Welkom back. This is why in the morning still. Thank you so much for sticking with us. My name is Ram Aguco. It's a pleasure being with you today on this fine Monday morning. And today we want to have a discussion on personal branding. This is concerning your career on right here on youth and politics. What is personal branding? What is personal branding? What is it that comes into your mind when we talk about branding? How can you ensure that your brand sells you and that it sells your product in a way that makes you stand out from the rest? Today let's talk about personal branding right here on why in the morning. And to help us in this particular discussion I am with the one and the only George C. Miu. He is an author, a professional speaker and a HR expert. Garibusana George. Santisana Mr. How are you doing my brother? I'm doing well. I know it's been a long time since we had a discussion here. But we thank God at least again today we're meeting. Let's first of all start with personal branding's definition. When you talk about personal branding, how do you define it in a nutshell? There are so many ways to define this term but if you just look at it, it is personal branding. So you just need to understand that when you talk about personal, these are attributes that are unique to you. Then when you talk about branding is now how do you package those attributes and maybe in this marketplace and sell yourself out? Yeah. The thing that is unique to you? Yes, that's why you call it personal branding. People can copy past ideas. That's true. But is it possible for you to stand out with that, could be past that idea as an individual? When it comes to personal branding, I think it's very much important for you to be unique and authentic. And one of the things that people are struggling with today is trying to be some people whom they are not like Oscar Wilde puts it this way that be yourself, everyone is taken. So one of the things people are really trying to lose it is we begin by trying to be so and so. I want to be like Ram, but I want to be Ram. I cannot be you. I can just be the best version of myself. So when it comes to this personal branding, you really have to understand that you have one to identify rather than know yourself. Like you as Ram, know who is Ram in terms of what are your attributes. And these are the very things now you package and now sell it out to the market. What makes you stand out? Yes. That's what makes you unique. What makes you unique? Yes. See me, I'm thinking. So many people always look up to someone. We all have that person that we look up to. That's true. That mentor that we see every day and want to emulate. Is it okay to want to be like someone? I remember you've mentioned that a few moments ago. Is it okay to want to be like someone? You admire them. You admire how they walk, how they talk, how they handle issues concerning life, how they handle matters. You admire how they dress, how they think. You admire their career path. And some go to the point of doing courses that are in line with our mentor's career path. Is it okay to admire someone and to want to emulate them? Well, it's okay to admire but not to be like them. Not to be them. I don't know if you get me. I can be admiring who you are, but I don't want to be you. Don't be a copy-pasted machine to me. Yes. Like what I just mentioned, everyone passing is taken. So why should I try to be like Ram? I can only just borrow a few things from your life. But I have in the back of my mind that I have to remain to be George.  Like why don't you be like so and so? Why don't you especially come to these matters of momentum? Even parents tell you be like the son of so and so. You get this. And so along the line you get to lose ourselves because you're trying to be like somebody. And now we lose our brand. And in this world you can't fake something for long. You'll try to fake to be somebody, but after a while then you'll still go back to your default. At some point you'll notice that no, this is not my trajectory. Your nature will just click back for the resettings. So you really, as much as you want to, we have to admire people, that's okay, we have to learn from people, that's okay. But you should not really be like them because you be you. Be you. That's what sets you apart. And that's what now brings in the issues of this brand. So you can pick up tips from them. Yes. Take up ideas. Yes. But customize them in your own. In your own unique way. I cannot speak the way you speak, for example, but maybe I can admire how you listen, how you do things, you get it. I can learn something from it. But now at the time I begin to try to speak like the way you speak, I am losing myself. How far does personal branding go? Are we talking just in terms of career, in terms of businesses? Where is it applicable? Because someone may say, ah, I'm not in business, I don't need a personal brand. Who does it apply to? Allow me to say this, there is always a myth people always think to begin with that personal branding belongs to the celebrities. Like because you ram these big people, people always think that way. And that's wrong, it's something we need to really do away with. So somebody will talk to you and say, I don't think I need to have this personal brand or I need to work on it. But let me say this, whether you know it or you don't know it, you are a brand. Everyone is a brand. Now what makes the difference is how you are marketing, how you're selling your brand, how you're building up your brand. And now that's what differentiates us in the market. Those who work on their brand, they are out there, people can recognize them.  Yes, so the issue is whether you know it or you don't know it, you're a brand. So and now one you know it, now you keep on working on it. Then also let me just mention this that personal branding is a journey, it's not just an event. When does that journey start? When does that journey start? I mean because I'm looking at the age of the young people that are watching us today, does someone who is in primary have the right of saying that I want to build up my personal brand? Is there a particular age limit when it comes to the start of this journey that you're talking about? And it's just like the very question I can ask you, when does the career begin? Haaa, is it when you graduate from the university or the college? Or when, you know, that's the very question, but now let me just take you back to what you're asking me. When does this start? I love that, I love that. It starts when you realize that it's important in your life because that's when you begin to take it serious. Can a parent help a child to build up a personal brand? Yes. By trying to really make the child understand that there is this thing called personal branding and you really need to be deliberate about it as early as that age. So those parents perhaps they began to be a bit more careful about this personal branding when maybe they are going into entrepreneurship, they are going into careers, you see then they will also think that that is a time when you should start working on this stuff. So you should pick out what your child is interested in from a tender age and help it harness it up and build that brand. I love that. Parents are you hearing that? You're hearing that? It is important. Personal branding starts from the time that you realize the path someone wants to take. Let's talk about now some of these tips. How can we build a personal brand? Because you said it's a journey. That's a journey. You said it applies to everybody. That's true. And we will define what it is. The tips. Now that I know it's a journey. How can I build my brand? All right. Even before I share a few on that, allow me say that this branding thing it can refer to a product.  Okay. Yeah. A person or a service. Or a service. And now you see all these things come in our life at different times. But now let's talk about a person like you and me.  People will value you best on your brand. We call the brand value and something like that.  But the brand doesn't really matter. But let me just tell you this, that brand matter. You attract who you are, not what you want. So now this begins to take us back to now this journey of personal branding. You have to begin to develop yourself into what you want. And so what do you do? Number one thing I can just quickly say know yourself. That's where you start the old matter. Identify. Know who you are. And that takes you to the question of who are you. What's your identity? Yes, your identity. Because that's what you're going to sell to the market. That's what people are coming to. People will be interested in. Because they have you looking at someone who is still trying to find out who they are. Yeah, so who are you? Because once you know who you are, you'll know how to market yourself. But if you don't know who you are, most likely you'll get it wrong. You will place your lad on the wrong wall. Then after some time you've climbed up, then you realize no. I should have placed it on this wall. So to begin with know who you are because everyone is taken. The challenge is like what I mentioned when it started. People are trying to be who they are not. We fake it, big time. And there is this belief that fake it till you make it. That does not apply. In personal value throw that out. Who started that to begin with? You know we need to understand the context of that. But what do you want then? Yes, I've had it big time, but I don't believe in that. Be yourself. Because anytime you're going to fake it, you're going to, you know, just look at it this way. Any fake brand in this market does not last for long. That's true. It may seem to be doing well, but after some point the original one will just be coming and people say this is what you want. It's the same thing with branding. How long are you going to fake it? Be yourself, be original. Be yourself, be original, be authentic. The original see me you. Yes, that people know you for who you are. Not what you are trying to be. Wow, wow. So to begin with, be yourself. Be yourself. Find out who you are. Find out who you are. I'm looking at this teenager who is still having this identity crisis. Yes, yes. And knowing thyself becomes a problem. I want us to talk to parents today, Asimio. Yes. Talk to this parent today. How can a parent help their child to throw this journey of self-discovering? Allow me also to say this that self-discovering is a journey. It's not again an event that we just work up today, then you know yourself. When you and me we're still discovering ourselves as we move or rather walk in this genre of life. And... Because even at our age we're still... Yes, there are some things we don't know ourselves. You get surprised, hey, so this is me, you get it. And also this child, you have to be patient with this child. But before you even go into that, it's good for me to mention to you that in this life again you'll notice that there is no recovery without discovery. Until you discover yourself, you never recover anything even if in the life of that child. So you need to discover, okay, what are the things that are good in this child? What is he or she good in as early as that time? Then begin to really push them in that line. Okay. Package them so that as they go on they grow in need, you know you're growing your brand as well. Yeah, you're growing your brand. So we're saying a tip of growing your brand, number one, identify who you are, get your identity. All right, let's get motifs here. So after you've identified yourself? Then you have to really know package yourself. Package. But how you do your things? What do you mean when you say packaging? Personal, I'm calling it personal packaging. We said personal branding just about identifying the unique attributes about yourself, you're a good communicator, you're a journalist and all that.   Aha. So you really now begin to realize, so what are some of the areas that can really make me stand out or rather bring out the best of myself? That is still part of packaging yourself. What are some of the market that I should focus on and what is the key thing there that's for a youth? Yeah, go ahead. Then as you do that, something else you need to do when it comes to this journey is be visible. Be visible. Yeah. That's number three, be visible. Yeah, let people know like, drama exists. You know. Okay. Otherwise, how will you know that you are a good journalist? You have to do your stuff and people see. When you say be visible, I want you to be very clear here because now I know somebody that is thinking how far is too far in terms of this aspect of visibility? Are we talking about trending? Because now people do so many things to trend. Are we talking about just making a series of posts every now and again? How far are we talking about here? Let me use this analogy. I don't know how audience will understand it. Somebody puts it. It's like blinking to a girl in darkness. Will you see it? She will not. And so it's the same thing with this. There must be light. There must be light. People have to see it.  Let people identify you with it because that's very much important. As you do that, be consistent when you're doing this stuff because this genre of personal branding, like what I mentioned to you, is it's not an event. Like just happen one day and it's a genre that you have to walk in. So, as you're visible again, people have known what you do, then also be consistent. Let people really don't come to a point of asking themselves, we used to see this guy do this stuff. Where did he disappear to? Be consistent. I'm not saying that it will be easy, sometimes this genre is stuff.  You're building up a brand, it's like any other thing.  Yes, sometimes you can lose content. You can. I don't know if you found yourself in that position. Big time. You haven't why they're so old, why you post today. But that's it. You have to really think out of the bracket and see what to do. But if again you're in the right trajectory, most likely you'll never get stuck. You'll never get stuck. And anybody can do that. Yes. If you're faking it now, that's when the time come if you realize, hey, I can't proceed. I think now let me change it to something else. But if it was within something that is within your calling, I think you cannot really struggle. Now, when it comes to support, do we have things that we need as individuals that can help us build our brands that we can use? Somebody can, at home, can use to build their brands because now they're saying, I want to do this, but I don't know where to start from. Okay. At home, something that can just really help this person build up a brand? Build a brand, resources that are available for them. Because someone may say, I want someone to buy me a camera. I don't have money to buy a camera. I don't have money to buy a camera. So I cannot build my personal brand. I don't have a family to help me, to support me. So I cannot build a personal brand. Do we have these support systems or resources that can help an individual build a brand? Yes, they are there. They are there. I believe resources are everywhere. You know, you always say that you have to start from somewhere to get somewhere. To get where you want. And that somewhere could be where you are There's a reason why you're there. Yes, people build brand from anywhere. But if you cannot see the opportunities around you, then you'll always think that the other side is better. Or I need this and that. If you really interrogate that, you realize that sometimes we even say you've just mentioned something that somebody may say, maybe I don't have this or that and maybe something that's starting on money. You don't really need money to build up a brand. Yes, it's important, but some of the things you may need, they are not really about it. Like for example, say associations. Association matter when it comes to personal branding. The people you associate with. Your networks. That is important. Do you really need just you to make yourself available and hang out with those people, let them share with you their mind also, share with them what you know, you get that. Because as you know, personal branding or other branding, people can either build or dilute your brand. Thank you so much, George. To the end of this discussion, George, thank you so much for coming. I appreciate your presence. It has been all about mandas consigning personal branding. How can you build your personal brand? And of course I was with George Simu an author and a professional speaker also a HR expert. George, I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. And of course, that ends us to the end of this discussion right here on career talk on this fine Monday morning and your short break will be back with more. My name is Ram Magukko. It has been a pleasure.


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Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is project, oh, I don't know what number, but it's the last one of my creative card series. And I thought I would finish with a waterfall card. The one I done last year was extremely popular and I get lots of people asking me to make a bigger one. So I have played around and I think I've got it to where I want it to be. I think it works really well. And you can double this again if you want to. So once I start talking you through it, you'll understand more. Now it is still quite plain because I'm not sure whether I want to keep this to users kind of like a mini album scrapbook journal. I don't know, it can be used for all sorts of things, but it is a card as well. So I would say this is, again, as I've mentioned, they're very special. So this could be for a big birthday. Okay, so it's got a belly band. This is six by, it's a big one, this one. So again, you could make a separate kind of bigger envelope by eight and a half, but it's got the belly band and I plan if I'm to give these to someone I will give them in person. It opens up. So this side here you would have to do your message. You could use it for more journaling, but this is the side where you could also double. So you could have all this again on this side. You would just have to make this wider, which I'll talk through later on. Basically, this is another little wrap, a little belly band, and it's magnetic, okay? And you open that up. Again, you can have little messages on here. This is literally just all the mats and layers done and that's it. Then at the bottom here, you have got your little pull and you just pull along and it will reveal this bigger mat here, which again, you can journal on. Whatever you do has to be completely flush. So I would do it on something very thin, like origami paper or even copy paper. As you can see there, I'm doing it very slowly just so you can get an idea and then this is the bottom one stuck down. You could also mat all of these and have more again, but there are 14 of these. And then it just slides nicely all the way back up again. And then I'll just do that one a bit faster. You can see that it just flows really nicely. And it's, I love it. So this is 14. I think the one I done last year had six.  You could then double that up again on this side and that would give you 40, 56. Was that, what did I just say it was? I've just completely lost my train of thought. What did I say, 14, that's 28, 48, 56. Yeah, yeah, 56 pages. That's a lot. So like I said, you can make this even more of a meaty project than it already is. But I'm happy with this half and the reason for this piece here is so that you can stand it up. So I think I've got my bottom there a bit bent. There you go. So it stands up just like a regular card. Okay, papers I used for this are the lovely V&A papers. This is the six by six pack. I use the 12 by 12 papers, but that is, and this was in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. So these are all original prints from fabrics, all kinds of textiles. I've got more there. I've used this a lot anyway and it's still available and I'll share all those links. Okay, so I'm gonna pop my belly band back on there. Like so, and let's get it into the tutorial. Okay, so I'm not gonna list all those sizes of everything as I usually do at the beginning. Just refer to my blog and you can write it all down in preparation because I'm not making changes, but I just still wanna check that it is 100% as I go along. So what I'm gonna start with first of all is the main mechanism and all of those pages with the layers all on top. So you need a piece of, so this is the default A4 length. You can use 12 by 12 as well. So yeah, you can have this at 12. You could have it at 11 as well. I'm just trying to think that's gonna interfere. No, I wouldn't go to 11 because I don't think otherwise I think this tutorial wouldn't work. So A4 or 12. Then what you wanna do is along the longest side is you wanna score from four and three quarters then every quarter inch. So five, five and a quarter, five and a half, five and three quarters, six and so on. So every quarter until you get two, just going over my ones, eight and a quarter. So eight and a quarter will be your last score line. Four and three quarters is your first score line. Every quarter in between. I'll just bring that up and it will give you this. Okay, I missed my track though.  You won't see it. Then what you wanna do is burnish all of that. So start with your top one and first of all just go along just with your finger and your thumb and just do it that way. And then you can go and burnish over them again with your bone folder just to really mark those score lines. So just go along now and get that done. Okay, so that's now what you should have this kind of piece here that moves really freely with all of those individual little pieces. So now you need all of your pages. So again, if you wanna do two of these you wanna do a double, you need to do that twice. And all of the sizes I've basically given you. Yeah, sorry, the amounts you need to double if you want more. So you need 14 of these and these measure the top. The main page is five and a half by four. And then the layer on top. Now I've done like a travel theme. So these are maps and patterns and things. So it can work for a guy, but it's also nice for traveling memories. So journaling and things like that for traveling. So this is five and a quarter by three and three quarters. And again, you need 14 of them. Now I've gone ahead and I've already popped them on top. And you can see I've got a variety. I think I've got three different patterns. And that's the order I'm kind of putting them in. Yeah, so I've got the maps are the main ones. So I've got more of the maps and then in between every other map is that and then the stripe than that and then so on and so forth. So if you're working with a pattern, I would say stack them all in the order that you want. So it just make it easy then when you come to stick it all down. So that is that. So get all of those prepared. Okay, so with that piece, I've already just gone along with my red tape and I've stuck a strip of it along every single one of those pieces that we scored. So there should be 14, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Okay, I'm using my red tape because it's thin. If you don't have red tape, you only have wet glue. You want to just run some glue along the bottom one first because we're going to start from the bottom up. Okay, so I'm going to grab and now I've already prepared all of my cards upside down. So this one here is going to be the one I want at the bottom and I'm going to finish with a map on the top. So plan the order you want them to be in unless they're all the same and it doesn't matter. So first of all, we're going to take off that one and then with this piece here, now these are wider than this. So you just want to, wherever it sticks down, you then want to make sure the next one is in line with this. So this is going to stick. So it is lined up with the score line at the top here. Okay, so that's where you're lining it up. So I'm just going to pop it on its side here. So try and get an even amount kind of overhanging and stick that down like so. So if I just fold that over, you can see there and then we're going to be doing stuff with this, but we will eventually stick it down. Then go on to the next one and then with this one, you now just want to make sure that it lines up with the sides of this. So as I stick it down, I'll put my finger up there just so I know that I'm, again, make sure it kind of hugs the score line and it all marries up along the bottom there. Okay, so those two now are perfectly lined up side by side with a little bit of the bottom one, which is right. You want that will be a quarter of an inch. It'd be the same width as one of these. So I'll just show you another one before I start back. So I've got another pattern and then I've got my map. So again, I don't know if I work upside down actually, because then I can really see where I'm going like so. Okay, so you just want to keep doing that until you stuck all 14 of them down. Okay, so I've just stuck down the last one there. So remember that folds over. That's the largest piece, all right? And now you would have that effect there. So they're pretty much lined up.  So don't worry, but it's nice because I get little, you know, the little kind of triangles poking out the little bits of the stripe and then obviously the map there. So what will basically happen is as we pull that, sorry, as this gets pulled, the piece underneath gets pulled down, it will do that. So yeah, so just go over, again, if you're using wet glue, once it's really dry, just go back over, because you may have gone slightly on the score line, just fold each one individually, just kind of really working in those score lines each time, just so you get a really nice flow when you go to open and close it or lift or push and pull it even. And just finish those ones, the last one there. And then that one, okay? So now just pop that to one side and we'll work on the case because that's the next bit we need before we can then actually kind of put it all together. So I am using, so it's a deconstructed case with a separate little bind. So I have got here, see how I'm gonna remember how I wanna do this. Yeah, that was it, so I went slightly, I stuck this one down and I shouldn't have, but it's fine. What you want to do, so you will have two pieces of, let's just grab my scoreboard again. Okay, so you will have, you will need even two pieces of six by eight and a half.  So then you need this piece, which is gonna be our bind or our hinge. Now if you wanna, the one I'm doing is just single, so this is one and a half by seven. If you wanna do it double, so you're having two of these, then you will need to have a piece that measures two by the same length by seven. Now for the one I'm doing, you wanna score, this is a one and a half, you wanna score at half an inch and at one. If you've got a double, you wanna score at half an inch and one and a half. So in the middle you will have one inch, whereas with this one we've just got half in the middle, you will have one inch, and that will give you the room to have that one on one side and the other one, and then when they're together, you will have that one inch spine, so it will all hold in place and it won't kind of, you know, will be squashed. But if you're just following me, then like I said, that needs to be one and a half by seven, just scored at half an inch and at one inch.   And then what you're gonna do is, this is the front, open it up, you're gonna stick this inside here, like so, and then inside this one, like that. Then you will put your mats on top, so it covers this. Now because I've already matted it, I am gonna stick mine on the back, so it's, you know, it's not gonna cause too much of a problem, it's just, in my case, you're gonna see that, but I might put a layer of mat on the back as well just to cover it, but you wanna stick them, so if I do it that way, then that'll make more sense to you guys. This is the inside. You wanna stick that one, leave the half inch as the spine, and then stick that one on the other side. Make sure they're even from the top and the bottom, so let me use my grid here just to get everything lined up. So, which is good, because this is in half inch increments, so I've got my half inch gap there, and then you wanna bring it down, got all my little bits stuck to me in there. What did I say?   You could maybe put a little hole punch there and have a key charm hanging down. Like I said, I've just given you the real kind of plain base of it all really, and then you can go to town with it. So I'm sticking that down with the score line against the side here of the front of my card. So you can see what I mean how this can easily be, a journal, a scrapbook, people use them for so many different things, so I'm still not 100% sure yet what I'm gonna do with it.  And then put glue now, so you remember, you're missing the middle one because that's where the spine is, and that's where you might wanna decorate, and just put glue on that other half inch, the outer one, like so. And again, just fold that over, making sure it's all lined up with those pencil marks and the very outer side there, so everything should be nice and straight. Okay, and what I've just realized I've done is I have now got that on the back, so I've ended up putting it together the right way, but I wanted that inside because it matched perfectly, and it's the only one I've got left, but look, it's really nice anyway. It's fine, I will have to sort that out. Okay, so that is now what you want, so that will stand up, that's your card, okay, with the nice piece here. Now, to decorate it all, so you need a mat, so I have got this white mat here, you could do the white mat there, here and on the back as well, so you may want to do four. I've only got one, two, because I think I'm doing one on that one there, so that measures, let's just put this flat, five and three quarters by eight and a quarter, yeah, because it's an eight and a half, yeah, eight and a quarter, and then the layer on top is, what should be eight, but it's kind of coming in just under, but it's eight by five and a half, so they're dropping down in quarter inch increments each time to give you that even one eighth of an inch border on each side. So again, depending on how many of them you want, I've got obviously one now on the back, I want one there and one there, so again, you may want four of every size, it's entirely up to you, so I've got my, this one here, which I'm going to put on this side, obviously if you're doing a double one, then you will want to have both, because it just gives you that strength. These papers here are by Indigo Blue, it's either damaged dots, yeah, it's damaged dots, I think it is, so they're really nice, so that one's going to go there, and then I've got this one here, which was going to go on the back, but now I may just put it there, although it looks the same to you, it's got this kind of distressed look, this was do crafts, I guess it makes that stand out quite well, so I think I'll go with that, so just go ahead now and stick down all of those mats and layers. Okay, so I've stuck that down, I ended up cutting another piece of blue from a 12 by 12 piece, I didn't want to do that, but I do love the blue against here, it just pulls out the river in the map, and yeah, it just looks nice, so that is now your card done, yours is either a single half inch spine, or it would be a one inch double, then I'm just going to pop that to one side, bring this over, we need to do the, so this is for this bit, so the pulley bit, so this bit here, and this kind of mat, we're now going to do this bit here, so just pop that back in, okay, so you need a piece of, you want a nice strong card really, because it is going to be obviously, you're going to be pulling it up and down a lot, so this is 300 GSM, this is five and a quarter by seven, so then you want a mat to go on top, but your mat wants to be the whole width, the whole length of this, mine isn't, because it's from a six by six paper pack, but it matches the papers I've used, so mine may catch, I'm hoping it won't, but it may catch, but you need your piece to go on top, needs to measure five wide, but then it needs to be six and three quarters in length, okay, so ignore the fact that mine is slightly shorter, it may, I'm hoping it's not going to cause too much of a problem, but I really want to use that pattern, then for your little tab, so this is what you're going to use to pull it up and down, the white piece measures two by one and a quarter, and then the little kind of bit to mat on top there is one and three quarters by one, okay, so what you want to do, first of all, is, oh, get rid of that, grab this piece here, and open it up, and you'll have this big square here, you want to stick this right over, okay, and it will overhang slightly, you can see there, it does overhang slightly on each side, that's fine as long as it's even, and you want to stick it right up to that first score line there, okay, so you're going to cover that whole bit, so this is going to reinforce, but it's also going to give you that extra length, which you can't get with 12 inch cardstock, so you want to cover this piece with glue, so I'm just going to use some of my Tombow Taki glue here, and then grab this piece, and like I said, set it right up, and just make sure you've got an even amount overhanging, it mustn't go right over, it mustn't go past these, so you can see, even though it's overhanging the piece underneath, it's not going past the actual main width of all those cards, panels, so just make sure that's all stepped out, okay, then fold it back over just to make sure that it's not obstructing, which I seem to have for some reason, why is that? Just need to re-bend it again, there we go, that's fine, okay, and the whole thing should be hidden, all right, we don't want any of this to be seen, so I can see there, that's it stuck over that one, then we need to, so with that down, this is now going to be stuck on the bottom of this, covering, you want to stick it, so it's overlapping maybe by a quarter of an inch, basically when this comes down, you want to be able to see and have enough to be able to grip that like I have here, okay, but it can't go past the card, so you can see the kind of, got about three quarters of an inch, so what you want to do maybe just to help you line it all up is get this piece, sit it on here, you're going to have your wrap that's going to come around there, so it doesn't need, you don't want it to come down, bring it up a bit more, so let me do this one and then I'll be able to tell you, okay, so you can see now it's got a little bit of the blue, this mat here is just kind of poking through and that's going to be a good place for it because then we've got that wrap, which is then also going to be on here, so let me just get a measurement, looking like half an inch, okay, so let me open this up, so half an inch inside this one here and that's where we want to put our glue, so I'm just going to run a little bit here, now it's up to you if you want to stick this and it go over your mat, I want my mat to go over this because I want this to be able to be able to, so I can journal on it or put a nice sentiment, so again, it's going to tie it to you, sorry I'm drawn over the place, I've got so much card, okay, so just stick that down, so it's in the center, just make sure it comes up to that half inch and you get it all nicely lined up, okay, I'm happy with that, okay, so you can see that now and then again, lift that up and now we can stick this over the top, you, obviously I'm going to make sure mine is all nice and I've got the even border at the bottom, yours will come right up to this here, you'll have that little same border here, you will have up here, it's just mine's slightly shorter remember, so again, I'm just going to flip this over and just add some of my glue, okay, so that is now all stuck down and we're ready for the next part, so now you need to cut a strip of, I think I've done three quarters of an inch, let me just check, yeah, three quarters of an inch by, this is the same length as my A4 paper and basically you're going to lift this all up so that we've got this piece, this is that card piece, it's not this one, but that loose bit of card, okay, it's the mechanism piece, the one that we scored all these lines on, basically what you're going to do is you're going to stick this right on the very bottom piece, so you want to have an even amount overhanging on both sides, okay, you don't need to use your ruler, you can eyeball it, so that you can see that I'm what I've done, okay, now the easiest way to do this is to just pop your glue along here, now I know it's three quarters of an inch, so I can do that three quarters of an inch, okay, like so, and like I said, the bottom of this needs to go right to the very bottom of that card, just making sure I've got as even as possible on each side, okay, so now we've stuck that piece on there, we can now stick this one over all of that, we just needed to sandwich this in between, so now you can put glue over this whole section, okay, so I've just got all my glue on there, and then just stick that completely down, it's taken me a long time to work this out, to try and get this bigger one that so many of you have been requesting, so I hope this is all working out for you, just rubbing off some of the, because I'm using the Tombow, get the odd tacky bit I'm just using, this is a great, this is a adhesive rubber, so it takes off all your glue, and you've probably seen me use it quite a few times, okay, so that is now what you should have, this bottom one is completely sandwiched between the base and this piece, so now bring it down, flip it over, and you wanna just wrap this around, like so, okay, so I just realized I wasn't recording, and I missed a crucial bit, and got really cross with myself, and I had to rip it off, so you can see here, but it's fine, I'm gonna show you what you need to do, and obviously I can easily cover that, this back piece here, so when you open it up, this back piece here, you will have a join here, okay, now I haven't, so I've just covered it, but you will have a join, you need to cover this back piece with another piece of card, because this needs to be completely flush in order for it to obviously run through, and that's what I figured out on the one I made before, and it was at the end there as well when I added it, basically you wanna cut a piece of card that's just under seven inches, so six and a seven eighths of an inch will be fine, and with a width of five and a quarter, I'm sorry, five and one eighth of an inch, and you wanna just stick it directly onto the back of that, so it's gonna be more bulk, but it's gonna give you a really, really strong push and pull mechanism, so don't worry about the bulk, because it does still all work fine, but you must put that over the back just to get rid of that a little bit, because it will catch on your, the kind of this bit here once we wrap that around, like so, okay, when we pull that down, that bit, if you didn't put this over the top, that bit there would catch on this, okay, so have that now all stuck down, then we can stick these bits over, so you don't wanna glue nothing onto this, you're literally just gluing, I just put a little bit on here, and like so, just fold them over and just glue those together, like so, and just make sure your ruler can run underneath that there, okay, so it's all free, now we need to stick it down, which you can see I already done, but I'm gonna get that all perfectly lined up over it so you won't see any of it, so now just glue that tiny piece, so that is all that's holding our waterfall down, again, make sure you don't go over onto this, you can see that it's just on that track, that little strip, so now you wanna sit it down, I'm gonna go back into place where I was here, but basically just make sure that you've got even border on both sides, and your tab isn't overhanging, you should have a little bit of blue or whatever the layer is, this one here that you've got, because the belly band's gotta wrap around that, so now just stick that all down, then you wanna get two pieces of, let me just measure, so you want two pieces that are five by two, and along the five inch side, you wanna score it one inch, and do that with two pieces, if you're doubling this up, then you wanna do four pieces, and then what you're gonna do is add some glue on the back, like so, okay, and we'll start at the bottom first, so what you wanna do is pop it underneath this, and it doesn't matter if it sticks on the inside of the little bit that we just wrapped around, this one's gonna go over slightly, it might not once you bring it down, basically you just wanna bring down the score line, so it is in line with the layer, that mat piece there, so if I just bring that down, you can see when it folds over, it's completely lined up with the bottom of that layer there, that blue piece, and you know it's in the center because it's covering that tab, that's all cracked really badly, I'm gonna have to color over that with a bit of a gray pen or something, but now that will come up like so, okay, so just make sure that's all stuck down, and then with your other piece, again, I already put glue on that, so I'm just gonna go over it again, and this one is then gonna go and stick directly onto the blue again at the top, just pop it like so, make sure it's lined up with that one, and then just stick that down, shame that's cracked, I'm gonna have to like distress it or something, so now that's what you will have, okay? We need to test it, I haven't even done that yet, so just pull your tab and it should, just nice and freely come down, now mine catches, so I can feel it a little bit when it goes up, and that's because I didn't cover this whole back piece, which I knew was gonna happen, but what I think I might do is put some washi tape onto that off camera, but it's fine, it's still yours will and should perfectly flow like this is anyway, but all the way down to that one, and that's where mine catches, but like I said, that's because, I didn't do that all the way up, but it's fine, it does eventually go through, but it's lovely, it's got such a nice, and because that card's so thick now on the back, that is just gonna always work for you really well, and again, especially if you've got double, it will look really, really cool as a double one, I'll probably end up doing that another time. Okay, so that's all stuck, and I'm happy that they're all in place, so now we wanna layer on top, so these are two layers, which are one and three quarters by three and three quarters, so the one on top can just be stuck directly down, now I'm gonna be adding magnets, so you might just be using some Velcro for this, just make sure I turn it that way, because I can't quite see over the end, just make sure you've got an even order, like so, okay, and then we'll be sticking this over the top, but before we put this one in place, so we wanna put a magnet down, so let me just roughly see where it's gonna be, okay I'm gonna say there, so I'm just gonna put a little cross there, so I'm gonna put my magnet at, wow, it's between three quarters and seven eighths of an inch down from the center of this piece, I'm gonna pop a little magnet there, so I'm just taking one off, I'm gonna grab a rather large glue dock, so it's all I've got, need to get some smaller ones, let's just stick that on there, and then just pop my glue dot in the middle, then I can take off the backing for this, and I'm also going to put a little bit of glue on top of my magnet, and just around the area where that will be, and then again, just sit this one down on top again, so you've got a nice even border, and just really make sure that magnet's not gonna move around anywhere, and now we can stick this down on just this part, so what you can do is I'm gonna grab my pencil, and just very lightly draw a little pencil mark just roughly around there, and basically I know now I can put my glue all down in this area, and line that back up with the pencil, now I can feel where my magnet is, and my magnet's down here, so I'm just gonna push down, so it creates kind of a little bump, but what I can do is put my glue dot on that same area, like so, I don't know if it's big, actually that's too bulky, I don't like that, let's start again, you don't have to use the glue dots, I just do like to use them just to kind of keep it where I need it to be, there we go, that's better, like so, and then grab my other magnet, it will just naturally fall into place because it will want to go where that other one, so I can feel it already, there we go, it's found it's home, that's where it wants to be, and then I've got this one, just grab my one to go on top, and just cover that, and then that one will go right over, and it leaves the tiniest, like so, and make sure it just sticks over that magnet nicely, and then I've got another one here, which is gonna go on top again, but this one is gonna go on some foam, okay, ideally my magnet could have gone a bit higher into this circle, but this is gonna go over again, so you're not gonna see, there we go, and then I can put something else on there again, but I tend to just probably leave that blank or put a little die cut with a word on it or something like travel or something will go across there, so that is that all done, and it fits in there perfectly. It's lovely, it's such a nice, that's what I mean, it's kind of in between a card and a scrapbook and a journal and all those other bits, and now we need to do the belly band, the main one, so you need a piece, I've got one here, and this is, check, I've got the right width, one and three quarters, is that what I did on this one? Yeah, one and three quarters, and again it's the same length, so, oh this is 12, so the longest you can get you want for this, and again, let's just get rid of all of this, I've got so much paper everywhere, can't wait to tidy up, I hate all the mess. Okay, so lining it up with my grid, just get as even amount as possible on each side, about there, and you just want to bring it up, bearing in mind, you know I haven't put photos and stuff in this yet, so that's why I don't like to score my belly bands, I just like to loosely wrap them like so, okay, and now I can attach this with some more of my decorative bits there, so I'm just gonna go and get them done, okay, so I've just got two there, so I'm just going to glue this one, and I'm gonna do a white one again, but I'll do that once I actually decide who I'm gonna give this to, or what I want to call it, if it's gonna be a journal or a scrapbook, so I'm just gonna keep it like so, so what you want to do now is, again, make sure you're happy that your band is where it needs to be, like so, pop that over the top, and again, you want to grab a pencil, just put a little pencil mark at the ends, and again, I can rub this all out in a minute, but now I can just see where I need to have the glue just in there and in there, so I don't need a lot, just like so, and that one there, and just slide that on top, okay, so now while that's drying, I can just go around there and just rub out these little bits of pencil, like so. So that is now all ready, that's just plain, and I can put another nice white or any color, and obviously do my messages, but now that belly band will just slide off, it still needs a little bit of time just to set, and what you can do is just fold it better on those score lines and then just burnish them, at least now it's exactly where it needs to be. So once again, open it up, you can see there, it's got a nice closure of the magnet, and then just open it up, I'm not gonna pull mine right the way down because I know it is catching because I need to re-look at that again, which I'll do, but it's a lovely, it's a really nice gift for just to keep for yourself. So there you have it, a meaty project, but it is lovely and worthwhile, and like I said with these things, it's a labor of love, and I've thoroughly enjoyed them. I hope you've enjoyed the last two weeks with all these creative cards, and I've enjoyed seeing your pictures, reading your comments, your messages, as always, I love all of that, and it's been another nice year of creative cards for this series, so I'll be back again next year, but I will be doing lots of great cards throughout the rest of the year anyway. But yeah, hope you've enjoyed it. If you did, please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more. Thanks for watching, bye.


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I'm not exaggerating. I really am not when I say that this is now an epidemic. It's an epidemic, not only in the greater society now, but it's an epidemic amongst our Muslim communities as well. And that is the addiction to pornography. It's like a wildfire that's going through our communities. And just because you may not know about it or you may not have heard about it doesn't mean it's not happening. It is happening. And every talk that I go to, it breaks my heart. Afterwards I have grandparents, I have parents coming to me crying telling me stories about their children or their siblings or their spouses or addicted to pornography. And so I gave this talk yesterday and I had a parent ask me, oh well my sixth grade daughter is going to be there at your talk. Is it appropriate for her? Should she be there listening to this talk? And I said, is she ever on the internet? Because if she's ever on the internet then yes, she needs to be there at this talk. So we need to give our kids the tools to survive the world that's around them now. Ignoring it or pretending it's not out there isn't going to help us. So the first thing I want to tell you about the internet is that you have to treat the internet in your home like it's a loaded weapon. Literally that's the best analogy I can give you. You have to treat the internet like it's a loaded weapon. And how do we treat a loaded weapon or a loaded gun? We don't ever leave children alone with it. We keep it under lock and key. We know where it is at all times. We don't just give it to anybody to handle. So you have to treat you have to be hyper aware of the internet. The other thing you have to do the second tip about pornography is that you have to talk to your kids about it. You have to say that it exists and what it is. And the way we defined it for our kids is we just said it's movies that are out there of naked people doing weird things. That's it. We don't go into much more detail than that. But we say that it's movies about naked people doing weird things and it's an industry and they like to trap children into watching it and becoming addicted to it. And you know my son my youngest son Rahim we talked to him about it when he was nine years old and we would discuss it at the dinner table and give him the tools for how to deal with it. It's not a matter of if they ever come across pornography. It's a matter of when. It's just a matter of time before something's going to pop up on their screen or they're going to click on something by accident. And like I said after every talk I learned something new.  And she typed up boys' briefs and kinky images came up of all sorts of other Haram things. And she said that the pictures were really obscene and the private parts were just kind of blurred but you could still see what it was. And that was on Amazon. And Sheikh Rami and Sur who is my son's Quran teacher up north he warned the kids that there have been incidents where there are videos that say Surah Mulk on YouTube and kids will click on it or people will click on it to listen to Surah Mulk or watch Surah Mulk and it'll actually be pornography. Once it's discovered and it's reported YouTube takes it down.  So you have to talk to your kids about what to do if they ever come across it. And the third thing I want to tell people about pornography is that there is no utopia. There is no perfect community or perfect country or perfect neighborhood or perfect place or environment where you can escape this nowhere. I had a cousin visiting me and she we were talking about it because her children all had these internet gadgets that they were using and I was we were talking about the dangers of the internet and she said oh Hina Baji thank God I live in such and such Islamic country over there the government is so strict and I didn't even have to say anything. Her husband just started shaking his head and he was like no honey. The top 10 countries that download porn out of those top 10 countries the top three countries are all Muslim countries all Muslim countries that download the most porn. I know of a student of a student of mine who went overseas to study and he went to memorize Quran and he went I won't mention the country but he went to this small country in Africa and in this country he had to go to this tiny village where all this village does the village has 200 people in it and they live in tents they don't even live in homes the only permanent building there is this one small building in which foreigners who are visiting get to spend the night otherwise everybody sleeps outside under the stars or they sleep in tents. It takes 16 hours to get to this village this literally this little tent city of 200 people 16 hours where you have to go in these big SUVs and you go over these huge rocks when you get to this little town I feel weird even calling it a town it's not a town but you get the idea when they get there when people get out of the cars the first thing the villagers do who've come to greet the people is they step back because they know the second people get out of the car they're going to throw up because the drive is so difficult getting there this is the kind of village it's completely off the map it's in the middle of nowhere there are no towns around it so this child went there to memorize Qur'an all night they say it's like bees humming you just hear people reciting Qur'an throughout the night because in the daytime it's so hot so people do their memorizing at night it takes there's there's no electricity there at people walk around with gas lanterns there's one generator and there's one outlet it takes three days to power up a phone there's one person in this community who's in charge of taking your phone he will power your phone for three days and then he will give it back to you this boy told me that in that environment boys who were memorizing Qur'an would take their cell phones they would go up into the mountains they would go like this they would find a signal and they would watch pornography so there's literally nowhere to escape it it's really heartbreaking so we have to just like we teach our kids how to swim or when our kids learn how to drive we teach them how to be safe with seat belts it's our job just to give them the tools how to deal and then at some point they need to know the right thing to do if they come across something that's harmful to them we pray for a less protection first and foremost but we give them the tools as well so when my son Amin came here to southern california you know we we had pretty tight media rules in our home and alhamdulillah my siblings and i are on the same page and so he was living with my brother and my brother told me you know henna we i can watch over amin all i want and we can have all the rules in the in the house that we have but at some point he needs to know the right thing to do because iok's high school program was online so he would be on his laptop doing his homework and there are times my brother had to go to bed and so he said he needs to know what to do because i go to sleep i don't know what could be popping up on his computer so at that time we came up with this drill just like we have safety drills at school or at work where you know if there's a fire god forbid stop drop and roll or if there's an earthquake what is the protocol you use you know which exit do you go out of how do you behave same way we have to have drills in place about how to deal if pornography ever pops up on your computer or your phone or whatever so what we told our kids was the first thing you do if pornography is ever to pop up in front of you and we told them that something may pop up that looks weird to you just something that you're like wait i wasn't looking for that that wasn't the website i was going for that's not the image i was searching you'll just know you'll have this voice in your head and that voice is coming to you from alas panathala it's coming from the angels warning you that that feels weird the first thing you do is you lower your gaze you close the laptop or you turn off the computer or you unplug whatever you basically you get it out of your vision and it's interesting because at ilm tree my homeschooling co-op one of the moms there is a marriage and family therapist and she told us that you know they worked with sex offenders at one time in in her training who were in prison and she said they were taught as therapists to teach these sex offenders that if anything was ever to pop up or come in their sight the first thing they have to do is look away the first thing they have to do is to get it out of their sight of vision which is really it shows you the wisdom of alas panathala because what does alas panathala tells us to say he tells us to lower the gaze right so lowering the gaze there's real benefit in that it's not just like oh we're so you know nervous we can't look at anything there's actually a protection of the heart and the soul of getting something out of your vision that is haram and we told our kids that the first glance that is by mistake is a freebie but after that if you look again that's when the angels start recording so you have to be really mindful of like not going back to something that felt weird or uncomfortable so the first thing is look away the second thing we teach our kids is to immediately say awudu bilam in a sheytan regime and we tell them that these are words of power these are not magic words they're it's not mumbo jumbo you have to know that when pornography or something like that pops up in front of you you are in a sheytani environment you're in the presence of sheytan and you need protection and the only one who can protect you is alas panathala we ourselves have no power so you immediately call on alas for his for his help so awudu bilam in a sheytan regime and it was very very validating to me because i gave this talk at a zaituna college event up north and there were um after i was done giving my talk sheikh hanza yusuf gave his talk his presentation which was on the danger of the current media that's out there in the world and he was not there when i gave my presentation he arrived later for his talk so he didn't hear anything i said but when he got up on stage and he had a whole powerpoint presentation and he went through all the different things that are out there in the world and how we need to deal all of a sudden in his powerpoint he came to a black screen and in the middle of the black screen in white letters it said awudu bilam in a sheytan regime and he talked about the exact same thing he said you need to rely on this and you need to use these words often and so that was very validating to hear from the friend who's a therapist that even in the non-muslim studies that this is what they're teaching is to lower the gaze and look away and then to learn from the shuyuh that we have to rely on awudu bilam in a sheytan regime the third thing we told our kids after lowering the gaze and saying awudu bilam in a sheytan regime is you need to immediately go and tell an adult no matter what time of day it is you need to go get help you need to go let an adult know what's going on because many times what will happen is children will assume that the parents have no idea about pornography and they'll think this is something i just discovered and i actually need to protect my parents and so you need to let them know that i know what's going on and you need to come tell me and so they need to and they need to know that you're not going to freak out that you're not going to blame them that you're actually on their side and you're going to help them and so sure enough one day amin was doing his work at at my brother's home and something popped up on his screen and it was something he had not been looking for he didn't know what it was he immediately realized that this is the thing that we've been warned about he turned off the computer said awudu bilam in a sheytan regime and then went and told my brother my brother came and looked at the computer realized that there was a virus on it and told him okay don't touch it we'll get somebody to clean it up and then you know took the computer away for a couple of days and then gave it back to him once it was clear if we hadn't had that drill in place i shudder to think about what might have happened you know like that curiosity that oh what is that that's and then clicking on it and then the thing becoming bigger taking over his screen and so many times that's how it happens kids stumble across pornography they don't know what it is they click on it and then the the way it works is first it's curiosity then it becomes a pattern or kid keeps returning to it to just kind of check it out then it becomes a habit where they have to do it on a regular basis and then it becomes a compulsion where they can't leave it even if they want to and i know the story of this 10 year old boy who was on the hives track he was memorizing quran and his mother was thrilled that's all she ever wanted was for one of her children to memorize quran and her son was started memorizing surah after surah after surah and he was totally like yes i want to be a hafiz the hives school that the program that he was a part of all of the hives students were given ipods to help them memorize quran so he used the ipod all the time while walking outside while in the car while in his bedroom around the house memorizing his surahs and the mom was thrilled all of a sudden this son just lost it seemed like it was all of a sudden but it was gradual the son lost interest in memorizing quran and he just told his mom i can't do it anymore i don't want to memorize quran and the mom was heartbroken she was like what happened you know she felt like maybe he got nuzard or eind you know the evil eye and so but she told him okay just keep working at it but he was like no i'm not interested in in memorizing quran one day she walked into his bedroom and she saw that he was on his ipod and his back was to her and she saw that on his ipod he was watching pornography so when she and her husband she and her husband investigated they found out that this boy had been watching pornography every single day for two years every single day from the ages of 10 to 12 this boy had been watching pornography he is hopelessly addicted it is one of the most tragic stories because i've been involved with the family you know trying to help and and just be there and this boy is much older now and um he's still addicted it it's um the the parents were really smart they immediately got him into therapy they got him into and there's actually therapy a program now for muslims called purify your gaze so if there's anyone struggling with it purify your gaze as a program and when she first approached them when he was 12 years old they said no we only work with adults and um in chella your son will be fine you know whatever and and so years went by he's not fine and all sorts of problems come about from it this boy has been suicidal because there's so many times he's tried to quit pornography and he has not been able to and he keeps going back to it and so he despairs and he starts to feel like Allah can never forgive him so they have him in therapy but not only do they have him in therapy for his pornography addiction but they also have him in spiritual therapy they have him in therapy with the sheikh who's there to help him and remind him of Allah's mercy remind him why he can't despair remind him that Allah's panathala is using this addiction just to break you Allah's showing you that he's the master and you're the slave and you have to just turn to Allah completely just helping him that way but the thing about pornography addiction which people don't realize is studies show first and foremost that most addiction happens between ages of 10 and 12 the other thing is they've actually done brain scans actual brain scans on children who are addicted to pornography and they have found that the hard wiring of the brain the actual shape of the brain changes it actually changes it there's a physical effect of pornography addiction and they said that the high that people get from watching pornography is the same high that people get from using cocaine and heroin so it's like being addicted to cocaine and heroin so his parents are treating it like an addiction now that they don't judge their son anymore and recently the mom told me that after years of trying to deal with this and they have a very open relationship with their son the son will come to them and say mom dad it's been a month I haven't watched pornography and they'll be like wonderful alhamdulillah then he'll come and say it's been two months I haven't watched any pornography and they'll be really happy for him and then he'll come and say I watched pornography I couldn't help it I'm sorry and he'll cry and they'll hug him and you know so this is their life right now and the mom told me recently after years of dealing with this her husband is this big you know strong person you doesn't show much emotion she said the other day he just hugged her son and just broke down sobbing just cried and cried and cried and told her their son I'm so sorry I'm so sorry that this happened to you and she said that it happened you know with Allah's will but she said the lesson they took from it is she said we broke the number one rule the number one rule which is that you don't have internet in your bedrooms she said the fact that our son had an internet device in his bedroom was our biggest mistake and so pray for him inshallah that's it's a long journey and you know they're trying to get him help they've gotten him help but you know and it's it's incredible she paid a thousand dollars for somebody to come into the home and wire all the computers and put all the wi-fi code in her house changes every day he actually tells the parents don't go to sleep before me he's a grown like kid now and he will tell his parents don't go to bed before me because if you do i'll watch pornography like that's how bad it is the three things about pornography it's the triple a engine it's affordability pornography is cheap is free and if it's not free it's very cheap accessibility if you can access it anywhere in the old days you used to have to go to a video store now i could be watching it on my phone in front of you at the dining table and you would have no idea affordability accessibility and anonymity the fact that nobody knows you're doing it so what we as parents need to do is we can't do anything about the affordability so we need to take away the accessibility and the anonymity my sons did not have smartphones they did not have cell phones until age 13 and then my son in high school got a flip phone and people would the kids would take pictures of his flip phone because they'd be like what is that the do these things actually exist but he did not get a smartphone until now until age 18 my son amine we prayed about it quite a bit before letting him get a an iphone because he's driving here in southern california now and he needs gps and whatnot but my husband has a thing set up on his phone that anything he looks at or any text he gets or sends out my husband gets a copy of it so we trust him we inshallah he won't do anything wrong but it's still it's you know we need to they need to be aware at this age while they're still developing for some kids you can tell them Allah sees you you're not alone Allah sees you some kids that'll be enough but for other kids you're gonna have to tell them about the the medical effects the physical effects what happens with addiction how marriages get affected and somebody asked my son in high school why don't no i asked my son why don't you watch pornography my 18 year old like why you could you could get away with it at anyone's home why do you choose not to and he said that he was once another's and he heard the sheikh say something that had a real effect on him and he said it was the sheikh said iman gets pulled out of your eyes iman gets pulled out of your eyes and he said that freaked him out for him that was enough alhamdulillah may may he stay that way for other kids you're going to need to give them some of the hard facts okay and along with warning about pornography addictions you have to also teach your kids how to do toba they need to know how they can turn to Allah's panathala if they mess up so that they don't despair and also for anyone who thinks i don't want to talk about it because my kid may then want to go look it up if you don't talk to your kids about it somebody else will i know of a kid who heard the word pornography used in a khutba at a jama prayer and nobody would tell him what it was so he went and looked it up himself i know a kid who went to a non-muslim summer camp and a boy came up to him and said do you know what porn is and he went parm he didn't even say the word correctly he went parm and he typed up parm and he found pornography even with the wrong spelling


Hello and welcome back to our videos on how we import data into Google Colab. Here in this video, I'm going to talk about the drag and drop method. And again, a reminder of the terminology. So the bulk of this method is not actually using coding. It's really locating files on your computer and getting them into our files tab. And we've got two main ways we can go about this, but both of them start by clicking the files tab here. And this is what my empty files tab. I don't have my drive. I don't have any files. If I want to drag and drop, I can either bring my binder or my file explorer, find the data on here and just drag it into this white space. And there we can see that it's shown up. We can again copy the path and continue on. Alternatively, if you don't have that sort of access, you can also click this button here, upload to session storage, and it'll pull up your file explorer. And then you can also find this, click open, and it'll show up. So here is where my file is. So now we've got the file in the file explorer, but we still need to read it into Google Colab. So in order to do that, we will once again use the pandas library. So we say import pandas as PD, and then we'll just say DF for data frame. We say PD dot read CSV, open quotes. I'll come over to my three dots, copy the path and paste it in here. If you are noticing any differences between this video and the mount, how you mount your drive video, you'll notice that my file path has changed because when you do the drag and drop method, it just shows up in your primary home folder. Whereas when you mount your drive, you have to navigate through any subfolders that you have. And again, we still need to skip four rows. So then we can run this. We can go over to our variables. And again, we've got our data frame, we can then print this, or we can start to do other analyses with it.


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