Hi everyone, welcome again to the Course in Miracles lesson of the day live and today we are going to go through workbook lesson number 12. For the 12th day of the year we have workbook lesson number 12 and it is. I am upset because I see a meaningless world. The importance of this idea lies in the fact that it contains a correction for a major perceptual distortion.  All these attributes are given it by you. The world is meaningless in itself. These exercises are done with eyes open. Look around you. This time quite slowly. Make yourself so that the slow shifting of your glance from one thing to another involves a fairly constant time interval. Do not allow the time of the shift to become markedly longer or shorter. But try instead to keep a measured even tempo throughout. See does not matter. You teach yourself this as you give whatever your glance rest on equal attention and equal time. This is a beginning step in learning to give them all equal value. Look about you say to yourself.  And so on using whatever descriptive terms happen to occur to you. If terms which seem positive rather than negative occur to you include them. For example, you might think of a good world, or a satisfying world. If such terms occur to you use them along with the rest. You may not yet understand why these quote nice adjectives belong in these exercises. But remember that a good world implies a bad one. And a satisfying world implies an unsatisfying one. All terms which cross your mind are suitable subjects for today's exercises. Their seeming quality does not matter. I'm sure that you do not alter the time intervals between applying today's idea to what you think is pleasant and what you think is unpleasant. For the purposes of these exercises, there is no difference between them. And the end of the practice period and but I am upset because I see a meaningless world. Meaningless is neither good nor bad. Why then should you should a meaningless world upset you. If you could accept the world is meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you. It would make you indescribably happy. But because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. This you see in it. It is this that is meaningless in truth. Beneath your words is written the word of God. The truth upset you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see his. That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises. Maybe or four times is enough for practicing the idea for today. Nor should the practice periods exceed a minute. You may find even this is too long. Terminate the exercises whenever you experience a sense of strain. So our theme of simplicity is reinforced at the very end. What I am telling is terminate the exercises when you begin experiencing a sense of strain. Because this is the mind training of gradually opening your mind to a new set of ideas that are given by God by the Holy Spirit and Jesus. And also loosening the mind from the prevalent thoughts that cross your mind and consciousness on a daily basis. Basically every minute and every second of the day there's a flow of thoughts and consciousness that are, you know, being washed and rinsed. And the mind is being rinsed of these thoughts of consciousness, because we are beginning to learn that we have a thinking problem. And this thinking problem is, is producing a world that seems to be external to our mind. And today, we're coming in with the idea that that a, I'm upset because I see a meaningless world. And right away, in the very first paragraph, Jesus is making the point that the major perceptual distortion that is being corrected is that the world has been given meaning in adjectives, whether they're positive or negative.  And that is, is a major correction to a perceptual distortion to think that you can apply an idea of either a positive or negative judgment to the world and believe that there's a reality to it. So this harkens back to the first two lessons of the workbook. Nothing I see means anything. Again, that's where the meaninglessness is. And then work lesson number two I have given everything I see all the meaning it has me. And let's be very specific here the ego has given everything in perception all the meaning that it seems to have. But today, Jesus is is asking us to be open as we practice by open-eyed meditation open-eyed looking at the world and all those seeming symbols and objects that surround us, whether they're in the room or they're out the window at a distance. And he's saying that basically anytime we feel upset, it's always because of this feeling of meaninglessness. And that contradicts like a common belief that that somehow things actually have meaning and there are good things and bad things and you want to accumulate and and possess the good things and avoid and eliminate or dismiss the bad things. And what Jesus is saying, no, it's a, it's a sense of meaninglessness that is bringing about all forms of upset. And this upset is only going to be relieved, released from the mind, if, if we first see that we're attempting to give meaning to something that doesn't have meaning. And he's reassuring us in this lesson that behind these images that have been judged positively and negatively is the word of God. And in, we'll see that in the workbook lesson he's talking about the light of Christ he's talking about the the presence of God's love he's talking about I am as God created me that's that's the word of God that's the light that's behind the veil. So we're opening to, to clear that away. Now I've said that we would keep these things very practical this is of course a very deep course and it's very profound and, and I have received some questions that have come in. Actually, today again I feel to read a section from the, the text from chapter 31, and that it's going to be section for the real alternative. And the reason I'm going to read this is because when we look at this world, we basically are confronted with a lot of what seems to be a big to do list every day there seems to be so many things to be done. And the to do list is, is based on the ego belief system. You can just stop for a moment and think wow if I'm, if I'm spirit, and I still live in the mind of God if I have my, my very being in God, and God's love. There must not be a to do list in heaven and there's not, because there is no doer or doers in heaven. But when we seem to have a busy life in this world, and we seem to have lots of things that we have to do and accomplish on our to do list every day. Those things that we believe we must do are part of the ego belief system that is designed and made to distract us from the holy instant or the present moment so literally every time the mind gives into this idea that there's something that it must do. It, it is avoiding the I need do nothing solution of the holy instant. And therefore there's going to be a sense of struggle a sense of challenge. And ultimately, this is where at times people feel either stressed out or they feel like the world as I perceive it is meaningless. It's not held in mind in a constant way in the deepest sense that is truly meaningful because as long as we believe there's real choices to make real things to be done real tasks to be accomplished real achievements to be conquered or to be taken on then then basically this sets up the defense against the present moment against the silence against the tranquility against the contentment against the peace of this moment is the backdrop of all of these things that need to be done. And that's really the human condition it's, it's, it's instead of calling someone a human being you could call them a human doing, or you could, you could say that that human busyness is more the standard of the ego than human being, because the beingness is of the present moment. And the humanness is the body. And when the body has to be busy, and the body has to always be doing something, finishing something completing something achieving something on a to do list, then the doer is held strong in mind. So, I'm going to read the real alternative because of all the books that I have written over the years. I think this the shortest and the simplest book that I ever received was called purpose is the only choice and that booklet. It's so tiny fits in fits in your back pocket or in your purse. It's so tiny but that booklet is all about really coming to a deep understanding that that the purpose that we hold in our mind is really the only choice that it's a, it's a mirage. It's a hallucination. It's a trick to think that choice is so complex that we have such a menu of choices every day, according to the ego and the Holy Spirit is, is with the angels and they're all just kind of gently laughing saying, No, it's really not that complex. Truth is much, much simpler. And as Jesus was telling us in the workbook today, if you can let go of reading meaning into everything, putting words on everything, putting adjectives on to everything of time and space, then you can let the word of God, you can let the truth be written on it instead. That is where the surrender comes in. That's where you surrender to God and say, you know, I will be done show me the truth. Show me the love show me the light. So let's look at chapter 31, which is called the final vision and we're in section number four, the real alternative. We will light up our lesson of the day. For sure. There is a tendency to think the world can offer consolation and escape from problems that his purpose is to keep. Why should this be because it is a place where choice among illusions seems to be the only choice, and you are in control of outcomes of your choosing. Thus you think within the narrow band from birth to death, a little time is given you to use for you alone. A time when everyone conflicts with you, but you can choose which road will lead you out of conflict and away from difficulties that how then can you escape from them by leaving them behind. What must go with you will take you will take with you, whatever road you choose to walk along. So it's part of the, the human perception that that there's certain problems that are important to the person and certain problems that are irrelevant or unimportant and certain problems of the world that that are really not your concern and Jesus is just saying, you'll take with you wherever you go, you're going to take it with you because your mind goes with you wherever you seem to go, there's only one mind, and you don't escape from the contents of consciousness, as long as you project and see them as outside. Second paragraph comes in with real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer all its roads, but lead to disappointment. Nothingness and death. There is no choice in its alternatives. Not to escape from problems here. The world was made that problems could be could be not be escaped. That's a pretty strong line. The world was made that problems could not be escaped. The world is deceived by all the different names is Rhodes are given. They have but one end, and each is but the means to gain that end, where it is here that all its roads will leave, however differently, they seem to start, however differently, they seem to go. There is no certain where there is no choice among them. All of them will lead to death. On some you travel gaily for a while before the bleakness enters and on some the thorns are felt at once. The choice is not what will the ending be. But when it comes. There is no choice where every end is sure. Perhaps you would prefer to try them all before you really learned that they are but one. The roads this world can offer seem to be quite large and number, but the time must come when everyone begins to see how like they are to one another. They have died on seeing this because they saw no way except the pathways offered by the world and learning they led nowhere, lost their hope. And yet this was the time they could have learned their greatest lesson almost reached this point and go beyond it. It's true indeed there is no choice at all within the world. But this is not the lesson itself. The lesson has a purpose and in this you come to understand what is for. So we might say that how it relates to our, our lesson of the day. I'm upset because I see a meaningless world is that when you begin to see that all are the roadways of the world all the choices of the world all the form choices that seem to be presented every day. For the human being and for the mind that is asleep and dreaming, all the form choices are are really dead ends. So there's really no choices in the world that lead you out of the world. That's why it shouldn't be surprising when people talk about reincarnation or karma or the cosmic loop of groundhog day looping looping looping day after day is because the mind still believes there's some way in form to escape from the form. And Jesus is saying, No, the sooner you can realize that they're all meaningless.  The mind in its natural state in heaven is meaning that will say that Christ in the as an idea in the mind of God that is all meaning. And then in the form, there are no meaningful specifics, there are no meaningful images. In the end, all images were made up by the ego and God knows not form. Jesus says, in the beyond all idols section. It's very deep and profound but what it's really showing us is that as long as we think there still could be escape from the world through choosing amongst the images and the choices of the world, then it's, it's a trick. It's really like trying to pick different forms of death and saying to yourself, which form of death will content me. Obviously the answer that Jesus is giving us is no form of death will content you you have to, you have to find the purpose you have to find the lesson that is beyond all of these empty roadways. So paragraph four Jesus is saying why would you seek to try another road. Another person or another place. When you have learned the way the lesson starts, but do not yet perceive what it is for its purpose is the answer to the search that all must undertake who still believe there is another answer to be found. Learn now without despair. There is no hope of answer in the world. But do not judge the lesson that is but begun with this. Seek not another signpost in the world that seems to point to still another road. No longer look for hope where there is none. Make fast your learning now and understand you but waste time unless you go beyond what you have learned to what is yet to learn. From this lowest point will learning lead to heights of happiness, in which you see the purpose of the lesson shining clear and perfectly within your learning grasp. So, in simple terms, there's nothing of the past that can set us free, because the past and future are part of the ego's defense against the present moment which is the gateway to eternity. So, there is nothing from the past that that we can say that we have learned that has been helpful. Because the only meaning we can give to this world is the Holy Spirit's purpose of forgiveness of just seeing the false is false. Then we are given a new purpose. We are given a light which lights up the world. We are able to behold the reflection of this light that we are. And this reflection spreads across evenly every image. That's why Jesus is having us go through these workbook lessons with a natural sense of rhythm and letting our eyes glance on one thing after the next after the next without giving any more importance or any more reality to any of the images because Jesus wants us to to behold them with a much higher perspective with the Holy Spirit's perspective. Who would be willing to be turned away from all the roadways of the world unless he understood their real futility? Is it not needful that he should begin with this to seek another way instead? Or while he sees a choice where there is none, what power of decision can he use? The great release of power must begin with learning where it really has a use. And what decision has power if it be applied in situations without choice? Again, it's at one point in the course Jesus says the one question you can safely ask in any circumstance in any situation is what is it for? What is the purpose? Because the past has anger, the past has hatred, violence, the past has judgment. The past has hierarchies, comparison. You know, the past is not where we can find our happiness and peace, but he's saying you can't release the power of your mind while you keep it arrested in these concepts and beliefs of the past. He's telling us you have a very powerful mind, but if you keep it arrested by believing in these ego concepts and beliefs, by even by believing in linear time, your mind has an arrested development. It's in slumber mode. It's not in joy mode. It's not in freedom mode. It's not in happiness mode as long as it's arrested by false belief. So in one sense you can see this course is taking us to letting go of everything we think we've learned, everything we think we think, everything we think we know. And some may be saying, well, that sounds kind of vulnerable. But actually it's strength. It's invulnerability. That sounds like gullible. And Jesus is saying, no, that's actually pristine innocence when you know nothing of this world. You're not gullible. You're not vulnerable when you don't judge. You're actually strong and clear and free in mind when you don't judge. Today paragraph six, the learning that the world can offer but one choice, no matter what its form may be is the beginning of acceptance that there is a real alternative instead to fight against this step is to defeat your purpose here. You did not come to learn to find a road the world does not contain. The search for different pathways in the world is but the search for different forms of truth. And this would keep the truth from being reached. Okay, there aren't different forms of truth. There aren't different truths. People don't have different truths. No, they always used to tell me, tell your truth. This is like, I don't know, as a human being you don't know the truth. So you can't tell your truth just just be transparent to be as authentic as you can and not hiding and protecting your thoughts. But don't think that truth can be found in words because truth is far beyond the words. Here we have seven, think not that happiness is ever found by following a road away from it. This makes no sense and cannot be the way to you who seem to find this course to be too difficult to learn. I repeat that to achieve a goal you must proceed in its direction, not away from it. And every road that leads the other way will not advance the purpose to be found. If this be difficult to understand, then is this course impossible to learn, but only then, or otherwise it is a simple teaching in the obvious. It is a choice that you have power to make when you have seen the real alternatives. Until that point is reached, you have no choice and you can but decide how you would choose the better to deceive yourself again. This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and the same mistake. All choices in the world depend on this. You choose between your brother and yourself, and you will gain as much as he will lose. What you lose is what is given him. How utterly opposed to truth is this when all the lessons purpose is to teach that what your brother loses you have lost and what he gains is what is given you. He has not left his thoughts. But you forgot his presence and remembered not his love. That is a beautiful reminder there that God has not left his thoughts that in heaven. God creates in spirit. And that's how Christ came into being not Jesus the man or any of the form of the time space cosmos but the pure idea of the Christ idea, an idea in the mind of God. He has not left his thoughts. God has not left the creation, this beautiful creation of the Christ. And the ego is the belief that somehow Christ left God or God left Christ. That's basically what the belief in time spaces is the belief that it's possible for God to leave his thoughts, or for Christ to leave God. And neither of these things are possible. The creator created love is perfect and there's nothing that can interrupt that perfection or that can can shake that that strength of that connection between the creator and the creation. So, as we really look at this lesson for today I am a set because I see a meaningless world. This is something that that you can carry with you as you apply the lesson today because this is the beginning of healing in mind. As long as you're judging the world in a positive way or a negative way, you will pursue what you believe to be the positive, and you will attempt to avoid what you believe to be the negative. And when you look at all this to do list that we come back to again with most human beings seem to have either a literal to do list that they write out or a mental to do list of what they have to do during the day. It's actually good to start to see that all of these busy doings, and all of these goals for the future, in which these doings are being done to achieve or accomplish a future goal that these are ego goals. There is not a single goal for the future that the Holy Spirit sponsors because the Holy Spirit always guides the mind into the present moment to accept what is to accept God's will here and now to to let all things be exactly as they are here and now to see the divine perfection here and now to be in your right mind here and now to do actually feel that that there's nothing that needs to be done to experience enlightenment to experience salvation.  And then when you have no private thoughts and no secrets that you would keep to yourself, so to speak, then, then those thoughts are released. And you find that what is present is what has always been reality that Jesus tells us that the present moment is the closest approximation to eternity that the world offers. This is our gateway. This is our less false escape route of simply being here. And over many, many years ago, I picked up a book that Ram Das had written after he, you know, his name was Richard Albert and he was a psychologist over, believe it was the big eastern schools and he went to India to see his guru and he ultimately came back and wrote the book be here now. So, as we approach the here and now, we have to first realize that that whatever is upsetting us is not because of a positive judgment or a negative judgment. The flip side of, I'm upset because I see a meaningless world would be, I can believe that I'm happy because of certain outcomes in form. I can believe that things are going my way because of certain outcomes in form. But those aren't true either. I'm upset because of the meaninglessness and when I seem to be pseudo happy or temporarily happy. It's not true happiness because true happiness doesn't come and go to happiness is a constant state. We'll continue on here I just want to give a good context for workbook lesson number 12 from a course of miracles because we're going to go in and as you go further on with this workbook you're going to see that that Jesus is just presenting every day with another opportunity to come and be fully present and every day will seem to offer a little bit different twist of words and a different angle but actually it's the same thing. It's, he's always promoting simplicity. He's always promoting except the truth exactly as it is here and now. Don't, don't think of it as something in the future. And, and I always used to say when you do these workbook lessons expect to wake up with today's lesson expect to wake up expect to, to have the aha moment of what the goal of the courses. Don't think of it as 365 lessons. Don't, don't think of it as what's tomorrow or what's next week. Just come fully with with the willingness to to be shown what is here and what is now. Yes, we just read in the, in the real alternative the section that all of the roadways of the world lead to death. It is not pessimistic. If Jesus is is calling us to eternal life to a life with God. It is not pessimistic to say that all the roadways of the world lead to death, because that's what they were made for the ego made time and space to cover over our eternal nature, our true beingness in God our true beingness and spirit. Thank you so much for joining me again today. I wish you all the joy and happiness. And I wish you to really apply this lesson today is if it. Everything is is writing on it that when you start to open up that you're upset because you see a meaningless world and then what must follow that realization is happiness, because there's nowhere to go for the ego. If you let go of its meaningless world you let go of it. And when you have let go of the ego you have have accepted your Christ nature, your Christ presence. Love you. All my love.


Hi everyone, we are so excited to be here. I'm Aria Churnick, and I am open learning. And I am Mary Hemphill, and I am computer science. We are not only living in the fourth industrial revolution, but we're living in an exciting time when technology is disrupting every industry on Earth. And as technology will continue to transform our world, we know that computer science and computational thinking are truly going to be critical for the success of our students, as well as us as humans living in this world. And North Carolina is in a unique position because this past June, the State Board has allowed for computer science to be added to the North Carolina standard course of study. So what does that mean? That means that 1.5 million students across our state are going to have the opportunity to be immersed in computer science when it comes to teaching and learning. And we're in a unique position because if we get this right, it's going to have huge impact for not only our minority students, but also our female students as well. And there are many organizations that have already put their stake in the ground when it comes to fighting the disparities of gender and equity in the computer science space. In fact, Code.org classrooms have balanced classrooms when it comes to race, gender, and socioeconomics, which is why the North Carolina Computer Science Initiative is going to be based in K-12. We're going to start with kindergarten and take them all the way through their public education career because we know that females who take computer science in high school are 10 times more likely to major in it in college. And this is a great time because we know that if we are going to create education for 21st century students, they have the opportunity to make 22nd century impact if we can get it right. So let's get it right. We have got to get this right. This is an enormous opportunity for North Carolina. So what does it look like to get it right? Well, it looks open source. So many of you are very familiar with these guiding principles of open source, probably from a developer perspective and software development communities. So we're here to talk just for a couple more minutes about what it looks like to integrate these kinds of open source values into educational contexts and what happens when we do. And I can tell you from personal experience I've been doing this work at Duke University, it is transformational. If we are going to truly shatter the outdated and unfortunately often dehumanizing system of education that we know today, we have got to use an open source approach to do it. So specifically thinking about collaboration, community and inclusivity, Mary and I have partnered me at Duke University and Mary at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. We've partnered also with IBM offering their design skills in a truly cross-sector collaboration. So we're designing some of this open source computer science curriculum. But more than that, we are also designing this community co-creation where we're using open design to think about what are the stakeholders really need across our state. So some of that work in open source K-12 CS education curricula and professional development, it's open source in terms of the resources that will be available, but it's open source in approach because we know that the only way to really integrate that inclusivity that we care so much about into this computer science curricula is to make it open source. And in order to do that, we have created hashtag I am computer science. It is going to feature North Carolina women in North Carolina computer science industries from cybersecurity to analytics, from big data to IT and computer science education. And hopefully what we want is for our female students, the 1.5 million girls across the state to see themselves in this campaign and to be inspired. But in order to do that, what are some ways that we can make sure that we are getting it right in North Carolina? So there are little things you can tweet and that really does make a difference. Help us build the open source platform that we need to share and scale this work. Sponsor us, sponsor a student. And dance with the pink elephant. It is time for our female students to have new solutions to old 21st century problems. And so instead of talking around the pink elephant, let's invite it to dance, to create, to shatter these glass ceilings, to reimagine and redesign what they look like. We know that the kindergartners who started school this past August are the graduating class of 2034. And Andrea Gascon, who is the CEO and founder of Girls in Tech, said, Our work is not done until a female name is as synonymous with tech as Steve Jobs until women are on the cover of computer science notebooks and until people assume that founder, techie and CEO is a she.


In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O my Lord, thank You for Your mercy. May Allah open up for us the Prophets, and teach us what is beneficial for us and what is beneficial for us. Today's session will focus on the ninth outer action that draws us closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and gets us more prepared for the day when we will leave this dunya for another meeting, for the real meeting with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. This outer action is commanding good and forbidding evil. أَلْ أَمْرُ بِالْمَعْروُفْ وَالْنَّهِ وَعْنِ الْمُنْكَرْ المعروس is all that Islam has ordained. While the monk is that all that Islam has forbidden. So, in joining what is good and forbidding what is evil is one of the most important Islamic duties. Indeed, it is the noblest and most sublime. This is the task of the prophets. This is the task of the messengers. Peace be upon them all. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has mentioned this in Surat al-Nisa in ayah 165. رُسُلَ مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنْضِرِينَ مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنْضِرِينَ لِئَلَّ يَقُونَ لِالْنَاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ حُجَّةٌ بَعْدَ رُصُلُ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has sent messengers. Who are these messengers? What's their duty? Messengers are bearers of good news as well as of warning in order that mankind should have no plea against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala after the coming of the messengers. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has sent these messengers so that people would not stop and tell him in on the day of judgment year, you forbid this but we didn't know that. So Allah has made it clear. He sent the messengers to explain to people. Actually a Muslim should recognize what is good and what is evil. By acquiring knowledge and understanding the teachings of Islam, the teaching of this religion. In fact knowing and understanding the teaching of Islam constitute a sign of man's happiness and that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to do good to him. So what happens? Sayyidin Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says So when Allah wishes good for anyone, he bestows upon him the fiqh or the comprehension of the religion. So if someone wants to say, to ask people to do good, then he should be able to recognize what is good. And if he wants to tell them not to do an evil action, he also should know that this action is evil. So may yuridil lahubihi khayran yufaqiyuhu fiddin. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in Surat Al-Amaran ayah 104 So let there be from you a nation. So what is this nation? Inviting people to good, in joining what is right and forbidding what is evil, what is wrong. So who this nation is? So those will be the successful. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala indicates in this ayah that people who possess the qualities of calling others to goodness in joining good and forbidding evil are those who are successful. So this is what we need. We need to be successful on the day of judgment. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us of this of the successful group. So what are the characteristics of this group? Allah mentions that in Surat Al-Hajj ayah 41 He says So those those are if if we give them authority those are the group of people whom if we give authority in the land so what do they do? They establish prayer, they give zakah, they enjoin what's right and they forbid what's wrong and to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala belongs the outcome of matters for everything. So each and every community should have a group of people who direct people to doing maruf, to doing good and to be away from munkar which is evil. So they should clarify what maruf is, they should clarify what munkar is and this should start actually in the smallest unit of the society which is the family. So the parents are responsible for their children when they are young they should always direct them, they should always guide them, they should always advise them and they should fully play the interested role that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given them so they raise the Muslims. And Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says in one of the narrations So you are all guardians and you are all responsible for your folks. So So the ruler is a guardian of his people. The man is a guardian of his family. The woman is a guardian and is responsible for her husband's house and for their offsprings. And so all of you are guardians and all of you are responsible for your folks. Parents, parents love their children, they are responsible about them. So they do their best to ensure a good life for them, good education, good good of everything. And this is on the dunya level but this is not the only goal. Their aim should not focus on dunya only. It should not focus, it should not be just to prepare all goods for their children for this vanishing dunya only. They should help them for the life after, for the day of judgment. They do their best so that their children are saved on the next life. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will be pleased of their children. So they are coolness of an eye to say the Muhammad ﷺ. For this they teach them, they guide them, they teach them what is good, they teach them what is evil. They teach them to attain the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. They always remind them that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is over watching them. So he is not to see them doing any masjid or any sins intentionally. So what do they do? What do their parents do? They choose good friends for their children. They choose good company for their children. They take them to the gatherings. They put them in gatherings of reciting the Holy Quran, understanding it and memorizing it. So they would be half of the Quran and they do this because they know that when they memorize the Quran then the Quran will be protection for them. So they teach them good manners, they advise them how to be good to others and help them when they need help. So this is the role of the perfect parents. They take care of their children not only physically but also spiritually. Now listen to Sayyidna Luqman ﷺ gently advising his son. Yes, it was an advice for his son but it's an important lesson for all of us. Sayyidna Luqman ﷺ says, and this is Sayyidna Luqman ﷺ. So my son, he is addressing his son and he's giving him advice. So what is this advice that establish prayer? So look at the first thing that he is that he is advising him. Establish prayer. Enjoin what is right, enjoin what is good and forbid what is wrong, forbid what is evil. And be patient over what befall you. Indeed, this is of the matters requiring determination. And of course there are other advices that he gave him but this is our point. Enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. So if we raise our children as by the advice mentioned by Sayyidna Luqman, then we are sure that Allah ﷺ will save them. He will guide them and he will protect them. So they would be, of course, they are of the nation of Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ. So Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ would be proud of them and Allah ﷺ described in the Holy Qur'an the nation of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ being the best nation amongst all mankind. So he said, this is Surah Al-Imran, ayah 110. So you are the best nation produced as an example for mankind. So why? What did they do? What did they do? You enjoin what's right and you forbid what's wrong and you believe in Allah. So you the ummah of Muhammad is the best of people ever raised up for mankind. So this ummah is the best of people for the people.  And Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ said about this. I was given what no other prophet before me was given. So the companions asked, Ya Rasulallah, wa ma dhaak? Oh messenger of Allah, what is it? What is that that you have been given that none of the previous prophets have been given? He said a few things. Nusirtu bi-Rab. I was given victory by fear. Wa-u-A-Ti-Tu-Ma-Thati-Hal-Ard. I was given the keys of the earth. Wa-sum-me-tu-Ahmad. I was called Ahmad. Wa-du'ilat-tu-Rabu-li-tahura. And the earth was made a clean place for me to perform to him with it and to pray on it. Wa-du'ilat-Ummati khairan-l-Umam. And my Ummah was made the best Ummah. So the best nation produced for mankind is the nation of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Wa-lhamdulillah that we are of this Ummah. We are of this nation. So this Ummah, the best that was produced for mankind, they enjoy what is right. And they forbid what is evil. And on the day of judgment, all people, even the prophets, would wish that they are of the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So we thank Allah SWT that we are of this Ummah. So do you know why everyone would wish that they are of the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ? Because this Ummah will enjoy the mercy of Allah SWT. This is what Allah mentioned in Surah Tuttoba, ayah 71, when he said, So the believing men and the believing women are allies of one another. What do they do? يأمرون بالمعروف وينهون عن المكر. The first thing, they enjoin what is right. And they forbid what is evil. They establish the prayer. They give zakah. They obey Allah SWT and his messengers. This, those, Allah will have mercy upon them to the mercy of Allah SWT is the goal. And those who will receive the mercy of Allah SWT on the day of judgment are saved. Now, in joining what is good and forbidding what's evil, is a mission which will never end until this dunya is over. So it will stay forever. It is obligatory upon all the Ummah, rulers, men, women, and each according to his or her circumstances. And the Prophet SWT clarified that there are three stages of enjoining good and evil and forbidding evil.  If he is unable to do so with his hand, then he will do it with his tongue. And if he is unable to do it with his tongue, then he should do it with his heart. And that is the weakest form of faith. So what are these stages? So the first stage, forbidding evil with the hand. Who can do this? Rulers, people in authority are the ones who can do that. They can oblige people to Allah's command and obligations. As we mentioned earlier, a believer plays this role with his wife, his children, by enjoining them to observe the commands of Allah SWT.  So we can do that, especially if talking is not effective. So if the ruler orders something, then everyone should obey. If someone does not, then the ruler can get this person, put him in prison, so he can do something with his hands. So this is just for men, for people who are in authority. Amir, a judge, chief of a tribe, anyone appointed by the Muslim ruler or his people in the absence of the public rulership, anyone can do that. But they can implement this obligation according to their own capacity. But they are the people in authority. So this is the first stage. Now the second stage, which is enjoining good and forbidding evil with one's tongue. He may request people to fear Allah SWT, perform Salah, Paisaka, stop doing a particular evil or the like. But in this stage, a Muslim is doing this with his tongue. So he admonishes, he reminds people, checking the things that they do in case there are any mistakes. So those responsibles in this stage have less power than those of the first stage. This group, on the second stage, they cannot use their hands, their authority to order people or to do something, or to forbid people from doing something. The second stage, people, the group, they do it just with words, just with tongue. Now the third group, the third stage, what is this stage? Those people, this is represented by someone who can do nothing except to mention it in his heart. He sees there is an evil, but he can do nothing. He does not have any power, he cannot change anything, so he cannot even talk to others about it. The only thing he can do is by his heart only.  He can just do the prevention with his heart, he can make doha, he can just acknowledge that this is something that he hates. To keep in mind something very important, that there is a close relationship between today's topic, enjoying good and forbidding evil, and the topic of giving advice. It is one of the fundamental and best acts of worship that Muslims can exchange advice, but we have always to remember the conditions of giving advice. So, enjoying good and forbidding evil is nothing but giving advice. But how can we give advice? We have to do it wisely. We have to do it with kindness. Don't be harsh on people, do it in private, do not expose people. Keep their sins secret. If you know something about someone, do not threaten him that you will expose him to people. No.  So, there are rules for giving advice. The most important one of them, that it should be in private, so that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will cover us on the day of judgment. We do not expose people. Moving on to another point, a big punishment on the day of judgment to someone who orders people to be good in this dunya, and he does not adhere to good. He does not adhere to goodness. And he orders people to be away from evil, and he does all that is evil. So, Usama bin Zaid, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, reported that the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said, So, Usama bin Zaid, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, reported that the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said, So, Usama bin Zaid, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, reported that the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said, A man will be brought on the day of resurrection and will be cast into hellfire.  So, the inmates of hell will gather around him and they will say, What has happened to you? Were you not enjoying us to do good and forbidding us to do evil? And they will say, So, his reply would be, I was enjoying you to do good but was not doing it myself. And I was forbidding you to do evil but I was doing it myself. So, this is the state of the person who does not practice what he preaches. So, he will be thrown into hellfire and his evil will be disclosed to all people, to everyone. Allah will unveil him.  So, when he would answer them, they would know that he was ordering good but he did not practice it. And he was forbidding evil but he was committing it. So, similarly, the same thing, the same idea was mentioned in surat al-Saf, in ayah 2nd and 3rd when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Oh, you who have believed, why do you say what you do not do? Great is hatred in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you say what you do not do. This is actually about commanding good and forbidding evil.  They discourage people from doing good. In fact, this group of people is also described in the holy Quran. When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in surat al-Tawbah ayah 67 and 68, So, the hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another. They enjoy what is wrong and forbid what is right. And they close their hands. They are stingy. They have forgotten Allah. So, Allah has forgotten them accordingly. And indeed, the hypocrites are the definitely disobedient. What is their punishment now? So, Allah has promised the hypocrite men and the hypocrite women and the disbelievers. So, Allah has promised all of them the fire, hellfire. Wherein they will abide eternally. They will not be able to get out. They will not be able, the punishment will not be reduced to them. But it will increase and increase and increase. It is sufficient for them. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has cursed them. And for them is an enduring punishment, everlasting punishment. So, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us of those who truly enjoy that which is good. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us of the group who forbid that which is evil. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sincerity in whatever we do. So, we do it and we ask Him for sincerity. Ya Allah make our actions all for your sake. So, everything that we do is just for you. So that when you look at us, you would see us of your obedient people and of your obedient servants about whom you said, this is our goal in this dunya. We want to be of the winners group. Of those who are successful on the Day of Judgment. So, we want you Ya Allah to get us closer to you. And we want to apply all that you ordered us to do. We want us to be away from all that you wanted us to be away from. We want your help. So, when we do something good, it's not because we are good. No, it's because that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has made us do that. It's because of the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we did what is good. And that we stayed away from what is evil. So, we want the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We want the guidance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So, to be of his obedient servants. So, to be able to follow his messenger. So, to be able to apply the teachings of his messenger. So, to be able to apply the teachings of the Quran. We want help from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We cannot do it ourselves. We need Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to help us do whatever pleases him. And this is the whole point of this series. We want the actions that would get us closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We want to do whatever Allah is pleased with. And we want to be away from whatever Allah hates and is not pleased with. We want to be of this group whom Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said about them. One time, a young man came to say, we have Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And he said, Ya Rasulallah. At that is an uli fi zina. So, would you allow me to practice fornication? So, people talked loudly to him. How can you do that? How can you ask the Prophet for that? The Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, leave him, leave him. And he looked at him and he said come closer. So, he came closer to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked him, do you like this for your mother? He said, no, no, Ya Rasulallah. So, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, So, similar things. People would not like it for their mothers. Then he asked it, do you like it for your daughter? Do you like anybody that does unlawful relationship with your daughter? He said, no, no. No, Ya Rasulallah. Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, similarly, people do not like it for their daughters. And then he asked him about the abs. And he said the same thing. So, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam placed his blessed hand on the heart of that young man. And he said, Allahumma tahrir qalba wa aafir dambah wa has'un farja. Ya Allah purify his heart and forgive him. And make him of the people who are saved from this. And that man said, So, there was nothing more hatred to that man from this action. So, imagine Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, our master, our teacher, look into each and every action that he did. Look at how he dealt with the subject. He did not shout at him. He did not curse him. He did not speak badly to him. But he talked wisely to him. He convinced him that this is something that Allah hates. This is something that nobody likes. And he made dua for him. So, to all mothers, I would say, with your responsibility as a mother, as a guardian to your children, you have always to make dua for your children. Do not belittle the power of the mother's dua. It makes miracles. It changes things to the best. So, be with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and ask him always for guidance. Ask him always for help so that we leave this dunya and he is pleased with us. So, we want to attain the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And we want to be with those who enjoy the companionship of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to purify our hearts, to guide us, to protect our children, to provide them with good companions who will advise them when they slip. And so, until we meet next week, inshaAllah, with another outer action that will bring us closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and get us more prepared, more ready, to meet him on the day we leave this dunya. I send my salam and your salam to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.


Hello people of the internet my name is Johnny and welcome back to yet another FNAF news video We got some very very exciting topics to talk about today a lot of merchandise news a lot of news on the fan verse and Also security breach making a surprise appearance on a brand new platform. That is all the news We got to talk about today. We actually do have a bit more news So hopefully pretty soon down the line there's gonna be yet another FNAF news video coming to your subscription feed So if you do want to stay up to date with all the FNAF news what's going on in the FNAF series subscribe to the channel It's the best way to guarantee you do stay up to date without further ado Let's kick it off by talking about some brand new merchandise from FNAF AR of all places Hey, the game may be dead, but the merchandise it's still thriving. It's not the biggest merchandise drop It's just a few extra posters based on FNAF AR by trends the one I've got on screen right now Actually in my opinion looks pretty damn good I wanted to go pick it up, but unfortunately it is out of stock the best part about this poster is that it also Glows in the dark as you can see it's freaking incredible And we also got a few other posters in a bundle of two looks like you can get firework Freddy Mangle Easter Bonnie and broiler baby scorching Chica and balloon boy and also finally you got ringmaster foxy and plush trap like I said They are unfortunately out of stock. It seems hopefully they do become available pretty soon because like I said I'd love to pick up that glow in the dark poster moving on now to some FNAF hex plushy news We got wave 3 revealed to us in a recent charity stream by doco This is the teaser and as you can see wave 3 is going to include the main toy and matronix unfortunately Excluding Mangle for now as you can see got toy Chica with the cupcake as well toy Bonnie with his guitar Freddy toy Freddy with his mic and also balloon boy, which is very interesting It looks like he will feature both the balloon itself and also the balloon sign So I am very very excited and interested to see what the actual product of balloon boy looks like there are a few other Keynotes I'd like to make about the wave 3 Release and also future FNAF and hex collabs that doco mentioned on the stream as they showed off this teaser number one Toy Chica's beak is removable. There is a magnet in there So you can take it off and that assume it's gonna feature some Mouth on the inside when you remove it to look like the actual endoskeleton mouth doco said that balloon boy has a propeller hat Which I'm assuming means it'll actually spin. He said Mangle is still being worked on in that They will probably be a standalone release makes sense If you haven't seen this is a teaser for Mangle that got released quite a while ago at this point I think so they're really trying to get a Mangle plushy out so far it looks fantastic And I really really do hope we can get one down the line Speaking of Mangle. He said that Mangle's head hands and feet will be the actual plush material But that their endo body will be plastic so you can't actually remove the body Parts just the head feet and arms I think this way so that I can actually have a proper weight an actual stand so yeah a very complex plushie Hopefully progress is going along good because I know a lot of people freaking love that Mangle plushie already and really hope It can come out. What's next for FNAF and hex? Well doco said that the puppet and the withered animatronics will most likely be next for wave 4 Absolutely no clue when that's gonna release. It seems like they're pumping out these waves pretty quick I mean, you know Fredbear and spring Bonnie just released in May and now we're already getting teasers for wave 3 though Once again, we don't know an actual set release date for wave 3 We don't even know if all the products are done yet We're just gonna have to wait and see speaking of plushies U2s revealed a brand new plushie this time Chica. We took a look at the Bonnie plushie last episode But now we have an actual Chica plushie looks pretty cute again I think a lot of people are kind of mixed on the style of the plushies personally. I like it. I think it looks adorable I can't wait to see what Foxy and Freddy look like and if you don't know We are getting more plushies by U2s in the form of the security breach characters So a lot of plushies by U2s the FNAF one gang We already got Vanny and also security breach speaking of U2s and security breach We got a brand new figure for 8-bit Ryan and the reason why I'm putting it in this FNAF news video is that it features the Windup music man from security breach Admittedly he looks a little plain. I think he's missing it some coloring on his legs, but overall I think he looks fantastic great figure. I believe it's dropping in a few days Yeah, about a week on the 15th of July and since we're talking about youtuber FNAF youtuber U2s figures Daco once again on the charity stream revealed a brand new glam rock Daco U2s figure and finally to wrap up the U2s news We got our first look at the official Popgos U2s in celebration of Popgos evergreen hitting 20,000 gamejolt followers and also the sixth anniversary of the original Popgos Kane released this teaser and later that day he finally dropped the official first look at the Popgos U2s and my god It looks so so good the detailing is insane. I love his pose I love that he's shooting up like little finger guns. He looks so cute man He's so adorable and fret not because he does have a tail So that is our first official look at some fan verse merchandise We did see a tiny glimpse of ignited Freddy in a past tick talk by U2s So all we're waiting on now is candy the cat and speaking of Popgos We got some big news the next fan verse game has officially been released Popgos arcade on steam everyone That's right. The next fan verse game is finally here Popgos arcade the official spin-off FNAF game It's on steam right now. It's actually on sale for I believe only one more day So if you're watching this video when it comes out use the link down below Go get Popgos arcade while it's still on sale If you've not seen my playthrough or I also know that Daco's doing a playthrough right now love and watching him He's got fantastic reactions But also if you do want to go play it for yourself like I said it's now out on steam go show some support also I just want to point out this amazing poster that Kane and his girlfriend did for the machinist God it looks so goddamn good. There has been a few updates here and there I'd like to point out 2.0 Release the other day and yesterday 2.1 came out with some major new key features including a method of converting scrap into coins after beating the final boss a way to Rematch the secret boss and three brand new achievements So that is Popgos arcade brand new fan verse game official FNAF spin-off also just to be clear I know there's a few evergreen teasers in Popgos arcade, but I'm gonna hold off for a bit longer Those are gonna be featured in a upcoming FNAF news video just so I can give it You know people a bit more time to experience the game before I'm like Throwing the teasers in a thumbnail for FNAF news, you know, don't worry. I know about them. They're coming They look for an incredible go experience them for yourself. Go get the game. Oh, I can't stress it enough It's a very very fun game very quickly. Let's talk about Scott's don't know to Daco's charity stream I did make a whole video about this in case you missed it But I'll throw it in this FNAF news video quickly. Basically Scott donated a incredible $10,000 and he also left a comment very ominously Saying lots of big stuff happening this year. Stay tuned. Yeah, like I said, I did a whole video predicting What's coming out this year? What do you think Scott's talking about? What are we hoping to see out of FNAF this year me personally? I'd love to see an update on the FNAF film that is long long long overdue Also mainly hoping to see a lot of fan verse content seems like we're actually getting that already right now with the YouTube's with popgoes arcade releasing and finally, I just want a bunch more updates on ruin man I mean, I know it's still probably very early in development But it's so mysterious and I really hope we can get a brand new teaser or trailer some point later on in the Year, that's just a quick update on what Scott said on the charity stream. Tell me in the comments down below What do you want to see this year with FNAF and finally to end the video off? Let's talk about security breach ports. We're not talking about the Xbox. We're not talking about the switch We're not talking about iOS. We're talking about the Google Stadia of all things So security breach officially launched on the Google Stadia this week and also if you have Stadia Pro You'll be able to claim it for free for the entire month of July So yeah, that is the brand new platform that security breach is coming to very interesting That's gonna do it for all the FNAF news today. Thank you so much for watching Like I said, we still got a whole bunch of news to talk about. I'm looking at my list right here We got some updates on the fazbear frights Graphic novels some tales from the pizza plex news and like I said earlier on in this video We got some evergreen teasers from popgoes arcade But thank you guys so much for watching this video subscribe hit the like button So don't miss out on future FNAF news videos, and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye


A few of us really believe that harm is preventable. And it's that new narrative that groups like this have to spark and spread so that the whole healthcare community truly believes that every one of them is capable of doing something about it. We have to absolutely change the dynamics. We have to change how people look at healthcare. And it isn't just in hospital settings, it's even beyond. I think the optimism is coming from the recognition from all of us in this room that we're not alone. The key thing is being relentless and focusing on zero harm. And that has to be organizational and system-wide. The person at the center of our care is the one person that deserves the best, safest care every day, every time. We're learning that we need to go a little further and move into culture. And so what's our culture of reliability? And then engaging patients. So as we bring all the community together, we come up with better solutions and become better at it. And if you're really going to change culture and healthcare, you've got to start with the principle of educating the young. This is where people pick up their bootstraps and really put pen to paper. It really leads to change. There's a place for everyone here, for providers, for patients, for families, for policy makers, for change agents that we need in Washington and everywhere throughout healthcare. The number of ideas that come out from a wide variety of people from all sorts of different specialties really increases your perspective. The group of people that have gathered here, our thought leaders from around the country, is wonderful to be able to have a meeting where we can share ideas, learn from each other. The energy in the room and the patient voice, which is so important in the patient safety movement, is key to actually making that change. Making sure that next generation knows how to help us solve the problem. The thing that I'm going to take home that I would like to see myself and my colleagues work on is how do we carry this message to countries that don't have our booming economy, to low and middle income countries? How do we make safety a priority in their healthcare systems? Nothing is more important than the fact that we're meeting here today. One of the other things going forward is that we start to work together to prevent the current model where organizations tend to work on their own in silos, lack of learning, lack of transparency of data, and a lack of sharing of learning. So that's the key for us going forward. This is the most exciting organization I've ever encountered because of the energy, because of the people with like minds from so many different areas of the healthcare system. Today it's been so inspiring and I've actually been very honored to be part of this group of people who are so passionate about patient safety. This is really exciting because if we know everybody wants to do the right thing, we need the leadership of hospitals to demand that they do the right thing. Typically you come out of this meeting and the annual summit just generally energized. Going into today was a little different because you realize the goal is zero by 2020. Regardless of the fact that we only have a short time to go, we're motivated, we're committed, and we're going to do it.  They believe it can happen, that they believe that zero by 2020 is achievable and that they aren't going to give up whenever it happens. What makes me optimistic is that there's millions of people like this who are working together to solve this problem and I have no doubt that they will.


Three ways to break the stigma around mental health at work. Mental health issues are a common problem facing people around the world, and the related statistics are telling. Currently, about 450 million people are living with some kind of mental disorder. According to the World Health Organization, about 25% of the global population will experience a mental disorder at least once in their lifetime. On average, about one out of every five of us will experience mental ill health every year. In some labor forces, like Australia's, mental health problems hold the dubious honor of being the third leading cause of disability. And in 2015, the US Department of Labor predicted that at least 3% of a company's staff would be absent every day. However, despite evidence showing just how common this condition is, it's been estimated that up to two-thirds of people with a known mental health condition choose not to seek professional help. Why is this so? Access to care, language barriers, and a dearth of quality resources are a few reasons why, but perhaps the most insidious reason is stigma. Mental health stigma exists, and it doesn't necessarily stop at the workplace. Stigma has a powerful influence in the world of mental health issues. Many at large often views people living with mental disorders as fragile, incapable, unstable, dangerous, or violent. People with mental health challenges are often believed to be incapable of leading productive and fulfilling lives, indeed, sufferers themselves may even believe this. Research doesn't tend to support these assumptions, but media and cultural expectations often bolster them, anyway. These assumptions, real or imagined, can discourage people living with mental ill health to seek much needed treatment. Their condition may make them feel ashamed, weak, and alone, which of course only compounds their mental health issue and propagates a vicious feedforward cycle of stress, isolation, and illness. Mental health issues on the job If we agree that stigma about mental health is almost everywhere we look, then it becomes clear how the same stigma can exist in the workplace too. Specifically, both employers and employees may assume a mental health problem will render a person less productive, less organized, and less able to focus on their tasks at hand. Of course, in some cases this can actually hold true, especially if an individual hasn't sought treatment for their underlying disorder. Many workplace team members living with a mental health issue choose to hide their issues. They often fear for their job security or are afraid to risk losing face in front of their bosses, colleagues, and customers. On their end, employers may not have the tools and tactics to talk to their employees about their suffering. Indeed, an employer may not even be aware that one of the team members is suffering from a mental health issue in the first place. Unlike a broken ankle or other physical ailment, mental health conditions are often invisible and difficult to recognize. Three Ways to Reduce Stigma Associated with Workplace Mental Health Issues A workplace culture that stigmatizes against workplace mental health issues can be detrimental to both individuals within a company and to the company as a whole. Breaking through this stigma can be extremely difficult. Here are three ways to get started. 1. Educate at all levels. From senior executives to entry-level team members, everyone in your company can benefit from learning more about mental health. Consider sending out company-wide memos, holding in services, inviting guest speakers, or even running annual events such as Mental Health Month as a way to disseminate information and reduce the fear, stigma, and mystery surrounding mental health. 2. Ensure everyone on your team has access to help. Work with your HR team or consultants to raise awareness about policies and programs designed to support both physical and mental health. Use discretion and show that you respect your employee's privacy. 3. Make your anti-discrimination policies clear. As a manager, it's in your best interest to show your employees that they will not be discriminated against due to a mental health issue. Remember that to succeed you must lead by example. Show that by acknowledging and seeking help for a health issue, a person can become an even more valuable employee at your company, rather than a liability. Remember, stigma may be real but there's also hope. 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This lecture is on simulation programming language and other software tools for simulation. Welcome to the lecture. We know from our other lectures what we need to have in simulation programs. So that gives us the idea, well, okay, we know what the specs are that we need to ask for from any software tool that we're going to be using for simulation, right? Specifically, if we're doing, like in this course, we're doing discrete event simulation, any software tool that's going to be used for discrete event system simulation has to be able to model random phenomena. It has to be able to generate random numbers. It has to be able to generate random variants by sampling from particular probability distributions. A software tool for discrete event system simulation has to be able to move time. These simulations run over time. They're not static simulations. There has to be a simulated clock. We have to be able to ask for statistics at particular moments in time. And assuming that we're using the next event approach to managing time, which we just about always are. We have the software tool has to be able to manage a list of event notices, determine the next event to occur, pass control to the routine that's going to execute whatever has to be done at the time of that event. Remember, these are events in a discrete event system. The system changes at discrete points in time. Finally, we're going to need to be able to output statistics, including time statistics. And that's why it's special. Any program is going to have to output data. And will we want to output reports graphs table? Sure, maybe lots of times we do. But just about any program can probably do that. A statistic software in particular has to be able to accumulate statistics that change over time, time dependent statistics. Any simulation software tool is going to have some way of dealing with lists. If we're just using a general purpose programming language, that's going to be part of the data structures facility. If we're using something that's specially written for the purpose of simulation, there's got to be some list management in there. We have events waiting to occur. Those are stored in a list. We have entities waiting for service. We have entities who are in the system or in some sort of activity. They may be kept on a list as well. And the software has to be able to appreciate the correct ordering. Usually the event notice has time attached to it, time to occur. There's one way of ordering one of the lists that is used to manage events and the discrete event system simulation. Finally, we also have a need of error detection. And since we're talking about something that's specific to simulation, error detection can be done for items that are values that are specific to simulation. We could be looking for things that you can't look for in a general purpose language. You want your program to be able to detect logical inconsistencies, error conditions, certain things that shouldn't be there, a negative number of customers. You should be able to have errors that generate alerts and then are reported to the user. We know we have specialized languages and tools for building simulation programs. Do we need them? Can we just use general purpose languages like C++ or Python? Sure, why not? It means that there's going to be more work for the simulationist. But of course, there are a lot of libraries that are available for, let's say, simulation and C++ or discrete event simulation and Python. And depending on the point of view that you take, the worldview, are you using an event orientation or process orientation, you may have more than one library to choose from for particular language. Take a look at that table. It kind of highlights the differences. The general purpose language, this may not be true anymore, but up until the explosion of data science and Python, you might say modelers typically already know how to program. But then again, due to the explosion of STEM, Python and data science, modelers are also interested. They're also interested in learning how to program now. So, yeah, that might still be true. If you write your simulation program in, let's say, C++, which is a general purpose language that is a very efficient language. It's closer to the level of the machine, as opposed to on the left-hand side, something being more natural to use for simulation modeling. If it's closer to the level of machine, it will be a more efficient program, assuming that the programmer is a good programmer. So it could be a more efficient program. So that it'll run faster. Is that a consideration? It's a consideration if your simulation is very large and very heavy. And if it needs, it needs to be goosed. What some people do is they translate. They might develop the model in a more specialized language and then have a person or a team of people who translate it into a general purpose language. In a general purpose language, there's more programming flexibility. You can take the same program, run the simulation, have several runs of the simulation, and do statistical analysis at the same time. On the other hand, you see that there are more features on the left-hand side for specialized simulation software. It's easier to communicate with other modelers and even with non-modelers, users, supervisors. Very often there are animations, images that can be shown to explain what the simulation looked like or what the simulation did. It's most likely easier to validate the simulation again because you can see what it would look like and you can more easily look at it, oversee it, supervise it, watch it while it's running. And of course, if you're going to have a system that checks for typical errors, sure, why not use it? That'll obviously be better than not to have one. As you can already see, there are a lot of different languages and tools to use for discrete event simulation. In this lecture and even in this course, we're not going to go into any one piece of software in depth. There are a lot of different ways of doing that. There were a lot of choices. But what I'd like to do over the next few slides is give an overview of some of the better known devices and tools and also a historical review of how these things developed over time. So the history of simulation mirrors the history of digital computers or let's say electronic computers. Back in the 20th century, between 1955 to around 1960, the mathematical programming language of choice was Fortran. Simulation researchers shared, people shared things in those days, shared subroutines with each other, pieces of code that could be used for simulation and be part of your Fortran program or your Fortran library. Actually much the same way that you can download a library in Python or C++ today. Then the next interval between let's say 1960, 61 to 1965, there was an explosion of different languages and packages for simulation. There was SimScript, which was based on Fortran. There was Simula, which was based on Algal. The Algal was what you might call the European version of Fortran. Fortran was very popular in the States and Algal was very popular in Europe. And then a GPSS was a popular example of a package or a pre-packaged software tool that wasn't a general purpose language like SimScript or Simula. Between 66 and 1970, the simulation programming approaches and languages matured. There were still a lot of development going on, but much of it had to do with adapting to changes in the hardware rather than creating new innovative pieces of software. Because there wasn't that much that needed to be innovated in that area, maybe more efficiency, certainly adapting in this case the IBM 360 to large mainframe type of computer. Same thing a few years later when the development companies adapted simulation programming to small computers, to desktops, mini computers, and so on. In 1980s, approximately, you had the explosion of what was then called microcomputers. And all the languages and software tools that were developed for mainframes were then redeveloped for the smaller computers. And as we know, as computers got smaller and smaller, their storage capacity actually got larger and larger, so it wasn't really much of a sacrifice. Then in the decades approximately between 1987 and 2008, that was the age of integrated environments in a lot of different areas. So it wasn't only a simulation tool or a simulation language, the language was embedded in part of a larger environment with a GUI desktop, web-based tools, visualization tools, graphics, and animation. And then we continue to this day with further development in large-scale simulation. I'm only going to take a couple of examples of it, but in some ways it's changed the course of simulation because many people use the term simulation to refer to different things nowadays. Agent-based simulation, a lot of simulation research that's going on now is on agent-based simulation and also the second item on micro simulation. Agent-based simulation is an individual-based modeling approach where we're looking at what does an individual entity do and what is the activity it takes part in? How does it interact with other individuals in the network? And these things all have an effect on the system as a whole. The micro simulation is a little bit similar, except that we don't look at interactions between individual entities. Micro simulation is very, very much used for policy. When there's a simulation regarding policy, it's most likely to be micro simulation. Simula was developed as a simulation language based off of ALGOL for the Univac computer, which was a very early commercially available electronic digital computer. Similar to the way that SimScript was developed by the RAND Corporation, based off of Fortran, and I'm pretty sure it was originally developed for the IBM 360. If not, it very, very quickly morphed into that. Simula was definitely not only the first real simulation package. I shouldn't say that because SimScript was also, but you'll see what I mean in a minute. Simula was composed of objects that could interact, classes and inheritance, much like any object-oriented language today. It had almost everything that an object-oriented programming language like C++ has, except it didn't have what we call methods. So the descriptions of the objects were static rather than also being dynamic. And still you can see where the object environment is an excellent environment for building simulations where you do have things that interact in some way. And it's nice to have objects, objects have attributes, they have data, and they can inherit from other objects just to make the coding easier. Why is all this interesting? It's interesting because of the effect that all of this had on what we do today. Simula was used to develop the language called Smalltalk, which was used for simulation. It was developed at Xerox PARC, their research center. And Smalltalk ultimately influenced the development of C++, which then is the granddaddy of all object-oriented programming, meaning just about every programming language we use today. That's the software side. On the other side, which is it's also software, but it feels more like hardware to us when we're looking at the way our desktops, our GUI desktops are configured. I guess we're looking at the environment. Smalltalk had everything we see that we think of as the desktop. It had icons. It used a pointing device. I don't remember if it was a mouse or a joystick. At one point, you could click. When you clicked, it opened up a routine. This was a routine that was waiting to be done until somebody clicked. It's almost like an event routine in a simulation. Why do I have 1979 Steve Jobs over there? Because the folks at Xerox PARC did this research. I developed this language, Smalltalk, that had both the GUI desktop and the object-oriented programming for simulation purposes. And they had a visit from Steve Jobs of Apple fame, innovative guy. And they made him wait. He wanted to see what they were doing. They were happy to show him, but they wanted to make sure they were allowed to because it was Xerox and it was proprietary. And one of the more interesting stories in the history of programming is how Xerox handed over the GUI desktop to Steve Jobs because they didn't feel it was worth anything. And at some point, you should look this up. I probably should put the source in this lecture or maybe I'll put it in the comments. There's an article that talks about this. But at some point, the folks at Xerox said, oh, okay, fine, let him in. You can show it to him. We don't care. We don't need it because we copy paper. We have copiers and if we can't figure out the revenue that something's going to give us because it doesn't translate to number of pennies per page, then it's not useful to us. That's their business model. They didn't want to hear anything else. So Steve Jobs came in and they showed him around. They were all very, very happy to show him their work. And he said, you know what? You can keep the small talk. I don't need that. All I want is the desktop. And that GUI desktop eventually was built into the Lisa after that, the 1984 Mac and then the rest is history because non-Apple devices had to have it too. And so the Windows desktop was developed because of that as well. Nobody uses desktops that are not GUI anymore, that are not graphical. If anybody wants to know an example of what the desktop was before, all you have to do is ask somebody about MS-DOS. No one was really very happy with it. You should have in your vocabulary and it should be on your radar some of the better known and widely known simulation languages and tools. One very powerful one is SimScript. SimScript can be used for anything. It's a regular general programming language and it also has specialized simulation tools. And as we talked about, it was developed from Fortran originally. And it was developed by the Rand Corporation under a fellow by the name of Harry Markowitz who you might know from his work on portfolio theory which earned him a Nobel Prize. And interestingly it was sponsored by the U.S. Air Force. And I mentioned that because a lot of the work on computers, on software systems and on simulation in particular and certainly on networks was sponsored by the military for their own needs and then eventually it became the domain of the world at large. There are, if you're a person who is actually going to be learning or working with SimScript, the way to learn it is by thinking of it in terms of levels, even though it has five levels but still levels one through three. What you might call general programming that you can use for any program you write. Level four has to do with data structures and if anybody here wants to learn data structures really well, pick up a little SimScript because it has the most free form and yet extensive data structures vocabulary ever. It's in terms of the data structures of coding is not difficult to see, it's not difficult to read, it's in terms of entities, attributes, lists, English, it's exactly the way you might describe data structures in conversation. And then finally, level five are the things that are specific to simulation, the timing routine, the clock, random variables, events and so on. Dynamo and languages based off of Dynamo is considered a language for systems dynamics modeling and it's deterministic, not stochastic generally. It looks at aggregates, it looks at its continuous simulation flow, it's used for population systems where you want to see a change in large population systems over time, economic systems, urban dynamics. And in fact, a lot of the micro simulations, I think have a debt to systems dynamics modeling they do it differently. But the end result very often looks a little bit the same arena is a very easy to learn graphical language software tool for simulation. It does some animations. The graphics show the model flow so it's easy to explain to people. And on the website of this course, there are some notes and pointers under the the software heading on arena, a little bit kind of quite extensive more than we have for other languages. There are very, very highly specialized software tools for simulation in particular application areas, like healthcare manufacturing communication networks. GPSS I list here mainly because I want this is the area where I want you to get used to the names of of well known simulation languages whether you're using them or not. GPSS doesn't seem to be used much anymore. It's hard to find. It may even be it may not be supported and in any of its configurations. But for a long, long time it was the go to simulation tool. And at some point IBM stopped offering it and I think IBM only supported it for a mainframe and other smaller companies arose to the to the challenge and developed it for smaller computers but it didn't then it it somehow petered out. It had a good it had a good show for a good long time. In this lecture, we have looked at simulation languages and software tools. We have looked at what should be in these tools what are the specs what do we desire what do we need in order to do simulation modeling. We have looked at the historical perspective, the important languages over a timeline. We looked at this very briefly, you will be able to find if you try more detailed and involved timelines, specifically at the winter simulation conference, which is the major conference in simulation. And finally, where we discussed what you might call the language the vocabulary of simulation in terms of the specialized simulation programs, and what you would be expected to know if you are a simulation model. Thank you for attending my lecture.