What's up guys welcome back to the YouTube channel now today's video I'm gonna be telling you a story and I'm going to be showing you how to explode and accelerate Your sales with your business Now here's a couple questions that I'm gonna ask you before we kind of dig into the meat of this video and These are three questions you want to Be honest about all right number one. What is preventing you From closing more clients over the next 30 days. What is it? What's the real thing?  What's the real thing that's stopping you from doing that? All right, that's number one number two. What is your biggest destruction? That is preventing you From accomplishing your business goal All right, when you identify that and you stop being distracted you will be able to accelerate your results with your sales All right Then number three What self limiting beliefs? Do you have about yourself? Only you can answer that I can't come knock on your door Me and Cowboy can't right over and galloped over to your house and Ask what your biggest self limiting beliefs are only you are going to know that and Here's what we want to do you write out your the questions. I just asked write down the answers And I want you to look at that for two hours a day All right, I want you to stare at that piece of paper and see Why am I not doing these things? Like what what is my biggest self limiting belief? And that's what today's Videos about it's about Overcoming self-limiting beliefs so you can accelerate Within your business you can have more sales. You have more income. You have more freedom. You get the stuff that you dream about and you talk about and Probably stuff you talk about on Instagram all the time Here's the thing though. It's very important. I'm gonna lead off with you with this most coaches Don't take their own advice that they give their own clients They'll tell you'll tell your clients to be confident to not be afraid of failure to Overcome limiting beliefs and then you get back in the car and you're like man like I Know I could be doing better with my business right now. I know I could be generating more income and Then When you look at yourself in the mirror you are not doing the things that you tell your clients Coaches are notorious For doing that. How do I know I talk to coaches every day if you have not reached out to me? Here's my number two one zero nine six zero five seven seven one text me I will get back to you. I've talked to coaches for hours every day. All right So let's think about this If you have these self-limiting beliefs of Well, maybe maybe I should I don't deserve to make this much money Maybe I can't make this much because I don't know anyone who's making this much like whatever it is That needs to be written down on your piece of paper right and this is very personal to me and This is a long story. So Buckle up here. All right. I'm gonna go into as much detail as I can and I'm gonna show you how I turned a negative when I was younger into positive now, all right, so Where you are right now, all right, let's just be very clear the decisions you make how you think What you do how you act how you operate all of that was determined when you were younger and Then you're as you become an adult you just continue doing the same things You did when you're younger the way your parents taught or the way those who you spent time like However, they instructed you on how to live That's what you ended up doing and you probably have the same habits as your parents do Or you have the same habits as those who you surround yourself with that they have all right So knowing that okay bear with me when I when I go through the story It's going to click and make sense When you start to think about yourself, right? So I remember very vividly it was in the spring of My seventh grade year All right. I was going through puberty Really fun time for a young boy Right my voice was cracking Super annoying every time I spoke it was like All right, you know what I'm talking about and I'll never forget it was my history class we had an oral presentation and Before I knew that like my whole life when I was younger. I was very shy very timid very afraid to speak and Because I was afraid I would kind of hesitate. I would be jittery when I would talk So I just chose to shut the eff up when I was young All right didn't speak up I Shut up because I was afraid to talk right now. That was That was how it was when I was young when I got seventh grade. It was still like that Now on top of that I was going through puberty.  I wasn't that wasn't a normal thing. I hated doing that. Okay, so The day before the presentation The teacher was like, all right, I'm gonna write down in order Who's going to be going first? All right, so first second all the way to 15 people. I think we had in our class and course the teacher wrote my name first All right, and I was like, holy crap. I need to figure out how I'm gonna get out of going to school tomorrow I was already thinking of how I could get out of it and This is what a lot of coaches and business owners do when they face something that's difficult that they're not used to They just try to get out of it and they do get out of it, right? Only problem was I was in seventh grade. So I had to go to school. I couldn't get out of it and I remember showing up and my voice was extra cracky that day and We get there and my all of my friends knew that I hated talking in front of people So as the teacher called my name, I walk up and I hear people laughing already and I was like, man, like Like this is gonna be a nightmare. I was thinking that before I went up to go do this and The way the speech started I started with the words Thomas Jefferson, right? And when I said Jefferson my voice cracked, right exactly like this. It was Thomas Jefferson Right so immediately Everybody was laughing. I looked at the teacher. He was laughing Everybody's laughing in my face and I remember how Just I felt it was like traumatizing it sounds so stupid, right, but it was and I remember the rest of that speech it cracked probably over a hundred times and Everybody was just laughing the whole time And I remember after that day. I was like, I am never doing this again. I Am never talking in front of an audience again ever not gonna do it and Any time as I got older when I was in high school and in college if I had an oral presentation I would skip it and It was terrible because that made my grades go down Right, I would skip it. I'd find a way out Because I was unable to confront What happened when I was younger? right now Here's the deal Several years past like as a became an adult When I started my business That stuff stayed with me All right, when I get on a sales presentation with the parent over the phone I that would be lingering in my mind what happened when I was a kid right and The craziest thing about it is I let that little thing Which for me it was a big deal That held me back with so much that I wanted to do With my business That helped me back with marketing that helped me back with sales That helped me back with my confidence because I kept telling myself.   Oh Thomas Jefferson kid, right? always heard that and I remember when I was 25 years old 25 all right, this is over a decade after the Thomas Jefferson incident Right, I ran into it to some old classmates. That's the first thing they said, right? Trust me. I'm very nice relaxed chill guy One of the first times in my life where I wanted to beat someone up, right? Just for bringing it up Brought back old memories. It made me feel inferior again right and Here's what I realized Right. I realized this when I was 26 27 took me 27 years of life To figure this out. It was wow. However.  Dictate what's gonna happen in the future because I had already let it do that all right and The best part about this is Once I let go of that and I realized I need to change Here I need to change who I spend up my time with I need change how I think about myself. I Started investing into mentors be like pay big dollar amounts to be around people that I want to be like That I strive to be like right Once I started doing that. I realized like wow, I'm starting to think differently about myself now Like why am I hanging on to this thing that happened when I was little? That has nothing to do with my future, but I led it for so many years all right and my favorite part about this story was After I think I was 25 when I saw a bunch of old jabronis that I used to go to school with I remember that person said that to me and I was like I am going to Like show this person right Ran into same dude Last year at the grocery store Brought it up again All right He's like, what are you doing now?  I mean we have over 90,000 subscribers at this point Like I'm going back to that channel that channel is gonna be poppin soon got this channel I've helped millions people right, I Would have never done that though if I would have held on to these self-limiting beliefs Now, why am I telling this?  I need to start doing this And the person that's going to get in the way of your success. It's gonna be you flat out Right, it's not going to be you going to buy a 997 product Uh from some guru. That's not going to save your life Right It's not going to save your life The thing that's gonna make the change is you have to identify what those things are That's why if you if you seriously do what I said at the beginning of this video Right There's there's zero reason why in the next two three years That you don't have a hundred thousand per year business Zero reason Because now you've let go of the thing that's in your way And you just go into hunt mode like me Like when I wake up in the morning No one's no one's stopping me All right me and cowboy we come in this office all day hunt I help more people And I'm on a mission All right, I don't have to think about how it was when I was younger I don't have to think that oh having money is a bad thing. No, it's not All right, and there's so many other other little details that of how I thought when I grew up That affected me when I was older This is where you have to let go Of those things and move forward with the thing that you want And only you Get to do that You get to make that choice and I see so many coaches Who are so great at coaching that don't move their business forward Because of the self-loving beliefs It's a shame And if you're a coach you should be wanting to help way more kids Like And you can think about this on a very deep level All right, and this is sounds crazy But Let's say you got hit by a bus tomorrow, and I hope that doesn't happen.  You're gonna have like one or two kids that you train show up Or you're gonna have thousands of kids that you've impacted be there and be morning Your loss Right That's it for today's video I know this is going to help you All right, my videos do not appeal to every every personal trainer and coach I don't freaking care All right, I'm here to help you out and I know by me sharing my example That's going to help at least one person at least one person Over the next three to five years make seven figures All right, it could be you I guess we'll see that's it. I'll see you later


Boataz de todos todos, this is Paul Guiado from U.S. Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil. I have the pleasure today to begin our web chat with Angelina Galateva of the California Independent Systems Operator Board, as well as Renewables 100. This web chat is hopefully the first of a series of web chats with renewable energy experts from the United States who have been participating in a climate partners campaign with State Department through the Mission Brazil and only U.S. Embassy, Brasilia, but also our consulates to bring U.S. renewable energy energy efficiency expertise policy backgrounds lessons learned to Brazil so that Brazil can also develop its renewable energy sector and hopefully to the benefit of the greater climate induction of carbon emissions. Again, by means of introduction, Angelina was a guest of ours here in Mission Brazil. In November 2015, she visited both U.S. Embassy, Brasilia, as well as Consulate General Hicefe, and had a series of substantive meetings, largely discussing her role in a series of reforms in California, which have led to a very rapid introduction and explosion, rather of solar photovoltaic wind and other distributed energy sources within the state of California. In her role as part of the California Independent Systems Operator Board, Galateva has been a leader in promoting renewable energy, as well as reduction of carbon emissions through the state that's truly a global leader in that area. So without further introductions, I'd like to turn over the platform to Angelina. Thank you so much, Paul. This is great, and I enjoyed coming to Brasilia as well as Recife. It was a lot of fun. We had opportunities to learn from each other and realize what mutual collaboration can lead to and why it is so important to have a platform where all of us are working together towards renewables. This is not a one-time event. We actually had the fortune of following up with a meeting with Sergio Xavier from Pernambuco, the environmental secretary in Paris, where we outlined some initiatives of working together. Pernambuco also signed the Under 2 MOU, which is a subnational initiative that California launched. And Pernambuco has become a member of it. I will talk about that a little bit later in the presentation. And we're going to be moving forward, hopefully with projects that can showcase the abilities of U.S. companies to deliver renewables as a solution to Brazil as well. And this is very much a collaborative effort that was followed up by a visit from a delegation here in California, where we had the fortune of talking to some U.S. companies such as City Solar, Tesla, and others in terms of Stanford and universities, UCLA, water companies and water agencies having an interest in implementing renewables, energy efficiency, and water programs for Brazil on a collaborative level. Very well. The explosion of these renewables not only happened here in California, on a local level, in other areas, but also on a global scale. The total investments in renewables, in technology for 2015, have been superbant and exceeded the energy investments of fossil fuels. 1.5 trillion dollars entered in large-scale projects and solar energy and 2.2 trillion in distributed energy, which is also a very large part of what we are putting in the mesh so that consumers have access to renewable energy and have the power to make decisions. We want consumers to have control over the energy options that they use. Renewable energy also represents 65% of the new generation capacity in the U.S. in 2015. Renewables are surpassing the investments of fossil fuels not only internationally, but what we see here in the U.S. The presentation will talk about global, international, and in California, how we are implementing and where we believe that there is potential for the future. The future of the coal doesn't seem very brilliant. The main four coal companies in the U.S. have declined 99% since 2011, and some of the other big projects, in terms of what has happened to the coal companies, the Pibare already entered with the Concordata request, which was a surprise, but in the context of these other companies, they are disappearing over time. This shows that this is a situation where the investments are a disinvestment by value destruction. From 2013 to 2015, we see here the clean energy index in green. Not only the prices are decreasing, but we see what the countries are reaching today. Although it doesn't seem very impressive, the goals for the 2040 already represent a substantial market. So, we have the potential for investment based on the regulatory end, which needs to be transparent, long-term, consistent, which allows long-term to see in what direction the market is heading, the decline in the price of energy in terms of renewables. 80% for solar energy in the last three years. This all serves as an impulse for these energies. Let's go back to California now. It is necessary to see that the entire regulatory system, the SB350, which is the clean energy law and the reduction of pollution in 2015, was the regulatory restructuring that prepared the whole system in the state. We have the normal of the renewable portfolio from 33% to 50% until 2030, as a goal. And here we have our net and we are operating in 33% now. We are going to double the energy efficiency, we are going to focus on electric transport, and more importantly, we are going to start considering a whole net of energy. California is on the west coast. It is one of nine electric networks operators. We have there, mainly in the middle, then on the west coast, then there is all the empty space until we get to California. To get the benefits of renewables, we have to have regional integration. I was at the Bloomberg Renovable Energy Forum in April and the Secretary of State, John Kerry, made a presentation basically showing what is happening, why this vacuum was in the middle, and how we should be acting on it. And we are acting. We want to integrate this market very soon, led by California. Here we have the ESO, according to the numbers, it is the largest in the world. We have cooperation also with Europe. We have 80% of the state, well balanced, and we are already dealing a little with the neighboring states. Our role is, first of all, to maintain the reliability of the network. We can have 80%, 90% of the renewable energy, but if we have blackouts, failures are useless. So we also need to implement state policies of goals that will be 50% to 2030, which does not include large hydroelectric projects or specific solar energies. So in fact, this 50% represents more 60% or 70% in fact. And we have a general goal that we have already achieved. Critical balance between implementation of renewable energy resources to ensure that the cost is not prohibitive and maintain this pressure for reducing costs and all incentives are helping us and maintain reliability, which is the main objective. This is the emblem of the situation. We always see high penetration rates of renewables, but it is necessary to have this graph in mind. Basically, we see the entry of solar energy, the suppression of prices, and in the end, in the last analysis, we see about 10,000 megawatts, we expect 13,000 until 2020. A great opportunity to have renewable energy, but for it to be efficient, we need to deal with this graph. We need to collect this graph's belly so that the line is as stable as possible. What we saw is that the energy drop in the middle of the day, which is 22 megawatts, and we think a lot about the transport sector in this situation, we want to force the electrification of the transport system, making the battery card at night and limiting the access to energy in the peak hours of energy access. What we see now is that the peak is no longer two hours, but six to eight hours. So we need to make adjustments to some challenges, but also opportunities, and with these peak areas, we need to adjust our operation. What would be a great area of success to include resources and in a quick way? It is necessary to realize that we can include many megawatts. Quickly, in 2010, we started with 85 megawatts, which was a large-scale transmission online in California, which is not very impressive, in any way. It is not a number that impresses us. And we had 3,000 megawatts of energy oil. There was more success with oil at the beginning in California, because the resources were cheaper, and the portfolio standards were more limited. In 2015, due to the goals and transparency, we reached 6,000 megawatts online, which means the equivalent of three nuclear weapons. And now we already had 6 megawatts of energy oil. It is not a great resource in California, but we want diversity. So we continue investing. In 2030, there will be a debate. How will the renewable energy level be? All studies indicate that it will be around 70 to 80% of variable resources, which means oil or solar. We will be able to balance these resources, but we need to define how to make sure that we can continue to invest in these lower cost resources, increasingly lower, in a cost-effective way. Because the smaller the cost, sometimes 20 to 30% of penetration, there is no problem. We see integration, we see mainly energy and oil, in solar installations. In California, we have almost 80% of solar installations, but when we go beyond 50%, the story changes, and we need to change our diversification strategies. We need to have a lot of flexibility and diversity and a very solid network to give the foundation to this penetration. And we also need to deal with the distribution sector. Traditionally, distribution transmission was very close. Now we see that red area, that red top there in the graph, is the excess generation in the middle of the day. And we don't want to interrupt the production and generate waste, because there is no way to store this energy. So storage becomes essential. And the know-how to not waste, but to incorporate it into the network, becomes crucial too. What is interesting is that as we see these programs of efficiency in 2005, 2014, we have in the yellow line a stable demand line. But the need for transmission in 2010 and 2030 shows an exponential investment that needs to occur. And this is something that needs to be in our minds to achieve a higher level of renewable energy dependence. Regional integration becomes more relevant. The greater the geographical presence, the more important distribution will be. All of this will be more relevant, so that we can make predictions. Previsions will also be crucial to be able to place resources throughout the network. And the predictions are reaching an extreme level. ESO now has two full-time working hours of predictions. And they say that they are better specialists than the best meteorologist. They know exactly where the winds will be, the solar rays emission. This prediction is important and we want reliability because we can monitor the winds and the sun. It is more and more clear that regional cooperation is crucial. We did not want the regulatory scheme that decided, but that decided why not have our computer network available to the neighbors in the west, so that they can participate in the market for five minutes, where there is a lack of energy balance. We optimized their system and then we were able to optimize what we are using, the pump, to make the network of the west be a network of cooperation in any way. It is not necessary to leave your autonomy with this type of system. The important thing is to take advantage of the maximum existing system. And why is this necessary? That raccoon that we saw in the middle is an area where there are 38 authorities who work in this balance, which is not efficient. Everyone has to have a reserve, everyone has to be sure that in case of an emergency, they can operate independently. This is inefficient for the entire west region and it is difficult to incorporate a renewable system if there are authorities who make this balance 38 in the whole region. It is difficult to balance load and generation. When we make a balance between load and generation in a set, instead of being separated through a centralized system with an energy imbalance market, the flexibility increases, decreases the need to have reserves. And this is important because it is economically efficient and reduces the cost of integration. Everyone benefits from working in this market. It is a decision of economic character. What we are doing in terms of techniques is combining all the authorities who work in this regulation of the balance. Here you see the different beauty, sound, Arizona have already entered this energy balance market. And in November 2014, it was when we started, it has been more than a year, and the success has been strong. We have an automatic space to solve this balance, avoid congestion, allow it not to be necessary to charge for voluntary leave. Here we have entities who participate or who are interested in participating in this market to benefit from this optimized system. For this to have success, it is necessary to create the transmission system. This is what has already been incorporated to ensure that it is possible that energy goes to the west or to the west. California has always been an energy importer. And now, California is also exporting energy to something that had been done before. The success story happened in April, with Berkshire Hathaway, who entered the Pacific Corp. They are also owners of Mid-America, a company in the middle of the country that works in this middle territory that is not integrated and they operate in Iowa. And it was interesting to see that Berkshire Hathaway is no longer a company aware of environmental terms, but now, with 100% of renewable energy in Iowa announced on April 13, its last project that makes 85% of its energy. In Iowa, it will be oil, this would not have happened without an integrated market. Pacific Corp is one of the first companies that arrived at our market in California because Berkshire Hathaway had the capacity to know that in Iowa they managed to integrate renewable energy in a cost efficient way, a renewable system keeping the lowest prices in the United States, the seventh lowest in the United States, in fact. And they will work in the same way in California and at the end of 2015 they will show the largest solar project on Earth, Solar Star 700 megawatts, close to Lancaster. And our delegation from Pernambuco visited this place, the first international visitors who came to this place and they told us that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were also visiting the place. It was a project made with a lot, in the middle of a lot of silence, the program of Iowa was very widespread, but this is not, but they are seeing that this change for renewables is really an economic character movement, the benefits of the EIM are economic. We see here the initial cost, let's see Pacific Corp, 20 million or to start, this was paid in the first year when they won from 21 to 129 million depending on the integration and costs annual three million dollars, and this year after year. So the argument is not what happens if we enter this market and yes, why not enter to benefit the customers in the West? A great success in November 2014, and our market already reached 47 million dollars, and this first trimester is also very good. It is expensive to invest in transmission, no doubt, even if no one else entered, just to be in color, in a 20-year period we would have a combined benefit, without changes in the system, only in the efficiencies achieved by three million dollars, this is paid by the transmission and it is a voluntary system, maximizing operational efficiency, which is very good, it would not be the regulation, no one has to come and tell you what to do, we work in this market while it is efficient and beneficial. What we did not anticipate was the issue of governance, because it was necessary to change things, all our neighbors like California, but our network in the west is not called network of west, it is called network of Arizona, but we want to change to network of west, network of west with representation in the administrative council and the governance of the whole network, so at this moment we are doing a study to see how everyone is represented, it is a very stimulating process, there are many arguments in terms of how to do it, but until the end of this semester it has to be concluded to be able to move forward, so we are working quickly to create this system of governance and ICO, this will be difficult, it will be complicated, but we will do what works, so we are doing impact studies in the region with very positive results and we want to have a good governance structure that is acceptable for everyone, what we see here in terms of regional transmission organization and that big cone in the middle of the map with nine operators, what made the regulatory commission that had not been able to implement the market, because it had to be voluntary, the west had said no, we are independent, we do not want a central operator, then the networks were created in different regions, Texas is alone and it is important that now these regions start cooperating in Europe, this was what the European friends showed with the unique European market, also the voluntary market with seven networks of different states, the important thing is again the transmission, the integration in Europe was crucial for all of its countries so that they could then make connection with the retroelectric resources of Norway, for example, because it has much more hydroelectric energy than the rest, it is a role that Brazil could also have in the future, we saw May 5, 2015, unique price in the whole market, which was its goal and we see how Norway's hydroelectric balance is able to make the wind, for example, of the dinamarca, the dinamarca energy is well integrated, the solar system had impressive results, in California we had a dry period from 2012 to 2015, then the hydroelectric resources decreased in 2012, 12,000 megawatts disappeared in a nuclear plant that was having a leak and it had to be closed and what these next slide show is that the solar energy installation 5,000 megawatts compensated for the loss of hydroelectric energy and nuclear energy, its reserves and we see the waste that we would have had without this solar energy that was here saved our region here, we are seeing new projects asking for interconnection in Chile, the same scenario that we saw in California, renewable based on solar energy and this is the lowest cost, so we started here, in the next slide we see that the growth should be the new energy policies that stimulate clean energy with great resources, the average production price of 69 dollars per megawatts per hour, which is within the band that is most of the cost of resources as a result of new installations, the operational cost in the beginning is low and there are no emissions, so there is abundant energy or there is great competition between renewables and we see here that many sub-national initiatives are being implemented to reach 100 percent, we have a memorandum of understanding, an initiative from California for an initiative that was very prominent in the Paris meeting this year, in the COP, with goals for renewables and reduction of the stufas gases, the initiative from California due to the sixth energy in the world and it was a moral imperative to advance in this sense with the role of leadership along with other countries trying to make the growth of the maximum force of two degrees and two less than two tons of carbon emissions and if we see the emissions from California and from Brazil, Brazil has a lower goal, we wanted to be sure that our partners were also able to reach our goals, UNESCO has as a 100 percent goal of renewables and all UNESCO's sites are committed to this reduction and this transformation in renewable G7 also appealed to a 100 percent of renewables decarbonizing our economies and what the future is clearly decarbonizing and decentralizing with enormous paper for the future. We will see a much more concentrated system in the consumer that incorporates panels on the roof, electric vehicles, control of the consumer, electric rates and signals that are more integrated, each home will have the capacity to participate in the market. It is a slightly complicated slide, this next one, but it aims to show the transformation of the system and it comes from ISEO to show how the market will incorporate consumers, so we go to that meter, to that electric clock and we control what happens in the transmission area and optimize the system geographically as well. We need to increase the energy efficiency, we need to improve the response of the team to improve the demand response to have more flexibility and storage will change the rules of the game, we need large scale storage, we will have services for ISEO, for the consumers, for consumers with a very fast energy delivery and the hydroelectric projects will be able to do the loading, unloading and numerous programs that will promote these possibilities. Electric vehicles will also take the network stabilization and we are evolving very quickly, just like human beings evolved, energy systems are evolving, remain the same for hundreds of years, but since the 90s, we are observing a slowdown in a very accelerated way, which may happen, we will depend on the networks, but also on micro networks, a decentralized system to ensure that we will be able to access all possible resources as efficiently as possible to optimize the whole network based on renewable and decarbonized energy. I like to show this slide because to provide energy to the whole world with solar energy we only need 0.07% of the area, the surface of the world, so the important thing is transmission, storage, capture and make the system work, and if we can capture 2 minutes of solar radiation per day, we will be able to supply energy to everyone including those people, millions of people who do not have electricity at the moment. This is the group of G7, I do not know why there are 9 people in the photo, because in fact it is the G7, and they are calling for action, and in Argentina, the Pope Francis, very popular, is making a call for renewable energy, so we do not have a plan B, we need to decarbonize as quickly as possible, as efficiently as possible, sharing with the enrichment, experiences, because we can all benefit from this exchange, and we will do with what works in this new system. Thank you very much and I am available for your questions. Our first question is from Luiz Norrecif. Luiz asks about the high levels of renewable energy penetration and the impact on the intermittency, especially in relation to the wind and solar. The question is how California is dealing with the intermittency by the operator. In fact, it is a learning curve. In the beginning, the operators said very well, 10% of renewable energy can be incorporated on the network, they did very well, reaching 20%, they also managed 30% or more and de-stabilize a lot, so we had to learn a lot and we needed the solution of TI. It is a matter of TI, it is a matter of well-made previews and being able to incorporate more flexible resources to operate the network efficiently. Another fire baptism was that we lost a very large and very stable resource in terms of a energy usage in a very short period. So we had to quickly strengthen the transmission system and generation and renewable energies that saved us and learned to deal with the system and how we can preview renewable energies, we can generate them in a much more efficient way. We are planning not only in 5 or 10 years, but in periods of 10, 20, 30 years. This long-term vision will be very important, just like diversity and flexibility. So we know where we are going, we have predictable goals, now we know that we are going to try to reach 50%, it is a goal, it is not a goal, and we are going to overcome this level too, we will be able to interrupt the incorporation of panels on the shelves because the installation of 8,000 residential systems or shelves per month and we need to be able to deal with this network. We are in partnership with the area of TI, storage, we are going to increase efficiency, all of this is a tip network and it is very interesting to see what is happening, and the network operators are wondering how they are doing so well in the incorporation of renewable energies and this makes me very happy. Very well, we have another question that has to do with the previous question, it is a question from Carlo and he asks about the connectivity of solar and wind energy systems and how the project developers are making the coordination so that there is adequate transmission before the construction of these energy plants. This is very important, not only in California, but it is a question that in any large-scale project will be built or incorporated. I visited one of the most beautiful energy projects in Recife, which I have already seen, the interconnected transmission lines, so they are the network coordinators that need to coordinate with the developers, identify areas with capacity on the network and areas where there is need so that they can know if the development is done in this area, it is here that they can do the interconnection quickly and give a quick return. All are wrong in this path of learning, everyone wants to obtain interconnection studies, we carry out the studies and we need to strengthen the system. What we did was to think that in the first place 80 or 90 percent of the projects would not happen with a lower rate of incorporation of projects, so I need to hear a very tight cooperation between the coordinators and developers to identify the areas in which we can incorporate more renewable energy more quickly. This is important to obtain this synchronization between the development of the project and interconnection. And finally what we saw in some of our Europeans are geological projects that were developed without the transmission to interconnect, so they need generators so that they work and not remain inactive. This is something that we want to avoid, we want the development transmission to work hand in hand and that the system is as predictable as possible. We have one more question from Allison Recife, she asks if the energy distributed could be a solution for energy distribution, especially with photovoltaic panels on the roof, could be a solution for Brazil to deal with energy demand in the future. This has to do with what California said, but when it talked about the installation of more than 5,000 of these systems per month, how California is dealing with the intermittency and the various issues related to energy distribution when there is so much, such an accelerated adoption of these systems. It is true that mobile owners want to install these systems, but we have an executive order that requires or that stimulates an energy balance in the construction of houses and the same new one will be applied in 2030 to difficult commercial constructions, so we will see the greatest incorporation of these renewable energies, just like now, we have already incorporated efficient windows or interconnectivity in the construction, this is something that, in my opinion, will be essential for the development worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan nations, places where there is no electricity, 1.2 billion people without access to electricity, if we want to offer energy to them, probably there will not be a centralized network at the beginning, but yes, a series of micro networks with panels, photovoltaics, biomass, geological energy, energy transport, showing that it is possible to achieve poor quality of life, which brings, then, all the benefits of education and development, more quickly than if the system was centralized. The price of Brazil is in a slightly singular situation, because more than 90% of the country is already energized, the prices are not extremely high, it is something that we saw in Argentina as well, so if we send the correct signals to the market, the correct subsidies, those distributed resources with certain incentives, people will have incentive to make high generation and use the resources more efficiently, so sending the right signals about the price has been a motor of solar energy generation, when I am paying 30 cents per kilowatt per hour, people have a stimulus, they will pay less, they are saving, the energy efficiency has been enormous, we had a limited growth in 2015, but at the same time we see that the prices promote this growth, availability, financing, all this important, and incorporate the need for a zero sum balance in energy at the construction time. This will be important not only in the United States and Europe, but all over the world. This is an interesting opinion, because one of the questions that the Brazilian public is interested in is what kind of incentive has been the most effective in California to promote solar energy, considering that this is the best resource in California. It is very interesting to identify if these are renewable energy portfolio standards at the state level, if these are fiscal incentives, what has been the biggest motor of the growth of renewable energy in the system in California? It is a combination of several factors, without a doubt the norm of renewable energy portfolio at the beginning, when these energies were more expensive, was very important. We paid a little more to develop these energies and incorporate these resources, despite being more generous, but the beauty of having a norm of these and the beauty of renewable technologies is that it is not a subsidy, it is an incentive, and the definition of incentive is that over time it is reduced and disappears, and they have already been reduced by more than 90% in the whole world and the price has already fallen by more than 80% too. Now renewable energies, because of these incentives, have become one of the most economic options. One of the big engines here was a large-scale project through the fiscal incentives, which, the fiscal credits, that lower the cost. So we made a purchase in California of 6 cents or below, despite seeing, in general, a price closer to Argentina, here there are fiscal credits. And the diversity is important, we need to guarantee that by receiving these incentives, which is not necessarily the lower cost, but the more adequate project, we need resources of the basic line, renewable resources and more storage, even if it is a more expensive storage, because if it is only used for two hours a day or two hours a day, it makes no sense to install a very expensive battery, because it will still be more expensive to operate in a basic line plant that does not operate 24 hours a day. So partnership with our neighbors, distribution systems, all this will be very important from now on, because the incentives and portfolios will not perform such a central role here in front. We will be the option of lower cost. And in the state of Iowa, for example, they are making the transmission, the transition for this type of energy, and we will see this also on the west coast. Very interesting, in Brazil, the ETER advantage is 70% of energy generated by hydroelectric energy, and obviously this is the basic energy. As for energy storage, Recife asks how, what does California do for energy storage? How is California incorporating this storage in its network? What does Brazil have as an advantage? It is the great hydroelectric energy that can be very flexible, that can balance the geological resources and solar energy. So 30, 40% of geological solar energy above hydroelectric energy, as a symbiotic relationship here in California, here we have, we like a lot of hydroelectric energy, and we have only 30 megawatts of hydroelectric projects in our renewable box. We have the problem of droughts, but when we have hydroelectric energy, it is a great value. We are also centered in the electricity generator to see that storage will be used for the renewables, it is necessary to incorporate them, and storage is probably, is delayed 15, 20 years in relation to energy production. It is expensive, we have to have a plan to encourage. California launched an initiative in which all electric companies have to buy 1,300 megawatts of storage. This does not include hydroelectric, because it is already available commercially, this includes new technologies, batteries and creative ways of storage energy. We have a company that proposes to have a train going up and down so that this train, when it goes down, can generate energy. It is really an innovative proposal. So when companies made these proposals, they buy 2, 3 times what the law requires, because with different customers, the expensive storage makes sense, because it compensates distribution costs and the distribution system. So we are investing, we are making sure that companies incorporate this more expensive storage on the network, trying to find the most effective cost, and we are now in a transition period of support for the renewable sector as new resources, trying to reduce the price, trying to achieve the same result in storage, with new avant-garde technologies, to be able to penetrate the market and reduce the cost in volume. Thinking about storage, we received another question, comparing Brazil with California, and the potential for growth on a large scale of renewables and growth outside the population centers. Two parts to the question. So California is thinking of growth on a large scale, for example, in the desert, in the south, in the east, away from the population centers, or as it happens in Brazil, and how does this increase the cost? How can financing for transmission on a large scale is here that integration is crucial, it is here that integration is important because storage is expensive on a large scale and it is easier to have more transmission and transport the excess energy from where there are great conditions in geological solar terms to places where it is necessary. So there is a development of projects on a large scale in the desert to bring to the centers inhabited on the coast and also transported to the neighbors when they are needed due to the difference in time. We can make sure that the resources are transported efficiently to the neighbors instead of having to reduce, definitely, the resources are not where the load is, so the transmission systems have to be efficient, we have to build them, this we see in Brazil, we see in California, we see in the west of the United States, in Europe, in Germany, the geological resources are in the north, but the load is in the south, so increasing the transmission is crucial and the initiative of Mália de Renováveis, which is a partnership between civil society and Mália operators to build this transmission has been crucial to ensure that there are ways for cost-effectiveness and to optimize the transmission in Europe, here we will have to do the same thing, it has to happen in the whole world and when developing, for example, eolico in Wyoming where the load is not large, but if there is an interconnection, California can be a market for Wyoming, Paranio, Mexico and at the same time Arizona can use the solar resources of California and optimize the whole system, Brazil is already integrated, which is a great benefit, it already has a transmission on a large scale, this can still be improved and used and when incorporating and integrating with the neighbors in the north or south, this, without a doubt, should be considered because of the incorporation with the neighbors that can benefit from the great hydroelectric resources of Brazil and Brazil can be Norway, from South America, which Norway does, Norway is 100% hydroelectric, equilibrating the renewable load in Europe, everyone wants to connect with Norway, so there are lessons to be learned from what we discovered and that it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel individually, we must cooperate, work together, because we have a lot to learn from Brazil and Brazil can learn a lot from us in Europe and cooperation will be crucial. The question in relation to the long-term transmission for energy, especially here in Brazil, is the question of investment, the way that California managed to attract investment, especially for large-scale projects, which brings us to the question of Luis, who is interested in investment in solar, thermal or solar concentrate, which is more of a risk for investment. So, two parts, first, how California managed to attract investment, especially in large-scale projects in the area of solar, and second, we talked about storage in batteries, we could talk about two solar technologies, thermal and solar concentrate, and how California is working on that. Well, we managed to attract investment because when we have some elements of transparency, longevity and consistency, here we had in our renewable box, and we have the need that these resources can be integrated to meet the regulatory mandates, people know that investment is safe because the energy companies will buy the 20-year contract, so this, without a doubt, was stimulated by the PPAs and by the purchase options that are also happening in other parts of the world. The Europeans worked with a way to stabilize the rates, guaranteeing interconnection, implementation, there is not so much geographic area as here in California, the systems are smaller, more distributed, but the quantities are similar, so having a stable regulatory framework is important, it is crucial, in fact, the prices are low, there is an economic advantage, the stability makes the investor feel comfortable investing and feel that the investment is safe and long-term. So this is very important. Now, the resources, we saw a lot of energy, the photovoltaic, because it is cheaper and more stable, the thermal not so much, it is not a bad resource, it is not good, but it is more expensive and we have here a thermal location, the reception delegation visited, California is not ideal for the thermal, it is more expensive, Brazil, in some areas, is fine, but if it is in good health, it has influence on the system, it is the system of more sensitivity, the clouds do not work in all places, it needs a specific geographical location, so the thermal or concentrated is more expensive and there is not so much advantage as a photovoltaic, which is what we have the most in solar energy. One of the questions we receive about investment in Renovables in Brazil is how investors are working with regulators to determine where to invest in California. The question in Brazil is how to decide that the solar resource, the hydraulic resource, is the most attractive? The question is this, what is the role of the government in making sure that the resources are identified adequately and that the investment can be directed to the market, in California there is a different focus, the government did not get involved in this identification, in the beginning no, we saw this here in Europe, but when the penetration is greater and we do not want a development that is not regular, we want to identify areas that we want to protect and be sure that we are developing in a way to have a smaller impact in terms of resources, national monuments, access to transmission, coordination between governments and network operators has made it even more important and makes sense when there is a development on a large scale and we want to be sure that the project is profitable, we want to develop it where there is actually interconnection and that interconnection does not cost so much or where there is a pre-visible cost for interconnection to know what the cost to anticipate the Renovables has the advantage that the cost is anticipated in the technological investment anticipated because the fuel is free, maintenance is low so with this anticipated investment it is better to be in a place that is the best place for this resource, maybe when we talk about solar installations it is good to have a good project where there is good transmission, if someone has a small installation, if someone has a house, why not develop there too in these places instead of doing it on a large scale, so we see distribution in the places where the client makes sense that can integrate directly with what they produce in their energy counters, in the rural production part, this is also seen, sometimes there are projects of 700 megawatts with adequate transmission lines where it is possible to build a substation with space that has already been anticipated at the construction time, Brazil identified areas where it is worth developing certain resources, whether they are windmills or solar panels and then develop in a way that is easy for all, including investors, to have a visibility, the mixture of technologies is also interesting, it is important to show how this mixture works and I will applaud Fernando Noronha, we will show these slides, an island that is close to the Recife and that is with the free carbon system showing the use of micro networks, advanced transport, 100% renewable generation, it is a place protected by UNESCO and UNESCO is giving support to this initiative of 100% renewable for all its places of world heritage, it is a laboratory where we can show how the technologies of California, the United States can work together with the environment of Brazil, with a focalistic in an island, Fernando de Noronha, no doubt, is a jewel in Brazil and in the world, so you must visit David Mooney from the laboratory of renewable energy was, so we all would like to visit her, Angelina, we will conclude here, thank you very much for your support, not only this conversation by the web, also the program of partners with Brazil through your visit, your cooperation and without a doubt we will keep in touch with you because the leadership of California is not only for a plateia of Brazil but for the world, it is possible to advance quickly in this integration, keeping low costs for the consumer in a short period of time and we hope to continue this dialogue and we are all together to visit our website, climateamerica.gov, so good afternoon from Brazil, thank you Angelina


Howdy how's it going? My name's DavyChappy, and a while back I went through and reviewed each spell in the Individual Schools of Magic, and it was while making my transmutation guide that I realized, wait, this doesn't actually make any sense at all. What's the point of balancing the spells for each other when most of them may not even be in a particular class's spell list, and certain spells become much better or worse depending on which class is using them. And so it is that I've decided to redo my thinking and go over each spell once again, this time by class, starting with my favorite class, the Bard. As always keep in mind that the majority of this is just my opinion, so if you feel like your spell list is more optimized than mine, feel free to play your Bard however you want. But with that out of the way, let's begin. But first, an ad! Ah, Christmas time, it is the season of giving, and what better way to promote the season than with capitalism. 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So while you're watching this video, keep in mind that depending on whether you pick the fighty archetypes like Valor, Swords, or Whispers, or the casty Lord and Glamour subclasses, the archetype will affect not the usefulness of your spells, but it will affect your reliance on them. Also, the Bard likes to use its bonus action to use its Bardic ability feature, plus all of the subclass features that operate off of that, so spells that require a bonus action to use are going to be docked points for potentially clogging the action economy. Also, like sorcerers, Bard's don't get to swap out spells in between rests, so I'm going to be way harsher on situational spells because having one and not being able to use it is wasting a spell slot that could be potentially used for other things. Blade Ward, pretty useless when you consider that you could just take the dodge action and not get hit at all. Dancing Lights, very useful when Umi Eyes don't do the trick. Friends, useful in a pinch when you don't have any better charms, but don't stick around after a minute. Light, better than Dancing Lights if you want a torch, worse if you just want to scout. Mage Hand, everybody loves Mage Hand. Mending, I honestly don't get that much use out of mending.  Minor Illusion, for when you need to post a JPEG somewhere. Prestidigitation, the do-it-all mage cantrip.  True Strike, just attack twice, don't do this. Vicious Mockery, the quintessential Bard cantrip, psychic damage, and a debuff, Super Bardi. Level 1, Animal Friendship. It's like charm person, but with squirrels. Bane, it's more useful than you would think, and I almost always take this one for boss fights. Charm Person, Bards are typecasts as charmers, and this spell basically removes a threat and adds an ally. Comprehend languages, circumvented by party planning, but you never think you'll need this until you do. Cure Wounds, you are the only arcane caster that can heal. This specification means nothing, but it's neat. Detect Magic, very useful when you need it, and you never know you need it until you need it. Disguise Self, useful before, during, or after a really bad idea. Distant Whispers, another very bardic attacking spell that helps to alleviate pressure from the team. Earth Tremor, it's vaguely more useful than Thunder Clap and it restricts your movement. Fairy Fire, once you use it, enemies will want your butt, so make sure you can get away. Feather Fall, falling is for nerds. Healing Word, it competes for your bonus action, but it is just so necessary to have as a healer. Heroism, at early levels, constantly regenerating HP, even temporary HP, is fantastic. Identify, it's surprising how few people take this, but it is so, so, so very important for someone to have. Illusionary Script, secret messages can give you a big roleplay advantage, and it's fun to write private insults against your fellow man. Longstrider, if you want better movement, be a monk. This spell is silly. Silent Image, the big brother of minor illusion that can actually do all the things that people think minor illusion can do. Sleep, the bards very first, and the fight spell. In early levels, this is absolutely fantastic. Speak with animals, it's fun enough, but there's normally not enough to learn from squirrels to make it worth talking about. Tashasity is laughter. One of the best bard spells, it's never a bad idea to completely shut down an enemy. Thunder Wave, for the fighty bards, this is one of those spells that can really help you out if you start to get overwhelmed. Unseen Servant, what would a bard be without his wingman? Level 2, Animal Messenger.  Blindness slash deafness. Blindness is generally more useful in deafness, and blindness is great. Calm Emotions, useful for a relieving tension. Call your doctor if you have a charm lasting more than 8 hours. Cloud of Daggers, it's good for denying area, but most of the time people will just walk around it. Brown of Madness, it sort of takes an enemy out of the fight, but it's more likely that the enemy will just run into you and hit you anyway, so it really depends on positioning. Detect Thoughts, a useful information gathering spell. No one expects the bards to read your mind. Enhanceability, it's 6 different buff choices rolled into one spell, good to take just for the utility. Enthral, if you've ever wanted a whole crowd to only look at you, this is the spell. Heat Metal, always fantastic, no one likes burning to death. Hold Person, it is insane how good the paralyzed condition is in 5e. Invisibility, useful for you and useful for your friends. Knock. FBI OPEN UP! Greater Restoration, one of those spells that isn't useful until you need it, and then you just really need it. Locate Animals or Plants, I have never needed to look for a plant in my life. Locate Object, it might be useful when you need it, but I wouldn't waste a spell choice on it. Magic Mouth, useful in theory, absolutely terrifying to see happen in practice. Fantasmal Force, the creative possibility of this illusion is great. Pyrotechnics, it's nice and all, but it doesn't do anything that other spells don't do better. See Invisibility, you never need it until you need it, but I have almost never needed it. Shatter, a great AoE damage spell. Silence, I'm about to end this whole bards career. Skyrite, you will never need this, it will only serve to draw penises in the sky. Suggestion, a useful charm spell, bards can always make use out of it. Warding Bond, you generally don't want to take damage, but you're also a healer, so taking half the damage and then healing it back is a solid plan. Zone of Truth, situationally useful, almost never need it. Level 3, the Stoker's, another swiss army knife spell, this time for debuffs, and you can get creative with it. Catnap, okay, if you can rest for 10 minutes, then you can probably rest for an hour. Clear Voidance, a good recon spell, whispers bards will find good use for it. Dispel Magic, you can't counterspell, but you can normally dispel enemies abound. There are better ways to take an enemy out of the fight, but any good DM will role play proper discourse among the enemy team.  Fane Death, it could potentially have role play usefulness, but I struggle to think of when this could have actually been useful in my own games. Glyph of Warding, far too many words, this is either a bomb or a magic bomb and both are very good to have with you. Hypnotic Pattern, but when you just want to end a fight right then and there.  As a player, I love this spell, just guard the floor. Major Image, for you illusionist types, this spell actually has some flexibility with what you can and can't create.  Plant Growth, why does this not use 5 feet measurements?  Sending, always fun to get reactions from NPCs who had no idea that you had their number. Speak with dead, get good at interrogating because dead people actually have a lot to say. Speak with plants, plants however, do not. Stinking Cloud, an AoE grossness ability that can be defeated by blowing. Tongues, just as useful as comprehended languages, but for the opposite reason. Level 4, Charm Monster, no one ever thinks this is useful, but this is insanely useful.  Confusion, a lot of randomness in the spell makes it difficult to predict, but it still has an 80% chance to be useful. Dimension Door, this is easily one of the best getaway spells in the entire game. Freedom of Movement, sometimes you need it, sometimes you don't. Greater Invisibility, sometimes you need it, but you always want it. Pollucinatory Terrain, in all reality, this spell is useless, but it's always cool to just shape the world in your own image for a little while. Locate Creature, sometimes you need to find somebody, but a lot of the time you won't actually need to. Polymorph, fantastic spell, broken by the powers of transforming stuff into other stuff. Level 5, Animate Objects, at the snap of your fingers your squad will roll up, useful when cornered just don't get hit. Awaken, you can create an existential crisis with any object you want. Dominate Person, very exciting as long as the other person is into being a sub. Dream, it's sort of like message but more flavorful. Geass, one of the best charm abilities in the game, lesser restoration. At later levels, these conditions are how a party is killed, so this spell will oftentimes find good use. Hold Monster, it's like Old Person, but better. Legend Lore, on the surface it seems simple, but any good DM will clamor at the chance to read off the lore of something that they're excited about, and they'll probably give useful campaign hints at the same time. Mask Cure Wounds, it's like Cure Wounds, but better. Mislead, it's another spell that is super useful when you're cornered, and I use it all the time unless the boss has something like Blind Sense. Modify Memory, I've never needed this, but it's got enough roleplay application to be a 2. Plain or Binding, I've just plain never needed this. Raise Dead, People Die, this spell makes that an inconvenience, not a problem. Scrying, Divination Magic like this doesn't feel overly bardic, but it's still a good sensory spell that can get you more information than you have. Seeming, a sort of multiple person disguise self, good for infiltration missions, but unnecessary for most other things when disguised self will just do the job. Skill Empowerment, Give Expertise to Skills, yay. Synaptic Static, a good AoE psychic spell, good for when you don't have a fireball. Teleportation Circle, maybe if your group has a home base you can use this spell, but I won't lie, I've never needed this. Level 6, Eye Bite, a Swiss Army spell, but really the effects listed can be achieved easier with just other spells. Find the Path, once again I've never needed this. And why is it a 6th level spell, Guards and Wards? Well, it sure is what it says, good for when you need to defend a base. Mass Suggestion, Like Suggestion, but better. Autos, Irresistible Dance, another end the fight spell this time with the power of the Chacha Slide. Programmed Illusion, for when you don't want people to know that you made the illusion. True Seen, super good when you need it. Level 7, Etherealness, one of the best nope spells in the game. Force Cage, Make a Cage, beat him up while they're in the cage, best used on bosses. Mirage Arcane, it's like hallucinatory terrain, but better. Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, it's like Liamann's Tiny Hut, but better. Mordenkainen Sword, I mean it's nice, but concentration can probably be used on better things. Project Image, good for scouting and getting away, but you can probably serve either of those purposes better with something else. Regenerate, Great Healing Spell, and good for fixing wounds. Resurrection, Like Raise Dead, but the time limit is greatly extended. It's up to you to decide whether that makes it really worth getting. Symbol, yet another Swiss Army spell, this time with enough usefulness that it might be worth taking. Teleport, it's a great spell, until you roll poorly and end up in a bad spot. Level 8, Dominate Monster, the ultimate version of the Charm Dominate lineage. Feeble Mind, you can stupidify anyone, but this is especially good against casters. Glybness, by level 8 you can probably circumvent anything you would need to do with Charisma Shacks, but it's still nice to have just for bardic necessity. Mind Blank, super situational, never needed it. Howard Stun, an 8th level spell for a stun that will possibly last for only one turn, no thank you. Level 9, Foresight, it just isn't up to 9th level snuff. You can get advantage and give disadvantage with lower level spells, and you can't be wasting your limited amount of spells known, and your 1 9th level spell slot with this. Mass Polymorph, the holy grail of transmutation magic. Powerward Heal, the ultimate singular heal for some reason only bards get it. Powerward Kill, if you can guess correctly, you essentially shave off up to 100 points of health automatically, just don't guess incorrectly. Psychic Scream, an AoE stun that does decent damage would be nice normally, but it has to compete with a lot of the other spells at this level, and I just don't think it can. True Polymorph, with this you can ascend to greatness, or just turn someone into a chair. Buuuut that'll about do it. I hope you enjoyed this video, leave a like, comment, subscribe, play the loot to tug my flute, and maybe support me on Patreon so that I can rock out with my smog out. But yeah, Davi out.


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and T episode 21 or the late night talk with Ahmed Ali coming to your life in the holy city of Karbala. Now the night of the 21st of Ramadan is among the nights of destiny where a person is recommended to go and supplicate, days of supplications and nights of supplications towards Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, but they are also days of morning and nights of morning. If you know why, keep on watching. If you don't know why, continue to watch as we go to check out what's trending and we'll be back very short. So do stay tuned. Welcome back dear viewers. Now yesterday was Apple's WWDC event in California where the CEO Tim Cook along with Apple executives previewed the new software for the iPhones, for the iPads, iMacs and the Apple Watch and the company announced its next generation mobile software iOS 12. It's packed with performance improvements, quick features and many many features so if you do have an iPhone like myself we got to go get that but you know they're saying it's a lot better than the ones before because honestly the 11 is sort of say it's garbage so we're trying to get the 12 to check what's what's good with that. But what else is trending? 150 year old dinosaur skeleton is under the hammer and it was sold for 2.36 million so that's approximately 2 million euros which is crazy. Now scientists can't really tell what kind of dinosaur it was but all they know is a carnivorous theropod which they're saying that dinosaur is from that kind of species but it's crazy. 2 million euros someone had that that would be crazy. It was sold in Paris at the first floor of the Eiffel Tower but that's it for what's trending let's go and check out what tonight's topic is all about because it's pretty nice. I like it. Welcome back dear viewers. Now the succession of the caliph after the demise of Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him and his holy progeny has been a topic that has been discussed for many decades now and have been discussed among the Islamic Ummas whatever denomination they be following. Now the different denominations of Islam argue that for each one there's a specific caliph and each one or there are two that believe there's one specific caliph that's supposed to become after the Prophet and there's others among the other denominations saying that there are different caliphs who took after Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him. 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the position the hadith of Thaqalain which everyone knows the hadith of Ghadir as well as many many other narrations that mentioned there's one specific individual who should have got the caliphate right after Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is the caliph the original caliph to prove one thing that this individual was the most suitable person and his children the infallible children of this individual were the ones who should have succeeded as the caliphs after Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there are many narrations that explicit that provide explicit evidence for that this individual we're not mentioning that name yet hope you know who that person is now we'll go some through events and some Quranic verses to let you know who or to give you some hints on who that person is now the first one is mentioned in chapter 5 verse 55 while Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says verily your wali protector or helper is Allah has messengers and those who believe those who perform salat prayer and give zakat alams while they bow you know it's it's usual for someone to give or to pray you know it's for a Muslim to bow in prayer to prostrate in prayer prayer one of the mandatory things in Islam but to give zakat so that's something out of prayer but to include both of them together is a characteristic the only one person did and if you're guessing Ali Bipalib then you're guessing right because that's the person who should have received the caliphate after Prophet Muhammad and who should have been the caliph but the question for tonight you guys just to say it again who is your caliph if your caliph is other than Imam Ali let us know and let us know why he is your caliph the number shown below to call it to call us another verse which is mentioned in Ahzab verse 33 another characteristic that who the caliph should be now this is a very well known narration sorry well very well known verse among every single Islamic sect Al-Ahzab verse 33 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala states Allah surely wants to remove the impurities from you all people of the house now who are the people of the house who are the Ahlul Bayt you know for someone to lead the ummah if you were to look at any leader right now because a leader would be can be considered as a caliph but if you were to look at any leader in the war whether elected properly or not elected properly the main virtues and the main traits that a leader should possess are traits that are honorable traits that you know that he's brave that he knows what he's doing he knows how to run his country integrity is honest he's not lying to his nation are one of or many of the characteristics that a caliph should possess now if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is removing all impurities from the household which Ali the caliph is included in that household and as a part of that household then you can probably think of where I'm going at this moment now another event where really sheds light on the importance of the individual that we're commemorating today we're talking about tonight and the person to who you should consider well let's leave that I don't want to continue that but in al-mubahala the events of mubahala mentioned in chapter 3 verse 61 a group of Christians came to Prophet Muhammad they wanted him to prove his prophethood they rejected so he said let us go to a specific mountain valley sorry and try to do some kind of contest like a curse contest and see which one does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala curse so he said bring yourselves and I bring myself bring your family bring your woman I'll bring my woman bring your children and I'll bring my children and I will see which side does Allah curse everyone Mecca or everyone in Medina when they heard that they were like oh who is the prophet going to choose because he says bring yourselves and I'll bring myself bring your woman did not say bring one woman bring your woman and I'll bring my woman bring your children I'll bring my children everyone thought that the Prophet was going to choose you know randomly from the Muslim ummah when the Prophet showed up on that day just with Alibi Talib Fatim al-Zahra and he was carrying al-Hasan al-Hussain in his hands proved that the individuals that accompanied Prophet Muhammad during that event and during that mission were individuals not to mess with were individuals that were really chosen by God because even the Christians at that time when they saw Prophet Muhammad bringing out his own family risking his own family's life because a curse is not a joke a curse is death so risking his family's life for his mission was something serious that everyone should take seriously so that's one of the important things that really prove that Alibi Talib is among or should be the one that rightly succeeds Prophet Muhammad but let's take a very short quick break and come back very short welcome back dear viewers we do remind everyone for calling to call in tonight and let us know what you think the number is present at the bottom right there plus nine six four seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six we just received the message answering the question who is your caliph what did they say okay Fazzi moon again from Trinidad she says Imam Ali is my caliph and my Imam after my beloved Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him thank you very much Fazzi moon from Trinidad for joining us again in tonight's episode now yesterday at the end of the episode we gave a special shout out to those who joined us regularly in every episode so Fazzi moon's name was also on that shout out as well so you can guys if you want go check it out it's on YouTube and inshallah you can check your names out there as well now once again we do remind everyone to call in and join us tonight and answer the question who is your caliph who do you believe your caliph is is your caliph someone someone someone is your caliph present is your caliph in history is your caliph you know whoever whoever you think your caliph is give us a call and let us know why you've chosen him to be your caliph now many as I mentioned earlier there are a tremendous amount of narrations that really focus on how important the role of caliph is they break it down for us and they tell us exactly who that person is but for tonight I'm trying to give you guys some characteristics as to who your caliph should who your caliph should be now it's very important for tonight another narration which a lot of people and every single denomination takes into consideration is the narration of radir now if a person says you know you're the characteristic or the merits or the attributes of your leader should be honest he should be integrity and should be this and this that's good but if this individual already possesses these and he's not a caliph yet yet the leader of that nation who everybody accepted to be righteous who everybody accepted to be honest chooses the caliph after him then we're talking about Ghadir we're talking about the events where Prophet Muhammad on his last farewell pilgrimage after returning from Mecca he stopped at a place called Ghadir Khum long story short he told everyone to stop pulpit was made he got on the pulpit addressed everyone saying that this is my last day leader my last days with you guys and I'm you know I'm leaving this world so I leave behind two worthy things the Quran and the Ahlul Bayt we know what the Quran is and we know who the Ahlul Bayt are now he also does something else which is interesting he picks up the hand of Ali ibn Talib and says whoever I was their leader or whoever I was their their their wali their protector their helper their leader then Ali is in the same position as I am so technically Prophet Muhammad didn't mention who the caliph is now if you're thinking someone else is your caliph do let us know and let us know why we just received another text message from Esmat from India caliph a caliphate is a state under the little the title wow wow I'm sorry a caliphate is a state under the title of a caliph a person considered a religious successor to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and a lesser of the entire Muslim community so Imam Ali and Ali thank you very much Esmat I believe your name is already in the ball it isn't the ball so inshallah we'll give everyone the chance to participate and your name was also given in a shout out yesterday so you go check that out now we are receiving some Facebook comments so we'll get to read them very short inshallah but let's go and check what the expert has for us tonight because tonight's a very special episode and tonight we're trying to commemorate the mark of Imam Ali which is very important and to look at who is your caliph now let's go check out Sayyid Hussain Qazween and what he has to say about tonight's topic Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Alhamdulillah Rabbi Al-Alamin wa sallAllahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alia al-Tayyabina al-Tahireen so so who's your caliph is it someone who doing the days of Jahlia worshipped idols and perhaps worshipped an idol made out of dates and when he became hungry he would eat those dates is it someone who would drink alcohol and wine during the days of Jahlia and was a normal person during the days of Jahlia among the pagan ignorant Arab at the time was it someone who is immaculate someone who's sincere someone who's sinless someone who was born in the house of Allah and died in the house of Allah and spent his entire life serving Allah and serving the creation of Allah so who's your caliph the first or the second would anyone with their right mind being logical and not being emotional would abandon someone like Ali Ibn Abi Talib who lived a humble life a simple life never eating to the point that he would be full never sleeping an entire night never wasting an entire day never spending a day without the remembrance of Allah never coming across a creation of Allah that he ever oppressed Amir Mu'mineen alaihi s-salam he saw himself as an equal to all of Allah's creations the rich the poor the young the old Ali Ibn Abi Talib did not see himself as having a higher position than anywhere else than anyone else who's a humble human being that walked humbly that walked calmly on the piece of this planet yet did people know his value that the people realized that Ali Ibn Abi Talib is a special human being left by Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa ala no one knew the night the Rasulullah departed this life is so special that some believe Allah brought down one Quran and he took away another Quran some say that Amir Mu'mineen the night that he passed away the eve of the 21st it could be Laylat al-Qadr and Laylat al-Qadr is a night in which the Quran is revealed and it could be a night in which the Quran was taken away the verbal Quran the vocal Quran the living Quran was taken away the written Quran was brought down Allah took one Quran and he gave another Quran because people are in need of a Quran whether it's vocal or it's written whether it's the living Quran or the written Quran Amir Mu'mineen in his practices in his behavior in his relationships he resembled the Akhlaq of the Quran if you'd like to know the Akhlaq of Amir Mu'mineen and so to the Akhlaq of Rasulullah all you have to do is look at the Akhlaq of Rasulullah and you will know who is your Caliph Alhamdulillahi Rabbi Al-Alamin sallallahu ala Muhammadin wa ala Tahirin Thank you very much Sayyid al-Hassan al-Qazbini for joining us and very very important points he mentioned in his part right there where you know he actually made very crucial points you know he said who is your Caliph the one who worshipped idols before Islam and ate or you know the idols that he worshipped were made out of dates and when he was hungry he ate those dates or he was an alcoholic or drank alcohol before Islam after Islam he repented or the person who stayed on the line of Islam and was willing to sacrifice his life for Islam from day one when no one was trying to support the Prophet only Imam Ali stood up but he was like what 11 12 years old stood up and mentioned how he was willing to take the responsibility of a Caliph you know one interesting thing that not a lot of people understand Prophet Muhammad gave everyone the chance for them to actually coming forward and saying I want to be Caliph first in the Nabaat al-Nabawi al-Ba'atha he was sitting in the house of Abu Talib Shah of Abu Talib and he said who is willing to be my successor Abu Talib was there Fulanan Fulanan Fulanan Fulanan was there all of Bani Hashim all of the Muslims at that time were there Prophet Muhammad asked he said who wants to be my successor Imam Ali put his hand up he stood up he's like I'll be your successor Prophet Muhammad said sit down then he asked again who wants to be my successor Imam Ali got up again Prophet Muhammad said sit down and then the third time he took the hand of Imam Ali and he said this is mentioned in both Bukhari and Sunni sources and Shia sources took the hand of Ali and said this is my successor Abu Lahab making fun of Abu Talib he's like have fun taking orders from your son who is going to be your leader so that until you know it's it goes up to that degree where people were downing the Prophet but he gave everyone the chance to be the Caliph yet no one stood except for Ali the Talib so who's the Caliph we'll get to talk about later but let's read some of the Facebook comments that we got Aiman Zahra once again joining us in tonight's episode again my Imam is Imam Ali and he is the true successor and flag bearer of Holy Prophet Ali is Haqq and Haqq is Ali thank you very much Aiman Zahra for joining us tonight Mariam Rana she says I read this quote once and I really want to share it okay someone said who are your four Caliphs so maybe someone asked her and I replied Ali Ali Ali Ali okay so and she continues as Moses prayed to Allah that that may Karun my wazir he could have given him that position himself but he asked Allah to make him his wazir his Caliph his successor this prayer indicates that prophets religious personalities could not give someone succession but by themselves it is a divine order a divine power Allah made Adam the first Caliph but did not give him a throne nor a crown the message is long but thank you very much Mariam Rana for joining us tonight once again we just received a text message from a razi again from Norway she says my caliph is the one who whose hand was raised by the beloved Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam at Ghadir Khom by making Imam Ali his successor he completed his message thank you very much Razi from Norway I don't know why I'm tempted to write everyone's name that participates again and put it in the bow but you know it's I have to be honest with myself with the show as well so we can't do that but thank you very much for those who joined us again but going back to tonight's topic and how and how people should choose who their caliph is again we do remind everyone that we got few minutes left into the show if you think your caliph is someone else and your talib do let us know who and do let us know why you've chosen him so if we were to look at some of the characteristics and why Ali ibn Abi Talib was chosen to be a caliph well if we go to some of his characteristics who was raised who or who raised imam Ali was a Rasulullah peace and blessings be upon him who married the holiest woman imam Ali married Al-Zahra had the holiest children Hassan and Hussein mentioned in the Quran and in the hadith stuck while struck while performing the holiest act during the holiest nights during the holiest position in the holiest month on the holiest night now it should be clear who your caliph should be but we just received a call from Hussain from Iraq salamu alaykum Hussain welcome to Ajta i gel and see you in tonight's question who is your caliph hello hello okay some technical difficulties maybe you can hear me okay thank you very much Hussain for trying to contact us but when i mentioned these if you guys didn't hear me raised by prophet Muhammad married the holiest woman Al-Zahra had the holiest children i think Hussain's back on the line Hussain's back on the line okay salamu alaykum Hussain welcome to Ajta i gel and see you once again and your question for tonight who is your caliph i think but Imam Ali is the most loved because prophet Muhammad appointed him on gadi al-kum and also he is too unfair and wrong okay so Imam Ali is your caliph again he's the most worthy to be the caliph thank you very much Hussain for joining us tonight so basically there you have it everyone that called in everyone that participated said that Imam Ali is their caliph and right they chose but that's it for tonight we mentioned a lot of points for you guys to understand who your caliph should be and why he should be your caliph that's it for tonight and Muhammad Ali coming to you from hashtag gel and see you join us in the upcoming episodes 2am karbala time 12am london time 7 p.m. washington dc time that's it for tonight wa salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh