فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يدى بدلى وياله من شراف عظيمي الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشدوى الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وشدوى أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله وإتعالى نومي today on Sunday we have the شرحة of the كتاب حلية طالب العلم باي الشيخ بكر بن عبدالله أبوزيد رحمه الله وإتعالى but because رمضان has finished and we have finished رمضان it will be beneficial إن شاء الله وإتعالى because the reminder benefits the believer and a lot of the times what you see is that people they make their habit what they normally do habitually they what they do is wherever they go they make it into lectures lectures in محاضرات and reminders are for people who are studying for people who have a routine where they are nurturing themselves with the knowledge then sometimes the aspiration dies a reminder is given it boosts it up again just like a person can't live on paracetamol or they have food sometimes they get sick they take paracetamol and then the muhadra is like a paracetamol when a person is a bit sick they feel like their hard work has now become as a mind is given to them but to always make it into a muhadra it doesn't benefit in the sense when the person walks away there's nothing after that they have nothing to carry themselves on so it's very important that learning and studying is given presidents brothers and sisters who are listening رمضان has finished and a lot of us was working very very hard we put a lot of effort in this great month of Ramadan we were fasting and at night time we were praying and we were reading Quran we made it a month where we got closer to Allah highly the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلمه يسالح حديث عبداله من عباس عبداله من عمار أبو غيره other different companions narrated it the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم إن لكل عمل ان شره every action that a person does they are working hard towards there's a period where the person just starts to go down after hard work ومن كان إلا غير ذلك فقط ظلأ the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلمه يسالح every action there's a time when it has a downfall where the person starts to go less and starts to reduce their attention this is what happened to so many people always happening so many people رمضان they reached the top pinnacle that they could reach but then after that they started to go down the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلمه يسالح حديث anyone who that time when he used to go down when he goes down he's still in accordance to the sunnah then he's guided and anyone who goes down and he was upon misguidance then he's misguided it was an innovation he's misguided this hadith shows that we're bound as human beings to go up and to come down to go up and to come down it can happen regardless but then we need to know what is it that allows us to try to get up again and make it back to where we were as a human you're bound to fall and you're bound to trip how can you stand up again and go back to what you were doing رمضان in this month of رمضان the thing that we were working on or the thing that was making us move the thing that we were using was our heart it was the قلب and after رمضان it is the heart that is needed to be worked on واللهي براي you see a person who spent so many hours in the gym it's very strong person tough big very big and he struggles to get out of the bed to lift the duvet and just leave and go to the masjid where is the strength on the body where is the man speaking in 19 kg on this side and the metal bar has bended how heavy it is but for فجر he can't lift this soft he can't why this shows you that the body only brings out what's in the heart and if the person succeeds and is successful in working on this heart this body might look very deficient it might look very weak it might not be able to do it but trust me this person goes very far and that is why we need to focus in this time that رمضان has gone this heart of us and we have to nurture it the heart suffers from two illnesses brothers and these two illnesses رمضان I believe it was fighting against it it was a desires then we were fasting and fasting is the hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم which he said youngster's youth من استطاع منكم البادة فلتزوج any one of you who is able to get married then get married ومن لم يستطيع and those who are not able فعليه is fast why because fasting فإنه يكون عليه وجاء the fasting will be for him but what the fasting is what it's bigger than a shield the word وجاء has a bigger meaning وجاء is it's to castrate an animal it can't have no sexual desires anymore it's taking the vein that runs in the animal's testicle to never ever desire a woman fasting will do that to you it's not just a shield it doesn't fast and destroys the shower fully you see so in the month of رمضان we were fighting against it رمضان is gone we fought against it what's left now شبهة متابعة الرسول we were fast in the time that we were sent the sunnah of how the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم fasted from the time to the time that we need to fast and then we were in a time where we were taught where we were taught stay away from شبهات and شهوات and if you fall into shortness in any of those two it causes illness to the heart and brothers the status and the شأن the affairs of the heart is very great the first one is القلب هو محل النيات the heart intentions brings from the heart the heart is the whether the intentions brings from إنما الأعمال بالنيات وإنما لكل مرئ ما نوى فمن كانت هجرتوا إلى الله ورسولي فهجرتوا إلى الله ورسولي ومن كانت هجرتوا لدولية يسيبها ومرأة يتزوجها اما ينكحها فهجرتوا إلى ما هجر إلي is the heart the thing that your prayer is accepted without it is not accepted is basically something that comes from the heart the second thing is القلب هو محل القرآن the place where Allah told us that he keeps it in and it's kept in is the heart he said in the Quran وإنه لتنزيل رب العالمين وإنه لتنزيل رب العالمين وإنه لتنزيل رب العالمين نزل به الروح الأمين على قلبك لتكون من المندرين بالسان العربية المبين the Quran the place where it resides it stays in Allah says is the heart وإنه لتنزيل رب العالمين نزل به الروح الأمين على قلبك محمد I sent the Quran on your heart and when the Prophet tried to speak the Quran and tried to read it Allah said to him لا تحرك به لسان كلت أجلبي don't move your tongue fast so you can read the Quran with us don't do that just let it go into heart directly that's what's going to be kept إذا ما حلو where is the Quran kept it's the heart that's where it stays in ولي ذاك الله says بل وآيات بينات في صدور اللذي نقوت العلم the Quran is verses that is kept in the chest of the people of knowledge ولي ذاك يسمى الدعولة ماذا يسمى المنحفضة القرآن فوعارمون anyone who memorizes the Quran is a scholar is an A'an because Allah says in this ayat بل وآيات بينات في صدور اللذي نقوت العلم so the Quran the place where it stays in is what the heart ولي ذاك ذاك why whenever the person does not ponder on the Quran there is a deficiency in the heart and why is there a deficiency in the heart brothers is because that's where it resides how can the heart not ponder on it أفلا يتدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أقفالها that's what Allah says do they not ponder on the Quran or are there locks on their hearts because the Quran is there so how is it that you can't ponder on it فلا يتدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أقفالها or are there locks on their heart the third one is القلب هو محل نظر الله عز وجل the heart is what Allah looks at it's what Allah observes سبحانه وتعالى لذلك ده حليت إمام مصر من حليتها بهرائه إن الله لا ينظر إلى أجسامكم ولا إلى صوركم الله doesn't look at your physique الله doesn't look at your body and how big you are doesn't look at that ولكن ينظر إلى قلوبكم وعمالكم الله looks at your actions and also looks at your heart so الله تبارك وتعالى is observing your heart and what then your heart produces because the قاعدة is وكل إنائم باللي فيه ينضحه every vessel only sweats was inside it you will only bring out from your limbs what your body has sweat out if I want to know that a cup is cold or hot I don't need to put my finger in it I can know it from outside so the heart if it's good we can know it from your limbs if we want to know what's inside if it's good we can know it from your limbs and the way you act and the way you are الله looks at you إخواني القلب the heart هو محل التقوى تقوى that's where it is that's where it resides a person who's got تقوى and the piety, تقوى is piety it's the heart باستن حديث صحيح مسلم that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said التقوى ها هنا التقوى ها هنا التقوى ها هنا وأشار إلى صدري ثلاثة مرات and the Prophet pointed towards his chest three times my brothers نبي الله إبراهيم ميدا الدعاة سبليكيشنتو الله تبارك وتعالى نساتو الله تبارك وتعالى ولا تخزيلي يوم يبعثون الله تبارك وتعالى do not humiliate me and do not harm me the day of judgment صح؟ what day lakin يوم لا ينفع مال ولا بنون إلا من أت الله بقلب سليم الله don't humiliate me the day of judgment the day where children and money are not going to benefit you the only thing that's going to benefit you is the person who comes to Allah with a what قلب which is سليم قلب which is clean and pure we said the word سليم here brothers means what it means سليم من الشبوهات والشهوات it is pure from it's a whims and desires and it's also pure from doubts it's a heart that's protected the person who wants my brothers to find happiness who wants to find tranquility who wants to find ease and smoothness in life there's no other part of his body that he needs to look at other than his heart in the month of Ramadan I read the Quran I looked at which of the Quran many times I read it and when I came across every organ that was mentioned in the Quran I would take a note of it I realized that the organ that was mentioned the most in the Quran more than 130 times above after 130 I gave up it's 130 and above times either direct or indirectly was what the heart if Allah said it سبحانه وتعالى the قلب itself by name or he spoke about the things that the قلب does and the actions that it stands for and what it represents you open the Mus'haf today you read سورة الفاتحة then you move on to سورة البقرة الله سبحانه وتعالى in سورة البقرة that you read he mentioned three characteristics straight away if Allah mentioned three asnaf three types of people pay attention سورة البقرة all of us here we read سورة البقرة the first thing Allah opens سورة البقرة is with what ألي فلا ميم دالك الكتاب لا ريب فيه ودل المتقين this Quran there's no doubt in it the doubt comes from where the heart straight away you're being told straight straight off the Alif Lamim ذالك الكتاب this is the book there is no doubt in it so there shouldn't be no doubt in your heart straight away your heart is being spoken to then it's amazing because Allah mentions three asnaf and three people three characteristics are mentioned in that first سفحة the first page which is the first characteristics of what ذالك الكتاب لا ريب فيه متقين we just took takwa حديث صحيح مسلم التقوى ها هنا التقوى ها هنا التقوى ها هنا واشارة إلى صدر ثلاثة مرات عليه الصلاة والسلام the second characteristics are what مؤمنين الأصل الإيمان is where القلب the third one was what مؤين people have certainty where does that characteristic come from then after that الله says إِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا سواءٌ عليهم أأندرتهم أم لم تندنهم لا يؤمنون ختم الله قلوبهم these are the kufar this is exactly the type of people it's all tobacco and then Allah moves on to the third type of people and who are the منافقين ومن الناس من يقولوا أمننا بالله ومن آخر وما هم بمؤمنين يخاديعون الله واللدين آمن وما يخضعون إلا أنفسه وما يشعروا فيه قلوبهم فيه قلوبهم so the two other parties are being cancelled out because of their hearts and the first party of the people are the believers their reason was because they made sure their hearts ها التقوى it had iman and it had yakeem are you with me brothers ولي ذلك anyone who wants to advise a person or who wants to benefit a person the first thing he needs to tell a person to work on is the heart first of all because this if he succeeds in making sure that he advises a person to work on his heart then that is is what's going to control everything else and we clearly have that from the prophet إن الحلالة بيّن وإن الحرامة بيّن وبينهم أمور مشتبهات لا يعلمهن كثير من الناس فمن اتقى الشبهات فقد استبراء لديني وعرضي وموقع في الشبهات وقع في الحرامة كالراءة يرى حول الحما يشكوا ويرتعفي ألا وإن لكل ملك إن حما ألا وإن حمالله محارموا ألا وإن في الجسد مضغا إذا صلحت صلحت الجسد كله وإذا فسد فسد الجسد كله ألا وهي القب فهي هو the prophet يقول if this organ is in good shape and it's healthy then every part of your body is healthy and if this organ is diseased and it's going through a hard time then all of your body is going to be going through a hard time and this is what I'm saying in the ayah الذين يدكرون الله الذين آمنوا وتطمئن قلوبهم بذكر الله ألا بذكر الله تطمئن القلوب remembering Allah does the heart find tranquility so you see قيام الليل was being done in Ramadan the person was reading the Quran the person was fasting they were nurturing this heart very well Shayateen were locked off you had that opportunity to just face yourself with Allah and work hard Ramadan has now gone you've gone back to exactly what you were doing the reason is because there's a deficiency in that heart so you need to make sure that you work on it my brothers the prophet is with these companions in the battle of Tabuk brothers Tabuk the prophet spent there six months six months six months Tabuk to Medina is a distance of 1,400 km approximately مكة to Medina is 400 1,400 something it was the hottest particle that the companions participated the heat was so severe that Allah He said to the companions the companions قل نارو جهنة مأشد وحر اللو كان يفقهم that أما المنافقين that the heat of the hellfire is greater than this heat that you guys are looking at this is nothing compared to جهنة to work hard that battle of Tabuk the prophet is with these companions and as he is with these companions he said to his companion حديث جابر مع عبدالله رضي الله يتعالى عنه which is the Sahih Muslim that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said إن في المدينة إلى رجالا ما ثرتم مسيرا ولا قطعتم وادين إلا كان معكم وفي رواية حبسوهم ورضر وانا رواية إلا شارقوكم في رجالا you guys have not cut a distance you have not cut a valley you have not taken a step except they participated with you in reward some brothers of yours in Medina they have not walked with you guys they are not with you guys they are not traveling they are not moving around wherever thousand and something kilometers you guys have cut they are in Medina and they have the reward with you guys they participate in this reward with you why? الله mentions their story in Surah Al-Tawbah ليس على الضعفاء ولا على المرضى ولا على الذين إذا ما أتوك لتحملهم قلت لا أجدوا ما أحملهم تولوا وعيونهم تفيضوا من الدم حزن they came to the prophet they came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and when they came to the prophet what did they request from him they said يا رسول الله take us with you the prophet didn't have the money to take him to take them with him and they started to cry and they turned away crying they wanted to come from their heart they were crying يا رسول الله don't leave us please take us with you والله we want to participate in this expedition with you والله يا رسول الله we want to be with you in it because they didn't get that but the heart wanted it the heart wants it the limbs doesn't have to do it if the heart is there the woman who goes through her menstruation she goes through her period if she used to fast on Mondays and Thursdays and her menstruation hits on Monday she gets the reward of that fasting because of her intention the قيام that she used to do she gets it she's like the Hadith of the prophet she gets the reward اجر المقيم the person if a traveler was traveling and he stopped some things that he used to do while he was a resident now because he's traveling he can't do it he gets the reward of those things why is he getting the reward he hasn't done it hasn't worked for it it's the قلب of my brothers the heart so if you make sure that your heart is that clean and that good even if you don't do the issue you get it the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said to them and this is something my brothers that we need to do sometimes even though we now realize the value and the strength and the power of the heart these are things والله who can do and they are going to help us a lot and that is the remembrance of Allah you pray صلى الله عليه وسلم you pray صلى الله عليه وسلم you say سلام عليكم سلام عليكم don't move from your position sit there and do dua at car at car until the sun rises sit there and just do it the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said to the companions one day ألا أن أبيعكم shall I not tell you بخير أعمى عليكم the best of your action brothers pay attention the web Arabic in the Arabic language when you see the web خير سغة المبالغة it comes in the form of أفعل سغة المبالغة or like you would say أطول من فلان so it's taller than فلان but because of the use of the word خير so much and the word شر so much بكثرة استعمال سقطة ألف was dropped so here it's meant to be أخي يارب the greatest ها in English they call it what do you call it supility there you go it's a supility ألا أن أبيعكم shall I tell you بخير أعمى عليكم the best of actions which you guys could do وأزكاها عند مليككم and it's most purifying to your Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى وارفعوها في درجاتكم and it's the greatest thing that will lift you in statuses and in rank وخيروا لكم and it's better for you مين إنثاق الدهبي والفضب and it's also even better in giving gold and silver for you to go and give them gold and silver everyday charity for you to do that this is better وخيروا لكم and this is even better من أن تلقوا عدوكم فتضربوا عناقكم ويضربوا عناقكم that you go to a battlefield and you fight with your enemies you strike their necks and they strike your neck shall I tell you something better than all of that the companions of course this is what they lived for this is what they won for them it meant yeah they didn't say نعم look how powerful the companions were they didn't say yes they said بلا of course they really want to know and this is going to be something as soon as it comes out from the prophet's mouth it's going to be implemented it won't go anywhere else it will go into the actions what did the prophet say to them دِكُر الله تعالى they will remember some of Allah they remember Tirmid they remember Malik Ibrumaja and Ahmed narrating this so sitting down ودي ذلك ابن القيام ابن القيام when you think of Ibn Al-Qayyim what do you think of of straight away the heart right ابن القيام the heart ابن القيام رحمه الله he said I came to Ibn Al-Qayyim one day and I saw him sitting down and he was doing his Al-Qar sometimes people just look at Ibn Al-Qayyim as a warrior writer the future people don't realize what he does behind closed doors and the way he was where he lifted his actions up and he purified himself عليه الرحمة الله ابن القيام رحم الله would sit down and he would do it his Al-Qar and I remember ابن القيام that I saw him and he turned around and he looked at me he said to me this is my breakfast ابن القيام this is my breakfast if I don't do it I am not energized for anything and I don't have the effort I'm stressed to do anything you know if you don't eat breakfast and the morning you're tired you can't do nothing if I don't do my Al-Qar I am صح so the reality is so the reality is Ibn القيام said if the foods were bad to us and you know we went through hardship we went through depression and sadness we would come to Ibniu ابن القيام would go to Ibniu ابن القيام this is the book I have here إغاطة اللحفان في مصاعد الشيطان I am thought of it right now which I am going to mention some of things of it insha'Allah some foods for me which is basically the heart عبدالزاق العفيفة رحم الله عبدالزاق عفيفة do you guys know him? عبدالزاق عفيفة was the na'ib he was after Ibn al-Baz عبدالزاق عفيفة when he would go عبدالزاق عفيفة would be the mufti for that power he was the na'ib, he was right after him عبدالزاق عفيفة said about الشيطان إبن القيام he said Ibn al-Taymiah is like he headbutts the mountain and he breaks it إبن القيام comes and he collects them and that's how it was wherever Ibn al-Taymiah said they were ambiguity in it إبن القيام he broke it down and explained it إبن القيام is now going to his teacher and finance and this is what's needed brothers also my brothers the other thing that we need to do is that we need to strive to is that we go to places of funerals and the places where قبور visit the dead the prophet SAW said كنت نهيتكم عن زيارة القبورة فزوروها I used to prohibit you from going to visit the graves now go and visit it فإنها very late the death rebides you what ترك القلب this is a story that says وصفت ازدهات وتدمع العين and it makes the eyes water وتذكروا الاخر and remind you of the Heratah ولمام الحاكم and Bayhaq narrated it Bayhaq narrated it شعب الإيمان and Ahmed is Muslim so my brothers these are things that we need to do towards our hearts make sure that we work towards it we nurture it we come with the things that the heart needs the same way that your body needs food in order to live the heart needs it وَدَدَكْ سَمَنْ يُسَلَفْ يُسَيْقْ وَرُبَّ مُبَيْعِ الْبُمْتِيابَهُ there's maybe a person who's walking around and he's got a white garment very clean he looks after his outer appearance I can know but he's religious he's tainted it he's tainted his religion he does not care about his heart how dirty and how he said I saw that the sins they kill the hearts the heart that the sim that a person commits will go and direct it towards the heart and it will affect the heart until the person reaches a point where there's nothing which they can do in order to gain the remembrance of Allah also my brothers what we need to do and supplicate and ask Allah as a prophet used to do he used to say I have not come across any other limb that the prophet specifically used to ask to offer he used to it's the one that tosses and turns the hearts make my heart steadfast and firm on your religion أحمد حاكم أم السلام رضي الله تعالى عنها she said يا أم السلام the prophet said this to her إنه ليس آدمي there's no human being إلا وقلبه بين أصبعين من أصابع الرحمن except that his heart is between the two fingers of Allah there is no human except that his heart is between the two fingers of Allah فمن شاء قامن whoever Allah wills he makes his heart steadfast and whoever Allah wills he diverts it and destroys it ترميديا نحمد أبو بكر من أبي شيب أميز مصنع brothers the human nature as the way Allah created us there are two characteristics we were created with and every day of our lives and every day we walk we're working towards removing these two characteristics this morning when I woke up I was asked what's your main goal today my main goal was to always get rid of these two characteristics that Allah created be it and these are the characteristics which Allah mentions in the ayah إنه عرضنا الأمانة على السماوات الله سبحانه وتعالى he said we presented the amana to the samawat the amana it means Allah came to the samawat and he said can you take it well jibal and the mountains and the earth all of them they rejected it they said we can't take it but the human he said I'm going to take that and I'm going to carry it the mountain said no the samawat said no the earth said no but the humans said yes pay attention to the ayah because the ayah needs pondering and it needs us to analyze it this amana that we chose to take the way that the people take the amana are three times the first people are those who they agreed to the amana which was توحيد ألسطو بي ربكم قالوا بلا the amana here is the توحيد it is to take Allah as our lord and worship him alone the people are three in it those who have rejected it قلبا وقالبا from the heart and externally as well and internally both they rejected it they don't do it from the outer and they do it from outside and these are the kuffar the second other they don't do it from the outer sorry they don't do it from the inner but they do it from the outer they would fight with the muslims they would pray with the muslims and the third party are those who have accepted it قلبا وقالبا externally and internally but it is amazing after Allah mentions the amana in the ayah he mentions two characteristics he says about the human إنه كان ظلوما جهولا that the human is ignorant سغة المبالغة فعول the human is excessively ignorant and excessively oppressive the مفصرين they say كبن القيما غيره they said that due to these characteristics the person suffers in the amana it is because either ignorant or it's oppression or both together however much your ignorance is high and your oppression is high is how much you are in terms of holding the amana that was given to you the opposite brothers as I was reading the Quran in the month of Ramadan I came across the ayah in which Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says ربنا وبعث فيهم رسولا منهم يتلو عليهم آياتك ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة والحكمة وإن كانوا من قبل لفي ظلال المبين in this ayah الله سبحانه وتعالى he brought which first which characteristics that Allah mentioned ربنا وبعث فيهم رسولا منهم يتلو عليهم آياتك ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتاب in another place Allah says سبحانه وتعالى هو الذي بعث في الأميين رسولا منهم يتلو عليهم آياتهم هو الذي بعث في الأميين رسولا منهم يتلو عليهم آياتك ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة هو الذي بعث فيهم ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة ويزكيهم علم يأتي before the tizquia ويقوم بعمل دعا and in this ayah the tizquia comes before the علم in one place the علم comes before the tizquia and in one place the tizquia comes first before the علم and Allah doesn't do anything except He does it with a sabab a reason behind it so why is it that Allah put here the knowledge before the tizquia and in another place He put the tizquia before the knowledge the ayah in Surat al-Hazab which I read is the reason why Allah subhanahu و تعالى did it one is talking about the human essence إنه كان ظلوما جهولا the Nabi Allah Ibrahim when he asked ويعلمهم الكتابة ويوزكيه إنك أنت العزيز الحكيم نبي الله يبراهيم دعا He is talking about the essence of the human being a prophet that kills them from the essence of what they are because he put knowledge first إنه كان ظلوما جهولا نبي الله يبراهيم He is talking about the essence of the human and the other ayah is referring to after the human has nurtured himself from it وليذلك the thing that we need to understand is إنه كان ظلوما جهولا what is the solution for ignorance and what is the solution for an oppression تزكيه are you with me knowledge that's why the prophet was sent he was sent ويعلمهم الكتابة he teaches them the Kitab ويوزكيه and purifies them that is the job of the prophet the prophet the scholars they question one another ابن القيمن الكتابة داعل فوائد he says that what is the minimum that a person has to have in terms of knowledge and what is the minimum that a person has to have from tizkia the minimum that a person needs to have from knowledge is أل يقين certainty and the minimum that a person needs to have from tizkia is صبر when a person has يقين وجعلنا منهم أئمة يهدون بأمرنا لما صبروا وكانوا بآيات إلى يقنون when a people they come with patience and they come with certainty الله makes them what he makes them leaders he makes them what وجعلنا منهم we made them leaders when did we make them leaders لما صبروا when they were patient وكانوا بآياتينا يقنون and they came with certainty so I believe every day he wakes up he is working towards these two he is working towards what الصبر واليقين وردار كبريتين يسيروا بالصبر واليقيني تنالوا الإمامة في الدين with patience and certainty the person would reach what leadership and so that makes us brothers understand to always every day we wake up to make dua as the Prophet ﷺ used to make dua he used to say صلى الله عليه وسلم الله محبب إلينا الإيمان وزيينه في قلوبنا وكرر إلينا الكفر والخصوق والعصيان وجعلنا من الراشدين the Prophet used to make that dua and this was مأخوذ من قوله تعالى ولكن الله حبب إليه ولكن الله حبب إليكم الإيمان وزيينه في قلوبكم وكرر إليكم الكفر والخصوق والعصيان أولئك هم الراشدون it's taken from that ayah finally my brothers we also need to be those who recite the Quran a lot and stay away from music that will cause the illness of the heart وردار كده سواء الله the Quran يا أيوا الناس قد جاءتكم o people it has come to you مع عضة من ربكم a reminder from your Lord الله سبحانه وتعالى وشفاء اللى ما في الصدور and a cue to the heart the Quran is a cue to the heart وهدو ورحمه and it's a guidance and a mercy for the believers so the Quran is the cue for the heart اللَّسل so about believers إنَّا بَالمُؤْمِلُونَ الَّذِلَا عَامَلُوَ They are those who are the believers إنَّا بِالمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِلَا إِذَا دُكِّرَ اللَّهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوبُهُمِ If Allah ﷻ is mentioned, their hearts They found They, they trouble their heart Their heart trembled from the recitation of the Qur'an اللَّهُنزَّ لَأَسَّلَ can be the most beautiful narration of the Qur'an One example is the خشير from those who fear their Lord Then they fear their heart, their hearts for the remembrance of Allah في صورة الحديد يقول ألم يأني للذين أعملوا أن تخشع قلوبهم لذكر الله وما نزل من الحق ولا يكونوا كالذين رأوتي الكتابة من قبل فطار عليهم والأمد فقصت قلوبهم كثير منهم فاسقون من القرآن is what affects the people's heart to increase in the recitation of the Quran and also brothers to just sit down and focus on this book and to ponder and to analyze it you might read the Quran Allah sometimes I don't think you should have understood it masha'Allah I understand this it's amazing because it's amazing because recently I was in Umrah and in Ramadan and I was in the Haram and I was reading the Kitab written by Sheikh أمهشخ محمد الأمين الشانقية رحمه الله which is the Kitab رحلة رحلة إلى إفريقيا شيء محمد الأمين شقيد هذا الرحلة of when he went to Africa so while I was reading it he is speaking about دلالة الإقتضاء which is the issue of the surah فلا كل حال there is a story that the ulema mentioned كثير brings it in the ayah وصينا الإنسان بوالدي حملته أمه كره ووضعته كره وحمله وفصاله وفصاله لنا شهراء وفصوله لنا آية صورته الأحقاح ثلاثة يجب أن يتكلم عبدالبرر يجب أن يتكلم but he brings it in the story of عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه يجب أن يتكلم but the story, the correct version of it even عبدالبرر brings the other version of it which is it is رضي الله تعالى عنهما عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه a woman she got married to a man and when she got married to this man when she got married to this individual after 6 months she gave birth after 6 months she gave birth so the husband goes this is not my child it was brought to usman we said 6 months stone her she was taken out the story reached Ali by the Talib Ali hastened and he went to Uthman what did he say to Uthman when he went to him he said to Uthman have you not read the Qur'an Ali said to who have you not read the Qur'an brothers do you guys know Uthman's level in the Qur'an and he is calabite of the Qur'an Uthman said no I have not read the Qur'an what is it what is it that you are referring to and Ali bin Abi Talib said we are referring to the ayah that Allah SWT mentions that a woman can give she can give birth in 6 months Allah mentions that and that child is and he doesn't necessitate that this child is from somebody else he can be from the father himself he said how? where? which ayah are you referring to he said to okay come so Allah said in the Qur'an he talks to the children towards their parents and reminds them of the responsibilities of their parents and how you should lead them towards them in that ayah Allah SWT mentions وحمله وفصاله 30 شهره the carrying of the child and the breastfeeding Allah mentions is 30 days 30 months 30 months is breastfeeding 30 months is breastfeeding and also the pregnancy we know through the Qur'an in صورة اللقمان Allah SWT says وصينا الإنسان بوالدي حملته وهمن على وهمن وفصاله في عامين the pregnancy is for 2 years صورة البقرة 2 years the breastfeeding the breastfeeding is for 2 years in this another ayah Allah SWT وَ الْوَالِدَاتِ يُرْضِعُنَ عُولَدَهُنَّ حُولَيْنِ كَامِلَيْنِ 2 years 30 months how much months is 2 years 24 take away 24 from 30 if Allah said that the breastfeeding and the pregnancy is 30 months then 24 is the breastfeeding so what is the 6 months left is going to be the pregnancy is going to be the علي أبنى بالطالب who did Ibn al-Qa'a أسوما رضي الله على ريصيده ما ترى ريصيده وصاح أبو عبدالحمان السلامين أبو عبدالحمان السلامين تحديثو ويقولوا خيركم من تعلم القرآن وعلم هو نريت أحديث من القفت لذلك هذه الكتاب معرفة القراء الكبار بايمان والدهبي يبدأ بالعثمان أبي العفان يدين بجعب بكرنا وعمر أول قاري في هذه الأمة أنه قلت هو عثمان إلمان والدهبي رحمه الله تعالى لأنه يظهر لك أخي ماذا يظهر لك؟ أنه يحاطط للنا أنه يجب على كل شيء أنه يجب على كل شيء أنه هو لمن؟ الله سبحانه وتعالى الله is the only one who encompasses everything in knowledge والدهبي هو دلالة إقتضاء هو أن يأخذ الأيام ويستخدمها كذلك هذا يظهر لك أن أصحابه كانوا أعرفون الصور الفق كانوا أعرفون هذه العالم عندما يحتاجها يأتي معها بعدما يأتي مع العالم يعملون أخرى يعملون أخرى ويعملون الشيخ محمد من الشمك ويعملونه فيه كتاب يعملون في الأفضل أعلى كل حال أخي خلاصة من اليوم إن شاء الله تعالى أن رمضان يخلص ويجب أن نتفعله إن شاء الله تعالى شيء that we stop what we were doing the way of Allah is He allowed us to reach this great noble month and to benefit from it let's be from those who إن شاء الله تعالى carry on the hard work nurture our hearts the knowledge and understanding سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك واتوب إليه


It's going down between Cardi B and right-wing political commentator Tommy Lahren. It all started when Cardi went off on Twitter about the U.S. government shut down and made some pretty good points. Now Fox presented Tommy Lahren, Genius political mind to herself. Hit back! Calling out Cardi by tweeting, Looks like I am Cardi B as the latest Genius political mind to endorse the Democrats. Ha! Keep it up guys! Hashtag mega 2020!  So, in celebration of that wonderful response, here are some other times Cardi B has made some incredibly compelling points about the state of the world. Watch and learn, Tommy. Following the horrific Parkland massacre, Cardi slammed Trump's proposal that the solution isn't tight to gun control, but arming teachers. In an Instagram post at the time, she wrote, Y'all want teachers to effectively prepare our youth, carry straps and bus back at school shooters, but at the same time, only pay them $40,000 a year. Another way Cardi is dismantling toxic ideologies, she's vocal about her time as a stripper, helping to destigmatize sex work. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, she said, People say, Why do you always gotta say that you used to be a stripper? We get it. She added, The answer is because y'all don't respect me because of it, and you're going to respect these strippers from now on. Just because somebody was a stripper, don't mean they don't have no brain. Or there's the time she took aim at the UN for not doing more to condemn the slave trade in Libya. In an Instagram story late 2017, she called them out for not making it their problem or priority to help what's going on in Libya, adding that what's happening there is shameful and disgusting. But you have to be 35 years old to run for president in the US. Kidding, no one needs another celebrity in the White House. But if they had to have one, Cardi would be a strong contender. Collabs are great. It's like dipping your french fries into a McFlurry, beautiful on their own, bitter together. Think Queen and Bowie, Madonna and Brittany, Lil Wayne and Paris Hilton. Fortunately for us, there's cheddar and more potential collabs on the way. Here are our faves. Do your thing, Twitter. Rumours that Harry Styles and Ariana are collaborating were fueled by highly reputable and authentic evidence. He followed her on Instagram. Not that it's an entirely unsubstantiated claim. After Harry followed Timothy's Chalamet, we got them interviewing each other. Now Harry's followed Ari, maybe we'll get a song or an extensive set of tips for really good hair. Speaking of very charismatic hairdos, the 1975s Maddie Healy wants to work with Harry. He tweeted, Hey Harry Styles, me and George really want to produce your next album. Hit me up if you want to. It's cool if not though. I know you're like super busy etc. Love. And look Harry, I don't want to tell you what to do. You're one of the most successful young people in the world. And I'm not. But I am going to tell you what to do and that is the album with Maddie and George. Think of the beautifully on-brand collection of sad songs and a major key. Think of the fans. Think of the matching tats. And finally, Sean Mendes and Niall Horan, the human personification of a pair of Labradoodle puppies, have been tweeting about a collab. When Niall tweeted that they're going to try and make a song together, Sean responded that they are in Caps Lock, which is a great sign. Well done everyone. We love teamwork. It makes the dream work. Hashtag better together. XOXO. Weezer have just released an entire album of cover tracks which includes bangers like TLC's No Scrubs and Toto's Africa. R&B girl band, but make it 90s grunge. But obviously Weezer didn't invent the cover, so we have compiled a list of our favorites. Some of you might even realize were covers in the first place, like when 7-year-old me was devastated to discover that Britney Spears' satisfaction was in fact a Rolling Stones classic. Still here for both. Frank Ocean, American Wedding. While Frank penned a new name and set of lyrics, the rest of the track is basically the Eagles Hotel, California. And while both are beautifully haunting, Eagles singer Don Henley didn't appreciate the appreciation. Even going so far, hosts to call Frank a talentless little... Ow. It may surprise you that one of James Blake's biggest tracks is actually a cover of Feist. And while the more folksy original has its merits, if we had to choose, I'll vote on James. Whitney Houston, I Will Always Love You. This was actually originally released by Dolly Parton in 1974 and was written for her then-duet partner and mentor of seven years, Porter Wagoner. And she decided to part ways with him to pursue a solo career. Whitney later revitalized the track in 92 with her inimitable set of pipes. And then it got an entirely new lease of life in 2011 by an ambitious young girl with a viral YouTube video. Hinda! Moe, say you'll be there. Obviously you can't beat original Spice Girls, but you can pay great homage, which is exactly what Moe did, complete with an old picture of her and her friends dressed up as the group. Hey look, we've all been there. Amy Winehouse, Valerie. One of Amy's biggest tracks was originally released by Indy Rockband the Zoutans from Liverpool, who incidentally have just announced a reunion tour in case you want to go and see the original Valerie, take the stage. Natalie and Brulia Torn. I know. I know. We've all been living a lie. This track was actually first released by a Danish singer called Liz Sorensen. Then a guitar band called Edna Swap, then Natalie and Brulia turned it into your favorite karaoke track. As one Twitter user writes, Every 90s kid comes of age three times. 18th birthday, 21st birthday, the day they find out Natalie and Brulia's version of Torn is a cover. Shook.


What's up everybody, it's Jason here for jasperjasecasebreak.com. Fantasy sports breaks, basketball edition, six box case break, random team number three just sold out. And again, it's 30 total spots, everybody gets a random team in the NBA. Two guaranteed hits plus two random packs per box. And again, remember no veteran based common ship from the random packs. So good luck. We just got one casing, guys, so we don't have any more if anybody's wondering. I didn't see any in the back. So let's roll the dice and we got it four out of three, seven times. Names here, teams. Good luck, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Shank, down to David. 76ers, down on the lakers. Shank with the 76ers, Edel with the Warriors, Josh with the Pistons, Byte Tower with the Kings, Chris Lovato with the Nuggets, Victor with the Heats, Jake with the Spurs, Matthew with the Jazz, Hedges that is. Zach with the Sons, Ryan with the Bucks, Jack with the T-Wills, Ace with the Blazers, Chris Lovato with the Clippers. And TJ, look at that, man. Hopefully we can get some down for you, Pelicans. A-Round with the Magic, Zach with the Raptors, TJ Liner with the Celtics, Peter, Lombardo with the Nets, Chris with the Mavericks, Jeremy A with the Wizards, Peter with the Hornets, Kyle with the Rockets, Ryan with the Knicks, David with the Hawks, Jesse with the Bulls, Chris with the Thunder, Barry with the Grizzlies, Matthew Hedges with the Cavs, Michael Hughes with the Pacers, and David with the Lakers. Alright guys, anybody want to make any trades? If not, we're starting. Joe Kroga's three spots also in the Bowman, one-pack break to unlock it, and gets the Orioles in Tier 1. Nuggets for Magic, Zach's proposing Raptors for Clippers. Let me know if you want to accept those, Chris. If not, we're starting. Here you go, guys. Good luck. Alright, good luck. Alright, so those contenders, draft picks, just know that we'll probably go by colleges unless there's a check. I just want to show you guys the hits, yeah, but past and present, break through, and the contenders draft picks. 16-17. Wait, what is it? 16-17? Oh, it's a 17-18. Sorry. Jordan Bell. Nice, out of 99. I think if there was a checklist guy at the time, he'd be a warrior. We'll double-check that, but I forget if we go just by straight-up college rules or we just go by the checklist. Usually we just go by checklist, so I'll double-check that one. That is checklist that'll go to the Warriors, because that's where he was drafted by. If not, it'll go to the teams currently on, which I believe could be Memphis. I'll figure it out. The first one we got is Thible from Unpackable, autographed 15 out of 99. 76ers with that one. Shang with that one. There you go. And we got a graded PSA9 Marvin Bagley Silver Rookie Autograph. Sacramento King's going to Mike Tower. Very nice. Next one. Contenders draft picks, 19-20 is one of the packs, so that could be some Zion's in there as well. Graphics here as well. 2016. LeBron's season ticket, Kobe. You got a John Wall, number 225. And Tyler Hero. Wow, look at that. You got a Tyler Hero college ticket. How about that? 6 out of 10. Very nice. Encart as well. Miami Heat going to Victor. That's very nice. Zion Game Day ticket. How can I sleep this Kobe LeBron stuff? Let's go with the hits here, guys. Good luck. First one we got is Alonzo Morning. Team USA. And that's 18 out of 25. So if it is on the checklist, Team USA. And I'll go to the team he played for the longest. Since he is out of the league, but let me check really quick. It's from Opulence, right? That'll be a heat check. Yeah, I figured it would be a heat too. Alright, and the checklist it is USA. And yes, Alonzo Morning cleared with the Heat 11 seasons. So I wanted to double check the one on the checklist. Let me tag this as well. So Miami Heat, another one there for Victor. And we got a 9-5 graded R.J. Barrett prism for the Knicks. It's going to Ryan. Shackleton. Alright, next one. 16 contenders, draft picks, retail. I mean, it's our hobby ball. Garland and Green Dominators. Kemba Walker. And it's a 3 out of 5. Wow. That's cool. That really stands out right there. Elite Dominators. Kemba Walker for the Celtics. It's going to TJ Leonard. Well, TJ, we're leading up to that Zion, but here's an out of 5. Kemba Walker. The first one we got here is Stephen Jackson. Clutch Factor to 99. Charlotte Bobcats. So that'll be one of the Charlotte Hornets and Peter. And we got James Hardin out of 75 Immaculate Collection for the Rockets. Don't really ever see James Hardin sign so much. There you go. Houston Rockets going to Kyle. Next one. Skybox, 99-2002. Or 99-2000. Single series. Let's go with the first hit up here. We got a Harry Gallows. Looks like from either Prisoner of the Line or from Choice. Either one. There you go. Kings. Another one there from Mike Tower. And a 9-5. Rated rookie. Shock. Trey Young. This is from Optic as well. I believe Mega Box. A little sticker on there, but obviously 9-5. A lot of Hawks going to David. There you go, David. Just popping into the chat right now. Just picked up this nice little Trey Young. Ooh, look at Mosaic. Back of him. Status. You got an autograph out of here. Cinderius Dornalock. New breed for the Clippers. With that one.  Mark Oswaltz. All right, the first one here is a Zion Green from Prism out of 125. This is Prism Collegiate, but still it is a rookie Zion. And of course that's going to go to the Pelicans and TJ. Next one we got is a 9-5 Crusade. Tyler Hero. Orange from Prism Draftics. Another one there for the Heat and Victory. Our last pack, guys. Good luck. Someone finally took the Sands. Nice. That'll be coming up a little after a couple of breaks then. We'll have to go through orders. Will Chamberlain. K.P.J. Keldon Johnson. First one we got is an Ecolite Jokic to 99 for the Denver Nuggets. Chris with the Denver Nuggets. And the last one here is a 9-5 Graded Lottery Ticket from Contenders, John Morant. Lottery Ticket for the Memphis Grizzlies. Going to Barry. There you go. Very nice. And there you go, guys. That was the break. This was Fantasy Sports. Basketball Digiton. Six box case break. Round in season number three on our website, jaspyscasebreak.com. Coming up next is a two box multi-pack cello break of Mosaic basketball. Appreciate it.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to our next EDW session called Apply Data Lineage, Maximize the Value of Understanding Your Data Pipelines, which will be presented by Ernie Osteck, SVP of Products of Manta. All audience members are muted during these sessions. So please submit your questions in the Q&A window on the right of the screen. And our speaker will respond to as many questions as possible at the end of the talk. So let's begin our presentation now. Thank you and welcome, Ernie. Thank you, John. And thank you, everyone, for joining me to discuss the importance of data lineage for understanding your data pipelines. I spent my entire career in data integration, moving, transforming data across the enterprise, most often in support of analytics. Prior to joining Manta, I spent several decades in the extraction and transformation and loading space, the ETL space, if you will, and helping customers track how their data flows throughout the enterprise. And I learned a lot about data flows. When we look at the data flows, I think one of the first things I like to just kind of, it's obvious, but it's always good to outline it in scenarios like this, is that they are ubiquitous. They are everywhere. Big organizations, small organizations, everyone has data flows that are central to their operations, that they all touch, that they impact, or that they are impacted by in just everything that we do. And they're in a multitude of technologies, every possible thing you can imagine, and sometimes not even technology. I had a customer recently say, we've still got situations where people take a memory stick and move it from one machine to another. Is there a way I can record that lineage? Because that's important to me. We like to think that that stuff doesn't happen anymore, but it does, and that needs to be tracked as well. Another key thing about data pipelines, they are vulnerable. And there's lots of moving parts. And whether we like to admit it or not, data pipelines break. And when they do, whether it's because of human error, technology, malicious attack, or whatever, they are going to touch and affect everybody in the enterprise, and that's an important thing that we need to recognize. But data flows are also empowering. They're the data highway that gets you to new applications in the cloud. It's opening up new opportunities for insights, the exploration that many of you are doing into data science. And they're also the pathway to really improving and monitoring data quality throughout the organization by examining those particular paths. So what we want to do today is really kind of look at some of the key aspects of data pipelines and how lineage is going to help you understand and manage them better. So, whoops, agenda. So quickly, just talk about what is lineage just to kind of level up, set everybody here in the audience and define it a little bit better. Talk about how hard it can be to achieve lineage. We'll look specifically at some data lineage use cases. Where is data lineage being most effective in looking at your pipelines? And then I'll close a little overview of what we do at Manta to help you with your lineage challenges. So first of all, introduction to data lineage. Data lineage helps you understand how data flows across your enterprise through all of its systems. Where does data come from? Where does it go and what happens to it along the way? And data lineage delivers immediate actionable intelligence and enables digital transformation. There's a mouthful of words. Let's kind of tear apart just a little bit. We talk about actionable intelligence is being able to make some decision, more effective decision, more quickly. And that might be taking action by a decision maker who quickly has to make some decision about maybe moving inventory from one place to another and has a spreadsheet. Is looking at results that maybe justify the decision but isn't sure when they were derived or where did they come from? Can they trust it? Having trust in data is such a significant use case we're gonna talk about later. But that's an actionable decision that lineage can help deliver and be made more quickly. And enabling digital transformation, this is a term digital transformation that could apply to the paper-based systems we all converted to technology years and years and years ago. But in more recent definitions that I've seen, I like the appeal to digital transformation as being something that's helping encourage collaboration, collaboration between business and IT or multiple business units to better agree on things. And lineage can certainly assist with that process. So why is it so hard? There are a lot of reasons that can be complex here but let's talk about a couple of them. The first of these is rate of change. Everybody doing agile nowadays. Technology is constantly moving along. There's changes being made to code, being returned to your production systems on a very regular and sometimes radically quick basis. And that's very important for development but it also can potentially impact the reliability of your data pipeline. We get into levels of detail which is probably best illustrated by the business versus technical view. We have different users that need lineage. Those that wanna see it at the high level and just need to see one application points to another application or my reporting system gets information from the East Coast Data Lake. Okay, I'm happy, right? But then others need to go much deeper and actually see how it flows through the different tables and into stored procedures and maybe even need to get into the individual transformations. So lineage becomes difficult to achieve when you're trying to answer the needs of many different groups and personas within your organization. Companies evolve, mergers and acquisitions happen all the time. That's where we get so many different technologies. I had a customer just last week asked me about doing lineage on legacy reporting system that I remember working with in the 1980s and they still had 20 or 30 instances of this reporting tool that they needed to track lineage for. Who would think? And it seems like every day there's a new cloud technology that comes out in the ETL space or the reporting space or the migration space or the database space that needs to become important and tracked for lineage. So many technologies, so many different skill sets that it can be difficult to get your arms around all of it. So what are some key data lineage use cases? We'd like to look at data governance, data ops and cloud migrations and migrations of any kind, but cloud seems to be one that's certainly pressing on everyone right now. And there's many integrations between them but they have some characteristics in lineage that I want to outline for you in this short period. Let's take a look first at data governance and specific with data governance also compliance. So meeting regulatory commitments faster. Customers come to us and talk about having many, many, many mandates to do a manual lineage tracking that they need in order to hand over information to their regulators. And what the regulators in many of these cases, especially for things like BCBS 239, for those of you in the banking risk area, they need to show that the company can demonstrate that they are in control of the data that generates their reports and their justifications for risk exposures. And they need to show that the data is well understood and monitored and managed by people in the organization and not with unknown sourcing. And lineage can help to lead to that in a much quicker fashion than trying to track it manually with manpower that could take many weeks. Gives an opportunity to maximize the value of your catalog solutions. Many of you are exploring data catalogs where you're doing curation of data sources and putting in glossaries and definitions. That's fantastic. Doing data quality and semantic understanding is important, but it also needs almost like a three-legged stool data lineage. So you can also see how the data flows into those different places and where it comes from. So it completes the governance picture. Highlighting privacy in the context of data flows has become a very big one too. It's also kind of in the compliance space, but wanting to connect the dots, whether you're employing a tool that pours into the data to understand and classify things that are sensitive, or whether you simply know that you have sensitive data that's sitting in San Francisco and you also have sensitive data that's sitting over in London. How do you connect the dots? How did it actually flow between San Francisco and London? And what are the different places where that data exists that you might need to know about? Another one for lineage, that last bullet kind of fits in here. Discovering previously unknown destinations for sensitive data, lineage, we think of it as looking upstream and downstream for different use cases. A downstream situation that I've heard from many of our users is the ability to say, oh my gosh, look at all the places in this legacy system where we are splashing, and I'll use the word splashing here, sensitive data into flat files, into little data march, maybe it ends up in people's spreadsheets and we need to get a better grasp of that and control it, maybe shut down some of those pathways because these are risky areas for us when it comes to GDPR and the new privacy laws that California, Virginia have pioneered and certainly other states are already looking at. Increasing trust in data, that's the one like I started with my first example. I'm looking at a report and I don't like what I'm looking at. There's numbers in the red, I need to justify it or you wanna make a decision based on a spreadsheet and it's not one you've ever looked at before. Understanding where that came from can help accelerate that decision making.  Do you boil the ocean and grab every single asset that's in the organization? Or maybe if you find that in fact, the finance team is the most concerned and they're screaming the loudest, let's look at the reports that they're using and go backwards. Lineage can answer which databases, which sources, which ETL tools that we should start with and give you a better scope on that initiative. DataOps, the next area that's key and this is a new phrase, at least in the last six to seven years, but it seems to be growing and gaining a lot of traction now. DataOps is really about really trying to manage the reliability of those pipelines and having lineage is going to help you do better debugging if something goes wrong. So you can actually see what the tracing is of that data and how it flows along that pipeline. It improves the communications between teams so there's less infighting on what the real truth is about something flows. When you're looking at the code, there's no ambiguities. Impact analysis can help proactively as well. Let's prevent problems from occurring. Architects and DBAs who are about to make a change and put it into production could look ahead with lineage and say, you know what, let's not do this just yet because we're not exactly sure what it's going to do to that report or maybe they actually find a problem up front that says stop because it's gonna damage this particular ETL process that's critical and we're gonna need to make some additional changes. One of the things that I'm really excited about some of the discussions of DataOps is proactively putting checks along the pipeline like checking to see that a lookup table in fact gets loaded and if it only gets, you know, if it gets zero rows because something was null and screwed up a Boolean test somewhere in the process, then immediately flag it and send out an email to the people that know. So you're constantly doing these checks. Well, deliver a lineage report also to that person in their mailbox so they can actually see what the flow is. You know, maybe they aren't aware of what the lineage is and that could be given to them right away and shorten the resolution time. And in many cases, instant lineage validation is also important. If you're constructing a 100 line SQL statement, check the lineage of just that statement just to see if you're fully grabbing the parts and pieces that you need and then it's actually delivering the answer set that you expect it to even before it's part of the overall ecosystem, all helping to make the data app objectives achievable. Lineage for migrations. We have lots of customers who have looked out and said we're migrating from an existing legacy system and going very typically right now to the cloud. Well, those legacy systems, if they're 12, 15 or much older than that, years, are the subject matter experts all around? Do they know exactly what's in the inventory, if you will, of that particular set of assets? Lineage can help with understanding what those flows are, which are the most critical, which need to get migrated, perhaps which parts of the application aren't even used anymore, right? Track a report that no one cares about. Maybe you'll find that there's also a whole lot of ETL and processes that no one else cares about either. Or in the situation where you have unused assets, many times in the past someone would start a large-scale database application by purchasing a model, a model that perhaps was a business intelligence model for your particular vertical, and it has 3,800 assets in it, views and tables and all kinds of things that were prepared so that your organization could accelerate the analytics process. But now, find out that in fact, with lineage, that there are tables that have never been touched. No one's ever written a report for them, or a view that no one's ever bothered to use. And that's okay, because maybe your company didn't need that. But if you're gonna do a migration, do you wanna lift and shift everything, right? There's parts that you won't need. We talked a little bit about looking for previously unknown sources and targets as potential privacy exposure, and that's critical for when you're doing a migration as well, you wanna be able to clean those up. But also when you're doing migrations, looking for redundancy. So you see two paths that are the same. Do we need them both? And perhaps some sort of procedures could be eliminated. And we can also highlight critical transformations, right, that are important that you need to make sure actually there. And finally, lineage can help you measure your progress. You move to reports, what's there? Next week, what else have you been able to achieve? You moved, got the views, and then the staging area is all done? Okay, we see that we have lineage to the staging areas. We've gotten the sources yet, and keep going back and forth until you have the full path of your migration complete. And all the way back to perhaps public cloud staging areas like S3, and now you can actually see that it goes to the reports and the same procedures that maybe used to come from mainframe flat files in your previous application. So, Manta, what do we do? We help customers achieve regulatory compliance and governance and migration, and ultimately shorten the delivery cycles through IT. And we manage end-to-end lineage, and for us, end-to-end lineage means being able to look at all these different parts and pieces within the same lineage diagram, or the same lineage analysis. So you can actually see those mainframe systems in their flat files and the ETL work that you're doing to pour that into Hadoop, perhaps. And then all of the processing that goes on inside of Hadoop and your HiveQL and eventually ends up maybe in a cloud system and the reporting that comes off of that. So being able to see that end-to-end is gonna help with all these different parts and pieces. How does it work? We actually crunch code. We pour through your SQL, we look through your ETL and your business intelligence code, we look at the columns, we look at the individual ware clauses and the transformations, and we trace with our understanding of those technologies how one thing flows into another. And we document that lineage along the way. And then we visualize that lineage with an interactive map or we can optionally push it into your third-party governance solution or homegrown application that you have. And we specifically focus on code. We don't look at data. We parse through the code in order to achieve that. That quick picture right here, you can see that screenshot on the far left. We believe very heavily at Manta that making lineage easy to consume is super critical. You can see lots of different color coding in there. I'm not doing a full-blown demo, but if I was, the national ID that's in yellow just happens to be what the user currently clicked on. And we show everything downstream one color, everything upstream another, and we always aim to do column level detail. Manta is quickly installed easily. And once you hook it up to a particular database or resource, you're gonna quickly be able to get automated lineage. We believe strongly in integrating lineage into your existing processes and practices, which means that everything you can do in our user interface is controllable through a script or an API, so you can have lights out activity that just happens automatically on a Saturday night after you've returned all your code to production. We talk about consumption and avoiding visualization overload is important. If you're looking at a completely confusing spaghetti diagram with no ability to tease it apart, then the lineage isn't particularly helpful to you. And we go even farther. We talk about preventing lineage mysteries. We expose things such as indirect lineage. Imagine those of you that have SQL background, they SQL statement that says select name address phone where state code is California. Well, state code is not in the lineage, but that where clause with state code definitely impacts the lineage. So even though state code is not in the flow, name, address and phone are the critical columns of that flow, which rows are actually sent downstream is important. And Manta highlights that with a completely different visual color and indicator. And finally, being able to do time slicing so that you can look at the lineage not just from today, but at the end of March or the end of February where an analyst comes screaming into your office with their hair on fire and needs to know exactly how that report was generated at the end of December, at the end of Q4. But Manta, you just go back and take a look, right? The time slices are kept for when those scans of lineage were performed. Go back to December, let's go see and see that lineage to satisfy that request or compare that lineage to today's lineage and actually see where the differences are. So thank you for the opportunity to talk about using lineage to better understand your data pipelines. And if there's any questions, John, we can take up the remaining couple of minutes and talk about those. Okay, you've got one question. Maybe you'll cover this, but Manta seems to focus on horizontal lineage, but what about vertical? Connecting those physical columns and fields up the abstraction models to semantic names and definitions to be able to tie this all together. Excellent question. And there's a couple of ways to look at that. Certainly our laser focus on lineage is about the technical lineage that as you said is somewhat horizontal, right? From one tool into another. The semantic lineage comes up in a couple of different areas. And I think first and foremost, I'd like to say that Manta is really focused on the technical data flow lineage and not trying to be a business glossary. We compliment our partners who are into curation and offering data catalogs for doing those semantics. However, even in the domain that Manta does, primarily for the horizontal kind of lineage, there's a need to be able to pull in logical models, like for instance, from a modeling tool such as Irwin and use that as a starting point to get into this lineage or to be able to represent the concepts that are in a catalog and have them appear in Manta so that inspires a entry point where people can actually get to that particular lineage. Or finally, and which gets used very extensively with our partners that have a catalog solution, is we push a hyperlink directly into the curated source in a catalog tool so that while they're looking at stewardship and business glossary information and the workflow for that business glossary, but then need really deep lineage, they can click on a hyperlink and get down to the horizontal level. Next question, does Manta as a lineage tool integrate with Calibra as a data catalog tool? Can it make those connections to data catalog assets automatically? Or are those connections made manually? Oh, fantastic question. Calibra is one of a variety of catalog partners that we have where we push the lineage information up into Calibra and make the matching over to the assets that are in Calibra. And we do the same thing for other catalog tools also that either we integrate with directly or that our partners actually pick up metadata from Manta and bring into their catalog solution. We've talked about Calibra, it's worth mentioning that there are integrations to Informatica EDC, there are integrations into IVMs, Information Governance Catalog Solution, also Alation and our partners Data.World and Atacama also. All right, next question. Does it integrate with IGC from IBM as well? So yes, in fact, definitely push the metadata up into IGC and with each of these using the native APIs or published methods that are part of those solutions. And it looks like the last question, which products, databases, ETL tools, et cetera, it can scan to perform technical lineage. If you could share any links, what is on the roadmap will be helpful? Wonderful, certainly if you go to www.getmanta.com there is a technology section that will show you all the different scanners. We call them scanners and for us, there are scanners that fall into different categories, ETL tools being one, reporting tools being another, modeling tools, databases across the board, too many to list here. We aggressively are always adding new scanner types based on our examination of the market, requests that we get from our customers. We just very recently as of last week introduced a scanner for Google BigQuery. We do have some other ETL tools in Hopper as well as other programming tools. I did forget to mention the other category for programming tools such as Cobalt, Java, C Sharp. And we'd be excited to talk to you all further about other things that you have in your plants. All right, it looks like we have time for one more. Do you need to build up a horizontal lineage both on the business semantic level and also the technical level or should they be derived from each other? Great question. And we could do either. Manta is very extensible. So you can actually create lineage for anything that you want. When I'm teaching a class and reviewing how to extend the metadata, often we'll talk about you want to create an asset for the chair that you're sitting on or the table that you're at and the monitor that you're using, you can. And you can connect the dots. So whether it's a conceptual piece or not, you can do anything that you need there. And being able to tie concepts together is extremely important to us so that not only do you want to get that lineage automatically analyzed, but you also want lineage to be inferred. So one of the things that Manta can do is take a concept that might be attached to one of your source areas. And another concept, whether it's a business term or not, is immaterial for this discussion. And it's connected to one of your target reporting systems. And there may be hundreds of assets in between, ETL processes, stored procedures, jobs, tables, et cetera. But because you've associated this concept with something in your source and this concept with something in your target, you can have a lineage that's inferred by Manta that just shows two objects, just those two. And of course, from there, you could springboard to see the detailed technical lineage if necessary. Great. Well, thank you, Ernie, for this great presentation. And thanks to our attendees for tuning in. Please complete your conference session survey on the page for this session. The next session will start in about 10 minutes. Thanks again. Have a great day. Thank you, John. Thank you.


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Coming up on DTNS, Niantic actually becomes a lot more like real augmented reality. HTC's former CEO makes a play for the killer VR app, and why the media stars of the future will be famous to fewer people. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane. And from the ever lit forests of Finland. I'm Patrick Bishop. Lit, but not on fire. From some and I'm Roger Chang, the show's producer. We were just talking about we were following up on the the raging controversy over Patrick's accent or lack of on good day Internet. You can hear that debate by becoming a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Apple has fixed a bug that saw many users see massive numbers of their iOS apps update over the weekend. Sometimes 50 apps were even more. The apps were updating to the exact same build as was previously installed, which caused some heads to scratch. Nine to five Mac speculated that the updates appeared to be a workaround to family sharing glitches that were preventing some apps from launching with a message that it was no longer shared. Users could fix the glitch at least temporarily before it got fixed officially by deleting the app that wouldn't launch and then reinstalling it. And so it's now being fixed. Switzerland launched its Swiss COVID contact tracing app. The first to launch using Apple and Google's exposure notification API. Swiss COVID is being piloted among hospitals, key workers, civil servants and the army. Public availability is expected mid June. Mealwhile, India announced it is it will release the source code of its contact tracing app, which launched in early April. The Android app source code will be published on GitHub. A bug bounty program for the app will also was also announced. Chinese smartphone maker Realme announced the Realme X3 Super Zoom phone. And interestingly, it's going to launch in Spain and the UK first. Realme normally launches their phones in India. The X3 Super Zoom has a periscope telephoto lens for 5x zoom and 120 Hertz refresh rate on an HD LCD screen. Pre-orders start today at 499 euros coming June 4th. Realme also announced a smartwatch, a TV, wireless earbuds and a power bank. All of those coming to India in June. HP announced a new line of elite books running on Intel Core and AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 series processors. The 1030G7 and 1040G7 convertibles both have options for 5G data and the 1040G7 claims 29 hours of battery life. Google's support for rich communication service or RCS messaging on Android will now come to all T-Mobile US Android users. T-Mobile offered RCS to some users, but on different standard than Google. T-Mobile is now adapting the universal profile 1.0 interconnect used by Google, which can work across networks. T-Mobile is part of the CCMI initiative along with Verizon and AT&T, which announced plans for an RCS cross-carrier app last October. Facebook released a voice call app called Ketchup. It's an experimental thing for coordinating calls of update friends. Your contacts show a ready to talk icon when they're available, so you know it's time to start the call. And if you're late, showing of in-progress calls, we'll let you join. Spotify has lifted the 10,000 song limit on the number of songs that you can save to your library. While Spotify has 50 million songs up until now, you had a limit on how many you could save to your music. Spotify previously resisted raising the limit because it said fewer than 1% of its customers even got to that limit. Individual playlists and the number of songs that you can download for offline listening are still limited to 10,000. Facebook's Libra Wallet Calibra has been rebranded to Novi and has been redesigned as a standalone app with interoperability with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Novi didn't give details on what standard transaction fees might be if this ever gets off the ground and all Novi customers will need to be verified using a government-issued ID. Novi will now be operated by a new Facebook subsidiary called Novi Financial that will operate independently of the rest of Facebook. Alright, let's talk a little bit more about reality, Patrick. A form of reality that might be alternate. Niantic will add a new feature, it calls reality blending to Pokemon Go next month. The augmented reality feature known as occlusion will let creatures hide partially or entirely behind real-world objects like trees and furniture. Niantic first demonstrated its occlusion technology with a Pikachu video almost two years ago. Pokemon Go is also getting crowdsourced mapping functions similar to Ingress' portal scanning. Pokemon Pokestop scanning will let max level players record a stream of images at Pokestops and gyms to help improve 3D maps. Niantic says faces and license plates are blurred and it does not store any personal data in connection to contributions. Niantic says the feature will come first to Samsung Galaxy S9 and S10 devices as well as the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 4. When Pokemon Go first launched, everybody called it augmented reality and people started to get upset that it's not really augmented reality. It just superimposes a creature in the world. It doesn't really know where the location is. Slowly Niantic has been improving that and adding more actual augmented reality functions. This would be the biggest step forward in that and would be really fun if your creatures are hiding behind a chair and you have to move around to find them. It makes the game more challenging. I have to admit I'm not a big Pokemon Go player but my impression was that augmented reality was kind of a novelty in the gameplay loop. And people who were serious about playing it didn't really use it all that much but maybe this will change that and maybe it won't. But it doesn't seem like it has a huge amount of gameplay value. I'm not a Pokemon Go player either at all. I was briefly when a lot of people picked it up for a few months and then put it back down. But it was cool and it was fun and the idea of this type of true augmented reality coming to apps that I would use. I'm not going to be rearranging my home every day but something where I might be able to mix and match. Something that's really in my living room with something that's virtually in my living room. And it would be a little bit more seamless than the kinds of tools I have for that now. I can see where gameplay is one aspect of this but just better AR apps in general are another. Yeah I thought it was interesting to see how different outlets chose to slant this different ways. Some focused on what we're focusing on here the gameplay and the augmented reality portion of it. And others focused solely on what you said about letting people stream images and capture and improve the maps and any privacy implications that that may or may not have. Sounds like Niantic addressed those privacy concerns in the announcement. So as long as they follow through on that I guess it'll be fine. Well future rather phones will get better battery life and more powerful CPUs and also GPUs. ARM which licenses its designs to Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, you know the big guys. Announced to the Cortex A78 CPU and the Mali G78 GPU. ARM says that the Cortex A78 CPU core design offers a 20 percent increase in sustained performance and stays within a one watt power budget. A new Cortex X custom program will let partners create their own specialized Cortex CPUs. The Mali G78 GPU supports up to 24 cores for a promised 25 percent increase in graphics performance. I mean it's ARM promising it but you know it's good. ARM also announced the ethos N78 neural processing unit with up to 25 percent improved performance efficiency over the ethos N77 its predecessor. Yeah we don't usually get as much attention on the ARM updates but as phones are becoming the predominant computing device that people use it's people are paying more and more attention to that and wanting to know like you know when these ARM designs show up in chips which will probably be later this year which means probably not till 2021 when you see a lot of phones with chips on this ARM design. Will I be getting better graphics? Will I be getting better CPU? Will I be getting better battery life? So a lot of good claims, a lot of good promises here from these ARM designs. It'll be a while before we get to live with them ourselves. But I mean 25 percent increase in graphics performance I'm guessing compared to the previous generation of GPUs. It is pretty massive and we're already getting some very impressive graphics on mobile platforms and ARM MPUs I guess or CPUs and GPUs. This is a lot and we're getting this year a bump in graphical fidelity with the release of the new generation of consoles which will allow PCs to then get a you know to get into the race again because the bar will have been raised for everyone so PCs will increase their efforts let's say. But it seems like even with the power constraints of mobile platforms ARM is following through on graphics performance on mobile platforms. It's very impressive. And there's aspects of this that will be interesting for those trying to use ARM designs and server chips as well with that kind of performance update. That's a really good point as well. All right. Pay attention to this one. Might end up not being anything but it has the feelings to me of something notable that will look back and go oh I remember when that was new. Former HTC CEO Peter Chow start up XR space has unveiled its 5G capable VR headset the XR space MOVA. Now the MOVA itself as a piece of hardware is interesting. It's powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset has a beefy six gigs of RAM which is a couple more than what you get in the Oculus. 4600 milliamp hour battery 2880 by 1440 display panel with a 90 Hertz refresh rate and 702 dpi pixel density nice display. That's in what the field of view is which makes me think it might not be that impressive. And it's meant to be controlled with hand tracking though it will ship with a single controller. They have cameras on the front of the headset to do that hand tracking and the hand tracking supposedly will enable things like shaking hands giving high fives. You know things you can't do in real life right now grabbing and throwing objects. It can track enough of your legs to with those front facing cameras to let you play a simple soccer game as well as make your avatar full body. Remember we talked about the avatars being cut off at the waist in previous software we've talked about not in the MOVA system. And here's MOVA's big differentiator. It's the social space Manova which hopefully they'll change that name. I think you can meet people in Manova in private areas. You can watch videos play minigames all that kind of stuff. You can also space scan with your with your camera your actual room and make that a virtual room in Manova. There's also public spaces so parks beaches nightclubs cinemas all those things that Neil Stevenson and other novels have promised. Other public spaces will come from furniture stores realtors. They have Vogue and GQ on board. They have a Taiwanese baseball team on board so you can go to a virtual baseball game for institutes in Taiwan or on board to use Manova for remote learning. It's listed at $599 so not cheap not ridiculous expensive but not cheap by any stretch. And we'll come to Taiwan with Chunghua telecom and Europe with Deutsche telecom. We don't know when the reason I think this is notable is that the hardware is nice. It's supposedly lighter than the HTC Vive but it's that focus on we want to get the social aspect of this right. And if they do that's the big if but if they do I think that could be the thing that makes VR take off. Like oh I'm an avatar that feels like me and I can virtually get together with people in a way that feels more reality. That's been the promise of VR and it's always kind of fallen short. Yeah I I'm totally with you on that with the Oculus Quest which I'm I'm currently still in my review period for my next liquid that segment. As much as I really like this and I know some other people who have Quest or who at least are into VR enough that they care what I have to say or you know want to hear my experiences it feels very solitary. It's like OK I'm going to go away from Earth for a little while and do my thing and then come back and talk to whoever will listen about it with me or maybe nobody. And the idea that I would be going to hang out with real people that I know the way that social networks work now in some sort of you know reality that that adds some more dimensions and some more games and makes I don't know the idea of a chat room different yet the same is really exciting. And I think that they're on to something with this and the idea that the headset itself is lighter and thinner and and has nice specs does not hurt either. This is a pipe dream and it will never work that way. I'm exaggerating a little bit but I think it's the kind of thing where with every new piece of technology we try to imagine a replication of what we already know. But the actual use cases for the this new technology are different from what we already know. And I don't think we'll find many examples of that we imagining actually working. I get mad second second life vibes from this which second life was super hyped got a lot of attention a lot of investment from brands and companies. But it was more hype than reality. People didn't use it in that way. And when the hype died it died with it. I'm also reminded of this is a little bit of a different topic. But when when we first started getting mechanical things at home people thought that we would have carrot graders at home to make grated carrots and we do. But more likely you will buy carrots already grated from the factory from the store. And this is when you think about to use for new technology you think of it as in terms of what you already know. I think this is what is happening there. And I don't know we'll see but it does I would put my money on it not working out. You're you're right that that's always the hurdle. What gets you over the hurdle is enough people being interested in that possibly incorrect use like Twitter. Twitter was meant to allow you to send short messages to each other over text message easier and share them with more people. That's not what we use it for. But enough people were interested and went through the gates that they started to figure out those other uses. And so that's what I'm curious if Manova can overcome is to say look all these other things second life Facebook social rooms. They're all weird. They all require a little too much imagination. Whereas if they can nail the appeal of this that will cause a lot more people to dive in and try it with in which case then they might find out the other uses. A lot of ifs trust me and you may be right a lot of too many too many ifs. But it does I don't know it does have the flavor of something that's worth paying attention to and might have a better chance of overcoming those ifs than a lot of other things we've seen. Because they're paying attention to some of those barriers like yeah but it's only half of me or the yeah but it doesn't feel like me. They're they're focusing on solving that problem. That's the right problem to try to solve whether they solve it or not. That's that's the question. I'll agree. I'll definitely agree that this is how you find the actual use of the technology is by getting enough people to give it a try and see what works and what doesn't. Google has launched a limited pilot to use Google Assistant's voice match to secure restaurant orders and purchases that are made through Google Play. Users in the limited rollout will see the option Google Assistant settings to confirm purchases with voice match. Google warns during setup that somebody with a similar voice or recording may be able to confirm purchases on the devices you're logged into. So it's well aware of the first thing that someone's going to say this is a bad idea. Google told Android Police that the feature has a limit on how much money can be spent as well. Yeah this is a convenience not security. This is like I'm so tired of having to say that pin every time or having to use something or having to go pick up my phone and and press the thumbprint. I don't mind giving up a little security because I don't have an evil twin and nobody's breaking into my house to play recordings of me. I'm not worried about that. I just wanted to use my voice to confirm that it's me not someone else in the household. So I mean I think that's what it's for. Is it is it secure. No it's not. But in some situations convenience can Trump's security rationally and I think that's what this is for. This reminds me of contactless payments with credit cards which security minded people were going crazy about because of the security flaws and I thought would be kind of a you know insignificant improvement. I can't live without it now. It is well maybe because of the pandemic literally contact less is better. Yeah right. But it's just so convenient. I don't mind the security issue and this sounds a little bit like that. As long as you're aware as long as you go in eyes wide open on this stuff I think it's fine. Hey folks if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com. The New York Times Ben Smith has an article called the new model media star is famous only to you. To which I add mom. No it's focusing on a service called cameo that lets you buy short custom videos from celebrities. So Smith himself used it to get retired New York Giants defensive lineman Leonard Marshall to convince his dad to stop taking the subway into Manhattan during the pandemic 75 bucks. Got an Olympic triathlete to give his daughter a pep talk 15 bucks message from a former Boston Red Sox manager for his boss cost 100 bucks. And he got Chuck Norris to make a joke that he put on Twitter for 230 bucks cameo is seeing a boom during the lockdown bookings have grown from 9000 in early January to 70000. And Ben Smith identifies this as part of a larger trend towards gig work for mid level celebrities. Legion a former partner at the venture capital firm and recent Horowitz calls it the passion economy. So examples are small merchants on Shopify making cool things that are really popular to a certain set of people but would never play in massive chains of retail stores instructors on you to me finding a group of people passionate about the thing that they know how to teach even if there's not a massive availability of it musicians on Patreon podcasters on Patreon writers with paid newsletters on sub stack. He cites Emily Aitken former New Republic reporter who's made one hundred seventy five thousand dollars this year with just two thousand five hundred subscribers. So Ben Smith goes through all of this. He talks about how these are people finding their niche. Maybe they were big celebrities that aren't as big anymore. Maybe they were never big celebrities but they are celebrities within their expertise. Smith asks is this good news. The rise of these new companies could further shake our faltering institutions splinter our fragmented media and cement celebrity culture or they could pay for a new wave of powerful independent voices and offer steady work for people doing valuable work. Now Patrick I know you brought this into the show today. Do you have a thought on how to answer Smith's question. Is this good news. I would say to his two proposed scenarios. Why not both. Obviously it seems like both are plausible and I don't think it will have to choose. I will say however that the first part of his proposition is addressing content and the way fragmented media. Helps maybe disinformation and things like that. This is already happening. What is not happening as much or has only just started happening is people being able to monetize a smaller audience. And of course I think we are the forefront of this with Patreon. But these are other ways and cameo is a really interesting one of making that happen. So I think overall I would say it is a good thing because it enables the good content to be monetized through another way than just advertisements which traditionally favors quantity I would say over quality. You know cameo I'm familiar with for a couple of years now because it happens to be something that somebody secrets secret santed to me a couple of years ago. There was a particular reality show doesn't matter which one. But there was a certain person on this reality show who sent me like a Merry Christmas note and my friend paid for it on cameo and I got it and I lost my mind. You know I was like how did you do the most amazing thing I've ever seen you know that was very haha novelty kind of thing. I know that the kind of some celebrity that Sarah might care about for whatever reason maybe it's silly maybe it means something to me but isn't necessarily a huge part of pop culture. This is perfect for that. There's also an element of so the celebrities just kind of sitting around like waiting to get little gigs kind of thing and I think like OK well if that were me do I have a problem with it maybe not. It depends on you know the kind of I don't know your portrayal of yourself in the first place. So this whole idea of maybe somebody who is semi retired or maybe in a sort of bridge area of their career where they're transitioning into other things but people still really like them. I think that's great. I think that part is great. I also know that there were a lot of Tiger King cameos that I saw recently and you know that was it was what it was. I think initially it might seem a little bit demeaning for someone who was a celebrity and maybe we're thinking of it as you know in terms of oh they were in a movie or they were on TV which was you know so cool. And so it's like how they have to sit around waiting for a cameo orders to be paid like and they make 50 bucks per message. Well first of all those messages take about two minutes to make 50 bucks for two minutes of your time isn't you know if you get a dozen a day or you know whatever it's a good rate. And second of all it is the article dives into that very well. It is about catering to smaller audiences and distributing the revenue to people who didn't get it before because those semi retired people they were just sitting in their home fading it to ignorance and at least now they have or maybe they would go to small conventions dedicated to what they were doing. Now they have another way of connecting with people another way which is not just Twitter where people yell at everyone but that gets monetized I think that's valuable. Yeah because it's not that they're sitting around and like cameo that's my new career I'm just going to sit here until I can get a request right this is a this is a part of what they do. I imagine Leonard Marshall defensive lineman doesn't get a lot of speaking engagements and maybe does but he's certainly not going to be in demand like a quarterback would have been so this is nice supplemental income for him and puts him in touch with people who are like yeah I was a fan of that thing that not that many other people are a fan of but me and my friend or me and my family are. You know and I can think of smaller TV shows where you know secondary characters they have to work hard they don't they don't get to coast through like like you know like a Brad Pitt they have to keep finding work and so a little bit of supplemental income like this works but also it's not just TV and movie celebrities it's also you know Ben Thompson Stratechery like being able to say like look I have a number of people who really like what I have to say and are willing to pay me for it and and I'm going to keep doing that really well and and like this woman Emily Aiken making $175,000 a year from 2500 subscribers now you have to be talented and you have to cultivate that audience. But but you don't have to be a hit TV show star to make that happen I think that's really interesting. Don't forget also that we we offer voicemail recordings of from Sarah Roger and I on our Patreon. I was okay so I was like I and that was the first thing that I thought of is would I ever have an issue getting you know some residual income residual income from something like this. Like if enough people were like we really like your voicemails not that you guys wouldn't want it but you know again Tom and Roger and I do do this on occasion. I mean what if lots of people wanted it and you're like okay this is a thing people want this is something that I can give you if you feel good about it great. I actually just just to finish up I actually use bonjour which is an app that let you send very short exactly similar but for free. I was sending messages to every new patron I would get on the tech I did it for a couple of months it was really fun. I ended up being overwhelmed with the pandemic when it started so so I stopped but it's so easy to do with the app as well done. And it's actually pretty fun and that is another way of connecting with your audiences which is valuable. Stealth Dave in our Twitch chat has the question that we will finish on can anyone get a cameo by cameo. The musical artist word up but it costs infinite dollars. So that loop is let us know if you get one I pretty sure someone's already tried. Yes but but please let us know that would be great and my mind would be blown again. Hey thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit. It's also a great place for people to connect with each other. Doesn't matter if you're a celebrity or not you can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com. Let's check out the mailbag. Oh let's we got a really really really nice email titled GDI banter much appreciated this came in from David who said I was having a really crappy day this weekend. I tuned in admittedly an archaic phrase. We don't even know David to hear GDI from Friday and it really lifted my spirits. Thank you hope you guys know you provide more than just tech news. 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