Last week, Mike gave you gaming tips and tricks and you guys asked for the specifics on how he records his gameplay. So today, Mike's here to give you the step-by-step walkthrough of the gameplay commentary creation process.  What is up, everyone? My name is Zesty Mike. Now, I'm coming at you live with 25% less husky. Now, last week, you guys asked me to go into further detail on how I actually record my gameplay videos. Although I don't really do gameplay anymore, I still have had some time to finesse and try and figure out what works best for me. So for today's episode, I'm going to be covering how I did my gameplay recordings when I did them. For starters, you're going to need a webcam recorder, a game recorder, and voice recorder. Now, there's plenty of different options out there for you guys to choose from. However, I'm going to be covering the programs I have and I use. For gameplay, I use Dextree. This program is nice because it gives you a lot of control. You can run speed tests on your hard drives to see what's best fit to record to, and you can download new codecs, which is nice. Alright, guys, so bear with me on this. I've tried this word like 10 times now and I can't read it. So I'm literally just going to read it right off of the tablet and just try my best. Okay. For instance, I use the codec called Lagereth. Lagereth. Lagereth's lossless codec. That's a lot of Ls and ifs and everything else. So look it up if you're interested. It's a good codec. And you can also assign multiple audio sources. If you want, you can even do virtual audio cables to record Skype or Teamspeak separate. So once you pick your fastest drive and best codec for you, you're good to go. Next, you need an audio recording program. I use Acoustica Mixcraft. This is a paid program, but it's worth every penny. However, there's some free programs out there that you can use that will give you similar results. However, what I like about Mixcraft is you can assign effect chains to get that sound you're looking for. Save the chain as a preset and now you can record directly with those effects already applied. And of course, they can be tweaked afterwards if you want. Now lastly, your webcam software. I use Logitech webcam software because it gives you control over zoom and color.  Not much setting up to do here. Just frame it up and you're good to go. Now you're ready to record. Press record on each program and before you start, make sure you do some sort of indication to sync up these layers. For instance, I like to click escape or jump so that that way I can match the audio layer with the video layers. You can also clap or do whatever else needed to make it easiest for you. Now when you're done recording, stop your recordings and do a noise removal sweep in your audio software. Then render out your audio as a high quality dot wave file. Now through all your files into your editor of choice, I prefer Adobe Premiere. Now once all your layers are in the editor, find that signal you did and sync it up. Now after you've synced up the layers, you're ready to go and start editing. But anyways guys, that's how I did my gameplay recording when I did it. Hope this helps some of you guys who are interested in finding out how I actually did the recordings. But that's it for me today. If you want to see more of my tips or tricks, you can click the link in the sidebar. Or if you want to see more of my personal videos, you can go over to my daily vlog channel where I post up videos every single day. And of course guys, be sure to leave your suggestions down in the comments below or any questions you might have so I can answer it in the next video. We'll see you next week. See ya. We accept everyone both big and small. For more information click here or visit the link in the video description.


Hi guys welcome back to my channel. So today I decided I wanted to tackle my kitchen and just get a lot of things done that I haven't done for a little while like wiping down cabinets that sort of thing. So I started out by emptying off my table and getting it all wiped down. I had also had some spills that morning. I had some sippy cups that dumped so I had been wiping up the water and the milk that dumped on the floor. I just grabbed my peppermint Mrs. Myers. I love all of their holiday scents. If you're unfamiliar with Grove I do have a link below that you can get some Mrs. Myers stuff for free from Grove with your first order and they have their holiday scents that smell so good. It's the peppermint, the pine, and the orange clove that you can choose from. So if you guys want to check that link out it'll be in the description part. I've been getting so many questions on where this big frying pan comes from because I don't have another pan. I just use this one. I love being very minimal in my kitchen and it is actually a princess house frying pan and I don't even know if I could find a link for it. I might look and see if I could find one for you guys and put it in this video but I get questions about it all the time. Once I got done doing the dishes I just sprayed down the counter with the same peppermint Mrs. Myers cleaner and wiped them down and then I also used the peppermint Mrs. Myers dish soap in the sink just to scrub it out. I just tend to use dish soap for my sink. Nothing extra special. Then I sprayed out the microwave with the method anti-back and that is something you actually want to wait about 10 minutes before you wipe it up so that it kills all of the bacteria. Then I just got a Mr. Clean eraser to get a couple things that weren't coming off very well with my rag and just scrub the inside of the microwave. I did the same thing with the refrigerator, sprayed it all down, let it sit 10 minutes and then just wiped everything out. I generally use my favorite glass cleaner it's the Ant Fanny's vinegar-based glass cleaner on my dishwasher and my stove. I just find that it does such a good job at removing grease and fingerprints and things like that. So next I put some dish soap into my sink and filled it up with hot water and wiped down the cabinet. I have discovered that my shark vacuum cleaner does a really good job on my drip rug. It just has good enough suction that it sucks a lot of dirt and grime out of the knobby parts of the rug. I just opened up my Mrs. Myers peppermint cleaner and dumped some into the hot water of my mop water. Thanks a lot for watching you guys. If you're new to my channel, don't forget to hit that subscribe button. Give this video a like if you enjoyed it and it gave you a lot of motivation and I'll see you in tomorrow's video.


Excellencies, Distinguished Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning. It's a real pleasure for me and a great honor for me to be here with you today at this opening ceremony of the World Telecommunication and ICT Indicators' Symposium 2014. On behalf of Dr. Amaran Thua, Secretary-General of ITU and other European officials, we are very grateful to the government of Georgia for hosting this symposium and for the tremendous hospitality you have provided, including yesterday's excursion to the UNESCO Heritage Site of Moscow, Heta, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, and also the wonderful evening, the dinner, dinner, we enjoyed. I know that you made a lot of effort to make this World Telecommunication Indicators' Symposium very special. Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, we have been following ICT trends for many years. I'm pleased to see that many countries have been making great strides towards the information and knowledge of society. I want to congratulate you and hope that when we unveil this year's ICT Development Index at lunchtime, this will also be evident. Since our Prime Minister will travel to foreign countries immediately after this opening ceremony, I'd like to just highlight the secret to now that according to our latest statistics to be published at lunchtime, Georgia is one of very few countries last year made enormous progress in the ranking because today the ICT Development everywhere seems to be macho. It's very hard to move one rank ahead. But Georgia had made several ranks ahead. How many? We'll leave these two separate. Could be announced by the Director of the Committee. Congratulations. Having said that, let me stop and pause two questions. Do we really know the population that remains unconnected despite statistics showing that there are seven feeling mobile cellular subscriptions? Do we know who are the unconnected despite that? Three billion people have access to the Internet or that 2.3 billion people have access to mobile broadband. I want to call upon the member states to help us identify the really unconnected people. So we may know who to target as we continue to invest in infrastructure. It is also very important for governments as they formulate public policy aimed at stimulating investment and competition in this sector. To similar colleagues, since 1889 to date when we are about to commemorate ITU's 150th anniversary, ITU has been collecting and processing telecommunications statistics and indicators thanks to the support and contribution by the countries. Our work in ICT measurement has grown from strength to strength. Today, ITU maintains ICT statistics for 200 economies and over 100 indicators. I have no doubt that this cooperation with countries will continue in the future. I can give you my word. ITU is committed to ensure that very high standard is maintained as we help countries monitor their progress towards attaining universal access which in turn could drive economies, education, health, and everything that we do. At this moment, let me congratulate Mr. Brahima Sanu, the newly re-elected director of the Telecommunications Development Bureau of ITU. And a peace team for successfully re-engineering what used to be a very small technical meeting to the big symposium that it has become today. I see the ministers, deputy generals of both national statistical offices and telecommunications regulatory authorities. And I also see many experts and very senior government officials in the room. Of course, Georgia is a very attractive tourist destination. That is one of the reasons we see many participants here. I heard from our prime minister last year Georgia attracted more than 5 million tourists. Not everybody has a chance to visit Georgia, but anyway we see many delegates come to join us. This diversity is crucial as we need political, real, and expertise to drive the important process of data collection, processing, and reporting. Excellencies ladies and gentlemen, as the ITU secret general-elect, I want to assure you here and now that I continue to provide unflinching support for the work related to measuring the information society. This is all the more important as the international community has now set the sustainable development goals that recognize that ITCs play a pivotal role for future attainment. Thank you for your attention and look forward to engaging with you personally and to listen to the many interesting sessions over the next two days. Thank you very much.


Four people have been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries in the Staples area that date back to the middle of November. The Wadena County Sheriff's Office said that during the week of December 10, several area burglaries were solved and the arrests were made in the cases. A 29-year-old Brandon Honorud and 25-year-old Zachary Bennett of Motley, 21-year-old Taylor Wellnitz of Staples and 19-year-old Avery Judd of Jenkins have been charged with burglary-related offenses by the Wadena County Attorney's Office and they appeared in Wadena District Court last week. Burglaries had been reported in the rural Staples areas of Wadena and Todd Counties. The majority of the items taken were hand tools, power tools and tool bags. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Ruppeljantz and you might recognize this recording area from Some prior videos way back in the day This was actually the original spot that we used to host the Nintendo Prime podcast with this exact background in fact We actually built the editing PC that I now use on a live stream for Zelda Informer Right here stuff was strewn everywhere Now you might wonder why don't we use this space much anymore? Well, do you hear the quality of the audio right now? I do not have the proper equipment to use this kind of space. There is a lot of Just space behind the camera, so it creates a very bad audio recording environment So it just makes a lot more sense to do everything in my little tiny office But what are we here for today? Well, you see these beautiful art pieces in the back I have had these for about eight months now and They are buys a person on Etsy called canvas 64 and I was supposed to review these and these were all sent for free and I still worked at Zelda Informer at the time and it was supposed to be a Zelda Informer project Which is why you see the Poe sisters and well It's 2017. It's June. We're right after E3 and Now I run the Nintendo Prime So let's talk about the canvas art here by canvas 64 So who is canvas 64 he is an artist that sells his art through Etsy comm and Sells them in the form of posters and or canvas prints Obviously the difference is posters are just high quality paper whereas canvas is well canvas and it has a wood frame backing The canvas itself is pretty high quality. Here's how he describes it himself is a handmade item The materials include canvas and acrylic paint and obviously some wood for the frame They are made to order and they ship worldwide from Canada Now the prints themselves vary in pricing depending on the size the 12 by 12s can be had For as small as an 8 by 8 and we're talking about inches here folks not feet not yards But some of them go as big as 40 by 40 which are huge but also pretty expensive In fact the 40 by 40s run for 227 dollars Yes, that's a pretty big chunk of change now the ones he sent me for review Range from 12 by 10 to 12 by 12 the 12 by 10s run for about thirty four dollars Whereas the 12 by 12s run for about thirty eight dollars not a huge price difference you just pay in a little more for the extra inches now The art and the size variations are going to depend on the type of art It is as an example the Joel art one of the post sisters is clearly a 12 by 10 Whereas the shadow temple face is clearly a 12 by 12 So obviously depends on how the art itself was designed So the quality of the prints are pretty good now I'm going to note that he did send me one print That the coloring was off but he knew the coloring was off and He warned me when he sent the print out that one of the prints the coloring just wasn't quite right So then he quickly sent me out a second print that had the coloring fixed And I have to say the images you see here on Etsy and I'll throw a few of them up of the ones he sent me well They match pretty good the coloring looks good There doesn't seem to be a loss in quality going from with the art He created and then transferring it digitally over to a canvas and I have to say I'm pretty pleased as I noted in the intro he sent me these originally so I could use them in the background of my Nintendo Prime podcast and Obviously, so I would review the products and promote them on Zeldin for well fun fact I don't work at Zeldin for her anymore And I do want to apologize the canvas 64 for taking so long to make this video But I felt like it still needed to be made not just because he's been emailing me nonstop for months wondering what's going on again I apologize. I was kind of going through a transition period between Zeldin former Nintendo Prime. I Also felt like I wanted to wait for the right time And what better time is there than right now after E3 to talk about this fantastic art in my opinion now? Should you buy this art? Well, that's up to you Maybe that's price too high for you Although I will note based on my own research for canvas prints They all run between 30 and $50 and I get it. It's a high quality print I've had these prints hanging on that wall for eight months and there's been like no You know dusty novellum or any protection and they look just as good as they did when I first got them I don't feel like I need to worry about any degradation now. I should be noted. I do have them in a low light area There is basically zero natural light in that room So there's zero chance of the Sun fading them your mileage may vary if you hang them in a room that well It has a lot of sunlight But I think that's true of really any piece of art you put up on your wall There's always a little bit of Sun fading so your mileage may vary with this art that being said I Am really pleased with the quality of the art and with it being exactly as it looked like on Etsy.com He's not fooling you here And he's already got four or five star reviews from people who have bought his art in the past Letting you know that I'm not the only one that thinks it's good So yeah, I am highly pleased with this art So the question is What I recommend purchasing this canvas art Well, I think for the price and the quality of the art and the quality of the canvas material I definitely got to say yes But at the end of the day art is in the eye of the beholder if you don't like the art You're not going to buy it. So really if you like it go ahead and give it a purchase I'll put a link down in the description if you don't like it. Oh, well, I do Isn't that what matters? That's why I requested he send me product in the first place That's why I requested this you can have a 64 because I liked it and I wanted to use it in the background of videos And it's been eight months and I don't use it in the background of videos anymore, but that's okay it's still gorgeous and I Really kind of find a use for this space again, right? I gotta fix the audio. I need a proper boom mic or something, right? This space is just gorgeous. I like this this fake wood All right, folks if you like this video, you know what to do if you disliked it well and Like subscribe comment below and I actually have another product review video thingy in the works You might see action this week to two product review videos in a week that there aren't video games What are we minus tech tips?


إن الحمد لله نحبده ونستعيقه ونستحديه ونستمتله ونتهو إلىه ونؤمن به ونتوكل عليه ونعود بالله من شرور أنفسنا ونتسيئات عمالنا ويهدي الله فلا مبلا له وما يُدينه فلا هاليلة وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده بشريك له وأشهد أن محمد العبد هو رسول الله وسلم وصلكم بارك على سيئنا محمد المدير أمي وعلى آله مصحيه وسلم الكثيرا يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقضواها حق تقاتي اتقضواها حق تقاتي ولا تموتوا إلا وانتم مسلمون يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقضواها وقولوا قولا بسميلا يصلح لكم عمالكم ويفر لكم دلوكم ونتفرق الله في محمدنا وعلى آله مصحيه وسلم والذي is a reality free will and therefore the moral accountability of every human being and therefore law and order in society. That's at one level and we affirm that and all prophets taught that. But at a deeper level everything is destined from Allah. Everything that occurs in the world is destined from Allah Azawajan eternally. الله سبحانه وتعالى knows everything eternally that will happen in the cosmos. الله تعالى chooses everything eternally that will happen in the cosmos. وما تشاءون إلا أن يشاء الله. Even our decisions mysteriously and we don't want to enter into this mystery that it's something that our scholars teach us not to enter into. It's not something we can fit into the cognitive categories of the atan which is called the سرم فضل سيكة of the Divine Decree بيزا بي كيومن شويس. It's one of the mysteries and there are logical and rational and philosophical ways of unpacking it that are satisfying to the apple but this is not the context for that. It's something we acknowledge both the surface level and the deeper level. The level of شريع, the level of حقيت, the level of cause and effect of the world and the level of ultimate reality which is a reflection of the Divine Will eternally decreed by الله عز وجل and then of course قدرت الله. The fact that everything that is occurring in the world goes back to the power of Allah. والله وخالق وكل شيء. الله is the creator of every single thing, every circumstance, every event, every occurrence in the world. كل يومن هو في شبن. At every moment Allah is engaged in an affair. At every moment Allah is engaged directly in an affair. And so we affirm both of these realities, both of these levels of understanding the world and so at the surface level we put the work in to alleviate suffering. We put the work in to better the situation of ourselves, our families, our communities, society at large. We do what we can to promote good and to promote beauty and to promote light and to promote alleviation from suffering but all the while the heart recognizes that all of this is jikami and that is what we don't reject. We don't reject the قضاء الله. While we work to solve problems in the world we affirm and we accept and we are content with what Allah has destined for us. This is the way of the Prophet ﷺ and this is the way of our Prophet ﷺ as he taught us in is the hadith that Timothy relates إن عيد من بلاء إن عيد من جزاء مع عيد من بلاء that the immensity of reward is commensurate with the immensity of the tribulation. The greatness of the reward is matching, is commensurate, it's corresponding to the heaviness, the weightiness of the tribulation. وإن الله تعالى إذا أحب قوم إبتلاهم. And rarely Allah, when he loves and people he tests them. When Allah loves and people he tests them. He sends tribulations, different types of tribulations. فَمَنْ رَذِيَ فَلَبُرْضَى The Prophet ﷺ says whoever is content i.e. with the حقق level recognizing that this is from Allah. It doesn't mean not working to solve the tribulation. It doesn't mean not putting in the effort to alleviate the suffering.  They take the medicine. If someone is under a type of family problem they go they seek counseling. If people are suffering the people that are not suffering from a particular calamity the moral on them is on them to work, to solve and to help those that are disenfranchised or in difficulty in painful circumstances. But at the حقق level من رد يفرح رد with the ultimate destiny behind it. فَلَبُرْضَى Then they shall receive the contentment of Allah. وَمَنْ سَخِتَ فَلَهُ سُخْطْ بُرَيَادِ بُلَا And whoever is upset at Allah whoever is frustrated at the divine whoever objects to what Allah is destined then they shall get the objection and the frustration back from Allah. And we see refuge from Allah. We see refuge from Allah. This is why one of the great metaphysicians of our tradition he says that There is one specific trait that يُهمِرُ العماد It nullifies good deeds وَلَا يَنْ تَبِرُ عَلَيْهِ كَثِرُ مِنَ نَاسْ But the majority of people are unaware of it in their hearts. There is one specific trait that nullifies good deeds but most people are unaware of it. وَهِيَا Namely سفة العب على قضاء الله تعالى is for the servant to be frustrated at the destiny that Allah has set for them at the decree that Allah has determined for them And he mentions the verse من القرآن بأنهم كريه ما أنزل الله فأحبت عالله That is because they were upset at what Allah sent them And so Allah rendered their good deeds نلعب and void And so Allah rendered their good deeds نلعب and void This verse of course refers to the specific context of the revelation where the people at the time of the prophets who were upset at revelation itself The Waqee But as an Isha'a as an illusion, a spiritual lesson that is in addition, it doesn't replace this but in addition something of benefit that the Imam points out is that this is also applicable And this is in our life Those are also sent by Allah Those are also sent by Allah And if someone has karaoke if they're upset at what Allah has set for them the package of their destiny then this is a recipe for one's good deeds being nullified أحبت عالله but he makes their good deeds just disappear as if they were nothing And so this is part of the answer to what's called the problem of suffering in philosophy the problem of suffering part of the answer and we say part of the answer because the full answer is it takes much time to unpack and also at the foundation of the answer in our tradition is that we don't question Allah what the response that's often proffered by philosophers and theists is theodicy which is to justify what God does and the basic response as soon as who are we to justify what Allah does that's hubristic in its very nature and theodicy has a type of hubris behind it often there are various theodicies that are there that satisfy the soul at some level the fact that there is reward in the affidah the fact that there is various wisdoms we don't deny the wisdoms behind suffering in the world but at bottom لا يسألوا عما يفعل لا يسألوا عما يفعل وهم يسألون as Allah is not asked about what He does but they shall be asked and so part of the response to the problem of suffering is to not treat it as an abstract philosophical discourse as a speculative issue but rather as a practical issue is what's this data by heart when I when I am in a state of suffering when I am dealt with with a blow of fate what's the state of my heart because that's the only answer that matters that's the only answer that matters and that's the only answer that can allow us to experience something of toheed rather than simply speculating about toheed we affirm toheed in the third person when we learn it as عقيدة when we learn it as عقيدة in a third person perspective but if we reflect for example in the Surah Al-Fatiha there is a transition from the third person to the second person Bismillahirrahmanirrahim الحضر الله ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا ربنا Please do continue this is a turning a rhetorical turn one of the wisdom's that our scholars have derived from this is this is part of the solution to these problems is that to not just learn about Allah in the third person but to actually turn to Allah face to face as it were with dua with supplication is that the person بدأ finds out of the rate of difficulty their turn to Allah is part of the answer to the problem of suffering and that's their answer. my answer is when I turn to Allah and your answer is when you turn to Allah and every believer has their own unique experience of the tongue of Allah when they turn to Allah in the privacy of their hearts, in the most intimate connection that they have with Allah and this is why the knowledge of Islam is not an abstract knowledge يجب أن يكون إفرام في مكان أكبر one of the famous aphorisms of Imam Junaid رحم الله يسازل ألمه يجبوا استعماله في مراتبه سكر المعلم يحتاج أنه يفرام في مكان أكبر فمن لم يستعمله في مراتبه كان عليه لأله أن من who ever does not يفرام في مكان أكبر يجب أن يكون لهم مقاومة لهم وليس مقاومة لهم وذلك المهمة على مكان أكبر في بطأة مكان هو مقاومة لهم في بطاقة المتوحد it's not simply to learn as in Afrida وعلى حتى بأخذ that's the beginning of our journey but it's supposed to be our way the lens of the heart in seeing and experiencing and responding to the events of our lives and in other words recognizing that Allah has decided this for me الله سبحانه وتعالى وإنه المتياس وإنه المتجاية وإنه والطاقة وإنه الجناء وإنه المتكوات وإنه المتواجسة وإنه المحتوى وإنه الى العالم كل من هؤلاء الأشخاص بها تتهي فرصة الس�يد أن تكون لهم فرق صدسة يدخلنا وقتنا حوله فهذا هو أفضل أن أرد منه أزا وجن وهذا هو أصدقائف أن أصدقائف سبلا يسلم في أحد أصدقائفه أحد أصدقائفه في حياته بعد أنه في سنواته أصدقائفه when he loses his beloved wife خديجة الله يبقى معك when he loses his beloved uncle أبوطادي حياته was the spiritual and emotional support and his uncle was the political and societal support and then all the reasons are being severed all the means in the world are being severed and then at thought he is ridiculed he is mocked he is rejected صلى الله عليه وسلم to the extent that the people he loved the most servants and children throw stones at him and his blessed body blood is flowing his legs صلى الله عليه وسلم what does he do the beautiful dua where he turns to Allah الله is not abstract for him صلى الله عليه وسلم الله is his direct beloved صلى الله عليه وسلم and he is the beloved of Allah and he turns in فقر افتقال need oh Allah implore you أبوديا servitude to Allah affirming that he is the act and Allah is the رب this is the solution to the problem of suffering that it's not a philosophical solution it's an experiential solution and that's the teaching of all the prophets صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم إن الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الحمد لله صلى الله عليه وسلم والا سيبنا محمد البير وميد وعلى آلس وصحته وستسرمة كتيرة and so this turning from the third person to the second person this is not an overnight event for most of us this is a process years of working on ourselves working on the state of our souls working on the state of our hearts لكي تصدرنا الناس who naturally turn to Allah right away in the second person through dua and supplication and asking Allah for help. And so what are the means? What are some of the means that the spiritual asbab that we can take to allow our souls to ascend in this movement from the third person to the second person? Two of the most important ones are good company and the remembrance of Allah. الله سبحانه وتعالى says Oh people of faith have God consciousness, piety with Allah and be with the genuine ones, be with the truthful ones, be with the authentic ones. In other words, like it said, birds of a feather flock together. If we are around people of a certain way, we will imbibe and imbue and reflect their traits. And how yesterday, as our scholars say, the states of people transfer over to other states. If we're on people in generosity, we'll find ourselves wanting to be more generous. But if we're on people who are stingy, then we'll become more and more stingy. And all of the virtues work this way. If we're on people who are in the state of remembrance of Allah, then our heedlessness will be lessened. We'll be more and more aware of the reality of Allah that is omnipresent. That Allah is all-knowing and all-willing and all-powerful behind all the events in the world. That this is خلق الله عز وجل. But if we're on people that are heedless and unaware of Allah, then we'll become more and more heedless. And this is why the Prophet also said, صلى الله عليه وسلم, as Abu Dawud relates in his سنام, أن المروع على دين خليلي. That an individual will be on the very religion of his intimate friend. The خليل is someone you spend a lot of time with. Your intimate friend. فجندر أحدكم من يخاليله. So let each of you look carefully, reflect deeply as to who he keeps intimate company with. General friendship is broad. But intimate friendship, the people of close سحبا. This should be very, very, we should be very careful because we want to absorb the good of the best. We want to absorb the good of the best. And this is particularly important for our young people. But it applies to all of us. And this is why one of our scholars, أهو أثناني خليلي. He says, من صحيب النفسه. That whoever keeps company with himself. Whoever keeps company with himself. صحيبه الأجب. That vanity will keep his company. Narcissism will keep his company. If someone doesn't have good company then suddenly they're more and more impressed with themselves and their ideas and how smart they are and how much they have accomplished. And the litany of their accomplishments outweighs the litany of the remembrance of Allah. And we seek refuge in Allah from such hearts. من صحيب النفسه. صحيبه الأجب. ومن صحيب أولياء الله. But whoever keeps the company of the people that Allah loves. Whoever keeps the company of the saints of Allah. وفطا للوصول إلى الطريق إلى الله تعالى. He will be granted the God-given success to find a path of drawing near to Allah. Of drawing near to Allah. And so this is what we seek. And the most important company is our teachers. And this is one of the calamities of the Ummah today is that you have spokes people of the religion that have no sonnet in the religion. People that have no therapy that never sat with the people who bequeathed this knowledge because they were given it and their teachers were given it and their teachers were given it back to their early generation of the sonnet from the Prophet himself. صلى الله عليه وسلم. This is the way that knowledge was transferred in our tradition. And this doesn't negate that we can have innovative thought and what's called free thinking but it has to be within certain parameters because when it comes to interpretation of scripture there are certain facts. There are undeniable facts about what the limits of language are and what the interpretive tradition has recognized as sound interpretation. And so that's for the outward and also for the inward. Is that part of our tradition is to have a teacher of someone that can again teach someone how to raise the level of their souls and to embrace prophetic virtue and to cleanse the heart from demonic vice. And this is also a carita in our umma a calamity in our umma is that people are many people who speak about the religion have neither the teachers of the outward nor the tambia of the inward through teachers. And this is why this is also emphasized the best company and the most important company is the quality of one's teachers the fact that one should have authentic teachers. This is why the teacher of Imam al-Khusheri رحم الله أبو عالية he was once asked how does a person straighten out the crookedness of their soul? How does a person straighten out the crookedness of their soul? He says by receiving adab by learning adab by learning etiquette and manners and the prophetic rate from a true righteous scholar and Imam فإن المن لم يتأدب the Imam بقية بطالم because he says whoever does it take their acquire and inculcate the prophetic way the manners of the sunnah from an authentic teacher he remains بطالم just useless useless no matter how much he speaks no matter how much he might pontificate about his brilliant insights it's not going to affect the heart because it's not accompanied with the light that comes from receiving knowledge from people that have received it from people that have received it back to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and so then coupled with good company that is the remembrance of Allah this is another imperative principle for allowing our teachings of creative metaphysics to become experienced in realities of our heart this turn from the third person to the second person but the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم ويوجد إشارات أمسر في نفسينا نفس محبكة بأسكام مثل الناس التي تسعمل أكثر بورators بأسكام مثل الناس التي تسعمل أكثر بورators بأسكام مثل ترمدي المستهد الناس في ذكر الله عز way jab هؤلاء الذين يجب أن ينقذونهم في يتونى يوم القيامة الخفافة يجب أن ينقذونهم في يتونى يوم القيامة الخفافة يجب أن ينقذونهم في يتونى يوم القيامة الخفافة يجب أن ينقذونهم في يتونى يوم القيامة الخفافة يجب أن ينقذونهم في يتونى يوم القيامة الخفافة يجب أن ينقذونهم في يتونى يوم القيامة الخفافة لا ي يتخيل أن الإراداء ينظر فيه البحث يخطأ Tarah عندما تسألوا لك فا إذا أغفن فا هت but when the person is heathess and is aware of Allah then there is a job for the soul then there is a job for the soul and so illumination of the heart heavenly rain spiritual rain for the heart this is what cultivates a heart that has its own personal answer to the problem of suffering its own personal experience answer to the problem of suffering and these are the hearts of the saints and they never question Allah we ask Allah to make us people like that the Prophet ﷺ would apply the vicar in all of his context صلى الله عليه وسلم he had a vicar for putting on a garment he had a vicar for entering the home he had a vicar for leaving the home صلى الله عليه وسلم all of the all of the changes and physical situations the event for event he started with the vicar of Allah and he taught us that it's a protection صلى الله عليه وسلم إمام أبو داودة تبندي المسائد they are related to the Prophet ﷺ من خالق يعني إذا خرج من البيت whoever says while leaving the house بسم الله بسم الله بسم الله with the name of Allah with the name of Allah what a gift from Allah what a gift from Allah and in أهب السنة the name and the name are inseparable in أهب السنة both our theology and our mystical tradition الإسم المسمى الواحد the name and the name are inseparable so if we say بسم الله then we are accompanied by Allah because it's باء المصاحبة according to many grammarians it's about accompaniment so that if the name is in our company then the name is in our company بسم الله and if Allah is our company then I rely fully on Allah وَدَحُونَ وَحُولَتَ إِنَّا بِلَّا and there is no might, there is no power this is applied metaphysics it's not only about getting it right on an exam or being able to articulate it on it with the pen and paper no, realizing وَدَحُولَ وَنَا بُولَتَ إِنَّا بِلَّا there is no might or power no one can move anything except the power of Allah except the power of Allah these are deep deep meanings and it takes years to even start to approximate them but the hadith whoever says this this is the mercy now descending on the person you've been guided and you've been sufficed and all your needs are taken care of and you have a special protection a special protection don't worry about anything don't worry about anything وَتَنَحَ عَنُوا شَيْطَانَ and even shaitan can't touch such a person untouchable even shaitan cannot touch such a person and he's wondering why the shaitan says to the other what do you do about a man that you know what do you do about a man that's guided and sufficed and protected they're completely dumbstruck as to how to affect such a person and that's the greatest protection is from shaitan and from the ego because then the person can be with the prophetic way in their days and their nights we ask Allah to give us the tawfi and to experience our tawfi to experience the tariq that was bequeathed to us by the Prophet ﷺ we ask Allah to protect us to protect our communities to protect our loved ones to protect the entire ummah to protect all of our society we ask Allah to protect our neighbors we ask Allah to give us special protection by the blessing of his remembrance عزا وجل الله مفرج عنه وعن المسلمين في كل مكان الله مفرج عنه وعن المسلمين في كل مكان الله مفرج عنه وعن المسلمين وعن المسلمين في كل مكان الله مئنا نسلك العفو وعفو وعفقت عامة في الدنيا وعن توفيق الاخلاص ودوام وليعمة وحسن فتام ربنا آتينا من لدنك رحمة وهيئنا من عمرنا رشدة الله مئنا نسلك العفو وعفو وعفقت عامة في الدنيا وعن كل المسلم إن الله وملايك تهوي صلون عالم نبي يا أيها الذين أعملوا صغوة عليه وسلم ورسمة الله مسلم وسلم وبارك عناسينا محمدا نبي وعلى آله وصحبي


From the Ludwig von Mises Institute, this is the Mises Report, a public policy and economic issues commentary series. In this program we present another part of ten great economic myths. The material heard today was prepared by Murray and Rothbard, Ph.D., of New York Polytechnic Institute for the Mises Institute. Myth number seven, deflation, that is, falling prices, is unthinkable and would cause a catastrophic depression. The public memory is short. We forget that from the beginning of the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century until the beginning of World War II, prices generally went down year after year. That's because continually increasing productivity and output of goods generated by free markets caused prices to fall. There was no depression, however, because costs fell along with selling prices. Usually wage rates remained constant while the cost of living fell, so that real wages, or everyone's standard of living, rose steadily. Virtually the only time when prices rose over those two centuries were periods of war, the war of 1812, the Civil War and World War I, when the warring governments inflated the money supply to pay for the war so heavily as to more than offset continuing gains in productivity. We can see how free market capitalism, unburdened by government or central bank inflation, works if we look at what has happened in the last few years to the prices of computers. A computer used to have to be enormous, costing millions of dollars. Now, in a remarkable surge of productivity brought about by the microchip revolution, computers are falling in price, even as I speak. Computer firms are successful despite the falling prices because their costs have been falling and productivity rising. In fact, these falling costs and prices have enabled them to tap a mass market characteristic of the dynamic growth of free market capitalism. Deflation has brought no disaster to this industry. The same is true of other high growth industries, such as electronic calculators, plastics, TV sets and VCRs. Deflation, far from bringing catastrophe, is the hallmark of a sound and dynamic economic growth.