You have expanded your efforts to solve the problems of teenage runaways and child abuse and pornography, in addition to that other crime problem. Looking around, I can see the diversity of groups that have come forward to participate in this public-private partnership. It's pretty unique, even in this country of ours, where there is so much volunteerism. The leaders of business here, government, schools, charities, public service organization and your talents and resources, certainly will be of a nest of valuable value in our efforts to protect our nation's youth. So I just want to take this opportunity again to thank you all and to all of those that you who are here represent. I hope we can put an end to this growing and bearable problem. Right. Mr. President, does Mr. Gorbachev's letter and offer motor world closer to ridding itself of nuclear weapons? But we're very grateful for the offer. We're studying it with great care and it's going to depend now on what they place in Geneva. Are you encouraged by that letter? Yes. It's different than things that we've heard in the past from the leaders in the Soviet Union. Thank you. Well, it's just about the first time that everyone said that the folks actually eliminated nuclear weapons. Does it represent any Soviet commitment to negotiate an agreement in Geneva, anything? What? Does it represent a new commitment by the Soviets to negotiate an agreement? That's what I meant that we're going to find out. Now we will immediately have to get through here. Thank you. I usually answer a lot of questions in the session of this kind. I'm sorry. We're going to respond to some of the questions in the photo session. But that particular question, I thought I couldn't afford to have it say, President refuses to comment. Mr. President, as you remember last spring, you mentioned that Americans are angry about the crimes that are committed against and sometimes even with children. And at that time, you indicated you want something done about it. And today's meeting and the activities that are portrayed here are part of the response to your challenge. As you know, the Department of Justice has taken up the problems of missing and exploited children as one of our priority criminal investigation, criminal prosecution objectives for this year. But in addition to that, we have had verification concerning the U.S. press, as a matter of fact, just read here at the table. It was pointed out that children are the greatest group in terms of quantitative victims of crime. More, there's general perception that older people are more often victims of crime than actually children are the victims of crime more than any other group. And so doing something about it is in the best interest of the nation. And what we have here is, as you mentioned earlier in regard to the partnership that you engaged in education, is a public-private partnership which brings together a variety of resources, a variety of backgrounds, skills to work on this problem. Bill McConnell here is serving as chairman of the group. They've already been hard at work since 8 o'clock this morning. A great deal of the organizational activity and charting the course has already been done. The purpose of the group, the objectives are to obtain more accurate information about the nature and magnitude of crimes committed against children, to publicize and promote outstanding child safety programs and to encourage more people to follow the lead of those people who have already had successful programs as well as to enhance the private sector involvement in this issue. And this is an issue that has not had enough private sector attention. Too much of the public publicity that's occurred has been on the incidents and on the victims themselves. Not enough attention has been paid to how we can prevent it, what actions we can take to make sure that there are even more victims. I'm going to say some bases for treatment. Today this may come as a great surprise to you, but I want to talk about the budget for this in 1987. Next week I'll talk about the State of the Union and its speakers. When we came here five years ago, I know you've heard this before, we came to do many jobs and I think we've accomplished a great deal, but we still haven't completed the task of bringing in a bloated federal budget and this is the year that we must control and run away federal spending. The Graham-Gloving College in place, the Congress will be forced to address fiscal priorities and the wrong way to do this, I still don't know what you're saying, it is to raise taxes and not anyone who is nursing the seat of hope that we may return to them. That's the wrong way. This would lob the American people, because Congress refuses to cut its pet programs. I'd like to quote a great authority on this whole subject, John Allen County, who said with Grab the Taxes, our true choice is not between the reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of larger federal deficits on the other. An economy stifled by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. I agree with you on that. One subject I think what we're facing also with someone else is Thomas Jefferson. In 1798 he said, I wish it were possible to obtain a simple amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution. I mean an additional article taking from the federal government to power. We cannot do anything about that particular thing that he wanted right now, but we can eliminate the borrowers. I think it's wrong also to cut defense or what's necessary to preserve national security for ourselves and our children. The only right way to reduce the federal deficit is to stop the explosion of domestic spending. This is the right policy, as I said before, good policy is good politics in the long run. It doesn't mean, let's say, that every time we suggest cutting it, it means we're taking away from the needy. I think we still have not reached the proper level of how much does it cost to deliver the vaccine to the needy. When we came here, I think I'm safe and sane because this was true when I was governor a few years before. The federal government was the most expensive level of government in delivering services to the human. And in most cases it went 2 to 1. $2 to deliver $1 to the needy person. And that's what we have to correct. But I need your help in carrying this message to the American people. Jim Miller will now review the budget and his key things which we'll expect you to carry to the public after the screening and planning has died down. Thank you, Mr. President. First, I want to thank... Well, the last time I came, I'm sure you had a package for me. Do you remember from my 38th anniversary? I've got one here for you. Well, thank you very much. It's a 30-some-year-old book that's out of print. It's part of what I want to talk to you about. I called the publisher the other day and there's a new publisher of this, I forgot the name of it now, a fellow named Dolan and he didn't even know the book. When I said it's a book that would have a lot of sales if you reprint it and that's what I'm calling you about.  When you call him back tomorrow and he said, it must have been a good book. There are only six of them in the warehouse. And he sent me a couple of them. They're going to reprint it in paper bags. It's the miracle of Philadelphia. That's from Minker Bowen's book. You may have read it at the time. It's 30-some years ago. Thank you very much. Great story. Thank you. Great story. How are you? That was the end of the year. That was the end of the year. That was the end of the year. That was the end of the year. That was the end of the year. The end of the year. I'm not going to let you know that. You know that recipe. There's a push and a hole in this one. I thought it was either the year that the eagle came on or maybe the Phillies won that year on the pack. That was the mark. I think you're back to fifty to do that. I think the Wizkins. That's the miracle of Philadelphia. That is quite a story. I'm just, it's fine. Thank you. Well thank you. I'm delighted to have you. nice eagles. It's too big for them. Let me put this over here. Let's go over here and sit out. All right. I'll tell you why that eagle is there. I'm here. Thank you. The copper and that eagle used to be back there on that table. That thing was over there.  One of the people who sat on that table came out of the pictures with that eagle sitting on there. I'll waste your time, but I'll tell you a story. A couple of quotes eight, ten years ago when Lin Holton was governor of Virginia, I had been promoting this National Center for State Courts and we finally got it created and they were going to build a $3 million headquarter, so William Hysburg and they did so. He had punched $100,000 from the bar of Virginia without consulting all the right people. So they called me and said they were going to get them out of the hole. If you'll come down and make a speech to the bar, they'll fix things over there. So I went down and they took pictures and he and I sat on that table while he was governor. Back, like him, was one of these round lights and for all the world it wasn't like an eagle. It just couldn't have been there. So he sent me two copies and one of my copies said, where does your halo? I signed the one over him, sent it back and said, I never wear mine in public. Well I've been waiting to see you as I mentioned in a little letter, I'll leave it to you to see if that'd be three days. This has been your finest season ever, well the one and the Academy's best ever final season writing fifth in the UBI selection in the nation. I know you'll almost be very proud and I'm proud of all of you.  You're going to have to go. There's also quite a picture over here. That means that you have won four straight ball games and I think that's something to take away from you as a good member. Only four months it will become second lieutenants in the Air Force. I knew something about that. I was second lieutenant in the first cavalry and when World War II came on I found myself flying the desk. I want you to be just as great as you can be.  Sir, we'd like to thank you first of all for letting us come to where you put it on today. You want me to put that on? Yes sir. Sir, this shirt, I'm sure you can wear it when we beat Army and Navy next year. Thank you very much. I'm very proud of it. I have all of these and incidentally I play a little football myself in college. Right guy. And somebody says offense and defense in my day. Both of them.  But you know, I'm very pleased and happy. You brought back a memory of those war days that I was telling you about and then come to my original branch and then certain courses. It was the Army Air Corps then. I remember that one rainy day when I came to the post with my cavalry campaign hat on. The five boys. They were kind of a sombrero type. Well listen, thank you all very much. I'm very proud. Thank you very much. Thank you sir. Thank you sir again. I'll do this for you. I know I drive everyone out here. I feel very well dressed.


Ryan little oh he did in the fire lost him you just lost this one that fish is good we've already didn't even eat this fish but I didn't think he would like fresh and then what he didn't know I put together like oh yeah I'm not gonna have this fish and you didn't miss any part that's not true though no you didn't miss any parts you didn't but there is but you were very detailed in it okay okay but you were very detailed okay let him ask you to that's even that's actually proves my point my point is you're getting all this stuff but yeah what's wrong with you do the same thing for your class for your school class yeah hold on baby let me turn this down son so I can talk to them I am so sorry I look back at the footage I did yesterday of all the food I cook it was not that as detailed as I hope because I started drinking early on y'all real quick shout out shout out shout out girl to all the teachers y'all I've always felt this way I sit thank you to the teachers in my vlogs before but this week is let me sit down this week is teacher appreciation week and clearly those of us who are having to homeschool I'm gonna call this homeschooling because we are doing public school at home right now we definitely you know understand you know the position that teachers have been in for years now I've always said this and I've always felt this way that teachers are highly underpaid and highly undervalued one of the things I've learned why we be on shut why we've been on shut down and I'll get to how my day has been going few days um celebrities actors actresses musicians basketball players NFL players they are not really relevant a lot of people worship you know celebrity status and one thing and I think a lot of celebrities feel this way they really humbled themselves because now everyone's stuck in they're doing their own hair doing their own makeup they can't really go out and have concerts of their artists they can't go active their actors and so they're just regular everyday people if you look at it and the people who are on the front lines the people who are in the trenches they are being highlighted highlighted right now so honestly I think that's almost a beauty of things to wear some of us I've always valued I'm a work the worker beast is what I call them but the world is really being able to sit back and see who really are the celebrities who really are the heroes it is our teachers it's our educators it's the people who are working in the hospital our nurses our doctors the people in the pharmacy our um not only the hospital workers but also fast food workers the workers in the grocery store um you know the everyday you know uh worker bees like I said those are our celebrities those are our heroes so specifically for this week being teacher appreciation week I appreciate all of you who are um willing to put up with all this mess and madness in the midst of it all and even what you have going on at home it takes a special type of person to do that it really does to put up with all that BS and I know there can be like I can tell just by the look on the faces of the teachers at my school that there was some stuff popping off even there were things going on in the background as far as administrative go even before the coronavirus hit so then when the coronavirus hit it was like you I went through all of this and now you want me to do this too I get it I so empathize with you so thank you thank you thank you now girl this week it hasn't been a bit much today was an all-out excuse my language but just crappy shitty day um they have assigned the first grade class a report to do and you guys I just feel a certain type of way of pushing kids to do things when they're just not ready for it and I get at the world is changing things are changing but JB struggles with language arts and that's honestly one of the areas that we're gonna be focusing on for this summer time I'm gonna let my baby have a break absolutely but we're going to be focused on reading more often and having him to write and you know those type of things throughout the summertime and then going in full force at the end of August for our at home curriculum all hell broke loose it took us about an hour to do like no kidding and an hour for a child is eight hours it took us about an hour of screaming and crying for us to do their writing plan and to write two sentences when I saw that I took a two-day break real quick shout out and thank you to blessed virtuous teacher I believe that's your username I reached out to her because I was at my wit's end with JB a couple of days ago and I'm still feeling that way because I was I she's a second grade teacher and I contacted her on Instagram a couple of days ago and looking for some tips and advice on how to encourage JB to write she had a lot of valid points and she gave me some advice on what I could do at home so thank you so much sis I really do appreciate you from the bottom of my heart I really do absolutely so absolutely sis we will be doing a little bit of journaling and we will be doing sometimes writing writing about how you're feeling like at the end of the day how do you feel one or two sentences how did you feel alright right you can write like instructions on how to do something and then draw a picture got to work your face off or you can help me write my grocery list can you help me write my grocery list or in my planner you want to help me plan will you help me play a sweetheart like if I have like for the day I have a couple of things I need for you to write down for me and then you can write like I have a couple of things I need to plan for Saturday and I'm gonna need for you to write those three things down for me and then add some stickers next to it okay okay give me some sugar so cute hey you guys I'm back in my room I have on a dress girl you know who is here let me bring this in some y'all I'm gonna have to have that'll work so I'm gonna show y'all I got no little honey not spray on my wrapper that little honey not spray on my wrapper oh that's good I'm gonna show y'all a couple of things that came in over the I'm not talking a lot a couple of things that came in this week alone girl and like Javis Lego set is coming in today let's go with the with the number one thing I was looking forward to I'm a little bit frustrated but we're gonna be okay I got my new Mac Air really excited Matt book air it comes in rose gold very look how thin that is very very nice now these new Mac equipment whatever computers do not have additional ports you just have a port for the Apple you know yeah I can't talk to that I can't talk any day but basically there's no USB there's no additional ports as I have opposed to my laptop that is about five years old so what do you got to do is am I zoom in I basically have to buy an additional little you call it a USB to iPhone port so that I can upload I bought it so I can upload my videos my video files and so my husband was like well can you do that through wireless connection I don't even want to figure that out I think I can do that and but that that takes even longer what are you looking for don't turn that up all right y'all so let me go on to some things we went to the Dollar Tree today and we purchased a bunch of stuff and one of the things I purchased are these cute little containers for these containers for my dip powder for when I do my nails so I have colors coming in but I'm gonna be creating my own colors I'm gonna be making my own colors using eyeshadow look how pigment it this is it's cover crawl example see that and so you basically mixes with acrylic powder shake shake shake it up put it in this and done um so I have about five eyeshadows here set aside look at this one this is by NY eggs look that'll be really nice all right JB you can go in the living room the tangling tool sorry the detangling tool came in yeah it's really excited about that I'm not gonna open this up it's by vamp the mop the mop okay so yeah there's something here dangling I don't know if something broke off of this is okay whatever you say yeah oh you try to pronounce it here okay baby thank you um let's get into some of the homeschooling stuff I got um and no particular order let me try to organize some of this all the stuff I'm gonna show you this is again some of the so I'm not even showing y'all everything that came in I still have about nine deliveries from Amazon I did some serious shopping nine delivery from Amazon I'm almost done just real quick because JB wants to watch TV Nikki and deja this is independent reading independent reading Nikki and deja the stinky giant you see what you did you should have touched it I'm the best chef in second grade second grade here I come 100 African Americans who shaped the history American history human body another human body book activity book 240 vocabulary words you should know grade three purposely did that spelling weekly practice geography and max active max activities drawing books for kids 365 drawing books just little activities he could you know do if he wants to spectrum reading great to 180 days of social studies great to we are returning this building thinking skills grade one and two no two and three I had him a go through and do like two or three he he knew it right away this has saved me 30 bucks sending this back critical skills writing paragraphs great to I'm baby almost done and then we have you go go math there's about 10 of them almost done I have my planner here this is one of the things I'll be using girl is upside down the open dated teacher planner and this would be for a daily planning guys I'm setting up my new episode printer this is the echo style ET 27 20 excuse the background or this is very interesting these are ink bottles JB I literally just put this ink bottle on top you can see it's filling up right here isn't that cool David's filling up the yellow right now very very simple so we'll see how I can connect all I'm gonna connect all the laptops to Jamie look look at this why why are you why are you brushing your shoes why are you brushing your shoes good child I don't want any shoes I'll ask you about all this stuff when I get everything what am I supposed to use this prep what am I supposed to use this for yeah just walk I'll call you when I get everything all right girl I gotta go get my I gotta go check my mail I might have to put you back on camera you tell the story we have to retell the story of how you got rehired you got I'm sorry you got band you gonna have to get that up Nicole okay okay


تبته آدك الأيام فتا المسنجة صلى الله عليه وسلم المسنجة الصلى الله عليه وسلم والمسنجة صلى الله عليه وسلم هي ملقيا النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم مؤمن به وماتا على ذلك المسنجة صلى الله عليه وسلم وقلت على إيمان even if he apostated for a period of time it doesn't matter as long as he died upon as long as he died upon إيمان but he made the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he made the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم وسلم تسليما مزيدا الشيخ said وسلم تسليما مزيدا دوات السلام in the Arabic language it means that it's a greeting it also is it also means السلامة من النقائص والرذائلي it is to be protected and to be safe from any deficiency to be safe from any deficiency the sheikh said وسلم تسليما مزيدا مزيدا is an Isim Maffo'ul it's an Isim Maffo'ul that comes from the word زيادة and the word زيادة brothers is what هو النموم it's something to grow extra in additional you see and the sheikh رحمه الله as you can see he combined between what الصلاة and سلام he combined between the two صلاة and سلام and that is إمتتالا اللي قوله تعالى he is following the command of Allah because Allah said يا أيها الذين آمنوا صلوا عليه وسلم تسليما صورة الأحزاب ayah 56 then the sheikh أما بعدو to proceed the one أما بعدو is a word that is used or it's brought للإنتقال من أسلوب sorry إلى أسلوب آخر is when you are moving from one form of a speech to another type of speech that you want to move on to in other words it means مهما however the matter may be or whatever the case is that's what أما بعدو means whatever the case is مهما يكون من شيء whatever the matter may be and it's recommended for the person to come with it and the reason why it's recommended to come with it is because the messenger used to come with it in his خطب his sermons his مكاتبات his letters so you doing this is following the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم then the sheikh said أما بعدو فهذا the word هذا here is إشارة it's an إشارة and the sheikh is pointing at something this إشارة can be one of two the هذا it can be an إشارة which is حسي a tangible thing it can be actually when he's pointing at something it can be something that is present and it's there and he's pointing at it and that is when is it tangible if he wrote the مقدمة first are you there if he wrote the مقدمة first and then he came to the book no no sorry if he wrote the مقدمة last and he wrote the book first if he wrote the book already and now he's writing the مقدمة after he wrote the book because from scholars they do that then the head that is going towards the book that is already written so saying this book or it can sometimes be what or sometimes it can mean that he's not he's actually writing it the way we're reading it he's writing the مقدمة the book is not yet written and the مقدمة is first written so where does the head that goes towards it goes towards what's in his brain he's saying that which is my brain that I'm going to write is what for that which is in my brain this رسالة that I have in my mind or if he's already written the book then it means this book that I've written yeah احتوى it consists of عليه من العقائد الإيمانية التي أجملها it consists of the عقيدة أهلي سمنا اعتقاد الفرقة الناجية المنصورة الى عقية مساحات it consists of the اعتقاد the what اعتقاد is a measure is a verbal noun اعتقاد is a measure from what from اعتقاد is when somebody makes something what إذا اتخذه عقيدة somebody makes something عقيدة their belief والعقيدة هي ما يعقيدوا عليه المرء وقلبه وانا عقيدة is the knot that a person makes in his heart the knot are you with me لذلك that's why you would say اعتقدتو كده I believe in this meaning اعتقدتو عليه القلب والبمير my heart and internally I have tied this thought to my mind and it originally comes from the root word originally comes from the usage of the Arabs when they say عقاد الحب he had made a knot on the rope إذا ربطه when you tied and then it got used then it got used in that which is inside the heart of a person ثم استعمل and then it got it was started to be used في عقيدة القلب the عقيدة the knot that a person makes in their heart والتصميمه الجازم now one or ignorant person who doesn't understand would say that عقيدة doesn't exist in the Quran and it has no place in the Quran there's no such thing as عقيدة in the Quran وهذا and this إن كان يدلو على شيء if it indicates something to us and if we can take something from that person's statement we take from it their ignorance يدلو على جهله it shows his ignorance and his lack of understanding of the Arabic language or more like his lack of understanding of the book of Allah نعم that's the reality why? because the word it came in the Quran in its original essence of course يا أيها الذين أمنوا أوفوا بالعقود all those of you who believe أوفوا بالعقود stick to the covenants and the oaths that you have made the word that has been used here is عقود the مفصرين they took two views regarding يا إله الذين أمنوا أوفوا بالعقود they have taken two stances regarding it the مفصرين when it came to the ayah يا أيها الذين أمنوا أوفوا بالعقود they took how many stances they took two views one view يا that it means the عقود here it means the ones that are done with the oaths that are made with the creation يا إله الذين أمنوا أوفوا بالعقود and the other view is that the عقود here it means the ones that were made with Allah that which we made with Allah what was the عقد that everybody made with Allah ألس to be ربكم قالوا بلا Allah said to the people ألس to be ربكم am I not your lord this was a عقد a covenant and an oath that you made with Allah إذن عقيدة so قرن بعد قرن generations after generations علماء used to use that word عقيدة look at Imam Al-Sabouni Imam Al-Sabouni أبو أثمان Al-Sabouni رحمه الله من أئمة السلف he used what عقيدة السلف واصحة بالحديث أبو قاسم هبت الله إلا إلا إلا كائي what did he call this book وصول عتقاده للسنة والجماعة what did he call it أبو بكر اللي سماعين رحمه الله عقيدة السلف I call this one إعتقاده أئمة السلف you see this word عقيدة was used before رادة أبو قاسم أبو قاسم هبت الله إلا إلا كائي when he's book وصول عتقاده للسنة والجماعة he talks in his book عقيدة to شافعي عقيدة of souls عقيدة أدوات عقيدة إسمى أئمة السلف من أئمة السلف and his عقيدة book من مصادر it's from the sources which books of عقيدة is taken from one of the sources of when we go back كتب العقائد it's a مصدر كتب العقائد it's a source of the books of عقيدة that are taken so we live at a time of strange views being passed so أما بعد as to proceed فهذا أعتقاد فهذا this is a عقيدة it's the belief أفغو الفرقة الناجية the word فرقة is طائفة أو جماعة the word فرقة is a طائفة or it's a جماعة a group a group of people and what does it mean here فرقة الناجية the saved the saved group that's what it is and ناجية means ناجية ناجية ناجية ناجية it means saved what are they saved from الناجية من عذاب الله they are saved from the punishment of Allah they are saved from the health fire they are saved from the health fire and they are also saved from what من الهلاك والشروع في دنيا والأخرة in this دنيا also also from this دنيا they are saved from what the evil ideologies that are out there الله save them from it and that word يا الفرقة ناجية was taken from the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ or that understanding was taken from the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ the Hadith which بخارية المسلم until media and media generated where the Prophet ﷺ يسأل لا تزالوا طائفة pay attention they will not remain except a group من أمتي from my أمة على الحق they are upon the truth منصورة victories with them they have been aided and supported by الله تباركه تعالى those people لا يضرهم من خذلهم this group it will not harm them the one who deceives them حتى يأتي أمر الله until the in this Hadith in other words the Prophet ﷺ mentioned to us يسأل لا تزالوا طائفة من أمة راهرين على الحق لا يضرهم من خذلهم ولا من خلفهم حتى يأتي أمر الله أم على ذلك الله يقول to us that this the Ummah are three types in this Hadith you look for which one are you this Hadith tells us that the people are three types the first one is لا يضرهم من أمة ظاهرين على الحق those who are a parent ظاهرين على الحق there is a group who are a parent on the Haq ya they are on the Haq they are calling to the Haq the second one is those who oppose them they oppose them the مخالفين are positioned towards them and the third one is those who deceive them they are deceiving them they are what? deceiving them لا يضرهم من خذلهم ولا من خلفهم the one who does خذلان who deceives them who tricks them and the one who opposes them who doesn't deceive them and just opposes them they are both one of them which one who they they will not harm they will not harm the ones who are what ظاهرين على الحق who are a parent on the Haq why? because they have نصرح victory from Allah سبحانه وتعالى they are what? victory and aid from Allah سبحانه وتعالى so oh Allah make us from those who are what ظاهرين على الحق this book that we are taking is the belief of that group who are ظاهرين على الحق who are a parent on the Haq so here we have to learn that claiming that you're on the Haq and claiming that you're the same sect and saying that you are it's not just a mere claim it requires what? ظاهرين على الحق who? show us let us see because claiming is the easiest means or easiest tool everyone knows it it doesn't take a lot to claim it's something everybody can do you see and they are given victory until the day of judgment إلى قيام الساعة until the day of judgment إلى أن يريث الله الأرض ومن عليها until Allah تبارك وتعالى takes over yeah until Allah تبارك وتعالى takes over this world the sheikh said أما بعد فهذا اعتقاد الفرقة الناجية المنصورة إلى قيام الساعة and then the sheikh said آهل سنة والجماعة آهل السنة والجماعة so we say how do we read آهل السنة والجماعة there's two ways of doing it عراب if we go follow it the sheikh we can read it as two ways we can say what? we can say آهل I'll make the lamakasala we can say that or we can say آهل السنة والجماعة if we say آهل السنة والجماعة then this is a battle because a battle of what? اترايفة المنصورة إلى قيام الساعة did you just say that? is it a فرقة الناجية it's a battle from فرقة ناجية and we took the battle it is from the توابع from the four توابع correct? the عط the صفة the battle and the توكي those four آوات توابع they follow the علامة of the thing that's before them صحيح so here because it's اي بداع اعتقادي اعتقادي الفرقة الناجية it was the علامة for it اي كسرة right? so آهل السنة you make a كسرة that's one way you can go ويجوزور رفعه you can make it مرفوع on what? it is مرفوع it is another اعرفه if it's اي مرفوع then it is it is اي خبر if there's a خبر then where's the مبتده if the خبر has to have a مبتده we will say to you the مبتده is محذوه it can it's hidden so what is it then it is hidden it is هم هم آهل السنة والجماعة so there's a هم there that's hidden so we have two ways of doing عراب you can either make a كسرة as a بدل from the وان الفرقة that's one اوه ويجوزور رفعه which is ازوات انه خبر لمبتده محذوه تقديره هو صح those are the two ways so we said اهل we mentioned what it means اهل means family اهل means what family rather in the Arabic language is when اهل الشيئي the اهل of something is قرابته those who are closest to you meaning they are the closest the فعملي the way they are the closest to you these are the ones who are the فعملي of the sunnah اهل السنة سنة means what when the sunnah means سنة means هيطبريقة it is the road it's a path التي كان عليها رسول الله it is the path in which the prophet was upon in terms of speech من قوله وافعاله and his actions واتقريراته and his consent that which he consented to عليه صلاة و الصلاة so it is the path and that which the prophet was which path his speeches his actions and that which he consented to meaning it was done in his presence he saw it and he never objected to it that's it it's a sunnah why were they called اهل السنة why why are these people called اهل السنة سمو الاهل السنة and the reason why they were called اهل السنة is because they attributed themselves to اهل السنة they attributed themselves to what لاتسابه من السنة الرسولي they attributed themselves to the sunnah and they did not attribute themselves to what are you with me One of Two One of Two the people innovators they attribute themselves to one of two things or they were attributed to one of two things either they were attributed to an individual or they were attributed to an ideology a statement like for example like for example Our attributed و that he is not a person. They were attributed to the statements that came out of their mouth that they were misguided in. So they were attributed to that. اوه! مرجع ازوهو. They were attributed to the actions of theirs. Because what did Hassan Al-Basri say to Wasil Mur'ata? He said. So that's Mu'atezila. Mu'atezila, what did he say to them? اعتزل عنه. Mu'atezila was given the name Mu'atezila because Wasil said to Hassan Al-Basri. ستواصل من عطاء. He said to him. اعتزل عنه. Get away from us. Leave us. So that Mu'atezila was given the name. The مرجع. Why were they called مرجع? لأنهم اخاروا العمل من الإيماني. إرجع ميزوات. تأخيروا. إرجع is to delay. They delay the action from the iman. They took it out of the iman. That's why. You see. And sometimes they attribute it to an individual. Like the جهمية. جهمي بالصفوان. They attribute it to the what? Like the أشاعرة. They attribute it to أبل حسنل. أشاعري. An individual. You see. أهل السنة. When Imam Malik was asked who are they. Imam Malik was asked. هو أهل السنة. من أهل السنة. He said. They are those who do not have no nickname. They have no nickname. They don't have no group. Imam Malik then started to mention the groups that were there at that time. They're not قدريين. They're not جهميين. They're not. أهل السنة. They don't have names that you don't find in السوص الوحيين. They're names are taken from the Kitab and the sunnah. You see. They attribute themselves to what? They attribute themselves to not a particular individual. Or they don't attribute themselves to what? Or they don't attribute themselves to a statement. They don't. Very good. That is أهل السنة. The same way in which they attribute themselves to the sunnah. They also attribute their actions to the sunnah. Meaning they follow the sunnah. What they say. What they do. Everything is the sunnah. They also call جماعة. أهل السنة we understood. Why they call it جماعة. جماعة means they united upon the sunnah. They didn't just unite. They united upon the sunnah. So who are those who follow the truth? They united upon the truth. أثابت بالكتاب والسنة. The truth that is affirmed from the Kitab and the sunnah. They united upon it. United. They don't differ on that. Well that is why the word جماعة is given to the truth. Not to the number of people they are. Pay attention. That's why it's important. Because they unite upon the what? And it doesn't matter if the number is little. And that's why عبدالله ابن مستعدة رضي الله تعالى عنه. He said as. أبو قاسم همهبط الله إلا لكائي نريتننس شرح السورة. أعتقدها لسنة. تول جماعة أبو شاما إنس كتاب الباعث. على إنكاري. على إنكاري البدع والحوادث. المزي إنستهديب الكمال. الالباني إن مشكات المصابيع. ابن عساك لانس تاريخ الدمشقاء. With a chain of narration. بسند صحيح. A chain of narration which is authentic. عبدالله المسعود said. الجماعة الجماعة. The Jama'a is ما وافق الحق. That which is in accordance to the Haq. وإن كنت وحدك even if you are by yourself. فإنك أنت الجماعة حينا إذن. You are the Jama'a then. You are the Jama'a. If there is. If the Haq is with you. أنت الجماعة. أنت الجماعة. Very good. The sheikh goes on to say the same. الشيخ المن الشيخ لسامي بن تيميا. He said. وهو الإيمان بالله. وملايكته. وكتبه. ورسله. والبعث بعد الموت. والإيمان بالقدر خيره وشره. The sheikh said. وهو. Where does this. هو go back to. Where does this. بمير go back to. This. بمير goes back to. اعتقاد. الفرقة الناجية. This. is the belief. Of the safe sects. What is a belief. الإيمان is to believe. إيمان means. التصديق. وقيل الإقرار. إيمان is said to be. تصديق. To believe. And it is also said. إقرار. إقرار. إذا الله سبحانه وتعالى. سنة صورة يوسف. وما أنت بخير. وما أنت بخير. وما أنت بخير. وما أنت بخير. وما أنت بخير. وما أنت بخير. وما أنت بخير. وما أنت بمؤمن لنا. ولو كنا صادقين. وما أنت بمصدق لنا. So the. إيمان here means. مصدق. The technical meaning of the word. The technical definition of the word. إيمان. The technical definition is what. أنه قول باللسان. It is a statement of the tongue. It is a statement of the tongue. وليأتقاد بالقلب. And it's a belief in the heart. وعمل بالجوارح. And it's an actions of the limb. This is. The belief of Ahl al-Sunnah. Pertain it to Iman. Ahl al-Sunnah believe that the Iman is a statement of the tongue. They also believe. It's an إعتقاد بالقلب. It's a belief in the heart. وعمل بالجوارح. And actions on the limb. And each and every one of them. Are a pillar in Iman. All of them are arcane pillars. That a person needs to come with. Of Iman. Very good. Now the Shaykh رحمه الله. He goes into the six arcane and Iman. The six pillars of Iman. In which a person's Iman does not exist whatsoever. If they don't believe in all of these six. The Kitab has indicated these six. The Sunnah has indicated these six. And the إجماع of this Ummah is unanimously agreed upon. These six pillars. The first one is what? الإيمان is to believe in Allah. It is to believe in who? الله تبارك وتعالى. Believe in Allah تبارك وتعالى. It means brothers. To believe in his ألوهية. It is to believe in his ربوبية. And it is to believe in his ألسماء وصفات. Let me break that down for you. It means that you believe Allah تبارك وتعالى. You believe Allah تبارك وتعالى. Is alone. Is alone. In creating, sustaining and providing. It's the first one. The second one is you believe he's the only one who is worthy of worship. And the third one is that you believe he is alone in his names and his attributes. That is الإيمان بالله. That is الإيمان بالله. The second one is الإيمان بالملائكة. To believe in the angels. It means that you believe in the existence. الإيمان will be with you to him. You believe that the angels exist.  وأنهم كما وصفهم الله في كتابه. And they are how Allah has described them in his book. How was Allah described them in his book? Allah told us they are what? عباد المكرمون. They are righteous slaves of Allah. لا يسبقونه بالقولي وهم بأمره يعملون. That they do not precede Allah with any speech. And they are those who follow and implement his commands. And also the sunnah has also and the kitab as well. Have both told us that the angels are of different types and categories. And their descriptions are different. And they also have been delegated and given different responsibilities. We have to believe in all of that. The third thing is الإيمان will be with you to believe in the books. What does it mean to believe in the books? You believe?


Hey beautiful people, I am looking forward to answering one of the most asked questions tonight which is how I actually knew I was ready to amputate my leg because this was not a medically urgent thing as in I wasn't going to die from an infection if I didn't have it done immediately but it wasn't an emotionally urgent thing that I do something about the pain that I was in so I'm going to be answering that question in today's video but earlier today, Brian and I went up to the forest to visit our puppies who are going to be coming home so soon for those of you who don't know in addition to the three rats and the two cats and the hamster I have we also have three dogs Sadie, Monkey and Sophie they're amazing and they've been spending weeks at my parents house as they recover from amputation because they jump on me and I'm trying to take care of them when I'm home alone they've hurt my leg before and so they've been spending time up there so we got to visit them today and I know from your comments that you love puppy footage and so I'm gonna share that with you and also this what you're about to see is actually the meadow that I fell off Georgia the horse in. I was riding when I was 13 as you guys know and had the horseback riding accident that was the initial injury that ended me in having to choose amputation and so what you are seeing right now it's now covered in houses it didn't used to be it used to be this gorgeous wide open field that just spread for miles and miles and now it's just turning into real estate which hey that's how development works right but this is actually where it all happened and as we're headed back from the puppies I will show you the barn where I used to ride as we drive by anyways where where I learned to ride and where was riding when this happened I'm gonna film the initial puppy attack you're about to see we haven't seen our puppies in about a week you go for it oh my gosh it's the code oh I like that color I feel like a classy hobo maybe she remembers some of her old tricks oh my god so we are just coming up on the barn where I was riding Georgia the horse that I fell off of by no fault of this barn maybe I'll actually go visit it someday on camera if you guys are interested in but this is actually where it all happened I worked here for many years of my childhood and knew all the horses worked with all of them so that's where it all began so the question that people ask me all the time how did I know when I was ready to actually take the plunge and choose amputation and more specifically I got a message earlier this week from a viewer directly on Facebook asking me he's an unfortunately similar situation to what I was in where he's in pain all the time there are no good medical options left he's really thinking about amputation people kind of think he's crazy and he asked me you know what he should do or what my thought process was and so I'm gonna address it from from that kind of an angle and I would never advise anybody on what to do it's their life so I'm just gonna tell you my story and how I actually knew it was time to make this choice my actual decision process started back in January and I had my amputation in October so I had about 10 minutes to mull this over and make this decision I started watching a lot of YouTube videos of below the new beauties and like what life would look like with that and I like spent my time doing this and like clinging on to hope and I started realizing that I was feeling excitement and hope when I thought about what the future could hold without my leg and let me just pause right there and say that that's not a normal thing to feel if you are an able-bodied person it's probably insane to think that anyone could feel excited about the future without a leg and I thought it was insane to feel that way too and I actually talked to my counselor for weeks about it to like work through my mindset work through what I was feeling to make sure that I wasn't losing my mind and let me just say that if anyone is finding hope or tiny little nuggets of excitement for the future in removing a major part of their body for me that was indication that I was ready to make this call when I pictured like the two different futures one being more surgeries that probably weren't gonna work but could buy me some more time or just cutting to the chase of what was gonna happen anyways biting the bullet and having my leg amputated this one felt like darkness and more depression and more anger and just I felt gross when I thought about this an option B which was going forward with an amputation which was terrifying don't get me wrong filled me with bits of hope and tiny little nuggets of excitement and that felt so abnormal but I couldn't deny that that is what I felt and I tried to deny it I tried to like schedule the other surgery I tried to move forward with that but I couldn't and I just hit the wall where I was like I know in my heart what is right I know what I want I know what I need and it is not suffering with a part of my body that is dying anymore it needs to go I know that it doesn't make sense to a lot of people who have not lived in chronic pain but if you dealt with chronic pain I know that you know that you would do just about anything to get rid of something that hurts all the time that you can't help and I deal with chronic pain that can't go away in the same accident that I injured my ankle and I also injured my neck and I have chronic pain in my neck that I have dealt with for the same amount of years I can't amputate my neck and stay alive I'm gonna be dealing with that end of story and there isn't currently hope for a solution with that there is hope for a solution with my ankle and so I took that hope for a solution and so the best piece of advice that I could give to anyone wondering if they are ready to amputate is A obviously make sure that like you've done all your research and that you've like talked to medical professionals and I would honestly really recommend talking to a therapist or counselor and other amputees like ask questions but if you are finding hope in that future after sitting with it for a while after thinking about it for a while and that still sounds like a good thing like we're not biologically programmed to want to let go off our limbs and so for me that was the moment I was kind of like wow I really know that I am ready for this because there's no way I could want this I would want this any other way because I know I'm not crazy I know I'm not mentally unstable like that and so I know it's time and I was able to talk to a doctor who completely agreed with me that it was time and we went ahead and did it and so that was my thought process kind of going into this elective amputation I still hate the word elective I'll do a whole video on elective amputation if you guys are interested I'm just really what that is but it's not like I wanted it it's not like I was like hey this sounds like a great idea it's like this was going to happen one way or another eventually and I'm young healthy light the situation was guy good health care insurance you know so that the stars were aligned where it can make sense now I was in pain all the time I would like to keep my leg but we don't live in a world where that could realistically happen and I could live the life I want to live so I made a decision to have an elective amputation so that's kind of how my thought process went into making this call also I know that there are people who are gonna comment on this and call me crazy and stupid and dumb and that's okay I totally respect your opinion and we live in a country and a world where you are allowed to have an opinion and good for you but I know that I'm not crazy I know that my decision wasn't stupid I'm still glad I made it even though it's very painful even though it's emotionally exhausting and difficult but it's cool I'm glad I got to make it and I'm glad I'm almost ready and I'm so freaking glad that you guys are with me you have made this fun and exciting and have given me something to look forward to even more every day so 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All right, so I'm here this morning to chat with you about marketing Drupal. And I'm really thrilled to be here at Bad Camp. So thanks for having me. And I hope everyone's having a great morning. Hope you've all got your tea and your coffee. And yeah, looking forward to this conversation. And I hope that this is a conversation. So I'm gonna talk for a while and then I'll be happy to take questions. But also ideas. So if this brings ideas to your mind, I would love for you to be able to share them at the end. So since I got involved in the Drupal community many years ago, I've heard lots of stories about Drupal as I'm sure you have as well. Whether you're just starting out with the Drupal or whether you've been using it for years, just when you think of the word Drupal that surely brings stories to mind. And it might be stories of people, it might be stories of what you can do with Drupal or it might just be the first words that pop into your head when you hear that word Drupal. Like what does that really mean to you? And I think when we think about marketing Drupal often it's in the context of, oh, I have to talk to a client or I'm going to a conference and I have to talk about Drupal. And we're thinking about it as kind of like this business need but really marketing is about storytelling and so I think it's good to step back and reflect and think about what are the stories that we tell about Drupal, what are the stories that we tell ourselves? What are the stories that we tell other people? What does it bring to mind? So I think there are some kind of marketing stories that we hear a lot that we kind of words that we try and use to describe Drupal to sell it. And these are some of the stories that are really good to tell. And so I often come back to the same kinds of things when I'm talking about Drupal, I always try and show people how it can be really simple to use that has really good authoring tools because I think that that's a story that doesn't get told often enough. It kind of has a bad rap maybe for being difficult to use. I think a lot of people talk about how flexible Drupal is. This is the thing that I know people tend to agree on that for maybe the difficulties in using it or I mean the difficulties in being onboarded onto it, it has this great flexibility. So it's like it's worth it. You should use Drupal, it's really flexible. So that's a story I think that's pretty ingrained in people. We also tell the story of security because I think open source in general, people are a little scared about, if there's no company behind this, how can it be secure? If it's open, how can it be secure? And so we often tell the story of how Drupal is really secure. This is security team behind Drupal. We talk about the security team. We talk about all the contributors and everyone testing Drupal all the time and how that makes it more secure. So that's a story I hear again and again from the community. And then one of the stories that I really love about Drupal is it's emphasis on accessibility. And I love this story because it's not just us saying, repeating the fact that Drupal is accessible, Drupal is accessible, but I actually see from people I work with in Drupal how much people really care about accessibility. And it's not just accessibility experts who care, but actually people who are working on all parts of the software. So for example, you might have used the new layout builder in Drupal. Well, when the layout builder was being built, there were a lot of conversations about, how do we make the backend of this accessible? It doesn't seem like anyone's done this before. This is a real challenge, but like let's make sure we deliver with this. And this was a big priority. And so I love the fact that Drupal, people really care about this. And it's not just an afterthought or like something we have to check off on the list of pre-launch features or something. Another story that I've started to hear more often, and I've heard this from inside the Drupal community, but also from people who are a little bit more on the edge, you know, people who are maybe not really involved in Drupal, but they have a Drupal website that they're running. And they're starting to say that, oh yeah, I've heard Drupal 9 is really easy to upgrade to if you're already on Drupal 8. And it's gonna be a really smooth transition. And that's a really important story to tell because this is a story that you need to tell as people are facing this decision about what to do next. You know, I'm looking to redesign my site should I move to Drupal 9. And so it's important for people to feel like they can trust that Drupal is gonna be easy to upgrade to. And so that's a story that I think needs to be told again and again and again to reassure people as they make these decisions in their process. And then I think that we also tell some stories around different users, user types, different types of sites. Drupal for a long time has had a lot of momentum in a few different industries, a few different verticals, including higher education and government. And in the higher education space, it's I think been really successful that from one institution to the next, this idea that Drupal is a really good platform specifically for higher education, that story's been told a lot of times. And I think that one of the reasons that this has happened is because in higher education, there tends to be a lot more sharing between organizations. So I mean, I'm in Canada and maybe there because there are fewer colleges and universities here, but people tend to really share a lot. They'll talk to other schools, but I think it's kind of universal and they'll share best practices about, oh, this is how we set up Drupal. This is how we're hosting our sites. This is how we onboarded all of our content editors and they'll actually share a lot between each other, not just in the context of a DrupalCon, but actually just as part of their regular day-to-day work, which is really great to see. And then I think there's also some more kind of aspirational stories we can tell about Drupal, like getting people excited about the innovation behind the platform. This is something that maybe doesn't get a lot of press because Drupal has been around now for almost 20 years. And so we think of it as something that's very stable, actually, which is great, but it's also important to tell the story of innovation. So if you're using some kind of off-the-shelf CMS that's maybe bought or something, you're not necessarily gonna be this push to innovate, but because Drupal's open source and so many people are using it, it's being innovated on all the time. The community's innovating. So as an organization, you can benefit from that innovation even if you didn't realize that you needed those features. And I think people really like this idea of having a stable platform that's still innovating. And Drupal's found a great way to do that, the way that we have our release cycle now and it's a good story to tell too. And then it's always good to tell stories that are kind of newsworthy. So if you're trying to get people to share stories outside of the Drupal world and really get people excited about something, you have to talk to them about what they're interested in. And I remember a time back six months ago when basically any story that you had to share, if it wasn't related to the current news of the day, you know, it's not going to get shared. And so it's really important to relate to people. And I think one of the great stories of Drupal in recent times is that Drupal's used a lot in government, higher education, healthcare. It's used a lot in the nonprofit sector. And so in these organizations, we're the ones having to respond to COVID very quickly to kind of change how business works or get the message out or get new applications up and running to figure out, you know, how are we gonna respond to this crisis, to this pandemic? And so a lot of organizations that had to respond to COVID are using Drupal and we're able to respond quickly because Drupal is really flexible and you can build out new things really quickly. And that's one of the reasons I started using Drupal because you can build things out really quickly, but it's exciting to see that in action and it's actually really inspiring. So there's a lot of stories actually that you can find on Drupal.org about how different organizations responded and the role that Drupal played. So these are all stories we can tell when we're trying to share, you know, why should you use Drupal? Why should you care about Drupal? Then there's also stories that we tell ourselves. So I think most of you here, you're at bad camp, you're in the Drupal community. I think you're a part of the Drupal community. So what stories do we tell ourselves about Drupal within this community that we call Drupal? So I think that it's really important to focus on these internal stories because if we're just marketing Drupal as software, like Drupal is the CMS, Drupal is this platform, you should use it, that's limiting because there's lots of other software, there's lots of other CMSs and why should somebody care about Drupal in particular? So one thing that obviously Drupal has that other software doesn't have is it has this community behind it. And so telling stories that come from the community it's gonna show how unique Drupal is. It's gonna bring so much more depth to this identity and this brand. And so I don't think we should shy away from community stories. And one of the great community stories that I think we should talk about a lot is diversity and inclusion. There's the diversity and inclusion initiative as part of the Drupal community, which is very active in promoting inclusion in community events, in welcoming new people on the Slack channel. And there's new programming coming out of that group. There's also initiatives coming out of the Drupal Association to promote diversity and inclusion. So I don't know how many of you were at DrupalCon but there were scholarships for DrupalCon beyond anything in the past that at DrupalCon Global where people were invited from certain groups like ladies learning code type organizations and different schools and basically groups of people who wouldn't have otherwise known about DrupalCon or been invited to come. And so that scholarship program really expanded the number of people who could come to DrupalCon could be exposed to the community. There's also a new talent development program coming out of the Drupal Association to take some of the Drupal training programs that already exist and make them available through scholarships to people who are usually underrepresented in well, the Drupal community but also the open source community at large. So that's exciting. I think that we should talk about this and make it a priority and not just obviously we should do take action and then we should also tell that story. And I think that's a big part of the identity of Drupal. I also think that it's really important to recognize the contributions of everyone. So we are in a community that relies on contribution, right? So we're relying from day one on people who have contributed their time to write code for the Drupal project but we're also relying on the efforts of lots of other people who do lots of other forms of contribution like project management, design, marketing and then also event organizing the people who run Bad Camp, right? And so by talking about these types of contribution I think we're building a stronger community and just by recognizing all those people where we have a stronger community to tell a story about. And so I think in our own community there's some recognition like you can go onto Drupal.org and kind of see, oh, this person has community credits or if you watched the Drees note for many years Drees has always had this big tag cloud of contributors which is nice to see people being recognized. But more recently there's also been more storytelling around contribution which I think is arguably more valuable to actually say, hey, here's this group of people and this happens to be the team from Lullabot who's creating the Olivera theme and like, hey, let's put a spotlight on these contributors and tell the story of what they're bringing to the community. And I think telling those stories that are more related to people is always easier to relate to. It's always inspiring. And so I think this is what needs to come out of the community and also be spread even further. Another story you might not have heard so Drupal 9 came out not too long ago and there's this website celebratedrupal.org that was created for the launch. I love how this project came together, Dan Lemmon and a group of others came together to just create this website and make sure it got launched so people could have a place to celebrate online. So we can tell stories about the community and we can make those stories stronger. We can tell stories about Drupal the project and we can figure out how to weave a story that's really inspiring and we can spread that. But I think it's also important to really reflect on who we're talking to. So when we do marketing in general, we often think about our audience or usually our audience is. And in terms of Drupal, it's always been a difficult thing to pinpoint because it's an open source project and anyone can use it. So who are we talking to? Well, aren't we talking to everyone? Yes, but in marketing, it's important to actually pinpoint your audience. It's important to pin down who you're talking to. Otherwise these stories you tell or just the words you use, they're gonna be less effective. So how I would describe Drupal to someone I meet at a party is gonna be different than how I describe Drupal to a potential client or to a developer who I'm trying to convince, hey, you're into this WordPress thing, but why not Drupal? So I really need to be able to pinpoint who I'm talking to and then tell a story that actually suits them. So we need to take a step back and think about who these audiences are. And there are many. So if you go to DrupalCon, for example, where there are people who are in the community, but there are people who are really brand new, you'll meet all kinds of different people for different backgrounds. You'll meet salespeople, you'll meet marketers, you'll meet front-end developers, you'll meet people just evaluating Drupal for the first time. And that's at a DrupalCon, even when you're already kind of one step inside where somebody's really interested in this project. So I've had the chance over the years through, well, through running a Drupal agency, but also through running a Drupal training program to meet a lot of individuals who are encountering Drupal for the first time. And I think it's nice to think about the user journey that somebody takes when they're first discovering Drupal and just to try and get a sense of the breadth of different types of journeys that there are. So I have a few user journeys here and these are just quick snapshots, so I'm not gonna go into all the detail, but we can think of site builders, developers who are really new, they're testing out Drupal, maybe they have a small project, and think about what kind of pain points they might run into in their journey of going from brand new user to getting their site online. We can also think of project managers, often in a bigger organization, there's someone who's non-technical, but who's still really involved in a Drupal project, and maybe they're managing a team and they are trying to figure out the best practices for Drupal, or they're trying to figure out if I switch over to Drupal, what do these best practices look like or how do I actually get my site deployed? Then there's developers who are really experienced and they know all kinds of technical things, but they don't really know the Drupal lingo and they're trying to assess maybe if this platform a good fit. I have to tell my boss if I think that we're gonna be able to do this upgrade to Drupal 9, and I'm trying to figure out just simple things like what's the difference between a block and a view. Then I think we also have more users who are more worried about content and marketing and they're thinking of Drupal as a marketing platform and how do I integrate with all my marketing tools and how do I just get a demo of Drupal running so I can see if this is going to work for me? And then beyond all those users who we can think of them as more hands-on users, we also have a whole set of users who come to Drupal as evaluators and they're not going to ever install Drupal. They're not even gonna think about it. They just saw Drupal on a list of CMSs that was proposed and they wanna know if this is actually a good option for their organization. So to them it's maybe less about the technology itself and more about the use case and this list of features that I need to respond to or the list of features that I'm gonna have next year that I don't even know about yet. Where is Drupal going? And that's how the evaluators may be thinking about this problem. And evaluators also think about things maybe at another level up from even that. So they're assessing Drupal as this platform but they're also thinking about change management. Like how do I onboard my whole team on this new, on this technology that we're gonna adopt or what's the cost of ownership? Who's gonna maintain this thing? These are really important questions to ask. And as a community, we're not always able to answer them but I think we need to address them in some way when people come to Drupal to ask what is this and why should I use it? So this brings me to some, what do evaluators say? So recently as part of the promote Drupal initiative we ran an evaluators survey. And the real focus of this was people who are evaluating Drupal and not necessarily picking Drupal. So some people have over the years decided to switch to another CMS or they thought about using Drupal but they decided on something else or maybe they used Drupal but they really had to fight hard for it. And so how are these evaluators, these kind of more executive level folks, how are they approaching Drupal? And what do they say? So we got some feedback and we're kind of processing it, figuring out what to do next and here's just a few snippets. So one thing that we heard a lot is that people really want to have a platform that has a lower cost of ownership and that is easier to evaluate without doing an install process. So evaluators wanna be able to just see a demo get something up and running quickly and then they wanna know that it's easy to upgrade, it's easy to install and it's easy to do these security updates. And so that's something that really came up a lot, changes that would actually be needed maybe in the platform itself or just in being able to get a quick demo up and running. And then the other thing that we heard a lot from these evaluators is that they wanna have more material which to me sounds like storytelling. So yes, we heard that they needed more documentation but also demo sites and case studies and someone even said propaganda debunking Drupal myths. So I've been telling lots of positive stories about Drupal. There's also lots of stories that say Drupal card and this and that. And so how do we actually fight that with some more propaganda to or marketing materials to help people? And I think some evaluators are evaluating Drupal and then they're making a recommendation, right? So how do we help them make that recommendation? How do we help them, you know, write that, make that presentation to their boss that says, here's why we should use Drupal even though you heard XYZ. And I think we can take a lot of these findings about what evaluators think and there's so much low hanging fruit where we can make improvements. So when you think about how somebody first does their research, they're going on and Googling, what is this Drupal thing? Let me dig into the details a bit. And they come across Drupal.org and they might come across Drupal.com and they might not find exactly what they're looking for because there's so many people that Drupal.org speaks to and evaluators aren't necessarily at the top of that list. So I think that's exciting because there's so many improvements that wouldn't be easy to make. So what can we actually do with all this? So I'm telling you, tell great stories, you know, work in the community to tell better stories internally so we can amplify that out. And also we should think about who we're talking to, of course, but what can we actually do? Like what can we get together and improve? Because there's so many things. So this is where I'll introduce the Promote Drupal Initiative, which started a couple of years ago. It's a group of people in the community. I would, I say marketers, content writers, translators. There's also a lot of developers and agency leaders and folks who aren't necessarily marketers by training, like myself, but who are very eager to spread the word about Drupal and expand the community into new markets and new communities. So this group has been working away and working with the Drupal Association. So we do have some things that we can share with you, which are exciting that I think a lot of people just aren't aware of. So I'll start with that. So there is actually a brand book for Drupal. Very exciting. There is a document that describes the Drupal color palette, the typography to use, but also the tone of voice and kind of imagery. And we don't see this all the time when we look at Drupal because there was just so much about Drupal that's been developed by the community and organically, but there is a brand book and there is value in developing that brand, I think, and using it. There's also a great video for Drupal. I'm not gonna play it now because I don't think it's gonna go well on the top end, but you go watch it. It's on the Drupal Association YouTube channel. It pumps up Drupal a lot. There's also been a lot of work around the launch of Drupal 9. There's a landing page about it on Drupal.org, but there's also a nice press release and this one-pager back sheet, so this is one of those great things like send to your boss, like what's this Drupal 9 thing about and what does it mean for us? There is a pitch deck that was created a couple of years ago and it contains a lot of case studies, but also just a lot of just like why Drupal kind of content. And I like this pitch deck because a lot of people contributed to it and anyone can use it. So even if you're not the one who built all these projects in Drupal, you can use case studies to support the fact that, yeah, Drupal's great for this museum project or Drupal's great for this health care project. And another initiative that's really in its infancy that's coming out of Promote Drupal is this idea of having a Drupal presence at other conferences outside the Drupal space. So a few months ago, I participated in a higher ed conference. It was actually happening at the same time as DrupalCon, DrupalCon Global, and it was an opportunity to have a boost that we used and it wasn't my company name on the booth, it was Drupal on the booth and we were just trying to promote Drupal to these higher education folks who maybe were at herd of it but hadn't really considered it or weren't sure what decision-making factors to think about. So that's an exciting opportunity that we can actually get together as a community and promote Drupal actively to other groups. And I think this needs to be probably agency driven because agencies are good at going to conferences and promoting things, but of course, this idea could go anywhere just a way to spread the Drupal brand more selectively. I mentioned this evaluator survey and coming up with personas. So we are in the process of taking these survey results, maybe digging a little bit deeper with some interviews and then seeing how that should impact a strategy for the evaluator onboarding process, like how should evaluators interact with Drupal? Should they get these email newsletters or what should happen when they go to Drupal.org? Where should we send them? So that's an exciting project. And I think a lot of marketing is actually like when you dig into it, it's really all about coordination and being consistent. And if you have these stories and you wanna get them out and you want a consistent tone of voice, well, you need some kind of project management behind that. So setting up a real Drupal marketing calendar that we can use that can be used by the Drupal Association but also by all these agencies who are already eagerly marketing Drupal or all these local associations or event organizers who are also promoting Drupal in more local communities. So this is an idea to kind of help us all coordinate our efforts and maybe help us spread the same stories so we can all get more out of the same material but it does definitely take some project management and coordination. So that's something to work on. And I also just wanna mention that there's been a lot of contribution from translators. So I know a lot of you are probably in California and Spanish is an important language and you probably deal with multilingual but of course Drupal is used around the world and there's so many languages and so many communities where people are speaking other languages and there's actually a need to market Drupal in those languages. So a lot of people have come forward to contribute translations of all these things like press releases and pitch decks and whatnot. But there's a lot of challenges around all of these things and I think the biggest challenge with the promote Drupal initiative for me is that there's kind of this roadmap that we've used in Drupal to get so many people involved in contributing to code but when you're trying to contribute to other things it's a different model, right? So when you're adding content or when you're doing design there's not like a Git system where we can like merge in people's contributions and changes and then track it with these commits. So how do we handle content contribution at this scale and how do we actually make sure that marketers and writers and designers who wanna be involved how do we get everybody coordinated and bring everybody together? So it's a question that we're still trying to figure out and just trying to iteratively improve but we definitely need help in this area and I think we also need help because it's such an ambitious goal. So when you look at Drupal as an open source project versus something huge like Adobe and how they do marketing there's a big difference in budgets and scale and just how the effort gets put into marketing and so coming up with an idea of how to coordinate that I would love to hear your thoughts. So there's some links here to help you if you wanna get involved or wanna see more of this evidence of what's been done so there is a promote Drupal page you can also join us on the Slack channel on Drupal on the Drupal Slack. There's the link to the video in the brand book so you can check that out and see what's already there. And besides all this promote Drupal I also wanna encourage you all to keep growing Drupal in your own way because I know that as much as we wanna have this consolidated effort to promote Drupal really a lot of this over the years has just happened organically through agencies and individuals who go out there every day and they're passionate about Drupal and they share that and that is how we've come so far as a community. So let's keep growing, let's keep doing that and let's also pitch in and promote Drupal together. So I'm gonna stop sharing maybe or no I'll just go back here and answer questions if there are any. Sean had a question in chat. He asks the old familiar Drupalcon is not mentioned at all in the brand book is using that caricature no longer recommended at all. For example, should all Drupal camps redesign their logo? The Drupal, the Drupalcon. Yeah, I think that the Drupalcon is great. I think I had something about it in a previous version of these slides. The Drupalcon is more like an open source logo or not exactly a logo because we can play with it and do what we want with it. I didn't wear my bad camp shirt but I love my bad camp shirt with my little Drupalcon on it and I think that this shows a lot of community spirit and I don't think that we should get rid of it but I do think that when we're trying to tell a story outside of the Drupal community that little Drupalcon, you know, people look at it and they think, oh, what is this? And they maybe don't take Drupal seriously. So I think there's a lot of value in having the new brand which is more of a kind of like a product brand that you can look at alongside WordPress or any other CMS and you think, oh yeah, that's just one of the other CMS logos. It's not this anomaly. And to also mention at the same time, a lot of you probably noticed that Drupal has a logo now which is like a consistent logo along with the Drupal wordmark and that was developed by 611 and it came out of the Drupalcon logo that has all the hexagon and all the triangles, the different colored triangles. So that was kind of adopted and is now kind of the official Drupal logo. From Andre, are there any head-to-head comparisons with other CMSs in the table form or in the table form? Yeah, that's a good question. I know this has come up a lot of like what kind of comparison should we put, for example, into the Drupal pitch deck? I think there has been some work done to create like a kind of a framework comparing Drupal to the other CMSs, but I haven't seen that come to like a finished state. So I think that would also be really valuable. And Bob mentioned that he still hasn't found a link to the actual Drupal marketing calendar. Is there such a thing? No, so that is a project like in the works. So the only thing I have a link to is like the issue to build this calendar. And there is like a draft of it, but it's not, I think the most important thing behind a marketing calendar is that there's probably, there probably needs to be like a meeting every month to update it and add new things and say, okay, what's the status and who's translating this or who's promoting that and who's adding it to these social media channels? So that doesn't exist yet. Another one from Andre, what is your sense for the top three reasons teams eventually don't pick Drupal? That's a great question. I think up until now, probably number one has been the upgrade issue. Like when we ask clients like what's the pain point or what's the reason to not continue with Drupal like the upgrade process has been really a huge pain point. So I think that that is really great that we're coming to like a new system where we don't have that pain point anymore. Although we still have to get through Drupal seven to eight or nine upgrades, which will be the challenge to go through now. That's number one. I think that then very related like updates, security updates for some organizations having to have a team to run security updates using composer, code, like this is a big challenge. So again, having updates, automatic updates in core will go a long way. And then I think we, well, for many years people talked about the Drupal learning curve. And now I think about this as just like the Drupal content editor experience or beginner experience. So when you're first trying Drupal like how hard is it to understand or how hard is it to learn how to do simple things in Drupal. And once you get into Drupal, you really love it but if you're brand new, these little things should be easy. And so part of the work around that has been looking more at the content editor experience and the admin experience. So two projects underway to fix that are the new Claro admin theme. I don't know if everybody's tried that but that just basically refreshes the admin UI and makes it much more friendly, more accessible. And then the new front-end theme. So when you first install Drupal you have something a little bit more inspiring to look at as you build it. The Olivero theme I think helps a lot with that. But there's also been, you know, I've done a bit of UX research in the last couple years comparing Drupal to other CMSs and looking at the content editor experience. And I think delving more into those issues will also help but there's just so many little things to tackle there. It's a, there's always more work to do.


What's happening? It's Shane here and today we're going to be talking about the majors with the highest unemployment rates, right? So these are college degrees that people get and they're much more likely to end up being unemployed. So we're going to jump right into it. This is going to be a pretty quick one. But before we do that, make sure to gently tap the like button. We will set a goal of let's say 1100 likes on this video. And also don't forget to hit that subscribe button if you haven't done it already and ring the notification bell. All right. So first of all, before we get into the specific majors, let's talk about the type of degree. So when it comes to unemployment rates, you're going to notice that the type of degree, whether it's an associate or a bachelor's or a master's or a doctorate, is going to have different levels of unemployment. So in 2020, for instance, the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, if you had less than a high school diploma, you were probably going to have an unemployment rate of around 11.7% on average for the average person. With a high school diploma, it was about 9%. Some college, but no degree, it was 8.3%. An associate's degree was about 7.1%. A bachelor degree was 5.5%. A master's degree was 4.1%. A professional degree, which would be like a lawyer, like a farm D, something along those lines, that was 3.1%. And then the type of degree that had the lowest unemployment rate was a doctoral degree at 2.5%. So this clearly goes to show that the higher level of education that you have, generally speaking, you're more likely to be employed. Now, looking at data that was collected before 2020, obviously that kind of threw things off. It was very similar. And if you look at this data, you see a lot of engineering degrees having low levels of unemployment, accounting degrees, 2.3% here, finance 2.1%, nursing 1.7%. Education degrees actually came out on top as a group with 0.9% for education other. General education was 1.4%. Now, the way they collected this data, first of all, they only used very common degrees. And then second of all, they kind of bunched a bunch of different degrees together that maybe they shouldn't have like general medical and health services at 2.3%. That could be so many different degrees. But it's kind of nice to see a trend here. You see a lot of business degrees, a lot of science degrees, math degrees, engineering degrees, and technology degrees. Not so surprising. And then the average for a 25 to 29 year old with a bachelor's degree was about a 2.9% unemployment rate. Now, when you dive a little bit more deeply into the data and you look at specific degrees, this is what you're going to find. The number five major with the highest unemployment rate is going to be construction services. So, the unemployment rate, again, this was taken before the whole situation in the world. So, these numbers are not going to be exactly the same, but it was 6.1%. But more than that, the under-employment rate of this degree was 34%. Under-employment is basically when somebody is maybe like working part-time, they don't have a full-time job, or they are working in a career that's completely unrelated to their degree. Now, on top of that, the share of people who graduate with their bachelor's and end up getting a graduate degree is about 10%, which is pretty low. Next on the list, number four is going to be philosophy. The unemployment rate is going to be about 6.2%. However, the under-employment rate is an astronomical 50.9%. So, a lot of people who graduate with a philosophy degree end up doing something that has nothing to do with philosophy. Now, if you look at the number of people who graduate with a philosophy degree and then they end up going on to grad school, either to, you know, get a master's in philosophy, a PhD in philosophy, or become a lawyer, something along those lines, it's 57.3%. That, in my opinion, when you see numbers that high is a very, very bad sign because that means people are not able to get a job with just a bachelor's. It's nice to have the option to go back and get your master's or your doctorate if that's something you want to do, but you don't want to be forced into that situation. Next one on the list, number three is going to be anthropology. This one has an unemployment rate of 6.6%. Then the under-employment rate here is a whopping 59.1%, so it's actually even worse than philosophy. So again, a lot of people who are graduating with a anthropology degree are not able to get a career that has anything to do with anthropology. Then there is a 46.9% share that go on to get a graduate level degree. So again, very, very bad sign when you see something up at like 46.9%. The first one we talked about construction services was only 10%. Next one on the list, number two is going to be liberal arts. The unemployment rate here is 6.7%. The under-employment rate is 58%. And then the share of students who graduate with this degree end up getting a graduate level degree is around 27%. So not as bad as the other ones, but still a relatively high number. And then number one on the list at 7.8% unemployment is going to be mass media. The under-employment rate here is 55.2%. And the share with a graduate degree is a pretty decent 18.3%. But that unemployment rate of 7.8% is very high. I know that probably doesn't seem like a big difference, but economists have done studies on the unemployment rates. For every 1%, the unemployment rates go up. Sometimes they'll say like 50,000 extra people die in the United States, for instance. Those aren't exact numbers, so don't quote me on that. But studies are very similar to that. The unemployment rate is very important is what I'm trying to say. So yeah, quick video for you guys. Hope you enjoyed it. Go ahead, if you haven't done it already, check out my college 101 course down in the description below. Hit that like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, etc. that you have on the video. And I will see you next time.


Thanks for checking out this video. So this is the announcement for what the next watch party will be and when We did one as our trial run for the void through shutter and it went well. It was a lot of fun It's very awesome to be able to actually talk to people and see them as the film is going on So you can kind of make a comment here or there So that said the details you're gonna need first of all It's going to be Saturday December 5th at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time And we are going to be watching a Bay of Blood which is by Mario Bava It's an older film and it's actually considered to be the film that inspired Friday the 13th and that entire franchise So much so that even two of the kills in the film were stolen and used in some of the Friday 13th films so If that sounds interesting to you or if you're just interested in giallo because that's the subgenre of Italian horror This is is giallo, which I love Please join us or if you're just curious and I would say if you've never seen any Giallo definitely join us because we're gonna be talking about things little tidbits of knowledge during the film pointing cool Things out about the film and just enjoying it together So what do you really need to know other than date in the time? You need to know that you must have a shutter Account which you will have to sign into you must have Google Chrome And you must get the extension called seen her for Google Chrome and that is pronounced SCENER now you'll also have to set up an account for seen her I Would do that ahead of time to make sure that when you're going to get into it Things go a lot smoother. So I will be starting the movie around seven o'clock I'll wait for some people to kind of get in first And then yeah, but I need to send out a code because I'm doing it as a private room at the moment So it's like a private party. So go ahead and email me At brutal battle podcast at gmail.com and brutal spelled B. R. E. W. T. A. L. brutal battle podcast at gmail.com Send me your email address and I will make sure that around 650 ish that I email out the code To the room and then you can sign into seen her sign into shutter And then get into the room and we can start watching the movie and starting having a good time And like I said when we did the void it was a very good time. So this is the way we're going forward I might go back to a live stream here or there at some point But at the moment these watch parties are a lot of fun and I hope that you would like to join me So once again, we're watching a Bay of Blood by mario baba through shutter on saturday december 5th at 7 p.m Eastern standard time hope to see you there Real quick also So you don't miss announcements like this or any other videos You're interested in make sure you're subscribed to the channel Make sure you hit that notification bell because then you'll get alerts about that stuff And I would appreciate that as well because growing the subscriber base helps my channel out quite a bit But anyway, thanks for checking this out. Uh, send me your email. Don't don't forget brutal battle podcast at gmail.com Yeah, and until next time keep it brutal