because that's what a lot of them that's the only weapon weaponry they had and so there were there were military jihad resistance against the French sheikh Ahmed Ubanda said that's not working so we're going to have not only a nonviolent resistance because we're not going to give the French any reason to to kill us nonviolent resistance and a cultural religious and linguistic resistance so he said everybody be proud of your language you're going to speak that before you speak French be proud of your local grains you don't need their rice that they're importing grow your millet we're all going to grow our own grains he said we don't even need their coffee we'll grow their our own coffee he established a city under a tree and called it Tuba the city has over a million people now they produce their own electricity they have a thriving economy sometimes they've even loaned money to the Senegalese government it's semi-autonomous in some ways they'll give you land to build there if you go there but you can't own it it belongs like as a walk to this area and you could see wow like all of these other resistance movements they either kind of withered away but what like withstood the test of time was sheikh Ahmed Obama's methodology one of the things he told all of his people he said Allah tells us in the Qur'an to pray and right after prayer what's the order with the prayer zakat so he said every single one of our community is going to pray and we're all going to give zakat the only way you can give zakat is if you made money and the only way you're going to make money is if you strong worth worth ethic and he put that into his community so sheikh Ahmed Obama said that the distractions of the dunya are summarized in the word when we say those are the distractions of the dunya noon would be what this is the acronym nefs so that's it that's the everything else falls into one of those those categories when we talk about social media when we talk about wealth when we talk about prestige whatever it falls into one of those categories okay now i'm not going again i'm not going to be able to go but i'll just read some of the the section titles teaching with action teaching in stages preventing boredom in students that's an important one right like in one of the back rooms I had to step out earlier to make a phone call and in one of the rooms some one of the kids wrote I hate Sunday school have you seen that and actually felt like racing and I was like no let's leave it is that what you felt to just leave it just like so the reality is like are we going to prevent that into like completely cut that off for kids no but can we mitigate that a little bit yeah we can there are ways what when before COVID and this our youth program here at MCC kind of got obliterated by COVID but one of the things that we did we had the haleqa for the boys here in these back rooms and then just doing paper and exercises like we couldn't it wouldn't it wasn't work it didn't work for the boys so we rented the the gym over here at what's the the junior high school's name heart middle school we rented out the gym as long as it wasn't in basketball season and we would have pizza and basketball and sports and then some of the some of the the kids brought like they wanted to draw they want and so I was like you don't want to go out there and do the sports like no I just want to draw so we set up a table for them to draw and so everybody had like some place to to be we had we had pizza the sports the basketball and then we had haleqa and guess what happened in those haleqas we had a lot more attention and a lot more retention of the material when we had the haleqas over there so like you have to like figure out all right we don't have we're not going to give up completely like we still need to do this haleqa boys but let's do something where we can say like we can we can do both that's just an example of how we prevented boredom in in in our students another one he says is he narrates this is both in Bukhari and Muslim on the authority of Ennis ibn Malik the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said make things easy for people and do not make things different difficult for them right yes siru wa laatu assiru like make it easy and give glad tidings and do not alienate them about this hadith Imam Novi says we learn the importance of giving glad tidings of grace and mercy that we are prohibited from alienating people and frightening them you know sometimes especially on the minbar they call it the bully pulpit sometimes like there could be this message of just like you're doing things wrong and you and you and you and make feel like oh man I'm not doing anything wrong where is it in our classrooms and our minbar in our homes where we're giving glad tidings of grace and mercy and I'm going to give you a story that I learned I learned this from one of my teachers how he did this for me he says that we are prohibited from alienating people and frightening them that we should bring new Muslims newly practicing Muslims and the youth close to the faith and not be strict with them and teach them gradually Ibn Hajjah says that knowledge of religion is like the practice of religion in that and you give it gradually and we invite a person to grow closer to faith that we give it gradually now how that happens how we implement it you know that's the that's the difficult part when I was in Mauritania there was a well I'll just give sometimes I try to remove the details but so I knew somebody who had collected a lot of like the McDonald's Happy Meals toys I don't eat at McDonald's but the person's like hey give this to the children in the village I'm like sure great idea toys for the village right and literally my handbag on the the plane trip back was just those toys that's how many it was it collected that many Happy Meal toys I went to the village went to one of the it was one of the the sheikhs children he came by I was like here you go just came back you know go distribute these well they have they they take a very conservative stance on those there being three-dimensional figures that they don't want those type of toys in the village and so a couple days later I heard and they said yeah you know Murabat Haddameen Sheikh Haddameen he heard he saw one of those toys and it was it was funny because you remember rug rats there was one kid with like a big head so my friend said he was with the shit when one of the kids came with like the little rug rat thing and they imagine this is a person I was there when he first saw raisins like that's how remote he is in the so he sees the little rug rat character into him it's like you know three-dimensional image we don't want those toys like and so he told one of the so he said go throw throw it in one of the canyons so he collected all the toys and threw it threw it into one of the canyons so I get the now I I was so happy you know to bring these toys and I gave up all everything that I could have carried in my carry-on luggage and I felt so bad that now I have insulted the sheikhs and the people of the village and they had to carry it up to one of the canyons and don't fall the toys into the canyon so I went to the sheikh hadami and after my you know and it was very awkward for me because like I knew that this had just happened yesterday and I felt really bad and I I asked him to come close and I apologize I said I'm sorry I brought these to the village he said no no rom he said your intention was very good and you get reward for that attention he said it's just that we don't pervert you know prefer this type of toy in our village for any he explained the reasons and then he taught me another lesson that later I read it in one of the books but I mean I learned it in in that interaction he said the ulama of Ahlu Sunnah discussed this like if a person does an action that has an element of good and an element of bad in it is it all bad is it like does the bad void out the good they discussed it as like a theological question and the example they gave was that if a person steals a horse and steals weapons and goes out to defend Muslims and in in impending like like an invasion and dies do we consider that person to be a Shahid and all of that honor of them being a Shahid or do we say now the brother was a thief he stole a horse and stole weapons and so they said no we can't we don't negate that good status they got they did from having like we can look at two separate things yeah it was wrong for him to steal but he's still a Shahid and so that's what Sheikh Handemian told me in that situation he was like he's like your intention was good and that relieved me so much and anybody who's especially if you've dealt with children Faisal you were asking earlier about like you know dignity and with children these points of like the glad tidings of grace and mercy I found that it's more important with children than it is even with adults because for them especially children when they're younger they're very concrete in their thinking and it's hard for them to think abstractly so when they hear the concepts of jannah and jahannam reward and punishment like they really take it like they think it's black and white like it's wrong I recently I was at Mina um Muslim youth of North America at the camp and we were talking about something and and um a kid came up to me and he had a question oh the question that it was during the q and a period he had asked about if people get doubts about faith and I mentioned I said this was mentioned to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam by some of the sahaba and he actually commended them he said oh wow you're getting these faith these doubts that's a good thing because the shaitan is only going to whisper to a person who has something very valuable and if you have iman in your heart and you're getting these whisperings it's like a thief if you have a thief trying to break into your house it means you got something valuable in your house so that thief trying to break in is actually a testament to the valuables in your house so if the shaitan is giving you whisperings about faith it's a testament that you have something very valuable in your heart and that's what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was teaching the sahaba but he did tell them he said just don't he actually said don't argue with the shaitan like that's you're not gonna you're not gonna win that debate and it's just gonna lead to more more doubts so debates we can have it with humans but not with the shaitan so when he comes you just say A'udhu billah I'm in a shaitan al rajim amen to billah right oh you want to give me doubts amen to billah I'm gonna do zikr and I'm going to reaffirm my faith so I mentioned that and this young man came up to me like he's probably maybe 12 or 13 and he started crying and he said thank you for mentioning that I was the one who asked that question and then he kept crying and I took him away from the crowd because you know I might get embarrassed for for the crying and I just reaffirm he's like but I just get these doubts you know like you know I get that it's like it's okay you know you're okay you're good you know that's actually a good sign so that's like an example of where I mean if you took a harsh stance and be like oh that's wrong stop it Allah like as opposed to glad tidings of grace and mercy and how it will help a person develop we only have 15 more minutes before the end even if we did this in four hours we would not be able to get through the entire thing again what I would say is that when once you get this book in your hand read through it it's only about is again it's an outline it's really bullet point outline it's not even a complete book has a lot of information about the work we do at Leiba and how we're bringing in these lessons into our work so you can see some of the the practical examples of how we're implementing this to give you some ideas of of how you can then take the lessons and bring it into your life what I'll say is a couple of things I want you to be encouraged to be able to read this on your own if you have other people that you can discuss it the applic the strategies for application that's something we can all discuss about there was there's a famous story where when the when the Sahaba came to the to the battle of Bedir to meet the Quraysh the reason why it's called Bedir is because there's the wells of Bedir it's a place that has has wells there and so the if imagine if there's there's three wells here the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stopped before the wells and one of the Sahaba said is this from Wahi? is this you know this decision to stop to make camp here is this from Wahi? revelation or is this from Ra'i or is this from your personal opinion and it's very important why the Sahaba are asking this because they're they're in a mindset that if you tell us from your Wahi from revelation ride our horses into the ocean what are the Sahaba going to do they're going to ride all the way into the ocean they're like sama'ina wa ata'ina we have heard and we have obeyed they also knew that he was a man sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and certain things were his opinion until he got revelation about it so that's why he's asking he said this is from my Ra'i he said if this is if this is a personal decision in other words and we can have a council about it and we can share our opinion he didn't say all of that I'm adding those words in we should make our camp after the wells why? supplies from who? but why are we why are we defending a position after the wells so the enemy Quraish doesn't have access and the Battle of Bedir now it happened on the 17th day of Ramadan in the summertime you know how Ramadan changes right so in July in the summertime in the Hijaz you know how hot it is there it's hot in like December so imagine how hot it is in in in the middle of the summer Quraish show up they don't have access to the water the fact that they they were thirsty and they didn't have enough water was actually one of the decides of the strategy ultimately the nasirah from Allah victories from Allah but that was one of the asbab that was used that it was the thirst so this is where the the prophet is teaching us by following their advice that it's not always the source of wahi to give us our direction on how we implement things so when we like the sister's question earlier about okay what if we have a child where we've we've tried multiple things and it's not really working what do we do or your brother what's your name Bilal Bilal's question about like okay sometimes the gentleness and is not going to work with it so how do we do that that's where now we can be like that sahab is like okay where are we going to make our camp we know the general parameters of the sunnah we're trying to get as much as we can and then we're going to make our decision the other thing and I learned this from a speech therapist which was the acquisition of language is about bombardment it's not about like sitting the child down and just giving them one hour of language you want to expose the child to as much language as as they can and even if they don't repeat it and this was in a situation where the child was having difficulty in in speech and so just it doesn't matter if they don't say it right just keep bombardment just exposure bombardment and then from all of that language then they're going to say a few words by the time a child is three years old and right that's when they start I think at three they have like a vocabulary of like 300 words or something like that 200 words you know how many words they've actually heard three what's that three million a child by the time they're three years old if they're not in a neglectful situation just the conversations they hear from adults other people they've heard three million words by the time they're like juice please right so all that stuff just so we can get like more juice please or something like that there was actually one case where this girl she didn't speak till she was like five or six and the first words that came out of her her mouth was can I have another glass of orange juice please that was the first words that she had so it's happening in there right Einstein didn't speak till he was like how old was he he didn't speak till he was four he didn't read till he was seven so like the mind is like a sponge it's taking it in I'm using that as an example because I feel when we want to figure out how to implement the sunna at that moment we really need that bombardment you're going to read through the shama'el you're not going to retain everything you're going to read through this book you're not going to retain everything you're going to read through the Muhammad the perfect teacher sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which is the translation of sheikh abdul fatah abu hudda's book on this you are not going to retain everything but you're bombarding your heart you're bombarding your soul with all of that and the idea is that at that moment you're going to say something or do something that's like in accordance with the laws of language does that make sense like what's going to come out like the you get all that input and the output is going to be more juice please okay all right good took us three million words to get that but at least that sentence is in accordance with the laws of the of the language that that child is speaking in the same way if you bombard yourself with the sunna and lectures and reading books and listen things and talking about things hopefully those things that we say or do have a better chance of being close to as close as we can to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam 10 more minutes for for um Asia and the page that I left landed on was engage other students to engage in answering questions so let's last last 10 minutes for any questions yes oh it's not I can I'm in direct contact with the publisher I can I can see about that they actually they're very generous they gave us permit they gave us the pdf to to to print for our students in prison I just don't want to breach that a manna and share the pdf but I can ask him what can be a solution for that they're at our office in union city I can bring them in what's that is there another sign mecca has it yeah I think mecca books has it but 12 dollars yeah yeah it's it is a very very high quality translation the translator did an excellent job he's a teacher in south africa and he really put a lot of effort into it and it's a very very good translation so mecca books has it any other questions yes in the beginning you said every one of us is a teacher yeah it does take a responsibility to be a teacher and the best way to teach is by being a role model therefore you do need a good environment around you to become a good role model and a good person but I feel in our society we are a very individual people and we don't really have that strong community and strong we don't have that companionship to be if I found a one person perhaps they're busy doing other things that they want to better themselves so if it's really hard to be around a good environment of people so you can better yourself and be a good teacher for yourself and for others therefore it's a lot easier to find a bad environment around you so how do you manage good environment versus bad environment even though the good environment sometimes they're busy individuals themselves because that's the nature of our society yeah excellent question so if I were to summarize your question that part of being a good teacher is having that suhba that companionship of other people that can model things for you and also act as like checks and balance for you remind you and it is difficult to find that people are busy especially here in the Bay Area it's very busy we did the same seminar in Tampa in Florida and it was on a Wednesday night you know how many people we had show up 110 and I told them I said you know we could not get this this amount of people in the Bay Area they're like what I'm like yeah people are too busy I was like be proud of yourselves mashallah like don't think you're like this small community tucked away I was like the fact that you like 110 people and there was a lot of kids there too and they sat through over three hours of lecture I was like this is really really good but there's also it's not as fast-paced as the Bay Area so yes it is difficult to find that what I would say in general is this is what where intention is very important and Sidi Ahmed Zarruq who was a famous scholar from about 700 years ago originally from FAS and passed away in Libya taught in both of those places and he says that if you the crux of spirituality and I'm going to go to his discussion was about spirituality spiritual development of your of your soul I'm going to go to that because ultimately are studying and teaching what is it for it's for the development and the refinement of our soul it's part of our Ibadah we're worshiping Allah so when we teach we're actually considering this to be Ibadah right this is a form of worship so if the idea is worship and spiritual development and purifying the soul he says the key ingredient what's that one thing like I said about care the magic bullet for teaching what is that one thing that if you did it everything else is going to fall into place see dua, salah like care intention it is intention but it's specifically a sincere intention sidquniya he said if you have a true intention with Allah and you just say Allah I want to be better I want to be a better person and I'm committed to this he said if you do that Allah will put in your path everything you need everything you need there's a lot of people I've seen they're like I can't get to a Muslim country I can't get to a sheikh I can't get to another teacher they're people and then there's other people are I'm like how did you study it's just like well little here a little bit there a little bit over there and then like you got all that from just like here and there and then there's other people who actually go overseas and they change and then and it's difficult for them some of the difficulty happens like if we find that difficulty go back and say like okay let me reaffirm my intention and part of that reaffirming of the tension is to be open for those learning lessons wherever they are it could be it could be from a child it could be from a a non-practicing Muslim in general every Muslim practices if they're Muslim at some level or another but a general it could be from somebody who's a critic of yours they could point out something that's very helps you in your development it could be from an inanimate object like however however we we were we looked at something we reflected on it and we learned something deep and profound or from a book a book of fiction or maybe even a cartoon I watched the cartoon elemental with my kids anybody ever see it it's just came out recent but there was one thing that stood out to me it was like your temper may be yourself trying to tell trying to tell you something that you're not ready to listen to and I was like wow that's profound that wasn't from a sheikh it wasn't from a hot but wasn't from a like but I was like that like that spoke to me I needed to I needed to hear that I was like okay so let me let me see what and and if we're open to those things and we look like it will the the the the answers the sohba that we need will be given so I know that's not like a a practical solution but just going back to CD Ahmed Zarroks that that he said you know some people might not find a teacher but they might find the teacher and their spouse that's what he said a lot of people don't think about that and not saying that everybody has to get married or that's the only way but some people don't think about their spouse as being in the position of their sheikh essentially like you can learn a lot your good friend an employee a random person another way to do this too is is to is to invite some of that feedback like this is also from the practice of dialogue they said if you make it open to people to give you feedback so like I would if we had more time I would actually ask everybody in this but after an interaction you could say what's one thing that I did that was really good what's one thing that I did that was just so just think the last three hours that we shared what's one thing that I did that's really that was really good that was like man that was really good in that in the lecture I would like to hear that because that tells me where I'm I have a strength I should also ask what's one thing that I could improve and when I ask that question what I'm doing is I'm making it okay to have that criticism because normally you don't you don't give criticism to people right and even when you invite that criticism it's still hard for people so you have to work extra like and the way to do it is you ask first for the the positive feedback what's something I did really well and then the second what's one thing that I could improve on not one thing that I did wrong but what's one thing that I prove and well this the person that I just asked this today and I asked somebody last week they they're they're on separate sides of the world they both said the same thing they said I go off on tangents too much did I go off on too many tangents today we could but it's sometimes like it's what and I went into this that was like okay Rami not too many tangents it's interesting right pull up like some stories but I I'm trying to like keep on on track as much as I can so oh so Aisha okay I don't mind coming back after Aisha if anybody has any questions and thank you all for listening again apologize for not having this book in your hand but we'll get it it'll be Munir's office if you're here for this presentation and as long as you signed up with your email you'll get a copy free of charge and then you can pick it up for Munir okay and then I'll be here afterwards for questions does that come


Hello and welcome to the Ed Hodl show presented by Buffalo Owens. I'm very glad you showed us your football coach, Ed Hodl. Coach, homecoming on Saturday, you played all bright, you know, it was kind of tight for a half. But, you know, if you looked at the final score, you might think it was kind of a blowout. And for the second half it was for the first half, it was a very tight game. And just talk about the game.  We've got to work on coming out of the locker room, you know, a little bit more consistency on the offensive side. And I think, you know, we addressed that this week. We've talked about it, it was a great deal. You know, the guys did a great job coming out of the locker room in the third quarter. You know, I think we scored touchdowns on every drive but one. So that's, you know, quality production from our guys and finding that consistency we've been looking for. Yeah, yeah, certainly like you said, the second half you have to be very encouraged how the offense played. Obviously the defense as well, you can always give up seven points. You know, you look at the last three or four games and the defense has been playing very well, not giving up a lot of points. Yeah, Coach Nelson's been, you know, creative with his schemes and does a really good job finding out with the guys and they've done a great job responding. And, you know, I think we're getting better on both sides of the ball, which is encouraging for the next four weeks. Yeah, certainly this is the right time of the year where you want some different guys who are kind of peeking and stepping up. And speaking of that, you know, obviously with the score, the opportunity for some guys that don't normally get to see the field, got to play and, you know, they came in and made plays. And that's one of the fun things I think about watching this team is seeing so many different guys make plays. We're not relying on just one or two guys. Yeah, I think we had four or five new guys score touchdowns on Saturday that hadn't had opportunities to get in the end zone. And I think that's great for us. It's great for the player development. And I think the really cool part of that was watching the older guys really enjoying the success that some of the young guys were having late in the ballgame. You know, that to me is really exciting and encouraging. Yeah, certainly the Hallmark are a good team when you have guys that are excited, not just for their own success, but for their teammate's success. And guys that, like you said, don't get to see the field a whole lot. Absolutely. All right, now, kind of switching gears, looking forward to this week. I'll be back home. You played Kings team, kind of the same situation, kind of the middle of the pack and the conference race. And obviously a very important home game is getting out of the home stretch. Absolutely, you know, they're a good football team. You know, I think the four or two defensively, they're pretty dynamic, do some nice things. They've got a tail back that's pretty close to, you know, top two or three in the country and all purpose your arms. So we're going to have our hands full, but I think, you know, if we can go out and execute and worry about, you know, us and be focused on being the best football team we can be, hopefully we can find that success again this weekend. Yeah, absolutely. You know, fun one must think city one o'clock Saturday afternoon. Hope to see everybody there. Coach best of luck this weekend and I will chat next week. Thank you, sir. All right. Ed Hoddle, this has been Greg Royce. You watch the Ed Hoddle show.


Welcome folks, this is Tom O'Brien at TFNN. We're here five days a week, we go seven hours a day, we go 24 hours a day on the internet at tfnn.com. Always remember folks, whatever you think about, you bring about whatever. You focus on courage, hope everyone's having a great day, safe day, let's make it a great night folks. You are what you believe you are.  Man, I'd love to know how that works, but I'm telling you, man, it works. That's the bottom line, man. We are a lot more powerful than we realize. Make it wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industrial's up 279, Nasdaq up 173, S&P's up 33, Gold Contract up $47, trading at 2,043 an ounce. You get Silver up $0.03, $26.75 an ounce, right-sweet crude up $4.23, $1.2363 a barrel, notes and bonds. The 10-year note, down 31 ticks, $1.2703, the 30-year down 2 points plus 226 at 1.5703 and $king dollar. $king dollar's down 265 ticks, trading 9901, the euro's at 109, the yen is at 115.73 and the British pound is at 131 to one US dollar. iPhone number's 877, 9276648. Give us a call, folks. Want to know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&P's. Let's take a look at them, what do you have? Well, I'm gonna bring up the futures first. So you get the S&P futures up now, 32. The high from last night is 42.75, the low is 41.86, so you get about a 89 point move. Bottom line, we're up 32 right now and let's go take a look at this baby. Okay, so what do we have here? Okay, so we can see intraday out here today. We got up to that 42.75, gave it up in spades. But look at this, okay, so watch this, folks. See when we gave it up in spades? That, okay, so the low established there at two o'clock had 55,000 contracts. Now, 55 was going into the prior buyout there was 73, but the buyout actually went into was 39. You know what that says, folks? Bottom line, we're gonna be right back down there. So we'll see how this shakes out. That's selling me though, what's that number? 41.80, man, that's 50 points down. Yeah, 41.80, man.  And markets like this though, yeah, 30, 40 bucks, which is amazing, so we'll see how it shakes out, but my take, that's where we're going. We take a look at the NQs, let's bring the NQs up. NQs are up 159 ticks right now. We had the high of the day in the NQs of 13,666, the low 13,283, and right now we are 200 points off of the intraday, intranight lows actually. Okay, so same setup, let's go take a look at this. Yeah, we get the same thing, man. Two o'clock, you get a high volume low that's laying out here, so what's game here is the, that's 11,000, 13,291, and that would be, it's 180 bucks from where we are right now. So we'll see how this shakes out. Gold, now check this out, yeah, so check it out. Gold's in a confirmed ABC up, folks, okay? Now watch how I'm gonna do this, okay? Because what happens is this, is that you have contracts that expire every 20 months in gold, okay? So what we've been speculating for quite some time, if you get the gold report, I speculated this even a couple of years ago that when this thing moves, it wants to do an ABC up. Well, today's a confirmed ABC up, I'll show you how I'm coming to that conclusion. So we have out here today of 403,000 contracts in the gold market, okay? You made it to 2078. Now if I put this, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna put this on a generic chart so you can tie them together, and I'm gonna turn around and I'm gonna put this actually on a weekly so you can see it kinda clearer, right? The A to B equals C to D, and you're gonna see it's about as clear as you can get, well, let me pull this, I gotta actually pull it back further because this is such a big A to B. I'll put out a monthly first. So what you're gonna see here, there she goes, okay, so, I don't have to bring it back to that file, let me see. May, okay, let's do it like this, it doesn't matter. So you get A to B, your B point here, okay, is 2063. So we hit 2078 today, right? So what does happen is this, is that I kinda, when you do a generic chart, folks, what happens is that you don't have volumes with them, but watch this, G-L-D. This thing is blowing away the last swing point with volume. On a daily, on a daily, I can bring this back on the daily and I'll show you how this shakes out because this is a monster. So two years, yeah, there it is right there. Okay, so I'll do three years so you can see the A point also, okay, so we pull this back, let me pull this in. So what we've done today is that we're doing 43 million shares and your last high inside the G-L-D, we had, we're 43 million, we had 20 million and then we came off of that with 24 million and 19 million, it's blowing it away. The bottom line is you get an ABC structure up that's confirmed, gold's going, man. And you gotta remember something, it's at the gold market, folks, what happens is this, the gold loves doing a one to 1.382 to a one to 50 ABC structure up or down. In this case, we got everything going with us, it's going top side and the monster away. Let's go take a look at the silver market out here. It's the K, silver K, I think so, yeah. So silver finally caught a bid, it's pretty interesting that it hasn't been able to catch a bid. 118,000 contracts, so that's good. So silver's not away to 30 bucks, that's the real bottom line. We're 2682, 30 bucks is the next stop. And you can expect as we start getting to higher prices, you're gonna see higher numbers and faster moves, both up and down. But you can see the bottom line is that, gold is real money, that's the real bottom line. You know, I've been doing the gold report since, well, 22 years now, right? And, you know, there's always been the deal, gold, gold's not money, gold's not money.  Gold is not worthless. Stay right there folks, come right back.


The problem with the sea cucumber fishery is that there is a lot of governance issues and it's the way that many people in very remote communities right across the African, Asian and Pacific region make their livelihoods. And so the trade itself or the catch side of their side of things is relatively simple. It gets complicated when we do go through them selling to a buyer who sells to an exporter who sells to an importer. And so there is issues along that value in the market chain and while SITES listing can have a benefit to sustainability and conservation measures, there is also the consideration of the impact that it has on national agencies both in the fisheries sector and the conservation sector because they have to now commit resources and, you know, conduct on natural mental findings and there is a large lack of capacity amongst many national fisheries agencies and conservation agencies to manage the SITES process. Sea cucumber play a very great ecological role which we cannot, you know, and it plays ecological, it plays a social economic role and that means because it's an export commodity, if it's listed and the trade is regulated, then it means there are people who will lose a livelihood. But again, given that we have other countries that are also neighboring and doing a sea cucumber trade, we find a lot of illegal trade that can come across countries and you find a lot of smuggling of trade. So even if we burn, no fishing, then we might find sea cucumber from Kenya being smuggled into a neighboring country. One of the benefits that the expert panel for the sea cucumbers had was the collection of a long time series of data dating back to the early 1990s that had been collected and collated by SBC and we were luckily able to have George Chagrari from SBC who is the invertebrate scientist and is very capable in using statistical databases especially R. My involvement in the panel includes looking at data, essentially data that hasn't been published but is part of fishery style assessments within the Pacific. I look at these numbers and I assess whether or not there's been some trends or changes in catchers, trends in population abundance or population incisors and see whether or not those numbers are consistent with the listing criteria of size. Bring this together into one complete package. With this we end up assessing information across 23 range states, many from the Pacific, five from, six from the Asian, Southeast Asian region and five from the East African region. Those were put into the biological parameters for the size criteria. So yes, it was an extremely busy exercise to try and collect that and it was very good the way that FAO and also the members of the expert panel were able to reach out to range state agencies and collect the information. So I think overall the assessment is very good.


Welcome to the Websites and Apps NEST Talk. I'm really excited to have you all here today. Let's see if we have that working. My name is Ashlyn Knox, and I'm one of the members of the Websites and Apps teams, and I'm just going to get the presentation started here. Today we're going to go a little bit over our objective model that we've built up, some of the things that we've done, like analyzing our current code bases to plan long and short term projects. We've spent a lot of time reaching out to the community on remap ideas and updating servers from Python 2 to Python 3. The Websites and Apps team has spent a lot of time like just getting it, it's a foundation started. Let's see. And today we hope that you'll all be able to take away a clear understanding of just what we're going to be doing in the future here. Today along with me I have Akash Deep, Arnrelap, and Syac. Akash Deep is a Red Hat CPE person. He works on mentorship, packaging, Fedora infrastructure, and docs. Arnrelap is one of our ambassadors, a package for Fedora KDE applications, and Syac is a web ninja by day and community evangelist by night. He also earns a living by working at Red Hat. Really quickly before getting into the work that we do and whatnot, let's just talk a little bit more about who we are, because this team is just getting started and just looking for new people and everything. And it's a pretty complicated team. Like we've got front-end developers, we work on back-end, we work on our Websites as well as web applications and such. So with this slide here you can see that we've got two co-leads, Rania Parimi, who unfortunately isn't able to be here with us today, and Akash Deep, who we are pleased to have with us to present today as well. Our team's gotten a lot of mentorship from Justin and from Marie as well as other members of the Fedora community and leaders in the community, like Matthew Miller and Ben Cotton, who have been really appreciative of how they've supported us. And then along with that, we're often supported and working with the Fedora's design team, the community platform engineering team, and the Red Hat open-source program office. Our team, because we're web development, we're front and back-end, but we don't, there's a lot of fluidity between the two. We don't have a really stark divide between these domains, which is great for learning, hey Rania, great for learning opportunities. If you're like a front-end dev and you want to get into a little bit of back-end, our setup makes it really, really easy to start learning how to work in any particular area. And yeah, so let's hand it over to Akash, who is going to talk about some stuff that we've been working on. Sure, thanks. Thanks, Ashlyn. So now let's get into talking about the things that we have been up to, the things that we work on and the sites that we kind of helped maintain. Moving on. We modernized mode's code base from Python 2 to Python 3 over the course of last year. We also started porting it from the use of fed message to Fedora messaging. And in that way, we can be pretty sure that all our ISE logs are acknowledged while being received and stored. And we also started packaging it to a new revamped version from 0.6.1 to 0.7.0 up at Copper. We promoted the first Fedora annual contributor survey all across the websites and applications that we have inside of our Fedora Universe. And that was a fun thing because we were able to do that in a span of like just a week. And that's kind of us evidence about how the team could coordinate all across the time zones in a very limited span of time and achieve great heights. We had our first community team hack session on OpenShift basics, where we took code ready containers for the span and we deployed our own fmrl clusters. Then we converted the Fedora websites tooling from Python 2 to Python 3 along with the version bumping of all Python dependencies that they make use of. It's still on the verge of getting merged. I think we have some technical difficulties. Yeah, I think he... Yeah, I'll just give him a minute and he will be back hopefully. Alrighty. So what was the last part that you... Yeah, you may have lost it in a second. Sure thing, sure thing. So was this slide complete or should I just go ahead and explain the last parts of it? Last part to refresh will be nice. Sure thing. So we're talking about modernization of Fedora websites tooling. We converted tooling from Python 2 to Python 3 along with version bumping of all the dependencies that the websites use for being rendered to the most recent version. It's still a pull request being merged, but I think it should be in a span of a couple of more weeks. Let's talk about the websites that we work on in the next slide. So get Fedora is a window for new folks to know about the community and what we have to offer. The Spins website offers Fedora Linux in a variety of desktop environments. So you get to choose the kind of experience that you would like to have. The Labs website offers Linux in a curated set of applications for a specific purpose. So if it's a scientific purpose, you'd have pre bundled applications for them, for distribution, for RMHF and R64 architectures and so forth and downloads. Then we have community sites where you could geolocate other fellow contributors from the community throughout the globe. The start is a page which gets you to the Maxine articles and the things that the community has been up to when you start your default browser. Flock to Fedora is a gate to our annual contributed conference where people can end up in no more events and expenses and events and all and talks is finally where you get to achieve these things. So to take a look at these and developers point of view, you get to see all the libraries that we make use of and maintaining these applications and sites. There is a single repository which is pegyo.io slash Fedora website. So you'll get to know more about the repository by the end of the slide. But if you know any of these things and you feel like that, yep, I can definitely feel like contributing to. So feel free to join us and we'd be definitely glad to have you. Moving on, I'll pass it over to Sayak who explained about the applications that we have maintained over to you, Sayak. Hey, thanks Akash. That was great. So I'll be talking about a web for everyone. So basically what we help maintain as the website is an app scheme. So with the web applications that we help maintain, we basically create a web for everyone. Maybe you can be a designer who is who wants to contribute to Fedora designs or maybe you want to contribute to the code or documentation. This is going to be really interesting for you. So if you move on to the next slide, the application projects that we help with is what we are going to be focusing over here. So from badges to FedoCal, there's a lot of options over here and we need a lot of people to come join us, contribute and help out to make this a success. So some of the applications that we need help with in maintaining and also enhancing in the future are listed out over here. So these include badges, astronaut, elections, nuance here, FedoCal and whatnot. And below them, you can see that we have listed out what technologies are used for them. So you can feel free to check out their repositories at Peugeot. But again, it's pretty easy. Well, technically speaking, it's pretty easy to get started on your first contribution and we would really, really appreciate if we have new contributors because it takes a lot of time and effort to maintain this. So moving on to the next slide, we also list out the application projects that we help with. So adding to the previous slide, we need a lot of help with these applications. They are Moat, ComLog, EasyFix, Magazine, and the Ambassadors section which is again under revamp. So we need a lot of help with both the front-end and back-end design. And no matter which stack you are comfortable with, there is a contribution area for everyone. So if you are a full stack developer, please do come and help us with anything that you can. We need help with the front-end. You might be of Angular developer React. It does not matter which stack you are. If it's JavaScript, you can help us. If it's PHP, you can help us. Again, for example, ComLog is on WordPress which is basically nothing but PHP. Same goes for Magazine. And for Moat, if you are experienced with Flask or Bootstrap, again, you can help us. So basically from everything, like from Python to JavaScript, PHP to SQL, it's really interesting to find something that you might be interested in working on as a contributor and also you might be interested in helping us with. And we would really appreciate all the help that we can get. Also, we have a good number of volunteers who are pretty active who would be more than happy to help you get started on this journey. And the output is going to be out there for the world to see. We, again, are very actively working on the federal ambassadors revamp. There are different discussions going on about it in this very event. That could really help us. Again, if you are the kind of person who has read through Federal Magazine and would really want to have an impact over there, not just as an editor, but as someone who can say that, hey, you see that tiny design bit? That was done by me. That's a huge achievement, not just for you, but also for us as a community. And with that, it's time to move on to the next section. Over to Onaralp with this. Okay, thank you, Sayag, for your awesome explanation on elaborating our workflow. So, of course, since we are working very heavily on revamping and also changing our websites. So it's been a long time for the website. It was in the pretty much changes bit by bit and coming to today's shape and also changing still. But it's also time to rejuvenate, because we need to change our website maybe a little bit more elegant and more looks like today's modern technology. And in order to do it, we need, of course, needs to work with a lot of people and different teams as well. So this initiative is definitely going to be awesome and fantastic. And even for normal junior developer or senior developer, whoever you are can help us to have this aspect of our work. And also in the long term, we will definitely going to be looking into the mentorship opportunities and also other possibilities we have in our hands. So we'll go on to the next slide. So let's just rest after that. Of course, we're starting get further is going to be one of our biggest work because this is going to be this is going to be taken a little bit longer because there's a lot of stakeholders on it and we have to work with a lot of teams, not just us. We need to consult and also get some help from design team and also console and so many others in our list. So helping and changing federal website, main federal website is going to be, of course, going to have a lot of collaboration and this is going to be help us and finding the problems together when brainstorming it going to be an amazing as well. So of course, we need to also adapt our designs and find a way to responsive solutions. Of course, we need to also modernize as we speak the Python section because it is going to be really important because today's website technology is changing like basically 24 seven and it doesn't stop anywhere. So our website also should be adapted and also more helpful to this situation. Of course, we want to also have a nice vehicle coding on the back end and this is going to be, of course, going to be revived with a lot of teams and we already start on it. This is going to be an amazing and our goal is going to be, of course, changing both front and the back end to have much more better solution and this is going to include a lot of strategies and changing and optimizing a flask and Python tree, which is what we're using on the back end right now in the getpador.org and hopefully it will be much more smooth and much more better. Is it going to take time? Yes, it's going to take time. It's not going to be just going to complete in a day and so many team members I met and I already know is helping and working tirelessly to finish this task and trying to get a solution for everyone as well. So, let's just go to the next slide and let's just talk about a little bit how to get involved. So, as we speak early on, there is already a lot of people who wants to help us already in the board and we still need more help and as you can see, we have a lot of websites, like not just a couple of websites we talk about, we have infrastructure-connected websites, packaging connected websites and our normal websites, WordPress, PHPs and Python websites. There are so many and we are just a bunch of people we're trying to also maintain them and trying to get them in a better position but we definitely need more help about it. So, we have some options, we have some things to do. So, what do we do? We need to help on our documentation and we need to help on other stuff and things to do. How are you going to find that? Where are we? We're living in somewhere, in a good place. So, we have a Telegram, IRC and Metrics channel and every Thursday over GC around UTC 15 to 16, we have a meeting and we always have welcome to any PR and any contribution on the federal website repository which is available in Pagore and we can of course center ideas or your PRs you can try to find a way to help you out and get you a nice solution as well. So, for the links, let me share very quickly. Here's our documentation. Basically, if you want to find us, this is what we are and of course, for our repositories, this is our main website which is Get Fedora. Oh, sorry, this is our old website and only Get Fedora is also here. So, we basically here to help out and basically once they also contribute and also help with newcomers as well. So, thank you so much for that and now for the closure and I'm leaving the words to Akash. Thank you, Enrol. So, thanks for explaining how folks can contribute and how we're organized. So, this is the places that you can contact us with. Feel free to drop these links in the chat section or else if you can so that folks can join us. Also, one correction, we have our meetings on Tuesday and that's pretty much the weekly meeting that we have. We can also have more meetings if you want to in an ad hoc manner and that's totally the way forward because we suspect that there are time zones and well, time zones can be a mess to be really honest but the way we work, we kind of respect each other's additions and there can be differences in how websites look and feel like. So, a long collaboration goes way forward. So, feel free to add your questions in the Q&A section. Also, I floated more than a couple of poll questions to be honest, how much would be like five to six months but that kind of gives us a perspective about what things need to be worked on and the kind of things that, well, are not much of a priority to us. So, we'll stick by for like five more minutes and we'll wrap this up. Feel free to ask questions if you have them. I have a very good feeling about this, you know, folks because we don't have any questions that means we must have delivered a really, really good presentation. We were so clear about things but oh my God, folks are totally fine with the things that they're supposed to know. Awesome presentation. We don't bumble over words in the websites and app stands. Totally. I love the poll, some of the poll results though. Especially accessing our websites and applications via a washing machine, totally. Yeah, I have a washing machine. Yeah, feel free to add those questions. We also got to know that batches that people are really into. They want to see the new version of batches in terms of look, feel, and maybe the pyramid side of things they want to disappear. At least for answering your question, very, very tiny brief. There is one thing I would like to fix on the Badges website. First things first, I hope we're going to have a nicer design in the future. But the thing I'm really working on in the future is going to be have a better search functionality for sure. Finding my Badges, which is very important. Well, yeah. Oneral has been in conversation with Michael Scherer of Ospo. And we have been trying to make sure that the search is one of the first things that we make happen. Of course, before getting into the design side of things, because well, everything can look a bit better. Of course. And even Luna liked the idea. Ouch, there's one person who says Fedora apps is something that they really don't know about. It hurts. Maybe you want to give a quick definition or clarification on what Fedora apps is. Sure thing. Sure thing. That kind of gives us an opportunity to explain about the awesome application that infrastructure team maintains and that we help maintain also. So there must be things that you must have heard about like moat for easy meetings, badges. It's a fun way of appreciating efforts that people put in as well as com blog. Then there is easy fix where there is a list of self-contained yet documented issues that you can just get started with in contributing, then magazine. So these are the applications that are maintained and you'd be surprised that you do come across them, but you just don't know that these are called applications. So in a presentation like a couple of days from now, the day after tomorrow I think we are going to present a revamped version of the apps directory that one of our very old contributors who has been actively contributing since a long time, that's been have been working on. So feel free to stick by for that presentation as well. And there is one question about where is the batch source code and moving to new places the batch was moving to the new tool on platform, but where is that work now, I haven't keep up. Well it's not moving anywhere the repository is still in the same place and here's the link which is github.com and if you just check it out over there you can find all the backend code of the batches and if you want to contribute it, feel free. There has been a question regarding some redesigns. So let me clear there would be a lot of redesigns, so feel free to join us in the links that are provided in the chat section so you can decide how the websites might look like down the line. Go ahead Ashton, sorry. Well as I'm saying, notice that there is some interest towards responsiveness and the redesigns of our websites and on Saturday with John I'm going to be doing a hack session where we're going to do kind of the beginners intro to editing HTML and CSS for people that are curious about web development but haven't gotten their feet too wet in it and then we're going to be doing a little bit of work on making banners and whatnot responsive. So we'll be taking the Nest banner that you've seen on the websites or that we had to put up on websites for this event. Right now it's a static image we're going to be going through how to turn that into a responsive banner so it's optimized at different levels. So yeah, if you're interested in that you can get a bit of a firsthand experience of what it's like to work with us on the web and apps teams some of the frontend stuff that we do and just yeah, what making comment to the page or stuff is like for our team. Alright, so Matthew has a question regarding Badgeo. So I think it was a part of a Google summer of code or our PC project. One of the interns worked on a Badgeo client but that's pretty much how much information that I have on it. So I hope that folks know more about it. Please feel free to add in. Yeah. Alrighty, I think we can wrap up you know give some more time to folks who would want to you know take a room walk around the room feel their legs back again and then join another call and we'll see you folks around. It has been a real pleasure talking to you folks and thank you so much. Thank you. Good night.