Hey everyone my name is Lashay and I'm a senior chemical engineering major and I'm paying to give you your live tour of Yocum Hall today. Behind the camera we have... Hi everyone my name is Emily Layal I'm a marketing intern with University Housing and feel free to tell us where you're tuning in from. As you can see there are a lot of beautiful favorite part of Yocum just like all the forestry at the front. Do you want to point out a couple of the points of interest around here? Yes so around here we have Walton Business School which is one of the universities like bigger colleges. We also have Kemple Hall right across there. We are also very close to the 1021 Dining Hall which is great as well as there are a few food places just around the corner like where the wild greens are, slim chickens, Starbucks, things of that sort are just like a couple steps away. And someone in the chat says they're tuning in from Cabo, Arkansas. And where are y'all been from? I'm from San Antonio, Texas so I'm from Freeport, Bahamas. So here we have the entrance and just like most of the dorms the entrances are fogged for security so that's not just where any student on campus it's particular to students that live in this dorm are the only ones that have access to it. Do you want to introduce yourself? Sure. Hi I'm Lene Patterson-Nukum I am the CRE or Coordinator for Residence Education for Yolkham Hall. All right well here we have front desk which is where during the school hours this is where you come to pick up your packages things like that if you have a lockout and here we have Kit. He's a wonderful gentleman. How are you today Kit? Good, how are you doing? I'm pretty good. Anything you want to say to our audience? Tips? Tricks? Well first hello getting ready for the school year to start. Make sure you double check your address, your mailbox number. There are videos available on how to open your mailboxes. Make sure you review those so that when you get here you're ready to go. All right thank you Kit. If we go this way we will see that there are also co-ed bathrooms on this floor so this is just the general area without getting into any of the residence rooms so I guess if you have friends over and stuff like that instead of using the bathroom with the other community they can come down and use this one. I also like that they have two height water fountains because some some of us are on the shorter side now I'm not as sure to use this one but I do like it. Here we have one of the greatly painted rooms. I really enjoy this blue and orange color. It just gives life to the room. We also have like the light blocking chairs which are really good for if you're just sitting down studying or you just want to like be out in the open and enjoy like the atmosphere in the room but don't really want to be like social. The chairs kind of make you feel like you're in an individual slot. Over here is where your mailboxes will be located and as Kent mentioned on your housing portal is where you will find your mailbox number as well as the combination and on top in case you don't get to watch those videos it tells you step-by-step how to open it. It is a bit tricky for some students in the beginning but you'll get to hang a bit by like the second week. Do you remember the twist combination like have to go two left one right? Do you remember? Yes, so like I said it's right there so you have to go left to the first number right past the first number one time to the second number and then go left to your last number then a little bit right just to here click and then you open it. Okay, that's the secret recipe. I want to make a note too that like Alicia said like there's some great furniture in here honestly it's pretty easy that you can just move it around and rearrange it as needed so usually we'll do different programs and events with our RAs hosting those events again great space we have the TV in the back too so sometimes we'll host movie nights and things like that just some party games stuff like that it's really fun. It also has beautiful lighting for pitches if you haven't noticed because the lighting in this room is tall too. So there's this building. Cherie you're watching anything these days? Do you stream? No I do stream. I am more of a horror film fan. I like horror movies and right now I'm more of a true crime podcaster. Okay okay. What's your favorite true crime podcast? There's a true crime and paranormal podcast and it's cold and that's why we drink shout out and that's why we drink yeah it's basically two women telling reasons why they have to drink because these things happen in the world it's pretty it's serious and informative but they also try to be comedic and like the lighter side of things. Yeah I'll pop in here because this is actually my office so during the normal year when I'm hosting like office hours and things like that sometimes we'll have meetings and things so my might not always be in my office but you can find me here in this weird little corner on the ground floor elevators are right there but you can feel free if you have any questions concerns just want to have a friend to chat with like I'm here I've got quite a few couches in there so there's plenty of comfy space for you to come hang out. Alright and down this hall is where we will find our laundry room. Like most of the other dorms on campus the laundry is free which is my favorite part of living on campus. You have an excessive amount of washers and dryers. I would also like to point out that there is also a laundry app where you can choose this building and you just look at the number of your wash or dryer and it'll tell you how much time is left on it or if you're looking to say well oh you feel like doing laundry today you can pop it open and see if there are any washes or dryers available because sometimes if you try to wash like on the weekend it's like booked out so you can figure out before you take all your laundry down here just to realize like there's no open washers. It's also our ice machine, tables for folding for those of us who actually fold our laundry right out of the dryer.  Not much to see in this dark room but this is where it is. Is it a switcher? Yes.  I just like the smell in there is incredible there's no smell at all. I'm very surprised that our ISA staff has done a wonderful job. Has everywhere smelling like peaches and lavender. I'm in love with it. So what brought you here from the Bahamas? Well you know a lot of people ask me that question and they are really shocked by the answer because I literally typed into Google engineering colleges in America and there was like this list of colleges from like I guess best engineering colleges to like worse like one to ten and I kind of just applied to like the ten on that list and then I got the acceptance that are from here and I started looking into like the community and like the international students and then I also found out that the University of Arkansas actually has an agreement with the Bahamas so I get a like redacted rate on my tuition as well so I don't pay about like 80% of my international fees so shout out to our international students come out and check it out see if you qualify because that helps a lot. I can imagine. So over here we have more recycling as well as vending machines which are normally fully stocked throughout the school year. I think someone probably comes and stocks them each week. Yes. Restocks them. Yeah for the summer right now we haven't had a whole lot of conferences or people staying in the building over the summer so they don't regularly restock them but they're definitely full all the time throughout the year so lots of options here we've got sodas coffee drinks yes yes snacks and things there's lots of options. Very much a coffee drinker. All right if you look down here we have what used to be phone boots something I know nothing of using once upon a time once upon a time and across here we have a little kitchenette as I like to say because it's not really a full kitchen but it does have a stove and it is open for use for all of the residents. It's also attached to this grand room here and Linnea would you like to tell us about some of the events that are in this room. Yeah so again like I said upstairs there's a smaller TV that's in here but usually they'll do some different events sometimes they might host some like jackbox parties or things but we've got the pool table and ping pong I know students love those all the time so there's definitely some great options just if you want to have some casual things you can check out that equipment from the front desk but our RAs will also host programs down here for different things again because of the kitchen they'll host some different like food options and things maybe just have like a general potluck meal if people want to come down and share some things there's a fridge over here as well that is a shared community fridge so as with both the fridge and the kitchen space since that is a shared community space we ask the residents you know keep it just yeah make sure that you're being courteous of others around you and clean up after yourselves and I'm thinking with a shared community fridge there's a lot of people probably are coming from home but they've never shared like that writing your name on your food because even sometimes in writing your name that's like if Linnea and I buy the same like flavor yogurt she may not really remember the check like is this does this say Linnea all the shade so I normally like to like just do containers like different colors just so I know like anything that's in this container I can eat whenever I want and the school also provides like micro fridge micro fridges which is like microwave and a fridge combination if you're not one that's very comfortable with sharing a fridge or you just don't want to walk way down here every time you're hungry color coordinated for your wow yes next level it's important to coordinate I would also like to point out that this room is also wheelchair accessible so we don't leave out our disabled students as well so they can come on down and enjoy the activities and we're getting a couple people in the chat who are asking hoping that we'll show a chase room later yes we will I think I saw someone in the chat asked for a single chase room as well and if we can we'll we'll show that yes all right well let's head up there yeah I was also going to jump in real quick just because we're talking about programming that the RA's do not necessarily that you want to always show up to all the RA programs but we definitely encourage you to but we've also got an initiative going on throughout the campus that is the pick one initiative and so if you go to pick one spelled out o-n-e at dot u-arc.edu so pick one dot u-arc.edu so we're encouraging all of our students to get involved early on before they even get here you can go to hog sink and scroll through all the tons of different RSOs or registered student organizations and pick basically just just literally one organization that like you're interested that you're excited about that you want to get involved in so that's one way that you can kind of start getting involved on campus early and they're also giving away some prizes for getting all that signed up and set up before August 1st so make sure that you're checking that out too if you're looking for opportunities to get involved on campus and housing we have residents Interhall Congress which is our on-campus government usually what happens with RIC is we have a lot of lead hog students so lead hogs is one of our leadership programs that our incoming freshmen usually get involved in we also have lead more so if you're a returning student on campus you can also get involved with that but usually as part of lead hogs that kind of also leads into RAC so you can serve as a representative for your hall as part of that whole Congress process we will be getting into the elevator now to go up to the rooms so we may lose connection for a little bit just bear with us we'll see how our connection holds up you can see on the walls here we have some padding that's that's for moving and move out protect the walls yes bring in a lot of like dollies and things to kind of move their stuff around and bang around pretty easily oh that's the answer to one question as well dollies are provided during moving and move out to help you kind of facilitate from the car to your room so if you live on the 10th floor don't worry about taking those stuff up the stairs or piling them into the elevator I pushed it again I forgot about that because the first time that happened to me it startled me a little bit I thought there was a ghost but apparently the way though like our elevators are weighted one automatically goes up to the sixth floor so if you're on the elevator and it randomly takes you up to the sixth floor because you didn't press anything that's what's happening about the dollies though we do have limited numbers and you do need to have an ID some people also ask about cards because some of the halls do have moving carts but unfortunately our building we cannot accommodate the carts just because we're an older building the doors are quite enough unfortunately so we do have dollies though so if you can bring your own dolly that's also highly encouraged since we do have limited dolly options for you to check out and just to say like the hallways the building holds I think about 547 students 27 27 yeah I want to be exact so a little bit over 500 students and the halls are are normally gender gendered by either floors or sides of the hall so we're not sure they kind of decide that a little closer to the school year but just know that the genders won't be mixed so bathrooms will either be male or female on each side of the hall or the whole floor will be female so they are labeled so that's helpful to someone asked what floor we're on we're on floor 10 yes so this is what your average community bathroom looks like there are two showers and two toilets in here the showers have shelving as well as a little area to get dressed which is what I love about it so the trick for that is to make sure that you invest in like caddies and stuff like that please caddies putting your keys in the catty so you don't lock yourself out of your room while you go to take a shower learn from my mistakes keep your keys on you when you go to the bathroom I love your room spot from because of this mirror right here most bathrooms in the dorms don't have a full-length mirror in the bathroom so picture opportunities so now we'll go and take a look at a case room we also call these lofted rooms these this is the standard double lofted room or chase room it comes with a television which is awesome and feel free to ask any questions you have about dimensions in this room we're also going to be looking at the single chase room and the standard yes so this is different as in there aren't any mirrors in this room so this will probably be the dorm where if you wanted to bring a full-length mirror with you that would work perfect place for it will probably be under the television their towel wraps behind the door for each person as well as two dressers and a chair are we getting any questions there was a single request we'll go to take 28 go quick and look at a single version of this and then we'll go into the main room so if you have questions for now or take questions on the wind chase rooms 1028 to your left left again Hannah asked how do you know if you have a chase room you can go if you got it yeah so on the university website their chase rooms they tell you which rooms are the chase rooms so once you get assigned your room you can just do a check and see today lofted room and so this is the single lofted room it just is the same amount just a little smaller than the double and with one set of furniture there isn't a TV in this one but you have more space to set a TV up if that's what you want to do you're getting a couple questions they're not too sure what size the bed is in a single chase room so maybe we should measure it so the bed is about 74 and 78 so that's like a standard team okay someone asked if we could show a single room with a bathroom assistance how bathroom in their room if you are an RA and you want to see your room I think our a lot to like request tours from their CRE now we done on a separate time for now we're just showing the standard rooms for regular students Mel asks what's the distance between the towel racks 22 inches about Sid asked can you pick if you want a single or double not at this stage of the game those decisions have already made a lot of people who contracted early got a chance for those singles but at this point that's pretty much already they're all grabbed up did we explain why it's called a pipe chase okay just there's a pipe behind this wall and it goes to the whole building that's the only reason it's called a pipe chase chase is the pipe someone asked do the chase room still come with the TVs because this one does a double then yes it's just kind of a way to compensate for having two people and less space otherwise as a single you generally have a lot more space to work around than if you were to have a roommate so at least the doubles will have a TV but the singles don't and fortunately I believe students are also not allowed to loft their own TVs mountain so yeah you can't put anything on our walls it's gonna leave a permanent mark and someone asked can we see 10 22 please is 10 we do try to accommodate those if we're on your floor we'll try but we're going in there blind so if you see anything weird we're on it all right we're on the move into the thick yeah heading to 10 22 get to have this nice view of Humphries if you want to you know it's all the same oh yeah oh you came pretty nice and there are better views on the other side as well here we are so 10 21's right here or was it 10 22 10 22 oh the corner okay so this is 10 22 you also have a very nice view of the stadium from this side of the building it's there yeah these are a lofted they typically aren't lofted when you move in this is about the second highest that these beds can go so they can go to about here so you have plenty space for like an entire life someone was asking how big is the space between the pipe chase in the wall mad asks you may have already shown them but are their community and study locations right now they we are having like max occupancy for most of our dorms so we are turning a few of them into rooms so yes they're normally are we may have fewer of them than usual but they're still maybe one or two because you know studying is the reason that we're here yeah we definitely want to accommodate that and if anything we do have RAs that are focused on academics and promoting academic success while you're living on campus so we will definitely be working on connecting you with other study spaces that are close by so that way if you can't find a you know private study space for yourself within the building you can go just nearby so that way you've got some place to study pipe chase comes out about 42 inches from the wall Mel asked is there only one bathroom on the floor or two technically I think there is a total of four but it's one per side so since the way it's kind of if you think about it our building is like an H and so the middle bar of the H is where the elevator is and so each of those sections have their own L or own bathroom. Mel asked what is the default height default height of standard room beds. I don't know the exact measurements that would be interesting if we want to check. Yeah you can go to. You can go to movein.urc.edu go under ready to arrive you'll find that about halfway down the page and there's an area on that page about lofting and there you'll find the three-inch increments that are allowed and you can you can lock the three inch increments. Or you can put it at the bottom, whatever works for you. Someone asked can you give a measurement of the lofted bed on the floor? From the to the floor? Yeah. It might be easier to do from the top. Yeah. You know I just like to do things the crazy way. 63 and a half inches. That's going to include that measurement of that so let's see if we did it from right here like right there. Yeah. There you go. That will be 50 about 55 inches. Norma asked is this corner room the same as a standard room? I really think it is. There might be an additional foot maybe here or it's slightly different. We can move into another one just so you don't miss a corner. So this is a standard room? The shelving that's built in the desk is built in and it's actually pretty nice little molten boards if they want to decorate those and customize those for themselves. Elle asks how much wall space is there between the bookshelves and the window behind the bed? So we could like... Oh from there. Oh they're wanting to know from the bookshelf to the window. And it's subtract about two inches from that if we hit the blinds or add about two. Let's do it this way. Okay. That's smart. It's about 56 inches. And Albert asks, Apology in Advanced I've done no reading on this. If there is a COVID case is the student moved to a quarantine area in each hall? Right now we're encouraging students if they have a positive case to go home I believe. We've got an FAQ set up on movein.york.edu where that's basically explaining what we... We have some limited quarantine and isolation space on campus. Limited compared to last year, but a little bit. Gracie asked, Is there any way you can give an estimate of a loft that's 39 inches? 39 inches would be divided that by 12. Can we do that? What is that? 3 feet 3 inches? It's 3 feet 3 inches, yeah. 3 feet 3 inches. So a foot is like a foot. So 3 of those. One, two, three. And then a little bit bigger. So maybe like right there. Do you want to test it out? Sure. Let's give it a go. Let's see. Let's see your estimation. That was 40. Did she say 39? Mm-hmm. No, that was about 41. That was pretty good. Okay. I mean, foot's fine. Sid asked, So you can change the height of the beds? Yes. So normally you're able to change the height of the beds yourself. You can also put in a maintenance request to have it lofted before you get here, which is what we often recommend. You can also have your roommate help you unloft it. It just needs to be unhooked and put in the correct slot. So yeah, you can loft and unloft as you try to figure out what works for you and what doesn't. Go to Google, type in. Yes, go to Google. I think the correct link is housing.uark.edu. But I never remember. So I always put uark. I go into Google, I put uark and then I put whatever word I'm looking for. So I'm looking for uark, lofting, uark, maintenance request, anything like that. And it's way easier to find. It's normally the first link on the page. Yeah, I was going to say in terms of like requesting it, that's the only thing we encourage you to do it beforehand so that way they can come in and have the bed lofted ahead of time while our maintenance staff have a little more time that they can come in and do that. But it can get a little bit busier once everybody starts coming in and realizing all the things that like they need adjusted or fixed. And so basically that's why we want to encourage you to do it earlier and then trying to get here and wait to do it. But we do have mallets that are also available for checkout at the front desk and that'll help you kind of like lift out that frame itself so you can loft it. The thing with these beds too is that the like, I don't know what to call this, the loft bracket, it's only like partially through. So basically what you would need to do if you want to have a lower bed or something, you can flip it and so you would flip this part of the frame and then load in the frame itself. There are also areas that are here and they know what they're doing and they can help you with lofting, unlofting as much as you want. I'll definitely give you some tips too if you need some help. Norma asked, can you please measure the outer edge to the outer edge of the bed post and the inner edge to the inner edge of the bed post? I certainly can. This is inner edge I think? Yes, this is inner. So inner is about 34 inches. Outer is about 38. Mads asked, how do students get up to a lofted bed? Do they need to bring a ladder or... Well... There's multiple methods. Those of us that have faith in these bed frames, I myself just use this as a ladder. Feel free to bring a stepping stool, a ladder, anything that makes you comfortable. I'll say the average student just climbs on up from the sides. And I know some people will take that route. Oh no. Not recommended. Not recommended, but this is the safest. I've definitely seen people bring in some step stools and things or even like, I've seen some custom-made staircases that people have brought in that work for them. If you're a handy like that and you have family number or just one page, if you've got everything, honestly that's a great option too if you feel safer that way. What room number are we in? 1022. 1022. All right. Dawn asked, can you measure the width of outer edge to outer edge of bed post? Did we just do that? We got that one. Yeah. Moxie asked, can I please very kindly request a tour of Yokum 0409B. 0 would that be on the floor? 4. 4. 4 on 9? That's 4 on 9. Okay. And then a second person. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, fortunately we're here on the 10th floor and so we're going to be touring this floor but I appreciate that. Perhaps you can reach out to housing that you are going to need and we can see if we can do something for you there. Hannah asked, which bed is a door or window? So basically you'll think about it like you're looking, like you read a letter left to right. So when you come into the room, the left will be A and then the right will be B. But I also feel like if you and your roommates, both like your window person and they don't care for the window, I don't think housing is going to be like, no, you have to sleep over here. The biggest thing with that really is just when it comes time to check out because usually we have like, you're assigned that space. So if somebody has checked out early and we can't confirm if you were in one space or the other, sometimes you might get charged for somebody else because you swapped. But ideally if you want to swap and like you both agree, you can call housing and get that assignment swapped for each other and then that way it's in our system ready to go and you don't have that confusion at the end of the year and everybody still gets to stay in the same room. It's a super easy process. But letting us know early is the key. Do not wait until it's time to move out and you're like, oh, I live on B side but I have the keys for A and that kind of confusion. So the earlier you and your roommate decide whether you want to swap, the better. Someone asked, what are the typical safety procedures for those on higher floors? Really, we have screens in place on the building, but generally it's not generally, but it is not allowed, you cannot go out onto the ledges, it is discouraged to even go on the first floor because I know on the ground floor, some people like to try to climb on those, but those are, you know, big safety issues. So we will have signs that are up and posted saying, you know, cautioning against that and how that is not allowed and that it does violate our residence hall handbook. Carson asked, what sizes are the beds in the standard rooms? They're the same as these, I believe. Let me just check my cheat sheet here. Isn't the door side twin? The door side is 75 inches, the window side is 80. Okay. And Moxie asks, can I please measure the exact width of the inner edges of the window for a spring-loaded curtain rod? Tension rod, right? Yeah. I'm not sure what it looks like over there. Emily, could you show her what it looks like in the wardrobe? It's just a little corner area.  Does she want both? I think she wants the full width of the window. Yeah. I'm never able to keep a curtain on. So I think if you brace your thing over here and hit this wall, you'll be fine. You don't have to develop it. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah. It's going to be in 100 inches area. Oh, there you are. 129.5. All right. And Hannah asks, and can you confirm that the window bed is the slightly longer bed? I can confirm. We'll even measure it right now just to make sure. Let's see. Can you measure it this way? Well, yeah, you can measure it that way if you'd like. That way is going to be 36 round the bell. And then the other one, this should be 80 across. Here, can we help you out here? This is the mattress, but here's the bed. You want to go from like here then? That's just the mattress, but we wanted the bed. So from here? Yeah. Let's see. Can you get my hand in there? I can. Oh, I can. 82. About 80. About 80, yeah. Norma asks, can you please measure the height of the bed post? 60 inches. And Jody asks, can we see the closet? I will say a lot of students, this is also where they put their micro fridges in like a corner, one of these corner spaces. It fits really nicely. And you can make it like this one section and have your closet on the other. That way you don't have to think about putting it somewhere that blocks the mirror or like your working spaces. Parker asks, what's the view from the window? The view is the football field, the stadium, the parking lot. Okay, there we go. That's the view from the 10th floor. Very beautiful. You also get a lot of mountains, which is nice. Yes. This sun will wake you up for class every morning. Right on time. And Voxie asks, can you please take the measurements of the desk drawers? So there's two. This is about 19 inches. And maybe do the, this way too. And the. So it's 19 deep, about 12 and a half across. And Claire asks, can you measure the bottom of the bulletin board to the floor? 51 inches. Alberta asked, where do you see most students place the fridge in the microwave? And I'll say that I saw many people put it under their bed and put the microwave somewhere on here. But as Lashay said. I've seen people stack it and just put it like, if you notice this, the closet has like this part. So I've noticed people like put it here and then use the rest of the closet.  Yeah. One common question we get is how many outlets do you have? I've counted 10. Yeah, just quite a lot. Right. And we average about 8 to 10 in every room. Someone asked, can the dorm wallpaper be used? It's basically contact paper. So here's the caveat about that. If you use anything on our walls and don't damage them and they're removed at the end of the year, you're fine. If they damage them in any way, if any paint comes down, then there will be a charge. So high caution on those wallpapers. I've seen people who have done an excellent job of removing it and they're experts at pulling it off and cleaning off any kind of residue. But I've also seen unfortunately the opposite end where people literally just pulled it off and unfortunately it took off huge chunks of paint of things and ruined things. So we don't want you to be charged at the end of the year. We want you to have a good experience and try to decorate like you can. But also, you know, do take that into consideration. So one way I combated that is I did tapestries instead of wallpaper. Amazon, Walmart, places like that. You can get different sized tapestries and just cover the entire white wall from ceiling to floor and just forget that there was ever a wall there. So that's a good like swap out. I'm a wallpaper person too, but I've become a tapestry lover over the years. Someone asked, will I get in trouble at the desk if I use desk A or desk B's desk chair? The chairs? I mean, those generally don't matter. I mean, that's kind of up to you and your roommate, but otherwise like the chairs themselves. It's mostly the space that you're occupying that's the concern about like what space you're living in.  Your RA will meet with you and you'll set up an RA or the RA will set up a room agreement time.  So maybe if there's something that's like, you know, your times that you wake up having guests, all of those things you'll have a good discussion about and so you can set some of those guidelines with each other. Very, very, very important. Mel asked, is there a built-in work light in the desk? Yes, underneath, I believe. There's switches right there. Oh, wow. Super nice. Very bright in the evenings. And someone said, my son had his own room last year in Yokum and he put his fridge in the space. She just talked about, I think, the closet and put the microwave on the counter with the mirror. Moxie asked, can we have LED strip lights along the walls? Again, I think, yeah, it's kind of the same thing that like if you're able to take them off without ripping off any paint, then again, that's great because I know I see a lot of students that bring those in and they're really great aesthetically. They look really nice, but yeah, it's just, I think, being careful about how you remove them. There are a ton of forbidden items, if you will, in the room. You can go to movein.ur.edu and see what items are absolute no-nos. Lights like that are not an absolute no-no. It's just how you mount them. Open flames, that's a no-no. And I will say another trick. I like to decorate, so I figured out how to do it. So painter's tape or blue tape won't ruin the walls. If you fold the blue tape the same size as the LED strip, you can actually put it on the wall using the painter's tape instead of the tape that it comes with, and it'll come off with ease. I've also found that if you buy separately the command strips that actually have the pull tab, you can usually pull those off easier because it's just the straight matting tape that they come with because those usually don't have the easy release. Moxie also asked, can we use a George Foreman grill? Unfortunately, no. I made this joke at orientation, but we don't want any instances like... Picking your foot? Yeah, my old sat office. Making breakfast right in the first morning.  So unfortunately, basically anything that has an open coil or heating element, those are not allowed in the halls. That also includes air fryers, I've heard a lot of questions. Yes. I know toasters are a no-no. Do some microwave. Candles are a no-no. Mostly because of the wax. That could be a real big issue with trying to clean it up where people are smelling poor wax down the sink, and that's also not fun to clean up. There's a lot of things you can't break. Yeah, there's some great things, honestly. I can set a candle there, like the glade or the air wick plug-ins. Those work just well. I know a big fan of Bath & Body Works, and they have the wall plug-ins. Those are good recently. Gracie asked, do you use your key card to get into your room? You have an actual key, so you use your fob to get into the building, but your room doors you use the actual key to key in and unlock and unlock. Heather asked, are all the beds lofted high like this? No. These just were left unlofted from move out. Actually, somebody requested. Oh, these are requested? They wanted their van to the ceiling. At the end of the year, we asked all residents to lower them, and so the sixth rung from the bottom is where your bed should be, so all of the bed frames across the hall should be at that level, unless you've already put in a request. So anybody who's put in that request, they should be lofted now. Tamar asked, does an RA's room have that same shelving space slash desk and closet area? Some of them, I think, because I know we kind of looked at some of the chased rooms. Some of those are RA rooms, but there are also the different rooms that have like this where it's like the built-in shelving. Norma says, thank you so much for y'all's help. Give me the ceiling height, and can you also show the corner of the bed where the black frame meets the bed post? I don't have that dimension here, so if you want to capture it real quick. That is 96 inches. All right. Do you want to show the corner of the bed post? I think she needs this other frame apart. Yes, and then they get in with these little notches on the... And then... Will someone ask, will I get in trouble if A swaps with B halfway through the semester so we can each have a turn at the window? Not if you do it the right way. And like Linnea said, just going through housing and requesting it, it's such a quick process that you just have to call someone from housing or even talk to cancer the front desk. Let them know that you too are wanting to switch A and B. He can properly tell you how to go about that process. I would advise, please request it before you do it just to avoid any confusions when it comes to move out. And Moxie asked, is a Keurig coffee machine okay? Absolutely. Definitely. You're going to need it. Yeah, all of our students have brought in their own Keurig that might be one of those really full fancy ones. Are they even having the single serving ones? But I feel like, okay, as a coffee drinker, they are a must have. Yes, I had a Keurig. I also had like the compartment that you slide out with all of the parts. So those are totally fine to have. And like we talked about the counter space up here is usually a really great place to put those. Parker asked, do you know what side room 802 faces? The 22s. So we'll pick them to the other side. I think so. Would it be over here? Over here. This is north. No, this is, yes, this is north. So it would be at, I believe south and east. I think it lets us down on this side. I'm pretty sure it's back down on that. Okay. So I don't think it faces the stadium. It does not. Okay. I'm still great views though. Yes. Yes. Moxie asked, can you please take the exact measurements of the closet drawers from the inside? I'm thinking maybe these. There's a couple of different ones. 20 to about 21 and a half inches deep. 14 inches across. It's about 21 and a half inches deep in. 30 inches across. And I'm going to measure like how deep it goes down. And it's about nine inches down. All right. And someone else asked, are we able to bunk the beds when we get there? Typically no, but that can also be put in as a request through maintenance. So usually maintenance will have to handle any kind of, but otherwise we don't encourage students to do that themselves. Heather asked, how high are these lofted? I think we determined. I feel like we got that measurement earlier. Yeah. And Moxie asked, can you please focus the camera to the electrical plugs and electrical panel on the closet wall? Well, there's some plugs here. Oh yeah. And then plugs there. And then there's thermostat. And then we've also got cable hookup as well. So we do provide Cox cable. So that's where that hookup will be. And you can plug in your TV and everything. And then there's also additional plugs over here. There's also the Wi-Fi box so you can plug your Ethernet cable directly into your laptop. It's 56 inches by the way. And we're caught up on the questions. Do you have any final thoughts for us? Any tips and tricks that you learned over your years? I would say, well my tip for living in Yocum is don't be afraid to venture into the North Campus. I know a lot of time students only dwell in the community of where they're living. So if you're on South, you tend not to, like, tarry down to the North. And if you live on North, you tend not to come down here. But don't let that stop you, like, venture out to the North Courts, the whole CUM. All the dorms have a lot of great social events. And I encourage you to go to events, meet people, or go to events, and don't meet anyone. Just enjoy the event. But go out there, put yourself out there, and, like, fully grasp the experience of being a deal of a because it is one of a kind. And we did get a few more questions. Norma asked, do you know if a student brings a headboard, do the headboard legs need to rest on the black bed frame and then zip tie to the bed posts? Typically that's what I've seen done. Usually you'd have to lower the bed just a little bit since there's not a whole lot of space here to kind of loft that on, or to, like, zip tie it. So unfortunately I think the bed would have to be a little bit lower. But I have seen people bring in their own headboards and then they just zip tie all the back of those onto the frame, like, kind of between the mattress and the frame here. Moxie asked, does it get chilly in the rooms during the winter? Yes. Yes. So, like, and that's another thing is, I've heard the unfortunate, like, stories of, like, students who went and suffered the entire year with, like, leaks in their windows and things like that. That is something I really want to encourage you to put in a fix it request as soon as you have any kind of issue. You can put in that fix it request and they will come in when they, as soon as they get the chance, usually that's pretty quick. They'll try to take care of those issues. So. And I think heaters aren't allowed. Space heaters aren't allowed. Space heaters aren't allowed. So blankets, blankets. Heated blankets aren't allowed either. Well, I meant regular blankets. Yeah, regular blankets. You have some really nice thick blankets. I mean, I think that's the plus side. So fluffy socks. Yeah. So, like, the plus side for living around Fayetteville and Bentonville, you've got all the Walmart corporation and all of that. So there's a lot of, like, brand new things that come out around here. So you always get some, like, high quality items. So I would say if you want to buy some new blankets and things like that or even just some fans for your room while it's, you know, warmer months, there's some great things that you can find around here. I will also say in that roommate talk, please discuss thermostat temperature. Yes. Yes. That kind of goes into the next question. Can we get in trouble if we use person A's electrical station if we're person B? Not if they allow you to. Yeah, just talk to your... Like, roommate agreement, you know, talk with your roommate as long as they agree, you know, that they're willing to let you use some of their space or vice versa. Just make sure that you're having that conversation with each other and you both are agreeing to that. Moxie asks, can Amazon and Walmart deliver to the rooms? Not directly to the room, but we do have our hall admin Kent at the front desk. So basically, that's his job is to sort through mail and packages. And so he will send out emails to the residents as soon as you get a package.  So we don't actually deliver them directly to the rooms, but you will be able to pick them up. Another tip about that is I would say wait for an actual university email versus like when Amazon tells you it's delivered, because just because it's delivered doesn't mean like Kent has processed through all of the mail. He doesn't just pick up packages singly as they come in. You get the entire dorms mail. So just to take a little pressure off of Kent, I would say when you do get a delivery email from the place that you bought it from, just wait maybe the same day or the day after for Kent to send you an actual university email. And that's when you can be 100% sure that you can go ahead and just pick up your package. How much space is there for a rug between the beds? I've got the measure. And then while she's getting that, while she's answering that, Gazelle asks does each room have control of the thermostat? Yes. You have to a certain extent, not going down to like 62 degrees, but 68 to 72 is a measure if you like to keep things. And that's about 77 inches in between the beds. And Moxie, the closest parking garage is Harman. Yes. And we're caught up. We did it. For my final thoughts, I just want to encourage all of you to get involved. I know as part of housing and our residence length program, we've got a lot of changes coming this next year that we're all really excited about and sharing those things, those insights with our residents that are living in the hall, but we really want to encourage you to make this community your own.  Definitely share that with your RA or even me. I'm definitely open to hearing all of those comments and feedback from my students that live with me because I'm part of the community as well. But otherwise, definitely get involved on campus. Again, there's the pick one initiative or just, you know, events and things that we'll be holding them in the halls too. So keep an eye out for those. We'll have some of those events on ConkSync that you can check out as well. But I'm looking forward to seeing all of you. All right. Bye and have fun in the autumn.


Good afternoon everyone. Welcome back to theCUBE's day one coverage of Snowflake Summit 2023. Live from Caesar's Forum in Toasty, Las Vegas. Though you wouldn't know it because we're all freezing inside Caesar's Forum. Lisa Martin with Dave Vellante. Dave, we always talk about every company regardless of industry has to be a data company. They have to be a software company. Last night, Jensen Huang from NVIDIA said there got to be AI factories, but intelligent data management is still at the core of organizations really extracting value from their data to deliver the insights and the outcomes that everybody wants.  Because data's ugly, you know? It's everywhere and it's never consistent. Yeah, a lot of people trying to make it pretty and extract insights from it. One of our alumni is back with us, Rick Tam Daniels, Global VP of Ecosystems and Technology at Informatica. It's great to have you back, Rick. Yeah, great to be here. So Informatica and Snowflake, a long partnership over eight years now. That's right. You guys made some big announcements this week. We got to talk about SuperPyte, which I know does not mean the Olympics and the flying tomato. Sounds like SuperCloud. It does sound like SuperCloud. Talk to us a bit about some of the things that you guys announced this week. Well, you're absolutely right. We have a long standing partnership with Snowflake and a big component of that is our joint innovation agenda, right? We're, as Informatica, we have so many customers around the globe that depend on us for critical data management and when they're using platforms like Snowflake, they're looking at us to stay ahead of the curve, right? To bring the latest and greatest innovations. And so one of the big ones you mentioned is SuperPyte for Snowflake. And we think about the different types of needs for data and data integration, enterprise data sources, like ERP systems, CRM systems, they're critical for analytics, right? But those systems are kind of hard to get data out of, typically. And in Informatica, that's our expertise, right? Is getting data out hard to get to places and able to bring that data though as quickly as possible at Snowflake. Because the other piece of it, that information's always changing. And you want to have it up to date. It's mission critical data. And so reducing the latency of data, making it more real-time, that's what SuperPyte's all about. So we see up to about three and a half times faster performance than our previous kind of change data capture, data replication technology. So it's a huge leap forward, leveraging some of the latest SnowPyte streaming capabilities from Snowflake. So is it a replacement for change data capture approaches? Would you say? So it's actually an optimized version of change data capture specific to Snowflake, right? So because of the engineering and product development partnership, we're leveraging some new capabilities in Snowflake that let us load data much faster, let us merge data in more quickly. So it's part of our kind of change data capture family, but it is such a huge leap forward. You know, it really deserved its own moniker. So hence SuperPyte. So it was joint engineering. Yes. Basic building blocks from Snowflake and then built on top of those. Is that right? Yeah, and as those blocks were in development, we're developing side by side and giving feedback back and forth and continue to make improvements and innovation together. So is that kind of, well, what if you did it this way? What if you did it that way? Exactly, yeah. How do you take advantage of it? Well, this is the trade-off. Exactly, and that's the depth of our partnership, right? The great example of collaboration. And where are customers in that collaboration? I imagine knowing Informatica and Snowflake because I do their integral to this collaboration. Oh yeah, absolutely. So right now we're in the public preview. We've had a private preview set of customers who gave us early feedback. A lot of excitement though, right? Because I think the demand for the data, the type of data we're bringing in is just huge and customers, the reception's been fantastic here, right? Seeing the performance gains and it's just, and the ease of use as well of just kind of activating this in their environment. So GPUs we heard last night from Frank Slutman and Jensen that GPUs aren't free, but evidently data integration is. Wait, how's that work? Yeah, so the other, one of our other big announcements is our cloud data integration free service tier. So last year at Summit we announced our free data loader. Giving about access to about 40 different data sources. And the whole concept here is just to lower the barrier, the entry on that first step of the journey. And Informatica, we're all about the complete data management journey, not just loading your data, but also cleansing your data, make sure it's trusted and usable and governed and cataloged. And so by that first step of, I just need to get my data in a snowflake, we're making that as easy as possible. That's why we have the free service offerings to get folks onboarded and starting to use our intelligent data management cloud. How does that play into Informatica's overall strategy? Well, it's a big part of, I think you look at how customers are adopting technology in the cloud today. I mean, Informatica, we've been on a consumption based model for quite a while now, which is really important. And we look at customers and how they want to onboard, they want to try things quickly, they want to get quick results. And that's what these service is all about, it's just super easy to sign up, you just put your email address in, that's it, right? And your access to the service is instantaneous and you can start loading data. So it's a big part of let's get started fast, but then when you hit those other challenges that can sometimes hold back scaling, like data quality, like data governance, our platform's there and it's all integrated and it's got that AI foundation underneath it as well, which is so important. We love consumption based models, I advise a lot of software companies, like years ago, this is the future, you got to go consumption based for most companies. But they also bring a challenge, in fact, Slutman actually talked about this last night, you got to be disciplined, you got to pay attention and it's great because it aligns with the value. But the other thing he said, or maybe it was Jensen said that LLMs create a whole new equation there. So how do you think about that consumption based model in the context of LLMs that you've introduced? Well, and you're absolutely right, in the consumption based world, customer success is paramount, right? And from an informatic perspective, we're doing great, I'll know those lines, we're up to I think 54 trillion transactions a month, we're running through our cloud platform, right? So that's about 69% growth year-over-year, so plenty of consumption coming onto the platform. So I think that's a big element of it. When you think about the LLMs space, there are really two angles for us in generative AI. The first is those models need data, right? That has not gone away and they need trusted data, they need high quality data. So we see a huge demand and opportunity for our services and the data management side there. But we're also invested heavily in using generative AI to really revolutionize data management. And so we announced our Clare GPT and Clare Co-Pilot Informatical World back in early May to address those kind of opportunities. So tell us more about both of those products. Yeah, so Clare GPT, the idea is, I think one of the big transformative things about generative AI is it actually lets you take some very complex and nuanced requests, express them in pretty significant descriptive English language descriptions, and then actually turn them into something actionable, executable, right? So you think about our data management cloud interface. Instead of sitting on a canvas, drawing a mapping or a pipeline, it's, I have a text box and I want to tell it, I need data from these three systems. I'm going to, the target's from my CEO, needs to look at executive dashboard. I need these metrics, this rollup, and be able to turn that into a pipeline of integration, connection, quality and everything is hugely transformative. So that's a bigger focus for us is helping customers kind of just have that next generation experience and really huge productivity enhancement. And then on the Clare Co-Pilot, that's all about in our regular product experience, how do we bring the power of generative AI to help make better decisions, to help have assistive technology to recommend data quality transformations or items that you should be concerned about. Again, it's all about efficiency and acceleration of the work when it comes to data management. Is that, now, is that the products that you've announced? Yes. It's shipping yet or it's in beta? Yeah, so we're in private preview with those right now, so early customers are there. And I think, but we announced a minute for medical world we've been working on for quite a while and it is a big area of focus for us. And how do you, everybody talks about guardrails, how do you make sure the thing doesn't hallucinate or give bad, is that part of what you're working on now to sort of put those sort of frameworks in place? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, so the trust in governance is critical, right? So governance is going to be important. So when I have a result from these generative AI tools that generate a mapping or a pipeline or definition, how do I make sure they're high quality? How do I make sure it's producing the right thing? So that validation verification, absolutely part of it. The nice thing is the domain we're in though in terms of what we're creating and generating is it's not the Wild West of the public domain where you're just searching everything in the internet. So it's a little more constrained, controlled and a little more manageable from that perspective. But absolutely, governance is top of mind, like it always is for us. Is in your world though, even though it's more narrow, is explainability critical? So how do you create that transparency? Is that something that you guys designed in? Did you partner for that? Yeah, so we have a whole team that's just focused on this area. And yeah, explainability and the user experience of what information needs to come with the output, right? When you look at some of the public GPT examples out there, explaining the sourcing of data, that's really important, right? What are the references? Where does that actually come from? Because that helps you, again, verify and make sure it's not hallucinated. Is it more than a link? Yeah, exactly. Is that fair to say? Absolutely, and we've always had very detailed lineage about what's going on with data. So when you create a mapping, you will give you a lot of transparency always into what's being done in our platform. And that's going to be absolutely critical for customers having confidence in the outputs of these capabilities. That confidence that you mentioned isn't trivial. That's incredibly important for organizations to have confidence, not just in the data, but in the systems and the quality of the data and the trust so that they can use that data, extract insights from it as quickly as possible and deliver to the end users. I'm curious, who's Claire? Is Claire an acronym? Yes, it's a good question, but there's a couple different stories where Claire stands for. But it conveniently has AI in it. It's actually an engine that we've had for quite a while. We've been invested in machine learning and AI and accelerating data management. But I think the difference is, previously with Claire, you could do things, like express the data quality rule in English language, right? It's like saying, okay, this value needs to be within these ranges, right? But the complexity of what you can express with generative AI is just a huge leap forward. So we're excited to build on that practice, that foundation and really accelerate into the generative AI space as well. And in customer conversations, where are you talking these days? Is it the chief data officer, chief information officer, lines of business? I imagine all of them need to align, but where are you finding customers coming to you saying help us out? Yeah, definitely chief data officer sits front and center to the conversation, but you have CIOs, you have chief analytics officers, and you have line of business. Line of business has become increasingly sophisticated on technology and data, and they have much bigger mandates there as well. But we do see this idea of a data community through data governance getting tighter, and the closer that community works together and collaborates around data, the more effective and efficient they are at transforming the business. So the native application framework, the container service has got a lot of the buzz today. I think you guys are taking advantage of at least some of that with the Snowflake native application. What's that experience been like? You guys are early on, I think there's maybe, I don't know, a couple dozen at this point in time, and knowing Snowflake, that's going to scale. But what's that experience been like? That's been great. I mean, it's similar to the work we're doing with SuperPype, highly collaborative, very close engineering, giving a tight feedback loops about what works, what doesn't work, and how we want to bring it to market. But at the end of the day, our native application is all about, again, lowering the barrier to entry, right? I want to be able to give the ability to use SuperPype without ever having to leave the Snowflake experience, but getting the power of the IDMC platform on the back end, right? The power that drives those 54 trillion transactions a month, customers benefit from that, but they can acquire this from the, they'll be able to acquire it from the marketplace. They announced today the ability to use your Snowflake credits and commit to actually purchase those third-party applications. So we're looking really excited about what's going to be a very frictionless and friction-free offering for customers and a way of acquiring our technology. Yeah, that was an interesting announcement that I think maybe it's a little bit misunderstood, but talking to a couple of customers, they're like, yeah, we get it, we're into it. This is a beautiful thing for us to just dial more optimization out of the platform. Yeah, and it makes a lot of sense if you look at the cloud platforms themselves and how they've approached marketplaces for the last several years, that concept of the spend commitment and being able to leverage as a third-party has been huge to help customers acquire all the pieces they need, but it is all about aligning that consumption-driven world. So what people might not know is even though we talk about consumption, there's an area under the curve you commit to a certain amount of spend. You don't have to spend it all in one month, but over the term, you do have to spend it. And so giving customers more options and more value vectors is a good thing. Yeah, absolutely. For example, we at Informatica where we also launched our new ISV Innovate Program for our ecosystem of ISVs who want to bring things like data security and data quality into our IDMC platform as well. Yeah, similar models, right? Do you have a favorite customer story or example that really shines a light on the value that Informatica is delivering to customers in simply flake environments? Absolutely. Actually, I just got done with the session with the Amaha Financial Credit and their great transformation story, right? They were in Informatica on-premises customer. We have a really strong modernization, automated modernization program for customers to go to our cloud offering. But they chose our IDMC platform not just because they were familiar with Informatica technology, but also because they wanted things like application integration. They wanted data governance and data catalog. And so we're really aligned in supporting their entire journey. They don't have to do it all on day one, but they know what the next steps are, right? As they get there. But they've had a huge impact on their business already in terms of just efficiency and their ability to leverage data as an asset. Well, we've got to become a data company and if they aren't already, they're on their way. Rick, thank you so much for joining us, sharing what's new with Informatica. Super pipe, clarifying what that is, clear GPT and all the things that you guys are doing together. We appreciate your insights. Thank you. All right, our pleasure. For our guests and for Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. Up next, stick around fresh from the keynote stage. Kristin Kleinerman joins us, the SVP of Product Management here at Snowflake. He's going to be having a couple conversations with Dave and George about Snowflake, so on innovations, announcements, bringing Gen AI to the enterprise at cloud scale, all that good stuff. I want to remind you that all of our Snowflake sessions, all of our CUBE events, you can find them on thecube.net and of course, all of our analysis on siliconangle.com. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage.


Hello everyone, my name is David Lopez, I'm a software developer at the University of Freiburg and I recently joined the Galaxy community and the Galaxy backend working group. In this learning talk, we are going to summarize some of the benefits of modernizing the current Galaxy API by using the latest features that Python and its SQL system have to offer. If you have used Galaxy before, you probably know what the Galaxy REST API is, or at least you have been using it all the time, maybe even without knowing it. The REST API or application programming interface is an essential part of the Galaxy server. It allows external system to access Galaxy programmatically via the HTTP protocol. In fact, the Galaxy web interface, or frontend, is an example of a client that uses the API to perform all the interactions with the server. So this interface enables multiple kinds of client to communicate with Galaxy. For example, it can be also used to automate and control complex data analysis and workflows in a programmatic way and integrate it with your own system and applications, using other client implementations like Biobend, for example. If you want to know more about how to use the API, I highly recommend checking your real call scripting Galaxy using the API and Biobend, available at the Galaxy training network. Or in case you want a deep dive into the Galaxy code architecture around the API, make sure to check out John Chilton's YouTube channel and the web request video. So why modernizing the API? Well, the codebase was initially developed using Python 2 a really long time ago, especially in terms of programming. It eventually evolved and grew with the technology available at the time and it turned into a custom framework developed to simplify and unify the handling of API requests, data serialization, etc. This of course offers great flexibility, but also like any other codebase that gets off enough, it comes with a maintainability burden. Since the support of Python 2 was recently dropped in Galaxy, we can now look into more modern frameworks and technologies around REST APIs in the Python ecosystem. One of those frameworks that really stands out is Fast API. It is basically a high performance web framework for building APIs with Python 3, based on standard Python type hints. It is built on top of over-grade Python libraries like Starlet and PythonTik, with a focus on simplifying the development of REST APIs. Apart from being fast, robust and production ready, it is also really intuitive and easy to use, in great measure thanks to its excellent documentation. So one of the reasons to move to Fast API is certainly performance. In this regard, it supports asynchronous requests and web sockets, which we will explore a bit more in detail later. Another important reason of course is maintainability. For example, we no longer need to perform manual data validation when handling the request, or the API documentation can always be in sync with the code, and also we don't need to maintain a custom framework anymore. Last but not least, simply by using Fast API, we can directly comply with the Open API standard, which provides some interesting features like automatic client code generation and interactive documentation, among others. Let's explore now a bit more in detail some of these benefits. Fast API is an AESGI or asynchronous server gate interface framework, and supports a sync await operation out of the box. This means that it can usually process more requests per second than traditional AESGI frameworks by leveraging concurrency. Instead of simply waiting for a slow operation to finish, the application can do other tasks like attending other requests until the slow operation is complete. In general, any relatively slow EO bound operation can be done as increasingly like, for example, database operations, network operation, or disk or file access operations. Web sockets provide a full-duplex communication channel between the client and the server. We can also use Web socket subscription to allow the client to receive a notification when a certain task has finished, instead of constantly pull the server for the status. This can be much more efficient by avoiding necessary requests and providing updates in real time. Fast API uses pydantic models and standard Python type hints to define the API schema. A pydantic model is just a class that has its variables annotated with type hints and provides data validation at runtime. They are simple, explicit, and intuitive, which make them plain eyes with code editors and especially with our brain. They also help to maintain the API documentation in sync with the code just by providing some additional metadata. The interactive API documentation is another example of direct benefit from using Fast API, since it supports the open API standard out of the box. Even without providing any additional descriptions or metadata in the pydantic models, the documentation is much more discoverable, intuitive, and easy to use for technical and non-technical users. Also thanks to the open API standard, it is possible to auto-generate client code in many different programming languages, making Galaxy easier to integrate with other applications or systems. Well, we have now briefly covered some of the most interesting benefits of modernizing the current Galaxy API. So thanks for your attention and enjoy the rest of the talks.


الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن و الثاناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وأشد أن سيدنا والنبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد قبل أن أبدأ إن شاء الله تعالى كل أخيين يمكنون أن يأتوا بسيطة و يجب أن يقوموا بسيطة بإذن الله الكريم و الإنو the prophet صلى الله عليه وصلم وحده تل попانين and they were all under the shade then he said مالي أراكم إزين I see you all trying to go under the shade and not coming close from that day onward the narrator he said the Sahabas came so close to one another that if a cloth was to be thrown it would encompass all of them و تصبح جداً جداً لحدهم لذا لا تتركوا مجموعة، إن شاء الله إن شاء الله يتعالى يتعالى سوف يجدون هذا المنزل حلية وطالب العلم بشيخ بكر ابن عبد الله أبوزيد المنزل هو وصف العلمة فضيلة الشيخ بكر ابن عبد الله أبوزيد سوف سوف نأخذ بيوجرفي إن شاء الله و سوف نأخذ مقدمة الشيخ بكر أبوزيد his name is بكر ابن عبد الله أبوزيد رحمه الله the sheikh was born when the year was one thousand three hundred and sixty-four hijriah that's when the sheikh was born رحمه الله and he's from a city or a place called شقرا which is inneged the sheikh was born نشأة كريمة he was raised in a very respectful and honorable way in a household which knowledge and khair was been spread and as you all know the child's upbringing has an effect on his when he grows up later in age if your household is a place where knowledge and khair has been spread then it will affect you when you grow older that's why the scholars they say العلم في السغري knowledge when you're very little what you learn when you're young is كنقشة على الحجر it's like carving into a rock trying to memorize and learn when you're young it's like carving into a rock and العلم في الكبر but when you want to study and learn in an old age كالكتابة على الماء لا يجب أن تنسى كل شيء كبير and the sheikh his family they were people of knowledge and khair and so that allowed him to have the correct upbringing at a very young age the sheikh he went to nursery and reception and he learned how to write and how to read then he went to ابتدائية which is primary and he done all of this in رياد the sheikh he carried on his studying and he didn't have no انقطاع his studying did not have any disconnection meaning he was continuous on learning sometimes what happens is a person finish his secondary school and for a long time they just sit around and then they go back to studying again the sheikh wasn't like that studying was continuous عليه رحمة الله at that time رياد the university they opened a معد called المعهد العالمي المعهد العالي للعلم it just opened and it was then at that particular time it was جامعة الرياد the sheikh رحمه الله but when he was teaching the sheikh he was متقاعد he also took knowledge from and this sheikh صالح ابن عبدالله ابن مطرق حفظ مقامات الحرير كتاب مقامات الحرير صالح ابن عبدالله ابن مطرق ابن مطرق and memorize it from the top of his head مقامات الحرير is من أصعب كتب الأدب it's one of the hardest book when it comes to Arabic literature in terms of its wordings in terms of its structure it's a very hard book let alone to memorize it to even understand it after it's been explained to you so many times it's hard to understand it I struggled to understand my own notes that are written on it it's a very hard complicated book the sheikh صالح ابن عبدالله ابن مطرق and insha'Allah when we speak about sheikh bakr more later you will realize that that type of language usage it was something that he was familiar with also he took knowledge from and he stayed with him for a very long time الشيخ العلمة بديع الزمان and he was a mufti عبدالله ابن عبدالله ابن مطرق رحمه الله he stayed with sheikh for a very long time and he studied from him and he read a lot of books on him he read on him the كتاب المنتقى the كتاب المنتقى which is the sheikh which is the كتاب which which he explained which is the book it's a كتاب الحديث الأحكام which the grandad of sheikh رسام he wrote he also took knowledge from the scholar which we all know محمد الأمين الشنقية رحمه الله صاحبه the author of the book أضواء البيان and he stayed with him for 10 years not 2 weeks and 3 weeks but 10 years he stayed with sheikh محمد الأمين الشنقية فلازمه 10 سنوات 10 years he stayed with him the things that he took from him and he took from him was تفسير of the Quran he also took from him محمد الأمين الشنقية الشيخ محمد الأمين الشنقية was anyone who read his biography عطين محمد ساليم he also speaks about his life as a book hold ريحلة إلى إفريقيا ريزة بكود ريحلة إلى الحج الشيخ محمد الأمين الشنقية الشيخ محمد الأمين الشنقية الله سبحانه و تعالى blessed him with knowledge those who know the the scholars from Mauritania they don't rely on papers and books they rely on their memory and that which they know and every fem he knew a thousand every field he knew a thousand line of poetry regarding that field محمد الأمين الشنقية one of the things I read was كتاب عدب النمير which is that one day he listened he listened to his own تفسير and he didn't realize it was him and so he was amazed with it he heard his own تفسير and he was amazed with it especially سورة الأنعام when محمد الأمين الشنقية is refuting ابن حزم in the issue of qiyat because ابن حزم believed that analogy does not exist because the first person who did analogy was Iblis when he said أنا خير منه I'm better than him and he treated me from fire and you created so he did an analogy محمد الأمين الشنقية and all of this is from the top of his memory he would sit there and he would just read the تفسير like that the great noble scholar محمد الأمين الشنقية he's كتاب أداب البحث one مناظرة and it's كتاب المذكرة في أصول الفق all of his art are right now all of his works they have been published together by دان عالم الكتب so he stayed with him for a very long time he also محمد الأمين الشنقية also memorized لسان العرب which is a dictionary محمد الأمين الشنقية he memorized لسان العرب which is a dictionary and he used to use it as an evidence whenever he needed to define a word he would just get the dictionary out of his mind and he would quote it he memorized تفسير الإمام القرطبي رحمه الله الإمام القرطبي أبي عبدالله القرطبي أبي عبدالله أبي عبدالله is the author of the كتاب المفهم لما أشكل في صحيح مسلم no أبو عبدالله القرطبي the one who wrote the تفسير محمد الأمين الشنقية when you look at his and you look at the كتاب أحكام القرآن بإمام القرطبي you see a lot of resemblance paragraphs that are exactly the same and this is from the top of his and he said لن تكون حافظا تحضروا بالجهلي في مجلسة وكتبوك في البيت you're truly not going to be a scholar if everything you rely on books you see that's why I'm never going to reach a scholar while I have four or five books open the scholar is the one who has everything he needs in his mind you see that's the one who's going to become a true scholar على كل حال he also read on him كتاب القصد والأمم في أنساب العربي والعجم by who الاندولسي رحمه الله he read a book on محمد الأمين الشنقية بكر أبو زيد and بكر أبو زيد he was affected highly he was touched by محمد الأمين الشنقية he loved him so much and we're going to be teaching this we're going to see a place or two in which he speaks about his teacher and respects him رحمه الله الشق بكر أبو زيد he took manasim he took a lot of positions he once was for a period of time he was a مدرس he was a teacher in the حرم المدني like مدينة he was sitting there he had a ders in which he used to teach الفرائد inheritance and he would also teach الحديث also the شق رحمه الله he became a عدو he became a memba of المجلس القضاء العالي as a judge he was also the manager of مجمع الفق الإسلامي he was the manager or the president also he was a عدو فرابضة العالم الإسلامي he was also a memba of كبار العلماء and he was also a عدو for the legendary للبحوط العلمية والإفتاة so the sheikh had a lot of positions عليه رحمة الله he wrote a lot of books شق محمد أمين الشقيد he wrote a lot of books from the books he wrote is and a lot of these books are not books they are little small little books like this a lot of them are like this the things that he wrote رحمة الله ابن القيم he wrote a book called ابن القيم حياته وآثاره ابن القيم he wrote about it he also has a book called فق النوازل where he talks about things that have happened newly introduced issues that have happened in this umma like new technologies and whatnot and he talks about it he has a book called المعجم المناهي اللخضية المعجم المناهي اللخضية which basically talks about what words can a person say what names can you give your children and what words are you allowed to use and what can't you say he talks about it he has a book called أقيدة أبي زيد القيرواني he speaks about it he talks about how you can do تخرجة بحديث which is only the first volume when it's published the rest hasn't been published he also wrote a book called لا جديدة في الصلاة there's nothing new in the prayer that's what he called it which is a رسالة صغيرة a small book in which he authored عليه الرحمة الله he also has a book called رسالة في تصارات التصابيح a rsala regarding the prayer that the people used تصبيح do you guys know it he talks about it's ruling and what is it he also has a book called رسالة هجر المبتدع بيكوة الانوبيتا he has a book called حراسة الفضيلة save guarding the women in the hijab and when the colonization they came to the muslim country how they affected the women's hijab etc he has a rsala which he speaks about في حد ثوب he talks about the thob the thob that the men wear the level that it should be الشيخ البكرة بوزيد here he took the view that the thob that I'm wearing right now this is a thob right he believed that that wasn't permissible to make it half your shin he said it's not permissible نسف الساق the only thing that is allowed in نسف الساق it has to be the إزار as for if it's a thob he said it has to be above the ankles but it can't be half the shin because of the حديث عبدالله من عمر he says إزار المؤمن نسف الساق the إزار so he points that issue he also has a book بداع القراء القديمة والمعاصرة he talks about the innovations that the reciters they've come with you know these new different situations where the reciter he reads and it's like sometimes he goes for coffee and comes back this is how long it is it's quiet he recites the ayah and it's so quiet or recitation which they call مقامة have you guys heard of it he talks about it there he also talks about a common thing in the asian community which is to move like this all day when reciting the Quran the sheikh talks about the ruling of that so it's a very beneficial book and I'm only telling you these so when you know the book you can go to it and what topic it deals with and other books that he has other books in which he has good now we're going to start the book the sheikh started his book by saying the sheikh said so the publications are slightly different some might deduct something from it but we will stick to the one that دار ابنو الجوزي published you see for him the explanation that he put on the book we're going to be relying on that as well so that method and the دار ابنو الجوزي both of them is what we're going to rely on one thing I want you to all keep an eye for is that I looked at the English translations and I have some mistakes in it the translation and I believe the reason because it's the that the sheikh speaks Arabic is very high when he speaks the language he speaks in the language in a very tough way when he was explaining his book sheikh ابنو عثيمين said that nobody can understand بقر unless he has a dictionary with him no one can read sheikh بقر with aid's book unless he has with him what and that is the reality so insha'Allah وطعاله some words my English isn't to that caliber as well but some words I'll explain it instead of translated to English I'll explain what it means but then you can go back to the English translations all of the ones I've looked at they have their mistakes in it so the book starts by the sheikh starts a book by saying الحمدو praise is for Allah و سبحانه و تعالى everyone knows what الحمدو means الحمدو means it is it is to describe Allah with noble characteristics that is what الحمدو means it is to speak about Allah with high characteristics الحمدو praise now this ألف اللام in الحمدو grammatically the scholars they differed on it some said that the ألف اللام is الجنس and some said no it is regarding the الحمدو the ألف اللام in it and based on those two different opinions what comes out of it is different of course what is it if we say الحمدو it means it means all praises to Allah are you with me and استغراط means any any ألف اللام where in it's place you can put the word كل meaning كل الحمد لله all praises to who الله so then استغراط means what brothers it means every praises for Allah so that's the first view the second view is that the ألف اللام here it's not استغراط it means itself is for Allah حمدو itself is for Allah and why would those group not choose استغراط and why would they refuse they said because if we say all praises to Allah that means we can't praise anybody other than Allah yeah we can't praise other than Allah إبنو القيام has a six volume book بداع الفوائد he deals with this issue in very extensive so just show you go there and look at yourself الحمدو الحمدو لله is كلام الاختصاص specifically for him I don't know what else الحمدو all praises الحمدو is for Allah و بعدو the word و بعدو it's not good to say و بعدو even though they say that the و is a بدل meaning it takes the place of the أما بعدو but we want to stick to the sunnah of the prophet and say أما بعدو the word أما بعدو what does it mean أما بعدو in the Arabic language it means it means to move from one form of speech and that which you were saying and you're going to move on to something else basically trying to say praising Allah so you're moving from the praising on to something else and the scholars they differed upon who was the first person to use the word أما بعدو the strongest view or the majority of the scholars are of the view that the word أما بعدو the first person to ever use it was داود عليه السلام and they said because Allah said in the Quran و آتيناه فصل الخطاب we gave him what داود was given what فصل الخطاب فصل الخطاب they said it means أما بعدو that he would be able to distinguish between two different types of speeches so أما بعدو so the sheikh he said و بعدو to proceed فأقيد فأقيد I will write