We have some time for taking general questions or feedback from the centres. There would be a detailed feedback form that is given to you. One thing I would like you all to know is that this whole activity is being funded by the government and the government has given something close to 3 lakh rupees per centre to equip the centre with all this infrastructure that you see. So there might be some centres who have not yet been able to get the fund or even after got the fund they might not have been able to procure the equipment. So in some centres you might not see a good quality but very soon you will see. Point of that I think there are some centres which have not been able to keep up with the standards and that is why you have seen poor quality. While we thank them from our side I would also request you to talk to the centre coordinator, the workshop coordinator to see that the centres make sure that the facilities are up to the mark and we are always available here to help you set up the centres if there are any technical infrastructure issues. So with that I will take questions now. So KCE Society from Jalgaon. Hello sir, sir I just want to share my experience regarding teaching. I am in this field since past 3 years and I have seen diversity in students, I have seen diversity in teachers and I have seen diversity in thinking of teachers. Well what my experience is I try to correlate what my students give my feedback to me so that next time when I go in the class and they are teaching to them I get more, I just solve my problems what they have told to me and I try to deliver in a more successful pattern and so I just want to say one thing this course will help not only me but everyone as a teacher to improve their teaching skills to improve their research methodologies and sharing ideas. Thank you sir. Thank you very much. I hope our intention was exactly that that you could use this course material for your own research for getting your masters and PhD students on board doing their research and also initiate undergraduate students. It might not all the topics might be useful for undergraduate students but if you can initiate at least few people who are interested in higher studies if you can initiate them into what is actually expected of a very good independent contribution. It need not be research many of those things that we discussed it need not be a full time research but anybody who wants to work independently in a science and technology field would need to know what is done by professionals. So I think it's very important that we inculcate even the undergraduate students into all these things definitely post graduates and other faculty who are doing PhD will find it useful. Thank you very much. One more thing I would like to ask sir the upcoming course on pedagogy is it online or is it it will be in this mode also I mean the workshop mode. Yeah I have my team from the workshop who will take this question so you can ask questions like this as well. So this is Mahendra from the workshop team. Yeah this pedagogy course will be online course only and it will be done in IT Bomb X platform. Will there be opportunity to interact? Actually there will be no interaction as such all the course related things it will be done online in online mode. Thank you sir. And sir is it free of course or is it do you have some charges related to it? There is no charge because there is no remote center involved here. There is no infrastructure requirement since it is online in online mode you have to like anybody and everybody can participate in this pedagogy workshop. Thank you very much sir. Thank you. You are welcome. D.Y. Patil from Pimperi Pune do you have some questions or comments please. Yes sir just one question from our side and I think this is the query with all of us the workshop actually was very useful for all the participants as all of us are aware that the communication skill is very important for everybody. Just one question a major question from our side can something be done to give a proper weightage to communication skills in the curriculum for the students. So this question was asked even earlier but I will reiterate what was said then and I am going to say that again now AICTE has in its model syllabus two communication skill course both are not credited courses but it carries some it has to be done. So one is I think technical communication other is some soft skills or something like that there are two courses that is already part of undergraduate model curriculum from AICTE. And universities might choose to have their own curriculum so we cannot really influence that even in IIT Bombay we have at least for post graduates we have it compulsory for undergraduates there are different other forms which are not compulsory. So I think it is very much within your domain so AICTE is done its best but I think if as teachers you can impress your principals or vice chancellor I think it will be true. You can tell them kind of material that is available to you now. Yes sir but it has been introduced but the weightage that is being given to it is something that is creating a problem because the students are not realizing its importance. Yeah I see that but and the realization comes at the last and they appear for the interviews and they have to face the problem at the time of interviews. That is correct so I guess maybe if there is more awareness like if we conduct if more teachers like you are made aware that there is material now available that people can use and still make it pitch it at a high standard. I think you can impress your administration to give more weightage. So we will go to Charusat from Nadia. Yes please go ahead. Thanks very much for giving us an opportunity to attend such an interesting and interacting workshop. We would definitely pass on the benefit to our students regarding the center I would say that as you say it sir the some improvements copies there particularly related to our center throughout the entire week we have missed the opportunity to interact with the coordinator of this course. You mean the infrastructure coordinator or the workshop coordinator I mean the person who is in charge of this workshop. He was having his busy schedule and that's why he was not able to be available throughout the week with us. Okay that's why several incidents when you instructed that coordinator will do these and that for you. He was not available with us. Okay so that's a important thing we'll take feedback from you and we'll try and see what best can be done from our side. Thank you very much for that feedback. Sona College of Technology from Salem. Good afternoon sir. I would like to give feedback about this workshop on behalf of all our participants. It is very good and we learned directly from you so much from the presenters indirectly also we learned so much the patients you answer to our questions. It is very nice and one suggestion we have is that you could also conduct programs for subject-oriented like for textile department we do not have any programs and also I feel that for technical English also you could suggest some programs so we could attend all the quizzes online. It would also enhance our ability. Yeah thank you for that feedback so we are only slowly scaling up to other departments we have limited courses online but you should definitely check out courses from international universities which are available also free of cost where you might not get participation certificate like what you get here but you will certainly improve your learning so please check out courses from Stanford MIT which are available through platforms called as Coursera, edX and so on so that will also benefit you. You might find technical English also there we don't have technical English even in IIT Bombay we only have the communication skills course but you should definitely check out other courses online. Thank you sir we'll be happy if you just carry on with that sir and we'll also check out for the websites whatever you told us sir thank you. Thank you. S.I.E.S. Navi Mumbai. Good afternoon sir. Yes good afternoon. We are very much thankful for all the professors we could learn many things just by observing you the way you conducted various sessions the way you motivated us to complete our assignments and exercises and we could learn many things just by complete itself. I have one question can a student enroll for your courses online on IIT Bombay eggs as a individual candidate and how to go about it. Yeah I'll have my team answer that question actually if you're talking about this technical communication workshop right now it is not going on for the students but in future we may plan for this technical communication workshop online which will be available for students also. Right now there are three courses which we have just finished that is computer programming engineering thermodynamics and signals and systems wherein even students can participate in IIT Bombay eggs platform. Sir I have one more query a student belong to a college who is not a part of this remote center can he enroll for the course and what is what are the formalities he needs to complete. Okay let me repeat the answer that was given there were courses that are available for anybody to join so there were different modes that this online course with that we are offering one is only by invitation like all of you were considered as students by invitation and only this lot of about 3300 participants were allowed to view this course that is one in the second model we have colleges which are running a particular course so my colleague the professor Gaithonday will tell you about more about that short while from now so in that there are colleges which are so that is one mode which professor Gaithonday will say the third mode is completely open to any student at any point of time when the course is offered. So a similar model is followed for several courses from international universities as well that your student can just go and log in there anybody without payment of fees can listen to the lectures and get a minimal certificate but if you want a complete authorized certificate there are some charges so I invite professor Gaithonday who has also been running a course in this mode and he will tell you more about it. Okay I have been the guinea pig for teaching thermodynamics in different modes in this NME ICT program just the way you have gone through this teacher training or teach 10,000 teacher T10KT program for technical communications I have conducted two workshops one under the teach 1000 teachers program which was the precursor of the T10KT both were on engineering thermodynamics also the names were slightly different those were essentially the way this course or this particular workshop has been conducted that is each participant here number one must be a teacher in some center that center need not be a remote center for example in one place there could be five engineering colleges nearby one of them could be the remote center but teachers from the other engineering colleges or other colleges could come there and register through that remote center but each and every participant as professor Sundar said was a pre-registered and invited the other mode is what is known as a MOOC a massive open online course and although Mahendra started off IIT Bombay has a you may call it a department or a entity within it which is known on the web as IIT Bombay X dot in part of this in course in that so you know about it and on that if we offer this course then that remains open to anybody anybody who can get access to IIT Bombay X dot in has an email address and can register on it and that way it will be a direct link between the teachers here and the student but remember that IIT Bombay X type of MOOCs they are not live as this one is they are all pre-recorded and they are put on the web according to a certain timetable so it is not necessary for you to be present in this particular center say from 9 30 to 4 30 every day so once it is on the web somebody who is a night of can study from 10 30 p.m. to maybe 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. if you are see so wishes and somebody who wants to get up early can get up early at 4 30 a.m. and start studying from 5 a.m. to whatever time he or she please the flexibility is compensated by the fact that for example here one of you could raise your hand ask a question and we could comment on your question or try to give a proper reply there there is only a discussion forum like a you know moderate not moderated but online question answer session so you ask a question on a particular topic it's like a news group and other participants could comment or try to reply to it and the teachers could also comment and try to reply to it okay there are other facilities in the MOOC the evaluation is not yet very formalized that is because although we have tests and examinations these are not conducted in a formal environment for example when you conduct an examination for your students you set up a timetable which is a very strict timetable say a thermodynamics paper could be from say 9 30 to 12 30 on Monday 3rd December or whatever is and before 9 30 the student is expected to be in his or her assigned seat will be given a question paper and set of answer books he or she should then write whatever they want to do and then hand in before 12 30 and all this thing happens in front of not just you know CCTV cameras but in front of live invigilators so any mischief is immediately caught and hence nobody tries to play any tricks whereas when you have thousands of students sitting at their homes or their students or maybe even in a bus or a car looking at the thing at a laptop it's not possible to do this type of an invigilation so we expect some sort of an honorable behavior from the students because all the examinations are online and because not everybody can be online simultaneously say between 9 30 and 12 30 on a given day typically even a 2 hour or a 3 hour examination will be provided over a 24 hour or 48 hour period so the evaluation is a bit weak but those who clear the evaluation we get some sort of a certificate now how much weight a particular college or a university or any entity which looks at that certificate will provide to that that is still a moot question we are trying to have you know proper invigilated examinations but that's in the future for that colleges and universities have to come online and provide the facilities for conducting invigilated or proctored examinations once that happens then we can give a proper letter grade like a a plus or b b minus etc for the performance in a even a MOOC type of course thank you okay thank you we'll move on to the next college Tejpur University Assam hello we have not seen you before how are you good afternoon sir good afternoon very good yeah I'm Dr. Balada workshop coordinator we met in Mumbai sir sir we are having only eight participants but these all eight participants are very sincere and regularly they have participated in the workshop and one of the participant is just near to next to me Dr. Yasmine she is going to tell you about to this workshop sir thank you very much for enthusiast participation good afternoon sir very good afternoon madam please tell us what you have to tell yeah we have thoroughly enjoyed your course we understand that this since it's your first of a kind this program is one of a first of its kind so we had difficulty while you are trying to interact with you but then we are happy with it about it cause you provided us the material and then which we can use as a future reference and then I give it to Dr. Manoj Hazarika who will give his feedback on this course good afternoon sir good afternoon Manoj how are you sir we have found this course to be quite useful in fact as far as my personal liking is also concerned that is technical communication the concept of TQS and CRE I have enjoyed thoroughly and I'd like to inform that actually one of my colleague Dr. Bhadwai he has already passed that concept to our research scholars in a course on research methodology so earlier also some of the courses that was attended by our colleagues particularly did that on pedagogy methods of pedagogy in January so some of the methods that were taught to or conveyed to us during that course is also being gradually implemented so I am hopeful that whatever we could learn we could get our as a team will be in a position to implement in the semesters to come thank you sir thank you very much nice to know that you have been able to use that already in your courses we'll move on to the next college is Mount Zion from Pudukotai so we all like to give the standing ovation for the present as well as the workshop team sir so we are very much happy to attend this workshop this is one of the very very interactive workshop that we have attended previously so thank you so much sir and it's very useful for the abstract writing we will never forget your structure of abstract writing sir and also the question so what thank you so much sir for your valuable session thank you sir and one more suggestion from one of the participants yeah we like to hear more of suggestions and feedback please thank you hello good afternoon sir as you told that we are getting students from the schools my suggestion is it is it possible for you to conduct similar programs in the school level because we are going to handle the school students only after passing their school they come to us we have to train them in communication so if it is possible you can try okay it's a we'll take it so probably when we we are ready with such a course for our own students maybe we can offer so currently we are also pitching it only at the master's level we are still haven't gone to the bachelor's level so yeah that's a good feedback we'll take it and we'll try to get some course for that thank you very much because if we do this surely we'll be achieving our Dr. Abdul K. Kalam sir's vision that is India 2020 we work towards it surely we'll be achieving it sir all right very good thank you very much yeah please go ahead sir the technical communication aspect if you have included the communication record for counseling the student and communication should be done for the stakeholders those aspects as have been included it will be more helpful because the students coming to the engineering colleges they have many personal problems and they have many listening problems so if you'll be putting some case studies regarding the students mentality so and so and how to deal with the students if those part also would have included it will be more useful for us so this is the one I would like to suggest to you sir yeah but I think then we'll be deviating a little too much from the main theme it gets little more into psychology and so on so I guess it might be difficult within this framework and within the time that's available I think we need to give preference to what is critical to technical communication but thank you very much maybe some other course exclusively on student psychology and counseling might be good good evening sir I saw as a nice program in IIT Bombay that I never expect from this before entering the workshop the relation between the technical English and the communication and the technical so it is very good in the session so all the sessions are very interesting and I like that making the map free mind map mind mapping it's very useful to me and I just going to implement this in our department papers also so it is very helpful to me I fulfill my requirement based on this workshop so thank you to one and all from the screen and behind the screen to all the persons I thank him thank you sir thank you thank you very much for your very kind words and very nice to know that you've already found something useful for your own work so we'll go to IPS Academy from Indore good afternoon sir good afternoon we can hear you first of all my gratitude from all of us for having such a fantastic program it has been a great learning absolutely wonderful most of the aspects we were already into it I look after the training development so GD interviews part were very much we were already in it but there were different aspects that we found interesting and I'm sure you're going to use these all if not all most of them in our teachings going forward one suggestion I have is there have been some technical problems sometimes so if we can have recorded sessions of all the speakers available on your site anytime we need to go back or refer to we have an opportunity to do that that is one let me just respond to it so video lectures of IIT Bombay X that you saw already first of all they are hosted in YouTube and even now you can share those links with any of your students to actually view them so it's all on YouTube secondly since you already have an access to IIT Bombay X anytime you can look at those lectures and the last point is all these sessions that has been happening over the last week all of those are also being recorded and will also be made available to you to view it so all of this is already there thank you very much so there is actually that our requirement so thank you because I know that IIT Bombay whatever we have done previously it is available but I was not very sure about this for 30th to 5th today December yes whatever we have gone through if that was also made available that's very much going to really help us secondly I feel that if we can go to a next level so we have a technical communication level one and then you can raise the bar and go to a level two program that would be also very interesting so what would you like to cover in level two so more detailed aspects for example when you go for I am talking about my domain subjects so when you go for an interview or a GD you know class or a program so how can you you know prepare for the topics that are you know particularly pertaining to your own domain for example if a software company is coming for your you know selecting our students what are the likely topics and how you can you know research prepare and go ahead so if I if you say the topics are divided into say domain specific social you know political can we have some kind of inputs regarding that so a more detailing or more micro level programs on this okay so we have taken those points of feedback thank you very much thank you I have my colleague would also like to answer we liked Mr. Viren set his lectures very much they were thought inspiring and these lectures told us how we can interview new techniques in our presentation thank you very much thank you very much we'll convey to him so one more thing that I would like to add that so these days our students are running short of content or what we can say that they do not have proper stuff to speak in GDs and all so can I really help in some way for this some kind of references or the study material that they should go through so for what subject I don't understand that preparing for campus recruitment especially oh okay two specific requirement maybe few years from now there is something that comes up as a formal course then maybe we can consider yeah thank you very much so what we will do now which we are going to formally end this session now and after that we'll open the floor for discussions and we will definitely take questions as long as you want till evening but we're going to formally end the session and for that I invite Professor Uday Gaithonday so Professor Gaithonday is a faculty member professor in mechanical engineering in IIT Bombay and he's been involved in online platform as he himself told in thermodynamics which he has been offering in various mode so he is among the first few faculty who started out those experiments with online and he is also of course conducted workshops in the traditional mode several years back continuing education program and he's got a vast experience in teaching and a lot of patience and if you think I have patience he has got some hundred times more than me so you should watch his lectures so I invite Professor Gaithonday to give the final validatory address for this workshop so thank you Professor Sundar for inviting me here one of my you know weak points is my difficulty in saying though when somebody offers to do something and ask for my contribution that is the way I have ended up conducting the first non CS course under the you know teach thousand teachers or teacher ten thousand teachers and hence I conducted the MOOC on thermodynamics and not only that we have a similar program for all over M. Tech and Ph.D. students in IIT Bombay that is HS 691 communications or technical communication the name may be slightly different and because of this habit of mine my department has assigned me off and on for doing that so I generally know what is involved in this and I find that that's a very important course and I hope that our students and the participants here don't neglect what is made available for learning and hence implementation and as I have grown and have become quite an old person now I have to go through a large number of reports thesis and even answer books and one thing I notice is that the criticism and comments which I have to make quite often a number of those significant portion of those is because the material is not communicated very properly the latest example is last two days I have spent evaluating a paper 3 hour paper on well we call it thermal sciences 2 that is for Ph.D. students who have been admitted to Ph.D. about 6 months to a year ago and they have to write a what is known as a qualifying examination they have been admitted but now they have to prove that they are good enough to be a Ph.D. students so all the maturity of an M. Tech student plus something more is expected particularly given a problem which is not a routine problem sort of open-ended and given something like 30 minutes or 45 minutes to work on it assimilate that understand what is asked for you start going in the proper direction and communicate all your thoughts in a proper way over may be 5 or 6 pages that is what is expected and the paper consist of some 4 or 6 such questions there is essentially no time limit the paper which I was evaluating had a formal timing of 3 hours but I know it went on for 5 hours at the end of 5 hours the last student handed in his answer book I evaluated my part well I was impressed if that is the proper word but I am not very happy with that impression is that the students are unable to do well because they are not communicating their ideas and these are all technical ideas to the paper which is the medium which will you know take their thoughts to the examiner they write something but why have they written it how have they come to that thought that is just not communicated and hence the numerical performance score is on the lower side this is one specific example but such a communication theme you will have to do whenever you write not only an examination paper but an assignment or a project report or a thesis or even a formal paper for publication in a conference or submission to a journal it's difficult to come up with an analogy for technical communication you can't call it icing on the cake because communication involves content as well as the medium through which it is communicated so the cake is also important out here all I will say is as professor Sundar had said and as you have provided feedback in front of me in the last half an hour or so you have enjoyed and you seem to be learning a lot from this course so keep up that learning effort and all the proceedings of this workshop including the question answer sessions I think will be treated the way the earlier workshops were treated that is the recordings are already being made and in a few weeks time they will be properly edited and will be put up on the NMEI CT website they will be available for you for watching streaming or even downloading and it's open materials so you can do whatever you feel like so I'm happy you have enjoyed this six-day workshop and I presume that you will be using those communication skills after you have learned thank you so do you have any questions or comments for professor Gaitonday otherwise we can formally end this workshop and we'll still as I said we'll still keep the floor open for general discussions questions if you had missed out opportunity to ask questions earlier we're going to keep the floor open for some times and if you have any questions prop only for professor Gaitonday we will take it up now Gita University sir this is Pavankumar from CSC department University I have a small question regarding publishing paper sir sir actually international conferences are telling that if your paper is accepted we will publish your paper as a special issue is it equal to journal sir depends on the journal some journals take it as purely proceedings of a conference some journals actually do a complete normal peer review and then publish it and if there are simply if the conference is just bringing out a proceeding and even if they claim that is it a scopus indexed and all those things you need to be careful to the extent of which it was actually reviewed not a serious review then it may not be considered worthwhile to do that okay sir thank you sir and one of my colleague also have some feedback sir so I have a doubt regarding writing a chapter for a book when you write a chapter for the book can you use words like his or do you normally expect it to be a passive tense yeah I'm repeating the question for the benefit of others question is if you're writing chapters for a book can you use his her or you need to use only passive tense so I think it's a matter of choice and discipline where what in what you're writing in normal science and technology there is hardly any person of personal reference to his her they and so on I think your question was should I use personal pronoun I V or use it as a passive correct certainly should not use the gender because you don't know the gender of the author right if you're referring to a article you you cannot be certain of the gender of the author so you must not assume that it is a male or a female it is better if the if it's a book chapter you can use the author here citation and you can just use that they did this which is fine or you say that use the name and say Mehra and Ashok did this work which is okay but you should not use gender because you're not sure of it when you're talking about review articles it's okay sir but when you're talking about like writing a very general chapter for an engineering student like suppose I'm just remodeling some chapter for an engineering student and then I'm writing that's when I had a problem when I was reading a chapter for one of my colleague when you are talking about the style for a chapter of a book actually the many such chapters will be collected and finally compiled and edited in a book form by the book editor or the series editor it is the job of that editor or the editorial team to provide you the style manual to write your chapter so you have to just follow that style manual there is no general method by which we can say that this style is better for a chapter and that style is better for that chapter in fact the job of an editor for such a compiled book is precisely this to see to it that is a we have all the chapters are essentially in the same style over sir on the last comment from alifaz we are very happy to attend this workshop and we hope we will be able to practice like especially the note We are very happy to attend this workshop and we hope that we will be able to put into practice like especially the note making for giving it to students like everyone wants notes from us more than looking at writing their own notes. So maybe I hope that I can put forward the way we have talked to this course so that it will be easier for the students and once we have done something nice I hope I will share it with you all also. Thank you very much. This is Knowledge Institute from Salem. We are very happy to attend this workshop actually for the six days. There is one question to Professor Gayatunde sir. Actually this was in a flip-flip classroom model what we have learned. How far this same flip-flip classroom model will be helpful to our students for the subject thermodynamics, thermal engineering? So I want to repeat that question for the benefit of others. The question asked was the current model was a flip classroom in which you all did online courses and then came here for interaction. Now this was for technical communication. So how good is a flip classroom model for more technical subjects and because Professor Gayatunde has taken courses in thermodynamics so the question was for Professor Gayatunde how good if he has tried this model for thermodynamics and what is his opinion on that? See for teaching or implementing the teaching of a course there are number of different styles which you have and these styles are not mutually exclusive. For example for teaching a subject over a four month program it is possible that part of it is very traditional classroom teaching. Whereas part of it could be the flip classroom or the blended model or hybrid model different words are used. There is no formula which is ideal for a given particular, given implementation of a given course. A good model will depend on the number of students, the type of students and their ability to adjust to different styles of teaching and the assistance that a teacher has. For example if I am on my own with no assistance with about 50-60 students I will have one type of interaction and one type of implementation. Whereas if I have say half a dozen teaching assistants and the same number of students I may use much of a blended or a flipped classroom because in that case with a flipped classroom the routine reading happens before the lecture. The lecture or the interaction, personal interaction is much more interactive and if it is just one person with 60 students 1 to 60 is too odd a ratio to manage that. But if I have 5 or 60 years then the ratio roughly becomes 1 to 10 or 1 to 12 and it becomes much easier to handle a very interactive session over a one or one and a half hour period. So depending on the resources and the number of assistants and students that a teacher has and the type of subject again the model will have to be decided. And of course the resources available. Yes I have tried flipped classroom for thermodynamics not when the class strength is 60-70 but I have tried when the class strength is about 12-15. That happens because in IIT Bombay we have the so-called minor program and thermodynamics is one of the courses in the minor program and in the minor program we only have about 15-20 students in my thermodynamic class. I did it once and then for I think two times more Professor Bhandarkar took it two more years. I don't know who is going to teach it next time but I think it will again be a small number and hence a flipped classroom model. Over. Thank you sir, thank you very much sir. Regarding this course it was an excellent one. It is technical communication. We would like to thank Professor Sunder, Professor Parthasardi and then Professor Sethi. On behalf of this Knowledge Institute of Technology we would like to thank all the organizers of IIT Bombay and then the team of professors. Then this course was an excellent one and as we discussed here day before it should be beneficial to the researchers especially as explained about this abstract writing and so. Thank you very much sir, thank you once again. Thank you very much. I just have one suggestion. As we have done an activity on IIT Bombay X through video lectures and through assignments I just want to say that it will be more easy for us to download the video lectures directly from the IIT Bombay X if it is possible instead of going on to YouTube and then downloading it from there. So please make the availability of downloading the video lectures directly from IIT Bombay X as well as downloading the slides so that it will be helpful for recall the material whenever we want. Slides are already available in IIT Bombay X. Now making a video available is little difficult because of the huge files and normal servers cannot support that kind of bandwidth. It needs a huge scaling and that is why only servers like Google can support. So I thank Professor Gaitande for taking some time of his schedule to come and address you. If you have questions regarding his course, his course was available online this semester which was done. I am not sure if some of you had taken that course for your own students. So every year once the course is run where the students of your college can also enroll. So if you know people from mechanical engineering or other engineering courses where they teach thermodynamics you can try this model. It may not be credited, it may not be used as a credit for your students but you can try it out and let us know if it works and then we can try for other courses as well. So we will take a few minutes break and come back in a short while. Thank you very much.


Alita Battle Angel, my favorite CGI dominant PG-13 movie ever. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here and today I wanna do a little movie review on a movie called Alita Battle Angel. Now, I had seen some really, really good reviews of this movie, but even after seeing those good reviews, it took me a while to actually jump into it. I'm sure I'm gonna be going into the story a little bit with the pros and the cons. So let's just jump right in the pros and I said it a little bit before. This is just a masterpiece of a CGI dominant movie. It has excellent world building. The main character is pretty much like half CGI the whole time. I don't know if there's somebody in real life who looks like her. I assume they did some sort of motion capture with a real person because it feels so realistic. I don't know how else to say it. On more than one level, like you have this CGI kind of action going on and even stuff like the Black Panther, I think that was like 2016. There were some CGI errors in that movie and a lot of other movies, when they're trying to do something so CGI, it has to be so perfect. It's so easy to make a little error and make it not look realistic. And this movie from Begings and just absolutely blew me away. Alita pretty much feels like a real person. I've liked characters in the past that were computer generated or that were let's say a robot. Like she's not, I guess she's technically a robot but she feels more like a person in this movie. But I've never really connected with one like I do in this movie. She has a romance and I felt a lot in the romance. You know, she has these flashback scenes when she was in war and it's very, very intense. There's like this zero BS like comradery action going on. It feels like there's nothing held back. It's almost a little bit hard to watch at times which is weird for a PG-13 movie because you have all these like grotesque robot monsters with knives. There's I think multiple beheadings in this movie. Sometimes the person is alive and they're able to put them in a new body but I think actual characters got killed off and were beheaded in this movie.  And you see the guy just like yelling and like in so much pain and just negativity, you know. So it really does pull on almost every emotion in ways that I didn't think it would. I bought into all the action. It was almost hard to watch on times. It's aggressive. So I mean, there's literally nothing missing from this movie. For some reason I wanna tell people if you like art rated action movies, you would like this movie because it has all the benefits of a normal action movie. They don't hold anything back. It's very intense. It's literally designed to spike your adrenaline and spike your emotions because the scenes are shot so perfectly from Alita to the music to the timing. So yeah guys, there's just so much that I liked about this movie. I love the character of Alita and I'm so happy that they're creating Alita Battle Angel 2. You know, I was actually thinking this was gonna be a one and done. I'm gonna be getting into more of that in my cons but I'm so happy they're making Alita Battle Angel 2 and I hopefully they follow the same path that they did on this one and don't you know, make her unusually woke or I don't wanna see anything destroyed from this initial movie because I absolutely loved it. The last pro that I had was I don't wanna get into my cons just yet but my biggest con is that there was too much left unfinished, too many things that you hear about that you end up never seeing because it's meant for another movie. Although it sets up really hard for another movie, there was enough action, enough story, enough villains here so it felt complete. You know, I recently watched the newest Mortal Kombat. I think it was like 2021 and the number one thing I just hated about that movie was all the best stuff was gonna come in the next movie. It's almost like you should show this movie on TV to get me hyped to go see the real Mortal Kombat because you don't really see that much, you know, big fights, big action and I didn't really feel that with this movie. I felt that there was a good array of villains. She fights multiple robots and like aggressive bounty hunter type robots and they have like knives for arms. One of them is just huge. He has claws. I just feel like it had a really good array of villains and there's also some corporate villains here, some villains who don't really fight Alita but they hire people and they do the will of the main boss. Everybody's on the ground in like a city in shambles and there's this like floating city in the sky. The floating city in the sky basically like controls everything down here and makes it really bad and trashy. The only way to go up to the place in the sky is to win this like roller ball tournament. There's no other way to get up there apparently. There's one main evil villain up there who actually happens to be Edward Norton. You barely even see him. Like you only see his straight up face and eyes one time and then now that you know it's him there's a couple of glimpses of him throughout the movie but there are some corporate villains who work for this evil mastermind. I feel like both of them were good. The evil mastermind can also take over some of the corporate villains so like you could be talking to a villain and then the main boss just takes them over and starts talking to you and giving you orders. You know what I mean? So I really like the corporate villains as well as the aggressive villains that she has to fight. I felt that it was very good, very satisfactory and I just love this movie guys. Great world building, super intense action scenes spiking my adrenaline multiple times. This is just a great action movie period. So the only con I have with this movie I kind of touched on it briefly before and unfortunately this con is pretty solid and it really would pull like a half a point to a full point off of my rating because of how much I wish this wasn't in the movie. They set up way too hard for the sequels here. They tell you too much things that you know nothing about. I think that there was a way to show us just a little tease of what's gonna happen without like spoiling everything because you have this city in the sky you never see anything up there. You don't know anything about it. Like it would have been cool if you saw a little tiny glimpses to see like where it's going in the future. And then on top of that Edward Norton is the evil guy at the end and pretty much every time he's talking he's talking through somebody else. You have this specific mega villain who's gonna be like the villain of the series and you get so little of him. Like I think you see a picture of him like two or three times throughout the movie and then at the very last second he takes off his glasses and smiles looking down. It just didn't feel complete enough for a first entry. Give me a couple minutes of Edward Norton. Give me a couple glimpses of what the place in the sky looks like and I probably would have been fine but they just set it up way too hard for a second and a third. So anyways guys, this movie is pretty much perfect. I could really watch it pretty regularly. Like if I had kids and if they were into this kind of movie I would totally put it on. I liked the whole message, the story, the way it makes me feel. It's just a great movie overall. Five to rate it. I'd probably give it like an 8.5 out of 10. And again, if they fixed the ending if they made this like a complete ending or at least like a Star Wars one type ending where it's somewhat complete it this could have been honestly perfect. Like perfect to me is 9.5 and I pretty much would have to put it there because there's nothing wrong with this movie. I love every single aspect of it and it's just a great movie. If I try or pass, I would definitely say bye. I feel like this is perfect. Anyways guys, let me know what you think of Alita Battle Angel. I loved it obviously. We're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys. Hope you guys are the best. Having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace. Alita is new here. She's still learning about things.


Happy World Backup Day. Yes, March 31st is World Backup Day and it's not the only day you should back up. It's just apparently some way to get people talking about backups. And I don't know if it's effective or not, but hey, why not use today to talk about backups? Specifically the immutable backups that everyone wants to achieve. This is, well, a little bit of a sticky topic because it's not well understood by a lot of the people asking it. They simply say I want my backups to be immutable or I want to have a place to store my backups where I can write the data, but it can never be deleted. The problem and the nuance that you immediately run into is okay, we will set up a repository, a place that can put the data, but you can't delete it. But at some point you can think about this and go unless you have infinite storage, well, you have to have a purge mechanism within there and that's where it gets a little bit more complicated. So mostly the way I always look at it is immutable is the word people are looking for, but specifically you're looking for hardened backups and a process to create a separation between the devices doing the backup and the ability to administer the machine, the server. In this case, we're gonna be talking about your NAS, but these same concepts can expand out to other servers and other types of backup targets, but it's all about making sure that the control plane is separate for both of these. That's often where the mistake is made, so we're gonna talk about that and dive into those details. But first, are you an individual or company looking for support on a network engineering, storage, or virtualization project? Is your company or internal IT team looking for someone to proactively monitor your system's security or offer strategic guidance to keep your IT systems operating smoothly? 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Those most common methodologies are gonna be over an SMB share, an NFS share, or using S3 object. Now S3 object is natively built in to TrueNAS scale and TrueNAS core, but also you can run this in a container, whether it be TrueNAS scale and Docker or TrueNAS core with a BST jail, but you can use MinIO for more advanced functionality that we'll talk about a little bit later and that is another methodology. Now this is gonna depend on your backup software and I'm keeping this relatively platform agnostic because that's not where the flaw or the problem really is. It's in the hardening of the servers. If you go through a lot of reports and wonder how threat actors were able to destroy backups, you'll frequently find that the password they had to admin their servers, admin the network was also the same password used and all on the same control plane for administering whatever target device they have. This is really where the flaw comes in. Matter of fact, the most common support question for a little while was when the update came from TrueNAS and they stopped allowing you to use root for the SMB shares, the number of people that claim that their SMB shares broke after the upgrade rose dramatically because an outstanding number of people simply use the same password that you log into your TrueNAS with, the root password for the SMB share. It was not an easy decision and people sometimes still will override that and keep using the root password. These are the really common reasons people get their backups deleted. Now, if you have a workstation and you're doing these backups, the next question, the really common one we've gotten where people ask about immutability is can't I set it to be write only? And the problem with write only, if you do it with an SMB share, NFS share, or even S3 object is, well, unless you have unlimited storage or has to be a mechanism, and of course you could probably write a cron job for this where you set these up to be write only and then set a cron job up to delete these. But generally it is the backup software that wants to control the history and revisions of these backups. So keeping it read write makes a lot of sense. So here's a few best practices though to make this very simple. When you're setting up whatever backup software we are and a lot of them will back up over like an SMB share is making sure that that username and password that you use is unique, not even unique to like the other users but unique only to the backups. This way if that password was compromised and let's say they were able to reveal that password or they have control over the software doing the backups on this particular system is sending it over, that does not give them any way to pivot so to speak to any other shares you may have on that TrueNAS. This sounds really simple but it's actually just a really common problem you run into, they just have it tied to part of the domain. Having your backups all as a separate control plane is absolutely critical to protecting them because that way if this gets taken over, yes, they will have whatever privilege your backup software may have to write these backups and then it's gonna go over to here and they're going to use that privilege to delete whatever that read write privilege is based on that but there's plenty of solutions around this to help mitigate these problems. First, when you're setting up your TrueNAS, setting up a series of snapshots and replications. I've got videos talking about snapshots and I got videos talking about replication. They are tied together and intermingled because what you wanna do is make sure whatever share that is being used and all that data that's coming here that does even include if you are using something like S3 object, you have a regular snapshot policy. Now, snapshot policies are really easy stuff in TrueNAS and only are differential to the data. So they don't take up a lot of space unless there's a lot of data to take up. And if you had, for example, a backup set to run at 10 p.m. at night, you could have a snapshot depending on how long that backup takes, let's say it finishes before 11, then you'd want that snapshot to run immediately after. That way you have a point reference in time that is not accessible over the SMB shares. One of the things with SMB is you can even have this viewed as a shadow copy but it's immutable and that term does come into play here because those volume shadow copies that could be seen from this workstation using the level of privilege it has would allow them to see the previous snapshots as shadow copies but offers no way to delete them. That is because the snapshots are handled at the dataset level of TrueNAS. The only way to delete them or purge them is A, on the schedule that you set where you set the lifetime of a snapshot. Lifetime of snapshot really depends on your data needs and your data retention policies and of course how much storage you have. But generally speaking, you may have those set for 30 days. So if you're doing the backups, you also can have the snapshot set to be 30 days and this gives you all those revisions. So even if they were to compromise this computer, go across the SMB share, get over to here and delete that last backup but you have a snapshot. The only obvious time problem might be if that snapshot occurred, well, after the backup was done but before they were able to delete it, there's that potential of timing that could come in there. That's a little bit eccentric to think that might happen but it could. Go a little bit more in-depth and set the snapshots to be constantly running so you have even more iterations of them but I'm not gonna get into those little details. That's just kind of obvious when I say it like that. Now, the next thing you wanna do is take that snapshot replication and have it on another server. You wanna make sure when you're doing things locally that you have the data replicated one more time. If you're putting it to one server, hey, servers fail. This is one of the reasons we have redundancies. Now RAID, the RAID array and the ZFS RAID is wonderful, it's great. I've talked a lot about it but RAID is not a backup. RAID is resiliency against single hard drive failures because they're the common moving component that may come into play for failures even if they're solid state, no moving parts but still chance of failure is still there. So taking these snapshots at the dataset at the block level and replicating to another TrueNAS great idea, easy enough to do and the secondary TrueNAS only has to have enough storage based on your needs but doesn't necessarily need to be the same speed. So frequently we have clients who have a server that serves up backups and other services maybe a target for their VM storage and then it replicates over to another server that hey, at least we have a copy of the data and that way it's a little bit more budget friendly to have one that's a little bit slower so you don't have to quite spend the money twice but hey, if you have the budget for two identical servers, that's even better. The next thing you wanna do is an encrypt before send I put on here because this is a good way to do your backups. Take your backups and encrypt before send this is something supported within TrueNAS when you're doing these two back plays and other services I happen to use back plays so I mentioned them, no affiliation for them just we've been using their offsite backups for a while and this allows me to have one more copy in the cloud. Now, once again, when I talk about managing control planes and keeping security separate the passwords we use to manage back plays and the usernames are not the same as the workstations and they're not the same passwords as this having each layer once again gives you that confidence to say, all right, they got in here and this is the most likely from someone clicks a phishing link or however this happens at some clients and they start working their way up to the server and then of course they're going to start destroying the backups but as long as they don't get access to the TrueNAS and then get access again to the way the cloud backups go that stops them from getting further. Now of note, yes, obviously the credentials you need the API key would be in here and allow them to destroy certain backups in here but you can also set life cycle retention policies at many cloud providers so they will have revisions themselves of data similar in the way to snapshots. Now, let's talk about this a little bit more practical about keeping things separate. Now, this is a nice write up I'm going to leave link down below I'm not going to walk through every little step because well, you can it's well documented how to set these things up and this is all solid best security practices here. One of the things that are going over in this and I actually like the how detailed they went in here they're talking about Veeam but honestly this applies to just hardening your TrueNAS system and keeping things very separate. They talk about going as far as locking down the web interface by turning it off turning on SSH when you set these up and SSHing in and starting and stopping the web service then going as far as saying, all right, restrict SSH so only one computer's IP address is in here and allowed to talk to the server configuring 2FA I've talked about this before which TrueNAS does support 2FA but right here if you have SSH to set automatically start and then you set the parameters within SSH to say we only want one user to be able to get in there these are all really solid advice when it comes to how far you want to go and lock this down. Now, having it binded the web interface itself and SSH to a different interface most TrueNAS systems when you set these up you're going to have a lot of them with multiple network cards where you can always add another network card to it but by doing this, this gives you that extra ability to say, all right, this particular network is for management this particular network is where we bind our SMB our NFS or our other shares keeping these different control planes separate means it's less likely for them to pivot over there. Now, this obviously comes with a great level of inconvenience because every time you want to log into the interface it's locked out and it's on a separate network but that's the trade-off it's also locked out in a separate network for someone who gets within your network they would have to know these extra levels of details such as the fact that you stop the web interface and start it over SSH. Now, the last thing I want to touch briefly on is S3 object locking and this does not mean using Amazon's S3 service this is a function of the S3 protocol. Now, with S3 you have the ability to do right once read many and this is where it's a little bit more complicated in your standard, well, some complexities I should say not really that much more complicated than using like an SMB or NFS share we're talking about how to handle this in a way that the system the object storage management system itself handles the locking and unlocking of the data that you put on here. And I'll leave links to this and of course the MinIO right up on object lock and immutability guide and they talk about how to set this up now, if you set up MinIO within that jail this is where you're going to get jail or in Docker if you're using Trunascale and you can go through and set some of these object storage. Now, of course, being able to use S3 is going to be very dependent on the backup software you're using whether or not it supports S3 at all. As I said, the more common support is going to be over SMB or NFS. But nonetheless, there are ways to do it but the advantage you get when this is you're now having a piece of software control the status of those data objects that you stored in there and then you can put the locks on there. So this changes the ability of the software or anyone taking over the software acquiring the API key and what they can access or delete, I should say because they would be able to read it. It's worm. So it's, you know, right once read many but it's not reading the backups. That's the problem. It's the fact that someone is able to delete them. Now, I have a few videos I'll leave linked down below including one specifically about hardening Trunascale and walking you through some of the functional steps to do that. And I know it sounds really obvious because it is really obvious that these web interfaces and the password should all be different but it needs to be said quite a few times for people to really understand it because read through any of these debriefs on a report of a company they got hacked and you'll find, well, yeah, they just tied it all together because that made administration simple or one user had privileges to all these different things and there weren't any extra steps in place.  Some people have even bound the web interface to a certain port and any unplug or even disable that port. So now the only way you get to the web interface would be to re-enable that port or physically plug it back in. There's also solutions like I have this little rugged sand disk in front of me and obviously, if you back up data to something like this I do recommend encrypting everything at rest as I do on this but the data backed up on here it's physically disconnected, put this in a safe. So now I have one more copy that is extremely offline. So if you were to get to all these other things I still have one more copy that you didn't get to but then you should even have multiple of these. Also, it's really hard to get people consistently and reliably backing up to external devices like this. It's a great idea to do. It's just something you have to really think about processes because automated backups are great with checks and balances but people processes when it comes to backups sometimes they forget or we've seen lots of times where the backup was plugged in and no one ever changed it out like they're supposed to. It gets skipped one day, the next day, the next day the next thing you know no one's even swapping anymore because you can see the amount of dust on it. Been to plenty of offices and seen that. Nonetheless, I'll leave links down below to the things I talked about and thank you. 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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحمه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم اجعلنا من ما يتبعك يا الرحم الرحيمين اجعلنا من ما يستمعوا القولة في اتبعه وأحسنه يا الله اللهم علمنا ما ينفعون ونفعنا بما علمتنا وزيدنا عيب من يا رحم الرحيمين اليوم سوف نفتح على اتبعه الثلاثة اوتراكشن التي تجدنا أفضل لله سبحانه وتعالى ويجدنا أكثر مستعدة لما يتبعون هذه الدنيا لتجد الله سبحانه وتعالى هذه الأفضل الأشياء يتبعون سلطانك ويجد أن يتبعون سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم لذلك سلطانك هو الأشياء والأشياء من سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أمهاته when he approved of the actions of the companions رضي الله عنه And the Sunnah is considered the second Islamic legislation after the Holy Qur'an in this Dhania there are two paths to take now no third one فهذا يجب أن يتبقى المساعدة الخاصة التي تفضلت في تبقى المساعدة، تبقى النفس، تبقى الشيطان، تبقى المساعدة المساعدة المساعدة الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول في صورة الفاتحة، إهدنا الصراط المستقيم، يساعدنا إلى المساعدة المساعدة نعلم أن صورة الفاتحة يسمى السبع المثاني، لأنه يساعدنا إلى المساعدة المساعدة المساعدة يساعدنا إلى المساعدة المساعدة، يساعدنا إلى المساعدة المساعدة بعض المساعدة من القرآن، يقول أنه يساعدنا إلى المساعدة المساعدة في هذا المساعدة يعني أنه يساعدنا إلى المساعدة المساعدة إذن نأخذ منه أن أعماله، أنه يساعدنا إلى المساعدة المساعدة لذلك وضع الإهدن الله عليها السلام سخرنا time to make us know scan烡نا و 들어가ه من خمس خمس نام و نعمله دون سورة العمران، الله سبحانه وتعالى محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وهي سنافه هو one of the ways that guarantees the love of الله سبحانه وتعالى so that Allah is loving us so in ayah 31 of surah al-ibran الله سبحانه وتعالى says قل إن كنتم تحبون الله فاتبيعوني يحببكم الله ويغفير لتم ذنوبكم والله غفور الرحيم say oh محمد if you should love Allah إن كنتم تحبون الله سبحانه وتعالى then follow me so الله is asking سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to say if you love Allah then follow me so what's the result so الله will love you and forgive your sins and الله is forgiving and merciful so this is our goal in this dunya the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى gaining the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and having our sins forgiven so how can we achieve that how can we get that when we follow sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when we follow his sunnah in surah al-hashr ayah 7 الله سبحانه وتعالى also says and whatever the messenger has given you take and what he has forbidden you refrain from so this is a clear order from الله سبحانه وتعالى here in this area that we have to take all that all the orders of رفد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and we have to refrain from all that he asks us to be away from so these are the proofs from by by الله سبحانه وتعالى that we follow sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم even in the sunnah even in the narrations of sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم even the narrations they show the importance of following the sunnah one sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was with his companions and he gave an advice so وعظنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ما وعظة وجلت منها القلوب وذرافت منها العيون so the messenger of الله صلى الله عليه وسلم gave us a sermon he gave us an advice by which our hearts were filled with fear and tears came to our eyes فقلنا يا رسول الله كأنها نوعيظته ودعين فأوصينا so we said oh messenger of الله it is as though this is a verbal sermon this is a verbal advice so counsel us قال اوصيكم بتقوى الله والسمع والطاع فإنه من يعيش منكم فسير اختلاف كثيره so sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم answered them when they asked when the companions asked him يا رسول الله council us he said i counsel you to have تقوى to have fear of Allah and to listen and obey your leader so a sermon what are verily he among you who lives long will see great controversy which is what we are seeing in our days so what is the advice فعليكم بسنة وسنة الخلفاء الراشدين المهديين so you must keep to my sunnah and to the sunnah of the خلفاء الخلفاء الراشدين the rightly guided caliphs so strongly cling to it so our point of this حديث is فعليكم بسنة وسنة الخلفاء الراشدين so you must keep to my sunnah and the sunnah of the خلفاء الراشدين so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in this حديث his advice his third advice is to observe his sunnah and the sunnah of the rightly principled rightly guided successors الخلفاء الراشدين so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says follow my sunnah he means follow my way and his way is how the Quran should be applied in real life so our class today is following the sunnah and following the sunnah of sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is to follow his way and as sayyidna عائشة رضي الله عنها she said when when she was asked about sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she said walking on earth which means adhering to all that in the Quran so this is sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he orders us to follow his sunnah it means to follow his way and his way is how the Quran should be applied in our life so following the sunnah means that we have to first learn the Quran read the Quran understand the Quran and when we do that then it will help us in our life it will guarantee a good life for us so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم also ordered his companions to hold to to hold on to the sunnah this one's the the second advice so عليكم بسوناتي وسوناتي الخلفة الرجيد so hold on to the sunnah of the rightly principle rightly guided after him so the prophet asked us to follow them why because sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم knows that there are new issues and situations that will arise and that's why we have to seek the guidance from the people whom we know whom who are known to be righteous and those people are known to follow the sunnah of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and those people should be righteous and they should be following the sunnah sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so that's why sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said cling strongly to to the sunnah because the sunnah is nothing but adhering to the orders of the Quran so why why is following the sunnah important Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed the Quran to sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and in the Quran there are orders such as performing the salah giving zikam فاستين performing hajj and the list goes on but the Quran does not give any details on let's say for example when to pray and how many rakahs to pray each prayer it does not mention for example how to make up missed days of fasting or even when when to fast them another example there is no details on how to perform hajj in the Quran Quran says perform hajj but it doesn't say it doesn't mention the details and so on so prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم explained everything mentioned in the Quran صلى الله عليه وسلم explained and provided details for the laws found in the Quran and provided examples of the practical application of these laws these laws so this was all mentioned by Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the Holy Quran so as we said that sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم explained the Quran but how was that done Allah سبحانه وتعالى said in surat al qiyamah قاية 17 18 and 19 so indeed upon us is its collection so how would sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم collect the Quran in his heart so إنا علينا جمعه in your heart to be collected in your heart وقرآنه and to make it possible to make possible its recitation so إذا قرآنه فبتبع قرآنه when we have recited it through jibreel then follow the recitation then upon us is its clarification to you so الله سبحانه وتعالى collected the Quran in the heart of sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he made jibreel عليه السلام the the one who would teach sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the divine explanation of the Quran so Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was sent as a mercy to my kind to all my kind he was sent as a savior he was sent as a guide to guide people and take their hands to the high to to to the high heavens and he wants to make sure that they are all saved on the day of judgment day of judgment all prophets will be sitting on their puppets except sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم his puppets will be will be empty he would keep checking on his umma is there anyone in health fire so he would intercede for him this is the love of sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to us he would not sit on his pulpit until he makes sure that all his umma is saved so we have to obey him we we we have to obey him so we will be saved on the day of judgment we want to be under his banner on the day of judgment we want to be of those whom الله سبحانه وتعالى said about them he is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah we want to enjoy the company of our beloved sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that's why it's important to follow him it's important to follow his sunnah to gain his companionship on the day of judgment following the sunnah is important and the quran speaks about the importance of the sunnah of following the sunnah and الله سبحانه وتعالى says in surah al-nihsa آياء 80 من يطيع الرسول فقد أضاع الله ومن دولنا فما أرسلناك عليهم حفيظه he who obeys the messenger has obeyed Allah من يطيع الرسول فقد أضاع الله but those who turn away we have not sent you over them as a guardian so Allah describes in this ayah that being obedience to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is as being part of being obedience to Allah سبحانه وتعالى also in the quran الله سبحانه وتعالى mentions the importance of following Zaid محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he warns those who disobey him he obeys them he warns them that they will be doomed on the day after in surah al-Nur ayah 63 الله سبحانه وتعالى says او يُصيبهم عذابٌ ألي so let those beware who descend from the prophet's order who disobey him they have to be aware to be aware of what let fitness strike them or a painful punishment so they will be harshly punished on the day of judgment also in surah al-Anthal ayah 24 الله سبحانه وتعالى commands his slaves to respond to him and to him to his messenger يا ايوه الذين آمنوا استجيبوا لله و للرسول إذا دعاكم لما يحييكم or you who have believed respond to Allah and to the messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life when when you receive the call then your heart will be alive so do not get your heart to be away from سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we have to follow his orders we have to follow his sunnah we have to adhere to his orders because following him and obeying him and obeying his orders lead lead to obeying Allah سبحانه وتعالى and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said من أطاعني فقد أطاع الله و من عاصاني فقد عاص الله whoever obeys me obeys Allah and whoever disobeys me disobeys Allah now we have to stop for a second and we said that the heart the person should be righteous so to gain the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the Muslim should be righteous but what is righteousness righteousness is to to fear Allah سبحانه وتعالى is to to always remember that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is over watching us and how to gain righteousness سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم التقوى هاهنا تقوى is here and he pointed to his heart and he repeated it three times التقوى هاهنا so righteousness is here he reported he pointed to his heart so the whole righteousness is in the heart of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and when we want to to be righteous we have to connect our heart to the heart of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so there will be a transmission from the heart of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to our heart so we can gain تقوى by connecting our heart to the heart of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we have always to remember سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وقد يمكننا أن نفعل ذلك بفعل الأشياء التي كانت تفعلها صلى الله عليه وسلم هناك بعض الأشياء التي يجب أن نفعلها كما يجب أن نفعلها كما يجب أن نحن نحن نحاول محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ومثل أن نفعل ذلك بفعلها الأشياء التي يجب أن نفعلها are countless لكن سأتكلم بعضهم عن معاز رضي الله عنه أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أخذ بيده وقال يا معاز والله إني لا أحبك لا تدعن في الدبور كل صلى الله عليه وسلم كل صلاة أن تقول اللهم أعيني على ذكرك وشكرك وحصني عبادتك هذا one of the examples that shows the love of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم تمعاز and the result of this love فلعظم النجبة رضي الله عنه وربوطت أن المسجر الله صلى الله عليه وسلم المسجر صلى الله عليه وسلم أخذت بيده فهي تمعاز سيدنا محمد وقال لهم ومحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أحبك وأخذتك لا تتفق after every Salah after performing every Salah you say اللهم أعيني على ذكرك وشكرك وحصني عبادتك والله help me remember you expressing gratitude to you and worship you in the best manner اللهم أعيني على ذكرك help me to remember you وشكرك expressing gratitude to you وحصني عبادتك and worship you let me worship you in the best manner so we love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and as one of the means of loving him is to do what he does so he asked Muaz to say this and since we love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we will say after each Salah that we finish after finishing the Salah after saying السلام عليكم twice we will say اللهم أعيني على ذكرك وشكرك وحصني عبادتك another example of course we said that we love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and we will do what he used to do so one of the sinness is whenever you read Surah Al-Kawthar to smile why أنا سبن مالك رضي الله ساد بينما ذات يوم بين أظهرنا يريد النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم إذ ألف غيفة أتن ثم رفع رقس هو مبتسيب so one day Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم لم يكن بين الصحابة and he dozed a little bit it was a very short nap then he raised his head smiling so the Sahaba said to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ما أضحكك يا رسول الله why are you smiling and he said نزلت علي أنا فن صورة بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إنا أعطيناك الكوثر فصلي لربك وانحر إن شانك هو الأبتر so he said صورة الكوثر was revealed to me and it is mentioned that he reads صورة إنا أعطيناك الكوثر then he would smile and out of our love to say نمحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when we read صورة الكوثر إنا أعطيناك الكوثر then we smile there are some صورة that's he said محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says let's have صورة الوقع سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says من قرأ صورة الوقع في كل ليلة لم تصيبه فاقة أبدا he whoever recites صورة الوقع every night will never be afflicted by want will never be in need so this is a sunnah سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we follow the sunnah of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so we read صورة الوقع once every night and some people friends of الله they say they read it after مغرب prayer so try not to miss also صورة الوقع محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said about صورة الملك هي المانعة هي المنجية تنجيه من عذاب القبر so صورة الملك is the defender it is the saviour it saves from the punishment of the grave so these are some examples from سناس that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to do of course we know that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم always encouraged صلاة الجماعة so if you are in the house in your house just pray with your wife pray with your children صلاة الجماعة سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم that صلاة الجماعة تفضل وصلاة الفلزي بسبعين وعشرين درجة praying in congregation is 27 degrees more excellent than praying by someone by himself okay other actions that are سنا to do fasting Monday and Thursday سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he was asked about that he said on Monday I was born and I would like to thank الله سبحانه و تعالى and on Thursday the actions of my the deeds of my are presented to الله سبحانه و تعالى and I would like to be fasting so when I talk to الله سبحانه و تعالى that would be better for me praying also the sunnahs along with the fort so since early life children should be practicing praying the sunnah all along with the fort we mentioned that following the sunnah of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم comes out of our love to him so if we want to talk about loving the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم we realize that we are not giving him what he deserves do you know that when we sent the salawat to say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we did not know how to say it and that's why we say we ask Allah الله سبحانه و تعالى to say it we say الله مصلي على سيدنا محمد يا الله you pray on سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم you send salam we don't know how to do it we don't know how to to say what he deserves so we ask you Allah to do it so talking about loving the prophet let's have some examples of the sunnah look at the trunk of the tree which say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to lean on here when he used to give his ceremonies his khutbahs when they built when they built the pulpit for say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to stand on while giving the khutbah while giving the ceremonies the first time he used it he was away from the trunk what happened they heard the trunk whining immediately the trunk felt that sayyidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is not as close to him he's away from him so it showed the deep love it had to sayyidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم what did sayyidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم do when he heard the whining the cry of the the trunk he went down the pulpit and hugged the trunk so it stopped whining and sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم told him you will be in paradise this is the result of true love the companionship of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in paradise this is the result of true love this is the result when we love sayyidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and follow his sunnah his companionship in jannah in paradise we have to be jealous of this trunk we have to show our real love to sayyidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم by following his sunnah and by following his orders so that our result the result will be similar to that of the trunk gaining the companionship of sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is the source of guidance to all mankind and through his teachings صلى الله عليه وسلم people were taken out from darkness to light so the least we can do to our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is to obey him and we have to do ourselves something good and we have to to do something that will make sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم happy so we sent salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and there are different ways to sending salawat there are different forms of sending salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم insha'Allah next week in our next session I will be mentioning several of these forms several forms of salawat and I will tell you the best form of salawat let's sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so insha'Allah be closer insha'Allah next week so as we said the first thing we can we have to do is to send salawat daily to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم من صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم بها عشرة when you perform one one salat then when you send one dew to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will pray ten times ten times for you so if you do a hundred then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will do a thousand salawat to you من صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه بها عشرة whoever prays for Allah's blessing upon me once then will be blessed for it by Allah ten times so try to send salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم every day get connected to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and remember that the least of the most is 300 so try to do 300 times every day salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and if there is a problem that you have do the have your intention that ya Allah I need my problem to be solved with the intention of sending salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so and it has been proven that sending salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم will make your heart feel at ease you will take care of your problems and your heart will be filled of the light by sending the salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so since he is the source of guidance to all mankind since he has saved people to and took them from darkness to light and since we love him we want to get connected to him and the way to get connected to him is to connect your heart so when you are doing your your job when you are doing anything just mention sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم do not listen to music just send salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم do not waste your time use it beneficially send salawat to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم daily الله ما شعلنا من ما يستمعون القول فا يتبعون أحسن الله ما نلقاك وانتراض عن يا أرحم الراحمين so with your love to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم for this love ya Allah we love sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and when sayidna Adam wanted to ask Allah to forgive him he said ya Allah I ask you to forgive me by the sake of Muhammad and Allah said to him how do you know that I love Muhammad he said ya Allah when I looked up at your throne I saw that his name is written along with your name لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله and if he wasn't so loved to you you wouldn't accompany your name to his name so we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to guide us to truly love sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم we ask him that out of this love he will love us if you follow me there if you love Allah سبحانه وتعالى then follow me then Allah will love you this is our goal in this dunya to be closer to you ya Allah today's outer action was following sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم following the sunnah of sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so we ask you ya Allah to to accept us by our love to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and by our following to his sunnah until we meet next week we I send my Salam and your Salam to sayidna Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


I'm grateful to be in the studio and grateful for the time to talk to our WTO enlisters and thank you for listening out there we pray that these segments before the sermon are helpful to you and today I wanted to introduce you to a conference that we're going to put on at the end of May, May 29th through the 31st 2015 and it's our call for discernment conference entitled A Call to Arms and the conference will be discussing how to protect your children and family from media's menacing dark side and unless you've had your head in the sand for the past several years you've been just as impressed or staggered as I've been with the spread or advancement of technology and not just the advancement of technology but how technology has really infiltrated our homes and if you're a parent I know that this is probably concerned you just like it has me with how much that influences our kids how much that influences our home life our family how much it may influence our parenting and so we want to put this conference on to inform parents on how they can give them the tools and resources maybe that they can use to protect their children protect their family from the negative influence of media and technology and for that conference we're very very grateful to the Lord to have guest speaker Trace Embry with us. Trace Embry is a nationally syndicated radio host of licensed to parent and also the founder of a residential counseling program for troubled teens called Shepherds Hill Academy has a lot of experience in this area has seen a lot of things and can very expertly we're grateful for that speak to these issues and we're very very excited about hearing what Trace has to say so that we can better protect our families we're also grateful to have Trace in the studio with us to talk with us today how you doing Trace I'm doing wonderful brother great it's great to have you here with us and we're really looking forward to the conference I was thinking for our listeners out there who maybe want some more information about the conference I thought to ask you a question and just let you talk about this for a moment but one of the things I think that's most prominent in our news and maybe even in the understanding or the concern of our parents is the influence that social media has had on our kids social media has had on our families there's so much in the news about sexting and the I mean with smartphones and putting pictures out on social media that we shouldn't be putting out there and maybe conversations that we have on social media that we would never have face to face with another person or maybe you can speak to that for a moment what kind of influence do you see social media having on our kids and our families well it's huge it's what the the local park or the drug story used to be you know a couple generations ago you hang out the drug story hang out the park hang out you know the ball field now kids are hanging out virtually online one third of public school high school girls are sexting which is sending provocative images across the airways I think most of your listeners probably know exactly what that is but but Facebook has brought the people who are far from us closer to us and has really distanced those who were closer to us but taking them far farther from us and you know it used to be when you come home from school after a sporting event or maybe after class and the rest of the evening you know maybe especially after supper you'd hang out with your adult family you know your mom your dad and you'd be getting adult influence and adult conversation but today these kids can take the you know the popular kids the the geeks the perverts the the the bullies home with them so they're taking their classmates home with them and they're having dialogue with their 300 you know facebook friends which again that's another term that we use it's a godly term with the devil's dictionary are they really friends no one tells the truth on facebook not even the adults you know they brag about what their kids have done and what the kids are doing and who their kids really are and in the next parent field that they have to keep up the genesis and they embellish their kids accomplishments and it's one big uh you know phony fest and uh so you know it's it's a it's a virtual world that we're living in and it perpetuates uh the whole postmodern worldview which basically says you create your own truth your own reality so you know facebook should be a tool for good all digital technologies should be a tool for expanding the kingdom of god for uh promoting the good things of mankind and it can be but because of our sin nature which become our sin nature on steroids we've turned it into a weapon against us and against the church um as opposed to the tool that should should actually be yeah do you see i know that knowing that you also run shepherd's hill academy a residential counseling program there for troubled teens uh do you see teens coming into the program uh that have just been overcome by this they i've heard that it in many cases starts small maybe even to a parent appears innocent but then there's a progressive nature to it maybe talk about that for a moment trace well you know it starts early on and and this is really incumbent upon the parents to really get educated because you know uh 90 percent of kids under two years old have a have a digital history already and uh they're they're operating these these these bill rally would say machines uh and it's rewiring brain circuitry and it's it's really causing major developmental delays uh in our kids and uh it's it's causing a myriad of other problems attention deficit and you know things like that that doctors then complicate the problem by by dispensing medications for the different disorders and maladies that they claim that are out there 70 percent of the kids that come here to shepherd's hill and bush the walls of medications are leaving medication free now you have to ask yourself why and we'll discuss that at the conference but this is uh indicative of a cultural problem you know if you go to some cultures around the world they have different tastes and appetites for things precisely because the culture is influencing them to have those appetites or appetites can be trained in some cultures they love their neighbors and others they eat them and so uh in this in this nation we're a nation of of we're a highly sexualized nation a nation that has been uh uh turned entertainment into the new god music in particular i mean one of the number one tv shows them on on tv right now is american what american idol and all addiction really is is what the scriptures is called idolatry it's basically saying this is something i have to have i need it or i think i need it and that's what we've done with our our little gadgets our digital technology we've turned these things into a little little idol and god is not going to compete with that and uh but he'll let us he'll let us worship those things until uh the logical outworking happens and uh you know they're going to we'll end up destroying ourselves with these things i see that with the kids that come to the shepherd's hill all the time every one of them are addicted to digital technology and i don't think there's a an exception to the if there is it's very few exceptions uh that come through shepherd's hill yeah well thank you so much we really look forward to hearing more information uh at the conference frankly we need information about this i think parents by and large today are uh dramatically unaware so we look forward to the conference we pray that you listening out there will uh go to protect the family dot net protect the family dot net and register for this conference a call to arms protecting our children and families from medias menacing dark side this is a ministry of cornerstone baptist church right here in orlando florida you can get more information at the website cornerstoneorlando.org or call our church offices at<PHONE_NUMBER> and trace if parents out there wanting more information uh want to begin learning how to protect their families where can they find more uh resources more information from you and your ministry sure uh but before i give that out i'd like to your listeners to to know this is not a conference that's going to be uh encouraging people to discard their technology technology is here to stay we're going to have to learn how to navigate it and use it as a tool rather than a weapon so i don't want anyone to think that we're anti technology i'm pro technology i'm just not pro destroy ourselves with it but they can find more information at license2parent.org license2parent.org they can hear our 30 minute weekly radio broadcast our daily one minutes packed full of great golden nuggets uh for parenting in the 21st century and if they want to know anything about the residential program and more there's also resources that's at licensed i'm sorry if they want to know something about our uh residential program shepherd till academy uh helpmytroubledteen.org just go to helpmytroubledteen.org and they can find out anything you want to find out right there uh thank you so much trace and again the conference may 29th through the 31st register 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So, 4-5-5 is the next one. It's isolate, isolate. Buddy, buddy, you're gonna be okay. We'll get you out of here. We're not gonna leave a man behind. It's gonna be a challenge going from A to B like this. Especially in this Indo-Pacific region, we do have to consider and put ourselves to the challenge to understand what we're gonna have to need for this type of mission. Essentially, it's like prolonged field care in a moving ICU in the back of an osprey. With limited resources, you gotta think of the oxygen that you're gonna have to give, how many meds that you have and dosages that you have to figure out if you bring enough on your flight. And you've limited space. It's hot and it's just costing on your body and also the patient, too. So, usually we try to go from A to B very quickly. This one, we're just kinda showcasing what we can do in a longer range. So, it was a great opportunity for that. We typically try to keep them under 10,000 feet for blood flow considerations and things like that. With that being said, that means burning more fuel. So, using more of our lifeline in the sky and typically slower airspeed as well. So, the higher we can get, the faster we go and the better fuel burn. But with a casualty on board, that's sometimes not the case. An additional consideration that we have to think of is the impact that it has on the crew. The requirement to tank can be pretty taxing on the pilots just because you're up close to a C-130, which can be really stressful on the body. So, if you're doing that multiple times over a span of 12 hours, it's just very taxing. We do these types of missions in order to be ready for the real deal. And of course, we never actually want to execute something like this, but we're always prepared and that's kind of what we do. Both as a squadron, VMM 268, and then as the Marine Corps as a whole, we're just always ready.