Autumn has always been my favorite season. I like the cool air and the turning of the leaves, and it has both Halloween and Thanksgiving going for it too. Every year I try to do some seasonal things to get into the spirit of it, be it going to a scare house or buying some apple cider at one of the roadside stands north of where I live, and this year was no different. Except this year I took a different route, up into the mountains in my search for roadside stands and brightly colored leaves I'd recently broken up with… well, been dumped by. My girlfriend of two years, and while I could have gotten one of my friends or my sister to go with me, I was looking forward to having some time by myself. I wouldn't say I was depressed, but I knew I was more than a little mopey, and I didn't want to inflict my bad mood on someone else. Plus, these trips always cheered me up, and I was hoping this one would be no different, especially with the adventure of going on a different route I wasn't familiar with. At first, that seemed to hold true. I was paying more attention to where I was going due to the unfamiliar roads, and it didn't take long before I started getting into areas with truly beautiful scenery. A little afternoon I stopped at a small town restaurant and grabbed some lunch before hitting the road again. As the day wore on, I realized I wasn't hitting any other small towns, including one or two I had expected to run across. I was relying on memory, as I was trying to avoid using a map or my phone unless I truly got lost, but when I had glanced at that area a few days ago, I was sure there were other small towns dotting the area I was traveling through. It wasn't a big deal, I had plenty of gas and refueling at lunch, but I was a bit disappointed. Worse was the lack of small country stores, fruit stands, and other mountain oddities you normally see. I always loved finding places selling art made out of logs and metal, weird tiny museums to obscure local heritage, and other quirky spots that I didn't get to see in my day to day. But this trip, all I saw was mile after mile of admittedly beautiful trees punctuated by the occasional rural road trailing off into the wilderness. As the sunlight began to take on the softer, orange tones of late afternoon, I started weighing my options. I hadn't even seen a sign pointing towards a town or highway in probably 50 miles, and I had a good enough phone signal to pull up a map or use GPS to find my way to a more familiar route heading back home. I started fumbling for the phone in the passenger seat. When I noticed a white particle board sign nailed to an approaching tree. Petsches. It proclaimed in blood-red letters. The misspelling aside, my heart leapt at the prospect of finally finding some kind of obscure mountain trader. Cider. The next sound shouted from a tree about 50 yards after the first. The signs were crude and poorly done, but they looked relatively well maintained and new. Still, I kept my expectations in check, looking for a small weathered stand that might not even be open. Instead, as I rounded the corner, I found myself coming up on what looked like a small farm. As I slowed down, I saw it had a little orchard on one side that seemed to go on behind the medium-sized green farmhouse that sat in the middle of the property. I saw it with growing excitement that on the far side of the house was a large and sprawling pumpkin patch. Far from picked over like many patches you see in October, this one was brimming with row after row of huge, beautiful pumpkins. The small white sign at the front of the driveway said, Raymond's cider and fruit and had a crooked arrow pointing towards the farmhouse. Feeling a buzz of happy excitement, I pulled in and made my way up the dirt driveway. When I got out of the car, I saw there was an old man in a ball cap sitting on the front porch watching me. Raising my hand, I got no response, and though I tried to look friendly as I approached, I felt a growing worry in my stomach that I had somehow made a mistake. When I got to the bottom of the steps, I paused. Excuse me, sir, is this Raymond's cider and fruit?  Yeah, it is young fella, and I'm Raymond. His smile broke into a grin as he began to rock in his chair, a look of satisfaction spreading across his face as he began a well recited sales pitch. I've got some of the best peaches and apple cider you've ever tasted, all made from the trees you see around you. I've also got some rock candy and peanut brittle for sale, and though I don't make that here, I can vouch for its quality. As though to underline his guarantee, he smiled wider, revealing three missing teeth. Chuckling at his own joke, Raymond stopped rocking as he leaned forward in his chair. So what he interested in buying? Relieved, I smiled back.  Raymond's smile left his eyes as he glanced out toward the pumpkin patch. The sada and fruit I can help you with, but no pumpkin's faseo, I'm afraid. I couldn't help but be disappointed, so I decided to push on a bit. So that's not your pumpkin patch, or you're just not selling them? The old man looked at me steadily for a moment before answering. Oh, it's my land, all right. Just not my patch of pumpkins. Them's. I'm Mary Jane's pumpkins. He looked away as he said her name, rubbing his mouth distractedly. Mary Jane, is she? I was going to ask if she was his wife, but decided I didn't want to push my luck, asking personal questions. Around? Maybe she wants to sell me a pumpkin? His eyes found mine again, and at first I thought he was angry, but when he spoke, his voice seemed to tremble slightly. No, she's not around at the moment, won't return until tonight I suspect, and you need to be moving on well before that. So you want that cider and peaches? Sure, sure. I had brought $200 in cash along for the trip, $100 bill in 520s. I handed him a 20. Is that enough? I don't need change. Raymond eyed the money, and then me. Yeah, I reckon that'll do just fine. With that, he got up and shuffled inside the house for a minute, before coming back with two paper bags and a glass jug of cider. I gave you a bag of apples as well for the extra money. He was glancing around more now, as though he was looking for something or someone, though we were the only ones there as far as I could tell. You have a safe trip back home, young fella. Tell your friends. His farewell and final bid for recommendations seemed half-hearted, and he looked increasingly anxious and preoccupied as I left the porch and went back to my car.  I could have turned back the way I'd come from, but instead I turned right and went on past his house down the road toward the pumpkin patch. I found myself going slow and continuing to look at the pumpkins, and that's the main reason I saw the small dirt path that ran along the perimeter of the patch farther down. Stopping the car, I looked back to see if I could see the porch of Raymond's house, but the combination of the curve of the road and a swell of land blocked all but the top of the house from view. I pulled onto the dirt path and sat for a moment. I knew I shouldn't be doing it, but I really wanted one of those pumpkins, and what would taking one pumpkin really hurt? Still, it was stealing if I just took it. The compromise I finally reached between my conscience and my desire was to leave the hundred dollar bill under a rock near the pumpkin I took. That way, if they noticed one was gone, they'd find the money for it. If they didn't notice, then no harm, no foul. I knew I didn't have a knife with me, but I managed to find a flat-headed screwdriver to help work a pumpkin loose from the vine, my heart beating in my chest. I eased open the car door and headed around the front of my car and toward the edge of the pumpkin patch. The pumpkins were all oddly similar to one another, so it was easy to pick one from the first batch I ran across. I jammed and twisted the tip of the screwdriver into the thick black vine that the pumpkin was attached to, but it was surprisingly durable. After a couple of minutes with little progress, I sat down the screwdriver and just tried twisting the pumpkin from the vine. To my surprise, it popped off easily. A little spray of liquid hitting me as it came loose. I wiped my face on my sleeve and scooped the pumpkin up, staggering in the process. The thing was heavy. Really heavy. Grunting with effort, I waddled it over to my car and sat it in my front passenger seat. Feeling a bit stupid but not wanting to take any chances, I put a seatbelt on the pumpkin before running around to the other side to get in and drive off. As I glanced back in the rearview mirror for signs of pursuit, I realized I had forgotten to leave the money under a rock. I could go back and do it, but that would just increase the risk of me getting caught. Feeling somewhat guilty, I decided to drive on. I was preoccupied with my thoughts after leaving the patch, driving pretty much on autopilot. I could have wound up more lost than before. But instead I realized with relief that I was back on a road I recognized. Smiling to myself, I padded the pumpkin next to me and headed home. That was four hours ago. When I got home I was tired, but I also felt determined to go ahead and carve up the pumpkin into a jack-o'-lantern. That was almost as though I felt that if I made immediate use of the pumpkin it would justify stealing it in the first place. Pushing that thought aside, I grabbed up a large kitchen knife and stuck it into the side of the pumpkin. The blade went in an inch or so before meeting some kind of resistance. I pushed harder and after a moment the knife plunged deeper into the pumpkin. When I went to pull it out, it seemed oddly difficult to do it, but I finally managed. All of this was strange, but I just attributed it to the size and healthiness of the pumpkin. I would just have to work harder to get through its tough skin. So I did.  As I pulled the wedge free, I saw a wisp of black hair trailing behind the removed chunk of pumpkin skin. It lay in that triangular hole like some kind of deadly snake, coiled an alien against the bright orange of the pumpkin. I jerked my hand back, dropping the wedge in the process. It took me a moment to summon the courage to reach out and touch the hair.  But when I felt the hair, I knew the truth. I felt my gorge rise slightly, but I forced it down. Driven more by fear than reason now, I hacked away at the pumpkin again until a quarter of one side could be broken off. As it fell away, and I saw what lay inside that pumpkin, I wanted to scream. But I couldn't find the breath to do it. It was a head, a bloodless human head. From the looks of it, the woman had been in her mid-thirties when she died and while she looked very pale and drawn, she wasn't decayed or dried up. She also wasn't bleeding or oozing from the cuts where I had struck the head with my knife. I considered it being some kind of joke, but she looked too real to be a fake. Besides, how would someone even pull off something like that anyway and what would be the point? No, I knew it was real and there was no rationalizing it away. The best thing I could do would be to call the police, even if I had to admit stealing the pumpkin in the first place. I was reaching for my phone. When it began to glow and buzz, my hand was shaking slightly as I answered the incoming call. Hello? You took something that didn't belong to you, didn't you? The voice was a woman's and I was terrified. My hand started shaking worse as I tried to think of a response. A thousand things whirled through my mind like startled birds before I settled on one. I can just give it back. I'm sorry. The woman gave out a short laugh. No, why would I want that thing back? You ruined it as soon as you cut it open. But I didn't open it. I didn't see anything. I winced as soon as the last words left my mouth.  If I didn't see anything, why would I know I needed to assure her I didn't see anything? But she seemed to ignore my response as she continued. No need to worry, my new friend. What is done cannot be undone. But I'm open to reparations. Yes, that's just what I need. Reparations for your sin against me. I was nodding into the phone frantically. Sure, of course. How much do you think is fair for the pumpkin and your trouble? 100? How about two just so there's no hard feelings? I could have said a million because I had no intention of paying her anything. As soon as I was off the phone, I was calling 911. Mary Jane laughed again. Money. I have no need for that. No, what I have to get is a replacement for what you took. She paused for a moment, her voice full of mirth when she continued. You know, for the head. I gripped my phone tighter as my breath caught in my chest. I was on the verge of just hanging up when I realized she was speaking again. What size hat do you wear, Wallace?  But then again, how did she have my cell phone number to call me in the first place? With growing dread, I pulled the phone away from my ear and ended the call before dropping the phone on the floor like it was hot. I glanced around the kitchen, letting out a short moan when I saw that the pumpkin was gone. In its place was a small piece of folded paper tented on the edge of my kitchen counter. Creeping up closer, I read it without picking it up. Don't worry, my new friend, I'll measure it when I come for it. I'll be seeing you. It was signed Mary Jane.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I am going to be ranking all of my single highlighters from least to most favorites. So if you want to see what comes out on top, then just keep watching.  So it took me a little bit, but it's finally here. Now today, it is just going to be my luxury and high end highlighters. I will eventually have a drugstore version of this as well, but we're just going to start off with the high end and luxury today. I break them up just for my mental sanity, so that I don't have to rank over 40 highlighters. So I have 21 luxury and high end highlighters to rank for you guys today. Of course, these aren't all of my highlighters. I'm not including any highlighters that are in palettes.  So let's just get into it. For the most part, looking at what's laying out right now, I really do just love the majority of my highlighter collection. That's why this is so hard because all these are so good for their own reasons. So this was pretty tough. We're going to start off at number 21, my least favorite in my collection, and that is the Kylie Cosmetics pressed Illuminating Powder. Now, I only have this in one shade, so this may be the reason why, but the shade Queen Drip just ain't for me. Now, for the most part, I'm ranking these, by the way, formulation wise. So if I have multiple colors in the same formulation, I'm counting them as one. This is the only color of this formulation that I have, and I do not like this. It takes a lot of building up. It looks a little bit chunky on my skin. It just, it doesn't pick up color. It doesn't have a smooth application and it just doesn't look good. I really do not like this highlighter. I hope that other colors in her line are better than this one because this one is just simply not good. Moving on to number 20. Now, this is a really fabulous formulation. The fault of this is on me where I bought the wrong color, but since this is the only color that I have of this highlighter, this had to go here. So this is the Dynastomyrix in Light highlighter in the shade Heaven Sent. Like I said, the formulation on this is beautiful.  But this has a gorgeous gleam to it. It's just that it's too deep on me. So I don't find myself reaching for it. It's also too shiny to work as a blush highlighter. So for me, where this gets used if I were doing makeup on somebody with a deeper complexion, this would be stunning. But for myself, this just isn't something I can really use too often. Number 19 is the Kylie Cosmetics Loose Highlighter in Santorini. Now again, this is just another color issue, so I don't reach for it. I don't think the quality on this is bad. This was actually relatively affordable. I believe it was around the $12 to $15 price point. I have the shade Santorini, and the reason I don't like the shade is it's just too white. I think we all went through a phase where the wider, the brighter the highlight was. You thought that that looked better, but in reality, the wider the highlighter, the more alien-like you look, and it just doesn't look good. In the beginning, I did like this when I first had it, but as my taste has changed and grown, I prefer a more neutral highlighter on my skin to nothing too bright and too white, and this is just way too stark for me. Number 18 is the La Rock Illuminating Highlighter in the Shade Daylight. Now this is not a bad highlighter. This is actually quite nice, but I think this is ranking so low because I was a little bit disappointed by it. I heard a lot of good things about this formulation, so I did happen to get it on sale, I believe, during an older 21 days of beauty, and I was so very excited because I just had heard so many amazing things, and while this is not a bad highlighter, like I said, it's a nice pretty formula. It just didn't reach up to the hype that I thought it would. To me, it's a pretty generic highlighter. There's nothing really special about it. There's nothing bad about it either, but it's just kind of there in my collection, so I don't find myself reaching for it too often. Number 17, we have the MAC Extra Dimension Skin Finish. Now I have this in the shade Postmodernist Peach, and I absolutely love the packaging on it. From this point on, I really don't have too much negative things to say about the highlighters. They just kind of lined up where they lined up, so I really do like this one. I just feel like this one, I don't find myself reaching for a lot. Something about like, it's just not that pleasurable of an experience for me. Now I really like this because it's a gorgeous peach highlighter, and I really don't think I have enough peach highlighters in my collection. It's just not the best formula, and it's still a very nice formula. I believe this was in a monthly favorites last year, so I'm not saying I don't like it. I really do like it. It's gorgeous. It's just not the best formula. Moving on to number 16, I have this Persona Kelly Glow Highlighter. This is in the shade Zuma. This is a very beautiful formula. I really enjoy this highlighter. It's just not something I reach for a lot. I don't really have a reason for that. I think this formula is underrated. I really do think they have a wonderful formula, and this is one that I would like to reach for now, but I mean, this is just ranking where it's ranking because I just don't use it. I have a lot. Number 15 are the Jouer highlighters. Now these are really beautiful. I got them in a Nordstrom set on sale, so they're mini-sized, but there's Rose Quartz. I have Topaz, which is a bit deeper citrine, which was a very popular one for a while, and while I don't have too much bad to say about them, like I said, my taste in highlighters has evolved. These are a bit too shiny and reflective for me. There's a time and a place for that, of course, in my collection, and depending on my mood. But for the most part, I find it to be a bit too powdery, impacting too much of a punch on my cheek, where I just don't want to look like I have a metallic stripe on my face sometimes. So while the formula is nice, it blends very smoothly onto the skin. It's just not the finish lately that I've been looking for. Next up, we have the Ofra and Samantha March highlighter, and this is in the Star Inspired, which is two pre-existing colors in the Ofra line. Again, Ofra has a beautiful formula, but it's just a color that is a bit too stark for my preferences at the current moment. This is still a highlighter that I do reach for quite frequently. It's just I have to use a very, very light hand. I don't like how white it looks on my complexion. So that's kind of where this is. It's a very nice formula, and I do enjoy the color. Just don't reach for those white highlighters very often. Then we have the Jacqueline Cosmetics Loose highlighter. I have mine in the shade Bomb, and this is a gorgeous, goldy-nose shade. So the reason why this is ranking higher is because it's not like those super white highlighters that I'm talking about, and I love a nice, smooth golden formula. So this is ranking in the middle because I don't reach for loose highlighters a lot, but this is a really nice formula for highlight quality, by the way. Super Bomb. She has a very nice, super beaming highlight formula, and like I said, even though I'm not as into those, I can appreciate a very nice formula. She did a very good job with that, and she did a very good job with these. Next up, we have one of my most coveted highlighters, even though it's not ranked toward the very top because I don't reach for it a lot. This is the Chanel Accolade Too Disilluminating Powder, and this is just kind of super fancy, and I love it for that. I don't reach for it a ton. I like like a baked gelet kind of highlight formula looking at my collection. Those are the ones that tend to be ranking towards the top. This is not baked gelet at all. It's a powder, so a lot of the powder collects onto the brush, which just applies too much highlighter than I want. Nowadays, like it's so funny because if I had ranked my highlighters even a year and a half ago, the rankings would totally be mismatched, but because I like that hard-pressed baked gelet formula where you don't get a lot of fallout, you don't get a lot of powder buildup. This one does kind of pile on the powder, which at the current moment is not what I'm into. Ranking in at number 11, we have the Artist Couture Diamond Glow powders. I have two, one in Illuminati. This one's not my favorite. It's a bit too bright for me, but Summer Haze is a really gorgeous golden highlight, and I really enjoy his loose highlighter formula. I think he has the best. His formula is just so fine, so I don't really mind that it's loose. It's very nice. There are little like diamond glittery bits, not like glitter glitter, but there is just something special about the shine that these have. And again, I don't use these as much as I should because it's just so easy to grab a pressed highlighter. But if I feeling loose or I'm feeling like I want a little bit of extra pizzazz, I do love the Artist Couture formula a lot. Ranking in at number 10 is my MAC Soft and Gentle Mineralized Skin Finish. I love this highlighter. This is the perfect everyday highlighter for me. It's the perfect color, maybe a bit brighter, I guess, compared to what I like. But again, it's just so soft. You can really blend it in to how you like it. It looks very seamless on the skin and you can get a very natural highlight, but you can build it up to get something beaming. So I just like the versatility that this has and just how you're able to kind of build up to what intensity you want of your highlighter for the day. Number nine are the Classic Becca. What do they call these? Shimmering Skin Perfectors. They just have an amazing formula. Just like the MAC, you really can kind of customize how you want. You can just put a little bit and it blends into the skin seamlessly for a glow from within kind of look. Or you can get a banging bomb super bright highlighters. I think typically when I want a brighter highlighter, I'm very inclined to dig in for the becasus because they just have such a good formula. I love Perseco Pop.  It was so popular for so long for a reason. I like a nice champagne highlighter, but I think my ultimate favorite is probably Opal. I have this tiny little bit because you don't need that much highlighter. This is like the perfect tone on my skin. It's just not too bright, but it really gives me a glow without being white. Number eight has to be the Fenty Beauty Kilowatt formula. She has a lot of different variations in her line. I don't like the diamondy ones. I don't like the super gold glittery ones, but I just do like my Kilowatt highlighter in Mean Money and Hustla Baby. I think she has a very nice formula where it's not like the hard-pressed bake chalet, but it's not super powdery either. It's a very nice in-between. I love the color line that she has. Overall, I just think she has a very smoothing formula. It looks very smooth on the texture on your skin and it blends in like a dream. She has a banging formula with a lot of different colors to choose from. Number seven is my Tom Ford Skin Illuminating Powder Duo. Now, I do have a couple of duos in here just because that's where I keep them in my single highlighter drawer, but I really do like this. I think it's ranking a little bit higher. I'm being a little bit biased because it is Tom Ford, but this really is a very smoothing and simple highlighter. You don't get too much powder from it. This shade right here is actually more reflective than the top one. The top one is going to give you a more natural highlight, whereas this one is going to give you the reflective one. I like having that option, and I just think it's really fancy and that's kind of why it's ranking higher. I use it a ton. It's my Tom Ford Baby. When I'm feeling bougie, I'm grabbing for my Tom Ford. Apparently, I feel bougie a lot. Moving on to a different formula from Tom Ford. This is number six, and it's the Shear Highlighting Duo. Now, these are quite beaming. This is reflex gilt. Even though I say like a more subtle one, I just love the quality and the finish of this reflex gilt. I love these colors too much. You have a little bit more of a pinky one, and then more of a champagne one, or I guess more golden. They're just like thick, but in a good way. The most important thing to me when it comes to highlighter is how smooth it looks on the skin. Of course, it's a highlight. If you do have some texture or milk bumps, they're going to show through, but the way that it blends into the skin and how smoothly it blends into the skin is what I look for most, and Tom Ford does a really nice job of that. Five is my Bobbi Brown Shimmer Highlighting Powder. This is Pink Glow. This was actually my very first highlighter, and I love it. I love digging into the more pink side when I want something a little bit closer to my skin tone, but you can go in towards the more white side for a nice beam, but this is that kind of baked formula, so you don't get a lot of fallout. You can really customize how much you want, how much glow you want, and I just think it's an overall very nice formula. This is probably my most used highlighter. Looking at everything, even though I can't really say too much about this highlighter, I just use it all the time, and I really like it. This is a newer one for me, but I've really been in love with it. This is the Givenchy Tosca Tour Shimmer Powder. This is ranking in at number four, by the way, and I just think this has such a refined formula. Now, it's not a super beaming highlight, so that's probably why it's ranking so high. I love the detail on the actual powder itself, and it's just like a nice subtle glow, and it blends into the skin very seamlessly, and not a lot of people talk about these Givenchy highlighters. They really are super nice. Ranking in at number three, I love this highlighter. This is from Milk Makeup, and it's the Flex highlighter. This is in the shade Lit, and this is a very beaming highlight, but I love that about this. I love how smooth it looks on the skin. This is probably one of the most smoothing highlighters that I own, one of the most easy to blend into the skin and work into the skin. It just goes in like butter. It gives you that super beaming highlight while still looking like it's like a glow from within, like a super glow from within. This is an incredible highlight formula. I highly recommend you check it out. It's amazing. Moving in at number two, we have my Dior Luminizers. I have a few different formulations. I'm just going to count these together as like the nude ones. So my first one is the Rosie Vibes that I have. Both of these are pink because I love pink highlighters, and I also have Hollow Pink. This one is a different formula, but I'm just going to count these two together. But Dior has my absolute favorite highlighting formula ever, just all across the board. And they just have everything that I need. You can get a heavy glow. They're very shiny. You can still get a natural glow though. They blend into the skin beautifully, and they're just a highlight formula that I find myself reaching for time and time again. All right. Finally, moving on to number one, this is a Quad. They're just so small and cute that I keep them in my individual highlighter drawer. They're so good. You guys, again, from Dior, like I said, they have my favorite formula, and this is the Backstage Glow Face Palette. So there are two. I personally prefer just the original universal. This gold shade is amazing. I like mixing in the pink, and then you have a white when you want an extra beam to the face. But don't sleep on number two, which is Glitz. This one I also really, really love. Just like I said for the other Dior highlights, they have everything that I need. I love the colors in here, and they're just my favorite. And I know you're thinking about, well, where's your hourglass stuff? Those are in palettes. If my hourglass stuff was in here, it would be ranked in the top five. For sure. I don't know about number one because I love my Dior highlighters. These are the best. I recommend these to everybody as highlighters I've ever used. That is all I have for today's video. That was me, of course, ranking all of my luxury and high-end highlighters. Make sure you guys keep an eye out for it when I do my drugstore slash affordable highlighters. And let me know if you enjoyed it. What is your number one favorite high-end and luxury brand I want to know? So if you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would absolutely love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. And I will see you guys in the next one. Bye, guys. Have a good one.


FNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Hazel Chapman, call now, toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Good morning everyone, Hazel Chapman here on Wednesday, the 5th of October, early edition, this is 8.06, it'll be replayed again at 10.06, my usual time. We're looking at the Dow down 270 at 30,095 in the Dow futures. The Dow futures were at, on Monday morning, 28,635, unlike the cash index, the Friday close in the cash index was lower than on Monday, but Monday meant a new low in all the futures and as a result we saw this two huge candles going from Monday's low of 28,635 to a higher of 30,399 yesterday. That really is one of the biggest two-day rallies we've had, certainly or for low, it's spectacular. Therefore you've got to anticipate some kind of a pullback. However, we had a reading yesterday for Subscribers to an Opening Call, I'd mentioned, that the Trin gauge, this is Richard Arms Short-Trim Trading Index, I've used it for decades now just as numbers, just a certain number. I've noticed that if intraday goes over a certain number, there's a really good chance that there is an oversold reading in the market, overbought reading in the Trin and that within two days the S&P futures should have a really good rally, could even be off for low, but you've got to be prepared for a very good rally and if the Trin is below a certain level then you will see the Dow, the very next session by early morning, usually it's the morning, lately over the last year you've seen some moves in the Dow in the futures market overnight that is so strong that there is a powerful rally and a pullback intraday and it doesn't, it just misses going negative and misses going negative even if it was up 300 points but goes to the worst session part of the day, is that it's still up eight points and then it rallies again into the close, that's a failure because it has to go negative. So in this particular instance we are negative, we're down 277, so it's kind of completed that but this candle that was made, if I go to the Dow cash and that's a little bit more of a clue, that's called the Murabosa candle with Novix or virtually Novix and that usually says to me either you get a small doji candle and then a pullback the next day or you just immediately pull back into the candle and how you come out of it in that particular session is going to be very important, otherwise if you take out yesterday's high in this session that would be very positive. The only other conclusion is that within this particular pattern is there is a monster gap up again, in other words a second day of gap or second bar of gap, we've seen that of takeoffs, you remember the takeoff that was made back in June around about the 17th of June when the low was 29,653, there was a low doji candle and then you had three green bars even though there was a peak A, great peak A, then a huge move up and then what happened is there was a powerful rally into the 31,085 level and the candle reversed and you did not break above that for about two and a half weeks, so a lot of things can happen, if I don't want to go back right now just take my word for it, there are moments that have been over the last few years where you get a Marabosa candle after the reversal candle or for low and then another one the very next session, that's usually tremendously powerful, let me show you a couple of things here, so I'll go through all the numbers, there's no need to rush because this is the market hasn't opened, it's still pre-market, this is still early AM, we've still probably got some news at 8.30 this morning, we've even got Fed today, at least I think there should be some kind of Fed momentum one way or the other, but have a look at this pattern, you go from this big arch right here, arch pattern to a cup formation that fails, continues another arch the dreaded H pattern going to a lower low to the low of the 17th and then a successful arch formation that continues higher, walks the nine-period moving average green line, flips over at that peak F candle in the 34,000 area and then turns pink, the nine goes under the 14-period moving average, look how much work would have to be done for this pink nine-period exponential moving average to turn green by crossing over the black line, the 14-period moving average, there's no question you'd have to start testing the Chathamade inside track repellent zone, now have a look at this, I am going to do it just with a single line, make it a little higher, you see that line, I would love to do this for you, ever since I was hand charting back with pencil and paper, I've loved the synchronicity of bar movement, now look at this, yes look at the pattern, let's change the colors, make this red because this is going down, let's make it red, you've got until the 11th of October to create the number of bars making this sickle type pattern, this is kind of a reversal pattern, going to wards, the Chathamade inside track repellent zone, there is a lot of work to be done to be able to get to that, you've got the MACD was just finally crossed over yesterday, the stochastic which is really weak at 30%, the unbalanced volume did do a little V-shaped pattern at the bottom but it has to see follow through today, otherwise it's going to be assigned, that was not just a one-off spike, off an incredibly oversold condition but there's going to be a lot of work to be done to be able to break into this inside track repellent zone and I'll give you the numbers now, of course it's the climbing zones every day to be lower, today's action says 30,831 to 31,020, is the resistance area, I don't see anything like that today, however let's look at the same thing in the E-mini, I'm using the continuous contract, beautiful, beautiful support level, look at this there was some synchronicity to the bottom but look what's happened, look at those candles that went right into the Chathamade inside track repellent zone, one, two, three, four, five, six and have a look at this, this is the inverse, so I'll do the DOG first, DOG which is one to one short, the Dow, we've been along this since way back over there in the 30 year right there and that area right there, we've taken a little money off and it did make that peak D and pull back very sharply but in the big context this particular pattern says you've broken to the upside and closed above the left side high of 37.52 for so many sessions that that's almost like a magnet that there should be some attempt to try to get back there at some point over the next number of weeks, it doesn't matter if it doesn't but at this particular point we are keeping the core position of the one to one short but have a look at this, this is the inverse of the S&P, this is the SH, it's the same thing, look at that, that also just closed once above the left side high of the 17th of June at 17.20, we went to the 17.29 area yesterday, we're trading at 16.46 right now, so I want to go through a number of things and we'll come back and we'll go through different indices of businesses recorded early, I'll be back. 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This is 18 in the morning and we're looking at, I'm showing the SH, which is one-to-one short the S&P, made a peak F-top. The DOG, one-to-one short the down made a peak D-top. We're looking here at the continuous contract of the e-mini and you can see that there's a lot of work to be done. Yes, the MACD just crossed positive. The Stochastic is now at 27%.  The weekly chart still looks very, very weak. That's why it's called the weekly chart. Nah, just joking. Now let's go to the QQQ. QQQ had a very strong powerful move. It's down at 279.62 down 251 and that was a low that was made. I believe, I forgot to update that. The low was 267.10. Let me just change that to at a trough D, 267.10. We're lovely. These are automated. So this is a gray leg. Remember, gray starts off in the chaff wave methodology until we get to a buy signal that's upgraded to a buy mode. Then it says blue and it says what? You're in a buy mode. You should go to at least a D. We haven't got a buy signal yet. Look, there's a W formation in the on-balance volume.  The MACD has yet to cross positive, but it was a fabulous, fabulous rally off the low. So two very good candles. But if you look at the weekly chart, it says it's just the start of something. So now let's go through the IWM, the IWM, which was doing better yesterday. That's the Russell 2000. So the IWM has gone to a very strong leg B. All the others are only at A. The IWM has already started to move. And this says to me, we cannot rule out that the small caps in this particular timeframe might start to find buyers. They haven't yet, but what's happened in the monthly chart, we made a peak B.  That was made in 162.42 back in June. That's really very important. And it's saying there is some strength, pockets of strength. And that's all I can say. Now, what's really important is that I'll just do gold right now. Gold is pulling back some. It's down 11 at 1719. Fabulous single leg A. I should change that still to gray. It hasn't been changed to blue. So it means that this is just the start of an up move. We've got the MACD, very strong stochastics running nicely at 70%. It needs to get over 80% for me to get a buy signal in the stochastic. That's not on the instrument we're watching. That's just on the stochastic confirmed with the MACD. And then we need to see the price start to move higher. And then I can get a buy mode. Probably I have to wait for a leg B before I can say that gold is actually in a buy mode. The silver lead, and my fear always is that silver acts pearly, gold acts well, then silver catches up, then silver leads, and then as silver is leading, they're both pulled back. So I'm watching this very closely. We have to put this together. Silver's down. Continuous contracted down 74 cents at 20.35 at a spectacular move, just missed the 200 period moving average. But I do have to call it a Pd and it's pulling back. We had a silver stoch. We have a silver stoch, which had a spectacular move. And we took really good profits with 20% and 12% off. But we still have the core position, but it pulled back very sharply yesterday. And my concern is that gold is going to start to lead again, rather than silver. But we'll be watching this closely. Let's go to the dollar, dxy. Big move up today, up 95 cents at 111.02. I say big move up because the candle of yesterday suggested that if we took out yesterday's low, we could go straight down to the 50 period exponential moving average. This is a Pd in the Chapman wave methodology. I have to wait for the day before I can put a down arrow in, but it's very close to a sell seat. Well, I should actually know. I'll do that at the end of the day, but I have to follow it. But I'll probably put it down there to say that dollar daily is going to sell signal. Weekly has got a peak F, but it's still very strong. And leg C in the monthly chart says there should still be in the Chapman wave methodology in 2022. There should still be a leg D. That would be probably when we get the next bout of selling in the general market where the dollar starts to climb again. When that is, we don't know. And now we're looking at the EURUSD. That's the euro dollar currency period down sharply at 0.9914 just under par. It almost didn't hit par yesterday. 0.9994. So it just missed it. And you can see the weekly chart says, ah, we've seen this picture before, but we haven't seen it with a mag D. Actually doesn't deflect lower, but actually crosses positive. Circassians very weak, but that mag D, the moving average convergence divergence, if it actually does turn positive, you could see a challenge of the 14 period exponential moving average in the weekly to take it to 1.006. A couple of things that we want to do right now is I didn't do this. I wanted to wait just a little bit. I wanted to see if there's some ready attempt off the lows that were made earlier this morning. So far, not really prices are down at the lows. So the VIX index is up 0.39. Only up 0.39 at 29.46. That is a big move off the peak D at 34. Remember chapter where peak D is where other things can happen. It can go higher, but that's where you got to raise your foot off the accelerator momentarily and hover over the break. Yellow light flashes 34.88 at a peak D. It pulls back from the 34.88 level to yesterday's low of 28.56. It's up almost a dollar at 29.48. I'm watching this very closely. Why? Because for weeks now we've been talking about the chaff weight inside check repellent zone in the weekly chart. 38.94 back in January, a point lower at 37.79 in February, a point lower at 36.64 in May, a point a little more than a point lower in June, and pulls all the way back underneath the chaff weight inside track. Pro repellent zone then quickly pops back in. And what does it do? It pushes up to 34.88 a little less than a point away from the June high. And now it's pulling back. So this inside track repellent zone. Remember I like to do this little mini channel there. We went to the mini channel at the bottom. Let me just draw this in here to say if at any point the VIX, the volatility index on a weekly basis tests this inside track starting at 25.28 to 24.14, and it's rising. So that price will change a little bit at any stage in October. That'll be spectacular for the market because then the Dow should be at least 1500 points higher and the S&P certainly nearly 200 points higher. So we'll see what happens then. That's just anticipating what happens from these lines. But being repelled, the week is hardly begun. I mean this is like not even mid week yet. So we've got to wait for Fridays close to see where the volatility index closes. Normally when it spikes above and touches the green line that's the outer inside track repellent zone. 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If I remember correctly, the late Monty Zwaig used to have a reading that there was 100-to-1 that was an extremely positive move and that could actually turn it to a very good, at least short-term buy signal. I don't remember that, but S&P and the Den has just typed in yesterday that NASDAQ 100 had a 100% bid seen only six times since 1996, six out of six times. That is quite something. So you can understand there was an exhaustion sell-off and now there's an exhaustion rallying buying spree. So some kind of digestive phase today would just be a very normal thing. But for me, this is very important, talking pattern-wise. Remember I said that a really powerful pattern is if you get these two gaps, sometimes you even get three gaps with like a Mirabosa candle with no wicks, big green candle, or on the way down, it's a red candle. That's kind of what you want to see if you're thinking this is the major, a really serious 2022, the bottom. I don't think it is. I think it's a bottom again. There are a series of these and that's why I've been saying I don't think we're looking at a crash scenario. What I'm thinking is we keep making lower lows and lower highs and as we get more and more oversold so that the rebounds need to start to include stocks like a Shopify which got hammered 90% down or something from 176 down to 26 the other day had a spectacular session yesterday pulling back a little bit today. But you can't have a single green candle like this. You have to have these stocks that were just, let me just even look at DocuSign, which what did that do? DocuSign is struggling, struggling. So they're just a couple of stocks that have been decimated to the downside that need to show signs, at least for me and perhaps Shopify is maybe in one of the areas, we don't have it, but this is one of the areas that says if in fact the ones that were fantastic going to the highs in 2021 and were the worst coming back to this Eiffel Tower, it's inverted, it's an arch formation, looks like an Eiffel Tower straight up and straight down. If they can start to show some kind of sign of strength, that's going to be very important. Within the context of the XLF and I spoke about this yesterday, that was a fabulous move in the end. It didn't look like an intraday because it was, yes it was an iron reversal potential, but I love it, but it's a fabulous move. That doesn't mean to say that that is the move in the XLF and that now is clear sailing because the financial S&P select financial spider fund is going to scream to the 34.64 level of the 200 period moving average, but it is a fabulous takeoff. It had this cluster formation and just like the IWM this is in leg B. It means a little bit more mature and I'm still calling it gray, I won't change the color just yet, but the MACD hasn't crossed positive yet. It's very close. So there are a lot of signs that say for an intermediate term, more than just a short-term balance, but probably a rally. We are seeing all the signs that are there and what does it say? It says because the XLF did not take out its left side low of June, which was at 29 something. Here we go, this left side low of June right there, island reversal, doji candle 30, oh 30.17 was July. In July, this was in early mid-July and this last move down was at 30.12. Oh, I now need to check it out. 30.27. Wait a minute, let me just pull this across. Oh, of course we're going back even further. Yes. Okay, so in this particular instance, we did go underneath in the arch formation, left side, right side. This is a bar symmetry, but it didn't use the plum line. It used a different plum line to get there. It used a doji candle right there. We went under it, closed above it. So that says, because you did go under it, that your resistance is below the major high that was made at peak D on the 16th of August of 35.97. But it can go to either a candle or a gap or some kind of a moving average resistance. And it says the 50-period moving average is at 32.79. And then you've got this left side high of 34.08 on the 19th. So yes, it could go there and how it handles that particular resistance is good, but it probably will not go above that peak D that was made back in August. So this is a good sign at least that the financials are attempting to find some kind of a low here. SMAs, that's the next one. SMAs are down $1.96 right now pre-market at 198. They went off the low of 185.11 made on Monday. That was really a fabulous move to the upside. It's done this before and then failed. So we're going to be watching this very closely because 200.61 was the high yesterday. If it's able to break above that by Thursday or Friday, that'll be a good sign. That'll help the weekly chart because that magnitude is much higher now than it was back at the low in July. And the stochastic's a little bit better than it was. And the unbalanced one also is just fractionally higher. But to get the pink nine-period moving average in the daily to cross positive and turn green, you'd have to go to the 50-period moving average of 211. So there's a lot of work to be done. But I like the way that the MACD has flattened out and now is trying to turn positive. It just crossed positive yesterday. And that says to me, as a short-term balance, it's really important that the semiconductors, I'm not sure they can lead the way, but they at least are moving higher with the market if the market continues and then perhaps lead the way. Because if it can take out the high of the 21st of September, this is the SMH market vectors semiconductor ETF, 209.37 was the high on September 21st. If it can close above that in the next week, that'll be a really good size. Hey, the low that was made in October in the futures and the low that was made in the semiconductor index in September on the 30th and Friday could see an October, look at this, an October rally that makes the September low a low of at least import importance right now. And that's going to be important. So what we're looking at is I want the semis to rally. I want the banks to rally. I want the VIX index to be pulling back. The TLT is down 70 cents at 102.81. That's still an irritation to me. If you look at this monthly chart, we've gone to the inside track propellant zone. I want to see TNX.X. I want to see the yields in the 10-year yield pull back sharply. It has got a peak F. I should put that. It could be an alternate count. I'm calling it an F for now. An alternate count G in the actually, it's all I can call it right now in the weekly chart and a D in the monthly. And it says there are a lot of, the 9-point moving average is still way above the 14. That says that there's still internal strength in bonds. It's in the 10-year yield. In other words, the TLT, that's the 30-year, that's the 20-year, I share strategy bond ETF, needs to travel into the firm on feet. At some point in the first two weeks of our program, I would see 109 hits so that yields can be pulling back. That's a big ask. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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So in the video I was asked about in the video, you see this Chapman Wave inside track, propelent zone, the declining trend line little mini channel and it bounced off it. That's a good sign. It's pulled back today so far. It's down to $1.67 and $1.30. It did go to the $1.30 yesterday. Most importantly, it needs to close first of all above the high of the 21st of September at $1.40.31 and then very quickly. It can't take time. If it does it once, it has to very quickly go to the 12th of September high of $1.45, $1.47. So we're talking about 13 points from here. That's a really big ask in a stock. It had a little bit of a pullback from the $3.40 down to the $1.19, $1.20 area. And you can see the weekly chart. Yes, it's attempting to turn around, but there's a lot of work to be done. So that's NVIDIA as part of the semiconductor area. A couple of things that I want to look at here to see what's happening. There's gold done anything. Yep, it's still down nearly 12. Silver is down 3.76 percent, down 0.79 at a spectacular move from the low in the low 18 area. Spikes all the way up to 21 and now it's down at the 20.29 area. I'm watching this very closely. Now, a high grade copper question came in. High grade copper is in the lower area. It did have a fabulous rally off the low, but it's still in this area that says to me, if you put it together with wood, the iShares Global Timber and Forestry ETF, just coming off the low like this, that also says to me that internationally there's a lot of weakness all around the world based on the iShares Global Timber and Forestry ETF wood is the symbol. And if you put it together with high grade copper, which is also international type in the long place, which is also an international, at least suggestion of international economic activity. And we're looking at that coming off a low at 3.24ish area up at 346. But if you look at the weekly chart, it's just the arch formation. So yeah, this is what I'm really looking at here and a couple of questions. How about Amazon? Yep. Amazon spoke about it yesterday. It had a very nice bounce to the upside. It's down $1.79, $119.30 pre-market. Amazon, I think is stuck in a range. And so far, the whole 105 to 100 area has been tremendous support. If it takes out 100 in October, that's really negative. But I think it could bounce to the 122, 130 area. In the long term, the question came up, is this now the time you said nibble wind was in about 135? Just only put your foot in the water to get a feel, just like a couple of shares or something so that you can get a sense of what it does. That's not your real entry. I think the real entry, so at 119, what I would say is if you have nibbles at that 135 area, you could do a little nibbling right here at 119, but this one has to have a stop of about four points. So 114 would be the stop and you would nibble it here. If it starts to move by Friday into Monday of next week, it is at 121 right now. If it is, so 119 right now, if it is very close to 123 to 125, that'll create a cup formation and that'll say, you know what, it can go all the way to 135, the 100 period exponential moving average. But I don't think this is not the big buy on Amazon yet, but as a trade, yeah, I could say you could have a little nibble there. A question came in. I had it yesterday, if I could, oh, IYT, no, it was Jets. I'd mentioned Jets, which was the U.S. Global Jets ETF, had a spectacular session going from the low of Monday around about 14.70s to a high yesterday 16, I don't think it's 1632, but I mean, that's a spectacular percentage move in one day. 16.30, 16.12, no, no, no. Did you read that correctly? 16.32, pulling back a little bit at 16.09, this is important. If we can see the U.S. Global Jets ETF, that's the ETF of all the the airline companies. If we can go towards the Chapman-Web Insight Track Repellant Zone in the 16.90 area, and they can do it by this, maybe not by Friday, but early this coming week, by Monday of next week, I would say that that's a very good sign. If it fails and it takes out 15.75 anytime between now and Tuesday, a week from yesterday, that'll be very negative. So there's something I wanted to do, wrote it down, wrote it down, I'll get it. Oh, XLP, remember I spoke about the defensive area, defensive area came into the Chapman-Web Insight Track support level, and it had a good rally yesterday, but it's saying to me that just in this interim period, if the select consumer spider staples S&P fund, it starts to lag. In other words, had a very good move, but if it starts to lag here and you start to see something like the SLX, whoa, look at that. This is the steel sector, this is the Van Agh Vector Steel ETF, which is trading at 52.85 at the close yesterday. It had a lower 40, the believable 46.55, and that was on the 26th last week. And here it is, six sessions and it powers up. I love this. This is a really nice looking chart right now. That's a good sign, the weekly chart says, ah, yeah, we've seen this before, but actually what's different is that the MACD cross-pository is stochastic, ready to 33%. I would have preferred 38%. 33 is okay, but look at the on-balance volume. And it's saying that if you exclude, well, I like to do it from the top. I can't, so I'm going to have to do it from this one. If you look at this shorter term trading, I'm going to take it from there. That's all there is to it. It says that if the trend line resistance at 54 is taken out, then 55, 34, the 200 period moving average in the daily chart could be hit. This is a very good sign. And this is the reason why we went long first thing Monday morning in the Dow. And we're trying to add, we've just added to that position, but I'm still very, very selective on the upside. There's one particular position. I don't know if we've gotten, I can't do it because I'm in the middle of the show, but let's see, that could be Wednesday. I don't know if we got this particular position. I think we might have, and that could be an aggressive long in an aggressively weak area that should turn around and have a pretty sharp, you know, I think of this as gush, you know, you know, what is that oil? What was years ago with Paul Newman? Was that movie with the oil and the oil just spouts up and you can't stop at the gush? Well, I'm thinking that if there is a gush and by the end of the day, the Dow and the S&P and the Qs and the IWM actually have a pretty decent rally off the lows that are made earlier this morning, we could be seeing this gush to the upside. And at this particular point, that would be really important because yesterday was a spectacular move. 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I'm going to see in this last section a segment before we get to nine o'clock and this will be of course replayed at 10 o'clock so of course that'll be going to 11 o'clock at nine o'clock we have Tom O'Brien at nine o' six we have Tom O'Brien for the Market Kickoff Show and I believe also today oh that should be very interesting also has a great interview coming up so we're also looking at 11 if it's 11 o'clock that you're listening to this then you can Steve Rhodes great programming here for the rest of the day what am I looking for I'm looking for the VIX index to buy the buy about 130 this afternoon if the Dow instead of being down minus 160 or something like that is actually only down minus 40 to minus 50 you can start to see some kind of rally in the VIX index instead of being up at the 2990 or even 30 level starts to pull back and gets back under 29 that'll be a good sign to say maybe Thursday we get a nice follow through to the upside and the other thing that we're looking at right now is that I want to see the SMH as the semiconductors trading at 197.62 right now down 234 for a really good gap up there yesterday actually start to improve by day's end I want to see these things I want to see I want to see also that within the context of the XLF that's the financials they're holding very well 3196 right now I'd love to see it back at about 32.15 and that's going to say there's rotation going on here that says that the extremely oversold areas are starting to find some support and in this pullback they are starting to generate a little bit of buying interest if everything is just horrible and we're looking at the Dow down 380 or more at after 130 that's not a good sign at least for the day but you can't expect some kind of a decent give back after a fantastic two days and we'll see what happens so with that say we're just about to wrap it up remember this is the early the early edition and they'll be replayed again so all the all I'm talking about in the futures the Dow futures right now down 293 there's some P futures are down 37 let's see if there's some kind of a comeback later on if it closes towards the low of the day just down horribly it says yep maybe this is just a one-off just a relief rally is not a gusher not like an oil gusher with the the upside is just completely being bought nope it says that there's some selling pressure going on have a wonderful day I'll be back regular time tomorrow check out my pretty cool modating newsletter and stay tuned if it's the early edition you'll listen to Tommy or by it's later on to be


All praise is due to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, Lord of the Worlds Master of the Day of Judgment. And we thank Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala for allowing us to be here today on this blessed and special day of Juma. Juma is a very special day outside of Ramadan. Imagine inside of Ramadan. In Ramadan, every moment is supercharged, Alhamdulillah. And so this Juma is super supercharged, Alhamdulillah. We need to take advantage of this Juma, insha'Allah. Glad tidings to all of the Muslims that are here on the first Juma of Ramadan. May Allah accept everyone's Ibadah and recitation of the Quran. Ameen. Brothers and sisters, in the few moments that we have together today, insha'Allah, I would like to discuss this concept of love, the concept of love and how our relationship with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is supposed to be one of love. And unfortunately in many places, in many parts of the world, this has been forgotten. Many great thinkers and philosophers and speakers have given their stab at trying to describe and explain what love is. People such as people of old, such as Aristotle, Plato, and even our own Imam Rumi. All of them have done some explaining on the concept of love and Alhamdulillah, we take a lot from the great thinkers. And in today's society, in the 21st century, love experts, social psychologists, marriage experts, therapists, what have you, have come up with this formula, which is pretty fascinating, about love. They say that in order to fall in love or in order to be in love with someone, you need to be fulfilling or going through the five languages of love. The five languages of love. And in the few moments that we have together today, inshallah, I would like to go through these five languages of love and see how our Prophet, as always, was ahead of the game, Subhanallah. So the first language of love, the first love language, if you will, is words of affirmation, words of affirmation. In order to be, to start the process of falling in love with someone or to fall in love with someone, you need to express your love to someone.  This is one way of, this is the first step in falling in love or the first language of love, if you will.  And the companion that was talking to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, Ya Rasulullah, I love that man, I love that man. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to him, Have you told him? Have you told him that you love him? And the companion responded, No, I haven't. And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Go tell him, go tell him that you love him. So our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was encouraging the spreading of telling each other of words of affirmation. He was spreading, encouraging us to have words of affirmation with each other. We also know in the Hadith on the authority of Abu Huraydah, where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, A good word is a charitable act. A good word is a charitable act. You can get a good deed for saying, I love you to someone, for having words of affirmation with each other. Subhanallah. The second language of love, number two, the second language of love, they say is, the experts say it's quality time. It's quality time. In order to start to fall in love with someone, you need to spend time with them. You need to be in their presence. You need to feel their heart, their energy. You need to converse with them, right? You need to be with them close. So this is the second language of love. And we know from the Shamal of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that he gave everybody quality time. He was one of the most busiest people ever, but he always gave people time. All of the Sahaba felt that he would give them special time. We know that when he shook somebody's hand, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was never the first to let go. When he shook somebody's hand, he was never the first to let go. Subhanallah. He's a busy man. You would expect the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was a busy man. You would expect him to be in a rush to move on to the next thing, but he would never be the one to be the first to let go. Subhanallah. Subhanallah. The third language of love is receiving gifts. Receiving gifts. In order to fall in love with somebody, you give them gifts and you receive gifts from them and this brings people close. This is what the experts say. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said in hadith on the authority of Abu Huraydah that give each other gifts and you will love each other. Give each other gifts and you will love each other. Subhanallah. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam so many years ago was already giving us this advice. To give each other gifts, to bring the hearts closer together and to instill love. The fourth language of love is acts of service. Is acts of service. Doing something for someone. Being there for someone. Knowing that if someone has a hard time with a certain thing and you're good at it, then you take care of it for them. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said in authentic hadith, As-siyyid-u-Rijali khadimahum. The master of the people is their servant. The master of the people is their servant. Again, encouraging us to be in the service of our brothers and sisters, to be in the service of the ummah. And lastly, the last language of love is physical touch. After you've gone through the first four languages, finally you reach this point of physical touch, of being close to somebody physically, being with them, hugging them, holding them. And we know from the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we know that all of his wives, but especially Aisha R.A. talked about how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was close to her physically. When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when the, at the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, there were some people, some performers that came from out of town. And Aisha R.A. wanted to go see them. And so when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, okay, let's go. And he took her to go watch these performers and she narrates that she, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was standing there, was sitting and she was standing and she put her chin and her cheek next to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and they were cheek to cheek, cheek to cheek and they were close to each other, Subhanallah. So we just went through the five love languages, the five languages of love and we explained how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam encouraged these love languages ahead of his time, as usual, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But there is another way that these languages of love are connected to us. There's another way that these languages of love are connected to our relationship with Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam. These love languages are directly connected to the five pillars of Islam. They're directly connected to the five pillars of Islam. Subhanallah, these experts have laid out what needs to be done in order to fall in love and we see that in the five pillars of Islam, these are connected. Essentially, we can think of the five pillars of Islam as what Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam, wants us to do in order to have a relationship with him. In order to have a relationship with Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam, we need to fulfill the five pillars of Islam. So what's the first pillar of Islam? The first pillar of Islam is the testimony of faith.  This is the first pillar of Islam. The first language of love was words of affirmation. Subhanallah, Subhanallah, amazing. In the first pillar of Islam, you are affirming with your words your belief in Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam and his messenger, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The second pillar of Islam is the five daily prayers. What is the five daily prayers? Quality time. It's quality time with Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam. And the second language of love was quality time. Before the pandemic, when many of us were working in person and we were working in the office and you had meetings back to back and you had hectic schedule, it didn't matter. You had to find that corner in the office and you had to pray your doha namaz and you had to give that time to Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam. You had to give that quality time to Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam. That is the second pillar of Islam and how it is connected to the second language of love. The third language of love or the third pillar of Islam is fasting. The third pillar of Islam is fasting. The third love language is acts of service. Fasting is the ultimate act of service. Fasting is the ultimate act of service, Subhanallah. You're giving away, you're staying away from the halal even just because Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam, told you to do so. This is the highest form of service, Subhanallah. And then the fourth pillar of Islam is the Qat. The fourth pillar of Islam is the Qat. The fourth language of love was receiving gifts. We know that Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam, cannot receive gifts from us physically. No one is saying that. But when you're giving Zakat, you're giving a gift to the ummah of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. You're giving a gift to Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam's nation to help them, to help those that are less fortunate than you with your financial ability, Subhanallah. And then lastly, the last pillar of Islam is Hajj. The last pillar of Islam is Hajj and the last language of love is physical touch. Hajj, brothers and sisters, is a physical journey we must take. Nobody is saying that you can Astaghfirullah touch Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam or something like Astaghfirullah. That's not what we're saying here. But Hajj is a physical journey. You can't do Hajj in Pleasanton, California. You can't do Hajj here. You have to go to modern-day Saudi Arabia and you have to do Tawaf around the Kaaba and you have to run between Safran Barwa and you have to, etc., etc. It's physical. You have to do the physical part, Subhanallah. So this is how the five languages of love are directly tied to the five pillars of Islam. And the five pillars of Islam are what Allah is asking us to do in order to have a proper relationship with him. So brothers and sisters, let's change our relationship with Allah to be one of love with this Ramadan. Let's let it be one of love this Ramadan. And when you make your relationship with Allah, Subhanahu Alaihi Wasallam, one of love, everything becomes easier. Instead of being tired at the end of 20 Rakats of Taraweeh, you're like, why can't it be 40? Instead of dreading getting up for Sahur and having to do the next 14, 15 hour fast, you're excited to do the next 14, 15 hours of fasting because that's what happens when you fall in love. When you fall in love, you're excited to do what you need to do for the one that you're in love with. I'll say this. Allahumma salli ala assidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam, Ajmain. Brothers and sisters, we'll end very briefly with this last point. We know the story that has been narrated about the man on the day of judgment. There will be a man on the day of judgment and he will be brought forth to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his good deeds will be weighed on one side and his bad deeds will be weighed on the other side. And unfortunately, his bad deeds will outweigh his good deeds. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the angels, take this man to Hellfire. He failed. This is a test that we all must prepare for and he failed. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said to the angels, take this man to the Hellfire. So as they're dragging this man to the Hellfire, he starts looking around. He looks to his right and he looks to his left and he looks above him and he looks below him and he starts looking around. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the angels to stop. He tells the angels to stop dragging him to the Hellfire. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asks him a set of questions and obviously Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows the answers to these questions but he is opening a dialogue with his servant and he is teaching all of us a lesson through this dialogue. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asks the man, perhaps my angels missed something when they were writing down your good deeds. Perhaps they missed a deed here or there that might change your fate. He said, La Ya Rabb, no my lord, it's all there. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, perhaps my angels were unjust with you. They were too quick to write down the bad deeds and maybe they did a few extra that weren't supposed to be there. He said, La Ya Rabb, no my lord, it's all there. They got it right. It's they're all there. So then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asks the man, why were you looking around? Why were you looking around when they were dragging you away? The angels were dragging you away. And the man says to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, I did not believe. I never truly believed that you were going to punish me. I never truly believed that you were going to punish me. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells his angels, put this man into Jannah because of his good opinion of me. Put this man into Jannah because of his good opinion of me. Subhanallah. Brothers and sisters, this is the power of having Husnudan billah having a good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the power of falling in love with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We know the hadith that Allah is as his servant thinks of him. If you think Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to punish you and get you on a technicality and he's the most harsh and the most tough, that's what you're going to receive. But if you are in love with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you believe in his Rahmah and his mercy, then that is what you were going to receive. And obviously we always have the fear of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But we need to have the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as well. We need to fall in love with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as well. Brothers and sisters, let's fall in love with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this Ramadan. One week is gone. One quarter is gone. We have three quarters left. Let's make the most of it inshallah. Let this be the best Ramadan. Let this be the Ramadan where we fall in love with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Where we fall in love with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then through that love everything else becomes easier. And through that love everything else becomes easier.


Welcome to the WordPress Briefing, a podcast where you can catch quick explanations of some of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project and the community around it, as well as get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I'm your host, Josepha Hayden-Champosi. Here we go. All right, so last week we wrapped up and shipped the WordPress 5.7 release. The release team this time around was smaller than we've had in the last couple of years and by the numbers, it looks really good. 66 enhancements or feature requests went in, 127 bugs were fixed, and seven whole versions of the Gutenberg plugin were merged and backported. If you use WordPress, you are probably aware that we have new releases throughout the year, but you probably don't know much about the release process. And there's not really a reason to know unless you're actively contributing to a release. But for those who are interested to know more about how we improve WordPress, this week's exploration is for you. We're going to take a look at what goes into WordPress releases and just kind of zoom our way in from the highest level. So starting at the highest level, working our way in, highest level is there are about three major WordPress releases a year on average, plus the minor releases, plus, plus Gutenberg releases. So if you're following current WordPress work and future WordPress work, that's going to get you to probably around 30 releases a year and maybe more. If we zoom in one level to the release itself, a single release of WordPress takes four to five months from start to the day that we ship. And an additional four to six weeks on support and translations and pulling together minor releases after that. If you're looking from my vantage point, you'll see that WordPress releases have essentially five parts, some of which have been kind of simultaneously. The first part is planning and includes the project lead devs, design, things like that, groups like that rather. The second phase is the creation phase. When we're actually building the things that have to go into the CMS, that involves the design team, core and editor, mobile, various other teams as well. And then there's this phase that I like to refer to as the distribution phase. It is mostly the teams that make sure that WordPress is widely distributable. So the polyglots team work on translations. Accessibility does some work. Docs makes sure that everything is documented and then training of course gets things ready for when we have to be able to tell people how to use the release. And then there is a fourth ish phase. I really don't think they go sequentially. I don't think they're really in kind of a waterfall format. But the fourth ish phase that I include in that I tend to see is this extending and iteration phase. It's the phase where we see our theme authors and our plugin authors, folks who are doing support kind of show up and help us to make sure that WordPress is available not only widely, but broadly to make sure that their audiences as theme authors and plugin authors, etc., etc., are covered in the features that they need based on what they are using WordPress for. And then this fifth ish phase is our communications part. That involves the community team especially, but also marketing, WordPress TV, learn.wordpress.org, basically anyone who's showing up to make sure that we all are sharing what happened in the release, the features that are coming and how that affects the users is involved in that particular phase. So five big phases of what happens over those four to five months, and then for the month or month and a half afterward. And then if we zoom in a bit more on the creation phase, each release has people who lead the work and kind of coordinate contributor efforts during the course of the release. For any given release, there are hundreds of people who contribute and receive credit for helping move the WordPress project forward. Okay, hold on a second, let's let's pump the brakes and zoom in a bit on that. Hundreds of people doing work on every major release. For a project that powers over 40% of the web, that feels like a small number. But for the people who process the contributions in preparation for a release, it's actually pretty substantial. For every release, there is a small team of leaders who ask the hard questions. Is this a usable feature? Does this make WordPress better overall? And of course, is this ready to ship? And some of those leaders, so a smaller subset of even the leaders that we have in there already are committers who actually prep and merge patches to the CMS. They don't do all the work to create a design or write all the code. But this tiny group of people processes hundreds and hundreds of bug fixes, improvements and enhancements that have been submitted over the course of months and sometimes years. As a side note, that whole process is a little smaller, a little faster in the Gutenberg featured plugin, but the basic parts are still there. All right, so we've zoomed from the big picture way into some of the finer details, and it really looks like any other project cycle. So now I'm going to layer in the filter of open source to that process. There are a couple of things that make building software in an open source environment so different. First is that the code is readily available. If you have a basic understanding of the languages, then you can see the code, learn from it and make suggestions about how to improve it. Second is that you consider your users, co developers in the process, which means that as long as your product is used by people, those people will have opinions on what you shipped. This way of iterating, this way of improving WordPress ties back to one of my favorite open source principles, the idea that with many eyes, all bugs are shallow. Because to me, that means that with enough people looking at a problem, someone is bound to be able to see the solution. Which brings us now to our community highlight, the segment where I share a note about contributors who have helped others along the way, or a WordPress success story. This week's highlight is from Nook in our Bangkok community. When asked who helped her find her way in the WordPress community, she said, Shinishi Nishikawa, who started the WordPress community in Bangkok and encouraged me to contribute. And also, Myo Moriyama, who introduced me to the WordPress community team and encouraged me to join as a deputy. Thank you for sharing those two inspiring people with us, Nook. And if you, listener, have any stories that you would like to share of your own WordPress success or people that you have been so grateful to help you find your way in the project, you can feel free to email those to me at wpbriefing.wordpress.org. That brings us to our final segment of the WP Briefing, Small List of Big Things. I only have three things to share with you this week. The first one is that about a week ago we had our first release of 2021. It was the WordPress 5.7 release titled Esperanza. If you have not yet seen it, go ahead and update your website or check with your host and make sure that they have updated you if you're on a managed host and take a listen to the artist that it's named after. The second thing that I want you to keep an eye out for is on WordPress.org slash news. We are starting a new series of content that gets at the heart of some of the basic parts of Gutenberg. There's a lot of change coming up in the next few releases of WordPress. And the most important thing to me is that you understand what it is that we're trying to change and where those changes are primarily taking place. So there will be a couple of tutorials that go up there over the course of the next few weeks. And I would keep an eye out and share when you see it. And especially if you find it useful, let us know. The third item on the smallest of big things is to remind you of our call for testing. As I mentioned earlier in the podcast, the users of any open source software are the co-developers. The software that is being built is supposed to be making your life and your work easier. And so when you test things and you find interactions that can use a little bit of refinement or features that are not working exactly as expected, it's incredibly helpful for us to have that information so that we can always make sure that we're solving problems instead of accidentally creating them. If you want to participate in the current call for testing, you can head over to make.wordpress.org slash test. Or if you've been doing your own testing, you can also submit any bugs you have found in the GitHub repo, which I will share in the show notes below. So that, my friends, is your smallest of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress briefing. I'm your host, Josepha Hayden-Champosie, and I'll see you again in a couple of weeks.