و بفرحة هذه الثالثة و بفرحة هذه الثالثة as a God we are obliged to magnify and glorify him in a way which is befitting and therefore he says that we should glorify and magnify him, we respond in a way by magnification which is to perform the takbir, to recite Allahu Akbar at the response of this. He continues by saying Indeed praise be to Allah سبحانه وتعالى why because there is no opposition to him in any of his command and there is no disputor with him in any of his affair and also we should praise him because that there is no partner to him in his creation and that there is no similitude to him in his glory and by virtue of this these are the reasons why we should recognize his grandiosity and we should have this takbir where we are praising Allah سبحانه وتعالى this particular sequence of verse is one that can be designated within the four areas of praise that we found at the beginning of Da'a Ftitha as we said the first thing that we are to praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى for we stated for guidance the second is that we praise him for the mercy that is overflowing and abundant upon us and then the next for the law within his creation and the fourth for his superiority over those who have pride who have arrogance who seek to be an enemy towards the religion of Islam and thus the religion and humanity all together by virtue of those four categories one might suggest that this particular sequencing may fall in the fourth category of the praise because for Allah سبحانه وتعالى to replace supreme as God this is the reason why we are praising him and magnifying him in this particular manner there is no partner to him in creation there is no opposition to him in any of his command and by virtue he is superior and authoritative over every and all else within creation when we look at the Holy Quran we find that the Holy Quran provides us with all of the very best starting arguments this particular starting line when we say الحمد لله الذي لم يتخص صاحبة ولا ولا دا we are removing any potential for partnership to Allah سبحانه وتعالى in any way shape or form now here this happens at many levels this happens at the level of discussion with our brothers and sisters in humanity when we obliged to remind them that there is one soul God and there is no partnership to him but also there is the reality that it must fall within the heart itself and thus when I believe not just from tongue but from my heart and I remove any partner with Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the heart that is when the heart begins to truly glorify and magnify Allah سبحانه وتعالى let us look at these two facets the Quran is one that provides us with the very best of arguments so now when I am engaged with for example Christian brothers or Hindu brothers or Christian sisters or Hindu sisters we are ones that we are engaged in discussion about the principle concept of Godhood the idea that there is only one God there is no wife there is no son there is no partner he does not have a willy in any way shape or form he is solely existent in this manner when I have this discussion the very best arguments I should be looking to present are the ones based within the Holy Quran itself for example in Surat al-Mu'minoon chapter number 21 verse number 22 of the Holy Quran Allah سبحانه وتعالى provides us with an outstanding argument for all values when it comes to the concept of tawheed وحدانية the concept of just oneness of Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says had there been other gods had there been any other gods to Allah سبحانه وتعالى this universe would have been in a state of chaos had there been any other in creation had there been a partner had there been another god in any way shape or form with Allah سبحانه وتعالى this universe would have been in a state of chaos why would he state this particular verse what aspect of tawheed is he trying to inculcate within our heart and within our discussions imagine now there were two gods in creation let us just imagine that this universe as vast as it is when we say vast we need to come to a context as to how vast it is they say that some of the furthest stars are 13 trillion light years away from here now how do we quantify that really how do I examine the creation of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I am unable to qualify what 13 trillion light years really is but when we really begin to think it allows us a glimpse into the creation of Allah سبحانه وتعالى now imagine as far and as wide as this physical domain of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is imagine if there were two gods two creators in this grand system of Allah سبحانه وتعالى what would have happened how would the world have been different how would the universe have been different had there been two creators and sustainers within this particular universe let us talk at a very simple level imagine now there are youths who are sitting with us just pick an age 8 years old 5 years old that age where we're still playful imagine I called two of the youth from amongst the crowd now and I both gave them a piece of paper one stands here on the left-hand side of the pulpit one stands here on the right-hand side of the pulpit I gave them both of this a piece of paper and I say to them both of you make for me a paper aeroplane I can see some of the adults are also remembering their own childhood now and when they would make this paper aeroplane imagine I asked these two kids the two youngsters make a paper aeroplane each for me now you know that there are 100 different ways to make a paper aeroplane right you may fold it in half and then again and then again and you may tear something at the bottom you may fold the wings over one child will try to make it more aerodynamic one child will try to make it in a different way and so on and so forth so each child both of these two children are going to make the paper aeroplane in their own way as to how they consider the best design for this plane now I say to them, brilliant, you've made your design well done now let's see who can throw it the furthest so we have the group who is sitting in the middle you're probably going to be hit by the paper aeroplane so both these two children they're standing and I say to them right both of you on the countdown three, two, one, throw the paper aeroplane now you can guarantee that although I'm counting down three, two, one one of the kids will be more eager and he'll throw it on two there's a reason why I'm saying this also you will know that both of them the strength that they will put into the throw will be different one being five years old will throw it at one pace and another being eight years old may have a greater strength within his arm or 12 years old or 15 years old he'll have a greater strength in his arm so he will try to throw it harder another one may say to himself well I'm trying to use the air, the wind, the velocity the aerodynamic nature of my creation therefore it's not about the power I put into it it's about the height that I put into it maybe if I throw the paper aeroplane higher it will get further into the crowd had Allah had there had been two creators within this system of the universe they would have been chaos the same way two creators of something so simple as a paper aeroplane they would have been two different designs not only two different designs they would have tried to have made the rules their own way one would try to get a head start and throw it earlier one would have tried to throw it with more pace, more strength one would have tried to throw it with more height or more velocity the point is when you have two creators they are bound to design things completely differently they will each think that their design is the best they will each think that their design is superior towards the other one maybe, maybe if one of the children had become frustrated that his didn't go as far as the other he would have started to argue the same way had there had been two gods within the universe they would have been an argument the fact is within creation itself it is absolutely perfect we as human beings are perfect the system that we have with spring, summer, winter, autumn is perfect the rising of the tides in accordance with the moon is perfect the idea of gravity is perfect the construction of the stars and the solar systems is perfect this is indicative this is an evidence that they can only ever have been one creator because had there been two creators the human being we wouldn't be one type of human being one god would have created you with two arms another god would have said well my creation will have four arms because it's better and he would have created his version of human being with four arms with four legs or with two heads had there been two creators within this universe they would have been absolute chaos the fact that there is only one system within this universe everything is following this one system of Allah SWT proves that they can only ever be one creator throughout the entire universe at any one time this is how Allah SWT argues with his logic he wants us to realize this the unfortunate thing is certain atheists use this very same argument to try to disprove the creator Allah SWT for example we see that there are certain very famous creators of documentaries for the BBC and they have looked deeply into the creation of system they have looked at the ant world they have looked at the bird world they have looked at the seas every facet of creation on earth unfortunately their argument is the fact that this earth is so perfect we cannot believe that there is a creator our argument is exactly the opposite Allah SWT in the opening verses of Surat al-Mulk chapter number 67 of the Holy Quran asks you to recognize the fact that everything is perfect it must be one soul creator he says أترا في خلق الرحمن من تفاوت فالجعل بصر حالترا من فتور have a look at the creation of Allah SWT look again and again and again the more you observe the creation of Allah the more you become fatigued you will not be able to find a fault in his creation therefore Allah SWT is stating this in this da'a I haven't taken a partner I haven't taken a son to inherit from me I haven't got someone to dispute with me I haven't got a wife that has asked me to perform creation in this way I am soul there is none but I in creativeness there is none but I in authoritiveness there is none but I and none but I all together the fact that you recognize this magnify me glorify me in a way which is befitting of a magnification hence we respond to Allah the process is understanding Allah SWT being aware of his grandiosity and then the heart becomes overflowing with acceptance hence the heart becomes one who can actually glorify and magnify Allah SWT now here we can introspect about our own servitude and worship of Allah SWT when do we recite Taqbir most in تسبيحات of Lady Zahra one two the most time we recited during the day in Salah Allahu Akbar is so consistent within Salah I start my Salah with Taqbiratul having finished my position in Qiyam Allahu Akbar I go into Ruku'a having finished I go back finishing my Sajda Allahu Akbar go back into my Sajda here we find that there is a consistency taking place Allah SWT in this Da'a is asking us to recognize his oneness asking us to be fully aware annihilated within that oneness consider it and then glorify him in the same way before I stand for my Salah take a minute there is no rush stand before Allah SWT clear the mind become aware of his glorious oneness having then removed all those thoughts that have come into the heart from the day then I can stand in front of Allah with Taqbiratul Ahraab and say Allahu Akbar the more I practice this the better my Qiyam will be having then stood in Qiyam and recognized that I am standing as one who has been wrong through the day the one who is standing in front of his master when I then finish my second Surah I will then go into another Taqbir and again I will have remembered Allah for his absolute oneness the Taqbir is supposed to follow this process of having recognized Tauheed then I magnify Allah SWT it is not just from the tongue it is recognizing Allah SWT الحمد لله الذي لم يتخص صاحبة ولا ولا داء ولم يكون له شيء من الخارق الله أكبر يعني it continues الحمد لله الذي لا منازق له في أمه all praise belongs to Allah he is the one who does not take opposition there is no opposition to him in his kingdom he does not have any opponent no disputation in any way shape or form Allah SWT is the one who we cannot argue against there is no one who can stand above or against him and say to him you created creation incorrectly there is none that can stand in front of him and say that we are not pleased satisfied we do not agree with how you have done this this is his level as the creator and sustainer however yesterday we stated the tradition from our sixth Imam Imam Ja'far Al-Sarik in which he says تخلق بأخلاك إلا adopt for yourselves the etiquette the أخلاك of Allah SWT now in this statement am I able to apply this all praise belongs to Allah he does not have any opponent he does not have a disputer he does not have a similitude he does not have a partner in any of his facets of creation or authority I can't apply this to myself I can't say that I as a leader I don't have any disputer with me in authority I can't say I don't have any partner with me in any way shape or form and therefore the opposite in this circumstance comes I have to recognize in this circumstance I do have my limitations whereas Allah does not I have my limitations I as a leader cannot apply these very same attributes to me here we go into the construct of what leadership really is for I cannot level myself with Allah SWT and therefore for I as a leader or you and I as leaders we have to recognize the qualities of leadership for within ourselves and therefore be encourage our youth to take upon these skill sets of leadership within our own time when it comes to leadership we would like to introduce or maybe the word should be reintroduce one of the most outstanding discussions that we have come across in regards to leadership in our time in our generation the reason why I bring this particular topic up is because I would like to encourage my younger brothers and sisters to be aware of one particular leader within our community his name Marhum Mula Azhar may Allah bless you so I would like to bring this particular discussion from the terms of Marhum Mula Azhar for the sake that definitely my elders will be very much aware of him his leadership qualities his own ideals but therefore maybe some of my younger brothers have not become so acquainted with Marhum Mula Azhar and therefore I would like my younger brothers and sisters to become aware of the quality we had within our community also one that we are trying hard to emulate but also what kind of ideals he left for us as a particular community when it came to leadership a generation back he was involved in a presentation in World Federation for a concept an idea for leadership which was entitled the code of leadership many of my elders many of our contemporaries may have studied this he had an idea which he wanted to implement at the very senior level of World Federation and therefore if it becomes successful to filter it down into Jamat level whereby the presidents of Jamat also follow this very same concept code of leadership Google it it is available from World Federation where you can read about the discussion and what took place upon that very particular day in the World Federation meeting his idea was that when a leader is appointed as president of World Federation he should uphold two particular characteristics one تقوى to عدادة تقوى we are translating as God consciousness to عدادة they should be just within themselves now please here do not for a second thing I am getting into a political discussion about any individual of any organization of anyone in particular I am not it is important that I state that otherwise we will be accused we will say why you speak no we are just talking about leadership so we understand in our time that this should become within World Federation president and then filter down to all levels of Jamat as well so that every Jamat president also is ascribed to the level of تقوى عدادة now what is this why is this the case مرهوم الله أسغر himself presented his own arguments as to why this is a necessity within our leadership why when we are operating leadership we have these two tick boxes we must have a check box that whenever we are trying to appoint someone as leadership we are looking to the very heights of leadership within our community that they uphold these levels within leadership these are his words not my words please go and read the code of leadership he states مرهوم الله أسغر he states that he has heard and seen from his own lifetime presidents of communities about meetings finishing World Federation meetings and discussing which casino shall we go to tonight it's not my words I'm just presenting them to you he states this is more than a decade it's more than a decade ago he says I have seen first hand leadership within our community talking about these ideas when we finish World Federation meeting which casino shall we go to could you imagine he states the reason why we need to have some sort of logical leadership some sort of logical height of leadership is to ensure that we are not aiding these sorts of leaders from coming within our communities we should have something that we recognize our leadership by it may not be there in Sharia I agree but within our own community we can write something within our constitution so that when we nominate we nominate someone who we believe to be the person who is worthy of leadership within our communities this isn't a game this isn't a game this is the work of the Imam and therefore this is the work of Allah SWT we are not picking someone because he is my brother in law we are not picking someone because he is my cousin and there are different times when we nominate either I put myself forward for leadership or I nominate someone I think you are the best person I nominate you for leadership or when it comes to the Jamaat or when it comes to World Federation or Africa Federation or Co-Edge we then vote for the person each one of these three circumstances the reason why we need to have a mental awareness is so that whether I am the one standing up for leadership whether I am the one nominating for leadership or whether I am the one voting for the leader I am aware that the person I am putting forward is up to task and he beholds the qualities of Taqwa Adal because I can be the one nominating I need to ensure that I am nominating someone who has Taqwa Adal now here we are not saying that this needs to come in but it needs to be within the heart at the very least if I am going to nominate someone for leadership within the community I need to be aware that he is the best for it he can lead on the spiritual level he can lead on the political level he can lead on the economic level he can lead within Madrasa he can bring an end to disputes within the community I have trust that my leadership is capable of performing these actions lest we fall in a deliberating debilitating circumstance where leadership becomes wrong where leadership becomes less and less of these qualities not everyone is capable of being that leader not everyone is capable of being that person not everyone should be that person Bahlul Dana has an outstanding example of this where he wants to highlight that there are people who are the heights of leadership and there are other people who are gaining certain positions for example one day he walks into the palace of Ar-Rashid the palace as he enters into the courtyard he sees the pulpit of Rashid this room was completely empty he didn't see any guards he didn't see any court gestures he didn't see any of these people decided to go up and he sat upon the pulpit he is sitting there on the pulpit and he is emulating and he is having a little bit of fun he is making fun of Ar-Rashid there is no one in the room but he is making a little bit of fun and he is pretending to give out orders you go and do this you go and spend this money you need to be the one who comes and writes this edict as he is making noise and making fun of the Caliph Ar-Rashid the guards burst through the door they see that Bahlul is sitting upon the throne the pulpit of Ar-Rashid what do they do they pull Bahlul down throw him to the floor they begin to beat him and beat him and beat him Bahlul is crying out wailing in pain for having been beaten Ar-Rashid in the next room here is this commotion he comes in he sees that this is Bahlul someone he knows very well tells his guards stop beating him this is Bahlul stop the guards subsist he is in pain Bahlul is in anguish Bahlul is crying Ar-Rashid comes sits down beside Bahlul he says to him Bahlul there is no need to cry anymore it's okay why are you crying still the guards have stopped beating you he says no you misunderstand I am not crying because the guards have beaten me I am crying because for your sake illegitimately wrongly for just a few seconds look at the punishment I received you have been sitting illegitimately on the pulpit of true Khilafat for so many years imagine how many punishment you are going to get in the next world he was trying to highlight here leadership is a huge responsibility huge responsibility you cannot just come and sit on the pulpit of Ahlul Bayt and be the one who is claiming to be giving out these edicts leadership is one that grows from within you raise yourself to being worthy you are the one who demonstrates being able to lead the community indeed we have wonderful leaders in our community they should be supported not pulled down sometimes we find a leader within the community he aspires to be the leader he is clearly head and shoulders above others but we don't like him because of his serving or maybe I have had a personal dispute with him just because I've had a personal dispute with this person doesn't mean that he's not the right person to lead the community I may have had a disagreement with him I may have had a disagreement with many people in my life maybe he is right but I was wrong why should I be the one who holds him down just because I am the leader who holds him down just because I am the one who has had a disagreement with this person we must groom our leadership within the 21st century we must make our mentorship programs we should have people who want and aspire to be leaders we should have people who are enthusiastic within the community and when we find those enthusiastic youth we should be grooming them and asking them to come within community service here we need to suggest to our youth humbly suggest to our youth that all of our youth within this community and every community within the world whoever received this message no matter what age of adolescents you are no matter what age of teen you are no matter whether you have finished your university or your work engage in leadership engage in servitude for the community engage participate how many youth are there within this community let us just pick a figure for the sake of it 500 1000 2000 what is a youth some of my elders will also claim to be a youth at the moment indeed you are all youth I don't care how gray your hair is you are all youth indeed but if you are a youth if you are 16 18 within the community the commander of the faithful علي ابن أبي طالب صلوات الله وسلم وعلي has a tradition where he states الله سبحانه وتعالى has diversified the aspirations of mankind الله سبحانه وتعالى has diversified the aspirations of mankind he continues why because had every human being the same this world would have been too difficult to live with him he continues to explain if everyone here had been the same then all of you would have had to do exactly the same things within your family all of you would have had to produce your own food all of you would have had to been the doctor all of you would have to been the engineer all of you would have had to been the builder all of you would have had to been the driver he says no الله سبحانه وتعالى he says no الله سبحانه وتعالى in his planning in his thinking in his goal for the creation of his system was one that he ordained that human beings are different in every way shape or form all of you here are unique all of you here have a different skill set have you ever thought about what skill set you have have you ever thought what you excel in just look next to the person look next to the person sitting next to you that person does not have the skill set that you have and you do not have the skill set that he has is that a coincidence no الله سبحانه وتعالى did this in creation because he wanted all of us to be unique and all of us to have skill sets whereby we endowed with abilities to give back to the community in those same ways if you are someone who is good in a professional accountant you can give back to the community in your own way if you are good in sports imagine how you can give back to your own community you can bring the youth of different ages you can teach them to become healthy human beings you can teach them to have ethics when they play sports you can teach them to have good intentions when they play sports if you are someone who is good in IT you can aid the Jamaat in building on their IT infrastructure if you are someone who is good in art you can aid the community in their own way every situation every human has been created so that they can give back towards the community in their own shape and form imagine now what skill set you have imagine now if we had an upsurge let's just pick a number let's say of our community 5% of volunteers how wonderful a community we have how many different community exercises take place we have this sports club we have this debating we have this madrasa we have this school we have this leadership imagine now if overnight we doubled the number of volunteers with the community imagine how many more youths can be emboldened imagine how many more youths can be given leadership training imagine how many more youths can be spent time with for their own system of development indeed we are all very busy who here is not busy aren't the volunteers busy aren't the teachers in the madrasa busy aren't our leaders busy they all give time from within themselves but imagine how much more our Jamaat can grow economically politically as an institute for the future of the next 50 years if another 10% of our community youth stood up tomorrow and said I will give back time within the community the same way the community has put time into me in the first place this is what it means


Today I'll be testing 10 viral video hacks I've seen on social media to see if they actually work or just make you look ridiculous. Hey, it's Herman here again with Artlist and I've always been skeptical about tricks and hacks that would get millions and millions of views. But being a creator means learning new things and keeping up with modern techniques. That's why I'm willing to be the guinea pig today and spend my own precious time to find out if these work so that you don't have to. Oh my gosh, my camera. Now it's gonna be a mix of tricks that you can do with your camera, your smartphone, or both. Click that like button on this video and let's get into it. Yo, it's Herman here in the heart of Vancouver downtown right now. We have Emmy behind the camera. She's gonna be our BTS today. And we're gonna be trying trick number one, which is the viral phone hack where you change the exposure and it looks like the sun is going up, looks really sick, looks really easy to do. And we're gonna find out if it actually works as simple as it does. We're going to go into our camera settings, go into video mode, and we're gonna set this down and we're gonna hope that this is not gonna fall over the ledge because I cannot afford a new phone. I'm supposed to hold down and then I'm supposed to bring down my exposure all the way as low as I can. I feel like I want this to be darker, but I can't get it any darker on the Samsung phone, but we're going to actually just record it and give it a shot. So that didn't work out. And I think it's because of the limitation of my phone. Now in the TikTok itself, they do use an iPhone, so we're gonna use Emmy's iPhone. Thankfully, she is an Apple user and not like me who is not on the dark side. We hold that down and then we bring the slider all the way down. Oh, this is looking way better already. We're gonna hit record and then we're gonna bring that slider up very slowly. That is so much better. Apparently on iPhones, you can go much darker and I think that it really sold the effect over here. Would I do this again? I definitely would if I switched over to Apple.  Now, last year I bought a motorized slider. The biggest mistake in my life because they're gonna just use a table, right? Well, let's find out. Let's fold this. We're gonna put our DSLR on top of it and I think we're gonna push it so it starts all the way over here and with one hand. Okay, two hands. I'm gonna grab the towel and then slowly pull it and I'll see how it looks like. It's pretty good. I think the only problem is that it will kind of like fidget a little bit. What if I just use the full length of the towel? Dude, this is solid. Let's see if it works shooting on my phone. Hit the record button and let's pull. That's so cool. I feel like I'm watching some sort of like professional real estate video from my own home. I'd buy this property. I can't hit. I'm still renting. But if you're looking for a cheap and efficient solution to add some camera movement while you're doing B-roll at home, then this is amazing. Be gone, slider. You will have been replaced. Let's not damage it. It was kind of expensive. All right, so for this next trick, we are gonna be feeling like we're back in kindergarten because we're gonna grab some color markers and draw all over a lens. Now, of course, we're not drawing directly on the lens because that would be insane. So we're gonna use plastic wrap just like what they're doing. Now, I'm not at home where it's convenient for me to go into the kitchen cupboard and grab some plastic wrap. So I just wrapped it around my water bottle and we're gonna put some over our lens so that it's safe to color in this harsh, windy, Vancouver environment. Just like this, so it's nice and secure. We're gonna grab the tool to make this trick shine. The set of markers that I always dreamed of having as a kid. Let's do half blue and the other half red. Let's record something and see what it actually turns out looking like. This is a really cool effect. I can actually see the hint of blue and a bit of the red over here. Honestly, I was expecting this to look a lot worse. I think this makes it a really cheap and easy filter that you can do at home without dropping money on actual filters, which I usually have on camera. Now, would I do this trick again? I think I would because this actually lets me change different colors depending on the marker I use. So I used red and blue, but you can always use something like green and purple and get a really stylized, dreamy glow effect. You should definitely try it out. This gets a Herman seal of approval. You can also use this hack for black and white photography where different colors accomplish different things. Orange can smoothen skin tones and red can darken the sky in landscape shots. Now, I don't normally shoot black and white, but this might make me reconsider. Now, this one looks simple enough to do if you don't mind your phone screen being cracked. Because what if I want to shoot this epic slow-mo with no beds around as my crash pad? If you've got a pile of bubble wrap, you can probably use that. If you've got a friend who's great at football, you can just ask them to catch your phone. If you're like me after losing an argument, you can use what you're sleeping on that night. OK, so instead of falling, I'm planning to throw these playing cards while I throw my phone because I'm just getting too old to be falling on my spine. We're just going to go to slow motion like that. I don't know how I'm going to do this with one hand on the cards, one hand on the phone. And then I just chuck it, right? Let's go. I'm a little nervous. I feel like when I drop this phone, I'm going to break the phone. I've got a crash pad. It's OK. I've got the sofa. Oh, I've got to stop recording. Well, let's quickly see how it turned out. Yeah, not so good.   This will be my crash pad. Well, I didn't work out, did it? Maybe I'm just really bad at throwing. I was picked last in basketball all the time. At this point, I'm convinced that he had a friend help him just pull the phone back because there's no way you can just throw the phone and have it facing towards you the entire time. I think that this hack is not as easy as it looks. I personally would not do it again. This is how much money we are saving today by taping some fishing wire over our lens, assuming that it actually works. So we've got fishing wire, we've got tape, and this is my janky anamorphic lens. Let's find out if it'll flare the same way that the $40,000 lenses would as well. You see a little bit of flaring, which is nice. I wish it would run completely across the screen, but given how this is such a cheap and easy hack, I think this actually ended up turning out pretty good. So it worked on the camera, but let's try it on my phone camera and see if I can get the same results. I don't know if it's going to work. I've never tried it before. I've never tried any of these hacks before, actually. So hopefully it's going to be as simple as taking the fishing wire and tape from my camera and just transferring that over to my phone. I do feel like there's a little bit too much of flaring, but if you're going for a dreamy effect, I think it doesn't hurt to try it. So if you're looking for anamorphic flares without breaking a piggy bank or taking on a mortgage, then I think this is a hack that is definitely worth trying. Give it a go. All you got to do is buy some fishing wire and tape and you've got a Hollywood look. Man, I'm excited to try this next one because it looks like such an easy way to add texture to your background with just a light source. The hack is to make your own Cucolores. Cucolores? Cucolores. Everyone just calls them cookies. And today we're going to be making it out of a cardboard box. Time to find out if this thing actually works the way that it is intended. We're just going to mount it on the C stand. We have a light. Oh, that is very, very bright. Cardboard was a little bit heavier than I thought. And if I sit up here, honestly, it looks really good. I'm really impressed just looking at the monitor. I feel like I'm definitely going to keep using this. Now, the only gripe I have is that because it's handmade, you can see how crooked the lines are. But if you actually take your time to cut it out and make it nice and neat, I can see this being a great, practical way to save a lot of money. And I hope you're as impressed as I am. So we're on to our next hack. And this one also involves your phone. I have not used the panorama mode before on my phone. But this trick has convinced me that it could be my new favorite mode if this hack actually works. Let's switch over to panorama mode and then we're going to pan all the way up. Let's take a look at this photo. It's not the most flattering angle. So I don't think I will be using this trick again. I'm going to call this a pass. Maybe it just has to do with my phone. That's the fun in trying these tricks out, right? We find out that things work and that they fail miserably. This trick uses a simple match cut in which you cut during the motion to hide the cut. But I imagine that this is going to require a few attempts to get it looking right. I've got huge respect for the amount of patience behind a lot of TikTok videos that use this technique in a sequence. I mean, it seems simple enough. I just have to mount this onto my tripod and let's back that up. So if I jump over here, the phone just fell. Phone's going to be over here. The light's going to be over here. I know where I'm going to jump. So let's throw the jacket a few times. That's one, two, three. Am I even throwing it high enough? I think I should do like variations, right? So some of them are a little bit higher. Some of them are a little bit lower. So I have a range. I'm going to keep this rolling and not touch it, not move anything. But I'm going to wear this jacket now. I can find the other sleeve and we're going to jump in that spot where I've been throwing my jacket. I think I pulled something. Let's see how it turned out in the edit. So does this hack work? You tell me in the comments because I'm fairly happy with it. I feel like I would definitely do this again. I've done match cuts in the past, although it does take some patience to get the right shot. I think that it's a cool and simple trick that you can do with just your phone in your pocket. You set it up wherever you are and you can do this for your next take talk. I am kind of skeptical about this. I'm mostly concerned that I'm not going to tie this properly around my camera and it's going to fall, it's going to break and we're going to be recording a very unhappy crying Herman. How's this going to work? I'm going to do something that's a little bit safer. We're going to put the handle on like this and we're going to make sure that the belt will at least loop around this handle a little bit. So I think it goes around like this and we'll do it around the camera. Is this secure? Oh my gosh, my camera. It's a little crooked. That's okay. We're going to hit record where we get then you know what, if I put it on this dirt at least there will be a little bit for it to fall. We got a belt cam. Okay. I don't think it was meant to do that. So I'm just going to do a really simple slider shot. I don't know how to feel about this. It could be the technique that I lack or it could be the hack. I wouldn't do it again but you guys can try it in the comments and let me know. That was a really weird hack. So if you ever find your shots looking really bland and boring then adding reflections is your quick and fastest way to make your shot look interesting. All you have to do is pretend that you drink a healthy 3.7 liters of water a day. Because we're in Vancouver, I don't even need this. There are puddles literally everywhere that I can use as a reflection but if there's a specific spot that you want reflection like for example, maybe like over here somewhere we're going to just create a reflection on our own by pouring some water like this. So now we have a lovely little reflection over there. Record. So unfortunately, I feel like the puddle was drying up really quickly so we don't get any cool reflections anymore. So with a water bottle it really depends on the climate and temperature you're at. I would say just have like a lot of water pour it out and then quickly get your shot for a video. I think you need something a little more rounded. So this is the biggest puddle that I can find and I think that it covers more surface area and it actually looks a lot better and I don't have to worry about it drying up because it's quite wet. That's a pretty cool shot. Now we know reflections always make things look cooler on camera. Would I do this again? Definitely. I would definitely get something bigger than what I was using earlier.  There you have it. Hacks tested in the real world to find out if they're actually useful to you. Now let us know in the comments if there are more hacks that I should try out. Whether these worked out the way I thought it would or wouldn't it was a lot of fun to try out and I think that's the most important part of being a creator.  I think it's important to know them just in case your plan A fails. We constantly problem solve as creators and sometimes it calls for improvising on the spot. There have been countless situations where I had to get crafty because the proper equipment was out of my budget. This lets you learn what the tools accomplish and act as backup for super sticky situations. Now if you wanna see more videos like this or tutorials or challenges that we take on then make sure to subscribe to the Artless channel so that you don't miss the next video. Thank you all for watching and I'll see you in the next one.


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I hope we can get a bead on that critter before the light gets bad. Still early to Lem, he can't be too far away, these tracks are fresh. Maybe we should have brought the dog team for further along with us. They're pretty far back. They won't have to go all the way back for him, as far enough so King can hear me if I bring them them. Take it easy long here, Lem. I'm losing me a little back into those thickets ahead. Don't I saw some branches move? My eyes are getting bad, Sergeant. It's getting so I can't see anything unless it's right under my nose. I'll go ahead and circle that thicket. Maybe I can scare something out. I'll be close behind you, Lem. Take it careful. The wind was blowing toward Lem as he approached the thicket covering brush. Suddenly, he stepped on a dry branch under the snow and it cracked loudly in the silence. At that moment, the bushes parted near Lem and a large brown bear had charged out at him. Lem dodged to one side and the Mounties gun rolled again and again as the beast closed in on the old man. It was almost upon him when it suddenly sprawled in the snow. It was close. Glad you're a good shot, President. You all right? I feel like a boat engine going upstream. I never saw a bear attack anyone like that. If we're downwind from it, you must have frightened it.  Well, Sergeant, look! It's a cub, a bear cub. That's why that bear attacked you. She thought you'd hurt a cub. Well, now ain't he the cutest little thing you ever saw? He's too small to be afraid of men.  I won't hurt you. Too bad we had to make an orphan out of him. I wonder what we ought to do with him. Do with him? We'll take him home and make a pet out of him.  If your wife didn't like having a pet coon, she's not going to be too happy about a pet bear. Shucks. Even Maggie couldn't help liking this little fella the way he's cute as a kitten. She's going to have to like him. I always had a hankering for a pet bear. Her memory isn't going to stay that size. He goes as big as his mother. There won't be any room for you and Maggie in the cabin. Well, he'll be good protection for us. I think I'll call him Rudy. What? Yeah, that's shot for Rudolph. I had a partner once named Rudy. He looked just like a bear. And I bet this young fella won't look just like him. All right, Lam, you adopt him. I hope Maggie shares your enthusiasm. And it's taking back to the dog team going home. How quick you're wiggling, Rudy. From now on, I'm your first upon. You've got to do as I say. It was almost supper time when Sergeant Preston and Lam stopped the dog team in front of Lam's cabin. Okay. King, Preston's big lead dog, came back and sniffed curiously at the squirming bundle of fur in Lam's arms as he got off the dog sled.  Okay. Oh, look at King, Simon. No, I'm sure he won't. Put the cub on the ground. They may as well get used to each other. Careful, King. Don't hurt him. No, King. No, don't scare him. You take care of him, fella. I swear, I think that dog knows everything you say, Sergeant. Look at him. He's licking Rudy. King knows he's such a baby. Rudy isn't afraid of King, is he? My golly, they're friends already. That bear cub is going to have the best disposition in the world. He likes everybody.  I can't keep me out of this. Look at him. Andy, the cutest little thing you ever saw. Why, it's a bear cub. Yeah, we just knew you'd like him. Who said I liked him? Well, the Sergeant here, he said he just knew you'd be crazy. Well, he is a cute little buggy, Maggie. We just got rid of that pesky raccoon you had, Len. Now you bring home a bear.  I'm not going to put up with anything like that. Oh, the thing likes him. We'll call him Rudy. Remember, you always like Rudy. You see, Maggie, we shot his ma in the woods today.  He's hungry and cold, and he don't know how to help himself. Well, oh, you quit working on my sympathies, Len Bailey. Well, I guess we'll just have to turn him loose and let him starve and get eaten by a wolf or something. Well, oh, you too. All right, bring him in. No use arguing. Let me suffer, get cold. Come on. Thanks, Sergeant. Dad did it. She'll keep him once she feeds him. Come on, Rudy. We've got you over the first hurdle. Maggie's got a real tender heart, and I know she's going to like you. Len Bailey and Maggie kept the young cub, and as Sergeant Preston stopped at their cabin whenever he was in the vicinity, King and Rudy became friendly. As the bear grew to his full size, he and King treated each other with quiet dignity. It always delighted Len to watch them. Just look at them, Sergeant. It's hard to believe that a bear and a dog could get along and know each other like that. It's a long time since our last visit, Len, but they haven't forgotten each other. You'll stay for supper, won't you? Why? Maggie will ask me. Ask you? When she heard you'd come and she started getting more food while I come out to meet you. Sergeant Preston. How are you, Maggie? I'm just fine, Sergeant. I didn't go out to meet you because I knew you'd be hungry, and I thought hurry and supper would be showing more hospitality. Maggie, you certainly know the way to a man's heart. Oh, men, dogs and bears. They're all alike.  Well, Rudy sure thinks she's one. Say, you should see that bear, Sergeant. He follows her all over the place. Well, now, uh, I didn't come here just to eat. As a matter of fact, I came to warn you people about two men we're after. You mean criminals? Yes, Len. We're quite sure they're in this territory. I'm warning everyone to be on the lookout for them. Are these men dangerous, Sergeant? Yes, they are. They're killers. They're wanted by both the Canadian and United States governments. That's sakes. We're putting these posters around. There's a picture of one of them on it. He escaped from prison, and there's a description of both of them. He's a rough-looking character. Sure he is. But I don't think we have much to worry about. Our cabin is hidden off so far from everything that nobody could find it. It's just the kind of a place these men would like to find. But I doubt that you have to worry or look at that big bear roaming around the place. Not to discourage anybody. You're all right, Sergeant. Strangers don't ever drop in the way they used to. Of course all our friends know he's as harmless as a kitten. Why, I even wrestle with him. I'm sure he has to suffer, Sergeant. He's the smartest animal I ever saw. Oh, I should say he is. The other day, he wanted to get out of the cabin, and he was standing on his hind legs, fooling with the latch of the door. I swear he'd have opened it himself if I had the help. Look how proud she is of Rudy. Remember, Sergeant, how we had to scheme to get her to keep it?  Oh, but I must admit I'm fond of Rudy. If I wasn't, I wouldn't let him in the cabin the way I do. Now that I know there are bad men in the territory, I might be glad to have him. Incidentally, if you ever do happen to see Red Grant or Jake Carter, give them whatever they ask and don't try to resist.  Red Grant and Jake Carter. Their names don't sound vicious. But the men are. Remember they're desperate, Len. They know they'll hang if they're caught. Back in the hills, not too far from Len's cabin, Red Grant and Jake Carter sat before a small campfire in front of a cave, finishing their supper.  Jake, smaller with beady black eyes and the quick-life movements of a snake, emptied his plate into the fire. I can't eat this rotten food anymore. How can you sit there and gubble it down as if it was home cooking? Maybe I'm not as good a cook as that squaw. Quit talking about it. So now you're getting touchy about that, too. It's getting so I can't talk about nothing anymore.  I want some decent food. Nothing wrong with this food.  You'd have been there with me if I had it torn. I helped you when you got out, didn't I? Now look at us. They're after both of us. I should have left you and worked alone. They're after you for that knife when you didn't Seattle. I wasn't even there when it happened. And if you hadn't shot that prospector, they'd never have known we were in the Yukon territory. You're lucky I'm with you. You don't know nothing about hunting. You couldn't live in this wilderness without me. It wouldn't know how. I don't call this living. We're gonna find a cabin somewhere. I want a roof over my head and a bed to sleep in. That's a big orn, Jake. But I'll admit we gotta do something. I need a new gun. One I got keeps jamming all the time. We're running short of food. I gotta get something to hunt with. Well, Jake, maybe we better risk swapping some of our gold for supplies of the Trayton Post.  By now a bit every Trayton Post in the territory has been told about us. 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Oh, let me, Bailey, you know better than that. Me, riding on a mule? Oh, walking don't hurt me any. Well, I ain't too proud to ride a mule. I got to go all the way to the trading post today and get some surprise. I could use a mule to help me totem. I was just thinking about you, though.   Speaking of Rudy, if you're going to the trading post, I better shut him in the cabin. No, I don't. He'll follow me. Mrs. Jackson will be scared out of her wits. Well, there's a good idea to leave him here after what Sergeant Preston said about their mayonnaise chasing. Well, I guess I'd better get started. It's almost a four-days trip. I'd like to get back before dark. Now, don't you get playing checkers with anybody and forget what time it is. I won't, Maggie. I won't. I'll be back about the same time you will in time to help you start supper. I'll wait for his breakfast, I guess.  Here, Rudy. It was later that morning when Sergeant Preston, on horseback with King running beside him, stopped at a bend in the trail and was greeted by Corporal Drake, who was waiting for him. Morning, Sergeant. Morning, Corporal. Anything to report? I think I may have a lead on the men we're after. I met a trapper this morning who said he'd seen a man hunting the other day. From his description of him, it was undoubtedly Rhett Grant. Where are these hills, all right? Then later on, I was riding over the ridge. I saw a curl of campfire smoke down in the valley. I looked through my field glasses and saw that it was built in front of a cave. There was no sign of anyone near it, so I thought I'd meet you and report it. You think it's worth investigating? Yes, I do. That could be where they'd hide out. Lead the way, Corporal. Have a look at it. Good. Get up. Come on. Get up there. As Corporal Drake and Sergeant Preston examined the cave and the hills, King sniffed around as if he too were looking for clues. He had picked up a torn piece of cloth from a dark corner of the cave, and Sergeant Preston took it from him. How'd you find, boy? What is it, Sergeant? Looks like a piece torn from the bottom of a trouser leg. Let's take it out into the light. One, King. Hey, that looks like the kind of cloth that's used for prison clothes. It is. I think we're on the trail of the men we want. They've gone. They haven't left anything, and they won't be back. There aren't any tracks in these rocks to show which way they went. King and Puddle, they're sent without tracks. I got the sent from this piece of cloth. Here, King. This cloth, boy. Find him, Puddle. After him. The rain that Maggie had predicted fell heavily above noon, but it had lightened to a thin drizzle when Jake Carter and Red Grant broke into the clearing where Lem's cabin stood. Jake, look, a cap. I don't care what it is. As long as it's got a roof. I'm drenched in the skin. Come on. Ah, Jake, be careful. Someone's there. I've got my knife and you have your gun. I'd like to see anybody try and stop us. Look, the door is swinging open and shut. There's nobody home where they'd close it. Come on. Now, this cabin is away from everything. Nobody finds here. We'll take care of the owner of it when he comes back. We're going to do another climate. It's dark in here. Maybe somebody's asleep. What's that? Jake, look out. It's a bear. Get back here. Jake, don't throw that knife. Red, shoot him. Jake went spinning into the wall as the bear's huge paw struck him beside the head. Red raised his gun as the beast turned toward him, blood streaming from the knife wound in his shoulder. He pulled the trigger frantically. Now this gun is jammed. Get back. Get back. I say. No, no, no. With one swing of its mighty forepaw, it knocked the gun from Red's hand. Then it struck again. Oh, no. Red rolled toward the cot and lay writhing beside it. Jake lay still on the other side of the room. His leg crumpled under him. The huge bear, grunting with rage and pain, ran out the open door. The rain had stopped, and a small break in the clouds lighted up the clearing as the beast loped toward some rocks that rose above the trees a short distance away. He left a trail of blood behind him. It was some time later when Sergeant Preston and Corporal Drake, following King, walked their horses along the narrow trail leading toward Lem's cabin. It was impossible to go faster, and the sergeant's fears mounted as it grew closer. It was with a sigh of relief that he saw Lem's figure trudging ahead as they neared the clearing. Lem. Lem. King, fight balance. Stay here, boy. We should meet you sooner. You can carry this pack I'm bringing Lem. Lem. I don't think she'll be back yet. She went over to Mrs. Jackson's today. Why? Lem, this is Corporal Drake. The Corporal and I are on the trail of those men I told you about, and the trail leads to your cabin. Holy cats!  What's Sergeant? Maggie was going to shot Rudy in the cabin. He'd scare anybody away. These men don't scare easily. You follow us, Lem, steady bullet. He ran ahead of the Maltese as they approached the cabin. He went through the open door and barked frantically from inside. Something wrong in there. Someone's been hurt. His blood on this step. Look, they're in the corner of a man. Help! Help! I'll take a look at him. Red Grant. I'm hurt. What happened, Grant? A bear. It was a bear. What did he say? A bear? Lem has a pet bear. It must have attacked him. I'll cut his coat open. What happened, Sergeant? We didn't, Lem. Rudy did. Rudy? Rudy wouldn't attack anybody. Who said he did? Red Grant said so. He's lying. What happened to a lying thief? He threw his knife. It went into the bear's shoulder, but it didn't kill him. You mean he stuck Rudy with a knife? Why, they're sneaking right out. Kill him. Where is he? You're too late. Lem. Rudy killed him. He's over there in the corner. No such thing. He wouldn't do a thing like that. What if he were wounded? I think it's safe to move Grant to that cot, don't you, Corporal? You mean that's Rudy's blood on the step? Yes, Lem. Come on, Corporal. Oh, Rudy's hurt. I'm going to find him. Lem, don't go after that bear. He's dangerous. I'm going to find him. Hurry, Corporal. Lift Grant over the cot. Where's his shoulder? There. I'll have to go after Lem. The bear might kill him. I'll take care of Grant, Sergeant. Come along, King. The tracks of the wounded bear were clear from the soft mud after the rain. They led to a niche in a rocky wall a sharp distance from the cabin. Lem was nearing it when Sergeant Preston caught sight of him. Realizing he couldn't catch him, the mountain sent King ahead. On, King.  On, King. The great dog streaked over the soft ground, but just as he reached Lem, there was a roar from the rocks as the big bear charged out. But King, sprang at the same instant, his fangs tearing at the bear's shoulder. For an instant, the bear's charge was stopped. Then, with a mighty swing, he threw King's body from him. But it was then that Sergeant Preston's gun spoke. And the big, brown body sprawled headlong beside Lem. Lem. Lem, you all right? Yes, I guess so, but... But Rudy...  Oh, I can't believe it. I can't believe Rudy'd do it. He was my friend. He was wounded. He didn't know what he was doing. I must have scared him. I can't believe it. Back to the cabin, Lem. Don't look at him. I'll take care of him later. I just can't believe he'd do it. As Lem and Sergeant Preston near the door of the cabin, they saw Maggie enter the clearing from the trail. That was Maggie, Lem. I'd better warn her about what's happened before she gets to the cabin. Yeah, we'd better. She's home earlier than she expected to be. Hello, Maggie. Well, Sergeant Preston, you back again? Yes, Maggie. You see, we... Wait. Lem, look. What's that?  What do you think it is? It's Rudy. But it can be. He was... He was shot in the cabin. But that pesky vomit must have figured out how to get the door open. That's why I'm home early. He ruined my whole day. He followed me to the Jackson's and scared poor Mrs. Jackson out of a year's growth when he poked his head through her open window. He's alive! Then he got into her storeroom and stole her molasses. Got it all over himself and everything else. He's all sticky with it. I've never been so mortified in order. What's wrong with you two?  We... We just shot a bear. It had been in your cabin. A bear in our cabin? Well, that ain't impossible. There's lots of them around here. I suppose when Rudy left the door open, a wild one went in foraging for food. Oh, Rudy, I knew you wouldn't do it. You never hurt me. What? Stop hugging that bear.  Rudy, I knew you wouldn't do it. What's he talking about, Sergeant? Well, it's a long story, Maggie, but Lem thought the other bear was Rudy. What? I like King and the Sergeant. The bear charged me, but King stopped him long enough for the Sergeant to shoot. Well, of all things, Lem Bailey, you'd better get yourself some glasses. That's a good idea, Lem. You want to be sure after this that you get the right bear when you're going to be chummy with him. Now, Maggie, you'd better go for a little walk with Lem. A few things to take care of in your cabin. What? What's all about? Lem will explain it to you, Maggie. Blunking. Yes, King, old boy. Thanks to your quick action, this case is closed. In just a moment, I'll give you a preview of Monday's program. Don't forget, hurry to your grocer. Get new model farm packages of Quakerpuff wheat and Quakerpuff rice. Yes, your grocer now has them.  They come on eight different packages and they're yours at no extra cost. 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Good day, everybody. This is Dr. Sanjay Sanyal, Professor, Department Chair. This is going to be a demonstration of the carpal bones and their associated joints. So you're seeing the articulated skeleton of the right side. Just to bring up the speed, this is the ulna. This is the radius. This is the radiocarpal joint. And these are the carpal bones. These are the metacarpals. So this is the metacarpal of the thumb, second, third, fourth, and fifth, the little finger. And these are the phalanges. It is said that this is the x-ray of the wife of Rungin, the discoverer of x-ray, though this has not been verified. So let's focus on the carpal bones on the right side. We see this one here. This is the PC foam. Under that, we see the next bone. That is the triquetra. Then we have the lunate. Then we have the scaphoid. Then we have the trapezium. Then we have the trapezoid. Then we have the capitate. The hamate. This is the planing x-ray of the right hand to show the carpal bones which have been labeled. And this is the coronal MRI of the hand to show the carpal bones which also have been labeled. I'm going to repeat these carpal bones again on the left side. So now I have shifted to a skeleton on the left side. Here again you can see this is the ulnar side. This is the little finger and this is the thumb. Here we can see only the carpal bones. Just to regard for the time being, these beads here, these have been there just to hold the bones in place. This is the pisiform, the triquetral, the lunate, scaphoid, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate. These are the carpal bones that we can see on the left side. This is an enlarged x-ray of the left hand to show the carpal bones. They have not been labeled. It is for you to label them. Now let's come back to the previous skeleton. The pisiform. It is like a seed that's why it's called pisiform, like a seed. This is in effect a sesamoid bone within the tendon of the flexor carpal laryx. The flexor carpal laryx comes like this. This bone is inserted within that tendon and extending from this pisiform bone, there is a ligament which goes from the pisiform bone to the hook of hamate and that is called the pisohamate ligament. Pisohamate ligament incidentally forms the boundaries of a small canal, approximately an inch or so, which I shall mention later, which is called the caeons canal. So this is the pisiform bone. It's a small seed like bone. Under that we have the triquetral. This is roughly shaped like triangular pyramid. That's why it is called triquetral. To understand the shape, I will again take you back to the previous one. This is the other skeleton and you can see that this is the triquetral and it looks somewhat like a triangular pyramid. Then we have the lunate. I'm showing the other skeleton, the one on the left hand. Lunate means like half a moon and you will see if I turn it, you'll see that it looks like a half a moon. That's why it is called lunate. Then we have the next bone. This is the scaphoid. The scaphoid has got a narrow portion in the middle and that is called the waist of the scaphoid. So therefore, this is the distal portion. This is the proximal portion. We can have some important clinical correlations pertaining to the lunate and the scaphoid. If a person falls on his hand, he can have dislocation of the lunate into the carpal tunnel and that can produce carpal tunnel syndrome. So that is one important point to remember about the lunate. Similarly, if a person falls on his outstretched hand, he can have a fracture through the waist of the scaphoid. The blood supply to the scaphoid comes from distal to proximal and it is supplied by the palmar carpal branches of the radial artery. So therefore, if there's a fracture through the waist of the scaphoid, the proximal portion, the portion which articulates with the radius, that undergoes avascular necrosis and then it can never unite with the rest of the bone and that can produce permanent wrist disability. So that is about the fracture through the waist of the scaphoid. This is the trapezium and if you look, you'll find that there's a groove under the trapezium. That is a groove which is formed by the flexor carpal radialis tendon and I will turn it to show you the groove. That is a groove and that is called the flexor carpal radialis tunnel. The flexor carpal radialis goes through that and it's partially inserted onto the trapezium and it gets inserted onto the second metacarpal bone. That is the primary insertion and there may be a small insertion on the third metacarpal bone. So this is the groove for the flexor carpal radialis, the flexor carpal radialis tunnel. The trapezoid. Both of these are like a trapezium. This is a smaller one that's why it is called trapezoid. Capitate. This is the largest bone and it's like a head that's why it's called capitate. And the hammet is like a hammer and it's got a very prominent projection and that's called the hook of the hammet. This hook of the hammet can be fractured, especially if a person falls on his hand. This is a 3D reconstructed CT scan of the carpal bones to show fracture of the hook of hammet. Moreover, this hook of hammet also forms the boundary of the gion canal which I mentioned earlier. In either of these situations, it can produce distal ulnar nerve neuropathy and can produce ulnar claw hand. This is a clinical picture of a patient with distal ulnar neuropathy producing ulnar claw hand. Having mentioned these points, now let me mention to you some important attachments of the flexor retinaculum here. So for that I'm going to come back to the previous skeleton. Again, this is the busy form bone. There's a tough ligament which extends across the carpal bones and that is called the flexor retinaculum. It's also called the transverse carpal ligament. It is attached immediately to the busy form bone and to the hook of hammet. Roughly rectangular in shape. Laterally, it is attached to the tubercle of the scaphoid, tubercle of the trapezium. So therefore, it stretches across like this and therefore it converts this concave surface into a tunnel and that is referred to as the carpal tunnel. As we go through this carpal tunnel, we have the four tendons of the flexor digital superficialis with their sine wheel sheath and the four tendons of the flexor digital profundus, also the same common sine wheel sheath. These combined sine wheel sheath is incidentally referred to as the ulnar bursa. And then there's the tendon of the flexor follicis longus which goes in its separate sine wheel sheath that is called the radial bursa. So therefore, these nine tendons and also passing through the carpal tunnel is the main trunk of the median nerve which goes through the carpal tunnel and it supplies the muscles of the tinnar evinence. So therefore, in carpal tunnel syndrome, there can be hundreds of causes of carpal tunnel syndrome, median nerve can get compressed and it can produce weakness of the tinnar muscles and numbness tinnning and peristicia of the lateral three and a half digits. But the palm or skin will be spared because the skin of the palm is supplied by a separate branch which goes outside the carpal tunnel. So that is about the carpal tunnel. Having mentioned that, now let me come back to this and mention a few quick words about the guion canal. The guion canal is a small, approximately 3.5 or 4 centimeter canal which extends like this.   Distro-lateraly is the hook of hammered. The floor is formed by the transverse carpal ligament and the roof is formed by the volar carpal ligament and that is called the guion canal and that is the one which gives passage to the ulnar nerve. Remember, the ulnar nerve does not go through the carpal tunnel but it goes through the guion canal. And after it passes through, it divides into a deep branch which supplies the muscles of the hand, superficial branch which supplies the skin of the medial one and a half digits and it gives a communicating branch to the medial nerve. So, therefore, in the guion canal, the ulnar nerve can be compressed and that is called the guion canal syndrome. Another condition is called handlebar neuropathy. People who are riding motorcycles for long hours, they can compress the nerve in this region and that is called handlebar neuropathy. So, these are some of the points which I wanted to mention to you about the skeleton of the wrist, the carpal bones, the carpal tunnel syndrome and the guion canal syndrome and the associated pathologies. Thank you very much for watching. Dr. Sanjay Sanyal, Sanyao. If you have any questions or comments, please put them in the comment section below. Please like and subscribe. Have a nice day.


What they gonna do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. Talking to the sisters, I'm hooking them down. Gang hop out, then we clearing the crowd.    Thumbs up, rock on me, act on my call. All right, hey guys. So, we're on a new episode of Talk That's Town. Today, we have a very, very special guest. Not an artist, but we have an artist mom with us. Hello. For the shirt, you could tell.  Hey, my name is Jackie, AKA Mama Flock. The one and only. What's going on, guys? The one and only. So, um, let's start a little bit from the beginning. Like, give us a little walkthrough of, like, how, I guess, music transpired for Kay. Honestly, I don't know what to say with that one right there. Because he was not into music like that to see him become some type of rapper. So, you were shocked? All the way shocked. That was a whole left field. So, what was he working on before? He wanted to actually do clothing designs and stuff like that. Okay. I had him in boxing because that's what we do. Okay. So, things like that, but never, nothing of music, ever. I didn't even know he could even do anything like that. Honestly. So, walk us through, like, your first, I guess, musical experience. Like, how'd you see it when you saw it coming together? No, the first time I heard something, my oldest son was the one who came to me, was like, Mom, did you hear your son? I'm like, who? He's like, hello, your other son Kay. So, I'm like, where am I hearing him? Like, what are you talking about? He was like, he's doing music on YouTube. He's rapping.  So, and I'm like, for real? He's like, Mom, for real? He's like, he's sound good too. So, let me see. He pulls out the YouTube. I'm looking and I'm like, wow. I say, not for nothing. Not to my own horn, but my son's sound real good. Like, he's sound better than a lot of guys that's actually signed nowadays. And I'm like, not for nothing, he kind of sound like a pop smoke with that voice. So, I'm like, that's cool. Well, I hope he keeps up with that. That's what he really wants to do. That's what's giving him an inspiration. Then, the more the merrier. And he was supportive like the whole way, I guess. The whole entire way. I tell them that's what's going to keep you out of trouble. No problem. Let's go with it. I'm with it. And he kept on and kept on. And then I see he starts to get serious when he was coming to me. Damn yeah, every day I need $200. I need $300. I need $600 for what? For studio time. And I'm there like, but I just gave like $300 for studio. He's like, mom, I got you. Trust me. I got you. I got this. I got this. And I'm like, okay. I'm like, all right. You know, I'm not working right now. This COVID took everybody out of surprise. I'm like, but I do got money saved. But that's all I have. I have to like live with this. Okay. Mom, got you. Mom, got you. Watch. Watch mom. He was passionate from the beginning. Yeah. Real passionate. So since I, yeah, I used to argue with him and make him get mad and be like, no. And then make him come back a little later on and ask again. Yeah. Because I really wanted to really make sure that that's what he was really doing with the money. I was giving him, you know, I already went through a whole bunch of stuff with the typical boys. So it's just like, if I give you this $300, you sure it's going to be for that? You're not going to just go hang with your friends or whatever. No. So then you saw the music videos. I started seeing more and more, more and more. And then the money kept going up and up asking. So I'm like, okay, but why the money's going up? He's like, just watch mom, the videos and this and that. He's like, you're going to see him watch. And one day he sure enough came to me on three way like, look, and I'm like, I'm not trying to be funny, but who are these white people? And he's just like, mom, these are the people that I'm like, all right, well, my bad. I still was not believing it. Like. So he called you with the label and all that and you still wasn't. No, I didn't believe it at all. I was like, no, because me growing up and me seeing rappers and stuff like that, seeing how hard it was for them to get on. So, yeah, get put on. It was just like, that is not that easy for anybody to just get put on. So I was just like, whatever. Okay. And then he was just doing it by himself. Like he was making his own little ways of finding resources and how to get to where he is at now that I had to respect it.  And I'm like, So people was already coming up to you. Yeah. And I'm lost in the source. I'm the only one lost in the source. Like, I don't know. So I guess when did you like get with the source? I want to say, like when did you like get with it? You knew the white people was legit. On the second call with them. And that was with Nico. I love him to death. Okay. That was with them. And I was just like, Oh, then they was like, Oh, you have a million dollar kid. I'm sitting here like, No, he's not a million dollars because he costs more than that. There's no numbers for him. But granted, and they kept on. And I'm just there like, he's like, no, for real, you're going to watch and see. You know, he's only 17 soon. You get I'm just like, All right. Yeah. Sounds nice. And I'm like, Because you know how people tend to lie. So you just didn't want his hopes. Yeah.  I know what I'm doing. And I'm like, you don't want to know. I got this. I know what I'm doing. You always missed that. You got to know what you're doing. But I'm been the same way all my life. I got this. I know what I'm doing. So I'm pretty sure he had it. So and like I said, I kept going up. All the way up. All the way up. And when that paper sign thing came, well, I was just like, but I still still still, I was not believing it. I went to dinner with them. I'm with them in their face. And I'm still like, because it's so hard to believe y'all. And they're like, you're looking at us like you don't believe what's happening. I'm like, No, they're like, watching a couple of years. You're going to be on your booty stuff. Like when is my car? Why is my car not here? And I'm like, I know how to drive. I don't know. They're like, no, watch, I'm not really into that bougie stuff, whatever. But yeah, the different type of lifestyle, it's yes, it is way more. More to yourself. Yes. It's just better. And it should have just been that way from the get, not only just being in the entertainment and like that. I mean, I feel everybody should just be on a game. Definitely, definitely, definitely. So, so he been passionate about music. So like, I guess what was I want to say the first gift or gesture he gave to you? Because you already saved this amount of money.  No, I'm proud. I'm more than proud to see my son do it by himself. Okay. And because he had management. No, I mean, yeah, but he manages himself too. Okay. Don't play. He's like me. Nobody can just tell us what to do. And that's just it. It goes our way or highway. Right. So, yeah, and I was going to say, and what also happened was people say that he's super supportive of his friends. So like, he's was helping his friends along his career. He was trying to manage other artists while still pursuing his career. But did you know any of the friends he was helping or? Yes, I do. Yeah. I know Dougie. I know, I know them all. So like, what's some early memories? Do you remember them like rapping in the house or it was on some, they want to go to the studio? No, that boys never wrapped in my house. They was just in there in my, in there in that room, a whole bunch of boys. Boys being boys. Yeah. All sweaty and, you know, listening to music, me being who I am letting them know, like, why is there like no girls in here? You don't have no girls to be with. Like, why are y'all here boys? Like, weird, but whatever. But that's just how I know them. Like, I know them since like nine, 10, 11 years old. They was growing up. Yeah. Just hanging out in the room. I actually heard about, I think it was beloved that was doing the music when my son was in the group home, put away when he came home. Beloved took him and was like, you know, he's doing, he see that he's doing music. So he was like, like jump on it. Like, this is what we're doing. Get on it. So he said he was in a group home at first. So how did, how did that transition into him coming back home with you? Not simple. He did what he had to do. And that was that. Doing his thing. Okay. All right. So, you know, typical mishaps that happen with teenagers, kids, something that bad. Yes. All that stuff. Yeah. So he's always worked through, I want to say, problems, I guess. Not my son's good. Yeah. He always worked through the issues. Everything. Yeah. He makes sure he might go through struggle, quick, second, but he sits down, relax, thinks, focus up and then know what's, you know, what's going on and fixes it. So, um, so of course, like I'm, so as things was going up, as things kept arising, how was it? We found out, I guess the news of the arrest. So was it a phone call? Yeah. Or, you can just kind of the new, when you start a story. No, it was a phone call. And then from there, that's it. But, as I said before, he works through all those issues. So, he's going to work through this one too. Of course. Positively. That's God's gift right there. Mm-hmm. So, um, a lot of people feel like, rappers are often targeted by police and things like that. And in the media, it's trying to paint out drill to be this, that thing.   Please, I should have cut drill out a long time ago then. Yeah. So, that doesn't bother you? No. That drill stuff does not bother me at all. Yeah, because people are still supporting him and still. I got a lot of little kids that write me on IG that say my son's music inspired them. And I have to, I have to ask, like, how?   The music is just an expression. Yeah, the expression is just music. Yeah. So, people definitely are taking the music to, to literal. I mean, if you want to sit there, do it like again, back in the days, if you want to take it literal, that's a lot of music back in the days when they speak. They actually did things and also got want to jail for it. I don't know I just find it real dumb and irrelevant to sit there even bring that up in the air with drill music All of a sudden don't know the media and that's what's messing up Yes, the way that it's being portrayed. Yes, it's messed up everything all types of ways Yeah, but um, yeah, but kids still like the music kids still support the music So like what's one of your favorite songs I guess, okay? This is y'all ready So like how like how did you first hear that song and how you knew like yeah, that's I like that one I hear everything first. Oh, yeah, so he plays it for you first. Yeah, he'd be in the house Yeah, he'd be in his room and only here's out of the instrumental or something and all you hear is I'm dancing around. That's it. I already know what he's doing. Like I don't it don't even bother me I'll just let the people downstairs know like y'all already know my son They're like don't we already know girl. I'm like, all right, cool So the people downstairs already knows what's going on there. Yeah, music is there. I'm good. Yep So um, so y'all are doing a documentary. I don't know. Can I say that? Okay, so we are documenting this reaction documentary what um what message I guess we want the fans to know or to get from this Doc when they watch it or what would you want to leave fans that you probably wish he could have told people, you know Well, well, he done told me to let everybody know because I don't told them We're gonna do this and if he wanted me to say anything on his behalf if he wasn't able to speak He just wanted to let everybody know that he really loves y'all and he really thank y'all He really appreciate that y'all love his music and that y'all supporting him and that y'all praying for him And that when he comes home, he's gonna do nothing But make y'all even happier by giving y'all more music and some more dope-ness Yeah, he got a lot of coastlines from a lot of big artists too. Yes, he does Yeah, so and I'm so thankful and I want to tell you guys all thank you from the bottom of my heart literally It means like the world to me So if someone wants to help out if someone was watching this someone to help out like what like what could they do? at the moment pray right That's cool. I want prayers So all good vibes and all prayers and but genuine prayers if anybody want to do more than just that Genuinely that's because they want to and they choose to yeah, but I don't expect or want anything from anybody, but prayers and straight genuine support That's fair So definitely fans watching and supporting kflag definitely any last words? Just thank you Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming and sitting with us. You're more than welcome. Thank you Kflag one artist of the year this year. He definitely that's right put in that work this year Got this to put next to my youtube plaque now. Oh, yeah, these two. Oh, yeah Yes, I got that too And we're gonna keep getting more and bigger Yeah