إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستغشره ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيات عمالنا من يهدي الله فلا مضللا ومن يوضل الفلا هاديلا وشدوا لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وشدوا أن محمد العبد هو رسوله أما بعد أتبكي إن شاء الله وطعالة تليل أحد يحدث عنه هو غرف أخيه أخيه وخيره غرف هو الشخصيه من الشخصيه من الشخصيه عبد الله بنو بحير عبد الله بنو بحير قال أنه كان هادي هو المولة العثمان هادي كان مولة عثمان رضي الله تعالى عنه فهذا كان عبد الله بنو بحير قال أنه كان هادي يقول أنه كان عثمان إذا وقف على قبر بكرة عثمان كان أنه كانت مجموعة سيقر حتى يقول لله سيقر ويقر وكثيرا أنه سيقر سيكون مجموعة مع السيارة سيقر فقيل له كانت تقول عثمان إلى كرور جنة والنار فلا تبكي الجنة تبكي والنار تبكي وكذلك وكذلك وكلما تأتي إلى هذا المكان تبكي من هذا وكذلك وكذلك من العقل وكذلك من العقل وكذلك فقاله قال إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وكذلك وكذلك صلى الله عليه وسلم قال إن القبر أول منازل للآخرة وكذلك صلى الله عليه وسلم قال أن العقل هو first station of the hereafter فإنجى منه إذا شخص يجعله through the grave فما بعده أيسل منه كل شيء else after that will be hard for them and this is why عثمان used to cry along and then عثمان went on to saying that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said عثمان said that the prophet said I have never seen a site وانه عمر when the secretary means I have never seen a site إذا أكتبت السؤال ، إذا أكتبت السؤال ، إذا أكتبت السؤال ، then everything after that is a path of success. You've made it. And if you fail in the grave, then you're truly going to fail every stage after. الإمام محسن البصري ورحمة الله ، He said something very powerful. He said يوماني وليلتاني two days and two nights. لم تسمع الخلائق وبيمتره النقب. The humans have never seen the lights of these two days and they've also not seen the lights of these two nights. These two days and these two nights humans have never seen the lights of it. So what are they? ليلة تميتم عهلي القبور. The night that you spend with the people of the grave. This night you've never seen a light like this before. For the first time you're spending your first night in the grave. ولم تبت ليلة قبلها. You've never slept like this before.  وليلتون The second night is وليلتون صبيحة حيوم القيامة. The night which it's morning is going to be the Day of Judgment. Tomorrow for the first time you're going to encounter the day that has been promised. That night before the Day of Judgment there is no night like that. It's your final day in your grave. Either the good that you have put forward is waiting for you or the evil that you've done is waiting for you on the other side. Reality has started for you. As for the two days is ويوم يأتيك البشير من الله. The day when the news comes to you from Allah. إما بالجنة وإما بالناري. Either to Jannah or to now. One of the two news is going to come to you and say to you. You're either from the inhabitants of Jannah or you're from the inhabitants of the Hellfire. That day there's no day like it. When you find out where you're going to be either you're going to be excessively happy and no day has ever come like this. Or that day as Aisha رضي الله تعالى عنها said if anybody would have died due to the depression that they endure then it would be those people that day. As for the second day is ويوم تعطى كتابك. The day when your book is going to be given to you. إما بيمينك إذا in your right وإما بشيمالك or in your left. That day when the book is given to you your book of record, your deeds are in it and it's been passed over to you. You're either going to take it with your right or your left. That day there's no day like it. يوم معني وليلتاني. Two days and two nights. Humans have never seen or heard of the likes of this. My beloved brothers and sisters رضي الله تعالى عنه. He said بينما نحن مع رسول الله. One day we were with the messenger. نبي الله محمد. The prophet of Allah. We were with him. And as we were with him إذ بصورة بجماعة the prophet saw a group of people gathered somewhere. نبي الله محمد. He saw a group of people that came together and they were gathered. إذ بصورة بجماعة فقال The prophet then said على مجتمع عليه هؤلاء. The prophet said Why have these people come together? What has brought these people together? Maybe Allah has asked the companions. Why are these people standing there? What is their reason? What's their story? They said to the prophet على قبر يحفرونه. Our message of Allah they are digging a grave. فهزع رسول الله The messenger became scared and he became stressed. فبدا مبين يدي أصحابه مصريعا Then the messenger started to run. He ran away from his companions and he ran towards the gathering the place where the people were standing. نبي الله محمد charged towards that direction. حتى انتهى إلى القبر The messenger came to the edge of the grave and he ran over it. فجسع عليه that he fell on his knees. عليه الصلاة والسلام. فاستقبلته مبين يدي. And as he said I came from the front direction. I came from the front. Wanting to see what the prophet is doing right now. When he ran, I ran with him. When he went on his knees I went right in front of him. I wanted to see the prophet and how he is. And what is he going to do? And what is he going to say? فاستخبلته مبين يدي. لأنظر ما يصلع. So I can look at what he is going to do. فبكاء the prophet cried. حتى بالثرام الدموعي. Until the tears that came out of the prophet's eyes. It filled the earth. The tears fell so much from the prophet's eyes. عليه الصلاة والسلام. And it rolled from his face. And it rolled from his beard.  عليه الصلاة والسلام. And then the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he turned towards the companions. ثم أقبل علينا. The prophet turned towards the companions. فقال. He said to them اخواني. My brothers. ليمثلي هذا اليوم. فأعدو. The lights of this day prepare for it. He turned towards the companions. And he looked at them and he said to them ليمثلي هذا اليوم. The lights of this day فأعدو. Prepare for it. Stack righteous deeds. Put effort forward. رواه أحمد في مشندي. And Imam أحمد narrated this in his Musnad. My beloved brothers and sisters. Do not let it deceive you. The way that the graves look like from the top surface. Yes. From the surface they look the same. You don't know what's happening underneath. A group of people are in حفرة من حفر النار. They are in a pit from the pit of the Al-Fayah. And another group of people are in روض أحمد رياض الجنة. They are in the gardens from the gardens of Jannah. Do not let it deceive you from how it looks from the top. إبنو سماك رحمة الله He said لا يغرر النكة Do not let it deceive you. سوكو تهالي القبور The tranquility The calmness of the graves from the top. فما أكثر المنمومين فيها So much people are deceived by what they see from the top surface. ولا يغرر النكة And do not let it deceive you. إستواعوها how level the graves are. فما أشد تفاوتهم Because those who are living underneath they are not leveled. Some people are high up in paradise. They are in جنة تفردوس And another people are in هاوية وما أدراكة ما هي. Some people are in Al-Fayah burning ashes. Do not let it deceive you from how it looks from the top surface.  The messenger SAW he told us حديث أبي حريرا حديث أبي حريرا قال رسول الله SAW Then the messenger said إذا قبر الميت when the dead body is placed in the grave أو قال أحدكم أتاهم ملكاني أسوداني أزرقاني when the person is placed in his grave two black angels will come to him those angels they have blue eyes يقالوا لأحدهم and one of those angels is called المونكرو that's the name of the angel وليلعا خيري and the second one is called النكير فيقول لاني the two angels will say they will say to the person in the grave ما كنت تقول فيه هاد الرجل what is it that you used to say about نبي اللهي محمد what was your stance regarding him did you follow his path do you know who he was the person who was righteous the noble person the person who lived by the religion of Allah who took نبي اللهي محمد as their own model their response will be فيقول الله كان يقول he will say that which he used to say in the earth he will say هو عبد الله نبي الله محمد is the slave of Allah ورسوله he is a messenger sent from Allah أشهد I testify الله إله إلا الله that there is man worthy of worship except Allah وأن محمد وأن محمد is عبده he is a slave ورسوله he is a messenger لاني that two angels will say to him قد كنا نعلم we knew that you were going to say this قد كنا نعلم أنك تقول هذا we knew that this was the response that you were going to give how did they know that he was going to say that because they knew he lived by the religion of Allah he stood by the deed his rules and regulations he took it from the Quran and the sunnah if Allah told him to do something he hasten to do it if Allah told him to stay away from something he stayed away from it so the angels knew that his person was prepared and he was ready قد كنا نعلم أنك تقول هذا we knew that you were going to say this ثم يفسح له في قبره سبعنا دراع then the person's grave is going to be widen for them 70 arms span ثم ينور له فيه and then the grave will be illuminated for him it will glow ثم يقال له and then it will be set to him نب go to sleep فيقوله he will say أرجع إلى أهلي I want to go back to my family فأخبرهم I want to inform them that I passed the test that I made it to Jannah that I succeeded I want to tell them that my grave has been widened for me and they will say to him نب sleep كنومة العروسي like the sleeping of a newlywed الذي لا يوقذه إلا أحب أهليه إليه which no one wakes him up except the most beloved person to him in his family mama حتى يبعثه الله until Allah resurrects that person he will be enjoying in that grave it will be shining for him he will be enjoying himself حتى يبعثه الله until Allah brings him out من مضجع هيدالك from that place which he is lying in وإن كان مرافقا if the person was a hypocrite he pretended he was a Muslim but in his heart there was something different he did not live by Allah's religion he picked and chose what he wanted to take وإن كان مرافقا if he was a hypocrite قال that he would say when they ask him about Nabilah Muhammad his response is going to be سمعتُ الناس يقول I heard the people say something فقلتُ مثله and I said what they said لا أدري but I don't know who he is فا يقول لاني دعيجُن who then say to him قد كنا نعلم أنك تقول ذلك we knew he was going to say that how do they know that he was going to say that because they knew his dealings his way of life in this dunya and how he was they were fully aware of it they were the ones who were writing his deeds his actions they were the ones who were writing it so they said to him قد كنا نعلم أنك تقول ذلك we knew that you were going to say this we knew you won't be able to answer the question فقالوا للأرض then the angels will speak to the earth and they will say to the earth إلتائلي عليه come together squeeze this individual فتأموا عليه then the walls of the graves will come together فتختلفوا فيها أضلار and then his ribs will surpass will cross through each other فلا يزالوا فيها معذبة the person will be punished and he will go through torment حتى يبعثه الله until Allah resurrects him في مضجره دالك until Allah resurrects him from the place which he is lying in رواه تلميليو ألمان تلميليو you narrated this أبي سعيد للخذريو you narrated that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said that كان النبي the prophet of Allah he was one who used to say إذا وضعت الجنازة is the body that dead body is placed on the shoulders and the people they pick up the dead body فاحتملها الرجال the person is dead the people they pick him up from the from the leg and they pick him up from the upper body and they place him on the shoulders فاحتملها الرجال فإن كانت صالحة if this person was righteous he lived by the religion of Allah قلبا وقالبا but externally and internally he lived by the religion of Allah his response is though to me قاديموني take me quickly to my grave why are you spending too much time keeping me in this dunya take me to my grave quickly وإن كانت غير الصالحة if the person is not righteous he's a devilish criminal he will say قالت لي أهلها he will say to the people who are carrying it who want to take it to the grave he will say to them يا ويلها destruction me to my people أين يدهمون بها where are they taking my body يسمع صوتها كل شيء everybody we will hear the screaming the shouting and the fighting that this dead body will put through and that he will go through and that which he would say وَلَوْ سَمِعَ الْإِنْسَابُ لَا صَعِقِ if the humans won't hear it and if the humans were to hear the way that this person screams and he shouts then they would faint رواه البخاري ورمام البخاري narrated my beloved brothers and sisters when you are put in your grave in the morning and in the evening you are shown your place in Jannah or you are shown your place in the Hellfire عبد الله يبن عمرين رضي الله تعالى عنهما he said and the Prophet ﷺ he said إِنَّ أَحْدَكُمْ that one of you إِدَا مَا تَأْفِي دَايْز رِضَ عليه مَقْعَدُهُ بِالْغَدَاتِ وَالْعَجِهِ if one of you dies he is placed in Jannah or he is placed in the Hellfire will be presented to him it will be shown to him إن كان من أهل in Jannah if the person is from the people of Jannah من أهل in Jannah then he is from the people of Jannah then he will be shown Jannah وإن كان من أهل in Jannah if the person is from the people of the Hellfire فمن أهل in Nari then he will be shown the Hellfire فيقالوا it will be said to him هذا مقعدوك this is your place حتى يبعثوك الله حتى يبعثك الله يوم الحتى يبعثوك الله يوم القيامة until Allah resurrects you the day of judgment he will be shown his place in the grave and it will be said to him this is your place in Jannah or if he is from the people of the Hellfire it will be said to him this is your place in the Hellfire everybody here is the punishment of the person who has been punished in the grave أبي سعيد للخذري he said that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was one day the prophet ˹ﷺ the prophet one day he was with his working companion في ح�ddي وفي بانيندجار the prophet was in a garden owned by the people of Baninidade خوفاني the prophet was on a mule a riding beast the prophet was mounted on a mule of his فَكَادَةُ تُلْقِيهِ وَإِذَا أَقْبُرُ سِتَةٌ أُوْ خَمْسَةٌ أُوْ أَربعةٌ فإن التحديث لم تكن فرغاة شخصاً كان يوجده كان يدعمه يجب أن يأخذه وقد رأيت الرئيس لم أعلم المشاهد من المدينة فقد قلت أن يكون أردت السخص أو سع or فرغ ف الشخص قال عليه الصلاة والسلام من يعرفوا أصحاب أبي الأقبو who knows the people of this grave Does anyone know their story? فقال الرجل الألمان said I am a messenger of Allah I know who these people are The prophet he said who are these people When did they die? What's their story? And then he said to him These people they died upon disbelief They died upon shirk فقال الرجل then the messenger said فقال رسول الله the messenger said إن هذه الأمة This Ummah تبتلها في قبورها This Ummah are going to be tested in their grave فلولا ألا تدافنوا If it wasn't That you guys will not bury your dead لسألت الله لما لدعوة الله I would have asked Allah أن يسمعكم من عذاب القبور That Allah allows you to hear The punishment that's taken in the grave If it wasn't for fear That you will not bury your dead I would have asked Allah That He allows you to see The punishment that's taken in the grave Then the messenger said He turned to his companions And then he said to them قالوا نعودوا بالله من عذاب القبور The prophet said سيقر في جن الله from the punishment of the grave And the companions they said We seek refuge in Allah from the punishment of the health fire Sorry Then the messenger said تعودوا بالله من عذاب القبور Then seek refuge in Allah from the punishment of the grave Then the companions they said نعودوا بالله من عذاب القبور We seek refuge in Allah from the punishment of the grave Then the prophet said تعودوا بالله من الفتنين ما ظهر منها وما بطن Seek refuge in Allah from the trials and tribulation That which is apparent and that which is hidden Then the companions they said نعودوا بالله We seek refuge in Allah من الفتنين the trials and tribulation ما ظهر منها and that which is apparent وما بطن and that which is hidden Then the messenger said تعودوا بالله من الفتنين To seek refuge in Allah from the trials of the Antichrist قالوا the companions they said نعودوا بالله We seek refuge in Allah من فتنة الدجال رواه المسلم المسلم الرئيس عايش رضي الله تعالى عنها جي سان دخلت علي عجوزان من ردوزي يهود المدينة عايش قلت one day To elderly women To women, elderly women from the Jews came to me. فقالت عليين, both of them said to me إنه أهل القبوري. The people of the graves who abuse themselves in their graves. The two old Jewish women they said to Aisha that the people are polishing their graves. أعيشة ثم قلت فقدمت لهم أعتقدت أنهم لم يقوموا بأخذ ما قلت ولم أُنعن أن أُصدقهم وقلت لم أقوم بأخذ myself to believe in what they were saying فخرجت أعيشة أعيشة ودخلت علي النبي لأن المسنجة قلت فقلت لهم يا رسول الله يا رسول الله إن أعجزيني وذكرت له أعيشة أعيشة وقلت لهم ما قلت لهم فقالوا وقلت لهم صدقاتا لقد قلت لهم صدقاتا إنهم يُعدبون عدابا أعيشة أعيشة تسمعوا المهائم المهائمين ومهائمين وقلت لهم أعيشة قلت لهم فما رأيته لم أقوم بأخذ ذلك بعد في صلاة في صلاة إلا تعود من العداب قبل وقلت من الله سبحانه وتعالى رفوت من العداب رواه البخاري وقلت كامل البخاري عببي أكتبه وكسنا فرقوا وقلت لهم وقلت لهم وقلت لهم وقلت للهم شيء أخذ That was wrong. Any mistakes, any errors, any faults, any shortcomings is from me as Shaytan and Allah and His message are free from it. سبحانك اللهم بحمدك. أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك واتوب إليك.


what's going on guys in this video I want to talk about niches so this is something that probably applies to 99% of people watching this video and that is in the facts that I see too many people going too broad when it comes to the dropship in niche the dropship in space that they choose to go into so there's a saying that I quite like and I'm not sure who said it maybe it's me in fact I'm gonna own it I'm gonna say this is my saying unless you guys can prove me wrong and hurt it elsewhere but it goes along the lines of if you try and talk to everybody then you'll be talking to nobody and before you leave the video thinking this guy's completely lost the plot just bear with me for one minute so what I mean by this is that we're living in a time now where people's attention is competed for by so many different outlets when you're on your phone there's dozens of different apps there's dozens of different people trying to message them there's people trying to ring them and then there's the real-life distractions as well so the message that you put out online in your marketing campaigns through your Shopify store through your Facebook pages through your socials if you put out a really broad message that doesn't really apply specifically to anybody then nobody's gonna really resonate nobody's gonna really connect with it and you're gonna really struggle to sell your product or to get that person's attention and attention is key if you want to be successful when it comes to any form of marketing without attention somebody watching your ad creative seeing your ad creative then they're probably not gonna click it therefore they're not gonna end up on your store therefore they're not gonna buy your product so where this translates into dropshipping terms and why this store I'm gonna show you today loxybags.com is a brilliant example of this is that there's so many people out there right now starting dog niche stores or home niche stores or baby niche stores but what you need to do is niche down even further so instead of for example in your ad creative saying something like or your title headline being all dog owners need this let's go for dog bed so instead of all dog owners need this dog bed you could change it to something more specific that's gonna talk specifically to one group or one kind of sub-niche within the niche that could be all Labrador owners need this dog bed or all German Shepherd owners need this dog bed and then you could couple that up with that the content that you're using to sell the product features a German Shepherd or features a Labrador and then which one do you think is more likely to get the attention of the Labrador owner or of the German Shepherd owner and this is in its essence what these guys are doing as well so before I jump into it and show you exactly what their products is let me show you why I want to show you this particular business so it's loxybags.com the site age is 10 months and the monthly profit is nearly $8,000 not bad right there's not a single income or employment I should say out there there's going to increase your income by 90 grand in the space of 10 months not that I know of anyway what we can see is their marketing fees per month are three and a half thousand dollars on average platform fees that would be their Shopify plan of course and what's really good to see about this is that there's kind of some steadiness to the store yes they've kind of gone up and then slowly coming down however what you'll usually see with a lot of drop shipping stores is they'll shoot up very very quickly and then they'll just kind of drop off a cliff but these guys have been fairly consistent throughout the period of nine months this is still a very new business as well so to make 70 grand in total profit is very very impressive let's jump on to the Shopify store then and we'll jump straight into the best selling products what's this this loxy originals bracelet a loxy bracelets original hey sorry to interrupt your video I'll be super super quick on this 20 to 30 seconds of your time I just want to make you aware of this so this is an e-book that I put together myself it's a 12 month supply of 127 vetted winning products ideas that are working right now the products separated by time of year so whether you pick this up now in three months time six months time nine months time you'll have a list of proven products that are going to work because they are backed by data so hundred percent free it's an instant download as well there's no dodgy funnel of videos you have to watch stick your name in stick your email address in and it'll be in your inbox in the next 30 seconds to grab a copy of this check out the top link in the video description below thanks basically what this product is is it's two bracelets one for each partner and as you can see it's got this kind of what's the word I'm looking for charm that's what I'm looking for it's got this charm which splits in half it's magnetic encourages couples to hold hands and be a bit more affectionate towards each other obviously this isn't a product that's aimed at every single couple out there you're probably not going to get many people in their 60s or many people in their 50s buying this thing and acting like loved up teenagers it's probably not going to happen this is obviously aimed towards a younger audience and that's totally fine because within the kind of relationship couples niche there's lots of different sub niches it's like long distance relationships this is a perfect product to focus on those people who are in long distance relationships and it's also perfect for that young couple which is super affectionate perhaps it's a new relationship they love to hold hands that sort of thing before jumping to the ads library then take a look at what ad creators look like a couple of things to point out here they obviously have the option to buy some more of these things to bump up the average order value the different colors they're not even capitalized they're not kind of uniform which is definitely something whoops which is definitely something that it's just one of those housekeeping pasts so wind red definitely think that needs tidying up what size is a lex loxy bracelet adjustable to everyone how many color variants we have many different ones where you ship to we ship worldwide super simple super straightforward and to the point free shipping return guarantee 24 7 support and then straight into reviews of the product so a super simple yet effective Shopify store they probably could bump up their conversion rate or increase things with a slightly better put together product page but it just goes to show the most important thing by far is the product and how you advertise it if you have great ad campaigns like these guys have then it doesn't matter well it does matter of course but how good your Shopify store looks is less important because by the time they finish watching this video they've already made up their mind that they want to buy the product something else to point out as well is that this is not Chinese supplier content this is original filmed content specifically for the purpose of advertising the product this is also where a lot of people kind of full short how do I get off this this is also where a lot of people full short when it comes to drop shipping they expect to just import a load of supplier photos get some amateurish filmed content from suppliers that don't have any real users featured the same content that majority of other dropshippers 90 plus percent of other dropshippers are going to be using and then they expect it to work and when it doesn't they wonder why this is why because they have no original content that consumers won't have seen before and therefore more likely to get that attention which is key hey sorry for interrupting the video however I have something that I've hidden a gift for you that I think you might be interested in so the average person watches my videos for like two to three minutes we're now long past that and you're still watching which tells me one thing that you're probably pretty serious and committed to starting a dropshipping business that actually makes money if that is you then I want to work with you I want to work with people like you if you like the idea of working with me I can help you pick a product I can introduce you to the agents that I use that can deliver your products in three or four days I can build your Shopify store can get my team to build your Shopify store and I can hold your hand essentially through the entire process and help you get to that 10k per month mark as soon as possible if that sounds good to you then what you need to do is head down into the video description hit this more button here and then if you go all the way down to the description you'll see this which is a secret link this is a link that will take you to a page where I blanked out some time in 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Hello, I'm Gerhard Lindhardt, Futurist and CEO of the Futures Agency, together with my colleague and friend, Yuri van Geest, who is a very accomplished internationally known author and speaker and advisor, and he wrote recently the book called The Exponential Organization, co-written with Salim Ismail, and he's also the ambassador for Singularity University in Holland. And we've done quite a bit of work together talking about the future of things, whatever sector we're working in. Today we're going to talk about banking, financial services. So I live in Switzerland, which, you know, right now we have a bit of a crisis in Switzerland because of the euro and the Swiss franc, but also because the Swiss banks are losing the identity of being secure and safe and secret and opening up the banking market. So a question I have for you, what are the key trends that you see in banking for the next, say, five to ten years, and what could banks do if they want to survive, if they cancel out, or are they going to be the next record bankers? Yeah, so there's a lot of questions. So first of all, the key trends, I think the financial services business is coming into a triple disruption scenario. The first disruption is by different individual exponential startups that will attack one individual banking service, let's say lending, payments, mortgages, investments. So they've been disrupted today by transfer wise, by Kickstarter, by Lending Club, by eToro, STMise, Bitcoin, the whole thing, right? So that's disruption number one. The second disruption is that those startups will merge over time in the next five to ten years because they have a common enemy. My enemy's enemy is my best friend, Sun Tzu. So they will merge or align in the next five years. The third disruption is called the blockchain, the peer-to-peer infrastructure for trust. It's basically a way to decentralize trust, and this will undermine fundamentally the core value of financial services over time. So this disruption will be more longer term, or will be the most disruptive of all. You know, when I talk to my banking clients all over the world, anywhere, really, I clear this thing a lot, that people are saying, okay, we've heard this before, and we did in the late 1990s, 2000s, right, but Internet bubble didn't happen. And the second thing is that they always think that regulation and governments will prevent this peer-to-peer, you know, encrypted environment from happening. And what do you think about that? It's interesting to a certain degree. The question is, how long will this uphold in the regulation to protect, let's say, the interests of the incumbents? I think in the end, consumers will always win, or end users. What they want will happen over time. Well, the music business, you know, we said the same thing, it didn't happen, right? I mean, they were protected for 12 years, and the consumer is still not really getting what they want, except for YouTube, that may be Spotify, but the music business has pretty much gone down the toilet to record the music business as a consequence. The same thing will happen here? Yeah, I think it's quite analogous to a very large degree with the media industry in the last 20 years. There will be disruption. It's all about value creation and value capture. If you look at the mix, the symmetry of this in financial services, it doesn't make sense. There's a lot of small value creation and a lot of value capture. So people don't want that, don't like that. There's room for disruption to have a more, let's say, symmetric playing field of value capture and value creation. Absolutely. I mean, in your book, The Exponential Organization, you talk about how this happens with companies that are 10x, you know, and do things 10 times as good, how could they do that? Actually, that's already happening, right? Because if you look, for example, at 10% fur-wise, it's 90% cheaper than the incumbents offering today to transfer money. If you look at Lending Club, if you look at Bitcoin for payments, or maybe Klinko or Stripewater or Alipay or Apple Pay, they have a different model. Not 10x cheaper, but they're also considerably cheaper than, let's say, the alternatives today. So if you look at the broad spectrum, there's a lot of room for improvement. I think that the banking people around the world are wondering at this point to whether so many parts of their business are going to be eaten away by startups, and then by other companies, like neighboring companies like Google and Facebook, the bank license in Alibaba and what have you, that what is going to be left for them? I mean, now we're looking at, I think, Goldman, and not Goldman, American Express, and some bank just invested into the Lending Club scenario, peer-to-peer invested. So would that be a way for them to fund the enemies, so to speak? That's a very big question. I would say they have to be willing to disrupt themselves or die. If you have to disrupt or die, disrupt yourself or die. So they have to look at to create innovation themselves or with partners or how to invest in a portfolio of exponential startups disrupting them to make sure that they will be in business over time. So it's like a hatching strategy, external startups, your own innovation, disrupting yourself and your core business. But in most cases, to innovate or revitalize your own core business won't be enough to survive because it's such a disruptive scenario that we talked about. You won't make it through it. I always say that these kind of businesses are what I call digitally contestable. They can be contested because of technology. And if you're looking at credit cards, why should we carry that card is no point in that. We can do it many other ways. Why should we pay 30 euros to send money to America? Why should we pay 8% interest for a loan when we can get it from friends and so on? So that is a key trend. Bill Gates said 12 years ago, we do need banks and we don't need banks. And this is actually finally happening. I believe we still need banks just like we still need record labels. But their role is going to be entirely different and they're going to have to reinvent. So it doesn't make sense to have a large real estate investment as a bank. You can fully digitize that. Why do you need all those employees? You can implement artificial intelligence to a very large degree. Maybe even 90% according to McKinsey recently. So yeah, so what's the value of all those old school, let's say, investments? I think there could be value in that, for example, if you are a corporate, you have a corporate clients who want to become somewhere and pay a premium for coming somewhere. There could be sense in that. That makes sense. But this is a difficult question. So I think that transformation is actually one of the toughest. Compared to media companies who already have digital assets, now banking is becoming completely digitized and digital currency and all these things. So how to build them? That actually there are many interesting artificial intelligence cases that will disrupt all financial advisors in the next 10 years, like Kensho, that's a big case study. So also Citibank, they implemented a new artificial intelligence solutions to improve productivity by 30% or 40%. So only half a year project of artificial intelligence. So they're talking about substantial improvements using AI above the classic solutions. Big topic. So thanks very much for tuning in. This is Yuri van Geest. I'm Gerd Leonhardt, CEO of the Futures Agency. If you want to know more, go to thefeuturesagency.com or look us up on Twitter. Thanks for tuning in.


Hi, all. Thanks for joining me for this presentation today. Seven years ago, I attended a conference session where someone talked about exploring Docker for a week. Today is a big privilege for me to present about some of the work that we've done at Uber, where we have Dockerized our interactive infrastructure. Over the next 30 minutes or so, I'd like to share our containerization journey. Before we go into the details, a quick introduction about myself. My name is Matt. I worked on Apache Ambari in the early days, a Hadoop cluster management system. I joined Uber in 2016 and pretty much worked in the same domain working on Hadoop clusters. And since then I've expanded my scope into the broader data infrastructure. Currently, I need the deployment and automation domain for data infrastructure. Which also includes containerization and container orchestration of the stack. Outside of this domain, I also follow new developments in the data architecture space, which includes the data mesh and products that enable it to open that data. We have an action pack agenda today. I'll cover how we used to manage the data infrastructure back in the day and what made us adopt containers. I'll walk through some of the challenges that we faced as we adopted containers. One of the biggest parts of adopting containers was the migration itself. I'll talk a little bit about how we engineer the migration and into details of some of the specific strategies that we use for making the migration easier. I'll briefly discuss about the cultural shift within the team as we went along with this migration. Some of the key takeaways from this presentation and also give a glimpse of what we are going to work on in the future. With that said, jumping into the background, Hadoop today powers the entire batch analytics stack at Uber. Everything from mobile click events, online DB change events are ingested into the Hadoop infrastructure. And this powers a whole bunch of analytics for Uber, including ETA prediction, decision making for pricing and promotion, ML and whatnot. The Hadoop infrastructure itself comprises of two major services, one of them is SGFS and the other one is down. SGFS is our distributed file system and Yon is a resource management system for launching your distributed applications. Before going further into the details of the presentation, I'd like to do a quick refresher on the Hadoop architecture. On the left side you will see the SGFS architecture where we have a central name node which stores the metadata files, basically files to block mapping. And the SGFS architecture also has data nodes which stores the blocks themselves. Together they form a distributed file system. On the Yon side, which is on the right side of this slide. We have a resource manager, which is the central system that controls resources across the entire cluster. Clients and users submit applications to the resource manager. The resource manager is in charge of ensuring that these distributed applications get allocated containers to run across the entire fleet. Node manager is the node level agent which is responsible for starting and stopping containers and basically ensuring that your containers are running completely. One common thing that you would see here is that both SGFS and Yon have control planes where name node and resource manager are kind of control planes within the Hadoop architecture. And we also have data nodes and node manager which are kind of the data plane of the Hadoop stack. One other point to mention over here is that Hadoop is a very traditional system. It is built and designed for bare metal and it has been run traditionally in the industry for bare metal, in bare metal or on VMs. When I mentioned containers in this architecture, these containers are typically JVM processes running on those and they are not necessarily like documentators. This slide is a very good overview of how our team has evolved and how the scope of the team has evolved. I joined the team in 2016 where we had an SRE team with three or four members. And in late 2017, early 2018, we amended the team by adding an additional sub-team which worked on development on the core produce side. By late 2019, we merged the team, merged both sub-teams together into a single DevOps team which is after which we had a lot of innovation happening and moving Hadoop to containers. Until early 2020 or so, we were using a lot of ad hoc scripts tools and a lot of tooling originally different languages to maintain our Hadoop infrastructure. By mid 2020, we started adopting containers and there's a reason why we started adopting containers after which I'll get to in a minute. Now, one of the other things to look into is how the fleet size has grown over the years. You'll see this blue line over here which showcases that the fleet size grew exponentially from a few hundreds to the 10,000s, 20,000s range, whereas our engineer engineering team grew only 3x and that kind of thing. Once we scaled our clusters, we got to a point where we were managing 25,000++, the Hadoop infrastructure was supporting 350,000 distinct applications or jobs per day. I'll be using applications and jobs interchangeably in this presentation. And these jobs or applications have very short lifetime to run for a few hours or so and do an ETL job or some addition job and basically come back the next day and run in a similar fashion. These are all distributed applications, so these 350,000 jobs were translating to 20 million plus JVM processes launched across the fleet on a daily basis. As we scaled our Hadoop infrastructure over the years, it came in a bit of a go to invest people in doing zone turn-ups, zone B comms, OAS upgrades and whatnot. These fleet-wide operations became cumbersome for the team in general due to the lack of automation and operational excellence. And this was our major turning point. We were repeatedly assigning people every six months to do one of these fleet-wide operations and this is when we made a big decision to move to docker containers and rely on a container orchestration system which was internally built to simplify our operations. Given that I've set the context, I'd like to move into some of the challenges that we faced along the containerization journey. As I was preparing this presentation, I created a list of challenges that we faced and I ended up with the long list, so I'm going to present the top three important ones that I felt was more meaningful for the students and I'll walk through them in the next few slides. The first challenge that we faced was multi-cluster management. Hadoop is notorious for having thousands of conflict files for making one single cluster. Back in 2016, we had two clusters to manage. It was relatively easy to manage their conflicts, but by 2020, we had around 40 to 50 clusters to manage. The first practice within the team to manage clusters was to create a new directory in a Git repository copy paste that would do default conflicts from open source, customize it, and by that time, you know, deployed the conflicts to the cluster, you might have already ended up with 1000 plus lines of conflicts. There's a snippet over here which shows one of our internal clusters, Broman, and the number of lines in the conflict files that Hadoop perhaps do manage, which is around 1000 plus. So if we multiply this 1000 with 40 to 50 clusters with a C3, like 40,000, 50,000 lines, then it became a bigger maintenance problem for us in general. So we thought about this solution, we revamped the entire conflict and cluster management system in such a way that we plugged out all the common conflicts and put them into a specific part of the code. So we looked into defining different cluster types and also defining the cluster names and tying them to cluster types, adding a bunch of template files which were generated, which were used for generating XML files which Hadoop understood. And we have this conflict generator which gets all these inputs and generates the conflicts file at a cluster level. So these files are generated, we save them into the DockerM range and our container orchestration system deploys it to each of the clusters. During deployment, a set of runtime variables are injected and these runtime variables included host name, cluster name, ports and whatnot. Some of these variables such as cluster name provided enough input to basically pick the correct conflict files for running the container. Now we, the biggest benefit of this approach was the conflicts and the cluster definition was defined through a language called Starlark, which was pretty much 4000 lines of code, and we were able to generate 150,000 lines of conflicts through the system. So this made it easy for us to manage cluster in general. We also adopted a similar approach for maintaining not only the Hadoop conflicts but also for metrics and alerts and so on. So we basically follow similar templates. The second biggest challenge that we had back in the day was security being an order. But the old process of adding nodes to the cluster, kind of, kind of look like this, where someone goes on provision source, and then you talk to someone in a different team to generate secrets for these hosts. You kind of SEP your seekers to these hosts and then you start the process with them later join the cluster. As part of our containerization and automation journey, we, we thought about infrastructure security from the start, because that was very critical for automation to just work. So, within Uber we use one of our proprietary container orchestration systems to do to do all of this. This is the deployment automation and dinner. What you see in this picture here is a very simplified diagram on how we, how we provision secrets and secrets for, you know, for each of the nodes that we add to the cluster. The very first process that we bring up on the host is something that we that is called a spire agent. The spire is pretty much based on SPP authentication protocol it basically provides identities and provides a way to trust software systems within the distributor system. Once the spire isn't up spire isn't deserved the node is attested and the next process, the cluster manager agent is able to come up and report to the cluster manager server saying hey this this this node is up and would like to join the cluster with this attested token. Now the cluster manager server upon receiving this request basically ensures that a secret is created for the for the worker, the worker is pretty much a custom site card container which is managed by the team, which again authenticates with the spire agent gets a token and reads the secret and provides it to the process, which is either the data node, the name node, the node manager and so on. With this we basically put in all the security related automation into the overall automation of container orchestration. The third big challenge was orchestrating the entire distributor system by itself. This is a very simplified diagram of the stack on the number of containers that we run across both stf and young stf is supported by around 30,000 plus containers and young by around 70,000 because bus container so overall we run at least 100,000 containers. On top of that we have customer applications which launch 20 million plus new containers on a daily basis. Now that we are talking about the bottom part of the stack on maintaining 100,000 containers at scale. Like I mentioned before we use an internal container orchestration system, which is proprietary to Uber for managing all of our documentators. This diagram showcases how how these how the interaction happens between the user or automation to add or become nodes to stfs as a dispute system. One of the key things over here is that stfs unlike other services that you run on a system like Kubernetes has, has different roles. Like I mentioned before this stfs control plan this stfs data plan which are data nodes. So these are different roles and one of the key important aspects is that both of these systems, both of these roles are basically stateful systems. So maintaining containers at scale without compromising on durability of data is a big challenge by itself and automating on top of that to do live scale live scale sheet operations is another step forward in for us in terms of automation. So going into the details, the user or automation input is basically given to the cluster manager control plane. Once the state and adding a note to the cluster as an example. The cluster manager control plane changes a state which is somewhere in the system, and the state is propagated into the worker next to the stfs control plan. The stfs control plan basically gets information that a new node is supposed to be added and registers the node with itself. The cluster manager system basically provides the node level information, such as container version, container type and so on to to the node where the container should be started, which is given to the head of worker, again a sidecar agent sidecar container. And it launches the stfs data, data node, which connects to the stfs control thing. So what you see here is a lot of coordination between these different systems and how they work together. One of the key things to notice over here is all of this is based on the goal stage or decide state and all of these operations are happening in a in a synchronous manner. These are the groups which actually control all of these operations. This is a diagram that I took from one of our previous blog posts which was published last year. This is a full overview of how different parts, different components in in our architecture supports how to infrastructure and containers today. I'm not going to go into details of everything over here, but I would like to highlight a few key points over here. There are two aspects over here. One is this entire system is based on a desired state or a goal state. And we have decide states or goal states at different levels of the system. For example, we have decide state for, for an stfs cluster, and we also have decide state for each node within the cluster. And of that we have actual state being collected from different parts of the system including each of the nodes and then building the entire cluster actual state. We have basically control group control groups or reconciliation groups which look at the difference between the decide and actual states and basically trigger actions to move the state of the system towards the desired state. On the top right you'll see a circle which is pretty much showcasing how the cluster goal state and cluster decide state that reconciliation group that's happened over there, and also the left bottom red circle showcases that there's a reconciliation loop within the node itself to ensure that the containers are running or stopped. So all of these cluster level reconcilations are triggered through cadence, a workload management system, and that has scaled to support our recruitment percentage so far. In the next few slides I'd like to talk about how we engineered the migration. One of the questions that I that I got when we were sharing some of our learnings with our peer companies was whether we took down time with migration. We took down time for the migration. It is typical for some of the companies that run that similarity stack to shut down the stack for a while upgrade the cluster and then turn on all the pipelines. But due to the nature of Uber's business we, we can't shut down any of the pipelines we can't basically it will affect some of our business use cases so we never took down time for the migration. But that actually pushed us towards looking at the migration in an engineering way. And in the next few slides I'll talk through some of the strategies that we adopted for engineering the migration. The first strategy that we adopted was how can we optimize for the ROI. So, as I mentioned before, there's both control plans and data planes and the different project system, and the control plans are a few in number there's literally like 5 to 20 to deal with, whereas the data plane isn't the 1000 scale. So we focused on the biggest part of the fleet is which is making the migration easier for the data plane and the invested heavily in building automated was to do the migration. And this was again based on our kids. This graph showcases how we, you know, ran through the migration, you'll see that the graph goes up all the way to hundreds of 200s which means there was like the peak of how many nodes were decommissioned and kind of piling up in our pool for basically going through the containerization process. And as the graph goes down, that's when the nodes were kind of cleansed, added with the doctor demon and other system related processes and added back to the cluster. We ran this automation for several months and within within a year or so we were able to basically migrate more than 75% of the cluster through through these automated locals. The second strategy that we chose was how do we make things compatible between the legacy bare metal JBM way of running things to the new Docker way of running things. And we identified two different areas were compatibility really did matter, and that was based on what was visible to the customers. And the area of what those was able to customers was where their jobs from their jobs used to run on bare metal machines as JBM processes but in the new system they would be running as Docker computers. So that that would be on the data plan. The second part, which we looked into was how do the customers interact with the other staff and their interactions are typically with the control plans, whether you're submitting a job or listing something on the cloud system. That goes through, goes to the, the hood and role base. So going into details of how we made made it compatible between the legacy data plan and the, the Docker Docker base data plan. The first thing that we did is we looked into all the dependencies on the, all the dependent libraries on the legacy bare metal host. We basically created a Docker image with all these base dependencies. So, as we as customers were submitting applications to hood infrastructure, we basically injected the jars that they were submitting into the base Docker image that we were providing used this in our architecture and ensuring that the customers, did not even know that their JBM processes weren't running in containers. Because of some of the changes that we did it was completely transparent. So this was, this was something that we did underneath of it. The second aspect of the data plan migration was more around. How did we evaluate this, there are hundreds of 200, 200 libraries that customers depend alone, and it was very hard to figure out what are the full set that is required to make the migration work for all the 350,000 applications and 20, 20 million plus containers launch per day. So to come up with a very good migration challenge, we actually partitioned the cluster where we had two subclasses one which is in red, which is the legacy standard the one which is in purple, which is the Docker base time. And we started, we built a transformation function within our control plan to move some of the workloads which were in the legacy bare metal to the Docker based cell. And this provided us a good amount of insights by shadowing some of these jobs into into the Docker based Docker based fleet because that's a step some issues early on which we basically fixed forward in an agile manner. However, the handheld moment of 350,000 jobs would be would be kind of an impossible task for us. So, as we started building confidence that 100 200 jobs that we have shadowed. We basically changed our shadow and we kind of knocked down the partition sense that we are going to randomly distribute some of the some of the Docker base close into the entire cluster and let applications run across both. So when it was an epic moment for the team where we had applications submitted by customers were 20 of the containers, 20 containers out of the same application was running in Docker, whereas the best 80 was running on bare metal, and they used to they can communicate with each other and the application run perfectly fine. We continued along by adding more Docker base host into the system and eventually the depleted the old legacy bare metal goes from the from the question. So the second aspect was to make compatibility possible at the control plane level. So customers in fact with the SKS name nodes and young resource managers. And the way they track with these control planes are through a typical Hadoop Java binary, which is what we internally call as a client. Consist of conflicts, which point to the name notes and the resource managers which basically map to IPs in our system. Due to the legacy nature of the staff will be built. We started to do back in the pre IP IPO days we have had a lot of systems. They have thousands of client usages where these IPs are uploaded across the entire So one of the first things that we did over here was to basically standardize the client and also the conflicts so we moved to the basic DNC name based approach where we have one single name which points to SKS name notes and other single name that points to young resource managers. And this change was orchestrated across the entire company using very decentralized effort called the Hadoop client standardization A good amount of the work was done also to some of our monorepals we have a single repository that is shared across the entire company so we were able to upgrade the libraries through a single diff in the monorepo cover we require many of the teams to validate and basically redeploy some of their applications so that things wouldn't break. Once the control plane, once the customers have adopted these new clients, it became easier for us to move the control planes around because they're all fronted by the same so we were able to move these control planes around we were able to shut down one control plane node, move them into Docker, kind of validate and test in the back. So this was kind of our strategy to move control plane of Hadoop infrastructure and development. As part of this big migration journey and containerization journey, I think one of the biggest aspects that we that we learned was the the cultural shift that happened within the team. As of today, we have 99% 99.4% of the Hadoop infrastructure running in Docker. So the events of this transition from from a full SRE team to a devil sorry team to the DevOps team and moving to DevOps model actually brought us a lot of benefits in terms of basically consolidating the work together, ensuring that the teams are more being more efficient, reducing the dev dev and release cycles. So this this this the shift was pretty much an eye opening experience for us. We have also reduced the operational effort across across the team for managing the clusters and we are also on a very strong trajectory to reduce the operational effort further for some of the bigger fleet wide operations. I think one of the key parts which which was kind of a turning point for this cultural shift was around when back in 2020 when we had the pandemic and everything started, there was this hardware shortage that happened and to mitigate the pandemic on our side, we had to basically been back as a young in such a way that we could reduce our cluster sizes and sustain sustain growth for the long term. Just because of the container orchestration system and the container based way of operating on clusters, we were able to do this been happening within six months or so to automated workflows by just defining one policy to ensure everything is kind of been working together. And this basically build trust among the people who are kind of skeptical about Dr containers and finally gotten the mode of head this is this is the way we should operate. Some of the key takeaways for us is that containers made it really easy for us to manage to do the DevOps model of working basically improve our team productivity. And the key takeaway for myself at least, having a super well engineered strategy is very important for making large scale migrations like these easier. We're almost towards the end of this presentation but I'd like to provide a glimpse of some of the work that we're doing for the future. We have gotten very far with containerizing and orchestrating to do two contours. We are in the works of optimizing these basically tuning some of the concurrency limits and doing drills to ensure we can do larger fleet by operation basically can be turned over. We have thousands of hoes by the click of a button without any manual involvement and we are still publishing some of those edge cases and so on. And we have a big goal of reaching zero mental effort for zone turnips decons and fleet by that fixed something that we applied to achieve in the next 6 to 12 months. And because of that, we have adopted containers as a foundation for our architecture with that we have unlocked a lot of other opportunities including leveraging the cloud. We are currently looking at modernizing our data infrastructure check and cloud basically plays a major part of that story. That is the end of the presentation. Happy to take any questions and feel free to reach out to me offline if you have more questions. Thank you all.


Well, good morning.  Welcome back to my car in the dark It is 4 54 a.m. I'm on my way to boot camp.  It is actually really nice this morning It's about 45 degrees which is Perfect for working out outside. It's cool enough that you don't sweat as much but warm enough that you don't freeze So I'm definitely not mad about it. We've had some kind of weird weather weird weather for Arizona the last few days It's been pretty rainy and pretty dreary and normally it's always sunny here Even if it rains it's sunny. So it's been definitely a change of pace definitely a little bit more of a winter Vibe I know that it's going to rain a little bit later today I think later later today at least that's what I'm hoping because I do have some errands to run today So of course, I'll take you guys along with me. I just have some catching up errands to do I want to at least get my workout in start my day off on the right foot moving my body I did drink about half of my protein coffee this morning before I headed out We'll be having another coffee later this morning. My favorite my new favorite protein coffee Kencoction I actually shared that in last week's what I eat in a day. I have a reel on Instagram. I have the full recipe in my Facebook group I'm obsessed with it. It is my favorite thing. I've been having it every single day Speaking of my new favorite protein coffee. Yes, I will be making a video on so many ways to make it I just ordered a few things for that video for different coffee concoctions So I will be putting that video out in February. So we just have a busy productive day today So once I get my workout in I'm going to go home get ready for the day and I'll be back at breakfast So I am ready for the day. I will share my outfit of the day with you after breakfast, but I'm so hungry I'm ready for a good healthy protein packed carbohydrate filled fiber filled breakfast So what I'm going to do is one of the Thomas English muffins I'm going to basically be making a sausage egg and cheese breakfast sandwich So I'm going to use a Thomas English muffin one egg one slice Which I think is all that I have left of this Sardento ultra thin provolone cheese I'm going to put on one of these Applegate farm chicken maple sausages. These are so good. They're these sausage patties. I love them. They're absolutely Amazing. What are my new favorite food finds? So I'm going to go ahead and have a pair for some fruit So let's put together breakfast So here is my breakfast so I have my breakfast sandwich and a pair This is going to be the perfect way to start off my day as soon as we're done here with breakfast We'll mix up our post-workout supplements and I'll share my outfit of the day So, you know, I love motivate I really use a lot of their products at least a dozen of their products But I wanted to share with you my top four motivate supplements that I use for my weight loss journey and my fitness journey And why and what's really cool is right now motivate has an amazing deal Where if you buy one product you get a second 50 off So it's a great time to stock up on all your favorite motivate products or try New motivate products as well. So these four right here are my favorite supplements from motivate So you saw me mix up my water for the day my post-workout first cup of water And I always add in one scoop of the motivate creatine. I really like this because it has no flavor No texture. It dissolves beautifully in water And it's just a great way to get in creatine without any taste or texture You can literally mix this in plain water. Now, everyone should be taking creatine It really helps elevate your fitness game. It helps with endurance and allows you to push your limits further than ever It helps with rapid recovery increased workout performance. And then I always use the motivate recovery This has bcaas eaas. It's really good post workout to help you recover to help rebuild muscle To help with inflammation to help with soreness. I love it The kiwi strawberry is my all-time favorite flavor I always have backups of this one on hand and I mix one scoop of this and one scoop of creatine in with my water And it's my post-workout cocktail. I also love motivate burn.  I love this flavor, but you can't go wrong with any of the motivate burn flavors They also come in individual single-serve packets for travel and on the go This is just a really great product to add for that afternoon slump or even that post-workout or even pre-workout I've used burn as a pre-workout several times if i'm taking a long hike I'll definitely mix a scoop of burn in with my water in the morning to give me a little bit of extra motivation for My day and again, it really helps with metabolism boost focus and fat burn Like I said, I have a lot of favorites, but I had to narrow it down to my top four and number four is going to be motivate greens Motivate greens are delicious. This is the peach. I love the peach. It's my favorite flavor and also comes in tangerine The motivate greens are really great because they don't taste like typical grassy greens They do look like typical greens, but they taste Really good you get that nice peach flavor without any of the grassiness And this really helps me get in my greens because I just don't get them in through food So I do take my motivate greens at least three to four times sometimes more per week You just simply mix it in with water I do about eight ounces and just chug it down like a shot and it actually tastes really good And you're getting in all the benefits of greens I will link motivate down below for you with a discount code as well as all of the information on their current better me promotion So as promised, I do want to share with you my outfit of the day in my outfit is courtesy of Halara, I want to thank halara for sponsoring this portion of today's video I have done a halara haul in the past in fact this sweatshirt right here that I wore in a recent video So many of you reach out and asked where this little sweatshirt came from It is from halara and it's from my previous halara haul and I wear it all the time In fact, I wear a lot of my halara pieces on a very regular basis Especially my dresses in the summertime or when the weather is just a little bit nicer here in Arizona I just really love the quality of halara and they're really fantastic staple pieces to add to your wardrobe Some of the halara pants have went completely viral on tiktok.  I have a lot of really great halara items to share with you We'll link everything I share with you today down below. You can use the code 15 gen 15 j e n n for a 15 percent off discount code on the halara website So if you're interested in picking up anything I share with you today or even that cute little sweatshirt that I wore in a previous video You can use the code 15 gen for 15 percent off So first let's jump into my outfit of the day. Now this outfit was a little bit unexpected So this top is actually a dress on the halara website Unfortunately for me because I am tall i'm 5'8. It's a little short for me I don't know that I would be comfortable wearing it out and even bending over in this dress So I decided to wear it as a top and paired it with a pair of those halara viral pants on tiktok So first up is my top which is actually the bow neck split hem waffle casual sweatshirt dress It is 34.95 and I picked mine up in the olive green shade. Now. I love this dress. I love everything about it I love the waffle pattern of it. I love the back how it has that Seaming down the back. It's very very flattering on the figure. I love that it has thumb holes So it's actually something you could wear and a little bit more sporty But like I said for me being so being taller, it's a little short on me Now, certainly if you're shorter than me, it's probably going to be the perfect dress quality of it is really really nice And I love green anything. I love this kind of army olive green My dress is in a size medium and it fits me perfectly now Maybe if I would have gotten a large it might have been a little bit longer I'm not sure but I decided to wear it as a top and pair it with a pair of the jeans that have went viral on tiktok These are the halara magic mid rise stretchy boot cut jeans I got mine in the black gray color in a size medium. They are 59 95 Now like I said, there's a few pairs of pants that have went viral on tiktok This is one of them and for good reason these fit me perfectly. I love how stretchy they are I love the boot cut design of these. It makes the legs look nice and long They're very very comfortable and I think they make the booty look pretty good as well I love a good pair of black jeans. I find them to be a little bit more dressy a little bit more elevated And these are really nice. I can see why they went viral on tiktok I also picked up these pants. These are another one of those gone viral pants and again for good reason First of all, I love the color of these Second of all, I love that these are a stretchy weight and a pole on pant That look really really nice. These are completely office appropriate Definitely more on the dressy side. These are the high-waisted button pocket straight-legged pants They are 39 95. I picked mine up in fourths night and I got mine in a large now These fit me great. I could have sized down to a medium But I like the way that these flow on my body and they're not too tight in the waist They have pockets in the front. They have actual pockets in the back The button design of these is so nice and they're this really Soft buttery material and I love the little bit more flare legs I feel like that's what makes them look a little bit more dressy a little bit more elevated Love these. I think these would be so cute with a bodysuit and a blazer or a blouse I really like these. I may grab a couple more colors And then the other viral pant that I had to try out are these corduroy pants right here Did you know that corduroy is back in style? I used to wear corduroy when I was in junior high in high school and that was a long time ago I mean my 30 year reunion is coming up this year and corduroy is back But what I like about these is they're not a tight corduroy pant. They're a loose flowy boho style corduroy pants These are the mid-rise button zipper side pocket corduroy pants I got mine in blue in a size large and they are 39 95 now again. They have a nice stretchy waist. They actually have The elastic on the side. There are belt loops, which I think would be really cute paired with a cute belt There's the button closure and then again that wide leg that is all the rage Wide-legged pants wide-legged jeans are in style for the new year And I like these more than I thought that I would when I first pulled them out of the package I'm like, I don't know about those. I feel like they're gonna make me look kind of clownish. No They're very very flattering and again, they would be cute with the bodysuit Something maybe off the shoulder or a more fitted blouse for the office I really like these and I can see myself wearing them a lot And then this is a repeat for me this little roost skirt So I actually have this skirt in a plum kind of burgundy color I'll insert a picture here of me wearing that skirt on my trip to hawaii this last november So I decided to pick it up in black because I love it. I love everything about this skirt. It is a stretchy waist I love the ruching on the side. It flatters the figure It covers any lumps and bumps cellulite if you have love handle areas or wider thighs It's going to camouflage that beautifully This is the high waisted bodycon side pocket skirt I got mine in black size medium and it is 39 95 Now my purple one isn't a large and it's a little bit big for me So I decided to size down to a medium and that was the perfect choice. This fits me Perfectly and what I love is that they're shorts underneath so I don't have to worry about anything happening when I'm wearing this skirt I really love the shorts and one thing I will say is if you your thighs rub the shorts under this skirt make it Chef's kiss and super comfortable even in the summer months I'm gonna save my favorite piece in the piece that really blew my mind for last I also wanted to pick up a couple more dresses now. I do have a few dresses from halari. You saw the green one I also have a bright orange dress and I wanted something that was a little bit more dressy Maybe to wear on valentine's day or on a date night love this color This is the color that my other little ruched skirt is in the one I wore to hawaii So I decided to pick up this dress now again the ruching is Everything in this dress. It is so figure flattering.  It is 44 95 and I love everything About it. I think this would be so cute with a denim jacket over the top of it or even a black blazer or cardigan You could definitely dress this up even more make it a little bit more modest because it is definitely a deeper v But I love this. I think it's perfect for valentine's day Perfect for a date night and then I mentioned that I have those other two halar dresses that I love So I picked up one more again. I love this color It's kind of a mix between a pink and a purple. This dress also has pads They are removable and the dress like the skirt has built-in shorts, which is one of the things I love about the halar dresses. I wear them a lot in the summer and you know how hot it is here So I love that there are built-in shorts. This is the everyday cloud full fabric backless two-in-one activity dress I got mine in the shade ume purple in a size large and it is 54 95 Now I could have definitely sized down to a medium in this dress It is a little bit longer in length than some of the other halar dresses that I have Sometimes I want it a little bit shorter. Sometimes I want it a little bit longer But I love that has built-in shorts and I love the back of it I think it's very flattering. In fact, this is a great workout dress if you play pickleball Or tennis or if you like to just wear something a little bit more flowy during your workout These dresses are great. I have worn these on trips vacations Around running errands. I really love their wannabe dresses And I'm definitely going to be picking up more and last but not least is the piece the piece that blew my mind Now I loved this online, but I love love love this in person And that is this cute little overall wide leg jumper you guys. This is seriously so cute This is the adjustable strap multiple pocket waffle casual overhauls I got mine in the color black in a size medium for 44 95. This is incredible It lays on the body so nice again camouflages everything makes you look long and lean You could wear this with a tank top. You could wear just a cute sports bra or a bralette underneath You could wear a body suit. I mean the possibilities are endless. You can dress this up dress this down I love the pocket in the front. I love this. I am going to 100 pick up a few more colors This is a summer staple spring staple fall staple winter staple I really love everything about this. This is hands down my favorite piece and in my opinion a must have So that's everything I picked up from halara again. I'll link everything down below for you Super affordable prices for really high quality pieces And I'm really excited that I actually got to test out the tiktok viral pants from halara and every one of them I love them even more than I thought that I would so don't forget to check out halara's website Browse see all of the amazing pieces that they have and use the code 15 gen for 15 percent off That I made my protein coffee. Like I mentioned, this is my new very favorite protein coffee I've been trying so many different variations. There is three different of the protein coffee mixes from herbal life There's the mocha the kamawakiato and then just the house blend, which is just traditional coffee flavor That's what I use today. This is so good It reminds me of a starbucks white chocolate peppermint mocha, but Eighth of the calories and this has 35 grams of protein. I literally love it so much I will link herbal life drag up and clean simple eats down below Those are the products that I use to make my protein coffee So i'm going to sip on that and then I brought two of the elissa's cookies with me just in case I got hungry I do have several errands to run this morning We are right now heading to the post office. I need to make a run by the ups store to return an amazon package I need to go to the landfill to drop off all of that cardboard in the back These bags right here are going to goodwill. I have some household items and a few clothing items to donate to goodwill I want to go to ross and maybe tj max I need to buy a few more organizers for my new makeup drawers that I got I need something that's going to help organize things a little bit better So they're not rolling around in those drawers We could also use dog treats if i'm able to find some at ross ross is typically Where I buy dog treats because it's really the most affordable I did throw on my little black puffer vest because it's pretty chilly only 50 degrees right now So it's a little bit chilly and I knew that I'd be out running a few errands So first stop is the post office and then let's get these errands done So once again Once again, the recycling is closed. She said that they Are over full. So I'm going to be toting around all those boxes for a little bit longer I'm going to see if maybe troy can Try coming back by tomorrow. It's only about five minutes from our house. She said I think she thinks I'm commercial So I had to explain to her that I am a resident and I'm not a commercial person I'm not commercial. So she just said that they fill up really quickly. So She thought maybe it would be back open tomorrow. So we'll try again tomorrow and next stop is going to be good. Well That was insane. There was so many people in there. I showed you a quick clip of the line I sw- I thought maybe it was a holiday in mexico and it's not so when I got up to the front I asked the checker and apparently this is so funny There was a big post going around on facebook in mexico saying that ross was having this 49 cents sale So everybody came over to go to ross for this 49 cent sale and I guess there is no sale I mean they have clearance which by the way was completely wiped out home decor clothing It's insane.  I was in line for over 40 minutes But let me do a quick ross ball before we make our last stop at the ups store I got a few containers to organize. I would like more but i'm not going to tj mats because I'm looking in this parking lot ace joanne fabrics petco dollar treat packed with people big lot So i'm just going to go home and use what I have and will come when there's not a big facebook post about a sale So I did end up getting a few things. So I got this. I don't love that. It's glittery But it's going in a drawer and this was on sale for $3.99 and then I did score in dog treats So I got these wafer cookies and all of these dog treats have nice clean ingredients Which is what I love about ross. These were two $2.99 and then I got two of these because the ingredients and these are perfect This is from sniff snacks and these are scottish Scottish salmon bites $2.99 each and then I found this it's turkey time so it's just a Nice clean ingredient turkey and thyme flavor dog treat and then these are from the wellness brand Which are usually like five six dollars at ross these were on sale for 99 cents and they're turkey and duck And then originally I just grabbed this bin. It says hello gorgeous on it. Didn't care about that Originally, I just grabbed this bin to carry my stuff in and then once I was in line I saw that it was only 5.99. So I picked it up just for storage in my closet And then lastly, this is the score of the century. I would have got more but they only had two This is a four piece organizer set for $7.99. These are gonna fit perfectly in my drawer So I'll put it all together when I get home and kind of show you guys what I was thinking I have one more stop to make. I actually ordered a little tripod off of amazon for my phone For filming on tiktok and I accidentally ordered a selfie stick. So I need to return that to the ups store I'm going to Zen out listen to some youtube and finish up my protein coffee. We'll head home and then we'll have some lunch I got all the way into the ups store went to the little amazon return machine And realized that I have to print the label and adhere it to a box and mail it off. So That was a waste to drive. That was a waste of about 20 minutes by the time I drive here and drive back to where I just came from I will bring it to return it when I go to the weightlifting gym because it's right around the corner from here Today would have been my sweet boy diesel's 12th birthday So he is celebrating in heaven. I hope he's swimming Playing with sticks just really having a really good birthday. It's been a hard almost year since we lost him and all of the Holidays that come around. I really miss him all of the Days like birthdays and things that come around or just a constant reminder that he's not here and Just a constant reminder how challenging 2023 was for us between lola being diagnosed with lymphoma and diesel and losing diesel So today is a is a bittersweet day. I know he wouldn't want me to be sad. I already cried last night about it I Have been teary-eyed a couple times today about it too But I know he wouldn't want us to be sad and I know that he's celebrating In doggie heaven and that he's watching over our family, but we definitely miss him it's been It's been hard. So If you can just take a minute and just and wish him a happy birthday in heaven that would that would definitely mean a lot to us so anyway I'm on my way home and I'm going to make some lunch I have kind of a fun little recipe that I want to share with you guys for lunch today I mentioned it in my grocery haul. I want to make it. It's these little pizza stuffed mini peppers So we're going to make those for lunch. I'm not going to cry and we're going to have a good rest of our day So here's what I'm going to make for lunch. I'll actually put the recipe in the description box I found this on I think instagram from the keto code. They're a little two bite pepperoni pizza peppers So that's what we're going to do for lunch.  I think I'm going to remove the stem I'm just going to place it on a cookie sheet So I have my peppers all cleaned out So I'm going to add just a little bit of marinara to each pepper less than a tablespoon Now we're going to sprinkle just a little bit of cheese on each pepper And then we're just going to top with some pepperoni. I think I'm going to do four or five little mini pepperonis per pepper So we're putting our little peppers into a 350 degree oven for about 10 to 15 minutes So the little pepperoni pizza peppers are out of the oven I'm going to go ahead and add some of these to my plate along with these goldfish crisps I told you guys about these in my grocery haul. We're going to taste test those for the first time I did half of a serving. So that's half a serving So at full serving is going to be double that amount. So here's my lunch I did four of the little mini peppers I'm just going to build the recipe in my lucid app and see exactly what the calories points macros are So I'll put those on the screen half of a serving of the goldfish crisps So let's try these Those are really good. They're super crispy They actually taste just like a sour cream and onion potato chip Really good. I saw that they had a cheddar and a salt and vinegar as well And you get a lot of them for the points in calories It's 140 calories for a full serving and I did half and that's only 70 calories. So This is going to be today's lunch Oh go get your new ball.  Pommet. Pommet got you get your new ball Oh, it's his favorite thing in the world is when he gets a fresh new one.  So we will see what happens Get it. Oh daddy's tempting you with it. Pommet means snack time and I am craving a yogurt bowl So I'm going to do a chobani zero sugar. This one is in blueberry I'm going to do 50 grams of fresh blueberries. Maybe the rest of these will see what that ends up weighing out And then I do a tablespoon of chia smash. This is actually the raspberry I buy these on amazon. I'll link them down below for you You can find these at health food stores as well But I find they're cheaper on amazon and you get a six pack of six different flavors So it's a great way to try out all of the different flavors. This is a brand new jar It's my last jar and then I'm going to do a quarter cup or half of a serving of my catalina crunch Cinnamon toast. I love this. It's so good. It adds a crunch and it's going to give me about five grams of fiber about six grams of protein Really really good way to add crunch to a yogurt bowl And then I'm going to do just a tiny bit of the strawberry whipped cream from target For dinner tonight, I'm making a meatball soup with cheese Tortellini, so let me show you what you'll need. You'll need some beef broth minced garlic One large can or two small cans of diced tomatoes Tomato sauce parmesan cheese cheese tortellini. You can do refrigerated or frozen I'm going to do 99 fat free turkey. I'm going to make my own meatballs just so that I don't buy The processed ones in the store. They're super easy to make and onion some Italian seasoning and salt and pepper So the first thing I'm going to do is make up my meatballs So I'm going to add my pound of ground turkey to a bowl I'm going to season them with a little bit of Italian seasoning salt and pepper And then I'm going to mix that up roll these into tiny little meatballs and put them on my baking sheet here lined with Spray with non-stick cooking spray and I do have my oven preheating to 400 degrees I have a stock pot over medium high heat. I did spray it with some non-stick cooking spray I chopped up half of that onion. It was a big onion in the recipe calls for one Small onion or about a cup. So I'm adding that to the stock pot We're going to allow these to cook down for just a couple of minutes Once your onions are softened We're going to add a big scoop of minced garlic and allow it to cook until fragrant can of tomato sauce Our big can or two small cans of diced tomatoes and then we're going to add four cups or one full box of beef stock Some Italian seasoning and salt and pepper give that a stir and allow it to simmer for about 20 minutes If you are using frozen meatballs, you would add those in at this time as well But since I'm not I'm just going to let this broth simmer while my meatballs are cooking in the oven I'm going to go ahead and add in my cooked meatballs and allow those to simmer for the last 10 minutes Lastly, we're adding in our tortellini And we're going to allow that to cook for about five to seven minutes Or until the tortellini is cooked through and then lastly I'm adding in half of a cup of parmesan cheese and stirring that in And here's the soup. This looks really Really good. I'm going to go ahead and plate it up Sprinkle it with just a tiny bit of parmesan cheese some fresh parsley and I'll be back to share points calories and macros So here is dinner. This looks so good. We've got carbs protein some veggies We've got a little bit of everything The recipe does make 10 servings. So all of the information is here on the screen for you For dessert tonight, I am going to have some of my dark chocolate hummus. I haven't even tried this yet I actually got this in my grocery haul. It looks really really good It's 80 calories for two tablespoons. So I'm going to weigh out two tablespoons and then I'm going to do Probably half a serving because that would be eight rice cakes and these are the little mini ones I don't think I'll have enough hummus for more than about eight So I'm going to do some caramel rice cakes and hummus for dessert Thank you for today's what I eat in a day on ww I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today seeing everything that I ate I didn't mention but the little pizza peppers are delicious. Troy. I love them. I love them You don't even miss the crust. They're so so good I can't wait to have them again tomorrow and tonight's dinner recipe 10 out of 10 I will put the recipe for the mini peppers in the description box and tonight's dinner recipe is on my recipe website I'll also link nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things Don't forget. I'll have motivate down below for you as well as halaura So you can take advantage of those discounts my facebook group come join us. We would love to have you Thank you for watching friends. Happy wednesday and I'll see you in the next one. Bye


Hello Priyanka, this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com you're watching one of my Jeep travel videos and today I'm taking to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo also known as the Cairo Museum Cairo Museum located in downtown Cairo and we had a very short amount of time seeing the whole museum could be a daunting task because it has about 120,000 artifacts that would take about nine months if you are to spend a minute on each of them our guide gave us a tour of some of the items the museum was so massive that I didn't know what to photograph video or what not to do I'll describe some of the highlights remember the total common mask we saw the statue of Kufra the statue of Dorf Sineb and his family Amanhute 3 and the colossal statue mask of Yawa and Tuya and Marenpat still some of the statues and cages were all made of gold and for sure I had never seen so much gold in my life there are several floors but I only visited three floors near the central area I saw some animal mummies and they're also a display of daily necessities used by the royals those days I saw some flip-flops and sandals footwear existed and was invented in Egypt but at that time it was only owned by the royals and rich people from here we're going to go to the Khan Al Khalili market so I'll see you in the next video thank you for watching this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you


I'm here representing the Yankees for their Pepsi judge-free-yourself campaign and I'm just here to promote that with the Yankees and also to meet some fans here and just hang out. You talk about Grand Central Station and the fans getting ready for a season and a high high expectation so it's an exciting time and it should be because the Yankees are very good. It's a long winter up there to get baseball season going again especially opening day in New York. You know what, it's pretty neat to partner enough with Pepsi to campaign for this thing that's Aaron Judge. He's doing a lot of things in the community. I think partnering enough with the Yankees and him obviously for sure is doing a lot of great things so I'm really proud to be part of that. He has managed to become an iconic person you know now as a current Yankee and it's great that you know people are having fun with that so I think it's really cool.