So a lot of players have been having babies over the last 12 months, both on the ATP and the WTA, and Anjali Kerber. The next player to have a child, she was pregnant, she's been pregnant for the last year and she has finally had a baby. Let's go read her announcement of her newborn baby over on Twitter. This is what she had to say. Welcome to our family Liana on 25th of February 2023. Having you with us is the most beautiful and overwhelming feeling we could have ever imagined and there's a photo there you can see of the baby's hand with both mum and dad. So a lovely photo to welcome Anjali Kerber's first child. There you have it. Very nice dude. Good news in what sometimes can be a little bit of a negative space at times. The breaking news of tennis. We sometimes just talk about injuries or players not able to play. So it's nice to kind of change it up a little bit in congratulations to Anjali Kerber for her firstborn child and look she's still playing tennis or at least she's gonna come back she says but she joins a lot of players that have had kids over the last 12 months. Obviously Svetolina, she went off had a baby with Gayle Malfice, Rafa's had his first baby, so it's Daniel Medvedev, just now have a couple so it's great to see and also Namir Saka who is pregnant is going to welcome a baby into the world this year as well. So Anjali Kerber congratulations to her, great news, exciting news and we wish her all the best and her comeback.


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I doubled them up And of course there is Cardinals down to the Washington football team I know right well see the thing is that in front of our door It's nice glass, but there's like a small little crack that I feel like small insects like crickets just easily pop in So every once in a while they pop in they're easy to find because we just find them we hear and we kill them But this one's like hiding inside the fridge like in the little break room So I had have the young kids over there just ball it out for 20 bucks All right, so there you go roll it And we got ourselves a full 12 six and a six 12 times two three four five six seven eight nine ten 11 and 12 12 times Soaring down to Debbie 12 times horizontal football team one two three four five six seven eight nine ten 11 Houston Texans down to the Miami Dolphins Do you guys kill that already? That's probably the one that's making the most noise. Yeah I saw and you have the Houston Texans John with the Bears Kenneth with the Jaguars Matthew the Saints Brian with the Packers Kenneth with the Steelers soren with the Cardinals Gregor with the Panthers Francis with the Vikings and Giants Matthew with the Chargers Justin with the Rams Brian with the Broncos Seahawks Brian s with the Buccaneers Brian K with the Patriots John with the Jets Matthew the Browns John with the Cowboys Brian with the 49ers Debbie with the Bills Gregor with the Ravens Justin with the Bengals Anthony with the Chiefs John with the Raiders Sean with the Washington football team Anthony with the Falcons Raymond with the Lions Matthew Burton with the Titans Raymond with my Eagles Sean with the Colts and Debbie with the Dolphins Well, the biggest one must be the one that's dead already I guess there you go I Must be the guy cuz he's not here. I'm not hearing no more All right, so Gary gets a spot in the fat pack and So does Brett All right, anybody gonna trade guys or we're just gonna continue on So again, once we sell this out, which is at 15 now that unlocks the immaculate basketball full full case break Who's the rate? The Raiders just fired the defensive coordinator or coach. Who was it? I don't even remember. I seen John then Taylor went off today. I mean so did actually T. White Hill and I won't say All right, here you go. All right, so again, both of these boxes do have the axe and again I was getting confused at that number 15 or 16 would have been a fresh case But actually two box brace will stop at four or sorry at six 12 and then of course 18. So there you go So there is former boxes left So number 17 and 18 will be the last two before starting a fresh case if there is any more Be it. Yeah. 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It was pretty nice I mean the fact is you get two different hobby box of opportunities, right staying glass All that good stuff Dwayne haskins 17 out of 35. He actually came in relief today of alex smith and won Washington football team. It's going to Sean max crossby Rager glad me All righty guys, well, nothing too crazy here. Although we still did get a little Justin harbour base to a tug of my love base And uh, you have the two autographs of course being here danie white and colt matt But there is still four boxes left in the case um So the next break could potentially have heat again the previous two three breaks. I have no idea what was pulled Um, I know I pulled the jamming hurts earlier. So Could there be more of course you never know what prism I've had some really really hot boxes and personals or here as well um, so Like I said, let's get it going Two more breaks at least from the same case if you guys are wondering So again, a lot of these rickies, of course, basically the top loaded top load of course this Auto right here as well And then all the color of course adds up So there you go guys appreciated jazby's case rakes.com number 17s in the store


QuickBooks Online 2023. Make loan payments breaking out interest and principal portions. Get ready to start moving on up with QuickBooks Online 2023. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars practice file. We started up in a prior presentation using the 30-day free trial. We also have opened the free QuickBooks Online sample company if you want the two open at the same time. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. We suggest using the incognito window or another browser. You can open the incognito window if using Google Chrome by selecting the three dots in the browser and then incognito window and then search into the search engine for QuickBooks Online Test Drive. We're going to use the sample company to compare and contrast the accounting view, the view that the Get Great Guitars files in and the business view, the view the sample company is in. If you want to toggle back and forth between the two views, hit the cog up top and switch the view down below. Opening a couple tabs to put reports in by right clicking the tab to duplicate it right clicking the duplicated tab to duplicate it and then going back to the middle tab to go to the reports on the bottom. And then once you're in the reports, we're going to go into the balance sheet. And then we're going to go to let's check that out in the business view, by the way, in the business view, it's located in the business overview. And then the okay, I'm going to stop doing that. I won't talk like that anymore. So any case, then we're going to go to the tab to the right and we're going to go down to the reports on the left hand side. And we want to open up the P to the L the profit and the loss close up the boogie change the range up top. I'm going to do that like dual range two months thing by going from 010123 to 022823 and then run it. And then I'm going to go to the months drop down so we can see the side by side for the months, which is totally cool. So now I got January nothing in there for February yet that's the current month we're working on and then the total on the right for the two months up to this time. Let's go to the tab to the left this time I'm just going to do close in the hamburger the normal range from 010123. Let's go to 022823 but I don't really need to do the months thing on the balance sheet because I don't think it's going to add too much value. So we'll just keep it as is there. So that's the setup process we do every time. Now last time we talked about the loan payable and we put together our amortization table. So now we're going to be recording payments with our amortization table. So let's just recap kind of the issues with the loans. We have a loan on the books, which helped us to finance the company couple issues with the loans. One, there's often a short term version proportion and a long term portion when we're paying installment loans off. However, we don't typically want to have two loan accounts a short term and long term version when we're doing normal bookkeeping, because it's better to have one account or easier that I can then tie into my amortization table. Otherwise, the long term and short term portions will differ every time. So you want to just make an adjustment for the long term and short term portion periodically is my suggestion at the end of the month or a year, possibly having your CPA firm help you out just to do that breakout and then reverse it so that you can then do the bookkeeping easily and have the financial statements when they're necessary when you're going to report them. So we'll talk about that in the adjusting process. Two, you might have multiple loan accounts in which case you probably you could put them all in one account, but you probably want a different loan account and we'll talk more about that in a future presentation when we add another loan account. And that way you can tie each loan account into its own amortization table. And then three is the breaking out of each payment. That's what we're going to focus on here when the interest and the loan principle will differ every time. So we're going to be looking at the first two payments. We'll actually record both of these and you can see how the payment is the same, but the interest and the loan reduction or reduction to the principal will differ. So that means there's three accounts affected as opposed to two accounts when you pay like a utility bill, only cash and utilities expenses affected here. We're going to have cash interest expense and then the reduction of the loan impacted that adds a little bit of complexity. Also, I can't really memorize the transaction, whether that be through the bank feeds creating a rule, for example, so I can automate the transaction or when I just record the transaction every month manually, because even though the dollar amount is the same, that breakout that changes between interest and principal makes it a lot more difficult to automate. So what are the workarounds to that? One is that you could try to stay in a cash-based system and so bookkeepers that are trying to scale up the business and work on a cash-based system to the degree they can might then work with a CPA firm to do adjusting entries periodically, possibly at the end of the year when tax returns are prepared or something like that, and then they're just going to record the payments and reduce the loan principle for the full amount with possibly the bank feeds. And then at the end of the year, you ask your CPA firm to say, hey, here's the amortization table, or if you don't have the amortization table, hey, CPA firm or tax preparer, I would like you to make the amortization table based on the loan documentation and then do the necessary adjusting entries, which might be breaking out the interest and principal portion so that you could do the tax returns and the financial preparation at that time and break out the short-term and long-term portion of the loan if necessary for tax return and financial reporting at that time. That's one method you can use to try to automate everything on the bookkeeping side. The other method is we just take our amortization table, which we might have to create as we did here or ask our CPA firm to create and we'll just have to change it every time in accordance with the amortization table. So that's what we'll do here to see what that looks like. So I'm just going to highlight this first one and make it green just to say, okay, that's the first one that we're on. And I'll go over here and say, all right, let's go to the first tab then. And just what's going to happen, by the way, this amount is going to go down by the portion that is the loan reduction taking us to the new loan balance and then $300 will be interest expense on the profit and loss and then the checking account will go down by the full amount. All right, let's do it. Let's go to the first tab, enough talk. I want to see some action here. All you do is talk, man. Okay, here we go with the action. We got the vendor information. I'm going to go into, let's do it with a check form. So I'm going to say the bank that we're paying, let's say is Chase. So let's type in Chase. I think we put that in earlier. I'm just making up a bank name that we're going to be paying. It's coming out of the checking account, tab, tab. Let's say the date is at the beginning of the month. So I'm going to say, let's go February, February 020123. So the beginning of the month. And then the 16th, the check number should be populating properly now. So that's good. I'm not going to print the checks for the practice problem down here. We're going to say, okay, here's where it happens here. So I'm going to see if they have an account for interest expense. I'm just going to type in interest and notice they have this interest paid expense type of account. I don't like the name interest paid because you could have interest that you didn't pay that's still an expense on an accrual basis. I would rather it be called interest expense. So I might change it, but that's being a little picky. I'm not going to create another account called interest expense because I don't like the fact that they called it interest paid because then I'm going to have two accounts that are sounding like interest. And then I'll mess myself up by posting to both of them. So I'm going to do that and then I'll fix it if I don't like the name of that account. And so then you might want to put in the description like first payment or something like that because that might help you to tie it into the amortization table. Now the interest is coming from here. That's the 300. So there's 300. I don't need a billable or a customer. And then the other side is going to go to the loan payable loan payable account. There it is. And then I'll just call it first payment. And that's for the amount of the 105873. So remember that don't forget 1058.73. All right. And then the total comes out to the check of 135873. And that's the total 135873 movie B to the B to the N. So what's this going to do? It's a check. It's going to decrease the checking account by the 135873. It's going to have an interest expense on the income statement of 300. And the loan is going to go down by 1058.73 bringing the balance of the loan to 70,941.27. That's what should happen at least unless someone told me the wrong number when I put that in here and they told me the wrong number. So that'd be their fault and not my fault. So let's go ahead and save it and close it. And then we'll check it out. And then we'll go into the tab to the right and run it again, run it. And then we'll go into the rope to the cash account. And we're in February, February. And so there it is. So there's that amount that looks that looks good movie BN. And then we're going to go back the other side on the expense side of things. We got the $300 in February now. See how we got January and February. Isn't that cool? Yeah, it is. I know, I know it's cool. But anyways, so here's the interest. Now, sometimes you might want to put the interest down here into like other because sometimes you might think of interest as not being like part of your normal operations. It's a financing thing. So we might just change it to put it down here just so you can see what that looks like. And I might change the name at some future point as well. But for now, we can see there it is. And there's the $300 and that looks good just like we would expect. Now the second one, I'm going to record the second one and imagine a month has passed. So I'm going to record this one as well. This one I'll mark off as yellow, meaning it's done or something. Or let's make this one, this one yellow. Yeah. Okay. And so now this one, I'm going to just do it a month later. So I'm still going to put it in February. So we're still working in February, but I'll put it in there February 28th. So you've got to imagine a month has passed. And now I'm going to enter the next one just to see the problem with the fact that I got the same dollar amount, but the interest and reduction principle are different. So I can't memorize the transaction like I'd like to. So let's do that. Let's check that out then. Check it out. Check it out. Let's go to the first tab. I'm going to go to the plus button. Check. We're going to check out the check. And then I'll put this to chase again. Chase. Check out the chase check. Checking out the chase check. Okay. Okay. Just stop. What is this? This is going to be on 228.022823. And then the check number populates automatically. And then down below. Ah, sorry. My throat got clogged up there. We've got the interest. Now it tries to memorize the transaction, which is good. That's what we want to have happen. And if it was a bank fee transaction, that would be totally good. Because then we can make a rule to make it do what we want it to do. But we can't because these numbers change. I've got to change this. See to the 295.50.59. Now 295.59. Is that right? Did I go dyslexic on that one? 29. No, I did it right. I know I'm talking about. And then the other side's going to be 53. The other side's going to be 106.314. So 106.14. That gives us the same total down below here of the 135.8. Is that right? 135.873. But we have a different breakout between these two. Now, like I say, the other way you can work around this is to put the whole amount in loans payable, which means you will not tie out to the amortization table. It will be wrong because you will not have recorded the interest. But you can use that adjusting entry concept of saying, hey, look, I know that and I'm going to adjust it periodically at the end of the month or year, or I'm going to have my CPA do it at the end of the month or year so that I can automate everything, use the bank feeds, use bank rules possibly, make it as easy as possible and know which adjustments need to be made and have my CPA do it based on the loan documents and the amortization table. So that's another method that could work quite well. So I'm going to save it and close it and let's check it out. Check out the check from Chase, tap to the right. We're going to go run and then the cash account. Now it's going to kind of mess us up because we kind of jumped to the end of the month here so later on. But we've got these two. That was a month later even though it's in the same month but you get the idea. The point is same amount comes out of the checking account. That's not the issue. That's normal. That's what we would expect. But if I go to the tab to the right and I refresh it to run it to give a fresh report then in the interest paid, which I don't really like the name. I'd rather call it interest expense but we already talked about that. I might change that later. So then we've got these two here but these are different. That's the thing. That's what happens because interest goes down over time because the principal goes down. Therefore there's less rent on the money that you're being loaned. So it goes down as time passes. The other side's on the loan payable and that's going to be down here. Loan payable right there. There it is. And that one also has a difference between the two amounts in the reduction. We're now at the 6987813 which should match the amortization table 6987813. It does indeed do that. So let's go back up top and that is that. That's the loans. We'll touch more on loans in the future when we have another loan. So we have to deal with two loans and get into this. And then we'll do short-term and long-term loan breakout stuff in the adjusting entries section or course. So I'm going to go to the tab to the right right click on it and duplicate the tab. And then let's go to the trial balance just to check our numbers together. We're going to go to the reports on the left close up the boogie type in up top the trial balance. Trial balance. The balance is on trial. It's a trial about the balance of the nation of the get great guitars. I'm going to end this at what was I doing? Maybe I can do that comparison thing here too. I'm going to go from 010123 to 022823 and then do the month month's thing. So you can see the trial balance. This is where we ended at the end of January and now we've got the Feb nums. So if your Feb nums don't tie out then you can try to run it for the end of January and see if your Jan nums tie out and then and then if they don't you can change the range and see if it's a date range issue and if it's not then we'll be running a detailed report at the end of the Feb and then and so that hopefully helps us to drill down on any differences at that time.


So we drove down from Manchester, New Hampshire, took us maybe 18 or so hours, we split it up over two days and we came down to just do whatever work they need us to do around the school. So this week we've been doing a lot of painting, but we also have a lot of participants that are in the classrooms. We have one that's even helping with some lesson planning. They've been helping in the garden too now that it's nice weather out but lots of painting, kitchen help. We actually got to give this David School students the week off from cleaning after lunch and kitchen duty after lunch. So we get to do that for them which is nice because then they get more time to go play outside.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's Case Breaks dot com with a fun one here. We got 2023. This is the That's the company right there. Kakao Wow phantom Disney 100 two box random pack break number four a lot of nice stuff here look up the prices on some of this stuff I think some of you might be surprised Really fun break here. Love the Disney love the Pixar. So that's what we're gonna see in here Big thanks to this group for making it happen. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna open up the two boxes first I'm gonna tag all the packs one through 20 and then we're going to randomize Names and numbers and we'll see what you get matched up with So fully licensed You know, it's all of your favorite Disney characters are possible here. There are also Autographs in here and Those autos actually especially for the bigger bigger name popular characters can go for a ton. Oh Nice Gilo Yeah, hopefully we'll get to all of that tonight obviously if you're watching the replay of this you can You can fast forward through this part There are numbered car potential autograph potential A lot of potential in this in this break boys and girls This is the second to last break the final two boxes are loaded up right now Jasper's case breaks calm We don't have any more after that I mean, I'm sure we'll try to get some more but My guess is by the time we get more They might they may not be at this at this price point might be even more. All right now Let's randomize names and teams Names and teams names and number pack numbers. Let's roll it randomized names and numbers one and a two three times one two and three Tristan and down to Franklin two and a one one and a two three times for the numbers one two And three We got 11 down to four All right Tristan with 11 Jimmy with one Jas with 13 Richard 10 and 20 Franklin with 14 Michael with eight Jeff with nine Franklin with 16 Michael with 15 Jeffrey with seven Franklin with three John with 12 Tim with two Craig with 18 Tristan with five Tim with 19 Jas with 17 and Franklin with four So let's order these alphabetically by your first names That way we can just keep everything organized right here All right now we're gonna pause the video. We're gonna see if there's any trades I doubt there will be but we'll see if there's any trades and then we'll have the brakes Let's take around be right back All right, welcome back everybody. No deals are done trade window closed Let's get on with it Craig. You're up first Frank. You're coming up after Craig Craig with pack 18 Good luck.  There's like some QR code thing on the back. I don't know what it does but Might be something there. Thank you Craig all right, Franklin has Four packs here. Jimmy you're coming up next 14 16 14 16 and then three and four on this side So three and four right there And then 14 and 16 Right over there. Good luck Not my favorite character frozen solid movie Oh, off doesn't do it for me You're sleeping beauty classic reunion. I get it. You got eor Sometimes people feel like that after a group break That lady in the tramp postcard. I like those Falky You're not trash forky and there's Bruce fish our friends. All right, so Franklin there you go Thanks for getting in There are quote-unquote autos in this ladies and gentlemen. That's a lot of fun and uh numbered card possibilities as well Double check some of the prices on a secondary market. I think some of you might be surprised at how well this can do I feel like even some of these refractors might even get you A good chunk of the pack cost back And more importantly, I feel like it's a fun little break Thanks, Frank Jimmy you're up next followed by jazz jimmy with pack one Good luck out of checklists. Judy hops one of my favorite movies utopia. There's nick wilds a movie and mr. Potato head Nice and flash They're all slots Thanks, jimmy What's up, charles? Did uh chesty and rogers a man. They signed jordan love Did he really? No, I think uh, I think the pack is going to give jordan love As much You know chance to take the starting job That'd be crazy if they they traded him to 13 out of 17 13 and 17 for jazz It is kind of funny how uh Claim that there are no weapons for him on On green bay and then proceeds to request green bay players to be added to these teams There's rea And beauty and the beast classic one of my favorite of that sort of mid 90s late 80s mid 90s run of disney movies great soundtrack There you go jazz Little town it's a quiet village Every day like the one before Oh Thank you jess All right, who's next jeff's go with a couple packs john you're up next Jeff you got pack seven and nine Yeah, I really think the holdup is really not not rogers is trade requests or player requests It's more like what's the final compensation gonna be The packers that are holding it up. Ooh nice We got we got luke Classic reunions here And sven it's numbered 72 out of 100 nice from frozen. I think that's uh the fireworks parallel So adam who is a jet sven? yeah You're thinking for rogers conditional or a second round pick this year conditional third round next year And the conditional third round becomes a second round if rogers on the roster that started the 2024 year Or a first round if he takes a jet to the super bowl It's not a bad deal. All right, john you're up next than michael So john pack 12 Which will soon be the pack 10 which will soon be Packed none none existing and we got angelica from pirates Geelo thinks they're gonna ask for one of the one of the rookies on there All right, thank you john All right, michael p with a couple packs richard. You're up after that Hack eight and 15 There's eight eight and 15 Good luck I don't know harry. I don't know off the top of my head But you know what?   There you go michael All right onwards We got richard With a couple packs 10 and 20 10 and 20 Good luck. All right, we've got anger and we got jesse I got a lot. I haven't seen inside out. I've seen most of the other pixar picks I don't watch inside. I got to do some pixar catching up. All right richard. Thank you. Those are your two packs. Appreciate you All right tim with a few packs and then tristan with the final final ones Tim with two 19 and six Tristan you have 11 and five two 19 and six for tim Good luck. Yeah, I got to watch it charles. I hear it's good All right Good luck tim There's anger again the anger refractor And another one banelope refractor record rough love that movie Wally And allison wonderland from the live action picks And then anna from frozen Do you want to build a snowman? All right, tim. Thank you Appreciate you getting in So we only saw and autos are not guaranteed a box just fyi but We did see a numbered card that fireworks vent card, right a lot of nice refractors Are one of these last two packs will it contain an auto? Tristan would be happy If that were the case, let's see Final two packs 11 and five For tristan. Thanks for getting in. Thanks everyone for getting in the last two boxes Loaded up in the store right now. We don't have any more after that So get it while supplies last. All right, there's marlin I'm finding Nemo Great movie Oh, we do have some firework not an autograph, but a nice fireworks Aladdin 74 out of 100 Nice That's everything All right, there you go tristan. Thanks very much everybody The next two boxes are our last two boxes of that disney 100 Check it out. I'm joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll disney with you next time. Bye. Bye You


About a month ago, I had the honor of being in Masjid al-Uqsa. And the iman of Masjid al-Uqsa, he points to kind of like a member that you can see off in the distance. And he says, there is a school there that 20,000 women scholars have graduated from, and they would teach in Masjid al-Uqsa, and they would travel to Syria, and they would go to Syria, and they would teach in Syria. And Masjid al-Uqsa is this incredible, incredible area subhanAllah, not a single space of it has not been walked upon by a prophet, not a single space of it, whether a prophet or an angel has not been occupied by that space. This is a land of blessing, this is a blessed space. And in that space what we see is this history of women scholars, this history of women teachers. Like Umad Darudat al-Sughra, may Allah's upon tell be pleased with her, that she came and she would teach where the dome of the rock now is, inside or outside, and then when her lessons were done, the Khalif at the time would come, he was her mahram, he would hold her hand and they would walk to Masjid al-Qibli where he would lead Salat. Many times when people see Masjid al-Uqsa, there's this like, that's not actually Masjid al-Uqsa, that's the dome of the rock. And it's interesting because that's not correct. The dome of the rock is one Masjid of five that is within the compound of Masjid al-Uqsa. So when you see that other one that everyone says, that's the real Masjid al-Uqsa, that is Masjid, it's called Masjid al-Qibli, but it's one Masjid of many Masjid within the massive compound of Masjid al-Uqsa. And within this compound, SubhanAllah, when Umarullah came into Jerusalem, came to get the keys to Masjid al-Uqsa, to Quds, to Quds. The very first time that the Adhan was going to be called in Quds. The very first Muslim to pray in Masjid al-Uqsa after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam himself had prayed there. When Umarullah Anhu takes the keys and he comes in, and then it's a much longer story, but just focusing on the aspect of going into the place of Uqsa, he didn't know where Uqsa actually was because at that time, what happened was the Christians who had ruled previously, remember Surah Al-Rum, Surah Al-Rum, Surah Al-Rum, where Allah SWT says that they are going, Feeb al-Ru'isinin, Allah SWT is going to, he prophesies, it's Allah SWT, he's telling them, he's telling them that the Romans have been defeated, but they're going to get it back. They're going to defeat the Persians. And this is like shocking at the time. But what happened is the Persians had destroyed this area of Masjid al-Uqsa. Then the Christians came and they were not respectful of the area of Masjid al-Uqsa, so it had been turned into a dump. Masjid al-Uqsa was a physical dump. It was a place in the space of time where crusaders would keep it as a pigpen. It was a place where you can still see the markings of the crusaders, where they would latch their horses to the walls because they would keep it like a stable. So this area when Amr radi Allahu Anhu comes in, he doesn't exactly know where is the actual like place spaces of worship. And so one of the companions who used to be Jewish, who had converted to Islam, showed him radi Allahu Anhu where? And then he asked Bilal radi Allahu Anhu to make the Adhan. Now Bilal had bin al-Mu'adhin of Medina, but he had left Medina after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed away. He used to make the Adhan in Medina and then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed there to make the Adhan in the city where the beloved Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was resting, where the beloved Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked him to make the Adhan. And when he would come upon the name of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the Adhan, the pain of the entire city and hearing the Adhan was so different after the loss of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So Bilal radi Allahu Anhu asked for permission to leave Medina. And he was going with a group of people, including Ubadah ibn Swamit, and he was part of the Fatah of al-Aqsa. And when he was part of the Fatah of al-Aqsa and Umar asked him to make the Adhan, initially he said no. And then Umar radi Allahu Anhu encouraged him saying if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was here, he would want him to make the Adhan. So Bilal radi Allahu Anhu made the Adhan. And when he made the Adhan, Umar radi Allahu Anhu just fell to his knees sobbing. It was the first time the companions had heard the Adhan from Bilal radi Allahu Anhu. But can you imagine that now it's in Masjid al-Aqsa? Can you imagine that now it's with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam led all of the prophets? Can you imagine that this is a space where the angels have been and the angels have come and Angel Jibril al-Alihi Salaam gives the revelation to Maryam al-Alihi Salaam that she's going to become the mother of Jaisa to Zakiri al-Alihi Salaam that he's been answered in his dua that he's been making and making. This space is where Um Haram bint Milhan, the companion radi Allahu Anhu was with her husband Abad ibn Slamet. Abad ibn Slamet is buried right outside of the wall of Masjid al-Aqsa. So if you go to the compound, there are graves on one side outside of the compound and you can go, his grave is literally at the wall with another companion Shaddad ibn Aus radi Allahu Anhu. When you go to see Abad ibn Slamet radi Allahu Anhu who is buried right at the wall where Masjid al-Aqsa is, this was one of the first scholars and judges of this whole area in Palestine. This is just the opening of this area. And who was with him Um Haram bint Milhan radi Allahu Anhu? So when we talk about 20,000 women scholars who graduated 20,000 women scholars who taught in Aqsa and went to Syria think about where that tradition began. It began with the women companions themselves. Because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam took a nation who would bury their daughters alive and mentored them to learn from women as their teachers. So Um Haram, she was actually a relative of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and it could have been through blood lineage or it could have been through roda'a. It might have been because of the way that they would have the nursing system where if there's lineage that's established when people nurse each other's children. And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would go and sleep at her home. This is his aunt. And it wasn't just her. She also had a sister Um Sulaym radi Allahu Anhu. And their stories are so powerful because of who their personalities were and because of the fact that they were so intentional despite the hardship that they faced, the resilience that they showed and the intentionality of their worship as women is one that SubhanAllah we see the Um Haram was there when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam woke up smiling from a dream. He had this beautiful dream and she asked him, what are you, why are you smiling? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had fallen asleep because she was massaging his hair. SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, she was looking for something in his hair. And can you imagine the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam carrying the message of Islam, carrying the worry of the whole Ummah, worried about his own family members, worried about his own daughter losing his own son, losing every single one of his children except for Faltima radiAllahu anha and then going to who is like his aunt and just relaxing, just like spending time with his khala, just having that moment of peace and security. And so he is with her and when he is with her and she's going through his hair, combing through his hair, looking for things in the hair, he falls asleep with that kind of like hair massage SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and he has this dream and he wakes up smiling and when she asks about it, he tells the dream which is a prophecy of what is going to happen, that these companions, that they're going to be riding on the ship, that they're like kings and she asked to be a part of this group and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't respond with no, it's enough for you to stay home. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't respond with don't you know the fact that you're, you have a prophet falling asleep, taking naps in your home is enough for paradise for you. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's response wasn't well you have responsibilities to your husband and your children. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's response was you will be with them and another narration making to offer her SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. We have other narrations of mothers coming and asking about their reward and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam teaches us that their reward is in taking care of their home, is in taking care of their children, is in taking care of their husband. Every single woman companion had a different lifestyle, life reality, personality, life objective. And what's so powerful in the Seerah is that we see that their aims for Islam were appreciated by the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Whether it was the Benu Ghi Faur tribe, the women of the Benu Ghi Faur tribe coming and asking to help nurse the wounded and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam at the battle of Khebar saying with a blessing of Allah giving them the blessings of coming or in another circumstance where it would be better for a woman to pray in her home because of the dynamic she had with her husband. Every single person's reality was reflected in the society of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and it's an obligation upon us as women really to mirror the nuances of that dynamic so that we don't have young women who go into a masjid space and many of us are blessed with MCC here and some of you asked the question in the other session. We do have a couple of amazing masjids, but what about all those masjids that don't have that example and where we don't feel like we can have a space and where our daughters grow up or our sons grow up not seeing that as what should be normative access? What about for them? And the message when someone grows up in that way not knowing that Islam is actually for every single one of us no matter what we are going through, the resilience that we're showing inshallah, that really can shift the way a person has their relationship with Islam in general and I get messages like that every single week and those of you who are from the generation of mothers and grandmothers in this room I'm seeing you nodding your heads and maybe you've seen that in your own lives maybe you've seen that in the lives of your children maybe you've seen that in the lives of your peers whose grandchildren are making a different decision and it's a very difficult one to acknowledge when we see that there could be a different reality if we were to mirror the society of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam She wanted to go on this expedition and I shall radiallahu anha she taught us a statement from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that the best jihad for a woman is what? What is it? No, but that's a very nice try, may Allah bless you. Louder. No, but very nice try. Hajj, Hajj. The answer is Hajj. But I love that multiple people said taking care of the family that is the jihad first may Allah bless every single one of you in every single way reward you all and the men and all of our umma, I mean and so I shall radiallahu anha learns from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam this narration after the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam passes away I shall radiallahu anha wants to make Hajj again because of this narration because of the strength of this narration and her seeing that it is the best type of worship for women so she goes with the women, the mothers of the believers not all of them, but the majority of them wanted to go for an extra Hajj because I shall radiallahu anha had already made Hajj with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the obligatory Hajj and what happened to her when she went? Yes, she got her period and what did she do? She cried, she sobbed and when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam saw her, he comforted her he connected that moment of pain for her to a great grandfather Adam Alaihi Sallam and what? He taught her the rights of how to make Hajj in this circumstance her sharing that narration is a gift for all of us until the end of time and Subhanallah Ibn Taymiyyah he was in a circumstance in his time period where he had to make a fatwa for what women should do when they are on their periods in Hajj and they can't finish Hajj before they leave before the time of Ibn Taymiyyah was a political there was political support for Hajj which meant that the ruler or the rulers of the area they would have Hajj caravans go out to meet the Hajjaj on their way back so you're going through the desert for days, months, almost a year depending on the place that you're coming from and there are bandits in the desert you don't have water and food so they had these caravans that would meet the Hajj caravans and they would provide for them the provision that they needed and the protection because if you're constantly meeting caravans there's less of a chance that there's going to be some sort of bandit coming through and trying to take your provision or even murder some of the individuals on the caravan but during that time the ruling class shifted and they no longer put the policy of protection for the Hajjaj that was suddenly gone and so the Hajjaj who would come into Mecca and the woman who used to stay longer with their caravan to complete Hajj after their period these caravans started to leave immediately and they were scared because if they're going to stay to complete the Hajj just because they're on their period and it's only going to be one caravan of their relatives or just a few people that's not enough protection in the desert for months at a time sometimes and so Ibn Taymiah looked at the reality of women and individuals losing their lives and their property because now they are stragglers on their own without the state's protection and so he made a ruling that he said he hit the people before, the scholars before him didn't even have to think about this issue it never came up for them but now he made a ruling that if a woman is in Hajj and she's on her period or Amra and she's on her period and she's not going to finish before she leaves and you can't always wait for Hajj groups to wait for you and realistically it's extremely expensive to delay for another week not everyone has that type of financial capacity you can't always leave your children for another week or your job for another week or whatever the circumstance and so now because of because of Aisha R.A. going through that experience and Ibn Taymiah going through an experience in his lifetime women today can go for Hajj or Amra and make Hajj or Amra if you are going to be there and your period is not going to finish and you cannot extend your stay then you can just go ahead and make Hajj or Amra in that state now there's a difference of opinion on this issue the Hanafis for example say that a sacrifice is required Ibn Taymiah doesn't hold that position because he says it's out of her hands but different scholars have different opinions don't just take this one statement and go for Hajj or Amra talk to your local Imam get some more information this isn't intended to be a thick session on Hajj or Amra the only reason I'm telling you this is because she went through Hajj despite the fact that she went through Hajj with the Prophet S.A.W she saw Hajj as the best she had because of the teaching of the Prophet S.A.W so after the Prophet S.A.W passed away she wanted to go again and then when she wanted to go again she went to Umar S.A.W who was the Khalifa at the time and he did not allow it because they did not have a Mahram now when I was younger I was invited to go a local masjid here asked me if I could go with a youth group as kind of like a Hajj tour guide for the high school students and at the time I only followed the position that it was Haram for me to travel without a Mahram and I didn't even know there was another position so I asked a local scholar why is it that there's a statement that I said that she went for Hajj like an extra Hajj like if her Mahram wasn't there he responded saying he prohibited her from going so actually she was in the wrong that's what he told me but Umar S.A.W if we look at the text that describes his response he allowed her because he was convinced by the strength of her proof he's not allowing her as the Khalifa as the one who is responsible for an entire nation including the mothers of the believers who are the highest caliber amongst the highest companions he's responsible for these decisions and so Umar S.A.W convinced by her proof he sent Uthman and Abdulrahman S.A.W with her to go and make Hajj with the mothers of the believers and so she had the state protection she had the state protection she had these great companions go with them and the reason that I wanted to mention any of that is because in that moment where that Sheikh told me well no, she was wrong Umar S.A.W didn't agree initially I have thought back to that moment so many times in my life and I thought why didn't he tell me that Umar S.A.W himself accepted her proof why was it she was wrong and that was the end of the statement we're talking about Aisha S.A.W why couldn't I have been taught it's a difference of opinion there's only one right answer and that perspective when we're looking at the women companions there's only one that shifts our perspectives of ourselves as women in Islam because when Um Haram asks to go she could have said well Aisha S.A.W taught us that later on, even if the statement about Hajj was made later on she could have then said well actually there's a better form of worship it's Hajj and that's what I should do which of course is 100% true it's the best such an important type of worship but she never amended her desire to go and she was 75 years old when Abad and Ibn Somit they had captured the Byzantine ships and for a long time Muawiyah he wanted Umar S.A.W to allow them to build a naval fleet and these are people of the desert they're not ready for a naval fleet so Umar S.A.W said no but later on, Uthman S.A.W said yes and so this was the first group that was going on a naval fleet and she wanted to go with them as 75 years old because years ago she asked the Prophet S.A.W to be with that group of people and the Prophet S.A.W told her that she will be with them and this really speaks to the prophecies of the Prophet S.A.W also because in addition to the fact that he had this dream and it did come true because literally it could have just not come true but it did but she didn't have to go it could have been her own personal decision she might have passed away before that time literally anything could have happened to stop her from going but she was with them and it really speaks to the prophecies of the Prophet S.A.W when Faltima R.A.W was told R.A.W was told that she was going to be the next one to pass away by the Prophet S.A.W amongst his family and she was they were measuring hands but it actually meant the most generous one the Prophet S.A.W prophesied who would go to Allah S.A.W next and every single time it was true because he's a prophet of God so when we see that Um Haram joins this battle we also see that her example is not in a vacuum because her sister Um Sulaym there are multiple narrations of the Prophet S.A.W saying that he saw or he heard someone in paradise and it was her it was Um Sulaym in one narration he mentions the footsteps of Bilal R.A the palace of Um R.A and he mentions her so Um Sulaym R.A the sister of Um Haram also a relative of the Prophet S.A.W she is one of these women who has a very feisty personality she has a feisty assertive aggressive personality she's one of the women of Medina who are known to have these descriptions and Um Sulaym at a battle she had a dagger and her husband Abul Talha is like one is to tell the Prophet S.A.W like look at my wife and the Prophet S.A.W is like why do you have a dagger and she's going to be there to defend she's going to make sure that there's no deserters from the Muslim army but she's there that's the point that she is there and the Prophet S.A.W knows that she's there and her husband knows that she's there and she is present Abul Talha he is the one who married her after her husband passed away and who knows whose mother she is Anas Anas the one who we have so many hadith from the servant of the Prophet S.A.W Um Sulaym was one of the first believers of Yathrib before he became Medina when Musa'ab ibn Umayr was there making da'wah to the people of Yathrib she was one of the first people to accept Islam and her son there's a category of women in the companions and that category is called the women who accepted Islam before their husbands the women who accepted Islam before their families these are the mothers that accepted Islam and guided their children to accept Islam she guided Anas from the time of childhood her husband came back after he was on a like a trade trip and he noticed that something was different about them and he was not happy about her conversion and then he went on another trade trip and he died and she was considered to be exceedingly beautiful and she was known to be like a noble woman and so now a lot of men want to marry her and Abul Talha is like her level so he comes to her and wants to marry her and Abul Talha there is one thing that she asked for him as her maher who knows what it is yes his conversion to Islam I have a lot of people tell me that their child who is in college or a young professional wants to get married to a man but the man is open to converting he is completely open to becoming Muslim but they are worried that it is not really Islam because it is actually out of interest for the daughter and so they don't want to say yes and I just think you don't know what is going to be the moment where someone becomes Muslim they find Islam, they accept it maybe they didn't find Islam other than through this woman but they found Islam co-workers are interested in getting married even though they accept the Shahada and now they are Muslim and they may not pray 5 times a day they may still be doing other things but they generally accept it but I have seen those people become the most committed to Islam in their families I have seen that they are the ones who can help their spouse go from not praying at all to praying 5 times a day and I have seen that they are not allowed to pray 5 times a day go from their children not caring about Islam at all to helping them love the masjid you don't know what moment is going to be the reason someone really falls in love not just with a person but with Islam so Abul Talha radi allahu anhu he wasn't interested in Islam at first he learned about Islam through Um Sulaym and she would ask him are you really worshiping idols are you legitimately worshiping wood if you got cold you would break it and use it for fire you are worshiping that and Abul Talha Subhanallah is one of the greatest companions radi allahu anhu ma so this woman who has this intense personality and her sister who wants to be with the group who goes in Cyprus this this household is also the one that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam would visit out of love for them why? because Um Haram even though I mentioned her husband was Obadi ibn Somet this was the next marriage she had her husband and her son both were killed in Uhud they were accepted Islam very early when Uhud took place 70 people were martyred in Uhud 70 of the companions and she found that both her husband and her son were martyred and she took it with resilience she radiated resilience and then her brothers her brothers were appointed by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam a group of 70 of the of those who knew Islam those who were hafal of what had been revealed so far were asked to go and teach a tribe about Islam this tribe requested those who know about Islam to teach them and her two brothers went and her two brothers were massacred in this ambush against all of the companions who had went with them with this group and her brother Haram he smiled as he was being killed and he said I won I won it is said that there are people as they're passing away one of my teachers told me that when someone passes away sometimes they can see the place that they're going to be or an angel of goodness that comes and gives them glad tidings and that moment I'm going to tell you this panel when I was studying in Egypt there was a woman I had gone to the masjid so that I can ask the Imam if a group of us who were American studying in Cairo if we could study with this Imam and I didn't physically see him I mean we were like speaking through a barrier and I asked him like can we study Qura'an with you because he was known to be a scholar of Qura'an in that region and he said I don't teach women and I said we're a group of foreigners this is like access that we normally don't have in America this is way before like anything YouTube streams and like online classes and I asked can we study behind a wall even if we don't wear naqab we're naqab we will sit behind a wall we don't need to see you can we just study with you and he was very respectful and he said no and I was very sad honestly I just thought this is such an opportunity to study with a scholar like this and he's not comfortable teaching women may Allah bless him and I didn't know where else we were going to study with Qura'an with someone from this background so I went upstairs into the masjid and there were a small group of women there and one of the women was like can I ask you what did you ask the sheikh for like I went down to the sheikh's area where there's generally there's only men there asking questions so she was like what did you ask him and I was like you know I really wanted to study and he said he said no and then she was like you were truthful so Allah swt rewards your truthfulness and she said I am here because I'm going to be taking a tafsir class and it's just for women and at that point I barely knew any Arabic and they were all in Arabic she's like I will give you all of these books and I will give you my phone number Allah bless her and she gave me her phone number and I met her again one more time and then many years later when I was back it was actually not that many years later it was a few years later someone told me about a woman who was killed in Rabaa she was in a hospital and her back was facing the window and a sniper shot her and killed her and they said her name is Asma Saqr and I was like Asma Saqr I know that name but there's probably many Asma Saqr and then I saw her picture and it was the same sister but suddenly on social media I don't agree that this should have been done I was shocked to see it but it was her picture as she was covered in the burial shroud and her face was literally this I have never seen someone smile that wide in my life in life I have never seen someone with a bigger smile alive than I saw with her picture in the burial shroud just radiant and again I don't agree that that should have been spread on social media I was surprised to see it but that moment for me I thought of what she said you were truthful to Allah so Allah was truthful to you look at how truthful she was to Allah and how truthful Allah was with her she didn't live a very long life but subhan Allah the fact that in such a short amount of time she made such an impact on my life and the lives of the people that she knew the mercy of Allah and that commitment to opening a door of knowledge for someone who felt like the door was closed for me in that moment that was a moment that had I never known what happened to her I still held that moment with such healing in my heart when Haram is saying I won what kind of life did he lead and he was Muslim for a very short amount of time he accepted Islam early he accepted Islam early he learned the Quran as much as it had been revealed he was half of the Quran for that amount of the Quran and then I won this is the family that Um Haram came from so she's lost her husband she's lost her oldest son she has lost her two brothers and their reaction is not to say I don't have a space in the Muslim community or Islam only brings hardship or every single time I believe in Allah SWT more I'm tested even more or why isn't my da'a being answered that everyone around me that I love is being taken away all of these are very real feelings all of us have these thoughts and these experiences that's very human but what do they do with it they say how can we serve Allah SWT and the messenger of Allah in the way that's going to be the most effective and also in the way that fits their personalities the way that fits their personalities the great granddaughter of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam her name was Sukena this panel when I heard her story actually sheaqa muslima permal was the one who told me her story first and the way she told she was like she was like you would love her and the way she said it was like her personality was just like so like cool people wanted to be like her she was an influencer of her time she made a hairstyle as a preteen a hairstyle that became so popular in mecca it was so popular in other areas that she didn't even live in it was called the Sukeniya like people would do it was called the Sukeniya and she would make her hair like this really cool way and even the men tried to do it and then Umar ibn al-Aziz who was the Khalif at that time he was like stop men are not allowed to do this you will be punished this is only a woman's hairstyle and so when a man came and proposed to Sukeniya from her dad her father the grandson of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam do you know what he said he said listen listen to her so I told you about her right she has this like cool personality she has a hairstyle that everyone wants to have this is when she was really young so you can imagine as she's growing older and people know her as this like amazing and everyone wants to be like her and all these guys want to marry her and then what does he say he says that her heart is too connected to Allah she won't be able to handle being married she won't be able to give you your rights as a husband because her heart is too connected to Allah she does eventually get married and her life is so devastating one of the poems that she says is that to the people who murdered her father and then later murdered her husband she said you made me an orphan as a young person and you made me a widow as a woman the pain that she lived was so real and yet when you read about her or you read the lines of poetry that she would write her connection to Allah was so was so much more real that intentionality of being who you are that you face circumstances that shake you what do you go back to you go back to that connection that light internally that new to the Allah puts in the hearts of the believers that there are going to be times that we will stumble and we will not be who we want to be and I don't know if you feel this way but I catch myself frequently thinking I miss who I used to be I wish I could be that person again I wish I could be another person I wish I could be better there are times I have those thoughts where I just sit there and I'm like when am I ever going to be who I want to become and I know that the only reason I'm not becoming it is because I'm stopping myself I am stopping myself and yes sometimes it's because of outside messages and yes it's just the reality of being busy with life and all of those things but also I you know it's funny because I don't really care about what people think about you you should only care about what Allah SWT thinks about you and you should care about or sees you not thinks about how he sees you and what you think about yourself and it's like what if you're your biggest hater what if you're your biggest critic and the way you think about yourself is always one where you're never worthy enough but that's not how Allah SWT sees you why did he create you to be a part of this ummah why did he give you the examples of Um Haram and Um Suraym and Sukena why do we have the scholars who were women throughout our history you know it's a really funny statement there's a woman in another sentry I don't remember this sentry off the top of my head but she is in a masjid and she is approached by a man and the man says you woman, you come in here and you put your heads on the floor and you raise your bottoms up that's what he's referring to and then she tells him just put dust in your eyes and stop looking that's what she says to him he says he says I can't stop looking and do you know what she responds with she doesn't say well you don't deserve to be in the masjid which honestly I don't know I wouldn't have responded the way she did mashallah she was like I focus more when I'm here when I'm at home my children distract me and that moment for me was very powerful because she expanded on why the masjid was something she didn't have to do that she did not need to give an explanation she could have said well really just stop looking she could have just said that was enough but her giving us insight into that I don't know what happened to this man maybe that conversation helped him recognize why sometimes for women with children being in the masjid is so much more important than maybe someone in a different circumstance but the point is that she said I need this space I need this space and I need this space to be a place where I connect to Allah what impact is that going to have on her children and what impact is that going to have on the children who see their mothers and their grandmothers going to the masjid and connected to the house of Allah that is the legacy that we are given when Allah tells us I want to say I want to say I want to say I want to say I want to say I want to say I want to say that those who are for-most that they are the closest that they are in Paradise that verse, when we talk about it we talk about a very select few people who are part of that verse we cannot compare did Allah want to deny or any of the companions or any of those who came after them but we can follow what a companion asks Allah we may not have prepared what they prepared but we love them we didn't prepare what they prepared would they prepare? We never can prepare what they've prepared. But we love them. And the Prophet ﷺ taught us that you are with the one that you love. So we ask Allah ﷻ to make us of the سابقون الأولون, make us of the مقربون, make us of those who are in جنة نعيم, even if we know we don't deserve it. And then, even if we know we don't deserve it and we are harder on ourselves than anyone else is, and on top of that we may feel like we're never going to be good enough, we ask Allah ﷻ not because of my goodness, but because of your mercy, and not because of my actions, but because of my love for the people of action. Count me of those people. We live in a country where we do not hear the Adhan five times a day, and we do not hear the Aqama on top of that, but we still choose to pray. We're struggling to pray in public places, in random places, just to make Salah on time. Do you not think that the angels who are roaming the earth, who are sent to protect and make dua for you, are not acknowledging that, witnessing that, and praying for you? We're here for a reason, in this land for a reason, in this time for a reason. Every single one of us has a role to play. What that role is, we need to go back to what the woman companions did. Look at what our skills are, our interests, our passions are, and stop denying them, and instead say, how can I use this for the sake of Allah ﷻ's Panawata? May Allah ﷻ's Panawata use this for His Excellency. May Allah ﷻ's Panawata use this for His Excellency. Peace be upon you.


We're here live, we're in Silicon Valley, heart of Silicon Valley, this is the San Jose Convention Center. This is day two of exclusive coverage from SiliconANGLE and wikibond.org for Hadoop Summit, the hashtag is Hadoop Summit. Go to the hashtag tweet, we're following every tweet, we're watching every tweet. We want to hear from you, if you have any comments, concerns, you don't like that Dave's not wearing a jacket today? No problem, just tweet us, we'll make some changes and we'll ask the guests some questions. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, with my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante at wikibond.org. Mark Taranzoni is here, he's the CEO of Squirrel. Mark, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks Dave. So we've been hearing about security all week.  You know, John and I have been following this space since the very early days. You didn't really hear much about security. You didn't really hear anything about security. Charles from Cloudera was just on, he said, security today is too chunky, we need more fine grain security. And I said, oh, that's a great lead-in to Squirrel. So, what are you seeing out there? Yeah, absolutely. Well, a couple things I'll say is that security, security's not a bolt-on.  You have to architect it in. It has to be part of the premise of the design and the architecture of your system from the get-go. And fortunately, with the product that we've developed, Squirrel Enterprise, based on a core technology called Accumulo that was developed by the NSA, has that fine-grained access control secure system and we've built the ecosystem to enable it to interface and work within an enterprise environment. Yeah, we had Adam Fuchsia actually at the Wikibon headquarters, John. I think you saw it as well. Did a little shock talk, sent a lesson learned from the NSA in 10 years, basically a better part of a decade he had spent there. And basically what he helped our audience do is just understand how to architect security. And of course there's been a lot of talk lately about the NSA and how they're using data. But we reported, I know you can't comment, but we reported that actually behind all that is Accumulo. And so we're starting to see just a much greater awareness in this community of security. It's a top two or three check-off item on the roadmaps of all the players here. But to your point, it can't just be a bolt-on. It can't just be a check-off. So what are you seeing in terms of adoption of Accumulo and how are people applying it in a way that they couldn't, for instance, with a bolt-on? Yeah, absolutely. So there's a couple of things that come to mind, Dave. So one is that Accumulo has that fine-grained control. What we've built with Squirrel is the integration into the identity access management system. We've also built a very robust policy engine that takes the requirements of the enterprise, applies it to the user, and applies it to the data that's in the system. So that policy engine's critical. We've patented technology around that. Additionally, we've added some encryption capabilities within the system. So it's really an ecosystem around security. And when we talk to customers, one of the first questions is, they all see the economic value of Hadoop and HDFS. There's no question about it. They've built solutions around it in the lab environment. And if they're a large-scale enterprise, typically what happens is they go from that lab and try to bring it into production, and they run into the CSO. And the CSO says, okay, I'm going to bring lots of information together. A lot of it is sensitive. Maybe the combination of data sets even creates additional sensitivity. How are we going to manage that in our environment? And that's usually when we have a very good discussion and leads to a POC and we're solving customers' real problems.  And essentially it provides a series of development capabilities, analytics capabilities on top of Accumulo, kind of closing the gap between what I'm sure the guys had to do with the previous lives and what a developer wants to do now. So talk about Squirrel Enterprise, what the objectives are, where you're at with that, when it hits the marketplace and all that other good stuff. Well, we're open for business, Dave. So we're in revenue now. We're selling that product to customers. We're on version 1.1 of the product. So it's been out for about three months now and we're seeing a tremendous amount of interest in the customer base. We're targeting, certainly the Fed space is a good opportunity for us. We're targeting areas in the Fed, banking and finance, telecommunications and healthcare are areas of the verticals that are absolutely resonating. What we've built, to answer your question on the analytics layer, what we've built is a solution for developers to build real-time big data applications very easily and very quickly. So at the core, we've got the security and we've built the ecosystem around that security. We've also built the capability index information as it streams into our platform. So once it's ingested, it's readily available to the application of the user to start consuming immediately. Very real-time focused. Additionally, on top, we built a layer of discovery analytics that are really building blocks for building those big data applications. Whether you're building something around the areas of fraud or anomaly detection, this layer of analytics allows our customers to work at a higher level than just at the accumulo level. So some examples are we have SQL functions in there, we have Lucene capabilities, we convert the information to JSON. So very Mongo-like, it's easy to program on a JSON-type document versus a key value store. And we've also built graph capabilities. So we almost think of our database in the no-seq world as a three-on-one. Cumulo gives us a column store, we've added document store and graph store capabilities onto the system. What are some of the conversations that you're here? We're obviously monitoring the Twittersphere on the security conversation. You've got a variety of different projects within Apache that are getting some traction. And also you've got different perspectives. And there's also a talent crunch out there. There's really not a lot of talent that can come in and just start rolling out security. I mean, it's like the perfect storm. So I want to get your take on what you think about some of the security conversations that are being proposed or discussed here and what you guys think of those vis-a-vis what you're offering. Yeah, absolutely. So what we're hearing is security's top of mind. There's no question about it. And there are a lot of different angles around it. My view is that it can't be a pointed solution. It can't address one piece of the ecosystem. It's a stack. You've got to try to cover the whole stack when you're talking about security. And with our solution, we're attempting to do that. And the feedback we've got from our customers is clearly around our ecosystem and security. The other thing that I've noticed just at the show, which has been very unique and interesting, customers are coming to us, prospects are coming to us, and they're actually being pointed to us from other ecosystem partners that are at the show because they have a security need and they say go talk to the squirrel guys. So talk about Apache Falcon and Apache and Knox, these projects are being kicked around. What do they mean vis-a-vis some of the things that you guys are doing? Yeah, you know, I don't know the details of those specific projects, John, but what I think what it means to us is that this continued demand and requirements around security. We heard it in the keynote speak yesterday. That seems to be the whole. I think, you know, additional projects that provide a more secure system will enable this, you know, HDFS and Hadoop and the systems on top to roll out more readily in the customers, and I think it's all good. Absolutely. Mark, you got to hear a hard charge and you know, operations guy, you've been a big company, small company, startups and the like. You have a unique challenge now. You got to start up, you're building a team, you're selling into places like you said, financial services, healthcare, government, and at the same time, you're appealing to a developer audience. So, talk about how you're approaching the developer community specifically and what you're going to do there and are doing there to attract those guys. Yep, yep, so you're absolutely right. I mean, talent is critical. We're a technology company. We need to continue to influx more talent into the company. From my perspective is you build challenging products and solve hard problems. The development community wants to be involved. We'll continue to support CUMULO and continue to contribute to that and we've built an ecosystem around that. We don't have a CUMULO show yet, but you have my word that in 2014, you'll start to see a bigger community built around that and Squirrel will be the leaders in helping to develop that community. Yeah, what about that? I mean, you see it around HBaseCon and certainly Mongo and Cassandra and so you feel like it's time now for CUMULO to break out. Absolutely, you need a driver for that and Squirrel will be the driver. I think maybe we'll coin the phrase, Accumulonation. Yeah. Well, we're certainly big fans of what you guys are doing.  Your approach and method is different than some of the other approaches, but again, that's not a bad thing and what we like about what you guys are doing is you bring in the relevant solutions secured to the table and it's not just early, the tech's there and I think, you know, we think, you know, your success will be realized if you guys can navigate in the ecosystem. So my final question to you is, how are you going to navigate the sandbox? That is the big data ecosystem from open source to commercial, that those dynamics are in play. Yeah, we're an open core company so we'll continue to, you know, use Accumulos, a patchy version that's released as part of our core. We're selling to the Fed space, which is a natural given Accumulos, you know, heritage from that space and our team's heritage from that space. One of the things that we hear a lot from our commercial customers and they like a lot from us is that that core technology has been running in very large scale environments within the federal government for the last five years. It's very robust, it's very resilient and as a startup, you know, a lot of times you have to go try to sell to these enterprise customers the fact that you'll be a robust solution. We have that almost as a given, given where that Apache Accumul came from. So that's a tremendous benefit in that and as far as the ecosystem goes, we're very partner friendly, John. So it's a great question. We sit on top of, we're agnostic to the distribution below us, we sit on top of all of them. We have formalized partnerships with a few of them that we've released and we're working on, you know, collaborating and announcing a few more. So what should we be watching? What should observers be watching for? Milestones that you personally want to hit? What are you driving the team toward? What should we be looking for? Yeah, absolutely. So we're going to continue to add from the technology standpoint to the product.  I think what you'll start to hear is more discussions around who our customers are. And, you know, I look forward to coming here next year and having one of my customers deliver a use case keynote presentation. Or maybe at a cumulonation. Absolutely, absolutely. There's a conference in there somewhere. And if there is, we'll be there at theCUBE. And theCUBE will be there. Thanks Mark, thanks for coming on theCUBE again. Hot startup, you guys are doing some great work. This is theCUBE. We talk to all the folks who have the signal and will extract it from the noise and with the CEOs, startups, developers. We'll bring that to you. This is theCUBE on SiliconANGLE.tv. We'll be right back with our next guest after the short break, Hadoop Summit Live, day two coverage continuing after the short break.