Las Vegas Raiders team team, you know, what's funny boys is as I'm posting this I'm actually in Las Vegas for the NFL draft And I don't know if five announced this yet or a few guys have even heard this yet But I'm actually announcing a draft pick live at the draft on ESPN. It's gonna be insane No, it's not like I got a first round or anything I have like a poverty pick make a fourth through seventh rounder, but either way how cool is that? Well, how could I complain about that? It's amazing So hopefully I don't fumble the bag mess of my words or somebody on stage, who knows? But that's not what we're not here to do. We're not here to talk about me. Okay, we're not here to talk about me We're here to talk about the 97 overall all Las Vegas Raiders theme team. Where do we start? I mean, hey good for Las Vegas because you added an incredible wide receiver to the squad as well as good for this theme team Gold 99 Devontae Adams and I speed 99 jump 99. Whoa. Oh my whoa is gonna be a nightmare to stop There's the brand new Charles Woodson slot wide receiver and then a Renfro Look at me. What's a team with that a little bit of grit? What's a team with that a little bit of motor like, you know what I love about like Renfro and all the Renfro cards It's like they just play the game the right way first one in the door last one out real lunch pail type of guy We're just like Devontae Adams like 96 overall Derek car kind of a bummer really not that good stats wise for a field general QB He actually gets like really high speed 91 speed is awesome You really want to go speed you can go Mariota, but I like Derek Karks to get identifier. Hiro master I think that's better plus like he's he's a raider. He's a true raider I love the running backs on this team You've got Marcus Allen Patterson and Marshawn Lynch there a wall or what else will mark and I say you guys just see me throw Literally hundreds of touchdowns with their wall Jared Cook and Tom Winston and online. It's all right Not a strong point on this team, but I think defense. It's not fair.  I think that's what it is Oh, we'll check when we get to the front, but 99 Ronnie lot 99 Mike Haynes 99 Nate Hobbs 99 Charles Woodson and 99 strong safety Ted Hendricks That is a 99 at every second their position got to mention this Ted Hendricks dude Oh, he's so good a six foot seven strong safety that hits like this Ted Hendricks You couldn't drop a player any better I think that's why someone's making a golden ticket out of this Ted Hendricks is because he's that good still got gold 99 Callo Mack old 99 Chandler Jones. You'll have two gold 99s and you're left outside linebacker You don't even know who to pick yeah 96 core Lillton night gold 99 J on brown 93 Denzel Perryman 99 Mad Max Crosby one of the fastest ends in the game 98 Yannick and Gakway Yeah, Warren Sapp and Vernon Butler Absolutely in love with this team and I mean it's not too big of a shocker You see people run Raiders team teams online all the time if you wanted to be like super sweaty You know you can put camp chancellor in you can do Randall Cunningham.  I'm like I was actually so nervous. I was contemplating being like bro. No, I'm just gonna play house rules I'm just gonna play house rules.  He's ten and two like a wheel of mutt dude He went 37 to 20 in the wild card and he got a rage quit in the divisional and a rage quit in the conference It looks like unless those were just low-scoring games, which is possible our 97 overall And I don't know how this offense is 96 and defense is 97. I swear that defense should be hard But whatever 97 overall Las Vegas raiders not the Oakland Raiders. I was really tempted to say Las Vegas Raiders Super Bowl. Harvey Thank you so much for trusting me, bro I'm gonna clutch up for the boys here also want to give you guys a little life hack today It is the simplest healthy addition to your lifestyle It is AG1 by Athletic Greens and I'm partnering with them on today's video This is a scoop of AG1 packed in that little scoop is tons of nutrients designed to fill the gaps in your diet And support your immune system. I've kept my AG1 routine for about 60 days now reason being it's so simple 10 ounces of water One scoop of AG1 That's how I start every single day And I feel great doing it to starting my day out like that with a positive benefit for my health Best way to start the day and I think the concern with things that are green is that they're not gonna taste good But myself and Chase can attest athletic greens tastes amazing makes the habit even easier to stick to and of course Athletic Greens has an exclusive offer just for you guys you can get an immune supporting one year free supply of vitamin D and Five free travel packs with your first purchase There is a link in the top of the description Make sure you click that AG1 is gonna provide your body with everything it needs for optimal performance throughout the day again A one year supply of vitamin D plus five free travel packs with your first purchase and enjoy the rest of the video guys The Super Bowl I'm nervous, bro. You'd I haven't turned on Lana Del Rey when I'm playing in so long actually no I'm going Morgan Wallin 56 I literally forgot what Super Bowl we just played Super Bowl 56 Against the Browns. That's how you know. This is Madden boys. He's got Randall C. He knows what's up play action first play the game Oh Yes, sir. That's how you start off a Super Bowl. Do we have such good S rushers?  I'm on the wrong dude I'm on in got way. Oh, but I can clamp like this, bro. Let's go mad Max in his face It's fourth and six in the Super Bowl and a clutch shot for the homie right now definitely a pass. Oh, he wants this dig I'm on it. I'm on it buddy Jayon Brown great block. Oh Big boy tackles us, but we're on the 16.  It's just essential I don't know why but that's what I'm talking about five yards right there ever since the start of the season when I got My first Super Bowl with I think it was Derek Henry, right or no It was the sake one Barclay, but I got the next one with Derek Henry in October dude just inspired me Let's keep it up. Excellent blocking boys And that's not the end zone. I probably should have dove Nope, but we don't need to now because he is gonna sell the team out for the run And we're just not gonna run and there's wall or torch this man and you've seen that before They're a wall or touchdown. You gotta go for two, right? I'm gonna go Devonte Adams on the out row. That's gotta be single coverage. You can't guard that man No, sir. I've seen enough Aaron Rodgers highlights to know you can't guard that man one-on-one. That's kind of disrespectful I should have said Devonte Adams highlights, right? Rodgers there you go. We're even though first in ten.   It's got wheels bro. I almost got to that I could see it setting up because I've ran it so many damn times. All right, let's blitz. We got to throw him off the set Oh, that's a high-pack wham. I haven't seen that so long. Oh, oh, no somebody hit him Effortlessly moving down the field on me right now. I will say the D line was kind of a weak point Our edge rushers are amazing, but our interior D linemen were nothing special So if he keeps attacking the middle might get ourselves in a little bit of trouble here Oh, that ain't open.  Don't do it. I'm mad at you, bro I'm mad at you Jay on Brown Carrying he panicked again, bro. He had his playbook all set and he panicked.  Let's go to my boy. Hobby Let me play Super Bowl. You think I'm gonna choke. I see Devonte Adams in single. I think you just made a mistake, sir This is the Super Bowl. Let's go Darren Waller corner out. Let's give Darren Waller the hat-trick, huh? Oh, it's not there. It's actually not there.  So I'm glad I had to wear with all to not. Oh, that is so open What happened over here? I don't know what he did.  I want the hat-trick, bro. Wait for Waller the playmaker. Oh Oh Cool your user. I'm impressed. I didn't think he'd follow the playmaker.  He's so literally so lucky that I got bad it down. I was gonna pick that off. Oh Good play! He snipped it out fourth and 13. Oh my god. He's going no huddle. There's no way you have a play for this. Oh Whoa, there's nobody there.  He almost actually came through and made that there was not a player over there Though that was so weird. There are three Browns and none of us Teddy he's just so good. Who wants the touchdown? We'll give it back to supposed to go to Jay Brown But you know what Nate Hobbs can have it. We're gonna share all the love here in the Super Bowl Let's make this 16 is zero. I think Devante is there again should be in the middle wait for it wait for it Wait for it. There she is 16.  It's a little blowout. Can we get one more for Jay on Brown? No, but we can. Oh, that's what I wanted for sticking it out though The momentum is icy veins and high and tight immune to pressure and a reduced fumble chance. Oh, there's something open, dude He's got a score before half. All right, there should be no blocker. I don't think he blocks out back here That's mine. That's a sack. Jay on Brown is a freak. I want this ball back I'm calling timeouts for him. Yep, I got this and now he goes Mine He's in his head. He can't do anything. He literally can't do anything three interceptions a TFL and a sack for Jay on Brown I'm gonna go there while under ooh not how that was supposed to go It is three yards, but that's not how that's supposed to just go waller and take them out of bounds good That was about the best animation. I could have got I kind of need a heave here I need a heave here that I just go run from underneath right. Oh Don't tell me I couldn't I couldn't replicate this game And a Super Bowl if I ever tried in my life. It is 24 zero. I just activated my x-factor and there's renfro It is 24 zero a flawless Super Bowl and this is halftime He goes through the outside no luck and it is now me starting on the 39 yard line And can you do that again? You know Lord Taylor ain't a bad matchup for him He's not a pass coverage guy, but at least he's big enough kind of thought that might work for him And there's waller for a touchdown. I'm serious. I could not replicate this game if I try I don't know if I've ever played this well in a playoff game I mean this guy's kind of poverty no no lie, but I played poverty people for and I goof up still but right now I literally can't mess up No, you did it. Okay. That was a dot that I was a straight-up dot back the end zone. He wants to go up here. I Literally can't do no wrong. I don't know what happened Kalomak all the way to the end zone That was 40 to 0 well 38 to 0. I would have gotten it 38 to 0 Super Bowl for my boy. Javi Raiders team team clearly go did the swivery runs it Raiders and Niners Those are the two you always see anyway boys. Hey, I love you guys nasty team nasty. Hey Javi Thanks for trusting me. I got you my guy and now boys. I love you. Thanks for watching as always I'll see you in the next video. Peace out


A while back I did a video about what I keep with me what I carry with me when I go out and that changes a lot over time with What specifically I carry with me now? I'm gonna do a separate video and I've had a few at least with some of our on-site wiring technicians and what they carry They deal with the physical layer a lot. I don't I am a network engineer when I'm not running this business So I'm doing things like troubleshooting VPNs or cable modems that need to be put in bridge mode But not physical wires that part has always been checked by the time I get there And I bring that up because someone's gonna ask why I don't have a bunch of crimpers and some of the other wire testers It's also because I don't like to carry much with me I keep it very simple but that being said I wanted to share some of the things that I find handy to keep in my bag here and There's really not much to it. First off is I like to keep it pretty light and That's it. That's all of the things I have in here. I usually have a USB drive in here, too I don't happen to have it at the moment outside of a USB drive missing. That was it That's why I just carry this really thin network bag because mostly 99% of the time what I'm doing as a network engineer is Right here having my laptop currently has Linux loaded on there. I do have virtual box in here with Parrot OS, so I'm either running something in a virtual box to do a scan or I'm directly using Linux and the tools built in in it to do network diagnostics network engineering and such so on and so forth But that does require a few things one of them is I'm there a long time And sometimes waiting really long time when you're waiting on service providers to turn up a circuit or check a fiber connection So you get a plug in your laptop and this laptop which I have a separate review I'll leave a link to really love this laptop. It's a Lenovo L480 really basic does have a great battery life But I have these anchor chargers and anchor makes really nice USB chargers including this particular one is a USB-C laptop charger. It's small. It's convenient. It has this cable right here. I'll leave a link to this as well it's just a USB-C to USB-C cable for charging my laptop and Very quickly with this nice braided cable. I am set up and running With plenty of room to spare and then I say about USB-C is because it can pull out from either end If I accidentally somehow wrap this around or the plug falls out. It doesn't take the laptop with it It's in there tight enough. It's not going to drop. But if you try hard enough, you'll get it to drop so That's the first part here and like I said, it folds up nice and neat goes right back in the bag And this I don't know how exactly safe. I'll leave links to this. It's a C-H-O-E-T-E-C-H These cables seem really nice. They're capable of carrying the wattage that you need For doing a USB-C laptop and that's why I chose these ones anchor does make some cables I didn't see anchor once at the time. I bought these. I don't know if they were out of stock or just didn't have them I didn't find any anchor ones that were capable of handling the same wattage and he's actually a little bit less expensive But still come with that really nice nylon braiding that I really enjoy next thing is Anchor charger for my phone because what if you're sitting on the phone for a long time and the same thing these are another Brand but the same I built once again. I really like these Brady cables But I have a short one here because I have the anchor charger here and this is a standard USB Rechargeable one now. This is great. Sometimes when I travel This is actually the same set of tools I travel with and which is also because sometimes I'm put on planes to go places Why I don't have any sharp objects in here because that would have to be checked and certainly not something you want to Have a carry-on and I do prefer my laptop I'll usually have it in this inside of my backpack with a few other things when I'm traveling with my carry-on But there's nothing in here that sets off any alarms when you're traveling But you know you got to keep the phone charged once again I've actually had this for I think two years and the battery life is still amazing on it It's held up really well I like the fact that it can completely charge my phone can plug in there and I'll leave a link to this This is just like a standard anchor charger, but sometimes when I just want to have my phone It works really well for just keeping it charged. It's simple, but it's a handy device It's really held up and I do like the fact that anchor So they're not poking holes in your bag. These just fold right down both of them are designed that way Next tool right here this one these are so inexpensive, but so well made at the same time So this is your Amazon basics. Yes, just the Amazon basics is really inexpensive USB 3 Gigabit network adapter works in Windows perfectly fine. No drivers needed works in Linux perfectly fine. No drivers needed and This is just a great handy little. I need another network. Now. Yes, my L480 does have a network on it But sometimes when you come back doing network engineering You need to be in more than one network at a time rather than switch back and forth And this is a easy way to bridge between them and the transfer speeds are reasonably fast on its USB 3 But I'm generally not as worried about speeds. It's not about transfer speed it for me It's all about I need to be in the side of this network and be in that network And that's a really handy little device to have now the cables themselves. Let's talk about those. So I have here Two different cables. This is 20 feet of cable and I love these thin cables I reviewed a series of them a while ago and I used to like the flat cables and I tell you they do not Bundle as nice as these. These are so quick and easy to Unwrap wrap and to have 20 feet of cable right here. I usually use a short one occasionally You know you have to be here the plug is over here But the network is all the way at the top of the rack or the rack is you know mounted Six feet off the ground that I need to plug into and having that is just 20 feet that small Fold it up really easy and of course. This is the smaller one and Once again always keeping velcro ties, but even as tiny as this was here we go We I think this is a five footer right here. Yeah, these are five feet This one I'll leave a link to it But these are just some of the basic things I keep with me all the time now the last thing I'm going to show you is a flashlight and this flashlight goes under the name Vansky But I know it doesn't sell under that name now I found it I'll leave a link to the one I found that's the same price as this was it just says something else on it So the flashlight still made these have actually been around we've bought these for all the technicians here And it's a great flashlight because it's USB rechargeable works really well as far as brightness Supposedly waterproof. I would say splash proof. I don't know how long it would last underwater But uses standard 18650s now the advantage of these is if the 18650 goes bad These are readily available and very inexpensive to go buy another one. So your 18650 battery easy to find easy to replace and keep the lights Lasting only one of I think out of the five of these we bought five or six for our techs One of them did go bad like the battery not the flight and We dropped it in replacement and we just wouldn't hold the charge you turn the light on and it wouldn't stay on This one's mine and I use it quite a bit. It's matter of fact.  It's also quite heavy if you wanted to hit something with it It's pretty well made. It's all metal design matter of fact interesting. So is this Amazon basics This is metal as well, but I'll leave a link to these like I said These are just a couple things in there and of course this inexpensive pro HT case There's nothing too special about it. Someone will probably Complains it doesn't have anything but one big pocket, but for me I don't need individual pockets because there's so few things I can load this up real quick And have it all packaged back up and be out the door Really fast without having to look at all and it all fits in here nice and flat and away we go Oh last little thing that I didn't pull out that came in there. This is the USB Unfortunately, I have my phone is USB-C, but the Bansky flashlight is still standard micro USB But hey, it fits in there. I love these little short cables, too So we if you don't need them to be longer because I just need to charge it real quick to sit next to something It's very helpful and especially when you're trying to read part numbers off the back That's why I use a flashlight more often than you think I use my phone as a flashlight Which actually has some advantages as well because a lot of times I'll turn a flashlight on the phone and reach it behind a router and take a picture of it So I can get a serial number off the back But I've had to look around for things that I may or may not have dropped in your phone It's not bright enough when you drop something behind a rack and you need to find it That's it and I'm out of here And Thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out if you'd like to hire us head over to laurance systems comm Fill out our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects You'd like us to work together on if you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums dot Lawrence systems Com where we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel out in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time


Hello there, it's Sandy Olnok and I'm back with the second of my Scratchboard stamping videos. This time I'm going to use the Artist Scratchboard to do it. As I said in the last video I had just barely started on this one when I was shooting and processing that one so I knew enough that this is a much finer surface to work on and that sort of thing but I continued working on it just a little at a time over I guess a couple weeks here to get it all finished but this definitely has a nicer surface to it than my DIY. The DIY one has you know the thickness of the neocolor that I put down and then the thickness of the paint and it just kind of came off in chunks in places so it didn't have the delicacy that this does. This has a very thin coating of ink and possibly if I used ink on the other scratchboard thing maybe that would have worked better. I don't really know I haven't tried it and if you want to try it you're welcome to do that as well. Just make yourself a small sample of different papers and putting different color and different inks and stuff on them but the the surface of this is just much nicer and I'm getting a really nice fine line with the tool and scratching it is working so much better than it did on my DIY so there's another vote for professional artist materials from my camp and when you're doing scratchboard you need to think in reverse because the places where you're going to put more of your little scratch marks are the highlights and with this tool you know I can press harder and kind of scrape all the black off in the super highlights and then as I get down to the sides of the flowers or the leaves just lighten the pressure and I start to get a really thin line I can really even feather it out and that's one of the things I'm practicing on these small ones because the lady who's video I watched and I was so blown away by and it just made me want to try this she does these like really huge pieces and then she gets all this detail in them she does animals and you know me I love to do animals and I'd like to do you know to try some of that too and she also adds ink to it she adds color and she has a whole video on how she adds color I will link you to that in the description so you can go see and follow her and her beautiful work but what I decided to do was just dive in here and try it I didn't bother to do a lot of research about what I was doing I just decided to jump in and do it so I began with these flowers and filled the whole thing with flowers from the stamp set and just added a bunch of leaves in between and I kept kind of turning the stamp set and stamping other flowers around the outside edge to continue the pattern but then I decided I'm going to get out my inks because I have a ton of fountain pen inks so why not let me try these and began to paint with my pink glitz I think is the name of this color and I watered it down because I was a little nervous I didn't know if it was going to go on too heavy or exactly what was going to happen so I was trying to put in some of this pink color and I wasn't sure how it was supposed to look because it was kind of puddley and wasn't going on evenly then I was thinking maybe do I need more ink and occasionally I would reach for my bottle and I would add more direct from the bottle and just kept going back and forth now I will tell you at the end I was planning on doing what the other artist did in her project which is to go back in after putting the color in and scratch off more of the white highlights for hers that gives her all these layers in the fur and you know me in layers I was like oh that's going to be great I will add some some white highlights onto some of the leaves and some of the flowers after I get all this painting done of all this color well these inks don't scratch off so I'm going to have to go back and research and find out what inks she uses and what kind of surface this thing actually is I don't even know what it is I don't understand enough about it to have any idea what's going to scratch off and that sort of thing so I just proceeded from my gut trying things this is one of the things that I constantly am recommending to all of you is to just try something if you think it might work you never know and what happens if it doesn't work well you know it's another piece of paper it's another little little art board that goes away if it doesn't work and this came out really beautiful in the end anyway but I was experimenting I was playing to see if the things I already had at home would work the DIY one I had most of that stuff already at home anyway and just use the things that were in my studio to make a DIY scratch board and with something like this all I had to buy was these little 5x5s now I'll tell you I have bought some bigger ones some 8x10s and that's my next thing to try to start to practice with better tools because as I mentioned also in the last video these scraping tools are not comfortable they feel really cheap in my hand and I'm very used to like just nice art tools and these have you know like the the way that they make a plastic molded body on something and then it has a seam a really sharp seam it's kind of what these things have and there's got to be good tools out there so I'm going to go do some more research I'm going to go find some good tools if I find them by the time this video posts I will link them to the stuff that I'm planning on getting don't know if I'll have gotten them yet or not but I will also write up anything on the blog post if I have any more thoughts after getting this whole video done I do tend to update things on the blog that maybe didn't fit into the video or things that I forgot to say or something so sometimes if you have questions those are actually answered on the blog now one of the things you're going to see here very shortly is that I forgot to paint a couple of my flowers there's a couple little buds that just didn't get painted in the pink they got painted over with the green and then I was like okay now what do I do you know not knowing whether or not one color would force the other color out or would it cover it and should I just pretend that there's no flowers there and I decided to just throw the pink in and see what happened and yes they remained pink so that was at least good there were a darker pink than everything else but then I took my baby wipe and moved a little color off I was bummed that I didn't get to go back in and add some really white highlights but this thing came out so beautiful anyway that I'm still adding it to my store on my fine art site because I still think it's gorgeous even if it didn't come out with the white highlights that I was hoping for I do plan to do some more scratch board as I said so stay tuned for more in the future because I'm excited to see what I can do in this particular medium it seems really really good for fur so I'm going to go back to doing some wildlife art in the near future all right if you haven't subscribed yet please do and go check out the blog if you want more information and I'll talk to you later bye


Opening music and title Cal OES inside look OES news.com. I'm Brian May with Cal OES. We are as the crow flies just a couple of miles from Pacific Coast Highway 1 in Malibu. The Pacific Ocean literally right in front of me, but behind me you see one of more than two dozen cleanup crews continuing to work and clean up the debris from the November wildfires. Heavy equipment digs up debris in soil. Lot by lot, scoop by scoop. Debris removal continues in the burn scar areas of the hill and Woolsey fires. Debris is scooped into a dump truck. Kendra Bauer, Cal OES incident commander. Everything's going really well. We've got about 27 crews that are in the field performing debris operations or Ventura and LA County. Over 1000 residents have signed up for the state's consolidated debris removal program between Ventura and LA counties. A process that begins with a completed and signed right of entry form, allowing the state to begin the clearing process. There's about eight steps that go into the entire process. That process includes site assessments if needed asbestos removal and then the actual removal of burn debris. Once it gets put into the debris removal phase, the property owners get notified with a 24 to 40 hour telephone call to let them know that their crews are going to be out there so that they can be on site if they like to be. As cliche as it may sound, it takes a lot of teamwork. You've got different state agencies, you have local jurisdictions, you have your cities, your counties, you have consultants, you have contractors, open lines of communication. We all work out of the same office. Once debris has been removed, soil samples are taken to make sure that the property is safe to rebuild on. The end goal, which is how we measure our success, is being able to release these properties back to their rightful owner in a manner that is clean and safe and that they can start rebuilding and starting their lives over again. Mind you, all of this is happening at a time when the weather can be, let's just say unpredictable. During our interview, it actually snowed in Malibu for the first time in 50 years. Weather's been a slight factor. We've had some mudslides on the mountain sides in Malibu, so we've had some weather days in some areas we can't reach due to these mudslides. Obviously, the state's consolidated debris removal operations requires a tremendous amount of safety through every step of this operation. With more on that, here's Justin Jacobs. Thanks, Brian. And in keeping safety paramount throughout the debris removal operations, you can see crews behind me wearing full body suits as well as respirators to keep them safe during the removal process. Additionally, many of these sites have air monitoring equipment set up to check air quality throughout the removal process. Protecting the environment and keeping personnel safe is paramount throughout the debris removal operations. Back to you, Brian. If you'd like more information on the state's consolidated debris removal operations, you can go to wildfirerecovery.org. For all of us at Cal OES, I'm Brian May. Thanks for watching. Visit our online newsroom at oesnews.com to learn more about this program and get the latest news and information from our team. Don't miss our next video on your Facebook timeline. Like our page and you'll get the latest posts as they happen. If you're an Instagram user, you can see the latest snapshots by following our Cal OES Instagram account. And Twitter users can get instant access to our tweets from across the state by following Cal OES.


Hi, you guys, I'm popping off for a real quick video. It's not gonna be long today, but I thought I would address the topic of Why other men call?  He wouldn't be calling him simp. He'd be calling him boss manager Sir How are y'all doing? So yeah, they can call men simp online But when they call when they you know when they address them in person, it's mr. Sir boss manager owner CEO Um Doctor, you know, this is why they can't call them that in person Okay So That is why So whenever someone calls, you know, oh you must be missing with a stamp. Oh, da da da da Here's your comeback.  Such-and-such director of such-and-such Oh, okay. You mean such-and-such on the board of such-and-such Oh You mean mr. Such-and-such CEO of such-and-such Oh, okay. Okay Oh, you mean such-and-such phd. Oh, okay stamp Oh Because you know, most of the people that are upset is because they can't do it You know um And i'm i'm really start i'm gonna really start breaking down people's insults Because you can learn a lot from people's insults you can learn a lot about their insecurities And a lot about their character And a lot about how they really feel about you.  Well, yeah, whatever. He's whatever whatever But when you address him in person and in public you will address him as mister sir director of such and such and such and such Like everybody else. Okay Thank you. Everyone's commenting on my makeup. This is fenty. Rihanna's new lines okay so Guys Stop using that word. It makes you look broke. Like you can't afford to even take somebody out to dinner Ladies, I don't think you use it as much, but if you are using it stop using it Because i'm i'm saying, you know these insults showing lots of insecurities Um another thing, you know A lot of people Say you're supposed to be equal and bring this and that to the table and this is that blah blah blah blah I shouldn't have to take care of a grown woman blah blah blah blah blah blah and you know but I feel like Yeah, if they're your same exact age and they're putting up with you and i'm gonna say it Women have to put up with men their same age.  Okay um another thing Is you know, I'm very thankful and appreciative of my husband And everything he does for me because I know that's very rare Especially You know these days, so I'm very appreciative and I always talk about him and You know women and men get mad Because oh well the only reason he's doing that for her is this isn't that blah blah blah blah blah blah, you know like um, okay But if you're so much better than me, how come you can't get someone to do that for you You know what I'm saying So, you know when you start Hurling insults and comments and stuff.  Then are you really better? You know So Yeah, are you really better if you can't do it if you're gonna fix your mouth to talk about somebody at least you need to be better okay, so And a lot of this has to do with low self-esteem and other people like if you have low self-esteem Instead of fixing yourself You pick out what's wrong with everyone else because you are too afraid to look in the mirror and do that to yourself and improve okay, so For people like that go look in the mirror and do it to yourself and fix those improvements So you don't have to be mad Okay, that's why I say, you know, I don't get mad at people because I understand why they're doing things And this is how you can control your emotions ladies Instead of getting mad at your man or whoever Ask yourself. Why are they doing this? Think about it, you know Are they hurt? Are they trying to hurt me because I hurt them? Are they insecure? Okay, do they have low self-esteem? Okay Now you're not gonna get as emotional because you understand why they're doing it. You're not taking it personally Okay, you don't ever take stuff personally. You try to understand why they're doing it first And then if you understand why they're doing it You can make a better decision on how you're going to React, okay, because you shouldn't just react. You should think first Okay So whenever someone does something wrong to me, I sit and say, you know, why would they do that to me? Is it because they're jealous? Is it because they're they can't have what I have? Is it because you know I make them feel less than what they are. Okay Well, I guess I would be mad too. So I don't you know, I don't take it personally I'm like, yeah, I'll be mad at me too, you know, and a lot of people would say, oh, that's conceited that But it's still true Oh, she might not agree with my morals because that's not how she was raised Even though her morals aren't working for her. She's still sticking to them. She's still repeating something that's not working. So Maybe she's just insane, you know When you repeat something over and over and over and get the same result and you expect different results But you keep doing the same thing over and over that's one of the definitions of insanity.  And then I break it down, you know So that's another way to control emotions around people who are always, you know at you How can I get a man to improve without telling him off?  Okay If you Like I will tell them off in a second Uh, can you break up To make a man propose to you Okay Here's the deal with that If he likes you more Yes If you like him more No Don't do it. It's not worth it Okay This is why I always tell y'all, okay, if y'all have read the art Of seduction y'all would understand how to pick the people that you end up with How to pick your victims is what they call it. How do you pick your victims?  Okay Why are you chasing men who? You know, a lot of women are chasing men who don't even want them A lot of women are chasing men who know That these men are not attracted to you. Okay And you are doing this to yourselves. You're aiming in the wrong direction You know, a lot of women would be like, well, I just want this type of man to like me and Get in where you fit in. Okay. If this type of man don't like you Just stop looking for him.   Okay If you ignore this you're going to keep running in a circle and keep getting left Abused and used and I'm telling y'all this because y'all know is true. Y'all can be mad. Y'all can say whatever you need to say But the truth is Be an opportunist Don't try to do what you think you're supposed to do If you want the lifestyle that you want be an opportunist Okay, keep your options open be an opportunist go where you are wanted and admired and worshiped That's where you go. Okay.  Okay, and it doesn't matter what you look like There is men who will worship you in all walks of life. You know what I'm saying?  Okay. Yes.  You think i'ma go after some pretty boy who looked better than me No, i'ma go after somebody who's gonna worship me. I don't care what color he is.  You know what i'm saying?  Okay Okay, let's look at me If I were indian or mexican Um, I would be considered dark Okay And the the top of the line man or the men who you know, we're all about something or the men that were most desirable Would not want me Okay, do you think i'm gonna go chase after them if i'm you know Oh, you know, no i'm not i'm gonna be like, uh I know over here and over this on this part of the world these men will worship me So this is where i'm going.    Okay A lot of guys are like Uh, a lot of people were saying oh, how come, uh, you know sometimes And you know when things happen in the media a certain type of woman becomes trendy like right now Black women are trendy with with uh, you know middle eastern men Because of janet jackson and rihanna so now you see a higher interest rate in Black women by Arab men So don't buy too much into that, you know They just want to see what it's like, you know They don't want to see what's like. Oh, there's billionaire got with janet jackson. Oh, there's other billionaire is dating rihanna Oh, let me see what it's like.   They just keep running in the wrong direction Yeah I don't know like How do color struck men treat their chocolate daughters? chocolate daughters um A lot of the times they see themselves in them They see themselves in them. Um, if they're dark because I know james Really is like close to leila, you know, that's his spitty image almost so He sees himself in her, okay um That's how they treat them fine. I don't know like Unless they're self-hating Then I don't know but according to my family nothing you know, everybody gets treated great around here They get anything they want He gets up early on fridays to take her to school an hour early To her choir practice every friday, you know always buying her stuff like Treats her like a princess Uh So You know what they say, okay, you should create your own matchmaking. Oh, no What? I need someone to chubby My I gotta go in a second But this I just came up a little quick to tell y'all this because A lot of y'all y'all are getting mad because y'all are chasing the same type of man That this person next to you is chasing but that that type of man does not Um, you know, it's not interested in you Okay, and and I'm not trying to be mean. I'm just being honest to save your time. Okay.  Okay Um It's true It's true, you know And I feel like people know this they just don't want to accept it And I don't know why you can't change it You just have to you can't get mad at it because that's not gonna help you You can't change them you can't Hate on everybody because you can't get You know something you just gotta go find it in another place Okay, how you doing? So Don't get mad don't get mad I have seen this since I was a child, you know It is what it is Okay, it's the same in every other country with brown people in india is the same And mexico is the same and brazil is the same. Okay In every country where there's colorism is the same. So stop acting like it's just here. It's everywhere Get in where you fit in because you know some old rich white men is sitting up somewhere in new york who would love a Dark skin brown thick Brazilian girl Wow, you know somebody else is over here looking for someone light with you know This these type of features and stuff like that in their own country. They don't know the you know What's popping over here?  I'm not I'm going somewhere where they worship women like me. That's where I'm going. Okay So that's where a lot of women need to be going instead of trying to Force them yourself on someone who just needs not into you. Okay, that's all I'm gonna say Because a lot of women get mad at me Because I they like oh, you don't talk about this and you don't talk about that just D Okay, and you know, I already knew the answers in the back of your mind. I don't know why are you playing This it might not be morally right. It might not be ethnic ethically conscious But it is What it already is and what it's gonna be and what it's been What you gonna do? right Where do they worship light skin skinny? 53 year old latinas girl old man look any old man Old man words of anything just go for an old man an old man or any race child My friend is a beautiful dark skin woman. She said in hawaii the men fall over her all The men in hawaii is nice looking shoes. I went to hawaii. I was like, but they were all too short Some of them were Samoan. You could tell they were tall. They thought I was from hawaii. I'm like, I wish I was there but They're beautiful in hawaii The men are beautiful and They like variety they like variety, you know, so Islander I love like islands and things like that very open minded when it comes like, you know When it comes to women who don't look like all the women there It's different. So that's what they like A lot of women have been duped into thinking. Oh, if I don't marry my own race of man I'm trained or something something like that But then your own race of man don't want to marry you unless they get to mistreat you.  So I don't know what you're talking about Oh, I want to have all black children.   You're gonna be like me.   I didn't marry none of that. I married a black man with dark skin Because that's what worshiped me. Okay. I got in where I fit in. That's it I wouldn't try to be politically correct. I just got in where I fit in What time is it?  You know what I'm saying? She got in where she fit in so Make sure if you're chasing or You shouldn't even be chasing if you chasing anything You should that should be an indicator that you need to turn around and go in the opposite direction and let something chase you okay, um Because a lot of women were hating and you know secretly behind people backs and saying this and that from that old, you know Lipstick alley thing and from like gossip or whatever and in the comments and stuff like that and you know all the haters and people They they keep saying this stuff because they don't want to open their options They don't want to open up their options. They think well, you should like me because I have a master's degree I speak proper English and clean. I'm this I'm that I have proper etiquette That's not what they're looking for. You know what I'm saying?  I can't Then find someone who actually in your race that worships you if they might not be as attractive as what you're attracted to But find someone in your race that you like that you can deal with Who worships you as well if you ain't just having trouble, you know, there are older guys Bigger guys who would take any chick of any color in your race anytime any place, you know But and they will worship you, you know, what do you value more? being Given a great lifestyle being worshiped or being with someone you own only Find attractive in the relationship, but yet they're not feeling the same way about you You know for me, I'm going with the best opportunity It's just like a job Oh, this job is close to home. It's nice It's uh, you know, the building is beautiful. The this is nice, you know Or I'm gonna have to move over here and get uh, you know an office And a nice building overlooking the city with my name plate on it Um, you know relocation fees home, blah, blah, but I'm going over here I don't care about this place down the street that I can walk to that. I'm making minimum wage I'm going where the opportunity is.  That once you get married and once you settle down you you are there for a long time so Think about this You're there for a long time.  Enjoy the amenities that come with it. Enjoy the person worshipping you Enjoy your time off. Enjoy your option to work or not to work or you're going to be over here Slave it away for minimum wage for the rest of your life.  They just hire somebody else Okay, so think about it.   It's gonna be about class.  Okay, how much money do you have? Did you marry up? Are you still over here struggling? Okay What if Someone says say I keep a trust fund a secret. Why would you tell anybody? I mean, what would it benefit you?  So why would you tell them? Just tell them you get a crazy check Oh, I don't work.  She's not lying to you. Oh, who's that? Is that a guy? Someone says black men earn less. So if you're looking for a come up, it's crazy to target them Well, so for example, if I had married someone of a different race, of course, they would make more money. Yeah, maybe but like I said I went with what worshiped me and what could take care of me and what I could thrive, you know, so um Like I said, I have a friend who's dark dark dark and she married a white guy Her house is bigger than mine. She drives nicer cars than me and she's worshiped Okay, she's dark skin. She went in where she fit in. Okay So It is what it is. It's not that I think I'm better than you It's not that. Oh, I know I could get any guy as long as he's dark. It's not about that. It's about opportunity Okay, it's like, okay They approach me. I see, you know, I can get what I can get out of them. Okay. Let's go. I'll work with you This is gonna work because you like me more than I like you You spending money.   Let's do this. Okay Um, I don't have to chase behind him. I don't have to worry about, you know What he's gonna do if you're gonna leave for somebody else that he really like No, because I am what he really likes so Why not just find the person Or the type of person that really wants you instead of worrying about everything else Stop focusing on that. You're wasting your time wasting a lot of time Anyway, I gotta go y'all. This was just a quick short poppying video probably Not really short for it. Hey Gotta go I guess I'll go downstairs with y'all Someone asked me if they should get breast implants at 18.   She my sister had to get a reduction After she had kids they went They blew up gotta go pick up the children Yeah, I was only on for a short time Would I come back later? Maybe maybe I don't know I try But y'all remember what I said, okay, and it's all in love. I'm not trying to be a hater Ain't got no reason to hate Gotta watch my step before I fall to fall My dream, um, I'm probably I don't know if I'm taking them I'll take you All right What You know, I'm live, right? You know, I'm live, right? I hope so I hope the truth be told And the truth was told Well, you gotta say it louder because I know they didn't hear If you don't keep paying these bills would If you don't keep paying these bills, I'm leaving I know that's right Well, thank you. I appreciate you paying the bills James. Bye Oh, it's so dark. Yeah, I didn't know I was live Well, I'll see y'all later. I gotta go Um, I might be back on later if I get home early


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Start Bismillah Rahman Raheem Thank you to everyone for coming to this historic announcement I want to acknowledge the attendance of Phil Banks deputy mayor for public safety Edward Kuban NYPD commissioner Mark Stewart NYPD deputy commissioner of community affairs Cass Daughtry NYPD assistant commissioner Guilford Monroe's Faith advisor office of the mayor Asim Rahman commissioner of oath Meir Bashar chief administrative officer Deputy inspector Adeel Rana and Dr. Sarah Said director of Civic Engagement Commission and All of the faith leaders and elected officials that have joined here us here today. Thank you for coming The Adhan also known as the Islamic call to prayer is a beautiful and integral part of the Muslim worship and daily life It serves as a melodious reminder for Muslims to come together and engage in prayer It's captivating melody has a profound impact on the hearts and minds of those who hear it Beyond its religious significance The Adhan carries a sense of tranquility and serenity. Its sounds can create a meditative atmosphere inviting individuals to pause reflect and turn their attention towards the divine Whether heard in busy streets Or in the quiet corners of a serene village The Adhan has the power to stir the soul and strengthen the bond between the worshiper and their creator In essence the Adhan stands as a timeless and cherished tradition carrying centuries of devotion faith and reverence it embodies the essence of Islam Calling believers to prayer Offering a moment of connection with the divine in the midst of their daily lives New York City has the power to captivate cultures faiths and traditions and allow them to flourish under its skies We cannot be any more grateful to this administration and to Mayor Eric Adams from bring it for bringing us all here today for this historic announcement and Reminding us that our faith is equally important as everyone else's and giving our children a little taste of back home Here in this great city and now it is a great honor and pleasure to induce the greatest mayor of the greatest city Mayor Eric Adams Thank you. We're also joined by a freeze deputy commissioner as well And just really want to thank and I want them to say a few words our bar president of the borough of Brooklyn Tonya Rinoza Antonio represents probably Outside of Queens by the second most diverse borough the largest of course in the city of New York It was a city it would be the third or the fourth largest city in America and the senator Jackson Person who is a Muslim faith and Know how significant this moment is for him and I would love for you also senator to have an opportunity to speak Well one throughout my years in public life One thing that I took note of throughout this entire journey is how this was not a city for everyone This was a city that ignored so many cultures and communities This was a city with certain groups did not have their the right to raise their flags down at Bowling Green the number of people on January 1st, 2022 when I took office of The first year of them calling me and saying as a possible We can also celebrate our independence and our culture by having flag raising and over and over again our team from international affairs Had to give me the note. This is the first time we've ever done it This is the first time we've ever done it over and over again. The Japanese community for years. They wanted to parade On the streets like other cultural groups. They had to be Told they can only parade in Central Park that ended when I became mayor the Haitian community Wanted to celebrate their culture and say sapa say on the streets of Manhattan They were unable to do so that ended when I became mayor You will see over and over again the dismantling of a city that talked about diversity But in reality, it was not diverse and throughout my childhood. I heard the beautiful melodies of church bells At different times if it was on the hour or the half an hour It was a reminder of you know our spiritual lives While in the nine four precinct I'm bordering the nine old precinct. I will hear the sirens When we reached the point of the shabbat's observers And all my campaign trail Bahi and Assan and many of the members of the Muslim community Stated that they would like to have the call of prayer something that I heard when I visited Morocco when I visit Saudi Arabia When I visit Oman when I visited Jordan when I visited so many Arabs and Muslim countries I heard the call of prayer and know that it is a significant moment and to be able To state that this city is going to join a rich tradition cultural and faith belief to allow all groups to be acknowledged you will not live in the shadows of The American dream while I'm the mayor of the city of New York This is a promise I made on the campaign trail and with lists of so many other promises. This is a promise cap So to my Muslim brothers and sisters that are here. Asalaamu alaikum And so I want to thank you Bahi, you know your commitment everything from Diwali food. I mean for bringing the Diwali holiday to having a food in our school system To creating us a place for prayer Inside city hall You know, this is such a great moment that we're no longer talking about it We're we're being about it and commissioners to astute For what you have done to continue to move forward with this issue Assistant commissioner Daughtry and the entire team over at the New York City Police Department under Commissioner Caban of making sure we can get this right New York City, you are free to worship in New York City and we embrace our religion or faith Just returning from Israel and seeing the intersectionality of the Jewish quarter the Christian quarter The Muslim quarter and seeing right there all those religions are in the same place and Allowed to worship freely for too long There has been confusion about which communities allowed to amplify their calls to prayer today We are cut in red tape and saying clearly if you are Mars or a house of worship of Any kind you do not have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer You are free to live your faith in New York City Many of us may know the call to prayer as they are done as a chant that is played for one to two minutes on Fridays But for our Muslim brothers and sisters It is so much more than that. It is the voice of God a Reminder to take a moment an invitation to come together and pray for years The community has advocated for the right to express this fundamental part of their faith I'm proud. We are finally getting it done today Our Muslim community is the key to the prosperity and culture of our city and the diversity is just so evident When you look around the full scope of just like the Christian faith in a Jewish faith and other faith is Diverse so too is the Muslim community and we are committed to giving you the recognition you deserve That's why again and again you're hearing about the first over and over again. You're hearing the words This is the first time. This is the first time. This is the first time add this on to this is the first time And you're going to hear more first times again You look at what we've done the first ever E Celebration at Gracie mansion the first bangled a Benga dashi heritage celebration and just last week the first Arab heritage event We supported and funded the first citywide halal food program for students in our schools We introduced a breaking bread building barns a Lamona night assistant commissioner night and the team over at CAU under Fred Chrysman I'm bringing people of all different racial ethnic and religious backgrounds together to share 1,000 mills across the five burrows and we have put leaders in place that reflect the diversity of this community including Muslim senior advisor of the mayor's and the first Muslim executive director of the mayor's office for prevention of hate crimes Last week I visited Jerusalem as I stated and I saw the power of that diversity alive and well Each major religion is able to celebrate on a different day of the week You hear the adon on Fridays the Jewish community goes to temple on Saturday and hear the Christian church bells rings on Sunday I have had the opportunity to pray as some of the holiest sites in the Muslim Islam Judaism and Christianity it has inspired me it has lifted me up It has allowed me to understand the challenges that are in front of us But our destiny is larger than our individuality and we can come together with faith I have never made it unclear to anyone that I'm a man of God and I believe in faith And I will take that faith with me everywhere I go and we are a country of faith And that's clear on our dollar bill and God we trust So we're going to show the world how we come together with all of our faith leaders and under the law We are all treated equally. That's why I want to be very clear We are not changing the rules to benefit anyone or any one group New Yorkers should know the volume must be kept to a reasonable level And and it can be played between 12 30 p.m. And 1 30 p.m. Each Friday and during sunset prayers through the holy month of Ramadan In a few minutes we will hear what the call to worship sounds like probably the first time that call to worship has ever been Put in place here in city hall if you are part of a Mars or other religious community You can contact the mayor's office of faith-based and community partnership to learn more Clarity is important and again I want to thank of the commissioner and his entire team Which is working with us to ensure that New York is rights to worship is protected And that is includes on Mars across New York City They will know the rules and know how to participate in them correctly I also want to recognize all the Muslims and community leaders who are here with us today This is a very important and significant moment for them And I know how important it is and I want to thank them for helping us continue to unite our city during these Difficult times many of these mosques and leaders have played such a significant role And how do we deal with everything from violence to the asylum seekers? To just every day Addressing the mental health crisis that we are facing in our city and in our nation I want to thank them for what they do as they join with past my roles and many of the other faith leaders That have played such a crucial role in moving the city forward So again, thank you so much. This is a proud and significant significant moment for all of us Let's continue to uplift each other now. I will leave you in the same manner that I greeted you. Asalaamu alaikum Thank you, mr. Mayor, and I would like to introduce now the NYPD police commissioner Edward Caban Thank you Bahi. Thank you, mr. Mayor and thank you all for joining us today As we all know less than a mile from here our nation came to life Our first capital is here our first president was sworn in here and more than 230 years ago The laws of this new nation one nation indeed under God guaranteed freedom of religion for all But that freedom is an ideal Those law does not explain how to achieve it The contours of that freedom must be shaped by those governed by the law and today We are doing just that Today we are here to lend our support to all religions of our city Let our houses of worship know they may carry out their customs Particularly as relates to amplified sound without the need for a sound permit But today is about so much more than that Today we affirm that we do not merely tolerate freedom of religion in our city We celebrate it We embrace our civic virtue and the strength of our differences We see this in the NYPD every day We are a department with tremendous diversity including religion and yet we are united in purpose a Purpose that demands we uphold the rights of every New Yorker So today using our strong partnerships in the Community Affairs Bureau We commit to helping all religions worship in a reasonable manner And we do this with renewed focus on the importance of relationships Relationships between faith leaders Community stakeholders and residents alike I want to thank Deputy Commissioner Mark Stewart and the entire Community Affairs Bureau for all of their hard work This is an important initiative One that demands fairness for all. I am proud of all the NYPD is doing to achieve that balance. Thank you very much Thank you Commissioner Caban and our next speaker. I would like to introduce is Deputy Inspector Adeel Rana President of the Muslim Officers Society Salamu alaikum First I would like to thank our great mayor Mayor Eric Adams For not only for not only the occasion that we are here for but all the things that he has Accomplished in such a short time for all New Yorkers Thank You mr. Mayor for some of those Accomplishments are like the appointment of first Muslim senior advisor to a New York City mayor Then having a commissioner who is well qualified to lead the administrative court appointment of Chief Administrator officer and many more in his team that are also Muslim And I cannot forget appointing the best person to lead the greatest police department in the world Commissioner Edward Caban as everyone knows Azan is called to prayer prayer. That is one of the fundamental parts of Islam You all might have heard the call to prayer when you travel in various countries or when you're watching movies or shows It is a beautiful soothing sound that reminds you about your obligation to the creator So you know how important it is to the Muslim community For over 40 years. Some of the musthers have been offering the call to prayer Without any issues or frictions, but today mr. Mayor His actions is going to make it smoother and painless for everyone else and recently We had a Muslim officer a deep Fayaz that was killed During his funeral a local masjid which is a mosque conducted a call to prayer and a loud speaker in Return the masjid has been playing the louds the call to prayer on their speakers since then This shows you how important it is and how much the community wants it needs it and appreciates it To my fellow Muslim community my brothers and sisters as we embark on the new journey Please remember that in Islam you have to be kind Understanding and helpful to your neighbor. So when you are installing the speaker or when you are offering the call to prayer Please be mindful of your neighbors. Please have the openness Conversation that relationship with your fellow neighbors as My fellow New Yorkers I want to thank you in advance for your understanding For your openness and for ensuring that every religion in New York City has a right to worship as a police I encourage you to reach out to your fellow neighbor your fellow masjid and to learn about the call to prayer and Have that dialogue and relationship that would better serve your community The NYPD Muslim officer society is always in the forefront when it comes to serving the community Connecting our law enforcement and our community. We will always be here. I encourage our community to reach out to any one of us If they ever need any assistance, this is the best city in the greatest police department And we get a chance to serve connect and work along with the Jewish Christian see Hindu and all other religious officers Thank you, mr. Bahi and all the other people that put this together Thank you to our leaders that are standing here and those that could not make it Thank you again to mr. Mayor the police commissioner and of course, thank you to our New Yorkers This is another great example where working together. We can get stuff done God bless New York City and God bless the United States of America Thank you, and I would like to introduce now Imam al-Hajj dr. Talib Abdul Rashid Good morning Peace be unto you all, so now more equal I'm here this morning in my capacity as the chairman of the association of African-American Imams and as a special representative of the might of the Sassura, which is the Islamic Leadership Council of New York 33 years ago the city of New York was racked with gun violence throughout the five boroughs racial and ethnic strife and into that challenge Stepped our first and now previous African-American mayor Mayor David Dinkins And Mayor David Dinkins issued a call to the citizens of New York To celebrate what he called the gorgeous mosaic of ethnicities faith traditions and Languages and The interfaith community here in New York Embraced and answered and responded to Mayor Dinkins call and This served for a time as a healing balm to our city and I might add Help to sustain us during the difficult years that followed the Dinkins administration So here we are now Three decades later and the country itself is wracked by gun violence by strife between ethnic groups and There is a need for a call and an example From an elected official of the great city of New York to call us forth once again to unity Inclusion and diversity as a city That the city might be healed So we have the Muslim community. We are here to support the spirit and The leadership of Mayor Eric Adams It has always amazed me as someone who's lived in New York since I was a small child That people push back against Mayor Adams as The result of his open embrace of faith communities It's amazing when one considers that the largest Catholic community in America is in New York City The largest Jewish community in America is in New York City and The largest Muslim community in America is in New York City So it's not only a matter of good spirit. It's a matter of our mayor's good politics That we salute him for that And lastly Lastly over the past 30 years since the Maelty of Mayor Dinkins. There have been moments when the religious and spiritual life of New York City has taken a breath and Expanded to include Muslims it took a breath 30 years ago and added the two major Muslim Holy Days or sacred days to the New York City Transportation, Mr. Mayor calendar. It took a breath when Muslim inmates in the New York City Department of Corrections Were granted the right to have halal food on a regular basis the only jail system in America That enjoys that type of Accommodation it took a breath When the entire city was traumatized by the events of 9-11 and religious leaders of various faiths Responded with prayer and standing together and Love and compassion to heal our city And so we stand now in this crucial time with our mayor the mayor of all of the people of the city of New York and We counsel everyone to patience every time there's a development There's always a little tension In fact, the only time there's been an expansion Where there was no tension was when the number of days for alternate side parking were implemented We never got any negative feedback about that But we stand with our mayor We counseled the Muslim community and our neighbors of all faiths in this great and diverse City to continue to move forward continue to grow continue to evolve Because it is our belief that by doing so That we add to the safety and security of our city and the future of our children Our grandchildren and the future generations Thank you so kindly And I would like to introduce the next speaker Tahir Abdul Hadi executive director of Mass, New York Salamu alaikum In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful first and foremost We thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala God for all of his blessings and mercy upon us We think Mayor Eric Adams this administration Commissioner Kaban and all of the Muslim leaders that have stood the past few decades at times of Turbulence for Muslim communities and at times like these when Muslim communities and communities of faith are celebrated There was a lot of beautiful points that were shared and I just want to supplement them with a few words first and foremost There could of course be some worry from our neighbors in the New York Community that Thens are now going to suddenly start blasting we want to reiterate that It is an integral part of our faith to be kind and courteous to our neighbors the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said One whose neighbors are not safe from your harm is not from us meaning. He is not a believer Conversely an opposite of that Muslims are pushed and it is incumbent upon them to be a positive force in society So when we talk about it then as being a call to prayer it's also a renewal of faith and with that faith it is not just prayer and fasting a Muslims faith must manifest in all of their Interactions in life in their honesty in their integrity in their support of Muslims and the people of all faiths and I want you all to understand that our Massajid in New York City provide many services for people of all faiths. They have food pantries There are places for emotional and spiritual support for anybody to walk in during the iftars of Ramadan It's not just Muslims walking in anybody can walk in and have a meal with Muslims and enjoy some social interaction And with this celebration of the Muslim community and of people of all faiths it's important to also have expectations expectations on ourselves as religious groups within society and as Mayor Eric Adams has many times reminded us the importance of the role of Faith groups within society we talk about crime We talk about substance abuse issues in society mental health issues the city can only do so much from the outside there's 40,000 police officers for Millions of people in New York City if we want to make this city a better place a healthier place It must start at a grassroots level and that is through religious groups That's through houses of worship that have access to hundreds of people and can give it these positive messages and tell them be the Leaders of positive change fix your families Improve your marriages raise your kids in a better way And this is some of the messages of course that Islam teachers and a hundred percent mayor Eric Adams aligns with Faith and family and improving this city from a grassroots level up and we really think the administration We thank the leaders. We thank all of you for supporting again as commissioner Kaban said not just having tolerance Right tolerances if we have tolerance as the benchmark come down before it right, you know below We're right there at discrimination. Let's have celebrating different faiths and and believing that they can be a part of the solution For our great city. Thank you Thank you by the time I will like not introduce Sumea for Rosie principle of the ideal Islamic school Okay, so I'm a lake on everyone Okay, so first of all, thank you mayor Eric Adams for being a friend to the Muslim community Thank you for recognizing the importance of a than the call for prayer In the Muslim community, we are humble today for this opportunity As you can see that then plays a huge significance in the Muslim daily life our lives revolve around the daily Five prayers one of the theme in my school ideal Islamic school is we are Muslims 24 7 So Islam is our life not simply a religion my vision for my students is to help them Embrace their Islamic identity with confidence Our children are reminded of who they are when they hear the adhan They can embrace their religion with a sense of pride and inclusiveness having that that echo in their New York City Neighborhoods will make them feel part of a community that acknowledges them This is what we want for our children to feel wants it The to feel this is home a home where their religion is accepted not feared So we are now in 2023 I believe it is time just as the church bells ring on Sundays We ask that then to echo on Fridays for Jima prayer and in Maghrib the holy month of Ramadan. Thank you Thank you, sister. I would like not introduce me some Rosvi spokesperson for the al-hoi foundation Thank you. I was a ballahim and a shaitan in a regime. Bismillah. I'm on a Rahim In the law home a laika to who you saloon a la Nabi Yeah, I was in a man who's all the way he was a limo tasleem. Oh, I'm a Salli ala Muhammad Wali Muhammad I'd like to begin by congratulating Brother Eric Adam Eric Adams for making this historic and groundbreaking announcement today Adhan as it literally means an announcement is not just a call for prayers It is also a declaration that a mosque is not a closed space It's an open space and it is a sanctuary for not just for everyone regardless of what religion creed Ethnicity race or orientation that they belong to it has an open space and everyone is welcome. That's what the announcement is for finally The call for la ilaha illa Allah Muhammad and Rasool Allah Ali and Wali Allah and Haya Allah Kheril Amal is going to echo on the streets of New York Mr. Mayor, we are eternally grateful for you for having made this announcement May Allah protect New York City and may Allah bless America Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakat Thank you. I will cannot introduce senator Robert Jackson Mayor Adam, thank you for bringing us all together. It's good to see so many sisters and brothers here and You may say well, why am I here? I am here because when I get the text message that there was going to be announcement that the call for prayer is going to be every Friday afternoon from now and to whenever and I was the first Muslim that was elected to the city council of New York in January of 2002 and also in the New York State Senate in the New York State Senate in January of 2019 and People have come to me and said I didn't know you were Muslim And I said well, what does a Muslim look like and I say to you that not knowledgeable a Muslim looks like everyone in this room and So this is about respect and understanding and appreciation for one another Even we have religious leaders coming up to the state Senate and saying a prayer before we begin our Deliberations and I always go up front and introduce myself Not to say I'm the first Muslim in the safe Senate But to say to them hello, how are you and when you say your prayer Can you say a prayer for peace and understanding throughout the world? But all you have to do is turn on the news or listen to the radios and you know That we need prayer that we need respect. We need understanding and so I'm here today as part of one to say in unity There is strength and that's we are strong here today. Thank you mayor Thank You senator I would like not to introduce Brooklyn Bottle president Antonio rey no soul First I want to just thank mayor Eric Adams for this great announcement the Brooklyn Muslim community has been reaching out to me constantly to talk about this issue and I don't have the The support of the NYPD and come on and and I'm not the mayor of the city of New York But I was I was telling them to do it anyway. I Told them do it and get the fines and we'll I'll give them to Erica. He'll take care of them But to hear this announcement happening now I'm just deeply grateful because we are we speak about being proud of our diversity in our city and people love Dancing music eating the food and celebrating all those cultures But those folks want to celebrate themselves as well And we can't let the have them hide while we get to eat great muscle great food allow food and enjoy it But when it's time for them to pray that we want to hide or we want to say that that can't happen It's all it's a culture of extraction is way too common in this city Well, we need to do is start appreciating each other and loving each other. So when I talk about faith I just talk about love think about What they're doing in these mass mashies. They're just praying for each other praying for you in Catholic churches and Christian churches Baptist churches in Synagogues just praying for other people and I believe that when you give the universe love The universe gives it back and that's all they're doing is a ball of energy calling on each other through prayer for love and Now I have on my special assistant mayor Adams Forgets sometimes that it's Friday and he's supposed to go pray and now he can't do that anymore There's no more excuses for Omar son. I know you've you've asked me to make sure he goes There's no excuse anymore, but this is just me coming from Brooklyn I don't like to travel on this bridge and come to Manhattan often, but But I do I gotta I gotta take time to thank our mayor for doing this for the Muslim community for my community In Brooklyn, I'm a deeply grateful for it and inshallah. May we keep this on for forever. Thank you so much. I Will like not to introduce Yusuf Salam member of the exonerated five Hamdolillah first I would like to say may the peace mercy and blessings From the owner of all peace mercy and blessings be upon you. I Say that because that's what we say in Arabic And a lot of times the confusion comes when you hear people speaking a different language But it's about being able to translate in the best way in the best manner. What actually is happening What I love about the Adhan is that the Adhan was gifted to a person of color To wake up the community that said we are those who let go and let God It's a it's a term that we've heard in our community all throughout because we are interfaith type of community I remember hearing my grandmother say let go and let God especially when I was going through the awful trials of being vilified as one of the then known central park five But the best thing about Understanding where we are at this particular place in time is that this is sacred time and in sacred time We get the opportunity to be reminded that we have to at various points in our day Regardless of what we're doing regardless of what faith we practice Acknowledge God in the best way that we can and that is by praying to God and What better way than having the announcement proclaimed? God is the greatest And to turn your attention From whatever you're doing Back to God so that all of the things that you do afterwards Content can continue to be works that are blessed works that are favored You know in our prayer just so that you know we say Iyakana abudu wa Iyakana staim Which means show us the straight path guide us in the straight path guide us to the straight way What is that path Sirota Latina and amta alehim the way of those that you have blessed Yes, we know about the history because we can pick it up and read it in a book We know about the history of those who have been blessed who have been following the sacred path But there are people right now Who are doing the work and so I want to say thank you to our mayor Adams For being a bright star Not only in the context of who he is for us as a people But in this great city of ours And thank you commissioner caban for being front and center When it always matters Thank you. Alhamdulillah. Assalamu alaikum. Thank you, brother.  God is the greatest. And no one worthy of worship except God. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Let go. Let God. Okay. Okay. You know, we do things in orderly fashion. We're going to get you your question, but you picked the first person that we're talking. Good. And yourself? Yeah, pretty good. Were there any incidents that precipitated the need for a rule like this? Did anyone get tickets or was it the owner's process of getting a permit? Sort of, what was the problem that this is now solved? The, which is, that's a, that's a fantastic question, but I've learned during my time in office as mayor, we have been doing a lot of things and no one can point to the rule. And so when I first inquired, why can't we have the call, the prayer of no one had an answer? People say, well, we never did before. And so I follow the law, but I make policy. And so I spoke with the police commissioner and the deputy commissioner of community affairs and stated, let's put the pieces in place to make this happen. And that's what they did and bring clarity. Clarity is the key. You, they weren't broadcasting the call to prayer because they weren't sure about them. Right. There was no real clarity on if you could, if you couldn't. And the Muslim community wanted to make sure they abide by the law and we brought clarity to it. I don't know if you or someone from the NYPD wants to speak to what that process and what that means, learning experience was to broaden this to out, to remove the permanent system to allow more masks and has the worship to help. I didn't play into it at all.  When I visited the mosques and masjids, I talked about this over and over again. And so we just continue in the same pattern of promise made, promise kept. Hey, brother, how are you? Muslim around the world because New York has been followed worldwide. It's happened. And that, as one of the brothers just said, the first person who will make the announcement was Bilal. I know that he's also happy. What we want to know right now is, why was so much of a claim? And what are you going to do about the administration? What are you going to do about the cramp? It's sad, sad but it's gone.  You know, there's no way I would have navigated the city out of COVID crime, 104,000 asylum seekers without one family and child sleeping on the streets, turning back our economy, getting people back on our subway system in a real way, recovering 99% of our jobs, getting a double A bond rating by Fitch, saying this is a good place to invest, having 56 million tourists, 65 million predicted to come this year, decreasing shooting and crime. I wake up in the morning and I don't try to guess. I turn on my GPS, guard position in satellite. Let go and let God. Yes, sir. You just came from Jerusalem and you started breaking bread building bond. Is it something that you can expand between Muslims and Jews so that it can translate into peaceful coexistence on the holy land? Well, let's be clear that with Assistant Commissioner Knight and Commissioner Fred Kreisman, Bahi, that whole team has done. I think we have a couple of thousand people who have already attended a breaking bread building bond. We started out with just doing 10 people at one table all coming from a different faith in religion. It has grown. I think the one that we did on Saturday, we had about either Saturday or Sunday, we had about 400 people. Last night, there was one in Ozan Park. Hundreds of people are coming and sitting down and reintroducing themselves to their neighbors. Breaking bread is just a simple way of just bringing people in the room. I think we underestimate the lubricating value of a meal, how it really takes down our defenses and really allows us to have a real conversation. We want to do a thousand different events and we are on target to doing that. They are doing an amazing job and people are eager. We did one with the Department of Correction over the weekend. New York City Police Department held one. Each one of our precinct's commanders are going to hold one. Our commissioners are going to hold one. The most challenging aspect of getting it done, we just can't seem to get our reporters to hold one. We want to get all of our news journalists. Maybe we can get Dana and I to sit down at the table and break bread and build bond together. You know? We never got invited. It is a historic day for the Muslim community. No doubt. But if anyone challenges this issue, all New York City will defend the Muslim community. We are doing that every day. There were some painful moments with the New York City Police Department and the Muslim community coming out of 9-11. There was just a very difficult period and I remember when a group of Muslim officers came to me while I was in uniform and they were providing safety for the city but their daughters and wives because they were wearing a hijab they were being attacked. I met with those Muslim officers back then in 2001 and gave them my attorney who started their first organization, organized them into an organization of we had to stand up and we see the population it has increased drastically and the entire Muslim presence in the police department I think there's a new day. Commissioner Caban is just well known in the Muslim community and that defense is having a very clear offense that we're not going to tolerate any forms of hate and we're going to continue to do that. It's about everyone living safely in the city and the right to worship in the city. How are you? Are you going to come to our breaking bread building? Okay. Bahi sat down and mapped out the exact way I like to speak to the community and figure it out that was what Bahi presented during the month of Ramadan it's going to be at every sunset and during the year it's going to be during Friday prayer and I think that there must be a very clear understanding that out of the many towns, villages and cities across America, New York could never be outdone. Thank you. Well this is New York. 8.5 million people, 35 million opinions. No matter what you do in New York there's always going to be the numerical minority that's going to say we should or shouldn't do that. The overwhelming people in the city respect faith and understand the power of faith who stated it but it was clear when you are in a masjid a synagogue a temple a church when you are praying you're not going out to create harm or someone. The more prayer we have the greater we're going to be and I don't care what anyone is saying it's time to pray. We're in some challenging times with so many different levels and prayer works in a different way. Feel offended these brothers and sisters from the Muslim community they're going to invite them in. People who are offended over the expression of worship I believe they're in a painful place the only way you can heal that painful place of what I say over and over again we have to move from being worshippers to practitioners. Let's engage in dialogue let's go to the community board meetings the precinct council meetings so yes there will be those who will find a reason for us not to do it and that's okay. We'll be alright they will get used to the sound and maybe some of them will come in and join in prayer it's just time to pray. I should keep y'all all here with me why they ask me these other questions thank you so much thank you I just see them as concerns I saw them that they gave feedback but let's be clear and this is just so important to understand talking about the downstream approach is not the answer it's the upstream approach so to say what are we doing with asylum seekers when they're in our city without addressing how do we stop the flow to New York City so each time we open a new space that's not an answer it's not sustainable if you're averaging 10,000 people a month and if the national plan is have New York City continue firing spaces that is not an answer and if the national plan is that slowly see if New York can move more on the waiting list to get work authorization that's not an answer so we appreciate their observation we're happy they really engage in this conversation but we have not had a lack of clarity we need people to have the right to work which is an American tradition we need an emergency declaration we need locations to sort of deal with the overflow right now and we need funding so when you look at that analysis that was given it answered none of those prevention this is an intervention what you saw how do we stop this flow yes they didn't give any clear answers and you know look at the low hanging fruit like an emergency declaration we can free up some things here in the city finding they gave us a list of spaces we're going to look at those spaces really doing a decompression strategy at the border is important you know I just I am just really baffled around that very smart people believe that this is sustainable for New York City to continue to get more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more people in the city a month New York is frustrated and it's spilling over you know if the status quo stays we're still spending $5 billion right it's just like as New York is we have to ask what are they doing to us what is it about New York we're going to look at all the sites and we're going to give a preview of where the sites are I want my team to have an opportunity to do so and then we'll come back and give you a list of all the sites and what's the outcome and if we can use them we're willing to use them but you know Kelly I just want to again lean into the answer to this question is not can we find more places for migrants to fit in New York City and in New York State that's just not the answer the answer is how do we stop the flow and if we don't engage in that conversation then we have a problem and the beauty here is that you saw the letter all of you is open to everyone you know the letter and so when you read through it you have to say to yourself okay how does this solve the problem I mean that's the question that we with the question we're asking what is the problem and you just see the answer how to solve the problem you said you saw an answer hey maybe you guys can move people out faster through the process maybe you could do this maybe we can do that but you know but how do we solve the problem that's what we need from the national government what are you talking about that would be open to everyone well anytime you start out a question with the name Curtis Sliwa that it would do a disservice to me and other New Yorkers for me to even respond to that Curtis Sliwa I mean if you go look in the dictionary for the Rory Buffon and tell me what picture you come up with how's it going President Biden I said this when I was in Israel dealing with the conflict between the protest movement and Prime Minister both the protest movement and the Prime Minister they love Israel President Biden loves America Governor Hoku loves America Eric loves America when something is rooted in love you're going to have disagreements if you're married you're going to have disagreement with your spouse you have disagreement with your children Jordan and I have disagreements from time to time but it doesn't mean we don't love each other we disagree on this issue we have an unbelievable partner with the subway safety plan with cycling out of COVID with helping me partner on housing the new New York plan and President Biden was here when we went to Washington to get resources for during the gun violence a point in an ATF had so we've done great things together we love this country right now we are at a disagreement I need the national government both houses to come up with a real immigration reform package I need the issues that we pointed out and the governor has made it clear that she believes this is something that is basically New York City we just disagree on that I believe this is a statewide issue and it should be managed by the state but that has nothing to do with the fact that I believe she has been an amazing partner and we've had a great relationship and there are going to be other times that we disagree on things like you know Dana and I we don't agree on a lot I've been calling you a lot today right see he called on you because I kept calling on you I thought he should have received MSG should have received 10 years but the council used their authority they spoke with the councilmen in the area and they made that decision I respect that you know the within their authority within their power we made our recommendation but they have certain powers and you know this is a great system checks and balances no one can get away with doing whatever they want and so they made a decision I respect this decision by the council and the reelection part of this and how it impacts the president I don't know the answer he has his he has his advisors they could better tell him on that I need to know what's happening in the city and I'm focused on that let's look at this for a moment we are going to four borough based jails four borough based jails right now I think the population is around 40 the most those borough based jails can take us about 4200 we're projected to have over 6000 so those who are on right is now because of bell reform and because of other reforms you really have to do something bad to go to rikers so now we as a city willing to say that 2000 extremely dangerous people because we don't have enough space we're going to turn them back into the streets and back to the communities that they committed these crimes in the first place and so I think the city council must look at this plan with 50% of the people there have mental health illness and see how do we come up with a plan that gets the reform we're looking for and the safety that we're looking for now the law says Eric you have to do a I'm going to do a I'm never going to break the law I'm going to attempt to show people that we have to remain safe as a city as the plan currently is it's a question that is this a good public safety decision including the cost of that has ballooned to a level that's unbelievable so I think we all as leaders need to come back and say how do we deal with this issue that we are faced with in a few years and based on my partners I have to go with whatever the outcome is I'm not going to get my way on everything I get I have some of the greatest numbers of people who receive fund raises I get a ton of fund raises I get a ton of people who stop me on the street being a mayor don't ever underestimate a mayor that is among people as much as I am the number of people that come to me I am inundated every day all day with people you are at events and you see how many people come at me so if you have to ask me did I know everyone who came or hosted an event or what have you no I don't know everyone that hosts events I don't know everyone that wants me to come to this event being a mayor particularly a mayor that does not live in a bubble I am constantly having people around me every day and so those who hosted events I don't know all the names I don't know all the faces I have a fund raising team in there handling that Marsha I'm sorry the what I'm sorry the what I'm sorry the what I'm sorry the what I'm sorry the what I'm sorry the what I'm sorry the what I'm sorry the what I'm sorry because again reception well he he the sites that we got that were on state facilities we could not go to the president and say can you give us authorization to use a state site So sites that are under federal control, we can't go to the governor and say, can you give us right to use those sites? So the federal government controls their sites, the state controls their site, and the city controls their site. So the federal government tells us we can use this site. We're going to listen to what the federal government states. Responding to the letter from Secretary of my office, said she was opposed to letting the city use those 11 sites because she wanted all of the migrants to be in New York City and not to go beyond the five boroughs. So are you saying that if there are federal sites that they make available beyond the five boroughs, that you will send migrants there even if she doesn't want them? No, we don't have an option. New York City has run out of room. And think about it for a moment. Think about a plan that states all of the migrants must stay in New York City. We're close to 60,000 that are still in our care. 10,000 a month. So any plan that wants, that states, all migrants must stay in New York City, that's a failed plan. Any plan that does not include stopping the flow at the border is a failed plan. And so if the national leaders are saying, we're not going to stop the flow, that's a failed plan. And if the state leaders are saying it must stay in New York City, that's a failed plan. And it's just not fair to New York City residents. You know, we have 0.05 of the landmass, but we have 99.9% of the migrant asylum seekers. Governor Sestian, you can use a court trial for the plunder of state. Are you going to do it even though the governor opposes it? We are going to use any space that's available to take the pressure off of New York City residents. Whatever space we could use within the authorizing power, we're going to use. If I get permission from the governor to use a state facility, we're going to use that. If I get permission from the federal government, we're going to use that. We're going to use any space that folks come in and say you have the authorization to use. Okay.