It's always hard to, to best example of this journey for me, you know, the, as I said, we're celebrating four years as a chapter this year, and within our community, and really the work that I've done and the work that we've done in that community wouldn't be possible without the amazing support, work within the tech community, and helps support community-oriented organizers who are doing amazing community work. And so, our first community, this is a new, a new community forming around this concept, this identity, and I'm finding that I'm actually, you know, kind of starting over how you go from scratch one of those frustrations. And of the things that I felt locally in my city-building community, is that something that's universal. So it got me thinking, you know, the same things I had. So I posed a question to Twitter. I said, do you help organize community and tech?  And I heard from all over the world, actually. I, it was immediately started, and I originally started as a, sort of expanded into this talk, but I heard from people in the UK, California, North Carolina as well. But I was surprised to hear that they all really share the same frustrations. And to be overarching, you know, the whole thing that I took away, is that you really can't effectively support the tech community until you understand who they are and who they seem to serve. So my goal today is to give you the tools you need to effectively and efficiently make an impact on your community. And argue with some information you need to find a community that works, that's good for you to be involved with. And then build a long-lasting relationship with them that's mutually beneficial for this community and then also for you personally and for your company. So I want to sort of define what I'm talking about when I say community. So I'm speaking specifically about communities that are within the realm of software development, some facet. So talking about tech events like user group meetings, workshops, tutorials, classes, hack-cons, conferences, project nights, code copies, install vests. There's a lot of different things to see out there. But some of these groups are directly tied to a company or nonprofit that houses that work. And then some communities are completely led by volunteers who are just passionate and want to help the people in their community. And some are run by paid community organizers. I paid, I'm a developer advocate, I get paid to help the community now. Some tech communities goals are tied specifically to the advancement of a certain language and for development method and others are committed to the advancement of diversity in tech, for example. In these conversations, there were five major themes that arose. The first one, listen, learn, and then be straight up. Second one, make it easy to request support. The third one, be prepared to offer more than just cash. Fourth one, think long term. And fifth one, encourage your employees to participate. I'm going to dive into each one of these now. So for the first one, when you're thinking about supporting tech community, you should really have a conversation first that it should start there. So reach out to the organizer or organizers and see if you can buy them coffee or buy them beer to talk about their community work and be prepared to have this meeting outside of business hours. So this conversation can be a great way to build a deep connection and really ask them questions. But also, it's a way that you can sort of build a bridge. So be understanding if this person says they don't have the time to meet with you because if they're a volunteer, they have a day job, they may not have time outside of their community work to meet with someone. And in that case, maybe just ask if you can come to one of our events as an observer and then email them afterwards some questions. And by sort of seeing them, you can see first hand if you can identify areas where they need help that you're able to offer. Christina Slater of DatProject, CSS.com, EO, UpForLove, and CSS classes said, Start a dialogue. Understand the community and be transparent about why your business is involved with supporting your tech community. By supporting your tech community, you're creating a value you're also marketing the existence and culture of your company. You're fostering avenues for continuing learning and improvement for tech workers in your city. And you're also letting your city know that you care about the ecosystem of the tech workforce outside of your walls. But really, all of these are awesome reasons to get involved, but bear in mind that not every one of these goals is going to fit within the mission of a community organization you want to support. So as an example, Royal Velvet, the local chapters are run entirely by volunteers. And because of this, building strong support community partners is really key to the success of each of these chapters. Sylvia Pelopour, GDI, Raleigh, speaks really highly of a local sponsor. She said, they are helpful to us and our community first and sell themselves second. The recruiting and sales pitches are there for a spectral and appropriate. So if you're a helpful community partner, that makes community organizing easier for these volunteers. And in turn, they're going to happily say the praises of your company. It will guide us in things you need to know to ensure you can provide the support that this community is going to need. So when you meet with this organizer, there are some really key questions you should ask.  What is the demographic of the type of people that attend your events? What is the group's core mission and what are the most pressing goals? What are you trying to achieve in the work that you're doing in this community? What are the three concrete things that emerge to be the most to be able to achieve these goals? And why are you doing this work? You know, what is your background? What are your personal goals? You know, everyone that's doing this community work has a personal reason why they're doing it. Maybe they just, they really want to help people, but also maybe they're trying to move in and sort of advance their career and pick up new skills. Initial questions. You're super happy. You're super stoked. You're excited about the community. The goals, the line of your own. You've found some things that you think you can help them with. The organizers are super passionate and they're really excited. The scan of the tech game. It should really also move you to ensure that you're supporting a community that is able to source out there for ways to increase diversity and tech. But just as many examples of tech community is getting along. So if your company is committed to hiring diverse engineering teams, it's imperative for you to support community groups that are also committed to promoting this inclusion within their communities. Conversely, you really don't want to make the pop of supporting a community group that is actually known to be a toxic place for people who aren't in marginalized groups. And so if these people are avoiding this community and your company starts supporting them, they're also going to avoid your company. So you don't want that. And the conference for this year, there are the conference, you know, for those who haven't seen this controversy. The conference shows a keynote speaker with ties to white supremacy. And this caused a lot of public outcry. And all of the sponsors who were billed on the conference started to receive an onslaught of emails from people begging them to hold their support. So after they announced this keynote speaker within a few days, the conference lost almost all of their sponsors. And, you know, without saying the names of any of these companies, you don't want to be the person that the company starts getting this onslaught of emails. And if they had up front sort of asked the conference, you know, what is their policy around the type of people they ask to speak, what is their code of conduct, what do they do, they could avoid that PR nightmare. And so nobody wants that. So once you've decided that a community is really awesome, there are some more questions that you should probably ask before you put your name in the line of effect. So first, obviously, you know, do you have a code of conduct and diversity statement for your community? Do you have policy against teachers, almost organizers, using sexualized images, activities, or other material at your events? What strategies are you employing to ensure that your community promotes inclusion and diversity? And what percentage of your speakers say in the last 12 months you have represented a diversity group? And the last question is there alcohol at your community events? And if you do provide alcohol, do you have an alcohol policy around that? And do you ensure that non-alcohol beverages are also available? Once you have a community that you want to support, you really want to make it easy for them to sustain themselves by giving them the tools they need to get the resources that you've promised to them throughout time. So find ways to make yourself available to these new communities, by making these avenues for them, and making it easy for them to reach it. So, for example, Tasherscott.indc.ca in New York City said, if your company sells tech services, you should be sponsoring tech events. Attendees of tech community events are more likely to be dedicated to their craft and have a look around and insights on how to solve problems, since they see how others follow. Sponsoring tech events also gives companies the potential to be campus face-to-face in a more natural environment. So one great way that you can make it easy to support these groups is, you know, have a forum that they fill out on your website. Github does a great job of this, actually. They got a community section on their website, where putting on events, you put in your requests for the kind of support that you need, and then Github can let you know, you know, whether or not you're able to fill it in time for you to give them. This is really awesome because not only is Github making it easy for community organizers to get what they need from them, but they're also creating a funnel where they can easily see again the year, you know, what the full impact of their company was on the community, how many people they reached, and, you know, what that did for those community members. So money is a great thing, and, you know, most communities need money to do something. Something that will help our community grow and sustain. But sometimes I think it's great when it comes to work, then it's worth. As a volunteer, you know, trying to track money in and money out and budgeting and doing the accounting role with processing donations can be a lot more work than you can handle. So sometimes when it's supporting a tech community, the best thing you can do is actually just do some of the work so the community doesn't have to. So you can take care of purchasing some of the things that they need and just, you know, believe in that work. So if you're not sure where to start, a really great place to just, you know, get the ball rolling is buy snacks, and events.  It's great to have a little bit of extra food to keep your brain power growing. That's an easy place for you to just think of, just have an event involved and, you know, add that to your community event. Some other great ideas and things you can offer, offer space. Your company has a really awesome conference room. You know, this is offering tables, chairs, mics, microwave access. It's just critical to a community event. You could also do any name tags, power strips, stickers, button-maker, owner of laptops. You know, there's a ton of things that you can just eat that if you have extras, things laying around that you can treat them. Some sort of larger scale things you can do. We have one to communicate or to coordinate the logistical stuff for the venue. So the community organizer doesn't have to. By doing this emotional labor, a reminder that you allow that organizer to just really focus on the content of the event. You know, everybody loves free stuff. And when people are walking around, if you're in the company's name on their, you know, or share it on their bag, that's an awesome cheap marketing way to spread the name of your company around. Lastly, you know, you can provide the group access to appropriate discounts when possible. So an example of that, both the lodging for out-of-town speakers or event judges. If you're an appropriate free business, if you offer a service that the community can take advantage of, then you can provide, or make them apply for free or discounted subscription to that service. So outside of just giving things to the community for one event or a couple of events, another way that you can really help them be sustainable is to think long-term. So find ways to sustain this group that, you know, really benefits you, but also helps them with more than just one really big event. You know, a lot of that group has a goal that they're working towards, and they need to raise money for that. You know, helping them to sustain themselves for the next year or a few years is an amazing impact. So Jan Lenhart of Honey and CouchDB said the best thing companies can do to help communities and events is to act selfless and not look for a direct return of investment. The return always comes, and usually with greater value, that would have been achieved So once in a while you're doing this, you know, go back to SNAPS and just submit to provide them once a month for a year. And then have someone by community or as I have an organizer to check in with to get them dropped off or ordered, and then they can say for all of their meetups that year you know, another way is to offer dedicated space to the group that they can use every month and even better create a portal that they can actually see and tell you. And the greatest gift any community organizer is encouraging your employees to participate.  I'm going to go back to the people here today who had to use personal time to attend this event. There might be some people who are coming because they don't want their company to think they're looking for a new job. And so, you know, encouraging your employees to participate in the tech community may seem like no greater, but there are a lot of employees out there who are discouraged, there are employees who are participating. And so, you know, there may be a lot of reasons for that. It's possible that you've been heard in the past you've sent a cut-up employee to a conference and then they got recruited and left. I don't think anyone's ever heard of someone who, you know, was really happy at their job and just got swept up by some grieving rival company and, you know, got stolen away. You know, these folks had already decided to participate before they got there. Got said again, you know, bonus points consider attendance of the tech community members as training hours and let your company attend or let your employee attend on work time. You'll be investing not only in the skill of your employees, but in their work life as well, while keeping impact to the training budget though. So, I don't know if you can see this Dunkirk cartoon, but I really like it, it's like the media with one of your boss. He says, let me in training to keep up with technology trends. And one of his employees says, me? And he turns to him and says, you're fired. I only want people who already know how to do their jobs. He says, I didn't see that coming. And his co-workers says they don't have any workers or a precious resource to any tech company. And there are endless reasons to encourage them to be part of the community. If you're titled training dollars, encourage your employees to participate. You know, it helps to gain knowledge training and productivity resources. And if the events are after hours, this doesn't cost you anything. So, Florida Mitchell, HP Northwest, and there's also one author and speaker who wanted to tell people that the community will help them scale up, and also make connections for the next step. So, for you, as someone who works, if you work for a company that says that you can attend, you know, this could be like I said, following your passions and your own time, or the evenings can be ends. You know, this isn't possible for everyone. Unless your company is supporting you, it's difficult to have time if you have families and other things going on that are outside that you need to take care of. But if you have the ability to pay off the bill, make the extra person all the time worth it. So, the best piece of advice I received from folks who have since hesitation from their managers is don't ask permission. Your employer's not paying you for your free time. Rob Hill of Romonco Camp and HACVT said, honestly, there's a big aspect of not asking permission of my employer to do it. It's part of how I stay engaged with my employer. He also said, I'm way more interested in building a healthy and supportive community than being the needs of anyone of my employer. So, for team leads and managers to take note, if you let these passionate people do these things, they can. If you don't let them do these things, they are going to do them anyway. So, why not encourage it? And even smaller, allow yourself to depend from it. Depending on the event, you could offer talk time to your employee and a term for them reporting back to the rest of your engineering team. You could offer a conference, write a blog post, bring her into our blog, post a viewing party, one or two of their favorite talks if there was a video about the event, or even give them training on the skill they learned. So, these people not only get to benefit from learning these skills, but your whole team benefits from a skilled version of the content that they found most applicable to your team. So, in closing, in all truth, this talk is selfish for me. In doing this work, I've seen a lot of community organizers get burnt out. They did so much work, they had amazing sold out events, but they felt alone, they were doing most of the work themselves, and they just burned out, they flashed the pan, and then that community goes away. So, without any successor or other people supporting them in this work, your city loses a value for resource. So, I think every successful community organizer deserves a break. And, also, deserves to be part of a community who's willing to step in and help give them the time. So, as community organizers, whether the communities are physical or virtual, we all really love people in our own ways, and we have the hardest time saying, you know, someone in our community says they need something. So, this is a blessing and a first for us, because without support we inevitably give too much, and we turn it into monsters, and into superwives. So, I challenge everyone here, if you have ever attended or enjoyed a local music group, a conference, or a tech community meetup, or what day is this weekend, reach out to your organizer and ask them how you can help in the future. Even if it's just volunteer organizing one meetup next month, or buying pizza for an upcoming meetup that's happening, you're going to have to do, and really be paying a small fraction of the benefit you earn from these events. At the very least, if you see these amazing people at the bar, buy a vocal. They are.


My fellow Americans, like many of you coming home for Thanksgiving, the members of Congress adjourned yesterday to return to their districts. They can take some satisfaction from a change in the public's attitude about their performance. According to a Harris survey, confidence in the Congress as well as in other major American institutions has increased over the past year. There's some good reasons for that, and one of the most important can be summed up in two words, economic growth. Even the most committed pessimists are reluctantly concluding America is enjoying one humdinger of an economic recovery. Pretty soon, people will stop talking about economic recovery and begin discussing a new phenomenon we haven't seen since the 1960s, a powerful, long-lasting economic expansion. Because whether we're looking at industrial production, which has registered the biggest 12-month increase in seven years, or factory use now at a two-year high, or the drop in unemployment, which has been faster than in the past six recoveries, or inflation, which remains below 3 percent, the best performance since 1967, we're looking at an economy whose engines are humming with open track ahead. From autos to housing and from construction to high technology, growth is strong, confidence is building, and progress is being made. The Congress deserves its share of the credit, both for helping us pass some key reforms and for bravely resisting attempts by some to return us to the old days of tax and tax and spend and spend. As most of you know, our bipartisan commission on Social Security recommended in the Congress adopted a landmark bill setting the Social Security system on a sound financial footing. At the same time, the Congress granted our request for the first major overhaul to the Medicare program, which provides health insurance protection for retired and disabled Americans. Under our returns, the Medicare laws required that we pay hospitals on a cost-plus basis. Footing the bill for whatever cost they wound up incurring and treating Medicare patients, so hospitals had little incentive to hold down costs. Under our new reforms, hospitals will be paid a fixed price to care for each illness. If they control costs, they'll retain sufficient funds to upgrade the quality of their care. We estimate these reforms will save taxpayers over $20 billion in the next five years, and the savings can be realized without taking benefits away from anyone. The Congress helped ensure a responsible continuation of revenue sharing, which supports vital economic activities in local communities. I was also pleased to sign into law several key appropriations bills. The spending levels were not as low as we requested, but they were lower than liberal members wanted, and that would have meant higher deficits. Perhaps the greatest contribution of the Congress was not what it did for us, but what it didn't do to us. The big spenders are still alive and well, and these people spared no effort to take away the third year of your tax cut, to delay indexing the historic reform that will protect you from being pushed by inflation into higher tax brackets, and to hit you with huge new tax increases. Well, with the help of responsible Republicans and Democrats, we fought them back and won, and with your help, we'll keep fighting and winning. The record on the domestic side, however, was not all roses. The single greatest failure of the Congress continues to be its inability to pass a responsible budget to help bring down deficits. By responsible, I don't mean a budget that raises taxes to accommodate higher spending. I mean a budget that reduces spending to match revenues. You the people should not be forced to subsidize their extravagance. They should force themselves to spend within your means. Handcuffing big spenders and stopping them from taxing more of your earnings will be our first order of business come January. I was also distressed that the Senate voted down, and the House refused to consider our bill to provide tuition tax credits to deserving families. It was charged that this bill would have favored the rich. Well, that's a false charge. Those in high tax brackets were not eligible for the tax credits. The bill would have benefited those low and middle income people who bear the burden of tuition to send their children to parochial or independent schools, and at the same time pay their full share of taxes to support the public school system. There would be no loss of revenue to public education, but there would be healthy competition among schools which would improve the quality of education in both systems. Tuition tax credits and other unfinished business Americans want and need, like prayer in school and enterprise zones, will be pushed again by us as soon as the Congress returns. I believe we're seeing another positive change that's making us feel more confident about our country, a return to bipartisanship in foreign policy. Our administration's highest goal is to help build a safer, more secure and peaceful world. That mission rests upon the twin pillars of deterrence and dialogue, about a military balance together with serious negotiations to resolve differences peacefully. Thanks to bipartisan support, we're doing both. We're restoring America's military strength, and we're pursuing large reductions in nuclear weapons through genuine arms control. Last week I told the Diet, the Japanese legislature, our goal must be the eventual elimination of all such weapons. We've had bipartisan support for our rescue mission in Grenada, and for our continued peacekeeping role in Lebanon. And this same spirit of putting country before party helped pass the Caribbean Basin Initiative to stimulate trade, cooperation and progress with our Caribbean neighbors, and to build a start-up radio marti, the voice of truth to the imprisoned people of Cuba. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't believe for one minute America's best days are behind her, and judging by their confidence, neither to the American people. Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you.


It's a dark place, at least it was. The term Triangle of Death, we refer to as an area within the Makhmadiya Qadda. From the period of 2004 to 2007, Makhmadiya Qadda was one of the most violent sectors in the Baghdad province. There was a great deal of sectarian violence, Sunni on Shia and Shia on Sunni. Very few places had any electrical power or running water. It was kind of sort of like the Wild Wild West, as one might imagine. I lost 54 soldiers killed in action, another 267 wounded. Within the 15 months we spent in South Baghdad, we could clearly see that there are political needs, economic needs, but we frankly don't have that level of expertise resident in our organization. In June of 2007, I received a call at our Baghdad office from officers of the Second Brigade Combat Team asking for assistance in consolidating recent security gains against al-Qaeda armed groups and insurgents. There was a lot of mistrust between the tribes. It was difficult to get beyond a desire for retribution. I went to Jordan to meet the 10 people who left Iraq, because sheikh Al-Asheera was supposed to be an accomplice and was active in the establishment of stability in the region. The fact that we could get Iraqis to help in these negotiations was something that there was no other U.S. entity that could give us something like that. We designed the structure of the conference. We helped craft the final agreement with the sheikhs themselves. The tribes of the Mamadiya district laid out what it was they truly wanted to achieve and made it their reconciliation conference. We were able to leave South Baghdad better than we found it. This is what civilian military cooperation looks like when it's working in a conflict zone. South Baghdad became one of the third tribes of peace and well-being.


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Please stop Stop not cool zero out of ten. You're bad That's a nine hundred damage. Holy moly These birds must pay for what they have done. I Will destroy every single one of them must destroy bird Yeah, that's right. Don't mess with me friends. Otherwise you get Steppy Steppy Mcstabby some yeah, that's right. Oh, okay. Okay. Hopefully we get like all of them Maybe can I get like all of them, please that'd be cool To what do you mean to? That's not cool.  Oof Lu ro that ain't good This is gonna be an interesting fight This is gonna be a very interesting fight. Luckily. We don't actually have them today Actually, you can do that sure You can move up there. You can do that sure done Have you had any earthquakes in my city recently? No, but in the past year like a lot of them We had like a whole three years and four years where we were just having earthquakes every day. It was great We had a big earthquake in 2011 we're 300 people I think it was died Yeah, everything got knocked over and Nothing's fixed yet. So that one not not everything's fixed yet. So that's great. That was fun Yeah, but that happened that happened in 2011 and Then it also happened in 2010, but nobody died in that one. So it was fine Yeah, I Don't mind earthquakes. They're kind of fun. They're kind of fun kind of scary but kind of fun at the same time I remember one of them. I was at school on detention and it was at lunchtime and We had to like clean the floors because I Can't even remember why but we had to clean the floors and I was holding on to the staircase for dear life. It was so scary so scary Yeah, it was pretty strong. I think that one was a 6.2 magnitude earthquake The one in 2010 was like 7.1 or 7.2 Which is not like not like 9 but it's definitely stronger than like nothing So I would say it's pretty pretty strong and then we had aftershocks that were like Magnitude 5 for like three years afterwards Yeah, like two years we had basically three earthquakes a day which was great Yeah, so that was fun. That was fun Luckily, we don't get too many earthquakes now. It's kind of died down of it Which is good. Yeah Keep up. Oh, oh The block geez Music is OP. I love that music so good. Yeah Yeah, it was basically We had ours in 2011 on February the 22nd, I think it was I think it was 22nd and Then September the 4th and 2010. Oh, okay. Okay. Why do why do I feel like everything's so much more faster? I Don't quite understand Like I feel like I'm watching this on like double speed and I don't know why I Really don't know why I Think it must be all of the hits that these birds do That help with that I don't understand don't understand But I feel like this whole battle is like so fast like the combat is really fast for some reason. I don't understand why Maybe I'm just tripping Literally do not know at all Your country is no such disasters like earthquakes and that isn't some armies lucky Lucky we're susceptible to all of them and volcanoes as well We actually had a tornado in the in up in my city a couple weeks ago Nothing really got damaged, but it was quite funny Funny is not the right way to put it, but it was funny. We don't usually get tornadoes, but um, we have more recently But definitely tsunamis and earthquakes and volcanoes we're very susceptible to there was actually a volcanic eruption earlier this year Like a cup like this month sometime. I think it was Was it was it December or November? I don't know Got it. Look at that fun fun fun Enter the ruins. Oh more birds yuck Yuck, but yeah, so I'm Yeah, that's um, that's just where we live though. We're in the ring of fire. So it's quite um We're on the edge of the ring of fire. So it's quite um turbulent sometimes Very very turbulent Let's just talk about The game has mechanics of being fast. I think I know that but like I already have that on it Just feel so much more faster now, and I don't understand why I dropped my half my warrior Don't tell anyone that's fine But yeah, it does have I'm fast combat which I have on because slow combat is so so so slow I'm It's just the fact that it just seems a lot faster now, and I don't understand why Really don't understand why at all But yeah, I mean, it doesn't really matter. It just means it feels like it goes quicker We're fast noise reliant list Reliant list just all the reliant list.  Please stop Please stop critting mr. Bird Not fear It's normal to drop half of the Oreo at least you can throw it away after the half of the Oreo Why would you throw it away? You just eat it I don't understand. Why would you throw away a perfectly good Oreo? It didn't drop on the floor even if it did drop on the floor, you know five second rule Five second rule Five second rule is the best rule. I live my life by five second rule I don't understand why some people don't because it just means you don't waste anything So close these birds are getting absolutely pummeled Absolutely pummeled. I do find combat and pirate goes a bit stale after a while Especially when you're just fighting the same things over and over and over again, you know Dodgy dodgy dodgy there's some health.  What are you doing block? Oh my god? Do I seriously need to heal? I seriously need to heal That's fun That's good. Good job guys. You're doing well doing well monkey king and co and hopefully this kills Oh, there we go. All my Oreos are gone. That's a shame That's a big shame My bin's full as well. I didn't get my bin These birds are not cool and I don't like them Mm-hmm Okie dokie I really don't like how many birds we have I like there is a big bird problem here.  Nice block noise Unfortunately got you but still nice block God they're dodge. Holy moly. I need to go for a accuracy buff Need to go for an accuracy buff I don't you just love bird enemies.   I want to be done with this. How many more do we have to fight by the way?  Holy moly. Please just stop Accuracy. Mm-ki-ducky Oh, kiducky. Let's see how this goes Accuracy and dodge please dodge now Or else I will be mad I refuse to lose another companion today That's it like nothing Okay, that's a lot that was good very very good Vengeance strike blocked noise Noice riposte super hit Kaboom Good job Easy-pleasy lemon squeeze Lee Cheap shot.  You did. Yeah, it's right bird. Silly bird Riposte Good job.  That was really good hit. That was really nice hit Okie dokie Really spell noise Good job monkey king now do a riposte. Good job. He gets a second chance. So hopefully he can block as well. Good job Yes monkey king go Should have crit, but it's fine. I won't keep that up. I won't keep that from you too much salt and pepper It's actually shark food and then the shark destroys them. Well one down Just one left. Hey, that was easy It was easy easy peasy Lemon squeeze Lee How much health do you have? What is your health by the way? Nearly half. I'll heal you Because I'm kind Also, you gave me help so I heal you Epic heal Oh, no, I am out of water just as well. I got another bottle because I stupidly forgot to bring that one out when I had a break Because I'm dumb Adam Why is it all the way over there? That's weird Octocloth and look there's more birds. Wow. Who would have thought? Oh my gosh So annoying. I hate these birds so much. These birds need to just back off really like they just need to get out of here Get out of here birdies I could run up there. So I'm going to No, not like that. I want you there. Good job like that Ecstasy. Nah cautious retreat. Nah done Ipiket Kaboom Double tap Kaboom Boop burst fire Ipiket. Nice double tap. Nice. This guy just has so many random epics I don't even know what he has anymore.  I think as well So weird so weird. I think parting shot was one that he was he had to have um But still weird He doesn't have overwatch however Do know that Bye, buddy Buddy the bird Dodge Overwatch boop. Okay. At least there's not too many left. We've already got one down, which is good Bloodflames OP Why did you walk straight into the blood flames, dude? I don't quite understand that logic there It was not very good logic was it? No, it was not for you Unfortunately, Campo lost his thing Yikes, that ain't good Second chance block block block. Nice Okay, not too bad there not too bad Only five left pretty decent.  There is some accuracies Some accuracies and some dodgies Right that did a lot that did so much damage there so much And even more Super hurt Here we go That was a lot as well. Good job, Campo And dodge noise Dodge again. No, okay. That's fine. You can only dodge once, you know only can dodge once parting shot. Bye-bye Chip shot Bye Attack block noise Readied spell Repel borders. Bye Jeez just getting absolutely dominated here Bum bum bum noise Two left one left. Is that it? Well, we can focus fire you And just absolutely disobeyed. That's how it's gonna be Super hurt Good job We did it. Nice work Easy peasy That fight was actually probably the easiest one we've had Um, that was just really lucky that one. I think it's this thing here the head is Okie dokie now back to at Cracius Um Yeah, we can go to Akia Sweet we'll go this way We will go this way sounds good Bum bum bum bum bum bum And we will get in our boot Get in our boot and head out This is fuel shot. We're just gonna get some fuel real quick while we're here We've got enough gold. We actually have a lot of gold, which is really good at the moment Um blood flames destroyed them. They sure did. They sure did blood flames OP Really need to start getting them on my um witch doctor like seriously need to Seriously, seriously need to Righty ho what's my Why is my name always Andrew because my actual name is not um in the game? And I chose Andrew Also because my cousin's name's Andrew and Andrew's a cool name. So my opinion Andrew's a pretty cool name Um, so that's why my name's Andrew. Also. It's like right at the top of the alphabet. So, you know, it's easy to find That's my that's my only thing there. That is my only opinion on the name Andrew Mainly because it's my cousin's name Mainly because my name is not in the game, which is sad reacts only that is this way. I thought it was this way Thought it was this way Then for a second, they're like, no, it's this way. I'm like, no, it's not it's over here over here But yeah, in pirate, it's just solely Andrew. Otherwise, um I'm usually in wizards, um Andrew School and then the school of the character and then blade. That's just how I Just how I work really. Um, this way. No this way over here. Here he is Here he is. Hi, dude How's it going? Very well. Cool. Gosh. We're just running all over the place. Say But yeah, that's that's why it is That's why it is what it do Um, I hope you enjoy my Ted talk Thank you for coming Um, you have to log off. That's cool. Thank you for help Kido ki. Oh side quest Side quest Yeah, quick trip back to mooshie. That's not quite how it works, mate Not quite how it works 23 pages, holy moly That's gonna be fun to go through I'm really excited for that. Andrew school blade Yeah Andrew school blade. That's how it works I really love the reflection like that is so cool. They did so well with that Like that is some really good attention to detail Like that is cool. I've only just noticed that I'm hyped Still on the stream. That's cool That's cool. Thank you for your help Dylan. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Let's head off this way Talk to pandion over here And we will see what is next I can tell you it is to go to telos Hey pandion. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi See told you it was to go to telos. This is if I'm reading a guide or something. I don't know I don't know. Can we go through please? Thanks Thanks you This way telos Is over in the sky Then we need to find um, what's his face? Horkules, I think it is Yeah, this is how we find horkules And then he doesn't um come or something like that. I don't know I don't know something along those lines. Who knows who knows who cares not me. Where is he up to? He's not here Oh, I wonder what quest he's on. He might be like behind us. I would highly think he would be behind us Andrew school blade is the best um The best um thing I was gonna get um Uh the max level blood jacket but cool ranch one from Miranda is fine for now. Yeah, exactly Exactly. It's not too big of a deal Not too big of a deal really Andrew death blade is the best the best death blade of the best blade of death there ever has been Can confirm look at how messy the map is Too many side quests Let's collect these guys sweet easy peasy Ravenwood Academy on a told To say I want to talk to say to you Uh, yeah amber amber actually talking about amber's nice. What did she tell to say? Hi or something probably Um Especially since they don't update the game. I mean, yeah, very very true there Very very true Hey, it's Orpheus don't know who he is or why he's important, but he's here No idea, but hey, there's also like oh tell us it's a dungeon. I remember this one


are accessible beyond having to come to UMass. But we also want you to come to UMass, of course. And then the other way you can help is to go to the National Historic Site and visit and make it, give it life by your presence. So, and you can find, I'm sure there's, on each of those websites, there would be places to donate. I'm not asking anyone for money. I'm asking you to make it something that's used. The site, the website, help Du Bois enter into when you're making core syllabus, syllabi. Pick up on phase points. Pick up things that are there because I feel like there's so much that we don't use that now we have access to thousands and thousands of his papers have already been digitized. I believe there's one box left. And then we're done. Great. I'm doing, I'm developing an analysis of primary insults and black reconstruction through the context of hip hop. And I was wondering, a friend of mine said,


T F N N headline news update Good afternoon folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida this year 1 p.m. Update and currently we have all US indices trading to the downside The Dow's down 86 points That's a quarter of a percent the S&P seven tenths percent or 31 points and Aztec 101 and eight tenths percent That's 270 points the Russell's off 31 one and a half percent Some eyes are down nearly four percent hundred thirty three points there. We've got spot velocity. It's trading up a buck 63 It's still below the one day Rate of change of plus 10 percent that's something you want to watch come days end You've got gold off seven bucks silvers down nine cents lights. We crude off 33 pennies Let's go take a peek at our nine panel market update chart We begin by taking a look at the es mini the upper left hand side So yesterday price closed above the top of its daily profile Any two consecutive closes above that to suggest a further move higher So watch the price level 45 52 if price closes back above that then price should at least target that descending trend line The descending trend line is in the price area about 46 10 or so Uh, that's not what you see. Uh, sorry about that. Let's go change these screens out here Stevie was close, but no cigar. Here's the cigar now. You can take a look at the nine panel chart So you're looking again in the upper left hand panel You can see in the es mini that price yesterday closed above the top of the profile right now We're trading back below it spot volatility index still below its 50 day exponential moving average the nq running into resistance That's its descending trend line Uh, and watch the price level 15 268. That's the top of its daily profile If price closes above that then the signal that we've got out here is really kind of a neutral signal US dollar index is targeting the top of its weekly profile. That's at the 99 47 level Gold has just been doing that consolidation Right now testing the bottom of its daily profile silver not doing anything much different lights We crude consolidating inside a new daily profile. Your support level now is 99 41 resistance 109 22 natural gas breaking out now today's going to become bar number eight of a td9 count That says you could see a top and natural gas form between today and thursday Now 30 year treasury trying to take out its most recent swing point low out here That's a trading session for march 28. That level is 146 10 We're 146 13 he closed below 146 10 signals a further move lower Folks stay tuned for the trader's ed show But if you want to start your tuesday have a terrific one and we'll look forward to seeing you again soon. Take care


Hello, I am Dr. Sheetal Balal, Consultant Catrath and Refractive Surgery of Thal Department Manipal Hospital. As we know, we are all going through very difficult times due to this COVID pandemic. And as responsible healthcare providers, we have ensured our maximum precautions to ensure the safety of not only our patients but also our staff. We have taken all the precautions and regulations as provided by the AIS guidelines as well as the state regulations. This includes a no-touch thermal screening of all patients and staff who enter the hospital, a detailed history of travel as well as symptoms before they enter the department, social distancing in our OPD waiting area, ensuring that the adjacencies are kept empty, complete sanitization of all areas which are frequently touched as well as instruments and equipment used for every patient. Not only this, we have also started our routine surgeries including catrath, retina, refractive procedures and even here we have taken our maximum precautions by sanitization of the entire OT complex after each case and also maintaining social distance in the waiting area for the OT as well. We also try to keep the stain of the patients in the hospital as short as possible. So, for those who have any healthcare needs pertaining to the eye, we can ensure them that our hospital is absolutely safe as the safety of all our patients and our staff are at the forefront of our minds.


everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing IBM which was a golden gap. A nice gap again to get up in the morning, rate every gap that looks as a possibility. It could be played with a long or short to determine the rating and do the best one. That's what you'd come and learn in my golden gap course. You can do them as options, you can do them as swing trades, you can do them as day trades. If you'd like more information, you can email me at Melissa the Stock Swoosh.com, call me at 929-3200 Gap or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So here was the gap. Again, stock had earnings out the previous night, closed here, gap down, fell, gap down again, fell some more. So the stock the previous night was up around 145-ish and open the morning around 136. You can see the beautiful drop-off and move that it had. So I called the 138 puts for the gap options letter on the 17th and they were, it was a really really nice move. It's still going but it was to out expired the 19th. So I think the best thing to do is to get out of it today with the move that it's had in the profit. So it was a 221% return on investment. If you did the trade, these are the kinds of things you want to look for, one-to-one at least, but sometimes you get even bigger ones. Entry was 230 contracts. If you did an advanced risk, 4,620 contracts or 2,000 shares. Exit today actually went even further. I think it was close to 8 today. 775 was something was the option chain at one point then. It just kept going. It's gonna be lower tomorrow, but I don't think it makes sense to stay in this. I think today is a day to exit this, which I told everybody this morning. Profit 10,200. Really nice move. Again, 221% return on investment and this is for the IBM options. Entry, again, if you had a beginner risk is what? Same. 230 contracts, your risk is different too. Risk 460 dollars. Exit 740. Profit 10,20. 1,020 dollars. Again, 221% return on investment. So a really nice move in this. A really nice move in the stock. You could have day traded it. You could have swing traded it. You could have done two day trades in it. You could have done as an option. Again, it's all based on the gap rating. I rate the gap. I rate the gap and that is exactly what I teach in my class. The risk to reward for every trade you do is always you're looking for one-to-one. If you risk 1,000, you're looking to make 1,000. If you risk 2,000, you're looking to make 2,000. Risking 500, you're looking to make 500. Some trades you will make more, but that is your goal for the good quality trades. You don't want to take something and kill it immediately. So if you want to learn how to day trade you can, you could do my system using options. The benefit of options is you don't need a margin account, but either way you're working for yourself from home, whether you day trade or whether you do the options, whichever works for you. So the class is called the Golden Gap course. If you're interested in more information you can email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. The next class is November 3rd and 4th from 9 to 5 Eastern Time. Class of the class is 54.99. Price is increasing to 59.99 on November 1st. If you want to sign up for this class in November, sign up by October 31st. It's online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. The trends class is October 22nd from 11 to 5. Class tuition, if you do the combos, 59.99. Again, a good deal. Two classes for the price of one safe $500 and get in and learn. Do the trends on Monday the 22nd and then do the gap class in November. Again, you learn long-term trends, which is great for the options and swing trades classes online. And if you just want to do the options trades, it's a one-year subscription. There's no prerequisites. You don't have to have done the Golden Gap course, even though I definitely suggest learning the system yourself so you can do the trades yourself. However, you can sign up for an annual subscription of $4,999. It's for 12 months. You get all the trades emailed to you. Just like I just said, the 138 puts was the IBM call. And I called that, you know, and it's just one of these things work. You know, you take the trade soon as you get the email, and then you got to watch the move and you got to watch the stock. You could have day traded it. You could have done it in two days. Like I said, since expiration is tomorrow, I wouldn't still be in it, but very well could be lower. I'm sure the stock definitely looks lower. So if you're interested, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. If you want to get my trades, the options letter is a good way to do it. If you want to be in the room, you got to learn the class to be in the live trading room. It's just been a fantastic month so far. Have a great day, everyone.


but you'll also be in line with the ball. You're going to wreck from here.  If you watch the top-class players, they've got the ability to read the game. A tip for the younger players is if the defender's got his head up, he's looking for the pass. So you're going to hold your position. Once the head goes down, that's when the ball's likely to go long and that's when you're dropping and adjusting your position.


treasure chests and everything that we need to unlock because I need to uh work my way through the story I definitely love taking out those guardrails What's up everybody I'm evil rabbit and we are here on fortune island here in forza horizon four So today we are going to be doing a little sports car grip togei as well as probably ripping that drift truck Which I haven't really driven much down the togei roads, but I've been getting a lot of people commenting not understanding why third person and With a wheel so today we are going to be ripping this mountain race togei in these super cars I'm using an r8 and we are going to be doing all in first person because I've been getting a lot of people saying why don't I use third person or why I use third person But to answer those questions.  We are going to be going down this road in a race in these supercars So we're just gonna hop right into it. We are in our g920 and our g-innovation is 350 millimeter wheel And we are in first person so This will be a full first person race down these roads And this should be interesting We're gonna try not to Wreck into these guys either. We're gonna try and do this As clean as we can And try and actually win the race I know it's uh once we get to the mountain roads. It's going to be pretty sketchy I take this And there's that grinding of the gears because I don't touch didn't touch the clutch enough like I should Probably broke a little bit too soon for that, but we're good We're still okay Now we get into the fun twisty sections of these roads They're trying to just race clean And not hit these guys. We're trying to do this Oh I would say as realistic as possible and a quick brake check that we didn't smack into that guy So I am having a lot of fun on these roads drifting them and racing them in a grip Atmosphere the bunch of different cars The reason we are in the supercar today is because well trying to complete the starting to start these story missions off in this expansion and uh It wanted modern supercars. So boy, don't hit him I know they're just drive atars, but I'm still trying to not hit them. Uh, I'm too wide there A little scrape on our uh R8 we are Coming to the nitty gritty. I don't know if I'm actually gonna be able to beat these guys. I believe they are on extreme or unbeatable Or very high level Because I believe we were using them on a higher level to unlock seasonal events But we did come out of the mountain roads in a decent shape. We still haven't really made any Big mistakes separate there That was a bit of a hit Slow this car down I don't think we're gonna be able to catch him But I will take second place on this a little quick rip through the mountain Oh my Uh, we just died. So we died at the end, but Not a not a bad uh, not a bad way to start doing that first person race Down the mountain side in r8. It's kind of a fun road to just rip and drive in a grip aspect of it We got an achievement. What do we get? making the cut oh Reach round two of the island conquer. So we did meet round two apparently Which just by completing one event, I guess and three stars in a drift zone But hey, you know what? I will take it. So we'll unlock more. We'll probably unlock our second treasure chest Conquest which we will be doing probably here as well. There it is And all the rest of you and fortune island is now underway Which means there's a new treasure chest riddle. Listen closely The middle climb has been known to intimidate when set a drift in an italian 458 Good luck Set a drift in italian 458. So apparently island conqueror round two is live Only the best drivers advance. I haven't checked the full list of qualifiers, but I'm assuming that means you Yeah, that does mean me. So I guess uh, I've got approval from the festival for a new flavor of pr stun Meet me here when you're ready Oh So there's a new pr stunt But our second challenge is the needle the needle climb With a 458. So we will be doing that In another episode maybe or maybe today. Let's uh, let's see if we do I believe I wonder if we have a drift 458 I I don't remember if I built a 458 In horizon for drifting, but we're about to find out. I totally passed it Do not have a 458. So we will have to buy a 458 so it's So instead of a drift truck I decided to bring out the huna truck because this is pretty much an all-wheel drive Toge episode. So we just did a grip toge so now we're gonna do A uh, I guess you would call it all-wheel drive drift toge and try and Slide this mountain road in moderation And take out mozzes on our way up Drift this road in moderation not for points, but for more I guess speed and style I guess you could say is as what we're going to be working for this time I mean, we will be ripping a handbrake around the turns, but we will be ripping this huna truck We are going to be in third person for this because like I said, I feel like it's More aesthetically pleasing I feeling this just trucks going to be fun And we're gonna rip it downwards since we've ripped the r8 downwards because these roads are definitely a lot of fun To do racing on oh don't lose it Oh, oh my I feeling we're in a dangerous spot So we're just gonna go this way Yep, we're gonna go this way Get right to myself See mess up all the time, but you know what? It's always fun So the r8 was fun to grip it now we're gonna Slip it a little bit down the mountain and the huna truck And we're not going for a massive amount of points. We're just going for uh Try and make this as smooth as possible Because we all know if you guys have followed the channel all-wheel drive Not my uh strong suit with drifting Definitely be getting a little bit better But all-wheel drive drifting is not my uh my best forte Or in this case put a truck but uh there we go Oh, all right, so a little bit better there Getting a little bit better in the all-wheel drive Drifting that might have been too much angle And somehow we saved that we are kind of all off track, but you know what? We're having fun with this I feel like this thing should have more power. I feel like we need to upgrade this huna truck all the way Full power adders and everything So I know a lot of you guys drift only all-wheel drive And if you have some tips for me on all-wheel drive sliding Let me know down in the comment section down below because I think it's because I don't do it enough is why I have a bit of a Problem with it like right there And I think I try and counter way too much not using the actual power of the car And then I have to zero my steer to continue on the run So we arrived at your destination. We arrived at our destination. I feel like we're gonna rip it back upwards I'm still only at 300,000. I need to get a good drift tune car up this mountain or down this mountain Maybe one of the fd cars, so uh We're gonna try and rip this uphill now Oh, we didn't register the drift zones. So now we have traffic I mean, I'm okay with this See how we do going up guardrail run Just to graze the guardrail That turn came up a lot sooner than I thought I feel like this would be a road that ken block would definitely rip the huna truck on He'd be doing a lot better than I would be but Oh, I'm not doing too too bad right now I like taking out these guardrails though apparently Totally missed my gear Even though I have a sequential Nobody nobody saw that Nobody saw that the miracle of Persuasion nobody saw that right nobody saw me uh mess up So we're definitely going to be doing a lot more here on fortune island With the treasure chests and everything that we need to unlock because I need to uh work my way through the story I definitely love taking out those guardrails So we do have a lot of work to do in the game And uh, I'm enjoying every minute of this expansion If you guys are enjoying the map and expansion, let me know what you guys think down below Do you love it? Do you hate it? What's your favorite part of it? I can tell you what my favorite part is but you guys probably already know it's these guardrails And these guardrail runs apparently So you guys know follow me on facebook switch twitter And instagram all the trams you've come back to the live do a lot more twi Twitter the fastest way to see the place easy trailblazers Drive through the entry gate and don't slow down until you get to the flares at the other site So it looks like we are running this trailblazer In uh this huna truck probably not the best Truck or car for this adventure, but you know what we're going for it. Oh, man Is there a house down there? Oh, there's a barn ow well I knew there was something down there, so Well, luckily we didn't die too much So we'll be able to finish that trailblazer But we didn't get three stars, but We did get two So we did our achievement for that so that's going to do it for this episode If you guys follow me on twitter and instagram all of which are found In the description box below two biggest social medias that I post out right now As well as got some very very interesting news coming to the channel bit of an opportunity and Kind of some big news coming to the channel, hopefully so I will keep you guys up to date with that So until next time guys, I thank you guys for watching and thank you guys for coming back Thank you for all the new subscribers of the channel. Welcome to the channel. So until next time. I'm evil rabbit I'm out


Hello, in this part I would like to demonstrate to you the situation where that the task is finishing its job earlier than specified time slice. So we will use again stm-42 cube IDE and we'll run our example on Nucleo L476-LG board, but you can reproduce it quite easily on any other stm-42 based board. So just not to let's say start everything from the beginning, I would use one of the existing projects which we have used before for tasks and I would start with a device configuration. So just for those of you who are starting with us right now, please start a new project with an stm-32 cube Mx or stm-32 cube IDE for selected stm-32 device. Please select within system and core and sys debug to trace asynchronous SW. It will be not available when Cortex M0 and M0 plus devices, but in this case we can just use the standard debug interface and use UART communication as a support for debug. Within Cortex M3, M4 and M7 devices, once we select this trace asynchronous SW we've got one additional pin. It is PB3, it is SW single wire output pin which can be used for single wire tracing. Additional point common for all stm-32 implementations when using FreeR2S is a time-based source change. Time-based source, when this says tab, means that this is the timer which is used to implement all the lines and timeouts within the library. So by default it is SysTick, but as we are using FreeR2S, which is using SysTick for the time slicing, we need to change this time-based for how to different timer. We can select from all of the existing ones, but the best is to select the timer which do not have any input nor output channels. So it could be timer 6 or timer 7. I select the timer 6. I will not use at the moment any other components and other peripherals nor pins. So I would just enable the FreeR2S. So I select FreeR2S. My interface is CMC version 2. I've got as well version 1 and disabled. So we are selecting version 2. And we do not need to modify anything within this config nor include parameters. So we can keep the default settings. Let's go to the task and kills. As I'm using the previous one of the previous exercises, I've got ready two tasks specified. You can add new ones using this add button and modify existing by double click on the name. Within this exercise we will have two tasks on the same priority or as priority normal. So I will double click and change this priority to normal without this tool. So two tasks have the same priority. The entry functions will have task 1, start task 1 and for task 2 will have start task 2. There would be no other component within this perspective. So I would generate the code using this button. Okay and within our code we can see main.cfile within the private variables, the definition of both tasks and its handlers. Then within main function after the hardware initialization we can see the declaration and creation of new those two tasks. Then the kernel is started and we are executing the code from both tasks. So within this exercise I would like to demonstrate to you how task can finish its job a bit earlier. So I would keep only this task action code and I would remove all of the other components which are not necessary here. There would be no initialization values only the task actions. So let's assume that we've got the situation where our task 1 will have only small portion of data to be to be done and it's the time slice defined for it is much too much. So we need to finish earlier and give the time space to the other tasks. How to do it? We've got a dedicated function which is os thread yield. This mechanism is called yielding and this function is calling in fact a similar function with an freeRTOS API which is sending our task from run state to ready state and this is forcing scheduler to switch the context using pentSV interrupt to next task the same priority from the ready list. If there would be no other let's say task with from the ready list that scheduler will select again the same task task 1. So please be careful when using this function with the task which has higher priority than the others because scheduler will select automatically the same task once again. But in our case both tasks have the same priority it is os priority normal so this function should work without any problem. This function do not accept any argument so this is just this is in fact calling pentSV interrupt to switch the context for the next task which is in the queue. So this is our task 1 function and for task 2 we will perform only this operation without any yielding so task 2 will use its complete time space for the execution. Let's try to compile it and check the final result. It will be quite difficult to check the difference in fact because we are operating on 4 MHz clock on the default one it will be quite fast but we will see. A compilation demonstrates no warnings so we can start with the debug session my board is already connected so I press this debug button then I need to turn on this SWD ITM data console just to show you once again how to find it I'm using this quick access SWV and this SWD ITM data console this is the one I'm using. Once you select it you need to configure it selecting channel 0 as a ITM port ITM means instrumentation trace macrosal so this is the trace we are using only one wire over SWO line this is PB3 pin. Then to start the tracing we need to start it by pressing this button and we can run the application. So we can see I would pause it for a while and let's have a look how it is working. I would scroll for the beginning so at the beginning we can see that task 2 is executing many many many times and then from time to time we can see task 1. The explanation for this is the following let me come back to main.c file and within our code we have specified the time slice for each task for one millisecond and within this one millisecond the task is executing the code from this endless loop so in case of task 2 it will be sending these two over ITM interface one by one as fast as possible within this one millisecond this is why we can see a lot of let's say sign of life from task 2 and as task 1 is sending only once its data and then it is going immediately to ready state we can see from time to time only the sign of life from task 1 so the effect is visible but please remember that yield function should be used among the tasks with the same priority if you would like to block somehow or to finish earlier of let's say the job of the task with higher priority better use OSD like instead which would put your higher priority task to the block state okay we can terminate or stop the debug session and continue with the next topic thank you for watching this video


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Dear viewers, Salamun alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Tonight, we are joined by a very, very special guest, Professor Vector Al-Qaq, who was born in 1936 in Beirut in Lebanon in a Christian family. He holds three PhDs in Persian literature from Iran, where his first PhD, also Arabic literature from Lebanon, and history of civilization and philosophy from France. I mean, achieving this much in one's life is actually a very big achievement and must be an inspiration to everyone who is on the root of studying, on the root of knowledge that then you know that knowledge does not actually, does not have an end, does not have a limit. And inshallah, we'll have a word with him. He used to teach in high-ranked universities in the United States, France, Iran, and many other countries, including Lebanon as well. He can speak three different languages, four, sorry, different languages, Arabic, fluently English, and French, and Persian, and he has a lot of researchers about Islamic history and the history of the Ahl al-Bayt peace be upon them, and Imam Hussein in particular. I have actually heard many of his researchers about Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, and he also in many occasions during Muharram, he always teaches the teachings of Imam Hussein, and also he has kindness for Imam Ali An-Najl Balagh, the peak of eloquence. Inshallah, we are joined by the professor himself as a true honor to have you amongst us. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your introduction. Thank you. Thank you very much. Just a quick question. Why have you started the research in Islam and Ahl al-Bayt? Well, you know, as I was warned in Lebanon in the Christian family, in Lebanon we live together, Muslims and Christians, from at least 1200 years ago. But especially we, I mean, as my father and father, we didn't live always in Christian areas. My father used to move from region to region in Lebanon. Most of our moves were in Islamic places, I mean, or big villages or towns. And he had many friends, many Muslim friends. And we opened our eyes by myself and by brothers, I have two brothers, when we always used to see Muslims and Shays in our home. So I was influenced by this milieu, and then when I arrived in my secondary school to the baccalaureate class, we call it in Lebanon, and in the end of the secondary, I used to read every day the Qur'an, the Holy Qur'an, and Dahjul Balana. I did it still in the secondary school. So when I arrived to university to prepare my distance, you know, we call it distance because we mostly are French education. I mean, English for me is my fourth language, it's not the second or the third. So this love for Adil Bayt, especially the Imam Ali, was increased, was going increasing and increasing. And the personality of Imam Ali really impressed me a lot. Personality, we'll talk about it, but now answering your question. Then I got my PhD from Iran because, you know, I used to know the Persian literature translated into Arabic or French before I went to Iran. So when my parents wanted to send me to France to prepare my first PhD, I didn't accept, I apologized, and I chose Iran. And I went to Iran. In Iran, you know, Iran is a Shi'ite country, a deodessment country. And so I was very happy because I was discovering more and more about Imam Ali, about the Shi'a, and especially really, I say to God, thanks a lot because I studied the Persian also philosophy, Persian Islamic philosophy, Mullah Sadra, Meerd Ahmad, et cetera, and usually in the Arab country, they know nothing about them. They believe that the Islamic philosophy stopped with other ways, which is not true because Mullah Sadra in Iran after him continued the Islamic philosophy and in the Arabic language he wrote in Arabic. But Arabs at that time didn't, they were not aware about Mullah Sadra, even though he wrote in Arabic. So and then the values that fight, fought Imam Ali for them, the Islamic values, the humanistic values impressed me a lot.  Yeah. Masha'Allah. So you spoke that one of the personalities that you have a deep love for is Imam Ali, right? Yes, of course. Can you explain to us why? That's why, because really, of course, he has a united personality. But if I allow myself to say that he had two faces in the face of the, of a believer in Islam, I mean, and he was a faithful Islam, as we say in Arabic, of course, but he had another face that was, we call now humanistic. When he appointed Malik al-Ashtar as a governor to Egypt, he told him, textually, he told him, you have to use mercy with the people of Egypt. If they are Muslims or not Muslims, because non-Muslims, he meant Christians, they are the same as Muslims. They are at the same level. It wasn't said before him and after him in the whole history of Islam. And he appointed Malik al-Ashtar to apply this. And then Imam Ali, when he was killed by unknown, I mean, we know the name, he showed mercy to him, imagine that. I mean, and then once somebody said bad words to him before that event, and then he was very, very merciful upon him. I mean, these values that Imam Ali practiced, unhuman values, I could say, I mean, excuse me to use the term, he was more, more, more far than this, but a superman. I mean a superman in the philosophical sense. He was not an orderly man. And if I say this, I am not exaggerating, why? Because the Sufi order, as you know, and Irfan, I mean the highest rank in the Sufi order, they believe in the perfect man, an insanun kamil. The perfect man was Imam Ali, the perfect man. They believe that Imam Ali also was a perfect man. When they drove the perfect man, the Imam Ali was in their mind. Why? Because they believe that Imam Ali inspired all the Sufi orders and it's right. And till now in Iran, when, even when they make sports, I mean bodybuilding or other things sports, they become by praying, I mean, and praying and venting the ideology of Imam Ali, Bismi Imam Ali and so on. So they are related to him. So he is the perfect man, an insanun kamil, when we say now superman. An ideal. Well, let's say an ideal. Of course. And a lot of people, not even within Islam or every single religion, they actually all have some source of an explanation about courage of one person that came out from Arabia and a lot of research actually proves that this such person is Imam Ali. So what are the main similarities and bases which lead amongst us and the Christians? And can you give us some sort of examples? Let me start really with Imam Ali also. Because the source is Imam Ali. In the Nahjul Balaghah, the famous book gathered by Sharif Al-Radi in the Abbasid period, he gathered all the speeches of Imam Ali and letters and so on. Imam Ali has a few lines praising the Christ, Jesus Christ. In these few lines, nearly six lines, it's as they say in French of the classics, the art of litur. I mean, all meanings, all the personality of Jesus Christ was drawn there in these six lines. And he praised the Christ. It was an extraordinary praising. So I think Christians from that time, well, they know about what Imam Ali said because it was a speech. So they appreciated a lot beside of the fact that Malik al-Ashtar, when he appointed them as Egypt, and he ordered them to treat the Christians as well as the Muslims. So all this, I mean, this value, I can say, this value of looking to persons, to other religions like that, this value pushed the Christian to like, to love Imam Ali and to respect him a lot. Then after that, in the Abbasid period, the Imams, I mean, Imam Jafar Sadiq and others, and Imam Riza, also, Alayhi Salam, yeah, they used to have dialogues, many dialogues, with the biggest authority of Christians, which was called the Catholicos, like patriarchs now, patriarch or the pump. So it was the whole and the highest authority of the historians, the Christians, the story. So you see an Imam who is Masoum, he comes at the same level. He discusses matters of religions, Christian, Muslim religion with the highest authority.  So of course, all the Christians who lived in the Abbasid period were seeing this, were hearing this. So this, I mean, communication, I can say, with Christian, Muslim, especially Shia, goes to that time. And after, that's why also in the period of Nahdah, in the 19th century, the Christians in the Arab world made the new Nahdah, the new Renaissance. So all these people, Christian people also used to pray Imam Ali, and now if we make a statistic, what the Muslims, even the Shiaite Muslims, wrote about Imam Ali and the A'imah, and what the Christians of Lebanon, Syria, especially Lebanon and Syria and Iraq and Jordan also, wrote about Imam Ali and Al-Ulban, you see, you can see the familiarity, well, they most about, maybe, they wrote about 80% about Imam Ali, the Christian, and the Muslim 20%. Wow. So why? I mean, it's a fellow banan, because it has an historic background going up to the Imam, to the life of Imam Ali himself. Of course, definitely. That's why in Lebanon, really, we live in the same villages, Muslim, Shia and Christians. You don't find this fellow man, for example, with other sects, in Beirut and other big cities, everybody lives, but in the mountains, in the villages, it's very significant that Shia and the Bikar in South Lebanon, for example, live together in the same villages. They share, they share marriages, they share everything together.  So it's beautiful how you can actually draw different personalities and bring them together. And you can see the love that God, how much is actually put into the world, but how much similarity is put into these different figures that we have right now. Professor, as an experienced researcher in different civilizations, what are your recommendations of solving the problems of contemporary, on this contemporary world? I think we have to back to religion. We hear many voices there, put religion aside. Now look to Europe. When they were writing the, I mean, the Dastur, what we call an Arabic Dastur, and in Iran for example, in Persian, and in the constitution of Europe, all countries, all European countries refused to put the name of Allah in the constitution, imagine. And here the Oriental people say, the West Christian, the Christian, the Arabian. They don't exist. They don't believe in God. In their constitution, God has no place.  They became like, as they say in France for example, like it doesn't mean that they don't live in God, but practically they don't live. Of course, there are good Christians who go to church and so on, but most of the churches sometimes there and in Canada are sold and they are building apartments in the churches. Imagine that. They lost their values, the value of family. They live together before they get married. They live with many, a young man live sometimes with two, three, four women. Of course. Okay. And that's why you have big cases, big number of cases of separation, talaq and the children. Single mothers and the children are raised with that father. The problems of children, that's why in the States and in Europe, you see sometimes they kill, when somebody entered in the school, he kills 10 students, his man, why his man? He has no support in his family nor from his mother. No love. No love. Love. Children need love. Love is everything. So if we go to religion, in Islam, in the Quran, he recommends to respect the father and the father, to help them. Of course. These are values for the family, for the, I mean, the psychology, the psychology of every person. They grow, if a normal family, Muslim family or a Christian family, they grow with these values. Now there are no values. And if you talk about values, they say, oh, what is he talking about? So to solve the problem is like we go back to faith, because faith orders us to love other one. Even I was talking about the Imam Ali, he gave the pardon to his killer, Iman. When they live in such a society, I think justice will prevail. Justice is very essential in Christianity and in Islam, al-Adala. For the liberty, because liberty, if there is no justice, you can't protect liberty in the society. If there is no justice, you can't protect liberty.  And I think this is the way to save what we are really enduring now in this society. Of course, Professor, another question that I have, which is from me, this question, I think it's more of an opinion from your side as you have reached such a stage. I would love to hear, and I'm sure the viewers also would love to hear your opinion on why at the moment religion, even Christianity and Islam, that we are running through a problem where it's been modernized to the generation that they're living now. So for instance, we have problems, the elders, they wouldn't, the more it gets modernized, the more of that, the generation pass on a more modern religion. But this is where the problems, I think, occur when the religions itself becomes modern to a generation where you live in it. This is why we have Muslims who are going through divorce or who are going through different kind of problems, same with Christianity. So what do you think about how important is to deliver the right message to the youth that are growing up in the West? You are right. This is an essential problem. We have to modernize our commentary on the Koran. I mean, why to stick to the commentary of persons who lived in the Middle Ages? We respect them. By that time, they gave all what they could to explain the Holy Koran. But we are, as Imam Abu Hanifa said, as we know, Imam Abu Hanifa was the student of Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq, although he is a student, I mean, he is between the four, so let's say Imam Al-Fikr, but he was the student of Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq. So he said, We are human beings, and they are, meaning they criticaled him that he passed away the teachings of the Sahaba, the companions of the Prophet. He said, I respect them, but they are men, and we are men. Why? Because the society in the Abbas period was similar to our modern society. Many religions, many sects, many people, Aryans, Semitech, Jews, etc., etc. So it was really a problem. This society had a big problem. They didn't exist in the beginning of Islam, suddenly Islam. So now our life is more complicated, youth, you have to satisfy the mind of the youth. So you have to make a new commentary of the Koran. The Christian people, especially the Catholic and the Protestant, made this. They started about half a century ago, modernizing the commentary of the Bible, I mean, especially the Gospel. So we don't have a problem. For example, we used to fast 40 days, not only eating meat was forbidden, even eating eggs, eating... Many dairy products. ...products. Now, no, the Vatican said, you are not obliged to make all this, why? Because people go to work. In the past, they used to live a simple life. Now you have to raise up at five o'clock to take your children maybe to school, sometimes there is auto-car, then to go to your work to return around six or seven o'clock. So you don't have time for your family. If we modernize the commentary, we don't teach the Holy Koran or the Gospel, but it's diverse, but modernize the commentary so the youth will be satisfied. We have to make this in Islam till now, and it didn't happen. It must happen. If we want Islam to satisfy the Islamic youth, we have to do this. Insha'Allah. Doctor, where can we find your researches? Well, most of my researchers are out of print, unfortunately, most of them. I wrote in English, I wrote in French, I wrote in Persian and in Arabic. But now I'm making a effort to make a new edition. I didn't want to make reprint, I wanted to make a new edition. So it was a fault, it was a mistake. I had to reprint them, and then when I have time to make a new edition, but it happened. And now I'm working or re-editing all my researches, really. Some of them were published in Iran, some of them in France, some of them in Lebanon. Insha'Allah. Insha'Allah. I make this. It's a true honor to have you with us today, and true inspiration you give to everybody. I mean, I'm sitting here right now full of energy from what I've heard, and I hope to see you very soon, and I'll be looking forward to reading your researches, insha'Allah. It's a baraka, as we say in Arabic, from Imam Hussein and Imam Ali, because I was invited to Karbala and to Dajaf, and it's my first trip to Dajaf in Karbala. I used to come often to Baghdad for conferences and so on. And I always hoped to come here, but life is difficult. I traveled over the world many times and so on. Now I am happy, I say it's a baraka, really, and I hope what the Iraqi did to their brothers, Christian brothers here during the last time, you know, we all know what happened to Christian, to Yazidi and others. So, especially Iraqi people and especially Shi'i people who hosted their brothers in their homes and helped them, so this is Islam, this is the true Islam. This is teachings from Imam Ali, alhamdulillah. Brothers and sisters, Dr. Vector, a true inspiration to us, and it's an honor to have you once again on this show, and hopefully it's not the last time that you make your visit to Karbala and Dajaf, and inshallah we'll see more from Dr. Lutbrothers and sisters. This is the end of the interview, and we thank you for watching and hopefully stay tuned, stay tuned to any more of the professors, researchers, and hope to see you soon, inshallah.