السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ما شاء الله لقوة إلا بالله سيدنا عمر بالخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه was making tawaf around the Kaaba and there is this one person that was making tawaf next to him and he kept on repeating this dua and سيدنا عمر بالخطاب after a while he became curious what is this all about so he kept on saying الله مجعلني من القليل so say what is that he said haven't you read what Allah said in his book وقليل من عبادية الشكور and few of my servants are actually thankful so may Allah make me from the few may Allah make me from the few may Allah make me from the few maybe we have few people in the hall tonight but الحمد لله it's usually few people who change history you actually don't need many people to change history and no one knows that better than Allah Allah سبحانه وتعالى sends one messenger to change the reality of a whole nation one just one if Allah سبحانه وتعالى sees the necessity he will send two موسى وهارون سيدنا دود عليه السلام أنهسن سليمان زكريا أن يحيا they were together at the same time rarely as a matter of fact one time in the Quran in سورة يسيم الله سبحانه وتعالى says that he sent three وضرب لهم مثلا أصحاب القرية إذ جاءها المرسلون إذ أرسلنا إليه مثنين فكذبوهما فعززنا بثالث وقالوا إليكم مرسلون so Allah sent two messengers they denied them Allah supported them with a third one take two steps and look brothers and sisters who is that one or two or three now imagine Mashallah we have a room that has two three hundred people that's more than enough if we had a plan and we are sincere and dedicated to change not only the reality of Pleasanton but probably the bay area california and the united states and from there the world I don't like to talk big I like to dream big and I like to talk real سبحان الله أبوه أخي we have at this time to dream big but to start acting small and Mashallah you heard from the speech the principles of Islam I believe I believe you know as myself too many of us here are immigrants and I am proud to be an immigrant in a nation that is made of immigrants there's nothing wrong with that and many of us are actually going through rehab many of us are transforming from the beliefs and from the habits and from the convictions and from the way of life that we came with from our homes to come to this new land and new opportunity and new situation that Allah put us in to liberate ourselves from the old way of thinking to the new way of thinking is a process is not going to happen overnight but the good news that it is actually happening we are going through a group therapy moving from fear usually in the countries around the world third world countries shh don't talk about politics we want to be safe we don't want the secret service knocking our doors right if you see someone walking behind you even in a park you are like why are you walking behind me we come with fears fears that have been instilled in us but it takes time to liberate ourselves from these fears and we can see that Allah سبحانه وتعالى blessed us with children and our children are growing up knowing how to communicate with both worlds with the world of their parents and with the world of the real streets out there and they are able to accomplish سبحانه وتعالى أصبحت someone like our brother باسم القرر born and raised in San Francisco he could have had a million successful jobs that would make him hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions he chose to go and work with care and until today he could make at least 10 times of what he's making if he actually would practice with his degree so this shows that the transformation is happening our sister here that will make a hundred men shake and shiver but yet with her you know femininity and with a smile our sister زهرة بلوب right you know she can call whoever you want her to call the FBI the CIA the police anything any agency the national intelligence services and she will speak with strength and with no fear the good news brothers and sisters is the change is happening and every time the change is happening the people who don't like that change will get louder and louder as you can see people thought like whoa after eight years of George Bush that's it Muslims are gone they're done unacceptable unaccepted in this reality but subhanallah you know I know he's not a Muslim and I don't believe he's a Muslim but for a president to come after eight years of George Bush and his name is Barack Hussein Obama is a listen for those who need a listen from history and for him to appoint people in his cabinet from sister دالية مجاهد to you know brother شهيد who's a حافظ who was appointed to the world you know Muslim world organization to this and that to the White House staff people are Muslims people bet that we're not gonna do that it was after September 11 that the first Muslim congressman was elected to the United States House of Representative Brother Keith Allison and very soon with the election of President Obama another African-American representative from the state of Indiana Northwest Indiana was elected and he was a practicing Muslim and Keith Allison survived all the attacks the vicious attacks you're dieting the Muslim the black the Latino and the Jewish vote and he's still winning year in year out when did that happen after everyone was bidding that Muslims will be finished that's why brothers and sisters the bright the future is bright for those who think that it is bright Alhamdulillah رب العلم and our hope is not in our whatever we do our hope lies in God and in the help of God to us إن شاء الله رب العلم when you talk about these big ideas these big ideas have to start from one time we used to say MCC was small now we can say it's small because you're talking about 40 some thousand square feet but MCC when you talk about the activities you have to do simultaneous things at the same time in order for the community to survive and prosper and grow and do what it's supposed to do you have to take care of the new generation the children Oh my God when I went and visited last year 400 children I mean do you understand for that's an entire generation 400 children in that school and they have a waiting list you know do you know how lucky we are the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says the Prophet comes on the day of judgment and only 10 people listen to him only everybody else said we don't like you you're backwarded ridiculous we don't understand you you talk The Prophet comes on the day of judgment with 9 8 7 and the Prophet went up to 1 and he said the Prophet comes on the day of judgment with no one believing in him by himself on himself by himself by him just standing on the day of judgment no one believed 400 children I mean do you know what that would mean to a Prophet a Prophet not us now imagine when you take this is the weekend school add to that the crowd of صلاة الجمعة now we have 2 full-time صلاة الجمعة in mcc add to that the women activities and the women حلق us add to that our brothers and sisters you know in رحمة which they gather the the children and you know I live in Santa Clara and my wife would drive from Santa Clara on Sunday last year just to mcc just to join the girls of رحمة and sit down and learn about الله and make some نشيد and beat the duff and she would she cannot wait the whole week I mean she goes to an Islamic school full-time Islamic school and still she cannot wait till Sunday comes so that she can go and join the رحمة girls at mcc I mean do you understand it's like 35 40 minutes drive especially if there is traffic you're talking about تولو ثق out sent some of the space and generate income as far as I'm concerned I don't know a Dis площ этот بي in ان호م لكم بسجلا و أبراسلسه مسيسي بسجلهم لكم Now that's the way to do it You want to know how Muslims and mosques should function? Go to Turkey They build the masjid and make a huge bazaar around it And next to the masjid the rooms for the Imam and the masjid Then the rooms for the students Then the school Then the market And all the market and it's waqف Mandaumment support the masjid والسكول والإمام والقلن لينس والرينوفيشن والريماضلين نحتاج لنرى ذلك مرة أخرى والحمد لله نحن جميل إلى ذلك المنطقة at MCC في which we will have insha'Allah zero debt and insha'Allah we will start having making income that will cover a large part of the operation because right now part of that $25,000 goes back to paying off القرد الحسم I mean MCC as of today and please brother Asif and brother Azar Sadiqi correct me if I'm wrong MCC as of today owe $0 to the bank for the loan that they took 1.8 million am I right or wrong? am I right or wrong? please give them a hand of applause I mean fundraising after fundraising you wonder where your money went try to buy this property today where they bought it for 4 million and try to buy it for 8 million try to buy it for 12 million today the value of that property is already الحمد لله and it happened in the right time we bought in the right time and we sold the other land in the right time and I'm a witness you know brother here keeps on meeting me and says remember the first fundraising for MCC when we fundraised for that land you were there I said brother not the first the first and the middle and the second and the third and the 10th and today the last I'm always there I mean come on it's like I know I know when the fundraising of MCC more than I know my birthday come on people ما شاء الله لقوة إلا بالله it's there on the calendar brothers and sisters الحمد لله we are able to make history because look in the south bay we started having huge MCA was there and now we added ما شاء الله SBIA ومسجد المصطفة 70,000 square feet I mean do you think these places are doing nothing they are making history silently you go to MC to SBIA and Rahima you know foundation is sitting there giving food for everyone Muslim or not well how do you think people make history by sitting down and just praying you have to get down to the level to the grass root level and start making the society problems youth problem and you have a solution because people of faith have a solution they have compassion they have love they have mercy they care and brothers and sisters you might not see the change like overnight oh we did this today tomorrow it's the whole chain the Muslim situation in America has changed it wouldn't be for the sake of God if that happened but Allah test you and test you and test you and slowly but surely things are getting better and better and better including the candidacy of Donald Trump it's one of the best news that happened to Muslims in the recent history this guy is amazing he has united us with everybody else thank you Donald Trump it's equal opportunity now Muslims blacks Jews Latinos south of the border north of the border we're all in the same thank you very much بزاك الله خير for what you're doing every time you're pointing one finger at someone else you're pointing three at yourself what are you doing he's doing group therapy people come oh so mad at Barack Obama the black Muslim president we're gonna change it they come charged they're ready you know and then he comes and gives them group therapy talks talks they all feel good and they go home good so he's just doing like Dr. Phil do you remember Dr. Phil in Oprah he's another Dr. Phil group therapy Dr. Phil does it individually Donald Trump does it on a group level thank you very much you know but you know this is not anywhere brother and sisters even if he wins the presidency he has to change because America will not tolerate that I mean Subhan Allah if the Republican are looking at him he's vulgar he's vicious he's this okay wow if the Republicans are saying that someone is learning and listen brothers and sisters you know we are here to deal with everyone Republicans Democrats that's not our business in the Masjid our business is to serve everyone to serve those who are in need and to walk in the footsteps of Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم you know I really feel like every year a Muslim should dedicate a month just reviewing the seerah of Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم والله it will give you hope it will give you focus it will give you direction one man trying to change an entire peninsular an entire nation that lead to the change of the world the amount of aggression oppression discrimination women oppression slave oppression right and left oppression for him to start with what with service with compassion and try to find are you compassionate yes come and join me are you compassionate yes come and join me are you compassionate yes please help us out and he will get people started embracing Islam and people made fun of them and people tortured them and people killed them I mean we are facing nothing comparing to that generation that's why we say رضي الله عنهم وارضاهم it's unbelievable what they went through I mean imagine imagine the mentality of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the entire situation around him is pitch black bleak nothing doom and gloom and he has this vision in his head this is going to be bright and everything goes against that vision in his head and people telling what are you talking about you coming to change Arabia you don't know the Arabs and he's like I know you don't know you don't know how dark is the picture and he refused to look at the ugly reality he kept on looking at the vision focusing until he stood up in his final speech خطبت حجة الوداع and gave the historical human rights declaration for all Muslims and for all humanity and he told them listen to me for maybe I will not see you after this year let me spill it out to you let me and when you read خطبت حجة الوداع it's nothing but after human rights after human rights after human rights destroying the traditions of جاهلية that is built on oppression and building the traditions of Islam that is built on justice brothers and sisters if you don't learn the seerah of the prophet every year once a year you know when I was a child people talk about the milad do you know what was the milad for us for an entire month we will have you go to the masjid and you hear the seerah of the prophet you go to the masjid and you hear the seerah and at the end of the month comes the milad it's the break by then you are an expert on the seerah year in year out the milad was a revision of the seerah of the prophet in Libya I'm talking Benghazi you know Benghazi where Hillary Clinton is from that's where I was born and raised you know Maliki to the core to the core and Qaloon too and you know it's unbelievable and you go there we children were not allowed in the masjid to walk in and play it's the day of judgment if you walk in and play in the masjid when you were a kid not like today we're like please come to the masjid we'll give you candy the only candy the only time we were allowed to walk in and play and eat cake and drink juice in the masjid was at the time of the milad of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يعني they made us fall in love with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم just through that event of the milad may Allah reward them it's an entire generation that passed away and now what we're getting the people who want to kill even if they find a qabr of a muslim who's dead they'll blow up the qabr عجيب الله you blow up the dead you blow up the living also the dead and this is interesting you know one time I saw a caricature you know it's saying someone is trying to teach the children suicide bombing so he's telling them listen and listen very well I'm gonna only do this once you know which Islam are you learning I mean come on people what what did we get out of that people love their deal no we didn't that entire generation Libya under Qaddafi because these places were allowed to exist graduated some of the largest number of حفاظ memorizers of the book of Allah when the relationship got better between the United States and Libya and they allowed the Libyan students to come here they became the free Qaris in almost every masjid leading Salat al-Tarawih with beautiful voices and he would ask him where did you come from Libya Qaddafi yeah Qaddafi you memorize the Quran yeah I do memorize the Quran entire generation of memorizers of the Quran because there was some religious freedom for these events to happen now what so brothers and sisters الحمد لله history is coming and history is changing الحمد لله we are spoiled you know we're sitting in Marriott you know chicken breast dinner you know you can get vegetarian you don't want on a very nice table very nice screens but we're still changing history life and money did not spoil us money is the means that we get closer to God not far away from God and this is why we are here tonight to make silently history day by day with our sweat and blood Islam one of the most amazing things in Islam it's beautiful from the days 1400 years ago the first principle money time is money is an Islamic principle prophetic principle خولفاء الراشدين principle time is money time is money when Sayyidina Uthman our fan paid the Imam the first one who paid the muazzin and then the Imam some people told him you pay them for leading salah he said no I don't pay them for leading salah God will pay them that I pay them for holding them hostage in the masjid and not allowing them to do any other job because time is money that's why as an Imam and muazzin I'm paying them for that time not for the job time is money to be paid for mental anguish mental anguish and emotional distress sounds very 21st century you know someone came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was a Jewish man verifying the description of رسول الله in the Torah he came he gave loan to the prophet and the prophet did not have a problem dealing with money with the Jews most of the loans that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did including the day he died he borrowed from the Jews and he gave them back the money so the man came to him and pulled him and said you family of عبد المطلب he didn't only insult the prophet he insulted his entire tribe يعني for an Arab that's the end of the world that's the day of judgment that's the day I die right you family of عبد المطلب you take money and you never pay it back on time عمر بخطاب took the sword out and said let me just chop of his head right now you're a Rasool Allah the man saw the sword you know illuminating under the sun he started shaking and shivering Rasool Allah said put back your sword you could have done something better you could have asked me to pay him on time and you could have asked him to ask me nicely better than your sword يعمر since this is what you have done now I'm gonna borrow the money from you you go and pay the Jewish man the money and by the way get closer and he got closer and Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم say pay him like we're talking about 10 pieces of gold extra he said why Rasool Allah he said that's a payment for how you got him scared for him being scared of you paying paid for mental anguish and emotional distress he said عمر looked at the prophet the prophet said عمر go and pay him so he went and gave him and gave him and he finally said this is 10 he said but you're giving me more he said it's not because of me it's because of him just you know I scared you he said he said that he said yes he said أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله that's the description of this prophet in our Torah that's what I was looking for brothers and sisters we need as the brothers said to go back to that we have it in us we can do it والله we can do it but it takes step by step and without institutions and without education and without all of that it's not gonna happen you are making history and you don't know it huge centers that had graduating generation after generation that's why brothers and sisters you know ما شاء الله لقوة إلا بالله الله has blessed your community and I know we have few I would like to start before I do the fundraising with seeing if anyone would like to bless this effort this humble endeavor and effort for the sake of Allah to change our reality and the reality around us someone who could help us with $50,000 إن شاء الله today someone who would like to make history someone who gives money with love not gives money with pressure gives money because he loves Allah she loves Allah because money they earn money but they spend it they have no problem spending it because of that love and connection you know how much money is beloved to the human I'll tell you how much money is beloved to the human the human is willing to die for his money and it doesn't make sense you know why because if you die you're not gonna enjoy that money how in the world do you die defending your money when you die you're not gonna even enjoy it but money is more beloved to the human than his own life and soul that's why Allah said in the Quran struggle in the name of Allah with your money and with yourselves and Allah mentioned money before the self because it's more dear to you imagine what Allah says that to struggle and to give because Allah gave you a guarantee I'm telling you Allah gave you a guarantee what's the guarantee you are going to donate tonight and every night do you donate it before Allah is not gonna allow it that you donate and he doesn't give it back to you it's not gonna happen he will not allow it why? because Allah will not allow anyone in any moment of history to be more generous than him سبحانه وتعالى exalted is he so in the same nanosecond you say I'm gonna give 50,000 Allah said no no hold on before you do that I'm gonna give you back 100,000 and Allah never gives back the same and I'm talking reward in dunya not akhira I'm talking about reward in dunya and I say this not because I wanna emotionally pump you because I have heard stories upon stories people that attended fundraisings came back after a month or two six months next fundraising and they told me stories that are mind-boggling like unbelievable things happen when people make a covenant with Allah and say here is the Allah I give so before I start the fundraising and asking people to donate I just want to see someone who would like to give في سبيل الله because every community has heavy heavy donors even رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم at his days أبو بكر was a heavy donor أثمان ابن عفان was a heavy donor عبد الرحمن ابن عوف was a heavy donor who else the first donor in Islam the women that first believer first woman that made first person on the planet that made وضوء and صلاة was خديجة بنتو خويلة رضي الله تعالى I don't know if you know that right after رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and we will be discussing this إن شاء الله in our seerah starting tomorrow for two weeks at SBIA may Allah reward them they open the doors and MCC open the doors شاء الله for two weeks you can come in person you can attend live streaming you can attend the recording whenever you want you don't even have to attend it on live streaming but every year we have to have a seerah for at least a month discussing the life of the prophet to remind ourselves and to connect ourselves to the roots the first woman رسول الله goes with Angel Gabriel Gabriel to the mountain he hits the mountain with his heels the water gushes out Gabriel takes a form of a human makes وضوء رسول الله makes وضوء Gabriel عليه السلام stands up رسول الله stand up next to him Gabriel prays to raka'a رسول الله سلام pray next to him to raka'a and Gabriel looked at him and he said that is your prayers and the prayers of the prophets that came before you now go and teach your ummah رسول الله goes home and the first one that did وضوء and صلاة was خديجة بنتخويلة رضي الله تعالى imagine this woman imagine this pillar dedicated herself financed رسول الله from day one you don't do the job I'll make the money you go and make da'wah this is how Islam happened if رسول الله didn't have خديجة أبو بكر عثمان عبد الرحمن ابن عوف باني أبو طالب himself and علي سيدنا علي they put there everything they have في سبيل الله سبحان الله how would have Islam started I know some people say why do I have to donate 50,000 don't say why say الحمد لله I am the one who can donate 50,000 not why thank you Allah for enabling me enabling me to gift 50,000 so do I have anyone before we start someone with love as Allah said they give what they give with love not to be thanked not to be recognized but for the love of Allah and they have a relationship with Allah every time they give Allah give them back every time they give Allah give them back every time they give Allah give them back and that's why the brother said courageousness is a muscle develop the muscle you might have never stood up in your life and said something courageous try it out you're not gonna die nothing is gonna happen to you but you develop the muscle also giving is a muscle if you've never given in your life you'll think oh my God if I give I will be bankrupt my bank account will go to zero and I'm fried I'm done no no no you will not be fried insha'Allah you will be in نعيم نظرة النعيم Allah will give you the نظرة of نعيم your face will will face will illuminate your health will progress do I have one I just want to get that out of the way because subhan Allah every fundraising in MCC we had someone to donate $50,000 either he forgive it from the قرد حسن or he give it as a check or he give it as a I don't know 401K or whatever you know URA or all of these things some way some way some way some how they're giving masha'Allah and brother عاصف just told me that the MCC now president is our sister masha'Allah here so we're following the footsteps of خديجة رضي الله عنها and she's she comes with what with the British accent so don't mess around with her she's gonna get to you you know you don't mess around with the sister masha'Allah may Allah reward you do I have any donor do I have anyone that would like to bless us and ignite the night and everyone that donates after you today you will get a copy of their حسنات if we raise 300,000 tonight Allah will counted that you didn't 50,000 that you donated 300,000 so please help us out brothers and sisters may Allah enable you and give you masha'Allah it's not too much brothers and sisters it's too little how many 50,000 have you made since you've came to the United States of America or since you started your job some people they make 50,000 dollars a year some people they make 50,000 dollars a month and that's that's your bounty that's your bounty Allah will grant you what you wish and Allah is the greatest bounty who are you our first donor or you know the igniter of tonight anyone would like to take that anyone you don't want to raise your hand anyone a text any of the brothers صديقي brother Asif you know and or brother pervez if you want to tell them we can do that because I don't want to spend so much time I just have witnessed with my own eyes almost every fundraising there is someone who give 50,000 so I just want to give the chance to the people do I have anyone anyone in the name of Allah بسم الله تواكلنا على الله ولا حولا ولا قوتا إلا بالله سبحان الله that's okay that's okay because I haven't started my fundraising so I'm not disheartened I'm just like you know having fun with you and giving a chance of أولي الفضل and أولي الباب and أولي الأبصار to come forward انا السابقون السابقون الله talks about these people in the Quran there are people who always come first الحمد لله and they have gotten us used to be first ما شاء الله where are you first donor 50 ما شاء الله لا قوتا إلا بالله anyone ما شاء الله anyone would like to make history and help us out الحمد لله طيب if we cannot have one person with 50,000 which I know it will come at the end of the night who does do I have two people that will help each other to together become 50,000 25 and 25 anyone any two people ما شاء الله لا قوتا إلا بالله any two people الحمد لله any two people one two 25 25 that's okay شاء الله الله will give us whatever is our رزق tonight no one is stressed out here we are just trying to fulfill our pledge to the people who gave loans to the masjid to honor them because then our institutions will never receive loans if we default on our loans سمند اللذي يقرد الله قرضا حسن و يضاعفه له أضعافا يثيرا who would give Allah a good loan imagine Allah goes down to our level human level and Allah says listen if you don't want to donate forget it just give me a loan I'll pay it off how Allah speaks to a level where the human beings understand if you don't want to donate don't donate give me a loan I will give it back to you many forwards and it will not be it will be فضل from Allah سبحانه وتعالى do I have two people with 25,000 one and two do I have two people with 25,000 masha'Allah any two people masha'Allah maybe the people in the back they can update us and tell us something maybe masha'Allah because envelopes are coming and I am just here as Allah said فذكر إنما أنت مذكر لست عليهم بمسيطر remind your only reminder you have no control over them I have no control Allah has control over you just let Allah do the miracles سبحان الله أبدا when it rains the rain goes and finds where open channels are goes find open channel if it finds open channel the rain will make wider and bigger because more rain is going down more rain if the channel for whatever reason closes and gets clogged the water will back off and will find somewhere else to go from exactly the story of Rizq Allah sends people Rizq the one who gives more his channel becomes bigger Allah gives him more it rains more on his site the second he closes the channel the Rizq will back up back up back up and Allah will send the Rizq to someone else and that's the listen we learn brother and sister so do I have two people with twenty five thousand dollars some two channels of Rahma of Ata of Sakha from Allah let Allah use you as a channel of his mercy and of his support inshallah as you know the علماء used to make dua ya Allah make us keys that opens the gates of goodness and locks the gates of evil ya Allah make us keys that opens the gates of goodness and locks that locks the gates of evil أمين يا رب العالمين who wants to be a key today do we have anything حمدلله ما شاء الله لقوت اللي بلا that's okay because we haven't started the fundraising yet ما شاء الله okay brother and sisters حمدلله I know ما شاء الله from my experience from before the donation keeps coming and we never fail we've never walked out of fundraising that was a failure at MCC الحمدلله we've always walked so I am full confident you know I have full confidence that inshallah tonight we will succeed and do well as we always do الحمدلله رب العالمين brothers and sisters if we have 10 people in the room if we have 10 people in the room you know each one will donate $10,000 we will end up with $100,000 you see I ask for 50 I'm confident I'm gonna get the 50 I ask for 225 I'm confident that I'm gonna get 225 inshallah so that's 100,000 I want to move to the second 100,000 I need 10 people each with $10,000 who will help us out brothers and sisters if you don't know if you don't believe go to the MCC and look with your own eyes look with your own eyes brothers and sisters it's unbelievable so if you see the hundreds upon hundreds of youth and children and activities and women activities and serving and making دعوة interfaith activities talking to the neighbors visiting other churches other churches coming and visiting it's a whole rainbow of good deeds عمل صالح of activities and everyone Allah uses him to where he's good at and that's very beautiful so I want إن شاء الله 10 people each one with $10,000 do I have anyone حمد لله with $10,000 do I have anyone ما شاء الله لقوطة ألا بالله with $10,000 so that we can roll for the next 100,000 الحمد لله and we will be able to reach our goal إن شاء الله رب العالمين brothers and sisters remember where you stand remember where you are you are in the bay area the whole world looks up to the bay area this is where history gets made do you know where the idea of community colleges came from it actually came from Berkeley the idea of having two years community college which is all over the nation started from here brothers and sisters we have Google here Apple Facebook Twitter and the old other Oracle Cisco for God's sake I mean it's unbelievable every company that does large scale change in the world is here close to you we underestimate our effect on the rest of the world you know when I go Malaysia Singapore Indonesia and I tell them I tell them do you know where's our location where next to them oh my God the entire dialogue changes the entire interaction changes subhan Allah but the rest of the world is looking up to us here والله العظيم brothers and sisters يعني in Muslim countries in Muslim countries they wish to have the type of Islamic centers we have here you know Muslim countries you go to Malaysia you go to Singapore you go to Indonesia you go to Indonesia they say we wish we have the way you attract your youth in the Islamic centers in America in Turkey blood and sisters it's a majority Muslim country but the youth there when they hear how do we deal with the massage here and how we have activities for everyone and camping and watching movies and go bowling and go paint bowling and go this they go crazy you do that in the masjid yeah do you know if we do this they'll shoot us they'll kill us you know if you go to Pakistan many of you here are from Hyderabad and I visited Hyderabad like 3-4 times spoke in front of like 100,000 people unbelievable and they all like what can we do with our youth what can we do we're losing them they're not coming to the masjid what I said you need to do what we're doing tell me what we're doing I said I'm not gonna tell you I'm just I want you tomorrow to advertise on TV on the channel that there will be an event only and only for high schoolers no middle school is allowed no college student is allowed subhan Allah like a thousand youth showed up because you started targeting they felt oh you're talking only to high school next day we said we're gonna only have an event for college students oh my God osmania university my God it was full from as far as your eyes can see because people don't know how to do these activities I'm telling you we're making history we're changing the world if in the Muslim world they start doing what we do here in America the entire understanding of religion will change I mean you know people have come with this interpretation of the hadith a positive interpretation of the hadith the hadith says the day of judgment will not come until the sun rises from the west the sun every day rises from the east until the sun rises from the west the day of judgment will not come so some interpreted it in a positive way they say the sun is the truth and Islam grows the first time from the east the second time Islam will rise from the west we're looking for a beautiful sign not a horrible sign until the sun rises from the west it means until Islam flourishes from the west again because you know sometimes you go to the east they're so stuck in tradition they can't see the truth anymore truth or tradition I'll take the truth truth or culture I'll take the truth truth or whatever I think is right I'll take the truth and the truth is Islam is very attractive to all ages this is the solution brothers and sisters you know you feel sometimes you want to scream loud you see now the weapon the new weapon of ISIS is using children and Subhanallah how else the solution is except in Iraq and in Syria children are attracted to the masjid like they're attracted at MCA and MCC and SBIA and Saratoga that is the solution to the ISIS problem what we do here is a solution you don't see it in the big picture you think you're always a small masjid this is the solution this is the solution our children here are on the front run front run of technology I mean masha'Allah in Saratoga we have kids in the masjid that made that made a robot and went to Amazon and said would you take my robot to deliver you know how they said now they're going to deliver packages with Amazon through robots they made a robot like a quad copter that has the four fans unbelievable Muslim children one of the Muslim children Eritrean masha'Allah may Allah bless his parents and bless him his heart is in the misted he came to me he said sheikh would you like to come to one of my classes I come to your classes why don't you come to my class I said I'll come how old are you he said I am 13 turning 14 I said and what class do you teach he said I teach how to how do 3D printers work and how to do 3D printing I said okay where in your middle school he said no I teach the class as Stanford University I said you teach who he said graduates and undergraduates I said and how in the world he said when I was 9 years old I got attracted to it and now I am like a world resource to 3D printing I have 14 3D printers at home I said can you print me a car he started laughing he said sheikh pretty soon I will be able to do that I can print you a hammer we can even there are printers that print actually with bacteria it print cells like actual cells a living you know a living thing it prints with a 3D printer he started talking to me I just gave him a hug الحمد لله that we have amongst our youth people who are like that there is a young person in Fresno a young Muslim you know high schooler had the perfect score not a single answer wrong on SAT and ACT full score one kid in both exams he walked in 100%, he walked in 100% they interviewed him on every channel this is the solution to the world's problem this is the solution to the youth to the Muslim youth worldwide we provide the example don't think small think big that's why brother and sister الحمد لله don't belittle when you're doing these Islamic centers you might think oh it's a small thing no it's a big thing these institutions are big and huge ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله ثبارك الله so الحمد لله رب العالمي do I have anyone with $10,000 ما شاء الله الحمد لله that's okay that's okay a lot of the donors did not come tonight to the dinner but inshallah they will donate and the caravan will continue to travel and the journey will continue to be traveled and no center will stop because of you know lack of funds there is no lack of funds in our Muslim community الحمد لله there's plenty of funds I'm just trying to think what's next brothers and sisters do you know how many young men and women in the Bay Area that have started a company and sold it for hundreds of millions of dollars do you want to know on March 22 I'm inviting every one of them that I can get my hand on I'm inviting every one of them to come and give a speech 15 minutes their life story people who sold their companies 400 million 500 million 750 million and so far I've got so many confirmations and they are excited to meet the Muslim community because we always tell them to come to the message they come and pray they leave but they were never able to given the chance they don't know what to do so I said come and tell us your story that's what I want you to do May 22 إن شاء الله رب العالمين we're going to have a seminar of success and leadership from middle school high school college students men women sisters who want to start non-for-profit organizations brothers who want to do some business start an app start a company you will get a consultation from people that if you go in the real world they wouldn't meet you in six months and they wouldn't give you but they are our Muslim brothers and sisters in our community and they are more than happy to do that إن شاء الله رب العالمين so you see you just have to ask when Allah gives we got 25,000 تكبيل you think it's dry it's not dry الحمد لله it's raining the drought is over we have Al-Ninu right now الحمد لله make sure you don't get wet on the way out إن شاء الله or if you want to follow the sunnah of the Prophet he used to fall in the beginning of the season he used to stand up in the middle of the rain and get soaked and he used to say this rain was just born it's pure and sinless it was just born it has just came to existence and it's freshly glorifying its Lord so he would walk in the Masjid and the Masjid at the town the Prophet didn't have a rug or carpet it was mud and after Salah people used to laugh and then used to laugh because their faces were full of mud and their hands were full of mud and their knees were full of mud and sometimes they would splash the water on each other inside the Masjid the Prophet and the Prophet would look at the Sahaba and smile and they would laugh سبحان الله brothers and sisters such a humble place with no carpet graduated some of the greatest men and women in history سبحان الله that's the listen that's the listen that we get it's not about the walls it's about the people and you have some nice people very welcoming people Mashallah I've never approached MCC to do a seminar to do anything they said come the center is your center open wide whatever you want Mashallah may Allah reward them same thing SBIA Mashallah they said come the center is yours Mashallah MCA come it's open doors Mashallah we don't have ill feelings we don't have hatred we help each other every fundraising all the Masjid help each other Mashallah that's beautiful Yassin foundation come Yassin you know center in Berlin game you know next time when you're landing look to the left you're landing in San Francisco airport look to the left you're going to see Yassin youth center you can get there stop there on the way back from the airport stop by and pray to Raka'a Subhanallah we are spreading silently people are beating beating beating but we are minding our own business and doing what we're supposed to do and we're hurting no one we are benefiting everyone we're not hurting anyone we're benefiting الحمد لله the Muslim and the non Muslim one event after another Mashallah just in the last two three months in Yassin foundation they've invited the churches and the officials and you do that here no one will stop us إن شاء الله قوة إلا بالله so الحمد لله رب العالمين do we have ten people with ten thousand Mashallah anyone with ten thousand dollars الحمد لله الله وكبر ولله الحمد الله وكبر ولله الحمد ما شاء الله قوة إلا بالله طيب they're doing the calculation إن شاء الله I really appreciate one thing that you sat down and you had sabr fundraising succeed not because people give money it's because they sit down and have sabr because Allah says إن الله مع الصابري you might not donate yourself but the fact that you sit down and listen encourages someone else to donate so don't think that by you sitting down and listening is a waste of time عود بالله this is how we support at least the least they say be where Allah would like you to be and do not ever show yourself to Allah where He doesn't want you to be be where Allah wants you to be and you are here there is no better place to be in other than this place or another fundraising that is supporting a house of Allah and a community center you are exactly where Allah wants to find you that's beautiful you will find Allah exactly when you need Him you will find Him because He found you exactly when He wanted you and where He wanted you He found you there you will find Him there when you need Him سبحان الله Allah doesn't need us but we need Him حمد لله رب العالم so do I have the next level of donation الحمد لله $5,000 they are calculating and they are continuing إن شاء الله while we are encouraging each other and doing وتواصل بالحق وتواصل بالصب what we are doing here is what we are doing here is what we are doing here is what we are doing here is what we are doing here ويقول لكم about our fundraising رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم did رسول الله سمت a letter a letter to the king of Rome Caesar he said this is from Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to Caesar the king of Rome if you become Muslim Allah will give you peace and Allah will reward you for you and your nation if you deny Islam you will be judged on the day of judgment on behalf and on behalf of your nation والسلام عليكم بس I am inviting you to Islam in answer to that one letter Rome sent three armies the first army is the army of Mu'ta the second army is the army of Tabuk and the third army is the army when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was dying he sent them a letter just welcome I invite you to Islam if you accept you accept if you are not accept you are going to be responsible in front of Allah so who are you to talk to us like that who are you رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم in the second wave they sent 250,000 soldiers Roman soldiers to wipe out Muslims in Medina رسول الله said if we wait for them to come to Medina we're all dead we have to come and meet them northern رسول الله stood up there is no food no camels nothing stood up and made fundraising the Sahaba had a difficult 2 years with no rain in Medina رسول الله stood up who will give who will give who will give no one has anything to give everybody said يا رسول الله I'm bringing myself I'm bringing my camel the money that I have is enough to feed my family and help me with the journey to go with you I'm going nowhere I'm going with you but I don't have money to give so they couldn't raise their hand سيد نعث مرم نعث فان saw the prophet asking and nobody's answering nobody رسول الله is doing fundraising nobody people don't have وثمان عثان said يا رسول الله whatever the total number of your fundraising I will give one third of it one third of the total fundraising it's on me رسول الله سيد جزاك الله خير يا عثمان بارك الله رسول الله started doing fundraising fundraising asking encouraging nobody's raising they say until the eyes of رسول الله became red because no microphones so he's speaking making everyone سيد نعثمان said يا رسول الله I ask you by Allah take it easy on yourself the total fundraising the second third is on me please just sit down رسول الله said okay we are one third away fundraising fundraising fundraising nobody stood up سيد نعثمان said until the voice of رسول الله was gone حتى بح سلطه صلى الله عليه وسلم he stood up and said يا رسول الله the final one third is on me for Allah's sake sit down خلاص do you know what رسول الله said something سيد نعثمان وعفان reminded people of what رسول الله said when they came to kill him he said one day رسول الله looked me in the eye and said whatever he does for the rest of his life Allah has forgiven him ما على أثمان ما صنع بعد ذلك أثمان shall never worry about whatever he does for the rest of his life I'm a witness that Allah has forgiven him because of one fundraising you know one fundraising event people who came to kill سيد نعثمان because they were not happy with his style of خلافة what did they end up with this is the literalist you're not good enough you're not a good Muslim enough you're not strict enough you're not following the Quran you're not following the Sunnah أبو بكير died as a victim to that I mean أثمار مخطاب أثمان died as a victim to that and even Ali the cousin of the prophet the husband of Fatima the father of Al-Hazim Al-Hussain was not still good enough in the eyes of these people literalist literalist literalist يا علي you are a kafir نعوذ بالله why you didn't put Quran as judgment you asked to the judgment of human beings not Allah who are you to talk to Ali من أبي طالب like that كرم الله وجه who are you you see this literalism and this fanaticism extremism from the days of the خلافة it did us no good but you know what's the good news always Islam prevails and survives and comes back to its moderation those people that are trying to think if we kill more people and we make Islam stricter we make it it's going to become better and we're going to have the خلافة they're going to get nothing but defeat and they will not put a dent in the history of the Muslim Ummah people will curse them Allah will curse them and his angels will curse them that's what Allah said in the Quran أولئك عليهم لعنة الله والملائك والناس أجمعين أولئك أولئك these people will not what we're doing here is the counterfeit to what they do there and الحمد لله that Allah is using us as a tool of goodness to make a history for the Ummah إن شاء الله رب العالم so I am not bothered that nobody is raising his hand because if nobody raised his hand with رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم I am nobody as a matter of fact الحمد لله every time people raise their hands ما شاء الله we've raised what I would say anywhere between 6 to 7 million for this islamic center 2 million for the for the old land and then 4 million here ما شاء الله لقوة إلا بالله we're very lucky because رسول الله left us with goodness and he said الخير فيه وفي أمة إلى يوم القيامة goodness is in me and in my Ummah the goodness of رسول الله is inside each and every one of you والله if you think you're not religious the goodness of رسول الله is inside you whether you know it or not whether you believe it or not the goodness of رسول الله is inside each and every one of you you just have to act upon it and Allah will show you wonders and miracles الحمد لله رب العالمين you see ما شاء الله we're sitting down drinking water sipping coffee and eating cheese cake chicken breast ما شاء الله and we raised what? 125,000$ one third يعني if we just have 2 أثنان in the crowd they'll take care of the other third and the other third 100 and by the way in this Masjid we raised 100,000$ per person in one fundraising yes we did it it's no it's no alien to this community to raise 100,000 per person it happened and it will happen again إن شاء الله رب العالمين I am absolutely not worried الحمد لله I think a lot with the weather and with the change of time people got really knocked out tonight and they didn't come but I'm very confident that إن شاء الله by the end of the 2-3 months you would have raised and Ramadan is coming ما شاء الله لقوة الله بالله whatever we don't do tonight we will do it in Ramadan very easily Allah opens the hearts and soften the hearts on the night of Ramadan الحمد لله رب العالمين so anyone did not donate would like to donate إن شاء الله 5,000 2,000 1,000 you know الحمد لله you know if everyone here who didn't donate donates 1,000 خلاص we hit the 200,000 easily no problem it's the small donation that makes the big difference you know because it's distributed on the larger crowd and instead of heavy 1% you know so the brothers are going around with your credit cards swipe or ATM machine or الحمد لله رب العالمين plastic money you can always إن شاء الله donate إن شاء الله رب العالمين but I'm telling you brothers and sisters ما شاء الله keep it up keep MCC being active keep it being welcoming to the people who come in men, women, young, old الحمد لله رب العالمين keep it spiritual and moist don't make it dry right الحمد لله you have all the element of success for an Islamic center to succeed الحمد لله all the elements of success الحمد لله the hardworking people the good intentions the sincerity the devotion the dedication it's going to happen إن شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله الحمد لله رب العالمين I think brother purveys and brother zaheer صديقي how are we doing حمد لله خلاص any more any more donations coming إن شاء الله رب العالمين حمد لله خلاص ما شاء الله الحمد لله رب العالمين من الله سبحانه وتعالى reward you and bless you for being patient for sitting down this is really حمد لله make dua for MCC for our community for our country إن شاء الله يا الله we ask you this actually explains 150 to pay off قرد حسن and 150 for remodeling funds إن شاء الله if you wonder where the money is going إن شاء الله اللهم ربنا يا رب العالمين بارك لنا في مجتمعنا هذا خاص وفي سائر المجتمعات المسلمين اللهم اللذ بين قلوبنا وجمع شملنا وحد صاد فنا واخرج الغل والحسد والحقد والكراهية والضغينة من بيننا يا رب العالمين اللهم أبيض عننا الفتنة ما ظهر منها وما بطن اللهم إنا نعود بك من الغلا والوبا وزينة ومن غلبة الدين وقهر الرجال اللهم إنا نعود بك من الحم والحزن ومن العجز والكسل ومن الجبن اللهم لحينا وميتنا وحاضرنا وغائبنا يا رب العالمين اللهم وشفي مرضانا ومرض المسلمين اللهم وشفي مرضانا ومرض المسلمين اللهم اجعلها طهورا ومغفرة ورفعا لدرجاتهم يا رب العالمين اللهم وحفظنا وحفظ أبناء أو بنات المسلمين من كل شر وسوء وحرام يا رب العالمين اللهم وحفظنا بالإسلام قائمين وقاعدين اللهم أمين يا الله we ask you to bless our center يا رب العالمين and to bless all the other Islamic centers يا رب العالمين اللهم we ask you for your blessing and for your بركة to dwell between us يا رب العالمين اللهم we ask you to show us the right path and to show us what we should do and what we should execute and what activities to do and what decisions to make be our guide يا الله يا رب العالمين يا الله inspire us energize us يا الله give us the vision and the understanding so that we will make this umma a better umma day by day يا رب العالمين يا الله it is you whom we seek and we only run from you to you يا الله you are the only god you are our god لا إله إلا أنت سبحانك إنا كنا من الظالمين برحمتك الرحمة الرحمة الرحمين يا الله bless the brothers the sisters the young the old everyone who helps and participate يا الله we ask you for our Muslim brothers and sisters who don't come to the message that you inspire them to start coming to our centers and participate and witness the beauty and the love and the mercy between us يا رب العالمين يا الله make us lights that you guide others with make us channels that you give mercy and forgiveness to others through يا الله make us minerates and make us light houses that will show the others and guide humanity to the truth and to you يا رب العالمين سبحان ربيك رب العزة يا عمال يسيفون و السلام عليكم و الحمد لله رب العامين و صلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد و عليكم


English Video Lesson 5 How to Design a Safe Kitchen This lesson will give you listening and vocabulary practice through a video. Topic How to Design a Safe Kitchen Look at the picture. Think about the topic. When you see the title in the picture, what comes to mind? How to Design a Safe Kitchen Prepare to watch the video. Previewing What kind of accidents might occur in people's houses? What types of things might make a kitchen particularly dangerous? How can you keep the kitchen area safe for the whole family? Take a few moments to think about or discuss these questions. Feel free to pause the video and discuss as long as you'd like. Think about the topic. What vocabulary words might you expect to hear in this video? Make a list. For example, Safety Precaution Dangerous Appliances Vocabulary practice Match the words and definitions. I'll read the words for pronunciation. Appliance Tile Route or Root Plug Exit Stove Precaution Fixture Receptical Switch Moisture Glare Faucet Prone Liquid Pause the video and take some time to answer these questions. We'll come back to these vocabulary words later. When you watch the video, see if you can hear any of these words. You might want to watch the video twice, once for the main idea, and once again for details. Ready for the video? Get out a piece of paper and pencil so you can take notes. Click the link below for the video. Title How to Design a Safe Kitchen from HowCast.com Stop this video, then click on the link below for listening. It's in the description. After you finish watching the video below, come back to this one for comprehension questions. Go ahead and click on the link in the description below. How is the video? Take time to summarize the video in your own words. Talk to a partner and tell him or her what you learned. Pause the video to have a short discussion. Check your understanding with comprehension questions. In a moment, there will be a comprehension quiz. Would you like to watch the video one more time? Click on the link below to watch the video again, or wait a moment for the comprehension questions. Take the quiz. Comprehension Questions Number 1 What is the first step in designing a safe kitchen? Number 2 Where should you store a fire extinguisher? More questions. 3. What kind of cooktop does the speaker recommend? 4. What does the speaker say about lighting? Number 5 The video is mainly about how to organize your kitchen. Feel free to pause the video if you'd like more time for these questions. Answer Key Number 1 What is the first step to designing a safe kitchen? Organize the space within your kitchen well. Number 2 Where should you store a fire extinguisher? Near the room exit. More questions. What does the speaker recommend? One with burners in a straight row. 4. What does the speaker say about lighting? It is important in areas where you prepare food. 5. The video is mainly about preparing your kitchen to prevent accidents. Test yourself. Want to try the vocabulary quiz again? Time. I'll read the definitions. Action to ensure safety or prevent danger. Flowing substance like water. Not solid or gas. Insertable end of an electrical cord. Container. Something that holds or receives. Household device. Such as a refrigerator or stove. Out of a room. Roadway or situation. Wetness or dampness. Kitchen device used for cooking. Square section of floor covering. Part of the machine that turns it on or off. Place where water comes out of a pipe. Make a path or direction. At risk or vulnerable. Susceptible. Shine that makes something difficult to see clearly. Something that is attached within a house. Pause the video if you'd like more time to answer the questions. Answer key. Appliance. Household device. Such as a refrigerator or stove. Exit. Way out of a room. Roadway or situation. Faucet. Place where water comes out of a pipe. Fixture. Something that is attached within a house. Clear. Shine that makes something difficult to see clearly. Liquid. Flowing substance. Like water. Not solid or gas. Moisture. Wetness or dampness. Plug. Insertible end of an electrical cord. Precaution. Action to ensure safety or prevent danger. Prone. At risk or vulnerable. Susceptible. Receptical. Container. Something that holds or receives. Route or route. Make a path or direction. Stove. Kitchen device used for cooking. Switch. Part of a machine that turns it on or off. Tile. Square section of floor covering. Phrases and expressions from this video. These words were also mentioned in the video. Do you know what they mean? Floor plan. Fire extinguisher. Slip resistance. Lock out. Throw rugs. Power surge. Ground or grounded. Anti-scald. Think about the meaning of these words. Phrases and expressions from this video. These words were also mentioned in the video. Here's what they mean. Floor plan. Simple drying of a room or house that shows locations of items. Slip resistant. Meant to minimize slips or falls. Lock out. Design to prevent kids from using. Throw rugs. Flop mats placed on floors. Power surge. Sudden increase in electrical power. Ground or grounded. Connected to the ground electrically. Anti-scald. Preventing birds from hot liquid. Talking time. Discuss talking points. Why is safety at home important? What can you do to improve the safety of your house or apartment? How will you tell a friend or colleague if something is unsafe at his home or office? Think about and discuss these points with your classmates or partners. Pause the video and take as much time as you need. Speaking practice. Role play with your partner. Number one. Have a conversation with your partner. Give him or her some specific suggestions on how to make his or her kitchen or house a safer place. For example, I think you should. That's a good idea. Pause the video to practice this speaking activity. Role play two. Pretend you're a building inspector for the building or room you are in right now. Look around and offer your suggestions on how to make the room or building safer for the people who use it. For example, it would be a good idea to... Thanks for your suggestion. Pause the video for this speaking activity.  Describe to your partner why you might feel unsafe in a particular place, room, house, building, etc. Think of how that place might be affected by a natural disaster such as an earthquake, flood, or tornado. Pause the video to discuss this. Feel free to discuss the topic, keeping rooms and buildings safe with your friends or classmates. Remember to use some of the vocabulary and phrases that you learned from the video. Pause the video and take as much time as you need. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to click the thumbs up button below if you like this video. And please submit your ideas for more videos like this. 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Well, it's a big weekend here in Bemidji teams all over northern and central Minnesota. Flood in for Bemidji Blaise softball tournament. Four age divisions from 10 year olds all the way up to 18 year olds will hit the diamonds for the next few days. Let's start on day one with the 14 year olds. The Blaise playing the Roseau Rams. Blaise get on the board here. Hannah Alexander base hit to right. That'll bring in a run and the lead as well. The next inning, Roseau loads the bases with one output. Maddie Hansen with back to back strikeouts. The corner here to end the threat. Then back to the offense. Mackenzie Schultz. She's going to find some grass here in right field. That scores a run to extend their lead. And Emily Skime gets into the action. Ball gets past the third baseman. Another RBI hit for the Blaise. They go a perfect 3-0 on the day and will have the number one seed tomorrow. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


I can make people look at their most interesting children and see past the bike-tea, the stabby, the swearing, the spitty and see past the things that they call you that you take to heart and remember that inside that really angry looking person there is a beautiful young person inside who is crying out to you because they think you are the safest adult they've met that they need you that they want you they may not say that they do but they really do want you and that you take the time to get to learn about them you will see what a brilliant impact you could have as a practitioner and as an adult because if you can hold them in mind if you can hold them close if you can remind them that the world does have nice sparkly people in it then you will have done your job as a teacher who have done your job as an educator and you may have stopped somebody from going down a pathway that they don't really need to


This is TFNN, the Tiger Financial News Network Update. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman here on this 30th day of October, just about to wrap it up, what a month, and we're looking at this Monday, we're looking at the Tiger Financial News Network 10 a year market update, Dow is up 300, it was down over 300 on Friday, it was up, it hasn't taken out the high, the high of Friday, you remember we almost, we opened and just slumped immediately, and that the high on Friday was 32787, high today so far is 32745, just a little bit under that. Now, I'll talk about this, I don't want to take time right now, but in my show coming up, the Tiger Technicians, I'll talk about the VIX index and what should happen after Friday, if the S&P futures were horrible on Sunday night, going to a really ugly Monday morning, we've not done that, we've stalled any decent low, this could be a balance, but it's not the low, it's not even a low, it's just a balance so far. What we're looking at is the S&P has also had a very nice, so the Dow is up 0.90%, S&P is up 0.1%, up 0.41%, and 0.4158, took out the high on Friday, that's important, the QQQ has taken out the high on Friday, that's also important, up 0.4 and a half, at 0.349, the IWM, the Russell 2000, it's already still struggling, it's up 1.34 and 0.163. Now, this is going to be interesting, I've been talking about this for some time, I've been saying gold is a harbinger of geopolitical fear, but not all the gold stocks are doing well, the silver today just had a big balance, gold is up 11, that's nothing to sneeze at, it's a pretty big move, and silver's up 3%, up 0.68 at 0.256, keeps catching up, stored right at the 200-period moving average, there's a lot to talk about when I return. Now, let's get back to the DXY, the DXY is the dollar-dollars down, holding OK is down 27 ticks at 106.30, and if you're looking at bonds, you thought that bonds would be screaming to the upside, no, they down 7.32, you thought that crude oil under these conditions would be screaming to the upside, no, down $1.56 at $83.94, I'll be back for the target at Christmas hour, have we seen the high of the day, we'll have to talk about that when I return, Basel Chapman pocket munitions hour, coming up, check out my opening call, there you use that.


Let's look at another example of finding the volume of solid by this technique of cross-sectional slicing. Let's find the volume of the solid, which we're going to call S, to describe in the following way. We're going to take the base of S to be a circle. Just a standard circle, its radius will be R. Again, nothing too fancy right there. What we're going to do is we're going to stack on top of this circle parallel cross-sections, which are perpendicular to the base, and they themselves are squares. We get a square that's stacked. Whoops, try that again. We take a square that's stacked here. That's a square. Ooh, that's the hideous drawing. Let me try that one more time. We take a square that looks like something like that. That looks a little better. We take another square, maybe right here. We have just a whole bunch of squares that are going to be stacked on top of this solid here. You can see that I'm having a hard time drawing a picture. What I'm going to do is actually go to a web-based app online that you can actually take a look at this solid right here. The link to this website you can find in the description of this video if you want to play around with yourself. What you see here is this solid where the bottom of the solid is a circle. It's a circle. We've stacked these squares on top of it. Look at the bottom left right here to see the skeleton of this object right here. As you spin this around, you can see the circle that's on the bottom. We're rotating around the center of that circle. There's all these different squares that are placed on the base of the circle. The base circle is going to determine how big the square is. The closer you are to the middle of the square is going to tell you how big the square is going to be bigger. When you're to the far edges, you're going to get smaller and smaller squares. This one right here can show you one by one. We have a bigger square, a bigger square, a bigger one, bigger until you get the middle. Then they're going to start shrinking as they get closer and closer to the edge. You get these corners that come up here. Then this picture on the top, you see it's colored and shaded, so we get a little bit more of a three-dimensional perspective to this thing. It's kind of an interesting little shape here. What would be the volume of shape like this? It turns out that using our technique of cross-sectional slicing, we can actually find the volume of this thing fairly nicely. Let's first think about the unit circle. We're going to put that in the XY plane. We have this, not the unit circle, but the circle of radius R. It's center is going to be at zero, zero, right? This equation of the circle is given by X squared plus Y squared equals R squared. That's going to be important to us. To find the volume using these cross-sectional slicing, we want to integrate our area function, A of X dx. The dx is the thickness of these prisms. The area of X is the area of the function.  Now, that's a good place to get started, but we have to do a little bit better than that because as we're integrating the respect to X, not S, we're going to have to somehow represent S as a function of X. We'll get back to that in just a moment. What I want to next think about, what are the bounds of integration? What are these values over here? Well, let's look at the circle. In terms of our X coordinates, our Xs are going to be anywhere from this side of the circle all the way to the other side of the circle. Now, this point on the right is R comma zero, and this point on the left is going to be negative R zero. Those are going to represent the bounds we're considering. X can range from negative R up to R. Now, we have to represent this value S in terms of the variable X. Thinking about our squares here, a typical cross-section would look something like this, where S is the length of this side right here. What we do know about this side length of the square is we do have this point right here, X comma Y, where if we solve the equation of the circle in terms of Y, we get Y equals the square root of R squared minus X squared. The side length S is going to equal two times this Y coordinate, and if we make this substitution in for Y, we can then square S and we get the following. We're going to get four times Y squared, so we squared the two, we squared the Y, and as Y squared is the square of the square root of R squared minus X squared, that's what we get in there, R squared minus X squared. We're going to make this substitution in for the area function right there. Then the volume is going to look like the integral from negative R to R. We had four times R squared minus X squared dx. Now we're going to use symmetry again here, because we're integrating from negative R to R, and this thing is symmetric, like if we come back to the picture here, right? This thing does have a nice symmetry along the X axis, which would be this value in the middle there. And so, using symmetry, we can actually write this integral as two times the integral from zero to R. I'm actually going to, so we have the four as well, I'm going to bring the four out. So we're going to get two times four, which is actually an eight, and that leaves behind an R squared minus X squared on the inside, which we can integrate that fairly simply. Now be aware that X is our variable, R is a constant, just an unspecified constant. So as we integrate, the anti-derivative R squared is going to be R squared X. Make sure you don't say R cubed over three. We're not taking the integral with respect to R, we're taking respect to X. On the other hand, the anti-derivative X squared will be an X cubed over three, and we plug in zero and R. And so, when you plug that in, you're going to get an R cubed minus R cubed over three, like here. Factory out the R cubed, you're going to get eight R cubed, and then you get one minus a third. One minus a third, of course, is two thirds, and so we see that the area is going to be 16 thirds R cubed. It seems somewhat fantastic to me that the answer does not have the number pi in it whatsoever, because after all, the shape was defined using some type of circle on the base, right? So you would think that the area of the circle is pi R squared, but be aware that the base is just a constraint that the volume is actually a string of squares. Squares having area S squared have nothing to do with pi. And so the final volume of this solid doesn't involve pi at all. It involves just the number 16 thirds times the radius of the circle cubed.


Hello everyone. I hope that this video finds you well. My name is Ashley Brown from the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation and this is the March 2021 update video which is basically me telling you what has happened over the last month from when you received the last newsletter. So we've been chatting to some new camp applicants which is always really interesting and exciting. We've been talking to four so far. One is a local community group in the California Santa Cruz Santa Barbara region and they have been very much affected by wildfires. In fact, the people who have applied to become a camp, their own house burnt down and now they're really motivated to start an Ecosystem Restoration Community Centre to welcome people and train them in restoration methods and techniques, grow trees in a tree nursery and feed people who come through and then they will be taken to other pieces of land in the area to work on both restoring land that's been burned and also mitigating future fire risk. The next camp partner we've been talking to is based in South Africa in the western part of the country and they are an eco village that have been working to restore the degraded and desertified land around them for the last few decades and now they want to bring in new people that can bring in new energy and continue to work on this process. They have a learning centre that is available to use and relationships with tribes in the area who are very interested to start learning about how to regenerate their land. We have another applicant from a camp in the Philippines and they want to work on agroforestry, tropical agroforestry and forestry or natural reforestation on a Filipino island and another applicant that we've been talking to is based in the Netherlands and they want to restore farmland across the country and have been working with many, as a consortium of community groups and local governments. So those are just four examples of some of the new camp partners that we're speaking to and we're in the process of going through the onboarding now so you should see them on the website soon. Myself and Misha from GreenPop, Camp GreenPop in South Africa, we organised a training for camps and the general public on how to create an ecosystem restoration music festival which went really well and we're really hoping that the people who came, some camp managers, some of the general public are going to start working towards creating their own music festivals when the time is right. The recording for that is on our YouTube channel if anyone's interested. We are also talking to three Italian agroecology students from the university in Italy who are going to camp Habiba to collect data using our new impact framework and they're going to be leaving in a few weeks so best of luck to them. They will be looking at the land that Habiba has already restored and what it's like in terms of carbon sequestration, biodiversity, water holding capacity, erosion, evaporation, etc. And comparing that to land that hasn't yet been restored but they're planning to in the future. So yeah, about our new monitoring and evaluation framework, we have updated it and improved it since the last iteration and it will be ready for public view in April. We're planning on taking a sample of camps around 12 and doing a large global citizen science project where we bring people into camps, train them on how to do the data collection and then they train the people in the camp already that work there. We will be doing a crowd funder for raising money for these materials such as penetometers, thermometers, data loggers and then other smaller things that the camps need and then once they have those materials they'll be able to collect data year on year and be able to build up a really impressive data set that researchers and professors can use around the world to give a global picture of what's happening in all of the camps. Which brings me on to the topic of if you're interested in going to a camp as a data collector or a research officer, we are now looking for people who would love an adventure that has a real purpose. So if you're interested in these roles you can find the job description also in this newsletter but also on our website so check that out and email me if you're interested. Plans are underway for the creation of a regenerative agro forestry course at Camp Quantor Lines in Guatemala at the end of May so if you want to learn about how to create an agro forest for all of the elements including community buy-in, designing the agro forestry system, implementing the agro forestry here and then creating value-added products, monitoring the valuation, all of it in an amazing tropical setting on the Caribbean coastline. Waterfalls, jungles, you name it. This is the opportunity for you and the information will be on our website in the coming weeks. Camp Artiplano has been donated hundreds of trees from our partner Gone West and these are native plant communities so two types of Mediterranean oak, juniper and then different Mediterranean native Spanish herbs and they are being planted in the natural areas around the camp to continue increasing the photosynthetic capacity and biomass of and biodiversity of those areas. So thank you Gone West. Camps that are looking for campers, if you want to go to a camp right now and get stuck in, Alcora in Australia is looking for specifically Australian campers, Habiba in Egypt and Vercilane in France, all three of those camps are looking for people now so check out our website. If you scroll to the bottom of the homepage you can see where it says camp opportunities and you can find more information about how to go and get stuck in right now. The new camps that joined the movement at the end of last year are being added to our website. We've added a new camp called the Birdhouse which is the first urban restoration camp in the world and they are restoring parcels of degraded land in Hollywood underneath the Hollywood sign and they have a really beautiful video on the website page of our website all about their work so if you're in Los Angeles and you want to get involved or you're going to be going by or you want to go there check out Camp Birdhouse. Our knowledge hub is on the brink of launching and this is a chance for camps to learn techniques, all of the things that they want to learn to be surveyed then we found out what it is that they need and they're looking for it will also be a chance for the platform to enable interaction between camps for them to share knowledge, learning successes, failures as well as clean information from out there from our expert advisory council and the team that's working on that project and it will be soon open to the public too so keep an eye out for that one. And finally we're in conversation with the Soil Sciences Department of Wageningen University to create a channel where their students can search for internships and those internships can be coupled with various research projects that will be happening at the camps and that's really exciting collaboration that we're really looking forward to. If you know of any other universities that you think would be interested in such partnership then please let us know. So yeah that's a quick run through of what's been happening in the camps movement from mid-feb to mid-march and I hope you have a beautiful day if you like what we do and you want to see it happen more you're not yet a supporter you can join as a supporter as a one-off donation or a regular donation and yeah people like you our supporters are the ones that make all of this work possible. So if you care about the restoration of the earth and you are able to contribute even just a little bit that would make the world of difference. I hope you have beautiful days and see you next time.


Welcome to Affector from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This is the audio edition of EFF's email newsletter geared towards keeping you on the bleeding edge of your digital rights. Check the show notes for links to all of our stories. This is Affector Volume 34, Issue 4, titled, My Body, My Data. This issue was published on Wednesday, June 29th, 2022, and I'm your host, member outreach assistant, Christian Romero. Let's start with our top feature. Digital safety tips for those seeking an abortion. EFF has put together digital safety tips for both people seeking an abortion to protect their privacy, as well as for providers of abortion access, as surveillance will increasingly lead to prosecutions of people exercising their right to choose. Now let's go through some EFF updates. EFF's statement on DOB's abortion ruling. As a privacy rights organization, EFF issues our statement on the Supreme Court ruling that will deprive tens of millions of people of a fundamental right, and legislation and policies in many parts of the country that will seek to erode their privacy. Next up, reproductive health care service provider, seeker, or advocate. If you or someone you know is concerned about unwanted data collection while navigating online resources, providing or seeking services, or organizing with others, check here for a list of guides to stay safe. Next up, pass the My Body, My Data Act. EFF supports Representative Jacobs, My Body, My Data Act, which would protect the privacy and safety of people seeking reproductive health care. Privacy fears should never stand in the way of health care. Next, reproductive privacy requires data privacy. EFF supports data privacy for all, and that includes people seeking reproductive health care. Next up, what companies can do now to protect digital rights in a post-row world. In a post-row world, service providers can expect a raft of subpoenas and warrants seeking user data that can be employed to prosecute abortion seekers, providers, and helpers. They can also expect pressure to aggressively police the use of their services to provide information that may be classified in many states as facilitating a crime. Whatever your position on reproductive rights, this is a frightening prospect for data privacy and online expression. Next, podcast episode, WorldL and the Web We Need. EFF Cindy Cohn and Danny O'Brien talked to Anil Dash, CEO of Glitch and EFF Board Member, about building more humane and inclusive technology, and leveraging the love of art and culture into grassroots movements for an internet that truly belongs to us all. Next up, we finally have a Federal Fiber Broadband Plan. The Department of Commerce has published what is arguably the first Federal Government proposal that seeks to promote infrastructure policies focused on the future, rather than the usual subsidizing, good enough now access. That means that the US government finally recognizes what appears obvious. The future of internet access is in fiber. Next up, podcast episode, Securing the Vote. EFF Cindy Cohn and Danny O'Brien talked with Pamela Smith, President and CEO of Verified Voting, about the future of elections and the technology and best practices that will get us there. And now we've got a job posting, Talent and Training Coordinator. EFF is looking for a full-time Talent and Training Coordinator to support applicants and staff throughout the recruitment, onboarding, and offboarding processes, and to support professional development opportunities for current staff. And now, let's run through some mini-links. First up from Democracy Now, Encrypt, Obscure, Compartmentalize. Protecting your digital privacy in a post-row world. EFF staff technologist Daily Barnett talks to Democracy Now, about how people can protect their digital privacy in view of heightened surveillance of pregnant people who are seeking reproductive health care. Next up from Technology Review. Anti-abortion activists are collecting the data they'll need for prosecutions post-row. Opponents of abortion have been using methods like license plate tracking for decades, regardless of the services that patients and visitors to clinics are seeking. MIT Technology Review talks about how body cams and other surveillance is ramping up, at a time when these opponents will be seeking prosecutions against pregnant people and their supporters. Next up from Bloomberg Law, Amazon worker tracking prompts lawmaker call for safety probe. A federal watchdog should investigate whether worker surveillance tools threaten employees' safety in warehouses and other workplaces, a U.S. House labor leader requested. And our last mini-link comes from CBS News. Cell phone data collection tracking apps can help states prosecute women seeking abortions. Some tech companies are extending resources for reproductive access to their employees, but haven't commented about limiting the private data they are collecting. And that's it. Thanks for listening. If you like what you're hearing, be sure to sign up for the email version of Effector, which includes links to in-depth coverage of these stories and more. See past issues and subscribe at EFF.org slash Effector. Before we end this issue of the newsletter, I just want to let you know that EFF is a member-supported, nonprofit organization, and you can help us protect digital privacy, security, and free expression for everyone. 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Dat's drunk. One of the most fun things about this whole retro gaming hobby thing is finding these games with backstories you never knew existed until well after the fact. Take Saber Wolf, or Game Boy Advance for instance. No, not THAT Saber Wolf, although he is tangentically involved. I remember just kinda glazing over this game thinking it was a spinoff of Banjo-Kazooie or something like that, just based on the visuals alone, only to find recently that, nope, this is actually a reboot of a game that Rare made way back in 1984 when they were called Ultimate Play the Game. Geez, that's a terrible name. The original Saber Wolf was made for the ZX, oh I'm sorry, ZX Spectrum, just wanted to get all the Brits fired up. But yeah, you play as Saberman running around collecting stuff through a series of mazes. It's actually a pretty dang good arcade style game that holds up well today. You run through 256 connected screens on a 16 by 16 grid, and it's got a certain addictive quality to it. From 2004, Ultimate Play the Game is now called Rare, who at this point have achieved massive popularity thanks to Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie, and all sorts of other stuff, and that leads to this game, simply titled Saber Wolf. It's not a remake of the original, and I'm not sure I'd call it a sequel either. It's kind of a reboot? And yeah, like I said, at first glance this looks like it would be some kind of Donkey Kong Country or Banjo-Kazooie spinoff, but nope, Saber Wolf is its own thing. Although Rare did sneak in references in their games here and there, like the aforementioned Saber Wolf in Killer Instinct. So the way this game works is that this blue wolf has been terrorizing towns and stealing stuff, just for fun, I guess, until Saberman catches him and seals him in a statue using a powerful magical amulet. Some evil guy comes along and breaks the amulet into eight pieces, scattering them everywhere, and Saber Wolf is back in reeking havoc again, so Saberman, now super old and sporting a Wilford Brimley-style mustache, has to chase down the eight pieces of the amulet across eight different worlds that consist of six or seven levels each, with every world culminating in a boss level, so to speak. The way the gameplay is set up has the wolf steal something, then burrow underground, thus creating a level that you have to navigate to get back the stolen item, and you do that by a combination of platforming and puzzle solving with the help of all sorts of different animal friends. Hey, it wouldn't be a proper Rare game if there weren't happy-go-lucky animals to help you out. You use the animals to get past enemies and obstacles to retrieve the item, then you run for your life back to the beginning as the wolf chases you.  And that leads to a larger point, the idea here is solid, the execution is good and the controls are perfectly fine, but the level design here is just boring. The game does not take enough advantage of all the different tools you get, it's all extremely straightforward and pretty dang easy. I'm not expecting Donkey Kong Country 2 type levels, that game has some of the best level design I've ever seen, but I couldn't help but feel let down by Saber Wolf. Every level has the same structure, so it's just the same thing over and over, the pieces are here but the gameplay still falls short. But that leads me to my next point, in that it's pretty dang obvious that this game had two purposes. One was to appeal to kids of a certain age, and even today it certainly does the job with tons of colorful settings, some lively sprite animation, and some extremely forgiving gameplay. And hey that's totally fine, I'm just saying if you decide to play this one, make sure to temper your expectations. The second purpose is, uh, well this is a Game Boy Advance game, it was made with the intention of being a quick pick up and play and put down type of game. And sure enough, you can save just about anywhere on the overworld and resume your game no problem. One major thing Saber Wolf does have going for it is the story and the presentation. There's lots of dialogue where the characters sound like Charlie Brown's teacher. You gotta love that.  Oh it turns out they're just cosplaying because they think it'll get them chicks. Why does that sound familiar? Other reviews of this game always make sure to point out this game's decidedly British sense of humor, but since I'm an American I can't really speak to that myself all that well, but I mean it's made by rare, of course it's got those influences. So yeah, Saber Wolf for Game Boy Advance is well made and fulfills what I perceive to be its intended purposes, to make a kid friendly game and to make a portable friendly game. This isn't the type of game you sit down to play one long play through for hours or you'll be bored to tears. Granted I should mention that there are some other small aspects to the gameplay like some side quests here and there, or like if you use a boomer animal helper to get rid of more than one enemy, it results in a combo that gives you extra money which you can use to buy more animal helpers. But it still doesn't make up for the fact that the level design and the puzzles here are extremely ordinary and repetitive. But if all you're looking for is a simple pick up and play portable game with a lot of charm, then don't let that deter you. Saber Wolf will be worth your time. Alright I want to thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


So there's this story about the novelists Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller attending a party together. By the way, good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday. The party's an extremely lavish affair hosted by a billionaire. And Vonnegut says to Heller, Joe, isn't it funny that our host makes more money in a day than you ever made from your beloved best-selling novel, Catch 22? And Heller is like, yeah, that is funny, but I have something our host will never have. And Vonnegut says, what's that? And Heller says, enough. I've used this story for years to remind myself that I have enough, but also to remind me that most people on Earth do not have enough. Many people do not have enough food or enough clean water, and most people do not have enough savings or enough to access excellent medical care. But in my experience, even those of us who do have enough often feel as if we don't. There's always something missing, more security or power or money that stands between us and true enough-ness. For me, it's always been about security. The feeling I am trying to avoid all the time is precarity, the feeling of being close to the edge and not having a say in whether I go over it. But of course, having adequate distance from precarity turns out to be one, impossible, and two, insofar as it is possible, actually a pretty terrible idea. Let's start with why it's impossible. Wealth and privilege insulate people from many kinds of precarity in profoundly unjust ways, and I think that is important to acknowledge, but ultimately, there is no getting around the big precarity, which is that I and everyone I love will die. When I was young, I thought I could solve this problem by writing books that would last, books that would survive even though I wouldn't, but I eventually realized that is, of course, a fool's errand. Books also don't live forever. And anyway, like, that's not why books exist. They exist to be helpful to the people who find them. And then my next idea was that even if my work couldn't last, my legacy could through philanthropy. Like, I would build up this huge charitable trust, and then once it was really big, it would start donating 5% of its resources per year or whatever to great charities, and then my impact would stretch through the years. The problem with this strategy is that I was still trying to maintain some kind of control or agency that would survive even after my body didn't, right? Also, I was conveniently forgetting the fact that if you donate money now, it's true that it no longer grows under your control, but it still grows. It grows in the form of more kids surviving to adulthood and more people having educational opportunities and so on. And that growth is actually much more transformational and important than, like, the appreciation of stocks. Now, I want to be clear that I insulate myself from precarity in as many ways as possible. Like, I quit smoking 20 years ago because it was making my life more precarious. I have insurance to make my life less precarious. And I have financial security, which makes a billion things less stressful and more possible from taking professional risks to getting my kids any support they need. And of course, it's human, wonderfully human, to try to protect those we love. There's nothing wrong with that. But one thing I have noticed over the years is that when rich people only spend time with other rich people, they do not feel rich. They feel normal. And this arrives at what I really don't like about the people who have enough it is so easy to forget that we have enough. In fact, let me stop using we and start using I. I forget that I have enough because in trying to insulate myself from precarity, I can also make myself distant from the reality of suffering. And if I were more proximal to that suffering, I would use more of my resources to try to alleviate it. And too often in trying to insulate myself and those I love from the realities of suffering, I am also looking away from injustice and inequity and impoverishment. And if having enough means having enough to not have to face those realities, then enough is simply too much. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


The summer camp and inner squad games have given us a lot of fun, you know, we got clubbies gunning people down at second base We got all this Vince Velasquez has pitched five innings against the Yankees. He's in the fifth one out Gio's gonna dunk a little single to right But he's getting tuned up getting ready for the regular season cruising through the Yankees top lineup Induce is a great double play there to get out of the inning. He threw 71 pitches his night is done He shut down the Yankees a lineup Joe are you proud of me and Joe Jordy says nah I need you to throw more pitches. He tells the Yankees we want to get more pitches They cut to commercial they come back from commercial judges out there even though there's already been three outs now Bam judge just smacks a homer Just smacks a homer. Yeah, go get some more work throw a couple more pitches.  I'm slick Yeah, keep it moving keep it moving. Let's just like I'm out of here.  He's like, does that count? Do I round the bases? Neal Walker says no, dude. There was three outs already. He's like, all right So that didn't count. It was just practice. I'll get off the field. Wait. What do I go? Okay? I'm psych.  Velazquez like that kind of sucked, but I don't care at all pretty good outing by me Judge hits his 14th home run in three preseason games. He's doing fantastic the most interesting wrinkles you could bet on this game and The Yankees ended up tying the game two to two and that run counted Which I did if you're if you're betting on the game it feels like You could you could like, you know get a pen and paper out and write a letter to your bookie and be like I don't think that should have counted though, you know Interesting