We're here at the ITU studio, and I'm very pleased to be joined today by Dr. Amani Bwama, who is Minister of Communications for Ghana. Minister, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. You're welcome. I'd like to start off by talking about Ghana and its presence at ITU Telecom World in 2013 with the National Pavilion, and I wanted to find out what are the main benefits for you in taking part in this event, and what's your key message? Taking in Ghana contributes immensely to our GDP and our national development for that matter. We see it as a driver, as a catalyst, and also as an enabler of all other sectors of our national program. As a result of that, we have over the years taken such conferences very, very seriously, and this year's one in Bangkok is not going to be a deception. We intend to showcase some of the innovations that we have been pursuing back home in Ghana. One of it has to do with when government decided to distribute laptop computers to students. There was also a deliberate policy to ensure that at least the laptop computers were assembled in Ghana, and it's a Ghanaian company that is assembling this, and we intend to showcase some of them. As a result of this intervention, the company has been able to progress to the level of also assembling tablets, and we will showcase some of these as well. As a result also of the various interactions that we have had with all the cherished stakeholders at such conferences, we have been able to ensure some modifications in our telecommunication policy, with new innovations coming up and all of that. Mobile number portability is one of seconds, and we intend to also share the success story and the challenges as well with participants. I was going to ask you, how can ICTs directly benefit the daily lives of people living in Ghana? ICT, like I earlier indicated, is an enabler, and these days one can hardly appreciate life without, let's say, a mobile phone, and of course smart phones or a computer, because the first thing that even somebody who is living in the remotest part of Ghana want to hold is the mobile phone as soon as the person wakes up, and the figures are quite interesting in Ghana. A population of 24.5 million and the total number of SIM card subscription is 26.5 million. What it means is that the SIM card subscription far outstrives the total population by 2 million. So it's a clear indication that people have already adapted to the use of mobile phones. Let me be quick to add that it doesn't mean that every Ghanaian has access to a mobile phone. What it means is that there are some people who have more than one SIM card, but by and large I will put the penetration figure at around 16 million for a population of 24.5 million. So with this kind of penetration through e-commerce, through mHealth, through even other social interactions via the mobile phone, it saves people the time, it saves people the risk of even traveling either by road or by air or by river or by sea to get to other parts of the country and other parts of the world for some of the things that previously you may have had to move from one location to the other to pursue. Now it's very much in terms of mobile deployments. I wanted to also ask you what do you see the government's role is in terms of mobile deployment and also in terms of the broadband rollout, which of course you're planning very much in Ghana. Our commitment to universal access is unflinching and we are not wavering at all in that. We have the Ghana investment fund for electronic communication, which is ensuring that we deploy cell sites in the remotest part of the country. I will say not yet Uhuru, but we have a coverage rate that is quite appreciable. What we are working towards is to have universal coverage for the country and this is going to be an interaction between the private sector and also the government side. In the area of broadband, I want to draw the distinction between fixed broadband and also mobile broadband. Looking at the area of fixed broadband, we have enormous amount of optic fiber inland that is running through almost every district capital in the country. Still inland, looking at the eastern part of the country, that is a place that has some deficiency and we have made a very profound intervention. That is a 37 million euro project, which is ensuring that 780 kilometers of optic fiber is being laid through 110 communities and these are passing through the Volta region, the Northern region, the Upper East region. It is our hope that when this is done, we are going to ensure that all these 110 communities are going to benefit from it. As we speak now, we have five submarine cables in the country and also in the area of mobile broadband. We already have our 2G and our 3G systems in place, but we are migrating all our Weimar sites. So far we are 29 Weimar sites. We are migrating all these Weimar sites, which are 4G to the superior form of the 4G, which is a long-term evolution, LTE, so that we will be able to take advantage of the opportunities, the high resolution, the high picture quality, the high sound quality that LTE offers. I hope that within the next 12 months, we will be able to deploy as many as 90 of these LTE sites. Now you mentioned M Health. What are the major opportunities and challenges that you face in Ghana? The challenges are that of a system that has been used to the manual ways of handling issues. But Ghanians learn very fast and Ghanians easily adapt. And so we will count on that trait of Ghanians to ensure that you will be able to migrate fully into the application of M Health and for that matter, E Health. One of the challenges also has to do with interoperability. As a result of the fact that we are establishing our enterprise architecture, there have been bits and pieces of interventions that cannot easily communicate with each other. And we are working very hard at ensuring that interoperability becomes the order of the day and not the exception. What also we are looking at has to do with harnessing the total potential of E Health and M Health to be able to answer the question of the rural-urban disparity in terms of doctor-patient ratio, nurse-patient ratio and also in some specific disciplines. And I'll cite one example. Radiologists are not too common even in the advanced countries. And so the very few realities that we have in Ghana are largely in the two major cities, Kumase and Akra, Akra being the capital city of Ghana. What happens if a doctor elsewhere in the country meets the intervention of a radiologist? And if the actual film is ready or an ultrasound scan report or the film is ready or an MRI film is ready, we are working very hard in ensuring that we will be able to dispatch these films and documents electronically to the radiologists wherever they find themselves in the country for them to be able to give their feedbacks on it and recommend further actions that are to be taken by the doctors who will find themselves in the remote areas. By so doing, we will not have moved the radiologists from the cities but we would have migrated their brains to the hinterlands and the rural communities. Call it brain gain or brain circulation and you will not be wrong. I wanted to ask you, Ghana has been a long-standing partner of telecom events. Why is the conversation at World 2013 matter to Ghana? It matters so much to us. It's an opportunity for governments, industry and academia to fuse ideas on one platform and such unique opportunities are very hard to come by. But that is the only way to ensure sustainable development. Also because industry will be there, the private sector for that matter. It is also an opportunity for government of Ghana to be able to solicit for the needed foreign direct investment into our country. And it also will serve as an opportunity for us to showcase the innovations that we have undertaken over the past one year in Ghana. Minister, thank you very much indeed for being here today. You're welcome.


Which should I pick? Is it this one? No. This one. No. This. Ah, maybe this. Hey guys, we are back again with another video checking out some brand new true wireless buds to see how they match up against the likes of course of the AirPods Pro and the Galaxy Buds Pro. Now, we do have two new buds to check out. We have the Bauer and Wilkins Pi5 as well as the brand new Amazon Echo Buds second generation. Now, these are really awesome and I'll start off with things that they all have in common. They all have wireless charging built into the cases which is great and that's fantastic to see. So whether you're using the AirPods Pro, the Bauer and Wilkins Pi5, the Galaxy Buds Pro or the Amazon Echo Buds second gen all wireless charging within the case. Now they also all have a form of quick charging be 10 or 15 minutes to give you two hours or four hours or more with the Apple AirPods Pro having the least amount of time but you'll have that in general. First off of course is just build and design. Now, let's start off with the AirPods Pro which of course we've known for a while. It's got this nice solid slick case. You do have a long stem for the build of the AirPods Pro and you can change the air tips if you want. I do have comply form of mine which is nice and cool thing about the case, it doesn't drop so that is actually pretty cool. Next up is the Galaxy Buds Pro. Galaxy Buds Pro have a very unique, different look to it. It's one that it's still debatable in terms of fit but it is nice looking, comes in various colors. We do have the purple one and with the case, does it drop? No, it doesn't drop as well. So that's actually pretty cool. Now the Biowikons PI5 here have this very light case. It's really light, feels really comfortable, a little bit larger than the other two. Also design wise, it's a bit bigger, has a different design look to it but it's still a nice looking pair of earbuds. Doesn't drop out of the case. Everybody kind of has that feature which is absolutely great. And finally, the Amazon Echo Buds 2nd Generation, really nice small form factor case. I do like this case quite a bit. The design also is really nice. It fits comfortable, it's got multiple tips that you can switch with which is nice and the case itself also, let me try that out, doesn't drop. So that is pretty cool on that factor. Now in terms of design, I think they're all unique and different but I lean closer actually to the Echo Buds 2nd Generation and even the AirPods Pro. The Galaxy Buds Pro, it's a bit funky and the Biowikons can be bigger for some people. Now next up is of course a very key category which is active noise cancellation which all of these earbuds actually have. So we start off with the Amazon Echo Buds 2nd Generation. It does have active noise cancellation and you will find it within the software or you can tap on the earbuds to actually activate them. They, in terms of functionality, they're good, they're not great or fantastic but they do a good job in canceling all of the background noise. One of the best benefits though, it does have a really good seal so that adds to the noise cancellation overall solid performance for it and again, the price point you really can't blame what you have there. Now the Biowikons PI5 also has active noise cancellation. In terms of functionality, I would say it's probably the least of the pack. The seal is good so that does help but it doesn't give you that really full rich active noise cancellation you expect so that's something that was a bit bummed out from it for this, especially for its price point. Now onto the last two which of course you're thinking these are the two big boys with active noise cancellation we'll go with the Galaxy Buds Pro which I still think has the best active noise cancellation if you have the right fit and that's where the problem is with the Galaxy Buds Pro is that the fit is very weird. I mean normally I do like a regular aka medium and a large in my ears. I have to do like a small and XL so the fit is just so weird and a lot of people can't get the right fit which kind of takes it back but the active noise, ooh. Sorry, sorry guys. Okay, but the active noise cancellation is solid on this all together. Now the AirPods Pro I think have the best noise cancellation here of all three and especially if you go with a comply foam tip that is actually really cool, gives you more insulation on there and the noise cancellation does a fantastic job. So in this round the AirPods Pro take the active noise cancellation price. Okay, let us move to audio and sound quality. This is something that I care about the most when I use a pair of headphones, two wireless buds all together. So we'll start off with the Amazon Echo Buds second generation. These are very interesting because they retail for about $120 comes white or black and I've got to say it's really impressive what you get from this. Amazon has done a really good job plus the software built into the Alexa app itself does a really good job where you can of course change your EQs, but the sound signature is very, very clean. That's what I like about it. It's got some nice highs, the mids are clean, the lows are also clean as well. They're also rich but not too rich. Very, very impressive with this. Now the Galaxy Buds Pro, this also comes down to fit again. If you get the right fit you're going to get a really nice sound signature. The lows really come out well. The mids are a little bit tighter and the highs are very clear. So that is actually good. And of course you've got some EQ presets in the app to actually select from so that goes a long way and I like it. Now the AirPods Pro have a very nice clean sound and I like the updates that Apple has done to them in the sense that now it feels really clean and clear. It's probably the clearest of all these earbuds here. Very clean sound. I mean, you're going to enjoy the clean sound and it's going to come out. Every track you listen to sounds very clean and there I say like white polished up. I'm not trying to just call out the case here but it just kind of feels that way with the sound. It's a good thing. It doesn't have a lot of lows. If you're looking for that, you're not going to pick it up. And then finally, the Bioworkings PI5. This is where I think this really shines. Sound signature is really, really good. It's warm. It's robust. You've got highs that really pick out well. The lows come out clean. The mids are a bit tight even for me but it really registers when you go from track to track to track. And I think this is where it truly shines where you get that feel from the artist that you're trying to hit a certain note. The songs feel a certain way. So for me in terms of audio quality, I would give the top dog to the Bioworkings PI5. Now, microphone quality, that's another thing that's really important. We know the AirPods Pro do a really good job and have been solid. The Galaxy Buds Pro also have been really good for microphone quality. But I also have to say, Amazon and Bioworkings have come in with a solid and respectable job all together. I think when you use the microphone in any of these, all the conversations I've had with friends and talking to clients, doesn't matter. People think it's loud and clear and crisp and that is a good sign for true wireless buds. All right, so now we come to battery life and I have to say, this is where it is very interesting. They all have different measurements for battery life times. For the Amazon Echo Buds 2nd generation, you have 15 hours of battery life. For the PI5s, you've got about 24 hours of battery life. For the AirPods Pro, 24. And for the Galaxy Buds, you can go up to 28. So in terms of battery life, I would say the lowest is the Echo Buds 2nd generation at 15 hours or even slightly less. You definitely need to charge it. That's just something that I'm a bit bummed out about. That one, followed by the AirPods Pro. But AirPods Pro really gives you that solid 24 hours. While the Biowinkings, if your ANC is on, it's a little bit less then it can extend a bit more. And I think the Galaxy Buds Pro take the top spot here. ANC on is about 16 to 18 hours. ANC off, you're getting closer to 28. And that's where you have pretty long battery life with it. So battery life selection, that aspect is really cool. Now finally, before I wrap this up, I really want to quickly talk about software because I think that's something that is very key with true wireless buds now. So with the AirPods Pro, there really isn't anything. You can go into your volume settings and you can toggle between transparency mode, which is really great and toggle on and off. And that's pretty much it. While when you go to other devices like, say the Biowinkings PIA 5, you do have an app which I consider kind of useless at this point because it doesn't do much other than you need the app to basically pair the headset, which is a bit of a bummer because it does pair but the app is still needed for whatever reason. App functionality is limited, but again, it's something that can be improved. Now with the Galaxy Buds Pro, you do have a very robust app that allows you to do transparency. It's got all the extra features like, you know, speak to talk when you start talking, your music stops, great stuff in the application. I think one of the best music apps available for true wireless buds out there. And finally, the Echo Buds. Amazon has also done a really good job using the Alexa app as your main app where of course you've got the functionality for changing your EQs and all that fun stuff. But because you have Alexa built into this specifically, you can have your Alexa commands by just basically speaking while you have the earbuds on. So especially if you're going to the gym, you can say Alexa start workout and it starts your workout and starts measuring your stats right there, which is fantastic. I think honestly it's a great feature. And as long as you're not like me and don't forget to tell Alexa to stop your workouts because then it looks like you worked out for like three hours, which I do not do at all. Daniel does though, he's buff. Anyway, that is it for the true wireless buds. Now you're probably gonna ask me which do I think is the best right now? And I have to say though, it's a little bit of a mix back here. They are all great and they all have different features left and right. I think if you're an Apple ecosystem, this definitely makes sense no matter how you look at it. If you've got a Galaxy device, the Galaxy Buds Pro are really solid pick even for any Android device. But the fit is going to be very difficult for a lot of people. My favorite earbuds right now are the Amazon Echo Buds. I think the second generation here, they do a really good job at capturing everything you want at a price point that is so much cheaper. Now let's not forget the Balwikens PI5. Honestly, this gives me just great sound signature and that's what you're looking for. I think you're gonna find some really great audio all together from this. Especially built in, you know, it's got aptX support, aptX HD, all that fun stuff. We're giving you some really supreme sound all together. So there you have it guys. Whichever you want to pick, I think you will find one that works for you. Definitely use the link down below to pick them out. If you have any questions, any comments, let me know otherwise. If you're ready to like, share and check out our next video on the channel. Enjoy your entertainment.


Hey, this is Brett and this is a 2016 Ram 2500 Megacab Short Box Laramie. I believe it's got the night edition on it. This stock number is 12359Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2016 Ram 2500 Megacab has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop for the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside underneath all the way around. Check out under the hood. We're going to start it up during this video. White silver metallic is the color and we shoot our videos in 1080p. 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smart phone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel where we do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day here at Summit Auto in the upper right-hand part of the screen is a subscribe button to our YouTube channel. Click that and then click the bell notifications. You'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the 20-inch painted alloy rims and it has Firestone TransForce AT tires. These are LT28560R20s and they have, I'd say, 70 to 80% of the tread left on them. This one does have a leveling lift kit on it. Front fender is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings or scuffs on there. It does have the projector lamp headlamps, LED running lights, factory fog lights and the front bumper has the front bumper parking sensors and it is in absolutely perfect condition. No dents or dings on there. And the hood is in great shape as well. I didn't see a single ding on there.  Headlight lenses are crystal clear and the passenger side front fender looks really good as well. Passengers side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on there and as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. And we take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. Saw one little tiny ding on the back of the cab there but nothing too bad. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in excellent shape and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody looks really good. And it has all the remaining factory exhaust underneath so it hasn't been altered in any way. The body of the truck looks really good. Lower rockers and cab corners are an excellent champ and it does have a very nice set of Weston painted black step bars. Pastner side box is in nice shape and the rear bumper is in excellent condition as well. No dents or dings on that. It does have the backup parking sensors full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring and the tailgate is in excellent shape too. You get the blacked out Ram logo on there. Locking tailgate, backup camera does have a Truxedo low pro soft roll up tonneau cover. I didn't see any rips or tears on that. Comes with a gooseneck hitch, seven pin wiring and LED bed lighting. The bed itself has a spray and bed liner and is in really nice shape. The tailgate has the same bed liner on it as well. And as we go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings on the box. Looks really good. And for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Driver's side doors look really good. It does have the enter and go system. You get the heated fold up tow mirrors with the built in directional signals. They fold up like so. They also fold in like that.  There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats. They are in really nice shape. You get the Laramie embossed into the backrest, side curtain airbags and those seats are in really nice shape. It does have the memory driver's seat, lumbar, weather tech floor mats, auto headlamps, power pedals and audio controls in the back of the steering wheel. It does have power windows, power locks, power mirrors. You get the wood grain trim, the leather bolster there. We'll hop inside, turn the ignition on, check out the miles, radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You get the Laramie animation at the beginning screen there, 7 inch LCD display. You get a digital speedometer compass outside temperature display arranged to empty and time display on the instrument cluster there. The instrument cluster itself is very nice and clean. It comes with the heated leather wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. Remember it has those audio controls on the back. Other than just a little bit of wear on the top, steering wheel no rips or tears. 6 speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. Has the turned out four wheel drive, the push button start and it has the factory navigation system on it. This is the 8.43C radio, which gives you AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. Your Sirius is right there. You have your heated and cooled C buttons. You also have your backup camera, which shows up right there as well.    You get 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in. It does come with the keyless entry with remote start and the passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on that. Smells very clean inside this truck. You can see the headliner is in nice shape. You get those speakers in the ceiling, part of that Alpine premium sound system and it does have map lights up there, power sliding rear window button and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and check out under the hood. The back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here. It does have the latch-child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window. Seats are all in very nice shape. They are heated on the outboard side. You get the weather tech floor mats back here and there are your heated seat buttons for these back seats. These seats fold down like so and you can see that they go down completely flat. What's nice about this is you have a big flat load floor back here and actually if you wanted to take a nap there's enough room that you could do that back here or if you got pets put both sides down they got a nice flat place to lay. And then the other way is that these seats just the backrests go down and then you have a higher load floor and then you have storage behind the back seat that's kind of contained so nothing's going to roll around. So nice stuff for the mega cab plus all the room of course. You get the child safety locks on the back doors. The bottoms of the doors all look really good. And we'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck inside and out. Under the hood we have a 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine bay is very clean and very smooth once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by all the service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. It's got like new tires there's your emissions sticker. Now I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, sweet quarter tons, one tons. 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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي يجيب نيحينا و ناديه و يستر علي كل عوة و أنا عصيه و يعضل من نعمة علي فلا أجازيه بحمده و نسبحه و نقدسه على آلائه و نعمائه و نشهدوا الله إلا الله و احتبوا لا شريك له إلها واحدا أحدا فردا صمدا قيوما نؤمن له بالعوهودية و نقر له بالعوهودية من يهدي الله فهو المحتدي و من يغل الفلا تجد له وليا مرشية و نشهدوا أن سيدنا محمدا عبده و رسوله لا أبصله بالهدى و دين الحق ليه و يره على الدين كله الله صلي و سلم و ذلك وترحم على محمد و آل محمد كأبضي ما صليت و سلمت و ذاركت و ترحمت على إبراهيم و آل إبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد المجيد و صم الله و سلم على جميع الأنبياء والمرسلين والأوصياء والصديقين و عطرة نبيك الطيبين الغاهرين المخصومين وأصحابه المنتجين و من تبعهم بأحسان و إيمان إلى يوم الدين عباد الله أوسيكم وأوسي نفسي بتقوى الله و لزوم أمره أعوذ بالله من الشيطان غجين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم شهر روضان الذي أنزل فيه القرآن قدن للناس و بينات من الهدى والخوطان حما شهد منكم الشحر فليصمح و من كان مريضا أو على سفر فعدت من أيام أخر يريد الله بكم اليسر ولا يريد بكم العصر و لتكمل العدة و لتكبر الله على ما هداكم و لعل لكم تشكرون صدق الله العلي العظيم لإسراء و لحظة فلمضان هناك مرسي بانفت لكن المرسي بانفت المهمة من هذا المنه من العقل من العقل في هذا المنه يكتب في برس 185 في صورة البقرة الله سبحانه وتعالى سيس كتب عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعل لكم تبتقون يمكنك أن تتعلم تقوى فرصة تقوى يعني تقوى فرصة و هذا تقوى فرصة هو أيضا فرصة بنا نحن مرحبا من هذا المنه من بعض مرسي و لحظة تقوى فرصة و لحظة فرصة نحن مرحبا و هذا مرحبا هذا ليس شيء that has been imposed on us بعض الناس مرحبا يتعلم أو يتعلم أو مرحبا as a means of deprivation as a means of punishment أنه أو أنه لم يستطيع أو يمكن أن يتعلم أو يمكن أن يتعلم أشخاص لأنه مرحبا لأنه مرحبا و لذلك في الأسفل ليس مرحبا فهذا هو معد من المرحب و معد من المرحب و معد من مرحبا و مرحبا و مرحبا الله سبحانه وتعالى و يتحدث عن مرحبا يقول لا أريد أن أضع مرحبا لا أريد أن أرد منك ليس عن مرحبا أو مرحبا أو مرحبا يقول يريد الله بكم اليوظر أريد أن يرسل كل مرحب for you كل مرحب for you كل مرحب for you يرد الله بكم اليوظر لا يرسل لك أسر أو مرحبا يرد الله بكم اليوظر و لا يردون بكم اليوظر ولكن إذا نفهم المرحب و سوف نحاوله is sometimes some people really do not enjoy fasting it's a burden they look at it as a burden when the month of Ramadan approaches they don't enjoy that they say او again Ramadan I have to fast I have because they do not really number 1 they do not understand the value the benefit the meaning the merits of fasting لأن you'll see the teacher early in the morning he's in a very bad mood he's hungry How would you like to, would you really enjoy this, you're not going to You don't enjoy this experience Here the teachers they smile I don't know what they eat that makes them really always smiling So A child who does not like school would not benefit from it أن تستطيع أن تستطيع أن تقوم with your strength and self-control. It's not a punishment. Yes, during the fast, we may lose few things. We lose the food, the drink, probably the sleep, probably the comfort. It's not an easy process, but then you gain many things instead. The things that you gain is trouble. Self-control. You find it through fasting. When you try to really squeeze yourself and control yourself against these desires. Through your own will, not the will of someone else. Sometimes a person is a solitary confinement. He or she is denied food or drink. For many hours, sometimes many days, that person would not learn piety. Because he needs the food, they don't give him the food. While you at home, you have the food. It's there that you're disposable. You have it. And you have the freedom of going and eating and drinking. But you say to yourself, I'm not going to do that. The food is here next to me, the drink is here next to me. I'm hungry. Probably I'm thirsty. But I'm not going to do that. Submitting to the will of Allah. This is how we build our characters, our manners. This is how we learn تقوى.  But you say to yourself, no. I'm not going to touch it. I'm not going to get close to it. I'm not going to do that. Now, this is how we build the power of resistance. Because تقوى is about resistance. مقاومة. Resisting desires. This is تقوى. When we are able to control our desires, we learn تقوى. لعلكم تتقوى. The Prophet ﷺ emphasizes this point in particular. He says during the month of Ramadan, the right way of fasting is going to improve your اخلاق and your manners. But the wrong way of fasting is going to make you frustrated and angry during the month of Ramadan. The wrong way of fasting.  You are going to improve your manners. And you and us من حسن منكم في هذا الشهر خلقه. Whoever tries to work out on his manners, we have to work out on our manners. The same way we work out on our muscles, our bodies. We need to work out on our manners and اخلاق. من حسن منكم. Whoever tries to improve his اخلاق and his manners in this month, كان له جواز على الصراط يوغ تزل فيه الأكدر. On a day where many feet are going to slip away from Salat, the bridge that takes you right to paradise, your feet would not slip. كان له جواز. You are going to have a safe and smooth passage on this bridge without hesitation. You are going to reach your destination. If you are restrained, you are wrongdoing. You are evil. You are harm. Restrain it. Control it.  If you need to send people something, send them something good, not bad. Whether it is a speech, whether it's an action, whether it's a thought, send the good things that you have to people and keep the bad things. Don't send them. ومن كف فيه شرواح abstain from harming and hurting people during this month كف الله عنه غضبه يومي. الله is going to restrain his wrath against that people. So he would not see Allah angry on the day of judgment. He would see Allah pleased with him, content with him. يا يتهم نفس المقمئنة ورجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضي. وطفت صلى الله عليه و سلم يتكلم. ومن أكرم فيه يتي من في هذا المنظر إذا كانت تفعيلة لنفس لنفس تذكروا لنفس بسيطة بسيطة بسيطة بسيطة أكرمه الله يومي الله will remember you on the day of judgment on that day that you meet him he is going to honor you the same way you honored and often during this month. ومن وصل فيه رحمه وصل الله برحمة يومي. If you reach out to your next of kin to your extended family members we are busy throughout the year the month of Ramadan is the month of communication the month that you inquire and ask and send your greetings to your extended family members to your uncles, to your cousins, to the family that you have in America outside of America greeting them telling them Ramadan Mubarak may this month be a month of mercy and forgiveness and compassion on you and your family reach out to them during this month take some time take some time to reach out to your family members those that usually you don't get to contact them during this month then Allah says وصله الله برحمته يومي الله is going to reach out to you with his mercy on the day that you meet him ومن قطع فيه رحمه a person who chooses not to reach out to his family he would sever disconnect himself from his family in this month قطع الله عنه ورحمته يومي الله would not bestow his mercy on him on the day of judgment ومن تطوع فيه بصلاة تطوع من صلاة المعفن the extra prayers other than the 5 daily prayers if you offer one of these prayers قتب الله له براءة من النور Allah will give you have you seen in this country you have to get sometimes security clearance in order for you to get this sensitive job Allah will give you security clearance against punishment against the hellfire ومن أكثر فيه من الصلاة علي who ever increases the Salat over the Prophet who ever always frequently says اللهم صل على محمد وآل محمد الله ميزانه يوم تخف فيه الموازين your scale is going to be heavy on the day of judgment a day where other people's scale and Meezan is light has no amag in it anti your scale is full of deeds good deeds because of you Salawat from the Prophet صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم and his father كتب عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to bestow piety self-restraint self-control enables us through this journey of the month which one third of it has ended already I always say the fastest journey in this life trip is the journey of Hajj and the fastest month or season is the month of Ramadan one third of it is over try to take advantage of the rest of this month spend some time in the evenings for munaajat and dua with your Lord only two thirds of this month has left and this also the 20 days that we have they will pass very quick and all of a sudden the month of Ramadan is over now the gates of mercy are open Allah gives concessions Allah invites us and he gives concession and he wants an excuse for him to forgive us during this month at the time of efar at the time of sahur in between especially the nights of Ramadan we have to cut back on entertainments try to spend some time with your family teach your children your family together to worship to speak to Allah to recite du'as we have plenty of du'as for this month let's spend time to nurture ourself spiritually so we can gain the tatwa the self respect insha'Allah بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الإنسان لفي خصر إلى الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصبر صلى الله عليه وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيتنا الطيبين الطاهرين


The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company, makers of better things for better living through chemistry, presents the redemption of Wattie Moon, starring Lucille Ball. The time is 1863. The place, Cincinnati. General Ambrose Everett Burnside has just taken command of the U.S. Army's Department of the Ohio. When I entered upon my new duties that bright spring day in the third year of the war, the memory of my disastrous failure in the field at Fredericksburg a few months before was still haunting my thoughts. When my adjutant knocked at the door... Come in, come in. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Captain Camper. For the report you requested. Carol. We have an early visitor, sir, and most impatient, Colonel Hanson of General Hallickstaff in Washington. From Washington so soon? No. Show him in, Camper. Yes, sir. This way, sir. Good morning, Colonel. Good morning, General Burnside. You're looking well soon. And feeling miserable, as usual. What can I do for you? My mission, General, is a somewhat delicate one. For reasons of military security... These walls have no ears, Colonel. And all missions out of Washington appear to be delicate in nature. What is it this time? Graffed in the quartermaster corps? No soon. Espionage. We have reason to believe that a notorious Confederate spy is being sheltered in on near Cincinnati. Spies who allow themselves to become notorious should be easy to catch. Not this one soon. He's a will of the wisp. Oh, a woman? Yes, sir. She's been a thorn on our side for two years. But it's her most recent exploit that has caused our greatest concern, sir. You're acquainted, I believe, with Secretary of War, Stanton? I am. A pompous but able political wire puller, a most successful manipulator of men and events. General Burnside. After Fredericksburg, sir, I have nothing more to fear from man, guard, or cabinet officer. Proceed, Colonel. Well, sir, Secretary Stanton wants his woman apprehended. A few months ago, the Secretary was introduced by friends at a ball in Washington to a certain Lady Hull, ostensibly an English gentlewoman. And Lady Hull made herself most agreeable to Secretary Stanton. Before the evening was over, she asked Secretary Stanton. But your excellency, I couldn't think of causing you such inconvenience. No inconvenience, whatever, my lady, if you can manage to wait a few days. On next Tuesday, I am driving to Maryland to review the troops. President Lincoln will accompany me. If you wish, you may share our carriage. How charming. The President himself. You'll find him uncouth, but interesting enough. But, Mr. Secretary, however shall I journey from Maryland Heights to Warm Springs in Virginia? It will be my pleasure to provide you with a neutral escort through the opposing lines. After that, you may proceed without further inconvenience to your destination. Mr. Secretary, how can I ever thank you sufficiently? Now, my lady, it's nothing really. Nothing at all. Well, General Lady Hull was no Englishwoman. She was a southern spy with a packet of information for General Lee. And she wrote out of Washington, biggest life sitting between the President of the United States and the Secretary of War, right smack through the entire Army of the Potomac. You'll pardon me, Colonel, if I fail to suppress a small smile. In general, it's no laughing matter, I assure you. We know who she is. The story this time was too good for her to keep. Time and again she'd given us the slip under one disguise or another and kept mum. But this time, vanity loosened her tongue. She told the story and it reached us. Lady Hull lives or did live in Cincinnati. You know her real name? Yes, sir. Her name is Charlotte Moon. What did you say? Quiet. I said Charlotte Moon. Lottie Moon? Lottie Moon? You know the woman, sir? I knew her. I knew her very well indeed. Much too well. And in the General's memory, crowded still with the accusing ghosts of Fredericksburg, new shapes took form out of the past. A quieter time, some 11 years before. A quiet, verdant college town, Oxford, Ohio. Oxford, under its grand old forest trees, now listens to talk. Talk in exclamation points. And a subject, Miss Lottie Moon, aged 17, recently arrived with her father and sister from Tennessee. All how Oxford did whisper and rustle in the spring of 1852. 1552. 1552. 1552. By at a meeting of the local ladies' aide, for instance? A hussy, that's what she is. A hussy? I've forbidden my willy to go near the moon house again. Charlotte is a bit high-spirited, I've no doubt, Miss Lottie. What a good girl at heart, surely. The moons of Memphis are very respectable folks. High-spirited fiddle sticks. Didn't she dress up like a man? And didn't she play poker with those no-good loafers at the mansion-house hotel? Did she, Miss Smithers? So my willy says. And my willy's a good, truthful boy. And that's not all. Her and that lawyer, Clark, well... If you'll just move your chair a little closer, Mrs. Watkins. Now, I wouldn't breathe this to a soul, but I would. And among the floating male population, drowsing in the sun outside Joe Follensby's livery stable. So she promises that fat-head willy Smithers she'll meet him outside Old Man Moon's barn at midnight, a week or so ago. Then she tells the same thing to Pudd Collins, death-rose boy. Well, willy and Pudd, they climb into barn and get the scrap and hammers and tongs.   He'll tell she's got that visited West Point fella and what's his name, Burnshide. And here she's got him on her string now, too. Well, wouldn't doubt it, but it'll take a real man, size man to break our Lottie to harness. Someone like Jim Clark, lawyer, maybe. How about it, Joe? Well, tell you what, boys, if I was 25 years younger and $25,000 richer, I'd like to take on that job myself. The next thing is I'll stick to handling horses. They got more sense. Get out there. If they say about me, I'll think what I like. Go where I like, too.  I can hear them whispering behind my back wherever I go. Let them whisper. Let them yell if they want. They can't run me. Clearly I can't control you anymore. I've done everything for you, given you everything. Everything but what I wanted. I wanted to go to New Orleans or New York even and be an actress, but could I leave this town? Oh, no. No, doll of mine is going to act on the stage. Don't you realize, Charlotte, that your ruin and your chances are making a good marriage by these goings-on? Ruin and my chances? Why, I could marry any man in Oxford just by crooked my little finger at him from Namby, Pamby, Ambrose, Burnside, down to that lout Willy Smithers, any one of them. Yeah, you certainly have a high opinion of yourself, young lady. Of course I have. Why not? Look.  Stop it, Charlotte. Dancing and prancing and whirling about. Show it yourself. Don't I resemble my mother? And was she not beautiful? And didn't you break her heart? Well, not for me if any hearts are going to break. I'll do the breaking. Jezebel, Lilith, Scarlet Woman. You're obedient daughter, sir.  Get out. Get out. All right. No, wait. I'd forgotten why I sent for you. Does it matter now? Yes. Then call to my attention that you've been seen in the company of J.C. Clark, the lawyer. Well... Dad, I won't hair, Charlotte. The man's no good. He's a gambler, a drinker, and a disloot fellow in every way. And he's W.H. I'm going to marry Jim Clark, father. What? Why? Oh, he objects to the arrangement about my mind's made up. He's coming in by stagecoach from Cincinnati tonight. And Joe Follinsby, the stage driver. He's a very good friend of mine. What are you going to do? I'm going to hold up the stage outside town.  Charlotte! Don't get out of my way. Quiet, Prince. Quiet, boy. Quiet. Here she comes now. It's a hold-up. Get down off that wagon, friend. The structure ain't been a hold-up round here since you hear the big wind. Ain't nothing to hold up for. What's your dodge, boy? Get down, Joe Follinsby. Get down quick. Bloody mo... Well, I never... Get down! All right. All right. I'll get down. Now, what's this all about? Jim Clark in there. Oh, sure. Sound of sleep, I reckon. He's the only passenger. There's an outside lock to that, Coach Joe. Sure. Lock it. Go ahead. Lock it up. Now, look at here. Lock it up, Joe. Well, all right. Anything you say, Lottie. Well, anything you say. I know what you want the door lock for, though. Give me the key. Now, give me your whip, Joe, and that big horn. Lottie, now listen. The jokes are joking all that, but after all, I can't... It's your coach, isn't it? And you're a friend of mine, Joe. You meant what you said. Oh, sure. Sure. Give me the whip and the horn, and a hand up, Joe. Well, if this don't feed off. Say it's 10 miles into town, Lottie. What am I going to do? Right, friend town for me, Joe. Here we go.  Have a nice trip, Jim. You nearly broke my neck in there. Why? You needed a lesson and not breaking appointments with Lottie Moon. So that's it. I think we need to have a little talk, young lady. In my office, Yonder. We can talk right here on the sidewalk. Oh, no, we can't. Come along in my office. Well, do you want me to carry you in? Yes. Yes, I do. All right, I will. Ouch! Wild cat! You can't get away with this! Ouch! That's better. No more tears. That's how it is, my dear. I'm not going to marry you. But, Jim, you said you loved me. Heaven helped me, girl, so I do. That's why I've never given either you or your father cause to complain of my conduct.  No. And that's what I don't understand. Can't you see, girl? We're two of a kind. Both outlaws. We're both strong.  Either way, life would be devilish unpleasant for both of us. It wouldn't work. That's why I didn't show up last Tuesday. I was furious, Jim. I threw a tea pot at my sister, Ginny. Yes, I can imagine. I often throw things myself. Jim, if you won't marry me, I'm going to marry Ambrose Burnside. What, that little tin soldier from West Point? He's mighty handsome in his uniforms. He used to be a tailor's apprentice over in Indiana before he went to the point. Do you suppose he makes his own uniforms? You don't like the idea, do you? Me marrying someone else. You don't like it at all. I see. It's a threat. Don't you think I'd marry him, Jim? Don't you think I'd dare? Yes, I suppose you would. But it won't work, Lottie. I'll not be held up at the point of a gun. We'll see about that. Yes, we'll see. Now, look here, Lottie. You better get out before I forget to be strong and sensible and take that silly coach horn with you. I'll leave it here. If you ever change your mind, Jim, you just sound that horn. I'll come running. A romantic notion, my dear. To think how ridiculous I'd appear to the good people of Oxford. You don't care what good people think. Neither do I. I'll leave the horn. Goodbye, Lottie. My regards to your soldier, boy. Goodbye, Jim. Oh, Walter. Yes, sir? Come in, please. Yes, Mr. Clark. Bring me the file on Arthur's will. Take this coach horn out back. No, no. Leave it here. Just for now. You are listening to the Cavalcade of America starring Lucille Ball in the Redemption of Lottie Moon. Sponsored by the DuPont Company. Makers of better things for better living through chemistry. Among DuPont's better things for better living are DuPont vegetable garden dust and DuPont floral dust. Home gardeners know how much trouble insects and plant diseases can cause. The harm they do now will reduce the yield for the rest of the season. That tender new growth is just what bugs like best. So to protect your garden, start a regular effective program of spraying or dusting. To make the job easier for you, DuPont has combined into one compound, chemicals which help control both insects and plant diseases. If you grow vegetables, you'll want DuPont vegetable garden dust. If you grow flowers, you'll want DuPont floral dust. Both of them are chemical aids to help you to enjoy better garden. Both are among DuPont's better things for better living through chemistry. We continue our DuPont story, the story of Lottie Moon and General Ambrose Burnside. Young Burnside, a visitor in Oxford, had never heard of Lottie's infatuation for Jim Clark. He proposed, she accepted, and a great day came. What time is it now, Myron? It is now exactly 12 minutes past 2. Oh. That's the third time you asked me in the last five minutes. I'm sorry, Myron. Anybody think you were going to face a fire race squad instead of the prettiest gal in the state of Ohio? Lottie is beautiful, isn't she? Oh, ravishing. How an old sober size like you ever landed her on that hill? She's unpredictable, and absolutely unpredictable. When I asked her to marry me, she said, why not? When I asked her to name the day, she said, any day is a good day. I couldn't tell why she was laughing. Oh, she's young, my friend. She'll settle down. I hope so. I'm giving up my career in the Army, going into business. You lucky dog. When I'm back there in the barracks, you'll be reveling in the joys of your felicity and making money hand over fist. Perhaps. What time is it now? Comrade, the moment for the attack has arrived. It's 2.15. Myron, do you think she'll be there? Of course she will. Hey, look, she's coming in the church now. Praise our old man for the honor of the corps. Now, to the right by file, mark. Ambrose Everett, you take this woman Cynthia Charlotte to be your wedded wife, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish from this day forward, as long as you both shall live. I do. Cynthia Charlotte, do you take this man, Ambrose Everett, to be your wedded husband, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish from this day forward, as long as you both shall live? Cynthia Charlotte, do you take this man to be your wedded husband? Say, I do, Lottie. Lottie, what is it? Those searing words out of the past echoed in my mind as Colonel Hansen spoke that name, Lottie Moon, in Cincinnati, 11 years later, in the midst of a cruel civil war. And the name wiped out for the moment even the remembered cries of the wounded at Fredericksburg. And Colonel Hansen continued. We must find this woman, General. Yes, we must, and quickly. For two years now she's been the go-between for a Confederate information ring in Toronto and the rebel army of Northern Virginia. She was under traces, or she may not. And either event she'll try again. Yes, she was never one to give up easily. Call upon my headquarters here for any assistance you require, Colonel, and keep me informed, I shall, General. Good day to you soon. Good day. Oh, excuse me, Colonel. All right, Captain, come in. Come in. Thank you. General Burnside, sir. Yes, Captain. A woman to see you, General, an old friend, she says, Mrs. J. C. Clark. What? She wouldn't dare. Yes. Yes, that's exactly what she would do. Captain Kemper, admit the woman and post a squad of men at each entrance to the building.  Yes, sir. And she and I are not to be disturbed. I'll show her in. Please come in, ma'am. Thank you. Well, Mrs. Clark, what can I do for you? You... you don't remember me, Ambrose? Of course I do, Lottie. I thought maybe you'd rather I pretend not to remember. You haven't forgiven me. It happened so long ago. So many terrible things have happened since then. Yes, yes, this awful war. That's why I came to see you. It's my sister. She's in Richmond and she's ill. Very ill indeed, near death. I must get to see her, to nurse her. And you need a pass through the Union lines. Yes, that's it, Ambrose. Oh, you were always so kind. I have so little right to ask. Why didn't you apply to Secretary of War Stanton, Lottie? What? Or President Lincoln himself. I understand you're on excellent terms with both those gentlemen. So you know. Yes, Lottie. I've heard about Lady Hall. It was a chance I had to take seeing you. My only chance. But not my last chance. Not while I have this. A gun. Well, well. Still a child, Lottie. General Burnside, you will sign an order permitting me to move through Union lines as I please.  There's soldiers guarding every exit to this building. Kill me and you'll hang. You'll sign that order or I'll put a bullet through your heart. I'll not hang. And I'll not go to prison as a spy.  Don't you think I'd do it? Suppose we find out. I will not sign the order. The choice is yours. Eleven years ago, Lottie, you used the threat of marriage with me as a gun in the ribs of Jim Clark. He gave in to you. Everyone has always given in to you. Up until now. I've never regretted my choice. I suppose not. But I've heard your voice through many sleepless nights. I'm going to marry a real man, you said. No man has ever had a sharper spur to ambition and accomplishment than you gave me then, Lottie. No, listen to me. Only a few months ago, I took command of the finest army in the history of the world, the army of the Potomac. And then at Fredericksburg, I led that army into a trap. I watched my regiments being blown to pieces by 300 hidden cannon shredded to bits by the fire of riflemen concealed in the sunken road. I sent Mars Irish Brigade up the slopes of Mary's Hill against the rebel cannon. And I watched half of those men fall in the tall, dry grass of the slope and the plain below. Then I sent Hancock's division after Mar. And I watched the flower of my army done to death. Then the tall grass caught fire. The grass caught fire, Lottie. And I could hear the shrieks of the wounded. I could see those boys writhe and shrivel in the flames. And I had sent them there. I wanted to lead my own old corps, the ninth corps against that hellish wall of fire, but my officers would hear none of it. So I withdrew back across the rapper Hancock to defeat, to disgrace. After what happened to me is I watched that sea of burning grass below the hill. Do you think I'm likely to yield to your childish demand? I tell you there's a part of my mind that would welcome a bullet from that gun. The choice is yours. I... I can't do it now. I could never have done it. You're stronger than me. You're stronger than Jim Clark ever was. I'm beyond pride and strength or fear of weakness, Lottie. I've grown older. I grew older rapidly in the evening of battle. When icy sleet put out the fires, and many of those burned and broken men froze to death at last on the hill. On the hill I tried to take at the peak of the ambition your words had forged in me so long ago. I knew some of the men who died on that hill. There were two boys from Oxford, from the college. Did I kill the membros? Who can tell? It's not a simple thing, this war. It's difficult and hard to understand. To me it was... it was an adventure to fool Secretary Stanton, to ride through your army in high style. I never thought about... about killing men. You were a child in Oxford. You were a child in Washington. You were an actress, seeking applause. Yes. I know that now. Can... Can you ever forgive me? I forgave you then, my dear, in the freezing wind by the river's edge, as I tried to pray to find God. And now what will happen to me? I can spare your prison. I can command here and I have no wish to. There was more suffering. I can spare you. But I can do it only if you promise never to attempt to pass through the union lines again. Will you promise that? Yes. Yes, I will promise. But how can you trust me? I think you two have grown suddenly older. This choice is mine. Come over here to the window, Lonnie. Down there is the Ohio. A barrier between brothers at war. See the barges waiting for troops. More troops for other flaming hills. When will it end? When will it ever end? Pray God it will end before our country's light blood all runs out. Our thanks to Lucille Ball and our cavalcade players for tonight's story. Now, Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont Company. Every time you buy something, you cast a vote for the manufacturer of the product. It's your vote that keeps him in business. It's a healthy, heartening thing that this vote has cast every day of every year for sound, well-made products. Where an old product is best, Americans loyally stay with it. 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Hey you guys so here's a quick video on how I make my DIY shea butter cream We have some shea butter some coconut oil some sweet almond oil Some omelette oil and I have some olive oil off cam now you guys have to excuse my voice I've been a little under the weather So I'm gonna go ahead and put the shea butter in some warm water for about two to three minutes It's gonna melt halfway I'm gonna place the shea butter and all of the different oils and a stainless steel bowl And we're gonna mix it now the measurements. I'm eyeballing again. I'm using all of this shea butter This is the first time I've used this particular shea butter by the way We're gonna have about half a cup of coconut oil Typically, I don't put coconut oil in my shea butter cream, but I did this time about one teaspoon of sweet almond oil we're gonna do about one tablespoon of the Actually two teaspoons of the olive oil We're gonna have about one teaspoon of the omelette oil. We're gonna mix this up for about two to three minutes I'm gonna leave it leave it at room temperature. This is what it looks like and then we're mixing it again Often on I mix this for a total of about ten minutes I will let it rest at room temperature for a while and then go back and mix it on high This is how fluffy it is. It's almost like whipped cream I'm gonna go ahead and place this in a container and we're gonna use this on some twists for the very next day Look how creamy it is Very very very creamy. So you didn't show I didn't show you guys Myself setting my hair, but here I am taking all the twists down. This is three days afterwards. Okay?


All right guys in this video. We're talking about lucid mistakes This is eight things that are stopping you lucid dreaming right now Because I know a lot of people when they first start they just there's loads of things they want to learn loads of techniques You read articles you watch videos But the chances are that if you're doing one or more of these eight things I'm going to explain you're not going to be out of lucid dream and it's just not going to make sense for you It's just always going to be that elusive thing that you read about on the internet and you think oh, that's really cool I'd like to learn how to do that, but you never really Actually have the experience number one doing reality checks wrong a lot of people when they first start And they learn about the fact that you need to do reality checks in order to become aware in your dreams We'll just be practicing them completely wrong So here's what you do when you do a reality check you want to make sure that you focus on the action Let's say if it's the try to push your finger through your palm You focus on the physical sensation of that and then you also attach that to the solid belief that if you're in a dream You'll realize that you're dreaming number two just not believing that it's possible a huge number of people when they first start They just they hear about lucid dreaming and they don't really believe that they can do it because it sounds when you first hear about it It sounds a bit far-fetched, right? You know and to be honest with you if I hadn't had a spontaneous like random lucid dream Before knowing what it was. I don't know if I would have believed that it's actually real because it's such an It's an incredible experience and it's so hard to explain that experience to someone who's never had it I don't know if I would have believed that it's real in the first place Unless I'd had that random lucid dream and not everyone's lucky enough to actually experience it randomly like that You really have to believe that it's possible You have to trust the you know stories and experiences other people are sharing about this stuff And you have to really believe that you can actually do that as well number three And this is a big one you mistaking vivid dreams for lucid dreams Now a lot of you when you first start you'll start to have obviously more interaction with your dream life You'll start writing your dreams down and as a result You'll remember more details about them and you'll start to then have more vivid dreams and a lot of people Especially at the start was mistake these vivid dreams for actually having lucid dreams And they'll assume that it's just not that impressive because while a vivid dream is quite cool and exciting it's nothing like a lucid dream and I think a lot of people are getting them mixed up and they're sort of thinking well my vivid dreams You know having more vivid dreams now, maybe they're lucid dreams and maybe they're just not really that exciting and it's just not worth pursuing Well, that's a mistake, you know if you have a lucid dream, you'll know for certain that you've had one It's a very very stark difference to you know a normal dream or even a vivid dream And it's certainly very different to waking reality. It feels very much like you're In a film, but it's like you're the main character and you can decide exactly what to do But at the same time it all feels very real. It feels like it is you You know if you pick something off the floor you feel the weight of the object You feel how it feels in your hands and you feel everything around you as well It's not just like a vivid dream where you're sort of watching yourself do things, but you're not really in control of it So don't mistake vivid dreams for lucid dreams because they're not the same thing number four This is again a very common one and this is where lucid dreaming tends to get mixed up with astral projection So number four is trying to have a lucid dream at the wrong time of day or night There is a perfect time to have a lucid dream Sadly, it's actually 4 to 8 in the morning right 4 a.m. To 8 a.m.  This is where your REM sleepers. It's longest period Throughout the throughout the entire night.  It'll be very very hard to Even enter a lucid dream let alone maintain a lucid state for more than a couple of seconds Whereas if you try in the like I said between 4 and 8 a.m. in the morning You're gonna have a much better chance of doing it a lot of people will try and have a lucid dream as soon as they put Their head on the pillow at night, and that's just the wrong way of doing it. You know, you should focus on either Interrupting your sleep in some way whether that's the way back to bed or the wild or something where you set an alarm or Focus on the spontaneous techniques like the mild and the dialed where you're gonna trigger your brain To become lucid at the right time of night meaning 4 to 8 a.m. Number 5 just not sleeping well enough a Lot of people especially in today's society Interrupt their sleep or restrict their sleeping quality by doing things like drinking alcohol, you know taking stimulants coffee caffeine and other things like that and Just not sleeping or having a good sleep schedule a lot of the time What I mean by that is if you watch films or play games until like 2 a.m. In the morning You're just not gonna have as good a sleep as somebody who goes to bed at 10 or 11 at in the evening and Doesn't watch screens before bed, you know if you say if you read for an hour before bed instead of watching screens You're gonna Produce more melatonin because your eyes have less blue light going into the retinas and you're just gonna sleep better You know that's been proven many times. There's been various studies on that that show that's the case You're just gonna sleep better if you do those things and if you're trying there's a lot of video gamers Especially who try and lucid dream because they want that similar escapism in a lucid dream You know you play video games to escape from reality and to distract yourself and to sort of immerse yourself in another world So it makes sense that a lot of video gamers also want to lucid dream as well But you can't really combine the two unless you have a good sleep pattern and healthy sleep habits You know you can't just play video games until 3 a.m. And then expect to just go to bed and have a lucid dream It doesn't really work like that You need to treat your sleep with respect and actually give your body the sleep it needs and then you can lucid dream In that sleep number six trying all of the techniques at the same time It's very tempting and I was similar to this You know when I first started to just learn all of the techniques and try a different one every single night Just because it's so exciting and you just want to try them all Whereas what actually happens when you do that is you sort of distract yourself and take away from you know The success you might have had if you just tried one technique for two weeks See your body and brain and especially asleep and your sleep habits need time to adjust You can't just do away back to bed and then the next day expect to just have a completely normal night And then the next day try another technique yet because your brain will adjust Very slowly to these things you need to give it time So if you're doing a way back to bed technique for one or two days in a row It's not really gonna you know if you if you do have a lucid dream That's more luck than anything But you really need to give it like a few days in a row like at least five days And that's especially true with things like the wild or you know any any technique really you need to give it time So don't try all of the techniques in the same week You know try and do one technique for a week or two straight And then if that hasn't worked then change the technique and this leads me nicely on to number nine sorry number seven Which is not trying more than one technique ever So this there's two extremes here on the one hand You've got people who try every single technique within a week and fail at all of them And on the other hand you've got people who only try one technique and never succeed with that one technique and Just give up so really you want to have a balance Okay, you want to you want to try every single technique there is but you don't want to do it in the space of one or two Days or weeks you want to spread it out over the year So you want to spend one or two weeks at least on one given technique and then move on if it hasn't worked And what's really important with this is you need to write down as well In your dream journal, which you should be keeping you need to write down what the techniques did how they felt What worked and what didn't work because the chances are for each person that tries this different techniques Are going to have different rates of success like for me I can't really get much success with the wild technique these days Just because I prefer to lose the dream using more natural methods like the dial or mild it's different for everyone You know some people like some of my friends they swear by the wild technique and that's all they use and they can use it Really well on command even and I can get to that point if I really try for like several weeks in it in a row But that's the key You know you really need to give it a couple of weeks in a row to get success with these techniques So it's important to try different methods and techniques But only if you write down how they are working and what's working for you and make sure you don't focus on only one technique And you don't focus on also trying all of them at the same time You need to have a balance and number eight sort of unrelated But a lot of people are scared of lucid dreaming so they sort of restrict themselves mentally or even subconsciously by Telling themselves that when they have a lucid dream or if they even do it come close to it You know it's gonna be scary it might hurt You know a lot of people are scared of sleep paralysis Which is also a very key factor for lucid dreaming and I've spoken about this in another video But you know people are scared they read things on reddit or forum posts They read stories about sleep paralysis demons and crushing vibrations or whatever and it's just it's just not the case There's really nothing to worry about there's no danger with lucid dreaming in general You know there are some experiences like sleep paralysis for example, which can feel scary and it can feel very real But it's all in your mind and if you sort of keep focused on that and stay patient You're gonna enter a lucid dream very quickly after after sleep paralysis You know it won't last for more than a couple of minutes and even if it does it's not really the end of the world You're just you're just laying there, you know You know it's all in your mind and you know that a lucid dream is the next stage So why would you panic and wake yourself up or even worse not attempt it in the first place? Just because of that it doesn't make any sense to me But you know people are scared they read scary stories on reddit, especially And it puts them off so don't do that now. Hopefully this has been useful obviously these things are What can stop you lucid dreaming this is like the things you shouldn't do the chances are if you're watching this video And you're not like a regular lucid dreamer as in you don't have more than say one lucid dream every two weeks One or more of these eight things are probably holding you back So try and sort of take note of them try and work out which one it is and give it a try try and fix it And try again see you next time Thanks for watching guys this video and this channel was supported by my patreon followers Please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel or just click the links in the description You'll find links to various lucid dream products articles techniques and tutorials if you did enjoy this video Please click the notification bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time Why are you still watching that you should have clicked one of my related videos by now right or subscribed or gone onto my website or something like that


Your immune system is made up of an army of cells that protect you from infections Like the virus that causes the common cold or the bacteria that cause strep throat Different types of immune cells have different special functions like recognizing an infection killing infected cells or closing up open wounds To be able to develop and function cells of the immune system follow a set of instructions and turn on specific genes This is much like how you would use a blueprint when building a house if a detail is left out of the blueprint You may end up with a house without a door Babies who are born with mutations in the important immune system genes lack the correct blueprint and as a result They can't develop a normal immune system Because their immune cells cannot fight off foreign invaders even minor infections can be deadly These babies have what is called severe combined immunodeficiency or skid Skid is commonly known as bubble boy disease because at one time the only way to manage the disease was to isolate the sick child in a sterile environment left untreated skid babies typically die within their first two years of life Fortunately researchers have worked hard trying to fix the immune systems of skid babies and continue to develop better stem cell transplant strategies to cure skid Before we explain the therapies, let's discuss how the immune system develops a special type of cell lives in our bone marrow called a hematopoietic stem cell or HSC these cells can produce all of the different types of immune cells However, if the HSC has a mutation in a critical immune system gene all of the immune cells It produces will be defective Scientists are trying several complementary approaches one fixing the gene mutation in the HSC and Two getting rid of all of the mutated HSCs and replacing them with normal ones Let's start by discussing how we can go about fixing the mutation Researchers in the group of Don Cohn at UCLA and others have been tackling this problem since the 1990s They have developed a strategy to repair a gene mutation in HSCs from skid babies a method we'll call gene addition First bone marrow from skid patients is removed and the stem cells are purified Then researchers make a piece of DNA that has the correct Non-mutated DNA sequence in the gene that needs fixing They then insert this normal DNA into the HSCs from skid patients With the normal version of the gene the stem cells and the specialized immune cells They produce will all have a normal copy of the gene and will make normal proteins Patients are given a low dose of chemotherapy to make space for the new cells and then the repaired HSCs are transplanted Incredibly this method works the first skid trial using gene addition was conducted over 20 years ago and Researchers have improved on the technique a great deal The last 30 skid babies treated with gene addition have developed a good working immune system that has stayed stable over time Another team of researchers at Stanford have developed a complementary approach, which we'll call HSC replacement In order to allow the repaired HSCs to work the defective HSCs must first be removed as we mentioned currently Skid children receive chemotherapy to remove the defective HSC However, chemotherapy is toxic. So these researchers want to remove the defective HSC in a safer way Their method involves giving patients an antibody, which is a special protein that recognizes other proteins in a very specific manner This particular antibody targets and eliminates HSCs from the body Researchers can then transplant stem cells from a healthy person or HSCs repaired using gene addition back into the patient By eliminating the need for chemotherapy before the healthy cells are transplanted There will be fewer adverse side effects from this treatment by using these two complementary approaches correcting the mutated gene in a patient's own stem cells and Replacing their mutated HSCs with healthy ones Scientists and physicians are helping skid babies build strong functioning immune systems and live long healthy lives and What's even more exciting is that similar gene therapy strategies might work for other diseases Known to be caused by mutations in a single gene such as sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy So far both the gene therapy and HSC replacement approaches have shown promising pre-clinical and clinical data However, it is important to keep in mind that these results are still early and the therapies must be tested further As we build on the progress enabled by California's Proposition 71 and the funding agency Created the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. We must keep the momentum going We now have more advanced tools to develop better ways to treat devastating genetic diseases such as skid Only with continued support for biomedical research Can we increase our understanding of the therapeutic potential of stem cells and Translate that understanding into meaningful treatments that help give patients their lives back


What are the three things that will revolutionize the education system? If you're like me you look back at your education and you're like so many things were done wrong And I was just reading an article that said US Student loan debt has now reached 1.2 trillion dollars. That's just in the United States and People are talking about the global trade deficit and all that that's at like 800 million. You guys is a 1.2 trillion dollars that people owe For all these loans some to private loans some to government loans By the way, I'm here in San Diego enjoying You can see the ocean out there a little bit and I was just reading some articles I was like I've got to talk about this because I can think of three things off the top of my head that would That had they happened to you and I when we're growing up would have set our life on a completely different trajectory Been so much easier to be successful financially and all that so let me give you the three number one There should be a refund policy for universities Joseph Stiglitz won a Nobel Prize as an economist and he wrote a book and he basically says he thinks that the current US Educational system the higher university system Qualifies as a scam because you can't get your money back, you know Walmart You they pioneered Easy refunds you don't even need a receipt and people thought when they first started doing that people were like no That's crazy.  I Mean this is not the 1700s so much of our education system is still tied to literally centuries old Methodologies now you want to learn about ancient Egyptian history go to Egypt Now in order for that to be practical for millions of people People have to have jobs because you can't travel if you don't have any money So the this refund policy would force universities to focus down on At the end of four years and 40 grand spent people feel like yes I'm now gonna get a return on my money and they could have a refund policy with some fine print that says You know if you're able to get a job in the field that you majored in Then you can't qualify for the refund that would eliminate people who try to cheat the system But for people who go and they go to school and and then they come out and they can't get a job And they're part of 1.2 trillion dollars. That's 1200 fat. It's 1200 billion dollars in debt. This is a major problem heads roll over 100 billion dollars. We're talking now 10 times that 12 times that Number two thing that the education system that would revolutionize the education system would be if you would Teach social and emotional IQ type lessons in elementary junior high school Public speaking Sales Conflict how to deal with those things How to read people so that you could find business partners who to marry who to date There's so much progress has been done in psychological Profiling that could be taught. I wish I had learned that I would have been interested in that stuff In fact students are more interested in cutting-edge Learning cutting-edge things than that like that than they are just in learning, you know Geography and social studies best way to learn geography travel the world You want to know you want Americans to know that between Sweden and Switzerland have them not be in 1.2 trillion dollars in debt So they have extra income to travel world. That is what will change the world. So I am such a big believer that The problems are fixable. I have hope and I think that you already see these things You know, one of my businesses one of my companies is is an educated online education private company It's not an accredited college. It's taking what accredited colleges haven't been able to do and offering those to people So I've got a lot of experience in seeing how well this can work and you got to teach other stuff You can't just teach geometry isosceles triangle. You can't just teach wrote memory history like, you know Civil war starts this year ends this year You can't just do they can't just make people memorize what the capital of each state is if you need to know the capital of Montana And you don't know it. It's not life-threatening. It's not career-ending You can Google it But if you don't have a practical skill how to start a business or if you're an employee how to rise up in that business If you don't have tangible skills in a career You're not gonna make any money and one of my family members went to school spent like 50 60 grand in debt four years First for a Spanish degree and I said, why don't you just go live in Spain? You can actually get paid to learn Spanish and you'll learn better Spanish. You'll learn it faster You'll learn it with and it'll be more fun so if you you know if the modern education system had an emphasis on Practical skills all the way through in addition to some abstract stuff. You're gonna need some math You're gonna need a little bit of geometry and all that some of it's okay, but it's too much so Whenever I talk to this about people everybody 100% of adults go man I wish I came out of school with great social skills public speaking skills persuasion skills scale sales skills reading people skills Which brings me to my third point the third thing that would revolutionize the education system is if there was Personalities a series of personality tests because different tests are a hundred percent accurate and they test for different things You know these tests would go a battery of tests that students member students got from age six years old to 18 In the junior high and high school and elementary system So you're talking you got 12 years to administer these tests You don't have to do them on one day then you would take the results and adjust accordingly What you teach the kids and how two things what you teach them and how some people from personality tests like in the hexaco test Which is the most scientific cutting-edge test developed in 2000. It's a variation of the big five tests It's widely respected There's correlations people low and conscientiousness high and conscientiousness low and agreeableness high high an extra version verse Introversion they do better and they're attracted to different fields social facilitation skills practical manual labor skills accounting management of people all that Should be based on personalities going back to the refund system the second you made universities have refunds mark my words They would start doing a battery of personality test because they don't want to give money back Right and so they would say hey Bob you were wanting to get an Egyptian You know medieval history major. Why don't you do that as a minor? and I'll teach you something else, you know, like why don't you learn how to open a restaurant or Learn how to do sales or something. I mean look, let's be practical about life You're gonna have to know some down-to-earth skills to make it everybody does it should be teaching real estate Investing all these things should be taught.  It doesn't discriminate It doesn't differentiate by gender or sexuality or anything This is the cutting-edge way that education should be taught and going back to the personality test not only would you Find out what people have natural affinities for using personality tests But in addition you would teach them differently not everybody learns the same way. It's been it's a fact Some people are audio learners some are visual some are kinesthetic, you know Peter Drucker talks about this and it's Book managing oneself. You have to know how you learn But if the education system is always sit at a desk listen to a lecture have a book It's already failed the majority of people because the majority of people do not learn that way And so by doing personality test you could you could separate out how people learn and this was impossible a hundred years ago It's because you might be listening go tie. That's not practical. Oh, it's practical now. We have computers We could put man on the moon. We have GPS is it we have that this iPhone here Where is my phone? Scratch that on all my phone. Yes. Oh here it is. This phone right here Is more powerful than a rocket ship was in the 1960s you telling me with all the technology We can't use computers. We can't use iPads. We can't use tablets We can't use live streaming to bring customized education This is completely False and giving up too easy and what happens is the education system has a inertia and It's just doing business with minor changes. There's been some improvement in the education system Naturally as we progressed, but it's not enough. It hasn't kept up with the pace of of Advancement in the world in other fields think how much better medicine is medicine is Indistinguishable between what would happen to you in the 1800s in the 1800s had you Been injured you might have had leeches put on you You would have had doctors who didn't wash their hands. They didn't understand germ theory I mean it was prehistoric now if you you know get a cut and you go into the hospital We understood it's completely different Now we take that the education system if you go back to a classroom in the 1800s versus today They almost indistinguishable you got student sitting there listening to a teacher for not just one two three years But decade or more You got to keep up you got to keep up. So just thought I thought I'll record that sounds like there's a crazy Fire going on back here. If you go to tylo pes.com. I've got some of the practical torch Courses that I teach on starting businesses and all that stuff and like I said, I practice what I preach they involve personality tests They involve practical skills and they involve full refunds And so you know, I don't be a hypocrite and I think the future will be private education I think that university is gonna be too slow and more and more people are gonna go online to learn and you already see that the online education system grew from 50 billion dollars in 2014 to double that about a hundred two hundred ten billion in one year so good news, you know people catching the trend so Check out tylo pes.com. Look at some of the courses. I have or look at different. There's other Providers of online education what you didn't learn in school. You can come back and learn now So you don't have to give up hope hopes their opportunities are there So leave a comment below. I read an article that said the three biggest regrets people have is who they marry occupation they select him and And the education they had all three of those could be changed and improved by these three little points that I talked about So leave a comment below. What's your opinion? Does the school system need to be improved on do you think it's fine? And if you think it should be changed give me some specific things I'd love to hear and learn from you as to what you think will make education better