Next speaker would be Joe Tribia. Joe gave a talk as well in the colloquium, so thanks Joe for that. When we are ready, you can share your screen. Okay. Can everybody see my full screen because. Yes. So, once again I want to thank the organizers for giving me the opportunity to speak, and I'm going to talk about a rather unorthodox idea as to why we don't do as well as we think we should do in the subseason range. Just because the atmosphere and the weather events within the subseasonal time range may be unpredictable for a reason that I don't think has been explored very carefully at this point so let me go on to my talk. So, as I said, I think the subseasonal range going on beyond week two is a very challenging problem for prediction and, as you can see from this figure from the European Center in 2012. We can predict fairly well for for one week. And we're just looking at anomaly correlation here of the geopotential height field. And by 2012, we could predict day seven, 500 hectopascal height anomalies fairly well. Not perfectly, but well enough. But as you can see from this diagram, the skill drops off rather rapidly after seven days and, and by 10 days, there's, on average, absolutely no skill, no useful skill in the anomaly correlation of something is as benign as the 500 hectopascal height field. So, why can't we do better than this and frankly, the answer to that is a turbulent cascade of error from small scale to large scale and 69 Lawrence propose a diagram that looks somewhat like this one on the left, where the time scale of smaller scale oscillations smaller scale disturbances smaller scale errors was was able to traverse the spectrum at a time that was smaller than for larger scale so very small scale errors could propagate up to the 100 kilometer range in about an eighth of a day or a quarter of a day. So, from this perspective, whether prediction becomes very difficult after about one week, because after about one week, there's almost no skill left in the, in the prediction. But, and any skill that does exist is all in the large scale planetary scale waves. Okay. So, the unified version of this argument this this argument use a three dimensional turbulence closure scheme to estimate the predictability. And while the atmosphere on large scales is much more like a two dimensional turbulent flow on smaller scales and in fact, perhaps down to only down to the sub synoptic scale is it a two dimensional turbulent flow. And the subsynoptic scale it behaves with a power spectrum, kinetic energy spectrum that looks like a minus five thirds which is exactly the energy spectrum for a three dimensional turbulent flow. So, from this perspective, small scale errors can propagate up to the sub synoptic scale pretty quickly so probably in about a day or so, and then the two dimensional inverse cascade would take over and allow us to predict perhaps for a week, perhaps, perhaps a little bit longer out to 10 days, but not to week three which is kind of the first goal of sub seasonal prediction. Okay, so I'm going to propose an alternative to this inverse cascade of error. Something that is motivated are inspired by a surprise we had in some fraternal not identical twin experiments so this is a fraternal twin experiment in the fraternal twin experiment. The model simulation that is trying to predict it is not identical to the models that are trying to predict it and so in the early 2000s, Dave Baumhoeffner and I ran some experiments using a high resolution version of the NCAR model T170 as ground truth and tried to predict it using various course of resolution versions of the NCAR model T106, T63, T42 and we did all those experiments without any topography to not have to worry about the complication of topographic forcing in the problem just to look at the kind of inertial effects on predictability, the cascade of errors from unresolved scales into resolved scales. So, what we found was that, in fact, things behave kind of like we thought it didn't take more than a half a day for the unresolved scales to start growing. And once they started, the resolved scales to start growing, excuse me, error in the resolved scales to start growing. And once they started growing, they started growing exponentially, much as you'd expect in a quasi geostrophic or quasi two dimensional turbulent regime. However, one thing we noticed that was kind of a surprise to us because we tried very carefully to input the exact spectral initial conditions in the resolved scales of all four model integrations. So, to put the T170 initial conditions into the T142 model all the way down to T42 and started. So you would expect that at T equals zero, there would be no resolved scale energy. That at T equals zero, no resolved scale errors at T equals zero. So how did that error get into the integrations when I told you exactly what we did, we put in exactly the initial conditions that the T170 model saw at T63 resolution and T106 resolution and T42 resolution. Well, the answer to that was that before integrating the model, the model checked for static instability, okay, and in fact, spectrally truncated initial conditions can have different static stability, different static stability at a point, quite commonly when you think about how a spectral model behaves, okay. And so this was the T106 temperature error at T equals zero, temperature difference at 500 millibars, 500 at the past scales that we saw using the T170 initial conditions and allowing the system to do this dry convective adjustment before it started integrating. At 500, at 500 at the past scales, you also see this difference in the height field and what I want to point out to you is that this is the initial error caused by this convective adjustment. And what you can see is that there's quite a bit of energy at large scale and at small scale. And large scale and small scale here was the difference between wave number 15 and everything else that evolved. And so you can see that there's large scale errors in there. And if you go back to the previous slide, excuse me. You can see the this energy spectrum at T equals zero is absolutely flat. Okay. So this is the interesting point that I want to point out that this instability this can dry convective adjustment cause is caused by a threshold nonlinearity. At one point, you change, you violate the threshold condition and that violation at a point is localized in space, but because it's localized its space, it is very broad in the spectral regime in in wave number space. And so you put in a delta like forcing in the initial condition a delta like condition caused by violating the threshold at a particular point and the threshold nonlinearity spreads that that influence out over all spatial scales. So it acts, not as a rather slow inertial cascade from smaller scale to large scale. It acts as an instantaneous cascade contaminating both small scales and large scale. Okay, so a possible example of this is shown by the the April 10 2011 dropout bust which was studied in the TIGI regime and Mark Radwell did and a post of other people did a very nice study of what was going on in dropouts over the European regime. The European domain and up above you see the rapid decline in the correlation score around April 10 in the 500 hectopascal anomaly correlation skill score. What you see below is the kind of verification that's common for European sector bus at least in the in the ECMWF system. So this is the common 500 hectopascal anomaly that comes out of a composite of bus situations over about 30 years time, 30 years of samples. What I want to point out is that associated with the height anomalies in that composite and this is there's also a CAPE anomaly associated with that that composite and in the particular case of the April 10 the CAPE initial conditions are shown here and you can see there's quite a strong CAPE anomaly both around the upper Midwest and on the east coast of the United States. This leads to in fact precipitation anomalies both forecast and the observed precipitation anomalies and the observed precipitation anomalies are in fact quite a bit stronger than the forecast precipitation anomalies and precipitation condensation is exactly this kind of threshold nonlinearity and condensation at a point where in a localized region can lead to anomalous errors, not just in this region where the forcing is where the anomalous precip is where the anomalous precip errors are but downstream and upstream because it causes this instantaneous cascade from small scale to large scale. So now I just want to ask if we can see this in a simplified setting. Joe, maybe in a minute. Yeah, I will quit. I'll be done in a second. So what we saw did some experiments with the moist and water equations which have an on over threshold threshold instability showed that in fact you do see this instantaneous cascade in the moist spectral evolution, you don't see it in a dry spectral evolution. And I'm going to skip this because it's a little too hard to explain in a short period of time and move to my conclusions. My conclusion is a somewhat unorthodox explanation because history and tradition views quadratic nonlinearity in hydrodynamics as root cause of chaos and unpredictability. In reality, this mechanism can be quite slow when compared to threshold nonlinearity inherent in the phase changes of water. This is particularly so when one examines spatial scale interactions so you get an instantaneous cascade. And this may in fact limit accurate sub seasonal forecasting in particular to forecast some forecasts of weather to the forecast only a forecast of opportunity and not into a more general ability to forecast at the sub seasonal range and I'll end there and take questions. Okay, thanks a lot Joe. Great point in a great talk. I don't see any questions or hands raised yet just I had a question in terms of being able to reduce this error that comes from the moist physics. Do we need to get into convection resolving regime for models or is it at all possible with stochastic physics and parametrized convection. I think all of these will have some limitations associated in my opinion. Fact is, will be limited to how well in convective resolving situations, how well can resolve the exact location of convection. And we do method scale prediction at convection resolving scales we oftentimes allow ourselves the opportunity to say, Well, the convection is not quite in the right spot or it's, it's delayed a bit in time. Those errors in time and space will lead once again to this kind of instantaneous cascade, as will errors in parameterized convection and errors input by stochastic parameterization so I don't think there's an easy way around this problem. It's a it's a fundamental nature of the high order non linearity associated with kind of threshold non linearities. Thanks a lot again for the talk, Joe and we'll have more questions during the interaction networking sessions later in the week so


Hey what's going on guys, Patriot Prime here once again with another Toy Hacks review. But before I get to taking a look at this brand new decal set from ToyHacks.com, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber to Patriot Prime Reviews, please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now onto the decal set. Now the set I'm taking a look at for this review is a little bit different. It's a Toy Hacks conversion set. You're going to take War for Cybertron Siege Brunt and transform him into Trypticon's engineer Deadlift.  I accidentally deleted my before intro for this set earlier so I don't have the sticker decal sheet to show off. But with the set you get a large decal sheet and a small set of clear labels. So without further ado, let's go ahead and take a look at the transformation from Brunt to Deadlift both before and after. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Brunt's Artillery Cannon Alt Mode straight out of the packaging features some fantastic molded detail and pretty decent paint applications for a deluxe size figure. I mean check this out. The molded detailing along the bottom here with the tank treads look amazing. And on the front of the vehicle you've got the cockpit. There is Brunt's eyes which I actually like how that looks. It kind of looks like Knight Rider's Red Visor. Paint applications include these headlights here on front and these vents. Closer look at the tank treads. I really like these because they took the time to add paint applications to the treads themselves. So that looks really, really cool. I love the little lights here on the sides. Back of the vehicle has good details as well. Got the little vents right there. Silver paint application here on the range finder as I like to use it. But yeah I think he looks really, really good as is and I'm curious to see what the new toy hacks set is going to do for him. So there is one final look at War for Cybertron Siege Brunt in Artillery Mode before and after. Now as deadlift the artillery mode gets a lot of green and yellow and black construction tape and I love the looks of that. It looks so cool. Lots of green. You got green decals there on the side. Front of the vehicle. Green all over the front here. More construction tape along the side. On the back of the vehicle he now has taillights. Top of the turret or top of the cannon. Green with other green highlights there. The turret itself gets silver decals in four spots or underneath you can see more green. I really like the looks of this. Now challenging sticker set was inside right there. You replace the yellow paint painted lights with new gold foil stickers. So yeah that looked really cool. Now Toy Hacks has a fan mode for this guy more fitting his engineer profile. Now here's how Toy Hacks shows off Brunt on their web page in his Cybertronian crane mode and I actually like this. You've got the gun on the back looking like an exhaust pipe. You put the other claw on the side kind of gives it extra like a motor and then of course he has the claw up here. I really dig that that's really cool and another option I thought up was a Cybertronian construction scorpion mode kind of my throwback to the Energon Scorponok from back in the day. So there you go guys one final look at war for Cybertron siege Brunt as deadlift after. Brunt in robot mode straight out of the packaging is a bruiser of a looking robot. This guy looks like he would just assume rip you in half than to look at you and I love how all of the yellow paint applications carry over into robot mode to really break up all that purple. You've got the yellow up here on the shoulders down here on the chest with the headlights and down there on the knees. I also love these silver paint applications there for the vents. There's a little bit of yellow there on the claws. And that's pretty much it as far as the paint applications on robot mode. I love the visor. The visor goes all the way around gives me that nice Battlestar Galactica Cylon look Tampa Graph Decepticon logo right there on the chest too. Really really dig the look of this robot. So anyway guys there is one final look at war for Cybertron siege Brunt in robot mode before and after. Now as deadlift a lot of the green decals carry over very well in robot mode though he does get a few for this mode specifically. He gets brand new eye decals that go all the way around and a green decal that goes all the way around his head. And I'm not going to lie that was a challenge to put on. This is what I really like toy hacks took the turret and the flat side and added schematic so it's like he has a iPad or some sort of tablet that goes over trypticon and his toy hacks got upside down his toy hacks crane mode so I thought that was really really cool. Now there's extra stickers that go underneath these stickers to kind of prevent the raised lettering from popping through but unfortunately as you can see it still does but it's still a unique way to use that turret. Other decals on this figure include the construction yellow and black tape along the waist red lights right here you've got extra decals here on the knees silver decals there on the toes green on the inside of the legs and I love the black and yellow construction warning just all over this figure. So yeah he's pretty cool and a great addition to my Decepticon forces so there is one final look at deadlift in robot mode after toy hacks is war for Cybertron siege deadlift conversion set is a pretty cool decal set plus you get to act like Hasbro and repaint an existing toy into a brand new figure I love all the green accents and I think it was really creative how they turn the turret here into a schematic tablet. This decal set proved to be quite a challenge to you with some of the stickers that go all the way around curve pieces and how tiny they were but I always appreciate a good challenge. Now you can pick up this decal set for yourself at toyhacks.com currently they're 20% off so there you go guys one final look at toy hacks is war for Cybertron siege brunt to deadlift conversion kit and guys as usual I appreciate you watching don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe this is Patriot Prime signing out who are


The respected viewers, thank you for joining us once more live from the holy city of Karbala and this is your show back to the basics in which we normally discuss a feasible framework in how to address others in regards to the areas of dispute, areas of disagreement and areas of difference. I'm your host Yahya Seymour and you're joining me live from the holy city of Karbala, of course we have a beautiful shrine of Abul-Fadl al-Abbas in the background here as per every week and it's my pleasure to be joining you live tonight. Of course for many of you who are in the west you had the busy and bustling day of boxing day of course I'm sure many of you benefited from the great festive sales which exist in the west right now even those of us who were not celebrating Christmas just for anyone that happens to be tuning in and thinking we were. Of course tonight's episode name again for those of you who did not happen to tune in yesterday is slightly deceitful in the sense that we're not actually celebrating Christmas. Our sect does not promote the celebration of festivals that belong to other religions at least not as an act of ebada not as an actual aid. Of course that is not to say we will not be polite and wish well those who are celebrating other festivities for the nature of them being a national holiday much like people celebrate national holidays in the Middle East irrespective of the connotation of that holiday we likewise have the same position and since Christmas has become a very western occasion part of the national holiday system and something which everyone is affected by in one way shape or form due to the nature of the rather secular festivities going on I felt it was only befitting to give it this particular title based upon a slight in-joke between one of the brothers and myself which I mentioned yesterday. Of course that in-joke was pertaining to a video uploaded the day before called Schooling the Shi'as in which several contentions about the Ahl al-Bait alayhum salam and their followers were mentioned. Of course for those of you who were not able to tune into yesterday's episode you may catch that inshallah ta'ala on the re-broadcasts or you'll find that online and I don't wish to waste any more time giving too much of a context to what the nature of tonight's particular discussion is or is a continuation of rather needless to say I am responding to some of the contentions raised particularly in this video which was entitled Schooling the Shi'as. It was a video of one of my dare I say a close old friend of mine who happens to not be Shi'a and someone that is quite well known within these speaker circuits of the Ahli hadith or Sunni school of thought. The claim that was issued in that video or the claim that was made rather is that we Shi'as can't possibly be followers of the Ahl al-Bait. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them. That is to say there's no way we actually do follow the Ahl al-Bait but rather in the same way that the average Muslim will say to the Christians I believe we follow Jesus more than you do or the average Muslim will say to perhaps someone that follows Judaism we believe that we follow Musa or Moses more closely than you do. The Sunni likewise makes the same claim. He states that we follow the Ahl al-Bait more than the Shi'a do and the Shi'a have no legitimate claim to be those followers of the Ahl al-Bait. Of course we went right into the topic yesterday and we analyzed the reasons for why this claim is made often what leads up to this claim and indeed whether or not this claim has any substance or value to it. So just to recap very briefly the main objective in trying to make this claim is to distance the original followers of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu ala wa ala that is to say the followers of the original Islam brought by the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu ala wa ala the original pristine Islam Shi'a Islam from the legitimate claim to be those who hold on to the Ahl al-Bait may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them. This claim is done because one of the main issues which allows for Shi'as to be taken seriously or given some form of credence in that which they call towards is the claim that other sects have neglected and essentially abandoned the mention the praise and more particularly the commemoration and attachment to the Holy Prophet s family may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them that family unit known as the Ahl al-Bait. Now of course Ahl al-Bait in the Arabic language means the people of the house the household of the Holy Prophet sallallahu ala wa ala. So when does she make the claim that they follow the Ahl al-Bait? I mentioned in yesterday's episode that this will often lead to some saying what does Ahl al-Bait mean? Who are these group of people known as the Ahl al-Bait? May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. And when a Muslim asks that it just shows the general nature of the Muslim ummah today that people can be familiar with the historical legends and figures of every other nation but unfortunately the nation which attributes itself to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sallallahu ala wa ala has lost the remembrance of his close family members. And of course those who finally do find out about the Ahl al-Bait they would of course be introduced to the very known, famous, multiply attested and beyond doubt narration known as Hadith Athakalain, the Hadith of the two weighty things. When they first hear it it's as if the narration rings a bell in their ears particularly those who are Sunni because they would have heard from the pulpits of their masajids they would have heard in the groups of Tabligh and Jamaat those other groups who claim to be following the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu ala that the point of legitimacy given to the particular dawah is to make the claim that the Holy Prophet sallallahu ala wa ala had stated oh people I am leaving behind two weighty things the book of Allah and my Sunnah. This is something that we've all heard we've all heard it from the pulpits and that's why so many people get surprised when they find out that this narration does not even stand the test of authenticity it does not meet the criteria of being considered an authentic narration and note I specifically said in the in the usage of the terminology that is used I am leaving behind two weighty things the book of Allah and my Sunnah that particular narration is not trustworthy using that particular seer or formula that is to say Thakalain of course they might bring another narration which resembles it but that is not our topic tonight we are talking about what the Thakalain what are these two weighty necessary things that the Holy Prophet sallallahu ala wa ala left behind and anyone that is familiar with even the most authentic of Sunni books would understand that this is referring to the Kitab of Allah the book of Allah the Quran in addition to his households and what he specifically says is and my progeny my Ahlul Bayt and then he goes on to state that these two things will never separate until they reach each other at the lake font so the question we need to ask here is why are so many of the Muslims ignorant about this and when they are in their ignorance why is it that so many of them come forward and make the claim now that you don't actually follow the Ahlul Bayt rather it is we who follow the Ahlul Bayt your claim is just an empty claim well that's the case surely the average religious Sunni would know what the Ahlul Bayt were but since the average religious Sunni doesn't know what the Ahlul Bayt are what this reference what this title is a reference to it goes to show that even if you were following the Ahlul Bayt you're not doing a very good job of teaching people about the Ahlul Bayt that's the minimal that it shows but of course we don't concede to the claim that you are following the Ahlul Bayt for how could it be that a nation which claims that the best of generations is the first generation and after that the second generation and after that the third generation and they are the greatest of role models in terms of us emulating them in their practice how is it that this could be claimed when the second of those generations massacred the grandson of the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi in this city that we are broadcasting from now and Karbala really serves as a giant wake-up call a slap in the face which reminds us all that the Ahlul Bayt may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon them were persecuted by people that called themselves muslim in the same way that people today who call themselves muslim go around perpetuating and perpetrating acts of violence against innocent human beings in the name of Islam and these actions which are done in the west they always come from the same sect for some strange reason but that is not the topic for tonight so allow us to return back to our topic which we are continuing on from last night which is the question who really follows the Ahlul Bayt one of the main points i raised in yesterday's conversation which i believe still stands valid and is the first point which must be discussed in any claim to follow the Ahlul Bayt is do you really follow the Ahlul Bayt and can you really justify that claim on even a theoretical level so we may differ in regards to whether or not the Shia have legitimate and accurate sources for what Ahlul Bayt claim but there's no doubt for those of us who go to the books of usul and fiqh or the books of the philosophy of law the books of the science of deriving legal derivations would find that the first thing which is stated in regards to the legitimate sources for islamic law and doctrine are number one the quran and number two the sayings deeds and approval tacit approval of those individuals known as the infallibles those infallibles of course being the Ahlul Bayt and we would stipulate them as being the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alaih fatimah al-zahra alaihi salam imam alaihi alaihi salam going all the way down to our awaited savior may Allah hasten his reappearance the twelve imams and so at the very least we have on a theoretical level a claim that we and the philosophy that we must follow what is taught by the Ahlul Bayt now of course you're missing the point if you get into the question of whether or not we actually implement that practice the question is not at the implementation level the question has not yet reached a practical level although we will get to that inshallah the question is at the theoretical level do we follow the Ahlul Bayt and we saw in yesterday's episode I quoted from at least three sources of a surul fiqh of those who call themselves the Ahlul Sunnah where they openly admit that even if there is a Jama'a of the Ahlul Bayt it is not a legitimate source of law meaning what meaning that at the theoretical level by definition they don't follow the Ahlul Bayt but dear viewers please join me for a short break and join me afterwards in which we continue to discuss this but at a more practical level inshallah wa sallamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh dear viewers thank you for waiting patiently during that short break and you're joining me back on the show in which we're discussing whether or not those who claim to follow the Ahlul Bayt be they Sunni or Shia actually follow the Ahlul Bayt I'm going to request the technical team quickly to just turn off the echo on my earpiece inshallah and we're coming back to the topic we're coming back to the topic which is that whether or not those who claim to follow the Ahlul Bayt be it myself or someone from the Sunnis actually follows the Ahlul Bayt and whether or not we can legitimately make that claim it's a very interesting question and of course before we get to it I quickly want to just address some of the claims made some of the claims made were of course that the Shia they don't know anything about the narrators and the narrators that they do know about we know that the imams condemn them according to their own books now the problem I have been highlighting throughout this entire series is this problem of what we call atomization and I don't I don't blame I really don't blame the individuals who are involved in this form of polemics because you tend to find that what they're involved with is they're involved with Christian polemics and with Christian polemics there really is this inconsistent standard of utilizing very secular postmodern anti natural anti supernatural scholarship which attempts to dissect the text in such a way that you just pick and choose what you like and that's exactly the same approach they have with Shiaism they'll read our narrations but then they'll reject the entire worldview that comes along with those narrations and they'll read the narrations in such a way where they must interpret these narrations according to their whims and desires so for example when the imam condemns Zorara may Allah be pleased with Zorara in a particular narration the person will say look your imam has done lana on Zorara in this narration now as I've said a good thing about any decent reliable worldview is whether or not it can account for something does it have explanatory scope for a certain phenomenon now one thing that one might say is that when you have a curse of Zorara it's going to be difficult for you to have an explanatory scope for that I would agree in normal cases it would be very difficult for me to find a decent explanatory scope without having to engage in El Mordrijal and trying to weaken this particular narration but then when you have an equally sound narration in which the imam says about Zorara and about others that we condemn you and curse you in front of others in order to protect the lives of our Shia and they make reference to the practice known as Taqaya due to the severe circumstances existing at that time and due to the fact that the governments were killing our imams and their followers it's pretty clear that our religion has an explanatory scope which explains away the apparent contradiction now if you don't like the explanation that's fine we can discuss why you don't like the explanation but then we move into the realm of not objectivity anymore but subjectivity and what it would become is a debate on your whims versus my whims but thankfully this discussion isn't based on my whims it's based upon an interpretative framework which exists within my worldview you're not liking that interpretive framework is not really a decent or sound argument it's merely your subjective whims but if we want to go with an argument entirely let's see where it gets us because one of the main accusations that was put against our narrators was that people like Hisham bin al-Hakam and Hisham bin Salam al-Jawalqi had deviant beliefs in regards to Tauheed so let's question that did they have deviant beliefs in regards to Tauheed or not of course when we look at what the Ulema of narrations have stated to be it Sayyid al-Khoi or be it a great scholar like al-Mamaqani or any other of the Ulema who dwells into primarily aqaids be it Sharif al-Murtava or any of the other great Ulemaq we would see that they have come forward and analyzed these narrations with Sharif al-Murtava he specifically states that when he looked back at the books of Hisham he did not find such teachings in them so if you want to now base your claims that the Hishamain cannot be trusted because they believed in touch seem then let's see if your apologetic is consistent with your own theology when we go to the theology of the people that are making this claim the theology of the man in the video who was schooling shears according to the video's title we find in Sahih al-Bukhari that the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is claimed to have said you will definitely see your lord with your own eyes likewise it is claimed that he said Allah's apostle came out to us on the night of the full moon and said you will see your lord on the day of the resurrection as you see this full moon and you will have no difficulty in seeing him now of course there's already been a cave here because in the same way that I see this moon with my eyes I will likewise see Allah according to this fabricated narration from the sects of others with my physical eyes as well so when you go around saying that we can't trust the Hishamain because they're anthropomorphists then you might want to ensure that you're not an anthropomorphist before you go around making that claim about the Hishamain and why we should reject them so you see even if we were to submit that Hishamain had these very strange and bulky beliefs about Allah Azza wa Jalla the least we would say is that well we would adopt the principle that in the same way you have some of the theological schools who believe in touch seem today narrating a few accurate things about the prophet and his practices we likewise would just reject the theology of the Hishamain and take the narrations from the imam because they're not lying about those things especially when the narrations we find from the Hishamain even in al-Kafi itself seem to belie this concept of touch seem and seem to teach the very immaculate form of tawhid that we find in every other book attributed to the imams so when we see such a theology being brought out by the very people that accuse the Hishamain we have to ask ourselves what is the agenda why are we condemning our narrators for things that why are they condemning our narrators refer for things that their own theological school teaches standard doctrine it's inconsistent and inconsistency is the sign of a defeated argument again question the assumptions don't just let anyone pick and atomize from your sources ask yourself are they being consistent with the teachings that they themselves adopt so again when they tell you something like we can't trust the teachings of the narrators from imam sadaq because they're all iraqi i didn't realize our religion was a racist religion where you can't narrate from iraqi to be honest with you and are all from the city of kufa as well again i didn't believe that our religion was so racist that you're not allowed to take from a kufin if that was the argument then i'm sorry you're going to have to come up with a slightly better one or you're going to have to bring the unauthentic narration or ayah of the quran which states oh you who believe do not accept narrations from people unless they live in the same vicinity as the person they're narrating from and until they can do that then we're not going to take for claim seriously and if they can do that then we're not going to take for claim seriously either because their own narrations don't live up to this standard dear viewers unfortunately where we're unable to finish the topics necessary for tonight but we will continue tomorrow night and inshallah we will round this topic off to a close thank you so much for joining me once more


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So while you're doing that, I don't know if the viewers can actually hear me, but Imam Sajjad, I know that there's rights of the stomach and he talks about, you know, we're mentioning about the halal and eating halal and also not to overeat. So when it comes to sort of like keeping a moderation. There's portions, there's something to do with portions in terms of that treatise. What was that? Refresh my memory. So it's basically that you have a third of food, a third of drink and keep a third of your stomach for air. And I think it's the moderation, isn't it? So you're not overeating. And I think so the overeating can have effects of you being sluggish, eating heavy meals. So I'm just assuming that when you look at, you know, nature's creation, you always feel this kind of freshness, don't you? And this energy, and I suppose it's the right energy rather than if we eat too many, you know, too much meat or too much of something, which is perhaps not so healthy, the sugars that, you know, sort of like manufactured sugars. Processed sugars. Yeah, processed sugars. So in those terms, that would probably be quite, that would probably make us quite sluggish, I'd imagine, if you could imagine having a cup of tea with loads of cakes and you'd feel, you'd feel that lack of energy, although the boost initially.


Yeah, football is where we begin on the Sports Mag Zone for this Thursday. After weeks of uncertainty and contention, a date has finally been set for the voting Congress to elect a new executive body at the Jamaica Football Federation. Following an emergency meeting on Wednesday, the JFF Board decided on January 14, 2024 as the election date. In common, President Michael Bricketts is expected to be challenged by current vice-president Raymond Anderson. In recent weeks, Anderson's team has expressed frustration at what they describe as poor communication from the JFF, arguing that the election is constitutionally due in 2023. They have repeatedly pointed out that a six-day election notice is necessary. The first 15 of those days are to be used for nominations. They have further argued that the Bricketts administration is operating unconstitutionally since its four-year term officially ended in September of this year. Also at Wednesday's emergency meeting, the JFF accepted three of the seven pillars, affiliates, as being eligible to vote. Those are the Past Players Association, the Beach Football Association, and the Jamaica Coaches Association. JFF General Secretary Dennis Chong has said that the professional Football Jamaica Limited PFGL is said to be the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association, Intercal and the Referees Association have until the 20th of December to be duly registered with the JFF. Chong has also said that the January 14 election date was to ensure no party was left disenfranchised. As we continue to track the happenings around this highly contentious JFF election, we are joined by President of the Harbourview Football Club, chairman of the Harbourview Football Club, Carville Stewart. And of course, Carville Stewart has served in many other areas of football in the land of wooden water. And in recent years, he was also vice chairman of the Premier League Clubs Association, a body which is no longer in operation, of course. Carville Stewart, it's a pleasure to have you on the Sports Mic Zone. How are you doing this afternoon? I'm fine. Thank you for having me and good afternoon to you and the viewers. Yeah, for sure. Let's get the ball rolling whistle and all. January 14, the date put forward for the voting Congress to elect the next president of the Jamaica Football Federation and by extension the executive body. What are thoughts on the date selected, especially against the background that the Raymond Anderson team has been contending that the election is due constitutionally in 2023? Yeah, well, the view now on our part is that the extensive strategizing and planning and maneuvering to create unfair advantages to them has led to this date of the 14th of January. The question now is whether or not, certainly the constitution doesn't allow for that. However, they will make decisions that may be refutable later on. The main person that they should be cautious of here though is FIFA. Whether or not FIFA was invested in an election happening in 2023 and therefore may take other action if they view this to be incorrect. Looking at what has been said so far by Dennis Chung, the general secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation, he's essentially hinted that there is no undue delay and so there should be no concern from a FIFA standpoint. I am not sure of that. There has been undue delay. The persons in place now, their tenure would have ended at around about the 14th of September this year and therefore efforts should have been made to have an election in time to have a fully operational executive starting the 15th of September 2023. They did not do that. They also ensured that in terms of the 60-day requirement of the constitution that 60 days would have expired sometime in January because they had not planned to name an election date before now. They rolled out a myriad of excuses as they always do and you would have noted over the years with all the incompetent practices and outcomes that have happened. They have had excuses and this is just another one. Dennis Chung has said that they came to this decision because if they had the election in 2023, the pillar 3 affiliates would not be able to vote. None of the pillar 3 affiliates would have been able to vote had they gone ahead and had the election in 2023. I also want to get your thoughts on only 3 of the 7 pillar 3 affiliates given clearance as of now to be part of the voting process and the others which we named at the top of this segment having until the 20th of December to get themselves duly registered with the JFF. Ricardo, all of that is just machinations on their part. Their ability to include that group in pillar 3 and let me say here now, pillar 3 was required by FIFA to ensure the broader and wider participation of football stakeholders in the JFF and hence this is why you have these groups being recognized and recognized in the constitution that was agreed on in December of 2022. However, it is only in recent weeks or days that they have notified some of these groups asking that they submit information that the people would have been totally unaware of because the constitution was never shared with any of them formally. Now the JFF set out a package of requirements for them to answer to and so groups found themselves submitting information and then being told later on that the amount of information is insufficient and as we sit here today, there is still not a listing of the full requirements issued to the pillar 3 people but really for emphasis, pillar 3 is to expand the participation of football stakeholders within the JFF and I say that because it leads to the selections that they have made also. Yeah, I'm glad you went there because relating to pillar 3 and we look at the bodies that have been approved as of now to be part of the voting congress, the past players association, there is the beach football association which as far as we understand was set up by Bruce Gaynor, a current vice president and who is expected to be on the slate of Michael Ricketts and there is also Patrick Malcolm, a board member and then the Jamaica coaches association which was set up by Rudolf Speed, who again is expected to be part of the Michael Ricketts slate for the January 14 election process. Your own thoughts on that specifically? Okay, of the three, the only real and legitimate group is the past players association, been in operation for years and have represented the interests of a number of individuals in addition to the group at large. The other two are fabrications, they and also fabrications that go against the fee for tenants that pillar 3 was to broaden the participation of football stakeholders. They both organizations were appropriately registered in the month of October, one earlier than the other. The beach football is headed by Bruce Gaynor as you pointed out, Malcolm and another who is an employee of the JFF. Now if that is not conflict of interest, you tell me what is, one, two, none of them, not one of them has ever participated in beach football, whether at the player level, at the administrative level, at no time were they ever involved, they set up a group and registered it somewhere on the 17th of October and have now chosen that group. Now what is the corollary to that group? The other group is the Beach Soccer Association. That is what the beach football is called formally and those people have the right name because they have been involved over 15 years, some were involved in the inaugural establishment of beach football under the sponsorship of Red Stripe and I know Pat Geryl was one of those, Andrew Price has been the national coach of every beach ball team that we have put out to represent Jamaica and there are others there who operated the management of beach football. Beach football, Beach Soccer can show you current correspondence where they maintain relationships with Beach Soccer around the world and had they been made aware of the requirements of the JFF, they would have established their due diligence and pursued their due diligence long ago when they were eventually made aware, which is after they applied for membership, they were then told about all these things that are required and the claim is that they did not submit any information or sufficient information and so were ruled out in favour of an organization that has never been involved in beach football. Before you go to the coaches Carvel, given what you have just said in terms of how the beach football association was set up when there was a beach soccer association already in place, can this be challenged by the Raymond Anderson led party or any other that decides that they want to put themselves before the election? It is being challenged and you may see a letter in circulation or may not have seen it from Beach Soccer Association and they have included in their subjects to which the letters are addressed, they have included FIFA, Pankakov and CFU. So they are not sitting down and accepting this publication that has taken place. Again, I have always, it is not just incompetence, it is corruption. They are corrupting the electoral process and it needs to stop. So you want me to go to the coaches now? Yes. The major conflict here is that Rudolf Speed is a board member, technical committee chairman and every one of the coaches that he has listed as members are employed to the GFF. If not everyone, 95% of them are. Now, who, if I am an employee, who am I going to vote for? This should not be allowed to stand. Conversely, Vin Blaine incorporated and has had the real and true coaches association for many years now. He has in fact educated most, if not all of the coaches that are now working for the GFF. He has maintained webinars throughout wherever he is working on the ground, he has maintained coaching seminars for coaches here in Jamaica. Certainly, Casafa has one maybe every month or maybe less frequent, but we do get, if it's not Vin, it's some other colleague of his that he has encouraged and engaged to present webinars, coaching webinars and I think one is due soon. So this again must be objected to and we are looking forward to hearing more details from Vin on this and Vin is another of the group that was not given any information about the requirements of the GFF and any response you get to me is going to constitute falsehoods in respect to the information that they were seeking from these people. Now remember, these groups were included in the constitution. Yeah, Carvel, the other groups, the ISSA Intercal Referes Association, PFGL, I'm trying to understand why those groups at this stage would not be considered as part of the Jamaica Football Federation. They're using the same absence of information in order to say they are justifying their non-inclusion. But can you imagine ISSA being nominated in the constitution, not being allowed to participate at the GFF under any circumstance? Intercal is also another one, right? And the same thing, Intercal never even got a request from them for information. Never got a request for information. You mentioned, help me here. Referees Association and TFGL. Referees Association. Peter Prendegas has submitted his company, which was established some years ago, and was the major referees group nationally. In order to object to that, we know that they were trying to organize a group of referees who all are involved and are working in current national competitions and are related directly to the GF. And so these kinds of improper corrupt practices must be called out for what they are and must stop. There was one at the association, it was the under association PFGL, professional football Jamaica Limited. Can you imagine PFGL, a construct of the GF, cannot be included now for whatever reason? I was around when the company was registered, and I'm aware of who the original shareholders are, and I knew of the GF effort to bring this new organization into operation. I don't know why. I know that they were not required to submit information until maybe a couple of days ago. And when we spoke to them last night, they said it's true they had not yet submitted anything, because they just got the requirements for submission. Yeah, well the GF effort said they have until the 20th of December to make those submissions, which is now the cutoff to become eligible to vote on the 14th of January. Yeah, and I'll cover before we go, I just want to... Good to see you. Yeah, Bon. All right, I just wanted to confirm what you mentioned just now about the beat soccer letter that a very comprehensive and detailed letter complaining of being disenfranchised, and they have copied CFU, Konkakaf and FIFA, so we expect to hear more about that. But can you tell me about the FIFA consultant that is with the JFF at the moment in office initially contracted to oversee the financial difficulties the JFF is experiencing? But doesn't he have any governance issues on his portfolio as well? Because how could the JFF be doing all of this, which you are saying is breaching the constitution, and a FIFA representative is in the office as a representative of FIFA to ensure that things are done properly? I'm a little lost there. As best I understand it, Lance, he's only responsible for financial matters and seeing to it that hopefully we are brought back into line. It seems unlikely with the current group, they don't seem to know, because they've been at it now for five, almost six years of restricted financing, and they can't get it right. It has meant the loss of over three million US dollars to Jamaica's football. People have never been faced with the fact of the amount of money that these people have lost Jamaica's football. It's three million dollars over five years, and if six years are completed, it would be 3.6 million dollars. I'm a little concerned before you go, Carvel, that you have so explicitly outlined what you consider huge breaches here from the JFF. And this process seems to be going ahead full steam, and the JFF is behaving as if they are on a good course. And I'm not hearing the kind of backlash that probably needs to happen if it is that your position is correct. Lance, I made it my point of duty to, and one of our members in the group that is supporting Raymond's campaign, put a document in that outlined in great detail the recent normalizations of FIFA. And the majority of normalizations have been electoral malpractice by the national member. And so I believe that they should, I don't think they've read that document. I think they should apprise themselves of the content of that document and maybe change the approach that they're taking with these falsehoods that they're putting out there, and these fabricated organizations, because it could lead to normalization, which I do not want for Jamaica. Carvel, in 15 seconds, how close do you Carvel Stuart, having read that document, think that Jamaica's football is to normalization? Very close in respect to the activities around the election, both in terms of the delay of the election, and now fabricating normalizations to be members of the in the election. And as you can see, it's all total conflicts of interest, which FIFA is not going to look kindly at. Carvel Stuart, chairman of the Harborview Football Club. Thank you very much for joining us on the Sports Mike Zone today. We really appreciate it, and we really appreciate how you have broken down the issues for us today. And I'm pretty sure that we'll be in touch again throughout the course of the next couple of months as we head up to January 14th. If indeed, January 14th does happen. Thanks Carvel. If it isn't brought forward, thank you for having me. Or that we take a break, but back with more on the Sports Mike Zone.


I'm Rich Moses. I'm from Eagle Bridge, New York and we run this farm called Moses Farm. We farm currently about 90 acres and 65 acres of that is sweet corn. We retail about 75% of our produce right here through our roadside stand. For the past three years we've hired a consultant to do our pest management and do our scouting for us. We're spending several thousand dollars a year to do this. Having a scout hasn't necessarily led to a decrease in expenses. In fact, maybe our expenses are going up slightly. But I do know that the timing of our sprays has been better. The results, the quality of the product we're putting out on the counter has improved. And we've discovered that we've found some problems early on that maybe we wouldn't have otherwise and have addressed those problems accordingly. I'm Dale Riggs. I'm a crop consultant here in eastern New York. With sweet corn what I provide for services is running pheromone traps for both corn borer and corn earworm. Scouting services where I'm out in the field looking for what's actually in the field at the appropriate time. And then for mostly growers I also make recommendations based on what I'm finding in the fields. I make sure the corn borer traps get put up in the proper location. That tends to be grassy areas. I try to not put them under trees but a nice open area where the moths are mating in the evenings. For corn earworm traps they need to go in fresh silking corn. And I therefore need to move those traps every week so that they're always in fresh silking corn. When I know that corn borer is active I go out and physically scout the field looking for the numbers of plants that are damaged and then I give a percent damage to the grower. When I go out and scout the field I scout in either a V or an X or a W pattern so that I'm able to get a representative sample of what's actually out there in the field. What I'm looking for is in general about 15% of the plants having insects in them. What we would consider to be the threshold level at which point it's then economical to go out and make an application to control these insects. With the corn earworm traps I'm looking for actual numbers. I don't need to go out and scout the field and I base my spray recommendations based on how many moths are in the trap on a weekly basis and the temperatures. One of the things we've tried in the past couple of years has been the Trichogramma wasp which is a very, very tiny wasp that's released into the field at the proper time and when they hatch out they seek out the egg mass of the European corn borer and will parasitize that egg mass so that the eggs do not hatch. What I'm doing is weekly or twice a month releases of these Trichogramma wasps and I just get these little cups that the wasps are in these as pupae. They emerge in the field and they crawl out through these little holes in this paper cup. I put them out in a diagonal or X pattern in the field just simply tie this cup to the corn leaf and then a couple days later often within one day the Trichogramma wasps will emerge out of these cups. Then they go searching for the egg masses of the European corn borer, lay their eggs in the egg masses and they'll turn black if they're parasitized, they'll turn black in about three days and then usually about 10 days after that the new wasps will emerge out of these egg masses. The species of wasp we're using is called Trichogramma oestrinia. It's very effective against European corn borer in the field so that's why we're using this species. This is experimental but if this does work, if we're finding good results there's potential for this to be these wasps to be commercially produced. We're a conventional farm in that we spray according to the threshold levels of certain insects in sweet corn but the Trichogramma wasp has given us another tool to work with. We used a little bit last year and discovered we had some great results and decided to expand the use of it this year hoping that in the long run we can eliminate some of our early sweet corn sprays for European corn borer.


Welcome to Toffee TV. This video was taken from the Daily Extra, the video where we delve behind the headlines on the Everton News Daily. To watch the full video, get over to patreon.com forward slash toffee TV EFC. We've got 10 exclusive videos on there every single week for our Patreon subscribers. So get over there and see what we're doing. George Horrocks says how much would you sell Garner for? Who would you bring in as a replacement? 35 million and Ibrahim Shanghari. Okay, Valhalla Vikings says how much do you think we can generate from sales? Vlassage on Yikuru at the Mola Luchman would be near 55 to 60, which is a good offset for us to go and make signings with some financial freedom. Yeah, agreed. Well, we've got Woff, what do we get? 15th of Lassage, wasn't it? 23, 24 for Luchman, so that's Woff 40. On Yikuru, 20. I think it'd be more, okay. And we're trying to get more for him, so if you've got 15, we should be trying to get 20 million for on Yikuru, there shouldn't be any reason why we couldn't. Yeah, but you're right, that would be 50, 60 million pounds, so that would be decent coming in. Obviously, there's James McCarthy in there as well, I think it will sell. Coming in toffy says Luchman was a Steve Wogg signing, initial fee around 7.5 million, good to turn. Here we go, so 20. Same with Ghana, bought for 7 million. Yeah, because I mean, Luchman, it was 7.5 rising to 11, wasn't it? But he hasn't, he hasn't, it's hardly any of those markers, so yeah, you're right, Mark. Gee holding us says, all right, lads, what would you do with Joe Williams? Have a good look at him, I'm playing in most games in these pre-season, see what he's got. He seems to have a little bit of barren, but that was against the Kenyan side. Let's see what he's got. No, no, no, no. I mean, this is the first game, so let's see what he's like and what he's like when he's with his first team players, more importantly, can he knit together with them because he, you know, he did a decent job the other day. You know, he's physically a good size as well, so I don't know. What play, maybe? Definitely. Simon Rouse says, evening lads. I get the feeling with the amount of players going on loan, we're about to sign someone. I think what it is is, I think they just don't want to pay the Atheist side. I think, I'm just going to mention Kenyan, but it's like, this is now the week to sort the week from the chat, isn't it? Who's going where? Who's going out of the club? Who's going with the first team? Who's going on with the under-23s? This is now the time to get that sorted and that allowed spaces in for players to come into the club. Everyone needs to know where they're going to be going into the pre-season. Carson says, love the new set and what's your favorite ever in the last three years? Oh, the Man United game last season because of the result, but also because the way we played. Sorry, I'm not being ignorant. I'm trying to sort out taking me lads of 40s, so I'm going off the run in a minute, but secondly, I was just saying a bit, I haven't had a list to do, travel to Switzerland and all. Kevin Morales has gone. So, you know the other day when you were all jumping on? These weren't. Oh no, these were the patients. Yeah, you weren't, sorry. These weren't. All over Twitter, the RITKs had sold and all. Kane says, couldn't agree more with me on the season preview that the likes of Niasco in the 2020s to Tain and Homey with the third team, we should be sending players who haven't got a future with us with the under-23s and sending a few kids to Switzerland. Well, I agreed with you, but I also said we've got an obligation to those players who were under contract to get them fit. Kane, you need to convince Baz to come on the couch to Switzerland with me, won't have it?


This is the second part of the series new to quality boots. In this second part I'm going to assume that as you decide to move from your cheaper cemented fashion-centered boots into quality boots you got interested in mock-toe boots like Redwing mock-toes, but you were surprised to learn that there may be one or two hundred US dollars more than what you use to spending on boots Why so? And if you really like the look what can you do to try them out without spending too much money? Keep watching Okay, how are you going? Welcome to bootlossify, and if you're new here, my name is tag I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and waters that I live and work on the Wajik people of Nungabuja If you miss the first part of this series new to quality boots where I dealt with service boots You can watch it on my channel, and if you're not subscribed You can click on the subscribe button and not miss parts three and four of this series as well as All the other boot reviews and boot information topics that I'll be uploading In this video, I'll be dealing with the mock-toe boot style and the alternatives to some of the more pricier and higher quality versions of this style So as part of this series, I'm assuming that you're not used to quality stitched construction boots But as part of the worldwide interest in boots You have been attracted by some images on social media of mock-toe style boots or work boots, and you like the aesthetic Then as you start to explore what you might buy, you'd be surprised to learn that They cost maybe a hundred or more US dollars than what you're actually used to spending Why is that and if you're still interested, what could you buy as a first buy to see how these quality boots feel and if you really want to get into them and maybe then buy the more expensive brands It's about dipping your mock-toes in the water, so to speak And while I realize this is stuff that my more longtime viewers might find a bit boring I hope that they will represent this generous community that is this boot collecting community And help out in the comments section below helping new people with their questions Let's leave the gatekeeping at the gate, huh? Also, let me make clear that this video is not sponsored and I bought all the boots I'm talking about so I have no axe to grind Now what are mock-toe boots? Here are some of what people consider mock-toe boots And I'm quite aware that there are cheap versions made in some pretty exotic countries Mostly glued together boots with poor construction methods, but I am talking about quality boots. So these are examples Mock-toe boots are generally like this pair of red wing 875 classic mock-toe boots The name comes from the construction style, which is reminiscent of North American First Nations people's moccasin shoes, which is what the mock in mock-toe is short for There is a vamp piece that is sewn at its apron to a side piece And the stitching makes the joint stand out in that raised moccasin style stitch Not many of the more popular mock-toes are real moccasin construction where the leather that wraps around the side actually wraps around Below the feet the exceptions are brands like Russell moccasins or rankort who still make those moccasin style construction But I'll talk about those later Once you define mock-toe boots as having that stitch around the apron more often than not with a wedge sole for comfort You can see that the classic mock-toe like the red wing with the high side walls can be shaken about a bit and made with the toe profile A bit rounder like the grandstone brass boot where it's a bit more round here Or made sleeker like the olden indy or this The parkhurst niagra boot This one the grandstone field boot takes on the us state of main style moccasin hunting boot aesthetic of the rankort or the wisconsin based russell moccasin Styles i'll leave links in the description below to these websites Um other than the sleeked up mock stitch as a flat decorative stitch like the on the niagra They are undeniably outdoor and casual and in that sense not as versatile a boot to go with just any occasion That's why most mock-toes like the red wing and this Farragut classic mock-toe are or have a work boot history The flat wedge sole gives hunters and farmers a comfortable outsole And gives finishing trades an easy outsole to walk in and out of a house being constructed Without dragging mud and debris inside now i'm talking about american trades not in australia but if you're new to quality And stitch construction boots and you're used to spending a hundred us to maybe 150 us for your boots Buying your first quality stitched mock-toe boot could be intimidating The gorgeous russell moccasin backcountry or bird shooter boots cost about 700 us In the mid-range Whites from the u.s pacific northwest make the peri for 325 us The red wing classic mock-toe is over 300 dollars Grant stones brass and field boots depending on leathers is around us 380 The park has niagara is over us 400 dollars and the olden indy is around 600 dollars us Don't get me started So if you're into the style and want to get started What's an entry level mock-toe boot? Well, I have two for your consideration The first is the thorough good classic mock-toe work boot for us $270 or about australian 450 on amazon The second and probably a more realistic entry for a first timer is the thursday boot company diplomat boot for us 199 or just over ozzy 300 dollars Now before I go on Let me preface the discussion by recognizing that the mock-toe orange colored wage sole work boot is everywhere And brands like car heart and others make different versions of them And although I have no experience of those many reviewers have torn their quality to shreds basically So in the making of this video, I'm acknowledging that they exist But advisedly leaving them off the quality criteria Let's first take a look at the thorough good It is a little cheaper than the red wing and honestly if you want to spend this much You may be well advised to have an extra 30 or 40 dollars And get a pair of red wing mocks But I include it as an entry level mock Because of one distinct advantage that the thorough good has over the red wing moccasins their comfort Red wing boots have a reputation for difficult break in That's the need to really wear them in slowly so that You break in the leather inner sole layers as well as the tough oil tan leather around your ankles and toes It's not an undeserved reputation because they are tough boots While the thorough good is not Not tough The upper's leather is tumbled and a teeny bit thinner making it very supple leather right from the outset Also, the welt is plastic the source of much criticism from traditionalists who expect everything to be leather But that makes for an easier break in because the boot will quickly flex with your foot when you take your first walk in it The welt is of course part of its good year welt construction And you can deep dive into that method of construction in this video up here Basically the strip of material called the welt goes all the way or in some cases most of the way around the circumference of the boot Is sewn to the insoles and uppers on the inside of the boot and then separately stitched to the midsole And sometimes outsole on its outside edge This makes it more water resistant because there are no stitch holes that go from outside to inside And it is more easily recraftable because your cobbler can pick out the outside stitch Peel off the outsole and glue and stitch a new one back on without disturbing the uppers Another comfort advantage is the removable foam insole that thorough good provides with the boot It has pads under your heel and the ball of the foot to provide even more cushioning And despite the wedge sole giving you a pretty good support anyway thorough good also include a fiberglass shank or that strip of stiff fiberglass under the arch of the foot This provides stability and further arch support when you put your foot down This is made in the usa that's important to you and it's sold as a work boot So don't expect, you know, really nice finishing I have found QC to be good but not great Now if you're not that committed to the price jump from what you're used to and you're not that sure You're going to like a quality stitched boot in your life Probably a better entry point for you is the Thursday diplomat boot While thorough goods have been a staple american bootmaker since the 1890s Thursday was started by two MBAs in 2014 who couldn't find a quality boot they liked at an affordable price So to get that affordable price their boots are made in León, Mexico, which is recognized As a quality center for footwear in the Americas Several name brands American footwear companies now get their shoes and boots made there Even Australian boot brands have gotten to the act and make some of their boots in León Apart from some of the made in usa models most of Thursday's boots sell for 199 us dollars They're only available online or directly in the one new york store It's also available overseas if on amazon I'll leave a non-affiliate link to the website below The diplomat model is actually one of the original models that they started with But it looked quite different and more in the shape of the dressier sort of indie style They later remodeled it in this quasi high sidewall mock-toe model with the raised apron stitch Comparing it to the red wing It clearly is a dressed up style of the design Where the toe box profile is not as high and chunky But it's a good remodel and as a first quality stitched mock-toe boot not a work boot It's a pretty good choice It has the apron stitched mock-toe and the wage sole Vibram So definitely has to look for under 200 dollars The leather is from partner tanneries in León and pretty good in my opinion from Lefart tannery It's full grain chrome tanned and about a little under two millimeters thick So it's pretty durable The wage sole as I said is from Vibram Which is a high quality Italian outsole maker that you see used by top quality brands The comfort is exceptional for this price The uppers are lasted or they're molded so that they feel like a snug handshake in the right size The toes don't pinch and the steel shank and wage sole provide a lot of support and squish On the inside the insole not removable While it uses non-traditional materials like pour on and foam Do provide a shaped arch support so that there's plenty of comfort for standing in this all day It is also Goodyear welter with a leather welt and he's fully lined with glove leather Where the thorough goods are unlined The leather welt does take a couple of days to flex during the break in But the rest of the boot is comfortable immediately out of the box And if you're used to fashion shoes with a lot of rubber and foam and flexibility This is the perfect transition for you My first quality stitched boot was a Thursday captain boot Which is in the service boot style and honestly my rationale behind that was I like the look Those are affordable and I can try them out If that's your thinking then in my opinion These are your best alternative for a higher priced and higher quality mock toe boot Than the fashion boots you're used to buying from shopping centers Now as I've just said, let me quickly talk about why higher priced boots can be higher quality Of course, not all are Some take advantage of their brand name to add a few dollars in for extra profit margin But what you should see as you move up the price range are better uppers leathers and by that I mean either Less corrected on the surface or thicker or tan with more oils and waxes in it Allowing a more beautiful patina with age You should also see better stitching Perhaps an increase in double or triple stitched pieces But more precise stitch lines that are reliably not wayward and less chance of dropped stitches You should also see more natural materials in the insole and midsole construction Because tough leather in there costs more than foam However, if you're just learning about these things and you won't really notice The Thursday diplomat will be more than fine in all of these respects For $199 Now assuming you're new to these heritage style boots and their bootmakers Let me talk about the troubled topic of sizing For the more experienced viewers, sit this part out First off, you should get to know your true size by getting measured at a shoe store on a brand It device in most cases your usual sneaker size is about May not be exactly but about your true brand size Most of your dress shoes, particularly from international fashion-centric brands like Echo for example and Timberland Is probably your true size However, in heritage and particularly American heritage brand boots They tend to size large and you tend to have to come down a half size This does not mean that they measure any different Just that they call their sizes about a half less Than what the Brannock device says that your length is I know, tell me about it So, my example I measure a U.S. eight and a half on the Brannock device Most of my sneakers are either eight and a half or nine And my floor shimed dress shoes for example are eight and a half However, in most U.S. heritage boots, I take a size eight as I do in all of these Then comes the variation in the last A last is the foot shape mold around which they build the boot If the last is roomy with around high profile toe box It will be roomier around your toes If the last has a narrower, sleeker toe box Your toes may be a bit more snug In the extreme, if the last is very sleek, you may have to size up a bit In the diplomats, there is an argument that the toe box is actually quite sleek And maybe I should have taken an eight and a half, which is my true size This is an eight though Look, the best advice I can give you when buying online is to contact the Brannock All of their websites generally have a contact page or an email And most, not all but most, especially the smaller newer brands Are really really good at responding to your email Write to them and tell them what sizes you take in your other shoes Some examples of your other shoes and boots and your Brannock size if you know it Be as specific as possible I find Thursday's customer service to be amongst the best of them And their sizing advice hasn't failed me yet in six pairs of boots that I've got from them Finally, let me talk about caring for these heritage style boots Both the thorough goods and the Thursday diplomats are full grain leather, meaning Real and not particularly manipulated leather They haven't been shaved and had a pattern stamped on to look genuine The little hair holes and pores that you can see are real In truth, they are both a little corrected though This Thursday rugged and resilient leather is lightly buffed on the surface To give it a surface that's more resistant to scratches And this thorough good oil tanned leather is shrunken and then tumbled for strength and suppleness But both will need conditioning Conditioning is like applying moisturizer to your skin after you've been out in the sun for too long And you don't really want that craggy, Clint Eastwood leathery skin Or chrome excel like loose grain creasing around his eyes If you consider that as a manly patina, you can ignore the next few minutes But you really shouldn't With the diplomats in a matte, rugged and resilient leather In this particular case, I'd use a conditioner called Big Four Which is a creamy conditioner and doesn't shine it up too much Nor if this weren't black, it won't darken the color as it gets absorbed In other Thursday rugged and resilient leathers that have a velvety new buck surface I'd probably use a suede conditioner With the thorough goods, you can use my smooth leather Go-to Venetian shoe cream But that can leave a slightly more shiny surface, which I don't mind, but you might Alternatively, an oil in liquid or greasy form like Neat's foot oil or mink oil Will be good because it also waterproofs the oil tanned leathers better Only be aware that mink oil in particular can darken this color In both cases, I would not apply cream or wax polishes The conditioners that I mentioned are good enough In all cases, apply the conditioner sparingly Two or even three light coats is better than one big slap of conditioner Which might not get absorbed properly or end up being quite splotchy Allow the conditioner to dry between coats and then brush the excess off with a good horse hair brush Brushing needs to be mentioned in boot care Depending on how you wear your boots, it is recommended to brush off the dirt and dust after everywhere This is because accumulated gritty dust and sand particles and grit and so on Can eventually scratch and wear and weaken the leather For me, I sometimes gather a few pairs of boots after dinner And sit in front of the TV and an episode of murder she wrote Or something that doesn't need a lot of focus and just brush each pair really well Well, that's it. If you're graduating from shopping center chain store boots to better quality stitched Heritage style boots and you've been attracted to social media images of mock-toe boots for that rugged aesthetic But you're not wanting to spend too much on your first entry boot Check out these two The thoroughgood classic mock-toe and the thursday diplomat mock-toe I've put links to the boots that I mentioned down below in the description area Not the thoroughgood because they're so quite widely in stores in most countries even in australia actually But not so widely maybe in australia Just google thoroughgood mock-toe I hope you found the video helpful and if you did do me a favor back and click on like And even click on subscribe to help me get these videos up to more people Look for parts three and four of this series And until next time take care and see you soon


Steve here at Blackstar HQ for tonight's webcast and basically tonight what we're looking at is a beginner's guide to tone. Now there's many many factors to tone, obviously the amps very important, the guitar you're using, the harp that's playing it and also the fingers. I've seen many gig rig rundowns and so on of artists and what they use and what pedals they have, what amplifiers, what guitars but at the end of the day these are very important. I think I heard Brian May's guitar tech once say that it wouldn't matter if you try Brian May's complete rig as he would, you still wouldn't sound like Brian and that's a big part of tone if you like. In the early days when I was going into guitar stores as a kid nobody really sat me down and explained the difference between what pickups give you so when I started working within the the MI industry and in stores I made it a mission if you like to especially talk to beginners about the differences of what guitars give you. We've got a nice selection of guitars here today but the first one I'm going to be playing for you is this rather nice Sandberg custom built guitar from Germany from the great guys at Sandberg there. It's a single coil telecaster style guitar and there's a certain tonality that you'll get from single coil pickups you know typical of things like the classic Stratocaster for example. It's kind of a thinner sand but when you say a thinner sand or a fatter sand people tend to gravitate towards are like a fatter sand I want a bigger sand it's not necessarily a case of that it's more of a feel under your fingers and the nuances that you can get when you play and you'll find certain guitar players that use a single coil format will sound a certain way you know for example the likes of John Mayer and Clapton John Frischanti Hendricks that kind of thing and with a humbucking guitar you'll find the Jimmy Pages the Slashes and so on and obviously some of those guys and girls cross over with different guitars that they use just for different tonalities and when you start to get used to that you can really start to open up your tonal palette with the guitar side of things obviously with amplifiers we've got a couple to show you tonight but our amps we believe are the most versatile on the market and they give you tons and tons of tone tonality and usability and they're very easy to use it's a lot of bang for your book and we'll run through some of the features tonight on one of our very very popular HT5 valve mini combos and then an ID30 combo that I have here which is a part of our digital program if you like so if we just look at something like a clean tone on a single coil guitar and we'll play through some tones and I'll try and put you in mind of some certain players um something like a telecaster format is often you know the country guitar to go to because it has that twang has that thin sound that cuts through but you could hear some Fruchanti there I did some Richie Cotson from his poison days and just there's a bit of John Mayer there but you can feel that that thinner sound coming through you know a classic bluesy crunch type tone at the moment I've got my ISF on my Blackstar HT5 set to the British side so it's more of a classic British blues crunch if you like the ISF feature of course allows us to move our tone stack around for more of a thinner mid scoop tighter American sound but at the moment I'm more of a pushed mid classic British type feel let's back that gain off a little that's kind of nice we're getting that single coil pushed gain sound so we're kind of in that Stevie Ray area um with a with a classic warmer crunch sound I noticed there as well as I started playing with my fingers um something that a very good friend of mine said to me when I started working in a store was um mainly the reason that he kept losing his his plectrums um try and do everything you can with a pick with your fingers um it was a lot easier for him just to plug someone into a guitar do a little bit of a nice lick and get them set up and that's a really good thing to do because there's different tonalities there as well so if you notice if I play something with a pick and then in my fingers so you can get a different feel there as well all part of the tonal journey you know um let's give it a bit more drive on the single coil so let's try a different guitar with some humbuckers and see what kind of tones we can get through our ht5 I kind of noticed there it's a warmer fuller sound single coils do have a tendency to have a slight uh buzz to them especially an older guitar more traditional single core guitar um and that's all inherent if you listen to old Hendrix records you can kind of hear that in the mix the humbucker hence the name humbucking um doesn't have that hum so much and inherently is a warmer thicker sound so on our clean channel on the ht5 with where we've got the volume roughly around about one or two o'clock and the tone around about 12 o'clock now with the single coil that still remain quite clean the humbucking uh guitars tend to have a little bit more bite to them you probably noticed that in the tone of the clean there I went to my single selection there it kind of got a bit more sparkle because we're splitting those those pickups uh and it kind of reminisces a little bit of that that kind of single coil sound and that was a really cool trick that jimmy page used to use on his on his Les Paul um went often he would have maybe used the telecaster for the recording on some zeppelin tracks um but that clean is is obviously driving a bit more if we just give that volume a bit more of a poke so those preamps are pushing a little bit harder another very important part of your your tone or characteristics is using the tone and the volumes on your guitar which often get left all the way up um especially with the the younger kind of generation that are just getting into the world of guitars but these are vitally important to your tone as well um if you listen to a lot of slash uh solos he often rolls the tone all the way off to get that particular style of sound that he has um it's a big part of it um if you're into that old school peter green type tone that outer phase sound if you can't get a guitar that's out of phase that will help you as well also bon amassa uh if you listen to a lot of his playing there's a lot of tonal work going on so with the volume side of things if i back my my uh volume off we're going to get a bit cleaner because the pickups aren't pushing as hard we'll start to get in that into that jazz territory there minus the playing but with the tonal controls there we're getting that really nice warm hollow bodied sound so let's try some overdrive and play around with the tones as well so if we back that gain off on the overdrive channel we're in that more of a classic rock kind of sound quite nice if we give it a bit more bite maybe let's take the isf over um to a bit more of the kind of uh let's see a bit more of the american kind of scooped sound if you like that we have watch what happens when i dial that tone back to get that certain characteristic as well and if you're using high gain saturated sounds like the ht-5's giving me there um great gain stage on this amplifier we can really get lots of different tonalities uh and including the isf feature we can get those american mid-scooped tighter sounds or those pushed mid-british style sounds and the clean gives us everything from a clean to a to a more boutique clean the more we push it so a really really unique product there's a lot of stuff going under the hood under here as well which is very useful to know things like effects loop speaker output emulated out which goes direct to a pa or or a mixer you can turn the amplifier into standby mode the emulated out is still active for late night recording different monitoring on stage really quite cool um so let's move over to the digital side of things on the id series so the current sound i've got set up on here is a very similar tone to i was trying to achieve there with that kind of bono maseresc sound if you like um it's a kt-66 on my tbp section tbp stands for true valve parent it gives us a very very good representation of the feel the speaker sag the feel under your fingers the sound of a valve amp and these are really really worth trying when you go to your local dealers um i've got a super crunch voicing setting the six choices there from clean to scream and we've got a nice room reverb added there's four types of reverb four modulations and four delays and we can mix three simultaneously which is very very cool um but this is a very nice blues style tone and again i'll play around in my tonal dials as well nice inspirational sound like i said using a kt-66 more of a british tile tone stack and a super crunch so the marriage on this id of that that voicing where the isf sits and the valve choice is really really very cool so tonality on this is second to none um i can run you through a few sands now that will give you a good explanation on where we're coming from with this product um so if we start maybe on a cleaner warm sound if we go for a six l six isf us um maybe with a a spring reverb for a classic valve style reverb um we're going for that really nice warm american style clean sound a very very populist choice you know of clean let's look at maybe a clean bright voicing push a bit more on that gain stage maybe a six v six and still on the american side of things and we're getting a small boxy maybe 50s american style amp very very rock and roll you know a nice 50s tone you know for a crunch back off that gain stage maybe an el 34 turn the isf to the british side of things and now we start to be in that realm of kind of the classic 70s uh 60s kind of vibe from from the uk you know 66 version there which we started with earlier but let's go for a super crunch maybe an el 34 still high gain you know the choice of a generation for this style of sound won't make you suffer that but you get the idea um so these amps are really full of lots of tonalities if you do want to go down the route of getting yourself an id amp and also we've got our id core range of course as well which is more of a budget level practice amplifier but if you'd like to get in touch with me about a personal easy guide on how to obtain these tones please you can feel free to email me at steve.marks at blackstaramps.com and i'll be able to forward that to you and hopefully uh that'll give you some really good pointers on getting the we're only really scratching the surface this evening but to get those kind of sounds you know um obviously i've spent a long time with these amplifiers getting the tones just right and equally adding the effects afterwards as well to really home in on those classic guitar sounds um so we'd like to thank you for very very much for watching this evening um hopefully it's been a good introduction to uh a guide to tone a guide to what pickups give you um actually utilizing what's going on on the instrument they're there for a reason and what our amps can give you um you know the ht5 a beautiful clean beautiful overdrive and then something as fantastic as the id series to to really find that sound in your head get your identity hence the name um these products are fantastic and black star are continuing to innovate and make fantastic gear so we appreciate your support in watching and of course buying our products before i leave you today obviously i want to talk about um following us on all the social media avenues as always subscribe to our youtube channel uh our instagram our facebook and of course our main website um blackstaramps.com and make sure you check out our merch store as well we've got some fantastic stuff on there um some t-shirts you can see a couple either side of the amplifiers here tonight and as well we've got some really nice uh black star pint glasses so cheers with me water and i'll see you very soon peace


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Next question is from Eric Pepper. How long should a bulk and cut last? Oh yeah. Here's a good rule of thumb. 27 days. With a blank. Exactly. Boom. Specifically. Wouldn't be grave, that was it. There's your answer. Yeah, 175 hours. No, here's a good rule of thumb that I used to go by with a bulk and a cut. If I'm bulking and my strength is going up and I'm adding mostly muscle, then I would stay on it. The minute that I notice my weight's going up and my strength isn't going up and I'm adding way more body fat or I'm not adding muscle anymore, I'm just gaining body fat, then I would switch out of it. And then with a cut, when my strength would really start to dive and I started to lose muscle, and this requires tracking, body fat tests and stuff like that, when I noticed that, uh-oh, I'm losing weight, but the weight I'm losing is muscle, then I would switch out of it. So that was kind of the metric that I would use. So I like spending four to six weeks in the one that's more difficult for you and two weeks in the one that's easier for you. So if you're somebody who typically can put on weight, fairly easy, then a bulk, I would only bulk them for a couple of weeks and then spend more time in the cut four to six weeks. And if the opposite is true, then I would spend four to six weeks on the other direction and then cut for the two weeks. So depending on which one, and that's just, I mean, there's no real science to support that that's superior than any way. That's just when you coach people? Yeah, just it's something that I have found over years has worked well with myself and then people that I've coached. I mean, we talk about the benefits of, and there's plenty of research and science to support the benefits of moving in and out of cuts and bulks and not staying in either one of them for an extended period of time. So I think that the science is out on that. I think everybody agrees on that, but exactly how many weeks you should spend in each one. I think there's such a genetic variance. And I think that spending more time in the one that is a little bit more challenging for you and then less time in the one that your body responds to faster has just made sense for me and has done well for clients that I've coached that way. I also like for somebody who has, let's say a lot of weight to lose, let's say I want to lose 50 pounds, right? So that would be a long cut, but I would break up every three or four weeks I'd break up that cut with whatever you want to call it, a diet break or whatever, where I'd put them at a slight bulk or even just that maintenance. So like, okay, every four weeks, we're going to do four days where we bump your calories up and put you in. The inverse of that too, right? If you're trying to gain. Yes, and there's a couple of benefits that, well, first off, studies show that it actually helps with the fat loss and reduces the muscle loss that can happen from going into a cut, but also psychologically, like even bulking. I know a lot of people cut a lot and trying to lose weight and they think, oh, I would love to be on a long bulk. I'm going to tell you, coming from someone's ectomorph, right? Being in a long bulk, psychologically at some point, you're just like, I don't want to eat. Like I don't want to stuff my face anymore. This is like super tedious and I don't like this. So then if I did like a three day cut, it would like reinvigorate me. And then I go back to the bulk and start to feel better, you know, when I would start eating more calories. And I think that's the key takeaway from a question like this is because there isn't no, and I jokingly said 27 days and the point of me joking about that was that there isn't like this specific. Yeah, there's no hard and fast rules. There isn't, there isn't, there's some basic general rules as far as not staying in it for too long of a period of time. I think spending two months, so eight weeks and beyond in any particular one with no break at all is not ideal. So if you are cutting, staying in a calorie deficit for eight weeks straight with no break is not ideal. I think the same thing for a bulk, if your goal is to bulk and you're eight weeks consistently and you've been bulking and you haven't had a break before you do a lower calorie day, I think that's not ideal, but everything in the middle of that, I think it's really about personal preference and then what you're most likely to stay consistent with and do. So I like kind of doing the four two thing just because it was, I was constantly breaking up whatever the client was doing in a month's time. They never were doing the same, you know, following the same meal plan or calorie plan for longer than a four week time. And psychologically that works. Yeah, psychologically I could convince anybody to like, all right for the next 30 days this is what we're gonna do just stick to the plan and then I'm gonna do this to you and then they'll, okay, they have something to look forward to versus, oh, we're just gonna inevitable or we're gonna be in this bulk forever or cut forever.