I'm going to introduce our speaker today, Shruti Ramaswamy. She is the director of Microsoft programs and the vice president of strategy and strategic relations here at TechSoup. She's responsible for all of our Microsoft offerings and she worked closely with both nonprofits and Microsoft to ensure that the sector around the world is able to derive the most impact from the program offerings. Prior to her work here at TechSoup, Shruti was a technology consultant with IBM, so you know she is a smart girl and so I'm excited for her to share with you today more about the program offerings. So Shruti, I'll turn it over to you. Thank you for that kind introduction, Aretha. We'll see. I don't know about smart, but definitely hopefully a helpful session today and so I'm really excited that we have so many attendees here today and really appreciate you taking time out of your day to tune in and to learn more about the programs that we have. As most of you know, TechSoup is a global nonprofit ourselves. Our mission, our goal is to make sure that we can work on behalf of charities and nonprofits around the world to make sure we all have access to the technology that we need to further our own missions. So we work with over 400 corporate partners and foundations and providers around the world to make sure that we can bring that access to the nonprofit community at large. We try to help organizations no matter where you are in your digital life cycle. We know that it's an evolving process. There's new technology that's coming out all of the time and we're here to help support wherever you are and wherever you want to be. So we have programs that allow us to support installed software if you have traditional desktops. We have hardware programs that include new and refurbished hardware. We have cloud software, which we'll talk a little bit about today as well. And we have technology support services to help you throughout that adoption. We have courses, we have services, we're here to help and events like this and content to really make sure that you can get the most out of the technology that you have. Today what we're going to be focused on is talking a little bit more about the Microsoft program offerings. You may have heard there is a lot of change in the air this year where it comes to Microsoft. Microsoft has made a series of changes in their program. A lot of them only coming into impact later on in this year, but we wanted to make sure that everybody was aware of that because we know that a lot of the solutions that Microsoft offers are critical to the nonprofits that we serve and to all of us in terms of our productivity and our softwares that we use. And we want to make sure everybody is aware so you can make the best decisions for your own budgets and planning and we're here to help. So what we'll do today, I will try to speak for as little time as possible, I promise. So probably 15 or 20 minutes just to provide an overview of what solutions we have to offer and what solutions Microsoft provides to the nonprofit sector. And then really the goal there will after that to be to open it up for questions. And hopefully we can spend primarily most of our time today answering and hearing from you about what's confusing, where you need help, and how we can provide that support to you. So feel free, as Aretha said, to use that question and answer tab within our right-hand side panel to ask your questions. We will save plenty of time to go over them and to talk through that in a little bit more detail. The slides I provide up front hopefully can answer some of those questions, but as you hear them, please feel free to kind of put those in there. So I'll get started today by talking a little bit about some key terms. There are a lot of different offers that Microsoft makes available to the nonprofit sector, which is amazing, but it can be a little bit overwhelming because there's a lot of language, a lot of different types of tools that are available and so I thought it would be easiest to level set a little bit and make sure we were all on the same page to start. So there's two primary types of programs that Microsoft offers to nonprofits. The first solution set is the on-premises solutions. On-premises solutions are those products and software that you request, you download to your device, and then you can use that moving forward. They don't necessarily need an online internet connection for you to continually use it. Your license is per device itself, and then once you download it and install it to your desktop, you can use that as long as you want. Typically there are about new products available about every two years. You may have heard Office 2021 was just released last month and is now available to the greater public as well as nonprofits, and these products that are available are also things that include and have a lot of the different software underneath Office and some of the programs. So a lot of these are sweeted solutions that have many different applications in them, but you are downloading one product onto your device. Those on-premises products are available in two different ways for nonprofits. One is purely a donation, and those are typically donations that are made available from Microsoft. There is still a small administrative fee that's associated with those donations just to help TechSoup be able to sustain ourselves and put on programs like this and support the distribution of those products. On the donation front, there are limitations in terms of quantity. So Microsoft has about 50 licenses per organization available to the nonprofit sector, and the products that are available within that donation offering are usually standard level products. So Office 2021 standard, Windows standard, all of that is available as a donation. And typically the donation offers also include software assurance benefits, which allows organizations to then request newer products within a two-year cycle. There are also on-premises products that are available as a discount. Those discounts are really meant for people who need higher-level products that might not be available in the donation program, like professional products or premium products. It will also allow us to have more licenses. So if you need more than 50 licenses for anything, you can get those as a discount as well. There's also a little bit more flexibility for discounted products because you can choose to get software assurance bundled products or you can choose to just get license-only products. And those discounts are typically about 60 to 75% off for charities on the retail price that's available for other organizations. The other kind of program offering that Microsoft makes available are cloud offers. And these cloud offers are things like Office 365, Microsoft 365, which many of you probably are using as well today. Cloud subscriptions are just that, are subscriptions. They're ongoing subscriptions that you either pay for or you get donated, but it is something that you're signing up for either at a monthly or annual commitment. Those include regular feature updates. So you basically just have to be logged in and you're going to get the latest and greatest security patches, features, releases that are available. And most of the development work that Microsoft does goes straight to the cloud solutions first. And then every couple of years we'll get packaged and released as an on-premises product as well. But the cloud is kind of the latest and greatest. And it allows some of the more feature-rich offers about collaboration, communication, so that people around, you know, your nonprofit can work from wherever, access those and work together a little bit more in real time. Cloud solutions from Microsoft are also available both on a donation and a discounted basis. I'll spend a little bit more time here, but there are many, many, many different licenses of cloud solutions that are available. And so some of those are available as donations. Others are available as discounted products. There are some license limitations based off of the licenses themselves. And I can go through those in a few minutes. One thing I wanted to highlight here was that you can mix and match. So not everybody in your organization has to have the same license to be working on things together. So you might feel like there are certain people in your organization, maybe your board members or your IT staff or your program administrators that need more feature-rich programs and licenses so you can give them that. There might be volunteers or other staff members that you don't feel they just need a few applications that you might be able to use different licensing for as well. So you can definitely mix and match, which kind of provides a little bit of benefit for flexibility as well. With both of these options, there are definitely pros and cons. And we can talk a little bit about any questions you might have here. But on a very high level basis, I would just say on-premises solutions are really, they have the advantages, particularly for device-based licensing. So if you have one computer or one shared device that many people are using or you're in an environment where you have multiple people log on or use something for an application, that device-based licenses really works well with on-premises licensing. There's also just a one-time expense. You guys, you can own that afterwards and you don't have to think about funding on an ongoing basis. Some of the disadvantages, though, is it's not going to be as feature-rich. It's not going to have some of those collaboration features that are inherent in Cloud. And it's just going to provide you like some of the basic applications that are available, whereas some of the Cloud subscriptions have a lot of different applications that are available within it as well. On the Cloud side, it can be really advantageous for organizations for multiple reasons. One is that that's really where Microsoft and many organizations and companies are going in terms of their software suites. So it's helpful to kind of start working and adopting some of the solutions that we know is going to be the future of some of the technology offerings that are available. But it also provides a lot of flexibility. The cost can be spread out over time if there are costs because there are still donations available. The features and updates are automatic, so you don't have to think about it. You don't have to think about security settings and things. Those are things that are automatically updated so you don't have to patch it yourself. And you can access it anywhere. So the difference between the device-based licensing and the Cloud licensing, Cloud licensing is really going to be user-based licensing. So a user can use that same license on up to five devices. So I'm using my Office 365 account on my laptop. I also use it on my mobile phone. And if I had any other devices, I could use it there as well. Or if I got a new device, I could use it on that as well. So there's a lot of flexibility there. But some of the disadvantages are you need to have sometimes a stable internet connection in order to get some of those rich features of collaboration. And the payment itself, if you are using a discounted, is ongoing. And so we know with funding at nonprofits, that's not always consistent. So it's just another consideration as you make your decisions and choices. So what's changing and what we wanted to highlight a little bit more so everybody was aware about it is after April 4th, Microsoft has provided some guidance about how they're going to be moving forward in their own donation strategy for nonprofits. And what will be changing is that the on-premises offers, so those device-based licenses, are really only going to be available as discounted licenses. So those will be still available, still able to purchase, still able to use, but it will be at a discounted price, so not at a fully donated price, which means that it'll be close to 60 to 75% off retail pricing. But there will be some adjustment of cost that you might want to be considering. There are no changes to any of the cloud licensing or the cloud pricing at this time. So the Microsoft 365, Office 365 solutions, that's not necessarily changing in terms of having donations available. It's really focused on the on-premises side. And there are a few caveats in there and a few exceptions that have been carved out, including Windows Professional, which will still remain as a donation offer since that's not really well available on the cloud side. And for organizations that really need device-based licensing, so for computer labs and training centers, there will still be a small program available for organizations that are eligible. And we'll have more information about that as we move into April, but we wanted to make sure that you were aware of these changes to come. To just provide an example of what I'm talking about in this kind of chart that we had talked about before, really the only change is all of the products, everything can still be accessed. It's just that that donation piece goes away. And so everything that you would want to get on on-premises would be requested at a discounted rate. You will still have the cloud donation and discounted offers as before. And if you think about an example of some of the highest requested on-premises offers that we have, which is Windows Office Standard and maybe Windows Server Standard, you see that currently you have an ability to get those as a donation or a discount. And really after April 4th, you can still get those products, but those donation offers kind of go away and you can only get those as a discount moving forward. And I've seen a couple of questions. All of these slides will be available and will be sent out to everybody who RSVP'd, so feel free to just note that for later. The other thing I wanted to highlight here is that all of the features or many of the features that are within these products are already available in the donation offer of Microsoft 365 Business Premium, which is the subscription and cloud license that is available to nonprofits. So the same way that we have those features that are available within the on-premises solutions, those exist within many of the cloud solutions. And just because you have a cloud subscription or service doesn't mean you cannot use them offline. So many of the licenses actually include desktop applications, which means you can download it to your desktop and you don't require an internet connection to continue to use them. You will need to log on or be connected if you want to save it to the cloud or if you want to share it to other members or collaborate on it or to get updates on the applications themselves, but you can still use it just like you would use an office standard today. I also wanted to talk a little bit about the cloud licenses themselves. As I mentioned, there are not changes in terms of none of these are going to go away, but there are solutions that are available here on the cloud side as well that can provide some of those features we were talking about. So on the Microsoft 365 front, which is typically licensing that Microsoft recommends for organizations that have less than 300 users, there are three main options. There's a Microsoft 365 Business Basic that provides the apps that you see here, which are all cloud services apps. So you have to be using an internet connection to be able to access and use it, but you are able to use it through any browser or setting and use all the collaboration functions on there. There's a Microsoft 365 Business Standard, which is available for $3 per license per month. That includes everything that's in the cloud services and the business basic, but it also includes the ability to download them and have them on your desktop as well. So it's very similar to an office standard and actually an office professional because it provides you access as well. And then the most feature rich Microsoft 365 solution that Microsoft offers to nonprofits is the business premium licenses. Those have everything, the desktop applications, the cloud services applications as the business standard, but it also includes a lot of advanced security functions. So you'll see that on that last row at the bottom, but it includes things for device management, for user management and provides a much higher level of security for your organization and for the management of the licenses that you have. This is available for free for up to 10 users, completely for free. And then any additional license is $5 a month, but like I said before, you can mix and match. So you might wanna get the free 10 users here and then mix and match it with lower priced or lower cost solutions as well, depending on what your needs are. Microsoft also makes available office 365 solutions, typically office 365 and Microsoft 365 are distinguished because office 365 licenses are enterprise licenses. So they're typically meant for organizations that are over 300 users. That's not like a hard and fast rule. If you need something in an office enterprise license, that's fine. You don't have to have 300 users to get it, but that's typically how they've been designed for. And so many organizations, including TechSoup, have office 365 E1 licenses, which provide all of the online availability of cloud services. That was previously available as a donation, but earlier this year, Microsoft changed that so that anybody who wants that as a new license would have to pay $2 per license per month. That's a discount now. For those organizations that already have the donation, that's not changing. You can continue to use that donation, continue to add to that donation for up to 2000 users, but for anybody who's new to the office 365 environment, if you wanted an E1 license now, it would be at a discounted rate. There's also an E3 and E5 option and similar to the Microsoft 365, they just have added levels of benefits and added level of security that's available to organizations. So like I mentioned, none of those things that I just talked about on the Microsoft 365 or Office 365 are changing after April 4th. So those are still available and we can talk about those if you have questions. What is changing is really just the on-premises availability for the donation program. So what we wanna get to now are your questions and I think there's plenty of questions popping up in the Q and A. I will get us started on a few just because we have actually done this webinar a few times now and we've gotten some consistent questions from organizations and we've also received lots of emails and questions about these. So I thought I would kick us off here first. The first one is what does this mean for my existing licenses? So if you have a current office 2016, 2019 license, what does that mean? You can still use any of the licenses that you have for your on-premises products. Those are perpetual licenses, you have those licenses and so this change really only impacts any new licenses that you want to purchase or request or get. It does not impact the functionality of any existing licenses that you currently have. That's the same for cloud licenses. So the other question that we have is what does this mean for my Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription? Again, this change does not impact any of the cloud licenses and you're still going to be able to use your cloud subscriptions that you have. If you have questions on that because there have been other changes that Microsoft has been kind of talking about, feel free to ask us and we're happy to go through that a little bit more. A big question we get too is what about if I don't have dependable internet connectivity? And this is a real problem in the United States, definitely around the world. We know that there are rural places or just environments where nonprofits are operating where it doesn't make sense or we don't have access to connectivity. So what's the right solution for them? So I would say two things here. One is that on-premises solutions will still be available. None of the products are just going away and enter entirety. There will just be kind of something that you would have to think of in terms of your budget planning for those because they're probably going to be a little higher in cost than you have normally spent on them. Or the second one is that like I mentioned, many of those cloud subscription products include downloadable desktop applications. To download them is the same connectivity that you would need to download any of the on-premises licenses. And when you do have internet connectivity, you can get the updates and you can be able to use some of the more feature-rich components of cloud but it's not necessary that you have to have an internet connection to use the desktop applications. And the last item is about libraries. Libraries are really interesting because libraries have traditionally been served by TechSoup, particularly for your public access computers. And that's been a huge program at TechSoup and we are passionate about serving the library population for the mission that you guys have as well as the mission that it has in helping so many people in different communities around the world. The cloud offers that Microsoft has though have always been offered by Microsoft's education licensing and not through the current charity licensing. So we are actually working actively with Microsoft right now to see how we can make sure that we can continue to offer support to libraries and that's an ongoing conversation and we are hoping that we will have a finalization of being able to offer those education licensing both for on-premises and for cloud licensing directly from TechSoup to all libraries and we're gonna be scheduling and I think it should be up soon an event in early December, primarily focused on libraries and figuring out and talking a little bit more about the options available for libraries as we move forward. So I will end with that on these questions and stop sharing and start answering your questions. All right. Aretha, did you have anything that you wanted to say or should I go ahead and get started? Yeah, go ahead because there were a lot of questions that... I'm sure. Yes. So we have... Okay, so the first question I have is actually about libraries. So Debra asked, do libraries that do not have a 501c3 status qualify for discounted Microsoft Office standard licenses for their public patron computers? And so Debra, we have our eligibility provided on our site and right now I think there is an opportunity for public access computers, but I do believe the 501c3 is necessary but I can reach back out to you or maybe if one of our team members knows that offhand you can put that answer in chat. But I will say that there are opportunities particularly for libraries and for public access computers to make sure that you have access to those standard licenses. David from the on-premises software will Office 21 actually install? We could never get 2019 to install successfully. We even use tech support vendor from TechSoup with no success. I am very sorry to hear about that. I will say the 2019 installation process was new. It was a click-to-run feature that Microsoft started and actually the 2021 install process is very similar to that same installation process and it is confusing, it's harder and it is not as click-to-run as the statement would say. So we do have a service, a help desk solution offering of help to install those products. David, if you still had problems with that please do feel free to reach out. I think you may have already reached out via email and we are looking to see if we can get some support because it is a little confusing and if there is support you need we're happy to help with them. There's a question from Ed about libraries. So can libraries not purchase on-premises office licenses until April 4th, 2022? So Ed, right now there are a few changes that are happening on the Microsoft side. As of right now starting in January all licenses has to be provided and provisioned for only things that are charity approved and unfortunately right now libraries are kind of treated as charities for public access and as education for a lot of the other solutions. So what we would recommend is if you know and if you have budget and you have needs that you have to make to try to make those as quickly as possible so you can get the licenses you need. If you request it now you can still use it whenever you need to so you don't necessarily have to use it tomorrow if you wanna request and get those licenses. But like I said, we will have a lot more information and our hope and our goal is that within January you will still be able to get all of the access to licenses that you currently have today. There might be some differences, slight differences in pricing but we're hoping to bring that down with Microsoft as well to make sure that we can serve and provide education licenses to libraries as well. There is a question from Mercy. Are there any features available in the desktop on-premises products that are not available in the 365 products? It's a great question, Mercy. We've heard it, there's a lot more features that are available in the cloud that are not available in the desktop but I will say that I know that there are certain features that are available in the desktop applications that are more robust, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint that are a little bit more feature robust but those are the same, you will get the same functionality when you download that desktop application from the cloud solution. So what I'm really talking about is the difference between if you're using the cloud version or the browser version of those tools. The other thing I would mention there is access. If you use access for databases or if you're still using access for different things in your own organization, access is only a device-based license and it has to be on, they don't have a really good cloud solution for that. So you can get that through access by itself or you can get that through Office Professional. Access is also included in some of the cloud subscription licenses as well. Gary asks, are Mac Office packages available if so, is there a new 2021 version? Absolutely, so Office 2021 is available both for Windows and for Mac operating systems. There are two links on our product pages. There's one that says Office Standard and then one that says Office Standard for Mac. Hopefully we can provide that link to you in the chat and you should be able to get that and the Office 2021 version is available on both operating systems. So Shruti, Tara, do you have to update to Office 21? No, absolutely not. Yeah, that's a good question. You do not have to update at all. You can continue to use the product that you have. Microsoft typically provides support and like ongoing support for a product for about five to 10 years depending on the product itself. But unless there's a need for you to switch, you don't necessarily have to change, your product will still work. Okay, thank you. And I just popped into chat the link for the Office for Mac. So if anybody needs that, you can get that there. Okay, there was a question from Ken. Was there ever an explanation about the bizarre installation process for Office 2019? I hesitate to upgrade because of the 2019 experience. I completely understand that. The installation process, I will say from Microsoft, I think mirrors a lot of the installation process that they have for some of their cloud solutions. So I think what Microsoft is trying to do when I'm speaking on the half base off of my thought about them, so I'm not sure if that's what they would say as well, is that they're really trying to consolidate that installation process and have less and less of that variability. So wherever you're buying it from, whether or not, it's a cloud license or whether it's not on premise, they have kind of a standard way of installation. Obviously, I think that works a little bit better sometimes on the cloud solutions than it has in 2019 and 2021. But that's kind of where they've gone there. Like I said, we do have some installation guides and some extra help that we can provide there. We have a help desk service and a one-time kind of help desk service that can support there. And if you do have ongoing struggles with that, please let us know and we can try to help you with that. And I just wanna let everybody know that I am going through all of the Q and A tab questions here, there are a lot going on here. So I'm doing my best to kind of do that. Thanks. Where are you looking at that, Gary? I'm sorry, Gary just updated us. C3, libraries that do not have the 501 C3, they are eligible. Okay, thank you. There was a question from Gary. The definition of software assurance seems to maybe have changed a bit over the years. Can you define what this is right now? Sure. So software assurance is a suite of benefits that an organization gets once you get a donation or if you purchase software assurance. What it really boils down to is that you can get an opportunity to upgrade your products within a two-year period, as long as your software assurance is valid. And that is a two-year period. So that if another version comes out, you can upgrade for free. So for example, if you got 2019 last year and you want the 2021 because it's available now, you don't have to purchase another 2021 license if you have a software assurance that's already valid. You can use that benefit to get yourself the upgrade there. There are a few other benefits, but that's the primary benefit that organizations have used software assurance for. Okay, so there's some questions here about some of the cloud solutions that I'll move on to. So Kevin asked, can you mix and match on-premises and cloud options? Absolutely. You can mix and match all of the license offerings that you need and most of the newer on-premises solutions integrate really well. So once you save something, you can use a desktop application from your office, 2021 on-premises and save that to cloud. So definitely you can mix and match those licenses. And for like Windows and things like that, many people have on-premises Windows solutions and then they're using cloud solutions on top of that. Jane asked, is there a limit on the number of Microsoft 365 business premium licenses that are offered at a discount of $5 each? No, there are not any limitations on the discount themselves. So an organization only has a limit on the donation licenses. So for Microsoft 365 business premium, you can get $10 for free and then everything else would be $5 per user per license, but there's no cap on how many you can get as many as you need. Richie asked, what's the difference between E3 and business premium? Is there a breakdown that compares business to the E options? Yes, there's a lot in that question. So there's a lot to go over probably here, but we do actually have an article and that we've published that provides like a table and breakdown of what the features are available in each of those. Hopefully we can pop that into chat right now, the link there. I would definitely suggest that you can take a look at that as it provides like a little bit more of a comparison based off of security and storage and different features available so that you can kind of get a comparison between the E3 license and the business premium license. At a very high level, like I mentioned, enterprise suites were really made for larger organizations, but they do have interesting features in it. So E3 comes with a lot of the security licenses, a lot of the kind of features that you would want for managing many users. And some of the functions of like legal holds and stuff that you would want for email retention as well. Business premium offers that too, but it has some different types of security features as well. So I would definitely take a look at that comparison document. Kai asks, when the legacy Microsoft enterprise mobility and security, which was EMS three grant expires next year, is the intent that we move all 50 licenses to the $2.70 per month version or is that going away as well? That's a great question, Kai. And just to provide everybody a little bit of background. Microsoft, I think in 2018, 2019, had a donation available called EMS, which was the enterprise mobility and security suite. That was available for up to 50 licenses for free as a donation. Recently, Microsoft made a decision to remove that as a donation offering. So after April, any organization that has a renewal date coming after that, that'll be their last year of that being able to be available as a donation. At that time, there are a few options available. One is like you said, Kai, to transition that to a discounted version, which would be $2.70. The other option is that is already included in the Microsoft 365 business premium licenses. So you can use some of that for the 10 users for free, depending on how many licenses that you have. Richard asked, we've been using E2 licenses donated for a lot of users that are doing work on our behalf. Do I now need to get the business licenses instead so that there's no cost? These users only need email addresses and online capabilities. Great question, Richard. A couple of answers here, so I hope this is helpful. One is that the current licenses that you are using right now can still be used. You don't have to necessarily shift them. E2 is not necessarily available for new organizations or anybody to newly sign up for, but TechSoup still uses E2 licenses as well. You can still continue to use those licenses. If you do wanna switch those out, I would suggest moving to the Microsoft 365 business basic license that has pretty much the same functionality as the E2 and it would give you the email and that's free for up to 300 users. So you can still kind of get that benefit of the cost savings and still get the usage that you want, which is email. Next question is from Brian about nonprofit staff pricing. Haven't been able to find a definition of nonprofit staff pricing. Our nonprofit has no paid positions. They're all volunteers. Some hold elected positions such as board and executive and some are appointed. Who falls under the staff definition? That is a really good question and something that's a little bit confusing. So I'm going to share my screen really quickly and hopefully you guys can see this. I'm sharing my full screen. So hopefully this works. You can probably see me now, huh? Okay, so if you guys can see here, this is what Microsoft has on their site as what they consider paid employees or what they considered paid staff that is eligible for the donation products. So they say paid staff includes employees on mandatory unpaid leave, but really are people who are paid employees or unpaid executive staff. So that unpaid executive staff might be some of the resources that you have that are managing the nonprofit who would be considered as executive staff but are there for volunteer basis. Those are the user types that are eligible for the donated offers. For volunteers for temporary team members, those are the ones that Microsoft would have under the discounted offers. And then there are some volunteer specific SKUs that are available or volunteer specific licenses that are available that organizations can take into consideration as well. So it's not like totally black and white and very clear, but that's kind of some of the guidance that Microsoft provides as to how to think about that of what unpaid executive staff really looks like. And I can provide this link in the chat as well. Yeah, that was an eye opener right there. That was a great question, Brian. I'm gonna put that in chat, that link. All right, so the next question, will the E2 licenses be charged moving forward? Richard, at this time, I do not believe there are changes to the E2 licenses. My understanding is that there is a cap on the licenses. So if you have an older E2 donation, you cannot go above 2,000 licenses, but I have not heard anything specifically for Microsoft saying that those are no longer gonna be available as a donation this year at least. So as any updates come out, we'll make sure to inform everybody. Dave has a question. If we have E1, E3, and E5 licenses and intend to move our users to cloud services exclusively, is there a benefit to moving to the corresponding Microsoft 365 level at the same time? We have well under 300 users. I would say that there might be some benefit only because there are a larger amount of donation licenses available under the Microsoft 365 umbrella. The E1, E3, E5 licenses, unless you have an existing one, which you might have for E1, you wouldn't necessarily get that same level of donations available to you, but it really depends on exactly what you're looking for and the security settings and some of the makeup of your organization. So I would definitely recommend looking at those tables of features and we also have cloud consultations available. So if you wanna sign up for one, we can work with your team one-on-one to figure out what might be the right licensing solution for your organization. We have a couple of questions about services and courses. So Tanya asked, is or will TechSoup offer an on-demand digital literacy course? Like fantastic question, Tanya. I know that's something that we are really invested in. We have many courses that are available on demand at our TechSoup courses. We have courses that are related to Microsoft courses that are not related to Microsoft. We have many digital transformation courses. There are some literacy courses as well dependent on the topic. If there's something that you see or that you think would be really relevant or valuable to you that is not there, please reach out to us. We're happy to pass that on to our courses team as well. We're always looking and trying to create more relevant courses that are really tailored for nonprofits and adult learners. So these courses are available for staff, volunteers and have examples and solutions that are really targeted and tailored for our use cases. So definitely take a look at our TechSoup courses site. Question here about a requested donation from Microsoft and they provide me a Microsoft 365 administrative account. I'm wondering how do I activate it and use it as their TechSoup training on that? That's a great question. We actually have a guide to getting started with your cloud account and how to set up your account and kind of start using your licenses. I'm wondering if maybe we can send that link out or put that in chat right now. But there is an online resource and guide that you can use to definitely get some help there. And we also have a service available. So if you would like us to help manage that or do that on behalf of your organization, we can do, we have a small Office 365 setup service as well and we can get you set up on your account as well. Okay. There is a question from Dan. Will Microsoft be offering nonprofit rates for Windows 365 and what are the 25 licenses in the nonprofit portal used for? So I will confess, I'm not entirely sure I know what the 25 licenses in the nonprofit portal question is related to. So I'm not entirely sure what that is, but if you have a question there, please let me know. In terms of the Microsoft offering of the Windows 365 as a donation, we have asked about that multiple times right now. There is not a plan and place that we know of to make that available as a donation. But if we hear anything more, we will definitely let you know. And if you are interested in it, let us know because we can help advocate and let Microsoft know that this is something that the community is looking for and needs. There is a question from William. Are there nonprofit licenses for Azure? Could we create virtual machines in Azure? It's a great question, William. So what Microsoft does for Azure is they offer direct credits for your Azure usage. So every year nonprofits can sign up and get access to a grant from Microsoft for $3,500. That can be leveraged and used towards your Azure consumption. So that could be used towards your VMware and it basically you can use up to the $3,500 and then you pay the regular rates in terms of any kind of additional charges that you might incur. That is something that unfortunately is only directly offered from Microsoft right now. So you would have to go to the Microsoft site to get a little bit more in terms of signing up for the grant and starting to use that. Question here from Dinette. Do you know if TechSoup has an offering for Dynamics for Cloud? A really good question here. Right now TechSoup does not offer Dynamics for Cloud licenses, but Microsoft does. So Microsoft makes available, excuse me, about I think five cloud licenses for Dynamics for, I think it's called sales. And that is available to nonprofits and there are a few more offers and you may have heard Microsoft recently announced a Microsoft cloud for nonprofit which is heavily related to Dynamics. And right now TechSoup doesn't have that. We only have the on-premises versions but we're hoping to add that in the future. Brianna asked, if I have specific questions about our agency and Microsoft licensing, is there someone I can contact later? Absolutely. You can contact ReachUs at TechSoup.org. If anybody has questions that we haven't answered or anybody has questions that come up because of this webinar, please feel free to reach out to us and we are here to help and answer your questions. A couple of other questions I see here. Karen asks, when will we be able to order multiple copies of Adobe Acrobat Pro for nonprofits? Great question. I don't know the answer to that question. If anybody on our team who's available here does know please feel free to respond and chat but we can definitely get back to you Karen if we don't have that answer right now. Great. Well, I think that is it. Are there any questions that I haven't answered? Feel free to flag them and chat. Deborah asked, do we have a link for the information mentioned earlier on the 9501c3 libraries? We can definitely provide our eligibility information here so I'll get a second to do that. William asks, I was contacted by a Microsoft partner who mentioned that we needed to make sure that we were using our assigned E2 licenses and we needed to log into those accounts. However, we use notification emails such as scanner at company.com but nobody logs into this email address. Are you familiar? That's a great question William and something I'm happy to talk to a little bit and I'm actually gonna share my screen again because this is important and some of the donation offers. So Microsoft does make available a lot of the cloud licenses available as donations but they also have a utilization requirement. So part of actually having this donation means that they're assuming that you're using the donation. So there's a requirement basically that 85% of the assigned users need to have some sort of cloud usage within a 90 day period. So that can include logging on like your partner provided using Teams, using any of the Microsoft 365 apps that doesn't include on-premises solutions. So there does need to be some registered activity for Microsoft to know that you're using these licenses for about 85% of those assigned licenses. We have put together, and I put that in this deck here, a guide for the utilization requirements for donated Microsoft licenses that provides a little bit more of an understanding of where to go to understand how you currently have utilization set up and whether or not you are already meeting those needs or not. I will say Microsoft has been sending emails to organizations who are not meeting it and giving them ample time to kind of rectify that. So I wouldn't be overly concerned about it, especially if you're using and logging in or getting usage out of them. But there is this resource here and like I said, we'll make this available to everybody. So if you want to go and check and see what your utilization is, you can do that as well. A few questions coming in. Let's see. Gary did something here about the 25 trial licenses. He said, they're available at registration on the nonprofit portal at Microsoft. Oh, so those are trial licenses. So yeah, you can use the trial licenses. Those are available for you to kind of get a feel of things so you don't necessarily require like a commitment to that, it's just a trial so you can get set up and started. And I think you can start using that before your even validation comes through a bit so that you can understand how you would use those licenses but that wouldn't be an active subscription. So if you wanted to add licenses or if you wanted to use it for and kind of integrate it for your business routine, you would want to have a licensed account. I think there's a few other things that I probably missed, sorry in here. There is a question about who do I contact if we have questions about the Microsoft 365 app and learn some tips and tricks. That's a great question, you can contact us. You can contact us at reachus.techsoup.org. I would also say that we have, the courses are really good examples of areas that you can learn a little bit more about how to get more of the solution. And then we have a few other things that I'm gonna answer here. I'm gonna put this in the chat itself. We have a YouTube channel where we've been putting together some tips and tricks that we've learned and that we've been using internally. And so you can definitely go there and see some of those videos. Those are like one, two minute videos that give us a little tricks on how to get the most out of the solution. And for people who are part of the TechSoup kind of if you've gotten TechSoup licenses or cloud licenses through TechSoup, we have a monthly webinar series or monthly office hours where we come together, all of us who are on this journey of adopting these cloud solutions, meet, share kind of best practices, figure out tips and tricks together. So if you are somebody who is getting your licenses through TechSoup, you can feel free to drop into any one of those. And we're happy to kind of talk a little bit more about how we can support and learn from each other. There's a question from Renzo. He asked this in general, is there a program for the Power Automation apps and flow? Great question. There is actually an offer available. So Microsoft makes Power Apps licenses available for up to 10 users per app. And so you can leverage those to create your own custom workflows, to create your own Power Automate flows. And there is a donation available for up to 10 licenses there. Brian says everything seems to refer to one terabyte storage per user. What about the content that's stored in SharePoint? That isn't specific to a user. Is it tied to the user that created, uploaded it, pondering, allowing non-users to donate content? What storage does that count against? That's a great question, Brian. I don't know the answer directly offhand, but we can research that and get back to you. Or if anybody on our team knows, feel free to chime in to Brian's question here as well. And then it looks like Jim, you said that you had a question on 365 Business Premium and Q&A. And it didn't get answered. I don't know if you don't mind just asking it again so I can make sure that I get that for you. And I think there was a question about the grid. So I'm going to pop that in here as well. So this is the article that I was mentioning before that I just popped into chat in that article. And I'll just share my screen really quickly again. You can see, this is an article about how to think about the licenses. And then if you look here, there's a downloadable or a PDF actually version of all of the licenses and applications and security features. And this includes the Business 365 licenses as well as the enterprise licenses. So this is what I would suggest using. And here's a view of our tips and tricks on YouTube. And I'll pop that into chat as well. Awesome. So Jim has this question in the Q&A. So Jim says, I set up a 365 Business Premium last year for our small nonprofit. Many potential users have Windows Home, including myself, so we haven't really used the service. We can upgrade to Windows Pro, but I'm also concerned with separating personal business and organizational documentation. I'm personally using office software on two computers. Yeah, that is a really good question, Jim, and something that many organizations have and struggle with because a lot of the refurbished or donated hardware comes with Windows Home versions. And unfortunately, the Business Premium licenses require you to use a professional Windows license for. So there are opportunities that you can use your office account, but for the Business Premium licenses, unfortunately, you do have to have a Windows professional license. We have a few options available to get that. You can use the Get Genuine program that we have that allows you to get a full Windows operating system, so that'll allow you to move from Windows to, from Home to the professional. But I can understand that you're thinking about how do you separate those two out. So if there is something, maybe if you can send us an email, we can maybe talk about your specific situation a little bit more in depth and figure out what might be the right solution for you. And then Patty asks, what's the difference between Office 365 and Microsoft 365? Great question. I think over time, Microsoft will start using the term Microsoft 365 more, but right now the distinction has been Microsoft 365 licenses have a tradition, at least for the nonprofit offers are really the business licenses. So those are typically licenses that are meant for under 300 users. They're also enterprise users. The only place that Microsoft continues to use the Office 365 name has been in the enterprise licenses, so above 300 users, but they're just different licenses in general. And so I think over time, Microsoft will have more of the Microsoft name versus the Office, because one of the things I'll just state is Office 365 makes you think about office applications and there are so many other things other than Word, PowerPoint, Excel that are in these solutions. There are tons and tons and tons of applications that are like teams or even smaller applications like bookings and Sway and Power Apps that are part of these suite of solutions that are available that are not necessarily reflected in the Office name all the time. Let's take a few more questions. There was an answer for James question here. Microsoft 365, you see highlighted here. I'm looking, Mary. Mary answered that he said business plans can be mixed and matched to up to a total of 300 seats, which are licenses. Got it, thank you. And then I'm just gonna really quickly before we end, because I know we only have a couple of minutes left, just wanna provide a couple of resources that are gonna be available to you. And you'll have this deck, so feel free to look, but we're here to help. There's a lot happening. There's a lot of changes happening. It makes our head spin sometimes. I'm sure it makes everybody else's. So we are here to help and we can do that in a few different ways. We can help with figuring out the right license. So reach out to us. You can schedule time with us, book time with us so that we can talk through that more. We have packages that are available, small packages to help you get set up and install products. Hopefully that installation will work more successfully. And we also have the training, like I mentioned, the Microsoft 365 solutions have so many features built into it, but using the courses to understand how you can get the most out of your solutions is something we definitely recommend. And then we have lots of services and support available as you are continuing to make the migration or if you want to make the migration to some cloud solutions. I also wanted to, this is a little bit of preview about the different courses that are available on the Microsoft Digital Skill Center. And we have plenty of other courses that are non-Microsoft related on the TechSoup courses site as well. And then I just wanted to flag really quickly that LinkedIn also has a few offers available for nonprofits. Those are not like always thought of in the same light as Microsoft, but they're technically merged companies. So I just wanted to provide that and I put a link on the slide here as well. And then there's a lot of additional resources. So some of the links that we already provided in chat, but we did put that in this slide as well. So you can feel free to go back to this. Every slide here has this email address. We want you to reach out to us. We are here to help. We're here to partner with you and make this transition of all of these changes as easy as possible. And we're here to advocate for what you need. And so if there's things that we can approve on or things that you need more of, please let us know that that's our mission to help you guys out. So thank you everybody for your time today.


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فشرف بالشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دابة دلى وياله من شراف عظيمي then Allah says انَّا سَّبَبِنَ المَعَ صَبَّى how we pour down water but the way we pour this water as Allah says it's in what it's in large quantity the water doesn't come down like it's not pouring it's sprinkles الله سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن ينقذه حتى أنه شيء يأخذ لك then it will kill you هذا same rain if it goes beyond the duration that is needed from it it can turn from a blessing to a what a punishment like what happened to what the people of Noah 40 days الله سبحانه وتعالى and destroyed him with rain that same rain can turn from blessing to a what a punishment but Allah is saying I said that rain on you and I made it a form of blessing for you this is Allah now mentioning what he's done for you through this water and this rain that he has sent down onto you and sent down is what brings about the crops and the grains and the vegetations and the foods that you are benefiting from it comes from this rain Africa countries like that when rain doesn't come down they suffer الله سبحانه وتعالى because they need that water for their vegetation they need that water for their crops and their grains and etc the land becomes the land becomes barren who's sending that water without being paid without no money being given to him without الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى the word الله سبحانه وتعالى there's two recitations of it one is which is the one I read and also if it becomes and it's read like that then it becomes it becomes which is that it's an independent sentence but if we read it as صبابن الماء then grammatically it becomes بدل and it becomes the type of بدل which is بدل شمول and بدل of course is that it's taking the place of something that was previously mentioned what was it that was previously mentioned فليون بوري الإنسان so that النه here is a بدل شمول of the word فليون بوري الإنسان grammatically that's a side point to understand grammar أنه صبابن الماء الله is saying look and ponder and observe how we pour down water onto you through this water that we have sent to you from high above it is that water that brings about what the vegetation in another ayah الله says ألم ترى have you not seen أن الله أنزل من السماء have you not seen here when the Quran says meaning have you really taken it in have you not really observed ponder over أن الله سبحانه وتعالى أنزل من السماء that he sent down from high above ما and water فتصبح الأربه مخبرة and through that water the earth becomes green the earth that you couldn't look at because of the way it looked it didn't look appealing because of the rain that has now come down your eyes will enjoy looking at the greenery in front of you and then the vegetation that come out of it الله سبحانه وتعالى is the one who done it ثم الشقاقن الأرض شقا then الله سبحانه وتعالى he says then we broke open the earth splitting it with sprouts this breaking of the earth is that vegetation is coming out when the earth is bringing a vegetation the earth is not stuck together it's slightly splitting so the vegetation can come out from it sprout out الله سبحانه وتعالى he says ثم الشقاقن الأرض شقا we have broken open the earth splitting it not that earthquake happens or not that the earth splits into two halves or no it just slightly moves apart so the vegetation and the grain everything can come out الله سبحانه وتعالى that rain he sent it down with that and then here you see the greenery the fruits the vegetation are coming out الله سبحانه وتعالى he mentions that here now I'm going to go back to a question of what which I asked you Allah is moving from speaking about us and how we started and says الله سبحانه وتعالى what did he say من نطفة خلقه فقدرة ثم السمين يسرح ثم أماته فأكبره ثم إذا شاء and شره then after he moves on to what he moves on to فلينبوري الإنسان إلى طعامي الناس ربنا الماء أصبب ثم الشقا قلنا الأرض الشقا فأمبتنا فيها حبا وعينا با وقضبا وزيتونة ونخلق why what's the relationship between us the relationship between it is the sperm dropped through it الله سبحانه وتعالى he brought what he brought a child the human came through this and الله سبحانه وتعالى made a person come out from this the same way is that the rain that came from high above is the cause through Allah's permission for the what the vegetation and the greenery to come up from the earth the second thing is the easy way that the child comes out of the womb of his mother is the same way ثم الشقا قلنا الأرض الشقا that we bring through that rain the water when it goes onto the earth the splitting of this earth and the vegetation sprouted out of the earth is the same way and the easy way that the child is coming out of the womb of his mother also the fact that الله سبحانه وتعالى what does he say فقدرا هو that Allah placed the food to go for us to go through stages and levels the same is with the vegetation because he says after that فأمبتنا فيها حبا حبا here is what the grains and cause to grow within it grains and then grapes and then a herb comes out from it and olives and then palm trees this is the gradual state in which it goes through الله says فأمبتنا فيها and we cause to grow from this earth grain and grapes and herbage and olives and palm trees وزيتون ونخلق that's the stages it goes through just like the stages which you go through سبحانه وتعالى so that's the relationship between the verse and what it was talking about previously and then الله سبحانه وتعالى he says وحدائق غلبة and then gardens of density the garden the rain that came down that both that produced through it the grains and then through it came grapes and then came the palm tree all of that it became so much that the garden became full that's why the مفصلين they said وحدائق and gardens of غلبة what is the word غلبة mean مجعفر امرجرير التابري he bought six views and all of them they can be reconciled between it the first one he said is the word غلبة it means ملتفا وقتما anything that comes together and of course when the garden has so many trees the trees they come together and they cross through each other the first one is attributed to the view of العباس the second one is that the word غلبة means بيبا the garden is blessed and great بيب means pure and good this is a view attributed to مجاهد the third one is the third one is نب تشجر كله all of it is trees they're not even grass only they're trees they've actually become big this is also attributed to العباس as well and also اكريبة mentioned trees which have big shades and more اطوال long trees also attributed to العباس and نخل الكرام good palm trees not any mere palm trees but a good palm tree and six عظام great a big great so this fifth one was attributed to قتادة and last one is attributed to زيت رحمه الله so Allah brings that rain from high above and then it brings these gardens of density and that's large وَفَاكِهَةَن and Allah brings from it fruit and grass وَفَاكِهَةَن means fruits وَأَبَّن means grass this آية وَفَاكِهَةَن وَأَبَّة the scholars of Tafsid وَفَاكِهَةَن is fruits or it's what comes from the earth that we eat and what is it that we eat that comes from the earth fruits and vegetations and they said وَأَبَّن is anything that comes from the earth that the animals eat and what is it that the animals eat they eat the grass they eat grass there is the أصل the original usage of the word أب دالون على العودي it means anything that goes back to something return back to something the Arabs will say أنه الشيء الذي يذهب with them يعودوا it is something that goes and it comes back again like for example the Arabs they say أب إلا وطاله this آية there's a statement that was attributed that was attributed from صديق الأمة أبو بكر was asked about وَفَاكِهَةَن وَأَبَّا what does the word أب بالمين somebody asked أبو بكر what does the word أب بالمين and then أبو بكر said أيُّ السماء which sky is going to shade me وَأَيُّ أَرْضٍ to قُلُّني and which air will allow me to walk on it and keep me underneath it إن قلت في كتاب الله ما لا أعلم if I say about Allah's book that which I have no knowledge of some scholars they weakened it this statement of أبو بكر they said it's weak because the chain of narration is disconnected عُمَّ ربي الله تعالى عنه he recited this آية one time he recited it وَفَاكِهَةَ وَأَبَّا عُمَّ ربي الله تعالى عنه he said عرفنا الفاكِهَة we know what فاكِهَ means we know what fruit means he says and then he said to himself عُمَّر سَتُهِمْ سَوْف لَعَمْرُكَ يَبْنَ الخَطَّاب by Allah or Ibn Al-Khattab إنَّ هذا له التكلف this is you this is you over burdening yourself in what you have no knowledge of stop it stop talking about it you have no knowledge of it stop speaking about it some statements like that was attributed from عُمَّر ربي الله تعالى عنه that he didn't know what the word أبو means and the reason why he didn't know what ab means or the possibility that the مفصلين mentioned why عُمَّر may not have known it is because and was unaware of it is because the word is not لغة قرش it's not the dialect of the قرش قرش it's not the dialect that the قرش speaks but that shows you what وَرَعْ سَلَفْ the how fearful the سَلَفْ were when it came to the Qur'an they didn't know what an ayah meant they didn't know what it meant they wouldn't speak about it and they did not find it a problem to say I don't know it because they knew if they spoke about a verse they had no knowledge of that they don't know where they go to go the day of judgment in front of Allah سبحانه وتعالى then Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says مَتَا عَلَّقُمْ وَلِعَعْمِكُمْ all of that which Allah mentioned the grapes the palm trees the garden all of that we made it for what مَتَا عَلَّقُمْ وَلِعَمِكُمْ as an enjoyment for you and your grazing livestock this is for you and it's also for your livestock it's for your goats your camels your lambs your sheep it's for your livestock مَتَا عَلَّقُمْ وَلِعَعْمِكُمْ and for your cattle for them to come and to eat from this greenery and then for you to then eat from what from you to eat that goat all of that we made it for you so you can benefit from it but the benefiting of it is مُدَّة من الزمان for a period of time and then this will come to an end it will not last forever that blessing that you've been given is going to come to an end it's going to come to an end الله سبحانه وتعالى then says فَإِدَا جَاءَتِ الصَّاخَةَ الله سبحانه وتعالى he says but when there comes they're definitely blast and when there comes they're definitely blast meaning makes you deaf they're definitely blast the مفاصرين they differed amongst themselves what is meant by الصَّاخَة they differed and they held different opinions one view they said that the word الصَّاخَة is a name من أسماء يوم القيابة it's a name from the names of the day of judgment the day of judgment has many names تغابل قيامة آخرة الصَّاخَة is from its names that's one view the second view is that it is the blowing of the trumpet and the effect that it will have on the people's ear that it will be deafening you will not be hearing anything else اللتي تصوك الأدانة بشدة سلته the excessive loud noise that comes from that blowing when the angel blows into that trumpet and the noise that comes from it is going to deafen the people's ears and they won't be able to hear any other person who's around them if they're saying something or if they're making noise that's another view held by the scholars and all of those views those two views they come together because if it's the day of judgment then this blowing of the trumpet is what? it's the day of judgment here happening it's the happening of that and ibn abbas is the one who mentioned أن الصَّاخَة من أسماء يوم القيامة ibn abbas mentioned that the صَّاخَة is from the names of the day of judgment and that is the correct opinion يا إخوة that day the day when the trumpet is going to be blown blown and the noise is made that day when does Allah say Allah says يوم يفر المرء من أخي و أمه و أبي و صاحبته و بني on that day a man will flee from his brother and his mother and his father that day يوم يفر المرء من أخي when the trumpet is blown everybody will run away from their beloved ones يوم يفر المرء من أخي you're going to run away from your own brother that day you will run away from him و أمه و أبي and his mother and his father the person is going to run away from them و صاحبته و بني and you're going the wife and his children your own wife that day you're going to turn a blind eye you're going to run away from her you're going to run away from your own children that day the question here is why is the person going to run that day why are they going to flee the scholars they mentioned asbab things why that the person will run away that day and why he would flee the first one is as the next verse to come mentions which is لكل مرء منهم يوم ينشقن يغلي on that day for everyone is a matter that's sufficient for him and adequate matter has been placed in front of him it's enough what has been put in front of him is more than enough he can't take on anything else he has no place he has no time he has no energy to be talking to anyone else his own affairs are too much لكل مرء منهم يوم ينشقن يغلي every individual and every man that day will be a matter that's sufficient for him the second and of course او مدع عائشة ربي الله تعالى عنها in the famous حديث بخاري المسلم the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said to Aisha يحشر الناس يوم القيامة that the people will be resurrected the day of judgment and they will be gathered in front of Allah the day of judgment the people will be brought in front of Allah that day naked the people that day will be naked and they will be what uncircumcised and they will be shoeless no one's wearing anything so عائشة سليار رسول الله or messenger of Allah النساء والرجال جميعا ينظر بعضهم إلى بعض من and women they go to look at each other that the men are there naked and the women are there naked they're going to look at each other عائشة has the life and the shyness a Muslim woman should have of wanting to cover herself are you with me brothers and sisters عائشة is asking this question because she has shyness in her she knows the value of Hijab and covering yourself up and you all know the famous narration that Aisha she lived in the house that the prophet died you all know that right prophets are not moved from where they died as the prophet said when prophets die they are buried where they died so the prophet as they have died in the house of Aisha and he was buried there and they guess who got buried after that her father أبو مكر السديد got buried next to the prophet and then when عمار became sick when عمار became sick he requested from عائشة if he can be buried next to his two friends that he's always loved that he was always with if he can be buried next to them and عائشة this was when عمار was on his on his deathbed he sent his own son عبد الله من عمر he said go to our mother عائشة and ask her if she would allow me to be buried next to the prophet and my friend أبو مكر and عائشة sent a message back and she said I was preparing that spot for myself I wanted it for who I wanted it for myself but now that you've asked me I will give you that spot I will give you that spot عمار then said to his son عبد الله when I die and I pass away there might be a possibility she might have changed her mind that she may not feel comfortable and she only did it to respect me ask her again when she says no then bury me somewhere else so when he died he asked عائشة and she said of course I am not one to change her statement and عمار got buried in her house next to أبو مكر and the prophet عائشة when عمار got brought into the house and he got buried she started to a hijab she never used to a hijab before that now that عمار's body has been brought into the house and has been buried in her house عائشة would never walk in the house without a hijab عمار is he alive or is he dead why is she doing this shyness حيا shyness our sisters are now suffering from the concept of someone who is looking at you alive seeing your aura and you are taking your hijab عائشة is asking this question she said to the prophet النساء والرجال the men and the women ينبور بعضهم إلى بعض they are going to look at each other she is asking it from that belief that fitra the way because our mother عائشة when she would do tawaf around the kaaba what did the prophet say نهن بيو صلى الله عليه وسلم أن يلبسن النساء that the women wear نقاب and quffazi gloves women are not allowed to wear gloves when they are in the kaaba doing tawaf are they no they are not the prophet prohibited them from it but عائشة said كان يمر بن الرقبان men on the riding beast which would go right in front of us and one of us would take our jilbab from the side and we would cover our faces we would cover our faces making sure no one sees us because what the prophet prohibited was what نقاب is what he prohibited he did not prohibit them to cover their faces he prohibited them specifically نقاب that they are not allowed to put something over their face or place a niqab over their face but if they use the edge of their cloth or they place a hijab the jilbab and they cover their face then there is nothing wrong it doesn't fall under the prohibition that all shows you what that all shows you how these women were how they were in terms of their covering و لذلك when the ayah came down يا أيها النبي يقول لأزواجك و بناتك و لساء المؤمنين يدينين عليهم من جلبي بهم ذلك أدناء يعرفنا فلا يؤدي when this ayah came down the narration mentions that the women of Medina the whole city of Medina turned out what pitch black the women covered the ayah came down and the whole city took it on board no one said why are they not the women no one questioned Allah's أحكام no one questioned Allah's legislation submission at its pinnacle Allah commanded us where he slaves he's our master he told us to cover we'll cover there's a powerful statement Allah brought you out of the womb of your mothers the way he wanted to come out with his want and his will and his irada you came out don't come out of the houses without his want and his will you come out of your own houses the way he wanted to come out and the way he will سبحانه وتعالى the women and the men so the women they covered fully in the mid-city of Medina made sure that they covered والله is dim-wittiness that you take a place in the Hellfire for a cloth that you can just cover yourself with you've chosen a place for the Hellfire for what عمارة أمتي مابينة ستين وسبعين وقليل ومية جوزو دالي the span of this ummah is only between 60 to 70 a little go over it maybe you might not reach 50 or 60 or 70 for that short period of time don't disobey الله سبحانه وتعالى especially knowing that this time awaits you so عائشة said النساء والرجال men and women they are naked that day are they going to look at each other the prophet looked at عائشة he said يا عائشة او عائشة الأمر أشد من أن ينظر بعضهم إلى بعض the matter is great for them to look at each other for a person that day to be looking at a woman's aura what's on their mind that day is so great that they won't even be thinking about that وَنِدَالِكَا سَلَفُهَا دِيْنْ أُمَّا the pious predecessors when you read that biography sometimes when you read that biography you sometimes see that the fear of Allah تقوى أنخشية some of them used to prevent them from seeing things that were around them you mean you brothers it was narrated from some of the self that a person came and visited his house and they said to him you live in a house and your roof has collapsed and he said والله I lived in this house for this period of time and I never raised my head up to check the roof I've lived in this place for this period of time but I never raised my head up to check my roof and how it if it collapsed or not I don't know what it was like in other words how much they protected their tongues and their limbs they also protected what they looked at if what they looked at had no benefit they never looked when did the poet say this is how much they were taking matters serious and these things brothers and sisters that we're reading it should be something that we visualized now that's why they used to see it they used to try to live like that now now that their fear of Allah is to that extent to that level حسن البصمين will take a burial or he will dig a hole in his own house in his own house he will bury he will dig a hole and he will lie inside and he will then say inside the grave قال رب يرجعوني لعلي أعمل صالحة فيما تركت الله take me back to the earth so I can come with righteous action he goes quiet for a little bit then he cleans the dust of himself and then he says to himself oh حسن you have been given a second chance benefit from it if you are telling the truth if you are telling the truth benefit from it and that's what the poet said يُمَثْثِلُدُ اللُبِّ في اللُبِّ مَصَائِبَ قَبْلَا تَنْزِلَا فَإِنَّزَلَتْ بَغْتَتَلْ لَمْتَرُّلُ لِمَا كَارَ فِي نَفْسِي مَتْتَلَا وَذُلْ جَهْلِ يَا مَنْ أَيَّامَهُ وَيَنْسَامَ سَارِعَ مَنْ قَدْخَلَا فَإِنَّ دهِ مَتْفُّ صُرُوفُز Till the hour of deathَ زَامَالِ بِبَعْضِ مَصَائِبِهِ اعُلَا يُمَثْتِلُلُدُ اللُبِّ في اللُبِّهِ فَإِنَّ دَلَتْ بَغْتَتَلْتَلْ أفًا إِنَّ دَلَتْ بَغْتَتَلْتَلْ فَإِنَّ دَلَتْ بَغْتَلْتَلْ فَإِنَّ دَلَتْ بَغْتَلْ لَمْتَرُّلُهُ لأنه لا يشيكه لما كالف ينفسيه مثلا لأنه يجب أن يقوم باستخدام نفسه كثيرا قبل يجب أن يرغب هذا الكثير من الوقت ولكن المشكلة هو المشكلة من من؟ المشكلة الذي لا يتعرف عن كل هذا المشكلة يجب أن يتعرف ما سيحدث وما سيحدث والله أنت ترى مدينة أتذكر بلاد يذهب إلى مدينة يذهب إلى مدينة من one of the biggest crimes ويجب أن يتعرف بلاد الودي المشكلة التي ستتتعرف عن حالة أم في مدينة كانت أم لا يجب أن يتعرف عنكم يمكن أن تكون أكثر كريمون على المشكلة ويجب أن تكون أم لك ولكن هذه الآن أم مرور منك لماذا؟ هل تفكر؟ أنها تقوم بإمكانها إقوم بها وأنها تقول أنها لا أعرف بلاد وأنها لا أعرف بلاد والله ليست كريمون وأنها تقوم بها لكي تريد أن ترى صديقه ولكن هذا اليوم your mother would not want to see you she does not want to come into contact with you she doesn't want to see a father does not want to see his wife and his children leave me alone the second reason why the person will run away is he doesn't want people to see his reality that day your reality is known you don't want your wife to really know and your children and your parents that you were a real wrongdoer you are a criminal you don't want to be exposed so the reason why you are running away from the people and the children everybody is running away from everyone is because people don't want their reality to be found that's what is going to happen your reality what is inside is being brought out that day everything is going to be brought to the table there is no such thing as hidden everything is out in the open so people run away from one another the third reason why is that the people don't ask you for their rights the rights that you have taken the people you have insulted the people you have backbited and spoken against tweeted about commented and said things about them that day they are not going to let you go why would they let you go why would they let you go when they can get righteous deeds they are in the most need today are they going to let you go الله they are not that day it's not it's not it is it is righteous deeds and he's going to stand until he gets every single rights from you give it once he realizes that he's taken all of your righteous deeds and they're still more left he will still not leave you so say ya Rabbi I have sins why don't you give him my sins if his hasalaat has finished and his righteous deeds has finished but I have sins take my sins and put it on him your sins will be taken and it will be placed on that person or their sins will be placed on you if you're the one who was wronging others and today think about it how many people say things forums twitter instagram facebook and speak about people's honor and a'ra' speak about people's honor and people's reputation and lie about them attribute to them what they don't believe ascribe to them what they are free from they don't believe that the day of judgment where would you go and now one of the saddest thing is that and this is from the deceptions of shaitan what is it from it's the deceptions of shaitan that gossiping name calling ridiculing belittling others for you has become that you're defending the deed to believe that backbiting others name calling others things that are from the kaba'il from the major sins that shaitan has duped you so much that you believe really that this is what that this is protecting the deed what you always have to remember brothers is just because you've changed the name of something and you've given it a good name or whether you call it or whether you call it or whether you call it victory to the religion whatever nice names you want to give it whatever nice names you choose to give it it does not change the reality of what it is just like calling interest does not change it's still been river calling drugs food doesn't make it food calling alcohol juice make it juice good names can be used for everything but doesn't change the reality and this is none other than a tactic that was deployed by you shaitan he referred to the tree which Allah told Adam not to eat from he referred to it as what the tree of eternity if you eat from this tree you're going to live forever شجرة الخلدي وملك لا يبلأ and your kingdom Adam is never going to perish this is what this tree is called and this شجرة is what it's the tree that's going to take Adam out of he gave it a good name and that's what people do they take a good term from the Quran and the sunnah and they would use it for their filthy actions and then they think that because they've given it a good name that the reality would change no it won't the reality it won't change يوم that day يفرر النرء من أخي وأمه وابي وصاحبته وبلي I will conclude it insha'Allah سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشدوا أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرواك وأتوموا إليك


Okay, what's going on everyone we got Jake losing it over there right now Sam here with late in sports car driven 22 panini obsidian football hobby six-box half case break number 12 pick your team style I got a list of our Names and teams here. We got Armando B with the Chargers Ben P at Bill's Brian are Eagles Christopher a with the Packers Daniel V It's chiefs Dean. I Jags Deward B Buccaneers Edward P cowboys Eric W. Falcons James H Giants Jasper D with the Browns Jeff M Cardinals Ravens Bears Broncos Viking Saints. Thank you there Jeff We've got Jeremy H Rams Kevin S with the Patriots and the Colts Louis C Seahawks Titans Matteo P Bengals Matthew B Texans Michael S Niners miles H Steelers Ryan S U Jets Ryan ST Panthers Steve R Lyons Dolphin Steven W with the Commanders and Valerie P with the Raiders. Good luck. Here we go I know I that happens to me like wants a stream to like lean back a little bit and it's like terrifying Red Jalen Warren nice one there two of ten for the Steelers Green Dak Prescott 14 out of 50 where he came up with a stick for a next year guy For a 2023 NFL rookie who's the player Zay flowers April showers bring Zay flowers Chris Godwin There's three out of 75 is Devontae Williams on the trifecta material color match orange for the Broncos Contra yeah Dude, that's not that like low key might be one of the biggest cards we hit today That's very much 22 out of 50 is gonna be Nick Chubb Two-color patch. Yeah, that's the it's like rainbow neon etch. It's called Really cool, right one 32 out of 199 Jalen Warren auto for the Steelers Lewis We're killing it for you right now, buddy first one of the day to 175. There's a Malik Willis on the rookie Jersey Auto First Malik Willis auto we fold today. I think we've gotten pretty much everybody now. It was no purdy, but It's black. I believe yeah, it might be blue. I don't know we put there's a couple in there Andrew Nicholson Andrew Nicholson Andrew Nicholson Vaughn said literally said can you say to Ford's Andrew Nicholson and nothing else So there I had to I had to do what the people wanted there That he's former former magic legend do what the person wanted There's Malcolm Rodriguez yellow to 25 rookie for the Lions and Tavanta Smith purple 79 of 100 didn't know we elected Vaughn as the leader of the people in chat That's a scary day if we did there's Aaron Donald what went wrong There's eight out of 50 Josh Allen four-color patch nice one there I'm totally a man of the people when it comes to this absolutely Oh, it's great this year Zachary Carter that is for the bangles 193 out of 199. Yeah Yeah, we had a Drake London do Very well could be True 31 out of 50 is gonna be a Eric Dickerson That's a one-person ballot Vaughn said Nice one there for the ramps you ran on a post I make sense There's 145 out of 175 is George Pickens Pickens live in this day, which is nice. Hmm Sharpie boy That must be pretty recent then has to be like Tony and it's like a chief in this like yeah McCaffrey's color blast are Niners Yeah, true very true. That's a guy. I didn't even think of that. It's a good point Those are gonna be so nasty in EPL Michael Carter 24 out of 50 for the Jets Orange DJ more 65 out of 75 for the Panthers yes fun times over here God Zachary Carter 44 out of 75 Javante Williams Thought I was caught up on card stuff than FedEx showed up from us for Wahoos I just went there for the Broncos another one going to the Broncos 45 of 75 Broncos country. Let's ride that is Russell Wilson Check Catch on that one. I've been doing it all day at home. So annoying 15 out of 25. We've got a James Robinson High-fives is one thing and breaks for other things. Oh, yeah Is that supposed to be 28?  There's a rookie eruption of Drake London 28 out of 50 Arnolda Bikite going to the Falcons you are on the clock Yeah, that's guy right there Another nice one here 69 out of 100 is gonna be a Dante Hall on the galaxy and the human joystick Yeah Who's your team right now Goldie can share us all contras like first pick who nice to be Anyone out of 99 we've got Danny Gray go into the night It's not bad actually Wahoos so for Wahoos for all of his What's it called? For his iMac wwe two of the 13 redemptions that have been filled already. That's pretty impressive. That's really this fast. Yeah I wouldn't be worried like WWE redemptions when I wouldn't be too worried about especially if they're current true White Contra coming up. That's gonna be 92 out of 100 Mark East Brown And for the Jets Michael Carter nice one there white Contra Short friend Big 10 tomato. I mean he was gonna some alright or I was TJ that age. Yeah, I'm scared 33 out of 75. We've got Christian McCaffrey On the Jersey 50 out of 199 Chad Mooma, there's Caleb super collection all the red song players most so early dude Let's go Louis again 32 out of 50 another canine Ken. It's Walker on the green That's really cool color match with that Classic Seahawks lime green. It's like one of the only Seahawks true color matches, right now. Honestly, that's nasty And also going to Louis 78 out of 175 is a Hassan Haskins Lucy did we literally so to every science. That's awesome. That's cool So I so not last break but break before Louis had the Seahawks and he had him in the last break and this break And I was like two three breaks ago. I was like, oh, let's pull you a kind of Walker color blasts like that Be cool or one-on-one. He's like, yeah color blast to be awesome We did it and then in the next break, which he also had the Seahawks first box kind of Walker color blast That was a freak out right that's we had a freak out going on that Where see the red Me you could go gold gold Jonathan Taylor a nice one there for the Coles Seven out of ten True tunnel vision Michael Vick 46 out of 99 for the Eagles Darnell Mooney 59 out of 75 is gonna be a trailance patch patch Jersey No sour the case hit will be the color blast Golds are just short printed the number to 10 Got 17 out of 125 Johan Dotson Yeah, the white etch the Contra that's another like case hit to Usually get like one one to two a case 65 out of 199 Danny Gray For the Niners and to complete the trifecta of Titans rookies to 175.  You got it man Yeah, we have not pulled a a purdy yet. I don't think I swung there. Let's do a quick recap everybody We had a hey, you got it Louis Johan Dotson Drake London Traylance Javonte Williams CMC Javonte Russell Wilson Nick Chubb Josh Allen Still not happening Danny Gray Chad Mooma Zachary Carter Jalen Warren Son Haskins George Pickens Traylon Burks Malik Willis Dante home Danny Greta Kenneth Walker Arnold of Akita Eric Dickerson James Robinson and a Garrett Wilson RPI 1250 That'll do for the break guys. Thanks again for the film. Next up. We got our full case


Secret Railway was built for Putin in Russia. A secret railway and a network of stations leading to his residences were built in Russia for Vladimir Putin, president of the aggressor country. Earlier it was reported that Putin had started traveling around the country on his armored train. Praekt investigative media outlet writes about it. All of Vladimir Putin's main residences have been connected to railway lines and secret stations have been built nearby as the project has found out. This confirms the reports of the dossier center that the head of state has recently begun to use the train more often than the plane. The media outlet has found out at least three locations that may be associated with Putin's secret railway service, in particular on the territory of the Valdesky National Park. There is a guarded railway station with a helipad near the village of Dolje Borodii, the nearest settlement to Putin's favorite Valde residence. Three local residents told the media outlet that the station and the special railway line to it were built only for the president. In addition, according to satellite images, the station in Novo Ogariovo appeared in 2015 and is located 400 meters from Putin's residence in Moscow Oblast. The land under the station was withdrawn from private ownership in favor of the federal guard service by the decision of the then Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The special station itself is designed for a small number of cars and is hidden behind a high fence with surveillance cameras installed every 10 meters. To stop the train near the Sochi residence, Bokarov Ruche, a platform under new dead-end railway line appeared in 2017, hidden from the tracks used by electric trains by a high fence. The president's special train has repeatedly been caught on camera by the train spotters and railway workers. For example, in November 2018, or April 2020, according to the former driver, with whom the proect spoke, Putin's armored train is based in a depot at the Mosk-Mosk-Kalanchiovskaya railway station with a closed terminal for VIPs. This special station is still functioning and the high fence surrounding it is additionally reinforced with barbed wire. In 2017, a new highway was laid directly to the platform of the VIP terminal on Kalanchiovskaya. The president's special train belongs to the Grand Service Express Company, which was associated with Putin's close friend Yuri Kovalchuk. On the 13th of February, the dossier center reported that Vladimir Putin has been increasingly using an armored train for long-distance trips to his residences, which he switched to in the spring of 2021. In December 2022, it was reported that Putin has an extensive train of secret bunkers stretching from Moscow to the Urals and new underground shelters continue to be built in Russia.


All right, looks like we're ready to get the meeting started Welcome to DDRC members staff and guests Multiple staff members are present to make sure that the meeting runs smoothly and all applicants and citizens are able to communicate with the Commission at the appropriate times Miss Branham. Yeah, mr. Brun Miss Branham Here. Thank you. Miss Jacob here. Mr. McGuire Mr. Salibi here. We have quorum In order to avoid ex parte communications DDRC members are under strict instructions Not to discuss cases under consideration with the public or with each other outside of the public forum The meeting typically starts with staff calling the case giving a summary of the project and then calling on the applicant to present if they wish Decisions are typically made in one evening Decisions may be appealed within 30 days to a court of competent jurisdiction Oaves will be administered individually as we hear either from applicants or from live speakers Applicants with requests before the DDRC are allotted a presentation time of 10 minutes This time should include but it's not limited to an overview of the project case history and any pertinent meetings held regarding the request This time also includes all persons presenting information on behalf of the applicants such as attorneys engineers and architects This time limit does not include any questions asked by the DDRC or staff regarding the request Members of the general public are given the opportunity to address their concerns and intervals of two minutes Applicants may have five minutes to respond Staff has a timer and will make presenters aware when their time has expired. Are there any changes to the agenda? We've had several deferrals under the regular agenda 1315 Woodrow Street a request for design approval for exterior changes in the Melrose Heights Oakland architectural conservation district 431 433 Wacama Avenue Request for design approval for exterior changes in the Wales Garden architectural conservation district 1200 Main request for preliminary certification for the Bailey bill, which this is a national register structure in 1525 Bull Street Request for design approval for exterior changes to an individual landmark The DDRC uses the consent agenda to approve non-controversial or routine matters by a single motion and vote If a member of the DDRC or the general public wants to discuss an item on the consent agenda That item is removed from the consent agenda and considered during the meeting the DDRC then approves the remaining Consent agenda items staff, please read the consent agenda Certainly our one item on the consent agenda is 1414 Pine Street a request for preliminary certification for the Bailey bill in the Waverly protection area Is there anyone from the DDRC that would like any item removed from the consent agenda? Anyone from the public that would like Anyone from the public who would like an item removed from the consent agenda Do I have a motion and a second to accept the consent agenda subject to all the conditions contained in the case summaries as well as the September September minutes August August minutes. Yes, thank you so moved Miss Brannum Yes, mr. Brim. Yes, Miss Jacob. Yes, mr. McGuire and Mr. Salibi Motion passes any other items on the agenda today There are no other items. We have a motion to adjourn I'll be making a motion to adjourn this meeting


As students, it's important for us to think critically about the information we encounter. Learning to evaluate books helps us understand and make better use of such information. Briefly, let's think about how to evaluate the books we find in terms of three useful categories, scholarly, popular, and authoritative. For a quick overview of what we mean by these three terms, check out the Beam Library's video, Focused Beam, Searching for Scholarly. They say you can't judge a book by its cover, and that's good advice, but you can usually judge a book by what's just under its front cover, the title page. A first step in evaluating a book is to look at the title page. This page typically contains the title, author, and publisher, and its reverse side usually offers publication information, including the date of copyright. One of the first questions to ask when evaluating a book is, who is the publisher? If the publisher is a university press, the book can likely be considered scholarly. Or if the publisher is well-known for offering high-level academic works, such as Brill or Rootledge, it's likely a scholarly book. And if you're in doubt, names of academic publishers can be easily located simply by googling List of Academic Publishers. If the book is published by a commercial publisher, like Zonderven, for example, or if it's self-published, it likely shouldn't be considered scholarly. But keep in mind that a popular level work may be authoritative, when in doubt, check with your professor to see if a source is appropriate for your particular project. Next, we need to think about the author. Is this person well-known as a scholar in his or her field? You may be uncertain. Again, googling an author's name is a good way to find out if she's associated with a particular university or if he is known as a scholar and expert in his field. But be careful. Even if an author is known as a scholar, the book itself may be popular in nature. That's why it's important to also consider the book's intended audience. So we need to ask, for whom is this book written? Is it written for the scholarly community, loaded with technical language and insider talk, or is it written to be read and understood by a more popular audience? Often, a well-known scholar like N.T. Wright, for example, will offer books intended for a popular audience. In such cases, these books are not considered scholarly, but they are certainly authoritative. Again, it's a good idea to check with your professor to confirm whether or not a book you've found is appropriate for your project. Two final elements for evaluating a book's scholarship and usefulness remain, timeliness and documentation. Timeliness can be a frustrating concept. In the sciences, students are typically required to engage only the most recent works on their topic. In terms of books, this would be items published within the last five years or so. But in the humanities, timeliness is different. Older works are often considered relevant and included in scholarly conversation. But even in the humanities, it's important to engage recent scholarship so that you better hear how new insights have informed and shaped current conversation. So check out the reverse side of the title page and look for the date of copyright. Note that some books are revised over time and republished. Other books are simply reprinted. It takes a bit of critical thinking and perhaps some digging, but try to determine if the book you found still offers current, relevant information. And finally, documentation offers a pretty good indication of a book's scholarship. Does the book have extensive end notes or footnotes? Does it provide a bibliography of other high-level resources to which readers can refer for further study? A book that does not offer robust documentation of sources is likely not scholarly. Such a book may be authoritative, but it's probably written with a popular audience in mind. And again, popular-level books can still be authoritative, so check with your professor to confirm that a book you found is appropriate for your specific project. And remember that your beam librarians are here to help. If you have a question about the scholarly nature of a book, feel free to ask a librarian. We look forward to assisting you as you learn to better evaluate the information you encounter.