English Phrases for Embarrassing Situations from espressoenglish.net If you're embarrassed, it can be almost impossible to think of the right thing to say, especially in English. Today, you'll learn useful phrases for responding to embarrassing situations. Learn these, and you'll never have to worry about saying the wrong thing during an awkward moment. If you'd like to learn more English for daily life, check out my everyday English speaking courses. You can click on the link in the upper right corner of the video or in the video description for more information. Our first embarrassing situation is if you make a bodily noise. For example, if you burp, fart, cough, or sneeze, you should say, excuse me. When someone else does this and says excuse me, no response is necessary. The most polite thing is simply to pretend it didn't happen and continue the conversation. The only exception is when someone else sneezes. It's polite to say bless you, or God bless you, and then the person who sneezed would reply with thanks. What about if you drop, spill, or break something? Well, the common exclamation used for minor accidents is oops or whoops. You can also say I'm so clumsy. This means you tend to be physically uncoordinated. Another possible phrase is I can't believe I did that. If there's a mess that needs to be cleaned up, or if you spilled something on someone else, you can say let me get some napkins or paper towels. If you caused damage to or broke something that belongs to someone else, you can say I'm so sorry and perhaps later offer to pay for it to be fixed or replaced. I'd like to pay for it to be repaired or replaced. It's quite embarrassing if you forget someone's name. If it's someone you've very recently been introduced to, you can say sorry, what was your name again? If it's someone you've known for a longer time, or you've spoken with two or three times, you can say I'm so sorry but I've forgotten your name, or this is so embarrassing but I can't seem to remember your name. When the other person tells you their name, say thanks. If you want, you can add, I don't know where my brain is, if you're having an unfocused day or moment. Or, I'm terrible with names, if you tend to forget people's names in general. Then, continue the conversation by saying anyway and moving on by asking a question or making a comment. If you forget some other information that you really should know, for example in a meeting at work where you just can't think of the information, you can say sorry, I'm drawing a blank here. This means that you normally know the information but you just can't think of it at the moment. One option is to ask for help. You could ask a co-worker or friend who might know the information. Could you help me out? You could also say let me check my notes or let me get back to you on that. If you will find the information and deliver it later. If you make any other embarrassing mistake, the phrase I can't believe I did that is a good general one for reacting to something you did that embarrassed yourself. You could also say I don't know what I was thinking if you said or did something silly or made a thoughtless mistake. If you say something wrong, you can correct it by saying what I meant to say was and then say the correct thing. Another way to react to a mistake or accident is by saying today is not my day, meaning that things in general are going badly for you today. Have you ever been in a situation where you had no idea what to say in English? Leave a comment describing the situation and I'll try to give you a phrase or two to respond. I also created two courses to help you learn phrases for any situation. They're my everyday English speaking courses. The lessons are based on conversations and they're a simple, fun and effective way to learn new expressions and improve your ability to speak in English. Again, you can click on the link in the video or in the video description for more information and to sign up. These are my most popular courses and I hope to see you inside.


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Germany's high tech strategy and the Fraunhofer model is the headline and I have subdivided the presentation in four points. Some remarks about the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft or Fraunhofer Association. Global challenges from our view and Fraunhofer some few worlds and Fraunhofer innovations for added value by especially added value by industrial production. And some remarks to the conclusion. Here you can see an overview about the German scientific or German research landscape or scientific system and it's very interesting. This is the special in the world. It's a special in the world and we every country have a similar but in this strong network you can only this found in Germany. You can see we have as basic for the system the university and the university have in the main objective to build the new to educate the new people in teaching and to realize the studies but study by research supported by research as a teaching supported by research. This is a backbone of the scientific system. We have in Germany in general three different characteristics of different universities. We have the so-called full universities with law and philosophers and languages and so on. Then we have the technical universities and in Germany we have a strong system of technical universities. And we have the so-called applied universities in Germany is the right word Fachhochschulen. The German word Fach means Hochschulen with a special branch or special profile in not so broad as a special profile. And all together build up the backbone for the scientific system. Then we have for basic research the Max Planck Association for scientific insights. They bring us the Nobel awards in Germany. We have the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft for programmatic research. For example nuclear research or in medicine for epidemiology for great questions in the medicine and others also energy. And we have Leibniz. Leibniz is a pool if you can say for human research in human resources in questions for how can we develop the working world in the factories in the future but not so strong in technologies more in social questions. And Fraunhofer. Fraunhofer with our mission application oriented IND innovation push for the economy in Germany especially the industry and in Europe. And you can in the green color you can see the level of innovation part in this research. Here now you can see what is Fraunhofer in Germany. Fraunhofer in Germany that means 66 institutes, 24,000 researchers, a budget of 2.1 billion euros and the special in comparison to the other organizations. Max Planck have a base funding from more than 90 percent. This was Max Planck the second one from bottom up have basic research more than 90 percent. Helmholtz more than 70 percent every time by state and federal government. And Leibniz also in this area Fraunhofer our base funding is 30 percent, 70 percent in our case 1.7 billion we have every year to secure by acquisition in the industry and also in the public programs United Union, European Union, European Union or federal programs or state programs. And this bring a high pressure to the institutes to go to the industry bring your ideas your innovation to the industry. This is the precondition for financing the next year and I think this is one of the keys for the innovation system for the success in the innovation system in Germany. And how is our financing model by Fraunhofer in Germany? You can see this is a red line this is a red line 33 percent base funding, public projects and industrial contracts. In my institute some years I have had 40 percent with the industry and a little bit less base funding in the other year was this is a red line. But nobody or no institute should a longer time come outside from these windows. Then I look as president and call him when the base funding when his base funding represents continuity of scientific excellence. When some years the base funding would go down to 20 percent he have not the precondition for excellence by the industry in the next years. This is the system and very important is also the blue one in the middle the public projects. These projects are mostly financed 50 percent by the industry and 50 percent by federal government state government or the European Union. But in this area of projects comes industry with the researchers together and the risk is not so high 50 percent come public money 50 percent by the companies and you have three four structural advantages. At first companies come together to a special big for example in the automotive industry I mentioned this in the morning light weight construction there are a lot of basic questions in light weight construction. Not every company should find a solution for every detail. They come together the companies come together second advantage the companies and the researchers come together and the third the risk for all participants comes down. So very very interesting part here in the middle in this pre competitive research area and the last one are the direct projects and in our case this are every year a volume of eight hundred fifty million euros. And here you can see other activities from over worldwide and you can recognize we have a cluster in our international activities in Europe. We have a cluster in our in our international activities in the United States and we have this in in East Asia and since five years we have also an increase in our activities in South America. What you can see on the right and the legend we have different structures of cooperation in international conference of international cooperation. We have subsidiaries legal daughters subsidiaries. We have centers centers are long term institutes we call it centers for the in Germany we have the college institutes for activities centers and we have project centers. The project centers are not long term oriented on the solution for a special for a special question with the with partners in the country and on the end comes a decision we continue or we close it work is done. And we have strategic corporations by icon program is financed by our organization and we have representative offices and senior advisors as you can see we have here in Ireland and senior advisor for the Jerry Byrne long friend of mine scientific colleague in the international academy for production engineering and Jerry Byrne was also the president of this academy and it is a pleasure that we convene him first cooperation here in Ireland Jerry. And in summary you can see we have 50 international frown over activities worldwide and turn over in this room of nearly 280 million. But you can also see the subsidies have although have only nearly 30 million. The most projects are realized by the institutes in Germany together with others. And here you get a little bit an insight in our inner structure by Fraunhofer. The 66 institutes must be a little bit structured in from different reasons. And you can see we have information and communicate we have and so called groups or alliances for information and communication technologies there are 17 institutes life sciences seven institutes light and surface six microelectronics 11 11 11 production 7 and materials 14 and we have also a part for the fans and security of seven members this is a long tradition when a long tradition when Fraunhofer was founded 67 years before there was the organization founded but there was no institutes and after the World War two was a decision some institutes from the defense research was let me say the basic the start to development Fraunhofer and from this we have also responsibility until to today is in the most cases material science and for communication technologies. Now some words to global challenges. The most global challenge from our view is the demographic change climate and resources are a follow of the demographic change and in this triangle we have to find solutions and the digitization over overlaid all the other global challenges and as you know we have I have I pick out here one of the challenges and here you can see the resource problematic and I we selected the year 2050 because in 2048 we are on the end with our oil with our crude oil from the few today when we continue our activities without efficiency and when we when we not found new resources in the next years and very important is on the right in the right box we have and this is important for the strategy also for countries should we give strategy in in services in industrial production the demographic development leads us to the need that we have to realize more productions worldwide that we can keep the people in peace a lot of conflicts which we have worldwide come from the needs to to values to products to closures to cars also all the things what we need and our our calculation is today we are 7.5 billion people but only 1.5 until 2 billion people have a level of life quality like we here in the room only for the people which we have we have to to we have four times or three four five times to increase the production volume and in 2050 we will be 9 billion and the challenge is we have nearly the six-fold growth of added value by less by much less or much fewer using of resources what are in in in detail the challenges we need following the demographic change we need products for what I mentioned we need products for more people we need simple products with high effects we need cheap products with also suitable characteristics but we need also for an aging population for aging for the aging population in the industrial nations total new products for example function integration we have developed for example a glove we have we have developed excuse me we have developed a glove in this case not the hand moves the glove the glove moves the hand for for therapy when you if you have had an operation or other things and but also for support in production technologies you can more you can bring more forces for different working processes emission neutrality for climate protection through closed loops in production technologies big data for competitiveness I have some slides for this and ICT security through integrated dynamic concepts in general we can say and I think especially in such a honorable round like this person's here today is this a very very important essential message for the for the for the society in general we need a new we need a paradigm change we need a new paradigm yesterday was maximum profit with minimal capital investment tomorrow we need maximum value creation with minimal resources but in addition to this I say every time but also by enough profit said we can invest in new technologies technologies to realize this paradigm change we don't forget this and ways for to arrive this objective you can see in green cities resource efficiency closed loops sustainable production production when I see here green cities and I look to Ireland is also a very interesting effect in Germany we have had in the last years great projects to mega cities great projects to mega cities to challenges during the mega cities mega cities in India in China sometimes I asked in public discussions and for which mega cities in Germany use this money oh and a lot of people at first the Bavarians said we have also to realize to create new high level jobs based on the new possibilities by IT technology in the in the land also in the in rural areas for example this is also a question in Germany we have Sophie knows the numbers in Germany we have 7 17 and the millions 56 we have 56 million of the people we are we are 80 we are 80 million people in Germany 56 live in cities smaller than 100 000 people we have only 4 million cities Berlin Hamburg Munich and Köln Köln Köln so and then some with 500 my hometown is Dresden 500 Dresden Leipzig Frankfurt 500 600 and and we new new technologies also for the for the land areas and I think this is also a strategic point in in in Ireland we have only you have also not only the people in Dublin so we have also here similar similar challenges come some concrete remarks to flounder for areas of research of research great topics in our research work our health and environment communication and information production and services mobility and transportation energy and resources and safety and security you can under the line see what are special topics for communication and information areas you can see here internet access for rural areas for example is such a is such a topic or efficiency water water projects are also beside the industrial projects water projects is very interesting there come a new project together with South Africa also for the German industry that we realize new products like a washing machine washing machine washing machine washing machine we want with South Africa together to produce new components for washing machine for the for the water for the drinking water in the houses because there are a lot of a lot of health problems by not clean water and we we bring cleaning machine like like a washing machine at the home for every house and you have clean water and have we we have not more the problems with the health Germany have a high tech strategy this is also a sim I think this is a singularity between the countries in Europe the French people the French government have had a consulting with our department leader mrs one car and leading persons from the research organizations in Germany francs have also in France want also to design a national strategy for national high tech strategy what is the background in Germany every company have a high tech strategy so smaller and also especially the larger companies but we have two institutions in Germany where we bound the topics and the priorities one institution is so-called innovation dialogue by the chancellor Angela Merkel we are 20 20 persons from the from the science president of max blank and myself from fraunhofer then leaders from bmw borsch but also from medium and small companies also medium small companies and then from the from the government and we are in a discussion every time prepared by the industry and by science through special topics where we have the chance the chancellor the the minister of economics Gabriel and also the minister of science mrs one car to present our few of the to-do list so it's the high-level to-do list to bring the country not only a different company to bring the country in innovation strategy ahead and the second the second institution which we have is the germany's high tech forum forum high tech forum and in the high tech forum we discuss the high tech strategy this is leaded by mr barner is the head of birger imelheim and myself and in this shot you can see what are our topics do we have what topics we have today in discussion to push in germany this in the high tech strategy and when we when we concentrate and when we after a long and strong discussion process have focused from this area or from this overview three or five topics then we offer the general the federal government to organize a program a program a support program for research not only for the institute not only for the research institutions and for the universities for both also the economics as the industry and in the economic enterprises get here a support from the government and as you can see here is a wide range and to this with are in the red box i can give if you want some remarks more is my time over mr president i think you're doing very well thank you okay then some remarks to this you can see here we have frowned over we have so-called so-called profiling lighthouse projects and on one hand a great topic in germany will be driven by frowned over there's a development of so-called terror nostic implants that meets implants which have the functionality of diagnostic what has happened in the joint and of therapy both the second is electromobility we have we have a good level today in germany you must see in japan get you i think 10 000 or 15 000 euros if you buy a new electrical car in south scoria also not so much in i think in in in in norway also in germany you get nothing you get nothing but we have also nearly one million cars it's our goal 2021 million cars on the on the roads but it's not a problem from my side i think we come to this rare earth metals is also a very very important thing because electromobility without access to rare earth will be a dream not more and e3 production e3 production that means the 3e efficiency in production technology emission free or emission neutrality in production technology and the third e is integration of the humans ergonomy ergonomy integrating of the humans in the production technology this is the international project escorted by the international academy of production engineering and cherry burn here from ireland is one of the evaluators of this project and one of the important initiatives also by the national high tech strategy and also from our side from flounder is only this product only this project i lead self at the present time and this is the initiative industrial data space and the background is you during the lunch we spoke about industry 4.0 and if you want to realize it is industry 4.0 you need different pre discussion pre conditions thank you you need in a different pre conditions and data velocity also latency latency you need data security nobody from the medium and small companies give her over a long years term by hard work generated ip in the cloud nobody will do it but by special security is this possible and the third precondition between the velocity and the security are the standards and for the standards we have now in germany together with the european union a solution this is this solution is driven by the industry the security solution is driven by frowned over together with the industry the standards by the industry and the velocity and the bright band the bright band networks infrastructural challenge for the government and this is in germany a real problem in in in in bright in bright band networks and in the the tensile latency time for the tens if we call us from here to from my from my mouse i mean if i spoke to the other people we have today 40 milliseconds 40 milliseconds when we call from my speak until you we have 30 40 milliseconds for industrial processes for industry 4.0 we need 0.1 milliseconds we're dramatically down and before we have no solutions for these three preconditions will industry 4.0 be self a cloud our solution for security is that we not prefer a cloud as a server outside in other country or as a outside from europe in a country we prefer a solution uh as a network not a new physical network we use the networks and we use the clouds the servers in the industrial partners enterprises which take part in the network but we frowned over realize uh it's a present time a software which generate the security the data security is a data security in this network and we have a lot of companies which work here together is very interesting here are involved the automotive industry the supplier industry the steel industry the chemical industry the endurance economy the german german barn here the german railways chemical industry i have mentioned is a big run and we are together with the european union that we transfer this in the uh with mr ettinger and a lot of other guys and uh french and companies from france and also from uh netherlands are first involved and my last chart i think here you can see for example is this was it technology there are a lot more challenges here for energy and this is a very nice example for a solution for three problems first problem we have in the follow of renewable energies especially by sun solar energy and by wind a volatile volatile level volatile level by the energy um uh by the energy for fikverkite energy generation in germany we have i cannot say how is the situation in ireland in germany we have not only the question set this volatile volatile volatile dead in this energy uh not only you can not only get the energy for nothing today the companies pay said you take the overhanging energy volume and this is a problem the volatility the volatility the English word for volatility dead the volatility the volatility i've 13 years learned russian have have and have everybody an idea why and uh uh this is the first problem there's energy by volatility the second problem is especially for energy by fossil uh capacities of especially also for for steel production they produce carbon dioxide today is our idea carbon dioxide we capture the carbon dioxide and we uh bring it down in there and nobody will is have under his guard and uh there is a solution and this is the second problem and the third problem is uh analyzes also from our uh uh association show that we get in 10 15 years problems uh with uh uh with uh cool stuff with carbon with carbon as a resource with carbon as resource clear carbon as resource for medicine industry for pharma industry for lightweight constructions for carbon fiber constructions and a lot of others and uh now is the idea when we it is it is possible by a photosynthetic process or by a electrochemical process a convert to realize a conversation of carbon dioxide back to carbon and water if you give a lot of energy as input when this energy come from a process energy generation which produced carbon dioxide it is no solution when this energy come from the overhanging energy by sustainable energy this could be a solution and now uh we have here a great project in north rhein-westphalia to group as producer of carbon dioxide uh rwe as a rwe and a great german energy company a lot of smaller companies there are a lot of possibilities for new business models for small companies and fraunhofer and max plank we together uh said we want to scale up this process to use it in the future in the industry the question is only to store only a storage of the overhanging energy from sustainable energy production it was not the only way we can also use other storages for the energy for example when we come a little bit ahead with our cell production for for decentral for example in the cars but we need in the future also steel i mentioned we have to we have to produce six times more worldwide products in the future when we want to keep the people at home feeling well so in an ecosystem what is very very good and we need steel when we need steel we produce carbon dioxide but when we produce carbon dioxide we can this energy from sustainable energy use and we bring it in carbon and i have forgot and on the end with this carbon with this clear carbon you can then go two ways one way we use the carbon for pharma industry chemical industry uh and uh lightweight construction the other way we transfer the carbon in synthetic oil synthetic crude oil and use it for electromobility and then we have from carbon dioxide green electromobility this is not a bad idea and on this we work very very strong very very strong so conclusion fraunhofer's motivation is more relevant than ever why is fraunhofer the patron of our institution fraunhofer was a researcher on one hand he was the inventor of the black fraunhofer lines in the spectral colors and on the other hand he was an entrepreneur he built up fernrohr a telescope he built up a telescope one of his famous customers was peter the great from russia he visits him personal in uh bavaria in in in in in an in an old uh cluster in in in in in a monastery and he peter the great would say how is this with my telescope and this was and uh fraunhofer said every times whatever we do we have to be we have to make a break think about think about our mission our objectives and come back to our uh core to our core focus on our core objectives it's very very important mostly especially in research we go step by step we found a new a new question here a new question and all things go in the in the wide range we have to focus when we focus we have success thank you very much


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Indeed, all praises belong to Allah, our Creator, the Lord of the heavens and the earth who gave us the opportunity to be here today, who gave us the opportunity to breathe, who gave us the opportunity to pray, who gave us the opportunity to believe in Allah. So we praise Him. And we seek assistance from Allah, our Creator, knowing that we can't achieve anything without His permission, without our Creator's tawfiq, without success from our Creator. And we seek refuge in God from the evil capacities that lie within us, and any evil actions which may emanate from us. Whoever God guides cannot be misguided, and whoever God does not guide cannot be guided. I bear witness that there is nothing worthy of worship except Allah, and that the Prophet Muhammad is a messenger and servant of Allah. And God reminds us, addressing those who aspire to be believers, saying, O you who believe, be mindful of God in the way that God should be made mindful of, and do not leave this life except in a state of submission to God. And He addresses all of humanity, reminding every single human that ever existed, O mankind, be dutiful to your Lord, who created you from a single soul, and created from it a spouse, and from both He created many men and many women. And be mindful of God in whose name you make requests of one another, beware of severing the familial ties of kinship. Indeed, God is always watching over you.  Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, a beautiful day in California. Mashallah, I come from Chicago. It's not this pretty and shiny in Chicago, I'll tell you that much. Alhamdulillah, it's an honor to be here. The last verse that we recited, indeed, Indeed, Allah is ever watchful over you. These words, we hear them every Friday. We hear them every single Friday we go to a sermon. The person giving the sermon typically always says these things. And just as the case with many things in the Quran, they go in one ear and out the other. We hear it, but we don't let it sit with it. We don't sit with one verse that the companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, they would not go on to learn more Quran until they took one verse and fully implemented it. They tattooed it onto their heart and made it a part of who they were. It became a part of the fabric of who they were and how they lived their lives. And in this I would like to reflect on today, you know, it's been about a month, if you can't believe it, since we've left the blessed month of Ramadan. About a month, since Eid. The month where we planted so many seeds of good deeds, where we planted so many attempts to do the best we can, even though we probably still messed up. We probably didn't do all the things we should have done. Maybe we even made some other mistakes and did things that we shouldn't have done, right? But what's beautiful for us is we know during Ramadan Allah opens the doors and allows us to plant those seeds for beautiful fruit to come later. And we pray that Allah accepts the fasting, the worship, the prayer of everyone in this room and everyone in our community, and that these seeds continue to grow and that we continue to water them by continuing the good deeds that we established during that month. I know the last few weeks there's been a lot of heaviness in the hearts. Ever since Ramadan has ended, there's been a lot of difficulty and tribulation that we're facing throughout the world, here locally in the United States. And it might weigh really heavy on the hearts of the people. You know, we leave Ramadan and we've been planting these seeds of good deeds. We've been struggling against our desires and our egos, but it's easy that when we encounter these challenges that we forget that indeed Allah has ever watched full over us. We forget that, yes, things are difficult, things are confusing, things are happening in the world that are difficult for us to process. Sometimes it seems like everybody's like in an episode of Looney Tunes, that things are just going crazy out there, right? But this indeed is the nature of the dunya, this worldly life, because it's easy for us to forget that we are here for one purpose. We're only here in this worldly life as a test. We don't belong here. This is not our home. We want it to be our home because we get things here that we like and we love. But we also have what? We also have challenges. And that is the nature of the dunya that we live in. It causes me to reflect on this verse where Allah says in Surat al-Aliyyam Ran, the life of this world is only the enjoyment of a deception. The life of this world, Hayat al-Dunya. It is only the enjoyment of deception. What is Allah telling us here? That this thing that we're so occupied by, so distracted by making money, wearing the nicest clothes, eating at the nicest halal restaurants, because you guys have a lot of nice halal restaurants in the bay for the record. So we're distracted by so many things. Even the halal things, we get distracted by. All these fun things, sports, I already had a bout with one of the young brothers out there who is presenting on his science project. We already talked about the Chicago Bulls versus the Golden State Warriors. We'll just leave it there. But these are the things that distract us. They bring us joy, but what else do they bring us? Anxiety. They bring us frustration, sometimes even division. And this is the heaviness on the heart that sometimes many of us carry. All this heaviness comes from this world that we live in, the life of the dunya. Whenever I travel, it's always challenging because to be honest with you, as a father of two children, it's kind of nice to get away from my family. I'm kind of itching, I can't wait to get away.  So it's good to get away. But the second I'm away, anyone here who maybe can commiserate with me may understand your heart's broken, your heart's empty because all I want to do is be with my family. When I'm there, I can't wait to get away. But when I'm really away, I realize that that's where my heart belongs with the people that we love. Because as our children grow up, as we get older, as our parents get older, we lose one another. The little kid that used to come up in my son yesterday, he comes up to me, I was in a work call, he comes up to me and his face is painted blue and green. And he says, daddy, a superman, a superman. He turned himself into Superman while I was working. And although that might be annoying, for those of you who are older than me and have you already seen your children growing up, we miss those moments, right? Because those are moments that only happen when they happen. And for the youth amongst us, we might think that our parents are annoying and embarrassing and this and that, but I mark my words, there will be a day where you miss that moment, that you wish you could relive that, where you'll sit with your siblings and you'll reflect on it. I had the opportunity to visit a very dear friend, someone I got to know in this community work, actually the day before yesterday, before I traveled here. He's only in his late 30s, and he was diagnosed with very severe stomach cancer. And we met him about six months ago, and he came to film stuff for the organization I worked for. And we developed this relationship. And we saw him get sick, we saw him go through his treatments. And then I went to visit him in the hospital because his wife told us he was not doing so hot. And that maybe it's the end of his time here in this dunya. So we went to visit him, and when I visited him I went and I prayed Salat al Doha because I was late for the Doha prayer. So I went down and his father joined me. And there was something profound in that moment we prayed Doha and afterwards for about 10 minutes this father opened his heart and just started crying. He was present with Allah in that moment. He was beseeching Allah with every ounce inside him, asking Allah to give him more time. Asking Allah to give him more time and to not have to see himself bury his own son. The challenge and the weight. And I know this might be depressing to some people I don't mean for it to be depressing because this is a reality for us. Every page of the Qur'an reminds us of the fleeting nature of this worldly life and that will all come to an end. And in his words I just saw him crying saying that if only I had more time, if only Allah would give me more time that moment was so real for him. And it brought a lot of emotions to me and made me think about how many moments we live that we're just present in. We're just there. We're physically present but we're not mentally or emotionally present. These beautiful opportunities to be transformed by the people around us. To be moved, to do something better. We just occupy space and time. And it was a moment for me to reflect and I was reminded of a parable of a teacher of mine who once used to share the story of a man who was in the marketplace in the souq. And as he was walking through the souq he heard the adhan being called to go to prayer. And he was a younger man and as he was walking towards the masjid he got distracted by a very beautiful woman who was fully garbed. She had her niqab on everything but there was something about her and he wanted to figure out more of who is this, what is this thing that is calling me to it that is tempting me. So he started following her through the souq. Brothers, none of you guys should ever do this by the way. So he started following this woman through the souq. And as he followed her he noticed that he was going further throughout the town. Deeper into alleys, deeper into corners and as he got down to a certain place he noticed it was starting to get darker. The sun was starting to set. And then this person went down into a alleyway and opened a door and went inside and he followed this person into the door and then the person said close the door. The man closed the door and then the person said take the key and throw it in the well here. Throw it away. The man threw the key down. Then the person revealed this woman that the man was chasing that he was so intrigued by so occupied by, so distracted by the world itself. And it wasn't a beautiful woman it was in fact someone who said I am dunya I am the dunya. I am the worldly life.  And it's a profound story for us because the reason why I'm bringing this up is just for us to make sure that we hold gratitude in our hearts that the life Allah gives us. Every moment we have, even if it's filled with trials and tribulations to make sure that we're grateful to Allah. And I'll close the first part of the khutba with this saying from the predecessors of our faith where one of our predecessors said that this dunya, this worldly life it's like a shadow. If you try to catch it you'll never be able to do so. But if you turn your back towards it the worldly life has nothing to do but to follow you. So we pray to Allah that we are people who continue to benefit from the seeds that we planted in Ramadan. We pray that Allah give us the opportunities to continue that momentum. And that Allah give us the opportunity to focus on the life that comes after this life. And that he opens our hearts to it. I'll say this Please make dua during this brief moment. Bismillah Alhamdulillah We begin in the name of Allah we send peace and blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and office companions. You see the reality is we were created in this essence only for one reason. This worldly life for us is not about all the glitz and glamour. It's not about the TV shows and the video games and the good food. It's about being people whose hearts are earned to turn back to Allah. To have a heart that wants to get back to Allah. That's why we're here to see if our hearts will gravitate back to our Creator who created us. We go through so many things in life. We go through challenges. We go through tribulations. We go through doubts in life. We go through divorces. We go through deaths. We go through graduations. So many beautiful things. And what's important for us to remember and it's a very simple message is for us to never be distracted for even a moment. From the real reality that Allah exists. That God is real. That God is there during difficult times and during great times. And that the state of the believer is to always respond with gratitude to God. There's a beautiful story that the Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him taught us. It's a parable. It's comparing something for us. And what he shared with us was very simple. He said that imagine if you were a person in the middle of the desert. Right? To the middle of the desert. And on there you had your milk and your food and everything else with you.  How many of you would be terrified? You're like, it's done. This isn't... I see kids in the back raising their hands. Oh, loveless you guys. See what I mean. That as you end up doing that, you say, this is it. My life is over. I'm done. The only way I can live, my sustenance is gone. My transportation is gone. My water is gone. I'm in the middle of the desert. There's no one here. I'm done. And then after a few hours, imagine the camel comes back to you. Imagine how deep you fall in despair and fear. But then as soon as you see that camel, what do you do? You get excited and you forget and you get happy. Right? And the parable the Prophet gave is, this happened to a man and the man said during that moment, oh, Allah, you are the Lord and you are my servant. The man said this. The Prophet taught us the man said this. Because why? He was in so much high spirits of knowing that he might have another day to live, another moment to do good, another thing to... All those things he regrets he had, now he has the opportunity to go back and live one more time. So he said words of blasphemy, out of his excitement. And in doing so, the Prophet said that kind of joy that that man had is the joy that Allah has. The joy that your Creator has when you turn back to him. When you turn back to God, that's the amount of excitement and joy that Allah encounters. That is how pleased Allah is with us when we turn back. And we'll close with this. This is sage advice for us. Any of us who are going through difficulties, any of us who are going through challenges, this is one of the most beautiful teachings that inspired me even in my journey as I became Muslim.  O son of Adam if you have sins piling up to the clouds and then ask for my forgiveness I will forgive you without hesitation.  Alhamdulillah, that's our Creator. That's Allah.  Alhamdulillah, how honored we are to be a part of a community that has such a beautiful understanding of who our Creator is. And may we be people that know that Allah is Al Tawad. He is the ever accepting of people who turn back to Him. That the door is open. Allah is waiting for all of us to turn back to God. Whether it's through good deeds, whether it's through extra prayer whether it's listening to our parents whether it's spending more toys on our kids on Juma, so they love Juma more. I hope you kids are taking notes, inshallah. Or getting them ice cream after Juma. All of these things are blessings. Allah left the door open. The question for us is whether or not we're going to walk through the door of Allah. Oh Lord, indeed we are sinners. We are losers. And if you do not forgive us, there is no there we will forever be losers. Oh our Lord, grant us from amongst our spouses in our offspring the coolness of our eye and raise from up amongst our youth righteous leaders. Oh Allah, we ask you bring healing to all the people who are going through difficult times. The people who are in battlegrounds around the globe. People who do not have enough access to food. People who live in the inner cities plagued by violence. We ask that on this Juma, the sacred time, the sacred day that you bring alleviation. We pray for anyone in our community who is ill or going through challenges that you bring a healing for them. A healing from this world and the world to come, Ya Allah. Oh Allah, we ask that you give us the best in this life and the best in life to come and you protect us from the torment of the fire, Ya Allah. Oh Allah, we ask that you forgive all of the believing Muslim men and Muslim women. All the believing men and all the believing women, Allah, we ask that you accept this prayer as we stand in front of you, Ya Allah. And let us be present in this moment and let us be present in every moment of our lives, Ya Allah. Bismillah. Amin Ya Rabb.


Hello everybody, this is Keith at 30 seconds sci-fi here at the fabulous 50th Street studio. I Wanted to take some time to tell you about some online science fiction resources that I have listed on my discord If you're not following my discord, there's an invitation link in the description below Please do there's plenty of stuff going on there and you can chat with me talk about what I'm reading what you're reading and Again, I've got all these resources listed there that I want to tell you about number one is the Internet speculative fiction database the ISF DB This is a complete list of every Science fiction short story ever published. It is massive. It is exhaustive if you Hear about a short story you want to maybe find a copy of it online find out what books what anthologies what Magazines it's been published in in the past. Maybe get a hold of those those old books off of eBay or whatever This is a place to start. It's a fabulous resource and then there's fantastic fiction comm which is Very similar to the ISF DB and just as exhaustive It is it lists everything ever written by every author Seriously And it's the same if you hear about a book or a story or even nonfiction essays that you want to read by a particular author you can find out where they were published what magazine what anthology and hopefully find copies either online or Figure out how to buy the the actual old books Again, great place to start and Then we have here a complete index of the fantasy and science fiction magazine Which is actually published by Fannings and sci-fi at sf site Com it is a complete list of Every story every article everything that has ever appeared During the full run of the magazine fantasy and science fiction all the way back to the 1930s when they first started it is complete It's all there. It'll help you find the stories. You're looking for Wow, I love this one Once you have figured out which magazine or our old pulp the story you're looking for can be found in This is where you go luminous.org it has collections of full scanned PDFs of countless science fiction pulps all kinds of pulps it's astonishing how much they have and The the magazines that they do have again are complete if you can find the copy of the magazine You're looking for then the story you want will be in there The same goes for archive.org which of course is an archive of just about everything If you don't find it a luminous you might be able to find it at archive Unfortunately archive.org is not very well organized. You have to be specific about what you're searching for specific magazine titles specific dates But it's amazing the amount of stuff that I found there that I haven't been able to find anywhere else Comic book plus has been around for a long time. It specializes in full scans of old comic books Most of which are public domain stuff. They're providing a really great public service They also include a lot of pulps a lot of pulp magazines You'll be able to find stuff there that the other places have missed Definitely keep this on your list Now when it comes to new fiction I'm going to recommend tour.com. I've recommended tour.com a number of times already in my new Book review series here. If you're not following tour.com you're missing out on a lot tour has figured out That giving away stuff Giving away short stories giving away chapters of books giving away entire free books first books in series Etc results in more interest and more sales. They're very serious about it There's tons of free fiction at the tour.com site great new Science fiction short stories that they are commissioning from great authors all the time Definitely go browse through this stuff. You're missing out on a lot if you're not doing so I'm gonna go ahead and recommend read comic online To maybe against my better judgment You're gonna have to make sure you have an ad blocker running when you visit this place because there's some pretty Pretty ugly ads that you're not gonna want to see anyway They have an awful lot of comics full scans of New and old comics in a lot of cases complete series going all the way back to the 1940s 1930s Again, this is one of those places where you'll be able to find something that you probably won't find elsewhere So it's worth looking at now here's the thing for audiobook fans this service called Clarksworld magazine.com they publish new science fiction stories in both print and audiobook format The audiobook reading isn't the best the the woman Who who does the reading I I give her a big thumbs up for all the work? She's doing she mispronounces a lot of names and a lot of words. I'm sorry. I have to say it But there is a lot of good Science fiction being published by Clark's world Definitely follow them on their website and on YouTube where they publish their audiobooks and Finally, there's this funny little thing called galactic journey.org That is run by people who are pretending to live in the year 1965 At least right now they are I guess last year they were still in 1964 but they're reviewing Magazines and stories science fiction stories in the pulp magazines as if they're coming out now It's a funny little idea and it works pretty well. I give it a recommendation. I recommend all the things I've just listed there's links to everything in the list below and also on the discord at the top of the links below There's an invite to my discord. Please come on over to discord and we'll see you next video. Bye Thank you for watching. Please become a sponsor follow the links on screen and in the description below To help me continue to make more videos and please leave a comment. Let me know what you think See you next time. Bye


Are you guys are gonna be making a pre-poo with everything coconut heads up if you are protein sensitive I will be very weary of this type of Concoction yeah, and of course if you're allergic to coconut you won't be able to use this pre-poo So I do apologize for that. However, I'm gonna be using like I said everything Coconut so in this plastic bag, I have coconut milk probably one fourth of a cup I have some more in there. I may add it. I have some coconut oil Coconut vinegar and then I have swabs coconut conditioner, which has great slip So I'm gonna eyeball this but just off the bat I can tell you like I said this is one fourth of a cup of coconut milk I will probably use half a cup of coconut oil One teaspoon of coconut vinegar and all of this here conditioner Which is half a cup half a cup to almost three-fourths three-fourths of a cup excuse me to make this fluffy I'm going to whip up the coconut oil and then also whip up the coconut milk I have a stainless steel bowl here, so let's get to mixing This is more than enough for at least two usages If you have average density three to four usages So I'm gonna put this in the applicator jar and store this in the refrigerator until the next wash day and use What I can today Hey you guys, so I'm gonna go ahead and take my hair down and I have some water here that I'm gonna be spraying on my hair and we're going to get started with this pre-poo I have a feeling things you know what I have a feeling things are gonna be great. So this is a very old perm rod like Several days old, but she's kind of this would be a really cute curly fro, huh? I know Yeah Yeah So I'm gonna go ahead and section her off and get started me spray my hair because I can feel it kind of Look at that gray. Yeah, I'm getting quite a bit of gray Quite a bit here Okay, now this is very creamy. There's so much of this pre-poo Hmm that vinegar boy. I tell you I have a towel in my lap just in case you're wondering. Oh lord Yes I'm so sorry if you are allergic to coconut because this is this is awesome It feels really good. Now. Yes. This is very very similar to The pre-poo I did that was based off of nappy headed her whole bus recipe, but this doesn't have nearly as many Ingredients as that one. I have an assortment of different detangling tools in front of me I'm gonna start off with the wooden comb a wooden comb is my favorite favorite detangling tool to use Outside of the shower. Look at that. Look at that.  I found my Felicia leather I'm missing for a month girl. I was a blame of JB blaming my husband on them. Well, they don't know She just showed up. I don't know where in one of my drawers and I'm like Girl, I missed you like I really was y'all Missing my Felicia leatherwood brush now Look at that. This is why I was missing her.  What do I think is the um? I'm gonna be honest and say I think it's a combination of the Coconut vinegar and I purchased the coconut vinegar from Walmart. That's the only place I'm pretty sure you can find it even at Whole Foods or something and the coconut milk. I really do and I'm gonna take I'm gonna use one hand to show you how great I have enough fishy review on This detangling brush. I'm gonna show you how great it is with one hand Look at that. So so far so good y'all. I am on this side now Rush, look at that Yes, you guys. This is a winner. I love it You know what? I would possibly do to save myself time You may not have this issue But but we ain't got all they do sit up here. I would Wet my hair and sections apply this real quick. Wait wait wait apply it real quick Put my hair up sit under some heat or wear a heat cap for 15 10 15 minutes jump into the shower Detangle and that is it. This is the winner for me. Yeah, you guys give this a try. I'm gonna be storing it in this. Um cholesterol Container and so this one was filled it up. It was 20 ounces and so I'm gonna continue my hair in a minute But yeah, this is 20 ounces and like I said, I can get at least three usages out of this for myself So, yeah, that is it everyone. Thank you so much for watching. Take care. Bye


Hi everyone, Shawn with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing 2021 Gold Rush Big Cajona's multi-sport edition five box case break random box number two. We're going to open up the case, number the boxes one through five, randomize the list of names and the boxes to figure out which box each person's getting and open them up for them and they get those hits. So one hit per box. Here's the list of customers from Colin McArver down to Mark Rowell. These three folks won their spot in an optic blaster filler. Colin, thanks for buying your spot straight up and obviously the numbers here. So first let's pop over here. Fred, congratulations man. Congrats dude. Hey it was your night man. That was your night. One spot happened to get the redemption spot and happened to get that card. Congrats buddy. Some varying information on there Fred. Somebody said that it was out of 75. Another person said that it was out of 49 but either way it's yours. So here you go. So one on top five at the bottom. So one through five. So we're going to pop back over here. We're going to randomize both lists and pair them up. Two and a five seven times. Seventh and final time. Colin down to Scott and seven times on the numbers. Seventh and final time. Four down to three. There you go. So seven times on the box numbers. Seven times on the names and seven times on the dice. There you go. Colin and Carver box four. Mark Rowell box five. Brian Frank box two. Colin McArver box one and Scott Quinlan box three. Let's check this out alphabetically. So we're going to go kind of alphabetical. Colin since you have two boxes we're going to do your two boxes together at the very end. But we'll go Brian, Mark, Scott and then we'll go to Colin with yours. So Brian with box two up first. We'll print out these labels so I can stick these with the hits. So there's that final list there. We're going to go Brian, Mark, Scott and then Colin finish off with your two boxes. Here are my stickers. Let's keep them all ordered. So Brian with box two up first. Beckett's lab probably. We're going Ken Griffey Jr. Is this the Topps 2020? It is. Silver, Ink, Auto 2020 Topps project 2020. Ken Griffey Jr. That is a Silver, Ink, Auto beautiful card. I know that in some cases the Project 2020 cards can be autographed but I think this is an in-person autograph. I don't think this is through the Project 2020 purchase. You can see the Silver, Ink, Auto on there. Nice bold autograph. The autograph is authentic as it shows right there but I do not think this is an autograph straight through Topps. Very cool card. Congrats Brian. That is yours. Out of box two. Mark is box number five up next. Very cool card. Obviously a reproduction of his old rookie card. Did see it's a PSA 10 rated rookie. Don Russ rated rookie. Luca Doncic 2018. Don Russ rated rookie. PSA 10. Luca Doncic for Mark at box five. Whole bunch of good names, good things to say together. Luca, rookie, PSA 10. Mark around. Leo, Mark, congrats man. Scott Quinlan with box three, which is going to leave box one and four left. It's out of 35 Fred. Nice man, congrats. Even better. Even better. Love that. Absolutely Mark, thank you man. Thanks for getting in. Congrats on winning that spot too. This is another Beckett. No, this is PSA. It's a thicker slab. It is Ronald Acuna Jr. Is this another project 2020? Pretty sure it is. Is this a collaboration with undefeated and it's autographed. So autograph is authenticated and graded at PSA 10 for the autograph. It is. This is project 70 and this was actually done by undefeated. That's a really cool card. You can see the undefeated logo right there undefeated on top and the undefeated logo on the front there. Acuna autograph, blue ink auto, PSA 10 autograph grade. Card is not graded. These are very thick cards. These are hard to grade. Very cool. Scott, congrats man. That's a beautiful card. Very nice. Once again, I think that is a secondary auto, not a top's autograph. And then last but not least, Colin with boxes one and four. We'll start off with one for you Colin. Good luck my friend. Once again, thanks for getting in on this. If anybody's interested in getting in on this again, I'll post the next one. I'll see if we can do it without fillers. But up to you guys. I'll post all five spots available if there's five people that want to get done on it. If not, then obviously we'll throw in a filler in there to give people a chance to win spots. I am upside down. It is Beckett. It is graded. BGS 9510. It's Wayne Gretzky. The great one. It's pretty good. There you go Colin. 0405 legendary signatures autograph. BGS 9510. On-card auto. Wayne Gretzky. That's nice. That's very nice. No sub grades but like I said, 9510. Gretzky auto. Nice box one. Let's see what box four is for you. And box four to finish it off. And it's a 2019-2020 Prism Zion Williamson rookie BGS 95. True gem mint. Centering edges, corners, and surface all 9-5. Zion rookie to finish it off.  Thank you very much man. Congrats on the Gretzky and the Zion. And there you go guys. That's the break. That was 2021 Gold Rush Big Cajones Multi-Sport Edition 5-Box Case Break Random Box Number 2 from jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Sean, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you next time.


Diolch i chi felly. Diolch i chi. Diolch i chi? Diolch i chi. Diolch i chi. Diolch i chi. Diolch i chi. Diolch i chi. Diolch i chi. Diolch i chi. Samstag-haent Prifysg yna'r gw Boulder heddiw. Roedd gyda'n dod yn ffrydd yng nghymhle. Feel y dyfod i'r ddweud oherwydd amdano. Mae nifer oherwydd wedi'u wneud i. Lleu'r ffordd ar hyn o'n weithio'r difnog. Mae'r beth sydd yn symud o gyda'r modd y byddig. Mae'r ddechrau'r bydd. Rwy'r ddweud eu venue yn y combineir ynggrifedd. Mae'r ddweud o'r ymdangach oedd oedd oherwydd, mae'r cyffredd i'n ddweud i'r ddweud, a'r ddweud yn wirion, a'r ddweud yn ddigon i buffs, Da hwnna hwnna'ch anaflwythiaeth i gyda'r gael. Felly? A pari ym yn ddim yn yw'r ffordd. Ychydig. Yn ddim yn ffordd. Ychydig. Yn ychydig. Mae'n ersin ni'r ffordd. Mae'n ersin ni'n meddwl. Yn yw'r ffordd? Yn yw'r ffordd. Mae'n ymddydd. Mae'n ymddydd. Yn ymddydd, hi allwn ymddydd. Yn ymddydd, Julia. Mae'n ymddydd, Alex. Ac wedi cefnod y cysylltu i'r ffordd cyffredinol y cyfraedwyr ddechrau. Mae'r edrych hynny'n dweud ar gyflwyno'u lleol yw'r rhagol, sy'n ddweud o'i fawr i'n staff cyfraedwyr i'w cyfraedwyr. Fi'ch gofio, dwi'n edrych i ddweud i ti'n gwiswyd worldsiwn i'r ymddangos ei wneud i'r ysgolwyd, a dw i'n gyfraedwyr torriiff y familau a'r mhubad bwrdai sy'n llei gyflymio gyflymio'i mewn gwilwyr a wneud i ti'n gofio'i. A oeddwn i amlwg ddod Ddweud. Siwch ymlaen, efo amd Social-Rain Ddweud. Iam Alex Sunder, a wedi mynd i amniad o defnyddio'r cyd. Fe rhywbeth hynny wedi'i Ddweud, efo amdod y bwrdd Nbenol yn ddweud. Ond gallwn rydyn ni'n ddweud hynny. Bwn ni wedi gael y bwrdd Pau Bwrdd, mae ar fanyddio ein ysgol yn ddwylo'r system syniad honno, ac yn ydy'n gwael i'w fawr o'r ysgolwyd cyrraedd Cymru ar y dyfodol a chael eu dynod o'r ddegyfodol. Yn ymwneud beth dyfodol yn y meddwl, mae ydych yn 500 web-sites yw ymwneud. Mae'n ydych i'w rhywbeth o'r 100 dynod rydyn ni'n ddegyfodol, felly mae'n ddegyfodol yn fan dda, yn rhoi ei bod y gallu'n ddegyfodol. felly, mae'n cerddau ychydig o'r byw, mae'n pryd o'r cyfrifio'r newydd o'r eich cyfrifio'r newydd! Mae'r Gweithbeth Nesaf yn ddau'i gwneud ddweud o'r cyfrifio'r cyfrifio arall, ond mae'n sgwr. Mae'r cyfrifio'r cyfrifio'r cyfrifio'r cyfrifio, ac mae'n rhaid i gael yn ffasta'n dweud. That's why we have decided to use one content management system for all our board app runs. So we started with Drupal and developed Thunder. As a base, we used Drupal 8. Since it fitted our needs almost perfectly. You probably know all of these points, but anyway, these were our reasons why we chose Drupal 8. It's free and open source. It's fully responsive for the backend. It's built with PHP and it integrates Symphony 2. It is widely used and highly appreciated among developers as you know. And it is easily adaptable with thousands of modules provided by a global community. So we used Drupal 8 and added some publisher-specific modules and configurations. And this is Thunder. Then in 2015 we started the first project, which was Playboy.de. The brand adapted the Thunder core for their website. And they contributed some modules to the core, which grew as a result of this. The same happened when InStyle and any other border website we launched then. So the Thunder core improved and improved and grew better. So let's have a look at the differences between Drupal and Thunder. And that's the relationship of the two of them. So Drupal is a general purpose CMS. And Thunder is a distribution for professional publishing. Keep in mind that it's a distribution, it's no fork. We want to stay very, very close to the Drupal core. And we want to use the enhancement from the global Drupal community and get something back to the community. So that's the code documentation exchange you see here. So just a quick up. Drupal is open source under the general public license. It's for large volume websites. It's supported by a community and with the current version 8. Completely new system design and features were introduced. So we took this as a base and selected, adapted, configured and tested the modules we need and included them into the Thunder distribution. This as well is licensed under the general public license. And it includes the Drupal 8 bases. And we add modules that are required for professional publishing but are missing in the Drupal community. Those modules we will make available to the Drupal community and also bug fixes and things like that. Everything we find, we give back. So we find a bug, we will fix it and we will fix it in the Drupal module and not only in Thunder. That's the idea. So it's like a perfect world and everyone benefits from our work. By now there are more than 20 border sites running on Thunder. Not only in Germany but also in the Czech Republic, Ukraine and in India. And also non-border websites are running on Thunder. Looking at the border website, the Thunder sites generate more than 70 million visits and approximately 250 million page impressions per month. So for border, Thunder is a perfect solution. Now let's have a look at our plans again. There are a lot of different business models. You have Playboy with paid content, the cooking recipe with a huge community, my beautiful garden which is run by e-commerce by selling stuff for gardeners. Bwnta DE is about celebrities and video content. In style it's about fashion and selling products to people with affiliate links and so on. So we realized that border is a smaller representation of the whole publishing cosmos. So in the end hopefully Thunder would be a perfect system for everybody. Plus we are convinced that what matters today is not so much the technology but the content. So we decided that we could give away Thunder as an open source product. Keep in mind with the internet everybody can become a publisher. But it differentiates some guy on YouTube and a big publishing house like Bwnta is not the technology but the brand, the minds of journalists, the content we deliver and the connections between our journalists and the readers. So technology is not differentiating us. So in our opinion there's nothing to lose if you share our technology. Nothing to lose but a lot to win. Thunder is unlimited and free under the general public license as it had before. We think that the community will enhance the system and therefore everybody benefits by improved speed and reduced cost. Border as well of course but everybody else too. There are no obligations. Every publisher can decide what part of the development they want to share, none, all or some. There are of course no logos, no ads. Border will collect no data. That's important to highlight when you talk to other publishers. Actually there's no need to even tell anybody that you use Thunder. Nevertheless we hope for a growing community. We want to introduce a culture of sharing and cooperation in the publishing world. Our intention is to foster cooperation among the industry that we all are able to concentrate on what really matters, the content. So we founded the Thunder Coalition, a community of publishers which is not only publishing houses but actually everybody used into professional publishing. Developers and agencies, the certified Thunder integrators such as Nbika. The coalition members develop valuable modules for their own purpose and share them with the community. They also share experiences and best practices. For example at regular community meetings like our Thunder Dave introduced last year. Together we want to build the world's best possible CMS for publishing. Now a hand over to Alex. Yes, thank you very much. Yes, the world's best CMS. This is a good point and I'm very happy to be a Thunder certified integrator on the one hand and also to be able to speak here. But to be honest in the first step I need to take you a little while back in the history probably of publishing on the one hand because I can because I have this image and on the other hand because it's maybe useful to understand from where we're coming. This is actually the grandfather of our CEO from here here on a Heidelberg printing machine which is also funny because we also work for Heidelberg printing machines so the circle is complete if you want so but this is how you would produce books probably in the I don't know when this was taken 30s, 40s I don't know quite a while ago and yeah publishing changed in a way technologically wise. I mean this is how a Heidelberg printing machine could look today. It's fancy German engineering stuff for printing things hoping that someone will read them actually hopefully in the first place and yeah I mean Heidelberg realized this printing thing is kind of under pressure in a way at least in some fields and also are of course publishers rethinking their strategy and making up their minds because what's also important to know is that in a word that was existing maybe a few years ago or even now with some publishing houses I mean the main target group was in a way the book shop so the books were made to sell them to book shops because the publishers were not selling to readers because the readers were buying from retailers aka book shops now maybe Amazon but the main distribution channel still is retail so nearly nobody goes to a publisher and purchases a book directly or does anything similar and I mean this model sounds crazy in a way if you just think about it because all other industries are in a deep change and all kind of producers try to sell their goods directly but why not the publishers and I had the chance to meet the guy on the left Andy Lentl heading the digital kind of team if you want so from a German publisher now part of the whole spring group so quite big book publishing company and he had an idea and I mean the image was taken by a lucky accident if you want so so he was not actually in this moment he's planning the idea probably but I think it's just the right image to show his kind of mindset and his enthusiasm also to change the way companies like Dromark now are selling if you want so old days because he said okay I mean going there and just selling the book to the retailer so we need to convince the retailer to put our book at a prominent position in everything and this is not working out so we want to address the readers directly and also they got a big pressure from authors saying hey I want better presence I just need something to happen on your website so he said okay we have to find a way and he was kind of focusing very much on women and said okay I have quite a lot of content in my company to address such target group and focus target group is always helping probably I mean stock photos of course but he said okay I have a lot of content you know about food and yoga and whatever relaxation how to get your life organized etc so I mean if he would visit a bookshop nowadays you can see hundreds or thousands of books addressing those topics but just books I mean and he said well maybe not all of the women would really like to buy a whole book if they just want to know how to do whatever three healthy recipes or new yoga stuff or whatever so he said okay we need to find a way to address them and he said well I came across this thing called thunder this might be interesting what do you think? yes could be an option he said yes and then I heard about this MVP thing and I'm not quite sure how familiar everybody is with the term just a very short explanation basically meaning that you build something in the minimum viable product so you would define a product as small as you can out and live and test and see how it goes and I was yes this is how we work pretty fair and he said yeah well to make things more interesting I have a hard deadline so there's no discussion about this because of the Frankfurt book fair one of the biggest book fairs probably in the world is happening they won't wait for us if we one week late then it's not there okay now we're talking and he said yeah this is the timetable and so if you as you can see I will start talking in kind of spring but things took some time legal stuff blah blah blah so actually the work really started in July and we had to be ready by end of September so yeah I mean there's no much not much time to discuss endlessly things and I mean there was basically nothing yet there so it was totally clear that this couldn't be the approach so there was no time to you know but a real plane and get it going I mean this is what we try normally in Germany it failed very hard as in Berlin with our airport never gonna open because we're trying to build this and obviously are not able to and a true MVP could maybe look like this so if the definition would be needs to fly but somehow yeah the question is is this really great enough or wouldn't it be nice if people could actually sit inside of this plane so we said okay then we need an kind of MLP which is actually the minimum level of product so you take the MVP approach and add some more nice ingredients so that it grows and then comes the hard part you need to define that it's not growing too much but to an extent where you would say okay nice and yeah it was totally clear Sunder is our only chance to be able to deliver in such time frame because you have to remember there was nothing there so we really had to start from the very beginning so there was not even a logo or whatever so we were really starting at a point and it was totally clear it's not only about the technology but it's about how we would work together so there was no chance to kind of take a list of requirements go there, sit down, build something and then the months later go back and present and then whatever get the feedback that is maybe not the right thing you've built so it was totally clear that both teams our team, their team needed to be totally integrated so here we work as close as you can get together to get this delivered in time and this was working perfectly so PO from the client and he has a PS designer everybody just worked together in a very nice manner and yeah we kind of followed our let's say classical approach but in a very short time frame though so this is how we do all of our projects we could say we adjusted it in the arsenal talk so we would build something, we would measure how it works then see what's there to learn and then this is a constant circle of course and then we finally came up with something and I'm here to present a case study so I need to show only things about publishing but also what we have built and accomplished in this time frame so everything you can see here because I think most of the screenshots were really taken very shortly after going live so there was not any stuff we kind of put on in the last weeks and now I'm showing you something totally different from what went live actually so yeah we have some different sections we have events because it's like in the music industry obviously so one idea to earn money is not only sell the content but also kind of take people to go to events and spend money there buy tickets, buy merch, whatever so I think it's interesting to see how the industries are kind of growing together and some ideas that went well or worked well maybe in one industry also tend to be used in other industries so this is somehow interesting we have articles of course this is one of the key elements of the website if you want so so there are different areas, different fields what is it? food, it's work life balance it's meditation and within those sections we have different articles of course and also what I mentioned earlier and a very important point at this project are really the authors because basically we're doing this big part for them because they want to be present they want to be seen they want that people recognize them and I mean selling books or later maybe subscriptions or whatever we are going to do on this website it's all also based on their status and their followers on Facebook etc so we very heavily rely on them to push the project which is also a little bit crazy in a way this is the old times but yeah this is how it is and what we did actually this is just a very rough idea to show how it's really looking in the back end and what Sunder brings because the core message here is maybe that I mean sure we did some modifications in the back end but very slightly I mean the main focus of this project really was the front end because we had to build all these different views we were really consuming some time but the back end we really needed to not modify much there because basically Sunder brings like nearly everything out of the box we needed at least for this project so what you can simply see is we have some channels to differentiate we use a teaser area and where we heavily use paragraphs modules that is integrated in Sunder and very nicely preconfigured so I mean sure our developers always say and we had this discussion also sometimes that yeah but I could build this on my own and I'm yeah you could I mean the module is there you could install it and could go there and do the configuration but you would need to and if there is no time then I mean we should use something that already brings everything we needed and this is really really good and helpful and yeah we have lots of media content of course, books and videos and images and everything so also media, organizing the media fight is also very nice with Sunder and I just, this was done today actually but I just went back in again and said okay if somebody asked what have you done there and related to programming I could at least show this and it's showing that I mean the only real stuff consuming quite some time was the exact target integration because this was mentioned at the very beginning and we were also thinking about it but we said yeah there's a Drupal 7 module so say it's false, exact target shouldn't be an issue but I mean I don't know whether you ever touch exact target but obviously it could be an issue so this took us I mean really some time everything was there and exact target was still not responding in a nice way but we figured this out as well but as you can see nearly everything was there out of the box I mean surely we modified those things here and there and did lots of configuration on top but the real development part was rather small very nice and so what did we learn from this project and this is also important always I mean we're doing retrospectives and see how we can improve what went good, what went wrong maybe or needs to be improved and I mean Sanda was helping so everybody clearly agreed on this core message and working together with the customer also helped of course I mean this was not a new learning in this case but it was agreed on again and yeah we saw that we started with our development a little bit too early because we saw that yeah some things some configurations could be done at the very beginning but in the design process things got changed and changed and this is I mean working on an agile project this is how it happens I mean this is not untypical but given the deadline it was sometimes the team was yeah busy let's put it in these words and they said okay maybe next project we should at least wait maybe for one or two weeks until design finalization if you want so this has progressed to a certain degree and so it was that we had to touch things twice three times four times I don't know because the ideas came up and we tried to bring everything together but yeah it worked out I mean we went live I think three days before the Frankfurt book fair started and went there and met a bunch of happy people everybody was like whoa it really happened this never happened before in our house and the highest level you know publishing lady of grandma wrote a handwritten letter to the project team saying whoa you did it this is amazing first project in time in budget a website and even it works on my mobile this is crazy she was really excited we moved to see the customer they are delighted because sometimes you do a project and the customer is like well okay great nice job yes cool but this time it was really they were whoa everybody was hugging us et cetera so it was really really nice and yeah just a very short part to who we are as an Ika I mean basically our big part of our business is technology oriented I mean this is not only our focus but we are doing quite a lot of projects large projects way larger than this one probably but Sunder also helps to do small projects so working very much with Sunder or Drupal depends what makes sense but in a field of commerce also with Smigento or Spriger or Shockware or commerce everything that makes sense and yeah most time try to find a system that yeah closely matches I would say so that we don't have to I think it was mentioned before reinvent the wheel again and again so and Sunder helps of course in this but we also do design and concept et cetera and yeah we have 12 offices around 200 people and of course I mean everybody shows probably this slide but I have to we are pretty happy if somebody would be interested in joining our team and yeah build also such projects where customers come and hug you later and if you don't like it then just tell me then I will you know receive all the compliments and hugs and you can just sit there and smile so this would also work and I think we have one slide maybe you can just just first announcement we will do another community day this year in November with about Thunder you can meet the Thunder community with publishers, with companies into professional publishing and IT experts and yeah so save the date if you're interested in November and as I said I'm head of our Berlin office so I'm very happy to see this taking place in Berlin so if you're there just let me let us know then yeah we're also happy to arrange whatever needs to be arranged and yeah happy to have this this great day and as a participant of the last Sunday I mean not that neutral maybe but I can tell you that it's really worth going there and I think this was basically the feedback everybody gave who was attending so yeah if your calendar has some you know blind spots or white pages then you should definitely write down the 19th and 20th I think really a great event yeah any questions first one about the project maybe at the perspective before starting this project we did the research base you look into other distributions I'm not saying you know like other other platforms but other distributions of thunder but for example like lightning that is promoted by Acria have you considered that or yeah but to be honest very roughly I mean we just made sure that there is nothing we are even easier or faster and you know with the structure basically I mean most part of the job is done by the paragraph module and right out of the box with thunder it brings nearly all the types we are also using so and the stuff regarding authors and how they are related to books and blah blah blah this was not out of the box anyway so yeah we took a look at other distributions but yeah maybe for a few hours and then said okay any big benefits no? thunder yes okay go very good question in the context of most of your projects projects and clients what is the technology around where most of you focus is it very wide from e-commerce to IONI mobile apps and e-commerce what is most of your focus in the company has a vision that okay this is where we want to go mostly no it's not about where we want to go basically because I mean it's important this part a little bit and in this project we did it very compressed if you want so but in the beginning we do a we call it a discovery workshop where we find out what's really best for the project for the customer for the business goals we did it here as I said pretty reduced because the driver now also did research and they had all their stakeholders ready risk mapping they nearly prepared everything we would normally gather from them already so we could kind of shorten this a little bit but the decision is not what we want I'm not going there I mean I'm a big fan of Thunder because I think it helps in many ways I think in the general like the company where they would like to be for example in five years time in CMS systems or more e-commerce I think more the combination because the projects I'm seeing at the moment that are kind of approaching and the inquiries are tending to be a combination of both so maybe the MVP or MLP would be probably a Drupal project this is not that uncommon I would say that the content part needs to be done first in a good way because many old legacy systems need to be replaced we all know this and are happy about and if there is no kind of commerce function so far then probably we could start there and then add whatever to the commerce or Sprica I don't know but it could be the other way around as well but I see more projects and really kind of a combination of those parts so Exciting Absolutely and to be honest I mean if you think back like five years then you would probably not imagine such an event with such talks and such projects that could be delivered so I'm not guessing five years is really far away I'm happy if I know what's happening in like six months Thank you So I guess in any publishing process you've got authors creating content and maybe a sub editor who reads it and sends it back maybe a translator then who translates it into a little language so I guess you've got a workflow in any public business to go from the idea to something that gets published on the web with lots of roles and processes How do you handle that in front of I mean maybe what do you want to answer from the standard perspective Over to Daniel who's a lead developer about the content innovation and workflow I would just say in this project there is not a real workflow but all the authors are not at least at the moment really going there and editing their stuff on their own so at the moment there is kind of a core team really putting the content on and they are just an editorial role if you want so there is no kind of real workflow but it could be of course if you want to The quick answer from from the development perspective is quite similar to that because none of the brands in Boda have any kind of workflow needs might be surprising but none of them want anything there and we did not invest much there of course content moderation is in it and you can enable it and you can use it but we don't provide any kind of any kind of pre-configuration for that yet we have a full request for that since we actually don't have our own use cases for it it's hard for us to get it right so we thought of keeping that out of it for now and let's see if there is some maybe there comes some expertise and experiences we can be a good pre-configuration otherwise then it really depends on the complexity probably an easy workflow could be pre-configured within a few minutes maybe even I could do it like editor is not allowed to publish then you have your easy workflow but to assign content to somebody and reassign and blah blah blah I think there needs to be some and it's also very yes there's no one workflow that you can deliver and everybody send it so on content moderation is there you can use it so on yeah it needs to be questioned heavily because most ideas about workflows like five people who has to kind of sign something off never going to work so probably asking these questions and really bringing it down to the real workflow then helps I mean if it helps or works with order then probably many other people should be fine as well so thank you sorry I was trying to understand how this differs it's a distribution from standard group so it installed some modules some themes so I'm looking at I'm thinking like German I'm that guy's label with the side of you so there's a nice theme that happens is that the property of that publication or is that even thunder for us to use as a theme the front-end theme was developed for this publication because this is not part of the standard distribution for the ring some themes because it's one thing it's the other thing or it's just a placeholder thing but you need to build it but this is not the real benefit I would say because in the back-end truly I mean it's close to what you know or you can as I said I mean you could do everything as you can see there I mean you could develop your adminsim and configure the paragraphs module you can install this and this and this and this but it takes time it's simply about timing I mean seeing your three developers for working for weeks and months to build it I mean you feel and if you compare it and this is the interesting point I mean if you see it like this and you probably think yeah okay well this is nice but if you take a Drupal out of the box and just compare you know it's a back-end then you see whoa okay such a huge difference that would be that would be really useful to have us a slide or something oh we could add I was actually thinking about this but I thought this would be maybe like showing you how a banana looks because I thought everybody knows you know the Drupal 8 adminsim from the very hard note but it's worth I mean you could just try and take a look at a demo or if you're interested I might actually has a Drupal 8 on my machine I could show you afterwards but it's really a big difference a big focus on the back-end focus on content editing on adding content on adding multimedia stuff like this on the paragraphs that you can have some storytelling with the paragraph lists things like that we talk a lot about steaming but I learned from my colleagues it's obviously a pain in the ass if you want to make it for all and we just decided not to focus on this for now maybe we can do it later maybe we can find some solutions but for now let's focus on the back-end that's something everybody can use and steaming is something really special everybody wants his own look at the feel of the website everyone has his own ideas his own wishes and preferences so it's really hard to find a solution which fits all or even most so we skip with the back-end that's where we can really help the profile we need a very developed guidelines for best practices start with distribution and make your own version of it how do you work with corporations to take them? yes we have but it's basically everything you would say for Google A as well there's no difference or best practices for Google A are just the best practices for 100% just a different starting point can be different if the distributions get updated in the future how do you make sure that your changes are not over updates are very special but maybe I'll just go for this we have an idea for this so if you're interested we will explain absolutely Sunday helps a lot of time but we have an important announcement you do? so thank you everyone for coming this is the last session of the week but we encourage you all to join us but we've been so short so this is at the Blacksmith and Toffymaker which is three minutes away I'm not sure exactly where but I think you stick it into whatever you should find it and our generous sponsors Thunder have put a thousand pounds on the bar town so get in there as soon as you can I've got a full sober is anybody in part? right cool okay thank you thank you can we relax a little? yes yes thank you what's the story? from the business perspective yeah what's the story? the walls the walls do a part put those things together I don't know I think you might have a ring of applause the translation is part of the work so yeah but yeah translation it's not the same but unlike all the other people I've been able to find it so hello thank you thank you thank you thank you I'm volunteer it's closed in the year so it's perfect now I'll see you all fun I'm done I said it I said it I'm done thank you Cio it was really just relevant then man I will say it so many he doing it gwaith d paralyzed