Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here This is a another weekly at WW meal prep and I am so excited about the recipes this week They are part of my challenge over on my Facebook group. If you are not part of my Facebook group We are almost 9,000 members strong I'm gonna put it right here. Go ahead and head on over to Facebook join my group It is such a wonderful positive place tons of ideas and right now We're in the midst of a challenge if you want to join the challenge. It's not too late You can join it midway through so these recipes breakfast and lunch are going to be part of the challenge And then I'm making a fun delicious chocolate overload dessert. That's WW friendly with frosting How amazing is that so if you want to see what I have in store for you for meal prep for the week? Just stay tuned for my breakfast this week. I'm going to be making pumpkin cream cheese Pancake bake. Oh my goodness. Does that sound so good? This isn't make-ahead recipes So this is a great Solution for meal prep because you are supposed to make this ahead of time So great recipe to prep for the week. So let me show you what is in our pumpkin cheesecake pancake bake So first you're going to need some heart smart baking mix by Bisquick You can use regular bisquick or any other type of baking mix Kodiak birch benders just make sure you recalculate your points, but I'm going to be doing the heart smart bisquick You'll also need some all-purpose flour Milk of your choice or milk alternative. I'm going to be using carb master milk from Croker Sucring gold, which is an absolutely delicious brown sugar alternative. I purchase my sucring gold off of net tritons website I find it to be the least expensive. There is a link down below click the link It'll take you to net triton. You can do some searching around seeing what's out there They have hundreds of ww friendly products, but I highly recommend the sucring gold It's delicious tastes like real brown sugar zero calories and the best part is it's all natural So definitely check it out on net tritons website. I'm also going to be using just some regular monk fruit sweetener You'll need some canned pumpkin. Make sure you're buying the hundred percent pumpkin not the pumpkin pie mix That one has sugar and then for my pumpkin pie seasoning I'm going to be doing Dax if you follow my channel, you know, I love me some Dax This is an all-natural nothing artificial you guys zero hundred percent natural no salt added Spices and these are so good the ingredients in these are absolutely on point It is literally all-natural. That's it cinnamon spices and honey. That's it and with that little bit of honey in here It adds Such an amazing flavor highly recommend Dax highly highly highly. I do have a discount code for Dax I'll put it here on the screen click the link below enter the code check out their website over 20 spices in every single one Outstanding I have to say though pumpkin spice my all-time favorite So I'm definitely going to be adding some of that to this pancake bake and then also I'm going to be using vanilla bean paste instead of vanilla. I like the flavor of this better It's that real authentic delicious vanilla flavor. I did pick mine up here at trader Joe's You can also use liquid vanilla, whatever you have on hand We're going to need some fat free half-and-half light butter eggs and Fat free or low-fat cream cheese. So let's get started on our breakfast bread to get started on our pancake bake We're going to go ahead and add in our two cups of our bisque wick heart smart Baking mix and to that we're going to go ahead and add in some pumpkin pie now. It calls for one teaspoon I love pumpkin pie spice So I'm going to add a little bit more than that to mine And we're just going to give this a quick stir to make sure we combine together the pumpkin pie Seasoning as well as our baking mix and then we're ready to add in our wet ingredients So the first thing I have is two-thirds of a cup of my carb master milk I'm also going to add two eggs And then we are going to add in all of our pumpkin here. I have about a half of a cup Measure out in this bowl. So we're going to go ahead and add in that And then the last thing we're going to add is some of our vanilla bean So I'm just going to put in just about a teaspoon or so of the vanilla bean And then give this a good mix try not to over mix it We just want to mix it until everything is combined together And then we'll get ready to start cooking down these pancakes We need to make our pancakes. So I have my batter doesn't that look delicious You can see those little beans from the vanilla bean I went ahead and sprayed my pan with just some non-stick cooking spray And we are basically going to add about a third of a cup of our batter To our pan and we're just going to cook down our pancakes It doesn't matter how many pancakes you end up with Because we are going to actually put this into a baking dish and that's what's going to create that layered bake But go ahead and get your pancakes cooked down Set them aside and we're going to allow them to cool completely and then let's get started on our filling Before we start our filling you guys look at these pancakes. They smell So good. You can smell that pumpkin pie spice from Dax and the vanilla. Yum I just had to show you how amazing these pancakes are looking So while our pancakes are cooling we're going to make the filling for our bake So first i'm going to add one and a half cups of carb master milk To a bowl To that i'm going to add one cup of fat free half and half We're going to add about a teaspoon of our vanilla bean paste. You guys this stuff is pretty awesome So if you have a trader joes near you highly recommend Also, I have one half of a cup of my monk fruit sweetener And then I had to do my egg separately because Apparently this bowl isn't big enough for six. So we want to go ahead and add in six cracked eggs And then we're just going to take a spoon And you're just going to want to stir this together make sure your egg yolks get cracked And that vanilla gets nice and mixed in with your milks And then we'll be ready to start putting together this pancake bake you guys I don't know about you, but this screams fall Screams a delicious cold morning breakfast and what's better than pumpkin and cream cheese together So we're going to start assembling our bake.  I'm just going to layer my pancakes here In the bottom of my baking dish I think this is a huge time saver and we're going to go ahead and spread our cream cheese on top Versus putting our cream cheese in between our pancake layer. So in my opinion Just a huge time saver. I'm just going to kind of stack these in here The best that I can oh, I had a lot of pancakes. Oh my gosh, you guys seriously these smell So good So I'm just going to layer my pancakes here in the bottom of my baking dish And then from there I'm going to take my softened four ounces of cream cheese And I'm just going to spread it over the top of my pancakes So just do the best that you can to kind of get cream cheese on all the different parts Of your pancakes and then we'll be ready to add on that egg mixture that we made with the milk And that's going to soak it in off you guys. I'm seriously So excited about this these pancakes alone smell delicious So I've spread my cream cheese over the top of my pancakes yum you guys and then to that We're going to go ahead and just dump over this egg milk and sugar mixture We just want to get it over the top of all of our pancakes. Not only will it soak into the pancakes, uh, yummy But it will also bind everything together nicely For the pancake bake and then the last step is we have to create that delicious Crumb crumble that goes right on top of this pancake bake The last step is our crumble. So what I have here is half of a cup of just regular flour And to that I'm going to add one quarter cup of my packed Sucrin gold We're going to add a little more pumpkin pie spice because you can never have enough of that I'm going to give this kind of a quick mix. I want to get that brown sugar Mixed in with the flour since it was kind of one big clump in my measuring cup So we're just going to get that nice and mixed together And then the last thing we're going to do is add one half of a cup of cold butter So make sure your butter is in your refrigerator while you're preparing the rest of your breakfast Because you need that cold butter to make a crumble And we're just going to kind of cut it in here To our flour mixture and then we'll top our pancake bake with this delicious crumble So last step we're just going to take this crumble mixture And we're just going to kind of drop it here on top of our pancake bake And it will add that nice kind of crumb buttery coating To the top and this is going to go into the oven at 350 degrees Until all of this egg mixture is nice and cooked through and you'll know because it's going to have a brown Crispy top from the crumble and you won't see any more liquid. So you want to cook it until that happens So i'm going to go ahead and get this into the oven and then once we pull it out It's going to stand for about 15 minutes to kind of seal the deal here And then we'll cut it into pieces and get it put together for breakfast, but happy fall So i just pulled our pancake bake out of the oven. I just want to give you guys a close-up Look at how amazing this looks at my house smells of all things fall cinnamon nutmeg pumpkin yum So i'm going to let this set here for about 15 minutes and then i'm going to cut it into eight servings Package it up in my meal prep container with the rest of my breakfast And i'll be back to show you exactly what i'm having for breakfast and give you the smart points So before we go through my meal prep, I wanted to show you this you guys look at that Cream cheese pumpkin deliciousness. So that Is what the piece of the pumpkin pancake bake looks like So what I did is I went ahead and cut it into eight servings So there's three extra servings here in my pan. So I have eight servings here. The serving Is huge it literally fills the large side of my meal prep container And it looks amazing.  So one eighth of the pumpkin cheesecake pancake bake is six smart points And then i'm just simply going to have a two to three little mandarins.  So my breakfast you guys six Smart points for this decadence. So for my lunches this week, I'm going to be doing a sausage and spinach Creamy gorgonzola pasta doesn't that sound delicious? And I am going to just pair this simply with some vegetables and some fruit Because the pasta itself has some veggies in it and also our protein So let me show you what is in our pasta. So first you're just going to need some plain all purpose unbleached flour Milk alternative of your choice. You can do carb master almond milk fair life, whatever you have on hand also some non-fat plain greek yogurt pepper pasta the pasta I am using is the fiber gourmet light elbows if you guys have not Invested in fiber gourmet. It's not even an investment because it's not that expensive. This pasta is delicious You can have two ounces of this pasta for only three smart points and that is two ounces dry Always always measure your pasta dry Traditional pastas are anywhere from five to six smart points for two ounces So this is half the points and it is delicious. It is full of fiber and protein 19 grams of fiber and eight grams of protein So it definitely keeps you full We love it. It does not get mushy when you cook it. It seriously is better than regular pasta And half the points. So I buy my fiber gourmet off of net trishon's website There is a link down below just click on the link. It'll take you to the website There's hundreds of ww friendly products. You can search for specifics like fiber gourmet But definitely check out their website. You guys have some great Alternatives they have all of your sugar substitutes. You name it. They have it on there all ww friendly So definitely order the fiber gourmet pasta So today we're going to do the light elbows because we want kind of a smaller pasta for this dish We'll also need some light butter some sausage. I'm going to be using the sam's choice chicken and apple sausage I love these these ingredients are Outstanding on this sausage and they are only two smart points for an entire link And again, I buy these at walmart and even hole 30 approved. That's how great the ingredients are on these So i'm going to be doing a one link of sausage per day Also, you'll need some gorgonzola cheese and lastly some fresh spinach. So let's get started on our pasta So the first thing we need to do for our pasta is chop up our sausage Minor precooked if yours are not precooked make sure that you precook them first So whenever you're cutting sausages several of them for a recipe Make sure that you're cutting all of your sausages into the same Number of pieces that way you know how many pieces of sausage to put In each meal prep container. Otherwise, there'll be days that you're not eating a full link There'll be days that you're eating over a full link So it's just best to make sure that you count all The pieces and cut all of your sausages into that same number of pieces. So I have two four six eight 10 12 14 So i'm going to cut each link into 14 rounds and in each meal prep container I will put 14 rounds. So let's get the sausage cut so we can start cooking up our pasta So we're going to get our water boiling for our pasta So i'm going to add my entire bag of my fiber gourmet light elbows to some salted boiling water And then we're going to create the creamy base for our pasta dish for the creamy base We're going to add one tablespoon of light butter directly to a pan over medium heat I'm going to allow my butter to melt completely and then we're going to add in some flour And we're going to make a roux before we add in the rest of our sauce ingredients Once your butter starts to melt down. I have one tablespoon of all-purpose flour So we're going to add that and we're just going to whisk that together with our butter Until the butter and the flour are completely mixed together After your butter and flour is mixed together, we're going to go ahead and add in our milk And we're going to allow this to warm up a little bit You want to make sure your butter and your flour Are melted down and mixed very well with your milk before we add in our yogurt Because we don't want any clumps. So your milk is going to have to come to a warm temperature To really melt down the flour and butter mixture and then we'll add in our yogurt Once your milk mixture comes to a boil and you mix it in really good with the flour And butter mixture I went ahead and added some black pepper and then I also added in my non-fat Greek yogurt We're going to keep this at a medium high heat And we're just going to whisk this until there isn't any more chunks chunks of yogurt Or chunks of the flour and butter mixture and then the last step is we just simply have to add in our gorgonzola cheese And our sauce is made super easy and we're going to go ahead and put it all back into the pan We cooked our pasta in and combine Up all of our sausage pasta and cream sauce, but you guys looking good I added my pasta back into the original pan To that we're going to go ahead and add the four cups of spinach Now the spinach will naturally wilt from the heat of the pasta So i'm just going to do half of the spinach at a time And just give it the chance to kind of start to wilt down with that heat from the pasta I do have my stove on a super low heat as well And then look at this sauce. It is looking delicious Last step my friends is to add in four tablespoons of our gorgonzola cheese And we're just going to stir that in until that kind of melts down with our creamy sauce Go ahead and remove this from the heat while you're putting together your spinach and your pasta And then we'll add everything else in our sauce and our sausage As your spinach begins to wilt with your pasta We are going to go ahead and add in our cream sauce yum you guys And this will definitely help that spinach wilt a little bit faster So we're just going to give this a nice big stir Get everything incorporated allow that spinach to fully wilt down And then the last step we're going to do is add in our sausage And the last step is we're going to go ahead and add in all of our cut up sausage To our pasta now I do have my stove on about medium heat because I do want my spinach to continue to wilt down And then I do want to warm my sausage through Even though it's already cooked before I divide this out into my meal prep container So go ahead and add in all of your five links of sausage And then again, I'm just going to allow this to warm through a little bit And then we'll get this packaged up into meal prep. This makes five servings And that way we have just enough for all five days So I'm going to show you kind of a trick that I do to measure out My food to make sure that I'm getting just the right amount each day So let me let this warm through and we'll get this into meal prep containers So here is my completed pasta yum So what I did is pulled out my food scale and on my food scale I put my bowl and then I zeroed it out and then I added in all of my pasta to my zeroed out empty bowl And my pasta weighs a total of 1,000. Oh, sorry for the glare guys I don't know if I can help with my skylight. There we go Basically 1,577 grams from there. I went ahead and divided that by five So that means that each serving of my pasta is 315.8 grams So what I'm going to do is just remove 315 grams or so out of my bowl here from my food scale into five separate containers So that's just an easy quick way to figure out exactly how many grams or the amount that you should be having per serving of a dish So here are my lunches for the week. We don't have a lot of color going on But we have a lot of flavor you guys This pasta is absolutely amazing. It is so rich and creamy and cheesy I'm literally obsessed with it. I can't wait. I'm gonna have to make it for dinner for my husband because He loves those chicken apple sausages and he loves like gorgonzola blue cheese yum So let me show you what I'm having so believe it or not. This is 318 grams weighed out of the pasta that is so much the large size Our side of my meal per container is heaping Full with pasta one link per day So the gorgonzola pasta with the sausage is only six smart points this entire serving of pasta Six points and then i'm just having a few of the trader joe's frozen Brussels sprouts I just spray those with a little spray butter salt and pepper for zero And then I am going to pack a white peach just to have kind of a fruit with my lunch and then for dessert I've really actually been liking these. So if you guys make it over to a target They have all their fun little halloween sized treats on sale. So I picked up these annies Halloween bunny grams. These are just honey and chocolate. So they're orange and brown Delicious absolutely positively Delicious and they are only two smart points for this little package and honestly, there's quite a few in here It just cures that crunchy sweet after a meal. So I'm going to have one of my annies halloween bunny grams So my entire lunch including dessert eight smart points. You can't beat it. You guys this entire lunch Eight points for a sweet treat this week. I'm so excited. I'm going to be making triple threat triple chocolate Frosted cupcakes. I can't wait you guys to share this recipe with you. I kind of came up on it with this on my own It sounds amazing. I was craving some chocolate and I wanted something point friendly that would allow me to stay on track But still enjoy something. I've been really wanting. So let me show you what's in our triple chocolate cupcakes First you're going to need some pills berry sugar free cake mix. This is just the devil's food Also some apple sauce The chocolate chips that i'm going to be using are these bake believe dark chocolate chips These are from walmart. So lilies in my area is not sold at walmart, unfortunately So the only place I can buy lilies is the health food store and it's anywhere from six to seven dollars per bag These are less than four dollars at walmart.  I'm going to be using the heck out of these For the holidays. So I'm going to start this first recipe using the dark chocolate chips And then you're going to need some water And we're going to be using the pills berry sugar free chocolate fudge frosting and of course some eggs So let's get started on these cupcakes. So let's get started on our cupcakes So the first thing I did is I took my box of sugar free cake mix and added it here To my bowl. We are going to prepare it per the package instructions So we're going to add one and a quarter cup of water And again, this is per what the package says We are substituting one half of a cup of applesauce for the one half of a cup of oil And that's a great substitution. You can also do non-fat grape yogurt Which is also another great substitution And then three eggs, which is what the recipe called for on the back of the box So let's go ahead and give this a nice Big mix. We want to make sure we get everything combined. We also don't want to over mix So I'm very gently just going to kind of stir in the dry part of the cake mix a little bit with the liquid And you don't need it completely combined just starting to combine. So that looks pretty good And then here you can see the size of these chips are much larger than uh lilies And this is a four and a half tablespoons of the chocolate chips I weighed that out on my food scale And that gave us about 14 smart points worth of the chips So we're just going to mix those nicely here into our batter And again, don't over mix because that has your Cupcakes sink and they can also become really spongy So we just want to mix enough that everything is nice and combined And then we'll grab our scooper and we'll get these into our cupcake tin So I went ahead and sprayed my muffin tin with some non-stick cooking spray Grabbed out my large scoop. I purchased these scoops off of amazon You get all three sizes for about ten dollars. They are linked down in my amazon store I also have my delicious cupcake batter. So I want to get 12 cupcakes out of this mix So I'm going to take my large scoop and I'm going to get a level scoop and put it here into my cupcake Pan and we're going to do that until we have all 12 cupcakes Now there is a good possibility that this mix will make more than 12 cupcakes We will just have to see as we load our batter and if that's the case then it would just lower the points a little bit So I'm going to go ahead and fill all 12 of these I'll be back to show you exactly how many cupcakes I got out of the mix And we'll get these ready to go into the oven And then my friends the best part comes and that is the frosting So I got 12 nice big full muffins out of my batter And as you can see here, I do have quite a bit left So I am going to also fill up my mini muffin tin and you'll be able to have Three mini muffins for the smart points of one full size muffin So I'm going to use the rest of this batter Get this filled up and we're ready to put everything into the oven And here are our mini little cupcakes. I did add a couple chocolate chips on top I noticed there wasn't a lot of chips left in the batter Won't add any smart points or anything to these but you guys how freaking cute So these are going to go in the oven right alongside their counter part And I'll be back to show you our completed triple chocolate cupcakes and we'll get these guys frosted cannot wait All right, our cupcakes are out of the oven. Look at these. These look so good So these are our full size cupcakes and then over here we have our little mini cupcakes So what we're going to do is let these cool for just a little bit And then we're going to add some sugar-free frosting I'm going to talk to you guys a little bit about this frosting and how you can change up the amount to change up the smart points So let's let our cupcakes cool for just a few more minutes and we'll get ready to frost them So my cupcakes are nice and cooled and again, I'm using the peelsberry chocolate fudge sugar-free frosting They also make a vanilla. That is really really good. So Just shy of a tablespoon of the frosting. So this is not quite a tablespoon Which is honestly plenty for a cupcake just shy of that is only one smart point So basically what I'm going to do is put that on to my cupcake And really we're just going to spread it around and you'll be surprised It is more frosting than you may think on your cupcake and it is only one smart point.  It'll literally be less than a third of a tablespoon Just to give that little bit of frosting to each of my small cupcakes So let's get these guys all frosted up and then I'll be back to show you our completed cupcakes and give you the smart points And Here are our frosted cupcakes I cannot tell you how delicious these are. I try to mini one you guys This tastes like a cupcake you pulled off the shelf at a boutique cupcake store. So incredibly delicious So first let's talk about our little mini cupcakes that we made kind of on the fly With the extra batter so you can have a mini cupcake with frosting for one smart point Isn't that crazy one smart point? And then our full-size cupcakes here with frosting are four smart points So you can have an entire cupcake with frosting for four points And I thought how fun would it be to even add a few sprinkles and sprinkles? How fun So again four smart points for the full-size cupcakes with frosting one smart point for our mini cupcakes with frosting So excited you guys you don't have to give up your favorite things on w w So here are my snacks for the week. I'm changing it up a little bit because I found a few new favorites So pretty huge. I'm going to be having a bill bar.  So for this week. I'm bringing the Cinnamon bear or the cinnamon chocolate cream the brand spanking new flavor. Yes, you guys read that right. It's peanut butter This one is outstanding It is four smart points where all of the rest of the bill bars are three But it is well worth it because there is 20 grams of protein and seven grams of fiber And legit little chunks of peanuts so so good you guys. I'm telling you this is an absolute must Order so going over to bill bar. It is there and available to order right now. So good I'm also bringing a mocha chocolate cream if you like coffee and chocolate delicious Double chocolate mousse. I really like this one. This is for you chocolate lovers out there And lastly the black cherry chocolate, which is another one that I absolutely love So if you're interested in bill bar, remember all of these flavors are three points The only one that's four is the peanut butter you can use my code here on the screen It'll give you 10 off and free shipping. You can't beat it.  These are a must have on weight watchers I don't I really don't think that I could do this journey without them And they I mean they really are that delicious and that satisfying so morning snack is a bill bar I've been really liking string cheese lately.  These are so good. You guys these are those greasy cheesy Deliciousness and then I also have the utt bats and jacks pretzels. These are really good. They're so buttery They're one of the best pretzels I've ever had and these little packages are one smart point So you can't beat it portion control one point I usually have one of these and something with some protein like a string cheese for a two smart point snack I've also been loving the trader joe's chocolate chip cocoa meringues. You guys look at the size of these And these meringues so you can have Three meringues for 90 calories and it actually ends up being five smart points just due to the sugar You can knock down the amount and you can have two For three points and then I usually just have one because literally look how big they are For two points. So it's a great two point snack. They actually have chocolate chips in them and they are so good So good. So this is what I'm going to be bringing for snacks for the week Thank you for joining me on this week's meal prep. I hope you enjoyed seeing my breakfast lunch and those cupcakes I'm so excited for that pumpkin cheesecake deliciousness for breakfast that lunch. Hello sausage pasta and cheese. Yes Please and cupcakes you can't go wrong with frosted cupcakes So I hope you enjoyed this week's meal prep if you're new welcome Make sure you hit that subscribe button and that little bell that way you're notified every time I upload a new video You don't want to miss out. Make sure you thumbs up this one and comment down below Let me know what was your favorite recipe of the three and what recipe or recipes Do you have to try and I'll see you guys all in my next video. Bye


There's an old saying that, in various forms, has been attributed to umpteen different people in history. If I had more time, it would have been shorter. I feel like that may be the case for my series on the Civil War. We've had 35 episodes so far just to get through 1861, and that doesn't include the 24 episodes spent on the antebellum years in season 2. So instead of doing a full episode today, I decided that it might be useful to offer a much shorter than usual episode, reviewing some important themes and events we found in 1861. This is partly just to give myself a break, as this episode doesn't require all the digging through books I usually have to do, but I think it will also be a good way to highlight what's important, which I think can easily get crowded out in the flood of details I include in these stories compared with lecture formats. And since I know a lot of people don't listen to every episode, and we're hopefully getting new listeners, this might also be the opportunity to catch everybody up regarding the situation in the war coming in 1862. The first major theme that we find in the first year of the Civil War is division. Obviously, this theme applies to the two waves of secession, the first of which was undeniably driven by the desire to maintain the institution of slavery, despite their surviving interpretations that revolve around tariffs or whatever else, and I've devoted enough time to that to not warrant rehashing here, but you can find all that in several previous episodes, especially the ones on the antebellum years. But the second wave of secession, which saw Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Carolina join the Confederacy, was more complicated as it was triggered by Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops, and other actions by Lincoln and his administration, such as the suspension of habeas corpus, brought previous unionists over to the side of the secessionists in border states. So the theme of division is more interesting in these border states, not just those in the second wave of secession, but also in three of the four other slave states that remained in the union, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky. All seven of these border states were internally divided between people who supported secession and those who wanted to remain in the union. The outcome varied in each state, Western Virginia split off and would eventually become a new state, Missouri, which stayed in the union, still sent representatives to the Confederate Congress, Tennessee's Andrew Johnson refused to give up his seat in the Senate, Baltimore rioted against the union troops passing through its town and tried to secede without the rest of Maryland. As I recently pointed out, very analogous divisions took place in the Native American tribes who officially allied with the Confederacy, but still had significant factions who wanted to remain neutral or favor the union. Related to this are the early attempts at compromise and the resort to tyrannical measures when this failed, referring to the Lincoln administration's policies of oppression in the North as tyrannical, though I do believe it's accurate, is not just my commentary. It is important to understand that this was the perception of his policies by a significant portion of the Northern population and it affected support for the war at a time when people were still debating whether the South should be allowed to peacefully separate. The most infamous compromise is the Corwin amendment, which was the failed 13th amendment that would have constitutionally protected slavery where it already existed and even though it fizzled out during the war it was actually ratified by a number of Northern states. Its failure was less because Northern states opposed it and more because the compromise clearly was failing to attract the Confederate states back into the union anyway. Once it became clear that the compromise was not going to be successful, the Northern policy for reunion was obviously war and the Lincoln administration, with Secretary of State William Seward taking charge, imposed oppressive measures as far north as Maine. Habeas Corpus was suspended allowing the imprisonment of anybody that was even suspected of being process session or anti-war. This included a large number of newspaper editors and any paper critical of the war was suppressed either by arresting the editor until he agreed to stop publishing critical editorials or confiscating the paper entirely. In Maryland and Kentucky members of the state legislature were also arrested to ensure that they could not vote to officially secede and in Maryland in particular this allowed the Lincoln administration to effectively engineer a pro-union election in the state. It is important to understand that officials made no distinction between process session and anti-war either. And people who fully opposed procession and slavery, if they criticized the war, were subject to arrest. And people who vocally defended slavery but also defended the union were safe from persecution. Lincoln often gets blamed for these acts of tyranny and not without reason since he was the president and he sanctioned all of these actions, but it is also important to recognize that William Seward was by far the more active figure in the policies of domestic oppression and he seems to have taken great relish in his political power. One of the most important elements to understand coming into 1862 is that almost everybody at the time believed that the Confederacy was winning the war. There were four significant battles in 1861 and the Confederacy won all of them. The first, of course, was the battle of Fort Sumter in April which is more significant for marking the official start of the war. During this, most people in the North believed that a single large battle would decide the war with an easy union victory. This came at the end of July with the first battle of Bull Run when it ended in an embarrassing union defeat and a scandal over the civilian spectators that were present. Some people in the North wanted to call the war quits but others, including the Lincoln administration and the radical Republicans in Congress, wanted to double down. Only a couple of weeks later, Missouri saw the second major union defeat in the battle of Wilson's Creek in which the first union general officer was killed, this being Nathaniel Lyon, who was martyrized in the North. In October, the union would face a third defeat in the battle of Balls Bluff. By itself, this is a relatively minor battle but it was still significant for two reasons. First is that Colonel Edward Baker, who was also a sitting senator, was killed in the battle. Perhaps even more important was that Baker was Lincoln's closest friend who the president had even named his second son after years earlier. His death was more personal for Lincoln than anything previous had been. The second was huge political ramifications that came out of Balls Bluff as it served as the catalyst for the joint committee to investigate the conduct of the war, which almost never gets talked about. This committee was controlled by radical Republicans and they used the committee to throw union officers under the bus, blaming them for northern failures. The committee's behavior was overtly political and they had no compunction about destroying the careers of loyal officers as a way to deflect responsibility from themselves. However, they did at least start bringing the issue of slavery into the war. Long before Lincoln was considering emancipation, the radical Republicans on this committee were arguing that slavery should be made the focal issue of the war. Contrary to common views about Lincoln, these were the men who led the way in making emancipation a war aim, which will play out even more in 1862 as the emancipation proclamation would be delivered on January 1st, 1863. With these early battles, we also see two other important themes in 1861. One is the role of new technology that would change battlefield tactics throughout the war. Chief among these is rifling technology in the mini-ball. At the outset of the war, most soldiers were still using muskets, but many of the muskets had already been rifled, meaning that they were still barrel loaded but they could fire the new mini-ball which, with rifling, had far better range and accuracy than smoothbore muskets. The consequence of this change was tremendous. It made bayonet charges a traditional battlefield tactic far less effective because infantry could cut down a charging enemy a lot more quickly. It also made cavalry less effective for the same reason as the great speed of horses mattered less and they proved easier targets with the more accurate firearms. Napoleon-style artillery charges in which artillery would be set up extremely close to enemy lines were also ineffective as the rifling technology allowed soldiers to cut artillery teams down, which would prove important in the Union victory at Bull Run. Rifling technology would also be applied to cannons, giving artillery better range as well, but this would have more of an effect on naval warfare, tipping the balance of power from defending forts to attacking ships. In the past two episodes, I have also talked a little bit about the changing naval technology in the form of steamships, which altered the course of naval warfare as well, though I will be discussing some of the naval innovations in the coming episodes. The second important theme that came out of the early battles is the loss of romance about the war. At the outset of the Civil War, volunteers on both sides saw joining the army as an exciting adventure. They wanted to see battle and claim their share of the glory, but after they faced their first major battle, with the technology making it easier to kill, they quickly learned the horrors of war, and this change is evident in letters left behind by soldiers. Finally, we also see the abysmal failures at diplomacy by both the Union and the Confederacy. William Seward proved to be a horrible representative for the country, as pretty much everybody he dealt with in Britain and France couldn't stand the guy. He was arrogant, condescending, and enjoyed making veiled threats of war. At one point, because of statements from Seward, Britain so sincerely believed that the Union was planning to invade Canada, that they actually started sending troops to reinforce their Canadian territories and broaden their own military leaders to discuss the best strategy for preemptively invading the northern states, if need be. The most famous incident in Union and Confederate diplomacy was the Trent Affair, in which the two Confederate diplomats to Britain and France, respectively, were illegally arrested from a British ship of violation of international law and the rights of neutrals, and temporarily imprisoned in the north. The scandal was so enormous that when the news hit London, many people were calling for war. Ultimately, Britain pressured the Lincoln administration to release the diplomats. And many people at the time believed that had it not been for the broken Atlantic telegraph wire forcing communication between the two countries to take several weeks, Britain and the United States would have gone to war, while outrage over the incident was at its peak. At the war's outset, General Winfield Scott came up with an anaconda plan, which proposed a blockade of the Confederate coast. This is what we've discussed in the two most recent episodes, and it is where we find the only real Union victories in the first year of the war, not including some minor victories, such as those in Western Virginia. The formation of the blockade was a long and difficult process, especially as the US Navy was rather small in 1861. But these early campaigns would prove strategically important as we will see as we move into 1862, where the Confederacy continues to claim victories on the land, but lose this important ground on the water. So this is where we are at the beginning of 1862. Obviously, these general themes and bullet points don't do justice to the actual events that took place in the first year of the war. And you can refer back to the 35 episodes that cover all this in excessive detail if you want that. But these are the elements that are worth underscoring in 1861, which will help understand how things changed over the course of the war. 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مهما يجعلك من قلاة الأدل يمكننا أن نتحدث من الإسلام ديوتي بالنقمان، إذا سأمس الإعجاب إلى الشيطة سوف نبحث عن أخر مراجع ولن نتواجد على محطة مخيفة أمي هوس موشين شيان، أستطيع أن تتوزه لي شيخ أليم! السلام عليكم رحمة الله إحوالي أصدر محرم سيزون مع you اول فانا الحمد لله أعلم في محرم أن هناك الكثير من العزاء و الكثير من رشوز و one of the famous rituals which is done in Karbala is the Toyrij where from a village they run towards Karbala screaming YAHUSA YAHUSA and tapping their heads according to Saeed Saadik Ruhani is this sort of AZA? are these permissible or not? أعوذ بالله السميع العليمنا الشيطانا ضجي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصل الله على محمد الموالي هالطيبين وطاهلين الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عضم الله وجورنا وجوركم و يأتي الى عزاءة ال Toyrij in which the believers on the day of Qashurah just by the known time by the end of the اذان and the Salah of Lohran Asr they start to run from this village towards Karbala which is roughly between 10 to 15 kilometers of running 10 kilometers roughly this AZA of course was backed and supported by the علماء in the past and even in the present like Aitullah Ruhani as you mentioned his name he says it's part of the Sha'ar of Hussein one of the Husayn rituals is this act of running in the AZA of Toyrij similarly Aitullah Shirazi would mention that it is part of the Sha'ar and rituals and it is one of the favored ones and the one who participates will be given reward and a great Taufiq will be given to this individual who participates in this AZA in Karbala so it is a great opportunity for the one to participate in this AZA as much as the one can so that on the day of judgment would face Imam al-Hussein and his mother Fatima al-Zahra with a bright face it's sticking on the rituals and the Sha'ar of Imam Hussein the Zanjir what is the ruling in regards to the Zanjir I know that Aitullah Sayyid Hakim he has a verdict what's his verdict on it Aitullah Hakim would mention that we have been ordered to establish the AZA on the calamities of Ahl al-Bayt عليهم السلام as mentioned in his Mas'ala and what's ever is known to be part of the AZA on Ahl al-Bayt عليهم السلام so we've been ordered there's an instruction commands from Ahl al-Bayt عليهم السلام to establish these AZA and to participate as well in these occasions Aitullah Shirazi would also mention that for Imam Hussein عليهم السلام yes it is allowed and it is mustahab as well so it's not only allowed جائز but also mustahab desirable to participate in the AZA of the Zanjir we encourage all of our viewers as well brothers and sisters to participate in the AZA and the Hussein of the Richers Insha'Allah and may Allah and also the Ahl al-Bayt accept your deeds insha'Allah شهر coming back to our topic that we were discussing last time and we were looking at social and family matters and we were looking at as a topic and what we are allowed to look at and what we are not allowed to look at and we were talking about also the hijab you know mannerisms and whose hijab should be preserved in front of and so forth if I have a sister who is in hijab and then there is you know a non-mahram with her maybe you know her cousin or all sorts and they talk into one another is it acceptable for him to look at her face is that okay well while observing the hijab yes it is allowed for the one to look at each other's face but there are conditions which they mentioned by the Sayyid in which he says without the intention of seeking pleasure that's one the first condition so you can look at her face with her hijab but first condition without the intention of seeking pleasure number two or charm which is ريب or the fear of there being attraction or captivation so basically it has to be an innocent purely innocent look and as I've said do not stare do not keep looking however it should be an innocent look but by all that means do not stare and keep looking at the face although there are some interview techniques they teach you that look at the eyes of the opposite interviewer interviewer that you have to look and keep looking so you can get the message it's better not to look continuously and try to avoid staring at the opposite agenda in this situation to avoid falling to these three possible حرام and also the Sayyid mentioned that it is not permissible for a man to look at the face of a woman out of lust and charm so that's the main these are the main conditions and criteria شكراً what about this with you know the أهل الكتاب or a sister from the أهل الكتاب a lady from there a Christian lady, a Jewish lady are we allowed to look at the face arms, hands and stuff like that or should we also lower our gaze well there is no objection with regard to looking at the face and the hands of the أهل الكتاب as the Sayyid mentions and أهل الكتاب are mainly the Jews and the Christians those who have you know the books the Bible and the Torah in this case you can look as we witness today at work shopping colleges schools but as I've said again do not stare and don't keep looking just to get what you need so the Hajj of looking you look to an extent that you need and then you just lower your gaze but the Sayyid says as an obligatory caution احتياط وجوبي that he should not look at the other than the face and the hands because usually أهل الكتاب they don't have hijab so can I look at the hair can I look at the arms at the chest no only the hands and the face and without any arousals of شهوة and lust and temptations شهوة you know we have a lot of functions birthday parties weddings and so forth even if it's not celebration there's funerals and there's majalis and so forth and we you know sometimes we hire photographers is it okay for a male photographer to be taking pictures of a female and vice versa can the female take pictures of a male is that okay as the Sayyid mentions here and the mess I know that it is not permissible in this case and then he says let alone going into an in a room or studio where the two non-maham individuals are in seclusion and excluded from the outside as we know that we have a hocom with regard to being isolated in a place locked place where a female and a male who are non-maham to each other to remain in that place let's say it's an office or a house or a room that nobody can able to access that that becomes haram the خلو as they called isolation that kind of isolation is haram so it's better to have an individual who is on the same gender to take the photographs as a best solution to avoid all these haram aspects and of course the one should observe piety observe تقوى in these instances in these parties as you mentioned weddings or birthdays that they don't fall into haram because sometimes if it's a mix then there's a great possibility of haram sometimes they put music which is haram as well so we try to avoid attending these places if there are possible haram we ask always in the مؤمنين we ask over the phone when they're invited is there music is there dance is there such and such is it mixed gathering if yes then we don't attend so we try to avoid attending these Majalis otherwise if it's Halal gathering even it's a birthday which is مباح allowed jazz without music without mixed gathering if it's only ladies fine with each other or only men for example or separated places حسينيات where we celebrate the birthdays of the people of the house peace be upon them or the Eids but separated not mixed to cause that haram lookings and so forth شخنة you mentioned looking at someone with lust whether it's the face the hands and so forth what about a male looking at another male with lust whether it's the face or another part of the body and same vice versa with a female looking at another female with lust it does the same rule apply here or not of course it's mandatory and wajib for a man not to look with lust at the other man as well because how the haram eventually ends up by having these two in a haram relationship as we had the story of the قوم لوط so no it's not allowed and likewise with regard to the females they're not allowed to look at each other with lust even if it's just a face while looking at the face and they get aroused the lust so they have to both gender avoid both sides should avoid looking at each on gender with lust it's haram and that applies in anything that looking at the things with lust is haram unless the lust is for or the shahua attention is for the husband and the wife in the Halal way الله سمع تعالى created the Halal means and platforms that we can consume it in this way in this path you cannot use it it's similar to for example eat and drink if you eat something poisonous then it will ruin your body and life destroy your life so no I ate healthy food I ate and drink the food in which it's safe to be eating and drinking the same thing applies I have this lust this shahua I have to use it in the Halal way only because if I use the haram way then I will have to pay a great price not only this dunya but also in the Akhira and Audubillah the chastisement and the of that world شكرا شكرا لكم شكرا لكم for all your efforts over this season شكرا to all our viewers for joining us this season إن شاء الله we'll be seeing you on the next episode إن شاء الله of احقام السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


Okay, hello and welcome. I'm having a catch up with Nayan Patel, who is a student who previously did our summer analyst training program back in the summer of 2021 and has now gone on to secure a role as an internship at HSBC in the global markets division. But before we delve into that in a bit more detail. Hi Nayan, thank you very much for joining me and perhaps we could start with a little bit about a little bit about you really your background where you from and what are you studying at uni and take it from there. All right. So, I actually so I'm at Queen Mary University of London and I study mechanical engineering, which I know it's a bit strange, because I know I'm getting into finance. So, in terms of my sort of interest for finance, it all started towards my GCSE period, and during that time I did a couple insight days, gathered up a bit of work experience but I had no idea about spring weeks, internships, grad roles. And that only sort of kicked in when I got into uni and it was my first year. And I remember missing sort of most the deadlines for spring weeks. And so I thought the next best option was to apply for some of your internship. So in 2020 I started applying for internships, and I was just receiving rejection after rejection and we're all for a trading position. And I remember applying with a two page CV. And so it wasn't going that great and the way I found out how amplifiers actually by accident. I, one day I actually got a bit fed up thinking I was just getting rejected from everything and I just typed into Google trading internship and amplifiers one that came up. And then from there I remember speaking to Eddie about the course, and he was telling me about the asset management bootcamp. And so that's how that sort of started off and then after that period to this was 2021. In January time I had an assessment center with Deutsche Bank for trading and I remember going to the assessment center did not go that well. I didn't get the offer, but what I was told in terms of feedback I lacks lots of technical knowledge and business acumen. So that that sort of happened and Eddie then emailed me after to say there was one space left on the asset management bootcamp if I was interested so I thought I'd give that a go. And if I like that then I'll do the program. And so I did I did the bootcamp and I was, I was amazed by like how great the simulation was how like realistic it was how much fun. And the pre learning videos as well. I remember sort of learning exactly sort of what an economy is which is quite strange because I studied mechanical engineering I've never been taught any sort of finance knowledge or have had sort of basic finance knowledge so the videos really sort of just broke it down right from the basics. Yeah, so I did so I did the asset management bootcamp and I remember learning more about the summer program there. And then from there that's when I went in and I paid for the program that started, I think it was seventh of June. Yeah, so that's how I sort of going to amplify. Yeah, and then from the actual, your time then, yeah, amplify what was anything that kind of sticks in your mind that was particularly useful that when you're applying then for subsequent interviews thereafter and getting this roller HSBC. The biggest thing I found useful from amplify was the simulations. And that's because we're going into, and going into the amplify course I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to work on the buy side of the sales side, and I wasn't quite sure what sort of trading I want to do whether it be a market making role or sales trading role. But I remember when I did, I think it's the, I think it's the flow trader simulation you start off with first. It was quite challenging but I really enjoyed it and I really, I really enjoyed how fast paced it was. And I enjoyed both the market making side as well as the sales trading side where I was talking to the clients, which was a, which is quite, it was quite interesting as well. And I think the asset management simulations as well so that sort of gave me an insight into both sort of streams buy side and sell side. And I think after that that's when I sort of understood what I was getting myself into. And it also helped with understanding some of the job descriptions because I remember this time around when I went to apply for internships and reading job descriptions I literally understood exactly what they were talking about. And I also understood the word trading and sending off an application. So I'd say that is probably the biggest highlight the flow trader simulation. And I'll say one other important thing would probably be the equity research report that I think I did as a group in the first week. When I did that simulation, I didn't really enjoy it. And looking back now it was probably one of the most useful simulations I've done and that was just because the team I was working with, we were all across the world so it was a global team. You had these sort of issues of time zones.  So it was one that sort of had lots of skills that you could talk about in an interview and I remember bringing that that simulation up lots of different times in an interview as well. So those are probably the biggest highlights for me from the course. So like the global markets, you know you talked about your kind of your main interest in that and that's obviously where you're going to be heading but was that always quite because in my mind I kind of think mechanical engineering, probably much more numerical bit more structured logic in their thinking, probably more M&A IBD type characteristics perhaps without finance and as a skills, but you sound quite enthusiastic about the market side. So was that, I mean, was that always the case or it wasn't always the case actually. So before I did the course, I knew that I, I sort of did have an interest for training but I did also have an interest for investment banking, the M&A side and I wasn't too sure what I want to do but I thought I'd give trading a go see how that sort of plays out and I really applied to both so trading roles as well as roles in investment banking and so again I wasn't quite sure what I was getting myself into. And I remember often doing the course doing the M&A simulation, the IPS simulation, the equity research report. That's sort of understood that I didn't really enjoy the investment banking side in terms of looking at in terms of M&A equity research that sort of side and I really enjoyed a role that was very, very fast paced very exciting. That was challenging. So that's what sort of steered me towards global markets and trading. And you're still at uni, right? It's still to complete your degree. So how do you now balance your kind of studies with your trying to keep up with markets? So with that I've actually, so after I finished the course, I got in the habit of watching the daily briefing every day, but just about every day. And so normally in the mornings, before I start my day, before I start going to uni, going to any lectures, that's the first thing I normally get into, I watch or I read, go on the FT, read a few articles, watch Bloomberg for a while. That's how I sort of tie it into my day. And especially with these sort of newsletters you send out every day with the main market headlines that I sort of read whenever it pops up. I think that's the way I sort of manage it by making sure I still keep up to date with all the financial news every day, but I don't sort of spend the whole day doing that. I just do it in the morning when I'm free, and then I can focus the rest of the day on my uni, my uni work or perhaps any interviews. Yeah. And just any, any tips for I guess people going through the process because you mentioned Deutsche Bank, and you mentioned that that didn't go as perhaps as planned. So you saw some remedies there about getting some more training and things like that, but just now in hindsight, now that you've kind of secured this upcoming internship in the summer of 22. Is there anything now that if someone was to ask you who's quite raw, what's the best steps that you'd recommend. So if you go through interviews, just be yourself and understand what's going on in the markets because I think that's one thing and everyone talks about in interviews they always ask you a question about what's going on in markets what what your views are. Is there a story you're following so I'd say keep up to date as much as you can with what's going on in the markets because even if you don't sort of understand just about every sort of technical aspects, if you can speak about a story even following that there's a lot of commitment it shows that you still have a bit of passion towards the role. And I think with the technical side of I say the best thing to do that is for you learn. I think amplified did this for me anyway but learns or basic finance, how to read sort of a balance sheet how to understand lots of corporate finance terms as well as, for example, what cash flow is. And aspects like that because they become very handy when it comes to case study interviews as well where they present you with a bunch of information you've just got to understand that I think it's in like 30 minutes or something, and then present it back to the interviewer. So I'd say that's that and definitely be confident about what you're talking about as well.  Yeah, cool. Well look, good way to finish then with some some good advice and thank you for taking the time out to talk. Yeah, all the best with the upcoming internship at HSBC and keep in touch. Thank you. Thank you.


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