my community, but that's okay. So we talk about doing that work to learn to acclimate to those sensations so that you no longer fear that. And I so anyway, that that's something that we try to get people gone. Yes. And there's clear evidence that we can actually rewire our brains when we create repetitions. And we we form new neural pathways by new strategies over time that strengthen us and lessen the anxiety. And we are more capable. I think I'm not biased in the direction against medication. It's not first order for me. But in such profound help for so many that sometimes it just it's a nice adjunct that has to be used to get people sometimes being able to do the things at all. Yeah, to just get it started. No, I do understand that absolutely. I know it's a somewhat controversial topic, even in the industry profession, not industry, you know, in industry, your question. Yeah. So, so I think, you know, the general advice we could probably I think we're sort of offering or I hear you say and you confirm or deny this is, you know, you work on everything. So people ask me all the time, like, how am I ever going to get back to being intimate with my partner? Well, you work on everything. You work on getting to the supermarket. And you work on getting in the car and driving on the highway. And then you'll be able, you'll be better able to get back to that that setting of intimacy. Does that make sense? It absolutely does. And when I work with people who have struggles in their intimate relationship, and it is anxiety based, or it doesn't even have to be, but the couple, it's gotten so negative. And everything that they're doing in the bedroom is no longer like they don't like it anymore. It's not positive. It's become a negative experience. We take everything in traditional sex therapy, we go way back to simple simple, which means when I have a couple, I basically send them home with an exercise that says, I want you guys to give each other hands and foot massages and talk. Okay. And monitor yourself. And if that becomes too anxiety provoking, then how can you come at the activity in a different way? That's very good. So that you keep things not negative and not scary. And so that you walk away from the experience and it was mutually pleasurable, mutually wanted, and you will do it again. Yes. And so when you start out really slow and add in, it's not near as threatening. What tends to be very threatening for people is the idea that I have to go out in there and I have to perform and we have to have an orgasm. And that's so pressure full. And there's so much demand in that, that that skyrockets their anxiety and they don't enter in at all. They just avoid. Yeah. And I think that that's the same as just about any avoidance that people are engaged in. You don't go from stuck on the sofa for six months to a trip to Paris. You have to build the small things first. You have to build it up and out of repetition. And when you have those positive experiences, it encourages you to try again. Yeah, exactly. Sometimes you start way back there and it is kind of a sexual desensitization because you're getting more and more and more comfortable. And if it ever becomes negative, then we take it back and become comfortable and connected again. Because once people aren't relaxing and enjoying the experience, then we need to pull in the reins a little bit. Because we want success because success breeds a want for more. Right, exactly. And that's that whole flooding thing we talk about sometimes. You don't want to do that because that can backfire. Yeah, that will backfire. On to flood. Yes, exactly. Through a flooding, there's also good evidence once you live through a flooding that you can and you will and you didn't have. Yeah, exactly.  So those are kind of nuts and bolts. But the other thing that comes up quite often is that connection. So when one partner is in the midst of a serious anxiety disorder, the other partner often becomes the sole source of safety, support, reassurance. That's exactly right. I can only get in the car with my husband or my wife. That person takes on such a role and is often, I'm not going to say required to understand, but becomes kind of the caretaker in a way. It really can shatter that other aspect, that romantic aspect of the relationship. It puts a stress on the whole relationship. And here's an interesting tidbit that when we experience ourselves as a caregiver or a nurturer in a chronic kind of way, our own sexual desire is likely to fall away, as is the passion that we experience towards our partner. So it's not a really great thing to get in too tightly of a dependent situation when you're feeling so needed. Yes. Which happens. Yes. And it feels like they are the safety and they are the reassurance I was talking to a gal this week, and this is happening with her boyfriend. He's like, wants to go away for the day. And she's just like, oh my gosh. And I'm like, wait a minute, you can survive a day. You were doing that before him. Yes. But he's such a sooth, and she's had a longstanding anxiety disorder, and he comes in as reassurance. I go, your strength is going to come not from that. It's going to come from those times when you did it by yourself, however little it was. And then you go, yes, I can by me. I didn't have to rely on someone else, because you don't have full confidence when you're relying on somebody else that you accomplished it. Yeah, that's exactly right. We say all the time, like, there is no such thing as a safe person.  Try and get people to understand. Go uncomfortable. And I saw Instagram post, you can be safe and anxious at the same time. Absolutely you can. It doesn't feel good, but you're still safe. Yeah. And that's a core thing that keeps people stuck so often to that connection between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. They can't break that. You have to break that link. But yeah, that thing where just the relationship on a hole begins to suffer. My husband is telling me to just pull myself together. He's tired of this. It's been going on too long. He doesn't understand or she the other way. And it really like kind of puts a sledgehammer through the through the relationship. So sex is naturally going to suffer, I would think. Yes. So as the relationship is suffering and, you know, in and out of the out of the bedroom, that connection, that relationship, yeah, context is so critical to great intimacy. I often say, and sometimes I catch some heat from this and you'd mentioned, you know, that little bit of in your face, the reverent thing that I got going on, like when you take care of that, it's difficult. So you have a person suffering from an anxiety disorder instead of having requiring that their partner be the safe person, like you must understand, you must understand how hard this is, you must understand why it can't go to dinner or the movies, order family dinners or on vacation, understand why how hard this is. I often say they don't have to understand. They actually understand that you're safe. So use them as a role model. So it's that thing again, that if you take care of that thing, that problem, so many other things get to fall into place, I would think I would think I think what what when we're anxious, what we're looking for is some kind of joining or some kind of empathy, but not somebody should then rescue us because it's rescue us because it's the rescuing that is doing a disservice. Yeah, someone to have empathy for you, but then believe in you, rise up. Yes. And believes in your strength and doesn't infantilize you and believe that you're incapable or incompetent or can't get through this. That is not a message that serves the anxious person. No, it can feel cruel to hear somebody going, you know what, I can't do that. I can't be that one for you all of the time. They can be like, whoa, but they can have empathy for the plight, but then believe in the strength of the person with the anxiety. Well, because I think both people have a role, right? So the non-anxious person, if you will, can be empathetic and supportive and be a cheerleader, I think. Yes. As opposed to being an enabler or not an a, that's a bad word, I understand. Well, it almost, it's semantics. When somebody starts moving into that chronic caregiving, taking care of another, what happens is that it starts to build up resentment, it starts to build up hurt feelings. I don't have any in this relationship anymore that are independent from being a caregiver. It doesn't work. So do people to be, you know, developing their own strength, whatever their issues are, that's pro-relationship. And I think that's true.  It's out of the control. Whereas asking your wife to understand why you won't go to the supermarket or can't pick up the kids from school is a tall order. And so I always say that, you know, that your partner should become a cheerleader and a supporter, but you also have to acknowledge to them, like, I understand that you don't understand this. My fear is every bit as real as if you held the gun to my head, but I do understand there's no reason for it and I'm going to work on that. So please just cheer me on while I work on that. You have to accept responsibility for the irrationality of the behaviors in a way. So, and I always say, you know, when you start to improve that, hopefully everything, the relationship begins to improve along with it, you would hope. But I don't know if you've, you know, been able to coach people through that, I would hope so. Yeah, good. Very good.  And it's not only just about, you know, levels of anxiety, but it's also about, you know, your history with anxiety and if it's done something to you that was negative, which is usually where the pairing happens, right? I'm in the car one day, I've always been a little bit anxious, but then I have this panic attack. So I'm no longer going to drive. Yeah, yeah, we're talking about that all the time. Unfortunately, like how our brains work. Yeah. Right. And you pull all the way back because you never want to have that happen again. Right, right. Because it only happened one time in your 20 years or whatever it was. It's so terrible that that's the way it works. It only takes one to develop the phobia. It only takes one and then it's like, I can't go in the car anymore and I don't need to get back in the car. Right, right. So, by bit, and you need to go farther and farther and farther. Correct. Well, it takes the one panic attack, but then it takes 150 repetitions of getting back in the car. It's cruel. It's cruel. It is. But our brains seem so plastic and so elastic, I mean, that you can do those habits. So I think you've been going for about 20 minutes. I don't want to take a whole lot of your time. Anything in particular that you wanted to add to this? Or I mean, I know it's a big topic. There's really no good. We can't give people they do this, this, this and this and you'll be fine. Unfortunately. All right. First and foremost, I always encourage the courageousness of getting help, getting help and taking up your own cause. If you're going to be better than this, then you're going to have to fight for your life to be better than this. And sometimes that means means reaching out to a qualified professional. Sometimes it means listening to a podcast. But if you're not where you want to be, then the work isn't done. And you need to keep fighting for yourself to get to a level where you're getting your functioning back and your life is what you want it to be. Hope, hope, hope never stops. But we have to seize the reins and do the work and do the effort. But we're the ones who end up reaping when we do. So I would say, you know, stay in the battle, get in the battle, be courageous enough to keep fighting for yourself and doing whatever it takes to get the help that you need to get to a better place. Excellent. That's really super good advice. I'm going to ask you one more question down that road. Then I'll let you go. When people do reach out for help from a qualified professional, which I really encourage all the time, there seems to be a huge amount of misunderstanding of what that's all about. So just going in and telling your therapist or your counselor how your week was and how it went without that action oriented approach seems to frustrate people. Like that's not working. I've been in therapy for a year and a half and I still can't get in the car. I'm still having intimacy problems. Can you address that sort of action oriented approach that I'm guessing you're taking with people? You send them home with homework, you have them? Oh, yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, there are assignments to do. And not all therapists are the same. They just are not all the same. And so you want to be looking for somebody who's qualified and specialized in working with anxiety disorders, cognitive behavioral therapy, or dialectical therapy, but they're probably psychoeducational as well, where they're teaching you things, but they're also, they know what they're doing around anxiety disorders. Yes, are really preferred treatments and research based treatments that have the best outcomes. And we're talking about them right here. Yeah.  Oh, thank you. Thank you. Where do you know that doesn't work? We're not talking about Freudian therapy here where you can talk and talk and talk and talk and then you just get well. No, you get well because there's an action oriented, you know, we've talked about the kinds of treatments that exposure and response prevention and cognitive behavioral shifting. And, you know, these are evidence based for people and they need to be, if they aren't, if they're, if their therapist is in there giving them helpful strategies and working with them in a proactive way, then that to me is a red flag for this camp of people. Right. Correct. For this particular situation. No, I understand that. Yeah. Always talking about that. I can tell you personally, I've spent years in therapy, I went and I told you this and I'll just be transparent. You know, I had a real anxiety and depression struggle in my 20s and I've done tons of therapy, but for me, it wasn't until I got the right kind of therapy that shifts happen because you can get really bright and you can get really insightful, but you're still hurting. Yeah. Excellent. That's you want to get through the thing so you can live the life that you long to live. Very good. Very good. Well, thank you so much. That's excellent, excellent advice. I so appreciate you taking the time. Where can we find you? You can find me everywhere. Pretty much. I see you everywhere. That's true. I'm everywhere on social media. My website is authentic and true.com. Probably one of the most exciting things going on right now is I have designed a subscription box for couples so that they don't have to date outside their house. They can date in their house and that is called the amazing intimacy box at the amazing intimacy box.com. And what it is, is essentially a date box with carved out experiences that are very positive with products that go with it. Very good. And that shows up every quarter so you can just, you know, I was tired of hearing couples say, we can't ever date. We can't ever date. We can't ever date. I'm like, I'm bringing it to you. Yes. Well, now you can. No excuses. Now you have no excuse to tell me to your doorstep. So that's great. I would encourage everybody to check out Leslie's stuff. I've seen Leslie now for the last year and a half on social media and authentic and true. Pretty much sums it up, I think. Very good. Very good. So thanks for taking the time. And feel free to reach out to me through social or direct messages if you have a specific question. I also have a Facebook group. If you're worried about cultivating more in your marriage, that's called the amazing intimacy tribe. So there's lots of ways to just make use of me and I'm here to help and support and give back what I know. Well, I'll put some links to all your stuff in the descriptions wherever you happen to be watching. And excellent. Thanks Leslie. Have an awesome day. Thank you so much. Take care.