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Most of the office boys remember to knock on my door before they came in, and even some of the stenographer still spoke to me. But everybody else above the rank of junior story reader knew it was just a question of time before that big brass nameplate in the lobby came down and another one went up in its place, Bentley and Waltz Publishing. No more Lockwood. If ever a man hated his partners, I did. Main force, sir. I went out of the building and across the street to the Savoy Fadena. Even the head waiter must have heard the rumor. He gave me the dime-sized table over in the corner that's generally reserved for out-of-town ribbon clerks. That's all right, Bob. It'll be another day. I'd gotten to coffee and dessert when I saw Helen Conover. Well, that just about summed it up. There were two things that I wanted in this world to get my hands back on that corporation and Helen Conover. When she saw me and I waved to her and she waved back and started over to my table. She was head of our promotion department. She was smart and ambitious, and she could have personally modeled for any pin-up art that you ever saw, but she was reserving anything along that line for my partner, Dick Walsh. Okay, sister. It'll be another day. Hello, Arthur. Dining alone? Yes, it's a habit, but I could break it under the right conditions. Oh, but you're all finished. That's all right. I'm just a big book publisher. I've got nothing to do. Well, if it's not against office regulations to have dinner with the boss. Regulations? Well, they never bothered you now, did they? Now, Arthur, let's keep this clean. That's my dimus to order. Yes, the steak dinner, please. No soup and no potatoes. Very good, madam. Working kind of late, aren't you? Not working. Dick wanted me to see him off on the train. Where's he going? Chicago. What for? Business, I suppose. Didn't he tell you?  Well, it wasn't anything very important, I guess. Well, I'd know even less if it had been. Maybe you can tell me about Sam. About Sam? Did he get his report from the doctor? Oh, yes. He did, as a matter of fact. How was he? I'm afraid it's pretty bad. How bad? Well, it's his heart all right. They don't give him much more time. Uh-huh. Six months at the most. Well, that means they'll have to work fast, or I will. What? Wouldn't you say so? Arthur, I don't understand you. I've just told you that one of your partners has only six months to live, and you don't even seem to care. Now, look, let's be grown up about it, at least. Sam Bentley and Dick Walsh have been trying to ease me out of the firm for the last year.  Why should I care? You really hate him, don't you? Me? I don't hate anybody. I just hope he kicks off tonight instead of waiting six months, and Dick Walsh's train runs into the Hudson River. That's all. I don't hate anybody. I just wish they were dead. Oh, Arthur, how can you? What's the matter with that? I wish my partners were out of the way, and you wish... Well, I know what you wish too only. I'm honest about it, and you're not. This isn't a very pleasant conversation. There's always a better one. For instance, what are you doing tonight? I'm going home and get a good night's sleep for a change. Oh, by the way, how long is Dick gonna be away? About a week. You'll be kind of lonely, won't you? I don't see why I should. Well, that's what I was thinking.  Why, Mr. Lockwood? Why don't people tell me these things? People don't have to tell people like you those things. Now that you mention it, I do seem to have noticed a sort of a leer ever so often. Well, that wasn't any leer, baby. That was the real McCoy. Look, Arthur, this may sound kind of corny, but I'm in love with Dick, and he's in love with me. It does. What? Sound corny. Why doesn't he marry you? You know why. Sure, that wife that won't divorce him. You know, he's been using that one for the last 10 years. Please, Arthur, I'd rather not talk about it. Okay, okay, not to change the subject, but what do you expect to get out of it? Get out of what? The reorganization, the big day when they kick old Arthur out of the firm. You think maybe they'll make you a vice president? I really don't know what you're talking about, Arthur. Well, you ought to think about it. Because you can never tell, I might be able to make you an even better proposition. I'm afraid I'm not interested in your propositions, Arthur. Any of them. Okay, baby. It'll be another day. It was mostly bluff, and she knew it, but there was one thing that she didn't know. There was a chance that my smart partners had actually been holding out on me. And if they had, the way our incorporation papers were drawn, then I could really nail them. Well, I'd been snooping through the files at night lately, and I'd already dug up a couple of things. This night, I went back at it again. I let myself in through the side door of the building and walked up the two flights to the office. Everything was dark and deserted. Barely make out the long lines of desks. And then I saw the light under Sam's door. And I crossed the office very quietly and listened. Hmm, nothing. I tapped on the door. Still nothing. So I opened it. And there was Sam. There was Sam, leaning back in his chair and staring at me with those cold and slightly protruding blue eyes, much the way he always did.  And Sam Bentley was dead. The gun was lying on the carpet where it had fallen out of his hand. It was his, all right. I recognized it. His other hand had fallen against an open drawer of the desk and his wristwatch was broken. It had stopped at five after eight. And I picked up the phone to call the police. And then I noticed a letter on his desk. It was addressed to Richard Walsh. Well, I put up the phone and looked at that letter. Then I opened it. Well, it was about what I'd figured, the doctor's report on his heart, the usual, all-round apology, and then a detailed explanation of how Dick Walsh could use the corporate insurance to pay off Sam's family for his share of the business and then take it over himself because Sam didn't want me to have any part of it. The signature was a little scrawly, but it was Sam's all right. So there it was, the double cross. And yet it's funny, but almost before I got through reading it, I knew the answer. I looked at that broken wristwatch of his again. Five after eight, it said. An hour later, I was home in bed sleeping like a baby, knowing that Dick Walsh, too, was going to die. I strolled into the office the next morning about ten just to be on the safe side, but of course they'd already found him. All over the office there were little huddles that broke up fritably of my approach. Well, I played it for what it was worth and headed for the largest and most important huddle, the executive huddle outside of Sam's door. They were all there, including Helen Conover. And she was looking pretty sick. Well, what is all this? Just a minute, who are you? Oh, I'm Arthur Lockwood. What's all this about? Oh, just wait here, please, Mr. Lockwood. What's going on here, anyway? Somebody robbed the till? Arthur, it's Sam. His heart? No, he was shot. Shot? Arthur, the police say it's murder.  Yes, certainly. I'll see you again, too, please, Miss Conover. Oh, yes, all right. Well, we went in. Sam was still there, but by this time, somebody had thrown a towel over his face.  Yes? Captain Gibbons' homicide. Is that Sam, Sam Bentley? Yes. No, it must be something of a shock to you, sir, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you a few questions. Oh, yes, of course. Please go right ahead.  Are you sure it was... I mean, couldn't it have been suicide? Why would he want to kill himself? Well, he's been pretty depressed lately. His health has been bad. Only yesterday he got a report from his doctor that he probably wouldn't live more than six months. No, won't hold, Mr. Lockwood. Not unless you figure that Bentley shot himself and then carried the gun into your other partner's office. That's Mr. Walsh, isn't it? Mr. Walsh? Yes. Was that surprising? Why? Yes, it... Do you mean that you found the gun in Mr. Walsh's office? In the wall safe. How many people have the combination of that safe, Mr. Lockwood? Well, just the three of us, I think, the three partners. We each have a safe, but somebody else has to have the combination, who just in case... Well, you know, if... Did you trust your partners, Mr. Lockwood? Well, Captain, I'll be frank with you, there hasn't been a great deal of love lost between us lately, but yes, we trusted each other in our own way. Where were you at ten after seven, Mr. Lockwood? Oh, I was having dinner at the Savoy, across the street. You can prove that, I suppose? Yes, of course. As a matter of fact, Miss Conover here came over and later joined me. I understand Miss Conover was seeing your other partner, Mr. Walsh, off on the 735, at Chicago. Yes, so she told me yes. You're sure of the train town? Yes, of course. Well, it's the one Dick Walsh always takes to Chicago. Why this interest in time? Have you set the time of the... of when it happened? Bentley's watch was broken. It stopped at ten after seven. Oh. Uh, either of you see this before? Where did that come from? Recognizing? Yes, of course, that's Mr. Walsh's watch charm. He keeps losing it. He loses it all the time. Yes, he does. We found it in the chair behind Bentley's body. Oh, now wait a minute, Captain. You don't seriously mean to suggest that... How does it add up to you? Well, I mean that... that watch charm doesn't mean anything. It's true that he did lose it all the time, but he could have lost it in here any time. Not in a chair, Mr. Lockwood. It wouldn't stay there very long, not without being found. Oh, Captain, there must be some mistake. There must be... Harry, you can go now, Miss Conover. But please... I said you could go now, Miss Conover. Come on in, Helen. I guess that's it, Harry. I guess it is. Better call Chicago and issue a warrant. Richard Leonard Walsh, suspicion of murder. Oh, it's... All right, all right. It's nothing now. She's just fainted. For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Van Heflin in three blind mice. Roma Wines' presentation tonight in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills. Suspense. Between the acts of suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. Next time you have friends over in the evening, try this simple, gracious way to add warmth to their welcome. Serve delicious Roma California sherry, port or muscatel. Delightful with cheese, nuts, cake, or any tasty snack. You're sure to please every guest with better tasting Roma Wines. For Roma Wines are favorites from coast to coast, enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. The reason? Roma Wines taste better because Roma starts with choicest grapes. Because Roma with patient skill and America's finest winemaking resources guides these naturally finer grapes unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. Because Roma then places this luscious grape treasure with Roma Wines of years before to await selection from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines for your pleasure. So insist on Roma, R-O-M-A. Roma Wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Van Heflin as Arthur Lockwood with Kathy Lewis as Helen Conover in Free Blind Mice, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. The defendant will rise and face the court. Does the defendant wish to make a statement before sentence is passed? If not, we will proceed. Richard Leonard Walsh, having been tried and found guilty of the murder of Samuel Bentley in the first degree, you are hereby remanded to the custody of the warden of the state penitentiary. Where at such time as the state shall deem appropriate, you will be executed in the manner described by law. It's a nice, easy way of getting along in the publishing business, if you're lucky.  You rig the evidence to frame the other partner for his murder? Net result? A new firm, Arthur Lockwood Incorporated. Arthur Lockwood being me. Of course there were the usual appeals and the thing dragged on, but that didn't worry me. I had other things to think about. And number one on that list was Helen Conover. But there I'll admit I was surprised because Dick knew that he'd been framed and must have suspected me and Helen was supposed to be in love with Dick. Well, I played it very carefully. The paternal approach, the sorrowing friend dinner in the theater and stuff like that. But never word, never a wrong word or gesture. And then one night about a week before Dick Walsh was scheduled to be executed, I just brought Helen home from a sedate little tour of some of our most uppercrust hot boxes and we were at her apartment. It was a swell evening, Arthur. You've been awfully sweet to me. Well, it's the least I can do, Helen. Now you mustn't feel that way, Arthur. What way? That you sort of owe me something. Oh, you're something? Well, why should I? It's just that I know how you feel. No wonder if you do. Well, yes, I think so. You've been awfully brave about it, but I think I know. Arthur, once you said that something I said was corny. You remember? Yes, I remember. Well, it was. It wasn't even true. You weren't... you weren't in love with him? I'm afraid I'm a pretty heartless little girl, Arthur. I'm afraid I love myself too much to be really in love with anybody. Well, that's not heartless. That's just honest. You know that... that teased to be executed next week, don't you? Yes. Then he's not much good to me now, is he? Even if he did want to marry me. Now you know I'm heartless and cold-blooded and cruel. I ought to, but I don't. No. I don't have to be that way. I can be other ways. What other ways? Like this. Now, that was that. I didn't care about anything after that, even marriage. We made a quick trip down to Virginia where names in the publishing business wouldn't mean a thing, even ours. And it was all very quiet. No publicity, no fuss, nothing. When we got back, we took a little place in the East 50s. Although, of course, she kept her apartment, I kept mine. It had to be that way for a while, at least until after Dick's execution and the things that cooled down a bit. Well, I knocked off early at the office that day for the looks of the thing. And Helen was already home when I got there. Any particular reason? No, no particular reason. Penny, for your thoughts, darling. My thoughts? Oh, nothing special, I guess. I was just thinking, I don't know. Bet I know. What? You were thinking about Dick.  Well, maybe I was, I don't know. Well, I'm glad you did come home anyway, darling, because I wanted to have a little talk with you. John, you're about what? You really shouldn't let it bother you, you know. Like what bother me? The execution. Why should it bother me? He killed a man, didn't he? Why should I worry about what the law does to him? Are you so sure, Arthur? So sure of what? So sure that he did kill a man. Well, right then it hit me. That all the time I'd been thinking how slick everything was, something was wrong, terribly wrong.  Three mice and one of them dead and another with them as good as dead and I was left. All the evidence and everything. Wasn't like Dick to do a thing like that. You don't think he killed him? Arthur, do you remember, oh, it was a long time ago, you asked me what I expected to get out of it? If Sam and Dick squeezed you out of the firm. Yeah, I remember. And you said you might have a better proposition? How? Well, I've decided what I want. Sure, you really want to be a vice president. We can fix that easy enough. Although I sort of had the idea that you'd be pulling out after a while now that we're married. Oh, Arthur, you're priceless. No, I'm afraid of vice presidency, isn't it? All what I have in mind. And I don't know where you got the idea that I'd be pulling out of the firm, ever. What do you want? I want a full partnership, Arthur. A partnership? Yes. Is that so strange? Well, we are partners now, in a way, or my wife. No, I mean a real partnership. A corporate partnership. Look, Helen, you're asking me out of a clear sky to give you a half a share in a million-dollar business. Yes. Well, that'll take some thinking about it. Yes, I suppose it will. I was saying, it was strange about that evidence. For instance, there was the letter. What letter? The letter that was on Sam's desk when he killed himself. It disappeared. You must be crazy. Am I? What about the wristwatch? When he died, it said five after eight. But when they found him, it said ten after seven. And the gun. It was lying on the carpet by his hand, but somehow it got into Dick's wall safe.  Oh, really? Oh, Arthur, you are priceless. I let an innocent man go to the chair? You know, of course, that a wife can't testify against her husband. Oh, no. No, a wife can't be forced to testify against her husband. But she can if her conscience... All right. What do you want? I thought I'd mentioned it. The partnership. I see. Now you're not going to be unreasonable about it, are you, darling? No, Helen. I'm not going to be unreasonable. You know, darling, I was thinking, we ought to rearrange the office space. She'd even turned her back on me now. How would you knock out those parties? She was gazing out of the window, dreaming of the future. Her future, just the way she'd planned it. I couldn't guess how she knew. She must have been hiding somewhere and seeing me, but that didn't matter much now. I only knew that I was right back where I'd started from, the business slipping out of my hands in Sunday. No business and no Helen. I had to think fast and act fast. There was a bronze statuette on the end table. I picked it up and hefted it. It was just about right, so I stepped over behind her. Just the offices then will be just exactly the same. Except for that.  I hit her hard, but not too hard. Because this was one suicide that was going to come off right. I carried her out to the kitchen and propped her up in the chair in front of the kitchen table. And then I went into the bathroom, got some towels. That wouldn't leave any marks. And I tied her hands and feet and gagged her even if she did come two in a few minutes. It wouldn't matter. All I had to do was come back in a couple of hours and put the towels away and make everything look just as natural as I could. It was a risk those two hours and I knew it. The whole thing was a risk. But it was the best I could do. I looked at her once more before I left. She hadn't moved a muscle. And then I turned on the gas. By the time I got back to my apartment, I was shaking all over. This time I had really killed somebody. But why would anybody connect me with it, I told myself? Why would anybody think it was anything but suicide? She had the motive this day of all days. Everybody knew that she was in love with Walsh. And even if her marriage to me came out, the motive would still hold. And then the doorbell rang and I jumped a foot. At first I wasn't going to answer it and then I thought I'd better. Whoever it was would establish that I was here at home and that I could brush them off before I had believed. Hello, Mr. Larkwin. Busy? Why, uh, no, uh, give it to me. No, no, come right in. Thanks. Right in here, please. Have a seat. Uh-huh. Uh, cigar? Thanks. Oh, pretty good cigar. You must be doing pretty well for yourself nowadays. Uh, better let me light it myself. You seem kind and nervous. Well, you know how it is. I mean, today the... You mean your partner Walsh going to the hot seat? I try not to think about it, but, uh, well, it... Yeah, he'll be sitting down there pretty soon now. Pretty soon. They say it doesn't hurt, but I don't know. Do you ever see one? Look, do we have to talk about it? Makes you feel kind of bad, eh? I wouldn't wonder. Why did you do it, Larkwin? Do what? Framing. I... I don't know what you're talking about. Sure you do. You changed the time, stashed the gun, tore up the suicide note. In fact, as I was saying, you framed him. No, Walsh killed him. You know he did. He was convicted of killing him. All the evidence was that he killed him. Oh, sure. Walsh killed him, all right. What? Walsh killed him. He told us he did. Just today. But it was, uh... Say, look, what is this?  Then you came along and pinned it back on Walsh, where it belonged in the first place. He gave us a full confession just this afternoon. Then, uh... Then you... So, I don't know whether we ought to thank you for making it easy for us or try to pin a rap on you. But the DA is willing to let it go, so it's all right with me. He, uh, wants a statement, though. Oh, sure. Sure, anything. Anything you say. By the way, what about that dame? What? What dame? The one in your office that was supposed to be sweet on Walsh. We want her the worst way. You... Why? Accessory to murder. She was in it up to a rears. So that was it. That's how she'd known, and I'd taken my life in my hand for nothing. She was up there dying right now. I was murdering her while Gibbon sat there risking my life to do something that the law would have done for me. Maybe it still wasn't too late, but Gibbon's just sat there talking and talking and talking.  Sure, sure. Tomorrow, the very first thing.   I was 10 blocks away. I didn't dare take a cab. I didn't dare even run for fear that somebody would see me and remember in case it was too late. By the time I got there, I was gasping for breath so I'd run every step.  I put my handkerchief over my face and rushed into the kitchen.  She was sitting there just as I left her, but I got her up on the table. And I dragged it over toward the window. I got the gag out of her mouth and it began working her arms, artificial respiration. I knew that much. I worked over by that window and I had a rough face. But I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell yet. The towels that I tied her feet with were still there, but I didn't bother with them or anything else. I just kept working over, up and down, up and down, as though... as though my life depended on it. It did. I'm afraid you're too late, Lockwood. I'm afraid your wife is dead. He was a smart cop, that Gibbons. He knew a lot. He says now he's pretty sure it doesn't hurt the country chair, I mean. Well, tonight I'm gonna find out. Suspense. Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. Roma America's favorite wines. Well, this is Ken Niles bringing back to our microphone the distinctly star of tonight's suspense play, Van Heflin. Van, you played the part of a publisher tonight. How about publishing a few tips on Roma wines? Well, with wine like Roma, Ken, all you need to do is publish the facts. Well, fact number one is that Roma America's greatest vintner has asked me to present you with this basket of Roma wines for your wonderful performance tonight. Well, that's a very good beginning, Ken. My thanks to you and to Roma. A fact number two, Van, is that your friends will enjoy the Roma California sherry in your gift basket. For golden amber fragrant Roma sherry with tempting nut-like tastes is the perfect first call to dinner. 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Did you read about the crash warnings? There is a if you look at the Dow Jones, and that's what the news that is spreading already yesterday and today They there was an author looking at the Dow Jones Year-to-date at the chart and they overlaid this chart with the Dow Jones chart of the year 1987 and he found out that wow, it's almost exactly the same chart and what followed in 1987 in October was a big massive crash So is that about to repeat itself is history repeating itself? I don't think so the Federal Reserve has indicated that they want to hike rates in December. Yes, but they didn't really Say that they will they only said that they might they prepared the markets that there is a higher probability That they will but they didn't do it yet Didn't say that they will and so shoot markets really drift lower They will open the floodgates of money again and stabilize the Equity markets again. So plunge protection team is active and ready. So do not underestimate that factor But that said that being said there might be a correction coming in equity markets They are sell sickness on Wall Street actually so several hundred points in the Dow Jones. Yes, but a crash I don't think so. I Would rather say that from a contrarian standpoint It is very positive that once the Dow Jones goes down a little Which it did is not a major correction by now as soon as it goes down a little All of a sudden and immediately there are crash Focuss in the markets and that is from a contrarian sentiment perspective It's really positive if you look at private investors and their sentiment in the United States If you look at the American association of individual investors, you find out that they are very bearish very bearish They are not in the market. So if they miss the correction and to enter the correction They might miss the ball and might miss a rally coming that is at least what the Seasonality and cyclicality of the markets tell us because we are in an election year Trump is actually 11 percentage points behind Hillary Clinton's very hard for him to Gain crowned and actually win the election at least that's what the polls indicate So we are in an election year and normally in such an election year Markets form a major bottom a major low in October. So right now where we are right now Markets might form a major low and then normally until the end of the year they Go into a strong rally If you look at the seasonality We are in Germany. So I'm looking very strongly at the DAX DAX normally in from a seasonal standpoint also forms a low in October so Now we have that correction. There might be a low coming and all of a sudden there is very very sentiment crash forecast in the market which in Taken together is really a positive signal from a contrarian standpoint So if you are trading the DAX it is actually has not really managed to break above 10,707 points it is trying to actually Stabilize itself and the Dow Jones as well at the lows of yesterday Should it break lower below the lows of yesterday? There might be a correction coming until 9,973 points. That's the target of a technical double top formation So that target of 9,973 is active as long as the DAX stays below 10,707 so another market you should watch today is print crude oil Take a look at that if it goes above fifty two dollars on a weekly closing basis It would activate an inverted head and shoulders pattern There would be a bottom information which has formed over the duration of the past one and a half years and Yeah, if it goes above fifty two dollars on a weekly closing basis It would trigger that inverted head on shoulders pattern and would activate a target above seventy dollars until the I guess there's something for you 2017 so that is very interesting watch print crude oil and watch the equity markets closely these days and so luckily now The show behind me has ended so 70 dollars and above that would be the print crude target if print goes up above 52 on a weekly closing basis, which is half nine tonight So watch that and watch the equity markets for a potential cyclical and seasonal low about to come


Hi, I'm Steve from Alice Brigham and this is Elsa and we're here today to talk to you about the Blizzard Black Pearl 88. So it's a ski that's been around for a few seasons now but this is a new version so it's had quite a few updates to it and really effective updates which we're going to go into how we felt that it skied and just how well it came out from our tests. But before we do that, here's Katie from Blizzard just to talk you through some of the tech info. This is the Black Pearl 88 from Blizzard. This is Blizzard's best-selling ski and it's just gotten better. This year they've developed what's called the True Blend Wood Core where we've got different densities of wood throughout the ski and what that does is give it a much smoother, more balanced flex so it can handle changing conditions with ease. It's the perfect ski for hard-packed snow into soft powder, crud down the side of the paste and we've had fantastic feedback, playful but happy to charge on harder snow. It's the perfect all-rounder. So I'm a big fan of Black Pearl 88 because over the many years we've had it in the range in its various forms, it's made a lot of skiers very happy from intermediate up to expert skiers. It's got a massive, massive appeal and I'm not sure I've ever really heard a bad word about it. Whether it's people that are skiing mainly on-piece or whether people that are skiing it off-piece quite a lot in all conditions. But this is a new version and it's been updated and we're very hopeful that the updates were going to be positive and we were more than pleasantly surprised. So we skied it up in Scotland, skied it in every condition whilst we were there. We had powder, we had junk snow, we had hard pack, we had fresh groomed so here's also with some thoughts on how it went. So I had never really got on one of these before properly and I had heard quite a lot of good things but again wasn't really sure what I was going to make of it. I just got really excited. It's the type of ski that you get on and you just kind of want to ski more of and you can literally take it anywhere and just have an absolute blast. I think my favorite bit was just mucking about in the powder but then going straight from that to absolutely blasting down the groomers really fast but then you can just sit back and relax at the same time so you can literally do anything on it. It's brilliant. But you're quite technical skier, you're quite powerful skier but you don't feel that it was too demanding either? It wasn't demanding but it wasn't kind of dull either. If you pushed it it responded but if you sat back it was happy to take you at that speed as well. For me I think that's the thing with the Black Pearl that good skiers still really enjoy it but so do progressing intermediates and I think it's got a lot to do with the way the flip core works and the way the rocker is so it's got power if you need it but it's also very forgiving and very manoeuvrable and I suppose what better place to test it than somewhere like Scotland as well. So it is a new ski, it's an updated ski. If you want more information have a look at the web pages online or call into one of the stores or give us a ring, we'll talk you through it. If you've got any questions or any comments, if you've skied it pop them below and we'll come back to you. Otherwise thanks for watching.


Hi everyone. Welcome to Fair Use Week 2023. My name is Rina Pantoloni and I'm director of the Copyright Advisory Services Office at Columbia University Libraries. But I also chair the advisory board of a new education initiative called Ocean, the Open Copyright Education Advisory Network, which is targeted to professionals working in cultural heritage institutions, that is libraries, archives and museums and other cultural institutions. And the purpose of Ocean is to foster conversation, discussion and learning about the interaction between copyright and our mission driven activities. You know, we learned a lot as a result of the experiences we've all lived through over the course of the last few years that access and preservation activities are really dependent upon understanding the rights and interests associated with the materials and objects that we're working with on a day to day basis. This is incredibly true when trying to facilitate access remotely during what was a pandemic and in circumstances where it is not possible for our patrons and our visitors to access the collections that we steward because of all sorts of reasons. And so as a result, we started Ocean as a new educational program and initiative so that those of us who work on preservation and access activities in our institutions can better understand through interaction, through comparison, how it is that we manage these incredibly complex copyright issues associated with our activities. Fair use is a staple. It is the way in which we are able to preserve and provide access to so many of our collections. Our knowledge and our understanding about fair use is really important to how we do our day to day business. And for that reason, I encourage, I'm here to talk to you today about engaging in fair use professional development and education so that we can continue to understand how better to achieve our mission-driven activities. This is now becoming increasingly important as we are so dependent on social media and new technologies that are enabling us to meet mission and bring our collections to where our visitors and patrons are. The issues that we're facing concerning fair use are both national and their global and it is only in fostering ongoing discussions about how to apply fair use that we will achieve a robust understanding of how to develop next steps and how to develop processes by which we are able to achieve our objectives within our own institutions and most importantly meeting the objectives and the needs of our patrons and visitors. So please log on to our website oceancopyright.org and check out our programmatic activities. We have recordings of past workshops and we host discussion series events every semester where we all jump on Zoom and talk about subjects that are increasingly vexing and complex with a group of panelists who are experts in the field and are willing and able to answer questions live during one hour blocks of time and most importantly these events are free to all of us in the community. We only ask that you register to attend. So on that note I wish everyone a happy fair use week and I hope to see you at ocean events in the near future. Thanks.


فاتحة أوضى بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي هدان لهذا وما كنا لنا هدد لو لا هدان الله الحمد لله الذي أنزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيره صلاة والسلام على خير خلق ونور عرش أفضل الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبنا وسيدنا وسندنا وشفيعنا ومولانا أب القاسم محمد وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين المأسومين المظلومين أما بعد فقد قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيد وقوله الحق وهو أستقصادقين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم محمد الرسول الله والذين معوا شد دول الكفار رحماء بينهم تراهم ركعا سجدا يبتغون فضل من الله ورضوان سيماهم في وجوه من أثر السجود ذلك مثلهم في التورات ومثلهم في الإنجيل كزرع أخرج شطأه فأزروا فاستغلضا فاستواع على سوقه يعجب الزرع ليغيذ بهم الكفار وعض الله الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحة حياتي منهم مغفرة واجرا عظيمة صدق الله العلي العظيم صلاهات الله محمد وآله محمد I begin in Allah's Name the Benefits, the Merciful and All Praise belongs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى And I send my condolences to the human race for the tragic events that took place in the year 61 after Hijrah Okay. السلام عليكم ورحمة الله. السلام عليكمانكم ورحمة الله. كيف أهل أن في الحالة و to mix it with falsehood so the human race can go astray as Iblis promised Allah when he failed فبعزتك لأغوينه مجمعين إلا عبادك منهم المخلصين Iblis promised Allah that by your authority I will beguile this human race that has caused my downfall that has caused my downfall is parenthetical لأغوينه مجمعين I will fool them لأغوينه مجمعين accept your purified servants إلا عبادك منهم المخلصين So Shaytan agrees that the agents of God who Allah chooses He has no power over them but nonetheless he is there to cause harm destruction death but he cannot affect the agents of God even though a sword is put on them for they are indomitable as we say mankind that do not bargain for any price for the zikr of Allah and this happened as you know in a very momentous event in history we have tragedies that took place but nothing equals the tragedy of Karbala now people may say look more people have been massacred than in Karbala in Karbala the good ones were massacred a little over 100 and then of course they were enslaved some would argue that well some massacres were in the millions you know World War II 60 million people died you might say that sometimes a genocide Saddam used to kill tens of thousands of people so why is Karbala more important than that or why are they not equal the reality is that when people get massacred and those who massacre them are usually just after power and they find these people marginal position they want to abuse them they want to exercise their authority and therefore they kill them but those who are killed have a mixture of good and not so good they're innocent but they get killed but those who get killed on the innocent side are not the proponents of holding the flag and the banner of the ultimate truth so what we notice that in society when massacres do take place is that while the evil forces do punish the good forces the good are intrinsically in nature good and they are good people in the sense that they're not harming others but they're not the flag bearers of truth look at us as a community we as a community anywhere in the world holistically the people are good we may do some wrong some of our members indulge in drugs and in cheating and in lying but holistically as a community we're good all communities holistically are good it's the law of nature الله says indeed الله created all good kind for those to be really evil they have to work hard فرعون worked hard to maintain his hegemony over the people he worked hard to ensure that nobody challenged him he worked hard to eradicate any form of resistance there are few like that we have them at low levels within our own communities who exercise power but not to the level of فرعون of معاوية يزيد people like these are few but they cause a lot of damage the difference in Karbala was that the Umayyad empire was a contemporary of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and historically you will notice that they were actually part of the prophet's extended family Umayyad himself actually had a friction with Hashim as you know Hashim is the grandfather of the Holy Prophet hence they are known as Banu Hashim they are a unique family chosen by Allah to represent mankind to represent Allah to mankind so the Banu Hashim are a chosen people الله says in Allah أستفى آدمة ونوه وآل إبراهيم we have chosen certain group of people to be superior to others as leaders of society because the law of nature that God has created intrinsically demands leadership you will never find any society that produces fruitful results until and unless there is a sound leadership that represents it the kind of leadership that exercises equity balance, long term vision strength, fortitude as we say an intrepid individual who refuses to bow to any false principles and is willing to die for that such principles bring out the most values for humanity so you will notice that when Allah created mankind after this earth was incubated where it could sustain life then Allah says to His angels وإذ خال ربك للملائكة إني جاعل في الأرض خليفة and Allah declared to the angels that I will place on earth my representative why representative? because intelligent beings who are tested have a hierarchical structure by which to obey structure for we find that success is when things are structured when there is a hierarchy we are Muslims what is the shahadateen لا إلهي لله محمد الرسول الله why do we say that it's hierarchy we are bearing allegiance that nothing is superior to God and His messenger they are our guidelines the minute we bear witness to the shahadateen we are bearing allegiance to our hierarchy which means that should we go astray morally we will hold each other to task and say hey you bore allegiance to the hierarchy like in the United States you bear allegiance to the flag but you bear allegiance to the constitution for when push comes to shove and you end up in supreme court it's usually constitutional law that's going to dictate whether you're within the parameters of the law or you're outside of the law structure we have to have it if we don't have it it's chaos you take the finest basketball players all the best in the world today LeBron, Curry combine them all and there's no coach there's no leader the likelihood of them winning a game is low but they're all experts in their game but the cohesive nature of taking the genius of an individual collectively and directing it in a fruitful fashion requires good leadership I give a good example another one let's look at Steve Jobs who's gone from this world was passed away his company now is richer than the United States government worth over a trillion dollars it's the first company that crosses the trillion dollar mark this is insanity that's a thousand billion dollars it's insanity the numbers Apple is like that but if you examine him as a leader you will find that when he founded Apple Apple wasn't a positive trajectory he's a smart businessman knew the psyche of the humans and was playing with it to pull them of course he was a crude businessman ruthless in many ways but nonetheless a leader now such leadership is not what Islam promotes but just to give you an example of the necessity of leadership even though it's crude you find that a person like him when he was fired by John Scully Apple took a nosedive and was about to become bankrupt was about to go bankrupt Apple had lost its value because the leader was pushed aside the vision was pushed aside the force was pushed aside people say no we can manage this company and you notice Apple took a nosedive and they had no option but to bring him back and when he came back he took Apple to another dimension now let's argue for the moment and see I don't want to go too far into this tangent but I want to make a clear point on this so when we talk about Ahl al-Bayt when we talk about Imamat when we talk about Nubuwa when we talk about prophethood when we talk about leadership and when we talk about the tragedy of Karbala we will understand the gravity of why it's so important that this commemoration is no ritual it's not recycling religion some people say when it comes you don the black what's the point why do we keep rehashing this event that happened 14 centuries ago why is it important for me today why do you shed so many tears and why do you strike yourself to show your grief what is your point I don't understand when you understand this you will see the gravity of the satanic law that tries to remove the very essence of God's law through leadership by replacing the correct leadership with corrupt leadership that's all it takes it's like if I want to defeat an army replace the general with yours and you got the army they're dead you can have a million man army you replace one general who's at the head and you can cause chaos for the entire army to collapse that's the power of one individual Shaytan knows that and he's working on that and you and I our obligation is to recognize the divine leadership and to maintain it under no circumstance do we negotiate that matter not because we're closed minded not because we are indoctrinated no we insist on its gravity for if we were to replace it it is tantamount to dismantling the entire system it's like saying kill the captain and let's drill a hole in the ship you will sink now Steve Jobs dies but the vision is there the momentum is there now he's dead so you can't bring him back so everybody knows he's no longer sidelined and let's all just have his spirit and just remember him in Apple and just try to imagine how good he must have been and what his thought process must have been and let's just take Apple but without a CEO no investor will look at you in the right way and say you're crazy you're out of your mind but we got the spirit the product is here it's been here for decades we understand it this is the same analogy people use that we have a Rasoolillah he came 1400 years ago we don't need a living Imam we don't need a living leader today there's no need we have a template it's already there let's just follow that template notice how absurd it is that in our day-to-day operations none of us can function on the day-to-day function until and unless we at least recognize that there exists a leader most people who own an iPhone have never met the new CEO Apple we don't care we know there's one out there managing so when people say why do you believe in Imam صاحب الزمان صاعة على فرجك صين gemeinsاع يعيو اللدينا ا آمنوا يعيو اللدينا ا آمنوا يعيو اللدينا ا آمنوا الله عنك يقogen في answer to text تع—ا تي relate وارسول classy وقة من memory it's present now it's always present because Allah says without leadership كيف يجب أن تقوم بعمل المسيحين؟ لا يمكن أن تقوم بعمل المسيحين look at the corporate level at the sports level you always need a captain you always need a coach you always one gets fired not one gets replaced you always ask or this one got fired who replaced him what if the leader the owner of the team they said no we don't need any more captains no more coaches you'd be scratching your heads or what impossible no they're all pros these guys know how to throw a ball with their eyes closed they got it no you don't have it that combination by which to traverse complicated matters on a daily basis requires hekma wisdom connections human natures precarious one day we wake up from the wrong side of the bed and we're in a bad mood and now we're bashing everybody on the other side you've got a pleasant person forgiving everybody and then you got this a heat exchange that two people got off on the wrong side of the bed and chaos is ensuing you've got to stop it because if you don't it can spread like a cancer who's there to lead it well there's a hierarchy this is why the shahada of Imam Hussein is so important when Allah says خلق السماوات والأرض بالحق we created the universe in truth and the essence of truth must be practiced through practical applications so Allah says إني جائل في الأرض خليفة we are the only school among the Abrahamic faiths that believes that Adam was not only the first human being but the first prophet of God when people say Islam started 1400 years ago correct them please and tell them no I beg to differ Islam started for the human beings with Adam صلى الله عليه وسلم when we talk about how Imam dealt all are imams particularly Imam Hussein عليه السلام let's pay attention that he's our leader he continues to be our leader though he has become شهيد الله say لا تقولوا لما يقتلوا في سبيل الله بل أحياء ولكن لا تشعرون don't say those who die in the way of God are dead, they are alive but you cannot see them he is our leader how? on many fronts first and foremost understand that within our school of thought the Ja'afari school of thought we are the only school of thought among all religions in the world that insists that the divine leadership started with Adam and will continue as the last human being on this earth and there will never be a time when the leader of God is not present on this earth we are the only school we are the only religion on earth there are thousands of religion we are the only one who insists on that now if you dissect it you will see that rationally and logically this is an essential piece of the equation if you and I are to submit to the purpose and vision of why God created us otherwise we might as well become deistic for those who say God created us but he is no longer involved in us and we are free to do what we want and then one day he'll collect us and then he'll just decide to do something with us now we were created for a purpose ربنا ما خلقتها ده باطلا سبحانه سبحانه فقنا عذاب النار ف๋لجه You did not currency Youet us들이ب كقوا كم فعيلان كلتم ذو إنصating and loose Just a few sizaning but it took somebody who whisper an idea in our ears when I do approaches to try it and the next thing we are going astray were now indulgent and something only a few seconds you might think no no no it's a protracted problem it takes a long time to go astray absolutely not it takes a few seconds so it's only prudent for us to believe that divine leadership and guidance and prudency at the level of constant god consciousness not in a myopic way where we are close minded extremists but ones who are conscious that no you're suggesting something wrong to me i'm being cautious no say no to haram say no to indecency say no to suggestive ideas for all it takes is one wrong move and you could be trapped in it for life even prophets they achieve the highest standards in this world they were tested upon tested upon tested and they never failed yet even they used to pray use of say use of achieve the highest status after trial upon trial upon trial and he never left الله he never condemned الله he never became an atheist he never doubted he was not an agnostic he struggled and struggled and struggled never questioned the integrity of the trial he never questioned the wisdom and the mercy of god for he's a prophet of god being taken into slavery away from his beloved father for decades enslaved given extreme beauty to be trapped by a woman who's powerful and rich and who wants him to degrade his moral components even then when the king of the time recognized his greatness and offered him the treasury of Egypt he did not lose a law he did not become drunk with power he did not say oh now i'm rich and powerful so i don't need god anymore many of us when we become rich and powerful we say what god i don't need god my mighty dollar saves me and you see the arrogance when people become rich and powerful they exercise it with impunity kill him destroy him just pick up the phone and backbite somebody and because i'm so great and i'm so rich and i'm so powerful no one was more powerful at that time than use of alaysalaam he says i cry when i read this verse that my prophet is touching me and telling me do you understand i'm your leader i'm your leader we're all one hundred and twenty four thousand of us we're all one in the same our message is the same which one do you want take any one of us we're all the same but don't forget your living one but that's the one who will be a witness and judgment there's a lot say yo manadoo كل أناس بإمامهم on that day everybody will be raised with their إمام with their leader who did you follow as your leader was it donald trump did you follow such a leader so the question is where do you follow and الله will raise us like birds with the same feathers who flock together that we pray to god that when he raises us he raises us among the finest the foremost of the foremost they will enter paradise and they will remain in it without any questions that's the group you and i want to be with this commemoration is the reflection of how to be in that group see زوهير بن قين إمام عليه سلام ميتسيم on his way to kufa and زوهير was not a follower of أهل البيت he was actually an othmani he believed othman was the caliph he was fooled in leadership so he meets إمام حسين عليه السلام and they meet in a tent no one knows what transpired the only thing we know was زوهير was a wealthy man he had his spouses there his children were there he meets the إمام in the tent and إمام tells him his mission and زوهير is so touched by that mission he understands why he exists he knew what he needed to do to seal his destiny to be among the صابقون الصابقون he had to make a choice so he comes out of the tent and he tells his family i free all of you go i am going to go with حسين ابن علي and i know that our destiny is that we will be massacred but i am ready to do that for this great purpose that i'm going to go for sacrificially for my love of god is so supreme that it is an eternal movement and i will be foolish to bargain anything else how many of us can be like that how many of us we should ask ourselves who are the إمام to meet us on a pathway where we were busy planning our homes and our vacations and our futures and how much wealth we were going to invest all over the world including offshore and suddenly somebody meets you and says hey there's a purpose in life and you look at him in the eye and you know this is the agent of god who's pulling you telling you come with me you have a choice you can go there or you can go here which one do you want says no no i want this one join me it's a choice الله says we guided you to the path whether you're grateful or ungrateful which path do you want so leadership tonight we talk about إمام حسين عليه السلام his blessed family we talk about his cousin مسلم ابن أقيل tonight actually last night technically was the first night of محرم as you know soon after when the إمام was invited he was told come to kufa معاوي has just died we are with you many many of the people of kufa wrote thousands of letters to the إمام inviting him to come for they said it is time to establish the real leadership that god conferred upon your father you know الله says يا يه الرسول بلغ ما انزل إليك من ربك وإن لم تفعل فما بلغت رسالة والله يأسمك من الناس all messenger of god deliver what has been commanded of you to deliver بلغ ما انزل إليك من ربك what your lord has revealed to you and if you don't do it وإن لم تفعل then you have not delivered the message of god this came in the last year of the prophet's life when salah was established fasting was established حج was established the rules of islam were established it was completes completes notice the gravity of leadership that not only does the religion of god hinge that the entire religion begin with leadership but it also ends with leadership that's how important leadership is look at the chaos in our societies and the apathy in religion within our societies and see where the problem really lies you will notice from the top down is a leadership problem and the conclusion of such leadership is flawed where we have leaders who are selling themselves for cheap leading societies to go astray and therefore we are losing iman and our children aren't even praying our sisters are questioning the integrity of hijab we'll talk about that the battle of decency for our children don't even know what is decency they think this headscarf is a burden they think being modest is a burden when you tell our brothers don't chase girls oh it's a burden don't date freely it's a burden where's my freedom where's my happiness why can't i indulge in it today our children are addicted to smartphones where depression has risen so much that 30% rise in the united states since 2012 in suicide you don't need to be killed anymore we're killing ourselves that level of depression comes when there's no zikr of allah when there's no tadaabur when there's no tafakkur when there's no tazakkur when there's no pondering thinking reflecting we're just voracious creatures running towards the flashing lights for what is my friend thinking fortnight our children play fortnight they're addicted to fortnight now it may be a good game but i'll tell you what's really driving it all my friends are playing it i asked was why did you cannot play it mom it's haram if i don't play it you're denying me my freedom my power to destroy my power to waste my brain my power to become a couch potato and then you're 60 years of age you know an eye of quran no what happened i've been busy killing in cyber world gaming they turned the lights off they turned on the blue light and they're so good even their computers are lit oh yeah the keyboards have to be lit then they live in this cyber world then of course you got virtual reality what's even better thank you what's even better is augmented reality now i don't know if to leave my house i can transpose myself into somebody else صلاة الله محمد والمحمد one more why do we have this problem parents come to me please for you you know research shows anything over two hours of use of this smartphone leads to depression anti-social they don't know how to say even صلام عليكهم they don't even know how to give you eye contact they don't even know how to shake hands yeah we're becoming zombies so the system is we now need to take this cellphone and smash it burn it melt it put acid in it really that's not where the problem is there are plenty of knives in the kitchen بلان تي that's not where the problem is it's you and i lacking understanding we're depressed we want to get depressed we're looking for something we're looking for some kind of an excitement and shaitan says oh come come come i promise god i'm going to do this to you come on come on and they say you know shaitan says on judgment day i just looked at you and you ran towards me فلاتا لوموني لومان فزاكوب don't blame me blame yourselves i just suggested you followed me now children what wrong did children do to get into that you know why children go there they're innocent when children get into these you know elusive games that destroys them from the inner you can't really blame them they're not evil parents are not evil but there's a disconnection we haven't valued what god has warned us about and Allah is warning us ألا محادي لكم يا بني آدمة لا تعبدوا الشيطان إنه لكم عدوه مبين oh god stop please you keep telling me this ah religion i don't want religion صالح like religion just causes wars and killing is what you hear religion oh let me define religion religion is a way of life nobody is not religious everybody has a religion everybody has a dean but there is the true religion where you are disciplined where you know how to press the right buttons and bring the right results or you will be pressing the wrong buttons the mere fact of not pressing any buttons is also a wrong religion so when you say i'm religious what do you mean by that oh you talk about god i said that you how much do you know god i met an atheist who says i don't believe in god i said why just i haven't seen him so true there are many things you and i haven't seen but how did you conclude he's not there maybe he's there he just looked at me says well i haven't thought about them i said wow that was quick so you just jumped to this conclusion you didn't ponder see that's the danger my friend told me there is no god god doesn't work i prayed it wasn't answered we have a transaction with god you see we go do business with god i'll pray to you god but you gotta give me something and if you don't give me something i don't need you anymore thank you very much i don't like you anymore people are like that we're transactional ignorant jahil foolish when prayer is not meant for that prayer is it is meant for gratitude it's meant for recognition it's meant to be a discipline in a salata it's good it's the best thing you will do but we don't articulate it properly so we see it as a burden and then we compare it to our non-muslim friends who seem to be just as good and having such a good time but they don't pray so why should i pray those of us who pray those of us who believe in god those of us who believe in allah in the quran as muslims i'm telling you this with no compunction as we'd say i have no reservations we are a selected elite who have been granted special knowledge in society we're like born in a family of scientists we have access to the secrets of life that the average population doesn't have and we are bashing science whereas we need to indulge in what we've been blessed so that we lead societies الله says who وجتباكم وما جعل عليكم في الدين من حرج ملة أبيكم إبراهيم هو سماك المسلمين من قبل وفي هذا why so the prophet is a witness over you and you are a witness over the people you are a witness over the people الله says i've chosen you we're bashing dean we're bashing modesty we're bashing religion the net results our children are falling into crevices and we're becoming part of the normal statistics where suicide rates are increasing drug abuses increasing apathy is increasing family feuds are increasing divorces are increasing all kinds of problems is it because it's a law of nature no it's the law of nature if you and i ignore our responsibilities it's like you don't brush your teeth every day you will have problems with your teeth because the law of nature stipulates if you don't maintain cleanliness if you don't maintain a hygienic lifestyle then there will be pathogens that will cause you to become سكر same with dean if dean is not maintained then you become sick how do we understand all this path leaders knowing the value so our children are going astray our families are going astray because we've taken religion as a lip service our leaders are just a lip service we cry for imamo saying as a lip service do we ever ponder to say that i want me and my children to grow up in the footsteps of to follow in the footsteps of zaynab to follow the footsteps of do we think this way no that happened 1400 years ago it's all the history we are modern today you see we need to be with the times and our imams were archaic our imams are not archaic they're not the principle of goodness never changes forever a million years ago to a million years from today it never changes that trajectory continues to flow so leadership who is what kind of leadership you and i every one of us in this room has a role model i can sit with atheists and they will quote who they look up to they will quote their leaders you go to christians they will quote their leaders you go to jews they will quote their leaders you go to atheists agnostics they will quote their leaders none of us can escape a role model that affects us somehow that we look up to as our point of goal and there's nothing wrong with that but i advise us all that while we have these leaders if they do not align with the master leader of allah and the prophet and his ahlulbayt then you and i are most likely being taken astray it's just the law of god so this commemoration is not to recycle religion it is to understand the gravity of this leadership that inshallah after these 10 nights when we reach the ultimate 10th night of محرم when imam sayn alaih salam bids farewell to his family bids farewell to imams and al-abideen you and i have that image of this imam who's choosing to go forward he has an option of bowing to yazid he has an option of giving it all up and being free and living comfortably in this transient world he has an option but he says never الله says mankind that does not bargain they maintain their prayers they maintain their charity they maintain the dignity of law says and they are afraid of that day when god will hold them liable for god says i have chosen you so much i have gifted you with so much what have you done with it did you use it properly i think that positive fear is how you and i should live that we are too chosen we are too gifted we are too blasts when Allah says to me you know what that means الله says سط الحج verse number 78 struggle in the way of your lord the way he deserves it how much do you deserve يا الله how much sacrifice should i give for you when we say my prayer my sacrifice my life my death all of it يا الله for you الله says the whole gamut says yes god has purchased from some believers their souls purchased how do you purchase when you own it الله says they have sold it to me from the perspective that they do nothing but for me الله says i chose them and we didn't make religion difficult this commemoration is where power comes from it's where justice is going to come today the message of karbala is the most powerful media instrument on earth nobody in history has been able to maintain the consistency and the growth of the message of imam hussain where now it has penetrated mass media on all the main stations and they're talking about karbala and they're talking about imam hussain where hundreds of millions of people are talking about it and the media of imam hussain continues to grow at the core level of where shaitan is actually working to destroy mankind through superpower hegemony entering our muslim lands to kill us to destroy us to remove our dean they tried it with the ormons and they went to the turks and told them this quran is in arabic get rid of the arabic this is how the enemy works the enemy comes and takes our culture from us takes our lingo from us takes our name from us you know they used to call us muhammadans we muslims in history never called ourselves muhammadans but they called us muhammadans why because they're working hard to strip us of the gift of god when god says i've chosen you and i want they said they read arabic when Allah says indeed we reveal this quran in arabic so you know and it's deep and it's powerful and it is so amazing that nobody has messed with it for 14 centuries all five madaheb all five schools of thought unanimously agree that this is calam allah this is the word of god and the enemy tries to adulterate it take one fatta out take one kasra out take one letter out so that we can fool them the way we've been fooled and it's not happening it's not happening الله promises it is our desire to make you the oppressed the inheritors this is even in the bible the meek shall inherit the earth how leadership you and i would not have any understanding of this conversation i see myself as a muslim today when i ponder and i reflect and i read the quran and i remember the hadith and i remember the ahlul bayt and there's a guidance and i reflect on it i said what sacrifice did you make o prophets or imams what sacrifices did you make that i am such a beneficiary 14 centuries later that i have meaning to my life that i can avoid these distractions that i can avoid going into depression so that i can indulge in the hope of god and i can fulfill what god has created before when he says that i have chosen you what a blessing the imam says we had to give our necks we had to give our families we had to spill our blood and we were taken as slaves city to city to keep your faith alive how important is that message tell me humans will try to keep their messages alive when their families are massacred but it dies in time this one continues to grow this one has become the source of power for resistance in today's middle east where the enemy is invading lands and the ones who have the love of husayn ibn al-alayhi salam understand the value and their rise with antiquated armaments whereas the other side has the most sophisticated weapons and they cannot penetrate because the iman is stronger than anything in the universe صلاة الله محمد وعال محمد إمام السلام tonight within the short time and my time is up i'd like to reflect on his وصية he leaves a وصية to his brother محمد من حنفية i'm going to introduce it tonight briefly briefly talk about muslim ibn akil within few minutes the sacrifice of muslim ibn akil who's called as you know to kufa people join him they support him and they're all excited that he's coming but then one ibn ziyad single man rides in his with his horse covered with his face you know covered on his face he enters and people think it's him i'm going to say one man they covered they covered that muslim ibn akil is praying by the time he's done with صلاة he looks behind and everybody's gone i ask us you and i how many of us will run away when muslim ibn akil comes how many of us will run away when imamsa abou zaman al-alayhi salam come but we give lip service to dean but he takes guts to stand up and fight he takes guts to be فرم ibn akil is leaving this message he says he writes his letter to his brother يشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأن محمد عبده ورسوله جاء بالحق من عنده وأن الجنة حق والنار حق والصاعة تيته لا ريب فيها وأن الله يبعث من في القبو look how imam is studying his will he's leaving madina to go to makkah and he knows he's never coming back he bids goodbye to his family he leaves he leaves محمد عيبان حنفيه he's that brother he lives in behind and says this is the will i'm leaving for you for mankind to know why am i going on this revolution because he will be accused that he wants power that he wants authority he's hungry none of the above and الله says in the quran كنتم خير أمة وخرجت للناس تأمرون بالمعروف وتنهون عن المنكة وتؤمنون بالله you're the best in the umma you promote good you forbid evil you believe in god imam says that's why i'm here i'm your leader for that he says because i'll translate this he says by the way when the imam starts he establishes usul he says one الحسين he says i bear witness there is no god but الله and that the prophet is his messenger usul you and i anything you and i do in business in transactions when we have children when we get married say yallah i bear witness you oh my god and i bear witness Muhammad you are my messenger and i am held liable by your guidance and now i want to get married i want to have children and i want generations to be soldiers for you but my foundation is because of you imam is leaving وصية when الله says تواصل بالحق تواصل بالصبر imam is bearing allegiance he says وانا محمد and عبده ورسول جاء بالحق من عنده وانا الجنة حق والنار حق paradise is true hell is true the day of judgment is true and i have no doubt in it and that we will subtly come back alive we will be raised from our grace when we die he lives this he says he says واني لم أخرج أشرا ولا بطرا ولا مفسدا ولا ظالما وإنما خرجت لطلب للسلاحي في أمة جدي صلى الله عليه وآله أريد أن أمر بالمعروف وأنها عن المنكر وأصير بسيرة جدي وأبي علي ابنى بطالب فمن قبلني لقبولي لقبول الحق فالله أو لا بالحق ومن رد عليه هذا أصبر حتى يقضي الله بيني وبين القوم وخير الحاكمين تراني إمام سينا عليه السلام says this movement of mine is not because of stubbornness rebellion worldly passions or instigation by shaytan it is also not my object to create trouble or to oppress anyone the only thing which invites me to this great movement is that I should reform the affairs of the followers of my grandfather eradicate corruption undertake enjoining to do good and restraining from evil and follow the tradition of my grandfather the prophet of allah and my father علي he says I've come out to reform the followers of my grandfather if the people respond to my call and accept the truth from me well and good and if they don't accept it I shall observe patience and I'm not afraid of unpleasant events subhanallah look at the firm resolution you accept it no problem you don't accept it I don't negotiate it it's okay he leaves me this was here he leaves you and me this was here how important is is there as you know he had two sons and after he was killed his two sons wondered being chased because ibn ziyad wanted to kill them they're little boys and both were killed and their heads were thrown in the river muslim knew this would happen he didn't care the family with the cousins of imam sayn عليه السلام gave the most lives in karbala they were not afraid so muslim as you know came to invite to prepare the people for the imam the imam was leaving makkah to go towards kufa because he was invited for us that meets him on the way as he's leaving makkah he says the people's tongues are towards you and their swords are towards your neck imam says I know he says the more you're going he says I'm going to my destiny I'm going to establish something and you know when you have an infant with you and you're traveling this long distance in the desert and premonition gives you that this child will become shahid your women will be taken as slaves they will be dragged city to city how many of us can leave our comfort zone how many I end with this here's that imna ziaad has entered imna ziaad comes to kufa actually he was the governor of basra ibn ziaad known as ibn marjana obey the law ibn ziaad was a tyrant he was a horrible human being of his time he was known as the butcher of arabia and muawiya liked him they were related due to their illicit mothers evil mothers the roots were ugly ibn ziaad was already the governor of basra historically in islam there was never a governor who governed two cities but surjun who was a Byzantium christian who was an advisor to muawiya suggests that kufa is the seat of ali ibn abitalin the seat of the shia of ali if there is one city that will rise against you it is kufa the shia of ali will rise against you when they do send ibn ziaad to crush them so ibn ziaad is sent and he enters kufa alone brothers and sisters alone with a small group of people alone in the sense small band of people the community could have in a heartbeat jumped on him arrested him imprisoned him but rather they were paralyzed so muslim is leading salam hani ibn arwa is behind him حبيب ibn madahir is behind him that he's leading prayers big crowd they're all bearing allegiance to him i'm just saying and they hear rumors ibn ziaad is here and he has put a bounty that whoever supports muslim ibn akil their whole family will be butchered so run ibn muslim ibn akil is finishing salah in prayer he looks behind he notices a handful of people behind they all loved him he's now alone so he's wandering the city of kufa nobody wants to open the door yesterday they welcomed him with the red carpet today nobody cares for him this is the world we live in today the world where الله says put trust in me what the what color allah not the human being these humans will call you they will turn their faces in a heartbeat and muslim is wandering house to house to house finally a woman invites him he's sitting by the her door and she says why are you here she says i am thirsty just come inside she was a good woman she gives him water but her husband was an evil man when he comes home muslim was hiding and he tells his wife that i am looking for muslim there's a bounty on muslim's head and i want that bounty she was silent but muslim was moving in the room and his hiding spot was discovered and therefore muslim runs and now he begins to fight from early morning till evening muslim is fighting alone one man he cornered himself in a narrow street and the enemy was attacking him from one side and they couldn't touch him and they saved the enemies they said we will fight these agents of god and they will kill all of us one by one because الله says my soldiers are so powerful when they believe in me single-handedly they'll fight you today we see the happening the spirit of our people who are resisting the enemies they're making the enemies with the most powerful weapons collapse because they're touching the spirit of muslim ibn akir they're touching the spirit of hussein ibn akir finally they dig a moat and they said we will drop him in there for that's the only way to stop him and muslim finally is subdued and he falls into the moat and in the process they pelted him with stones till his tooth broke and he was bleeding and then he was arrested brought into the palace of the governor and ibn ziyad was pontificating on the throne and he looks at him and he passes the judgment that he should be beheaded and thrown off the tall building i saw that in syria recently when the enemies were killing they were beheading and throwing bodies off the tall buildings and i remember siallah they did that to muslim it hasn't stopped 1400 years later but before muslim was slaughtered ibn ziyad says you have a last will he said yes i have a small debt help me pay it off look at this when he returns the amana he says i have a debt i want to pay that debt one he says send this letter to my brother hussein ibn ali my cousin and warn him not to come to kufa for danger lies here ibn ziyad was stunned he said you don't have a wish for yourself for your family for your own safety you don't want to beg from me he says we don't beg but my master hussein his life i will give a thousand times my life to save his life so warn him please that he doesn't come to kufa for their looms danger for him that's the concern here and as you know muslim عقيل was beheaded and his head was put on a spear at the gates of kufa اذين ظلموا اي منفل من ينفلموا السلام عليك يا بعا عبد الناس رساق with me please وعلى الارواح التي حلات بفناك عليكم مني السلام الله ابدا ما بقيت وبقية الليل والناس ولا جعل الله واخر الاحدي مني رزيارتك السلام علي الحسين وعلى علي ابنى الحسين وعلى ولاد الحسين وعلى صحاب الحسين وصوص صيدي ومولايا بالفضل عباس اختك زيناب وبانتك يا رقيا جميع شوديك اربلا ورحمة الله وبركاته لا لا لا نطلق على الخوم الغليمين وسيعلموا الذين اذلموا اي من قلبين ينقلبون السلام عليكم جميعا وحمد الله وبركاته لدينا شوط نطميات 2 منتظر لدينا 2 منتظر وانشاء الله سنكون قلبي الله وبركاتك عظم الله وجورنا وجوركم إن شاء الله لدينا رفشمين also بعد هذا


go ahead for rendezvous. Bill we've been talking over the situation here with possible contingency rendezvous today and also been noting how well the science is going with Wake Shield and we'd like to offer that during the previous five days of this flight we've been getting excellent rest and all of us been feeling real good towards the end of the day. If it comes down to it and we do need to rendezvous with Wake Shield today the crew is ready and willing to stay up almost as late as you'd like to make that happen as late as possible so that Wake Shield gets more of its mission completed. That's super taco and we'll throw that into the equation. Right now we're developing some criteria that we will apply at around the time of the NC-11 burn and basically if it just gives us confidence that by tomorrow that you'll have you know good distance between Wake Shield and SPAS that's going to be be our desire to do exactly what what you've said and let's try to get all the Wake Shield data. Just wanted to let you know if it has to be today we can do it as late today as possible to make it better and pass our regards on to Mr. Brits. Hope he's having a good time doing this analysis. Okay we'll do that. Columbia Houston with some words on the big picture. As taco as you know Fido has been taking in some C-band radar tracking data on SPAS for the last few revs and the the news is encouraging the separation appears to be growing for the range at TI at the nominal TI. It's now 12.1 if we assume a worst case take-on of 1.1. So right now it looks as though we're going to be doing a nominal retrieve for Wake Shield. The only question in our mind is whether or not we'll continue to keep SPAS in min drag attitude for a little while longer. That is under discussion at this point. With respect to Wake Shield retrieve we will be retrieving it two orbits early and we will be going with the eight mile TI nominal TI distance. Copy all the words on the big picture. I hope it works out that way and that we can keep both satellites pumping out their science. With the two revs early will be a change to our wake-up time. In Columbia for taco that's affirmative the plan is for you to go to bed an hour earlier and to get up an hour earlier tomorrow. We'll start with you Dr. Musgrave how serious are those particle dings in the windshield? I understand you almost had a super ding with that 4600 pound superconductor growing satellite. What happened? Was that a case of a thruster malfunctioning or what? No what really happened was when we released the wake shield we waited at least a minute to verify that its attitude control system was functioning normally and that took a little bit longer than expected to verify that the wake shield was controlling its attitude properly and while we were waiting it was drifting ever so slightly towards us probably due to a small impulse imparted when we moved the robot arm away from the satellite and so that small closure rate if we allowed it to drift for minutes would have carried it closer to the Columbia than we were comfortable with but in the event we started the wake shield zone thruster and that carried it clear of our cockpit and of course at any time we could have moved Columbia out of the way had we thought there was a real collision hazard but we didn't want to disturb the contamination free wake side of the satellite which was going to conduct our science over the next few days so we tried to hold off any thruster firings and that's what we were able to do was what it drift off without any movement by the Columbia at all if my congressman had his way we would have no more manned space flight what are some of the latest and greatest benefits that I can educate him about to try to change his mindset I like to talk about the wake shield facility that's trailing us now by about 20 nautical miles it's our prototype chip manufacturing facility maybe it's the wave of things to come in space where we'll actually use the resources in space like the pure vacuum generated by the wake shield to manufacture either high quality electronic components like this example or some other manufactured product like biomedical supplies medicines or pharmaceuticals that would actually directly be sold on earth and we'd actually produce them in space make money up there make a profit and of course that would expand our activity in space so this is the way to go in space exploration is to find a way to use the spaces spaces on resources to benefit us back on earth and that's the first step that we're taking here with the wake shield experiment but does ham radio still play a part in emissions and if so is it a vital part or is it just kind of a recreation thing for ham radio hobbyists I had to have radio 151 F which was close to 11 or 12 years ago I think it plays two roles that communicates what space is all about it lets people like carelessly live what is space it lets people come on board with us it's also a very valid way of communications there are times when I've been a capsule communicator in mission control and we had long LOS from the satellite we communicate with and we have actually gone up to the shuttle to a ham radio operator I think it's an integral part of the electronic net that we are building you can see the computers and you can see the camcorders which are bringing you information maybe in the background you can see all the wires I think ham radio is part of the integral information that which we are bringing into the shuttle which is and it's a way of bringing a 25-year-old technology into this century senator and former astronaut John Glenn has volunteered to do geriatric experiments in space although you're at 61 not quite up to mr. Glenn's age would you be ever interested in that Dr. Musgrave well of course they're doing one on me right now what I wanted to ask do you do any type of simulations or experiments on the ground or what possibly could go wrong or do you just keep your focus on your objectives for the flight good question that we spent about nine months training for this flight all five of us on the crew and we trained intensively over the last few months especially to handle any kind of emergency especially during the critical phases of launch and entry and we often joke once we arrive in space when things are going so well as they are on STF-80 here that a lot of our emergency procedures training seems to have been wasted because we arrived in space here never have to use all that training that we've spent so many weeks acquiring but really that's a necessary part of training for space flight you've got to be ready just in case something does go wrong and we view it as an investment in our own safety and our own success on this mission I was calling for a Ken Cockrell my brother oh my goodness this is Ken Cockrell's brother I believe they selected Dr. Jones and Dr. Musgrave to be a part of this but I suspect they could relay a message okay oh my what do we have here I see on the screen here another person has entered the picture I just heard about it on the radio the other day and I thought well I'd give it a shot and I didn't have a question I just wanted to relay what Miriam thought of the launch after you'd after about two minutes it passed we asked her what she thought and in her four-year-old mind she just said do it again uncle Ken I do too I did have one question for you though okay I wanted to know if just before launch if you roll down the window and shout clear thanks Phillip and no okay that's what I thought here's the way we've set up a cockpit here for doing now support now make field ops cut the checklist here of course the command PGSE of the time we run the event log on here so we can follow the sequences command quick reference cards up here the concept for science over here got a couple blocks in here the computer down here is up to the monitor PGSE back in here I've got all the updates that came up on the tips and I got my payload system data mouth book back here that's the way on Columbia's been setting up to support wake shield ops and Mr. Alowitz asks how will the Orpheus Spies UV observatory complement other ultraviolet observatories like PUSE and EUVE these are other satellites that look at stars and other sources of radiation in the universe that only radiates mainly in the ultraviolet and we can't we can't see this radiation down on Earth's surface at most observatories that we have already built there because of the Earth's atmosphere and the ozone layer absorbing that ultraviolet light so we have to build satellites like the two that Mr. Elowitz mentioned and Orpheus and for example the Hubble Space Telescope to go above the atmosphere to look at ultraviolet light and the advantage that Orpheus Spies has in looking at ultraviolet light is that it has a wavelength range or a sensitivity to radiation coming from these interesting objects like black holes and white dwarf stars that's farther into the infrared I'm sorry into the ultraviolet region than observatories like the Hubble have for example so we can see more energetic radiation from higher temperature objects that way and also the instruments on Orpheus Spies have a finer resolution in other words the fingerprint of the object they're looking at in ultraviolet light the spectrum is much more well-defined and these sensitive instruments on Orpheus we can see more details in that spectrum or fingerprint and thus understand the physics and the composition of the object that we're looking at. Thanks for your question. Dave also had another question and that was what about on-plan assembly of the International Space Station and at what stage will they be operational? Well Dave, the RMS is going to play a critical role in assembling the space station in fact we hope to fly the first space station flight the end of next year in which we will attach the FTB to the node on assembly flight 2A. Thank you for your question and how I owe to all of the school children in Woodinville.


Hello students, it's Shayna, your teacher at EspressoEnglish.net and today's phrase of the day is have the time of your life. This expression means to have a wonderful experience that you enjoy very, very much. For example, my kids have always wanted to go to Disneyland, so when we went to Disneyland last summer, they had the time of their lives. A similar expression is have a blast. Have a blast also means to have a wonderful, fun, enjoyable experience. For example, last weekend I got together with my friends and we had a blast watching silly comedy movies. It means we had fun, we enjoyed it, we had a good time. Had a good time is another way to describe an enjoyable experience. You can also use the phrase have a good time to wish that somebody will have fun, especially just as they are about to leave. For example, if your coworker is going on a boat trip this weekend, you can say have a good time when he leaves on Friday. Or if your son is going to a party with his friends from the soccer team, you can tell him have a good time as he walks out the door. So those are our phrases for today. Have the time of your life, meaning to have a wonderful experience that's very enjoyable. Have a blast, which also means to have fun, have an enjoyable experience, and have a good time, which you can use to hope or wish that somebody will have a good experience as they are about to leave and go have that experience. I hope you're having a good time learning spoken English from my videos. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.


Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 20th of April on this quick preview of the week beginning 23rd of April before we move on to that. I think there's a couple of things that I'd like to look at first We've had another or we look as if we're going to have another decent week for European equity markets the fourth successive positive week NRO And I think when you look back a few days and consider the concerns about an escalation Between Russia and the United States over what's going on in Syria and chemical weapons and those cruise missile attacks I think to some extent that's a little bit of a relief But certainly I think the overall background of trade concerns Haven't gone away. We've seen some fairly decent earnings out of the US European markets are also Performing fairly well, and I think overall risk appetite is mildly positive But I don't think it would take too much to tip the markets back lower And certainly over the course of the last few days those trade tensions that we've been talking about that have been operating in the Background has been starting to have some effect on commodity prices. The Reuters CRB index has hit its highest level since 2015 oil prices are back at $75 a barrel and Base metals prices have also surged quite substantially and that leads me to believe that investors could be underestimating the possibility of An inflation spike later in the year. It's something that I think bond markets are slowly starting to wake up to Certainly US treasuries did push higher The US Treasury yields did push higher and have pushed higher over the last 24 hours But let's focus on the oil price for now because at the moment, I think that's going to be One of the things over the course of the past week that could well dictate Inflation expectations going forward and this is the daily chart And I have looked at this quite a number of times over the course of the past few weeks And this is our new HTML trading platform that I'm looking at the moment as you can see not really that different from the old flex platform but certainly think it's It's much more responsive and certainly in terms of features. It's It's much more flexible. You can actually pop out the windows Into a new browser tab like so and then move it around the screen independently of the actual platform Just knock it back in again, and it comes in like that now. We've just broken above 71 dollars 65 a barrel That's the 50% retracement of the entire down move from the 2014 peaks and at the moment. We haven't really We haven't really had the opportunity to get back below it And I think that does raise the risk that we could well be in line for future rises in oil prices And I think that could well influence inflation expectations going forward now next week We have got a whole host of data coming out particularly UK based We've got first-quarter GDP from the UK and in light of Mark Carney's comments over the past 24 hours about the possibility or not of a UK rate rise that's going to be of particular interest to the markets But I'd also remind people that first-quarter GDP for the UK tends to be the weakest quarter anyway Because it generally tends to get affected by bad weather. So Well, I think mr. Carney's comments have knocked the pound quite substantially And have reduced the risk of a UK rate rise in May from 85 percent to around about 50 percent I certainly don't think it's the end of the story because I think there's certainly a broad difference of opinion on The MPC about the direction of interest rates and let's face it We're talking a move from 0.5 to 0.75 percent It's chicken feeding the wider scheme of things but the big level on the pound against the dollar Next week or over the course of the next few days is the lows that we've seen this month in April this this Level here and the 50-day moving average 139 70 we are starting to roll over But if we actually look at the way the pounds behaved over the course of the past few months It's still significantly in an uptrend and is likely to remain so Unless or until it drops a well below 137 so We have certainly got some way to go before this particular uptrend Can be called into question We can come all the way back to 137 50 these lows here even and still have the uptrend intact Even though you could argue this could be the potential Basis for a double top, but that would only come about if we come back all the way back below or towards 137 50 So what are we waiting? So first quarter GDP out of the UK next week We've also got first quarter GDP out of the United States next week But more importantly, we've also got the European Central Bank rate meeting. That's due out on Thursday Not really expecting too much from that I think if you're looking for any sort of ideas as to whether or not the ECB is going to dial back on its guidance In terms of when they're going to win the asset purchase program whether that's going to be in September or December I think Mr. Draghi is going to be deliberately circumspect when it comes to Really go giving any clear indication on that and we've also got flash PMIs from Germany and France due out on Monday and those numbers have been steadily coming off their highs Since the end of last year and are likely to continue to do so in next week's numbers So I think at the moment there is concern that the ECB is looking to dial back on stimulus at precisely the time when we're getting a little bit of a slowdown in the European economy and while inflation Continues to remain a little bit on the weak side though. How long that will continue to be the case I think will be largely dependent on how commodity prices behave over the course of the next few days Particularly oil prices because they could actually act as a break on demand a break on the global economy and a break on consumption It's also a big week for UK banks next week We've got the latest first quarter trading updates from Lloyd's Barclays and RBS And I'll be posting a short a brief note about them on the week ahead update on the website And Barclays in particular I think will be a particular it will be a particular interest given reports that active investor Edward Branson who owns a five percent who's just taken a five percent five percent stake easy for me to say Through his sure-born investors is heading for a showdown with management about his plans to offload the investment banking division But certainly I think if the I think if indications from US banks are any guide We'll be looking for an improvement in the fortunes of the Barclays investment bank given that has been the area that has been a Little bit lackluster over the course of the past few quarters We've also got a latest Microsoft's first quarter trading update Facebook in the light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal First quarter trading update as well on the 25th of April Okay, so that's it for this week ladies and gentlemen. Don't forget the Monday market webinar It'll be hosted by me on Monday 1215 as my colleague David decided to give him the day off or a couple of days off to Enjoy the sunshine. Otherwise. Thank you very much for listening and have a great weekend and I'll speak to you all next week Thank you


Time now for the best part of the show. Kids ask Coach Rabel.  Tighten up. Tighten up Evan. What does it feel like to be a coach? I would say that there is a wide range of emotion throughout the week and through in preparation. The game takes a lot of different flows and so I would imagine much like the fans that we go through the same types of emotions and try to be a play ahead and thinking about what the situation may be and making corrections and how much do you spend on corrections as opposed to going over there looking ahead or assisting in corrections. I mean, all three sides are making corrections when they're not out there. But there is a wide range of emotion from excitement to disappointment and if we win or lose, if a player is injured, that all these things that go on throughout the game, mistakes, positive plays, negative plays, but you have to, I think the biggest thing is try to keep your composure and get back to center after each and every play and every situation. People say to me, Mike Rabel enjoys what he does. I would say that I love what I do and not even enjoy. I love this and it's a challenge, certainly this year, but we're gonna see through this thing and there's a lot of good stuff out there right now that's hard to see because it's all about wins and losses but there's still some really good things going on in there.