Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us tonight in our community meeting for Pomer Heights and over Thumbark Street improvement project. Uh, 2018 bond year three, uh, contract six city project number one, zero, one, four, five, two dash two. My name is Megan and I am a manager with the city of Fort Worth transportation and public work department. Capital delivery team. Uh, I will be the project manager for this project during the design and construction. Uh, this was this presentation is meant to provide you with some information about the scope of this project. And, uh, the proposed improvement that will happening in your area and also to get your input and comment during the design phase. In this presentation, I will talk in detail about the project overview and the scope of the work. Also, I will provide you with some information on the project schedule of this project. So you can know when we'll advertise the project to when we are going to start and complete the construction and how long the construction will take during the meeting. You can send your question through the shed option in Webex. The shed button is located at the lower right side of the screen here. Uh, and, uh, at the end of the meeting, I will answer all your questions. If you are joining us, uh, from your phone, or you cannot send your question through Webex, please feel free to unmute yourself and ask your question at the end of the meeting. Uh, in this project, we have, uh, five streets as following, uh, Mary's Creek Drive from Highway 377 to Linden Drive. We have also Culver Avenue from Mark's Place to Benrose Avenue. Uh, we have, uh, Roanoke Street from Culver Avenue to Wakecliff Street. Uh, we have Overton Bark Drive East from Fox Hollow to Altura Court. And we have Altura Court to, uh, the intersection of Overton Bark. As you can see, uh, from this slide, uh, here, the existing situation of the street. Uh, these pictures are from Mary's Creek Drive. And the first picture, you can see here, the street is in bad condition. The asphalt is cracked. There is no care from the gutter. Also, on the other side, on the other side, this picture, so some of the driveway on this street, uh, is in gravel or, um, they have gravel and sand. Also, uh, these two pictures are from Roanoke Street and Overton. Also, the same situation, the asphalt is in bad condition. Uh, some cracks, some beds. Um, this is the existing condition of the streets right now. Uh, now let us talk about the proposed improvement on each street, uh, separate. So, on Mary's Creek, we are going to replace the 12 inch old water line with new 12 inch water line. Also, we are replacing the existing 8 inch and 24 inch symmetry sewer line with 8, with new 8 inch and 42 inch sewer line. Uh, after that, we are going to, uh, construct new concrete driveways with minimum 11 foot width and 10 feet length. Uh, at the end, we are, uh, reconstructing the street with new concrete cap on the gutter. On Culver Avenue and Roanoke Street, we are replacing, uh, the existing old 8 inch water line with new 8 inch water line. Uh, and after that, we are, uh, we are constructing new concrete driveways with 10 foot width width and 10 feet length. Also, the street, uh, will get new, uh, bathing with new concrete cap on the gutter. On Overton Park, Drive East and Altura Court, we are replacing the existing, uh, old 8 inch and 12 inch water lines with new 8 inch and 12 inch water lines. Uh, we are also replacing the existing 18 inch symmetry sewer with new 24 inch new sewer line. And on Altura Court, we are replacing the old 6 inch and old symmetry sewer line with new 8 inch sewer line on Altura Court. Also, and we are going to construct, uh, new concrete driveways with minimum 11 foot width and 10 feet length. Uh, at the end, both streets will get a new, uh, bathing with new concrete cap on the gutter. Uh, here in this slide, you can see the proposed improvement. So, every street in this project will, uh, will look like that when we finish the construction. Uh, you will have new, uh, street bathing with new, uh, cap on the gutter and also new concrete driveways. Uh, in this slide, uh, this is the project schedule and the phases of our projects. So, uh, we are going right now, we are in the design phase and we are going to complete this phase by next month, which is December 2020. After that, we are planning to advertise the project in January 2021. And, uh, receive the bids in February 2021. The Council approval for this project should be in April 2021. Uh, in this project we have, uh, gas pipe relocations and this will be done by Atmos. So, we expect, uh, the relocation completion by June 2021. If everything is going well and Atmos is able to complete the relocation on time, we will have another community meeting before the construction. And we will start the construction in June 2021. Uh, the construction duration, uh, is one year for this project. So, we expect to complete the construction in June 2022. And once again, uh, the construction start dates, uh, will depend on the relocation of the gas pipe. So, hopefully, uh, Atmos can complete the relocation in June 2021. After that, we'll start the construction. Uh, I hope I have covered everything in this presentation. Again, thank you so much for taking the time to listen and attend this meeting. Uh, here is my, uh, information, my name, my phone number and my email address. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Um, now is the time to you to, uh, if you have any questions, if you want to, uh, give us some inputs. Um, I will be happy to hear from you. Uh, let us start, uh, with the question came from the share button if we have. And after that, please feel free to unmute yourself and ask your question. Yes, I'm curious about the, uh, driveways. How far, how far, uh, what do you consider the driveway from the street? Um, to the property is that 10 feet? Is it just, what's the, what's the driveway? Um, so the driveway lens from the street, it will be, uh, 10 feet. And the width of the driveway will be, uh, 11 foot. Okay. All new gutters as well, or, uh, curves, I should say. Yes. Okay. I'm on the overton park, uh, area. So just that street looks really bad right now. Yes. Um, also, I want to mention in case you, your driveway is, uh, more than 11 feet, we are going to match the existing. Uh, what does that mean? You're going to match the existing. So if you're, if you're driveway width is, uh, 14 or 13, uh, feet. That is a width of the driveway. And you're going to do the 12 or 13 or whatever it is. Yeah, we are going to match the existing one. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're looking forward to it. Sure. Maggie, there is a question in chat. Uh, what style of curves will be installed? We have our city standard, uh, care, which is, uh, six inch height. And the gutter is 18 inch, uh, uh, width or the width of the gutter. Is that answering your question? Thank you. Yes. That answer that answer the question. Any other question? Once again, here is my information if you want to, um, take a picture of this one and, um, this meeting presentation will be posted on the city. Uh, YouTube channel. Um, again, here's my email if you want, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. And since we don't have any questions, thank you so much for your attending. And hope to start the project as soon as we can. Thank you so much. Thank you for your time.


In this module, we are going to explain the term opportunity cost that we have widely utilized in our various lectures. So, this opportunity cost is basically based on the concept of the alternative opportunity or the alternative utilization that is mostly available with the resources of the production. So, there can be the availability of the land and that land can be utilized for the production of various crops. And the same land can be utilized for the production of various fodder. And even at the same time, if we are having the money in our hand, that money can be utilized for the purchase of either food, either for clothing or for the books. So, these are the alternative utilizations available. So, the consumer has to decide between these alternative utilizations and for these alternative utilizations, when we have to forego one source of consumption with the other or either we have to sacrifice one production for the other, that will include the concept of opportunity cost. And not only the money, not only the land, even we consider the time. In the 24 hour, if we say that the time that is available, we can utilize this time either for the production of anything means in the work. Either we can utilize this time for the utilization of certain entertainment means any type of the layer.  And if we have to sacrifice our one hour of our entertainment when we have exams, in other words, if I tell you that during the exams, if you sacrifice your time for your game or entertainment, and apply it to some higher education, then it becomes your opportunity cost of games that you are applying.  So this concept is not only used in production, it is used anywhere when we will use two resources, two alternatives. It can be consumption, it can be work, it can be production. And similarly, we have taken an example here of sugar versus ethanol. So many times, not at the international level, but at the national level, the government has to decide on the economy or the country level. If there is a sufficient amount of sugar in the country, then what sugar is generated from that sugar? Or using the same sugar that is generated from that sugar, we have to use ethanol, which is another form of fuel. So now the government has to decide that either the opportunity cost of sugar is more or the opportunity cost of ethanol is more. So this opportunity cost is basically a tool that gives the indicator to the producer or the consumer to decide or to prioritize the various activities that they have in their hand that which has to be allocated more resources and for which we have to allocate less resources. So now if we explain this with the help of a graph, so here we have taken this one graph on its X axis, we have explained that a good X that is the clothing that is going to be produced and with the same resources, we are going to produce the food. So overall, this thing that provides that this is the production possibility frontier for the production of these two goods and at the point A, this amount of food is going to produce and at the point B, this amount of food is going to be produced and if we take the difference between this point and this point on vertically, it gives us the difference of this that is basically on Y axis and this is the change in the amount of food production. So from point A to point B, movement will include the loss of this production that we have sacrificed that at point A we were having food quantity in more number but at point B, we are again producing the food but in less amount. So this amount that we have sacrificed for the attainment of this amount of clothing and mean this shows the movement of point B, for the point B from this C1 to C2. So this movement and here we can say that the change in F divided by change in C is basically the change in the opportunity cost or we can say that it is the opportunity cost of this and it gives the marginal rate of transformation. So this is basically not only the foregone level of the output in other form if we say that at point B, at point A the production that was available of the food and of this clothing. So for food, there was certain level of capital and labor for food and that was divided by the capital and labor ratio that was utilized for the production of clothing. And on the other at point B we again say that that is the capital and labor ratio for food and that has to be divided by capital and labor ratio for clothing. So at these two points when we say not only in the form of the output this ratio when divided by this ratio it gives us the opportunity cost that is the foregone benefit or the foregone cost of that alternative use of these things.


In this video, we demonstrate how to finish your art resin piece. After spreading the art resin, air bubbles will begin to rise to the surface. We recommend using our artist torch to pop bubbles for a flawless finish. Just hold the torch a few inches away from the surface, moving it constantly, like you would iron clothes. Pick out any hairs or dust particles with a toothpick, and then cover the piece with a box. Now you're ready for step 6.


I'm Cody Askins and today we're going to talk about a new cold calling script that works really well door to door or over the phone, all right? So one of the things that I always talk about is how when you are cold calling, whether that is door to door, we're going to go over specific numbers. I'm going to give you the script, everything, hearing about the next 10 minutes or so, so stay with me, okay? Whether it's via door or whether it's via phone, this is all a numbers game, which is why we're going to actually walk through specific numbers on this video because I'm a big believer in that, okay? So let's just say, because when I go out, I think you need to be doing 25 to 50 door knocks per day when you go door to door using this script, okay? And it's a good one, all right? I've said a lot of appointments door to door or over the phone or got in immediately by using the script that I'm going to give you, okay? So I want to start out by saying that if you're door knocking like individual homes, okay? Individual homes, you may only be able to get in 25 because you got to drive different homes or if you're door knocking homes that are right in a row or if you're door knocking specific like senior type complexes, then you could door knock as many as 50 doors in a day. I have an insurance buddy that used to door knock a lot of T65, turn in 65 for Medicare, Medicare supplements. And every time he went out and door knocked at least 25 doors in a day, he would make a cell from that trip of 25 door knocks where he was bringing information and trying to help someone that's turning 65 with their Medicare. Now, that doesn't mean that he made a cell that day, but he always end up getting a follow up or getting in a home or setting appointment or making a cell right then from every 25 doors that he did. So if you're selling Medicare, you want to think about that because he did that and it worked really well. I also did it years ago and it worked really well as well. I get to where I was writing 20 to 30 Medicare supplements every month from literally door knocking and cold calling without sending out information or leads, okay? If you're door knocking 50 doors, if they're in a row or if they're in a senior complex and you're able to do that, I went out with a couple other guys one Friday and we spent, this has been years ago, this has probably been nine years ago. And we spent from about one o'clock till about, or probably about noon to one, somewhere in there, till about almost 10 o'clock at night, door knocking. We got through about 150 doors between the three of us and we wrote six life insurance policies that day from cold door knocking because they were all in a row. There was a complex, 125 units left went to another complex and these that I'm talking about are, they call them like senior living areas or senior apartments or senior housing. A lot of smaller cities have these senior housing complex where it's like a building and they've got four units to that building, it's all one level, et cetera, okay? So that's where the numbers comes in of how you can do this, all right? So let's get to the actual script of what I've done and why this new Coca-Cola script works so well, okay, whether it's door to door or over the phone. The script is literally when you are knocking on someone's door, okay? I like to say, hey, I'm Cody, how are you, right? And they say, well, you know, I'm great, what are you doing here, hey? I'm here to drop off the new state approved final expense information that we've helped a lot of your neighbors with. Did we get this to you yet? Right? So I like to ask the question and gain control. So by doing that and talking about the new state approved and it is approved by the state, okay, final expense information and you can do it for anything, any product, doesn't matter, then you need to ask a question which is, hey, did we get you this information to you yet? And they say, well, no, actually, I don't think you have. Okay, great. I'm here now, I've got the information with me, just takes me a couple minutes to go over it. And then for a quick second, okay? And by doing that and repeating that and replicating that and trying to get in the home or trying to, I've actually done some live cold calling, literally live cold calling where you can hear me and the customer and I've done live legit cold calling live on video before over the last several years. I've done it multiple times and I've used a script before and it works really well and I want to bring it back because it's something that can and will get you results if you use it properly, if you don't suck and if you use it often, okay? So I always talk about how I think that numbers is really important. So I'm actually give you some numbers behind what I'm saying and what I would notice, okay? So when I would go out and I would door knock at least 150 to 250 doors in a week, here's the results that I would have because I'm sure you're very curious, right? Okay, good. I would be able to actually speak, they would answer the door 30 to 50 people about 20%, okay? Would actually answer the door of those of those. I would typically get about a third, about 33%, that would actually let me in the door, okay? Which by that would be anywhere from 10 to about 15, okay? And then from there, I would typically end up with about a 30% close rate which ends up being about three to five cells and I could literally go out, like Clockwork, make about five cells a week, about a cell every single day, buy cold door knocking and I know you can too. There's a lot of agents that are struggling, about 92% of interest agents fail. There's more millionaires in this industry than any other industry in the world, most people don't know those things but the reason so many people are failing is we don't get in front of enough people. We don't ask people to buy. We don't talk to enough people. We don't sit with enough people. And when you don't sit with enough people, I don't care how talented or untalented you are. If you don't sit with people and ask them to do business with you, you will not end up making sales. We don't make sales. We don't make money. We don't make money. You quit. You fail. You end up out of the business. If you don't have a lot of money and you're brand new, door knocking and cold calling, whether it's actual cold or whether it's aged leads, which we have a ton of here, it's creation leads, a little plug real quick, okay, is because they don't get in front of enough people. This is a very inexpensive way to do that and I'm teaching you to you now because this is a lot of what I used to do when I made 117K in my first eight months in the business, a brand new agent, 20 years old. I did it from cold calling, cold door knocking and working my warm market, which is what we teach in prospecting 101 is a different ways to you get in front of people so you can create a system, which is why I'm writing the book right now, Six Figure Sales System, okay. So those are the numbers. Now I want to jump into if you're actually going and using it on the phone because this is phone phenom and we said that you could do this, okay, over the phone or door to door. When you move into the actual phone piece of it, when I'm door knocking, I will say how are you? When I'm on the phone, I don't, okay, let me make that very clear, okay. So I like to be in control whether I'm at the door, which is why I'll always finish with a question every single time whether I'm at the door or whether I'm on the phone. I like to finish with a question every single time and you're going to get objections. I'm busy at a time, whatever, okay. You can overcome those objections by using these three As, okay. Agree, answer and ask. You know what, I don't have much time. I'm very busy. Excellent. Let's do this. You can set a stopwatch for 60 seconds. If I'm not done in 60 seconds, you can kick me out, okay. Is that fair enough? Perfect. We'd like to sit at the couch or the table, right. Do whatever you can, but be in an agreeable state, answer the objection and then ask, which gets you psychologically back in control, okay. So I want you to think about that aspect. Also when you're making calls, I like to say the person's name. I don't like to ask them. We are trained. Human nature is this Betty. You know it's Betty. You want me to answer the phone, you know, the cold call list says Betty, Betty. Great. Hey, this is Cody. Hey, getting back to you about the new state-approved final expense information. Hey, did we get you this information yet? That's the script, okay. Very simple. That is the script, whether it's on the phone or door to door. The whole trick behind all this is, if there's a trick, is to get in front of enough people to succeed. Most agents don't. They fell because they do not get in front of people.  I teach a system called the triple S weekly system, set, sit and sell. I believe that if you're working the phone that you should set 15 appointments, sit with 10 and sell five every single week. That's what you do. And if you have a lower closing rate, maybe you sell three, but at three and 150 policies a year, you're not going to fail. Most people fail. And I want to challenge you to think us at a box. So this is why I'm giving you the new cold calling script that works so well for me. Whether it's door to door or over the phone.  I got five books that every new insurance agent should read. Go watch that. Grab the books. See you over there. When you read a book, when you go to an event, when you listen to a book, when you go to a mastermind.


Okay, as always this is part of the series. There should be an annotation up on the screen that will lead you to the playlist I recommend watching the videos previous this on the playlist because this is I don't know video six or seven in the in the Playlist But we're working with said that's we're working with in this series and today We're gonna look at how to search more than one or replace more than one string search and replace substitute Here we go. We're gonna. Well, this is the file that we've been working with. It's called text Let me cat it out. It's just got some random stuff that we've been working with and let's say, um, I Wanted to replace the word twice But only do it once the hat. Okay said Three okay So what we're saying here if you've been following along is we're saying Fine said and I'm sorry fine said you said We're gonna substitute the word twice with None there we go now. We're not modifying the file here. We're just displaying it differently on the screen So you can see where we had the word twice. It now says none Let's say we also want to replace the word Three with the word to okay. Well, we can do that Simply by you know adding on to our command here now, of course, we could do it and In a way we could pipe it into a whole another said Process and do this and since we're piping it. We don't need to give it a file name. We can say three with two and Yeah, that would work, but now you're starting more than one process. I Mean it's gonna be milliseconds of a difference but this other way not only is doing it all one commands a little bit shorter, but doesn't start up more than one process and So it it shouldn't theory. I guess use less processing power So what we're gonna do here is we're gonna give it a semicolon And we're gonna say s four slash forward slash forward slash g so again The s saying we're substituting the g is saying global meaning all instances of it not stopping at the first in each line We'll say three and we're gonna change it to two and There in one command one process anyway giving passing said two Things to do separating them by semicolon. So it's just like like when you're writing a shell script You can separate your commands with a semicolon. Well, we're doing the same thing. We're just not starting up a whole new process We're just sending said giving said different commands And right here once again all we've done so far would said pretty much as substitute said can do some other things Which we'll get into in the future But you can put as many as you want in here So we can do another one. We can say semicolon s And we can say replace Funny with Tommy and there we go We have Tommy and said funny to instead of three and none instead of twice and again We have not modified this file At all if we were to cat it out It's still the same But of course if we wanted to make those changes again be very careful doing this because there's not really an undo We can do that dash I there, but I'm not gonna do that I'm gonna leave our file as is for the next tutorial this one was kind of short But very useful because there are many times we're gonna want to replace more than one thing and It's very easy to get in the bad habit of piping stuff over and over and over again that's what I tend to do and So just remember with inside your your quotation marks We're just going to do a semicolon and give it the next said command and that is it. I thank you for watching I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial be sure to like this video if you are enjoying these Subscribe if you haven't already I have new videos throughout the week every Monday will be some sort of shell Tutorial or Linux operating system specific tutorial for right now. That's that's how my schedule is working So Mondays are on that. I got Wednesday videos, which are kind of random topics And right now Fridays are basically other programming languages while this series is coming out, we're probably working a lot on on Java script and HTML 5 and Canvas and that will be gone for a while I might add other videos during the week if I have the time But I hope that you're enjoying these and I hope that you subscribe my site is films by Chris comm That's Chris the K. There's a quick search bar there that you can search through my videos you can also search on my youtube channel and Again my sites films by Chris comm Chris with a K link in the description. Hope that you have a great day


and social with DJ LeMahieu who went two for four and helped the Yankees get the 9-7 win tonight. Yeah, awesome, awesome game. Done it a few times already this year in the short season and just really good bats all around all day. And just one of those games, we kind of all had the feeling we're going to win and we're going to push in front at some point. Regardless of what state the Red Sox are in, how satisfying is it knowing the rivalry to sweep them out of the Bronx this weekend?  And but yeah, I mean, three games, not easy games. And I thought we played really well all around all three days. Can you take us through that at bat when you drove in Lake Tokman to tie the game there? Yeah, I mean, Tok, a great job of getting on and still at base. Once he stole, I had a little extra focus there. And Barnes, he's a good pitcher. And if he was fortunate, he left me a pitch I could handle a little bit. Thanks, DJ. Bob Clappers, go ahead and unmute. You have the next question. DJ, as one hitter to another, can you describe what you see with Aaron Judge right now and the way he is playing? Yeah, he just doesn't look like he's doing too much. He's just really calm, easy, confident, and obviously his talent speaks for itself. So when you put all those factors together, he is where he is and he's a dangerous hitter. Do we have another question or two for DJ before we let him go? Brendan Cutty, here we go. We're good now. Yeah, nice going. DJ, what would the stadium have been like if there were fans here or judges home run to go ahead? I mean, it would have been pretty fun, pretty crazy. Obviously, it was a fun game, but you take away the fans and it's still fun, but it's not the same. But I feel like we still have the same focus, but it would have been fun to hear the crowd after judges' homers. Thank you. Take the last one if there is one for DJ. Roger Rubin, go ahead. You can take the last question. DJ, when you say that you guys felt like you were going to win, can you sort of describe to us what it's like to be there and feel like you're going to win, even when you're down on all these different occasions during the game? Yeah, I mean, like I said, we've done it a few times already this year, and obviously that builds a lot of confidence. But this whole group of players that I've been here with the last few years, we've just kind of had that mentality. And even when things are looking down, I feel like we are very positive and very focused and maybe even heightened focused when we have tough situations ahead of us. So I said before the year, this is a special crew, a special group, more than just talent, but a special bond. And things like that help us win games like we did tonight.


Good morning everybody. I just want to echo Pat's comments on how much we value your participation. It is truly a spectacular way to start a day and it's certainly a wonderful way to culminate a lot of the activities that has led us to this point at the 34th annual Sun and Fun Fly. And so please know how much you are appreciated. Please know how much we enjoy your activity. So the basics remain pretty much the same and when people say well you know what can we do differently there's there are a number of things that can be done and the safety is largely up to you. It's as safe as you the pilot choose to make it. Safety is paramount just like it is in the film industry. I mean going back to the film industry you know everybody comes to me and they talk about that this stunt or that stunt they've seen and they say gee whiz they must pay you a lot of money to risk you know your life and do that stunt. And you have to understand that they don't pay me the money to take the risk. They pay me the money because I have a reputation of doing it and eliminating the risk and know how to do it safely. And that's what they pay you for but it's not the risk that they pay you for because if they were paying you for the risk they wouldn't do it. It wouldn't be in there. And on flying I treat it the same way I mean I go through a good pre-flight always check the oil. I not only look at the fuel gauges I open the cap. Well I've been in composites since I was 15 Tom and I built all kinds of things. First of all it's very crash worthy from my point of view in the accident business. We have people walk away from accidents which had they been made of something else I'm convinced they wouldn't have made it. But there's a certain intimidation factor about composites. A lot of people just don't want to learn something new. And so we have people say oh I just I don't know if I can do that. Composites are really quite easy to learn. These airplanes are quite repairable. There's an old wives tale that when you pull the handle on the chute system that the airplane is scrapped written off. 10 of the 12 that we've had have been returned to service for example. I think the most significant changes in aviation that we've seen are the changes in cockpit technology. You know for years and years nothing really changed significantly in cockpit technology in general aviation airplanes. And then beginning in the 1990s particularly yeah particularly after Cessna restarted the single engine line because it gave volume again to aircraft production. We started seeing some really exciting aircraft technology with the glass cockpits with the GPS with now the wide area augmentation system that gives the equivalent of an ILS at many airports that otherwise couldn't possibly have it. The weather in the cockpit traffic in the cockpit all of this wonderful technology. And you know John and I were talking on the way out here one of the things that you used to hear 15-20 years ago if you flew across the country and you were listening on 121-5 is you would hear almost every trip you would hear a student pilot on 121-5 who was lost. Can anybody hear me? Can somebody help me you know find my airport get somewhere and so on? You don't hear that anymore. I don't think they're lost the way they used to be and I think that the new technology in the cockpit has gone a long way towards getting rid of those kinds of problems. I was just in a conference yesterday where I had to speak and it was about what are we going to do in the aerospace industry. All these people the young people went into aerospace engineering aviation for the Apollo effort. They're now retirement age and they're leaving and they're really having trouble finding people to replace them. And the aerospace industry as you know much of it involves classified work for the government. They can't import scientists from other countries the way a lot of other people are doing. So they really have to hire Americans who can pass the security clearance. They're really in tough shape. Tremendous for safety and situational awareness and every small airplane should have this I predict in the next decade or so just as though today we have GPS in every airplane and it's cheap and affordable and reliable this type of technology will be in all airplanes in the next decade as well.


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Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a hobby-based kit tutorial and this week I've decided to combine lots of different kits and make up a card that way. So I'm using parts from January, February, last month. I think I've got something from pretty much everyone. So it was just quite fun. I just thought I've got all these bits. I keep them all together so I know what I'm working with. And yeah, I really like what I've come up with. So this is an envelope card or a loaded envelope card.  Now I haven't put any sentiments at all because I wasn't sure. I mean these would make lovely wedding cards or an announcement because you've got that lovely, you know, space there to be able to write something. Alternatively you can decorate that even more which is what I'm going to do today and then just keep the back for your message. So it just slides in the front there which is the little pocket or the envelope part I guess. Now the difference with this one that I've done is I've made a stand. So on the back there which goes completely flat so it fits in an envelope. I just, for me personally, I like a card that can stand up. If it's just flat or someone's got to prop it up somewhere, I don't know. I just think you make all these, you know, beautiful cards and you put lots of your time into them. They need to stand up so we really can appreciate them. So this one here's just got a little stand there and it sits up perfectly. If I just bring it up a bit closer there you can see it's just got so much shine to it. It really is lovely. It's the hobby based butterfly die. These are the V&A papers which from a couple of months back.  I've used the leaves. This is the dinky die from last month. Embellishments from a couple of months ago. This is the foiling that we received. I've used some of that. I'm going to use that again today.  So one thing that is extra is this because I do have the 12 by 12 V&A collection myself. So I was able to match my envelope to the smaller 6 by 6 that we received in the kits. But any a plain envelope would be fine because although it's a 6 by 6 base because you've got this little piece here it does mean it won't fit in a normal 6 by 6 envelope. So this is on the envelope punch board. This is a 6.5 by 6. However if you didn't want to do that or you don't have the punch board or you don't have bigger paper to make envelopes what I would suggest and when we get to it I'll point it out but you can actually punch a semicircle here and have your kind of pull out piece kind of sat down deeper and you would pull it out. So actually it stays all within that 6 by 6 area. So there is a way to adapt it. Okay so I'm just going to pop that over there. So I'm going to use today I've got my for my card base I've just got a sheet of 12 by 12. This is just some of my own stash and you basically want to cut this in half at 6 inches. It's reinforced the whole 6 by 6 the back of it is two pieces of card sat on top of each other. So what we're going to do now is just do the back one bring in your scoreboard. You want to score at 6 inches. It seems to be just coming under ever so slightly I'm pulling mine out a little bit but you want to score along the 12 inch side at 6 inches. Grab your other piece again score at 6 inches make sure that's all correct okay and then fold both of them over like so and then what's going to happen is you're going to sit one piece over the back of another like so. So now you have this style okay and I've done similar before the gatefold drop down gatefold card that I've done with past products was like this. So once you've got them like that what we're going to do then is cut. So if you put a little pencil here because you won't see this pencil because it's all going to be stuck in but if you put across there and there so I put a cross down you can just see the bottom right corner of the left hand big square the outer square and then the other one is the outer right square and it's the bottom left there okay get rid of this again bring back in your trimmer and then what we're going to do is the side that's got the cross on you're going to score maybe if I do a pencil mark first just so that you can see. So you've got your cross down here this is the in the bottom left hand side of this particular one and you just want to do a pencil from the top left there down to the bottom right and then pop that through your trimmer. If you don't have a trimmer just cut along that line with your scissors so I'm just going to lie this in make sure the pencil mark is in the track there and start from always start when you if you're you want to end up with a point if I just bring that up a little bit more always start from the flat side so then you won't buckle your edge and you'll get a nice point there okay so that's one side now of that thing together keep that because you might want to use that to die cut the flowers which is what I've done for I'll show you here okay so to make sure the flowers matched this is what I die cut my bits and pieces from and then with the other one so this crosses on the left and it's in the bottom right hand corner there so again get your pencil and ruler and you're going to go from corner to corner again but this time it's the top right hand corner down to the bottom left and then again pop that in my trimmer so in this instance now I've got my point at the top so I will cut from the bottom up so okay so you can rub out the pencil marks if you want to but like I said you're not going to see them at all so now that is going to sit perfectly over the top and then that one and that one are going to go over but we're not going to stick those down yet all you want to do now is stick this piece onto there or that piece onto there it's entirely up to you if you've got one that's maybe cut a bit differently and you want to hide it then just decide that way but there's no right or wrong as to which one you want to stick down first so I'm going to grab my wet glue here and just okay so just line it all up and with my just go along and just spread out all that glue okay so that is now our card base okay so you can see now that pocket that's going to form okay sorry I didn't push record again so next you need a piece of five and a quarter by five and a quarter which is this piece here now we got six two pieces and sorry six pieces of six by six in the kit so this is one of the pieces left over you then want to cut it down the middle corner to corner now because this is a directional piece of paper I'm actually only going to be using the bottom right of this because I want it to obviously face upright so now when I sit that in there you get that nice quarter of an inch border around it there you can see it better if I there we go okay now if I was to use that piece in there you see now the patterns go in the other way which actually looking at it isn't a bad thing I could use it but me being me I don't I want to use so I've got another piece of the same card and I'm just going to trim it down because I don't I just cut it from six by six so I just need to trim it a bit more and pop it in that side so if you're using paper and it doesn't matter which way it's going then you'll just need one piece of six by six however like me if you do want to make sure that you've got it facing up then you'll need to cut two pieces of the six by six okay so I've just trimmed my other piece down so I've got one piece that's going on the front like so just move it around until you get your border equal and then that one will go underneath so you want to stick these down first before we actually stick the card together like so okay so I'm going to stick this one down first so now you want to stick whichever one over it's entirely up to you you could go left over right or right over left I'm going to stick with right over left and what I've done is just put a very light pencil mark just on the paper there and then you know that from that pencil mark down is where you can glue okay and then just fold that over and stick it all down and if you can see the pencil slightly then let's see just rub that piece out there okay so now you have this and then all you have to do is just pop a little bit of glue just inside at the bottom there if you want to run a little bit more along you can you can put tape in there beforehand but it's literally just to just to tack it in place because it's only got that very one you know thin piece of card that's going in it's just to stop it obviously dropping out the bottom but I mean you don't really have to fuff about with a strip of tape or anything like that there we go so now we've got the pocket so that's all done so now we will move on to the decoration and the card that's going to go inside okay so you're going to need a piece of five and a half by five and a half and this will sit nicely inside giving you that same border at the top that you have all over here okay and then what we're going to do is I'm going to cover this whole piece with this piece of foil transfer so again one of the kits two three months ago we received these crafters companion foil transfers and I've got this whole piece here and I'm going to sit it right over the top so it's going to come right over the edge and I think that's going to look really cool so like I said this one you won't write your message on the front it will be on the back and I'm probably going to mat it again with a white piece of card so I'm going to sit this over the top so what you do with these is there will be a backing so remove the backing so the clear piece you can discard or keep some people like to I've done it before put it on top of this just to help um it not maybe damage your cardstock underneath but it doesn't I don't find it really makes that much of a difference so just cover the whole area so I'm just making sure and it will have a low tack it's a bit like a masking tape just to keep it in place I just made sure I've got an even kind of overhang there on all four sides so that's that piece and then you get a lollipop stick inside and basically you just want to rub that over the whole thing and basically you're transferring the sticky image underneath onto the card under so I'm just rubbing over the whole thing you can just use your finger if you want the lollipop is what you need to use for the actual foil itself but it gives you a good pressure to make sure that it's all stuck down this way as well okay I don't know if that's picking it up you can just see oh there you go perfect so it's just transferred all of that sticky image onto the card so the key to this when you're using a large piece is really go over it doesn't matter how long you do it for until you are confident and now there's nothing sticky on that reverse side now that would make a nice window sheet so I'm going to keep that because that would be nice in a shaker card so um another way there to recycle bits and pieces as well make them last even longer so now that's all done I'm going to lift it up because it's got a little bit of tack on the corners flip this over so this foil doesn't stick to anything else I'm just going to it's okay and then we received this roll of gold but I'm working with silvers today but this is the gold and I've still got loads left so we've got a whole two meter roll there but I'm going to use my own stash and that's the silver so I've just got a couple of sheets of silver foil because I'm going to need two for this piece I'm going to stick one try and do half and half and it will stick can you see how it just sticks down so again you don't have to worry overlap that one slightly okay and then this is when you use your lollipop and just rub over it and it will you will see the transfer the image start to come through because basically you always lay your foil with the right side facing you so the silver facing you because this is actually a clear film over the top and the silver is all underneath and by doing that it means it it sticks on directly right way up it won't go the other way anyway so even if you put it in wrong and you can just see it just takes it's much easier this this next stage than the the first one making sure the image is actually all transferred and the foil will start to lift up because once that silver has transferred it's then just the plastic there's no stickiness because obviously that's all covered so it will just peel off a bit of this bit here before I lift it up make sure everything and you can go back into it so once we pull this off don't worry if you've missed it you can go back in again okay so I've just spent some time just going over rubbing that so I'm going to start from the bottom here first and you will see I just lift it up always transferred and like I said if you miss any bits don't worry we will go back into that like so now I've got a little line there so what I'm going to do is grab this piece here never stick the clear back over onto anything sticky because it will then stick down onto your paper it will onto your cardstock it will be yeah could ruin it I'm just going to go around there I'll just kind of pick up but I just bring that up there you see how cool that looks so now that whole piece and it's not sticky at all it's going to go inside here that what I'm going to do is where I was round off the corners of this so I've just got my corner around here so it's a gorgeous pattern do you love that really really do and then pop that in there like so you can see now you start to get a really cool effect so keep any bits like that that would work still for a nice strip but always discard those other bits and pieces there because you won't need them so next we need to do the tab and all of the flowers okay so I have dye cut five of these flowers which are the dinky dye and the X cut dinky dye that we received last month's kit I really like this flower and you can see there has got an impression on it which really did show up with the mirror card that I used on I think it was last week's or the week before and then the butterfly dye which is the hobby based precision dye I've just used and dye cut that twice and that came in one of the past kits as well so then I've got the sheet of my own mirror card here and just a two inch circle punch and I'm just going to punch out two circles there and they are going to be for my tab and I'm going to stick them together and like I said you can have one half over the front showing if you want but I'm going to have it I think hidden I don't know now I'm looking at it let's see when I get to that bit let's decorate it first so these are basically going like so and then they're going to have these big silver embellishments in the middle which again came with the kit so first of all want to get these all stuck down so start with the middle one and you're basically sticking it so that it overhangs half of the overhangs but it's actually sticking onto this card here you don't obviously want to make sure none of it sticks onto that bit there did this one go over the top or under under let's just pop that one there just so I can kind of follow I'm not too worried about all the bits in the middle because I'm covering it with the what you call it the the gem there pop that one in and it's all this decoration now that brings the card together so once I add those leaves in everything looks quite flat at the moment but once you start lifting it all up with the decoration that's what does it so that's those bits all together then I'm going to pop these on cut those ones there I'm going to pop some tombo again I don't trust the adhesive on a lot of these I like to put some more on and that way I know it's definitely not coming off okay so with that same mirror card I've just cut three bases so just the bottom part of the rose die that we again we received in past kits and then basically just trim off just the leaves and these are going to be what we just pop in underneath the flowers so 12 all together basically just as I've done with this one here is just kind of put them wherever really I'm going to try and mirror what I've already done and just get some tweezers just to lift up the edge because you've only popped the glue in the center and just feed it underneath like so and kind of move it until you're happy and just stick it down so just work your way around all of those flowers you can add even more if you want I mean I've just I think 12 is enough but by all means you know go to go to town with it it's entirely up to you okay so they are now all stuck down and you can see just it's just so shiny I love mirror card I think it looks brilliant in your paper crafts with your cards and stuff so anyway now we've got the two butterflies again if you want to do these in mirror card and have even more shine to your card go for it so I'm just lifting up the wings like I always do and pop a little bit on the body there and you're just going to literally sit this one directly over the top if you want to use different colors I just like to tie in whatever the color of that piece was so in that instance there I've got the cream with the cream there and then pop a bit of glue on the body and pop that one down now if you wanted to pop a sentiment I will recommend doing one here maybe have it coming out underneath the butterfly's wings and then have a flag tail at the end here or you could have a circle sentiment or something there as well so but it's all coming together nicely so now with this one I still haven't decided whether I'm going to do half and half now I'm going to stick it towards the back obviously you can put it over if you want but I'm going to sandwich these two together the bit of red tape I'm going to pop it quite high up because you're only having a little bit of this sticking out like so pull this out just make sure it's obviously in the middle I've got about half an inch showing and stick that one down also with this if you've got any bits that may have gone onto your card that you don't like just get a rough brush just like you would with your gilding flakes you can see a few little bits coming off there and it will just take off any excess that you may have okay so yeah so and now on the back obviously that looks nice there and then you put a white piece of card there if you want and obviously add your sentiment and now that can slide in and out really easily like so so now we just need to put our stand on and make the envelope so I've got a piece of card here which is seven and a half by four and you need to score this slightly different one to what I've done on there but I'm using the card I've got but it just shows that you can have all different ones so pop it along the seven and a half inch side and you want to score at three six six and a half and seven and then you're going to fold this one down the main one so you've got the two same pieces there then you're going to fold the one the next one under and the next score line over and the last score line under so this is your tab so you will have a tent and then a w shape underneath this piece here is what we're going to stick down I'm just going to well I've got this red tape here it's half an inch wide so I'll use a strip of that and then just make sure it all sticks down nice and flush and then the side that you've stuck is the side that you're going to stick to your card so the front there's nice and neat let's get rid of this so just go and burnish it again now it's all in its position again didn't even do it the first time I just thought it doesn't matter so now it's a nice crisp stand so like I said the side with the join is the side to add your glue so like so flip your card over and then you just want to make sure that this runs flush with the bottom of your card and as central as possible and just again get your bone folder there underneath okay so that's your stand all done and then it just will obviously kind of pop open anyway as it's taken out of its envelope an envelope in an envelope and and it does stand up there we go okay you can obviously just play around with that if you want to put more bling in there and stuff you can as well but yeah I think they're really different so now just to make your envelope so you need a piece of 10 by 10 and I've got my scoreboard here again because I've got that 12 by 12 paper pack I'm able to make matching envelopes um but yeah just check yeah 10 by 10 which is six by six and a half so the first score line is at four and three quarters so pop this one in grab a little score tool so what did I say it was four and three quarters so just line this up here at four and three quarters punch and I always flip mine right around the opposite side and do it as well and then you just want to line up the score line with this score tool here I do have a full tutorial as I always mention on how to use this um envelope punch board so just check that out um on my one of my playlists so that's that done and then I like to corner punch my edges and then just burnish all the score lines and then choose I'm gonna have this as my bottom so tape along these two inside smaller sides and you want to do it on the the bottom half of whatever side it is that you're sticking this one up okay stick that all down like so and then I always put another little bit up there and there's your envelope so I also did have a piece of card that had already prepared as well and this is four by three and that's just to stick over the top again just so that you can write who is two um if I was posting this I would put this inside a brown envelope again just because I like to protect the envelopes um so I only really literally need to put the person's name on this it's not like I've got to put their full address if you're just using the plain envelope anyway or plain paper it won't matter you won't need to do that so there you go so grab the envelope put it in that way this is the six and a half inch length that's the six inch and it all folds up nicely into our envelope so yeah I really like it it's really quite different it's got quite a a well factor again and they both stand up really nicely one two both with matching envelopes so there you go so this week is a mash-up of lots of different previous kits but I think it's a nice way to show off that you can mix them all together and still make really cool wacky things which is what I like to do so this is a nice shiny project for you hope you like it um if you are interested to sign up for the hobby base kit um the deadline now for the august kit has just passed that was the 21st so you've now got until the 21st of august to register for september's kit that seems really strange saying september I can't believe how quickly this year's going but there you go so um I'll share all the links to the hobby base club um in the video description below so um it will have all the information there for you and I have it all in my blog as well but until then please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye


اعوذ بالله من الشيطعد الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم صلى على محمد وآله محمد سنعود الحرف بالمجردين ومجردين بأسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إشاهد في هذا الرسول سنريد على بعض الأشياء الأهمية التي كانت تكلمة في تلك العام السرمان وخلقها بأماناته عيات الله العظم عب سيد صادق الحسيني الشيرازي ومي الله سبحانه وتعالى في مواكب ومعاقاته ومعاقاته ومعاقاته ومعاقاته في حالة أماناته في حالة المعاقبة لأمام صاحب العصر وزمام ميالله يسنهز ريابيرنساً على مجموعة أمام صاحب العصر وزمام ميالله يسنهز ريابيرنساً سنة after the rights of Amir al-Mu'mineel Ali ibn Abi Talib his righteous, his rightful successor had been confiscated and stolen and that was the Khilafah, the leadership, the imamah and as a result of that the people of this world from the beginning of time until now and until the judgment day will suffer and have suffered and will continue suffering because that source of blessing of Allah SWT had been taken away from them if Amir al-Mu'mineel Ali ibn Abi Talib still had his position and his rights given to him by Allah SWT and people had acknowledged that and continued obeying his imamah and his leadership that people would have benefited from the blessings of the heavens and the earth from the skies and from the ground they would have taken the blessings of Allah SWT his eminence continued in saying that I would like to thank all of those individuals who contributed towards the upholding of the ritual of Arba'een the visitation of imam Hussain alaihi salam on the 40th, the 40 days of passing away from the martyrdom of Abu Abdullah al-Hussain and he thanked every single individual who played a role in making that ziyarah a success and prayed for the continuous opportunities to serve imam Hussain alaihi salam and this noble cause and his eminence continued in saying people should know that whomever in the events of Arba'een and in the pilgrimage of Arba'een and in the ritual of Arba'een whomever played a bigger role, whomever contributed in a bigger way they will no doubt have a bigger share of receiving Allah's blessings and mountains and rewards it's a shame that there were individuals who were able to provide more, serve more, help and support the cause of the visitation of Arba'een in a better way but they did not they neglected his eminence, wanted to convey that there were individuals who were able to provide and sustain and support the visitors of the grave of Abu Abdullah al-Hussain in the event of Arba'een but they shied away for some reason they did not execute that power that they had to the best of their abilities and that's a shame الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us the power and the ability to serve Abu Abdullah al-Hussain so we must do our best in every single way we can his eminence صادق الحسين الشيرازي thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى that this year once again the pilgrims and the visitors of the grave of Abdullah al-Hussain at the time of Arba'een were all supported in one way or another they were all looked after in one way or another but he continued in saying that there still remains grounds and areas and corners where services and supports are still needed he continued in saying that there might be individuals, young men and women who would say that our services or our supports are not of that high quantity or quality we don't have the means to support ايط الله شيرازي continued in saying that every single individual every single young man and women is able to support the cause of Arba'een the cause of Imam حسين عليه السلام even by encouraging, by speaking, by pushing people who have wealth, who have power, who have every kind of support and service that people can benefit from they can encourage them to provide that service to the visitors of Abu Abdullah al-Hussain at the time of Arba'een ايط الله صادق الحسينة الشيرازي continued in saying that it was one of the traditions and the very well-known practices of the holy prophet of Islam is that he used to borrow, take a loan فنانشل لون, he used to borrow money from individuals in order to provide a service to those in need there were people who were poor, there were people who were in need of shelter, there were people who were in need of help, of medical help of food, of clothing, of any type of support and service رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet of Islam Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him he used to go and take a loan under his name in order for him to pay and support financially those who were in need and that is in a time where he used to need to borrow a second time in order for him to repay or return that debt or that loan ايط الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says that this is one of the forgotten traditions and practices that has died away people need to support the cause of Ahl al-Mait the people of the world need to understand that even if it means for you to go and take a loan you need to borrow money to support and to propagate the teachings and the message of the Holy Prophet of Islam and his Holy Progeny that's so be it because this is a tradition, a Sunnah we have learned and we have received from the Holy Prophet of Islam it doesn't harm you if you borrow money in the name of the Holy Prophet, in the name of Islam support the cause of Islam, the cause of Ahl al-Mait and you can eventually repay or return that loan the next point that I told Ashirazi concentrating on and mentioned was that today the percentage of the propagation of deviation from the path of Ahl al-Mait propagation of corruption, propagation of evilness is higher than the available propagation of the message of the Holy Prophet of Islam and Ahl al-Mait and this is at a time where all the means of propagation is available maybe in the past in the distant history the means and the tools and the services of propagation were not widely available people were not able to reach those sources of propagation like the media, like the technology, like the publications but today there is no excuse brothers and sisters why should the propagation of deviation and corruption and misguidance be higher in percentage than the propagation of the real message of Islam the real ethics of Islam, the real morals of the Holy Prophet of Islam there is no excuse where everything is widely available today why should there be a fewer number of channels than the channels used to deviate and corrupt people's mind and pulls them towards corruption and disobedience we need to work more we need to do our best to support all of those communities and all of those organizations who have provided these services for us those channels, those media organizations those individuals who work and provide a service in the different areas of propagation whether it was media or the other types of propagation the next point was that Islam and its practices does not rely on certain individuals or certain movements or certain man-made cultures if you wanted to find out the real message of Islam and the real culture of Islam and the real tradition of Islam and the real practices of Islam we need to go back and look at the life of the Holy Prophet of Islam the way the Holy Prophet used to live today people unfortunately all over the world they take their lifestyles from certain individuals who they themselves lack knowledge and intelligence unfortunately instead of going back to the lifestyle and to the traditions of Ahl al-Bayt عليها والسلام to the teachings of the Holy Prophet of Islam to the way Amir al-Mu'mineen the commander of the believers Ali ibn Abi Talib implemented and practiced those teachings from the Holy Prophet people go and look at those individuals whom we have around us today all of these streams of deviation and disobedience people take those individuals as role models but instead of taking Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa sallam lady Fatima his daughter his grandchildren his cousin Amir al-Mu'mineen we take those individuals as role models unfortunately we are going left to right and center and taking other individuals as role models what example we can take from the Holy Prophet's life is the example of forgiveness on many occasions throughout the life of the Holy Prophet of Islam there were individuals or there were groups or there were movements who came and disrespected the Holy Prophet of Islam those movements may have been political movements they may have been other movements pushed by worldly desires but how did the Holy Prophet of Islam react towards those individuals and those movements the Holy Prophet of Islam at one time he was one of the strongest leaders present on the plains of the Arabian Peninsula but how did the Holy Prophet of Islam react towards those individuals who tried to neglect the rights of the position and the respect that is due to the Holy Prophet of Islam not only because he was the leader of a government he was the leader of a community of a society but as a prophet of Allah as a messenger of Allah upon the people of this earth whom came striving to guide people towards the right path the history of the Holy Prophet of Islam is widely available brothers and sisters let's go back and research and read and investigate and study in a thorough way in a thorough manner the history of the Holy Prophet of Islam where would we find any location in the history of the Holy Prophet of Islam a single individual whom had died and passed away as a result of hunger show us bring us in any location in the history of the government of the Holy Prophet of Islam that's an individual regardless of their religion regardless of them being Muslim or not Muslim they spent the night until the morning with an empty stomach as a result of hunger and as a result of poverty you will never be able to find in any part of the history of the Holy Prophet of such an example there was say صادق الحسين الشرازي relates a story where he says 50 years ago an individual came to visit my late brother and this individual was asked by the late Ayatollah the area or the location that you live in do you have a center do you own an Islamic center a place where people come to listen and be educated in that individual said Iitollah Shirazi that is costly that needs a lot of money then Iitollah Shirazi was seen and noted taking out a single 102 months 50 years ago that might have been some sort of position to that currency says Iitollah Shirazi gave me that one single 102 months he gave it to me and said to me go away to your city to your area to your village and start establishing a center for your soul for your community that man says I looked around to the Holy say it and I said Iitollah this is not enough you expect me to open a center with 102 months Iitollah Shirazi says yes I expect you to go take this 102 months with your encouragement to others those around you in your community your friends and family go encourage them speak to them push them to help you understand by your side and this 102 month will be the start of the establishment of this Islamic center Iitollah continue to say that a few years back that same individual came to visit me and he related to me that story and he said to me oh say it we went back we established a center which is worth millions in our day to day currency it needs encouragement it needs to take that one decision it needs for you and your friends and family your community to stand and make an oath towards Allah and the people of the house peace be upon them to establish a project to propagate the message of the people of the house the real message the true message of Islam the next point Iitollah Shirazi he conveyed in his sermon was that in today's world unfortunately our communities our people our friends and families need to be patient unfortunately they are not being patient in terms of trials and tribulations and hardships they face during their life one of the traditions of the Holy Prophet of Islam is that the Holy Prophet was known to be a patient individual in front of trials and tribulations and hardships of life today we see and we observe whether it's in our families or our friends or our wider circle in our communities we see the sense of patience the sense of being an individual who stands fast in front of trials and tribulations has died away Iitollah Shirazi conveyed his sermon and concentrated on the fact that there are individuals who unfortunately are losing that sense of patience we patient Rasool Allah was patient when they infidles the non-believers attack him insulted him abused him in every way Rasool Allah kept patient a sabr we need to be patient when we are faced with trials tribulations difficulties hardships problems because the only way we are going to be able to pass and get through these difficulties is only by patience for example Iitollah Shirazi gave in showing us the patience that Rasool Allah exercised even at home with his wife or one of his wives was that one day one of his wives came and accused the Holy Prophet of Islam in committing an adulterous act Rasool Allah being the Holy Prophet of Islam being an individual who was the commander who was the leader of the government he was able to do whatever he wanted but look at the behavior look at the attitude look at the patience of the Holy Prophet he practiced against or towards that wife let alone the Holy Prophet listening to that false accusation anyone other than the Holy Prophet of Islam would have lost their temper and could have done whatever they would be able to do against that person accusing them Rasool Allah did not speak a single negative word against that wife of his Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم did not physically chastise that wife not even that Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم did not even imprison that wife and he was able to do all of that but he wanted to teach us a lesson and that lesson is that anyone around you coming to you or speaking against you accusing you with false accusations and remember the patience of your Prophet the Prophet of Islam and this is an advice given to every single person living on the face of this earth be patient at one time at a time of anger you take a decision you commit an act which later on you will say I wish I had not committed that act I wish I had not said that word because patience is going to be the key to the success of mankind on the face of this earth the next point mentioned by Ayatollah Sheerazi in his sermon was that today I advise our communities our societies to uphold the unity whether it was at home to uphold the respect to uphold the relationship whether it was between the husband and the wife or between the wife and the husband between the parents and their children between the brother and the sister between friends between communities between governments and the nations to uphold their freedoms to uphold their laws of relating to each other if each individual uphold the law or the way that they need to respect the other then our communities and societies will not be going through all of these مشكلة and social problems everyone should take the holy prophet of Islam as a role model and when we take the holy prophet of Islam as a role model we need to propagate his traditions his lifestyle his attitude his morals until that becomes a norm until that lifestyle and that moral or that tradition becomes a culture and every single individual practices that which will lead them to a better life to a better human life on the face of this earth today and throughout history if there is any sense of development and growth in the Islamic nation it's all with thanks to the holy prophet of Islam and his morals and his traditions and these are the teachings that we received and humanity received as a result of the lifestyle of the holy prophet of Islam as a result of the way the holy prophet of Islam lived with friends and with foes with his close relatives and with enemies how he dealt with them how he lived with them how he looked after the friend and the corrupt individuals that used to live in the society around the holy prophet of Islam there were many individuals who were described in the holy Quran as being hypocrites many verses in the holy Quran describes the activities that those hypocrites used to be active in against the holy prophet of Islam and against Islam as a whole what when we studied the life of the holy prophet of Islam we come to understand how the holy prophet of Islam used to forgive them at times the holy prophet of Islam used to send gifts to them and at times those gifts were pricey gifts when camel was known to be a very costly asset at the time of the holy prophet of Islam but the holy prophet used to send to certain individuals hundreds and hundreds of camel just to show that he has forgiven them or just to show that he cares for their presence alongside the holy prophet and that was all because of Islam all because of the banner of Islam we take these lessons from the holy prophet's life the holy prophet requires us to execute our daily lives according to how he used to live we have to all take a decision upon ourselves that we do not become amongst those who God forbid let down or failed the holy prophet of Islam God forbid there are some individuals who take Islam as a religion or take the holy prophet but only in certain ways only in some places and unfortunately they will be the cause of letting down or failing the holy prophet of Islam brothers and sisters we have to be careful that we do not fail the holy prophet as a result of our life and the way we live our life and the way we conduct our life our behavior, our morals and we strive to propagate the message of Ahlul Mayt the propagation of the message of the holy prophet of Islam today lies upon us every single man and woman every single youth every single young lady and young man should propagate the message of Ahlul Mayt and if we can and we don't unfortunately we will be allocated with those individuals who let down and neglected and failed the rights of a Muslim of a free thinker of an intellectual individual towards the holy prophet of Islam if a youth in a corner of this planet in a corner of this world has been deprived from the message of Ahlul Mayt has not heard about the life or has left or has been distanced from the path of Ahlul Mayt from the message of Islam as a result of the practices of certain individuals acting in a different manner in a different way in the name of Islam it is our obligation it is our duty to go and repair and fix that relationship and bring that young man and that young lady towards the message of Islam towards the message of Ahlul Mayt unfortunately again there are certain individuals who commit certain acts commit certain behaviors in the name of Islam in the name of the holy prophet and the holy prophet peace be upon him and not teach us to act in that way it is our obligation as true followers of the message of Islam to correct people's way of thinking about Islam to rectify how people look at Islam and the image of Islam the image of the true Islam it is our duty it is our obligation because the true message of Islam is the message of peace is the message of human rights is the message of freedom and if there were individuals who tried to convey the message of Islam in a different manner that know that these individuals are falsifying the message of Islam they are conveying another way as they think as they believe as they like to understand which has nothing to do with Islam and in propagating the message of Ahl al Bayt when it comes to attracting people towards the life of the holy prophet towards the message of the holy prophet of Islam we need to start from zero we need to go back to the start line we need to explain to people how life in the arabian peninsula before and prior to the start of the work of the holy prophet of Islam before the holy prophet was sent to prophethood and how the holy prophet of Islam with his presence was able to change to the better the lives of those arabians where they were killing one another they were looting each other's camps they were killing each other they were taking other camps and other tribeswomen as hostages and as slaves but the holy prophet of Islam came and cancelled out all of these practices he cancelled out the fact that if a tribe or a family was granted with a newborn child and that newborn child was a female and they used to bury that female because they thought that this female is a sign of a shame رسول الله one of the things that he cancelled out and he abolished was that act and that practice so we have to convey that teaching convey that lifestyle to the people of the world and that needs us to start at zero and start line explain everything to the people of the world from the beginning about the life of the holy prophet of Islam the reason why governments and political organizations and countries around the world today on this planet are depriving their nations rights are going through difficulties are going through these mass corruptions mass wars is because all of these nations all of these governments and political entities have not received the teachings of the holy prophet of Islam if all of these governments if all of these political entities had listened and had received and had been educated with the science of the morals and attributes of the holy prophet of Islam you know that all of these governments and all of these nations would have now today would have lived in the best of ways but because the teachings of the holy prophet of Islam had not reached them or has not reached them or some individuals have twisted the teachings of Islam according to their own way of life to their own way of thinking then people have taken that negative look at the teachings of Islam whilst if we do our best to convey to every single individual to every single organization and society about the true life of the holy prophet of Islam you know that they will live the best of lives today one fact that we can derive from the life of the holy prophet of Islam is that in the whole duration of the government of the holy prophet of Islam in the duration of the whole life of the prophethood of the holy prophet of Islam he did not have a single political person die as a result of their opinion as a result of their ideology as a result of their political stand against the holy prophet of Islam let alone that the holy prophet of Islam did not even have a single political prisoner in his government during the reign of the holy prophet's government during the duration of the holy prophet's life there wasn't a single political prisoner in the government of the holy prophet of Islam رسول الله the holy prophet of Islam did not even have a prison in his government but look at life today look at the governments today wherever you put your hand on the map of the globe today you will find countries and big areas of land full of prisons full of prisoners full of political prisoners you will find individuals dying every day as a result of their opinion about that political system today how many youths how many individuals do we have as a result of their political opinion they come out to express their opinion of the way the government is treating them and as a result of that opinion and as a result of that expression they are killed they are murdered with cold blood and no one comes to take the responsibility for that person's death and all of these world organizations and these societies they look they observe but they do not make a move all of that as a result of people not hearing the way the holy prophet of Islam used to treat political prisoners or used to treat political individuals one other fact about the life of the holy prophet of Islam which was the result of the nourishment of the the Islamic government and the Islamic society and the Islamic nation at the time of the holy prophet of Islam where you would not be able to find a single poor person or a single person who had slept a night as a result of hunger until the morning was because Rasulullah the holy prophet of Islam never once in his lifetime sell a single plot of land to another individual why? because the government does not own land the land is not owned by specific groups of people for them to buy and sell as they please as they like land has been put there has been created by Allah by our Lord by our God for it to be used by His servants by human beings this land is free for whomever is able to use that land in a positive way to grow to use in gardening to use in agriculture to use in building people to buy and sell by governments to buy and sell those plots of land you will never be able to find in the history of the holy prophet of Islam a single part of history where it shows that the holy prophet of Islam bought and sold plots of land because he used to rule that area you will never be able to find but today you will find governments and political entities and organizations they put their hand on a specific plot of land and they buy and sell as if it is theirs as if it is what they inherited from their previous generations what a reality is not like that no one came to this world owning a piece of land we are all equal we are all beings created by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we are all required to live side by side and to divide the benefits of this world of this planet equally between us amongst each other at the end of his sermon he said in regards to the visitation of Abba Abdullah Al-Hussein at the time of 40 there are two important points he wanted to mention the first point was that the visitors the pilgrims of the grave of the Holy Imam Imam Hussein عليه السلام in the land of Karbala still are in need of shelter of residence of housing of accommodation there are still visitors of Abba Abdullah Al-Hussein at the time of 40 when they go to Karbala they sleep rough on the streets and the roads of Karbala today it is our duty and our obligation and the duty and obligation of every single individual who is able to provide shelter or accommodation to the visitors of Abba Abdullah Al-Hussein to do their best or at least to encourage those who are able to Abba Abdullah Al-Hussein to be able to spend the hours and the days and the nights that they are in Karbala in the best of ways in the best of honorable ways and the second point in regards to the visitation of 40 was the transport the fact that people still until today need to pay to reach Karbala Ayatollah Shirazi Abba Abdullah Al-Hussein needs to pay anything for them to reach the land of Karbala transport needs to be provided free of charge whether it was by road or by air or by sea all of those means of transport needs to be provided for visitors to get to Karbala and for them to go back to their families and homeland the rituals of 40 year by year some estimations the number of visitors of 40 were 15 million or 20 million or whatever Ayatollah say Sadik Al-Shirazi says there should be more services provided for the number of visitors to grow bigger and better we need to do whatever we can to make the visitation of 40 of Imam Al-Hussein bigger, better more safer more secure and easier for every person on the face of this earth to visit Abba Abdullah Al-Hussein either at the time of 40 or before or after 40 and that the last point mentioned by Ayatollah say Sadik Al-Hussein Al-Shirazi in his sermon before he concluded was that this heat this enthusiasm that Mu'mineen Mu'minat believers have carried over from the month of Muharram and Safar that needs to be protected that needs to be looked after until 10 months until the arrival of the next Muharram the arrival of the next Safar which means that we need to continue striving and working hard to prepare people to prepare ourselves to prepare our services for the arrival of the next Muharram and the next 40 to renew our oath of allegiance and to renew the the traditions and the lamentations and the tragedy of Abba Abdullah Al-Hussein these were some of the important points mentioned and discussed in the sermon delivered by Ayatollah say Sadik Al-Hussein Al-Shirazi on the day of the martyrdom the Prophet of Islam peace be upon him we ask Allah SWT to grant us the success to work hard to propagate and to provide the service towards the propagation of Ahl al-Maid peace be upon you peace be upon you ورحمة الله وبركاته