Hi, and welcome to the Windows Server Summit today. My session is Seven Steps for Successful Azure Migration, and I hope I can give you some insights, what you have to think about, to prepare your environment, and to have a successful migration to Azure. I'm available in the chat when you have any questions related to the session around migration or something else, please feel free to reach me. I will answer you as soon as possible. And I'm Gregor Imling, working for the SOSA and was based in Cologne. I have a Meetup, the Azure One Meetup, which is also near Cologne. And I'm one of the organizers about the Cloud Identity Summit, which is a yearly conference around identity management and identity security topics around N2ID. So please feel free to also take a look at there, which the address is identitiesummit.cloud. And yeah, I was really pleased that I was also awarded with the MVP for Azure and security, but I think enough to me, we will dive into the session now. Yeah, and the agenda looks like this. I will give you some overview about planning and strategy. I think this is an important topic to start with the Azure migration and to think about. We go to the assessment and evaluation about the environment, preparing the landing zone, preparing the Azure environment, how you can migrate, which tools are currently available, and operational at last, but not least, the optimization thing. And I think firstly, we start with the cloud adoption framework. I hope many of you have heard about this. This is really a great framework, which has many, many topics integrated around documentation, best practices and guidance and something like this that you can really good start with preparing your environment. But also when you are in Azure and you have your environment currently running there or you have a production environment, this is also a good point to review your current environment, to harden your environment, to get more like from the management proposed and something like this to get guidance about this. And this is really a good point because please take a look at this when you doesn't have looked in the past around this cloud adoption framework or it doesn't hurt about it, it makes really sense to use this. There are many, many cheats, technical checks and some of these use cases available free of charge. So please take a look at this. This is really helpful to start with your cloud journey or also to enable your cloud journey, to improve your cloud journey or to optimize your cloud environment. And there's also another framework available. But before we come into this, please remember the cloud adoption framework itself is more related to the technique, to the processual overview, how you can make some things like in the organization things and something like this. But there's another tool available, I've mentioned. This is a well-architected framework. And the well-architected framework is also really interesting because I know many of my customer doesn't be aware of this. And the well-architected framework has some guidance integrated, which are more in the technical area available, which brings you some topics, some tips and tricks to harden, to optimize, to secure your environment. And the best thing about the well-architected framework is it's directly integrated into Azure. So before we go future to the migration path, we will take a look at this. And I will go to my cloud environment. Here's the Azure portal. And I have said the Azure advisor is currently integrated in every cloud environment. When you take a look at the plate or here at the portal plate, you see here on the left bar side the icon for the Azure advisor, which means the Azure advisor integrates the well-architected framework. And when we take a look at the Azure advisor, we see five pillars that will be addressed from the well-architected framework, which is cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance. And these pillars will regularly checked by the Azure advisor into your environment. And then you get some insights about how you can improve your cost posture, how you can improve your security posture, how you can improve your reliability, or your performance. And I know many of my customers are mostly surprised when I say in the first workshop or whatever, in the first meeting, do you have a take a look at the Azure advisor? And they say to me, no, we take a look together. And then we see mostly that we can improve our cost or that we can also improve our security. And when you're here, take a look at the security side. You see here is fine, but the secure score looks not so nice, I think, currently, but it's because I selected one special subscription. When we take a look at the reliability, you can take a look at here. And then you get some improvements how we can improve the environment or also the technical aspects of the environment to get a better reliability on our workloads. This is more a side note, but I think really important because mostly of my customers doesn't aware of the existence of the Azure advisor. OK, we're going back. So please keep in mind, when you see the Azure advisor, this is in the background, the well-architected framework and will be regularly checked by the Azure advisor into your tenant, free of charge. OK, back to the cloud adoption framework. I think the cloud adoption framework gives you a guideline how you can start with the migration but also how you can start with your cloud journey. And I see you see this six pillars that's a cloud adoption framework address. And we will firstly go to the strategy side. And I think this is the first important steps that you have to think about. Why? Don't go to the cloud when you doesn't have any business impact that you await from the cloud. Like, what is your motivation? Will you have a better cost control or do you need more flexibility or is your data center out of outdated or will your data center maybe closed? And this can be both business motivation to use the cloud. But really think about which topic is most important for your business to use the cloud and which goal you will achieve with the cloud usage. This is the first really important steps that I didn't see. And I see many, many customers, from my perspective, are struggling currently what is really the best thing what they await from the cloud usage. So think about it. Think also about when you doesn't have really and this is fully fine, not so many insights about the current cloud or what you can achieve with the cloud. Please also take a look about the partner landscape. There are many, many partners available that can help you. They can give you insights and so on. So please also take a look at there that you get some guidance that you can need. Next one is plan. Please make an inventory of your existing servers, databases, apps. Take a look about which workloads you have currently running, which workloads may be important for you, for your production, for your company and maybe which workloads may be best suitable for cloud usage, like small workloads that you can faster migrate to have a first step and a successful step into the Azure migration. And also think about to involve a partner. The readiness is, I think, also important because when we think about, yeah, we have a strategy, we have make an overview about our current assets and our current environment, then plan to the readiness for your environment, which means make the governance things. What, maybe, which region you will use, which compliance and security guidelines and guidelines you will define, use policies, use the governance features that Azure and Microsoft provide and to have a good environment and also plan your landing zone that you have the possibility to place your workload into the Azure environment. Manage the access, this is really important, so give only the user control to your Azure environment, they need control and only the limited control that they really need. No, nothing at all user, owner or contributor rights use only last privilege for your users. And last but not least, I think also important is managing the costs. Think about reserved instances, think about some tools that Microsoft also provide to have a better cost control. Tagging, I love tags and I really like tags because the possibilities that you have with tags so think about also about tag usage for, firstly, for some tags for your resources but also for automation. This brings us to the enterprise scale approach and the enterprise scale approach is also integrated in the cloud adoption framework and the enterprise scale approach brings you the best approach at blueprint how you can design your architecture, so your Azure architecture, your Azure landscape. And this looks like that you use different subscriptions for different workloads like you use a management subscription where you placed your monitoring solution, your log analytics workspace as an example, then you have a connectivity subscription where you place all your network related topics like the firewall, the hub and spoke or the VNet design and the VPN connection to your environment or your current data center and also one that you have also a single subscription where all your network topics are related or integrated. And then becoming to the landing zone can create one subscription where you placed your workloads but sometimes it makes sense when you have a bigger environment and you have different workloads to also create additional subscriptions called landing zones where you placed your application into this. Last but not least, when you need some tests, some tools and something like this create a sandbox subscription where you can test new Azure services without have some flickering to the existing production environment. And there's also a good starting point integrated to the cloud adoption framework which gives you a questionnaire about what is the best way or what can be a good way to start with your application migration. And this is here simple available. I will share this links also after the session and now I will go forward. And this brings me to the Azure migration and the Azure Migrate is a product from Microsoft which gives you the possibility to assess and evaluate your current environment. It's the central place for all your migration projects so that you can, that means you can make different migration projects like for SQL databases, for Hyper-V cluster or VMware cluster and so that you have a difference or maybe for different workloads that you will migrate and this can be helpful. The Azure Migrate appliance itself can evaluate VMware, Hyper-V and also on-prem servers. It requires an appliance for your higher hypervisor. You can download it, I will show you this later in the portal as a file and then you can import this on Hyper-V or VMware and give them the credentials for the VMware or Hyper-V environment and then the tool will be beginning to evaluate your current environment, to assess, to make some analysis of the current servers, of the current installed application and we'll show you this in the portal. I will show you this a little bit later. Then you can also group servers for some proposals like for applications or some environment staging environment, something like this and the Azure Migrate blade itself provides also access to additional features or additional services that are currently available. When you start with the Azure Migrate appliance itself, there are some important steps that I have mentioned before. Firstly, you have to create a migrate project. You have to download the appliance that you will be importing into your current hypervisor environment or virtual environment that can access your current environment. The appliance itself needs internet access. You can also use private link but this makes it a little bit complexer because then you need something like of the VPN connection currently to Azure but the data is secured by HTTPS and it will be immediately start to think and to assess your environment, to evaluate your environment. Okay, best thing guys. Best time to show you this a little bit better. Okay, so now we're going back to the portal. I will go to the Azure Migrate. You will see when I search for migrate I directly found the Azure Migrate solution then you'll see we have different get started guidance and you'll see what we can explore, how what we can express which can be started, we can explore more where you see that we can many, many applications workloads assessed for this Azure Migrate like web apps for Azure files. There are some additional tools available like the Azure Storage Mover which is really great when you only will migrate some data but there are many, many more tools available also for application and code assessment. I will go future to the servers assessment and you see I have created a project before it's really easy. You can start here with creating a project select a resource group test, you can select the region where you will place your environment, I select so my nearest region and under advance you see that I can use the connectivity endpoints that I have explained before between private and public but I will believe this at public. Then we make and creating re-creating the project which means they create a new project for the migration journey in the background this needs some seconds this time I can go back to the Azure Migrate solution itself and we go into an existing migration project you see this is what I have created before and I have import the available the available appliance into my Hyper-V environment that's the Hyper-V environment detects on my Hyper-V nine servers and six of this was Windows servers I doesn't have any Linux derby words actually on my Hyper-V and three unknown the unknown are Windows clients that is why the Azure Migrate appliance shows this as unknown then you see I have some many many options available and I think I will give you a short review about the assessment itself under the assessment I can select here that I will assess the current VMs that the appliance has discovered there can I create the assessment type like the Azure VM the source what I have discovered I selected the servers that are discovered by the Azure Migrate appliance then I go to the assessment type where I can set some steps that I have designed in my governance topics like the target location storage type, saving options maybe when I take a look at the cost optimization with reserved instance or something like this this I can currently address what I have checked and decided into the Azure governance workshop into the governance itself that I can now directly use into the Azure Migrate journey so I will use West Europe as the target location I will leave the selected storage as it is this is interesting because this is up to you when you know that your VMs will be running all the time then please use one of this saving options I prefer when you really know that your VM will be not changed in the size and something like this to use one of this reserved instances what is two options here then you can say I will use one you reserved which gives you a discount for your VM but then it's important that you choose this when you know that your VM will be running all the time then you can select which VM series can the Azure Migrate appliance use for the checking which performance history this brings me also to another point please leave the Migrate appliance running in a minimum of one week that they can access more data this makes you or gives you more a better overview about your usage in Azure and so on you can use the offer license when you have pay as you go or enterprise argument I believe as it is and also your currency that you currently use in your environment then you can use that you have maybe a windows license I will not use this and currently I will just start with the security products to give you an overview about this then I can and this is also important now I can select the servers here you see all the servers that appliance have assessed for my environment and now I can say I will assess this firstly project or this in the first time for my production environment I give them the assessment name for the product environment or product servers and now I select all the servers that I will be running all the time on my current environment and I use this and then I go to next oh my god okay here we are and next review and now I create the assessment the product server assessment it's need also a little bit time now I will go back to successful you will show you this discovery I hope you can remember I created this new project and now when we go to discover we can here say I will using a appliance you can also import your data when you have this in a CSV file or something like this available but I think the easiest way is to assess your environment your current hyper-v or the environment with this tool then you can using this can choose which virtualized environment you currently have I select hyper-v and then you directly see that I can download the azure migrate appliance also the installing files that you can give access when you have currently a windows server available then you can download the files and install itself but I recommended to download directly the VHD file import them it's fully fine it's fully preconfigured then you only have to generate this project key this project key needs you also on your current appliance and this project key will then access your project your azure migrate project in your tenant to upload the data okay this was the side note to the discover now we're going back to the migration itself you see that I have now created new assessments I will make a refresh I hope it also and now I can go to the assessments and you see that I have created different assessments where I created one assessment with without discount where we can directly into it and then what you see is directly it's really good because you see directly from my assessed servers are three ready for the usability in azure you see directly the cost which I have currently for compute and storage you see the monthly cost here that are estimated about the storage itself and in which SKU size is this we the cost charge and all this kind of things under azure readiness you see directly the readiness for all the servers and currently also in the recommended size that you can use for your VMs directly in azure and I think this is really cool and you see also last but not least the cost details and detail how many costs your current environment in in azure itself but please also keep in mind this is the first step you can create a different assessments and it must really equals your current environment so don't assess servers that you not need all the time with and with this assumption that you will just running all the time in azure the best cost saving is when you shut down your server something like this but this you have also to prepare in the assessment but you can do this also assessment to prepare for down time something like this so this is why I also recommend to maybe use a partner that can support you this on this way okay we will go back you see there are many many tools available for microsoft for the migration path like for assessments azure migrate but when you will be more focus liking on the migration path then you have also additional tools available for the migration itself there are some additional tools available the azure migrate is one of really azure site recovery is one of the most important service from this because it can be move your VMs directly to azure optimize your environment after your migration is really important to have a better cost control to hide your security and also this and last but not least think about security think about backup and management so operational things also important microsoft itself offers also the azure modernize a program which can you also address on microsoft to get also help and insights and support on your migrations journey so please also take a look at microsoft as a azure migration journey or azure migrate or azure modernize program to get also help for microsoft itself this are my seven steps for successful azure migration think about the strategy plan for your resources in the current azure environment think about the readiness make a governance workshop to define the naming tagging strategy prepare your landing zone prepare your network create a firewall create a VPN connection all the stuff that you need for migrating your workloads and then implement your landing zone that you need also in like on the enterprise scale approach this gives you really a good blueprint about your environment and then please take a look at azure migrate for the assessment itself please remember also the azure modernize program I will also show a share the link later and then start with the migration with smaller workloads that give you better control about this and then remember going bigger and bigger that you can migrate all your workloads here are some things that I will also share to the my good appliance to some of the stuff that I have remembered and yeah I hope I can give you some good overview about which points are important for the migration journey please remember I am available in the chat when you have any questions feel free to reach me and thank you wish you also a great rest of the conference thank you for your time and goodbye


O Allah, we surrender ourselves to you. We turn our attention to you. We entrust our affairs to you. We depend and lean on you. I'll say it one more time. O Allah, we surrender ourselves to you. We turn our attention to you. We entrust our affairs to you. We depend and we lean on you. Out of love and fear of you. There is no escape from you, except to you. There is no escape from you, except to you. We believe in the messenger that you have sent and in the book that you have revealed. Ameen. O Allah, we ask you to witness this gathering. We ask you to give us openings in this night. O Allah, we ask you for the good of this night. It's openings, it's victories, it's illumination, it's guidance, and it's blessings. O Allah, if this is the night of power, if this is Lailatul Qadr, then pardon our sins. You love to pardon.  Ya Allah. And if it's not the night of power, you are the pardoner and you love to pardon. So pardon our sins, ya Allah.  You are our Rab. You are our owner. You are our caretaker. You are our owner. You are our caretaker.  We belong to you. Ya Allah. We belong to you, ya Allah.  We seek you, ya Allah. We yearn for you.  You are our goal. You are our everything. Ya Allah. You bring life from death. You bring victory from failure. You do as you please. You are capable of everything. Ya Allah. Ya Allah, witness this moment. Ya Allah, we turn our hearts to you. Ya Allah, we can't save our own marriages. We can't save our own children. Ya Allah, we can't save our own brothers. We can't save our own sisters. We can't save our parents. But you can, ya Allah. We come in this night and we ask for big, big openings, ya Allah. Ya Allah. And we come in this night in this special place, in this special month, ya Allah. Turning to you because you are our Lord.  Accept from us, ya Allah.   It renews your energy. So we change it up.  And each time it's renewal. And that's why commercials and cartoons, they got it down. So they change the screen every moment. So your attention is renewed. But our scholars, our psychologists, the scholars of the soul and the nefs, they've known this for a long time. So that's the intention for tonight. When we read Quran, four things happen, right? Tranquility descends. We are immersed in mercy. We are surrounded by angels. And God mentions us in a greater gathering. And so that's our intention, inshaAllah, in these big intentions, in these big, big moments. And God is capable. So anything you have, anything you're carrying, bring it now. Bring it and give it to God. Anything you're carrying, Allah is capable. And the key to openings, the key to gifts from God is desperation.  Desperation. To be desperate. The opposite of that is to be independent. I don't need you, God. I'm smart enough. I'm rich enough. I'm active enough. I'm strong enough. I don't need you, right? And so we come with desperation, with brokenness. We offer God everything we have, which is our nothingness.  And we ask God, we give those to God, and we ask Him to replace it for us with hasanat, with reward, with mercy, with love, with gentleness, with paradise. And He's generous. He's the most generous of the generous. He's capable. So as we read the Qur'an in this month of the Qur'an, sometimes, you know, we have a goal to finish a certain number of pages in a day, which is a good, which is a lofty goal. And then while we're reading those pages, whether it's in Arabic or English, and each one has its merit and benefit, sometimes something will touch us. A few words might hit us. We might land. They might feel different. And when that happens, know that that's a breeze from the Divine. And when that happens, sit in that breeze and don't move. Don't go anywhere. Forget about your pages that you have to finish for the next hour. Forget about forget about everything. God has these breezes, so expose yourself to them. So in that breeze, sit and say it over and say it again and say it again and say it slow and say it and think about the first word when you say it and say it and say it and then think about the second word and say it and say it and say it and then think about the third word and say it and say it and say it and let it just paint you.  And what better paint is there? Let it cleanse us. And we do that also even when we say, subhanah rabbial a'la and the sujood. Sometimes think about the word subhan. Sometimes think about the word rabb. Sometimes think about the word may because each one has its different power and effect and cure. Rabbi is the most word that we say as a Muslim following Islam. The most word that we say as a Muslim. If we do the farb, the obligations, it's not Allahu Akbar. It's not la ilaha illallah, it's rabbi. Because we say it in the ruku three times, in sujood three times, in sujood three times, nine times raka'a. We pray 17 raka'a as a day. Fajr al-Dohar, Asad Maghrib, Asha is 17 times nine is 153. Rabbi. Why did God choose that word for to be the word? What does rabbi mean? Rabbi has three layers. G-o-t. Rabbi has three layers. God is growing us, growing us. So yeah, sometimes we get a test. Sometimes he's molding us. Sometimes we get squeezed. Sometimes we get a difficulty. He's growing us into something bigger and better, just like we grow our children sometimes. The o is he owns us. And the t is he's taking care of us. And so when you think of rabbi, we can think of each of those layers. And rabbi. I have a lord. A lot of people are living this world. They don't have a lord. They don't have a master. They don't have an owner. They're lost. It's meaningless. It's purposeless. It's aimless. It's directionless. We have a direction. Jannah. We have a purpose. It's amazing. Right? And then you say Al-Ahlal. And so each one, each one has a beauty. And so you enjoy that breeze. And our Prophet peace be upon him and the Sahaba. When that breeze would come, they would say the same verse over and over and over in the same night. And so this is, this is from our Sunnah. This is our way so we can connect with that, with that verse. Salah al-Habib. Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Ahmad. Salah al-Habib. One more time. Salah al-Habib. Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa Ali. Say with me. Salah al-Habib. Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa Ali. Salah al-Habib. InshaAllah, I want to share one story with you. And this is the story of the historical figure in many of our cultures and civilization called Juhah, Hoja. Any other names you guys know about him? Juhah, a chemical figure, but historical real figure.  And so Juhah, the father was sitting on the donkey and his son was walking and they passed by some people and the people looked at Juhah and he said, what a heartless father. He's making his child walk. So Juhah said, oh man, yeah, my god. So then he, he got off the donkey and he put his son to sit. And so they continued walking and then they passed some other people and the people said, look at that son with no edab.  What kind of edab is that? No manners. Look at the kids, these children, these days. So Juhah said, okay, we're both sitting on the donkey. So the father sits on the donkey, the son sits on the donkey and they continue walking. And then they passed by another group of people and the group of people, they look at Juhah and his son and they say, look at that heartless family putting all that weight on that poor donkey. What bad manners. So Juhah says, okay, let's get off the donkey. So we don't put too much weight on the donkey. So Juhah and the son start walking next to the donkey and then they walk by another group of people and the people say, look at those imbeciles. They have a donkey and neither, no one's riding it.  And the moral of the story is if we're chasing the approval and the pleasure of people, we're making ourselves lower than donkeys. And so there is, pleasing people is a goal you will never achieve. And pleasing a law is a goal you should never leave. So achieve what you should never leave and leave what you'll never achieve. They say there's a quote that says, you know, in my 20s I used to care about what people thought about me, you know, I had to dress like them. What are they going to think of my, my, my, my hijab? What are they going to think about my clothes? What are they going to think about my hair? What are they going to think about my car? What are they going to think about my house? What are they going to think about my, about my wife, about my husband? What are they going to think about my joke? What are they going to think about my job, my career, my promotion? What are they going to think? And then in my 30s, you know, I got courageous and so I said, you know what? I don't care what people think about me. I don't care anymore. I'm going to, I'm going to be me.  I'm going to be authentic, which is another discussion for another day. So they start becoming free of people's opinions and approvals. And then in their 40s, they realize no one was actually ever thinking about them. But a Muslim in their 50s realizes a law was thinking about them and looking at them the whole time. It's about a law, right? And so in conclusion, I leave you with this beautiful aphorism from Ibn Ata'illah, beautiful hikmah. And this is, I leave you with this gift to take this away, inshallah, from this night. Inshallah, we also take away paradise, sayameen and exemption from Hellfire. Sayameen, because that's what it's all about. Everything else is a distraction. We're only here for a few days.  Did you get that? Vanish from your eyes, from your perspective, people's eyes on you in exchange for God's eye on you. When we make that shift, that paradigm shift, it's so comforting. It's so relaxing. It's so liberating. It's so empowering. It's so empowering.   Allah, that's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. Amazing. Amazing. And so I leave you with that, inshallah, so we can worship Allah as if we see Him. And if we don't see Him, we know that He sees us. So we don't end up carrying the donkey, inshallah, sayameen. So in this last third of the night, God asks three questions. Who's calling me so I may answer Him? Who's asking me so I may give Him? And who's seeking my forgiveness so I may forgive Him? And so we say we are Ya Allah. We're calling you Ya Allah. We're calling you Ya Allah. Ya Allah, we're calling you. Ya Allah, we're calling you. Ya Allah, we're calling you. Ya Allah, we're calling you. And we know you're the all-hearing. Ya Allah, we're asking you. Ya Allah, we're asking you. Ya Allah, we're asking you. And we know the one who responds, Al Mujib. Ya Allah, we're seeking your forgiveness.  You're the only one who can forgive us. Forgive us Ya'Allah for the sins that we did privately and publicly. The ones we know of and don't know of. Ya'Allah when we go to our grave let us be surprised with our rewards not with our sins. When we meet you Ya'Allah let us be surprised with our rewards not our sins Ya'Allah. Ya'Allah don't let us go to our death bed and feelings of remorse and feelings of regret. When we meet you let us not have remorse and regret. Let us have celebration. Let us have celebration. Ya'Allah we yearn for you. Ya'Allah we yearn for you Ya'Allah. We yearn to be with you. We learn to meet you. We learn to be reunited with you. This is not our home. Come back to your Lord. Come back to your Lord. Enter into my servants and enter my my paradise. Ya'Allah this is not our home.  Ya'Allah help us reflect our Prophet's beautiful characters. Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Connect us with him outwardly and inwardly. Help us love him. Help us emulate him. Help us represent him. Help us represent him. Ya'Allah we miss him. We wish we could have met him. We wish we could have seen him. We wish we could have held him. We wish we could have hugged him. Just one look. Just one glance. Just one moment to elevate us. To inspire us. To set us straight. Just one word. Just one voice. Just one moment to witness. Ya'Allah help us fall in love with our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Help us obey him. Help us follow him so that you can love us and forgive us as you say in the Quran. We want you to love us Ya'Allah and we follow your beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Ya'Allah help us live the meanings of la ilaha illa Allah. The multiple layers of meanings of la ilaha illa Allah. There's no one we worship except you. There's no one that there's no one there's no one there's no one that we seek except you. There's no one there's no one that we seek except you. Ya'Allah there's no one there's no one that owns us except you Ya'Allah.  There's no one's opinion there's no one's approval that we seek other than you and those who you want us to seek our parents and our teachers. Ya'Allah Ya'Allah help us experience the sweetness of this faith. Ya'Allah Ya'Allah here we are here we are here we are April 12 2023 21st of Ramadan.  We're knocking on your door Ya'Allah we're doing Atikaf at your door and we won't leave until you open for us and we have a good opinion of you that you are the merciful of the merciful you are the generous of the generous you are the king of kings and we're coming to you Ya'Allah. Ya'Allah we're desperate Ya'Allah we're desperate Ya'Allah we're broken Ya'Allah we're sinful we're sinful Ya'Allah we're lost we're arrogant we're prideful we're jealous we love money we love image we love materials we love food we love all the things but do we love you have we lived our life for you have we honored you have we respected you have we obeyed you have we read your Qur'an have we served our parents have we honored our parents did we sleep through all the nights did we ever get up at night do we ever get up at night and call your name do we let our Qur'an our copy of the Qur'an get dusty did we look at things we should look at are we choosing this dunya over are we distracted by this dunya and we stay away do we love our work do we love our bank accounts do we think about our bank accounts more than we think about you Ya'Allah forgive us Ya'Allah forgive us Ya'Allah forgive us ya'Allah forgive us Ya'Allah clean our hearts Ya'Allah eliminate our hearts purify our hearts take care of our marriages take care of our children and forgive us Ya'Allah We bring to you sin, you bring to us forgiveness.  We bring to you jealousy and envy and disrespect and you bring to us forgiveness and love and mercy and gentleness. Ya Allah, you bring life from death.  Don't humiliate us in this world or the next, ya Allah. Ya Allah, our children. Ya Allah, our children. Ya Allah, our parents. Ya Allah, our sisters, our brothers. Ya Allah, those suffering around the world. Ya Allah, our brothers and sisters in Yemen. Did we do anything for them? Are we too busy enjoying our steaks? Ya Allah, the leaders of the Muslim world. Ya Allah, guide them, ya Allah. Guide them, ya Allah. Ya Allah, ya Allah.  We can't do anything. This is your story. This world is your domain. You design it as you please and we don't reject the decree. You promise to test us, ya Allah. But we beg you, ya Allah.  The sisters. Ya Allah. When is the help of Allah coming? When is the help of Allah coming? We are close to Allah. Ya Allah, your help is indeed near. And you are near. And we love you, ya Allah. And we love you and we need you and we want you and we seek you and we live for you. You are our everything. We love you, forgive us, ya Allah. Cleanse us, ya Allah. Grant us paradise, ya Allah. With our parents. And if our parents have passed away, then illuminate their graves. Forgive all of their sins, ya Allah. Send them a gift at this moment. Send them a gift at this moment. All of our ancestors and all of our relatives and all those we care about, all of them listen. Send them a gift at this moment. Send them a gift at this moment. Ya Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahamin. Ya Ar-Rahman, Ya Rahim. Ya Allah, Ya Allah. Allahumma inna nes'aluka bi anana nashadu anna ka anta Allah. Wa hada ka laa sharika laka laa hada aslamat aladhi ilam yalid wa ilam yuradu wa ilam ya kufun ahadu. Allahumma inna nes'aluka wa anta wadduhu ilayka binabiyika Muhammadin sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Ya Muhammad. May Allah help us remember you and help us thank you and help us worship you beautifully. 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Right us from those who are from the thankful. A few people remember to thank you. Right us from the thankful, Ya'Allah. Ya'Allah, those who thank you, you increase them. We thank you for spiritual openings. We thank you for spiritual awakenings. We thank you for spiritual insights. We thank you for our parents. We thank you for our health. We thank you for our wealth. We thank you for our friends. We thank you for our family. We thank you for the gifts. We thank you for every moment of bliss we had. that we thank you for every smile, we thank you for every comfort, for every bite, for every sip, for every sitting, for every standing, for every walking, for everything, all good came from you.   Thank you Ya Allah, Ya Allah we ask you for sincerity, Ya Allah we ask you, we ask you Ya Allah to bring forth from us a Mujaddid, a Mujaddid, a renewer, we ask you to take care of our teachers and our scholars and their families and their children, Ya Allah, amin, amin. 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The bill, too, institutionalized the National Social Investment Programme's past-fed reading of the Senate. The passage of the bill followed the presentation of the report of the Committee on Special Duties chaired by Senator Abubakar Yusuf. It was followed at the upper chamber for consideration and approval by President Mohamed Buhari on the 29th of November last year. The objective of the bill that is the NSIP Establishment Bill to provide a statutory and institutional framework for implementation of the National Social Investment Programme. The NSIP was created in 2016 by President to address the economic inequalities and alleviate poverty among Nigerians through four social support programs meant to empower the poorest and most vulnerable Nigerians to attain an acceptable standard of living. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan said the bill is one of major contributions in legislation to support democracy and aid the alleviation of poverty in the country. And that is what will continue to stabilize our democracy, to stabilize our communities and our societies. So I believe that this bill, having been passed by the National Assembly, is one of our major contributions in legislations to support governance, to support democracy and support citizens. So, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hey. How are you? I'm good. That's a girl. How are you? I'm well. What you got for me? I'm 38. So what do you have for me? I wanted you to assess what you thought my value was because I do date. I just got back on the market and I pervert high value men. Well, I'm not really doing ratings, but I can give you an idea. I can give you an idea, but I'm not really doing ratings, but I can give you a general idea. Okay, let's go. How tall are you? I'm five, seven. Dress size? Four. How much did you weigh last time you weighed yourself? 130, it was like 136. Okay. Any children? Yes. How many? One. Age and gender. Nine. Female. Got a girl. Baby girl. Okay. You were married to her father? I wasn't. Okay. Hard truth. I haven't said it earlier on Instagram, so if you go back, you'll see it. A kid knocks two points off of every woman. Okay. Who? Okay. So let's say if you're a 10 and you have a kid, you drop to an eight.  Because it's that big of a deal. Are you looking to get married? I am. Okay. Are you 38? Yeah. I turned 39 and 50. Looking to have any more children? Okay, are you looking to have any more children? It depends. It depends on my mate. I do date older men, so if he ends up being a certain age, then I'm gonna opt out of that. But I would like to have another child. I would like for my child to have siblings. Okay. Just maybe one.  No, I work for a public accounting firm. I'm an advisory. I've been in corporate finance for 16 years. Okay, so automatically, what starts to complicate things is when you really start talking about high value, high value men tend to have to, you don't tend to become high value until you're 35 or 40 years old. Uh-huh. Then it went babies. Right. And you already got your baby. But I got one. Again, you got one, but logistically take you out of it. Yes. You know that if a man is looking, has had to wait and delay gratification, he's gonna want to have more than one kid. He's gonna want to have three. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm an only child. I tell a man, don't do one. Two is pfft. So three is not in the repertoire. So you're looking for extremely specialized high value guy. Looking for a guy who wants one kid and it's all right with being a stepfather. Mm-hmm. What state are you in? I'm in Houston, Texas. Oh, geez. Yeah. And the Houston is loaded with finesse niggas. Woo! I know, man. I gotta ask, why high value? Why does he need to make them with food? Well, it's not even about, it's about a well-rounded man that's been grown properly. First of all, I've been in corporate finance for a long time. Then where are you going? Where are you going? You got to tell me that. It come down to this. If you got married. He has to be able to match my fly at least. And then what's that? Mentally. But what is the income, though? Where is my income? Give me a range, don't give me specifics. We in the six figures, we doing well. We doing well and I was doing well as an entrepreneur. Do you care if he's black or not? I don't care if he's black or not. I prefer to be a good black man. Is your child's father black? Yes, he is. All right, so it will matter because it will matter because tend to be, so eight percent of black men earn more than six figures and you want them to match your fly. And because here's what it comes down to.  Actually, call him Kenneth. Kenneth, Kenneth. And you know my daddy named Kenneth. All right, we'll call him, call him Thomas. I don't know. You're Tom Thomas. All right, you're Thomas is doing fine. And Thomas is making 60.  But he's really making $65,000, $70,000 a year. He's in the top 15 percent of black men.  And you're going to get a home based upon his income. No, you're going to want a home based upon your income and your lifestyle and his income. But then it comes down to this. Let's just say the mortgage is $2,500. OK. You were paying $1,700 and he'd be paying eight every bill that came down. You'd be paying two thirds of it. He's paying a third of it. Everything, everything.  And he pay a third every gallon of gas in his car. You paying two thirds. He's paying the third.  You see, I take the drink.  Look, this ain't for some tea.  But the thing is, but the thing is, it gets real there because it is hard for women to really think about splitting their money like that with a man. It's not so much difficult for me to think about it, because I think about the opportunity for us to become accredited investors now. That's why I think about the threshold. OK, so there are several things I'm thinking about. And then I know strategy. So I could take a plumber and have him have an entire business because that's the way that my mind works. And so I would make that work for us.  Somebody's laughing. You see what you just did? I just. You see what you just did? See how I gave you. I gave you a man who's I gave you a man who's out doing just fine on his own. And you got to go make him make him earn one and be like you. That ain't going to work, boo. It's not.  Because it's like, well, now I'm trying. I've been a time and she's been a plumber for 20 years. And you just happy. Yeah, now she's got me trying to have a truck and this and that going over here. Why? Well, because she's used to working bags, you know, she thinks we can become accredited investors. And what's that going to be like sitting up in the bed on Sunday when Thomas wants to sleep in? Hey, you know, you should get up and start their website. We can do this. We can do that.  Oh, OK. You're not on the right view on a masculine frequency. OK. So if you want somebody on that, OK, are you all right being one of five? Oh, I already had this scenario and I didn't like that. Well, then are you all right with letting Thomas just be you not going to accept Thomas? Why does Thomas have to be my scenario, though, when I'm surrounded by being that of like engineers and they don't know about your mamas. I feel like 40 years old because they want somebody given because because an engineer like myself who had to work to make up I want three of my own kids and I don't we paying for yours. But I've been paying for mine.  But is there this and listen, listen, let's take it away from you because it gets too personal. OK, how was your child? How was this? How was a single mother's child an asset to another man? Come on, accountant. Only in the legacy that she lives and leaves. But she's not an asset to me because there's no DNA tied to me. She's nine years old. She's I am putting into I am. That man would be putting into your baby daddy's legacy. I would be paying it. That's a big investment. Oh, it's your investment. But it's I've been a stepfather. I can't go get the money back that I put into my stepson. But it's wrong. Well, all the dollars I put into that, even though it was there, I have to accept the fact that it didn't go into my daughter's mouth. Right. Because at stepfather's, you have no legal claim. And how many stepchildren. How many times do you see somebody stepping up to get a ticket and an award? They want to say, I didn't think my stepdaddy. They always think they step, mama. When their mother and men, you know how this goes. So your ambition, you make too much. And you waited too long to have a lot of opportunities in this area. That's true. I agree with you on that. So why did you wait this long? I was really focused on entrepreneurship like during my 20s. I really enjoyed my career. And I honestly did not take dating seriously. I was really dating for fun because I was really more self-focused on my career. So you were married? And the only time I took it seriously was after I was forced to settle down, which by having my daughter at 30. And then it was like, OK, well, now I understand the value of. And so and when I do this broadcast next week and I explained to black women how they were, how they bought into this dream or anybody else. I agree with you on that. And unfortunately, I can't undo that because you can't get those years back. Right. You will focus on your career. OK. But that's how our parents advised us, honestly. That's what they were told. My daddy advised me like that. Well, but the thing is, I'm not going to look. But I feel what you're saying. The problem is the problem is that non-black women in your position don't look at their men with contempt. I agree. I have and have had clients who make far more money than their male counterparts, their husbands. And they are submissive. And they're not trying to get their husbands to become copies of them. Maybe it's because I associate blue collar work with. And this is my own fallacy. And I apologize to anybody that might feel slighted by this statement, but I'm just being transparent. Like maybe I associate blue collar work with not being well-traveled, intellectual. Where have you traveled to? I'm sorry? Where have you traveled to? I've been to the Philippines, Japan. There's several places I haven't been, but I've been a few places overseas. I've been, of course, a lot of places domestically. I have a bucket list, though. I know of places I would like to go. There are places I've planned on going in 2021 also with my daughter to start helping her. Who's her father? Is her father a high-value man? He does well for himself. He is an entrepreneur. Yep. I don't want to go into too much detail. He's not living a lifestyle that's in alignment with mine. All right. So you put yourself in a position because, like I said last night, your income and your education do not matter to the kind of men. They don't matter. And that's what you're judging me on.  I don't think they beneath me. I just try to. I don't think that beneath you, your money or your education doesn't make your high value. If they're just not, what you didn't say is if you met a guy who was in the top 15% of earners of black men, you didn't say, oh, I would be happy and be thankful I got someone who'd be willing to step in and be a stepfather to my daughter and would be willing to take on the liability of another man's responsibility. We didn't get to that part yet. But no, no, no, but because we didn't get to that because you automatically said that you would try to get him to make more money and do other things other than realizing. I see what you're saying. Other than realizing he is giving you one of the biggest gifts of all. He is accepting your lack of giving him children and taking on somebody else. You should be washing his feet with your hair. OK. So out of the eligible men that are making us to be right now and needing to be right now, you saying that I should just be thrilled that these men are into me the way that they are? I'm not saying I can't. I don't know the eligible man that you're dating. I'm saying that if a man who was talking about like Thomas, a man who's in the top 15% of earners of black men and is willing to step in and marry you, that puts you in the one out of four black women that will ever marry in their lifetime. You should treat him like a king for the fact that he's willing to do that. In addition to the fact that you have a child by another man that he has to pay for. I agree with you.  Probably going to be more than one, but he's going to accept one from you. And he has to raise one that you already have. He's the one that will be sacrificing a lot. So instead of trying to get him to do anything else, you should be, honestly, it's like, oh, thank you. Because see what used to happen when women used to have children out of wedlock? Yeah. You were a pariah. No one wanted you. In China? In China? And you've been overseas?  Try it in Korea.   Women who are unmarried over age 27 called leftover women. Leftovers. But women who have children out of wedlock are pariahs. And we used to do that in this country, but we've made it OK to where you can even go sit up in a church with a child. To where you just think a man should accept it and be like, there's no big deal, because I can take care of my daughter. But understand, you had a daughter, right? I did. I do have a daughter. So let's just say change his name to whatever. Let's change his name to something sexy like Boaz. You marry Boaz, and Boaz, Boaz is matching your flow. Boaz is a $110,000 insurance salesperson. OK. All right, he's doing his thing. You and Boaz got Boaz Junior. And then your daughter turns 14, 15 years old. You and Boaz have married five years. And one day you come home and your daughter's in tears and say, what's wrong, baby? Boaz touched me. Boaz is dead.   Boaz has been a stepfather to a daughter. In the Me Too generation, it's asking for a lot of problems. Trust me, which is why when she was born, I literally said, I ain't dating.  I said, I'm going to wait until she 18. But now I would like a companion. I know what you would like now. But the thing is, you have to ask yourself, what am I asking a man to do for me? OK. See, you ladies are good at saying what you want. And what I'm good at doing is asking you what the kind of men you want want.  If she says something, it's guilty until proven innocent. Trust me, I. Remember what I said, you and Boaz had a child, Boaz Junior. It wouldn't matter, Boaz Junior's there.  Thinks that he going to like his step-sister. And God forbid she was just doing it just to be malicious.  Ma'am, all these things are in man's mind. This is why. I understand. We have gotten to the point to where you should not marry before you have children. And if you have a child, you should marry the child's father because you guys have the investment. This is why I say it's all liability for a man. All liability. Understood. So I get what you want. I do. I do. But you know, like I know, you want a man on a certain kind of income level. And I don't know if you've got enough there to make somebody who has those kind of options pick. He only gets one for you, too. You've been choosing me, though. Choosing you for what? Well, for what? Listen, I'm going to be honest with you. Can I talk to you for real? When I talk to other men about the option of women, I can be honest with you. A lot of women can be beautiful, but they lack substance. That's one of my pluses. Choosing you for what, though? Choosing you for what? Right now, since I've been on the data scene, they choosing me to date with a purpose. We dating with a purpose. No, no, no, no. Choosing, see, this is what I talk about. Women will take the mistake that a man will choose you, will deal with you as if that means he was going to marry you. No, no. I'm talking about a man chooses you when he's willing to drop to one knee and present a ring of significant characters in public. Agreed. That's why I'm single till I'm married.  Let's go, let's get it in. Let's do what we do. Let's talk.  Talk all this. Let's talk that. Well, you ain't just. Come on. I didn't say.  Hold on, hold on. It's a deal with everybody. I did not say that. It's a lot of comments down there. I'm not worried about the comments. I'm talking to you. OK, come on, Kevin. You're looking at comments. I'm talking to you. All right, I was most out of it.  Yes, you can have a great time with the man. But it is going to be difficult to find a high value man. Because that's what you want. A man who's making a certain cut. It would be eat. Your daughter's nine. She wouldn't be out of house until 18s, nine years. She'd be 47. Only 8% of black men made that kind of money. I'm sorry. And y'all aren't happy with regular guys. I just don't understand. No, I'm not saying that I'm not. I'm just saying that. Well, you know, I know, I know, but it's not your first choice. And if you did get them, you feel like you were settling. And we know on YouTube and Instagram, people are watching. You and I know it's true. We know it's true. That it's not something you'd be proud of. But it ain't like you'd be running after people.   Come on, that's not what I'm saying. Listen, if I choose him, trust me, believe it will be for a reason. Of course, but many reasons. And this is one of the problems of having dating with children. And because you have the child, you have grown accustomed to how you have to move.  So it's all investment. You get a return. Somebody who's outside of you has no return. It's all, it's all expense. Investment. Men have an expense. And as a smart financial person, what are the things you want to do? Lower your risk. Minimize your risk. Minimize your risk. Minimize your expenses. I agree with you. I'm sorry, but that's what it goes down to. So I don't know what's wrong with you and your ex, but that'd be your best bet. That's not my best bet, but I will, however, re-evaluate my options and consider guys. Like, it's not about the salary thing, but I just need to consider guys that maybe there are cultured men that don't make six figures. I mean cultured. When do you mean cultured? Like, I like to do that as well, Rand. What are you from? I'm from Houston, Texas. Most city-wedder girls are pretty. I live in Houston for six years. What do you mean by cultured? Why is that so important? It is important to me because, for one, I like to be able to enjoy different things with a person, art, music. I like to be able to go to different museums. I'm the type of person I consider. Did you do that with your ex? Did you do it with your child's father? Yeah, some of those things. Yeah, a couple of those things. But that's not some, but that it wasn't a nature of your relationship. No, it wasn't. And the nature of our relationship was a friendship. So a man that you reproduce with did not have to romance you and do all this other kind of stuff. But then a man who is going to be a stepfather has to deliver more. No, that's not what I'm saying. That's not what I'm saying. But that's what I'm hearing. In my history of dating, men have romanced me. I've enjoyed that. I mean, I'm not saying romance. I'm talking about the culture and this and that. You didn't have to do all that. He did a few of those things, y'all. A few. A few. We connected on a level that I would appreciate actually was consistent in other men. It wasn't consistent with him. But what I'm saying is, OK, OK, but the thing is, the thing is, you said you want somebody who's culture and your baby, your B.D. wasn't culture. No, he was. He was educated. Was he cultured to the level that you're talking about? I would say for the most part, there wasn't anything that we couldn't talk about. So I would have to say, yeah, he was really educated, intellectual. I mean, he was a guy that I liked and I enjoyed being around. So I would say yes. And I actually date those kind of guys now. You can't set your standard higher than your B.D. Well, I would say this. When you find out. I mean, any woman. Any woman can do that. Well, Kevin, at some point, you have to, right? So as you date, as you evolve, as you evolve, the level of or your standards change over time. OK, no, no, no, no. See, it's where you ladies get confused. Why? Because listen, listen, listen, OK. Here's a business. Here's a business problem for you. Name me a product that increases as it ages and gets used. Appreciating assets. It's like, it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Name, name me a product. Give me give me an example of a product. OK, let's name what people relate to in a retail Rolex. It doesn't appreciate the value. No, it doesn't. It does not appreciate in value with use. OK, not with use. OK, I hear what you're saying with use. There's not exactly not in the terms you talk about. So what you ladies try to do is try to act, try to come and say, well, as I've got an older and more experience, I should be more valuable because I got more experience. Yeah, but the job you are on or the things you're doing got the benefit of your experience. I'm just getting you at the top of your experience. That means you want me to pay prime experience and I didn't get the value of you getting there. You're asking too much. I think listen. I'm sorry to be so quickly. But older use just because see the thing is you value yourself higher because you matured and learned more and got all these other experiences. And for the thing is that doesn't matter to us. Well, we look at listen how men think about it. Hold on. It's going to get tight. That's just additional miles. We're looking at the fact that you the gravity has been on you more than your kid is sitting over there. You cannot. Y'all are all out of whack with how men think. This is why you can't get what you want from us because you're valuing something up here that is a used vehicle with a lot of miles. OK. Just because you hand washed it. OK. I said this last night on my show. Do you believe that because this is where I'm at. At 20, the way that I dated men is now different than the way that I date men at 38. And the expectation that I have while I'm interacting with them, even on the surface level, when you do the first lunch meeting and all of that, my expectation level is different now from that experience. Not that I expect him to pull out all the nuts and bolts and whistles, but my expectation level of transparency. That's the problem. And that's the problem. No, I said I'm not expecting that. I'm saying I'm expecting a different level of transparency because of the way that I enter into the scenario. All right. But the thing is at 20, you were 20-year-old hot. You had 20-year-old wound. You had 20-year-old body count. You had 20-year-old trauma. You had 20-year-old experience. That's what we value. That's all it comes down to for us. But don't you feel like with those experiences, a person can add value to it all the time? Look. If we plan to be a life partner. OK, you want me to answer? Yes.  And all of that is at your highest in your youth. The older you get, the older you get. Right. But no product gets more expensive with time and use.  I am this. I am that. Fine. But have you ever been to the pawn shop? Yes. All right. If it takes up to you really value to the pawn shop. I have. Did they hurt your feelings when they told you how much it was worth? Yes. I was like, what? Yes. That's you. We the pawn shop. Baby girl, I've been there. And you take something you really value to the pawn shop. This is a watch that tells time in France, mouse guy, and star. In fifth ward, it's worth $50. And did you hear the thing? Let me ask you a question. Did you take the money to pawn shop off it? Or did you leave with your product? I left with my jewelry. Well, guess what?  There's a funeral plot out there waiting for you.  But you get the ultimate point. But I got real. Your standards are up here. And you're like most women. Go to my show last night and there were 20 calls. And then the show before that with the single mother is another 15 calls. Yes, I saw that. 35 women all arguing with reality. And like six of them yelling. I feel like I'm in touch with my reality. I just feel like you're in touch with your reality. You are in touch with your reality. Unfortunately, that's you. That's what I say, guys. Women honestly believe this stuff. I give it. You're in touch with your reality. But it's your reality. Our reality is I'm a high-value man.  I'm going to pick the best deal on the market. I know. And that's what I've been experiencing. But mainly what I have understood is that if I bring peace to the scenario, that's also wonderful. Like I have things to bring. No doubt. But here's the thing. All the things you have to bring peace, what about when you bring it and another one brings it and she's 27 years, 26 years old, and wants to have three of my children and no kids. OK, well, let me ask you this one more thing. Listen, the thing is, you guys never think that someone's bringing to the table what you have and more. You always assume you're the most valuable. No, I do because it's Houston, Texas. It's a lot of, I know what's out here. But I'm saying to you this. If I consider, which I have, consider that I like dating season men, OK? And I understand in that scenario. Season men meaning what? Because I'm not having that. Season men meaning what? Now, conversation. Season men meaning what? 50 plus. And what does that mean? I'm 52. And I'll tell you right now, I don't date women your age. Oh, but they hold baby. But they liking it though. And I'm just saying it's cool though. Listen, listen what I'm about to say. I don't date women your age, not because I can't. It's just I don't want to have to, I don't need to do all.  I'm dealing with women who are younger, who are happy to be there. They're cooperative and all sort of things. And then they listen to women your age. And I'm like, they know who my competition is. And I'm like, oh, I can be heard because all I have to do is not try to be as demanding. And the thing is, I mean, no offense, man. It's not like I've never met a black woman who didn't think her VJJ was the bomb. They all think y'all are the ish. And I'm going to tell you, no, no. And I'm trusting it. I've had plenty. I believe you. You said you was a kid.  She appreciates it. I take her to a Ruba. She appreciates it. You just expect it. You might listen, listen, not you. Let's go now. Let's go to Bahamas. Oh, yeah, I love the Bahamas. We should go. There's a store. Wait a minute. Everything I done with you and already been. Let's have a baby. Oh, I've been there too. Ain't nothing new with you. Ain't nothing new with you. Buy a car. I already did that. You own your own home. I have. I'm about to own another one. Home purchase, nothing new.  What can I, what can a man really do with you just knew that somebody else ain't already done? We can become, we can begin, we can get married. We can become accredited investors. We can travel to other parts of the world that I haven't traveled. We can create new memories just within H-Town. Domestically. What else can we do? Listen to what you just said. After I marry you, there ain't gold places that you have not already went, but you've been to these places. So what if the places that you've already been, I want to go for? Oh, no problem. Because we can create our own memories there. Listen, listen, listen, listen. No, no, listen. See, to be a high-value man, I had to work 60, 80 hours. So I couldn't get out and travel. So now it's ready to go. And ready to go, it's like, all right, we married. Let's go over here. And I'm going to know you already went there. We can try to make it new, man, but you know what it is, once you've already been someplace, there's nothing new. There's no new magic with older women. And you keep talking about this accredited investor and this and that. We don't care about your money. No, it's not about my money, it's about our work. Listen, you may do well, but God's on my level, baby girl, that's what, a month income? I mean, really? It's not that big to us and guys like that. It's like, no cap, but it's like- No, I can't do it. Because accredited investors are just like, this bag costs more than, I bought this girl a bag that will cost more than your car. The point is, you don't understand that men want to feel like a king. And it's hard to make a man feel like a king when you've had so much experience with other men in life. You got a full nine-year-old.  You're dating me. All right, you know what? I want to go work, because my wife will never have to work. Never have to work. You know what? I want to make content from Spain. All I need is an internet connection. I'll take my sister, I'll send her. Okay, we're gonna go to Spain. Barcelona, and we're going to actually live in Barcelona for three months. Oh, we can't do that because your daughter has to be in school. Not true, virtual learning, and we can bring the nanny with us. And the private tutor is virtual as well. And I got to pay for nanny. And I still have to, I still, and here's the thing.  Doing all the things I want to do is a young married couple. We're already a ready-made family doing that kind of stuff. That's why you have a nanny. Yes. No, a nanny is fit. All of that. Oh, Jesus, she's not listening. See, this is why I said, this is why I say, ladies don't get it. Look, man, I've been on both sides. I've been on both sides, and I will tell you right now. That's why I said, women who are pet owners and being, you are a parent, and your dating a parent is just, there's no, the spontaneity. You can't just be spontaneous. That's true. Like you can't be with... That's true. I have to schedule all my... And the thing is, the kind of men you want, they value those kind of things. True.  And I got to buy a nanny something, so all that is is more expenses. It is. And then also, I got to... We got to talk to your ex, your baby dad. We need to get him signed off on that because we can't take the child out of the continuous fire. We got to do all that because you just can't take these kids. And if he say no, then we got to do what? That is if that person has that type of barrier. I understand that will be an issue. Right. And what if the kids say, I don't want to go? Oh, baby gonna roll with mama.  So baby gonna roll with mama. So I don't want to be gone. So if the BD said I don't want to go, he has legal rights. He has legal rights. And if you guys have any kind of custody agreement, you can't take the child out of the contiguous counties without giving a... I would never violate anything like that. So if he says no, you can't take the child. You just simply cannot do what you want to. Absolutely. So, and even if he says, okay, and if she says she don't want to go, okay, but she gonna roll with mama. So that means the entire time I'm boss alone, I got a wife and I got a nine year old with an attitude. I want you to create a different scenario. All right. Well, we've been, okay, I've already, I'm all right, this is the problem. This is the situation. But I hear you don't.  They want a lifestyle. They wanna move a certain way. It's always the man that you want all these lists and these guys are supposed to just want nothing. No, they got requirements. That's why they'll deal with you. But when it's time to pick someone, they tend to pick a woman who has no children so they can make their own family and their own legacy. I cannot overstate that. The ladies really seem to have a hard time accepting it because of the choices you've made and you can't undo them. I respect it, but you can't undo them. I gotta get on to the next call, I know. Appreciate it. Thanks Kevin. Bye bye. Bye.


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So hello, I'm Richard Ramos, we are from Estatus and today we're going to talk about building reactive apps. So to talk a little about this we need to give some context. We are currently working on an app called the Telenetwork which is the centralized P2P field to crypto gateway where users can interact with each other and buy and sell their P2P. And during the development of this theater we faced some challenge being the main challenge accessing smart contract data, namely in terms of tracking smart contract events and performing event sourcing. So here are some screens where we can see the areas where we need to do some data trading. For example, in this screen we need to retrieve all the active and past trades for a specific user and help them. And this ends up giving us some problems specifically to seeping the smart contract events and as well as trying to retrieve all the data in case the user refreshes the page. And maybe we can have some lack of reactiveness and need to refresh the data as well as it is hard to do simple queries because sometimes we are not using existing data and we need to retrieve the data all over again. So we came up with a simple solution which is Substance, an empty package that is already available. This is a JavaScript library that lets the dev developers be able to track events, variables, functions, and balances. It will synchronize all this data into a local database and also resume the loading of the contract events. That means that if the user refreshes the data it will not start from scratch. It will start from the last event that it has synchronized. And it also is built around our XJS observables, meaning that you can have a reactive program. So to use Substance, first we need to require the library and then we initialize it giving it a battery provider. And we need to initialize it, very important to initialize it because it makes sure to start the database, make sure it needs to be synced before starting. Now if we want to track events, the first thing to do is that we need to start initializing new contracts. There are two ways to do this. You can either pass the WAP3 contract instance or pass the API address. And what you will create, it will still be a WAP3 contract, but you will have some extra things, namely that it will have a new method called track. And this method, it will tell the subspace exactly what to track. You can also pass it some filtering options. For instance, in this case we want to track ratings, but only for a particular fire. And it will return an observable. And this observable, it will be an RxJS observable. You can use all the operators available. You can create your own operators. And in this case we pass an average operator and then whatever rating is done, the subscriber will be triggered with the latest average for those ratings. And again, it's important to emphasize that if you use this in a DAB and you refresh the DAB, it's not going to sink all over again. It's going to sink from the last node location, which it's much easier this way. And you can track the properties. So you usually would do dot poll, which you can still do because it's the same API, but you can do dot track and it will return the observable. And you can do the same thing with balances. So you can track the X balance or your C20 token balance. And this is framework agnostic, so you can use it with a framework du jour, be it React or Angular or whatever framework. So here's just an example with React. So you can use this I want to fast. You can use this with Redox or without Redox. It's not too hard to force for any particular solution. So in this case we provide a wrapper to help out and you can use this wrapper to wrap the React component. And what this will do is that it will make the React component recognize the properties that are observables, automatically subtract to them. So whenever there's something new, it automatically crashes the component. And then to use this, again, you initialize the substance contract. And again, this is a very simple example here we want to track the rating of that. And we're just passing a path with the min and the maximum for the rating. GraphQL. And yeah, so we also support integration with GraphQL. We only have to define the resolver. And with this resolver you need to pass a subspace observable and after creating the schema, you can start using the GraphQL queries to obtain specific data. And the good thing about using subspace is that each time a new event is generated, the query will be updated automatically and you will receive the latest data. And so here are some useful links in case you want to learn more about subspace. There is also a documentation where you can find examples of integration with different frameworks. So thank you for your attention.


I need more money than I have. How do I solve this? Simple.  Easy, right? Not exactly. Long before credit scores, human judgment was the key to deciding the risk or quality of a potential borrower. Not only was this a painstaking process, but it was also unreliable. Eventually, a point system was developed that eliminated most of the human bias that previously existed. So what is credit score and how do I know if mine is good or not? A credit score is basically a system through FICO that everybody who is a wager or pretty much has, whether you be in the military or civilian. So it is something that's going to be with you the rest of your life. A good credit score depends on the scoring system used by your particular lender. Different scoring systems use different scales, and different lenders use different systems. Most credit scores rank individuals on a scale from around 350 to 850. To hire the score, the less you are seen as a financial risk to creditors. My FICO is the collector that kind of came up with this patented system as far as determining a score. And each credit reporting agency maintains its own algorithm in saying the probability of you being paid back. So Equifax, TransUnion and Experian are those that do the credit reports and credit scores. A score of 680 or higher would generally be considered good, with the national average being around 692. A lower score can be caused by a lot of different reasons. Past behavior, for example, could mean your payment track record hasn't always been perfect. Also, always paying in cash and not having established credit can even have an impact, believe it or not. Let's just say a person just hasn't had enough time to develop a credit history. That makes it hard to evaluate you. It is extremely important to start one's credit history on the right foot because it can affect your finances. For example, Sailor A and Sailor B take out a $20,000 car loan and pay it back over five years. Sailor A has a 600 credit score and Sailor B has a 720. Sailor A will end up paying $135 a month more than Sailor B. That's over $1,600 a year difference in their payments. A not-so-good credit score can also affect military members professionally, not just financially. Those people that might lose choice assignments because they don't maintain a certain credit score would be affected. It also affects your security clearance very much so. 61% of security clearances that are pulled are due to financial reasons. That is the most widely used category as far as finances. Sailor seeking credit score information or simply want to get some financial advice should stop by a fleet and family support center and ask to talk to one of their financial advisors. If your credit score isn't where you want it to be, there may be some things you can do to help it along. The best thing to do is to come in and be ahead of the curve. Do some planning because these are skills you're going to need the rest of your life whether you're in the Navy or not. Be vigilant. Make sure to check your credit score at least once a year. It's free. Even if you have good credit, you never know when someone else can take it from you.


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Mostly centered around our hydroelectric dam and our whole well We have a bunch of hydroelectric dams from Manitoba up there on the Nelson River Gillum is the farthest north I've been I've been there in winter time I remember last year we went there and there was like it seemed like three feet of snow on the road and I was pushing snow with my Bumper and we're meeting trucks and we're plowing through the snow Yeah, this this time should be a little better because it's summertime But it is a gravel road for about 250 kilometers or like 150 miles or so I'm not looking forward to that at all, but we go where the money is right? And if there's enough money at the end of that gravel road, well go down the gravel road that the money speaks That's the whole reason we're out here, right? Well and that we love trucking Obviously I do this job that I love because I love it, but I could not afford to do it for free I was telling you that last night It would be nice to offer my services for free wouldn't it?  How would we buy a new home? It's already hard enough to buy a new home in Canada right now So I've got to chase as many of those dollars as I can if those dollars are up north Well, guess what we're pointing all blues nose up north. That's for tomorrow today I'm gonna grab our load and thief from Falls grab some fuel in Pillager, Minnesota just down the road here from Brainerd And head back home. I might be able to get home for night tonight. I'm Not sure yet. I'm not sure yet. I might just Depending I'll check the weather up north. I might just need to go hook up onto the trailer I'm taking north and start heading up there. It's the RGN trailer. So it's a removable goose neck It's gonna be fun showing you guys that Blue is thirsty me much. I've gotten it down to a science in the summertime how I can get exactly down here With the emptiest tanks possible so that I can fill up down here where it's cheaper before I go up to Canada We're also gonna top off the tanks again tonight Before we cross into the US before we cross into Canada from the US Because I'm going up in a northern Manitoba where the fuel prices are woo-hoo Through the roof past the sky and among the stars We want to fuel up in the States as much as we can so now I just fueled up now I See I fueled up for 195 US gallons 738 liters Cost me seven hundred and sixty dollars US or a thousand and five dollars Canadian That equals out to it was three dollars 90 cents per US gallon Or a dollar thirty six Canadian per liter with all conversions What is the fuel price just up north in Canada? So if it was going to Canada It's gonna fuel it flying J in Canada probably be at the St. Agath Location just over the border Let's see. I think the fuel price there a dollar sixty three nine aren't they? Let's see if this Apple load up today for me today Pilot flying J. Come on. Let's go Here we go, okay Load up the fuel price there fuel price in St. Agath is Drumroll dollar sixty five nine per liter so Just off pump price no discounts. No nothing dollar sixty five nine subtract a dollar thirty six point two No, thirty six three. That's what it was here 29.6 cents cheaper here then in Canada I bought how many liters? 738.159 liters Just today by fueling here and not there I kept in my pocket $218.50 I Would have had to pay an extra two hundred dollars and two hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents had I fueled Five hours that way $400 and we fuel up these tanks Every day every second day Let's say let's be Conserved let's say we fill it up every second day. How many days are there in a week? Let's say there's five six days in a week even if twice if we fuel up twice in a week That's four hundred and getting close to four hundred and fifty dollars a week that we save Four hundred and forty a week eight hundred and eighty every two weeks What is that one thousand six hundred and sixty No one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars a month So if I always be vigilant about where I fuel and always go for the cheaper fuel And if it works out that I can always fuel down here, and I fuel twice a week all month at the end of the month In my pocket, I'll have an extra one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars Isn't that crazy? What the difference is in fuel prices and remember our prices up north in Canada just went up again because of the COVID tax saving the planet stealing my money somehow somehow by taking that money out of my pocket and Taking the food I would buy with it off my family table by making it harder for me to feed my family and to house them Just taking that money away Somehow make the weather better makes perfect sense, right? Being so cautious and careful as I've never hooked up to this trailer or a trailer similar to it with my truck yet So come with me.   How do I shut it off?  Ah The off switch that always helps. Okay, so I've never hooked up to this trailer before And you see how this gooseneck Detaches from here and then you drive the machinery up on the front, right? So I think I'm gonna have to slide my fifth wheel back because it doesn't look like I've got a lot of room back here Right, it might be okay because the trailer will swing around and it might miss my mudflap hangers But I definitely don't want to mess around with that. I'd be very careful test it out first Don't want to rip those off Got it So we've got to put these tarps on the deck there somewhere tie them down together with these those are the Blocks that we put underneath there to prop it up I think I'm happy with his ride height if I want to lower that a little bit yet. I can but for now we'll try that I don't want it to be too low when we get hung up over railway tracks and stuff, right? I'm gonna hook up the airlines and stuff Tie my tarps down and then I'm gonna get a little bit of a head start for tomorrow get to the other side of I want to peg somewhere But first we got to make sure that we're not going to touch this here when we turn I might have to slide that fifth wheel back yet If that's the case, that's that'll be easy and be fine All right, we got it pulled out and I think we'll be just fine when I come close to touching I won't have to move the fifth wheel back. I'd like to leave the fifth wheel where it is Just because it's mostly centered between my drive axles then Evens the weight out on both axles that they wear evenly. I noticed that if I leave it all the way back My front axle wears out faster my rear because my rear's carrying all the weight vice versa In oak bluff, I've called this oak bank so many times oak bank is on the other side of Winnipeg is a different town This is oak bluff No, Karen, we're stopping here.  So I'm ready to go that's so oak bluff not oak bank oak bluff getting moving Because this guy over here is idling And his engine van keeps kicking on And there's space over there to park and no one's idling over there It's a perfect night outside. I don't know why people idle We're working with Just over a thousand kilometers to go tomorrow to my destination Where i'm gonna pick up Some kind of big piece of machinery And bring it back here Looking forward to it. It's something different So like always, thanks for joining me today Uh, the summary of the day is we started in Brainerd, minnesota We delivered that load of lumber rolled up our tarps Drove up to thief river falls minnesota dropped that empty trailer Through our tarps on the new trailer that had freight on it Took that new trailer, which is a tri-axle step Back up to our yard here in manitoba That was about a two and a half three hour drive Drop that trailer there hooked on to this rgn trailer removable goose neck Figured out how it all works again refreshed my memory. I was trained on it. Was it last year? I'm trained on it anyways, but I refreshed my memory Uh, and buddy anthony there was uh, who uses it more than me He actually was in the yard and he came and said hi And went over it with me again there just to make sure that everything Was gonna be good He's a great guy. I appreciate that a lot just to make sure that uh, I'll get one other driver Just to make sure you're okay. Sure. You're good Because he's pulled this trailer recently And he just let me know of all the things I should expect He's actually pulled it up to gillum before and that's where i'm going with it So he told me to expect uh, uh A few rocks to sort of jam up the goose neck a little bit when you Remove it. You sort of got to clear it off underneath the trailer. I'll try to get it on video when it happens And uh, when you put it back together, you got to make sure it's all clean. He gave me a few pointers there So that was great. And uh, other than that, I just got a little bit of head start on tomorrow We're here in oak bluff. I'm gonna start from here exactly 1069 kilometers from here But 620 25 miles It's gonna be a fun day heading up heading up north. I like going north in the summertime One second here. I forgot to put myself in sleep or didn't I I've just been sitting here On duty doing my post trip this whole time talking to you guys That's a waste of time I'm not talking to you guys.  I'm off duty Doing my own thing here It's eating away at my e-log hours. I can adjust that I guess I'm getting tired time for me to go to sleep. We will see you tomorrow It's pretty late already. It's about 1 30 in the morning So I can't get rolling from here until at least 9 30 9 well 9 45 because I got to do a pretrip 9 45 10 o'clock There's a timmy's right here at the esso. So I'll get tims in the morning And we'll get going sometime before noon. It'll be a long day. We'll probably be driving till midnight or so Which is kind of a downer because now I'm gonna have to drive down that uh Uh gravel road at night Hopefully all the moose are Staying out of my way And I want to get to my destination and sleep at my destination So I'm there first thing in the morning got a fuel in Thompson All stuff we can talk about tomorrow And I'll see you then don't forget hit the like button if you did like the video don't lie All right, if you liked it hit the thumbs up button Makes me feel good. I'll see you with the algorithms. Leave me a comment down below again Helps with the algorithms to let youtube know that hey people are commenting on this We should share it with more people and hey, you can help me also by sharing it on your social media All the stuff that every other youtuber tells you you know the drill same thing for me Really appreciate that helps out my channel a lot I'll see you tomorrow How many of you called it? I moved I got quiet neighbors now And I can put my screen in my windows And have a nice quiet peaceful night It's a perfect night not to idle It's just a beautiful like Perfect temperature outside No point in wasting fuel No point


My name is Ren Xiangtang. Right now, I'm on co-op with Cook Research. Here at Cook Research Incorporated, our co-ops are expected to work just as our full-time engineers are. They're given projects and deadlines. They are actively helping us achieve our goals to treat patients. I'm helping our bench team doing mechanical bench top testing to evaluate properties, both mechanical or chemical properties of cook device before they get into clinical trials. Ren is in her third term and right from the get-go when she was hired on we could tell she was a good student and she's always been a hard worker and came ready to learn and ready to work and throughout the last two terms she's always been ready to accept feedback and take that and implement it into her work. Now that she's the senior, really can operate with minimal oversight. At my VME lab, Biomedical Engineering Lab, they helped me equip with all kinds of material and mechanical testing skills for tests. So when I come here and they start talking about all kinds of cool studies to do I'm familiar with everything, like all the concepts they talk about. Purdue has a very strong focus in making sure their students are placed in positions once they graduate and the co-op program really helps them prepare for that. One thing I really like about a bench team is that when people have questions they'll just stand up in the middle of the aisle and then just ask questions and then people just throw in their thoughts that's relevant to answering the question and that helps inspire more and more answers. Co-ops we get from Purdue, we know we're going to be getting some good students most of them have been in about their junior year so they're really comfortable with the engineering principles and discussing the problems that we face in an engineering context. I think that's the benefit of being a co-op instead of an intern. I got to learn more, I got to see more and all the full times got to know about me more. As part of a unique co-op experience we do wellness walks together we sit down together at lunch, talk about cool stuff that we're working on and then the plans for the weekend so it's really a good way to know your peers know your friends outside of work.