Everyone, welcome to theCUBE's coverage of AnsibleFest 2021 with Red Hat. Topic of this power panel is the future of automation. We've got a great lineup of CUBE alumni. Joe Fitzgerald, vice president general manager of the Red Hat business unit. Thanks for coming on, Tom Anderson, vice president, product management at Red Hat, and Alessandro Parelli, who's senior director of product market at Redhawk with CUBE alumni's distinct power panel. Joe, we'll start out with you. What have you seen in the automation game right now? Does it continues to evolve? I mean, you can't go to an event, a virtual event, or read anything online without hearing. AI, automation, automation, hybrid, automation, hybrid, hybrid, hybrid, hybrid. I mean, automation is the top conversation in almost all verticals. What do you see happening right now? Yeah, it's sort of amazing. Automation is quite fashionable these days, as you pointed out. Automation's always been on the radar of a lot of enterprises, but I think it was always perceived as sort of like an efficiency, a task level thing that people did. Now automation is, if you believe some of the analysts, it's up to a boardroom imperative in some cases. So we are seeing with our customers that the level of complexity they're dealing with, particularly exaggerated by what's gone past year and a half in the world, is putting a tremendous amount of pressure, attention, and importance on automation. So automation is definitely one of the busiest places to be. What's the big change this year though? I mean, we love the automation conversation. We had it last year a lot too as well. What's the change? What's the trend right now that's driving this next level automation conversation with customers? Well, I'll ask my colleagues to comment on it a second, but the challenges here with automation is people are constrained now. They can't access facilities as easy as they used to be able to. They still need to go fast. Some businesses have had to expand dramatically and introduce new services to handle all sorts of new scenarios. So they've had to deploy things faster. Security, not a week goes by, you don't read about something going on regarding security and breaches and hacking and things like that. So they're trying to secure things as fast as possible and deploy into critical fixes and patches and things like that. So there's just a tremendous amount of activity that's really been exaggerated by what's gone on in the past year. And all of this has been compounded with a natural increase in complexity that we're seeing in the architecture, the explosion of microservices, the adoption of muscle containers and the adoption of multiple clouds for most customers around the world. So really the extension of the IT environment these days, especially for a large enterprise is enormous for any team, no matter how big it is or how skill it is to really go after and look for all the systems and then the complexity of the architectures is enormous within that IT environment. It is impossible to scale the applications and to scale the infrastructure and not scale the IT operations. And so automation becomes really a way to scale IT operations rather than just keep repeating same steps over and over in an attempt to simplify or to reduce costs as well beyond that at this point. That's a great point, Tom. That's what's your reaction to this because Alexandria brings up a good point. Developers are going faster than ever before. The changes of speed and complexity have gone up. So the demand for the IT and or security groups for anyone to be faster, not weeks, minutes. I'm talking about a complete time shift here. Yeah, so I talk to a lot of customers and what I keep hearing again and again from them is kind of two things, which is the need for skills and re-skilling existing staff when all of a sudden talks about the complexity and the scale, think about all the different new tools, new environments, new platforms that these employees and these associates are being exposed to and expected to be able to handle. So a real skills, not a skill shortage, but a stress on the skills of the organization. And then secondly, really, our customers are talking to us about the culture in the environment itself, the culture of collaboration, the culture of automation and the kind of impact that has on an organization the way teams are now expected to work together to share information, to share automation, to push, you know, we talk about shifting left in a lot of things now in IT, automation is now shifting left, pushing automation and access to subsystems, IT subsystems and resources into the hands of people who traditionally haven't had direct access to those resources. So really kind of shift in skills and a shift in culture I see. The culture, I want to come back to that culture thing, but I want to ask you specifically on that point, do you think automation users still view automation as just repeating and simplifying processes that they already are doing? You heard the expert, they're three times automated. Is that definition changing and evolving? What's your thoughts? Yeah, I think it's really changing, you know, going from the traditional, you know, I'm a network engineer and I use a command line to update my the devices I'm responsible for the config devices. And then I decide to write a playbook using a really cool product like Ansible to drive automation into my daily tasks. And then it comes up to exposing, again, exposing that subsystem I'm responsible for, whatever it is, storage network compute, whatever it is, exposing that up so other people can consume it without me being involved, right? So that's a real kind of change in a mindset and tooling and approach that I'm going to expose that up to a set of workflows, business workflows that drive automation throughout an organization. So that's a real kind of evolution of automation. First, and that's usually focused mostly on day zero, provisioning of a new service. Now we see a lot more focus or a lot of additional focus on day two operations. How do I automate my day two operations to make them a lot more efficient? As my scale and complexity grows, how do I take the human element out of operating this on a day-to-day basis? So you're saying basically, if I understand you correctly, the system's architecture view or mindset around automation is moves from, hey, I'm going to use an Ansible, by the way, it's great for, hey, I want to automate something that I'm doing a lot. That's cool. But you're looking at it differently. If I understand you correctly, you're saying the automation has to be a system view, meaning you create the rules of the road so that automation can happen at the front lines in the CISD Pipelining. You mentioned shift left. Is that the difference? Is that kind of what's happening here that it's beyond just doing automation because you can automate it? So you've done that. There's like a next level. Is that what you're getting at? It is. And we joke about a little bit crushing silos, right? Breaking down silos and again, I keep talking about culture. It really is important. The tools are important. The technology is important, but the culture is super important. And trying to think of that thing from a system's mindset of sort of workflows and orchestration of a business process that touches IT components and how do I automate that and expose that to that workflow without a human having to touch it, right? Yet still enforce my security protocols, my performance expectations, my compliance stuff. All of that stuff still needs to be enforced and that's where repeatable automation comes in of being able to expose this stuff up into these system level workflows. And then there is another element to this, a storage. I think it's really important to attach to this the element of speed. We talk about complexity. We talk about scale, but then there is this emerging third dimension as I call it that is the speed. And the speed has a number of different articulation. It's the speed when you're thinking about how quickly you need to deliver the application. If you're in a very competitive environment, think about web, web-scale startups, for example, or companies in an emerging market. And then you have the speed in terms of reacting to a cybersecurity attacker, which Tom just mentioned. And then you have the third kind of speed I'm thinking about right now, which is the increasing amount of artificial intelligence. So an algorithmic kind of operation. So this is taking place in the organization. For now, it's very limited, but it's no unthinkable that going forward to operations will be driven or at least assisted by artificial intelligence. This speed, just like the scale of the complexity we mentioned before, are impossible to be addressed by a single team. And so automation becomes indispensable. Yeah, that's a great point. I want to just double click on that. I mean, both Tom and Joe were just talking about system, they use the word system. In a subsystem, if one is going faster than the other to your point, there's a bottleneck there. So if the IT group or security groups are like going to take time to approve things or not put rules to the road together to automate, to help developers be faster. Because look at, it's clear, and we've been reporting on this in theCUBE. Cloud developers are fast. They're moving really fast with code. And so what happens is if they're going to shift left, that means they're going to be at the point of coding to set policies on security. So that's going to put pressure on the other subsystems to go faster. So they have to then expose rules to the road or I'm just making that up, but like policy-based or have some systems thinking. They can't just be the old way of saying, no, slow it down. So this is a cultural thing.  Is that still there, that fast team here and a slow team here? Is that still around? Are people getting faster on both sides? And I'm kind of talking about IT, generally speaking, that tend to be slower than the developers. Well, there's just a couple of comments.  Talked about shift left. Let me sort of maybe tie those together, right? What's happened to date is every silo had their own set of tooling, right? And so one silo might move very fast with a very private set of tools for network management or security or whatever, right? And if you think about it, one of the number one skills gaps right now is for automation people. But if an automation person has to learn 17 different tools, because I'm running on three public clouds, I have on-premise edge and I'm doing things, you know, to network storage, compute security, you know, all sorts of different systems, the tooling gets so complicated, right? But I ended with a bunch of specialists, right? Which can only do one or two things because they don't know the other domains and they don't know the skills. One of the things we've seen from our customers, I think this is a fundamental shift in automation, right? Is that what we've done with Ansible in particular is we actually adopted Ansible because of its simplicity. It's actually human readable. You don't have to be a, you know, hardcore programmer to write automation. So that allows the emergence of citizen creators of automation. There's not like a group in some ivory tower that now can make automation and they do it for the masses. Individuals can now use Ansible to create automation. Going cross-domain. Ansible automation touches networks, security, storage, compute, cloud, edge, Linux, windows, containers, traditional, ITSM. It touches so many systems that basically what you have is you have a set of power tooling in Ansible that allows you now to share automation across teams because they speak the same language, right? And that's how you go faster. If every silo is fast, but when you have to go into silo, you slow down or have to open a ticket or have some impedance in this match. It causes delays, errors, and exposures. I think that is a very key point. I mean, that delay of opening up tickets, not being responsible. John, you put up machine learning and AI. I mean, if you think about what that could do from an automation standpoint, if you can publish the HIPAA rules of your healthcare, you can just traverse that with a bot, right? I mean, this is like the new, this is save so much time. Now, why even open up a ticket? So if you can shift left and do the security and there's kind of rules there, this is a trend. So how do you make that happen? How do you bust a silo zone? I guess that's the question I'd love to get everyone to react to because that implies some sort of horizontally scalable control plane. How does someone do that in an architectural way that doesn't really kind of maybe break everything or make the anachronization go into a cultural sideways situation? Maybe I can jump in and grab this one and then maybe ask all the sonar to weigh in afterwards. But what we've seen and what you'll see, some of the speakers at Ansible Fessus here talk about from a cultural perspective is bringing teams together across automation guilds, JPMC calls it a community of practice where they're bringing hundreds and thousands of individuals in the organization together virtually into these teams that share best practices and processes and automation that they've created. Secondly, and this is a little bit of a shameless plug for Ansible, which is having a common language, a common automation language across these teams so that sharing becomes obviously a lot easier when you're using the same language. And then thirdly, what we see a lot now is people treating automation as code, right? Storing that in Git, version managing it, version controlling it, checking it in, checking it out, really thinking of automation differently from an individual writing a script to this being infrastructure or whatever my subsystem is managed it and automated it as code and thinking of themselves as people responsible for code. These are all great points. I think that on top of all these things there is an additional element which is change management. You cannot count on technology alone to change something that is purely cultural as we kept saying during this video right now. So I believe that a key element to win, to succeed in an automation project is to couple the technology. Great technology, easy to understand, able to become the common language as Tom just said with an effort in change management that starts from the top. This is something that you don't see very often because a technology vendor rarely works with a more consulting firm but it's definitely an area that I think would be very interesting to explore for our customers. That's a great point on the change management. I may ask you, what do you think it needs to make automation more frictionless for users? What do you see that needs to happen? How's that? I think there are at least a couple of elements that need to change. The first one is that the effort that we're seeing right now in the industry to further democratize the capability to automate has to go one notch further. And by that I mean implementing self-service provisioning portals and ways for automatically execute an automation workflow that already exists. So that an end user, somebody that works in a line of business and doesn't understand necessarily what the automation workflow the script is doing, still able to use it to consume it when she or he needs to use it. This is the first element. And then the second element that is definitely more ambitious is about the language about how do I actually write the automation workflow? This is a key problem. It's true that some automation engines and some workflows have done historically speaking a better job than others in simplifying the way we write automation workflows. And definitely this is much simpler than writing code with a programming language and it's simpler than writing automation compared to a tool that we used 15, 10, 15 years ago. But still there is a certain amount of complexity because you need to understand how to write in a way that the automation framework understands. And you need, even before that, you need to express what you want to achieve in a way that the automation engine understands. So I'm thinking then going forward, we'll start to see artificial intelligence being applied to this problem in a way that very similar to what OpenAI and Microsoft are doing with Codex. The capability that is a model that allows a person to write in plain English through a comment in code to translate that comment into actual code taken from GitHub to the machine learning process that's been done. I'm really thinking and going forward, we'll start to see some effort in the same direction but apply to automation. What if the AI could assist us and replace us in writing the automation workflow so that more people are capable to translate what they want to achieve in a way that is automated. So you're saying the language, making it easy to program or not to program or write or create, being the creator of automation and then having that be available as code with other code. So there's kind of like this new paradigm of automating the automation. In a sense, it's absolutely true, yes. In addition to that, John, I think there's another dimension here which is often overlooked which we've spent a lot of time on. It's one thing to have things like Alessandro mentioned that are front edge in terms of helping you write code. We want to know something in big organizations. A lot of times what we find is someone's already written the code that you need. The other problem is you don't know about it. You can't find it, you can't share it and you can't collaborate on it. So the best code is something that somebody's already invested the time to write, test, burn in, certify. What if they could share it and what if people could find it and reuse it? Everybody's talking about low code, no code. Well, reuse is the best because you've already invested expertise in doing it. So we've spent a lot of time working with other customers based on their feedback on building the tools necessary for them to share automation, to collaborate on it, to certify it and also to create that supply chain from partners who create integrations and interfaces to their systems, right? And to be able to share that content through the supply chain out to our customers and have them be able to share automation across very large globally distributed organizations. Very powerful. That's a powerful point. I mean, reuse, leverage there is phenomenal. Discovery engine's got to be built.  Like, hey code, who's written some code? But just a whole nother mindset. So this brings up my next question for you guys. Because this is really, we're teasing out the biggest things coming next in automation. These are all great points. They're all about the future. Where will the puck be? Let's skate to where the puck will be. But it's computer science and automation that's being democratized and opened up more. So it's, what do you guys think is the biggest thing coming next for automation? Joe, you want to go next? Sure, sure. Yeah, I'll take it. So we're getting a glimpse of that with a number of customers right now that we're working with that are doing things around concepts like self-healing infrastructures. Well, what the heck is that? Basically, it's tying event systems, right? And AI, right? Which is looking at what's going on in an environment and deciding that something is broken, suboptimal, spending too much. There's some issue that needs to be dealt with. In the old days, it was, that system would stop with opening a ticket to dispatch some people who would either manually or semi-automated, go fix, repair, whatever. Now people are connecting these systems and saying, wait a minute, I've got all this rich data coming through my eventing systems. I can make some sense out of it with AI or machine learning, right? Then I can drive automation. I just eliminated a whole bunch of people, time, exposure, cost, everything else. So I think that sort of venture automation is going to be huge. I'm going to argue that every single system in the world that uses AI, the result of that's going to be, I want to go do something. I want to change, I want to optimize, I want to move, secure, stop, start, relocate. How's that going to get done? It's going to get done with automation. And what Joe just said is already highly successful in the consumer space. If you think about solutions like if this, then that or Zapier, for example, those are examples of even driven automation that have been in the consumer space for a long time and they are wildly popular to the point that there are dozens of clones and competitors. The enterprise space didn't adopt the same approach so far but we start to see even bridges and even hubs that can really outdo with this. And this really connects to the previous point at this point on a broken record which is about the speed of the complexity. If the environment is so spread out and so complex and it goes all the way to the edge and all these events take place at a neck breaking pace, the only way for you is to tie the automation workflows that you are written to trigger an event that takes place at some point according to your logic. Tom, what's that? Yeah, last but not least on that kind of thread which is sort of the architectures as we get out to the edge. What does it take to automate things at the edge? We thought there was a big jump from data center to cloud and now when you start extending that out to the edge am I going to need a new automation platform to handle those edge devices? Well, I need a new language, well, I need a new team or can I connect these things together using a common platform to be available to automate at the edge? And I think that's where we see some of our customers moving now which is automating those edge environments which have become critical to their business. Awesome. I want to ask one final question while I got you guys here in this power panel. Great insights here. Operational complexity was mentioned, skills gaps was mentioned earlier. I want to ask you guys about the organizational behavior and dynamics going on with this change. Automation, hybrid, multi-cloud, all happening. When you start getting into speed, speed of application development for the modern apps, open source where things are opening up and things are going to be democratized with automation and code and writing automation and scaling that. You're going to have a cultural battle that's happening and we're kind of seeing it play out in real time. DevOps has kind of gone and been successful and we're seeing cloud native bring new innovations. People are refactoring their business models with cloud technologies. Now the edge is here. So this idea of speed shifting left from the developer standpoint is putting pressure on the old incumbent systems like the security group or the IT group that's still holding on to their ticketing system or, and they're slower. They're getting requests and the developer's like, okay, go faster. I want this done faster. So we're seeing departments reorganizing. What do you guys see? Because Red Hat, you guys have been there all these big accounts for the generation of this modern era. What's the cultural dynamics happening and what can companies do to be successful to get to the next level? So I think for us, John, so we certainly see it and we experience it across thousands of customers and what we've done as an organization is put together adoption journeys, consulting engagement for our customers around an automation adoption journey. And that isn't just about the technology itself for Red Hat technology. It's about those cultural things thinking differently about the way I automate and the way I share and the way I do these tasks. So it's as much about cultural and process as it is about technology. And our customers are asking us for that help. You know, Red Hat, you have thousands of customers that are using this product. Surely you can come and tell us how we can achieve more with automation. How can we break down these silos? How can we move faster? And so we've put together these offerings both directly as well as with our partners to try and help these customers kind of get over that cultural home. Awesome. Anyone else want to react to the cultural shift and dynamics and how it can play out in a positive way? Yeah, I think that it's a huge issue. You know, we always talk about people, processes and technology. Well, the people issues are really a big deal here. You know, we're seeing customers, huge organizations with really capable teams building apps and services and infrastructures saying, help me think about automation in a new way. The old days, it was, hey, I'm thinking about it as a cost savings thing. Yeah, there's still cost savings in there. To your point, John, now they're talking about speed and security and things like that. How fast, you know, zero day exploits. Now it's like zero hour exploits. How fast can I think about securing something?  So people are asking us, what are the best practices? What is the best way to look at what I've got? My automation deficits, right? You used to have tech deficits. Now you got automation deficits, right? What do I need to do culturally? It's very similar to what happened with DevOps, right? Getting, you know, teams to get together and think about it differently and holistically. That same sort of, you know, transition is happening and we're helping customers do that because we're talking to a lot of them where we've got the scars and then through it. Awesome, Alexandra, your thoughts on this issue? I think that what Tom and Joe just said is going to further aggravate, is going to happen more and more going forward. And there is a reason for that. And this connects back with the skill problem that we discussed before. In the last 10 years, I've seen growing demand for developers to become experts in a lot of areas that have nothing to do with development, code development. They had to become experts in cloud infrastructures. To become experts in security because you probably heard this many times, security is everybody's responsibility. Now they've been asked to become experts in artificial intelligence, transforming the title in something like ML engineer, the amount of skills and disciplines that they need to master alone by themselves will require a lifetime of work. We're asking human beings to get better and better all the space and all the best practice. It's absolutely impossible. And so the only way for them, yeah, five jobs in one, six jobs in one, right, probably for the same salary. And the only way that these people can execute the best practice, enforce the best practice, if the best practices are encoded in automation workflow, not necessarily written by them, but by somebody else and execute them at the right time, right context for the right reason. It's like the five tool player in baseball. You got to do five different things.  You got to do all these different things. This is the future of automation and automation is critical. I mean, I've never heard that term, automation deficit or automation debt. We used to have a tech debt but I think automation is so important because the only way to go fast is to have automation kind of at the center of it. I mean, this is a huge, huge topic. Thank you very much for coming on. It's a power panel on the future of automation. Joe Tom and Alcindor from Red Hat. Thanks for coming on everyone. I really appreciate the insight, great conversation. Next time. Okay, this is theCUBE coverage of AnsibleFest 2021 virtual. This is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier, your host. Thanks for watching.


This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Modern microfinance started with economist Muhammad Yunus. In the 1970s, he started what became the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He and the bank shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the idea of offering small loans to the poor to fight poverty. In 2010, reports of harmful microlending methods and corruption shook the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Yunus recently said in the New York Times that things got out of control. He noted that Andhra Pradesh had intensive lending activity at the time. He spoke to Giyaf Naqshabendi about changes in the world of microfinance. He is an expert in international business and teaches microfinance as a business model at the Kogod School of Business at American University. He says the government of India in certain states has started taking steps to guarantee that these institutions are operating under a strict system. Some experts have raised questions about whether microlending lifts women or poor families out of poverty. David Rudman is with the Center for Global Development, a research group in Washington. He says microloans do not do a good job fighting poverty. He says over $3 billion went into microcredit in 2010. But many lenders failed because of bad supervision or failure to repay loans. In one model, governments or non-governmental organizations give money to microcredit operations. Interest income is often used up by costs rather than helping other poor borrowers. But Giyaf Naqshabendi says that model is changing. Mr. Naqshabendi says sustainability is now a main goal. He says there has been a move in the last five or six years to find ways and means by which make these operations sustainable. In his words, sustainable means simply that yes, we are going to rely on donations, but in the meantime, we are going to encourage these borrowers to save some of their money. Money from savings can then be used for new loans. Mr. Naqshabendi says private equity companies are looking closely at microfinance as an investment. New models are being developed to offer more than business loans, for example, educational loans and health insurance loans. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal. For more business news, for people learning English, go to voaspecialenglish.com.


Hello and welcome to the Eric Camadeca show presented by Buffalo Wildwings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson track and field head coach Eric Camadeca coach this past weekend you went up to the Widener Invitational and Had some several strong performances out of different people than maybe you know people that are improving as the spring has gone on Yeah, we had a really good weekend positive going into the next two weeks with championships Idris Idris had a had a great meet knee hundred You know he's one that he's been struggling to try to find his way in that race And you know he did a really good job battling through and then up picking someone off at the end where a lot of times You know he would struggle to get that victory. So that was impressive for him. Yeah, yeah You know another Rachel Panic, you know, she's considered continue her strong spring was you know their strong performance in hurdles and You know just a lot good like solid like said solid performances all around Yeah, absolutely I mean Rachel had a really good weekend in her two events especially in the in the hundred hurdles and the high jump and Then Nikita and Jackson did really well in the steeple chase and that there's a lot of points right there that you know We didn't get an indoor me obviously because that event doesn't exist But you know those guys are guys who didn't score indoor championships and we'll be looking at a lot of points for them Yeah, and also like points that you haven't had in the past the outdoor me exactly looking that you know Obviously all coaches do this they kind of look at where they can get points and look at other performances So obviously you're looking at that as a positive over last year where you get some points Absolutely, that's actually what before this Interview that's what I was doing right now sitting down looking at the points and where we're gonna gather some that we didn't get last year Yeah, so now you've got about two weeks before conference championship I'm you know, what's the plan training wise and competition wise? I assume competition will be a little tampered down to a certain degree. Yeah, you know, we have finally spring is here We have a great day today So we're really gonna get after it the next the next couple of days And then you know we got Penn Relay's coming up on Thursday and Friday and our goal is to you know On the women's side return home with another wheel Yeah, and the men are really excited that their opportunity to come back home with a wheel for the first time in program history And then some will be tuning up at Shippensburg on Saturday as well Just to get ready for next week but other than that, you know, most of the team This was their last weekend to really get ready So now we're just working on some speed making sure everyone is healthy going into championships next in the next two weeks Yeah, and I know last year Penn realized I know when the women won that wheel last year that was like He said one of the one of the highlights of your career Certainly coaching wise to see them be able to achieve that certainly of program highlight as well Absolutely now it's announced the men's turn and again the women are really you know They're anxious because they want to defend you know going in and winning something like that You don't want to give it up right now Both teams are really excited for this opportunity coming up on Thursday and Friday and also on Thursday night Pat and Langston will be both running to 5k at Penn Relays as well So it's an opportunity for them to put down some really quality times going into conferences Yeah, obviously, you know in front of a you know front of a lot of eyes watching that me absolutely All right coach will best select all your athletes, you know, whether they're competing this weekend and we'll talk to you next week great All right for Eric Camadeca. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Eric Camadeca show


It's almost comical how identical vegans are from the food They're eating to the advice that they spew out over and over again as if it is a fact It's almost like there's this giant vegan Bible and everyone is an expert gospel preacher We're going to take a look at a young lady's Vegan week of eating and what I want you guys to notice is the similarities in the food She's eating and the thing she's saying we have seen this in dozens and dozens pretty much every single vegan out there to some degree Interestingly enough the main thing here is the response to this girls video from other people anytime a vegan Doesn't look healthy is a little skinny seems to not be eating a ton of food They start blaming the person that they have an eating disorder that they're not doing the vegan diet Right as to deter people from the negatives of the vegan diet This falls in line with the no-true Scotsman fallacy where if someone isn't doing Something in line with what you believe you try to discredit them as opposed to blaming the true cause Hey guys, welcome back to my channel So today's video is gonna be about a full week of what I eat Yeah, you guys know I love to eat a healthy plant-based diet Plant-based doesn't always mean automatically healthy So I want to show you guys my way and I love fresh whole foods The fresh are the better and more colorful and vibrant the more nutritious Okay, so we're only 25 seconds into this video. She already started the video with hey guys She's playing this ridiculous music in the background. She's already claiming a plant-based diet is healthy Just repeating stuff ad nauseam without actually giving any sort of resources proof saying that vegetables the more fresh and colorful The healthier they are To me the fact that these people are able to speak about these things off the top of their head as if they are Assumed and that everyone knows them is a problem that falls in line with conventional wisdom and culture We have been told our whole lives that fruits and vegetables are good for us So when these vegans come and say that this plant-based diet is so healthy people believe them So yeah, I thought it would be fun to show you a full week of what I eat I also love to practice intermittent fasting and I love to eat raw during the day So I've been doing just things for quite a while now. I've seen amazing benefits I'm also gonna include the times of my meals.  Yeah, let's get into it I hope you guys enjoy watching here is a full week of you So I do agree with this you should not be eating if you're not Hungry a lot of people tend to confuse hunger with thirst But I'm led to believe that anyone on a vegan diet is always going to be hungry because of the incredible blood sugar Fluctuation so if this girl is going to tell me that she's actually not hungry in the morning on a vegan diet I don't believe her Guys I can't make this up every single vegan starts their day with lemon water They say it's cleansing. It's detoxing. It's alkalizing all of these ridiculous things Guys if you think something is going to detox your body That is what the liver is for that is what water fasting is for if you think Lemon is going to alkalize your blood. That is not true Your stomach is acidic and it will always remain at an acidic pH Your blood is always slightly alkaline and your body will do its best to maintain homeostasis By keeping your blood at a slightly alkaline pH and lemons don't specifically stimulate bowel movements It's going to be a matter of hydration So if you needed water to push the digestive waste through your system Obviously drinking water with a little bit of lemon in it is going to stimulate your digestion overnight and to really get the flavor out of the Ingredients I also love to add fresh ginger. I either use fresh ginger or I get ginger shots It also really helps your digestion to also really eats up your metabolism And then I also add some fresh aloe vera So I use the whole leaf for my smoothie But for the water it's just easier to get 100% fresh aloe vera juice. It's nothing added. So This is So this is my detox morning water which I have every morning I have the whole can sometimes even two lots of lemon, cucumber, ginger and fresh aloe vera Really good to get your digestion a good, it was too full So really good to get your digestion a good kickstart. This is what I drink every day So it's gonna be the same for every day in order to show it to you once Detoximosis water this obsession with detox to me is absolutely crazy What exactly are you detoxing? Do you think there are toxins in your body? Do you think there's something wrong with your body if there is something in your body that you need to detox? Adding cucumber lemon aloe vera juice to water isn't going to detox something more so than just regular water These ideas are just it's just so crazy that someone would watch this and actually think that this is going to do something it really ties back to what I said earlier about conventional wisdom and the association with fruits and vegetables being healthy and people really are convinced that when they do these things they feel good, but Just try drinking water in the morning instead of that and you probably won't notice any difference whatsoever But again, the main issue here is that she's saying these things and she truly believes in them And she's convincing other people that this is something you should be doing So it's smoothie time my favorite time We are going for a ride in the blender today, and I am curious how many rides we are gonna go on So yeah, you just add all the ingredients in the blender. I also added some fresh water Anyone who doesn't like broccoli, okay? I'm just a little bit confused here. This girl's toilet must look like the botanical garden and Fresh water this is another one of my pet peeves with vegans They use these words these buzzwords before and after they say things like cleansing alkalizing detox Fresh vibrant colorful. They use positive associations of words with food They use emotion. They are driven by emotion as opposed to fact If she actually had any semblance of understanding of nutrition well first of all I wouldn't be critiquing her video because she wouldn't be following this crazy ridiculous vegan diet But if you could actually address and assess Every single one of these foods individually on a nutritional standpoint with the availability of the vitamins and minerals are Then we could be having a conversation, but this is the key thing here guys these vegans don't actually have an understanding of nutrition They just heard things from their friends They see people doing other things in videos and they repeat things over and over again as opposed to doing research themselves And by research this is very simple stuff if you Google broccoli and you look at the nutrition profile of broccoli And you see what vitamins are in it, and then you look up Okay vitamin a broccoli you might probably find that Vitamin a broccoli is actually in the form of carotene, and then if you look up, okay Carotene digestion or carotene absorption or can we utilize carotene? You'll find data So this is not something that's incredibly complicated to figure out. It's just these people are They either don't care or they're I mean I can't blame them You know most people don't really like putting a lot of time and effort into things and they'd rather be emotionally driven and be happy and You know on one hand.  Anyone who doesn't like broccoli put in your smoothies because you don't really taste it and it's really high in protein and has like lots of benefit And then for the aloe vera, you just want to cut a piece of the leaf And then you can't even have the skin, but it's quite bitter So I prefer to only use the gel just cut out the gel this stuff is really magic It's so good for you and I have two frozen bananas to make it a little sweet some frozen raspberries I love to add something frozen to smoothies because that makes it really cold and creamy and gives you that really nice consistency The reason she actually likes adding frozen things to smoothies is because she's anemic and she craves ice My smoothies ready You don't taste any greens at all. It just tastes like a really nice cold creamy So I'm gonna have two glasses like the whole better And yeah, this is so ridiculous. I literally I literally did that in my if you guys haven't seen My carnivore goes vegan for a day video. I literally did that I I drank like this slop this girl is drinking this green slop and she drinks it and then she says Mmm, it's so good and then she says it doesn't taste like vegetables.   I know it's hate it all the time, but they really are amazing And when you eat dates, you don't need any other sweets. So so satisfying and they taste like pure caramel I'm enjoying my day on my team. One date is five grams of sugar. She's having 100 grams of sugar in this meal Honestly, um, you know as funny as these videos can be I'm Starting to really feel bad and this is the reason that I make these vegan critique videos. I don't really have any bias here I'm not really insulting people. I'm just showing people how crazy this is So my dinner is ready having a big salad all kinds of different veggies And my dressing is one avocado just mixed into the different veggies And then I have a bit more avocado top here and yeah all kinds of greens Especially bitter greens like chicory arugula watercress broccoli sprouts cherry tomatoes cucumber Red pepper, zucchini, red onion, ginger, all everything in there Looks so delicious. I can't wait to get into it and I'm also gonna do some work while I'm eating So that was her Monday day of eating and in regards to that last meal a couple things to touch on avocados Never really had a lot of fruit or flesh on them Modern avocados are far different than what used to grow in the wild and time back into the Idea that vegetables are so healthy for us just by having a huge plate full of vegetables That don't really have any semblance of nutrition once you actually look into the nutrient availability it really is damaging people's health and if this girl ate like this every single day I'm a hundred percent sure she would develop a goiter because cruciferous vegetables have various Antineutrients in them such as goitrogens that inhibit your thyroid function Not only that I don't believe this is what this girl ate today I believe that this girl is cheating on her diet and misleading her viewers and this is probably one of the most important messages that I'm going to get out in this video is Just because you see someone do something on camera It is not an indication of what they are doing in their day-to-day life in the case of a vegan diet If someone cheats on a vegan diet, they're misleading people because when you cheat on a vegan diet And you eat animal foods or any other high calorie foods. You're saying okay. This is healthy But I can't actually follow this diet because I'm missing something or there's actually something wrong with it In the case of me following a carnivore diet if I cheat on the carnivore diet, there's no real Detriment so to speak because my claims in regards to the nutrient content of the carnivore diet There's nothing missing you can get every single vitamin and mineral on a carnivore diet in the case of a vegan diet We know there are a lot of nutrients that are deficient vitamin a in the form of retinol is not present and carotene has a limited availability Some people can't even convert it vitamin k2 is not present in most people's diets in large amounts It is present in fermented foods and high-quality animal foods. We have DHA omega-3 fatty acids Something that's usually swept under the rug in the context of a vegan diet I mean algae supplements tend to be polluted and vegans definitely don't get enough DHA b12 of course what's most associated with neurocognitive issues and If any of you vegans are out there and you think blood levels or d12 of indicative of tissue levels You might want to do a little research on that because even if you do take b12 supplements I would personally be concerned about your mental health and well-being Overall guys, I don't think this is all this girl consumed during the day and this is from a caloric standpoint You know we could safely say that She's not really consuming enough calories or as many calories as she should but in regards to the food volume The food volume is so high. I don't think this lady could actually consume any more than she is right now that shake and that salad are so volumous that To eat any more than that and to put any more than that in your digestive system is a testament to what foods humans are supposed To be eating if you compared a human's digestive system to a cow's digestive system cows have five gallons of Liquid fermenting in their stomach at all times and this is five gallons as if I was a human Cow's stomachs are much larger than five gallons of fluid So imagine you had you know you drank five gallons of water and that was what was in your stomach That is the digestive capability of what we would need if we were rumen in animals Their bacteria can literally ferment cellulose into Fact humans literally evolved because of our ability to procure high calorie low bulk foods That were giving us nutrition and we didn't require large stomachs We didn't require large muscles to procure our food. 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This religion of Islam, one of the meanings of the word Islam and one of the aspects of the essence of this religion is that it is a religion of peace. It is a religion of salam. We say to each other, when we see each other, salamu alaykum. After all, that's how we miss after we take each other's hands, give each other's hugs, but inshaAllah Allah lifts this from us and we're able to do that again. The Prophet SAW told us to spread peace. He encouraged us to be people of peace, to bring peace inside of our souls and for us to create environments of peace. Environments of peace in our homes, first and foremost, and environments of peace in the societies that we live in. The home especially is supposed to be a place of peace. One of the words for home in Arabic is Masqan, which has the same root as the word Sakina. Sakina means tranquility. The home is supposed to be the abode of tranquility. It's supposed to be your daughter salam, your abode of peace.  That's what the home environment is supposed to be. A place of repose, a place where there's not really supposed to be, you know we're going to have moments of tension, but ideally the norm is there's not too much tension, there's not too much stress, there's not too much anxiety. That's one of the goals that we should aspire to for our home environment. That we want ourselves and our children to feel relaxed, to feel calm, to actually enjoy being at home. All of us, and probably at this point we've been hooked up for a while, maybe we want to get out of the house a little bit. But in normal times, right, when we do go out and then come back, where we actually have a degree of enjoyment. Not that you can't wait to get out of here. Right? And it's supposed to be ideally another aspect of a peaceful environment is one in which the relationships are strong. You actually like the people that you see there. You don't just want always to go home and you're like, I can't wait to get away from these people and this person. No, you actually have strong relationships. You can't wait to hang out with my son. We're going to do this and this together. The son says, I can't wait to hang out with my mother or with my dad.  I'm so excited to catch them up about my day. Where that environment and that relationship is a strong one. And one which actually builds the desire inside of us to want to further continue the relationship. To want to continue to deepen that family bond. Another quality of a peaceful home environment is one in which Allah is obeyed. A home that is filled with the ticker of Allah. Allah says in Surah An-Nur, He describes the homes that are flowing with the ticker of Allah. As an aspect of Nur, as an aspect of life. The homes in which Allah is obeyed. In which the salawat are prayed. In which ticker is done. Our homes that draw the angels towards them. Our homes of peace. Our homes of tranquility. And generally speaking, the Prophet ﷺ would also tell us, Hey, these are the things not to do inside of your home. Because these will attract the sheykh. These will attract the jinn. These will detract the angels. This will bring dark energy into your house. Versus this will bring positive energy and light into your house. So as we think about this, we should evaluate, you know, where are our homes at? All of us have some type of home environment. And some of us, if we're parents, or if we're, you know, in a position, or if we live by ourselves or we live with roommates, whatever situation we're in, but especially if we're parents, that we have a way to kind of craft the home environment.   So we have to think where are we with regards to these tenets of a peaceful home environment. Knowing that this religion is one piece. Knowing that this religion is one that enjoys calmness, enjoys tranquility. And we examine where are our homes at with this? Are we, do we come from homes that are filled with yelling and disagreements between husband and wife, between mother, daughter, father, son, mother, son, father, daughter, are we arguing all the time? Are all the siblings always fighting? Is everybody just yelling at each other?  And as an intense type of rivalry. That's not the way of our tradition. And do we have environments where our kids actually enjoy coming home to? They say, you know, I can't wait to be home. I can't wait to hang out with my friends, with my family. Or do we have an environment where our kids are just dying to leave? Like you can read it on their foreheads. Like cannot wait to get out of here. Cannot wait until Friday night when I can escape and go do my thing and then come back. Because if we are doing our part, we have to do what we can and trust in Allah. But if we are doing our part and we are trying to create a peaceful home environment, generally speaking, everybody will actually contribute. Because the human being, naturally the fitra of the human being can incline. Fitra meaning the primordial nature of the human being inclines towards family. That's the primordial nature of the human being. And this society that we live in, or in the West, that's been disrupted. They make it seem like family is this weird thing. Once you're 18, you have to move out.  And there's all these different cultural influences that have gotten in the way in this society. By that, I mean generally speaking, Western society, that doesn't make the home seem like a fun place. It doesn't make the home seem like a place that you actually enjoy. So we examine where are we at with the stress level. Are we seeking ways to get rid of our stress? And it's all we do. You come home and there's always background noise. You can hear CNN anger talking in the back or some other news anger talking or some show playing. It's always just some noise. Everybody's always on their screens. Nobody really looks up at each other. Nobody really has organic conversations anymore. Everybody just wants to run to their rooms. Dinner is the one time people are kind of sorted together, but not really still preoccupied with their own situations. We have to think what if we accept it as normal and what is the ideal? How do we go about aspiring for that? And examine what the impacts of a negative home environment could be. That studies show that a house that is filled with tension, filled with stress, filled with anger, leaves very detrimental long-term impacts on the people in that house. Fortunately for most of the children. The children who grow up seeing stress have far more health issues. They have far more issues in their own relationships. They have far more difficulty actually developing positive emotional relationships with their spouses in the future. And they certainly have difficulty not repeating the pattern, meaning that they also do the same to their kids. And we wonder why am I doing this? Sometimes we introspect. I remember speaking to somebody and we were talking about why you do a specific thing at home, but that's how it's always been done, that's how I saw it done. Most of us don't grow up in like five houses. We grow up in one house. We grow up in the house of our parents. Maybe we'll go to the house of our uncles and aunts and we'll see a little bit near there, but generally speaking we grow up in one environment. And so if we see something we think that's just normal. This is just how I'm supposed to talk to my kids. This is just how I'm supposed to talk to my parents. This is just how I'm supposed to talk to my husband. This is just how I'm supposed to talk to my wife. But if we take a step back and study the methodology to sum it up, the Prophet ﷺ will see. Hopefully we'll see that we're doing things in line, but if we're not we'll see a very different type of approach. Oh, this is how the Prophet ﷺ did it. Oh, he didn't raise his voice. Oh, he didn't yell. Oh, he didn't have this intensity. Oh, this is how the wives of the Prophet ﷺ work. This is how the way he treated kids, the way he treated children, how compassionate and merciful he was with his grandson, Seymah Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein. We're the Allahu Anil. We study that and we feel, okay, this is now I know kind of sort of what the ideal is, then you have to figure out what the steps are to try to emulate it. The other thing that ends up happening if the home environment is not peaceful, the relationships are not wholesome. Remember, Allah has created a family relationship with each other. Every child needs the attention of every parent. Parenting is not the job of one parent or the other. In early years, you will of course have there's certain things that only the mother can do, but as the children grow up, especially in the society that we live in where there's so many forces of darkness and evil pulling our children apart so much big time, the children need active parenting for both parents, active presence of their mothers and their fathers, active older siblings, active friendly dialogues, friendly relationships. What ends up happening in many times, I've seen this, that if one child is not getting the type of attention that they need, they go and they seek it elsewhere. They'll go and they'll seek it with a boyfriend or a girlfriend. They'll go and they'll say, well I wasn't getting this attention from my father, from my brother or from my mother, right? So now I'm going to go and I'm going to see this type of attention elsewhere. And then of course we wonder like how is this happening and of course get upset, right? How could this be happening? What are we supposed to do?  But how often do we examine our own shortcoming? That it's not just about saying, this is haram and this is halal, that's easy. You can give a textbook to somebody, they can study that, it's about living. This is what I need to do in order to ensure that my kids don't get caught up in this or that. Same thing in the society that we live in.  A large percentage. Parents don't know because you can literally hide it and it looks like a USB stick. And you can just do it in the bathroom or you can do it when you go out for a walk. But what is it that leads that child to that stress, to that stress relief? Because it is a form of quote unquote, stress relief, we don't. Most of us don't know that the long-term impacts on our anxiety and depression will be far more when we engage in drugs and when we engage in something impermissible. But that's what it leads to because the environment was not one at home that cultivated stress relief. So now I have to seek it elsewhere. If everything is always tension, if everything is always yelling, then, well, if I go and I just kind of get high, get away from this for a little bit, I'll be calm. And I see, I can count this example, especially when you live in a suburb and there's absolutely nothing else to do for most of these kids. It ends up happening. And so then we, of course, somebody finds out that the camera comes down. How could you do this? Don't you know it's not allowed? They know it's not allowed. But something was wrong that led that. So we have to get a couple layers deeper than just the first layer. What are we doing to potentially create as mothers and fathers, as brothers and sisters, as children, what are we doing as well to create stressful or stress-free environments? What are we doing to create a boat of peace, to create a boat of salam, to truly create a boat of Islam in our household? So how do we go about addressing this type of environment? If we are in a negative environment, how do we flip it around and make it positive? If we're in a not ideal environment, how do we start to improve it first? And foremost, remember that the change comes from within. It sounds like corny and cliche, but Allah says it in the Quran. He says, Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change what's in themselves. That when you and I begin to make the effort to change ourselves, change our behaviors, behaviors we might be practicing for 20, 30, 40, 50 years sometimes. Behaviors we might have seen growing up for even longer than that. Until we make the effort to change, we cannot expect the environment to change around us. Tests will come. Difficulties will come. Yes, Allah protect us. He says that your families, your children, your wealth, these are test-free. He says that. But it doesn't mean you have to fail the test. The test can come and you put the effort in it, Allah can give you and I the ability to get the A on the test, to succeed in the test. Then we go about identifying what are the main issues in my house that I got fixed? If I have any ability to influence, or if I just have the ability to listen in some way or another, how can I bring about a peaceful environment? Allah says in the Qur'an, Successful is the one who purifies himself and destroyed is the one who isn't. And He says in the Qur'an, save yourselves and your family from the fire. Teaching us that it is our duty to save ourselves first and foremost. We have been, you know, you put the little mask on yourself before you put it on others. Save yourself and your family from the fire. To figure out how can I help myself and my wife or my husband and my children in the home environment? And then we start listening. We know what the problems are. We start addressing the big problems. So if the problems are that's always stressful and always tense, what are the issues that create stress and tension?  What are your grades? How are the grades going? What about college? Do I actually work in college advising? So I see this all the time. And, you know, there's nothing wrong with asking a couple of questions. But if that's the only conversation that we're going to have, well, the child, the student will feel a little bit like, well, don't you want to talk about something else? Let me tell you about this. Let me tell you about that. You don't want to hear it. You just want to focus on what we think is the topic of most importance. Do we go about saying, okay, and then it creates stress. It creates a fight. Or maybe it's the topic of clothing. It creates tension. It creates disagreements between mothers and daughters or fathers and daughters. How do we go about addressing that? How do we come up with a tactful way to have more difficult conversations without exploding ourselves or letting our children explode at us, right? If siblings are constantly fighting, there's specific topics you fight about. First, identify them. Then look inwardly. Okay, do I have a tendency to get really upset about something? What are my trigger points? What am I going to get angry at? We all get angry. It's human nature to get angry, but it's prophetic nature to control that anger. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the strong man is not the one who's going to beat the other person in wrestling, aka in our times of the jacked bodybuilder. That's not the strong man. The strong man is the one who controls their anger when they're upset. So when we're about to lash out and men and women in this case, when we're about to lash out at our husband, or at our wife, or at our kids, at our son, or even far, far, far worse, if we're going to lash out at our parents, how do we restrain ourselves? What are we going to do to control that environment? There are to control that trait that we have so that we can have this goal of creating a peaceful home environment. I was a son and joined many viewers for anger, of which, say, I would have been lying to the thought of the king. Leave the situation if you can. Sit if you're standing. Lie down if you're sitting. Go and do water with cold voodoo for anger. It's like fire. It makes you rise. You see people when you say to me, get up, that's important that they're about to, you know, go to blows until somebody holds them back. Right? Because that fire is burning inside the person that makes them rise. So we have to know, okay, when I'm going to get angry, we have to think the long-term impact, one or two fights that are serious could really damage the home environment and it could create a tense type of situation where kids don't want to be there and it's our responsibility to try to fix that. It's our responsibility to try to change that. Then the other thing is, do we have prejudice? Do we have serious, serious issues that we're holding on to?  They're very awkward suddenly going and just do your thing, eat the food and then that's it. There's no actual laughing. There's no loving. Because of some big fight, it didn't even start over like a really critical topic and even if it did, nobody ever forgave. What does Allah say in the Qur'an? Those who restrain their anger and they pardon others and barely Allah loves those who are always trying to do good, loves the people of excellence, that's the virtue we should aspire to. Let's not settle for the bare minimum. Nobody settles for the bare minimum with their salary, with their job, with their dunya. Let's not settle for the bare minimum with our spirituality or with our home environment. Every one of us has some way to improve. Let's try to figure out what can I do to bring a better home environment? How do I let go of the grudges? How do I forgive somebody in my family who I've been arguing with? If they're in my household or outside, but especially starting from within. And then the fourth thing is evaluate. What are the inputs that are going into my home? Specifically, the Prophet ﷺ told us to evaluate our food and our income.  So what are we feeding ourselves? What are we feeding our families? Are we stopping by at the McDonald's or the Chick-fil-A and picking up chicken sandwiches that we shouldn't be eating? And do we know the spiritual impact? It sounds like a small thing that has a spiritual impact. Eating impermissible food on soul, on the heart. Is our income permissible? Are we attaining it from permissible sources? Everybody knows what industry we're in. Are we working within permissible industry? Because something that starts from Iran cannot then go and be purified. It has to be purified as essence. Are we engaged in interest? Is interest impacting our home? The Prophet's Islam indicates many times where interest will impact the home environment and will impact the barakah in the home. Any haram that we do, someone's drinking, somebody's smoking, those are obvious things that we all know this is going to break darkness. But what are the other things we're doing? They're a little bit more unseen that are going to break darkness. And then the next, the final thing is to invest in your home spiritually. Make an effort. Pray together at home. At least one of the prayers. And this time, most of us are working from home. Pray the prayers together. Make it a thing. We're going to pray as a family. We're going to do thicker as a family. We're going to read a hadith. It's once a day, it's too much. Once a week. We're going to do something though where we discuss and where we try to improve ourselves. Put away the television. Put away the screen time. Have very limited time for that. Do other things instead because that, all the darkness that comes in from these screens, there's positive aspects of it as well. I'm not saying it's all that. But all the darkness that comes most of the time, it ruins the desire to want to kick in with other people. It makes us just solo people. We just want to be by ourselves. That's not what we were created. We were created to be communal people. We all feel it right now. We don't have as much community in this COVID situation.  What can I work on? This is one thing that's very difficult. It's very difficult for us to ask somebody who we love, hey, can you tell me a couple of things that I can work on? Because we don't want to hear it. Mama Razali, he says that when it comes to fault finding, he said the people who are closest to you are going to be able to point out the most fault.  They try to take out like, no, no, no, no. I don't want you taking the scorpion off. Who are you to tell me the scorpion on me?  These are spiritual scorpions that are sitting inside of us, the intense anger, the intense yelling, the intense desire to bring stressful environments. All of these are spiritual diseases that are harming us. Yet somebody points them out and says, what are you talking about? You're the issue. You're the issue. Maybe they are the issue. Maybe we're also the issue. It's likely of both sides type of thing. We have to have the confident enough, the mature enough, as fathers, as wives, as mothers, as husbands, as sisters, as brothers, whatever role we play as sons and daughters to have those conversations. What can I work on? Because the one who works on themselves, Allah says He will guide the one who strives. So we just have to put in the effort and let Allah do the rest. Let's make that intention to try to live and try to create peaceful environments in our home because that is where if the home is peaceful, everything else in childhood will be peaceful. The heart will be peaceful. The community then starts to become peaceful and the society starts to become peaceful. But if the home is messed up and it's a place of tension and it's not that muskun like it's meant to be, things start to happen. So let's evaluate what are the things that we're holding onto and we need to seek professional guidance, therapy, these types of things to help us unwind a little bit. Dig deep. Why did I learn this from? Why am I doing this? Why do I have this type of behavior? And I don't have to have this behavior. And lastly, any time you're in doubt about something, just think with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam do this. And whatever image you have of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam it's going to be a good one because he's the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And we try to aspire to that example. We're coming up on Ramadan. It's a month of change. It's a time of change. The fire to change, inshallah. We ask that Allah bless us in what remains which is you are peace. We ask you for peace.  And give us good in this world and give us good in the next world. Rabbanat al-Nafidun, ya hasnathum wa bil-a'afirat, ya hasnathum wa bil-a'afirat, ya hadabinat. Wassala allahu wa sallim wa barakala sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alim sahbim. As-salamu ala alaikum wa barakatuh.


Alright so look I was saying like look come come look at these color these amazing color schemes that you get at first Okay, so you got the you got the floor. It's gray that the wall to brown. You got this other wall. It's it's gray Yeah, now we have a lot of great going all the way through here through here through here You know so we got some blacksies, but we do have some colorful colorful tints I'm actually really happy about these but um over here is my favorite part where we have the brown wall Okay, and the gray door entrance. So what would you say is the overarching theme here of the level design? I'm gonna be a 2k 18 Depression Yeah, okay. Yo, this is why I don't record videos in the morning. Do you see the light in my eye? Look if I go here dark here like what I can't win. All right I can't win also weirdly enough. This is the first time I've played 2k in like two weeks Maybe more 2k 18 to be fair because I've been playing a decent amount of 2k 17 Yo Davis come here. Come here. Come here. Come here.  I'm coming. I'm coming Yo, it's the entire Raptors organization. What? Not but D Was good trying to get some games in We're two man. What's up? No, you got to be joking, bro.  Ah, that's with both of you, bro What do you mean? Yeah, what do you mean? Regular game just a regular part game, right? Yeah, right. No, it's just a regular part game. No pressure or anything, right? Yeah, for sure. Back. What would you say your best quality is as a 2k team player as a 2k team player? I got some good-ass vision, bro. I ran point. I see everything brother I see every cut. I see everything and on my stretch. I still find Even though I'm not on the passing archetype.  Is this how y'all get your videos, bro? Videos. I'm like, bro. Hey, bro. Come on. Chill. Chill Man, I have no idea what you're talking about She got Davis What y'all doing getting like how'd you all lose like I'm confused. I just saw Davis.  It's a family-friendly zone, man What are y'all doing in here, bro? What are y'all doing? This is like fake. I've been up all night. I'm like, I'm dazed and confused That's I jumped man. Yo, I keep missing my shots, bro You got any tips for me in terms of shooting man?  Cash. I should I should come up with some bummy-ass answers I can end up on YouTube Yeah, man, you're trash. This is why you're trash. I mean you're like, kid tries to tell me how to choose Haha, I just looking for shooting tips, man Bum-ass random tries to tell me how to shoot This is how you shoot.   Dio! Yo, get it. Yo, that's what I do, man Put this to us, man Yo, Davis, bro, talk to me. Talk to me. It's me speaking, man. Do you see this? Oh, there's my controller, but I gotta wait for it to come up Green, man. Davis, I don't really need you to be honest with you, bro You can just keep your controller on the floor. I don't know how to do it Snatch it back, man. Snatch it back Yo, I just, Davis, Davis, bro, like what? This is what I do Agent range, agent range Yeah, go ahead buy your agent range tees at thecomeupdistrict.com Let's go! Bro, I don't miss, Davis This is not a thing where I put things together to make it look like this is what I do So this is what I'm playing with YouTubers like Yo, they're actually tryharding Alright, Davis, let's get it, man Wow, this is what getting dropped off feels like I'm this one How do you get from half-court to green light? Let's go What would you say I can do to improve my stroke as a shooter, man? Any tips?     Let that b*** Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes I don't even care, I don't even care if this gets recorded, it's between us I've been in some trouble, right? I've been in some trouble at school I got locked up for a little bit I get out and I kick that at my high school I'm going to go into alternative and it's like work at your own pace And I'm not trying to work at my own pace on YouTube I straight watch all your guys videos all day long and I'm in school like the whole day Who would you say is the best shot on the game? Agent double zero oh yikes. You wouldn't say Davis. I mean, I'm a I'm Davis. I'm a I'm Davis No, I'm so like which one out of the two would you say that? Definitely Asian double zero. Oh, I mean cuz I watch him sometimes to you know He really looks like his his three-point shot is always on point, you know Yeah, and every two pay a year ever he always has the best tips to fast one thing I notice about him. I think I watched him a few times myself one thing I know it's about him plays against a lot of park randoms. I mean, I don't really care I don't have a you know a vote in a preference. I mean, he just plays against much of random I know you can play against it. I want the times where he was playing in comp program and he was still dropping folks off I don't know about that. I heard that Davis dude. I heard that Davis dude actually has the world record on 2k 18 for most points in a game but I know Yo, do you see me working the guy in the post by the way just very casually I didn't I was possible in pure sharp. Hey, man Well, anything is possible. I'll put your mind to it and pay Mike Wang five dollars, you know I'm trying to get out of your way my fault.  Do my pet bumblebee really goes again Yeah, I got to put my dreamcast asleep Thanks Hey, though, but why me though like why me I'm curious. I was just chillin. I like I just got back to my room I grabbed me a box of pop stars the next thing I know I see I'm Davis.  He thought you were a female. He was thirsty. Wow I can't believe it Just not true I'm gonna remove myself in the party, but I appreciate it. I Don't we didn't kick but I don't get kicked from parties Okay, I appreciate that. I'm gonna be watching your videos find up on YouTube. I'm reporting you What?


The little small mistakes just try to get better. That was my mindset every day. It wasn't nothing bigger, nothing more, nothing less. It's just trying to improve every day. You mentioned the fact that you've got so many good guys in that room with you.  I would say I've fed off everybody. Everybody has their own tracing skills, they all have mindset and everything. So I just learned from the older guys. They come from different teams and everything. I learned from Christian, K-Look, I learned from Elijah, Kevin, Manny, everybody really. Just helped me out along the way and that's why I feel like this defense was so great last year because they helped me one another and wanted to see each other win. Your DC said that you came in almost like a veteran, not really a rookie. What is it that allowed you to try to hit that ground running? It was just trying to improve every day and no matter what, just be there for the team because I know this is great defense. So I'm trying to live up to today's expectation. The standard of the defense always put the effort as long as you run and run to the ball. Basically stuff like that and just learning from my mistakes and just trying to improve every day. That's how it was. Kevin Byrd likes to take those risks or jump routes and those types of things. He said that really the trust that he has in his fellow DBs allows him to do it. How do you feel that relationship was going and part of developing that trust was better like that? That's how it is with DBs, about communicating and trusting one another.  I had to earn that trust, like run into the ball and stuff like that. And I feel like that's earned their trust and like that's great because guys like him and his mindset, I feel like they helped us out a lot because we all got trust one another and they always communicate. I would say the best way he said to me while I learned, what still got to me the most was, you know, some plays you have bad plays and stuff like that, but always going to the next. I'm always trying to like find the little mistakes and try to improve at that because they're going to build up to make you overall a great player. So it's basically that just looking at them little mistakes and communicating. That's new adjustments I had to learn to. So it was just learning that stuff. I felt like I learned from him that can help me a long way. That's something I'll always take with me.  So now that's just an honor for me. I'm blessed to be in a position to be able to lead the team. Oh, we know he a tough runner. You know, we know he, he come to try to, I guess, prove a point this year. You know, we're not going to try to do no more than what our job is.  So I think just us playing out gaps and waiting to the ball declared to make place. Oh, yeah, for sure.    So I think that's, you know, that's important to me. And it's important to this team by me coming out here each and every day.  So that's just something that I, you know, I'm taking the heart each and every day to come in, try to be better each and every day with my technique and fundamentals. We have to, um, and that start up front, you know, we up front going to win this game. And I said, doing kept, you know, we set the tone of the game. If we go out there, you know, first player of the game, you know, my mind said, they line up, they try to run the ball. Let's get a tackle for law. So that's going to set the tone of the game. Yeah, specifically, I mean, it depends on what type of situation, what kind of scheme it is, but yeah, I think the tight ends have, I mean, they have a huge role. I think everybody, the thing that's different, different here and other places is everyone has a role in the run game, whether it's the quarterback, the receivers, how they're supposed to blog tight ends. The standard is extremely high for how guys finish. So, you know, it's good for everybody to be on the same page. You have to have that correspondence with Swain and Hooper. Yeah, I have to use words when I communicate with him on the line. I have to say things to him and he has to like tell him back to me and we have to make sure we're on the same page. Eddie, describe your sort of scene over compared to a year ago. I mean, it's a year ago, a year ago. It has nothing to do with this year or 2022. For me, it's playing the game that I've been playing for a long time at a high level and in the same locker room. So yeah, I'm excited. I'm staring down the barrel this noon practice right now and then got the boys over for online dinner after this. And then, yeah, we'll be high tailing it to Sunday. What's for dinner? I can't tell you that. That's some solid stuff, I'm going to tell you. Other than the fact that what stands out about the Giants? Yeah, some of them run fast, some of them don't run as fast. I think sometimes they play man, sometimes they don't play man and that's something you really have to look out for. They blitz sometimes and don't other times, so that's important. So we'll have our hands full for sure. Any memories or thoughts at all of how the season started at home a year ago or you just put that completely out of your mind? No, this is a completely different year. I'm not going to focus on the past. I mean, even before I had that type of game in week one, I wasn't focused on the year before that before or the year before that. Like it's a game. You move on and you move forward and I was past that out of week two. So you still get excited, get butterflies before season starts? Yeah, absolutely. As soon as I stop getting butterflies, I'll stop playing. So I've had a I mean, it's it's outstanding to be here and play and be in the same stadium for nine years. So I'm looking forward to every single game. Taylor, what is that? You haven't been here long.


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Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about the poem Search for My Tongue by Sujata Bhatt. I'll explain the meaning related to this poem as it appears in part 3 of the Pearson-Edexcel International GCSE anthology. Now, do bear in mind that, in contrast to part 1 of the anthology which featured only none fiction texts and part 2, which was a mix of fiction short stories and poems, part 3 of this anthology exclusively features poems alone. So in this video, I'll highlight key language and literary devices used in the poem and you'll learn how to analyse it. So let's get started. Now what I'll do is I will read through different verses within this poem and stop every so often to point out important techniques that you should be aware of. So let's begin. You asked me what I mean by saying I have lost my tongue.  I could not really know the other, the foreign tongue. You could not use them both together, even if you thought that way.  I thought I spit it out, but overnight while I dream. Now in this first stanza, this is a really, really powerful poem that makes us and really triggers us to think about what it really means when we consider language and our identity. Now the title of the poem itself, Search for My Tongue, really shows a central role that language plays in all of our identities and especially how this can be a very tumultuous process if one immigrates to a new country. Now of course, this title is a metaphor for one's feeling of loss of identity when they migrate to a new country where they have to adopt a different language entirely. Now the opening nine of this first stanza, you ask me what I mean when I say I've lost my tongue. The first person pronoun I illustrates that this is a dramatic monologue. Moreover, the repetition of the second person pronoun you is conversational.  And this repetitive use of second person pronoun is quite conversational but also it's quite confrontational. Now the enjambement at the end of the first sentence in the first verse speeds up the pace of this poem. Now the second line, when the speaker states I have lost my tongue. Now this metaphor is really powerful because it shows that they feel like they've lost their cultural identity by shedding their original language and learning a new language. Then they state I ask you and the Cesare here shows us their frustration. We really start sensing their feeling of frustration and anger. They then state what would you do and the alliteration here is quite forceful. It's quite accusatory and it shows their anger and having to shed their own mother tongue in order to adapt to a new culture. And then they mention if you had two tongues and the metaphor here is for people who are bilingual, they can speak two languages, the original mother tongue and of course the new language in their adoptive country. Now in line five the speaker states lost the first one. Now this is referring to the mother tongue and we get the sense that this mother tongue is seen by the speaker as quite nurturing, very protecting and of course very tied to the identity. And then they further mention that this is the mother tongue and the repetition of the word tongue in this poem is really powerful because it shows just how preoccupied the speaker is with how language shapes her identity. Now in line six they then state you cannot really know the other, the foreign tongue and this emphasizes that the second language that they have to adopt in the new country is really really alien and it's a difficult process to adapt to adopting this language. Moreover they then use a pre-modifier foreign to describe this new tongue, this new language and this gives us the sense as readers that this new language is imposed on the speaker. Moreover in line eight the speaker further emphasizes that this is imposed on them because they then state you could not use them both together and this shows that there's a conflict between the languages that she adopts between both languages, her mother tongue and her foreign tongue and she feels almost like she's forced to choose one. Now in line nine there's the conditional clause which is repeated if if and what this does is it really emphasizes just how uncertain the speaker feels but also just how difficult this process of adaptation has been for them. Then they state and if you live in a place you had to speak. Now again this shows this sense of imposition and she feels almost robbed of her freedom to speak her native language in this new country that she's had to move to.  Now the repetition here emphasizes the decay of her original tongue and the verb rot shows just how horrific the experience is of losing her mother tongue. It feels like it's literally rotting in her mouth and it's a horrible process for her and then she further emphasizes this by talking about how the language then dies in her mouth and in many ways language in this case is really personified and it experiences this very brutal process of death. Moreover in line 14 there's the idea that the language not only has died her mother tongue has died in her mouth and now she has to spit it out and this is interesting because it's been placed in inverted quotations and inverted commas and then this is further repeated spit it out in line 15. Now this is a repetition of a violent disgusting verb of spitting out and this creates parallels, really interesting parallels with firstly not being able to say something, struggling with communication and words and of course this is a very common process when one is learning to speak a new language and of course the speaker probably experiences this when they were having to adopt the foreign tongue but also they end up spitting out maybe nonsensical languages and learning this new language. However on the other hand there's a double meaning to this reference spit it out because it also connotes xenophobia that people in her new country see her language as disgusting and they want it to be spat out and of course also xenophobic people sometimes when someone is struggling with communications they'll say oh spit it out and so the speaker, the narrator really fills up this process of learning a new language it's a very painful process. Then she states but overnight while I dream and prior to this of course in line 15 I thought I spit it out. Now when she states I thought I spit it out before she then tells us that she dreams this is an interesting use of non-standard English because it suggests a very weak understanding that the speaker might still have with English. Then as I mentioned overnight she then dreams and so this symbolizes a subconscious perseverance of her culture and her original mother tongue. Then in the following verse there's this interesting use of Gujarati. Now it's really interesting that Sajata Bhatt has put this stanza in between the English verses because what she's trying to do subconsciously is to show that at the speaker's core they still identify with the Gujarati heritage which reasserts itself and of course also this gives us a bit more of a clue of the speaker because it goes from being a general anonymous migrant speaker talking somebody who speaks a foreign language to now being really really specific to an Indian heritage individual who is specifically Gujarati. Now it's really interesting that a lot of Gujarati is used here as you can see and this is important when you consider it contextually because Sajata Bhatt herself is an Indian Gujarati speaker who experienced travelling and studying and working in the USA and the UK. Therefore perhaps arguably this poem is semi-autobiographical as it reflects her own experiences of having to leave her own individual country and adapt to the English speaking countries of the US and the UK and it charts her own personal struggles with having to change and having to adapt and presumably learn the English language but also become very much fluent in it and also see it perhaps as primarily reasserting her identity as perhaps more of an English speaker than a Gujarati speaker which would bring its own challenges. So let's continue. It grows back a stumper for shoot, grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins it ties the other tongue in knots, the bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth it pushes the other tongue aside. Every time I think I've forgotten, I think I've lost the mother tongue. It blossoms out of my mouth. Now this final stanza is really powerful and it really in many ways is a translation for the previous Gujarati stanza especially for some of us who don't speak Gujarati. Now in this final stanza there's a repetition of the growth, the growth back of her mother tongue when she's learnt the new foreign tongue presumably English.  It's a small shoot that grows back meaning and what this emphasises is that the speaker's core identity continues to reassert itself. It cannot be erased so easily. Furthermore the caesura hair is used as another turning point within the poem because once the speaker has thought that she's erased her own original identity she's adapted to the new culture. Actually this folctor, this turning point shows that even if she thinks she's erased her original identity it still comes back no matter how much she tries to ignore it and forget about it and move on. Moreover there's a lot of natural language used in the semantic field of nature here where there's a reference to shoot, bud and blossoms adds the extended metaphor of plants and the mother tongue is a plant from which other languages sprout and even if the speaker cuts it back it then grows back and it still shows how powerful her mother tongue is and her mother culture is. Moreover the mother tongue's power is shown even more so as we learn that it ties the other tongue in knots and the specification of her mother tongue shows that it succeeds over the invading second language.  Furthermore her mother tongue pushes the other tongue aside and this forceful word emphasises just how her Gujarati language is still more powerful than her adoptive language presumably English. Again the speaker states every time I think I've forgotten I think I've lost the mother tongue and this shows of course to some degree the terrible consequences of migration to new countries and westernisation which can lead to the difficulty in embracing a new identity and losing another identity. However also on the other side this offers a glimmer of hope because it seems that the speaker even if they're experiencing this difficulty they still have a core sense of who they are which reassets itself in spite of how much she tries to adapt her new culture. Now in the final line it blossoms out of her mouth.  So that's all. If you found this video useful do note we have an in-depth extensive course covering all the texts and poems in Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Edexcel International GCSE anthology so make sure you sign up for the course for explanations on all the texts as well as model answers. 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