whatever amount we raise, we pay the fees of the doctors in the same way. Again, the doctors are onboarded through our personal networks.  He was working in hospitals of Mumbai and he managed to, you know, form this network of doctors that he had. So I'm from the same field. So we are able to, you know, encourage our peers to come and join us and they're happy to do that. Okay. Great. You're providing them an avenue to do some pro bono and social work. Just last question from my side. Do you only onboard alopathy doctors or do you have homeopathy, are you taking other doctors as well? So DSWAS is trying to do a wave with practices that are often followed by quacks or unregistered medical practitioners, because it often leads to more harm than good. And to do that, we are focusing more on doctors from hospitals in tier one cities. So, you know, the best people who are out there. For homeopathy and Ayurveda, we do have doctors on board, but most of our patients come to us for the alopathy services and not the other, you know, not Ayush services. Okay. But you have a plan to integrate Ayush services as well? We do have doctors from Ayush background. Yes. In fact, our team members, our on-ground team members, some of them have been trained in homeopathy. All right. Okay. Thank you, doctor. All the best. Thank you. That's all from my side. I just wanted to ask about the revenue model that you're using right now. Give me a brief about it. Yes. So, since this is a non-profit organization, we don't really have a revenue model as such, but this is the funding that is required here. We run a college center for children's college area. And yeah, the funds required for you to operate an existing center. So, now I'm sorry, I think it's a background. There's a disturbance. I can't hear it. Yes. Yes. I would request you to mute the other participants. All right. Thank you. So, sir, I was saying that since we are a non-profit organization, we don't have a revenue model as such, but this is our post-center budget. And like I said, that our organization is at the moment bootstrapped as well as it's running on donations, grants, things like that. Right. I just wanted to point out one thing that you should look into is that there's a difference between an NGO and a social enterprise. Because by all means, a social enterprise needs to have the sustainability over a longer period of time. And that is something that you should look into. So, this is a non-profit social enterprise. It is a Section 8 organization. So, we can charge our patients if needed, but they don't have enough funds to buy two square meals a day. So, that is why we have a model of this. That's why you'll have to explore into different other ways through which revenue can be generated. Because one of the slides, when I was going through, said that somebody spent 10,000 rupees somewhere and that DG Swasta, they spent only 1200 rupees, which included the medicines. So, while you do the telemedicine, I think it's also important that it could become a revenue-generating stream for the organization because medicines at any point of time are to be purchased. Of course, the costs are much higher when you get them from the clinics or the pharmacies which are attached to the clinics. One, you could provide a discount to these customers. Other, that you could also generate some revenue for the organization from it. So, sir, to have a pharmacy, you need a license. And that is something that we are not considering right now because it would be too much for a young organization like ours. So, instead, we've partnered with the pharmacies to provide that discount to these patients, as for other revenue streams that are there. So, we do charge the patients, the ones who can afford the consultations, even though it is a very nominal fee. But still, it's something because healthcare is what we're trying to do is a generational change. So, we don't expect immediate results. But if we're hoping that soon, they will get into the practice of paying for these services instead of going to unregistered medical practitioners. I definitely understand the idea and wish you all the luck and hope that you succeed because it's a noble cause that you're getting into. My only suggestion would be that please try to make it self-sustainable, not a dependent, somebody dependent on the donors as in when the money comes and you'd be able to help, but a self-sustaining model. Otherwise, it's a wonderful work. Congratulate you and the team. Thank you. Thank you, sir. So, another thing that I would like to add, sir, because you talked about the self-sustainable model is that we're planning to build a franchisee network of sorts. But again, I know that that is going to take some time where then we can have health pioneers in their respective villages, starting a DGSWAS telemedicine center, and we could help them set it up. Great. Wish you. Thank you, Swin. Great. Thank you, Dr. Pallavi, and thanks to Judy members. So, yes, this was the last presentation that we had and amazing, amazing presentations to all of you. And thank you, Judy members, Mr. Richa, Mr. Edith, Mr. Pratap. Mr. Pratap is facing some issues. I would request our Judy members to please share a quick closing thought, and then we can proceed towards the end of the event. Mr. Edith, please go ahead. Thank you, Anupama. As always, it has been a wonderful session and more of a learning session for me as well because there have been quite tremendous ideas that were shared today by all of the startups who are trying to do something which is very useful for the society as a whole. And I hope and wish that I see many of them coming up in future and playing a bigger role in saving the entire humanity that we need to do and get together for. I also extend my wishes to the team of Misfits for doing all these for doing these pitching sessions, which are very important for getting us to a level where we could understand how far we are going in the global ecosystem of startups. Also, to all the startups that have been present here, if there's any help that they would require, I would extend all the help from the incubator I come from for the organization I come from. And also in case some of them are ready to raise funds for equity basis, I would be very willing to help them to connect them to the couple of angel investors with and the venture capital firms which are trying to help these kind of startups. Thank you. Thank you very much again for the invite. Thank you. Okay. Over to you, Ms. Raja. Yes. First of all, thank you, Misfits for this opportunity. It is always a pleasure to be associated with Misfits in some of the other way. So today I had this pleasure of evaluating the eight Misfits and I must say all eight of them were unique in their own field. They had this beautiful thought of helping the society at their core and all of them looked very dedicated and very much into whatever they are doing. This kind of commitment was pretty visible in their presentation and the kind of answers they were giving. Amazing commitment. I am pretty sure all of them would do great in life and with this thought of helping the society, I'm sure it has inspired me as well and a few of my students were also attending the session. They are pretty happy, pretty inspired.  I wish all the best to all of you and from Misfits and from my side, from my management college, I would also like to connect with all of you. If some of you are trying to outreach to Nagpur location, then kindly connect to Misfit Nagpur or maybe to me, I would be happy to provide you that kind of outreach here. And thank you everyone. All the best. Thank you, Raja. Thanks for these kind words. So yes, today, we had health and hardware startups pitching and a few days back, the day two we covered agri-anethic-based startups and the coming Thursday on 25th November, the day four of the Misfits make-up which event will be having livelihood and environment-based startups. So yes, then we'll move towards the day five, which is the finale of Misfits 2021 cohort where we'll be announcing the top three winners of Misfits 2021 cohort. And yeah, please stay tuned. All of you, please stay tuned and stay connected with us on our social media platforms to get regular updates about what's happening in Misfits. With this, I would like to end this event here. And again, thanks a ton to everyone. Thank you everyone.


Yeah, um, we had a little bit of a rough start I think the best thing about today was that we had a really great third period Our team fought all the way to the end. We had some trouble Connecting with our breakouts and really getting shots off in the first couple of periods there, but Unfortunately, we weren't able to pull through we worked hard all the way to the very end and you know Chatham capitalized on a few of our mistakes and they were able to come away with that win tonight Yeah, so unfortunately two seconds left. They ran a great face-off play and Got us Right before we went in for intermission The message to the team was we can't let that goal, you know set the tone or set the pace for our momentum moving forward We responded very well the response in the locker room was great You know we came out to to start for a hot fresh second period and they got another one on us real quick And for a moment, I think it took the wind out of our sails But we really bared down and stepped up and leaned into the discomfort and were able to push through and have a really great third Yeah, in the locker room at the end of the game there We we had a little bit of a shout-out to our seniors and you know, every senior class goes through a lot Usually four years of you know blood sweat and tears into a program But this specific class has been through an extra lot You know, we don't even like to talk about COVID but they went through a true COVID year and What they were required to do and go through was pretty intense and not only did they get through it But they got through it got us to playoffs last year, you know We faced a little bit of adversity in the same respect this year And they worked as hard as they could to push through it and get us to playoffs and even allow us to compete in this game today


The police command in Zamfara state says several bandits were neutralized in the state on Saturday nights when criminals attempted to attack Maghame village of Gusso local government area. This was contained in a statement signed by police public relations officer of the command Esbishio Muhammad in Gusso. He however said two of the operatives paid the supreme price while defending the innocent members of the communities but there was no loss of life in the community.


Hello and welcome to the session. Today we will discuss the following question which says from a well shuffled pack of cards a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of getting a black queen. Let us proceed with its solution. We are given that a card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of cards. So here, well shuffling ensures equally likely outcomes. We need to find out the probability of getting a black queen. So let us assume that E is the event of getting a black queen. There are 52 cards in a pack. So that means number of possible outcomes will be equal to 52 and in a pack of cards there are two black queens. So number of outcomes favorable to the event E will be 2. We know that probability of an event E is given by number of outcomes favorable to the event E upon number of all possible outcomes. Now here number of outcomes favorable to E are 2. So this will be equal to 2 upon number of all possible outcomes that is 52 and this will be equal to 1 upon 26. Thus probability of getting a black queen from a well shuffled pack of cards is 1 upon 26. With this we finish this session. Hope you must have understood the question. Goodbye, take care and have a nice day.


Greetings. This is James P. Madonna of the Facebook group. Everything is food and we're on the Circle Line in New York City on the Hudson River in Natalya, Rodriguez and myself. We're going to the Statue of Liberty and I'm drinking Goose IPA. Goose brand India Pale Ale and it's wonderful. It's the first time I'm having it. I see the commercials on TV and it's actually very good quality. Goose. Goose IPA. Goose brand. Like I always said, American craft beer so far is my favorite.


where the Oscars ride around the corner on March 27th, we're going to be seeing films win and seeing films not win and seeing actors win and actors lose. And through the entire process, we're probably all just wondering how the Oscars even work. This is a common thing I see so many people talking about. People love to fight over who should win and who shouldn't win in a debate on who deserved that win and who didn't deserve that win. But at the end of the day, no one really knows how the voting system even works or how it even originated. Today, we're going to be talking about how it began, how it evolved and how it works. The Oscars were founded by Lewis B. Mayer. He was the studio chief of MGM in 1927 with 36 attendees from all corners of the industry. They all dined together to hear a proposal for the international motion picture of arts and sciences. About three years later in 1929, May 16th, we finally got the very first ever Oscars. And if that year seems all too familiar to you, that's because a little later in that year, the Great Depression began. There was 270 attendees and many wins, such as Wings for Best Picture, Janet Gaynor for Best Actress, and Frank Borzages for Best Director of a Dramatic Picture. After their first attempt in 1929, the Oscars began evolving and adding new categories every year. So from the 30s to 50s, we got a big shift in what was being celebrated at the Oscars. 1935, we have film editing, music scoring, and best song. 1937, best supporting actor and actress finally joined the crew. 1939, special effects was added. Remember, I am Oscar the ultimate glory in Hollywood success. 1941, documentaries take a seat at the table. 1949, costume design is there. 1956, foreign language finally steps up. By the 2000s, we finally added screenwriting, added in 1986. And in 2002, we finally added animated feature films. Thank you members of the Academy for inviting us to the party by creating this category to begin with. We have other evolutions in the sidelines of these categories being added. In 1966, the Oscars are now alive and in color. And in 1967, the Oscars are broadcasting internationally. When I say how the Oscars work, we're gonna be talking about the voting process. We're going to be talking about how films get nominated, how the voting process works, what it takes to get into the Academy and what it takes to actually win best picture or best actor. The Academy is just film industry people working in the industry currently or have a pretty good rep within the industry. The Academy by definition is film artists working in the production of theatrically released motion picture films. In other words, it's bitches who have connections. If you have connections, you can get into the Academy. To become a member of the actors branch, which it all kind of differs, I'm assuming there's a slight differentiation between each branch, but I'm pretty sure it's a similar concept for all. You have to apply in writing and you have to have two current members of that specific branch sign it to even qualify. Actors need three film credits and one of those films has to be released within the past five years. And that's all it really takes to qualify to be a part of the actors branch.  So if you get nominated, you're basically an instant acceptance into the Academy. So I'm sure when Timothy Chalamet got nominated in for coming by your name, he didn't have to apply in writing or have it signed by two branch members to get accepted in the Academy. You just get an instant acceptance. And with the Academy that has almost 10,000 members, it's still lacking a lot of diversity with the 90% or more of every branch being white. Except the actors and writers branch, which is only 80% white. And to add on to that, men compose over 90% of five branches, including cinematography and visual effects. Now, although this is no surprise, it's just important to hear it in percentages because I think it makes it a lot more clear to people how white it is and how much of a lack of diversity the Oscars actually have, especially because they disguise it as the Academy. So no one really knows, or at least I didn't really know who the Academy was until recently. A lot of people think it's this like board of like members, like this like old like group of white men that like these five white men that just say, I like Green Book. I like Green Book. But it's really a lot of members but even with that many members, it's still lacking a lot of diversity. I personally think I would be less offended if it was like five members, but it's 10,000 members and it's still so white. These statistics are from a few years ago, but I can't imagine with only a couple hundred people being invited every year that it's changed that much. Okay, now that we talked about how the Academy works and what it takes to get into the Academy and how horrible the diversity is in the Academy, let's get into the nominations. So nominations are pretty simple. You have paper and online ballots, actors vote for actors, film editors vote for film editors and all members are eligible to vote for Best Picture. But when it comes to the final ballots, the final ballots of who to win, all members are eligible to vote for every category. So it's not actors voting for actors or film editors voting for film editors. Everyone votes on every single category. With Oscar wins such as Crash in 2008 over Brokeback Mountain or Green Book in 2019 over Roma, A Star's Born and Black Clansman, it begs the question if the Oscars are really fair, if these votes are really equal, as they say they are. I have a lot of questions for how the Oscars work and how these votes work, how did the votes get processed? Do they have a certain hierarchy within the Academy of certain votes counting more? Does it depend on how rich you are? Does it depend how old you are? What is their hierarchy? Are there votes that count more? I'm gonna try to explain how the Oscars work as simple as I can, like explaining Oscars for dummies because it took me a few reads to understand it, but that might just be because I'm dumb and not because you guys are dumb. A lot of the information that I found the Oscar stuff on is through either articles, which I will link in the description or just through the Oscar site. They actually have on the Oscar site the rules and regulations for the Oscars and that's more vital if you're going to apply, if you're gonna try to submit a film for the Oscars, but it has the simple rules of like, this is when you need to submit your film by, this is what qualifies as a feature film and this is what qualifies as a short film. It has kind of all those rules that you don't wanna read, which I read and I regret because it didn't do anything for me and it says all the things like cheating is forbidden, buying votes is forbidden, like all that kind of stuff, it says it, but I don't really believe that they regulate that at all. Like I feel like people are just paying for everything in there, like there's no way they're not. Like it's very hard to believe, but by the Oscars PDF file on their website, it says that it's strictly foreboding and that they don't cheat and no one cheats and it's a completely fair voting process, but that's what everyone says through literally every competition and every competition is flawed, so that's why you shouldn't really consider and base your value within wins or losses because pretty much every single competition out there is rigged and someone's paying to get higher than you. So here's how the Oscars work and I'm gonna be explaining it for best picture. It does vary for category to category, but I'm going to be explaining best picture because it's the one that everyone really cares about. Members are asked to rank the nominees from first to last. They take all the number one votes and they tabulate them. They calculate them and they see which films has the most amount of number one votes. Now you think that would be the end of it, right? I vote for number one. If my film gets the most amount of number one votes, then that's it. That means I win. That's a fair win, right? Well, that's not what they do. Unless a film reaches over 50% of number one votes, then they will continue to do a different process to calculate votes and we're gonna explain that. So most of the time there is not one film that reaches over 50% of number one votes. With 10 films, 10,000 members, you're not gonna get a film that reaches over 50% of number one votes. And this is just that good and this is just that good and not crazy that people just love it or whatever. So I wanna preface this before I move on with the rest of the explanation. You could have a film that has the most number one votes, but unless it's over 50%, they won't count that as a win.  So if there isn't a film that has over 50% of the number one votes, they will take the film with the least amount of number one votes and remove it from the number one votes ranking. Then they take the ballots who had that film as number one, right? So the film that got removed, they're looking at the ballots that had that film as number one. And they look at their number two. And they look at their number two and their number twos become number ones. And with number two votes becoming number one votes, they also get added to the percentages of the already made ranking of the number one votes. So you could have a film that's third to last place in the best picture ranks of number one votes. If the ballots that don't have a number one film anymore and they have their number twos become number ones, if it's that third to last film, their ranking goes up because their number two votes get combined with their number one votes. And then it gets moved up in the ranking. So this means, this means this has nothing to do with what the best picture is. This has absolutely nothing to do with what the best picture is. Because if it was about what the actual best picture was, it would have just been a flat out vote and you would only resort to this voting system and this process, if it was a tie and if it was just way too close to consider it an outright win. But they only do it unless it's over 50% of number ones. It's absolutely absurd that this is their voting process and makes no sense to me because it's not even a competition. It's just to see what film is most agreed upon. It's not about who's the best at all. I would be so upset if I was the initial number one winner because you already had the percentage at the very beginning. If I do the first voting of number one votes and I have 35% and it's the most percentage and everyone's super far behind me, then I should be able to win. This whole process just favors voters agreeing with each other. It just becomes which film is the most agreeable to like and not which film is the best. This is why the Oscars don't work. This is why no one likes them and I don't know if this voting process has changed over the years. I don't know if it was a flat out just like this is how it is in the beginning. It probably was because what type of monster creates this voting system? It's absolutely flawed unless needed for a tie or a super close competition. You know what I mean? This is why it doesn't work. The Oscars don't work because it's a huge academy. It's 10,000 people in the academy. There's like no diversity within it. And then not to mention the voting process doesn't even make sense to actually have a true winner. It goes through these processes to make it like this weird like, oh right, okay, I guess this film should win. Like I guess we like narrowed it down to like this person should win. But it like doesn't even make any sense. Understanding how the voting process works and understanding even the qualifications to get into the academy, they're all, it's just messy and it just doesn't really rank on anything of credentials or talent or competition of who's the best. To get into the academy, it's like have three film credits and then like have two members of the branch that you know sign it. Today we saw how the Oscars began, how they evolved and how they work and how they don't. So this is the Oscar guides for dummies. Me the dummy, I'm the dummy. And I just taught you something which is very simple which we all could have done with a few Google searches but I did it and I'm making a video on it. And that makes me superior and that's why I should be invited to the Oscars next year. Invite me to the Oscars and let me interrogate the actors and ask if they know how the Oscars work. That's it for today guys. If you don't see me next week, that means they've gotten it. You don't hear from me soon after this video. That means they've gotten it. What if you're gonna get cheated? Subscribe if you wanna see more content from me. Leave down your favorite Oscar movie that's been nominated this year and let me know which movie from the Oscars you want me to do a movie commentary on and it better not be the one that wins because we all know that one's not the best. That's just the one that is most agreed upon. I will see you guys next time. Have a wonderful Oscar Sunday. Goodbye.


Hello and welcome to the session in which we'll keep working with the business resiliency plan and specifically we're going to be focusing on the system availability controls. In the prior session we looked at the first component of the business resiliency plan which is the OCP organization continuity planning. Now real quick what is business resiliency? Business resiliency is how fast can you come back from a disaster, from an outage, either keep working or come back from zero and start your business again, get back online. It has four components. The first one is organization continuity planning. Basically you have a plan to come back. The second one is system availability control. So in this session we will focus on the system availability controls. What are the system availability controls? Well before a disaster occur, before a hacker attacks us, before we have some sort of a cyber attack, what type of controls do we have as a company? So the system availability controls is composed of four components. We're gonna break it down into four components. We should have physical controls. We should have IT controls. We should have redundancies and we should back up the files. So those are the controls that's gonna help us either prevent or in case something happen minimize this effect. Now since I have a list of those four components of availability controls, I am going to discuss each one separately starting with physical controls. Before we proceed any further, I have a public announcement about my company farhatlectures.com. Farhat accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's gonna help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses. My CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course such as Becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam, Miles. My accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses broken down by chapter and topics. My resources consist of lectures, multiple choice questions, true-false questions as well as exercises. Go ahead start your free trial today. What is physical controls? Well physical controls are measured implemented to secure the physical assets.  How do you do that? Well for one thing you create barriers between those assets and the outside world where barriers could include walls, fences, doors, secure doors, bollards to protect the critical system and infrastructure from physical threats such as theft, vandalism, and terrorist attack. That's a great but also you want to limit control to these buildings. How do you limit control? Well through key cards, biometric scanners, and other security measures. So not everyone can access those buildings. Only people that need to access those building with the appropriate authority to do so. Why? Because you want to limit access to the critical system. So you could have those critical system and infrastructure inside a building and if anyone can access the building how good is that? Three, you have to have environmental controls. Why? Because servers, computers, they need an optimal temperature to function. So maintaining an appropriate environmental condition could be temperature, humidity, and air quality to ensure the optimal function of those systems. This is part of your what? Part of the making sure the system don't go down. Part of your business resiliency so your system don't go down because of too cold or too hot or the air quality is not good. Also what could help is a fire suppression system. Those are all examples of physical control. Installing such system will do what? Protect the critical system from fire damage.  Again, those are kind of a preventive measures, preventive measures. Those are physical control. That's great. You also need part of your control is IT infrastructure controls. What is that? Well, those are measures to ensure the security and availability of your IT infrastructure. What is IT infrastructure? It could include hardware, software, network, data centers. You want to make sure it's available. Those systems are available to the smooth operation of the business. If they're not, you're in trouble. So how do you protect your IT infrastructure? One is you authenticate the users. Not everyone can go in, right? You limit the access but also the access through IT, through password, you can do that. You can protect your asset. Requiring users to authenticate themselves using username and password or other multi-factor authentication. For example, you put your password, then you receive a message to your cell phone. So although you know the password, you need to have your cell phone. You could also use biometrics and smart cards to make sure this individual is exactly this individual. So notice user authentication is very similar to limiting access. But how do you limit access? You limit access through technology. Also, you will use a role-based access control to do what? To limit people from accessing the network, restricting access to the system by doing what? Only the people that are required or there is a need for them to access the information. They access the information, restricting access to the system, network and application based on the user's role within the organization and their level of authorization. So you have no business to access the network, no business to access the data center. You cannot access it, whether that remotely or physically. Actually, we talked about physically but also remotely, you cannot access it. Password policies, implement them, password policies that require users to create strong password. Again, this is related to number one, user authentication. Change them on a regular basis to prevent password reuse across the friend system and an application. Also, you should have access logs. What is access logs? Basically, you can go back and always figure out who logged in at what point. So this way we know who's logging in and exactly what are they doing, which is basically part of monitoring and log in access to critical system network and application to do what? To enable auditing. If I want to go back and figure out what happened, do a forensic audit, a forensic investigation of a security incident, I can go back and I can trace who logged in, what time, what did they do, what time they left. So they would leave traces of that. Encryption, implement an encryption technology. What's an encryption technology? Basically, if somebody gets access to the data, they cannot read it. It's not useful for them. So you encrypt the data. You just basically put a password inside the data. To protect the data at rest, it could be at your company or at your data center or while in transit to ensuring that even unauthorized users who gain access, they will not be able to read it. So even if you gain access to it in transit or you are able to access the database, you can't read it because it is encrypted. You need another key and that key also another measure of control that it will not allow you to do so. Network redundancy, implementing a redundant network to ensure if one network fails, the other one goes online and you maintain connectivity. This is part again of redundancy. This could be here. This could be part of the redundancy. Okay, that's why I have it in yellow. Network redundancy could be either or and also utilize anti malware software that's going to look for viruses and other cyber security threat. The third control you should have as part of your system of business resiliency is redundancies. What's redundancies? Having more than one thing of the same thing. So in case something happened to one thing that the other comes in and run the business redundancy and system control availability refer to the practice of having multiple instances of critical systems. So if one system went down, you have another backup or one component went down or one process is not working. Another one will compensate, will keep on going. Okay, redundancy can be implemented in various ways depending on the systems that we have and the level of redundancy required or the level of redundancy that you want to have. Now, bear in mind, if you want to have redundancies, you're going to have to pay money. Redundancies means duplicating, having a duplicate or a backup for anything that could happen. You could have redundancy in the hardware, implementing redundant hardware components such as servers, switches, storage devices to ensure if one fails. Another one is available to take over immediately. Now you could have redundant hardware by having a contract with another company. You don't have to buy them just in case something happened. I pay a fee and they will bring them and we can keep on going real quick. Our servers are up and running. You could have redundant power supplies. That's important. Installing redundant power supplies for critical system to ensure uninterrupted power supplies in the event of a power outage or if there's a power failure of one of the power supplies what you have could have generators, could have a generator that just kicks in or you could have uninterrupted power supply which is UPS batteries that could give you a few hours or 24 hours until you figure things out. But this is part of your redundancy plan, a UPS system. You could have a redundant network. Remember, in the prior session we said redundant network, implement a redundant network to ensure that if one network fails the other one is available to take over and maintain connectivity. I believe redundant network is better under redundancy rather than IT controls. Redundant data center, implement redundant data centers in geographical diverse location to ensure if one data center is affected by a disaster or outage another one is available to take over and maintain operation. Let's assume you operate in a place where it's prone for tornadoes. Well, that's that's you have to do that. Well, that's fine. But you should have another data center or a cold center in another place. For example, if that place is in Florida, you want to have a place in maybe New York or in Los Angeles. If you have one place in Los Angeles, an earthquake could happen, you want to have another place in Arizona or another place in Washington state. So what you do is you geographically diversify your locations. That's another form of redundancy. Backup files. Backup file is also a critical component of a business resiliency because what happened is when the system goes down, you could lose your file. So you want to back them up somewhere. It's a critical data and application that are stored in separate location from the primary system. And the backup is an essential component of any business resiliency plan. Why? Because they're going to help you ensure the availability of the data. And once it's available, once you want to recover it, recover the critical data and application in the event of a disaster, outage or other disruptive event. That's important. Now, where could you have this backup files? Well, you could have it in many places. One, you could have it on premise. Okay. Organization can store backup files on storage devices located on their own premises, like you could have external hard drives or tape drives. Well, this option gives you access to that information, but you could be vulnerable to theft, fire or other disasters. Remember, now what you're doing, you're backing up your files in the same place where you may need them to back up. What happened if you lost them, if they are stored on premise? But that's one option. Another option is to store those, that information in the cloud. Well, cloud storage services offer secure offsite in contrast to onsite for backup files or something happened on your site, you're not affected. Provide an accessibility from any location within an internet connection. But again, there's always pros and cons. Cloud storage can be an affordable and reliable option, but you will need additional security measure to protect against data breaches. Now you're giving your data to someone else, and now you're relying on their system. So it's good you don't have it on premise, because you don't have to worry about in case of a fire, it's in the cloud. But now you have to worry about security. Three, you could have remote backup services. Remote backup services offer offsite storage and management of backup files. So rather than have those files on your system, you'll put them in a remote backup service and often with advanced security features such as encryption and multi factor authentication. This option provide a redundancy and security, but it can be more expensive than having it on premise, which is you're taking care of it or have it in the cloud option. Again, how important is your backup files to you? And how critical are they to your business? So that's why you want to back up the files, but you want to make sure, where am I backing them up? Am I backing them up on my hard drive and keeping them at the office? What if a fire happened? The purpose of these backup is to protect me when I need to go back online. I can put them on the cloud, but again, I have to worry about security or I can buy a remote backup services that's going to cost me a lot of money, depending on the critical aspect of it. Also, you want to back up your files on regular basis. We have two types of backup. We have full backup and we have a partial backup. What is a full backup? Well, it's a type of a backup that create a complete copy of all the data and application in the system at a given point in time. Simply put, when I go to sleep, I always backup my system, so I don't lose any files. So full backup capture all files, folders and application, including those that have not changed since the last backup. So full backup is you're backing up everything from zero, backing up everything. Well, it's the most comprehensive backup, but it can be time consuming and require a significant storage space. So the full backup is the best. Why? Because you have everything backed up, but it's going to take time. It's going to slow down your system and it's going to require computing power in significant storage space. So this is a full backup. Then we have partial backup. Under partial backup, we're going to have two types of partial backup. Partial backup are backup methods that do not back up the entire system, but instead they focus on specific subset of data and application. There are two types of backup. The first one is called incremental backup. So what is incremental backup? Incremental backup captures only the changes made to the system since the last backup, whether that was a full backup or another incremental backup. Let's assume on Sunday, I backed up my system. I fully backed up my system. So this is a full backup. On Monday, what I would do is I only backup the data that I changed on Monday. So it's an incremental. So when I do the backup on Monday, only backup the data that I perform on Monday. On Tuesday, again, I would only backup the information that I changed on Tuesday. So it's an incremental. So this type of backup requires less storage space and it's faster backup because I'm only backing up the incremental backup. However, restoring data from incremental backup can be more complex because multiple backup must be restored in the correct order. So notice on Wednesday, again, I'm going to have another backup but that backup is only for Wednesday data. So when I have to restore, I have to be careful in restoring this information in order. So that's the problem with incremental backup. Then we have another backup called the differential backup. Differential backup capture all changes made to the system since the last full backup. This backup, this type of backup is faster than a full backup and require less storage than an incremental. So basically, again, if we go back to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday example, so Sunday I did a full backup, Monday I backed up Monday. On Tuesday, I will go ahead back up Sunday, Monday as well as Tuesday. However, restoring data from differential backup can be slower than incremental backup because it requires restoring the full backup and the differential backup. So when it comes to restoring here, you're going to have, it's going to take, it can be slower. Just know the difference between differential backup and a an incremental backup. What are they? What are the pros? What are the cons? Again, what we did here is we looked at the second component of business resiliency, which is you have to have availability of system controls, which is availability of system controls is composed of these four component, I'm sorry, it's composed of these four component, physical control, IT control, redundancy and backup files. In the next session, we would look at the third component of business resiliency, and that's crisis management. So part of your business resiliency, you should have a crisis management plan. What should you do now? Go to far hat lectures, look at MCQs, that's going to help you understand these topics better. Business resiliency is a topic that's covered on the CPA exam. Why? Because it's an important topic in the real world. Companies, they cannot afford to go down and stay down for a long period of time. Therefore, they have to have a business resiliency plan. And part of it, they have to have an OCP system availability controls crisis management, which we'll talk about next. And this disaster recovery, which will be the last topic. Good luck, study hard and stay safe.


Timed out to bring in General Manager John Robinson for the Farm Bureau Insurance Scouting Report and we know what this is all about the Houston Texans this weekend and John Mike Vrabel's message all week to the team is just win one game. That's been his only key throughout the course of the week. Has been just keeping everything simple been a big part of the preparation? Yeah like I think you know that part of the message this week to win one game you know it's doing whatever we have to do to win that game whether that's simplifying things whether that's adding a wrinkle or two here or there kind of change things up whatever we have to do as a football team prepare to go on the road win a game in Houston that's what we'll do. How did the Titans get their passing game back on track against the Houston Texans? Yeah you know I think it's about executing the details the passing game it's all about the protection up front that's where it starts you got to get on those guys you got to block them you got to keep the pocket clean if it does get a little dirty Ryan's got to get in a place where he can still deliver the football if it's man coverage the receivers got to beat man coverage they got to win the one-on-one matchups if it's zone they got to find the spots in the zone coverage and create a window for Ryan to deliver an accurate pass and then make the catch so it's about executing those details getting back to the fundamentals that we have done in past games and doing that this weekend. Your opponent on Sunday the Houston Texans not going to the playoffs after the Texans game with the Bengals JJ Watt their perennial all-pro made some comments about professionalism and this team better pull it together and we're going to go play hard in week 17. If you can't come in and put work in in the building go out to the practice field and work hard do your lifts and do what you're supposed to do you should not be here this is a job. You actually had an experience with him nearly a decade ago where he showed you the kind of passion that he has exhibited throughout his career and even now. Yeah he was a pretty big time prospect coming out of Wisconsin and he was kind of on my on my trail of private workouts and went and spent you know half a day with JJ and we did some some film work he was he was early he had everything set up in the film room we did some on the field work where we worked I worked him out for about an hour on the field through drills he had all the bags and everything set up so you know just in getting to know him certainly what all his coaches had said about him there at Wisconsin and the way he played the game at Wisconsin and then in that setting half a day setting if you will with me his approach to the game about being a professional and working hard and showing up and doing your job you could see that that was going to transcend itself over to the pro game. No matter the situation no matter the team record Deshaun Watson just keeps going is matching that relentless attitude one of the keys to defending him. Yeah I certainly think so that and discipline you know you see a lot of these guys and and we're as guilty as anybody of you know if you get through there whether you blitz him or or you you beat one of the linemen to get back there and you really think you're going to nail him or you know you've got a patch rush lane and you get out of it just a little bit because you think you can go over here and get him he makes you pay he doesn't he doesn't need a whole lot of room to get through there but you have to stay after him and you have to stay disciplined in your approach when you're trying to get him. Quietly in recent weeks it feels like running back David Johnson who now plays for the Texans has regained his form of 2016 when he starred for the Cardinals. Yeah I think stylistically you know you can see a lot of those things you know he's a really smooth he's a fluid runner he's got excellent vision he's got a slashing kind of run style where he'll crease you on a cutback if you're not disciplined on the back side he's catching the ball out of the backfield well he's certainly trending and a positive note and had a good year for him. What would it mean to this Titans organization to win the AFC South in Houston this Sunday? Yeah I mean I think just to win it no matter where it is would be would be huge for us but that hadn't happened around here in a long time but it would be a testament to everyone in the organization you know especially this year the players the staff the coaches and certainly our ownership Miss Amy and Kenneth and Barkley and everybody who's been a part of the Titans organization whose roots are pretty deep there in the Houston area just to come away with the division championship would be pretty special. John let's go do it this weekend in Houston. That's the plan Mike appreciate you.


Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime. Listen, Ali Pasha on his way to visit his mother Sunday afternoon and he always visited his mother on Sunday afternoon. It was a thing she could count on.  Where she could get away from it all secluded. Ali gave it to her. The deepest dungeon in Turkey. Hello mother. Tonight in my report to you on Ali Pasha, a Turkish delight. Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, gonna serve crime, student of violence, and teller of murder. Now once again, Thomas Highland. There were harems in those days and fesses and veils and scimitars and slaughter. Albania's chief imports from her Turkish masters. Before in 1750, the Ottoman Empire was still powerful and bled her vassals, left Albania bleak and starving, and a wild country scourged with marauding bandit tribes. It was terror and theft and pillage and flame and a child's mute staring at death's image. Ali, at the age of nine, childlike reaction to the murder of his father, a silent comment upon the raid of the horsemen of the Kishoran tribe. My child, my child. Mother, a new widow whose name was Khamko. My child, see there in the corner, your brother and your sister, huddled in silence and weak, having found sleep to shield them from pain. Weak and coward. So there is but you and I. Then listen. This night the Kishora came down from the hills and killed your father and burned all there was to burn. So that now we live in a cave. Your father was weak without the strength to fight them off. The wealth of a man is his only so long as he is strong enough to keep it and this includes his life. So therefore you will be strong Ali, and whatever you truly wish will be your because of that strength. You will avenge this night Ali, but above all remember this night as a symbol. Those with power flourish. To them anything is allowed, power and no compassion for your enemies. That is the trick. Tonight you have gained wisdom. Now, sleep. Mother's charge to her son, which was the next week translated into action when the two of them left the cave and went down into town. The first house they came upon belonged to a shepherd and his wife who welcomed them inside. Bread and curd was brought and when the refast was over the mother and son each displayed a pistol lamb. Became homeowners again and Fetched brother and sister and the family was complete again, and so it went and so did time. From homeowner to landowner and then I am honored sir that you have come to visit me, said the widow to a palace owner who lived on the hill. I bid you enter. Word of your beauty has come from the hill and I wish to see it.  This is my son and his name is Ali and in the hills though Closer to heaven we are There is no such beauty as you are. His name is Ali and one day he will be great.  One day he will be great. He has a brother and sister that they are weakly Not Ali not my son Ali. I love you. What will happen to my son? Young man Come near. How would you like to live in a palace young man? Kamco. Yes, what a pleasing smile your son wears Yes Let all of us Live in a palace who made the invitation was named Zurat an amazingly spry fellow who was almost 70 a Birthday he never celebrated and that's how Ali came to be a prince Not an important prince as Prince's goal But he had the run of a pretty good palace a traveled around a lot to Turkey to Greece and Crete a Life agreed with him and he grew into a strapping young man The family prospered and by this time Ali had fallen into a habit It was never difficult for him to kill Not for the mother like he had In Kardiki there is a man. He owns a province He has a harem of 20 and a table of 40 and Plains his name is good for sure and If he were plain all his property could be taken by his slayer and More than that The last survivor of the tribe which knew your father. I Have summoned you to remind you of it Yeah Needless to say Ali became the new owner of a new harem and new horses and slaves and the tribe which had slain His father was now extinct and the month later. I Have summoned you to tell you the Pasha of Del Vino is young and strong and Swear that no man will face him. I Thought you should know it Needless to say Ali put the title of Pasha of Del Vino under his belt and the next month We have such a nice family. Yes, we do Your brother is content with his sheep and his wife and my sister is married to the Pasha of Argy Rokastrom And you wealthy and with much power Ali Yes, your sister is wealthier than you and with more power I thought of that her husband has provinces and much gold I'm fond of him. He has a domain second only to the Sultan Nevertheless, he's a good man and thinks only of how to make my sister happy listen to me Do not ask me to kill you once when you were nine years old you lived in a cave And there was a heart in you of a young lion. That's how it is today You would be second to the Sultan Yes, then kill him And tell me what else is he's a great man and a great husband Or look about you one of the many wonders This very lake was a village and my husband once heard me cry out of this quality So he made a lake of it and slaves to paddle me about him It is now and look below how clear the water. You can still see the houses You glow when you speak of him. He is gentle and you love him dearly Love me. Yes I'm not sure He shuns a harem for me and my whim becomes a lake a castle a jewel saddle whatever my Yet yet what see there he waits for the landing. You've not answered me yet. What I do not know Then ask yourself this Would you weep if you were dead?   She has eluded you cheated you know Her flesh and her blood she has made a slave.  Sorry, would you weep for him Ali? Yes? We are the strongest you and wields the sword. We shall see Yeah, take your wife's lovely hand and help her onto the land day Beloved husband beloved truly We were speaking solemn on about you We we wondered if my sister would weep were you to die and what did you answer him wife? I Were you to be slain and what did you answer him? I? Told him I did not know And what do you think Ali?  Yes, I know And I wondered when the realization would come if I were slain You would be next to this old town in power What do you wish? No, then what? Settlement here and now Here and now Then a sidewife will see who's that you will weep for your brothers or your husband Beside sister weeps mother she will tire of it.  I'm your slave But the power is not truly mine, but yours But I am your slave two of them looked at each other and understood each other And then walked away from each other and only the sister remained And she was done with her weeping She smiled She was the type of girl who hated her mother Listening to crime classics and your host Thomas Highland and his report to you on Ali Pasha a Turkish delight Albanians point to their own country as the land of opportunity They point to a nurse while cave-dweller named Ali who grew so in stature that he negotiated treaties with France and England and Russia Who maneuvered armies and history whose court was filled with famous people and alchemists and philosophers and Greek poets Whose days were filled with plunder and new delights and the cackle of spilling jewels and the swish of silk This story we're discussing here has its climax when Ali was in his late 20s When he was well down the road of becoming a child of history I'll be at a terrible one This then is the story of one boy and his mother a mother whose name was come Cole Who one day traveled into the hill country to visit another son? It is fine to see you. What do you do here, mother?    I forgive you Mother yes, what do you really want? What do you mean you and my brother Ali you have this part of the world to own why do you waste your time with me I?  Yes, and you wish me to serve it. Yes, how?  He is a minor one, but nevertheless of the breed Congratulations mother cruel son then truly tell me what you wish Slay him My own brother and everything he has will be yours His palaces his parents is the state His force his power to command death and spare life and more what's more Kindness is for your wife She has but to have a whim and it becomes a real And so it would be for your children Would you like that? Oh, yeah Then do it Play him his brother. I am a boo see Here is the seal from his mother Admit me my brother a boo. Yes How many years 10?  Yes From your dress poor Yes You're welcome there that remains to be seen I was sent here to slay you Yes, I was to come here and greet you and reestablish our brotherly love to recall the olden days and reestablished heartening memories Then I was to devise some stratagem such as Perhaps you would doze and I would stab you why? Because you were a tyrant True Some device you understand and you would be slain True Our mother sent you to me. Yes. Yes.  You see a boo didn't care very much for his mother either And something bucolic in his shepherd's soul wanted to see two animals He called mother and brother Against each other. What will you do with me ali? He persisted and ali looked at his brother with a grave and stern face It should be mentioned that ali always kept a headsman at his back And he need only to bend a finger and a head would roll and be picked up and spiked and exhibited to the countrymen So when a boo asked what will you do with me again? Even the headsman was surprised when ali smiled and as was the custom for visiting relatives He provided his brother with a slow tour through the palace which included the fountains the boar pen the harem the baz Then ali gave him a new matted wool tunic and sent him home Then ali made a gesture toward the headsman which meant come with me So a way they went to the minarets of his mother's pavillion What's she doing? For you Position to the noble kanko as are we all physicians? What does the matter with her yield? You know who I am of course, and I command you to tell me what is wrong with her yield But grievously unto death no No, no Walk with me. Yes. You were saying physician not grievously ill for such a conclave of physicians as the one which is gathered about Sit the city of physician and let your mind dance happily with the fountains dancer. See How bright the world when seen through leaping crystal You sigh you're weary We've come a long way to attend my mother from Alexandria Are you famous there and wealthy fame? But no fountains And fountain physician What do they make you want to do? What symbol are they to you? Well extreme well Kings perhaps In my court are the physicians of the world Alchemists and doctors of repute from spain and france Each serves me and each night goes home to his palace to meditate and experiment Their sojourn in my household is looked upon as a thing. I've dreamt of sojourning in your household How grievously is my mother ill?     Eva Eva When will you die? My death began The moment I gave you birth Why do you bitter yourself with it? It is of your doing. This that has happened is of your doing Rejoice mother What are you saying rejoice? For I am to be proclaimed Ali pashar of all the empire the most powerful caliph the world has ever known Rejoice Listen to me Yes Lift me up And carry me from this dungeon That I may see Your glory no no no you will stay here and feast on the echoes of it. I'll just believe this mother I will have shrines erected to your memory Do you hear me? Do you hear me? Do you hear me back upstairs and as soon as he walked into the sunlight he was proclaimed pashar Then he bade his slaves to seal up the dungeon From here on there was no stopping him He formed an army and drove the russians from the ionian islands off the albanian coast He formed another army and became undisputed master of apyrus montenegro and fessily He became known as the lion of yanina because of his fearlessness in battle He was also known as the blood letter He lived to be a venerable 80 He never did become a venerable 81 and because one day hey, your grand was here to the brains behind the whole ottoman empire Welcome Ali Uh, what is that in the package? I have brought to you a jewel from turkistan Thank you. It's a rare sapphire from turkistan's lofty of thumb. Oh Thank you What can I do for you? Nothing but permit to kiss the sleeve of your sacred robe Kiss It's best I described this little scene for you as ali meant to kiss the sleeve of the vizier's sacred garment He got there all right, but He never got to straighten up the grand vizier put a knife in his back Right up to the jeweled hilt ali was dead Europe celebrated ali pasha tonight's crime classic was adapted from translations of the documents of the times by morten fine And david predkin the music was composed and conducted by bernard herman and the program is produced and directed by elliott lewis thomas highland is portrayed on radio by lou merrill Tonight's story haunts conread was heard as ali pasha and paulowin's loy's comco Featured in the cast were lily and bife jack crucian curt martel vick parent and edgar barrier bob laman speaking here again Is thomas highland? Thank you. Good night


Hyperpolarized activated and cyclic nucleotide gated, HCN, channels are the only members of the voltage gated ion channel superfamily in mammals that open upon hyperpolarization, confaring them pacemaker properties that are instrumental for rhythmic firing of cardiac and neuronal cells. Activation of their voltage sensor domains, VSD, upon hyperpolarization occurs through a downward movement of the S4 helix bearing the gating charges, which triggers a break in the alpha helical hydrogen bonding pattern at the level of a conserved serine residue. Previous structural and molecular simulation studies had however failed to capture poor opening that should be triggered by VSD activation, presumably because of a low VSD poor electromechanical coupling efficiency and the limited timescales accessible to such techniques. Here, we have used advanced modeling strategies, including enhanced sampling molecular dynamic simulations exploiting comparisons between non-domain swapped voltage gated ion channel structures trapped in closed and open states to trigger poor gating and characterize electromechanical coupling in HCN1. We propose that the coupling. This article was authored by Ahmed Ilbansi, John Cowgill, Verena Bertscher, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Everyone and welcome, this is Melissa Arma with a stock source reviewing CHS. Two plays of the day-to-day, this is one of them. Some people are held this longer. Low was, I think, 442. Yep. In fact, this even looks lower right now. I mean, if you really think this is going to go to some crazy number like 4 or 425, you could even re-short this. This looks dead, though, dead, dead. And I didn't expect this to go this big. But anyways, did it. Got the drop. Boom. So you could have got out right in here in this first drop. Could have waited and held a little bit more. Again, number was 460, 450, and went to all those numbers. It looked great. I mean, this really, actually, now that I'm looking at this here, had a Jai Mungo move for this today, Jai Mungo.  It's on its own. Again, we did it. We did it, and we made money, and we got at it. It was fine. But I mean, you could have actually held this longer today. And actually, this looks like it's setting up again. So if you've got the time to sit and wait in this, it's obviously not going to lift. This is either going to flat line here for the rest of the day or make another break lower. So it very well could. This exceeded what I thought it would do today as far as the move. And did it, made money, was glad, was happy, got out quick, got out fast. Tiff was the big one. But this really worked. And you could have held a little bit longer. And it was a nice move. So congratulations to everyone. Did this. Two plays of the Day-Vay in the Stocksville Show Live Trading Room. Both worked. On point, getting ready to close out the month. Very, very strong. Have a great day, everyone.


Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu wa salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi, wa man tabi'ahum bi ihsanin ila yumidin ama ba'd Ramadhan Mubarak to everyone at the MCC Community while it's certainly a unique set of events that we are unable to see each other and meet each other and greet each other at the masjid and you know we miss those opportune moments we are grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for all of his blessings subhanallah there's just the reality is that there's just so much to be thankful for despite all that is not working out for us right now unfortunately we're not able to go to the masjid and we are hoping and praying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow for this to be something that energizes us in the near future when we start going to the masjid and we start becoming more diligent when we go to the masjid inshallah by the fathal of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so with that said once again Ramadhan Mubarak I pray to Allah that this Ramadan is one full of blessings for us and our families and our communities inshallah and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward us for all of our good actions but may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also reward us for the struggles that we're going through in this month of Ramadan because we're not able to do so many of the things that we do communally at the masjid inshallah Allah is kareem Allah is kind Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is merciful and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will reward every single one of us inshallah Amin Ya Rabbal Alamin it will be my pleasure inshallah to be with you once a week whether it be virtually in this format and be able to share a few things with you during the course of the month of Ramadan it's a blessing of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you know while we are unable to see each other we're able to access many of our teachers I get to hear so many of my local teachers and colleagues as well online and that's a blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala elevate all of our teachers may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala preserve them and their families and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward them for all the sacrifices that they make Amin Ya Rabbal Alamin what I want to do there's a there's a text called the Ramadan of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam or the Prophet's Ramadan sallallahu alaihi wasallam and there's some portions in there that I want to spend the next few moments sharing with you inshallah when the month of Ramadan would begin there's a Hadith or Baada Ibn Samit radiallahu anhu narrates from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that when Ramadan would begin the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would make a dua Allahumma sallimni li Ramadan wa sallim Ramadhan Ali wa sallimhu li mutaqabbala O Allah preserve me for Ramadan preserve Ramadan for me and accept my deeds or preserve my deeds in the course of this month that's why there's a narration Aisha radiallahu anhu narrates that when the month of Ramadan would come the color of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would change Imam Munadi in explaining why the color would change he said that it would change because out of a fear of a weakness occurring that could result him and not fulfilling the requirements of worship and in the words the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would get worried you know while of course naturally he was happy as we all are but there would be a certain fear a certain worry on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and that fear and that worry was that you know that his condition would change and that he would not be able to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because this month is a month dedicated to direct acts of worship of Ibadah to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starting from our father prayers starting from our father the fasting to our Sunnah prayers be those the prayers that we associate with all of our five prayers or be it salatu tarawih the recitation of the Quran giving in charity all of these things completely dedicated to Ramadan right that's why the time in Ramadan is not to be wasted right the time in Ramadan is not to be wasted all these other things that you know we do otherwise can actually wait until after Ramadan that's how the Sahaba used to prepare for the month of Ramadan now of course we're still in a slightly in the beginning of Ramadan by the time you will see this recording it will be you know the fourth day of Ramadan and potentially the fifth night or the sixth but what the point is that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to congratulate the Sahaba the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would congratulate his companions by saying and these are the words of the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the month of Ramadan has come to you it's a blessed month Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has prescribed its fast upon you in it the gates of paradise are opened the doors of hell are closed and the devils are locked up it in it is a night that's better than a thousand months and whoever is deprived of its goodness is surely one who is deprived not only you know there's that hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam where once the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was climbing a pulpit he was climbing a mimba and as he climbed the first step he said Amin as he climbed the second step he said Amin as he climbed the third step he said Amin the Sahaba later inquire first of all the Sahaba you know looked and said what's happening then they inquired and the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam responded and said that Jibreel Amin alaihi wa sallam came to me and he made three supplications and I said Amin to all three they said Ya Rasulullah what are those three supplications the Prophet alaihi wa sallam responded and said that be deprived or be destroyed the individual who upon whom it comes the month of Ramadan and he does not acquire his forgiveness during the course of this month the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that is a dua did Jibreel Amin made and I said Amin to it the second dua he made was that be deprived or be destroyed that individual who finds his parents alive and doesn't serve them enough to guarantee entry into Paradise the Nabi alaihi wa sallam says I said Amin to it and the third the third time I said Amin was the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says that Jibreel Amin said that you be deprived or be destroyed the individual upon whom your name the name of the Nabi Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is mentioned and they don't send salutations upon you and the Nabi alaihi wa sallam says I said Amin to it in other words Allah has made forgiveness so easy during this month of Ramadan as one of our teachers and friends recently shared an example with us and he said it's like a person it's raining outside and it's about getting wet how easy it is all you have to do if it's raining is step outside and come right back in and before you know it you'll be wet you'll be wet even if you don't want to get wet right many a times it's raining and you have to step outside to grab your mail from the mailbox or go to your car for something and you don't want to get wet but you still end up getting wet that's what Ramadan is like right that's what the blessings of the month of Ramadan are like that even if you don't want if just a little all you have to do is open that door and step outside right all you have to do is open that door and step outside and the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will attach itself to you right the forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will attach itself to you so we learned that when the month of Ramadan would begin the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam would congratulate his his companion so we can say Ramadan Mubarak to each other we can continue saying Marhaba Marhaba Ya Ramadan right Marhaba we welcome you we welcome you all month of Ramadan we should be in gratitude that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has allowed us to enter into the month of Ramadan we have witnessed the month of Ramadan and hopefully by now inshallah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has already forgiven our sins and from here onwards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will elevate our status with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with him subhanahu wa ta'ala greeting the month of Ramadan the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasalam is narrated to have said oh people Ramadan the chief the Sayyidah of all of the months has come to you so we welcome and we greet this month what I want to share in the few moments that I have left is a sermon this is a very famous a sermon Salman al-Farisi radi allahu anhu narrates that on the last day of Shaaban the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam delivered a khutbah delivered a sermon and it is as follows the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam says oh people a very blessed month is about to come over you this is the Nabi sallallahu wasallam teaching his companions the merits of this month the importance of this month the grandeur the greatness of this month and we take this hadith as a reminder for us to increase in our actions and make our actions better oh people a very blessed month is about to come over you a month in which is a night better than a thousand months ladies and gentlemen you know the hadith you know we a lot of times the Quranic ayah says khayrum min alfi shahran we say oh better than 84 years of worship this is just to show a lot of times in the hadith we have examples of three seven you know a hundred seven hundred Allah is using the term a thousand here in other words it is so so large better than a thousand months could mean better than a thousand years or a better than a thousand lifetimes we don't know the magnitude of this just don't lose out on it is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is reminding us and the Nabi sallallahu wasallam reminds us he continues a month whose fasts Allah has prescribed for you and made its qiyam its prayers a source of reward whoever gets close to Allah in it with voluntary good deeds will be like the one undertaking farad in the other months any voluntary need brothers and sisters you know the sunnah prayers that we do and the nephal prayers that we do and any voluntary action that we do we will get the reward of an obligatory action and then he continues and says whoever fulfills a farad in it will be full will be like the one fulfilling 70 farad in another month so for every fajr prayer that we do we get the reward of 70 fajr every prayer that we do we get the reward of 70 the prayers now that doesn't mean that it's equivalent to 70 the horse and that we don't have to make up the horse that we've made that we've missed in the past it just means that Allah will give us the reward of that prayer time 70 it's a month of patience and the reward of patience is paradise it's a month of empathy and a month in which the believers livelihood is increased brothers and sisters I know many of us are going through financial difficulties and I know that many of us are worried what what the next few weeks in the next few months will bring but let us not forget the promise of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if we want to guarantee financial goodness in the upcoming days and months then be as charitable as you can in this month and Allah will reward us and Allah will return it back to us whoever provides food to open the fast of another will have the forgiveness of his sins and freedom from hell he will receive the same reward as the fasting person and there will be no reduction in the reward of the fasting person on this some of the companions pointed out and said oh Rasulullah Ya Rasulullah not all of us have the means to feed a fasting individual and the prophet responded and said sallallahu alaihi wasallam that Allah will give such a reward to one who gives even one date or one drop of milk or water in other words you don't have to give much to the fasting individual have the honor figure out find ways where we can bring the date or the water or the milk or the food to the to the dinner table of the fasting individual to attain that reward it is and by the way this doesn't mean that you have it has to be someone else this reward could be for your own families if you have done the grocery shopping through which people will eat that evening if you've done the cooking through which people your own family will eat that evening that reward will be with you for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala right a lot of times we think other no even in our homes you've done the groceries you've done the shopping you've paid for it you've cooked for it you've worked hard for that meal Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would reward you it's a month the first part is mercy we're going through the first 10 days of mercy the middle 10 days are for forgiveness and the last 10 days are freedom from the fire of hell make plentiful four things in it with two of them you can please your Lord and without the other two you cannot survive the two things with which you can please your Lord are the zikr of the kalima tayyiba la ilaha illallah Muhammadur rasoolallah and istighfar seeking forgiveness the best way to do this brothers and sisters is after every prayer say la ilaha illallah Muhammadur rasoolallah three times and astaghfirullah or astaghfirullah or any form of istighfar after every prayer three times and if you are inclined that before salat al-maghrib or before salat al-fajr as you're waiting for the prayer or after salat al-fajr you're trying to find an easy form of zikr that you don't have to work too hard find a tasbih and say la ilaha illallah Muhammadur rasoolallah a hundred times and astaghfirullah astaghfirullah astaghfirullah astaghfirullah a hundred times and the two things with which with with you cannot survive are asking Allah for paradise and seeking his protection from the hellfire right oh Allah give me paradise give me protection from the hellfire right Allahumma inna nas aluqal jannah wa na'udu biqam inna nal Allahumma inna nas aluqal jannah wa na'udu biqam inna nal this does not have to be done in arabic this could be this could be said in Urdu English Farsi Arabic whatever language you want it has to come from the heart though the request to Allah has to come from the heart and whoever gives water to a fasting person Allah will quench him on the day of judgment from my fountain from which he will not feel any thirst up until entering paradise may Allah make this month of Ramadan a blessed one for all of us may Allah give us the strength that to feed the ability to increase in our charities in our ibadah and ultimately may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept it from all of us Amin Ya Rabb Alalameen jazakum Allah akhiran Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi ta'ala wa barakatuh