Hey everyone, welcome back to Health Healthcare. We are moving now to H741 and act relating to health insurance coverage for colorectal cancer screening. So we had the sponsor of the bill come in before break and we had legislative council walk through the bill. So we're now going to hear from all the various stakeholders about their thoughts on it. So we're going to turn it over to Sebastian. Okay. Hello everyone. Sebastian, I'm going to go for the financial regulation. I love the new space. It's very light and heavy. Claire gets her own office. Don't get used to it. And we would not be able to see your white board here. Yes. Yes. So I am here to talk briefly about the language in H741. In general, the department supports the idea of extending coverage to diagnostic colorectal cancer test. But we just wanted to raise one concern with the particular language in the bill. So I was going to share it on Zoom. That would be great. It is in the wrong lobby. And if I'm on my phone, it's only because I'm taking notes there because my computer has died. So we didn't think I'm not paying attention. I'm enjoying the Zoom lobby. So I turn my screen. I don't think it'll work on us. It's okay. I'm good. Okay. So the language that the department is concerned about is break here, which is linking the statute with the most recently published recommendations established by the American Cancer Society. The reason that we're concerned with this language is that the Affordable Care Act has a preventative services mandate that is linked to the current recommendations of the United States Preventative Services Task Force. Our concern is that if there is ever in the future a substantial divergence in those recommendations between the ACS and US, PSTF, that those services that are indicated in the ACS recommendations could be considered a new service that is subject to state deferring. And I just wanted to show that the recommendations right now are very similar. So these are the US Preventative Services Task Force recommendations. And as you can see, tests like colonoscopies, CT colonographies, and sigmoidoscopies are every 10 years for the colonoscopies every five years for the colonography and every five years for the sigmoidoscopy. And it is the same period for the American Cancer Society guidelines, but again, our concerns just in the future, the ACS adopts new recommendations and the Preventative Services Task Force does not. The last thing that I wanted to raise, and this is mainly for the benefit of the committee, is that the law in Vermont has another category for individuals that are at higher levels of colorectal cancer that allows for coverage of tests at more frequent intervals as directed by the member's physician. So that's this language here. So I can't see that part. So can you just tell me what page four? I just probably still won't be able to see. Can you tell me page in number? Yes. So this is the language that's already in law on page three, line 11, insured to a high risk of colorectal cancer, screening exams, and laboratory tests covered as recommended by their treating physician. So with that, I will stop and take any questions from the committee. Alyssa and then Art. I don't know if you know this or not, but the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, their A and B ratings, where do they, where do they get those from, do they get them from sort of like the medical societies? Yeah, so lag time. That's a great question. And the sources of their recommendations are in the recommendation document, which is available on the Department of Health and Human Services website. It's a whole research paper that has multiple, multiple studies cited. And I've submitted this document from the Preventative Services Task Force as part of my testimony today. Do we know when this one is from 2021? This one is from 2021. And this is the most recent recommendation from the Preventative Services Task Force. Art. Yes, could you go back? Boy, forget your name. There we go up to page three, line 11. And I apologize. I don't have my stuff. I wasn't here here. Yeah, that wording and verbiage, would that cover the intent of the bill? That verbiage there. Screening examinations and laboratory tests. My understanding is that the intent of the bill is to address a difference in billing between screening examinations and diagnostic examinations. And so the answer to your question is no. This just allows screening examinations at more frequent intervals than the Preventative Services Task Force or the American Cancer Society recommends. Which means they would be covered or that's? Yes, which means that screening examinations would be covered. But if you were to just use this language, that would exclude diagnostic examinations. And in brief, the difference between a screening examination and a diagnostic examination is when you're being screened for a condition, there's no evidence. A diagnostic exam is we have some evidence that something might be wrong and we want to see what it is. So there's no language and statute that addresses that? Right. So that is, as I understand it, the intent of this bill. Got you. Okay. I'm glad you brought that point up, because that is not how I read the intent. So can you direct me to where you're seeing that? Yeah, just to... Oh, I'm sorry. The insured, who is that? Average risk? So that would still be... So that would be considered diagnostic, not screening? I'm sorry. Yes, screening. Okay. So we're expanding screening. My apologies. I was thinking of the bill we're talking about tomorrow, too. Okay. That was... Yes. Thank you. So this is expanding screening, not by age, but by risk factor. Okay. Great. Brian? Yeah, I just want to add to make sure if I had to summarize this, we are expanding screening, coverage of screening for colorectal cancer. Yes. With no cost sharing. Yes. And right now, what is the... Right now, what is the policy? So... 50 years old. Yes. But the current policy, is it that we cover all screening with no cost sharing over 50 or is there cost sharing? Right. So the current policy, if you have commercial insurance, what is happening now is that insurers are following the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommendations for these screening colonoscopies to determine whether or not they're covered without member cost sharing as a preventative service. So what's happening, in effect, is that the language of the Affordable Care Act is overwriting the language that is in our statute. So under... I just want to understand the difference this would make really clearly. Yeah. Like under current policy, somebody over the age... People over the age of 50 are eligible for some kind of coverage. However, if they're underinsured, there might be a barrier. And under this policy change by eliminating cost sharing, regardless of their insurance status, their insurance plan, they would have no cost sharing? Yeah. The policy change would be to effectively lower the age in which individuals are who are not at high risk for colorectal cancer. To access those screening colonoscopies at no cost sharing. Okay. So currently, if you're above a certain age, there is no cost sharing, it would just lower... Okay. Thank you. That's what I wanted to get at. 50 and above, there's no cost sharing. Currently. All right. Thank you. That's what I wanted to clarify. So I just want to clarify. So this, the language says for an insured who is at average risk, you're equating that to an age, though, or are we looking at a risk or are we looking at both? So average risk is not defined by age. It's effectively anyone who is not high risk. And the criteria for being at high risk are in subsection C on page three, lines 60 and 320. So family medical history, prior occurrence, polyps or prior occurrence of conditions such as Crohn's disease. So for that classification, we are at high risk. You can get a screening at no cost share. Yes. Today. Today. And as often as is recommended by your physician. And if you are in an average risk, we need this language to include that group of people who is anyone other than someone in high risk. It does nothing to do with age. Right. Okay. So when you said bring it down to 45 confused by that statement. So if you look through the language on line three that is struck from the statute, the law has written limits screening for those who are at average risk to insurers aged 50 or older. We're getting rid of that. Yes. Okay. But again, that is not how insurers are processing claims because they are following the language in the affordable care act, which is better a lot. That was my question is, it doesn't matter if we have 50 in there, they have to follow the affordable care act, which is a level B. So therefore they must cover it to 45, starting at 45. Right. So do we need anything? Do I need this? Let's wait till the crossbow shield comes up.  Technically, no. However, if for whatever reason, if the affordable care act were to be repealed or if the preventative services mandate were found unconstitutional, then this language would absolutely be relevant. Yep. Okay. Which we're used to that. We've done this before. Should we change though the language established by the American Cancer Society to established by the US preventative service? That would be the department's recommendation. Okay. All right. Did you have another question? Yeah. Well, we talked about no cost share. Is that in here somewhere? Yep. So it's in subsection D, which is on page four. Yeah. Okay. Not subject to any copay deductible co-insurance or other cost sharing requirements. If we aren't directly, but sure. Does that apply to everybody? Yes. Okay. All right. Great. Any other questions for Sebastian? All right. Thank you so much. So I've made the note about the change in language. I'm trying to do. Okay, go ahead. I don't know if someone else asked it though, because I'm trying to process it. So if so, I'm sorry. But if you said it already, can you just say it again simply for me, why you would recommend replacing the American Cancer Society recommendations with the other groups? Yes. So the reason is that because the Affordable Care Act Preventative Services mandate is panked the recommendations of the Preventative Services Task Force, there is the possibility, however, remote that the Cancer Society would adopt recommendations that are different than the Preventative Services Task Force, in which case there's the risk that whatever services are different may be subject to state defraud. Although they would be considered ineffective. Oh, yes. I remember you saying this earlier. Thank you. Yes, I remember that. Thank you, Sebastian. Alex, I think you're online either. I am. Good afternoon. We see your love. There you are. There we go. Ting, can you guys hear and see me all right? Yes. Thank you so much, Madam Chair for the record. My name is Alex McCracken. I'm the Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs for the Department of Vermont Health Access. I will be very brief today. Diva is very supportive of the intent behind this bill, the expansion of preventative coverage and screening for colorectal cancer is very much in line with the department's mission and priorities. We have one note that we'd like to make on the bill as drafted, and that is on the final page, the effective dates are listed as written for January 1st, 2025 for all health insurance plans issued on or after that date. The plan design for 2025 has already been completed, so we would need, we would ask this date to be pushed to January 1st, 2026 for plan design. That is really our only substantial note on the bill as written at this time. I'm happy to answer any questions or provide or run feedback back to the department for additional input, but I don't have anything else to add at this point in time. Thank you very much. Thanks, Alex. Any questions for Alex? That was fast. Thank you. Happy to help. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. I'm Sarah Tichot, government relations with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, and with the change that DFR recommended switching from the American Cancer Society to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations, we wholly support this bill. We already comply with this, and this is already the way that we are implementing this benefit. I can answer questions if you have any, but we're actually fine with the effective date as it is. You're fine with the effective date. Any questions? I think I do. First of all, I want to apologize that I was absent the day that you all discussed this, but I had thought the bill included something else, and maybe I'm wrong, but I wanted to know what Blue Cross Blue Shield does currently. So if somebody has a positive fecal, the ligop, colicard, you know, and then they test positive for that, and usually the recommendation is that you then move to a colonoscopy. And I had thought that there were coverage issues around then covering the colonoscopy is preventative, that it was being covered as diagnostic. What does Blue Cross do on that? Do you all cover it as preventative? Cover it as preventative. Okay. I'm not sure if every insurer does it, but that's the how we are doing it, and I thought there was something in the U.S. preventative task force about covering that. About covering that, but I would have to look again. Okay. See what it says. And then can I just, sorry, can I just clarify, you're okay with the 125 start date, or you went the point? Okay. Sorry. We're already doing it. You're already doing it. Okay. Hold on. All right. Alex, are you still there? Hi. You got saying. I'm still here. What is Diva Medicaid do for the question Alyssa just asked? As far as what we cover currently? Yeah. All right. I would need to get an answer more specifically on that front, but I believe that what we do currently is in line with the bill. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Yeah. Thanks, Alex. I'm trying to determine in my mind how this changes anything than what we do if physicians can recommend, okay, sure. Physician could recommend someone to have this anyway, right? So correct me if I'm wrong. Whoever might be around. The way the languages is today, a physician can do that for a high risk. Okay. So now we're saying that anybody, anybody, so even if you have no thought of it, but you just want to get it done, I don't know why you'd feel that way. Go ahead. If you just wanted to get it done, you could get it done. Is that what this says? Sarah, teach it with Blue Cross. I don't think that's quite accurate. Okay. So what it says is for a person who is average risk, we're going to follow the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommendations. All right. For someone who's high risk, their physician makes the determination. Okay. So it's two groups of people. Yeah, two groups of people. And good. Thank you. Alex. The guideline for average risk. I think it's down to 45. Yeah. Any other questions for Sarah? And so for those 45 and above at the average risk, then they could do the cold guard. And if it's needed, a colonoscopy after it's still preventative. Correct. Okay. That's how Blue Cross is reading it. She's still the cold guard has to be performed. No, I mean, no, it can go right. You and your physician shoes. Yeah, I'm trying to pick it apart. I get it. But I do want to Sebastian Erdogan again for the Department of Financial Regulation. So the cold guard isn't a conclusive test for the presence of colorectal cancer. So in 2020, when more and more people started getting the cold guard test, we updated insurance bulletin 207, which outlines the department's reading of the statute to say that follow up screenings that follow an inconclusive test are also screening colonoscopies that should process without member cost sharing. Okay. All right. Does that help? All right. Any other questions for Blue Cross through Shield or GFR? Okay. Thank you. Oh, Leslie. Sorry. Leslie, go ahead. Hi, everybody. Sorry. I'm just wondering some something like cold guard can be ordered by a non physician clinician. And throughout this bill, it only says physician. So I'm just wondering how that how that squares. I don't have the language in front of me, but I believe that. Oh, thank you, Sarah. I believe that the department has always viewed the word physician to be broad in that the physician as that term is used in the statute doesn't need to be an MD. It could be a nurse practitioner or whoever is treating that member. I'm not sure that makes sense. I mean, I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure it makes sense. So something I would like to think about to the extent that you're suggesting changing the language to buy the treating provider as opposed to the treating physician. I don't think the department would object to that. Well, clearly colonoscopies are done by physicians, but there are other screening tests ordered by non physician providers. So I'm not sure exactly where that might need to be addressed, but I'm just curious about that. Sebastian, you would be okay with what did you just say? Provider or clinician? I'm changing the word physician on page three to the member, the individual's provider or clinician or a term that would capture the whole universe of health care providers. We'll ask, we'll get with Ledge Council on that.  Are you good Leslie? Yes, thanks so much. Great. Thank you. Great. Thank you both. So, and I apologize. Jill's going to go, Topper's going to take over. I have a meeting I have to get to. Jill's the last one. Jill's the top attorney for medical society, and I'll just pretty briefly support legislation. We actually learned about the age being in the statute in 2022, and we thought that that didn't make a lot of sense. Just because these recommendations change a lot. And so, yeah, it had been brought to us, and we actually put language in. There's a Senate bill that we have in right now, and we have it connected to the USPST recommendations. Actually, the language we have says those recommendations or the least restrictive, just because there are a lot of different changes. And so that was what we thought it was was really changing the provision to take the age out of the statute. We think that that is meaningful and a good step. That's basically what I'm here to say, and we support more screening and more eligibility. Vermont has a very high rate of colarctal cancer, and it's the second-leading cancer depth risk for Vermonters. So. So, so what you're saying, Jill, is you want to keep age out of. Yeah. So, don't you think that's least restrictive? And we say, you know, take the age out so that you can follow the recommendations from the guidance. So USPSTF is fine with us. We think American Cancer Society is a little bit, you know, they were at age 45 before USPSTF went to that, and it took some time for the data to catch up. But for us, it's really the age out of the statute, which is important. Any questions, Jill? Just one question. How about frequency? We took age out. As I remember, it was supposed to be every 10 years. You got a colonoscopy. Yeah, that's in, yeah, that's in the statute. And that's still in there. And that's still valid. Oh, yeah. It looks like it's taken in. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you. I have one question. And I apologize for asking this, because I don't think you're going to know, but I'm thinking about dueling societies. The American Association of Gastroenterologists, what are they recommending? And they support 45. Who came first, I guess, Cancer Society, Gastroenterology. Cancer Society. Okay. So how long after the Cancer Society, three years after then the Gastroenterologist said, and three years after USPTF? So at least restrictive, too, but it sounds like it's connected to the ACA and so that there is risk there. Also, yeah. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. So that wraps it up for today. Okay. It's a wonderful job tonight. Any topper? We all agree. Or should we say legislative topper? Tomorrow, the 13th, 9 o'clock. In the committee room. In the committee room. Good. Okay.


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وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ اَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُ قالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُهُ تقصدوا أربعة قبل ابتداء تعلم لكي تفوز بالهداة أولها الخروج من ضلالي والثاني نفع خلقي للجلالي وثالث الحيائي للعلومي والرابع العملي للعلومي هذه are the four objectives of knowledge so the first reason for knowledge is what to take yourself out of darkness you're doing it for yourself no one else yourself you're doing it for yourself no one else yourself أولها الخروج من ضلالي the first reason why you're gaining knowledge is to take yourself out of the darkness of misguidance and take yourself to the light of guidance so the self they learn knowledge for themselves they learn it for people so full on can see you to be a person of great understanding or to prove your point to someone and this generally happens the students of knowledge we had times in our lives that we saw where we would learn a masalah and we would learn it to prove someone wrong may Allah forgive us for that in the Salaf رحمة الله سلم they mentioned that تعلمنا العلمة لغير الله فأبا أن يكون إلا لله we sought knowledge for other than Allah but the knowledge refused with Allah's permission سبحانه وتعالى except that he brought us to guidance or he brought us to sincerity عبد الله من ببارك pointing this issue out of learning knowledge to implement it and not to argue he said إذا أراد الله بعبد خيرا if Allah wants good for a person فتح له باب العمل Allah opens the door of implementation for you وأغلق عنه باب الجدل and Allah closes from that person the door of argumentation disputation from that individual فهنده يا if you want to know that Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants good for you look at your actions and how you are when it comes to the knowledge you learnt and if you want to see if your person الله تعالى didn't want good for or did want good for see how you are when it comes to argumentations some of my great some of my teachers that told me and I learnt knowledge from who I believe were knowledgeable people very knowledgeable their understanding of the religion very deep and what they've read is far greater than what many of us have seen you see مع ذلك they will never argue with anyone they never ever entertain the idea of arguing with people they will look and they will leave and ask something أليمام مالك رحم الله did a man came up to him and he said to him can I discuss an issue with you or can I argue with you on an issue أليمام مالك said what about if you beat me in the argument what do you want from me he said I want you to follow me he said okay what about if I win the man said if you win then I will follow you saying to أليمام مالك he said what about if a third person came and he beat both of us what do you want and then he said we both have to follow him and then أليمام مالك said you your religion is jumping from one to another you're jumping from whoever wins that's your religion and my religion is certainty I know what's right from what is wrong إني على بيينة من أمري I am on certainty in my religion وانت شاك you are someone who's on state of doubt فتحب إلى شاك يمثلك فخاصم go to someone who's doubtful like you and argue with them why did he say this please at this point you have to read and understand أليمام مالك is thinking just because someone won an argumentation or a debate doesn't mean they are right someone is they know the art of debating they know tactics they know sophistry they know how to trick the opponent they know how to make the people see him to be the knowledgeable one the wiser one and so debate and knowledge is not always hand in hand yes there are some people who are very good debaters there were people who are very good at debating and they also have great knowledge they have great knowledge they are good at debating from the people who are like that was sheikh al-Islam Timia no one debated him except that he always made them look like he knew nothing but not everybody was like that not everybody was like that so basting your religion on debates and argumentation and going on YouTube and looking at this and looking at that focus on actions my beloved brothers and sisters and you don't waste your time on that especially nowadays some people's دعوة and their method of دعوة has become based on just debates that's all they do they wake up and they have a particular day in the week and a particular location and they go there and they debate they put that content online and they leave and that's دعوة for them and the صالح the highest predecessors those same people if you look at their actions and their عمل it's very low the صالح and others their religion was like that their religion was what their religion was العمل actions and debates only when the necessity calls for it when it's necessary for them to debate so please take that on board if you learn one word in the religion implement it يعني whatever you read read it for yourself you read it for you to implement it first and foremost you come across اذكار memorize it and implement it in your life you come across حلالة and حرام in issues make sure that you do the حلال and you stay away from the حرام you learn issues of فق regarding your صلاة your تهارة your زكات your صوم your حج implement it straight away don't think about oh yeah this إن شاء الله تعالى I'm going to show my friend that he was wrong or this issue I'm going to teach my local community first of all worry about yourself have I implemented this have I taken this on board how can I incorporate this into my life how does it fit into my life this is the thinking process that you should have regarding the knowledge that you gain and that which you learn and that is an advice first and foremost to myself as my mouth is closer to my ears than yours number 11 حسن الاستماع how the self were when it came to listening that's act of obedience للسن is an act of obedience depending on what you're listening to listening to the Quran is an action of obedience the self they had a unique method and ways of listening عطا ابن أبي رباح it was said about him كان إذا حدثته أحد if someone told him someone spoke to him بحديث و هو يعلم and he told him about a hadith of the prophet and he knew it عطا knew the hadith memorized it knew the chains for it knew the ins and the outs regarding that hadith he knew the thicc and the knowledge inside it if he knew it and someone was to tell him that hadith you see he will bring his ear closer to that person عطا ابن أبي رباح يعني عطا ابن أبي رباح do you know who he was عطا ابن أبي رباح was the successor of the عبدالله بن عباس النحرم يعني عبدالله بن عباس when he died the person who occupied the seat of عبدالله بن عباس النحرم to give fatwa was عطا ابن أبي رباح right after him think here عطا ابن أبي رباح sat in the haram as the mufti after عبدالله بن عباس بحصة وي عطا ابن أبي رباح he used to be a slave he was a black slave عطا was black and he was a slave and he he's a slave for a woman in Makkah she saw how dedicated and hungry he was for knowledge and she said you know what you I can't keep you as a slave because you're someone if I let go you can bring something to this ummah you see she was a wise woman she let him go she freed him he went he sought knowledge he used to live in the haram and he used to learn from عبدالله بن عباس he became an imam يشارو إلهي بالبنان يشارو إلهي بالبنان that he used to point at him in his knowledge and his understanding do you all remember the the the Khalifa the the Amir المؤمنين that I spoke about سليماني بن عبدالملك سليماني بن عبدالملك used to come to the Halakah of عطا ابن عبي رباح and sit down and listen to his lecture and ask him questions related to Hajj and issues of fiqh the leader of the Muslims would ask عطا ابن عبي رباح يعني عطا ابن عبي رباح was a jebel was a mountain in knowledge and in hadith and in تفسير and all of that if a person came to him and asked him about a hadith و هو يعلمه and he knew that hadith يصقي إلهي he would give his heart and mind to that person he would listen attentively to that person كأنه ما سمعه like he's never heard before why would he do that لأن لا يخجل المحدث so he doesn't make the person who's narrating a hadith يقول خجل شيند and embarrassed he didn't okay the prophet said that I'll make the person feel like he's telling حديث عطا ابن عبي رباح يعني this is how they were and this reminds me of something that happened to me something that happened to me one of my teachers one time he we had a gathering we were sitting somewhere and I quoted an Imam and I misquoted who it was يعني the quote was right but the person who I ascribed the statement to was the wrong person so I don't know how it was was the statement an Imam ibn Utami's statement and then did I attribute it to ibn Utamiya but it was actually the Imam with دهبي or was I attributed it to دهبي and it was ibn Utamiya I don't know which was which but anyways it was the statement I attributed it to the wrong person and my sheikh was there and he was listening to me and the feeling I had I was very young the feeling I had was I taught my sheikh something you know when you you're young you're energetic you learn something you think you know you can benefit everybody so he listened to me he nodded his head and I remember subhanAllah the way he listened to me as soon as I finished he said Allah Akbar he was amazed you know like he gave me that feeling he was amazed with what I was saying and I'm young I was about 18 17 he then said to me I came across the same quote but from another Imam and he was correcting me he didn't say to me that's wrong he didn't say that someone so said it he said I came across the same quote but from another Imam I remembered that I was wrong as soon as he said that I was like sheikh you're right right it wasn't the Imam that I mentioned it was the one you just mentioned and the way he even corrected me was it took me back it blew me till today I remember it so from there I learned brothers حسنوا الاستماع I listened to someone giving them your ear and also not making people have a feeling of shame when they talk to you ما يتعلق بالصمت إن شاء الله I'll point number 12 I'm going to speak about how the self were when it came to being silent and not talking this itself something they could give us a lesson in something we can take from them we can benefit from them they're silent وهي ببن الورد رحمه الله he said أل حكمة عشرة أجزاء wisdom is ten parts nine of those parts he said it's in what عشرة أجزاء تسأل منها to something nine of them is silence عمي wisdom حكمة الله didn't not say يؤتل حكمة من يشاء ومن يؤتل حكمة فقد قوتي خيرا كثيرا الله didn't say say that in the Quran الله said he gives wisdom to whoever he wills and whoever Allah gives them wisdom then he's truly been given what a lot of khair that's what Allah mentions in the ayah so wisdom if you have it you have a lot of khair وهي ببن الورد is saying to you حكمة wisdom is what ten types nine of those types is a silence not okay he also said إن العبد ليصموته a person is silent at times فيجتمع له لبه يجتمع له لبه and he his thoughts gather together a person when he's silent and he doesn't talk he can gather his thoughts and he can come with wise statements how many times have you felt you were at a particular place you were in a discussion with someone you didn't go quiet whenever they say something you responded they say something you responded but you went home and you're like oh I could have said that oh I could have why do I not say this why are you feeling this way right now is because you're silent you're quiet you've thought about it you gathered your thoughts remember that statement always إن العبد ليصموته a person when he goes quiet فيجتمع له لبه your thoughts your your gems comes out حتى when you're silent all the the the wisdom that you would have said it will only come out when you go quiet when someone talks just wait and then respond wait and respond internalize their question even at times ask them and say can you repeat that question again can you repeat that question again just so you end up hearing the question in clarity with clarity and your answers إن شاء الله تعالى you think about it about the self some of the pious predecessors they used to say أصمت عبادة look at this silence is عبادة من غير عناين but it's عبادة without any tiredness or fatigue or energy that you have to exert imagine that it's عبادة despite being silent and not saying anything they're saying it's عبادة but it's an عبادة you're not moving you're not running you're not getting tired you're not getting fatigued you're not exerting effort it's nothing just be quiet وزينة من غير حولي and it's also a beauty without having to adorn yourself and you know when you speak you have to adorn yourself with words you have to speak in a particular way indeed you know this that you know elegant words you need to use no silence is a beauty without you saying anything without you exerting any effort without even you trying to beautify yourself silence beautifies a person وَهَيْبَتٌ مِن غيرِ سُلْبَانِ and it brings about veneration without enforcing onto people when you talk you're kind of enforcing on others to respect you but when you're silent you are getting respected without you enforcing on them وحسنٌ غير الصور and it's also what it's a fortress without any walls وراحة للكاتبين من غير تعبي and it's also relaxation it's comfort it's ease for the angels that are writing making them effort and hard work in writing everything that you're saying ما هي الفضو من قولين إلا لديه رقيم العكيد because the angels are writing everything you're saying no it's easy for them they don't have to write anything وَهُنْ يَتُنْ عَنِ الْإِأْتِذَارِ and it suffices you from having to make excuses for yourself later silence suffices you from that how many times have you said something and then you have to come back and make a statement out of it and apologize and listen to that وَذَارِكَ دَأْرُلَ مَا دَيُسْتُ سَيْتُ your tongue you control it when you don't speak and it controls you when you speak the scholars they also said that الله تعالى he imprisoned the tongue between the teeth it's imprisoned the tongue is in prison if you open it you're letting him out now we all know the famous حديثة that when the person wakes up every morning every morning that you wake up you get out of bed that your tongue your whole entire body talks to your tongue and then it says to the tongue اتقل الله فينا في الله in our offense فإن استقمت استقمنا وإن رججنا tongue for Allah in us if you're steadfast we're steadfast with you and if you are crooked and you do wrong we're going to do wrong with you what does that mean it means that you don't end up fighting with someone and going into a physical fight unless there were some statements or speeches that were said to each other صح the fist follows up the fist comes up in an altercation between two people after one person had said something so keep that in mind السلام عليكم if you're enjoying these videos and you'd like to keep up to date with all of the courses we're going to be running make sure you head over to amauathome.com


and welcome to the session I am Deepika here. Let's discuss a question which says show that the given differential equation is homogeneous and solid. X square dy by dx is equal to x square minus 2 y square plus xy. Let's start the solution. Now the given differential equation is dy by dx is equal to x square minus 2 y square plus xy. Let us give this equation as number one. Or this can be written as dy by dx is equal to x square minus 2 y square plus xy over x square. Now if we express the right hand side of this equation as a function of y over x which is a homogeneous function of degree 0 then the given differential equation is a homogeneous differential equation. So we will try to make the right hand side of this equation as a function of y over x. Now this equation can be written as dy by dx is equal to 1 minus 2 into y square over x square plus y over x. Let us give this equation as number two since right hand side of above equation that is equation two is of the form 0 y over x and so it is a homogeneous function of degree 0. Therefore the given differential equation that is the equation one is a homogeneous differential equation. We will solve equation two by putting y is equal to vx. So put y is equal to vx. Therefore dy by dx is equal to v plus x into dv over dx. Now we will substitute the value of y and dy by dx in equation two. So from equation two we have v plus x into dv over dx is equal to 1 minus 2 v square plus v or x into dv over dx is equal to 1 minus 2 v square plus v minus 3 or x into dv over dx is equal to 1 minus 2 v square or now on separating the variables we have dv over 1 minus 2 v square is equal to dx over x now integrating both sides we have integral of dv over 1 minus 2 v square is equal to integral of dx over x or integral of dv over now let us take two common. So we have this is 1 by 2 minus v square is equal to integral of dx over x now we can rewrite this integral as 1 by 2 integral of dv over 1 over root 2 square minus v square is equal to integral of dx over x let us give this equation as number 3 now the left hand side of equation 3 is of the form integral of dx over a square minus x square and this is equal to 1 over 2 a into log of mod a plus x over a minus x plus c now by using this integral the left hand side of equation 3 is 1 over 2 into 2 a now a is 1 over root 2 so 2 a is 2 into 1 over root 2 which is root 2 into log of mod a plus x that is 1 over root 2 plus v over 1 over root 2 minus v the right hand side is log of mod x plus c now on replacing v by y over x we get 1 over 2 root 2 into log of mod 1 over root 2 plus y over x over 1 over root 2 minus y over x and this is equal to log of mod x plus c or this can be written as 1 over 2 root 2 into log of mod x plus root 2 y over x minus root 2 y and this is equal to log of mod x plus c hence the general solution of the given differential equation is 1 over 2 root 2 into log of mod x plus root 2 y over x minus root 2 y and this is equal to log of mod x plus c so this is our answer for the above question hope the solution is clear to you and you have enjoyed the session bye and take care


is show maybe some multiple ways to do teams all right hello welcome back to protected trust live my name is Steve Goodman training coordinator at protected trust joining me today is Sean Jacobs who you may recognize from one of our other videos for Skype for Business PBX Sean welcome back thanks how you doing it's great to be here thank you very much it's good to have you so today I thought what we would do is instead of talking about a subject we would actually show you how to do something and so for that I thought a good starting place would be teams and Sean you're kind of ambivalent about using teams because you're here we've been using it we've been using it quite a bit internally we've been using it for chat we've almost completely replaced Skype for Business chat at this point with teams which is kind of cool and we're doing a lot of things in teams that kind of used to be done in you know third-party applications like you know slack you know a lot of that stuff has moved to the teams down so a lot of that back-end communication in and a lot of that seems to be going really well so yeah I've got a good impression of it so so maybe just time time will heal all wounds time will right so the best way to describe teams is it takes all the apps that you use in Microsoft and maybe some apps that are external to Microsoft and it puts it all in one place for you so instead of saying oh no I got to go to my share point page in order to grab this document or oh no this is in one drive so I have to go to this other place it's all contained in this one application and there's different ways that you could set it up so that it's just right for you but really it's a collaboration tool and it's use is its namesake teams so if you're working in a team use teams to be a better team so let me show you how you would go ahead and create a team when you click on the actual team icon you just three people and it says teams down here at the bottom it says join or create team so I'm going to create that and I will choose again create team and the team name will be the live stream team and people who live stream and you can set the privacy here also before you actually create the team and the privacy setting is if you want other people in your organization to see what's going on inside of the team that's fine I say private or public so private oh no so then the opposite of what I said so private means if you don't want it open you only want your members of the team to see the content of your specific team then you choose private if you want anyone to be able to see it inside your organization then you would choose public so since I don't care you know we're not keeping secrets in this team even though no you want everybody to see the work that you're doing in this team in the live stream team sure because we do good work exactly alright thank you I'm kind of fishing for compliments over here alright so and the next page is where I would add the members so from start to finish it's very simple to create the team puts everything in baby steps for you instead of like a long lawn laundry list of steps it's like okay you finished this you want to add numbers or do you want to skip this step so I'm gonna add you to this Sean because you do such a fantastic job on our live streams and I'm also going to add Seth who is the webcam set up Seth can people see you it was up until just a second ago oh well we do these things live so and I'll just keep it to these two just for this live stream because that's who's currently in this room and I'll click add and now you all will receive a email look just heard one right now stating that that they've been added as members to this new team and you can also give members you know ownership roles or you can remove members so now that I have my team created this is what I see by default and so I can start up a new chat in the general window hi thanks for joining and Seth sorry if I'm not if I should give you more of a heads up of what I'm switching to okay well what are we on now let's put it back to seeing my desktop okay good so along with being able to you know do conversations in teams like you would with they kind of treat it like it's an email which I don't I treat it as it's a chat feature yes I've always kind of used it as a chat feature yeah yeah but you can start different threads and you can reply to old threads and kind of like what you can do with emails so I guess that's where they're coming with that from but if you've ever used an application like Slack which I'm sure a lot of people have by now it's very similar to Slack and it's very easy to use so along with having the chat feature I also have shared files so instead of going to the different share points I like I talked about in the beginning I can just click on files in all the collaborative files that we need will just be right here and that's a feature that we use a lot especially like our support team uses that to share files amongst themselves and actually more than one team that I'm a member of we we use that as a location where those files live that's basically the live place to go find that that file right and so because it utilizes the technology of OneDrive and SharePoint you can do the things like collaboration or I think they call it co-authoring but it has the version in control so you don't have to worry about people messing up your document you can always revert back to it and we actually just did a video with one of our project managers take a look at that after this we'll put a so we put a link in the description all right that sounds like a good idea of our latest video describing how to use things like co-authoring and versioning control so now that we have our team set up we also get this other thing called planner and it works kind of dual role you if you create a new planner it will create a new team and if you create a team it will create a planner I'm not sure if saying creating a planner is the right way to say it creating a project plan maybe the apps called the planner and so it usually takes a while for these things to create a new plan so we'll call this the live stream save and now it's going to create it so usually it takes some if you create a new team I found that it usually takes between and 15 minutes to an hour for it to set up all of the you know things that come with it so like your SharePoint site sure planner will usually take at least that amount of time so if you're gonna create a team you know give yourself some time when you first created that's what I would say since have you created a team I've not I've just been using the team you're just a user you're a user I'm a user yeah well teams it's meant to be used as on-the-fly type of things unlike you know your traditional SharePoint site where it's like these are the golden documents you know you can see these documents just don't touch these doc or don't don't edit these documents teams is different in that it's supposed to be used to collaborate with your teammates so here we have planner and this is just a really easy what's that other thing from Microsoft projects Microsoft prod are you talking about projects I'm talking yeah is that what it's called think you're talking about planner no not talking about planner I'm talking about the thing you have to pay extra for that's project project yeah projects feel like I'm going crazy so this is like a really easy version of projects where you can set up your to-do list and then you create different buckets of you know whether it's completed or not or assign people to it just a really easy version to get things done so and then it will email out the people who you assign projects to so very simple very easy to use it's actually become one of my favorite applications you know we had this major push to start using teams a few months ago because we were still we were Skype people or we were Slack people and so I mean there were different people in the company that some people right kind of only did one or the other so it was difficult for us to collaborate really well and this is this has solved a lot of those issues right and it it just takes all the different features and puts it all into one thing so you know now now that I use it I can't imagine why I was ever using those different applications and they're adding more stuff to it too right so you don't just have the Microsoft apps if you use a third party app they have plenty of these like Flipgrid Polly do I use any of these Hootsuite we use Hootsuite so yeah not just focusing on your Microsoft or your Office 365 applications you do have third-party add in tie-ins as well so you don't even have to go open up your third-party apps you can just go right to your team and have it there I should also state that you know we kind of touched on this in our Skype live stream which was the actual Skype you know chat console will be going away and it's being integrated into teams and so this specific profile James Bond doesn't have it but if this had phone PBX or audio conferencing right and they're they're moving that over into teams as well right so I would see a little phone here but this doesn't have the right license plan for that but it is there it is it is there it's online yeah and we just had a you could do things like video calling or audio calling all that exists so we just had a meeting today which I couldn't attend but I could attend it from my office so I just joined it that way and there's not just I should really go back to when we first created this team right so we have this general tab but you can create other channels so if you want only a specific subject to be spoken about in because when it's all in general it can get very confusing you have your different threads going on and it's very hard to keep track of it all but if you break things off into channels it's easier to get it by subject exactly so it's like this you could make one that's specific to live streams and then you also pre-recorded videos right so maybe you have a separate team that's doing the pre-recorded stuff I'll name this channel prep yeah that's a good idea and then what we should prep for before the live stream and we'll add that right there was that an inside joke but yeah there's there's no limit to the amount of channels that you can add I don't know props since we're keeping with four letter p words or no props I guess would be five but without the s and again you have your community file storage so you don't have to do it all based on one general tab it could all be right there so it's an all-in-one and it's really one of my favorite applications to use since it it has literally all the applications of office 365 so I don't have to go jumping around to application to application it's all right there and I think what they're trying to do is replace outlook because you know we've talked about before how people are storing their files in outlook and it's not really meant to be file storage is going to be messaging and so I think they created teams in order to combat all that it's like fine you want an application to store all your files here here's an all-in-one and a lot of the functions that it's that that you can use in teams are also replacing things that you would normally do through SharePoint or OneDrive so instead of going to one of those things to go find that file and you have your team there's that file that's where it lives so yeah I think that's all I want to cover today just for creating the team you saw how easy it was I mean we did it I think in three clicks we click create we named the team we added members and and now we can chat and now we can chat now we can now we can get work done in that team yeah so thank you everyone for joining us on this early livestream normally we do our live streams every Tuesday and Thursdays at 2 30 p.m. however scheduling conflict has made us do it at 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Evan, thank you so much and welcome to every one of you out there in this splendid scene of hope spread across the South Lawn of the White House. I want to salute the members of the United States Congress, the House, and the Senate who are with us today, active participants in making this day come true.  You know, I started trying to put together a list of all the people who should be mentioned today, that when the list started looking a little longer than the Senate testimony for the bill, I decided I better give up or that we'd never get out of here before sunset.  Of course, my friends Evan Kemp and Justin Dart up here on the platform with me, and of course I hope you'll forgive me for also saying a special word of thanks to two who from the White House, but again, this is personal, so I don't want to offend those omitted, two from the White House, Boyden Gray and Bill Roper, who labored long and hard, and I want to thank Sandy Perino, of course, for her leadership. And again, it's very risky with all these members of Congress here who work so hard, but I can say on a very personal basis, Bob Dole has inspired me. This is an immensely important day, a day that belongs to all of you. And everywhere I look, I see people who have dedicated themselves to making sure that this day would come to pass. My friends from Congress, as I say, who work so diligently with the best interest of all, at heart, Democrats and Republicans, members of this administration, and I'm pleased to see so many top officials and members of my cabinet here today who brought their caring and expertise to this fight, and then the organizations, so many dedicated organizations for people with disabilities who gave their time and their strength.  You have made this happen. All of you have made this happen. And to all of you, I just want to say your triumph is that your bill will now be law, and that this day belongs to you. And on behalf of our nation, thank you very, very much. Three weeks ago, we celebrated our nation's Independence Day, and today we're here to rejoice in and celebrate another Independence Day, one that is long overdue, and with today's signing of the Landmark Americans for Disabilities Act, every man, woman and child with a disability can now pass through once-closed doors into a bright new era of equality, independence and freedom. And as I look around at all these joyous faces, I remember clearly how many years of dedicated commitment have gone into making this historic new Civil Rights Act a reality. It's been the work of a true coalition. A strong and inspiring coalition of people who have shared both a dream and a passionate determination to make that dream come true. And it's been a coalition in the finest spirit, joining of Democrats and Republicans, of the legislative and the executive branches of federal and state agencies, of public officials and private citizens, of people with disabilities and without. This historic act is the world's first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities. The first, and its passage has made the United States the international leader on this human rights issue. And already, leaders of several other countries, including Sweden, Japan, the Soviet Union and all 12 members of the EEC have announced that they hope to enact now similar legislation. Our success with this act proves that we are keeping faith with the spirit of our courageous forefathers who wrote in the Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. And these words have been our guide for more than two centuries as we've labored to form our more perfect union. But tragically, for too many Americans, the blessings of liberty have been limited or even denied. And the Civil Rights Act of 64 took a bold step towards writing that wrong, but the stark fact remained that people with disabilities were still victims of segregation and discrimination. And this was intolerable. And today's legislation brings us closer to that day when no Americans will ever again be deprived of their basic guarantee of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This act is powerful in its simplicity. It will ensure that people with disabilities are given the basic guarantees for which they have worked so long and so hard. Independence, freedom of choice, control of their lives, the opportunity to blend fully and equally into the rich mosaic of the American mainstream. And legally, it will provide our disabled community with a powerful expansion of protections and then basic civil rights. It will guarantee fair and just access to the fruits of American life, which we all must be able to enjoy. And then specifically, first, the ADA ensures that employers covered by the act cannot discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities. The ADA ensures access to public accommodations, such as restaurants, hotels, shopping centers, and offices. And third, the ADA ensures expanded access to transportation services. Fourth, the ADA ensures equivalent telephone services for people with speech or hearing impediments. And these provisions mean so much to so many. To one brave girl in particular, they will mean the world, Lisa Carl, a young Washington state woman with cerebral palsy, who I'm told is with us today, and now will always be admitted to her hometown theater. Lisa, you might not have been welcome at your theater, but I'll tell you, welcome to the White House. We're glad you're here. The ADA is a dramatic renewal, not only for those with disabilities, but for all of us, because along with the precious privilege of being an American comes a sacred duty to ensure that every other American's rights are also guaranteed. And together, we must remove the physical barriers we have created, and the social barriers that we've accepted. For ours will never be a truly prosperous nation until all within it prosper. And for inspiration, we need look no further than our own neighbors with us in that wonderful crowd out there, our people representing 18 of the daily points of light that I've named for their extraordinary involvement with the disabled community. We applaud you and your shining example, and thank you for your leadership for all that are here today. Now let me just tell you a wonderful story, a story about children already working in the spirit of the ADA, a story that really touched me. Across the nation, some 10,000 youngsters with disabilities are part of Little League's Challenger Division, and their teams play just like others, but, and this is the most remarkable part, as they play at their sides or volunteer buddies from conventional Little League teams, and all of these players work together and they team up to wheel around the bases and to field grounders together, and most of all just to play and become friends. We must let these children be our guides and inspiration. And I also wanna say a special word to our friends in the business community. You have in your hands the key to the success of this act, for you can unlock a splendid resource of untapped human potential, that when freed will enrich us all. I know there have been concerns that the ADA may be vague or costly or may lead endlessly to litigation, but I wanna reassure you right now that my administration and the United States Congress have carefully crafted this act. We've all been determined to ensure that it gives flexibility, particularly in terms of the timetable of implementation, and we've been committed to containing the cost that may be concurred. This act does something important for American business though, and remember this. Youth call for new sources of workers while many of our fellow citizens with disabilities are unemployed, they want to work and they can work, and this is a tremendous pool of people. And remember this is a tremendous pool of people who will bring to jobs diversity, loyalty, proven low turnover rate, and only one request, the chance to prove themselves. And when you add together federal, state, local, and private funds, it costs almost $200 billion annually to support Americans with disabilities, in effect, to keep them dependent. Well, when given the opportunity to be independent, they will move proudly into the economic mainstream of American life, and that's what this legislation is all about. Our problems are large, but our unified heart is larger. Our challenges are great, but our will is greater. And in our America, the most generous, optimistic nation on the face of the earth, we must not and will not rest until every man and woman with a dream has the means to achieve it. And today, America welcomes into the mainstream of life all of our fellow citizens with disabilities. We embrace you for your abilities and for your disabilities, for our similarities, and indeed for our differences, for your past courage, and your future dreams. And last year, we celebrated a victory of international freedom. Even the strongest person couldn't scale the Berlin Wall to gain the elusive promise of independence that lay just beyond. And so together we rejoiced when that barrier fell. And now I sign legislation which takes a sledgehammer to another wall, one which has, one which has for too many generations, separated Americans with disabilities from the freedom they could glimpse, but not grasp. And once again, we rejoice as this barrier falls proclaiming together, we will not accept, we will not excuse, we will not tolerate discrimination in America. And with again, great thanks to the members of the United States Senate, leaders of whom are here today, and those who work so tirelessly for this legislation on both sides of the aisle, and to those members of the House of Representatives with us here today, Democrats and Republicans as well, I salute you. And on your behalf, as well as the behalf of this entire country, I now lift my pen to sign this Americans with Disability Act and say, let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down. God bless you all. Thank you.


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Now then, long time no see, been a while hasn't it? I hope everyone's okay. As you can tell by the title, this is just, I'm just going through the stuff that I took with me on my recent Cape Wrath Trail journey. So stick around, if that's what you're into, I'm gonna, it's gonna be quite a detailed look. I'm not gonna go too deep because I'm gonna do a few individual reviews on some of the good stuff and maybe do the clothes separately as well in a more detailed review. Yeah, I just thought before all the kit gets dispersed around house and tidied up and I forget what I took and whatnot, I just thought I'd show you, quickly go through what I took with me. The weight, I've just weighed it, I can't really tell you at weight man because I don't have the food that I've eaten off food and stuff like that so I reckon, what did I weigh? And it's about 12K, 12KG with all the food. Without the food we're about 8.7 kilograms as a base weight. So let me just quickly start, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't do it in dad shots. You didn't worry about that. So we'll start on outside then, what did I wear? I'm gonna run through this quick. I took this, I wore this a lot man, this outdoor research cap, very lightweight, just kept the sun out of my eyes, it kept the sun off my back and when it was raining it was perfect just to shelter my eyes and my face from the rain. It also comes with like a little floppy bit down the side so that you can fully enclose yourself to protect yourself from the sun, maybe even give yourself a little bit of protection from the midges as well. That was brilliant. What was good as well with this, there was hardly any dead weight, I think I used everything. Footwear, it's a big bone of contention, I'm gonna talk about this a little bit more in depth in another video but look at the sun's blazing it through, isn't it? Look at that man. A bit too sunny is it you think? So a couple of days before I set off I had to change your heart and went for my lowers to these Lone Peak fives, these Altra Lone Peak fives. So with that I've got these Montaigne, Via, little ankle gate is there and they come with like these little plastic things, elasticated things that go underneath. Now I wore through four of them, I wore through four of them on the trail so they could do with being a bit stronger or just take a few more wear. These are the Aklima Merino, like running socks or liner socks almost so that there's not a lot of weight in them and they're dried quickly. So that was that was my footwear, my duds of choice with these, I know we're talking about duds on the internet, what's going on? These are, I don't know what specifics but the icebreaker, someone's just cranked chainsaw, but we're going to plod on regardless. Icebreaker, I think the Merino will as well, they were brilliant trousers. Last minute change of trousers I went for these, which were the Phil Raven Vida trekking leggings, so skin tight so that ticks and whatnot can't get all up in you and then I just used my belt from my Montaigne pants on there. These were so good, they've got reinforced knees, reinforced buttocks. These were brilliant, Nordic Outdoors, thanks for that mate, they were brilliant. So yeah Nordic Outdoors started me out with these, my Merino wool socks and Merino wool base layer and they also said that if anybody wants to use Nordic Outdoors, they've given me a 5% discount to give to you and excluding tents and axes, so any of the, no excluding tents and axes, so any of the clothing, any of the Nordic clothing that you can see or anything else on the website or on the shop, you get 5% off and just use Hayes 5, check out and you'll get 5% off all your gear, so thanks to Nordic Outdoors for that, for hooking you guys up. Now I changed these, these were changeable, a t-shirt for when it was too hot, this is just a crag-opper, crag-opper t-shirt, links for everything will be below, that's a go outdoors jobby and then this I've had for time and a half, which is just a rab, a rab layer, so just switch between these depending on how hot or cold it was on the day, right on the outside of the pack, I'll just realise this is going to be quite a long video, sorry, rain stuff which was needed, TBH needed, these are there, my Berghaus, Deluge waterproof trousers and they work a treat, they've not let me down yet, I recommend them. This, now when you go to Scotland, especially in the Highlands, you're going to get wet, it's just a given, it's an absolute given, sheer given, so I did get a, I did a lot of research and people were saying about the frog, tog frogs, waterproof, all in one suit and that the jacket was really good, so I've got that and in testing it up until the time I went, it let me down, it leaked, because of the low neck on it, it leaked all in the front there and got soaking wet, so I went for this, which is, it's a, it's a collaboration between Ronhill and Mountain Equipment, it's a, like a trail running waterproof jacket, Gore-Tex, that was amazing, that just shook water off, no bother, really good, absolutely brilliant in fact, a bit on the expensive side, but amazing, I will do a separate review on that actually and maybe compare it to the, to that frog tog's one, on outside I always have this, that's just my zeelite that I've cut down, that is perfect for just standing on them, if you're getting it out of water or just using as a porch, take that on all the trips, what else is in here, oh a little, this was my towel, it's just a sponge, so I use this to just dry myself if I've been for a swim and the, and I use it to dry the inside of my tent as well, when it was, you know, when I had condensation, this would dry the inside of the tent and the outside and just wring it out and then pop it back in there, saves carrying a full camp towel, what else on outside there, water bottles, that was it, I just took two smart water bottles, at 600 millilitres each and just felt, filled them as I went, didn't take any water to begin with, this is so much water as you, as you're hiking through the highlands, also this was an added extra, I carried a full can of northern monk, because why not and also, why not, oh this isn't even the one I took with me, did I even, did I make it and did I drink the one halfway, no one knows just yet, unless you follow me on Instagram, I forgot to say the bag, the bag I took was my trusty Osprey Exos 48 and that has seen some action, I've had this for years, you see there, it's a bit, it's got a bit of wear and tear and a bit of wear and tear on front but it's, I love, it's so comfortable, it's got this, I mean, this air flow system at the back, even when you're hot, your back's up against there and the air can still flow through there, so I'm not in any rush to get a super lightweight bag when this is just doing everything for me, I just love, I love how comfy it is, it just fits really nice and, and yeah 48 litre, that's all I needed. Shall we have a look first thing we get to, the tent, the Lanshan 2 Pro, it's a thumbs up, it was amazing and I'm used to setting up the Lanshan 1 from, from doing a lot of long distance hiking in that, so this was very similar to setting that up, so I could set it up really quickly, right, this brings me on to this, just a quick side track, my hiking poles, now I've marked it in blue at the optimum height for the, for the Lanshan and I also hiked it, I used them for hiking at the same height, so when I got to camp I could just straighten ground, didn't need to mess about with them, I knew where they were and then if it was windy and rainy I would drop them a little bit to seal the edges, if I wanted more airflow you raise them a little bit, but that is how I add it with the blue ones, I think it works about 135 centimetres in total, that, but just marked it with a sharpie so that I could find it quickly, but that was, I mean there's more to come on the actual trip videos but what a tent, didn't let me down, didn't leak, I had a bit of condensation on a couple of the nights but that's what, you're going to get that anyway, it's really like easy to pack, easy to set up and put down, the only problem is is when I camped at the side of like forestry tracks a couple of times so it was hard to get the pegs into the ground and I had to just tie it off onto rocks, it's not free standing so that's the only time you'll have to worry and then this was how umden I had about taking these, but these are four delta pegs which are like hardcore pegs, these aren't going anywhere and halfway through the trip I was like these are annoying me, the roomy way I'd not used them and then there was a couple of nights where I got pretty bad, there was pretty bad wind and I was thankful of these so I'm glad I took them and I would take them again because Scotland is no joke just to just to help you from when it gets a bit wild, this was my food bag, well man I've just got one meal left in my food bag and I took uh how many did I take 15, I think I took 15, 15 of these meals because my plan was to have one a day and then I took coffees and energy bars and that lasted me and then every time you get to like uh if you come across a cafe or a shop or anything just stock up get something to eat along the way a lot of people will refill or send them they'll send care packages to themselves to pick up along the way and I didn't do that I just carried everything with me I just felt easier doing that and you also get the added bonus of your bag just getting progressively lighter as you go which is quite a dream good for legs and good for morale, I mean I've done, you've seen this a few times, I took the MSR Pocket Rocket 2 that was my stove, a gas holder for stability and I went for a little bit bigger than the five, I went for the, I went for me 700, I was at 750 I'm not sure, Torx Titanium and that just has a little bit lighter in there a little drying towel I took one of these 200, I took two actually two 240 grams one in there and a spare one but halfway through I realised I wasn't going to use or need them both so I ditched the one I'd been using and just carried a full one with me and that was more than enough so I would only take one of them if I did it again I'd just take one of them because I was only about one meal a day and maybe the odd brew here and there, my spare gloves, right these are good for morale these like these are darn tough, I mean darn tough socks I kept these dry just until the last day then I wore them as a little treat but these I alternated these and these were just camp socks these were just to be worn in my sleeping bag and around camp two of them and then a spare pair of the acclimat liner socks that I rotated with the ones that I wore during the day so I'd alternate these and then these were just for camp these other undies mate Patagonia duds I forget the name links below for everything but they sort of bubbled up on the first day I wore these on the first day and I got a I got a pretty bad chafe on them so I bottled it on these and just went on to the the icebreakers which worked they were brilliant so I just wore these for swimming in the end so I wouldn't recommend them these were just for at camp these were the acclimat light wool they were so lightweight but so warm as well and such a joy such a joy to put on after hiking and then this was a bit of a thicker thing but this is the acclimat hooded top lots of different options with it to put over your head you can cover your mouth and it's got a little mouthpiece in there with like a mesh so you can still breathe out of it and I was thankful of that on a couple of occasions a knee brace gives me right knee gives me jib but I tried it when me right knee was giving me jib and it's just it rubs too much up back so I didn't use that and I wouldn't have took that if I had in hindsight I wouldn't have took that what's this oh just a just like a buff use that a few times to put over your head when it's a little bit colder on a night and then that's my thing for me this is the thing for this like that's one of them job do you know the score you know the score but I didn't use that either so sack that if it was a if it was peak summer maybe I would have won though my camping mat was my thermo rest ex-therm large I thought about getting some at lighter but then what's the point in uh in just spending loads more money on things that are just a little bit lighter when I've got this is this is this isn't going to let me down and I've had it for years and I will just use this on a night because I couldn't be janked to blow it up so just this full full of air and like that and it just blows out and so I'll just sit and do that something to do yeah who needs Netflix who needs Netflix when you can blow up a camping bed pillow of choice trecology it's got a strap so you can strap it around your air bed so it doesn't slide off and that was brilliant then what's in here last thing so in here is my sleeping bag also these work brilliant these are down trousers stop saying pants I say pants me I've always said work pants and I'll say trousers trousers these were down trousers really comfortable really warm and just a joy to get on after a day's hiking nature hike ones they're a lot lighter than my uh military softies as well they were brilliant uh and they said I only wore around camp and wore it out when I was hiking maybe once up when I was up on the tops and it got cold this is my Patagonia and I can't remember the name but it's not a down jacket it's a it's synthetic because I didn't want to take a down jacket somewhere that was going to be potentially soaking wet for 14 days straight so I just wear that like my down trousers and my marina wool base layer around camp and that was just warm enough I'd wear that I'd wear it to sleeping because I only took this with my alp kit 400 which is um free season I've had it for ages mate it's hemorrhaged quite a lot of feathers there's not you know it's definitely doesn't go down to as cold as it says it does anymore but that coupled with these and I was like I was I was warm I was never cold never cold I was a bit hot at times actually right what am I doing putting that way just chuck it over there what's in here right into the brain of the situation this is this was brilliant this was my new this was my water filter I saw your mini squeeze and this knock that I pronounce it knock just water carrier just so glad I upgraded to this because that other plastic one takes ages to fill up just by the by the by the by the mouth of it um so this one you can just slide that off there and just like a dry bag we roll it that enables you to just fill it really quickly and then back on and then a way to just filter it that was a great a great addition we're going for it that way long titanium spoon by turks I've always just gone with little ones for I'm not going to get I've always just gone for like little spoons and just cut the bag and it out that but I thought I can't bother with that if we're going to be doing it for as long as we're going to do it and so I splashed out and got one of these and I'm glad I did spoon and then kek shovel that came in handy obs kek shovel um well the bog roll and bog rolling wipes are no longer in there they got used but yeah that's just my I've seen a lot I was floating my idea of getting one of them I think they made a aluminium I'm not sure the metal ones but I've heard people say that you can't get a good grip on them and the ground up there is you know some of it's quite hard to dig and even this with handle you've got to really get into ground to to create a scat hole so at least it does have a handle and that's why I prefer this over the other other lightweight options that sounded quite professional didn't it almost right let's bring it back down professional is is my camp shoes top tip what other sorry if you can hear that chain sorry background that's just people making a living can't begrudge that people grafting these are just hovis like small bread bags and so instead of taking flip flops or crocs or down booties or whatever I took these and then so I would get to camp wet socks off wet shoes off let the feet air out and then on with the pair of dry me dry socks oh it's a good feeling just thinking about it now it's good and then if I needed to go if I needed to go out anywhere or leave the tent put the bag over the sock and then just into the shoe have the shoe really loose and it's just like a different bit of footwear it feels really comfy now these aren't getting wet your feet aren't getting wet and these are in a super lightweight so that's a good little hikers tip the rain cover I got a new rain cover I got the actual rain cover for that osprey which is brilliant because it's got a it's got a clip that goes around the back of it and clips that goes over your your hip belt so it's not going to go anywhere and that worked a treat glad I got that what else is in here one thing and my this is the Patagonia bum bag just for fun and whatever in there it's super lightweight and I and I used that for the first few days and then I sacked it I put it away because I thought I would I thought I would have used it more but I didn't and so in hindsight I maybe wouldn't have took that right and the one of the reasons why I didn't use it as much was because I use this on chest pouch which I used all the time let's have a quick look in here what have we got we've got these OR sun gloves which came in really handy because it's quite easy to get some blisters when you're hiking using your hiking poles all day something like that isn't it so they came in handy just for holding the hiking poles it gives your hands a bit of protection and you're not going to sweat because they're really light and they afford you a little bit of protection from midges if they're out and about this is just my waterproof carrier for my phone because I was using my phone as my GPS so that when it rained it was going there around my neck and I can still use it but yeah so one of the most important things is being ready for when it rained so everything I had and I had just a system for when it rained everything would be very quickly waterproofed so going into here because this itself isn't waterproof so I kept a second one of these sponges just in the bottom which would soak up the water when it rained and then I could just ring that out so that would take all the water away from from my stuff that was in here which was also in a sandwich bag and in another sandwich bag these are mushroom tablets which I just took as a supplement iberproven they were still in there because it started to me feet were hurting so I just had them munching on them my compass for my map reading taking bearings and just just keeping it real and then a super light seat of summit head net midge head net very small very lightweight my torch my new torch this is the petzl bindi really lightweight I think I only used it once or twice because you're so tired by and a day you're not staying up until it gets dark most of the time and that's rechargeable it's got a red light flashing light quite powerful then you can turn it around like that and lock it in place so that you're not going to press any of the buttons which is a good feature glad I got that for future wild camps and maybe in autumn and winter but for for long distance hiking you do you even need it just use the phone on you I'm in the light on your phone so I didn't really use that a lot at all but I'm glad I had it with me and that went in there my watch which I had on which is just my Ironman watch is just to stop me looking at my phone and whatever and then I had a dry bag in there as well which held everything in the dry bag also I had my camera in there camera phone and everything so it would just fold it up with a sponge underneath and all in there as well so it's like belt and bridges because some days it was just etching it down man power bank was just the anchor power bank to keep my phone keeping my phone charged was the my priority because that wasn't used that as a GPS and obviously to keep in contact with people as and when you get signal speaking of which this is the Garmin in reach mini you put an app on your phone and then you can I think you get about 10 messages a month it links up to its own satellite it's pricey and then once you've bought it then you have to buy a subscription to it as well but when you don't have signal and you're out and about it's good just to be able to text your loved ones and just say like this is my location send them your locale and just say this is where I am I'm okay I used it for that a couple of times I also used it to get a weather report when I'd pitch my tent during the day when it was the weather had turned on me and I was starting to worry and I was trying to plan my way over this ridge so I got a quick weather report on this and then made my decisions based on that so yeah it's a necessary thing really I think because if you fall over it middle of nowhere and you do your leg in you've got no signal it's not a very popular trail in certain parts you know because you've gone off on your own you've chosen your own path and it's nice to know that if you just press the sos on here that it the emergency services will will pick it up and come directly to you and I'm gonna use that I'm gonna put that on my fishing float as well when I go spear fishing so it's a worthwhile investment I think yeah I didn't take any smidge or anything I just took my head net and sprayed my clothes before I went with anti-tick stuff tick bug stuff in here I've got a oh god I just had a little travel toothpaste bamboo toothbrush and a little thing of hand sanitizer I wouldn't took that man I only used it once just because I thought why not but it's not I wasn't around many people so I wouldn't took that I don't think a spare lighter in there this is where we get a little bit hippy on this one look these are CBD patches like nicotine patches but for CBD to help with your joints and help you sleep and whatnot I've got my first aid kit which is just in a sandwich bag which has compedes in there which I used a lot of um plasters it's got um what have we got anodine for joint pain I never used them um I have a profen which I used um anti-diarrhea tablets just in case didn't use them but you don't be getting the shits while you're out and about some tweezers for all sorts of reasons and my tick key this is the tick key you get your tick in there and then just twist it pull it off that got used quite a bit quite a few ticks on me and me here's mirror which I used just to get into them I had to look places just for tick extraction and tick checking and I took a also had a little bottle of CBD oil that I plowed through on my journey just again to help with joint pain and and help sleep and stuff in the bag as well there was a I've got like a heavy duty baggy bag which I used as a liner but everything went in that bag and then so that was waterproof everything was in its own everything of importance was in its own dry bag inside there and then and then I had the rain cover over the top so nothing got wet except me a little bit because you're walking through rivers and all that gear out here I might do a separate video on the clothes that I took and a more in-depth video on things like the Garmin in-reach mini shoes some of the big players I think that's everything and I hope I've not missed anything out um a special shout out to Nordic Outdoors for hooking me up with these these socks and the merino base layer they were brilliant so thank you they've they've really come through from me there and they've offered a five percent discount all across the store for anything except for axes and tents just use the code HAZE5 at checkout and you'll get five percent off all your gear so thanks Nordic Outdoors for that they're a look they're a sound company run by sound people um I hope I've not missed anything out if I have I'm sorry if you want to be notified when I upload the trek video just click the subscribe button down below and the bell notification and then you'll get a pop-up letting you know when I've next uploaded right hopefully I've not forgot out right thanks very much for watching and I'll see you soon take care oh legs are still a bit tender like see you later don't show them don't show them joseph's technique on a blanket you'll love it see you later