Good morning and welcome to Moments with Melinda. I am your host, Melinda Moulton, and today I have Kathy Elkind with me. Hi Kathy, how are you? Hi Melinda, I'm wonderful. I'm very excited to be here and it's snowing out. It is snowing and you are quite the lover of the snow over there in the valley. Well, let me tell my viewers a little bit about you. Kathy Elkind is a woman of many talents. She is a nutrition in mind and body coach, educator, writer, lecturer, and she is a long distance walker. Her new book, To Walk It, is To See It, is her first memoir and has just been released by She Writes Press and is available at local bookstores and online. So Kathy, let's start by talking a little bit about your childhood growing up. Share a little bit about where you've come from and your childhood and who was your greatest inspiration? Let's see, I grew up in Massachusetts in a very outdoorsy family. So I've always hiked and walked and been outdoors a lot. My, I had dyslexia growing up or I still have dyslexia. That's part of my brain, the way it's wired. So I struggled learning to read and my mother was amazing. She read to me and helped me through all of my education pretty much. And then my father also inspired me cause he loved the outdoors and led us on many expeditions. It's beautiful. Now I read that you took up cooking at an early age because as you said, my mother did not have an interest in good food. Now talk to us about that because I think many of us who grew up in families where food was not always about health but convenience and certainly I was raised on TV dinners and tuna fish and mushroom soup. And so talk to us a little bit about that about how you got into cooking at a young age. Let's see, even we lived in a neighborhood where across the street there was a family that the mother was I think nine kids and the mom did all the cooking and she was a great cook and she made like spaghetti sauce which back then was new and different. My mother never cooks with me until and this woman taught me how to make spaghetti sauce and that was sort of my friend. She taught me how to make devil dogs and so she taught me how to cook and I did always love food and I still love food. I'm a foodie. So I would just get inspiration from other people and I ended up cooking in the summer times for summertime jobs and things like that too. So you the cook for your family? Did you step in and? Yeah, I did.  I didn't always have time in high school and things like that, but I definitely cooked in special occasions and we all love to cook now. Both my kids love to cook and so cooking is a big part of our family. Well, you were a personal cook. You were a personal cook for family in Cape Cod during the summers and then you graduated from St. Lawrence with a double major in environmental studies and geology. Now what drew you to studying the environment and geology? I definitely grew again, my father was on like the board of directors of Massachusetts Audubon Society. So and we were in the, when was the first Earth Day? I don't remember the exact date, but we were in the Charles River pulling up, cleaning up the river. And so the environment was always very important to me and so I wanted to major in it. Back then you had to pick another study and I picked geology mostly because I was more interested in the mountains and that kind of thing. But again, the dyslexia made it hard for me even to find environmental studies jobs because you still have to do so much writing and reading. At that point, my reading was okay, but the writing was not easy and so I didn't ever, I don't know, I was an environmental educator just for one summer but I didn't actually end up pursuing it. But it's always been there. So he's been there, well, certainly when we were climbing the mountains and I wanna share with you that Rick has dyslexia and of course he's quite a bit older than you. So he wasn't diagnosed with it until later on and he really struggled with it and I have, it's passed on to my children and my grandchildren and they're brilliant. I mean, they're brilliant human beings and now they're included in the neurodiverse category which is so special but Rick has on his email that he explains that he's dyslexic and so that people know. Yeah, so someday you should sit down with him over a cup of coffee or something and chat about it. Now you spent a time out west running a bakery in Bend, Oregon and then you returned to get your masters of education in your teaching certificate at Leslie University. You then became an elementary school teacher and you taught for five years. You wanna talk a little bit about that period of time in your life when you were teaching kids? Yeah, when I was out west I was still figuring out what I wanted to do. I had finished, I knew I didn't wanna keep baking I had done my ski bombing and it was wonderful and freeing but I missed the East Coast and I missed my family so I came home and I had volunteered actually out west in the school system and I hadn't always loved kids and I connect with the kids that struggle to read and things like that. And so I applied to graduate school and got in and Leslie was the perfect place for me and I loved teaching second grade, I really did. But then when I taught for yeah, taught for five years and then when I was pregnant with my second child I decided to stay home and be an at-home mom for a while. But for you, now you took classes on nutrition from Hale-Sophia Schatz, the author of the book if the Buddha came to dinner and you started the alkyne nourishment teaching cleansing classes. You then trained to be an eating psychology coach and a teacher of mindful self-compassion.  I so admire you. And then you taught for 10 years. Talk to us about this period in your life and what was the driving force for you to move into this deep realm of mind, body and spirit healing work and teaching? Well, it still circles back to dyslexia. So in elementary school, after school was hard school was I felt shame. I was different than the other kids and especially girls, reading is such a big part of a girl's growing up and boys too. But for me, not being able to read, I hid it. I was shameful, I pretended I could read. And then when I got home I used food because I loved food, it sort of became the comfort. So even though my mother helped me read out loud and she helped with all of that, she didn't help because she didn't realize how much shame I was feeling. So I used food to comfort myself. And I never turned to drugs and I was always careful with alcohol and things like that. But I did use food over the years and it continued in college. I used food to support my emotional being. And I used it forever. I never purged, I did binge. And then that spiral of binging and feeling terrible about yourself, it circles and circles and makes you wanna eat more. And so I just felt like I needed to do something about this. And that's why, and then so I thought, oh, if I learned to teach cleanses and eat healthy all the time, then it'll all work out. Well, I did teach cleanse classes which you learn a lot from it, but it doesn't help if you have an eating disorder. If you still crave food, it helps for 10 days that you're doing it, but you're still counting on the food to soothe the emotions. So that's why I ended up going to eating psychology program. And again, that helped to learn it's healing and layers, layers and layers, peeling off layers and gaining new skills as you move along. As I moved along, I gained more and more skills realizing that every time I reached for the chocolate, like what's going on? What am I feeling? What am I trying not to feel? And let's begin to feel it. And that's when I also took the mindful self-compassion because self-compassion allows you to feel those feelings without reaching for the food. And it's, again, it's learning and learning and learning and practice and practice and practice. And I loved teaching mindful self-compassion. It's an amazing program. So I still use it. And I think through the walk, the long walk allowed me to be, even though Jim was there to be by myself. And into, I think that's where I really integrated all of a lot of the learning too. A lot of your work. I just wanna share with you and I'll share with my viewers too that after my mother died, I became an anorexic. And I still have some eating issues related to that. And so it's not uncommon. And I really appreciate you sharing these intimate parts of yourself. It means a lot to me and I'm sure to my viewers. So today you are this long-distance walker and I mean long distances. So talk to us about what inspired you to have a list that you say is a mile long of future trails you wanna experience. You just explained that the walking helps you to do self-discovery and self-compassion. Do you find that when you're on these long walks? That's what heals you? Oh yes, completely. That whole, you're basically embodied when you're walking that step, step, step, step, step. Yes, you're looking at beautiful scenery but you're breathing that breath and the step and breathing and breathing and thoughts come and go. And because I had practice meditation then you can that observer mind too. And day after day after day of walking and walking, yeah, it's the perfect time to reflect on life and to see what comes up and to trust what's gonna come up too. The practice of trusting what's gonna come up. And I could jump ahead a little bit to about why I decided to write the book. And I think that force was building inside of me while we were walking but I didn't even know it at that point. And as a dyslexic where you talk about your writing and just so my viewers know, to walk, it is to see it, is brilliantly written. So you wrote a beautiful book. Now on your website, kathyalkind.com, and I encourage everyone to visit your website, kathywitha.k, lkind, e-l-k-i-n-d.com. You have four videos of walking routes. You have taken totaling 1,891 miles, which is about twice the distance from Florida to New York City. You've walked through some of the most beautiful places in the world and they are beautiful videos and they're almost like travel logs. Yeah, yeah. As is your book. Yeah, well, after walking the GR5 in 2018, Jim and I, we both fell in love with long distance walking and we've decided that's the way we're going to travel. That's the way you wanna do. Now you call it walking. Some might say it is hiking. What is the difference or is there not one? Well, so when I was doing the research for the GR5, I read a bunch, a lot of different memoirs and guidebooks and in Europe they call it walking. They do call it trekking when you're up in the Alps but they definitely call it walking. And I like that tone. Walking is like, it's a little bit mellower than hiking. And I just, to me it's feminine. It's the balance. And so I like, and they call them walking shoes. They don't call them hiking boots. So I just like it seems more open and friendly and accessible. And that's what you're doing.  There's no limits to it. And I love the walking. I'm not a big Iker, but boy do I love to walk. So let's move right into your book. So to walk it is to see it. Now I have my copy right here. One couple, 98 days, 1,400 miles on Europe's GR5. Now you and your husband Jim took a grown up gap year and you walked across the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Talk to us about this experience. And what is the GR5? The GR5 is the Grand Rondinais Sank. And there are many GRs all across Europe. It's what's amazing if there's a website you can see all the different trails. And Europe is just designed with these amazing walking trails that have been old, old trails that bringing the salt across the Alps. So many of the trails and woods are very old. But basically the GR5 is a connection of trails. Sometimes we were on single tracks. Sometimes we were on farm roads. A few little bit of the time you're on pavement but not much. And it's basically village to village. And that's what inspired me because I love to camp but I'm happy to camp for two or three nights. I don't need to camp day after day after day. And I didn't want to carry a heavy pack. You and I are definitely soul sisters here. I sort of hear you. Now in your book, Kathy, you take us with us on every step. It is a personal and deeply engaging memoir. And you have an incredibly special relationship with your husband, Jim. And I love the sentence in your book where you say in quotes, looking north, I see Jim ambling up the trail. His gray shirt and shorts match the gray of the rock. His blue pack matches the sky and his rough smile matches my heart. I mean, so beautifully written. Talk to us about the intimacy of walking 1,400 miles in 98 days with your husband. Did you talk a lot with each other? Were there a lot of long silences? Lots of long silences. We kind of figured out on the third day that we were gonna walk like this. Not next to each other. We stopped, he stopped to take a picture of an anthill and I was a little frustrated to take it a while to get going that morning. And I just started walking ahead. And, you know, we could always, we always sort of had this underlying thing that we could always see each other because if we had gotten lost, we actually couldn't communicate even with our cell phones unless we had internet. So in the mornings, we would walk separately. Sometimes he would be ahead. Sometimes I would be ahead. And one person would be, you know, paying attention to our GPS and the way markers and the other person could just totally zone out. And also because by the time you sit down to dinner at night, a European meal can be two hours long. And what are we gonna talk about if we've talked all day long, you know? Yeah, I love it. So can you share with our viewers any moment during the trip when you might have given up? I mean, it's such a magnificent feat what you did and you talk a bit about your worry. Were there worry moments for you or a specific worry moment for you? Yes, there were definitely worry moments. There's one time in the Alps when I'm not convinced we're supposed to be going in that one direction and it's windy and raining and about to turn to snow. And I'm thinking we're going the wrong way. And we ended up turning back. So yeah, there were definitely times of worry. And part of the whole book is me, again, finding my voice of saying, no, I'm not happy doing this. We gotta turn around. And then there was one day also when I was just kind of bored and tired of the whole thing. And Jim had days like that too, but we had this thing that if we both had a bad day, then we would stop. We didn't really know what we were getting ourselves into. But it all ended up working out. And we never both had a bad day on the same day. Well, it's a magnificent journey. It's a magnificent journey. So I'm sure that you're training nutrition, ecology, geology, mind and body wisdom served you well in this journey. And then you talk about in the book about other types of smart and this really resonated with me. And you talk about the other types of smart rather than thinking as just educational thinking. You talked about smart thinking. Can you share with my viewers a bit about what you mean by that? Well, you know, emotional thinking using your emotions to help guide you. And then even body embodiment, using your body to inform you. Like, you know, when you're tired, maybe you should sit down and rest.  So embodiment, using your body for wisdom. And then you can take it even to a deeper level. You know, our intuition, I think many women have strong, strong intuitions and we've been bred not to pay attention to them. And, you know, even Jim now listens to my intuition because it's bright. I know we've been bred. I think we've been pummeled to not be so intuitive. But yeah, good for Jim. Good for Jim getting on board there. So I was hoping for my viewers that we're speaking here with Kathie Elkind about her new book, To Walk It Is To See It. And Kathie, I was hoping maybe you could read a few paragraphs from your book to my viewers. Would you be willing to do that for us? Yes, I'd be happy to. So much, thank you. Let's see. This is in the Jura. And if I'm going too long, just tell me to stop. This is in the Jura and it's reflecting on what happened earlier that day. Earlier today at noon, I was ahead of Jim. I walked out of one field through a hedgerow to a freshly cut hayfield. I was surprised to see a small sedan parked on the edge of the field with its trunk open. Looking closer, I saw a mom and two young kids setting up a picnic with green and white checkered cloth. The dad jumped down from a large tractor with a mower attached and walked towards his family. It's not fancy, it wasn't a fancy picnic. I saw crackers on a plastic plates. They looked up at me as I got closer. Bon appetit, I called to them as I continued on the trail. I felt like I was interrupting an intimate family moment. But at the same time, I felt blessed to witness it. I was proud of myself remembering to say bon appetit. Words I have heard wished to me at almost every meal. Now I could hand the words back with homage. Enjoy your meal. Questions poured out of me as I continued walking. Do they do this every day at lunch? Or was this a special occasion? Do all farmers in the Jura gather for lunch as a family during the mowing season? I do not know the answers, but I did peek through the window of the people of the Jura's life. I glance at my phone, it's nine p.m. now. The sun is low in the sky and still bright, though I'm fading. I'm ready to go to bed hungry. I just wanna lie down. The owner bursts, this is the owner of a jeet. The owner bursts into the room, hoisting a heavy casserole dish, showing off her biceps. She places an honor trivet in the center of the table. Bon appetit. Celeste, this is another walker. Celeste begins to feel everyone's plate with the potato cheese mixture with a large sausage on top, like a cherry on a sundae. The potatoes melt in my mouth. The cheese is sharp in flavor and soft in texture. My stomach is smiling, soon I'm full. There's plenty of potato and cheese for everyone who wants seconds, which is most everyone. It's interesting how my mood can change depending on food scarcity versus food abundance. Then the fruit and cheese plate is passed around. I've had enough cheese for today. I fill my plate with cherries and apricots. It's the first apricot I've had on this trip and the flavor is bright earth, is bright earth, rounded off, rounding off the meal perfectly. We all clear the table and set it for breakfast. Celeste again takes charge, assigning people tasks. I like helping, being part of the group. My heart warms to these walkers. They know the ropes. Over the evening, we have shifted from being observers to participants. It's the longest day of the year today, June 21st. At 9.45, the sun has set. I climb onto the big bed made up with crisp white sheets and look at the mauve dusk out the window. These days, I wear my sunglasses from morning to bedtime. I don't ever put on my regular glasses because I'm never awake when it's dark. I'm so happy to be here, spending an evening with people who love walking, even though I can't talk with them as much as I would like. I hear the rustle of the other couples settling into their beds. I snuggle up next to Jim and whisper. I wanna call out, good night, John Boyz to the other travelers down below. But I don't think they would get the reference. He smiles. And tomorrow, we get to walk again. We're so lucky. We turn our lips to meet in a quiet kiss. Then we slip apart to our sides of the bed. My lids fall closed, but I open them one more time to look out the window at the solstice light. From this angle, I see across the farm road to a bank covered with a profusion of daisies and red clover. The once bold colors of yellow, red, and green are now iridescent. I close my eyes for the final time of the evening. Oh, beautiful, beautiful. Did you keep a journal? You must have written this down every day in order to remember the details. So I kept a journal, but only like a paragraph each day. And I, you know, I write about my emotions. So I did write down emotions and description. Jim also kept a journal which he shared with me. And that was more, you know, detailed oriented about we walked this many miles from this town to this town. And we saw this and this. So that was great to use his journal. But I think having a dysselectic brain, I definitely see in pictures and remember in pictures. And that's one of my superpowers. When I was sitting down to write, I could put myself back in the, writing memoir is basically picking out the amazing scenes like you don't, I don't actually write about every single day. I write about the important scenes and putting myself back in that scene. And, you know, I took tons of writing classes too during my, this writing frenzy and learned, you know, we all know we were supposed to use our five cents. Good writing has all the different senses in it. So I could put myself back in the place and bring up those. And it, you know, it only been two or three years while I was writing or even a year when I, so I have a good memory for those. So, and the details are so beautiful. Again, we're speaking with Kathy Elkind, who is the author of To Walk It Is To See It. And this book is extraordinary about one couple 98 days, 1,400 miles on Europe's GR five.  So how do my viewers connect with you to get on a mailing list to receive information about what you're doing or do, and how do they become followers of you just through your website or is there a way for them to hear about when you're going to be talking about your book or talking about other things in your life? Yes, definitely the website you can sign up for my newsletter. I send a newsletter out about once a month. And also I have an events page. You can follow me on Instagram. It's Kathy Elkind, Kathy with a K, Instagram, Facebook too. That's, I do have a YouTube channel. I haven't put up, I gotta put up some new videos, but I haven't done that in a while. You can see my old videos. So it's KathyElkind.com, Kathy with a K, E-L-K-I-N-D.com, and they can sign up for your newsletter. So folks, go ahead and do that. Now you live in Vermont with your husband Jim as we spoke about who is the President of Stark Mountain Foundation, which by the way is another interview that I'd like to do. But what brought you to Vermont and what makes this place so special for you and for your family? Well, we've been coming up to ski at Mad River Glen for years and years and years. Jim, I think one of our first dates, not first dates, but a couple of months in we skied at Mad River with some friends and it's kind of interesting.  And so we've known about it. And my father even came up here in the 50s too. So it's, we've been coming and we, our kids, our daughter raced on the ski team and our son skied on the freestyle team. And we eventually bought a small ski house and then we decided to leave Massachusetts after our kids had left the nest and move up here permanently. We sure are lucky to have the two of you here. So what's your next project? That's what I've been trying to figure out. I'm not sure. I'm trying to trust what's next. I have trust what comes up. I'm trying to, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, right, another book. I don't know. I'm not sure if that's, I'm very good at doing something and diving into it for, but then I get bored and I'm not sure if I can run it. We'll see. I don't know. Well, I've seen that.  You have done a lot. And so I have no doubt that maybe your next iteration of yourself will be something completely different, which is exciting to me. You certainly are not somebody who bores other people. You may get bored, but you do not bore us. So I want to thank you for this moment. You know, it was delightful. It was innovative, invigorating. And to my viewers, I want to stress, go out and buy, get this book. I assume it's in all the local bookstores, Phoenix, down in the valley, wherever in Vermont and also online. Now, as Ben Shaduck, the author of Six Weeks, Six Weeks in the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, he says in his review, we have a lot of great reviews on the back of your book, by the way.   Elkine's journey is a joy to follow. And it is a joy to follow. It's a joy to read. It's fast paced, gloriously written, intimate story of your adventures. So I wanna thank you for your time. I think you and I have a lot in common and I think we need to meet offline and get to know each other better because I think we have a lot of things in common, but I wanna thank you for being here with me today, Kathy. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's fun. It's always fun to share about walking, basically. You're in your beautiful life and thank you for your honesty and being so authentic. And to my viewers, I wanna thank you all for joining me. I hope you all got through this bit of testy weather the last few days and everybody's doing okay and I will see you shortly. Thank you for joining us today. I appreciate it.


If you take the discus where you think you will Where do you think you'll take the discus? Obviously you pretty good hammer thrower to set the silver at the Commonwealth games, right? So what's the what's the future of hammer for Matt Denny? This is a very often asked question. It depends. It really depends like I do miss it sometimes I do enjoy the feeling of you can't beat the feeling of just absolutely destroying a hammer and the whip And the cool part about when I used to throw at home was you know You'd wake up go to walk down start trying to eight o'clock and note It was just dead sign like small country town We're about about three K's out of town and you couldn't hear a thing. It was just dead sign few birds all that sort of thing and and when I was throwing the five case I was like consistently throwing 80 83 meters with the five and The cool part about it was was you'd throw you'd hear so quiet. You'd hear the whip when you deliver You'd hear it whipping in the air and then you would hear this Boom and it just is big explosion at the ground out there and that was so cool I used to love that one of the main things is why I left it was one because what I want to achieve this year or last year And especially this year with Tokyo, but also the fact that one is on in diamond as much as we all want to love the sport You've got it if you want to try and make money from it You'd be smart with your decisions a lot of people were surprised I went straight to this but I felt like I had more to offer in disc at that point in time and Well diamond leagues were around I was lucky I got a diamond league in last year and that now got taken away from me So kind of snow real win-win situation here at the moment So we still we still have the continental series, which is okay. Yeah, it just it just depends like if I get to Where I want to go with disc in the next two years then a while It'll take a while for me to go back to hammer But I still want to break 80 with the with the seven like I I felt that was possible in 2018 I felt that I I had seventy sevens and seventy seventy eights that year in training Especially that week two weeks leading in a comm games. Yeah comm games I just didn't deliver like I was in peak form that warmed up with seventy sevens and some of that and With ease, but then just tighten I think the occasion just got to me a bit and especially with hammer like how is one of those things if you tighten It just affects your whole throat compared to this week and kind of get away with a little bit Yeah, just just a little stuff like if you're back then your orbits just completely shifting your stuff Yeah, I don't know hopefully within the next 10 years. I don't know I seriously don't but I do miss it And it was good fun and yeah, I don't know it depends take it as it comes really Okay, so you just said something Interested which which I think is a good point You said if you take the discus where you think you will Where do you think you'll take the discus? I've always wanted to be in the 70 meter club seven like world record 74 is huge and obviously the only guy that's really gonna Mainly touch that at the moment like Dakar is a strong well and you had that 70 season But I think if anyone's gonna get it especially this year, it'd be Daniel Especially the pieces together throws that he has there and gets that complete heat together Yeah, I definitely want to get within within the 70 club in the next two years Yeah, it's big big aspirations stuff and people laugh at me for saying it But I think it's possible especially after like the way they've progressed over the last two years and What we're finding and training what works really Grooving stuff in is the bet is the exciting part over the last three months We've just just grooved and grooved and grooved and progressed really well So, you know, I'm already throwing as far as what I was when I was in peak form before Doha And Doha was in September and we're only in January So it just depends as it depends on how smart I am with my training How well we progress and that sort of thing, but yeah, I think I do I want to hit 70 within, you know By 20 and or by 2021. I think it'd be awesome. Yeah Give the boys a run for their money at least so that being said, what do you think is going to be the technical change for you to go to 70? I used to have it really I had it leaps and bounds when I was younger But I'd need to bring it back a little bit more is my separation of the throw I still have a lot like I can reef on them really well and I have good speed in my throw even under load currently But yeah, it's just it's just creating More Separation and drive off my right leg sweeping out of the back and then my position landing into the center letting my hips go more and This just extreme amounts of extensions through the delivery and staying on the floor I think they're my key ones currently and just and just progressing like just getting stronger like I'm I think out of the the guys in Born the top six currently like from Doha and me being six I think I'd probably be the weakest for sure.  He's in the 300 I've got maybe 280 under my belt the boys of all bench 200. I haven't all that kind of thing I think if I get my strength up to there I find that my technique will push me ahead of ahead of it Yeah, like it just depends like I'm not I'm not saying that I'm gonna go out and beat Daniel and Enfedric in you know the next three months and all that sort of stuff But I definitely think that if I do the right things the future is pretty good and pretty Exciting for me and that's like we don't really know what my limit is So it's that it's that kind of situation. So that is So distracting Are they doing They're like some it's a serious prayer What do you think is the biggest Technical flaw in your drug probably the main one is just my early right like when I'm landing Just pre-turning my right when I'm landing in my power position Yeah, so I'm landing probably if the back of the circles 12 o'clock. I'm probably landing it depending on the throw between three and Three and two 28 hours probably landing at 12, but at the moment. I'm just not getting my hips in enough I think it'll I think it would when I'm fresher and I'm get a bit more focused on switching my hips in Into when I get into my delivery position, then it'll be better. Like currently it's that late landing right and probably Maybe a little bit overactive left out of the back. It's good at some points, but then sometimes it's a bit Sweep and then pull instead of sweep and then relax into it a bit more I think they're my main two that I that I really am conscious of but I'm Extremely happy with my throw like yeah, just small refinery refining stuff. Yeah, that was one of the things We were looking at was like oh, he's you know that definitely you could see I think if you can turn around that you turn your hip You turn extremely well clearly. Yeah, but you could see if it was You know another 60 to 90 degrees Your tip's gonna turn that much faster. Yeah, it's gonna be ahead when I'm throwing well and I get this technical QD and well I should be able to keep More open left and pushing across my like staying on my left axis and then keep my hips open longer Which will create a bit more tension a bit more drive out of the back Which will then lead to a better pre-turn right and then more hips in the delivery and the delay of the shoulders So just getting a bit more Expector of separation through the throw. They're my main things like all I'm happy with my orbit currently still playing around with that Chest up and balance between the right foot to go into my block I just find that works really well for me is if I do that then I can just I place my left in quicker better contact times and Quicker reversal into the delivery. It's not a land and hit. It's a continue and rotate. So, yeah, that's that's my main things I think right now this year obviously you you've competed in a number of meets in Europe the world championships What's it like for you being the young guy competing against me this year? We had two 70 meter throwers between Daniel and Frederick They're those two are by far the best this year by far, you know There was a couple of boys that had some good throws Tokyo could be really interesting If everyone gets their timing and their peak, right? Personally, I think maybe I don't know how all his Programming works or whatever, but maybe you went too early. I don't know if he had conditions or not But you know it's 67 and then he had the 66 in Stockholm, but then only 63 In Doha, but he's doing well as well. He's only a year older than me and he's killing it as well I don't know it's it's tight. Yeah, but Daniel Daniel and Frederick would just stand out I just killed it and like being a young guy in that group. I'm not intimidated by that I enjoy the fact that Yeah, I've got it. Delha was your season's best And you know stadium at the world with the world championship, so that says a lot about you I think Doha proved that anyone's beatable and that it's Tokyo could be Clearly anyone in saying that though if Daniel is on his day and he's in peak He's going to be very untouchable. So it's Plenty who shows up. That's that's the awesome part about comp like everyone thought Daniel was going to throw 70 through 67 Nothing against him, but like, you know, it's just that kind of thing Everyone was some I was up on Doha through really well Some people down like it's just that cool part of our competition Who's going to show up and get their their training programs, right? I definitely want to beat those guys like I'm not going there to get second or third or whatever like if I connect everything and I can Perform when it counts who knows what could happen. So yeah, it's exciting I like competition like I like going gets these guys that are older than me and Kind of being I guess the underdog from down under sort of thing kind of thing. So yeah, it's fun I love it and I love learning off those guys as well In what will you go and watch the top 12 like everyone's so different technically same essence of throws But no one's exactly everybody has a different style. So it's interesting to learn why people do that So like safer the vice hiding it a very different start very different swing and saying well, dude, like, why do you do that? Like I'm saying that it's a bad thing. But you know, well, maybe if I try it, I might work if it doesn't then sweet At least I tried it instead of just going very Straight down the line. This is my way sort of thing to beat the best you got to learn from him and then Use it against him Qs create specific muscle sequencing. So for example, one of the things we're going to talk about is that one of the common


الحمد لله يا رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثاناء الجميل واشدوا الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي سبيل واشدوا نسيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بيخسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إشاره تعالى تقرأه بسيخ نبارث ليين المشاكل أن القرآن يوجد في تغيير حياتنا وأريد أن أقول about the relationship between القرآن and the heart as you all know when the Qur'an was sent down in our messengers محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it was done through who جيبري جيبري is the one who came to the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم and as you are all aware of جيبري when he came to recite the Qur'an into our messenger the messenger because he wanted to memorise it fast and he wanted to read it and then quickly he would try to read with جيبري but what Allah SWT said to the prophet is that do not move your tongue listen to the recitation and the recitation will automatically be poured into your heart Allah SWT said do not move your tongue listen to the recitation it will be poured into your heart directly and so what I'm trying to take from this is that the Qur'an first of all it's settled in the heart of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and so there is that very powerful so there is that very powerful connection between the Qur'an and the heart صلى الله عليه وسلم وإنه لا تنزل رب العالمين لا يزل فيه روح الأمين على قلب كب تكون من المدرين في لسارك عربي المبين الله says that this Qur'an وإنه لا تنزل رب العالمين that this Qur'an is set from Allah the one who came down with it is Jibreel and Jibreel came down and he placed it in your heart and so the Qur'an was first placed in his heart the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم الله also said بل وآيات البينات في صدور الليلة وط العلم بل وآيات البينات these are clear verses بل وآيات البينات في صدور الليلة وط العلم and it is in the heart and the chest of the people of knowledge so my beloved brothers and sisters the Qur'an resides in the hearts the Qur'an is not in the Masahif put on shelves the Qur'an is memorized and Imam al-Sha'ط بل وآيات البينات in the introduction he mentioned that knowledge before it used to be in the hearts of the people of knowledge it wasn't in papers it wasn't in scrolls and books but what you need to remember is that the key to that knowledge is still in the hands of scholars even though it might be in the books the مفاتح the keys to those books and the information that are in it are still in their hands my beloved brothers and sisters الله سبحانه و تعالى he looks at the people's hearts Imam Muslim he wants to correct this الله doesn't look at your bodies or your bodies الله doesn't look at your physique and how big and how strong you are and how tough and built you are الله doesn't look at that but he looks at your hearts and Allah looks at what manifests from us in your heart the heart every messal that was in silence so your heart believes something and it has something that the actions in the lips will start moving and start doing it there's that relationship between it but Allah looks at the heart rather than my beloved brothers and sisters the day of judgment when you come your children your mouth will not benefit you the only thing that will benefit you is if you come with a pure heart الله says in the Quran the day when children are worth another benefit إلا من أطماء بقلب سليم except the one who comes to Allah with heart بقلب فين أي heart which is Salim pure it is saved from illnesses أمراض الشرخ both illnesses that affect the heart the doubt of desires I'm sorry and the illness of doubt so the Quran came to cure this heart it came to settle in this heart الله says in the Quran إلا من مؤمنون الذين إذا ذكر الله وجلت قلوبهم وإلا تلية عريه آيات مزادتهم إيمانهم وعلى ربهم وعلى ربهم يتوكلون إلا ذكر الله وجلت قلوبهم when Allah is mentioned the Quran is recited the verses of the Quran are added وجلت قلوبهم it straight away affect their heart if Allah told the subhanu wa ta'ala that the people whose heart the Quran doesn't affect that their heart are sick and ill or there is even locks on their hearts as He said أبلايتهم برونة القرآن أم على قلوبهم أقفالوها إلي not ponder on the Quran or are there locks on their hearts so say subhanu wa ta'ala ألم يألين الذين آمن أن تخشع قلوبهم لإذك دلالي وما نزل من الحق ولا يقول لك الذين قوتوا الكتابة بقبلوا فطال عليه الملأمد فقست قلوبهم وكثيروا منهم فاسقوا when they distance themselves from the Quran in the remembrance of Allah فقست قلوبهم their heart became tainted it became hot it became rotten so the Quran with lovely brothers and sisters is there to perfect the people's heart to change it and that was all a muqaddiba introduction let's come to surah al-Mu'adul the topic at hand everyone of us knows the first surah in the Quran when we open the Mus'haf is surah al-Fatiha when we open the Mus'haf what surah comes out first is surah al-Fatiha what's the second surah surah al-Baqara please ponder with me and let's not just make it a lecture when the information goes up again who we want insha'Allah who is to understand this information is very vital لأننا because brothers we are in shah al-Quran this month is called the month of the Quran as Allah SWT says شah al-Ramadan الذي أزل فيه القرآن this is the month which the Quran was set down so let's go to surah al-Baqara surah al-Baqara start with what وروف وقطع and this connect the letters الله عاله وعاله الله knows what he needs by it because the Rahim of Allah he attributes to his teacher and Hajaj and Lizzy and also in beauty the Rahim of Allah that we don't know the meaning but we know the wisdom behind it why Allah used these three letters or why he used any of those letters like Noun, Qaf, Alif, Lamin the reason Allah used it he said of Hajaj and Lizzy and this is even a كثير attribute to it attribute to this if knowledge to him he is teacher of Hajaj and Lizzy and author of the kitam of the Rahim and also shah al-Salam the wisdom by Allah used Alif, Lamin is what إعجاز العرب to make the Arabs feel weak and unable to come in the life of this Quran الله is saying to them this Quran is Alif and it's Lam and it's Yil that is what you know and you're also not able to come in the life of it then Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says ذلك الكتاب العريبة فيه قدن للم التقيق صح now probably here when Allah سبحانه وتعالى said there's no doubt in the Quran there is no shak ريب and shak as Ibn Tharis and others they say that it is close to the word شك and ريب are very close in meaning it means there's no doubt then Allah سبحانه وتعالى said it is guidance for whom I bring love to brothers and sisters تقين تقوى where does it lie the heart بيس نحبيص صحيب غريب then the Prophet ﷺ would say اتقوىها هدى اتقوىها هدى اتقوىها هدى ويشيروا الى الصدره ثلاثة ب الله صلى الله عليه وسلم then the taqwa is here the taqwa is here the sa'a m'a'a'ali he was pointing at what then let's carry on reading first so the Quran is no doubt in it but who likes it a people who have a heart that has taqwa in it and this goes heart this goes hand in hand with the best Surah Taqaf إِنَّ فِي ذَانِ كَرَبِكَا لِمَنْ كَانَ الْأَلُقَالْ بُلْبُ اوَا الْقَسَبْعَ وُشِيْدِ that this Quran is a reminder it can only be taken as a the person who will see thiscąسان by the Quran on his own before his sacrifice صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم and those who wish to be worshiped in his own business they are not left to seek those who wish to be worshiped those who want to be worshipped in their heart are not left in this world and not in the end these are not people ولا تطيع من أغفلنا قلبر جيكلنا واتبع هواهوك وكان أمروه فرطا ولا تطيع دورت أبي من أغفلنا قلبه وإذن هو هاته وليست رقمه فلايز نبارون القرآن أم أم على أمروه نقفلها لدينا مؤمنون، مؤمنون، مؤمنون، صعب هل تعرفون هذا؟ الناس الذين يفعلون القرآن يفعلون الله وخبرونهم أولا أخبرونهم كيف يقولون؟ لديهم ثلاثة حلوات كيف يقولون؟ تقوى كيف يقولون؟ إيمان كيف يقولون؟ يقين ثلاثة إمان إذن أم لا يكون خافتا ما الله وعاله قلوبه الله ليست مؤمنون الله ليست مؤمنون لماذا؟ خافتا ما الله وعاله وعاله وعاله وصاله ومعاله عظيم ومن الناس يبنى سقنى ومن فلتاب ومن الناس يقول الأمر هي يوجد تباق بها وعن نعرف أن الله تعالى لتبارك الناس فهناك يدعوه جعلنا له نوراً جميعاً في الناس وفي الهجومات ليست خارجاً منها موضوعاً موضوعاً بقائد جميعاً هل هذا يحدث؟ هل هذا يحدث؟ أنه يحدث حسناً وَلَّيْ يَكُرُ رَبَّهُ وَالَّلِيْ لَا يَكُرُ رَبَّهُ كَمَتَرِ الحَيِّهِ وَالْبَيِّهِ he's alive by the Qur'an he lives by the Qur'an my beloved brothers and sisters when the people have the Qur'an and the Qur'an becomes something part of their life they give the Qur'an and put it they read the Qur'an they live by the Qur'an it is not much of a quality proof reading the Qur'an and learning the Qur'an it doesn't just merely mean that you establish the worries that the Makharij is correct as much as the Prophet came to teach us the recitation of the Qur'an he also came to teach us what the understanding and the meaning in it the understanding and what and the meaning that are in it my beloved brothers and sisters the Sahabahs when the Qur'an was taught to them and they learned it and it went directly to their hearts as the Prophet wanted the way it should be what happened to my beloved brothers and sisters their whole life changed this is what they mentioned this صورة it came down the first year الله يقول يا إمان يزوجل قول بالليلة قول بالليلة إلا قليلا نصفه أو يقصفه قليلا أو زد عليه ورد في القرآن فارفت إلى this was to the Prophet alone it was for the believers what were they told قول بالليلة إلا قليلا stand up at night قول بالليلة إلا قليلا نصفه أو يقصفه half of the night the Sahabahs were already ready to pray how could that happen my beloved brothers we had Muslims who would be all their lives all the breaded Muslims all of their lives they were Muslims but then they can't stand one night to pray some of the people when the Imam is leaving in Tarawih and Ramadan they close off they go off they're not even focused in the Salat they're not focused what's happening they days off they go somewhere else how is it that the Sahabahs the first year they were ready to pray قليلا and Allah said half of the night half of the what it's because their heart their heart was ready they had hearts the Sahabahs had what they had hearts because they had hearts they were able to feel it my beloved brothers I looked at the Qur'an the time that I finished it whenever I came across the organ the heart I tried to always note down just make a note on the paper just to see I haven't seen in the Mus'haf in the Qur'an I haven't seen an organ that has been mentioned as much as the heart has been mentioned in the Qur'an it is the most mentioned organ in the heart it has been mentioned more than 130 times more than 130 times and after 130 times we get tired of looking at it there's no other organ the Qur'an has been mentioned that much why doesn't the Qur'an mention something that much unless it's what unless it's important unless it's what and that's why I say to my beloved brothers I say to you all that wasting your time trying to work on other parts of your body working on what other parts of your body is not correct really what you should give importance to is the King of everything أن المسجع عليه ص.السلام إتحالي لعبان المشير ودليسي أن الحلال بيّن وإم الحراب بيّن ومو بينا أمر مشتبيات لا يعلمون كثير من الناس فبان اتقل شوات فقد استبعين لي وعرضي وما وقع في شوات وقع في الحراب كرائية عحو البحب يشكع يرتع في ألا وإن لكل ملكي الحما ألا وإن حمى الله محاري ألا وإن في الجسدي مضغ إذا صلحت، صلح الجسد كله. وإذا فصلت فصلت الجسد كله، ألا وين قنقن. In the heart, in the human body, there is an organ. ألا وين في الجسد المضغى. In you, there is an organ. إذا صلحت، صلح الجسد كله. Your whole body becomes what? In tact and it is good. وإذا فصلت فصلت الجسد كله. And if this organ loses the plot and everything else تقول لله القرآن إنها لا تعمل أبصار ولكن تعمل قروب التي تستدور. You don't become blind from the eyes necessarily. إذا heart that become blind. Have you not seen a person who can't tell between good and bad. لا يعرف المعروفا ولا يوتر منكرة. ينزلو ذا معروف. And he can't go and did something evil. Why what happened? When the heart becomes tainted and it becomes كلا بالرالع على قلوبه المكانه مكانك سبول. The heart became tainted because of that which they perform. My beloved brothers and sisters, just because of a person's heart they can reach a station that many other people may not be able to reach. Rather a person may even be able to reach a station because of their heart will not even do anything. The message of the peace of Allah is إنه بالمدينة أقوامه in the city of Medina there are people. This is the battle of Tabuk. The Prophet said And the Prophet said to them that you have not cut a distance and you have not passed through a valley except that these people in Medina are with you. And that's why he says إنه شارقوا قدت الأجر. They participate with you in reward. And because of the peace of Allah ليس على القعطاء ولا على القرضا ولا على المدينة ولا على المدينة لا يجدون ما يستقون حرج إذا لصحروا لله ورصوه والله وفورا ورحيل ولا على المدينة إذا ما أترك لتحملهم قلت لا أجدوا ما أحملكم حزر أن لا يجدوا ما يستقون. There were people who wanted to come. They came to the Prophet. They said And because the Prophet wasn't able to take them with him. Allah says Their eyes were watering. Those people even in Medina they were not doing anything with them. And how far was Medina and Tabuk 1,500 km today right? One time I was in Saudi Arabia. There was a time I was in Saudi Arabia. So it was the day when my car's air conditioner was working. And you live in Saudi Arabia. And the air conditioner doesn't work. You know brothers? So there were no more companions who cut 1,500 km. What made their movement And how did they do that? Look at that same situation today we find Muslims. Brothers and brothers. Masha'Allah. You need to say Allah مباركه. Masha'Allah. Their arms are this big. They are tall. They are physique. Subhan Allah. It's like they seek in the gym. Yeah. They're big. And the weight that they can lift ملحب يعلي. But Salatul Fajr They're not able to lift it. They can't lift it. Right. Why haven't they tried it? When did they try to go? But it's big. He can't scratch his neck. مع ذلك He is unable to lift it. What made him not be able to go? That's what it is. Nothing else. What they realize here now. It is the heart that makes the passage of the week. And ابن رجل رحمه الله. That's what he pointed out. He mentions that The hearse and the striving of the self wasn't the body. The self The pious predecessors. They're striving in their hearse in their احتياج. It wasn't their bodies. Rather what it was is their hearts. That's what they were striving to work with. All the time. Making sure that they were perfect in their hearts. Because it's through the heart where you reach stations levels. And you all know that They don't know. The حبيت ثلاثة فالحدر السخرة when they came and sat on their chairs They said انه لا يمجيكم من هذه السخرة انها يتدروا الله هاتعال بصالح عملكة تريما. When they came they locked himself right? They got locked in. And when they got locked in what did they say? انه لا يمجيكم من هذه السخرة انها يتدروا الله هاتعال بصالح عملكة. Nothing is going to save you all. أنا أريد هذا لك alone my intention and my heart was only for you then move this rock from us and give us an opening what happened? if Allah Almighty Allah had moved from them but they weren't able to fully come out of it and in the second one they were the same and in the third one they were the same each one was the same after he mentioned his righteous deed Allah said now you might ask this of my beloved brothers this is a very powerful point I want you to ponder here our enemy Allah told us is who? Iblis to Iblis is who what? Allah told us is what? he is an enemy of us Iblis admitted that there is a group of people who is never going to be able to misguide for him to misguide them is going to be hard your enemy is admitted to this look what he said all of these people are going to misguide them إلا عبادك ها إلا عبادك من هو المخلصين I am only going to what? be unable to misguide your slaves who are sincere in other words a people's hearts are pure a people who have strength over their hearts govern their hearts they are the type of people who are going to be able to what? I am going to get you that is what Allah mentioned to us the story of Yusuf Ali the woman she came and she tried to push her support to him when did Allah سبحانه وتعالى تباست تلالي كان ينصرف عده الصوء والفحشاء إنه يباقي يوسف يوسف was what? إنه من عبادك المخلصين he was from our slaves who were sincere right? are you really about this? the reason why Yusuf went away this after Allah aid him in supporting him of course because he was the sincerity of the heart from beloved brothers and sisters so when Iblees is saying that a person's heart is under a person's cover you are controlling your heart and you have strength over it eyes and individual will not be able to get to you but if your heart is open for every saham every arrow to be thrown at it like Shekhar Al-Araib brothers you are going to suffer also in مرجة محمد الله he says and the difference between the pious predecessors and us is what that the seraph used to give importance to the heart first of all and we give importance to the what look at brothers when they start practicing the way that a person is identified when he started to practice is the liqya and the though how short it is and etc the manzah الله is what the word he plays on him لا نقول ولا سينا that is not important it is very important they will be better but the message عليه سبحانه وتعالى made sure that you are not just وَكَمْنِ شَخْصِنَ how many people مُبَيُّكُمْ تِيَبُوا his garment is so white it is clean مُدَنِسُمْ فِي قَلْبِهِ مَدِينِ his heart is tainted and dirty how many people the outer appearance is very important سِوَاتِرُ مِلِحْيَةِ وَدَا مِتِينِ and then it is important those are the sunnah and the shair of Islam no doubt but what is more important is what the heart because the people who fall short later or who do 360 after and lead the religion or are the people who will not direction their hearts يا إخوة والله لست بيانتي not nurturing their hearts and not making sure that they work on their on their heart and that's why Allah ست محبت صلى الله عليه وسلم لقد مننا الله على المؤمن لذباعة فيهم رسولا منهم يتلوا عليهم آياتي وينزكيهم وينزكيهم وينعلم وينعلم وينعلم وينعلم وينكانو من قبلو فيلضراني موبيم صح الشيخ سلى الله عليه وسلم came to do this here to purify your heart 3 things your heart has to purify pay attention الشيخ والبداعة والمعصري 3 things every day of your life try to get rid of these 3 you don't worth you don't really come to me but you need a balance تجدون العنوات ، تجدون العنوات ، تجدون العنوات ، و ما هو هذا ؟ أيضاً ، ما عارسي سنس. كل 3 منهم are what you purify and you claim from your heart every day you are working.  So, what is the use of doing that? So, what is the use of doing that? So, what is the use of doing that? When you are not going to drink khabar anymore, how can a people pay attention? You guys have to sometimes look deep into the Quran. This is important my beloved brothers and sisters. الله سنس القرآن to be pundered on. أفلا يتدبر القولة. أفلا يتدبرون القرآن على قلوبنا قفالها. أفلا يتدبرون القرآن ولو كان من عنده غير يدفن و فيه اختلاف الكثيرا. كتاب أنزل لك مباراك و ليتدبر آياتك. القرآن ستناف يتدبر ، وتعقل ، to look at it at least. Look, it's not just to read pages of 30 over. عندما قمت بعمل هذه القرآن و قمت بعملها. This shows the power that the heart has become and how ready they were. Read the Arabic poetry of the pre-Islamic poetry. أمور أقيس. زوهير الأرسلمة. أم ترد الشداد. Even the small one. لامية العرب. Written by Shamfarad. If you read those books of the Arab poetry and how they speak about horses and women and they speak about what? Come on. Alcohol. The Arabs were addicted to alcohol. There was not a table which they ate except alcohol. I have to be served. If you didn't serve a person, a guest who came to ask if you didn't serve him alcohol, you didn't fulfill the rights as a guest. They were addicted to it. Addicted to believe. To the extent that the narration itself shows it to you that when they were told to get rid of the alcohol they all sit in the middle of a hotel. It's flooding. Why would it flood? Because people had storages about alcohol. Just in case it stops. مع ذلك they were ready to stop all of that. Why were they ready to stop that? Because the Quran commands something they are willing to listen. Look at us. Allah says in the Quran المقبلة المؤمنة إذا قضى الله ورسوله أمر أن يقول له ورخيرة من أبنين. فلا وربك لا يقول لنا حتى يحاكمك في مجد ما بينهم. ثم لا يجب في أنفسه محر جميل ما قضيت ويساني متسليمه. إذا ما كان قرأ المميلا إذا يدعوه إلى الله ورسوله يحكم بينه ما يقولون سببنا وقاطعنا. أياه. ويأيلي على المواطر الله وواطره ورسوله في إترازك تو في شيء فلنضوه إلى الله ورسوله يكوتو تُو مننا بلا يوم نخل. أياه. تُبعات. باسس. كل of those verses that I read that I bring back is back to the Quran in the water. تسلنا. مع الان كان sometimes from the majority of the times you see people saying I don't know what to do. لا أستطيع أن أفعله ، لا أستطيع أن أفعله ، لا أستطيع أن أفعله أستطيع أن أتفعه في المفرد كل يوم يفعله فيه ويصعبه ويصعبه ويصعبه لكن الأمر هو أن هذه الناس يصعبون كذلك لماذا؟ لأن القرآن وحقه كان موضوعا when the Quran spoke they would listen for example when Umar رضي الله عنه ويجعله and he said to Umar رضي الله عنه you are unjust and you didn't fulfill your responsibility as a leader so Umar became very angry and Umar was who he was a person who fulfilled the rights of the people so Umar got over to Umar رضي الله عنه and he stood up and he wanted to harm him and so those who were around him on the day he recited وَأَبُرُمْ بِبِرُرُمْ فِي وَأَعْرُبْ عَرِبْ عَرِبْ جَاهِينَ call to that which is good and tell away from those who are ignorant right when he said this man is from the ignorant Umar don't harm him leave him alone Umar رضي الله عنه looked and the verse was read when Umar got away from his face the narrator said Umar was wakaa in the hududillah when Allah's legislation would come into place he would stop that's it why would Umar being who he was strong and tough be willing to do that is because the Qur'an and their hearts were connected he was with me brothers he was connected another thing وضي الله تعالى عنه he married his sister off to a man a woman so he married his sister off to a man and said to him you can marry my sister the man divorced Ma'qal's sister in a way that wasn't easy to Ma'qal into yourself وضي الله تعالى عنه and he didn't just divorce her but Ma'qal and his sister got divorced and the period they had finished and he never came back to take her hand in marriage really brothers so then when the man heard when the man had finished the man stopped to come to her hand in marriage her previous husband found out that other men are coming for her hand in marriage he also came into the queue and the line then Ma'qal saw him and he said to him you want to be with my sister he said Naam he said Wallahi I'm never going to marry my sister off to you Wallahi I'm never going to I'll tell you what you've done I'm not going to marry off to you and then what happened الله سبحانه وتعالى يسجأ آية وإذا طلقتموا نساء فبلغنا جلوهن فلا تأغلوهن اين ينكح لأزواجهن إلى تراضه إلى تراضه بينه المعروس that it was a woman and the period finished the end is over don't stop her from marrying her ex-husband if her and he she and him both come to common marriage because she wanted her ex-husband that's who she knows she was pleased with him she wanted him so she told her him go to my brother he's my wedding and he told her no but when the Aya came down look what he said he called him he said come Aya came down he said come so he came over and he said to him I'm going to marry off to my sister be happy in Aya because of Aya he's not because of me not because of me again why would they do that they had a heart that was connected to what look what Abdullah ibn Abbas رضي الله و تعالى علي was informed one day that his brother or his son the narrator he confused between the two it was either his brother or his son died so when they told him Abdullah ibn Abbas he stood up he pushed his riding beast to the side and he played to her car and then he said قل قد فعلنا أما أمرتنا يا ربنا our lord we've done what you've commanded us to do but what is he referring to is دعينه بالصبري والصلاة إلا ما أمرصر أبري to come with patience the prayer will help you the patience will help the salah and the salah will help the patience these people were people the Qur'an was their source of evidence the Qur'an was everything for them and the only person who I've been loving with both the sisters وما اختلفتم فيه من شيء فحكمه إلى الله the person who when they have disputes and they have disagreement the only people who will say let's go back to the Qur'an let's go back to the sunnah let that solve our situation our own people whose heart is what it's a lie it lives إنه في ذلك عززة إنه في ذلك رالي من كالله قلب أو ألقى سبعة ووشهر the best of speeches are that which is مقلق ودقا the best of speeches that which is small and summarized and that gets to the point I really don't like to go off and speak too long a lot of you are fasting and I'm not a fan of questions about them generally so إن شاء الله على أي شيء which I have said that was wrong but you know me you're going to say اللعيني's message I'll speak from any mistakes that I have done is from me and Sherpa so any questions that you have if I can answer I will if I can't and I remember knowledge is only with Allah now now so the question is is how can a person attain and gain a pure heart يا إخوة our religion is and from our religion is this principle which is as they say اللعيني's message is better than cure and I would even say that prevention is cure prevention is not better than cure it is cure and the reason I say that is because for our hearts to be clean and protected we have to stay away from things prevent yourself from things many of the times you see people they throw themselves into something and they want it cure for you as I said in the lecture there are two things that affect the heart they are أمراض الشحوات these eyes رأيتوا الغلوبة تميتوا القلوبة ويورقوا وطورتوا دولة إدمانوها رأيتوا الغلوبة عصولة since it inherits you since they inherited humiliation and they affect your heart what did the man who you say شكوتو شكوتو شكوتو إلى وكير بسوء حبدي شافة يسأل I complained to my teacher وكير عبو جراح عرو آسي وكير عرو جراح عرو آسي I came to him and I complained him of what بسوء حبدي my bad memorization and he said to me فقال إن العلم ونور knowledge is what light ونور الله لا يوه دالي عصن and the light of Allah is not gifted so what can protect your heart is to stay away from sins stay away from عرسي when I say stay away what do I mean brothers don't get yourself into a situation where you're conversing with a woman and you're talking to her back and front and then the fitment comes and then you fall into the consequences of the harm that comes out of it and then later you say how can I keep my heart clean stay away from things but in that that's why the Sharia I didn't say to you don't fall into zina when they say to you don't come close to it تقرأ بزينة didn't say لا تفعروا زينة don't do zina he said don't get close to zina and a lot of the time social media opened up a platform social media opened up a platform where people do fall short in that regard the second thing is my beloved brothers and sisters أش شو مو هات أخو أش شو مو هات قد طافة doubts a lot of Muslims nowadays they think masha Allah they are mutimia and so they go out of there and they start reading doubts and they start reading atheism and they start reading concepts and doubts and sects within Islam they were all examined as time goes on what happens to the person in قلب رقصة and I don't know the person is actually he's turned he's drawn a different direction why what brought this to you because you open yourself to doubts stay away from it and Imam Malik Imam came up to him and he said I want to debate with you and he looked at me and he said I am on clarity I'm not a shag you're a doubtful person you're a doubt you're doubtful you're a pun then I mean a shag go to someone who's doubtful like you who's in doubt and in debate I'm on clarity I don't need to debate you don't make your religion wrong don't make your religion something to discuss every time somebody comes they discuss your religion protect it this is your capital this is your money this is your classroom so don't open yourselves to doubts and start reading into things when you have no strong Islamic knowledge so those are the two things I said is what affects the heart and if you make sure make sure that you protect yourself from staying away from it insha'Allah you will be safe so we are living in this country and no doubt we have to we have to there's no choice we have we have to have a job to go work we have to deal even then when you work I remember as a child when I was young and I generally don't like speaking about my life but one of the things I loved and I till today I admire about my father and it amazes me that he did that it amazes me now is that we used to go to school in the morning primary school we go even secondary school and with 6 hours right and you come home my dad would make sure so in the morning before we went to school my father with what when we woke up we prayed in the house we would read the prayer because we memorized the Quran we finished the Quran so we would read the prayer of my brothers and I and so what happened is that my father would make sure that he when you wake up your brain is fresh he makes sure he pulls the first information into our minds and our hearts before anybody else in the morning when we wake up he takes our minds and he pulls the Quran and the Hadith and we memorize it then we go to school we come back and he pulls out any misconceptions that have fallen into our hearts while we are in school my many brothers where are you يا إخوة we have to do that in the morning before we go work we have to have our camp and we read we need to read the Quran before we go to our meeting and our works and our discussions and dialogues with disbelievers and others of different faiths in the morning our Quran our juice is recited our Azkara we read and then we go out don't we go out things fall into our hearts and because the Quran is dead and we ventilate شاء الله تعالى it won't stick on your heart when you go home you cleanse yourself for everything by doing what by praying in the mosque by being around righteous and good people إن أخواني ألبرو عالا ديني خليلي فليون ضرحة دخو مني خاليله أخواني ألبرو عالا ديني خليلي فليون ضرحة دخو مني خليلي so the righteous people are going to benefit you they're going to make an Eman what they're going to make an Eman increased ويوم العظم ضالي وعلا يقولوا يا ريطل تخصوا مع الرسولي سبيلا يا ويلة بيتري لما تخصوا لها انخليلا لما تأضلني عن الدكري بعد اتجاءني وكان الشيطان الليل إنساني خدولا ورة من الخمس خدولا لما جصرنا مجموعا أن تعاوني تخصوا مع الرسول وكسرة وحالي وراحا ونساعده بالطبع يقول كما نقول يوجد تواسلن now ويوجد تواسلن وهو صحيح تواسلن يوجد تواسلن تصور تواسلن يوجد تواسلن يوجد تواسلن يوجد تواسلن one will be assigned with a one will be sent Tianan هناك جميلة جيدة التي تفعلها وكنت تقول يا الله لأن هذه جميلة جيدة لقد تفعلها لدينا هذه المشاركة ويجب أن تكون مبسطة في هذه المشاركة وإن الله سبحانه وتعالى وإلا هو مفاتي بالغاية لا يعلمها إلا هو ويعلم ما في البربي والبح وما تصبط به ورقة إلا يعلمها الله سبحانه وتعالى وإعطيه لا يوجد مدينة إذا كنت تكفي شيء في جميعه ليس ينصف منه فبالنسبة ليس حول أية فإذا كنت تخفيها لك هنا لأنها جميلة جيدة التي تفعلها لا يعني أنها تنقذ جميلة جيدة التي تتعرفها على محافة وكن ترونها في الجميلة وعلى ذلك ليس فقط أن تفعلها وقرأ أن تفعلها لقد قمت بعمل مجمولة وقلتها فيها يمكنني أن أعطيك فقط مجمولة إذا لم تقوم بعمل مجمولة لكنك فعلت ذلك أنت تقوم بعمل مجمولة مجمولة الشيء هو كل شيء that comes fast always leaves you fast من أخذ المجمولة كل who takes knowledge all at once he will what? will leave you a general so knowledge should be taken gradually step by step when America was saying أرآن فرقناه لتقرأه على الناس على مكثب when it is Allah to remove the Qur'an was done on a period of what? why? كذلك اللي يوثب بطبيف where the Qur'an was done on a period of what? the reason why the Qur'an was done on a gradual and in small size by size the scholars they say and also the other thing is what the scholars say that the knowledge that you take should be something that's after a stage of your level don't take what's bigger than you and what you're not need of as they say تُرْبُ الْكِبَارَ سُوْسِرَةَ the food of the elders is a poison for the youngsters right? we like chicken better right? so if you gave it to a newborn baby chicken better what would happen to him? but you enjoy it right? and it feels nice depending on where you get it from and that's the reality so some knowledge is it's poisonous for the person who is learning it it's poisonous for the person who is learning it but knowledge some people they feel like when time finishes ونعلموا يدخلوا قلبة كلوا موافقين من غير موابن ورستيدالي ويردوه المحروب من خدراني لا تشكينا اللهم بالحرماني knowledge enters everyone's heart and mind wherever you are how old you are knowledge will go into your heart but what it needs from you is يا أخي الانتنانا العلمة إلا بسيطة سأم بك عن تفسيرها ببياني حرصة واجتهاد ومغطة need come with herce striving in hard work nothing actually would stay and there was a story I wanted to mention but and I will insha' Allah conclude the story which is a story that goes hand in hand of what the topic that we were talking about that I even mentioned it I think I don't know where I read it from I think it's that I remember I read it from someone I read it from someone I don't know exactly where I read it from but I read it from somewhere but a father wanted to teach he saw something his father said he saw I read the Qur'an and very young and of course he didn't understand the Qur'an I was talking about he hasn't learned the tixir and he hasn't got through the books of Hadith and what now and the story he doesn't know what it means so he said to his father and my father and my father I read the Qur'an and then when I memorise it I don't have the information that I can't hold or another way I mentioned that he said to his father and my father I memorise the Qur'an and I even forget it when I memorise it what happens many people go across they feel that way right they listen to the story so the father said to his son he wanted to teach him something he said to my son take a basket not a bucket but basket has what he said take it my son go to the ocean on the sea place water in it and bring it to me make sure that there's water remaining so he went by the time he reached his father what happened the water is so he kept making him do that he said dad I need a bucket not a basket he said la la la keep going keep bringing it back and make sure so he goes there he goes back as fast as he could he's running the faster he goes back the faster the water goes the more the water goes out finally after 5 5 6 something times the father said to his son my son were you unable to hold the water in the basket he said yes he said look at the basket and he looked at the basket and it was clean clean inside and outside and he said my son that's the Qur'an you may not be able to hold it but it cleans your heart and it cleans the body it will change you so just by reading the Qur'an alone it will change you or Allah make us from the people of the Qur'an those who implement it قلبا وقالبا إلى وهات ألينا أولا ولمس الله لغفلنا دلوبنا وإسرافنا في أمرنا وتبت أقدامنا وانصرنا على القوم الكافرين الله بلا الله بلا تجعني دنيا أكبرها بنا ولا ببلغا عين بنا ولا تصنطعني ولا تصنطعني بدلوبنا بلا يخافك فينا ولا يرحمنا ربئات نفوس لا تخواها وزكها أنتخي من ذكاها أنت وليها ومولاها ربنا هاتنا في الدنيا حسنة وفي الآخرات حسنة واقنا عذاب النار سبحانك الله والحمد رشد أن لا إله إلا الله استغشرك وأشوفني


The Cavalcade of America presented by DuPont. This evening the DuPont Cavalcade brings you the story of a bridge engineer who in his day won a claim throughout the civilized world. James Buchanan Eads was one of the first American engineers to be consulted by Europeans. His writings on river currents from the control of waters were accepted everywhere as masterpieces of their kind. And his perseverance and inventiveness have been a model for men who have since built roadways of steel and concrete over American waters. These qualities are also attributes of the research chemists who work quietly and efficiently so that we may enjoy more comforts and conveniences in our daily lives. Or as it is aptly expressed in the DuPont pledge, better things for better living through chemistry. As an overture, Don Voorhees and the DuPont Cavalcade Orchestra play a special setting of the famous spiritual Deep River. The DuPont Cavalcade moved forward. James Buchanan Eads was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, May 23, 1820. Our story begins 17 years later on a pond near St. Louis. Sitting on a six-foot replica of a river steamboat as young Jim Eads laboring over the last engineering detail. A young boy, Sammy Dobbs, son of a farmer, comes running up. Hello, Sammy. I'd like to be here at the pond today. Gosh, it ran like anything to get here. Well, good you're running for young and I'm here every Saturday. Yeah, but maybe this is the last time. Oh, no, Jim, why? Oh, I waste too much time out here.  I just about feel like this boat belongs to me, too. Well, you can have about a tenth interest in it, Sammy. Yeah? The James Buchanan Eads Steamship Company. Assets, one steamboat, the city of St. Louis, six feet long. Mm-hmm, with real decks and cabins. Honest, Jim, she looks just like a real Mississippi steamboat. She's not a bad boat for a pint size. Well, it's all I got to work on anyway, so I may as well like it. Six feet old, boards are floating to brook. Jim, I know it kind of wakes her down when you're sitting up on the afterdeck, but would you mind watching while I climbed out on the log and got onto the deck forward? Now, you wait a bit. I want to get the engine started first. You haven't got the engine so she'll run. Oh, gee, Jim, I didn't understand she was exactly like a steamboat, engine and all. Jesus nears, I can get on poor materials and not much money. This is how she runs. Well, we're ready. How's that? Hey, look at her paddle wheel go around. Oh, Jim, let me aboard her. Hey, stop, stop, Sammy. Is this Reed? Are you listening to me? What is it, Mr. Dowdy? What's the matter? When I said you could use this pond, I was naming to have my Sammy out here loafing with you. Sorry, sir, I didn't know you had chores this afternoon. No, I didn't tell him, Pa. Farmer boys always got chores. Not fooling around machines either. Sammy, if you want to live an example of what you don't want to be when you get older, is this young man here who's still playing with toy boats at 17? I don't think you understand, Mr. Dobbs. I'm not playing. You're not, eh? What you call it then? Well, this is school for me, Mr. Dobbs. I'm practicing how to build machines and engines and the mechanical compromises that go with them. I read every night and on Saturday I come out and build. Well, your little boat's faithful to the truth. It looks a might like the General Clinton that I took once from St. Louis in New Orleans. He's broader than the Clinton, sir. I mean, it would be if it were full size. Watch while I solder up again, Mr. Dobbs. Listen to that, Pa. You want to show me off, Sam? This is the maiden voyage. Pa, can I ride on her?  Thanks, Pa. Here's a hand, Sammy. Take care now.  I can get on easy like without sweater, Jim. All right, let's go. Here we go. You blow the whistle, Sammy. Oh, sure. James Buchanan Heads made up for lack of money and little education with unusual talent and hard work. Daytimes he was a clerk. At night, lost in books on engineering, he dreamed of future accomplishment. And when the Sundays were fair, he was master of a toy steamboat. At 18 he became a purser, and in every free moment could be seen leaning over the deck, studying the great streams, treacherous curbs and rapids. Four years of that, and he was ready for his opening adventure. It is 1842. On a barge in the river near a small town in Iowa, young James Heads is talking to Mr. Campbell, a business associate. Well, Mr. Campbell, have you finished that boat you were building for me yet? Finished. Heavens, man, you know it isn't finished. It wasn't supposed to be. I can't build a bell-diving boat in a month. You haven't taken a definite contract to start salvage work for somebody before you add any equipment.  Nelson and Casey and I got a rush offer for some people in St. Louis to come up here and raise a barge for them.  And you just neglected to mention to them that you had no boat to salvage it with, eh? Well, I've got this barge.  Here you are, starting a new salvage company, and the first thing you do is to rush off before you're prepared. This will ruin you. We've got the money to pay you for the bell-diving boat, no matter how our business goes, Mr. Campbell. Maybe I did rush into this impetuously, but business isn't as easy as you think it is to get, you know? We had this offer and we had to take it right away. Well, I don't see anything but an awkward failure ahead of you. Well, we bought this barge, and we've brought a diver up from the Great Lakes with his own equipment with him. That wasn't such a bad idea. It was a great idea, except that the current's too strong. The diving bell is no good. That about finishes the whole venture, I suppose. No, sir. I got a big hog's head, knocked out one end and rigged up a slat in it. A hog's head? Heavens, man. When do you look at over, sir? You'll see. Ready, Mr. Reed? Ready any time you are. Sure, Dick. Come on, Mr. Campbell. We're going to lower my hog's head over the side just to see how she works. You shouldn't try this, Mr. Reed. Oh, Mr. Campbell. Meet our diver, Joe. Hello, Joe. This is the rest of my outfit. All right, now, just help me into this. Wait a minute. Are you getting in there, Reed? Why doesn't your diver get in? I should say not. He doesn't think it's safe, Mr. Campbell. Well, if he doesn't think it's safe for a professional diver, I've got to go down on his hog's head, Mr. Campbell. It's the only possible chance to lift that piglet off the bottom and save the company I started. I think I'm safer. I wouldn't do it. Not safe at all. I know you don't think so, Joe. And I wouldn't ask any man I hired to do something I wouldn't do myself. All right. Here I go, boys. All right. Right now. Seems like I'm pretty well settled in here. Reed, don't do it. Take the loss. All right. James, Reed sits quietly. The barrel bubbles slowly below the surface into the treacherous currents. He can sense the heavy pressure of the rushing waters and knows that he should be near the bottom now. The air in the barrel has now become denser. He sees the deck of the wrecked vessel below him. On the next descent, he must reach it in order to get some of the freight. He gives the signal to be raised to the surface. Nothing happens. The moment he waits, he feels his heart beat faster. But in that second of worry, the barrel begins to rise. Steadily, he ascends through the water. Once again, the barrel stops. Suddenly, beneath the rim of the barrel, a hand appears. He grasps it, holds it steadily, ducks down into the water and finds himself equally pulled into the surface. Oh, thank the Lord each. I've never been glad to draw anything out of a hog. All of you look kind of worried. Well, weren't you nervous yourself, Jim? Well, I would like to know why you pulled me up near the surface and let me sit for a while to think it over. Well, Derek got stuck wide at the service. We were run around here like we're crazy. Listen, everybody. That first test is over. And it didn't hurt any of us. I haven't invented the best diving bell in the world, but it's perfectly safe. I'm sorry I didn't stick on the job and get on myself. No, Joe, you were right to stay up. And from now on, any fancy inventions I think up will be used by me first, without question. Now we all get busy. We can certainly drag that freighter piglet off the bottom of the Mississippi. James Eads have no diploma in hydraulic engineering, but often on for 20 years, he lived close to the Mississippi, studying her rapids and currents, her hidden shoals, and her shifting riverbed. In 1865, Congress passed a bill authorizing a bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis. But enemies of the project succeeded in amending the bill so that it called for a 500-foot center span and 50 feet of clearance because they thought that no one could build such a bridge. But James Eads had been appointed the engineer of one construction company, and he insisted that the bridge could be built. A few months later, in the St. Louis office of the James Eads Company, he appointed the company's young lawyer and to a fellow engineer. You know, Mr. Eads, you can't blame people for not being able to imagine what you're promising them. Well, if they'd only leave the imagination of Mr. Eads and have a little faith in him, it would be better. Oh, I agree, Mr. Slater, but besides believing it's impossible to put an arch across the Mississippi, they're mindful of the expense also. The reason I want to throw an arch over the river instead of building with trusses is because the arch will be cheaper. I planned it for cheapness. I think, too, that the rival company is winning some favor for its bid because their plans don't insist on, uh, well, on details like basing their foundations on bedrock. Let them base it anywhere else. The bridge they built at St. Louis will be down at New Orleans. Yeah, you're dead right, Jim. You convinced me on that. You think the very river bottom, is safe? Mr. Dunlap, I ran a diving outfit for several years. I know the better than Mississippi as well as its surface. The usual river bottom is three feet of constantly shifting sand. In my experience, 100 feet of sand are sometimes swept away, cleared of bedrock. Well, you can make it seem very real, Mr. Eads. Certainly, we don't need to give up hope yet. Unlike a lot of men with mechanical talent, you know how to argue for your beliefs. Yes. But the trouble with an engineer is he can talk just so long and, uh, then he wants action. Well, a word might come tonight, Jim. Or it might come next year. I'm going outside and look at the river a minute.  You know, Dunlap, eh, people take a long time to get convinced. Mr. Reed. Huh? What is it? Oh, I'm sorry if I startled you. Well, you wouldn't know me in the dark. I reckon you wouldn't know me anyway after all these years, but I was your whole crew on the city of St. Louis. Well, boy, heaven's sake. Little Sammy Don. What have you been doing with yourself? Oh, working on construction crews in Chicago. I've done some case on work. I'm a good sandhawk. I reckon you can guess why I'm back in St. Louis. I heard that you were planning to put a saddle on the old Mississippi. Oh, well, well, I did have it in mind, but the committee of experts seemed to think differently. Well, Mr. Reed, if the company you work for gets the job, can I work on it? You'll have more applicants than you can use, but I've been your man for a long time. That's so, Sammy. You helped me over some difficult times with a toy steamboat. If the bridge goes up, you can work on it. Jim! Jim! That fool young lawyer in there is having hysterics. I've got to break the news to you. Work from Washington, Slater? We get the contract. Mr. Reed, gosh, congratulations. We'll save the congratulations till later, Sam. How long, Jim? Well, about seven years, I think. Yes. I give myself seven years as congratulate ourselves then, boys. Eads and his workers started to construct the bridge. In his long years on the river, Eads had become more and more aware of the laws which determined the waters flow and regulated its deposits. But only his inventive genius and industry could have overcome the obstacles he was to meet. Three years later, in a chamber far under the river, Eads watches a crew of his workers. Isn't this shift nearly due to go off, Sam? Yeah, Mr. Eads, I think we're almost to the river bottom. Every scoop full of sand, I think we've made it. We've been having that feeling every hour for the last month. I think that's why we're all wearing ourselves out. Two men are down sick now, Sam. Well, last week, we were so sure that we'd hit bottom that we all got careless about staying down here too long at a time. Now there's no excuse for that, Sam. I'll be the man blamed for any sickness or deaths. I've planned everything to protect you people, and yet you take risks. Well, I reckon people know by now that there's danger in building a bridge, Mr. Eads. And if they got sense, no matter what happens, they won't blame anybody. Maybe they'll think about the poor devils that suffered for it when they're riding across what we've built for them. Yeah, let's hope so, Thompson. Well, send the men up now. Tell them to spend enough time in the air chamber. All right, sir. Hey, what's that? It's rock, Jim! Are you sure? It's rock, solid rock, like you think it'd be. Let me look at it. Now listen, all of you. This dense air is no place to celebrate. Keep calm now. Don't get excited. Don't get excited. That's the good thing to tell us, but try to keep them down at yourself. We're deeper down under water than anyone's bricked before. Ain't that over three? Yes, it's true enough, but the bridge hasn't built yet. Hey, what's happened? My candle's out again. There's no way to get the candles lit in this air pressure. Feel your way up the stairs, boys. All right. Take it easy. The men say he's been down here on too long a stretch, Jim. Why hadn't one of you told me that? Well, he's the foreman. He wanted to stay. All right, get busy, all of you. Hunter on the floor for him. Every second he's down here, listen to his chances. Hurry up. I found him. All the rest of you. While you're safe. I'll help you carry him later. I'm over here, Jim. We can carry him easy. Open the door there. This is better than this air chamber. Close the door, someone. I am done. Sammy. Sammy? This river will beat us yet. You can't whip the Mississippi.  Don't you talk either. We're a weapon. The men aren't afraid because you aren't. We're a weapon. Come on. We're a weapon. Easy. Together with Ease's care pulled him through. Ease kept the casualty list down to his careful insistence on safety measures and his own construction of underwater air chambers. As Ease met each apparently insuperable obstacle, he invented some appliance to help him overcome it. When he finished the bridge, the center span was 520 feet long. One pier was 136 feet below high water. 90 feet under sand and gravel resting on bedrock. In 1874, on the day of the dedication, thousands had come to view the modern marvel. Ease and his wife are watching the celebration. Ease is going to give the dedication. Are you looking at it? Huh? Oh. It's the bridge. My, as though you hadn't seen it a few times before. Well, it looks different to me today. All the crowds on it band flaying. You know, I wish I were down below Aways so I could see the set arch against the sky. Questions. You ought to be seeming to pay attention. I'm not so interested in what people say about my bridge. I'll feel better when they start going across it. I wish I could see some of my men. Well, there must be all around us in the crowd. You know, they couldn't all be as into this dog. Oh, the governor stopped me speech. Sammy, some of the men my dear, I'm going to leave for a minute. I think I see dogs here. I'd like to talk with him. Whatever I should think. And to all of you, all right. I'll slip out of this box. Be back right now. Uh, Oh, say, Jim, for Pete's sake. Quiet, quiet. I thought I'd be more comfortable here than up in that box being still. So you come here with your friends to see the great bridge open, Mr. A. Well, hello, Sammy. Son, you're shooting more, eh? Yeah. Going back to Chicago soon? Uh, afraid anything I do will be a letdown after helping to lasso the Mississippi.  You don't want to, Jim? Well, something will come up. And I'm getting pretty lonesome today. This bridge, it doesn't belong to us anymore. No. What I was thinking myself. Listen now. Sammy, you remember the day when I said to save your congratulations till we could do it on a finish bridge? They cut the ribbon. And the governor's carriage crosses first. Ah, neat pair of grays he's got. That sure gives you a funny feeling to see somebody on that bridge. Yeah, sure does. I think the Mississippi can toss her main old she wants to now. But the bridge is safe. Yes. We did it, boys. And now we can shake hands. James Buchanan Ede placed himself in the first rank of bridge engineer with the Ede Bridge at St. Louis. Foreign government thought his advice and many cities in the United States retained his services as one of the first great American experts on the flow of water and on river improvement. Jupont is proud to salute James Buchanan Ede's pioneer American engineer as a leader in the cavalcade of America. To people living at the time the Ede Bridge was built, the word plastic was only an adjective defined by the dictionary as capable of being molded into a desired form. But today the term plastic is used as a noun to describe a group of materials said to have 25,000 different uses and more than 300,000 different shapes. The first commercially useful plastic was the result of an attempt to make the most of the earlier balls. But now plastics are important and beautiful materials in their own right. The colorful handle of your toothbrush is usually plastic. This material is used in making the scuffless heels on women's shoes. You'll find plastics used extensively throughout the modern automobile. The knob on the gear shift is easy to handle steering wheel on the instrument panel and numerous interior accessories. The first is the safety glass. One of the outstanding contributions to safety in motor car driving of recent years is made possible by a sandwich of transparent plastic between two sheets of glass. Dupont chemists have greatly reduced the cost of making this particular plastic, thereby protecting millions of people against injury due to shattered glass. If you play bridge you've probably seen the new cards available and last indefinitely because they're made of plastic. Household articles made with plastics range from children's toys to beautiful toiletware set, fountain pens and pencils with colorful barrels, transparent hat boxes, costume jewelry and many others. Indeed, plastics have come out of the chemical laboratory to become a major industry contributing much to better living. The Dupont company alone normally employs more than 3,000 people in its plants at Lemmonster, Massachusetts and Arlington, New Jersey where a whole family of Dupont plastics are made. Six million pounds of cotton linters annually as well as two and one half million pounds of camphor, most of which is made from the turpentine of southern pine trees by chemistry are used as raw materials thus providing a new force of income for that section of the country. The plastics industry is a good example of how research chemistry has created new products, new conveniences, new standards of beauty and in so doing has also created new jobs. Here again we see what Dupont chemists mean by their pledge to provide better things for better living through chemistry.


The bold alligator is a large-scale, live, east coast exercise with multinational partners to show the distributed operations, contingency operations that will guide our future operating force. We started the battle procedure yesterday at the landing zone, just further to the south. We had split this combat town into two separate pieces. We had a lot of different nationalities, different branches of military armed services, a lot of different TTPs, a lot of different gears, so we tried to fit them together and work as a whole, culminating in this attack on combat towns. Really the only way we're going to get better at fighting as a coalition with allies is they actually come out and we train and really work together for an extended period of time. You get to know each other better, see that there are a lot of things which are the same but also a lot of things which are different. You can find each other on things which are the same and you can learn from the differences which different countries or branches of the armed services have. We have only a very small Marine Corps compared to the US Marine Corps, so you're going to be operating in a big environment like Iraq or Afghanistan. It's important that you also see the big picture and you can only train it in a big operation like this.