The first intention is for the long life, and we all make Dua, and Harima is going to read the Dua for us. The second intention of the Yasin is for the Fai Balaya, the calamities to go away. And the third one is for the risk, prosperity and the Qashada risk. So these three intentions, one is for the long life, second is for the calamities to go away. And the third one is the prosperity for the risk, inshallah. The Dua will be there, inshallah we'll start. Bismillah Sayyidi. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Yadal Jalal wa l-Ikram, Yadatul l-Lajeeen, Wajar al-Mustajireen, Wa Aman al-Khaifin. Wa Suwa wa Khajiyar Rahman bil Ghaib. Fabashiru bil Lashayin ahsayna wa fiin. As-Haba al-Qariyat, idh jaa al-Mursaloon. Idh arsal dazzazna bithalithin fa taqhiboon. Qal yashkouroon. Subah wa shamsu tajreelim ustaqarillaha. Zalika taqdeeru l-aq. Lash shamsu yamdirika l-qamar wa lallaylu sabiqun. Wa kullun feefa laki yasbahoon il-mashhoon. Nasha'n ghareqoon fa la sarikhalahum khafi'sssoor. Unasha'ul ta masna'an fa astabaq al-sirata fa anna yubasiroon. Walawnaasha'ul masakhna fa mastaqaa wa masharibua fa la yashkouroon. Wa attaqadun as shajaril lii khalaqas sama. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. La jiyin wa jaral mustajirina l-khaifi. Taka tabtana aindaka fi'umil kitab. Ashqiya'a awmahroomina awmatroodina awmuktarra n'alayna. Fir rizq famhullahum bifadlika shaqawatina wa hermanina wa tardina wa qtitaarifirazqina. Wa athbitna aindaka fi'umil kitab. Su'adaa marzooqina muwafaqina l-khayrat. Fa innaka qulta wa qawluka l-haqqu fi kitabika l-munazzal. Ala l-sali nabika l-mursal. Yamhullahu ma yashafbit wa aindahu ummu l-kitab. Pilahana bittajallil a'zam fi laylatin nisfu min shahri sha'ban al-mukarra. Allatiyufraq fiha kullu amrin hakeemin wa yubaram. An taqshifa'nna min al-bala'lam wa an tabihi a'lam. Hin a'azzu l-akram wa sallallahu ta'ala ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala sahbihi wa sallim. Wa alhamdulill... I have seen it for a third time. Bismillahi r-Rahman r-Rahim. Al-mursalina al-asiratim mustaqimim sadaf. Fa aghshayna wa sawab. Fabashhiru bim kulla shay'in a'hsaynahu wa an ashab al-qaryat. Ith ja'a al-mursalun. Ith a'rsal na'ini fa kathabun shay'in. Min shay'ya takdibun. Wa ja'a min aqsa al-madinatirajuniyya sa'a. Ni shafa'atuhum shay'a hasra tan'iyya stahzi'un. Alam ya'unas lahumin. Wa shamsu tajreel mustaqaril lahaa. Daalikat aqdeeru al-Aziz. Azila hatta'aa. La shamsu yamil mash'un. Wa khalaqana la nasha'n gharikuhum. Fa la sarikhaluhum. Wa khalfakum la'allakum turhamu. Haa hatta'a wa hada'a ya khis'imun. Fa la fikhafi al-souri fa ida'um min al-ajdaath ila'an. Wa sadaqa al-mursalun. La say'a hatta'a fa yi shughul. Daa siratum mustaqeem. Wa laqad a'dalla min kum jibilla. Tum takfiru wa tashadu a'arjun. Fa astabaku s-sirata fa anna yubasirun. Wa lawna sha'u la masakhnaum a'la makanatihum. Fa mas tata'u tukulli shay'in wa ilayhi turjaw. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Adal jalal wa al-iqbar. Ya'ad at-tul wa al-in'aamin laa. Wajar al-mustajireen. Wa aman al-khaifin. Wa bi su'adaa marzooqin. Mu'afqa l-l-khirat. Fa inna ka qulta wa qawluka l-haqqu fi kitabika l-munazzal. A la lis'an nabiyika l-mursal. Yam'hu Allahumma yashad. Wa aimda wul kitab. Ilaha naabit tajallil a'zam fi layla tinnisfi min shahri sh'abanil mukaram. Al-Amin, al-Amin. Al-Amin. Al-Amin. Wa sallallahu ala ala Sayyidina wa Habibina Muhammad, Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Wa alhamdulillah. Insha'Allah, we still have some time. Let's do some zikr insha'Allah. I think it's better than a dhikr in the Baytullah, insha'Allah. I ask forgiveness of Allah, I ask forgiveness of Allah. I ask forgiveness of Allah, I ask forgiveness of Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. There is no god but Allah. So as you know we are now in the blessed season, the season of Rajab, Shaaban and Ramadan. Shaaban is called the month of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. In these months, the Qibla was changed from facing Jerusalem to facing Mecca. It took place about approximately two months prior to mid Ramadan. So most likely it took place in Rajab. But there are some statements that it could also have taken place in Shaaban. Less likely but these positions are there. Also it was in the months of Shaaban that most likely the verse in Allah was revealed. So the month of Shaaban is famous for... We are told that our records are presented before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala periodically. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is aware of what we do all the time. He looks at our hearts all the time. He scans our heart.  But He scans your heart. So we know that. But we are also told that periodically our records, our deeds are presented before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Wouldn't you want your records to be clean when they're presented before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the creator of the universe? So we are told that our records are presented before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the months of Shaaban as we will see in the hadith. But specifically if we were talking about the middle Shaaban, the 15th of Shaaban, the middle of Shaaban, we have a hadith from Ahmad and At-Tabarani that Allah exalted as He descends to the nearest heaven in the middle night of Shaaban and His forgiveness is greater than the number of hairs on the sheep in the tribe of Kalb.  Can you, these hair are they countable or uncountable? The set of hair is an uncountable set. It's millions and millions of hair. And it says in the hadith that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives His forgiveness is greater than the number of hairs on the sheep in the tribe of Kalb. Every forgiveness has conditions attached to it. So also in the narrations by Imam Bayhaqi, it says that Actually the narration started earlier. Narration started with Sayyid A'aysh narrating that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam beta-a'indaha It was her turn. And alayhi sallatu wa sallam stayed with her the night. Fa qaamamina layli yusalli So he started praying in the night. Then Sayyid A'aysh says He made sujood and he stayed in sujood for so long. Sayyid A'aysh got scared. She got worried that he passed away because he made sujood for such a long time. So she came near to him.  Allah hu wa rasoolahu a'lam Usually when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asks something even if you know what it is you might think things have changed. He said and it happened also in the time of Hajj many times when he asked him what day is this? They know it's the a'id al-atha they said has the day changed? And then he kept asking them questions until they saw that things have changed and now he's going to name them differently or give them different names. She said, Allah hu wa rasoolahu a'lam He told her this is the night of the mitchaban and then Ibn Bayhaqi narrated another hadith where he says that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the middle in the night of middle of shaban it ta'ala Allahu a'la khalqi Allah looks extensively at the hearts at his servants He forgives the believers He forgives the believers He forgives the believers He forgives the believers He forgives the believers He gives His mercy to those that seek mercy wa yumli li'l kafireen and postpones and delays those who are kafirs i.e. they're not eligible to receive this rahma or this maqfira wa yada'u ahlal haqdi li'haqdi him hatta yada'uha and then also it doesn't pay attention to those who harbors animosity in their hearts toward others until they leave their animosity I have a question for you insha'Allah when we get to we'll take one hadith and focus on it and let's try to understand it together and see the beauty in it the other hadith is from ibn Majah and ibn Habban it's a hadith of Muaz ibn Jabal radiya allahu anhu who relates the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saying that Allah looks at his creation during the middle night of shaban Allah looks at his creation all the time but here the word usually this word in modern usage it's used to indicate extensive look you say after we've extensively looked at this matter this is our verdict like if you're in a business setting or in a legal setting and a lawyer or judge is looking extensively at your case and then says after looking extensively at your case this is the judgment this is how we're going to rule or this is the best solution for all your accountant when you're doing your taxes after looking at your case this is the best way to avoid paying taxes so that's the word that is used it's not just he looks but it's an emphatic form there's an emphasis that your heart is scanned completely no corner of the heart can escape anything you have in the heart is revealed and it's an extensive look to the point that everything is searched and everything is looked at the middle night of Shaban and forgives him all so if you're eligible see the Hadith is saying that your heart is going to be presented before Allah SWT in Shaban our records are presented but in the in the middle of Shaban our heart is presented you're saying oh Allah look at my heart what does that mean would you show someone your house before cleaning the house would you show someone would you invite people and your house is messy but anyone else would you invite anyone before no so this requires that some preparation is done so when we read this Hadith it's not a Hadith that we should read on the middle of Shaban it's a Hadith we should have read a month earlier or two months earlier and it's a Hadith that we read now for next year it's a Hadith that we read for every night because no one knows when we're going to disappear and leave this world so and forgives them all except an idolater except a mushrik and one who harbors ranker one who harbors one who has hatred in their heart now you might think what's common between these two a mushrik and someone who has hatred why were they the two were mentioned in one Hadith can you give us some thought we'll come back to this point that's an important point because it'll help us understanding the the dimensions of this Hadith the other Hadith is a Hadith from Musnad Ahmad they're all revolver on the same manner, same matter and it's a Hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-Aas Abdullah ibn Huma where the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is reported to have said that Allah majestic as he looks at his creation on the middle night of Shaban and forgives all of his slaves saving save an idolater and a murderer a murderer is someone who has hatred about one person and says that's it I'm gonna accelerate the meeting between you and Allah swt and kills him so these are Hadiths that we read Imam al-Nasa'i in his Sunan narrated on the authority of Usama ibn Zaid on Huma and Usama he was a young man beloved to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam Usama asked the prophet a question he said I see you fasting in Ramadan in Shaban more than any other month in other narrations it is said that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam used to fast in Shaban until we think that he'd never break his fast and he used to break his fast in Shaban until we think that he'd never break his fast and sometimes the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam would fast most of Shaban except few few days so the prophet sallallahu alayhi gave him two reasons as to why he said why would you fast this month more than any other month is there something special about this month he said that's the first reason he said this is a month that most people don't pay attention to people pay attention to Rajab it's one of the sacred months and then they get busy preparing for Ramadan and it just happens that sometimes Shaban just zipped by and all of a sudden we're in Ramadan we're preparing for Ramadan so he says or sometimes people may neglect it maybe they know about it but they may neglect it or they may be completely unaware of Shaban they're in a state of heedlessness about Shaban so he said it's a month where people don't pay attention to they they some of them are ignorant of this month so there is like this is an underlying principle here that it's easy to worship Allah SWT together in Ramadan it's easy it's easy to do it in a mosque it's easy to do it with people when people are not doing it or are heedless and you do it that means you're alert it means you're attentive it means even if people don't do it you still do it so even if people are heedless about this month one is still aware and alert it's all about focus it's all about focus you see most of us have unfocused mind our mind is unfocused all the time so even in college when we teach students and sometimes we we our audience is the unfocused mind we want to help the students focus their mind and it's all about at the end it becomes too it's all about paying attention can we get this person to pay attention can we get myself to pay attention to Shaban and then the next step is how much attention should I pay okay I need to pay attention but how much attention should I pay so if one is aware of the importance of Shaban and even if others are heedless but at the same time one still engages in Shaban alaihi s-salatu wa s-salam is talking about this that's the first reason and and records are raised to Allah in this month I love for my records to be presented before Allah while I'm in a state of fasting alaihi s-salatu wa s-salam says because fasting is also about it has dimensions dimensions of Tawheed so this hadith shows the importance of Shaban as a whole now Imam Shafi'i is reported to have said that it has reached me from previous scholars Imam Shafi'i was born in the year 150 died in the year 204 so he lived only for 54 years but he's in second century of Hijra and he frequented the major scholars of his time including Imam Malik including Imam Muhammad bin al-Hasan al-Shaybani the companion of Abu Hanifa Sufiyana bin Uyayna all the major early Muslims he says it has reached me that there are five nights where a dua is is likely to be answered by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the night of of Friday the night of Eid al-Futr the night of Eid al-Adha the night of Medet Shaban and the night of the first of Rajab and then he says that I also find it favorably to make dua in those five nights so also his independent judgment and he also reached the same conclusion however as we all know dua has prerequisites and has conditions because dua is to be accepted by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we are guaranteed that our dua is accepted by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but provided that we fulfill the conditions of dua and if you fulfill the conditions of dua then our dua will be accepted by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the hadith it is mentioned that maybe a person who is disheveled and is in distress and agony raising his hands to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asking him and making dua and then says how could his prayer be answered while his income is haram and his food is haram so dua has a prerequisites so one of the prerequisites of dua is to say sorry to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala before you ask somebody something and if you have wronged this person in one way or another the first thing one needs to say is sorry say I apologize I'm sorry for what I've done in religious terms sorry means tawba oh Allah I repent that's what sorry means to you I acknowledge my mistakes I acknowledge my shortcomings I acknowledge my sins and I have made a firm intention to I regret them and I promise not to do them again so that's one of the prerequisites of dua is to declare one's tawba tawba cleans your heart and if you in Allah you have tawab he loves those who turn back to him so if one fulfills the conditions of dua then our dua is likely to be accepted so this requires some preparation requires a plan that we have thought about it and I want my dua to be accepted in Nusf Shaban and I'm ready for it I'm ready for my heart to be presented i.e. I vacuum cleaned my heart rearranged the furniture and Allah come and visit me anytime I'm ready so that's those are the hadiths that are related to to the months of Shaban and to Nusf Shaban however if we were to look at the hadiths again in Allah yattali'u ala al-ibad Allah looks upon the servants looks upon the creation and He forgives the believers except two things except two people two kinds of people mushrik and those who harbors animosity toward others why is that can you help me understand the hadiths what's so special about those two people brother Zahir is going to talk just your thoughts we can make all the mistakes here as long as we don't make them outside this is a safe space it's a safe space he said because a mushrik is one who associates partners with Allah so what that's the next question yes go ahead want to help? good interesting interesting any other thoughts sisters yes okay yes okay so how is that alright okay yes because you haven't yes yes okay good you can have hatred for the sake of Allah but not hatred for because you hate that person like yes that's now yourself your nafas but if somebody commits sin or somebody is like in our religion we hate the sin as in the surah says but if one was to hate a person it needs to be for the sake of Allah they've done something that and as but if your hatred is true and sincere i.e. if they were to change their behavior you would also change sincerity is a very tricky thing yes one more you see the thing about it at the time of the prophet take for example Khalid bin Walid say do not call there is no house amongst the muhajireen that Khalid did not kill a family member of that heart he killed he was and he never lost a war this person he was one of three people in history that never lost a war in his life as soon as he became Muslim they embraced him like a brother and all the hatred disappears why because it wasn't hatred for the self can we be like that that's difficult that's very difficult yes of course it's not the same so being mad is a reaction when you get mad is a reaction so the sharia doesn't have rulings on feelings and emotions have rulings on guidelines for feelings and emotions i.e. before you get into that state and after you get into that state so for example if somebody dies somebody very close to me dies and I feel sad that's the sharia allows that but if it goes to extreme sharia puts a guideline like don't wail don't scream don't do this normal feelings that every human being can have is sanctioned by the sharia but the consequences of those feelings is where the sharia puts limits on and also don't put yourself in a situation where I would get mad and get angry so there are guidelines before and after and the prophet SAW said he said the strong man is not someone who can beat another man but the strong man is someone who can restrain himself or herself when they're angry when they fall when they're angry and the proper way because anger reflects a pain there's a pain somewhere and you're manifesting that pain in the form of an anger or sometimes it reflects an ability to communicate when you don't know how to communicate you get angry and you get mad and you start throwing a tantrum and all these things and it reflects a little bit of self insecurities if someone has high self esteem usually people who have high self esteem know how to communicate communicate their thoughts they know how to deal with people and manage people if one has low self esteem which can be changed and everything can be worked on we can always become better than what we are today let's go back to the it's settled in Zaharat now it becomes it finds home it finds a home there and that's right so why do people have hatred why do people have they fight with each other and it's one of four things it's either power or money or fame or yeah yeah exactly there are four or five things that drives people to get mad at each other he got the job he got the girl I didn't get it let's go back to the hadith that he scans the heart and he looks extensively at the heart Imam Ghazali mentions that the statement of Tawheed is a statement about love is a statement about love he said so the conditions for fulfilling the Tawheed statement the kalima is that there should not remain in the heart of the one who says it anything except the one the unique i.e. you clean your heart you vacuum your heart and you say oh Allah there is nothing in my heart but you why? because love doesn't accept partners it does not you tell your wife I love you but I love also someone else you'll sleep on the couch tonight you won't sleep you'll sleep outside in the snow if you're in Canada love doesn't accept partnership and to say Tawheed anybody can do it anyone can do it when you declare your love in my heart there is nothing but Allah so you're going to be tested the degree of love is going to be tested and how do you get tested how do you get tested so when you say I love somebody love always implies that there have to be sacrifices that there have to be because you tell a person if I can get your love I'm willing to let go of coffee in the morning I'm willing to let go of my car I'm willing to let go of something if I could only have your heart you're willing to let go of something to get the heart of the beloved but you say I love you but I'm not willing to sacrifice anything for you anyone can say that so when I tell the students what's the relationship between love and zakat and they say look at me like what are you talking about love and zakat because as I said Allah will test you do you love money more or do you love Allah more so when there is zakat you trim your wealth a little bit like you trim your trees it will grow in a blessed way so your love is going to be tested by your ability to let go and be separated from other things that you love people usually will prove their degree of love by talking about what they will sacrifice for that love I love you more than I love X, Y and Z you want to get an iPhone iPhone costs a thousand dollars which one do you love more the iPhone or the thousand dollars I love you more than the money I have in my pocket I'm willing to pay to sacrifice that money to get this iPhone I love you more I want to get your heart and in order to get your heart I'm willing to sacrifice X, Y and Z I'm willing to sacrifice you know you name it whatever you love the most Allah says you will not achieve until you spend of that which you love so the word bear in Arabic has the meaning has multiple connotations but there are two main connotations of bear and the same word bear is also used with parents bear toward the parents lantanalu al-birra i.e. the two main meanings of bear and rahma i.e. you will not achieve the ridah of Allah the pleasure of Allah and the mercy of Allah until you spend of that which you love the same thing the pleasure of your parents with you as well as they always pray for you and they have mercy on you mercy of the mother is indescribable lantanalu al-birra lantanalu al-birra so you get tested so saeedun amr spent ubakar spent all his money saeedun amr spent half of his money one person spent the best horse he had one person spent a well he gave a well for the sake of Allah so whenever we declare we make a categorical statement you don't ever do that but if you do that you're going to yes so so when you talk about love you're also talking about that which you're willing to sacrifice so now if you get back to the hadith Allah will scan the heart what's in your heart is it the love of Allah as you claim or is it something else what's the common between somebody who has hatred and somebody who is a mushrik and their heart there is no Allah the heart is not clean at all and the mushrik his heart is still decorated with everything but Allah so how could he receive the mercy of Allah and the other person is full of hatred hatred and love is basically the same feelings emotions just to switch is turned the other way around so instead of directing hatred toward things that are the sharia looks down upon he's turning his hatred and his feelings and emotions towards something that you should not be hating what does this mean it means you know when we we want to change in the Quran Allah says Allah does not change what he says again Allah does not change the situation of people until they change what's in their hearts but my heart is not under my control my heart is under the control of Allah so how could I change my heart because the the the I love you she loves me until the end of life no she's saying I love you at this moment but five minutes later I may hate you and there is no contradiction between the two because it means I love how you make me feel at this moment when she hates you she also hates how you make her feel at this moment no contradiction but we also know that Allah says he walks so there is a step that we can take on our own even this believer can take this step because the ayah in the Quran says those who struggle and strive in our path we shall guide them to our path and the ulamas said this applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims and the minimum one can make the decision in the heart that I am willing to accept the truth no matter where it comes from i.e. we always say let's say there is a drought in California and we say where is water I need water I need water and let's say it starts raining outside and if you say I want water I want water I want water all you have to do is grab your bucket and go outside and put it under the rain and you get water once you make a step Allah will make 10 steps or 100 steps or 1000 steps but Allah made it a condition that we have to show a willingness to accept the truth and this doesn't only apply to non-Muslims apply to Muslims because when we are Muslims we become stubborn we think we are now on cloud 9 and paradise it's always like that sometimes I accept the truth up to a certain point because what is our commitment as Muslims what are we are committed to the most what do you think what are we committed to the most we are committed to the truth this commitment we call Iman because Allah is the truth capital T that's our commitment everybody has commitment whether one is an atheist or a Christian or Jew or Muslim people have commitment the atheists have commitment toward materialism they are committed to that other people have commitment towards something in your job you must have commitments what is it you are committed to the most as Muslims we are committed to the truth to the truth to the truth to the truth yeah the truth find in it and then follow in it find in it is called Iman that's the first thing to remain on Iman and not to be distracted and not our heart you know getting corrupted that's not an easy task takes a lot of effort yeah that's the truth our commitment commitment is to al-haqqar because the surat al-mustaqim is just one of the element of haqq it's like you have a set and you have elements in the set so these are examples of al-haqq and the opposite of haqq is about falsehood and sometimes we use metaphor we say when the haqq comes kicks out the falsehood expels it out the door it's like the falsehood is an entity and the truth comes and kicks it out that's the metaphor to to make it understandable so in Allah and this works both ways positively and negatively so if you change what's in your heart in a negative way Allah leaves you alone but if you make a decision in a positive direction Allah will also support you and present you with another option then you have to make another decision because you may say I'm committed to the truth up to a certain point beyond that point I don't know maybe I will stay committed you know can a person deceive themselves people can deceive themselves alright so we don't want to take much of your time you see the examples we heard before they're all symptoms what is the good cause the good cause is that it's in here that's where the good cause is this is a manifestation of what's in the heart but when you say la ilaha I looked into my heart and I've cleaned it from anything worthy of being adored or worshipped except you no it's a minor shirk it's something you have to work on something you have to work on we all fall into that when I give donation to the mosque I give donations and they take a picture of me that's where I show off I'm showing off because these things they these things are psychological state the prophet was asked about those who go on military expeditions just to defend the tribe or they get intoxicated when people call them courageous he said and then he was asked which of those are he said he said if you go on military expedition to raise the word of Allah that's for the sake of Allah what does this mean? it means that's an intellectual decision the other three it's an emotional decision it's a psychological state that drove them to to kick somebody that's just to show that he's courageous or to avenge someone because they've insulted the honor of the tribe or the honor of the family or my honor so those are Ashia and Nafsia there's a difference between Nafsani decision and intellectual decision they thought no I want to deliver the message I want to convey the message I want to raise the that's an intellectual decision that's not an emotional decision that's different so it says in the hadith it talks about those who are mushriks so either their hearts are partially corrupted or partially corrupted like the one who is hatred but the hatred has taken firm in the heart and it needs to be uprooted before it is eligible for the mercy and forgiveness of Allah but this this shows that all of us get fallen to this we are not immune from hating people so if we want our for Allah SWT and to be forgiven we have to work on lubricating that part or at least if you don't maybe you don't have to become a friend with them but don't hate them don't hate them for your own sake for your own sake you can have a business relationship with them some people they do this with the Prophet SAW it's like the business relationship all messenger of Allah we are going to follow you instead of someone hugging the Prophet SAW he says I'm willing to do anything for you that's love what is it you're willing to sacrifice for the sake of whom you love so but then the hadith talks about Istighfar and Maqfira Raqib al-Asfahani in his dictionary on the Quran he said the word Maqfira used to be a shield from the soldiers used to wear around the neck so this is like a metal shield and it protects the neck and the body from arrows that are being shot at you or from bullets so imagine the sins are like bullets they're trying to harm you and kill you and this Maqfira to protect you from sins and forgive all your sins the words of the hadith are really interesting each word has meaning and has connotations and understanding these words I hope will will help us appreciate the hadith and how to benefit from this hadith so that inshallah at least next year we can be prepared and this year it's never too late if there is any question or any comment or observation or something you wish to add we're here to learn alexander is a great historical figures historical figures one time the prophet was sleeping on the tree and a bedouin came and he snatched the sword of prophet salam and then he woke him up he said who will protect you from me he said who can protect you now from me your sword is in my hand I can kill you anyone and the prophet says and the sword fell from his hand the prophet took the sword and told him who will protect you from me now he said who will protect you from me he said who will protect you he said he said go so then the person became Muslim and so this shows that prophet salam was not you know because he could have killed him if it was like a personal feelings or you were about to kill me I'm going to kill you it's not like that because in our view iman is life iman is life ilam is life iman leads to eternal life in the year after we want people to have eternal life and to have guidance what's the benefit of people dying and going to hellfire that's not what the prophet salam is about when does mercy can be called mercy mercy is called mercy if it is shamila and if it is you see you need ten thousand dollars you come to me you need to have an operation for your son or whatever and I give you the ten thousand dollars a year from now is this mercy it's not mercy because you didn't get it you needed it or you ask for ten thousand dollars I give you a penny is this mercy mercy has to be enough to cover your needs at the right time at the right moment in the right place that's what's mercy and alaihi salatu wassalam was sent to humanity at the right time because when a humanity when he was sent to humanity imagine an earthquake when you have an earthquake everything will be upside down everything will be in so the same thing happened to humanity an earthquake hit humanity but not a physical earthquake it's a moral earthquake it's a spiritual earthquake that have changed values values became upside down the Arabs they had good values and good morals they have taken them to extremes so they were courageous but they take courage to extreme they had honor, they took honor to extreme they their honor was if they get a baby girl as a baby daughter they would consider this as dishonor so they would bury the girls alive because they thought this is against our honor so they took honor to extreme alaihi salatu wassalam was sent to put everything back in the right place so after an earthquake huge effort has to be put to reconstruct everything and put everything in the right place he put everything in the right place in terms of rulings, in terms of akhlaq in terms of values in terms of relationships, in terms of what's important, priorities what's important, what's not important and the degrees of priorities so we as Muslims we think we're proud, we think that we know our priorities we know our priorities alaihi salatu wassalam explained to us our priorities and we wish everyone would know these same priorities because it will help them, these priorities they don't also help us in religion but they also help they can help us also in our work as professionals what should our attitude be towards like groups of people so we talked about like harboring animosity or an individual what about like groups it could be anyone, it could be another nation, it could be a particular association and attitude as well as like how we talk about them like let's say on whatsapp every question has a history behind it not sure what you have in mind but usually when one talk about a group they're talking about an idea or some value that this group holds on the other hand when you meet a person that belongs to that group you will find that now you're meeting a person every person is different from another person and you want to verify who is this person what does he believe in is he open minded, is he not open minded it's a completely different game so talking about groups in general and then meeting people face to face it's anything we measure according to the guidance of the sharia so what do they promote then we can measure these values according to the values that the standards we know we have high standards and nothing in life is going to be in this world we don't have hellfire on earth, we don't have paradise on earth it's going to be the two there are always pros and cons but the cons may be more than the pros and because of that we're against the cons we're not against the pro so that's the general answer you know if it's a specific situation and we can talk about it any other comment or sisters inshallah I sought a du'a by Sayyidina Abu Bakr but it wasn't related to I thought it was related to shaban but it seems to be related to something else I if it was related it would be nice to recite it inshallah may be another time Allahumma ghfirilil muslimina wa al-muslimat wa al-mouminina wa al-mouminat al-akhia'i minhum wa al-amwad innaka ya maulana samia wa al-qareeb mujeeh wa dawaat Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala al-sayyidina Muhammad Allahumma jal jam'ana jama'an marhooma wajal tafarukana ya jami'a lisaat rahmatika ya rahmah rahmeen Allahumma tawallana wa tawalla ikhwanina ya Allah bi kulli makanin ya Rabbil Alameen Allahumma tahir kulubana min shirk wa nifaq ya Allahu ya kareem Allahumma ghfiril lana iza ya auridat kulubuna ya Allahu ya kareem Allahumma inna nasaluka maqfira ya Allahu ya kareem Allahumma inna nasaluka rahma ya Allahu ya kareem wa ala alameen wa sallallahu wa sallam ala sayyidina


Ahmad ibn Yasir, the great companion, that he was once seen praying a short prayer. It was a short prayer. It did not take very long and his companions asked him and he said, did you see me falling short on any of the obligations, the rights of the prayer? They said, no, you did it properly but it was a bit short. He said, I wanted to outdo the shaitan affecting me. I wanted to get, in other words, to have full concentration, better to have a shorter prayer with excellent concentration, with excellent quality, then a long prayer where the mind is just wandering this way and this way and the other.


In this video, we provide the solution to question number two for practice exam number three for math 1220 in which case we're given a differential equation x squared times y prime is equal to y. We also have some initial value y equals negative one when x equals one, and we also have the general solution to this differential equation, which we don't need to then compute it. We already know it. We want to find a particular solution here, which be aware if we already have the general solution and we have the initial value, turns out we don't need the differential equation whatsoever. It comes down to plugging these numbers into the general solution and finding the unknown value see there. So if y is equal to negative one, we're going to get negative one equals c times e to the negative one over x here, which is going to be one. If you simplify the right hand side, you're going to get c to the negative c times e to the negative one, which of course is c over e. This is equal to negative one. If you times both sides by e, you'll get that c equals negative e, and therefore that's the coefficient we need there. If you plug in a negative e for the c value, well, since you have two ease there, I can actually put the, I can actually, since this is an exponent of one there, you can add those together. So I really could write this as y equals negative e to the one minus one over x power, like so, and for which if you search among the options, you see that's exactly option c, which then is the correct answer.


Acquirebom State Governor Udom Emmanuel has directed that a panel of inquiries be set up to investigate the cause of the collapse of a four-story building that was under construction at Eman Street off Aka Road, Uyo on Saturday. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Ini Emenobong, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen today in Uyo. According to Emenobong, the governor commiserated with the families of the victims of the building collapse and also ordered that the state government should take over the management of the survivors. When it happened, of course, we mobilized all that we could. The police was here. The old security agencies, they came here to secure this site and then start looking for if there was a dead person there. That's what we'll do. We cannot go further than this unless we find those who are directly involved. For example, who owns the house? Number one. Number two, who supervised the building? Number three, where did the building get a government plan? We will check where we get the names. We now check whether it has got a plan. From available records, we got to know that the four-story building under construction collapsed on Ebon Galu. And what we needed to do first was to coordinate our stakeholders to ensure that we save lives. And that operation has been ongoing since yesterday. Fortunately, some lives have been recovered. One dead, two dead bodies we have on record. What we want to ascertain now is to get to the bottom of this building to ensure that there is no person dead alive that is remaining. That's what the excavator is doing. It is only when that is done that we ensure that our rescue operation is completed. Otherwise, we must continue to dig deep to the ground floor to ensure that no person dead or alive is still under the rock. Shop owners count their losses. The roof was on top of my shop. Everything fell down flat. I'm not able to remove anything. I'm not removing anything from my shop. All my machine has gone. All my clothes, customers' clothes. But I thank God for life because at Ebon, it was not weakened. I have more than 15 apprentices. I wouldn't have been able to remove all of them. But I thank God for life, at least I am alive. I left my shop. It was not even up to 10 minutes when this thing happened. My boy was here yesterday evening. So after he finished cooking Indomie, his brother came back. He told his brother to eat the Indomie, let him go and collect his food from his friend. Let him go and collect his food from his friend. So immediately he left after 15 minutes. He heard that the building collapsed and the brother is inside. It was yesterday night they removed the brother and the young man is dead. I came to find out that some of the ions he used to build was very tiny for downstairs. Y8 and Y10, those are very tiny ions. Even the cement, there was no cement and blocks. Even when we were touching it, it was just catching like a sand. There was no cement in it. There was no good work. So the engineers should look for the engineer. The engineer should come out and tell us why he used those equipment to build a hotel on a small space like this, not even up to 200 square meters. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Losing collagen is a normal aging process. But for some people, such as those who develop osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, collagen loss can lead to intense pain and limited mobility. There are ways to manage symptoms, medicines for pain relief, and injections that help lubricate. But outside of total joint replacement, these treatments tend to fall short of a long-term solution. This unmet medical need has driven many scientists to look to the body itself. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers explained how blood cells whose main job is to patrol for intruders can moonlight as collagen producers, offering a possible new way to combat arthritis. These are peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Known for the large, round nucleus at their center, cells of this type are the main drivers of our immune response, activating and transforming to meet our body's needs. Surprisingly, that includes making type 2 collagen, found exclusively in cartilage. This extraordinary ability was artificially induced when researchers supplemented mononuclear cells with a substance known as macrophage colony-stimulating factor. This substance is an important part of the immune system that stimulates the formation of white blood cells, namely M2 macrophages. M2 macrophages are known combatants of inflammation throughout the body. They're the anti-inflammatory counterpart to M1 macrophages, which tend to promote inflammation. The type 2 collagen-stimulating effect was found to be dose-dependent with macrophage colony-stimulating factor. To determine whether these modified macrophages could replicate this feat in a living body, the research team transplanted them into rats induced to develop arthritis. The limbs of these rats were then compared to those of arthritic rats injected with saline. Measurement showed that in rats with arthritis, the modified macrophages could dramatically reduce swelling in the hind limbs and the paws. Whether similar effects might be observed in humans remain to be seen, but several clinical trials are already underway. If replicated, the findings could be transformative. Encouraging the body's own cells to produce collagen could inspire entirely new ways of treating arthritis and, at least in part, slowing the consequences of aging.


In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how to calculate NDVI from a Sentinel-2 image and how to reclassify the result into vegetation classes. We can download Sentinel data from different websites here. I use the USGS Earth Explorer website. And you start by indicating the area. You can move the map to the study area and you can use map and then it will make a little polygon for that area and that will be the search area. In this case, I'm not interested in that area. You could also put coordinates or you can click to get a polygon. But what I'm going to do is to upload a zipped shapefile with a boundary polygon. And here I have the boundary. And then I can choose a date range. Let's say from 2020 April to 2021, first of April, I go to data sets. And here I can go to the Sentinel and choose Sentinel-2. And then I can go to results. And there you can check the footprint, you can check the metadata, or you can download after logging in. I'm logged in. And to have the full image, it's in the JPEG 2000 format. You choose this one. If you just want a picture, you choose the GeoTIV. In our case, we would use that one after choosing the correct one, which has the least clouds, etc. After downloading and unzipping the file, I find these folders and the data can be found under granule. And then the name of the tile and define it here under IMG underscore data. And I'm interested in all these raster bands, so I'm going to select them and drag them to the map canvas. And here we see them. And we can see that they are already projected to UTM zone 31 north. And that they have pixel size, in this case, for this band of 60 meters. And this band has a 10 meter resolution. So I'm going to make a map stack out of this to create a multiband raster. And I don't need a band 8a, so I'll just remove it. The quickest way to make a multiband raster of these individual bands is to make a virtual layer. So go to raster, miscellaneous, build virtual raster. Here I can select the input bands, select them all, click OK. And you can choose here which resolution you want for the output. And let's take the highest resolution, so the 10 meter, and make sure that it puts each layer into a separate band. If you have this unchecked, it will mosaic tiles, which are distributed in space. But in our case, they're of course stacked on top of each other. Therefore we check this box. And we keep the other things as default. And then I save it to a file. And then I run it. And this is very quick, as you can see. So I remove all the previous layers. And there we have our multiband raster. So we can use the layer styling panel, and it recognizes a multiband color. And here I can choose, for example, to have near infrared band 8 visualized in red. The green band in band 4, the red, and the blue band 3. And here we see that all the red parcels are vegetated. We can distinguish the forests, et cetera. You can play with these different band settings to see different features in the landscape. And we are going to use this now to calculate the NDVI. So what I do, I go to Raster, Raster Calculator. And here we see all the bands. And NDVI is for Sentinel is the near infrared is band 8. So this add symbol separates the name of the layer with the band name. So this is band number 8 minus the near infrared minus the red. So that is band 4 divided by the near infrared plus red. Let's save it. Let's call this one NDVI.tiv and we run it. There it is with values between minus 1 and 1. Let's style the layer, the NDVI, single band pseudo color, and let's choose greens. And here we see that the more green it is, the more vegetation you can play with these settings to get more contrast. If we want to know which areas are vegetated and which are not vegetated, we can simply separate them using the Raster Calculator. Because NDVI values that are larger than 0 are considered vegetation. So we create a Boolean layer and we call this vegetated.tiv and then I run it. There it is. And I use palette.uniquevalues and I say classify and then we can make zeros blue and the vegetation green. And here we see that it's not very informative, but we can get the lakes out of this. So let's make some more classes and we do that by going to the processing toolbox and use reclassify by table and we take the NDVI and we can make a table where we say from minus 1 to 0 it will be no vegetation, call it class 0 because I can only store values in rusters from 0 to 0.1. Let's call it bare little vegetation, but I can only put values there 0.1 to 0.25, it's like a medium dense, 0.25 to 0.4 and 0.4 to 1 click OK and I want the lower value to be part of the range and the higher value not to be part of the range. And let me choose here the integer 16 because we have some no data there that we want to use and I save this to a TIFF file and I call this vegetation classes. There we have it. Let's also style this layer, palette.uniquevalues, classify, here we are and then I'm also going to use greens and this gives us a nice classification of the area in terms of vegetation cover. I can change this like no vegetation, bare, low vegetation cover, medium vegetation cover. There we are.


The Holy Spirit is the one who helps you to pray when you don't know what to pray. When do I do intercession? When do I worship? When do I study the Word? When do I rebuke the demons? Do I have to speak out loud? Can I pray in my mind? When do I pray in tongues? And can I pray in tongues in my mind? These are questions I wonder. But the Holy Spirit removes that complicated system, that rigidity, that makes it more of an obligation than an opportunity. And He guides you in every moment of prayer, stirring you, causing you, influencing you to pray prayers according to the will of God.


My name is Jim Isaac. Today we're going to go over where to find the menu settings on your new Garmin software update. So, first thing you're going to notice is there's no more menu button here on the screen. Everything is going to be accessed through your options button, which is shown on every page. So, you'll hit the options button, you'll go to settings. This will bring you to all the settings for your unit. Your display settings, it'll bring you to your communications settings with your NEMA 2000 network to make sure your devices are connected, basically any internal information you need. You'll see it on every page, that option button, so it's easy to get to. That's the biggest change is there's no more menu button, it's the options button, so options and then settings. You'll also notice at the bottom you still have a information tab here.  You'll also have a copy of your owner's manual listed right here. As you can see, nothing major has changed. They're just making the settings more accessible from every page with the new update. If you have any questions, just leave them in the comments below.


Welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. It's on. Hello. Ah. Okay, we'll try this again. Good morning. Welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to be a force for good in the world. I would like to invite you now into a moment of centering silence. And if you would join me in our in-gathering hymn number 381. My name is Dorit Bergen, and on behalf of the congregation, I would like to extend a special welcome to visitors.  Newcomers are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service and to visit the library, which is directly across from the center doors of this auditorium. Bring your drinks and your questions. Members of our staff and lay ministry will be on hand to welcome you. You may also look for persons holding teal, stoneware, coffee mugs. These are FUS members knowledgeable about our faith community who would love to visit with you. Experience guides are usually available to give a building tour after each service, so if you would like to learn more about this sustainably designed addition or our national landmark meeting house, please meet near the large glass window on the left side of the auditorium immediately after the service. We welcome children to stay for the duration of the service. However, because it is difficult for some in attendance to hear in this lively, acoustical environment, our child haven and commons are excellent places to retire if a child needs to talk or move around. The service can still be seen and heard from those areas. And speaking of noise, this would be a good time to turn off all electronic devices that might cause a hindrance during the hour. I'd like now to acknowledge those individuals who help our services run smoothly. On sound, we have Pete Daly. Our greeter this morning was Patty Witte. Our ushers are John McEvna and Nancy Daly.  Please note the announcements on the red floor's insert in your order of service would describe upcoming events at the society and provide more information about today's activities. Again, welcome. We hope that today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, and stir your spirit. To seek elegance rather than to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy. To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with an open heart. To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions hurry never. To let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. And now please rise in body or spirit as Dorot lights our chalice. Please note these words from Ralph Waldo Emerson are written as a responsive reading. I will begin. Please read the bold type response. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones. They are for what they are. They exist with God today. There is no time today. There is no time. Before a leaf bud has burst, its whole life acts. In the full-blown flower, there is no more. In the leafless root, there is no less. There is no less. But we postpone or remember. We do not live in the present. But with reverted eye lament the past or heedless of the riches that surround us, stand on tiptoe to foresee the future. And now please greet your neighbor in a friendly manner. Toys or pretend food or something stacked up in your room or a playroom? Do you all have? What sweetie? I can't hear you. Who wouldn't? That's an excellent question. We all agree with that. We all think we need some stuff right? Oh my goodness. Have you folks ever heard of Pandora's Box? That's when you ask something or do something and then everybody joins in and it gets bigger than it was. Here's a picture. Let's read the story now. This is a little girl named Tamina and her mother. Look at all that stuff there. The day before she went to see grandma, Tamina said, Dolls, dolls, I can take all my dolls on the airport. One said her mother, you can bring just one doll. Said Tamina. Have you ever said that? Yeah. Please. I will be very sad without all my dolls. One said her mom, you can take one doll. Okay, okay, said Tamina. Then Tamina said, toys, toys, toys, I can take all my toys. What do you think her mom said? One. You guys know this drill, don't you? You may bring just one toy. And of course then she said, I will be very sad without all my toys. What did mom say? One. You may bring one. Okay, okay, okay. Oh, you're right, I missed one, didn't I? I'm bad. Okay. There she is.  There she is. And look at all this stuff and all these toys. And she doesn't look very happy, does she? I think she's doing something that momies and daddies would rather we not do, which is called pounding. Yeah. Okay, so when Tamina came to the airport, she was carrying one doll and one toy. She was also carrying a huge backpack that her sister had helped her mush closed after she put a whole bunch of toys, $20 and 20 toys into the backpack. Well, the backpack was very heavy. And Tamina had trouble keeping up.  You are taking forever. Let me carry your backpack. What do you think she said? Oh no, I will carry my backpack. This is my private backpack. So you see how big it is? And she's lugging it through the airport, not very well. So they got into a long line and a security officer asked to see mom's backpack. Yes, she said. And yes, said her little sister. Then he said to Tamina, can I look in your backpack? What do you think she said? No, you may not look in my backpack. My backpack is top secret. Right, said the officer. How about we X-ray your backpack? Well, the officer put the backpack in the X-ray machine. Now here's the picture on this before about her refusing to allow the backpack. And guess what happened? The officer put the backpack into the X-ray machine. Then he looked at the screen and yelled, and fell over. Look what he saw in it. Look at all that junk in the X-ray. Look at that. Doesn't it look like it's about to explode? Well it was. On the plane, the flight attendant said, what's in the backpack? Watch, she said. And unzipped all the dolls and toys went flying all over the airport. Look at that. Do you really think she could have gotten that many in there? Look at that. Is that a writer of what? How many of you have ever been on an airplane? Do you think they'd let you get away with this? Yeah, look at that. Well, I don't think they'd let anybody get away with that. But now it says that she put ten dolls and toys on the seat in front of her, five on her seat, three on the back of the seat, and ten on the ceiling with tape. I bet they would let her do that. Wow, said the flight attendant. That's an awful lot of stuff. After they took off, the flight attendant came back and said, there are three kids from China and three kids from Kenya and three kids from Scotland who won't stop crying because their mothers wouldn't let them bring any toys or dolls on the airline. Well, of course, Temuna's mother hadn't let her anyway. She just sneaked and the flight attendant said, can I please borrow three of yours? Yes. So then they watched a movie, then they had dinner, then Temuna went to the bathroom 25 times, then everybody went to sleep. That 25 times may be a slight exaggeration, but it seemed like it, I'm sure, to her mother. Yeah. So, they had a wonderful trip. It turns out that Grandma made toys and dolls and made new ones and had already made some for Temuna's soul. She didn't miss the other ones and she forgot about it. Several months later, three packages came to her house. One from China, one from Scotland, and one from Kenya. Yes, you're right. She opened all the packages and there was a Chinese doll, a Kenyan doll, I'm going to turn it around, and a Scottish doll. See all those pretty dolls? So those children who'd had no toys and kept her American toys sent her dolls, wasn't that nice? Well, then she got another idea. Wow, I can't wait to go on another plane ride. It's a great way to get new stuff. Said her mother, next time you'll go with your dad. And look at his face when she said that. Uh-oh. He was not happy. And he had this flash fantasy of what it would be like to take her on the plane the next time. He has a little wheeled-down thing there and he's carrying all her toys. Yeah. Well, that's the end of the story. Do you think she had too much stuff? Yeah, I do too.  Well, now you may go to Summer Fun and we will hear some more beautiful, special music. Thanks for coming down. The name says where they're coming from. You can find these factoids and more along with the citations on their website. There are 300,000 items in the average American home. The average size of the American home has nearly tripled over the past 50 years. Despite this, one quarter of the people with two car garages don't have enough room to park any cars in them. Another 32% can get only one car in. Despite this, one out of every 10 Americans rents off-site storage. That's the fastest growing segment of commercial real estate. There are now more than 50,000 storage facilities in the United States, five times as many as the number of Starbucks. Our homes have more television sets than people and those sets are turned down more than eight hours a day. Shopping malls outnumber high schools and 93% of teenage girls rank shopping as their favorite pastime. 3% of the world's children live in America, but they own 40% of the world's toys. According to the Wall Street Journal, Americans spend $1.2 trillion annually on non-essential goods. In other words, things they don't need. Nearly half of all American households, on the other hand, do not save any money. Finally, from many different sources, it's difficult to pin down statistics on homelessness, but an estimated 2.5 to 3.5 million Americans are homeless. The next reading is from the Book of Luke. This may be familiar to some of you. This translation is from our hymnal. Can any of you, by worrying, add a single hour to the span of your life? You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye but not notice the log in your own eye? And what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose themselves? And finally, from Ralph Waldo Emerson. A person will worship something. There's no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives and character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship. For what we are worshiping, we are becoming. This is Father's Day, even though I am a father and Jim used to be one. Father's Day has always been a very commercial holiday, so it segues nicely into our topic, which is income equality and how much is enough. Father's Day, of course, is the day to buy gifts for father, and this is not a Father's Day tie. Well, income inequality has just recently become a very hot issue, even though it's been getting worse for decades. Income inequality in the United States is worse than it's been at any time since the 1920s at least. It's much greater than in any other developed country and upward economic mobility is now greater in Europe than it is in the United States. There are lots of numbers to show this. In 1980, the average CEO pay package was about 30 times larger than the lowest salary in the company. Now it's almost 300 times. Since 1980, the gross domestic product and personal income in the United States have approximately doubled in inflation-adjusted dollars. All of the increase in personal income went to the top 1%. The median income in the U.S., the point at which half make more and half make less, has gone down by more than $4,000. Again, in inflation-adjusted dollars, that means the majority of the population has seen a decline in real income. Everyone is talking about the income gap. In January, at a forum sponsored by the Freedom Partners, one of the Koch Brothers' many institutions, three Republican presidential candidates all denounced income inequality, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio. Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled Congress, as you probably know, passed a bill to completely eliminate what remains of the inheritance tax. Republicans blame liberals for the inequality, though it's hard to believe that massive tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans over the last three decades don't have something to do with it. Well, what's wrong with income inequality? Haven't the rich earned their money? Well, in some cases, they actually haven't. Many of the billionaires who've been pushing American politics to the right inherited their wealth. The Koch Brothers, the Walton children, the DeVos children, the Rupert Murdoch, to name a few. Some of the self-made billionaires, including Warren Buffett, have opposed tax cuts for the rich. Buffett said, and I quote, the Secretary pays a larger portion of her income in taxes than I do, and that's wrong. And who in history has earned a billion dollars? I often ask myself this question. It kind of bothers me that Parade Magazine labels their annual survey of income, what people earn, when it's obvious to me that very often what people make has little to do with what they earn. What sort of service do you have to do for society in order to earn a billion dollars? Well, the main argument against inequality is that it's inconsistent with democracy. During the Gilded Age, more than 100 years ago, the rich simply bought the government with direct bribery. Today, it's unlimited campaign contributions and many other perks, and as former Senator Russ Feingold says, it's legalized bribery. Recent Supreme Court decisions have opened the floodgates to corporate money, as well as unlimited donations from individuals. An early Unitarian, Thomas Jefferson, wrote in 1916. He wrote this in 1816, I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country, unquote. By the way, Wisconsin has a law banning money in partisan elections, a law dating to the early 1900s, which of course is now inoperative. The Supreme Court decision that extended freedom of religion and political donations to corporations could not be more at odds with the history of the issue. Justice John Marshall, a political enemy of Thomas Jefferson, said a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Much more recently, Justice Byron White wrote, the state need not permit its own creation to consume it. And the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2003 noted, the corrosive and distorting aggregations of wealth that are accumulated with the help of the corporate form, and that have little or no correlation to the public support for the corporation's political ideas. The court has since ignored this finding, of course. It's difficult to argue that wealth inequality doesn't affect government and society. The wealthiest 100th of 1% of the population contributes 40% of all campaign donations. The Koch brothers, David and Charles, have promised $900 million in the next election cycle to Republican candidates. And Sheldon Adelson has promised $100 million to the Republican candidate for president as long as that candidate promises unquestioning support of Israel. Adelson says that's the only issue he cares about. Most of the Republican candidates, including Scott Walker, have made the pilgrimage to Las Vegas to seek Adelman's favor. So, three men who are holding their own primary elections are going to spend a billion dollars between them to elect the candidates of their choice. To argue that this doesn't matter is to argue that advertising public relations and lobbying simply don't work. But if a majority of us are making less, how come we're still accumulating so much stuff? How much is enough? Well, for some, obviously, there's never enough wealth or power. These people may be what Buddhists call hungry ghosts who are always looking for more. Buddhism teaches that one of the sources of unhappiness is desire, because it can never be satisfied. At least not by the usual trappings of wealth and power. And therefore it leads to frustration and unhappiness. Critics have argued that our consumer and advertising-driven society is a factory for unhappiness by creating previously unrealized needs and wants, therefore increasing desire and unhappiness. Recently, I saw a television commercial which told me, you know you want a Colorado. I didn't know what a Colorado was besides the state. Turns out it's a Chevrolet pickup truck. It's true, I didn't know I wanted one. I still don't, but then I'm not the demographic that they're after. So how much is enough? The idea of replacing the gross domestic product with an index of happiness, the gross domestic happiness, if you wish, is gaining traction. One reason is that our growth rate of population is unsustainable, but that's another reflection. Of course, defining happiness is a problem. I've already said it's not the same as material wealth or comfort. Burma and some other majority Buddhist countries use a national happiness index and some South American countries have included in their constitutions the Native American concept of the good life, and some give details of what happiness means, including access to education, to clean air and water, and time for human relationships. Brazil recently added pursuit of happiness to its constitution, and the United Nations recently declared March 20th as International Happiness Day. Recent research indicates that the threshold of happiness is about $70,000 a year in the United States today. That's the point above which there is no correlation between wealth and happiness. Apparently it's not true that the more you have, the happier you are. Not always. Not surprisingly, the level of happiness among poor tends to increase with greater wealth, but even there it's not a direct correlation. Some of the poor report themselves as being happy. There's a lot of research based on self-reporting, but there's also some standardized tests for this sort of thing. Well, the question of how much is enough certainly spills over into the public area. It's the difference between individualism and collectivism. Whether government and society exist only to facilitate individual achievement and enrichment, or whether there's such a thing as the common good, which might interfere with the convenience of the individual or worse. The more extreme individualist sees a hostile world in which the individual can never achieve enough wealth and power, these two are almost synonymous, and power equates to security, a desire that seems to lead to unhappiness or even paranoia. The collectivist, however, sees the community as paramount and as the only security for the individual. Furthermore, Christianity and many other religions say the true happiness comes only from helping others. And Christianity has its roots deep in collectivism. The early Christian churches were communes. Well, while our denomination has a more individualistic slant, our forebears, as we've seen are not strict libertarians. You've no doubt heard the popular expression, he who dies with the most toys wins. I've always wondered wins what? The privilege of being the richest man in the cemetery? Andrew Carnegie said the opposite. The man who dies rich dies disgraced. Of course, Carnegie had no children. But happiness seems to be something that's inside each of us, not something dependent on external forces and situations. So that's what happiness seems to boil down to, attitude. Presumably, some billionaires are happy, some aren't. And as Abraham Lincoln said, people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Thank you, Jim. On the other hand, with all due respect, I'm not sure John's figure of $70,000 holds up today. An even more recent survey by Forbes magazine suggests that a dollar isn't what it used to be, and neither is $1 million apparently. That's according to 4,500 investors surveyed by Forbes who say wealth comes in at the $5 million mark. Anything under that, the chances are you won't feel wealthy. But perhaps more insightful is how they define wealth. It's not about a given amount of money. Wealth means having no financial constraints. It doesn't have a nice ring. No financial constraints. How you feel about your wealth depends on how long of you you take. As Gloria Steinem once observed, the poor make plans for Saturday night. The rich make plans for three generations. The economist James Sir Owecky once wrote an essay called Enough and ran through perceived needs as income increases. The bigger house, the two-car garage, the second car to go in it, at least for a while, the second home, the college fund, the private schooling, the top tier university, the national travel, complicated investment devices, the social demands of position, staffing problems, the clear and present need for a private jet, etc. Sir Owecky concluded convincingly that there is no such number as enough. So even Forbes respondents who say 5 million would do it may be kidding themselves. Why do we want so much? Because we are biologically programmed that way. We are animals. We need food, clothing, shelter. But what kind of food? What brand of clothing? What location of shelter? These are cultural questions, not biological ones. And we are not just animals. We are social animals. We need a sense of belonging of approval, of status. Have we learned that acquiring these may be expensive? Really expensive? Why do teachers and parents speak of the terrible twos in child development? Because by this age most kids have learned the power words. No. And mine. And a little later, but not much later, that's my property. As shopping moms quickly learn by preschool kids of a certain status are well educated in the fashion brands. What's in and what's out. Perhaps some of you have experienced this personally. So, our wanting is deeply rooted in basic primary processes. Primate processes, I meant to say. And our wantings are easily perceived as needs and even more easily rationalized. What we get, we feel entitled to. And maybe the more we get the more entitled we feel. I'm reminded of the myth of the self-made man and woman, of course. We want to believe that our hard work, our native intelligence, our unique gifts, and our competitive drive have lifted us to the place we have achieved. The myth conveniently ignores the advantages of birth, education, helping hands and lucky breaks have eased us on our way. Our social structure and our American culture valorizes competition. We reward success and bemoan the lack of success. We cheer the victors and pity the losers. We love tests, results, rankings. Our educational system seems more and more engaged in training to tests. But there are always more losers than winners. And maybe we don't look at the consequences for the larger population. As Paul the apostle, a big sports fan, put it, all who run in a race run truly, but one receives the prize. Or as Ring Lardner put it, the race is not always to the swift, but that's the way to bet. The central measure of success in America, perhaps in all first world cultures, is money. If you are paid more, you are worth more. Sports, medicine, business, dare I say politics, dare I say ministry? If you had a good year, you should be rewarded. Calvin Coolidge once complained that Ruth was paid more than he, the president. Ruth replied, I had a better year than you did. In Key Largo, a so-so bogey movie from the 40s, a Capone-like gangster played by Edward G. Robinson is asked what he wants. He's confused by the question, but Bogart knows. More. He wants more. Yeah, snarled Robinson. That's right, I want more. In a nutshell. A Dutch, excuse me, the emotion of the moment. A Dutch epigram says of happiness and despair we have no measure. Like most Dutch epigrams, it's succinct, but I'm not exactly sure what it means. I think happiness is a transitory state of euphoria where everything seems to have come round right as the hymn puts it. Steadyer, although still transitory states include contentment, satisfaction, a sense of well-being, security, but I'm suspecting that my underlined word and all that would be transitory. Maybe we should invoke some religious traditions here. In Isaiah the prophet says woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until everywhere belongs to them and they are the soul inhabitants of the land. But Jesus, frequently very harsh in speaking of the rich, eases off a little bit on a well-meaning young man who asks what he must do to gain the kingdom of heaven. Keep the commandments, said Jesus and names a few. All these I have done since I was a child the rich young man answers. Well, said Jesus, if you want to be perfect go sell what you have give to the poor and come follow me. The young man turns away sadly, says the gospel of Matthew because he was very rich. In fact, Muhammad states simply riches are not from the abundance of worldly goods but from a contented mind. But the best answer I have found on our reflections on money and moderation comes from the Buddha. The term middle way was used in the Dhamma Kaka Paravana Sutra. Yes, I practiced. The first teaching that the Buddha delivered after his awakening. In this sutra the Buddha describes the middle way as a path of moderation between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification. This according to him was the path of wisdom and he should know because he tried both the other paths. The middle way gives vision knowledge and leads to calm to insight to enlightenment. It is a noble eight fold path, namely right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. If calm, insight and enlightenment may not sound exactly like happiness, it may sound to me like a pretty good start. Right? And now, we have the collection. Do write by it. Impressive, thank you so much.  There were a number of possibilities, but they settled on a circle of harps so we're going to stick with that one. Thank you so much. We turn out of the cares of the congregation. As you know, we bring to our gatherings all the cares that we carry from the outside. And although we have no specific cares this time, we certainly have had a week in which our hearts have been touched by the tragedies in our nation as our ban are outside proclaims. So let us take a moment of silence to reflect on the cares not only of ourselves, but of our nation. Thank you. May we be in peace. Now, we turn to our closing hymn. Whatever number it might be. Worthy not respectable. To listen to stars and birds, sages with open ears. To let the spiritual let this be our wish. Peace and please remain post.


Appalachian Wireless now has new forward pay pricing, where you can pay up front and get the data and features you desire. Five gigabytes of data, just $39.99. Unlimited, just $79.99. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. In the past 48 hours, the Martin County Sheriff's Department has arrested 12 people on drug charges, but the most shocking of those came at about one o'clock this morning when a man answered the door to a residence with a syringe in his mouth trying to light it, thinking it was a cigarette. On Wednesday, deputies with the Martin County Sheriff's Office received a tip on the whereabouts of 19-year-old Charles Crum who had an active warrant for his arrest. They went to that home in the Tomahawk community about 1 a.m. Thursday morning and were surprised when he came to the door. He had a syringe in his mouth and he was trying to light it. He thought it was a cigarette. He was like, what are you trying to do? I'm trying to light my cigarette. He was like, it ain't no cigarette, but you're lighting a needle. Deputies also discovered Crum had thrown a syringe onto the floor loaded with a drug believed to be Suboxone. Yeah, he had run in a bedroom where an elderly female subject was and he threw the syringe in the floor. It was uncapped with the needle sticking up. She could have easily stepped on it. Two other people in the home were also arrested including Crum's 23-year-old sister Sheena Crum and 24-year-old Sean Harless. All three remained lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville on various drug charges. Earlier in the night, deputies arrested a couple at their Inez home on Moore Branch and charged them with manufacturing meth. Deputy Todd says their original plan was to only arrest 38-year-old Joshua Vance on an outstanding warrant, but they also arrested his wife, 42-year-old Angela Vance, after discovering the pair had been manufacturing meth. We could smell meth strong coming from the residents. It just kept us from having to go get a search warrant. So the meth you can't miss, it's got a really strong odor when you're cooking. In the past 48 hours, a total of 12 people have been arrested by the Martin County Sheriff's Office with eight of them now facing drug charges. In Inez, I'm Shannon Deskins, EKB News.


The Rock represents a big problem. Big problem. Okay, and we know what the big problem is because Fred gave us a label, didn't he? Right? Here's the big problem. Who can answer it? What's the big problem? That the Supreme Court wants the Supreme Court decided to add its desegregation. Desegregation. Okay, the Supreme Court told them to desegregate. The Supreme Court told Virginia it has to integrate its schools. That's the problem for these people in Richmond. The Rock is a problem. And then I see a boat on top of the Rock. The boat shouldn't be on top of the Rock. Where should the boat be? The boat should be in the water, obviously. So the boat, well, what is the boat? And they, you know, they see that it's labeled the South, it's labeled public schools. I'm telling them that I see the boat, but I'm trying to get them to tell me, oh, I see that it says the South. I see that it says public schools and there's a little schoolhouse. What do we think the boat means? Why did Fred give us a boat? Why did Fred give us a boat? Chris? Because the boat represents the South. Okay, the boat represents the South, right? That's what it represents, and we don't have to guess too hard because they labeled it for us, didn't it? Okay, so I can write, what is the boat? It's the South. Not just Virginia, right? All the Southern states. All the Southern states that had Jim Crow laws or had segregated schools. Can everybody show me right now what it looks like to feel angry? Show me, what does it look like to feel angry? Good job, Cynthia, you got it. Okay, what does it look like to feel angry? Come on. There you go. All right, show me what it looks like to feel happy. Okay, how is he feeling? Look at him. How is he feeling? I don't know. Look at his face. Look. Let's not call out. Look really carefully. Look at his eyebrows. Okay, I'll show you angry. What happens with angry? They sure do, and what happens with happy? They do. Okay, how about surprised? It's like normal. Oh no, look at Cynthia's eyebrows. They're way up high, right? Look at Cynthia's eyebrows. Okay, how about scared? Right, let's go down a little bit. Okay, how is he feeling? How is he feeling? Look at him. How is he feeling? A little bit surprised? Okay, because his eyebrows are way up. Did everybody agree that? Yeah. Okay, what will happen next? So he's kind of wondering. He has a look of like, I'm not sure. Yeah? Maybe a little bit worried. Okay, a little bit worried. A little bit surprised. A little bit wondering what's going on. Yeah. And I didn't point out the title and the date until the end. The date kind of just helped me go back to Brown vs. Board of Education because we had already talked about that.  The water's really calm. Okay, it doesn't look scary at all. Although there is this little sort of sketchy cloud in the bottom right hand corner that isn't scary. I mean, it's a cute little cumulus cloud, but there is some dark sky behind it. So I led them through that piece by piece.


Iron regulatory proteins, IRPs, are important regulators of iron metabolism. They bind to specific sequences called iron responsive elements, IREs, in mRNA molecules, thereby controlling the expression of genes involved in iron metabolism. IRPs can either inhibit or promote translation of mRNA molecules depending on their location within the mRNA sequence. This allows them to control the amount of iron available in cells. and maintain an appropriate balance between iron uptake and storage. Two types of IRPs exist in humans, IRP1 and IRP2. Both are necessary for normal development and survival, but IRP2 appears to be more important for proper erythropoiesis and iron homeostasis. Mice lacking both IRP1 and IRP2, IRP1-forward slash dash slash IRP2-forward slash die shortly after birth due to severe anemia and pulmonary hypertension. Recent studies suggest that IRP1 may play a role in pulmonary and cardiac health, while IRP2 is essential for normal erythropoiesis and iron homeostasis. This article was authored by Diliang Yizhong, Monic C. Gosh, and Tracy A. Ruo. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


In downtown Srinagar, a city built on the banks of river Jahalim with impressive old architecture, Muhammad Yusuf sits on the stack of wooden planks. Many of these planks have been salvaged from the old crumbling houses of the historic city. For many years, the city expanded on all sides, with new homes being constructed mainly with concrete as residents gave up wood the mainstay of Kashmir's old architectural style. However, in the past few years, many important elements from the old architecture are slowly making a comeback. Yusuf's shops in the Babdem locality is one of the many shops that sell the wooden planks, window frames, windowpane and doors that have been discarded over the years. Some of these pieces are sold at Rs. 15,000 and the sellers say the demand is increasing as they become sparse with time. Yusuf worked in the Kashmir's handicraft business sector and traveled across India for nearly three decades before finally settling back in Kashmir. An antique collector himself, the remnants from the Kashmir's past not only gave him a means to livelihood but also kept him close to his passion. An antique mall has a different kind of interest in this show, similar to the antique mall. Some of them are from a film industry, some of them are from India, some of them are from India. Some of them are from the US, some of them are from the US, some of them are from the US. Kashmir's old Indo-Saracenic architecture has been called intricate for its details and resilient against natural calamities like earthquakes. Some elements are considered unique to Kashmir with elements like tarq system, dajji diwari, panjrakari, vuruci and khatamband inspiring a new generation of admirals in the region. Hakim Sameer Hamdani works for the Jammu and Kashmir chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage or INTAC. It is a non-profit organization that works on restoration and conservation of un-predicted historic buildings in the region. An architect who has authored two books including the syncretic tradition of Islamic religious architecture of Kashmir says there is a movement away from cement plastered walls towards brick line-pointing things that gel with the historical architecture. You see it primarily in terms of the residential architecture but you will also see there are certain cases of public architecture wherein whether it's a resort, whether it's a hotel or even a certain government building, there is an attempt to sort of recontextualize our historical architecture so I would say it is again a critical engagement with your past. There are people who are making these efforts at seeing what best they can incorporate from past, how best they can incorporate and also in a certain case within a certain specific budget. There are people who are using different elements within their own residences which in a way speaks of a contemporary modern vernacular architecture which is in terms of a spatial layout maybe the layout is not traditional. I mean the layout is very modern because you're used with new way of living especially in residences. You need your kitchens, you need your dining spaces, you need your lobbies which are rather questionable how big and tall they should be but yes there is a certain amount of experimentation and not say people as owners as well as designers are coming with some really interesting ideas. This window is from my ancestral house and we got it removed and perhaps installed it in here so that again I was talking about this Jali. This when you understand Kashmiri design, you know that like most definitely a lot of designs in Jali are coming up now but when you see this you understand it's a Kashmiri design. Kamran Vani, a hotelier from Srinagar has used some of the elements in his cafe which is a blend of the old style and the new. He also considers it a means to stay connected to the roots. I believe that they, it's a cliche that old is gold not necessarily that but I think it's more aesthetically nice and I believe like they were never wrong when you understand what the structures were all about and both aesthetically and on the lines of having strength and on the lines of looking at a facade I believe old structure was nice and perhaps that gave us a reason to go back back in the time and understand and perhaps use the specific materials and designs for a cafe and those became the highlights of the place. With growing interest in old architecture among aspiring home builders, Kashmiri's new age architects have also trained themselves to reach out to this potential customer base.


the 20-minute two-inch micro 20 minute for 20 minute flight 20 minute flight I'm back to another episode of Rotary. I'm Ziya FPV and we're with the van over and we're in the outcast shown works workshop This is my home my life and the place where I get my work done. This is about to help design and build here in San Diego It's a lithium-ion pack. I've gotten 26 minutes and 50 seconds on this pack with this drone 20 minutes of flight time I think I'd fall asleep under 20 minutes. Well, that's good because actually with this one We got GPS on board. We have full GPS capabilities So when you get bored you just put in GPS mode take the goggles off What we do at 20 minutes really opens up the doors what's possible with the drone because it's not only a great Acrobatic flyer, but now with this drone it's built around a Raspberry Pi meaning you can hack it to do incredibly different things On top of that we're running INAV instead of Betaflight. So you have full missions and waypoints for whatever you want to do You know, this is why civilians are scared of drones We always talk about how the technology won't be you know if you've ever been in public as a drone pilot You've probably been asked once or twice like, you know, do you do stuff for the military? You know, what is the military doing with drones and this is this is happening now You guys are developing this stuff and really pushing the limits I always think that racing we're pushing the limits with technology, but by all means I think you guys are pushing I mean a two inch quad that can fly for 20 minutes Where can't you basically go with this thing? And this is all open source tech So you can get this as a civilian and these are for sale right now on our website This is really for the colleges universities the makers the tinkers the people that might be FUB pilots But want to do cool stuff with a robot a flying robot and the cool thing with it being a sub 250 You don't have to register it no remote ID to worry about and on top of that it's safe You don't have to worry about putting a bunch of nets creating a special space for it You can pretty much fly this anywhere without having to worry about something going wrong The frame is built around the raspberry pi so with this battery pack and the pie They're actually like almost built for each other guys also an m8 q 583 GPS on top This tells the Inav board down below Where it's out in the world and on top of that we got a braumeter Cellarometer gyro all the things you come to expect but this allows the Inav flight controller to actually fly autonomously But just just do so autonomously you flip a switch you have full acro which is amazing for a build like this So it kind of does a little bit of everything Hey guys Zoe has brought us out to this beautiful park slash Beach area where we're gonna be testing out the micro Hawk. It's kind of windy So it's kind of moving around a little bit, but right now I'm completely hands off of it So it's just flying on zone, you know, it's just over there doing saying And it's really windy out like this is the first time we've flown on these kind of winds So it was a little nervous, but it seems like it's fine The biggest thing with this drone is that it doesn't just do acro has a GPS mode Which means almost anyone can fly it you don't have to be a propilot because essentially it flies itself And you just talk where to go Now you're right and left thumbs when you turn those side-to-side you want to turn them together at the same time If you want to turn left move both thumbs left That'll turn you left so like let's try and do a left turn and so hard I can't even see there you go the drones and right now just like that now you can straighten it out And then you can try a little bit of a right turn both sticks push right So your left thumb when you push that side-to-side that's gonna turn the like the angle of the drone But your right thumb there is roll. That's your roll axis So when you now what you want to do is you want to push your right thumb for that's your pitch And that's gonna like you're doing right now. That's gonna bring you forward beautiful. Yeah, she's doing this She made all the way back to the other island. She's on this one. Let's try and hit this gap right here these trees Right here, so just go forward with your right thumb and give it some throttle There you go. You're gonna use your right thumb Yeah, right there any of any of either one of those two So you're gonna use your right thumb side-to-side So I was trying to get right now. I'm absolutely nervous. I haven't seen her gap anything and survive forward. I've never got anything Keep going keep going She almost got her yeah, so you know drums and stale eyes, but it's really windy right now So even with the wind it's still helping assist her in flight. Oh God It's a little bit easier. How's it assist like is it GPS? So the GPS assistant Flight is really kind of helping right now. It's kind of taking over some of the Difficulties when you're trying to navigate. It's just trying to keep it in one position You're not necessarily telling the drone to go left or right You're trying to get a position of the drone and the drone flies that spot your time It's like stabilize mode with extra assist capabilities. I want to see this gap. Come on. She's doing really good I'm really good. So your right thumb is gonna do all the work You don't need to yaw, which is your left thumbs that decide you're just angling it see like that And then you're gonna push push forward Left There you go beautiful take your time and once you know you've made the gap push full forward Almost almost almost Now you want to yacht And then just land it right now That was nerve-racking as first time one of these things have flown over water So I'm Larry has CEO has systems and our model is maker not just beyond just the hobby of flying First-person, you know, it's a flying robot And so that's where we started like adding things like the Raspberry Pi on it where it's all built around it and integrated So you can start doing experiments whole different subset of the community can now Participate with you know a high-performance drone. My name Sid Gray sir. I'm a DSP engineer at HES systems DSP stands for digital signal processing which involves taking things that are in the air and then putting them into a computer and Processing them. You could actually feasibly have this on it the small like one of these drone platforms This is simulating an app code 25 Signal which app code 25 is public safety systems. If you have a police scanner and listen to that You're listening to an app code 25. It is we want to be able to simulate this and put it in Remote locations where it can sort of become that kind of signal without actually having to have this expensive hardware Hi, my name is Due to the nature of what I do, I'm unable to disclose personal information right now We're currently deploying the microhawk of Puerto Rico to determine underserved areas We will utilize this information to basically build an ISP in Puerto Rico using the microhawk is absolutely amazing platform We can cover square miles in the area remotely So how do I go into acrobots are you are now an acrobat? That's better And so it changes the rates completely it does The full stop when you're over anything better go go park it like on the other side of the river Just go park it with GPS and hand it off to Paul. All right All right, I'm ready for her to be in It's a good Defined good. So she said her sticks or what should he do? Oh, she's good Paul. Yeah, you do I was ripping it. That's all good. That's not something generally with an acroquad. You can't just shift it over to another pilot like that All right, so I think Alex and I are gonna go for a walk on the beach We're gonna go away over there somewhere where so we can't see us Yep, and then we are gonna text her the GPS coordinates of where you are of where I am Okay, and let's see if you can hack put the GPS coordinates in the drone and have it come find me Okay, let's see if you if you hacker people can actually See if you guys can I think I'm down for this challenge. I think you got this Alex. Let's go for a walk Well, I don't know where they are anymore, so that's fun You think they're actually to be able to find us over here. I don't know. I guess This could really be anywhere like this doesn't really look like one particular area of the park. All right, you ready? Look happy Wait there I can finally see it on camera. It's doing something. It's doing something It's doing something right in the tree right in the tree. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no It's getting the train. It's going somewhere Oh, no, it's just It's coming home It's coming home I think the coordinates were a little bit off because it started lowering itself down and it went right into the tree So it's sense that it sends the problem and went back to home. Did it go back into return to home mode? Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's sick Like that I recovered to well, I think that's pretty cool that it had an issue and it came home Okay, it is one now it is directly above us. Oh It's stopping it's coming down It's good. It's like really homing in on us. Oh, oh, it's just it's just like shot off shot off Yeah, little monsters coming home And I consider that a successful mission you guys just saw a flying a full GPS face mission with no pilot in the loop Has GPS assist so anybody can fly it full acro mode and flies through 20 minutes under 250 gram platform It is quite honestly one of the best drones that I've ever built and I cannot wait for you guys to get your hands on it More than I asked for