The extracellular matrix ECM plays a crucial role in maintaining tissue and organ integrity, and it is composed of diverse components that regulate and activate cellular processes. It also influences cell phenotype through its composition, architecture, and elasticity. ECM degradation and remodeling occurs normally, but this process is disrupted in certain pathological conditions, leading to changes in tissue homeostasis. Cellular responses to physical and chemical signals from the ECM are mediated by receptors, including integrants, which drive cellular proliferation and differentiation. Recent advances in the Bohmix technologies have led to increased research into the bidirectional cell matrix interactions, with the aim of understanding how these interactions affect cell behavior and disease progression. Finally, ECM targeted therapies are being developed to target tumor cells and improve cancer treatment outcomes. This article was authored by Kevin Zobo and Khalid Dandara. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


I have my two little boys and being a mama bear is like I just want to protect them as much as I can and be a part of their lives as much as I can and more importantly influence them in a positive way teaching them empathy and compassion because I understand how important those skills are and contributing to a community that is going to be meaningful. As a child I really enjoy art whether it was storytelling writing you know just even sketching so I'm like why not graphic design because that is allows me to really incorporate everything in and you know once I grasp a lot of those fundamental skills I can do amazing things for people. It means being able to be an advocate for students of all color pretty much and diverse way as well and I say that because I come from you know a different culture. For me it's owning the state ambassador title and embracing it with confidence meeting everybody and feeling so connected in a way and of course having so much support and encouragement from everybody like all of the WTCS staff and it just made me feel more confident in the role and proudly saying I am a state ambassador.


So today I'm going to take you on a journey of how I transition from a designer to a designer. So today I'll be taking you on a journey of how I transition from a designer into a designer. So this talk is about incorporating generative AI into product as a management to bring down the code. So just like any other traditional dedicated US designer, I'm also passionate about designing users and experiences, bringing down cognitive load and delivering some great products. It means a lot of strategy, a lot of purpose, a lot of that professional understanding that I have. But then there was one question that we always had. Am I doing it right? You see that uncertainty always existed. I was hearing AI like this, AI like that, AI was everywhere. So I thought, why don't you use AI? Why not take AI's help in itself? So that's when I discovered the AI revolution. The AI revolution was here. Well, quite frankly, it's not new. AI is not new. It's new to us for a while now. But then generative AI in specific is something that is different right now. A lot of companies are making a run for it. In fact, we as a designer have been using generative AI tools in our design work, design process to make things easy for us. Maybe for, you know, like in this story, you see the person who has information architecture, the site maps, even if you do that. But then half you talk about, are we making the users like this? How do we ensure that the user experiences that they have? How can we benefit out of it? How will users benefit out of it? I've been thinking, you know, I found that interesting. So that is when I decided to incorporate generative AI in my app. But before that, I wanted to know one single question and I asked myself what value does AI bring into your product? Maybe say money for users or maybe reduce corporate portfolio or improve efficiency or maybe some of the value that you find possible. But be very clear about your goal. Because this can make you create your design for your product. All right. Now, then heading to the implementation. Generative AI in as a product. I have three simple steps. I'll list it down all the primary workflows for my product. As a maintenance task, health monitoring, inventory management or post-production. Because I wanted to perform or bring down the corporate workload, I performed the corporate workload analysis. I identified the areas where there was complex decision making, data interpretation, management tasks and information overload. So by this time, I was clear, you see, I identified the units where generative AI could sit in. So this can actually help improve the product. Let me give you an example. I'm taking asset maintenance as one. So asset maintenance, the user, as I said, manager, usually maintains the process of inspecting, servicing, repairing of the company assets for their longevity, save time, save costs, all of that. How is it traditionally done? The user must check through the equipment, equipment, conditions, and all of this data from their dashboards, record pages, and all of the data. And then they also have to analyze historical data. In the data you're bringing back years ago, we were talking about hundreds and thousands of records. Just imagine the mental effort the user has to go through. The corporate AI actually, you know, clear role in this is by analyzing the equipment data. Now, you can predict the maintenance needs and these are predictions for expert time. In general, it's optimized convenience schedules. So imagine you have a lower maintenance schedules. How do you know something is effective and efficient amongst them? Genea can do a good job with that. You know, award or, you know, you can do a good job with that. Okay, so setting back, setting back on how to do AI has actually got down on the company. By analyzing the equipment data, we have brought down the company data by making the data identification numbers. Predicting maybe the same speed from efficiency by acting down the management data. So generally, optimized maintenance schedules we again got down on the company data by making the decision making easy for the user. I'm sure you might be curious to look at the screen because it's management where a generative AI is applied. But then, it's going to be a bummer. I started to disappoint you. You're going to be able to show those screens or pinch out the issues. But then, let me give you one better. I got some generative AI implementation tips. You know, the tips that I've got. Tip one, don't force AI on your users. You see, provide them an option that's flexibility. Maybe by using SSD functional element, an element that can stand out on the screen and can be accessible and returnizable by the user whenever necessary.  Next is GVD chat box. The most common way of interacting with AI in the system, GVD chat box. A lot of companies and, you know, products are already using their support. How do you make it more effective? You see, by providing some question solutions, don't just give out a black mask to the user based on the text box over the button. But then, you know, analyze the user behavior that the generative AI studies with user partners. And let me give them some kind of generative questions that can help out the user in, you know, asking about your questions which are much more effective and they can perceive the generations in a more effective fashion. Tip three, use a control of freedom. Once there is a generation happening, and once you have the answer to it, provide the option for the user to implement it. When you regenerate it, and in fact, even if you vote it once in a while, that way, you can control. And there is one rule. They will have the flexibility and the freedom that they want. That we vote about it. But quite frankly, all of this can happen but then it's definitely not the same thing. As in, you know, there are always challenges around. Always need to look out for bias. So what's bias? AI runs on algorithms that have a lot of data. You see, this data gives up the generations that we have. So, you know, there are a fair amount of chances for you to see data that is biased. So be sure about it. Let me just go about it. He was not talking about it. Transparency. So, let me show you some generations to allow the time period in case there's something that's limited to that period. For example, a chat review is a great job calling out that it's database is limited to 2021. Give me the same for user. Can we help? Explain your data. User shouldn't blindly follow what AI generates. You know, they have to understand how to understand the context of bias they've been generating in the past. So, let me give you an example. When the user allows for a content summarization from a page, that's a page that might have many different sections. Calling that out may be a sectionized manner. You know, explains it better and makes it more comfortable for the summarizations. Lastly, ethical implications. When you talk about data, there's always sensitive data. You know, there are data that, you know, financial information using these passwords. So, these are the kind of screens where you want to feed the convention. You don't want the AI to read over it. So, be sure to draw boundaries and show that you have clear for a lot of what the AI should be and what the AI should be. So, with that said, I'd like to conclude by commenting on the user generating the AI in your applications. And, you know, bring down the quality of the user experiences. In fact, we use this now for the exact best philosophy. So, I hope the conventional methods may also enhance the quality of the AI that it will bring products to value partners. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, well, we can talk. Thank you very much for being a great audience. I hope this talk has been insightful and considerate to viewers and ideas in your applications. Thank you very much. Questions on the stage. Thanks.


Tell me what this is from. Um, you have two potential answers to it. What? There was love all around, but I never heard it singing. No, I never heard it at all, till there was you. Can you try singing it not terribly? Ha ha, burn! That's cool, man! Touma!  It's from The Musical, The Music Man and the Beatles. The Beatles also did a cover of it as a single. My brother was in the music man. It's from that. Andiya was, uh... Barnaby. Cool, I played Tommy Jyllis on the music man. Tommy Jism. Wow, that went so fast. Anyways, uh, where should they follow us? Into the air! Into the air! Boys, stop fighting! It's so juicy. Pandit Bimson Joshi's Mia Ki Malhar. I don't know what those words mean. This is the pinnacle of Hindustani classic music. His unparalleled, he is unparalleled in singing and received Borat Ratna, which is the highest civilian award. So this is similar to, um, just a classical singer, kind of like, uh, Chakraborty's father. Right. But this is, I believe, his name is P.T. Bimson. Bimson. Um, and so... Okay. This is an old video, so the quality is not great. Okay. But here we go. All right. I like that you've... You've paid a little more. That gentleman, uh, P.T. Bimson? Bimson. I don't know which one's his name. I know. Joshi Mian Ki Malhar. We can't differentiate between them. Forgive us. Yeah. Apologies. But he... Oh, man. I can understand. Like the person said it was, like, the purest form of Carnatic music. Hindustani. Hindustani music. Yeah. Hindustani classical music. Oh, goodness. It seemed like he was almost, like, possessed by the music. Yeah. Very much. Is that diaphragmatic breathing? Is that diaphragm control that's giving him the... It's not a... It's not... I don't even know how they do it. It's not vibrato, but it's the same mechanism, I believe, that causes vibrato. I don't even know where it comes from. I think it's diaphragmatic. I think it's from down in the diaphragm. Because you can't do things in your throat. You'll strain your throat. Well, he could... It could be a cutting off of the breath rapidly with a... You know, it could be a... Is that it? It's a quick cutting off of the breath versus diaphragmatic? I don't even know. But it is... The notes he hit. It's incredible. Yeah. Just like... I'm that guy that was just sitting there going like this. How do you do that? It amazed me. Some of the people watching that would just like... I know. This is cool, I guess. Are you still seeing it?  Maybe he's like... I don't know. But it's family. It's incredible thing that I've never seen before. And they're just like... Yeah. How? How? Wow, that was incredible. I'm guessing this guy is a legend. I'm guessing who we don't know. I don't know what to call them. I don't know if they have a proper, respectful term. I don't know. But he deserves it. But he was also very different from any other classical thing we've ever seen. He was feeling it. He was feeling it. He was in it. And also, I don't... He bent over like this and right. He was in it. Doing insane stuff. Yeah. Wow. That was cool. Let us know more from him, from any Hindustani, Carnatic, whatever classical music. You know, we love it. Let us know about it and what we should react to down below.


and welcome to Think Tech Hawaii on Spectrum OC 16, I'm Ian Davidson. Many of you may know that Think Tech operates a high tech green screen studio right in the heart of downtown Honolulu. At this studio, we provide an avenue for people like you and me to make talk shows, commentaries, and much more. On this week's episode, we'll be showcasing some of the work that our volunteer hosts are doing to help us reach the community. First up, eyes on Hawaii host Carol Cox heads out to Fort Street Mall to talk to you about proposed measures to curb Hawaii's growing feral cat problem. I'm down here at Fort Street Mall, Think Tech Hawaii, and we're just asking people along the way about these proposed rules that the governor is considering allowing the DOE bar, the Department of Boating and Recreation, DLNR to actually shoot cats or kill them in any manner that they desire. That seems extremely inhumane and immoral. Are you a cat owner or a pet owner? Pet owner, not cat, I have a dog. But yeah, this is the concern is that they want to sign this bill, want the governor to sign this bill and be able to just shoot, poison, trap, euthanize anything. Oh, that just, it sounds completely awful. Wow, I can't believe that they would propose such a thing.  And then if no one wants them, then do what we've been doing for years by putting them to sleep if nobody wants to adopt them or take care of them. So you would vote on the side of? It's inhumane in a certain way. It's like, if you don't want us shooting people on the streets, why are you gonna go and shoot a living thing?  Well, I think they should issue permits to the hunters or whatever. Issue permits to the hunters. And then. Not do the random killing. Not just randomly kill them. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And then. And not let the animals rot. Rot and then. I think that's part of the controversy. No, I don't think they should just be able to go free range hunting cats. I think there's a better alternative. What would you suggest to them to do? I don't know what they do now, but I don't know if there's any kind of group or coalition that goes around and cages them or someone who would, like the human side of you, you can call them. I don't agree with that. I have three cats myself and they were all, they're all feral. I got them fixed through Popoki and there's ways to get them fixed. Where you don't have to spend, yeah, poydogs and Popoki. And they fixed my cats and they're happy cats now. So, I mean, they're still living, they're still living animals that we have to take care of. And I don't agree in shooting them to get rid of them, but I think we have to take care of the problem of them multiplying by taking them to those nonprofit organizations like poydog and Popoki and everybody do their part to take care of the matter that way. Well, I think there needs to be humanity with it. So, they need to be, I'm not in favor of just shooting animals. I definitely wouldn't promote shooting them. There are, of course, other ways to prevent, as you say, neutering them, catching them in wilds. I've caught a few litters myself and turned them in. Just to kind of help promote, but there's a lot of other methods that we can look at, I think, in terms of reducing the population. So, your suggestions to the governor do not sign it and consider other humane methods? Is that could be safe to say? Yes, absolutely. We're just getting some opinions and comments from various people and we're gonna close with this. Please give consideration to being humane in the addressment of the population of cats in the boat harbors and anywhere else. If you have cats or have dogs, please treat them humanely as well as if you find that you can't keep them any longer, do the right thing, turn them into the humane society or find another home for them. But don't, please don't, just leave them because with the new rules being proposed, if they are signed, then they will meet a faith that is inhumane, be killed if they find themselves in the docks or the harbors, they will be killed by the State Department of Boating and Recreation or its agents or its representatives. Did you know that Think Tech has a YouTube page where you can find all our daily shows on demand where you can leave a comment? You were Margie Smith says, I really wanted to hear the guest senator Stanley Chang, instead I was hearing the hosts go on and on. I suggest brushing up on your interviewing skills. Thanks for the suggestion Margie. Please keep in mind that all of our hosts are volunteer to flip their own guests and come into the studio on their own time. Each show is a work in progress. Thanks again for your suggestion. I'll be sure to pass it on, have a great day. Aloha and reply. Let's see what Electro Wizard has to say. Hey, this was a great way of updating us on the Cassini mission details. It is hard to imagine what people like Cassini and Galileo would have thought about a boat floating through space to view these far flung worlds. Thanks for the comment Electro Wizard. It really is amazing how far we've come and how much farther we can still go. Thanks for watching Aloha and reply. Well, that was fun. Be sure to subscribe or like a video. Tell a friend or just tune in on thinktechhawaii.com. Given the fact that we get out so many products from mainland and around the world, the fact that local produce actually does cost a little bit more. Does that present a problem to you at all or? Like being a college student price is always a thing we consider, but I do get the good feeling of a buying local, minimizing leakage, trying to keep money here in Hawaii. And just the fact that if you buy a local, you don't produce as much carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases. And it's your little way of contributing to the good costs. Where do you seek your food? Is it farmers markets or do you go to specialized stores? How do you find the products? Back home in Sweden, I try to go to small shops that only do vegetables and try to get meat that are produced locally just to keep the greenhouses down. Do you think there's enough restaurants that serve local food or should there be more? I think we're not really 50-50, but we're getting close to it. And I think it's a big trend that there's more local being considered in because that's what we want more now as the customer. And just that cause is very important for all restaurant owners and hotels to just keep it local, to keep their customers happy. You know, there's been an emphasis from the state and the city about trying to make sure that Hawaii is self-sustaining. And the importance of having and preserving agricultural land, particularly in times of disaster, yet we see housing developments kind of spring up all over the place. And just wondering if you had any thoughts about that. It's a mixed feeling because tourism is the biggest industry in Hawaii, so we need more development in certain areas. But keeping the North Shore and those small communities as they are is very important too because that will bring out the people out there as it is. We don't need to build big cities or larger communities than they already are out there or on the other islands because that's their uniqueness. That's what's gonna bring the people out there. The first comments will be going to Honolulu and Waikiki, but third, fourth comers, they want to see something else. So they will go and seek, take their trip up to North Shore, stay there instead of being Waikiki. And making sure that we keep it very local and agricultural neutral is the biggest thing we can do and keep the Hawaii safe. Up next, navigating the journey host, Marcia Joyner heads over to the state capital to speak with Representative Lynn Dikoi about issues concerning our Ohana on the island of Molokai. I'm Marcia Joyner and today we are at the capital with Representative Lynn Dikoi from Molokai.  And it is, I think, still real Hawaii, old Hawaii. And so, last true Hawaiian island. And there has been in the news, this issue of Hawaiian airline cutting back on flights to and from Molokai. And last year, the ferry was gone. So what does that mean to the people that live on Molokai? Have they really been isolated so far? Are they stranded? So we're here today to talk about what is going on with Molokai and what can we do? Well, one is we can talk with Hawaiian Airlines and we've had a lot of our constituents call in, mostly in regards to ADA compliance because many of our kupuna need the ramp to get onto the airlines to come over to Honolulu and Maui for doctors. So we've asked him to write in to Hawaiian Airlines. We've had a meeting with Hawaiian Airlines two nights ago on the island was well attended about 80 people and they were grave concerns for the next 90 days of discontinuation for the Maui to Honolulu and Molokai to Maui flight as well as the midday Molokai to Honolulu flight. So once, tell me from the beginning, what is it with Hawaiian airline? What is it that they said they were going to do? So basically, because they have a lack of fleet, they are required by FAA to take that plane out for service and maintenance, which is going to take about 90 days. So it's not forever, it's for this. It's for the 90 day period from September 15th to December 15th. Oh, Christmas time, shopping time. Shopping time, canoe race time. They were gracious enough to accommodate Molokai for the canoe races and put in three extra flights. Now, I have been to Molokai on the little planes, but what about the ADA? What about how do you get wheelchairs and things on those flights? We can't. So that's why the pressure to have Hawaiian continue their flights to and from Molokai. Those planes are nine-seaters and they cannot accommodate wheelchair accessibility or ADA for people with Walker and cannot make it up to the steps. I was on one flight and they weighed everybody to make sure that we fit. Yes. And that's usually the case, you know, at any balance, weight is a heavy concern. Our other concern is if a passenger is over 300 pounds, they cannot get on that flight also. So we're pretty strapped because our morning flights from Molokai to Honolulu are normally full and by moving a midday flight out from Molokai to Honolulu, you now look at people that are on the midday flight trying to get on the morning flight, of which it'll take a lot of planning. People that are gonna go to doctors, it's really hard because in some case when a person has a heart attack or stroke, they're then referred back to a heart doctor and those doctors are here in Oahu or Maui and it's a huge inconvenience, especially if you're a caregiver trying to take off work, now you're asking for two seats and it's a 48-seater. Again, two weight and balance will be huge factors on who will take priority on those flights. Nat, you have a clinic, health clinic. What about a hospital or other medical facilities? Well, we have Queen's Hospital. So Molokai General is a partner with Queen's Hospital which accommodates a lot of our patients, checkups, heart surgeries, everything from chemotherapy and cancer. So, the clinics will do the minor things but anything after stroke and stuff is air-vac'd out. Cost-wise, it's huge, unless you have holly life-flight insurance or AMR. Now, there's other things going on, especially except the airline, but what about the sale of Molokai Ranch? What is that going to do to the island? Well, actually Molokai Ranch has always been on the market for sale. I guess now it's come back in. I haven't had a conversation with Molokai Ranch yet, but we're hoping that if Molokai Ranch is sold, that they come back to the community and have these meetings with the community to see what is liking of what their proposal is. Development is a huge deal for Molokai as they want to remain the last Hawaiian island and keep culture, preserve its way of life, but at the same time trying to understand how do we keep our kids home with jobs, economic development, and figuring out if there's enough water. And that's a big problem, water. The fresh water, you mean? Yes, potable drinking water. Do you not get enough rain? No, we don't. Every year we're in drought restrictions and it's played a huge part on whether or not we're cutting back what is due to potable drinking water or agricultural water. If you were to put in a new farming, a new agriculture venture, then water would be an issue. Well, right now we haven't had, we're looking pretty good on ag water. It's just a matter of how long the summer and drought lasts, but people have been very good on conserving, on taking new precautions and measures on, instead of overhead irrigating, going to drip line and doing water conservation measures. Now, back to the children. We were there last year and for the Martin Luther King Peace Poem Project. And there were 57 winners in Hawaiian that they were fluent in Hawaiian. Their English wasn't well, okay. But that was amazing. The numbers of people on your island that speak Hawaiian, and that is fabulous. You know, it's huge. Punanaleo thrives on Moloka'i. The immersion program also thrives with the support of, you know, legislature in supporting Hawaiian language. You know, the children speak fluent in a time when our generation was growing up. We wouldn't have the privilege really of being educated on Hawaiian language, but as MCC does provide for Hawaiian language, most of the parents have gone back and within Punanaleo it's a requirement that the parents come in and learn the language to interact with the children. There was one kid, he was reading his poem in Hawaiian, but he couldn't handle reading it in English. He was darling. And, you know, that's a challenge that they face. But for many of the parents here who wants to keep the culture and the education and Hawaiian language alive, it's strong and thriving. So what else is going on on Moloka'i? Well, we want to see more on the education line of MCC in offering a higher degrees. They do have in higher education. A lot of our parents have gone back to school. We like to see that continue and enrollment to start to increase. Of course, healthcare is a big issue. Making sure Kupuna that are on fixed income have other options of basically surviving. Cost of living, highest, electric and gas. You know, we struggle for the jobs is to maintain those jobs and keep people living on Moloka'i that want to continue to live there. Now, what about the sweet potatoes? Is that still a big industry?  My family, as myself a third generation sweet potato farm, our family still thrives and my dad still works with us raising Moloka'i purple sweet potatoes. So it's been a wonderful, as they would call a job and something that you got to like to continue to continue to farm. Do we have many tourists? We, not as much as people would like to see, but enough as they come onto Moloka'i, they're educated about the lifestyle, about who we are, about learning respect for one another and welcoming people with open arms and realizing that there's places you can and cannot go. But the tourists that come are very welcoming and they respect the people and the culture there. Well, I promised that we wouldn't keep you long. Your staff said you had lots of meetings, but thank you so much for spending this time with us and we will be back. A podcast listener. If so, did you know that you can find Think Tech Hawaii on Stitcher and on Apple Podcasts? It's really easy to listen to all of your favorite shows. Just pull out your cell phone, open the app, type in the search bar, Think Tech Hawaii. And there you are. You're listening to us. Hi, this is Mal with Crazy Kitchen and I watch Think Tech on Spectrum OC60. Welcome back to Think Tech on Spectrum OC16. I'm Ian Davidson. On this week's episode, we're showcasing the ways that our volunteer hosts are helping us reach the community. Last but not least, Raya Salter found herself downtown interviewing Mayor Kurt Caldwell about accessory dwelling units. We are live at the state capitol for Think Tech Hawaii with the mayor of our fair city and some other folks talking about the accessory dwelling unit example that is here that can really has a potential to change people's lives and make dense in the affordable housing issues here. So Mayor, please, please tell us what's going on here and what's your involvement. Well, Raya, it's great to be down here with you today. I mean, it's a beautiful afternoon on a Friday and you have volunteers coming out standing with us or Duncan, Meenak and Jeff R.C. You know, talk people in our town who build a lot of quality projects and they're down here volunteering their time. But for me, accessory dwelling units are about providing affordable housing in a market that's not being met. This is a 400 square foot unit, more or less. Easy to put up. You could provide one of these on your property. The city of Honolulu has allowed this. There's about 120,000 lots on this island that could have an ADU along as their sewer capacity and parking. But that means you have another unit that you can rent that's affordable rental to generate income that could help pay your mortgage in the home that you live in. It's a win-win for everyone. And we're just really excited the Apple Seed project and Habilitat has stepped forward to do one of these here on the capital grown. Thank you so much, Mayor. That is so exciting. I couldn't agree with you more. Please, sir, tell us your name. I'm Jeff R.C. with the McDonough Group. Well, what is your involvement with this project? Can you tell us a bit about what's going on here? Do I can tell you a little bit. I just got here myself, but our company tries to get involved in the community. We do real estate development and we try to give back where we can. And this is a great project that we heard about through Hawaii Apple Seed and Habitat for Humanity. They're putting up this ADU. So a bunch of our people were here working yesterday and we just got here today to help out and work with these great contractors that are volunteering their time as well to put this thing up as a great example of a way to build a nice, affordable living and very nice area unit. Thank you. I couldn't agree more. I think it's so exciting. It's always great to see folks and volunteering in the Habitat shirts. Sir, could you please tell us your name and your affiliation and what you think about this project? Duncan McNaughton. I just arrived. I don't even have my outfit on yet. That's okay. So I think what the mayor said or what Jeff said covers the project and the McNaughton group is excited to be a part of anything like this that helps out the affordable new feature. And we look forward to being hopefully an asset to our effort here. What do you think these type of units can mean for Hawaii? It obviously would provide housing for a community that really needs it, but these houses are designed to go on individual lots that belong to other people and they rent them out. And this allows more housing for the public in general actually and affordable housing as well.  I definitely think so. In fact, we've now approved through permitting process, about 160 of them. There's another 800 that are being reviewed right now. I think we're just seeing the beginning of a ramp up. People need housing and this is a way to do it without government really putting a lot of effort other than expediting permitting and waiving fees. The rest comes from the private sector and from groups like this that volunteer and step up. I'm hoping that it's the beginning of a trend that will start to address our affordable housing challenges. Thank you so much, mayor. I guess just a couple more questions. I know you just got here, but what might something, a unit like this, what might it look like inside and what are some of the ways that, can someone sort of live comfortable in a small unit? Well, first I wanna compliment the mayor on this effort to get this program going because it's a great example of a public-private partnership and many times it does require both the private sector and the public sector to come together and accomplish something like this. So more of this and there's some other areas we could do it too with higher density but this is a great example of the community coming together to do something really special. So inside, again, I just got here, I'm not too familiar with it but I did go in and walk around it and there is a trend right now. If you look at Cacaco and all the condos, people are downsizing and they've lived, they've learned that they can live in a much smaller area and you spend a lot more time at the local Starbucks or coffee, bean and tea and you just relax on the street and socialize out there.  It's a nice, comfortable place to live.  Whatever they tell me to do. Anything that stands out, he'll pound it down. Well, thank you so much gentlemen and thank you so much mayor. What a fantastic project and oh, let me ask mayor, can folks, when is this gonna be done? Can people come down and check this out? Yeah, I think it's gonna be done tomorrow, right? They're rushing to try to get in. They're going in fast and I encourage people to come down. People drive by, it's easy to find parking in the later afternoon and they should come in and look at it. It is something that may work on their property and as Jeff mentioned, sometimes you get older, you may not need the big house, you could move into the accessory dwelling unit and rent your house out to a family with children. Win-win for both. I couldn't agree more that that'll be the last word. Thank you so much mayor, thank you so much gentlemen for your time today. Very cool, Raya. Affordable housing is definitely an issue that affects the saw. Coming up on future episodes of Think Tech, we'll take a look at some of the conservation efforts going on at Sea Life Park, take a look at the curb out crisis happening on Powahee Street and much more. Grateful thanks to our underwriters. The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund, the Atherton Family Foundation, the Bernice and Conrad Von Ham Fund, Castle and Cook, Hawaii. The Center for Microbial Oceanography, Research and Education, Collateral Analytics, the Cook Foundation, the Hawaii Community Foundation, the Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners, Hawaii Energy, the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, the Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, Hawaiian Electric Companies, Gailin Ho of BAE Systems, Kamehameha Schools, Integrated Security Technologies, Carol Mun Lee and the Friends of Think Tech, the Omediar Ohana Fund, the Shidler Family Foundation, the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks also to our viewers like you. Well, that's it for this week's episode. Be sure to tune in every Sunday for much more of what you've come to love. I'm Ian Davidson. See you next week. Aloha.


Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal and today we're going to be talking about how to guess between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. But first, a quick disclaimer. Like pretty much anywhere else in the world, public transport options in Israel change from time to time and ideally they get better. That's why I'm putting the month and year in the video title. If you need this information and it's a long time after the upload date like years, then my friendly advice is to either use Google or look for a more recent video. Ok that's the disclaimer done. So the good news is that Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are pretty close. By car it takes a little bit less than an hour to go between the two cities. If you're just visiting however then you'll probably want to use public transport. You can of course use to hire a taxi for the trip and most taxi drivers will take you but you can expect that the 50 minute journey is going to set you back something like 100 dollars which clearly isn't cheap. Traditionally the best public transport link between the two cities was by bus with the caveat that it didn't run on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. However in December of 2019 a new high-speed fast train made its first journey between a newly constructed station in Jerusalem Yitzchach Navon and Tel Aviv. That train service now runs between the two cities throughout the week but there is the same limitation that it doesn't operate during the Jewish Sabbath and Jewish holidays. Just as an FYI the Jewish calendar runs from night to night so Shabbat or the Sabbath begins around sundown on Friday and ends at roughly nightfall on Saturday. I don't have any stats to say whether more people are taking the train between the two cities or more people are taking one of the bus routes. However my opinion is that the train provides a much more pleasant travelling experience. The train journey itself only takes about 30 minutes although you'll need to factor in a bit more time to get between the platform in Jerusalem and the street level. If you choose to take the train then you can check the schedule using a transport app or by looking up the official website of Israel Railways which can be found at rail.co.il. They also have a smartphone application. The Movit app that's M-O-O-V-I-T is enormously popular in Israel but Google Maps also usually has an accurate schedule and journey planner. It's worth noting that the train line between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv stops at the airport, Ben-Gurion Airport. It's therefore a very popular way to get to either a city for travellers arriving at the airport. In Tel Aviv the train line stops at Ha Haganah, Ha Shalom, Savidor Central and Tel Aviv University before continuing to Herzliya which is a different city. You can get on and off at any of these stops. Now let's talk about buses. There are now three different bus lines that run between the two cities. These are routes 405, 480 and 490. 490 is the newest line and provides connectivity between South Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. As before there are two ways to find information about when the lines are running and which station is closest to you, whether you're travelling from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or going the other way. Firstly you can look up the website of EGIT which is the bus operator running these lines that's E-G-G-E-D or secondly you can use Movit or Google Maps. It's worth noting the public transportation in Israel is government subsidized and it's therefore actually pretty affordable. You can pay for both buses and trains using a national transport travel card called the RAVCAV or by using a smartphone app such as Movit. Finally we get to the Monit Sherut. Monit Sherut in Hebrew means service taxi, however it's more commonly referred to as simply a Sherut. A Sherut is basically a shared taxi. The advantage over the bus or train is twofold. Firstly they run on Shabbat and Jewish holidays. This provides non-Jewish visitors and those who are not religiously observant with the way of travelling between the two cities when the public transport network shuts down. Don't forget that Shabbat occurs every single week of the year and always falls out precisely halfway through the weekend which in Israel is Friday and Saturday. For those who don't own their own core or just prefer not to use it this can therefore be very inconvenient. Secondly unlike the bus and the train they don't run on regular schedules. Typically Sheruts will depart whenever the driver deems that there are enough occupants to make the journey worthwhile. In exchange for sharing the ride with a number of other passengers the fare cost works out to be a lot cheaper than hiring a private taxi. Often Sheruts run throughout the night after public transport has stopped running. Because they don't want to hand out outdated advice I won't say what time the buses and trains stop running because this information changes somewhat frequently. I'd advise checking the schedule using one of the methods I mentioned above and if you have no options for either bus or train considering looking for a Sherute. Sherutes run between lots of cities in Israel and typically they board and let off passengers at the central bus station or other hubs of public transport. Given that they're more informal modes of transport a final advantage is that you can typically ask the driver to let you off at any point along the route although unlike buses rules are flexible and it's really up to the driver to determine how he or she wants to run the show. For tourists and other visitors to Israel looking to get between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem there are now several options to choose from although things are much more restrictive during Shabbat and Jewish holidays. Since the opening of the fast train link many travelers now choose this as their preferred mode of transport although there are now three direct regular bus lines running between the two cities as well as other bus routes that stop in either. Thanks for watching, hope this was useful and enjoy your trip in Israel.


Alright, welcome everybody to the second gathering of the Muslim Community Center from the Bay Area. And we are gathering together so many of you, even from Brunei, to work today on Ghazali's book of Purification. And the children may think, well, why? But I'm sure all of you who are eight years old, you're starting to pray and you need to know why is Wudu important. And we have a brother named Hamza Yusuf. Now I'm going to try to share screen. How do I do? Oh, I see it. Alright, I'm learning. Muneer is teaching me everything. So then let me get this. Aha. Alright, can everyone see that? Yes. This is the book of Ghazali we're going to be working with. And I'm sure you all know our wonderful brother Hamza Yusuf. And he wrote the introduction to this book. And he wanted you all to know, children, that we are 70% made out of water.  Could there be any life on earth if there wasn't water? It's the most important thing. And if there weren't rain, we wouldn't have things to eat. And also we use water to clean dirt. If we get dirty, if our clothes get dirty, if our hands get dirty, we clean that dirt off. But by the way, what we're talking about today is not getting dirt on your hands. It's the dirt you get on your heart. And last week when we did the book of knowledge, we talked about all the kinds of things that can get dirt on your heart, like gossiping or being angry or arguing. You know all those kinds of things. And that really hurts your heart. And I bet all of you know one thing. If you've done something wrong, doesn't your heart feel bad? You can feel it, can't you? Right? And so it's interesting to know that the word wudu in Arabic happens to mean what makes you shine. Can you imagine even wudu, wudu, means to make you shining. And so it's very important that we learn about wudu. And let me just change the picture here. Oh, I'm learning, I'm learning all this from Manir, right? And so we regularly wash our bodies. And we also regularly have to wash our hearts, right?  You immediately stood up to pray. How could you go from all that to standing before God? Wouldn't you need a transition? You need a transition, something that takes you from one world into the next. And that is what we are going to be doing with wudu. As you know, we have wonderful Hajj Abdullah, and he is the one that teaches the children. In the story, the children are walking home from school one day, and they're talking to each other. And one of them said to the other, oh, you know, I don't know why we have to pray. And the other said, yeah, my mother gets really mad if I'm late for prayers. And they finally thought, we don't know why we have to pray. Why do we have to make wudu? Why? And then they thought, oh my goodness, look at this magic door. There's a secret garden here. Let's go inside. And they thought, who are we going to get to answer our questions? And then they remember, oh, sitting in the park every day is wonderful Hajj Abdullah. He's a very old man, and oh, the birds love him and the squirrels, all the animals come to him, sit in his hands, stand on his shoulder. So they went to him and they said, Hajj Abdullah, would you come to our secret garden and answer our questions? And he said, yes, children, I will. And he said, but I'm not going to answer your questions through what I know. I'm going to answer your questions through what the great Imam Al-Ghazali teaches us, because he gives us the inner meanings of what everything really means. And he said, you know, in the Quran, in the Quran, purity is key to prayer. It's the door to prayer, right? And so I'm going to tell you a story, he said. Oops. All right, story. Okay, here's the story, children. Once upon a time in an Islamic town, there was a scholar. Do you see him on the right with the hat and the long blue gown?  And he said, I want to, what he said to the scholar, what is wudu? I want to know what is wudu?  How can somebody as old as you living in our Muslim town? How can you not know about wudu? Right? And the old man just kept saying, no, what is wudu? I want to learn wudu. And Hajj Abdullah continued the story. He said, finally they kept saying to the old man, leave, leave, go out of here. Get out of here, old man. And then the scholar, the one you see here on the left, he was very worried, children. He thought, my goodness, that old man, who could he be? So the scholar had a doorkeeper, a man who helped him. And he said, follow the old man, see what's going on. And of course, what happened is the doorkeeper came back to the scholar and said, oh, scholar, I'm sorry to tell you this.  He's the Wali of our town. So the scholar, you know what the scholar did? He put on his good robe. He followed the old man. He went to where the old man was sitting. And he kneeled down. And he kneeled down. And he said to the old man, please tell me what is wudu? And the old man said to him, oh, scholar, when you wash your hands in wudu, you know, children, we all wash your hands, right?  Help me to do the right thing.  Please remind me to say good things. And then when you, when you, when you, for example, wash your feet, and you say, Allah, please let my feet take me to somewhere wonderful. Don't take me to places that are not good. And you wash your ears. Oh, don't let me hear horrible things. Don't let me listen to bragging and listen to gossip. Listen to good things. And so, so that was, so that was the answer of what is wudu. Now look here at this picture. Here's some drawings. You see the scholar sitting on the left in his chair. You can pick what words that best describe him. Is he patient, friendly, angry or proud? Which would you say? Probably angry and proud, right? And here you see how mad he is. He's being very mad at the old man, because the old man is doing the wudu wrong, because after the scholar taught him to do wudu, the old man did it backwards and wrong. And the scholar said, get out of here, right? And then let's see it turn the page. Oh no, there's no noise. What? No sound? Can you hear it now? We can hear you, yes. Okay. So then, when the scholar went to visit the village elder, what did he learn? Circle the correct words. You see, now the scholar on the right is praying behind the old man. And what do, what are the words that would describe him best? What would you say the anger, humility, pride, silence, peace, bragging, greed, spying or praying during wudu? What would you, would some children like to say, what are the words that describe the old man? Go ahead and raise your hand if you'd like to. Or unmute yourself please. Silence and peace? Good. Silence and peace. Excellent. That's a very, that's very good. I think that's, I think she's given the best answer.   You have to be always thinking, what, what should I really be, what should I really be saying? Don't just come and quickly do it like this. This is a great opportunity to get very near to Allah and to be really doing the right thing. So Imam Al Ghazali is going to teach you how to do that.  But is the outer dirt what you want to wash off? Or is it something on the inside you want to wash off? Would some child answer? Inside. Yes. What kinds of things on the inside do you want to wash off? Bad thoughts. Bad deeds. Bad deeds. Inside dirt. Maybe you're angry. Maybe you don't share or maybe you're greedy. You're hating something in the anger. Exactly. Exactly. What you're washing off when you're doing wudu, is it, is it a lot of outward dirt or you're washing off dirt that's got on your heart? On your heart. On your heart. Right. Very good. Yeah, very good. Okay, so, okay, now I'm going to tell you a story and Munir is going to put on a little video.  Ghazali said, okay, everybody listen to this carefully children.   Would you do that? Well, what we're going to do is Munir is now going to show you a film made by my two grandchildren when they were little and they made a play and a little film about this. So Munir, can you show this? Yes, I can. If you can hit stop share on your screen. Thank you. My sister and I made a cardboard castle out of a box we had. My brother and I made a cardboard castle and we both painted the windows gold. And we both painted the outside gold and decorated it to make it pretty on the outside. Then we dumped garbage on the inside. This project was to remind us of a man Ghazali's stories. Of Madame Ghazali's stories. If you invited a king to come to your home to visit your house, would you just polish the outside and shine the door? Does he polish the door? What would the king think if he finds trash inside? Oh no, there's trash in the castle. It would be like you only wash the outside of your body and leave the eggs not sharing and bad moods and not helping Mama. You can make a box castle too. You can make a box castle too. To remind you that being clean on the inside matters most to God. That's what matters the God most. Did you all enjoy that? Yeah. That was fun. That was fun. My grandchildren made it to illustrate that you don't want to have something horrible on your heart and look good on the outside. I would love it if you all made films too. You learn things when you make the films too. Let's see what we're going to see next. Okay, can I go back to screen share? Here we go. Right, then I'm going to share. And then I go to the next one. Just a minute. Yeah. All right, children. There are different levels of purification, right? There's different levels. There's one level in which you purify your body. And the next is you've got to purify your heart, right? And how do you do that? It's that you're very careful when you're doing your would do. You wash your hands and also you're thinking, Allah, don't let me do that anymore.  I'm sorry. I want to listen to only good things. So that's the next level, right? There are all these levels like in a treehouse, you know, levels of how you can purify yourself. But the lowest is just washing dirt off your hands. The next up is really thinking about, you know, what your stuff you want to stop doing. And while you're making would do asking a lot to keep take your feet in the right direction, right? And then the real thing you're trying to do is make your heart completely golden. Isn't that right? Don't you all want to have a golden heart? Well, you already have a golden heart. All you've got to do is watch and stop doing some of the some of the little things that you don't want to do anyway, right? And you can pretend it's like that. You can pretend you're like a warrior, a hero or a heroine, and you've got different dragons you want to conquer. Now, some of the dragons, look down below what it says. Some of the dragons you want to wash away backbiting, bragging, hypocrisy, being angry, arguing, spying, not helping, not sharing, being selfish, being mean, being greedy. So if you have any of these dragons that you want to wash away, you can just stop doing them because you'll think about them when you're doing would do. And then this then Hajj Abdullah said, I'm also going to tell you some other things you have to know about, right? You should know everybody, children, that Allah doesn't look at your bodies or if you're rich and poor, Allah looks at your heart. That's the thing you want to, that's your goal to have a great heart. And also, he doesn't want you to like over, over stress out about every detail of your would do. Am I getting it right? Did I do it just right? Does it look just right? Allah says be very careful. That's what Ghazali says. Overwhelm yourself getting every detail exactly perfect, better to get the inside of your heart perfect, better stop talking badly, better start being kind, right? And so then there are a few things before we do would do that we're going to talk about some of things about outward purity. You see the little boy has a dog. Now, in Islam, dogs and pigs are considered to not be very clean if you have a wet, if you contact them with a wet hand. And there are things like rocks, things that aren't alive, they're pure, except for wine, right? And then the two animals we talked about are pigs and dogs, but look down to the third thing.  A fish is clean, even if it's dead. A bug is clean, but not a cat. A worm can be clean. A bird can be dirty. So there's some things that are clean and some things that are dirty. And so you don't want to touch things that will make you dirty. You have to be careful with that, right?  Could you make wudu in the big pond of water, even if it has chicken soup? What does anyone think? Do anyone out there have an idea? I think we can ask. Why do you think it would be okay? Even though she poured chicken soup in the pond, why do you think the water would still be pure enough for wudu? Because more water? Because chicken soup? Because I remember my sister and my mom talking about it.  Water itself is clean and pure, but if there's something in it or touching it that changes its color or its taste or its smell, then you can't use it for wudu, right? Let's say there was a dead, you have a small pond of water and somebody threw a dead cat in it. Oh, soon the water would taste bad and smell bad, right? I wouldn't use it, but if you just pour a small pot of chicken soup, it's lost in the water, but you wouldn't make wudu in chicken soup, would you? No. So you want water that is pure to make your wudu. You see, she's pouring something into that water, but not enough to change the water.  Have you seen it? It's just like a toothbrush. It's like a toothbrush. And then this is something, the Prophet, the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him said, Verily, truly, your mouths are pathways of the Quran, the Quran, you say Quran, so sweeten them with the tooth stick. So even when you pray, there's passages from the Quran, right?  You would.  If you brush your teeth before you pray, that is better than 75 prayers that you could do without brushing your teeth. And there's this question in the workbook. Imam al-Ghazali, number four, mentions that the Prophet didn't want to make things difficult for his followers. For this reason, he didn't ask everyone to do what before each prayer? Use the toothbrush. Really, it's so important for you to use the toothbrush, but the Prophet didn't say you had to do it. You had to do it was like a law because he didn't want to make difficulties.  Wouldn't that be right? Yeah. Yes. Yes, exactly. That's true. And now we don't want him, the Prophet was the peace and blessings be upon him was so kind and he didn't want to make it difficult. Let's say you're out on a picnic and you want to do your prayers and you don't have any water to brush your teeth. Your prayers will still be wonderful. You know, isn't that good? Alhamdulillah. So now I'm going to do something else. I've got a chart here. Now we're going to talk about. Now I'm going to stop sharing and talk to you myself. All right, I'm going to try to do this. Okay, I'm back. All right, now children. This is getting very serious. You're about to make would do right. Maybe you brushed your teeth, right, because we're going to learn how to do it the right way. Imam al-Ghazali says before you make your would do, right? Say Bismillah, Rahman, Raheem. Everybody say it. Bismillah, Rahman, Raheem. Bismillah, Rahman, Raheem. So can you all remember before you do would do to say Bismillah? You will, right? By the way, there's a hadith, there's a hadith that Imam al-Ghazali mentions.  So it's very important that you mention the name of a law. So don't just run in and do your would do. First, you're going to try to brush your teeth, right? Second, you're going to say Bismillah, Rahman, Raheem. Isn't that right? And the next thing we always do before you pray or anything, you do an intention, niyah. Do you know what a niyah is? Even when you're fasting, you say I intend to fast tomorrow. Do you see what I mean? So when, before you start your would do, you stand there and you say I intend to do my would do to remove any dirt, any impurities, so that I am able to pray. And you know what Imam al-Ghazali said?  If you can hold that beautiful intention right up until you get to your face. This will like, this will take you to like a paradise. It's so important if you can do that, right? So now what we, we've all talked about what I've done today, because I'm going to put this in my bathroom where I do, I made a chart for myself. And I put each thing, what to say when I do my hands and my mouth. So I'm going to tell you, this is good, because now I'm going to do it the right way. So when I'm ready to do my hands, right? Of course, we're thinking, we're thinking something very nice. We're thinking, as I'm washing my hands, your hands are what you use to do things with. Oh Allah, I'm sorry, I did what I did today. It was wrong. It helped me to do the right thing.  And there's also something Imam al-Ghazali says. As you wash your right hand, right, and you do it three times, you could ask Allah, when you die, you know, in the end Allah gives you your book of all the good you've done and all the bad you've done. And you say Allah, as you're washing your hand three times, could you please give me my book back in my right hand, you know. And then the next, of course, is you've done your hands, you rinse out your mouth, right? Does everyone know that you rinse their mouth? And this is the prayer you say, and I've written it on my chart. Ya Allah, help me in the recitation of your book and to remember you abundantly, right?  From now on, I want to say beautiful things. I want to praise Allah. I want to praise people, right? I don't want to say bad things, right? And also, I'm going to think about things I take into my mouth. Should it just be candy or it should be some good food, right? And then, do I talk all the time screaming and making noise? Maybe with my mouth I should be quiet. Does that sound like a good idea, everybody? Sure. These are the things with your mouth. Okay, so now I'm going to go back to screen share. All right. Here's a little boy, right? He's rinsed his mouth, like, and he's now reciting Quran, right? He said, and I will also be asking him to help me only say beautiful, helpful things every day and maybe to be a bit more quiet. All right. And here are these little boys, they're reading some Quran, right?  Do you all remember that? And then you think, I can just imagine the Garden of Paradise where all the scented flowers breathing and drops of clean water seems to be a kind of way to connect to the fountain in the Garden of Paradise.  See these children here, they said, what could the smell of these flowers in the Garden remind us of Paradise, right? So as you're rinsing your nose, you're connecting all the way back to the Garden and the fountain in the center of Paradise.  It's what we first noticed about one another.  And do not darken my face with your darkness on the day when some people's faces will be dark.  Isn't this little girl beautiful? Look at her.  Is it all right? I hear some questions. Never mind. All right, children, when you're doing your face, you start way up here at the top where the hair is, and you come all the way down, you know, over near the ears and everything like this, right? And then when you get the water over your eyelashes, you can put your index finger right here and get right here in the eyes. You want to get it all really good, right? Now, if you're rinsing around your eyes, what are some of the things you could ask your eyes to do, right? You could ask your eyes to do. You don't want to say, oh, don't do any spying, right? Don't look at horrible things. Don't look at horrible movies. Look at beautiful things, right? Look at beautiful qualities in others. Think how beautiful what I'm seeing is, right? Yes. What else? Some children, what would you all like to say? What are the kinds of things you want to see that you should be seeing with your eyes and the things you shouldn't look at? Tell me. You shouldn't look at bad things. You shouldn't look at... You shouldn't look at... You shouldn't look at a lot. And what are some of the things that are good that you would love to look at? You could look at a lot of things. You can think of all of the good things that are in life and look at them in your mind. Oh, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. Yeah. Are there any others? All the pretty stuff that other made. Yes. And you wouldn't spy on anybody, would you? No, no. And you would use your eyes to actually, you know, and people's...  They're so bright. Do you think she's looking at something horrible or she's looking at something beautiful? Yeah, something beautiful. Yeah. Then let me go to the next picture. All right. Now, what'd you say? Beautiful. Say it a little louder. Beautiful. Beautiful. Yes. Beautiful. Now this little boy, right? So I have an idea. You could look at somebody doing good deeds. That's wonderful. That's great. That's beautiful. So now I'm going to tell you after you finish, right?  Maybe I'll... Properly. Yeah.  Right. And you have to be careful. The prophet said, peace and blessings be upon him. You know, extend where you're washing very far, right?  Every place you do and will do will be light for you all over your body, right? And then... This is the shining forearms. Yeah. Now, another thing. Let's talk about the top of the head, all right? He says you should put your fingertips together like this, right?  And you know what you're supposed to say when you're doing that? Okay. I've written my prayer right here on my poster for the bathroom.  Send down upon me your blessings and shade me in the shade of your throne on the day when there is no shade except your shade. Don't we all want mercy? So when we're doing this, you can ask Allah for his mercy to be all over you. Isn't that beautiful? And then you know what you're supposed to do next? We forgot about the ears.  And then when you do that, here's something you're supposed to pray. Here's the prayer. I'll read it. Allah, make me among those who hear what is said and follow the best of it. God, let me hear the one who will call, let me hear the one who will call to heaven and for me to be righteous. So we want to listen to good words, but also we have to ask what are some of the best sounds you can listen to? Do you think car traffic or nature? What do you all think? Nature. Nature. Nature. I think nature. Nature. Nature. Nature. Nature. Nature. Flower.   And the next thing you start to do, by the way, is your feet. Okay, I've got something amazing to tell you all, all right? You've got to be very, you've got to listen very carefully, all right? I'm going to, I put up a little sign. You see the feet that I've drawn here? You see these two feet here? On my drawing? Can you see? All right. You start with the right foot, with your right foot, but you, you clean between your toes with your finger on your left hand.   Can you see that? Can you see that very carefully?  And that's how you do it. And if, if you're going to cut your toenails, there's another way to do it. It's in the book, you know? But you start with the right foot first. And by the way, you, when you finished your feet, all right? Maybe, maybe, maybe you want to ask what kind of prayer would you like to ask Allah about your feet? Taking you where? Okay. What would you all like to say, children? Take my feet to do something good or take my feet? What, what are the things you want your feet to take? To do good things. That's it. That's wonderful. So we want our feet to take us. Now here's something everybody, children, that I never knew until I read Ghazali. And so I put it on my chart. After you finish your feet, right? After you finish your feet. Okay. We say the shahada. You know what the shahada is? Who knows what the shahada is? That's it. That's it. Ghazali says that if you remember to say the shahada when you finish your wudu, before you pray, it opens eight gates to paradise and you can pick any gate you want to go through. And he says, then he says, you say, you can say the shahada. And if you want, you can say this prayer too. That's very good. And here's the prayer. Oh God, I turn to you in repentance. So forgive me and accept my repentance. You truly are forgiving and compassionate.  And Ghazali said, if you can say this prayer and the shahada after every wudu you do, it will rise up and at the end of your life it will be waiting for you at the throne of God. But also Ghazali said, if this prayer is too long to say, all you have to do is say the shahada. So can everyone say the shahada when they finish their wudu? I think what parents and children need to do is everybody needs to make a nice start in the bathroom, right? Okay, make a chart like mine. Brush your teeth, say the Bismillah, right? Say the Bismillah, make an intention. And then what you do, the hands all the way through everything. And then finally you end up and say la ilaha illallah. And then you're ready to pray. Can everybody do that? Would you work with your mothers and fathers and make a really simple chart and put it in the bathroom? What I want to do is don't just go in there and do this and do this. What are you going to do? Each time you do something, you're going to do something good, aren't you? Yeah. Okay, now let me see what I have else for you to see. Oh wait, I've got to go back to share screen. I'm learning all of this. All right. Okay, open this. All right, so now let me see what else I have. Here is my great teacher. All right. So this lovely little girl here, right? This lovely little girl is gone. Her feet have taken her where. Do you know what she's doing? Can you tell what she's doing? Washing the plates. Yes. Washing the dishes. Yes, exactly. Washing the dishes. That's right. So her mother, her mother, she went and helped her mother. She didn't just go and play in her room or watch TV. Her feet, her feet took her to do the right thing. Isn't that wonderful? Yeah. Yeah. I had a question that I would like to ask. Go ahead. What's your question? So I wanted to ask if I sit up a little like skate using stuffed animals about hypocrisy. Yes. So I wanted to share that if we have time.  I think it's because you have a mask on.  Say very clearly. So I wanted to say that I have a lesson to teach about hypocrisy. Yes. And I wanted to say if we had time, if I can share it. Wonderful. We only have three more things to go through. So would you do it afterward? Yeah, yeah, I can do it afterwards. No, you go ahead and do it right now. Go ahead and do it right now. Okay. So I'm not sure everyone can see me because you're on your screen. So when that happens, we see your screen, but then a small little screen where I am. So, I know, once upon a time, a rabbit was walking and he saw a narwhal by the shore and they asked if they could play the next day. So they both went away and came back the next day, but the narwhal pushed him off the shore and then went away. I can't remember. Exactly. I know the question is really bad through my computer. What happened in the end? In the end, the rabbit went to his dad and he asked him why the narwhal did that. His dad said that it's a matter of hypocrisy. It means that, well, actually this wasn't really hypocrisy sort of. So he meant that he was nice. He was telling you to be nice, but he wasn't nice himself. Oh, I see. Now the rabbit knows how to deal with something like this. So he went away into his room and had a very good night's sleep. That is a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it.  And that's a wonderful story you told. That's great. Okay, so I'm going to the next picture. See the little boy here. All right. Ghazali says, when you're making would do everybody, right? Don't do more than three times. Don't waste water.  Do we? Right? No, we don't want to waste water. No. And also, as he said before, Ghazali pointed out, don't get so exact with your would do so focused. You forget the inner would do that you're really starting to do better and speak better. And listen better, right? And what happens if somebody comes and talks to you when you're doing your would do? You're not supposed to talk to other people while you're doing would do. But if someone comes and says, As-salamu alaykum, you can say As-salamu alaykum, this kind of thing. And then he said, if you do, now this is something that you could do if you want it. If you do a really good would do. I mean, it's so perfect. And you did everything right. And then you went and prayed two raka'as. If you prayed those two raka'as, and you didn't think of anything else. Guess what Imam al-Ghazali said, you would be as pure as the day on which you were born. So maybe mothers and fathers who are here at this event tonight, maybe you can try that out. Do this good would do as you can and have no other thought except your good heart. And when you do those two bowings, you will be pure as the day you were born. Doesn't that sound like lovely? And children, there's another thing Imam al-Ghazali said, if you do would do when it's conditions are really difficult. You can't say you're out in the snow and you're camping and it's snowing or you can't find any water and you have to go to great difficulty to find water. Allah loves it when you go to, when many people say, oh, we can't do would do. There's no water nearby. We can't do would do this or that. But in fact, Allah loves it. If you have a difficult time, it's too cold. You have to find, if you do it, it makes your would do even more pure and makes your whole body especially pure also. And then there's another thing you can do. Let's say you have your would do you haven't broken it. Right. You didn't use the toilet or anything. You're, you're, if you renew it anyway when the next prayer comes, even when it's not broken. Imam al-Ghazali says it's like neural anur light upon light. Right. And you get 10, 10 extra good deeds if you do that. And then another thing he says is that if you, if you, if you're doing would do and you keep thinking of a law, right. It will purify your entire body. If you instead of maybe you're doing would do and you're thinking about, oh, I wonder if I'm going to go over to that person's for a sleepover. I wonder about my doll. I've lost my doll. If you're doing, if you're thinking like that while you're doing would do that's not great. But if you completely think about a law, right. Everything that's in you that's not good will flow out through your fingernails and through your feet. You'll just flow out and you'll be shining, shining, shining inside. Now let me do one more thing here. And this is just a picture of the story. Remember the story we heard about the little boy that knew a king was coming and he just polished the outside of his house. He's just polishing the outside. Right. And here comes the king.  How is this like doing would do only with your outward movements and leaving your mind and heart thinking about anything else. You would polish the inside and the outside, not just the outside because that's correct. That's correct. Wouldn't a law be happy to see you doing both? What would a law be happy if you're just doing the outside? No, he wants to see the inside also. Now children. Okay, it's now for me. It's in five minutes is my bedtime. Now, when you get ready for bed at night, right, these children have gotten ready for bed. Okay, the Prophet said peace and blessings be upon him. There is no Muslim who goes to sleep in a state of purity, remembering God, and then arises from the night and asked for the goodness in this world and the next, except that Allah gives it. What you should know children is if you make would do just before you go to bed. Think how pure you'll feel when you get into bed.  You could say this particular person, whatever gifts.  So thank you and I give you praise. Right. So, but you can say that before you go to bed. But the best thing you can do is to make will do just before you go to sleep. And the last thing you say is a stock for a law. Allah forgive me if I did anything to disappoint you. So children, are you all going to try to do this. Do you want to go to sleep tonight golden heart. Yes. Doesn't that look lovely wouldn't you like to be like that. Yeah. Very easy very easy. Now, we're going to end this and talk about things that are beautiful. All right. One minute. All right, see these little children looking at the sunset. We're going to end the night by talking about beauty. Do you know we there's something that says, God is beautiful and he loves beauty. He loves beauty because beauty reminds us of paradise doesn't it.  You want to look beautiful, don't you.   No. No, no. Here's some boys sitting looking at the mountains. Now, the book of purity. Three was Ali's 40 books. It ends with a very interesting children. Have any of you wondered why do we have to do three of these and 10 of these and five of these. It's a good question. What are all these numbers about why. I have a question. Okay, what is the question.  Okay you make would do is like a walk or something. Like, if you're out on like a map inside and you'll last you can use a walk right. Of course, any bold, I once made would do in a tea cup. I was in Medina and it was winter and there was no water and I took a little tea cup smaller than this, and just dipped my fingers in it. You see, now these little boys are sitting here, and every and they're saying to each other why do we have to do five prayers why do we wash our hands three times what are all these numbers about in would do, right. And Ghazali tells us it's impossible for us to understand, but what we're doing is remember the angel Gabriel. He's the one who taught the prophet peace and blessings be upon him how to do would do. So we're, we're learning to do would do from the angel Gabriel we're copying what the prophet told us, but he was doing exactly what the angel did. So we are following a standard. It's very special. And can you imagine when we do will do in the way that we've been talking about tonight. We become very, very near to God wouldn't you like to be very, very near to God. Imagine feeling pure and doing exactly what the angel taught the prophet to do and that we're copying, right. Now, last thing I want to say to you, right. If you did your would do very sloppy falling sloppy stopping in the middle, putting your chewing gum down, changing sloppy, right. What would you think if you saw your grandmother doing would do like that would you think that was all right or not. No, no, no, definitely not. No, because what we want, we want people to become and dignified and present, you know, and humble and peaceful. And when we do the will do we should be like that shouldn't we because we're doing something that the angel Gabriel was teaching. So it's very serious.  So it's a time for you to be very present, very dignified, very peaceful, very humble, right. Here's a little cartoon that a friend of mine in Egypt made about Imam al-Ghazali. Okay. Up here it says his clothes and his hands were neat. His gaze was, I can't read it, something sincere. His words were full of light. Sitting with him reminded me of heaven. So the little girl says, if you were sitting in silence with Imam al-Ghazali, what might he be teaching you by the way he was. What would you like to copy his clothes, his hands were always neat. His gaze was so sincere. His words were full of light. So we want to be that way. We want people when they come to be with us to notice that we are neat and dignified and our words are full of wisdom and we're calm and peaceful and beautiful. Isn't that true? Yeah. See these children here? They did so many good wudus that the light was coming from their fingers and from their toes because they imagine that they did such beautiful wudu and Allah promised that the light will come from all the places you did wudu carefully. A beautiful light will reach the places the ablution reached and that comes from a sahih hadith of Muslim. So now children, I think you all have a very good idea about wudu and about the state of being you wish to have while you're doing wudu and the kinds of things you want to do with your heart.  Yes, Zoya. Yes. I just want to say that I know how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam got the five prayers a day. Jealous. Sallallahu. Go ahead and tell us. Okay, so one day the Prophet was praying, I think in the cave, if you know what he was praying in the cave, I don't remember the name, but he was praying to Allah. So he came to Allah and gave him 500 or 50, I think 500 prayers for the humans to do a day. Yeah. When he was coming down from Allah's throne, I think he saw Prophet Musa alayhi sallam and he told him, why are you bringing 500 prayers? This is way too much. So he went back to Allah and he said that the Prophet Musa said that 500 was too much. So subhanahu wa ta'ala took down five, took it 495. Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he came back down and saw Prophet Musa again. He said 495 is still too much. So he went up back to Allah and said what the Prophet alayhi sallam said back to him. So then Allah, so then every time the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came back down, Musa was saying to him this is way too much, lower. He went, finally he went back to Allah and every day and every time he went back Allah decreased it by five. Finally he came to five and the Prophet Musa didn't bother to say anything when he came back down. That is how the five prayers a day came to life. Yes, this I believe when the Prophet peace and blessings. I knew that story too. He went on the Barak and he went to Jerusalem and he rose to the seven heavens. I think that was when he, very good story you're reminding. Thank you. Even we're telling him that the Muslims will say the five or too many and he said I can't go back. So that's the one story. Thank you for including that. Except we're able to do five. Yes, we are able to do five. Well, so we've come to the end of our session. Would any of you like to say anything that you've learned that's useful to you anything that that has been good for you tonight that you. Yes. Yes. What. So you shouldn't like polish your outside, but do both inside and outside so you can purify your inside and your outside. That's wonderful. That's just. Just the inside. I want to say something. Everything. Your beautiful heart. If you're beautiful. It's better. It's better. It's better. It's better. If the house is really messy on the outside. Very neat and inside. Yeah. So what about any others and fathers any mothers and fathers learn something they didn't know tonight. Everything you said help my spiritual heart. I always, I always watch video that the profits. How sweet.  Thank you for taking the time to walk us through all of this is beautiful. It's hard to explain things to little kids, but thank you for doing this. I learned a lot about just making an intention and thinking about everything and blocking out everything else while I'm doing with you and not just making the routine, but you know, thinking about my hands as I'm washing thinking. So thank you so much. I've been meaning to make a chart to put in my bathroom to remind me. And today I made the chart because I was going to be talking to the children. So I want to thank the children for an opportunity for anti Asia to finally sit down and make my chart because sometimes I'm afraid I might forget a prayer or an idea. Now we all know, you know, about the basmala and about the Shahada who knew, you know, but this is all wonderful and we want to thank. Yeah, and ma'am I'll go Zali. Thank you. Yeah, and ma'am for these tools for helping us. And we want to thank Monir for engineering this incredible gathering from around the world. Thank you, brother. Thank you for the lesson. I'm so happy to be with you all. I just love tonight. I'm going to go to bed now. All right, because it's very dark and very late.


So you want the power of the Q. Not a problem. Q mesh allows you to extrude faces with left click and when two faces get close to each other they will merge together. If you hold shift it will move the face inward and outward, if you hold control it will detach the face and if you tap alt it will change the color of the new polygroup. And as usual you can hold alt to left click and drag select targets ahead of time. This area here determines how the snapping together occurs. It defaults to a tenth step which means it will take 10 small steps until it reaches equal to the face next to it. If you set it to a half it will only take two steps to merge. One, two. If you set it to a quarter it'll take four steps instead. One, two, three, four. On full step it just snaps automatically. Every third takes three steps. One, two, three. And no alignment means that there are no snaps in between. It's just smooth until you get to the end. One sided poly means new topology has no edge loops. Multi-sided by brush means that when you left click drag it will create new edge loops. The interval in between each loop depends on the size of your brush. So if you increase the size then the intervals between each edge loop will be bigger. And if you want a specific size for the interval between each edge loop you can set that here. The smaller the number the more edge loops you will have. Now supposedly attraction determines how strong the snap is but I haven't been able to notice any significant effects when I change these settings so as far as I can tell the default is probably the one you want. Normally when extruding a new face and snapping together it will always try and keep things as quads. But if you enable triangles then when you start extruding a new face it will start you off with a triangle.  But if you enable extensions that means you can keep dragging past the point the faces are parallel. Hope that helps and as always hope you have a fantastic day. Now see you around.