We praise Allah SWT for as he ought to be praised and for picking and choosing his Habib Mustafa SAW over all of humanity and we bear witness that there is no God, no deity worthy of worship other than Allah SWT and Muhammad SAW is his servant and his messenger and I encourage all of my brothers and my sisters, elders and teachers here before me and youngins to have taqwa of Allah SWT in privacy and in public. Allah SWT says in the Quran يَا يُهَلَّدِينَ آمُنُوا اُذْكُرُوا نَاعمَطُوا اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ O you who believe, Jameean, together, remember the Nyaama, the blessings of Allah SWT upon you and specifically these times during Rabi'ul Awal and after there's a lot of debates, there's a lot of talks about the Maulid of the Prophet SAW which this is not the topic that I will be discussing but one thing that I did want to discuss is the the khasai is the speciality of the Prophet SAW. A brother emailed me in detail a paragraph and a thesis and he said that the Maulid causes an exaggeration of the honor of the Prophet SAW. Astaghfirullah. Allah SWT in the Quran says لَا تُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحْدٍ مِنْ رُسُولِ that do not differentiate between my prophets. SAW, the Prophet SAW, we do not differentiate out of our own whims. We do not say one prophet is better than the Prophet. We do not say anything that really differentiates. We say what Allah SWT says and I would like to take this time inshallah to choose some of the ayahs from the Quran and from the Sunnah to display that to everybody. We are not the ones that pick the Prophet SAW to be a mercy to all mankind where the other prophets were just Bashir and Nazir. They were warners and bringers of glad tidings for their tribe but Allah SWT picked the Prophet SAW as رحمة للعالمين وما أرسلناك إلى رحمة للعالمين. We did not pick the Prophet SAW as the متشفع. As the one that does the intercession on the day of judgment when all of humanity stands behind him. It is Allah SWT that picked the Prophet SAW. It is not us that prophesize the Prophet SAW in all the world scriptures until his coming SAW. It was Allah SWT. It was not us that raised his remembrance SAW. It was Allah SWT that said ورفعنا لك ذكرك. We have now raised your remembrance O Muhammad SAW. All of these things the khasai is the speciality of the Prophet SAW is done by Allah SWT and we just repeat those things. There is no way for the human being. There is no way for the jinn. There is no way for the creation to actually exaggerate the honor for the Prophet SAW. He was honored divinely by Allah SWT. After that, who can honor him? Who can measure up to the honor and love that Allah SWT has given him? In a poem, one of our Mashaikh and knowers of Allah SWT, Muhammad Shabistri, he says He says in this poem that Allah SWT, he's the one became known in his monotheistic religion to the entire of the humanity through who through Ahmad to the meme of Ahmad when Ahmad came. And though he was the first that was created and he was the last to send to the humanity, the difference between Ahad and Ahmad is just one meme. But the secret of the entire world is sunk in this one meme. That it was Ahmad that brought Tauheed. Nothing in the life of the Prophet SAW was by chance. The people that was put around him. The time that he came. Everything was planned by Allah SWT. It was decreed by Allah Even if you look at the name of the father of the Rasul SAW, Abdullah. His paternal grandfather was inspired by Allah to name his father Abdullah. Why? Because Abdullah is the servant of Allah. He is the slave of Allah in servitude and slavehood is the greatest form of love. If you love, if you serve somebody and you are a slave to them without loving them, that's as empty worship. The greatest title of the Prophet SAW is Abdullah. And his father was named Abdullah because he brought a Tauheed because the Prophet was going to bring the Tauheed of Allah SWT. His maternal grandfather named his daughter Amina, the mother of the Prophet SAW. Amina means safety. You find safety in the Tauheed of Abdullah. Even his parents, their names was decreed for the coming of the Prophet SAW. Sayyed Sharifat Jorjani mentioned in his commentary about sending salawat on the Prophet SAW. He says that Muhammad SAW was almost like a reflective mirror that Allah SWT does not have any commonality with his creation. Lace the committee he shade. There is nothing like unto Allah. Anything that you can possibly think Allah is something other than that. So he created Muhammad SAW and Muhammad SAW is the one who reflects this light and the form of his attributes that humanity may get to know the attributes of Allah SWT and a human being that we call Insanil Kamil, the most complete human being. And through this light Allah SWT says He said is the one the same, the one that has light, the one that we have given iman to, the one that we have given a spiritual awakening to, like the one that used to be dead, not the dead that's in the grave, but when you don't have spiritual awakening, when you are not connected to Allah SWT and you're committing idol worship and you're committing shirk, you are as good as you are a walking dead person.   Oh, live a little. They think that this dunya is life, they associate life with that, but true life is to know Allah SWT and his messenger SAW.  To bring you from death to life, to remove you, to take you from zulumat, from darkness and into light. And then later in this chapter, later in this verse, Allah SWT says what?  Why? Ibn Abbas, radiolahu ta'ala, who says about this ayah, he says it goes back to the ayah of Allah, taking you from zulumat, from darkness and into light. Because we are in this ayah, we are in this ayah, we are in this ayah, we are in this ayah, we are in this from darkness and into light. Because when you send, if Allah's blessings and his angels' blessings are removing you from darkness and bringing you into light, then sending blessings on the Prophet SAW says what?  And when Allah sends a blessing upon you and his angels, what happens?  And Allah says, This is, we often hear this verse. We have not sent you Oh, Muhammad as but a mercy, but to all the entirety of the world. Allah says, Praise belongs to the Lord of the worlds. We have to define here, what does Allah means by the world worlds? There's different worlds. There's this realm, which we see some manifestation and before us. And then we have the souls, the things that we cannot see. Everything other than Allah, is Alam. So everything other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Prophet SAW was sent to as a mercy. Everything other than Allah, everything is Alam, the angels, the Arsh of Allah, the pen, there's nothing that you can think of that hasn't been created that is not considered Alam, that the Prophet SAW was not sent to as a mercy, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And that is why his birth, his coming was the greatest, most magnanimous day in his story, in history, in this. And even when you look at it, people try to compare, but if you look at Laylatul Qadr, it was greater than Laylatul Qadr. It's greater than a thousand months this month. Who cares if you caught a thousand Laylatul Qadr when Allah says, that the Prophet is closer, that the Prophet is more dear, that the Prophet takes priority over the believers, even in their own souls, even in their own souls. The Quran, sometimes people try to compare the Quran, the Quran is the safari, it's the Zat of Allah, it's the speech of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But you have to remember, the Quran was ascended on the, descended on the Prophet SAW ikraman ala Rasool Allah SAW. The Quran was given to him and to honor the Prophet SAW. It was given to honor the Rasool SAW. So he's a mercy to the angels, the humans, the gins, the animals, other nations, non-Muslims, other nations were destroyed when they did an offensive thing. You see the Qaumulat, they got destroyed. And with them, the animals, everything Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent brine stone to destroy them. They came to the Prophet SAW, and they said, They said to the Prophet, oh if this message, oh Muhammad, if this message is true, and you know, and your book is true, and he said, then ask Allah to send upon us brine stone, send upon us rain upon us rocks and stones and show us this adab, show us our punishment. They dared him. So if this is true, then send this adab upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the next ayah. He says, And Allah will not punish them while you're with them, oh Muhammad. Because he was a mercy, sallallahu alayhi sallam. He is a mercy to the end of time, to the day of judgment. He is a mercy for you and I. He is a mercy for all of us here, brothers and sisters.  That is one of his specialty, that he's a mercy on to mankind, to the animals, to everything. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he's Al-Razim. He is the one, he's the giver, the sustainer. He's the one that provides. But through mercy, you get through love and mercy. So and if you're saying, That's why the word womb of the mother womb is Rahim, because what kind of love does the mother has called motherly love? And ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim to the most merciful and says that the prophet is a mercy. So it's a merciful love, a loving love. It's a love that he loves you without any condition the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa laayhi wa sallam. And through this love, remember his title is the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam is Al-Qasim, the one that distributes. So through this love, everybody gets a portion, Muslim, non-Muslim, jinn, Malaika, whatever it is, is through this mercy of the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that Allah has sent unto mankind, unto humanity to get it. And when you love somebody, you can explain them. You mention them. When you when you love a woman, you can remember her. She had eyes like this, she had hands like this, you know, and it's same thing with the opposite. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala out of his love. When you study the Quran, he mentions the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam body part by body part. Ya Rasul, the eye, the ear, the body, every single body part of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam out of love and honor for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions his Habib sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And there's a conversation when they come to the Sidr tul-Mintah on the night of Isra and Meiraj, when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam brings them to the furthest low tree and he cannot ascend from there. And there's a conversation and there's many variations of this bear with me. But there's a conversation between Jibril alayhi sallam and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and between Allah and the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. When they come to the Sidr tul-Mintah, Jibril alayhi sallam cannot ascend. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, Ahunaka yatruku khalil khalil huya jibril. Is this where a person abandons departs from his friend, O Jibril? And Jibril says, Azza alayya firakuka ya wa li kulli minna maqamil ma'loom. He says, O Ya Rasulullah, it weighs upon me. It hurts me that I have to leave you here. But all of us have a station that is known with Allah s.w.t. Then if I take one more step, Ya Rasulullah, if I take one more step, I will be disintegrated. I will be burned by the majesty and glory of Allah s.w.t. But unto Abdullah, la uta qaddam tahtaraqta bi'anwari jamal. But if you go, Ya Rasulullah, this is your station, you're the Abdullah Allah. If you go, you will be enveloped in the Nur, in the light of glory and majesty and beauty of Allah s.w.t. So Jibril alayhi sallam has to stay. Because the light of Jibril alayhi sallam is not like the light of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, where everything gets that light from him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And he comes before Allah and he prostrates. And he raises his head in this conversation. He says He says to the Allah s.w.t. And he knows the answers, but he says out of humility. He says, Ya Allah, if you've made Ibrahim your intimate Khalil, your friend. And if you've spoken to Musa, and Isa is a spirit from you, and you've given Suleyman a great dominion in a great kingdom, and you've raised Idris into the high heavens with you. Then where am I amongst these people? Where am I out of his humility? Allah s.w.t. says, Ya Rasulullah, and If I've taken Ibrahim as my intimate friend, you are my beloved, you are my Habib. And the Habib is more beloved to me, the beloved is more noble to me than a friend. When And if I spoke with Musa, Ya Habibi, I spoke to him from behind a veil, from a burning bush. But here you are sitting on the red carpet of Allah s.w.t. before me, Ya Habibi. And the Habib says, Ya Allah, if I've given, if Isa is a spirit from me, I have annexed, I have attached your name to mine. There isn't a person that'll say, Ya Allah, if I've given Suleyman a great dominion. And you've given the great tremors of. And if I've given Suleiman a milk, a great dominion, I've given you the Quran and there's not one of you that will recite this Quran that I will not forgive their sins whether it's as great as the foam on the ocean floor or the sands in the world or the pebbles and the rocks in this entire world, ya Habibi. And he says, فَبَئِزَّتي وَجَلَالِيَّا مُحَمَّدْ لَوْصَلُكَ عَلَيْكَ كُلِّ تَرِيْقٍ وَتَرَقَ عَلَيَّا كُلِّ بَابٍ ما قَبَلْتُهُمْ مَا فَتَحْتُ لَهُمْ حَتَّى يَأْتُوا خَلْفَكَ يا رسول الله says, Oh Muhammad, if they come to me from every single other door, if they try to reach me through any other door, it'll never be accepted from them. It'll never be open from them. The only way they will come and be accepted is if they come from behind you, Oh Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And this is his khasayah, this is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fuses, views his beloved sallallahu alaihi wa alaihi wa sallam. And when you read the Qur'an and when you see how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks to the other prophets and you see how he interacts with the Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The other prophets, they all are matloob, they're asked, they always ask. They're making dua, Allah give me. Musa alaihi sallam, Rabbi shrahli sadri, Oh Allah, over to open my breast, my chest for me. Oh Allah, when it comes to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he didn't ask, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Alamna shrah laqa sadra, did we not expand your chest for you? Oh Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. When Musa alaihi sallam said, Rabbi you read on Hungary Lake, Oh Allah, I want to see you. He was told, Lan Tarani, you will never see me. But during the Isra and the Miraj, what does Allah, what does it say in the Qur'an? His vision, his eyesight did not waver, did not move from the beautific vision of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stood before him subhanahu wa ta'ala. Musa alaihi sallam was not even permitted to look at him subhanahu wa ta'ala. Wa qadda ala ka-noori ibraheema malakutu samaawati wal-ard layakuna minal moukinin. And we made Ibrahim, we made him sabit, we made him, yakeem gave him certainty by showing him the stars. He looked at the moon and it went down. My Lord can't be something that falls. He looks at the sun and it goes down. He says, we brought him, we made him, we gave him certainty. When what does it say about the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? He was before us, two bow lengths or even closer. How do you get that kind of certainty and it's saying, and it's saying Ibrahim al aleyhi sallam and he says, oh Allah, he makes the war. He says, and abase me, not on the day we are raised. Do not abase me. Forgive me, Allah, on the day we are raised, my parents, these people around me were not mus, did not believe, yalla, do not abase me. What does he say about the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? Allah has forgiven everything past and present with you, oh Muhammad. When he says to him, يوم الله يغضي الله النبي والذين آمنوا معه on the day that Allah سبحانه وتعالى forgives all of the ones that are with the Prophet in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That was him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And if you look at the Sahaba, if you look at everybody that loved the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, in the honor that he had, they had for him. Abu Noaim reports of a man that comes, a Tabi that comes up to Ibn Umar and he says, Ibn Umar, oh son of Umar, I wish that I would have seen the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. If I would have seen him, what would you have done? He said, If I would have seen him, I would have believed in him and I would have kissed him between his eyes. And Ibn Umar says, should I not give you then glad tidings? He says, yes, yes, give me glad tidings, Aba Abdul Rahman. He says, He says my love, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, my love does not enter one's heart and mixes inside him that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't make the fire of Jahannam haram on that person's body. That when you love the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and we're talking about true love, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that the fire of Jahannam becomes haram on that person out of love as Habib sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And this is how the Sahaba understood it. He was their Qiblah. It wasn't the Ka'bah. Remember, they were praying towards Jerusalem at first. And when in the Masjid Qiblah came, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam turns, the Sahaba the most would understand and they turned with him. He was their Qiblah. Whatever they did, whatever he did, they did. That's how they love the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Allah says in a verse, he says, When you come to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, bring something in charity. Now, the prophets are not allowed to accept charity. So this is not about bringing something to the Prophet in charity. In Surah Yaseen, that's made clear and we all know that this Prophet can't accept charity. But Allah is saying, show your ikhlas, show your love for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. A woman brings a thing of milk. She doesn't have anything. And Um Solaym, the mother of Anas ibn Malik, doesn't have anything. She walks up to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam holding Anas ibn Malik's hand. He's 10 years old. Ya Rasulullah, I have nothing else. Take my 10-year-old son. He's yours. And he grows up in the House of Prophethood. He gave him, she gave him his 10-year-old son. That's the love that they had for him. Julayb ibn Malik was one of the Sahabis that he was not very good looking. He went to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Ya Rasulullah, I'm not that good looking. I'm never going to get married, Ya Rasulullah. What am I going to do? And he says, go to the House of Fulan. They're a noble family. They have a daughter. Tell them Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sent you and to give their daughters hand in marriage to you. So he goes. He knocks on the door. The father answers and he sees Julayb ibn Malik. He's not good looking. And he says, I've been sent by Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to ask for your daughters hand in marriage. And he looks at him and his wife looks from the side of the door. And they're not too happy. So they say to him, you know, just go and we'll talk to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So he turns his head, puts it down, starts walking away. When his daughter comes running through the doors, Ya Abi, how did you turn away? How did you turn down somebody that the messenger of God sent for me? I accept. I accept Ya Abi, that I accept this marriage because why? Because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, Soban was a Sahabi that came to him and he said, Ya Rasulullah, I heard there's levels in heaven that you might be of course on a higher level and I might not be there on the same level as heaven as you. And if that's the case, Ya Rasulullah, I don't want heaven at all. I don't even want heaven, Ya Rasulullah. And if that's comparing our love to Allah's love for him and to the Sahaba's love for him, then what about inanimate things? What about the palm tree that he was, that used to give khutbah by all the time? And somebody suggested that we turn the palm tree into a pole, that we build the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam a pulpit. So he left the side of the palm tree and he would start giving his khutbahs on a pulpit. This hadith is mutawater, mutafakun ilay, so many people narrated this hadith, it is kufr to not believe in it. When he left that pulpit, that tree started whining and screaming. Everybody heard it to the point that he got down from the pulpit, he went up to it and he hugged the tree and held it and promised it would be with him in Jannah, so it would quiet down. This is a tree's love for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Mount Ahud when he stepped on it, it started to shake. He said out of reverence and honor for him, he said, stay calm, on top of you is a Prophet, a Siddiq in Tushohadah, that with him was saying, stay still and he sees Ahud from a distance and he says, this is the mountain that loves us and we love it. A mountain, and finally the stones, how are we saying that we are exaggerating the honor of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. A tree went on an expedition, he went narrated by Yala ibn Murad Astaghafi. He comes, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is sleeping on doing an expedition. A tree uproots itself from the ground. It goes into prostration as it walks and it comes over the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to hug it. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wakes up and he says, this tree wanted to come and give me salam and hug me out of love in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepted his dua. These are things that are seen. These are things that are in reality actually happen and we're comparing our love. How do we even compare our love to that? And we'll finish with this. The love and knowing of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is the most important thing that we could do even before prayer brothers and sisters. These people have figured it out. That's why they have idols. That's why they have lebron. That's why they have all of these people that people flock to in love. I saw a footage of a film. The rock showed up and just surprised the girl and said, hey, how you doing? She started crying. Oh my God, it's the rock. It's the rock. The rock has never done anything for that woman. We have to learn who the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is. We have to instill the love of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in our hearts. And as one of the Tabeen who finished with this, they're sitting in a mudgess of dust and they're giving a talk and they're teaching their students. And some of their students, they say to them, they say, Ya Sayidi or our master, siflana al jannah, describe to us heaven. What is heaven like? How is the rivers of jannah? What is our castles in jannah going to look like? Tell us something about jannah that's going to make us enthusiastic and work for it. And he says, what else do you want? Fiham Muhammad. What else do you want? And it will be Muhammad. And if you don't want to go there because if Muhammad is in there, what else can I do for you?


Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today I'm gonna help you with all your diffusing problems. My diffuser is my best friend. I diffuse every day, well every day that I get ready, because it gets my hair so much more volume, and once I learned how to use it properly, change the game. So if you're watching this, wondering why your diffuser is always making your hair frizzier, I got you. So not only am I gonna give you some tips on how to diffuse, I'm also gonna be kind of like reviewing and showing you the Ion Lux Supercharged Hairdryer. Yes, I have another hairdryer. I think I'm like collecting them at this point, but I wanted to give it a try. A lot of people are talking about it, so let's get into it. Today's video is sponsored by Sally Beauties. If you wanna get any of the products that are used today for yourself, that's where you can get them, and I'll link them in my description box. So here she is, the Ion Lux Supercharged Hairdryer. It's a very chic and stylish blow dryer in my opinion, but it does have the removable attachments. If you wanna use it to blow dry, you can. And it has the same magnetic little clip top there. So now let's go back to the top of the day with tip number one. Tip number one, make sure to use a strong hold gel.  So this is the Maui Moisture Hair Styling Curl Quench and Coconut Oil Ultra Hold Gel for thick curly hair. My hair is not even thick, but my hair loves this gel and it really works well on my son, just FYI.  It is a thick gel, which is a good sign, because that's what we want before we diffuse. And I'm just gonna use the gel on its own. I know a while some of y'all are like, wait, where's the leave-in conditioner? I don't always use a leave-in. I actually have been a lot recently, but I'm gonna take it back to my roots of just styling with one product and see what happens. I will get more hold if I use a gel on its own versus with the leave-in, because the leave-in's gonna give it some more moisture, therefore making your hair a little bit softer, therefore making it a little bit more susceptible to frizz. So let's see what happens. We're even get through, scrunch it up. Okay, gel is applied. Now instead of just grabbing your diffuser and starting to go right away, I always have better results when I let my hair air dry for a little bit and then I diffuse. That's gonna allow my gel to form a cast over my curls, getting a little bit of that crunch. Don't be afraid of the crunch. The crunch is your friend and it can disappear if you want it to. So let this be the very first thing you do when you get out the shower. Put on your gel and then do everything else. Do your makeup, feed your children, figure out your outfit. Do all that stuff while your hair is drying so that it can create that cast and then we'll come back to diffuse. Now for some reason you don't have time to air dry. At all you just gotta diffuse and go. You are gonna get better results by using a stronghold gel versus anything else. I would not recommend using just a leave-in or a cream and then having to diffuse immediately. So if you have to diffuse right away, you have to use a stronghold gel to avoid frizz.   I probably could even let this dry a little bit more but I do wanna see the drying power of this dryer. I want my hair to still be a little bit wet but I have a little bit of the stiffness for me and that's what we want. So not like a full dry crunch but a little bit of like some hard parts, if you know what I mean. Okay, so here's the cool shot button. Then we have three different fan speeds and heat settings. I've pushed this. So when the cool shot is on, the light turns blue. What I do like is you don't have to hold down the cool shot button. You just push it once and it'll stay cool. So your next diffusing tip is slow and steady wins the race. If you have a high fan speed and super hot heat, it's kind of like too intense too much. Sometimes if we're gonna bind, you gotta go there. But if you have the time, you wanna keep it on a low or medium heat setting and a low or medium fan speed. So I'm gonna do probably medium heat and a medium fan speed.  Our ends are usually the driest part of our hair. So you don't really wanna start here and then go up because it's gonna take longer for this part of your head to dry. So start at your roots, dry that first and then work your way down. So as you can see, I'm kinda just gently placing it at my roots, letting it sit for a couple seconds and then moving to a new area to dry. When it comes to getting the top of your head, you could just put it right on there. It has a little prong, so you're still getting some distance and then to slowly move it around. Okay, now that my roots are a little bit more dry, now I can focus on the length of my hair. I don't want to actually do what you see a lot of curly girls do, which is cup everything in here and scrunch it up. I'd recommend this for wavy hair to make your hair more defined, but if you have really tight curls and you want elongation, going like this is just going to shrink your curls even more, making them curlier, which is nice, but it's gonna make it look shorter. So I have a whole video on elongation if you guys wanna watch that video, but I'm not actually going to cup and scrunch. I like to diffuse like this and diffuse down.   I also like to keep it moving so I'm not keeping any heat in one area for too long. So remember to think about your goals, is your goals elongation and just for it to be dry or are you using your diffuser to create more definition? So if you're creating more definition, scrunch it up. If you already have super curly hair and you want it just to get dry and not shrink up, you're gonna blow dry down. One of my goals with diffusing is also volume because I have very fine hair. So as you can see, I like to flip my hair around a lot that way and my hair's not gonna be too flat. I'm gonna keep it moving and grooving. Some of you might be wondering when to use your cool shot. Use your cool shot button anytime you feel your hair getting really hot. We're not trying to get heat damage while keeping our hair curly, okay? We wanna do heat damage, there's plenty of ways to do that. But if you feel your hair is getting a little too hot every so often, go ahead and click this cool shot button. That way you kind of cool everybody down. And I do like that. I don't have to hold it down on this blow dryer.  So I'm gonna put on the highest fan speed and show you how I do that. So as you can see, my curls are looking really good, they're still defined and we are avoiding a bunch of frizz. So now that my hair is pretty much dry, I'd say it's about 95% dry. I feel comfortable with touching it now. You could apply some oil to your hands to also reduce frizz. So I'm gonna grab my Matrix, a curl can dream oil, put that on my hands, and then I'm going to kind of scratch. This will give my hair some shine and also break the cast.  But as I diffuse, I'm going to slowly break apart my hair so that it can get bigger. Scrunch your hair until it's dry. If you start scrunching it while it's wet, you're gonna create frizz. So make sure you have that cast and then your hair is dry and then it's safe to scrunch. Now let's say you get a little too wild and carried away with your diffuser like this. And you notice a little, not even frizz, but not as defined curls as you want. You can always go back and fix it. You don't have to start your whole wash day over.  But let's say I want to fix like this little part. Let's just be super, super picky with it. And you're not happy with how this looks because it got a little carried away with your diffusing. You could just add a little bit of water. Just go over it and there you go. There's already product on your hair so you don't want you to add any more, but you always could add a little bit more gel and kind of just smooth down any flyways, protecting the outer layer of your curls. Any little frizzy spots, I don't really see any. We did a really good job. Now that my hair is dried in a more elongated state, now I can go back in for more volume because now my curls are past like the shrinkage stage because they've already dried in a longer form. So now I can kind of fluff it out. And I do that by diffusing upside down. Oh, all right. Oh, little side part action. Sometimes my hair tells me what it wants to do. Apparently we're doing a little side part. Okay, so there you have it. My day one hair using only one product and one bomb diffuser, not bad. So overall final thoughts on the Ion Luxe SuperCharge Hair Dryer, it works great. As you can see, I've been using it in a couple of my videos. I do like that it has a memory feature. So whatever settings you use last, when you turn it off, when you turn it back on the next time, it actually remembers your settings. So you don't always have to change your settings every time you turn on your blow dryer. So that's pretty cool. Since this does have Ion technology, that's supposed to make our hair shinier, reduce frizz, reduce heat damage, and just overall dryer hair faster. So I love the look. I like how compact it is and it does a great job. If you're currently looking for a new blow dryer diffuser, this could be the one for you. They are available at Sally Beauty and they retail at $249.99. So I'll be sure to link the hairdryer and the gel I used in my description box below. So those are all of my diffusing tips for you. I hope this was helpful. Leave a comment below. Let me know if you've already applied some of these diffuser tips to your routine and which one was like a game changer for you. I think mine was waiting until my hair has a cast, but I just would not recommend diffusing your hair with only a cream styler. You need something with hold, gel, mousse, something to give you a cast. Letting your hair air dry first also reduces the amount of time you have to diffuse. Therefore, you're putting less heat on your hair, which is always a win. If you have any diffuser tips of your own, leave a comment below so we could try out what you do to make your curls pop in. And if you enjoyed this video, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post new videos every week. You also can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok at Ms. Bianca Renee. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.


Welcome back, everyone, to theCUBE's coverage. I'm John Furrier, Rob Streche with theCUBE here for Cloud Open Source Summit. Let's say Cloud Native, KubeCon, because we're just talking about it coming in. This is Open Source Summit 2023. You've got a great guest here, Ayesha Kaya, Senior Director of Strategic Insights and Analytics at slim.ai, slim.ai. Also was on the community panel yesterday with Liz Rice and team talking about the conversations here and the keynotes at Open Source Summit in Vancouver. Ayesha, great to see you. Thanks for coming back. Wonderful to be back. So Slim.ai, doing some great work around container and container security. That's your wheelhouse, container security, a lot of reports. Give a quick background for your background and what Slim.ai does before we get into it. Sure, I am a data scientist, not a developer or a DevOps engineer. I have been working for Slim for the last three years. Slim.ai is a SaaS platform. We do container intelligence, container optimization and container security. And we scan millions of containers on a regular basis. It's a data scientist's dream to dive into the data and understand what's going on under the hood. And there's been a big talk about the security of containers, software supply chain, developer productivity, all thread together. You've done a lot of reports over the years on container security. It's moving in the right direction. Can you give us an update on what the current is? You would recently talk about this at RSA just a few weeks ago. Yeah, I was a subscriber as well. What's the state of the art current situation with container security? So let's do this. Let's focus on the recent past and present trends, but let's also extrapolate into the future talking about generative AI and its implications for cybersecurity, which was a core topic at RSA. And it is important here as well. So, John and Rob, you will I guess agree when I say 2022 marked a turning point when it comes to software supply chain security in the aftermath of multiple security incidents. And we have seen at SLIM AI because we are scanning all these containers on a regular basis the magnitude of the challenge from a quantitative lens as well as how we are doing in terms of our response because after 2022, during 2022, there was this industry-wide renewed sense of awareness. And we have seen a lot of effort being put into vulnerability detection and remediation. And customers and governments started to ask for zero vulnerabilities. But the bottom line upfront, all these reports that we've been publishing in the last 18 months, what do they say? There's not a single container category or a distro that has fewer number of vulnerabilities than before. And it is not just a number of vulnerabilities, the complexity has been rising significantly as well. So, the number of components, the packages, the spatial permissions, libraries, licenses, even the magnitude of the sizes of these containers and the metadata about these containers, they are as promised have increased significantly in the last 12 months. And it is not like we are not remediating vulnerabilities, we are, but for every CVE that we see being remediated, we see four new CVEs being added to the system. And it's also these repair rupture cycles that I talk about that's very slow in terms of like when we detect the CVE in, let's say, top publicly available containers, the likelihood that that CVE resolves in the next 180, 195 days is less than 20%. So it's very, very small. And this is without AI-generated code, the influx of new code. What I'll say is that without, you know, being in a fear-mongering state, what we are doing is not working properly. We do not seem to be coping up with the challenges and we are definitely not ahead of the curve. We say we mean the industry or? As an industry, as an industry, no, not. Again, it's them we are looking into the problem by scanning all these containers and seeing if they are going. The publicly available containers, private registries, so we scan a huge landscape, a portion of the landscape. The scan is one portion of it. Yeah, yeah, and then we collect my team. What we do is we decompose these containers, try to understand what's going on in an effort to understand what makes these containers. So we as the industry is not doing well. Yes. Okay, continue. Yes. But I wanted to focus deeper on is the story behind the story, though. So it's not about just like everything is going in the wrong direction. We are putting the right effort, but the way that we are trying to solve this is by throwing more humans at the problem, if you will. So, what we see is... So humans are the bottleneck. You put it, yeah, well said. You can't throw, you need machines to scale up. There's more data coming in than humans can handle. Yeah, let me give you data actually to support that hypothesis. So, let me look into the 55,000 packages in the publicly available containers, right? 40% of the packages explain all the CVEs. So 1% of the packages explained 25% of CVEs, 86% of packages have zero vulnerabilities. And these are not just these noise, like these are software at the core of these systems. So 86% of the code that we see has no CVEs attached to them. And when you look at what packages are vulnerable, you realize that the packages that are the most popular have the most number of CVEs in them. Does that mean that the rest are fine? I call this the popularity trap. The more popular a package is, the more CVEs it has. Does that mean that they are the most risky software? Definitely not. If especially, like what this says is that the things that are under spotlight get more attention and we realize we notice their imperfections faster. But there's a huge amount of software that never goes under security review. Right. I think that's the interesting thing is that to your point, there may not be a CVE. That doesn't mean that that package isn't vulnerable. And I think to the generative AI, one of the things we've been talking about with teams here is that because it's trained on stuff that may have bugs or CVEs that are undiscovered at this point in time, if you're using generative AI to go and build that next set of software, you're actually injecting that CVE in without even knowing that you're building it in because you're just taking the code as is. Is this something that you're seeing as kind of a wave of that second set of, like you said, 25% from, I think you said it was like. 1% of packages explained 25% of vulnerabilities. A lot of percentages there. So it's like a small number of packages account for most CVEs. Right. And like you said, that's because people are actually using those packages so they're seeing it quite often. Is that usually more of the core infrastructure pieces, the Linux distros and things of that nature that you're seeing that as part of that 1%? This is top publicly available containers that have billions of poles in them. And there's a variety of distros here, general purpose as well as special purpose containers in the set that we are looking into. So it is representative of a very large portion of usage out there. What about with those, because I think, again, with the technology that you have and having spoke to you guys while we were over it, KubeCon and container cloud native con. I'm going to screw it up now too. Now you got me going. KubeCon, I know, I don't think you've tried it. So while we were over it, yes. So I think part of it was about the bloat as well. And is it, are you seeing and able to see things that are just not active in there as well and like the bloat aspect of that is intriguing to me. So when we do harden in slim containers, there's a, the percent of packages that are removed is in the range of 50 to 90% depending on the type of application that type of container that we are slimming. So more often than not, a significant percent, majority of the packages that are being shipped into production, by the way, a ton of these packages have zero vulnerabilities in them. Just because of the reason that we like the likelihood that a package has zero vulnerabilities is huge because we don't basically do the security reviews on these packages, right? A ton of it is excess. And that's the main point here. We cannot resolve, we cannot fight with the complication of these things by, you know, without automation. One of the interesting things that I have seen by running a global randomized survey asking questions to developers and DevOps engineers was that majority of companies are trying to solve this issue of excess packages slimming and hardening through manual processes. So vulnerability detection and hardening and slimming, if they are manual at this day and age with this scale of problem, we're basically slimming against the current. And organizations thinking that only doing the compliance, and we are even having a hard time doing that, just saying we are working on zero vulnerabilities are missing the big point. The big point here is that there's a lot of excessive software that's being shipped into production and the unchartered territory with vulnerabilities is huge. And bottom line up front, we cannot solve this problem by, you know, doing what we are doing with more people. How do you scale up the machines to solve the gap for container security? Got the S-bombs, dependencies, a vulnerability might not exist in the database, but you might be in the container. So all kinds of new things come up. There's new approaches, people are trying new things. How do you automate the machine side of it, the scale? So machines, AI, I think is going to first create a lot of problems before they solve a lot of problems for us. So maybe just, there's something to highlight because at RSA, you've probably noticed this as well. Security teams are not exactly, not very happy about the fact that anybody who can prompt can generate code right now. And Liz Rice was telling us yesterday that the security teams are probably not happy that their developers are writing code anyways. But the fact that there'll be more code than ever before. Like there's an influx of new code. And there are these security researchers that are already starting to use AI to augment their research process. So they will be finding the needle in the haystack much faster. And there'll be bad actors writing more robust, malicious code that we talked about yesterday. So there is this dual nature to AI. So we will be seeing a ton of new code. We will probably be detecting, especially as these systems get smarter. Yesterday we talked about AI starting to, trying to understand itself. Like OpenAI was saying that GPT-4 is being used to understand GPT-2. So there's that recursive self-improvement cycle. So it's going to first improve, first create a ton of code, ton of CVEs, and the problem is going to scale to a point where we cannot do this anymore by throwing more security researchers into this. And then I think we will realize that it needs to be all automated. And slimming and hardening should be- Is there a best practice right now, in your opinion, Aisha? What's the current best practice? Know what's inside your containers and ship only what's needed to production. It's easier said than done. I don't want to oversimplify this, but what we see is these bloded containers in production systems. More often than not, they're being pulled from publicly available systems. And it's great that developers have fun with these excessive number of packages, experiment, innovate. But when you ship those to production, you need to be very mindful about the attack surface that you're shipping. Yeah, I think this is one of super interesting because I think that it's going to take analytics and AI and models to get beyond and be learning because I think there's a lot of times as we've had some people on from Finos, which is the financial or FinTech industry folks that are contributing back into open source. And I think what's interesting having come out of that world is you may have an application that uses a package just once in an entire year. And so it's shipped, so it looks like bloat today, but on April 15th on tax day, it didn't look like bloat because that was the one day that package is actually utilized or something to that. I think what's your view on how we're going to deal with the complexities of some of these custom applications that are built on top of these open source packages? Testing the edge cases, like looking into all these, I don't think the problem is right now, those packages that are rarely used. The problem is those packages that are never used, that are redundant, that are excessive and they're still in production systems. And some of them, and most of them have zero vulnerabilities in them. Zero known CVs, I should say, there's definitely vulnerabilities in them. Zero day opportunities in there too. I mean, it's not on the list, it's zero day. And I hear chatGPT's writing zero day too. So again, code pollution coming in, vulnerabilities there. Docker says they're verifying containers. They think they're just scanning. There's a need for verification. Is there going to be a blue check box in the future? For, I mean upon it, I'm just goofing on Twitter, but the point is people want secure validations. There's going to be a flag that says, hey, you know, this is secure. I mean, good starting points. That's probably what we can do with the verifications. But this is a cumulative process. So even if you start with a blue verified tick, right, you keep adding stuff in, you take things out. This needs to be a continuous scanning verification, removal of vulnerabilities. It needs to be an end-to-end system. You cannot just say, this is a good starting point and then forget about what's going to happen next. So we had the cloud open source, secure, software secure foundation, SSF, on earlier theCUBE. They have a whole foundation dedicated to this one problem. Is that good for the industry? Or is it going to be creating more, are you guys involved in that? What's the open SSF about? Josh Pressers was talking about how we are thinking about right now with these several different organizations are thinking about how we add more security researchers to these open source projects, which is a great starting point. So being the data scientist, let me speak with numbers a little bit so that you can see why I'm still leaning towards machines, like deploying more digital minds into the problem. Than more security researchers, so here's the thing. In the NPMs ecosystem alone, there are 32 million packages and we're adding one million package a month. And if we wanted to just do top 10,000 projects in open source, let's do security research on them, draw 1,000 security researchers and try to do this on a regular basis. I think it was Josh who was calculating the numbers around how it would take 3,000 years just to go through the NPM ecosystem with this human effort. So yes, we need to start somewhere. Yes, we need to start learning about how we can improve all of the software that we are putting out there in containers, in open source, in companies and whatnot. But again, looking into the influx of new code, it is impossible that throwing more problems, throwing more people into this is going to solve the issue. But we will collect more intelligence, we can scale it from there by learning about these systems and then automating it using generative AI, I hope. So it's a data problem, it's an opportunity to use data. More data. More people. What's your vision on data usage in container security? What's the best? Well, I have the luxury of looking at tons of scans and learning from them for containers. And there is a ton that we are not taking advantage of right now. So we can get a ton of actionable insights around building recommendation engines, like what's needed, what's not needed, helping the developers do their best with the machine intelligence, with the recommendation engines that we can put into the system. So there's a lot of potential. But I'm also again, worried that because a lot of people who do not know about the security dimension will be generating code, we will have that gap getting larger first. So it's going to be a journey that we will be on for a while. I should, great to have you on. It's great to have you in the CUBE group. Thanks for coming on. First, final question. Tell about your journey in tech. Sure. So I am an AI ethics advisory board member in Northeastern and I'm a data scientist. My career has been in the intersection of cybersecurity and AI in the last 15 years. I'm an MIT graduate. I studied emerging technologies at MIT. So I was looking into technological forecasting, how new technologies are growing over time. I should say that I'm very surprised with chat GPs in the generative AI's hachistic curve, although I've been in these circles for a while. My journey has been, I grew up in rural Turkey. My parents were teachers. The fact that I'm here speaking to you right now, talking about open source technology, being surrounded by brilliant minds. It's such a humbling factor. I'm honored to be here. And I'm somebody who is just like you, John, I think. I'm a cautious optimist. I love technology. I love numbers. I enjoy looking into numbers, but also navigating the waters, looking into the industry direction through a data lens, but also from a strategy and high level, like insights perspective. Yeah, I mean, cautious, maybe not cautious. Optimist. Incurable optimist. You're cautious. Yeah. I'm reckless. Everyone knows that. But I love AI. I think it's the most important movement because the timing of all the things, the perfect storm is here. The compute, the super compute, super cloud, the super data, and obviously the apps. So, and AI is up and down the stack. It's really been quite a run. Yeah, and I think this is also a place where the data has to lead us because there's going to be so much regulation trying to be pushed. And I think without the data, I think some bad decisions on the regulation side may actually be made. So, I think it's super interesting how you're digging into the data and presenting that data back to the community is super helpful for all these folks that are out there and involved with some of these regulations. We were talking to the ones that are involved with the UN earlier on the sustainability side. I think there's a play there as well for the AI longer term.  And I think the whole thing that gets me even more excited beyond that is that to me it's a cultural match that is lighting and igniting a bonfire of innovation and excitement from smart people. I've read more papers and academic papers in six months that I have in six years. Every time you turn around there's a new paper about new vector chaining, the success of LangChain, Haystack, all these new technologies, just in just companies like theCUBE with a language problem, we're enabled. And everybody now has an opportunity to capture value and open source has always been about giving more value than you take. And I think open source is going to either be rocked to the core by AI and that'll either cripple it or expand it rapidly. I think that's what the question we're watching is how does the open source community which wasn't built for this kind of velocity, will the spaceship to handle the new turbulence? What do you think? I mean, I think we need to be very thoughtful, deliberate, intentional about the next steps here. But, I mean, things are shifting so fast. Eight months ago in my ethics advisory board, the things that we were talking about was, chat GPT was not even out but we were very familiar with language models. So we were saying, this is like autocorrect.  A couple of months later, we started talking about how it is simple but surprisingly lifelike, right? Then a couple of weeks later, we started talking about, hey, this must be, this may actually steal Google's digital crown. There's something to this. And all of a sudden with auto GPT, right? We are talking about how AI is becoming a real decision-making agent for us, all the APIs. Now I'm seeing another current here. I was at MIT's Generative AI Summit last month and Eric Schmidt was talking about how we are playing with fire when it comes to AI. I have heard even- Eric Schmidt. I have heard Max Hygmack was talking about how AI is becoming a reasoning engine and sentient very fast. We are talking about super intelligence and whatnot. But I think I met Satya Nadella on this topic, Microsoft CEO. He's talking about how he's so optimistic that we are empowered like never before. We will be doing a lot more with less. What is happening is basically a user interface revolution. The technology was here, but right now the users are enabled like nothing before. And this can, I believe in humanity. I think we will do the right thing. We will take advantage of this. It's more of a question of like, are we ready? Are companies thinking about this properly? Are individuals thinking about this property? Because there are a lot of opportunities here. Well, our conversations that they're finding here, they're pragmatic, they're ready. And I don't think it's going to be a shock to the system. I think it's going to be an expansion, a glorious expansion for open source, just a whole nother level. I should great to have you on theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Really appreciate it. Thanks for that extra insight into AI and your cautious optimism. It's contagious. Thank you. I feel great. Thank you for having me. Rob, thank you so much. Okay, CUBE coverage continues day two. We have one more day, three days of Coal to Wall coverage. We'll be right back in Vancouver with theCUBE after this short break.


It seems like every couple of months or so I get the sudden urge to do some bash scripting and today was one of those days I was here at the office today. Initially, I wasn't planning on making a video I was here doing some administrative work and I was wanting to listen to some online radio And I thought wouldn't it be great if I had a D menu script that allowed me to choose between various online radio Stations to listen to and that's what I did I spent about two hours playing with some bash script and creating this D menu script that allows me to listen to various radio stations of my choosing and what I did is I went to this particular website Zeno.fm And if you click the discovery link here, it's a search link and then you get a search bar You can search for various genres names of radio stations that sort of thing Now I'm not going to be able to play any music on today's video because all of these radio stations Are going to play copyrighted music and that would get my video flagged So I've got the sound muted nobody's going to hear anything playing But say I wanted to add Radio Jamaica 94 fm to my eventual script What I did is I went to this page once you get to the radio stations page here in Zeno.fm Copy the URL just go and get the web address and copy that and then use that to create a list Of various radio stations that you'll eventually want to add to your D menu script And then let me go ahead and launch emacs and I'll show you the script that I Created today. So let me go to the tub and zoom way in so you guys can see a little bit of this Let me toggle on truncated lines here So we don't have these extra long lines running off the screen here. Yeah, that looks a lot better So I'm going to go over exactly what this script is now this script looks a little lengthy It actually looks longer than it is because a lot of this stuff I mean the first 12 lines here are comments. This is going to be part of my DM scripts Repository which DM scripts is an installable program. It's available in the AUR It's also available as part of DTOS. Although I haven't made DM radio a part of that just yet I'll try to do that either later this evening or hopefully by tomorrow It will be a part of DTOS But if you wanted to create such a script yourself I mean you all you really need is the shebang at the top Obviously, you need the crunch bang slash user slash bin slash env space bash Because it is a bash script and the rest of the comments are just Here to tell you about dependencies. This script is going to depend on d-menu mpv and dunst And the first line of real code set dash euo pipe fill I do that in all my DM scripts because what this does is this particular line here It calls us the script to fill if certain things happen And that's a good thing. Otherwise we could get hidden bugs that are hard to discover You see I even left a comment explaining all of that This here is code that is specific for anything part of the DM scripts So what this does it goes and looks for a helper file that's available as part of the DM scripts packaging And it's not specific to what we're doing here and we're going to source a config file again That's not necessarily anything that we need to to focus on here is actually the real Part of the script here So we have menu and then the opening and closing parentheses and then an opening brace and then everything in between the brace Is part of a function. This is a bash function That is anytime you get a name followed by those opening and closing parentheses and then the braces, right? So this function I called menu I could have named it anything But all it does is it runs print f and it just prints lines and it prints a new line after every entry That's up the last line. We don't need a new line after the very last line So we have that menu function and then I created this function here start underscore radio And then we run dunstify, which is part of the dunst notification system And it's just going to have a notification box when I execute or when I start playing a radio station It's going to say starting dm dash radio playing station and then it's actually going to give me the name of the station I also created a end underscore radio function where dunst lets us know that we actually quit out of dm dash radio And then we have choice equals and choice equals Menu remember the menu function that just prints, you know, all of our radio stations It's just numbers and titles really Well, it takes all of that information and it pipes it into d menu. Now. This is a variable That's part of the dm scripts package So in your own scripts, you would actually have to write the word d menu with various flags for d menu But I've substituted that for that particular variable And then we have a d menu prompt which in my case is going to say choose radio station colon And then we're going to pipe that into the cut command I did a video about the cut command and what this is going to do dash d Period it's going to use the period as a delimitator and then it's going to do dash f one We want field one. So what it's going to do It's going to find a period in each of these lines That is the deliminator the separator and then it's going to take the first field based on those periods Which is in this case one all it's going to do is cut out one Then it's going to cut out two then it's going to cut out three now on the very first option quit It's going to cut out the whole word quit because there's no period And what this allows me to do by doing that cut command is later I'm going to have a case statement where I have each option listed out one through 16 plus quit Well, I don't want the option for number one Let me find number one here in the case statement I don't want that to actually have to read out one period space 50 space rewind right That's a very lengthy name for that right there. I only want to have to use one right That's why we in this year we ran that that cut command right now. Let's talk about this case statement here Let me zoom back out here So you guys can see this very lengthy case statement So what do each of the choices do well if I launch the script here I've got this as set as a hot key if I do super p followed by r That is the dm radio script and you can see quit and then went through 16 I added 16 radio stations at least initially here now if I chose quit what that does is it runs the end radio Function that we defined up here, which is done specify and then it gives this message If you guys want to see that I could do super p followed by r and then just choose quit and you can see We get a notification. We just stopped dm radio Now if we had dm radio already running, it would also kill dm radio already running by killing this particular process here So that is what quit does now everything else 1 through 16 here in the case statement What this does is if dm radio is already running it kills it And if it's not running it just echoes in the terminal if you were running this from the terminal mpv not running Then after that we run the start radio function, which is the dunce command again But this time it's going to let us know that we're now playing this particular radio station So that is 50s rewind. Let me show you that so super p r and then 50s rewind you say it says playing station 50s rewind. Let me turn the volume down And now let me quit stopping dm radio and that really is the entire script I mean, this is just the rest of the case statements I did add a extra Option here in the case statement this asterisk means if anything else happens If I choose anything other than quit or 1 through 16 because the strange things can happen with scripts sometimes So you always want to have this asterisk in a case statement just in case anything weird goes on Then I want you to just echo program terminated and then exit. So that's really the script again It's very simple. I just go in here and choose anything to play and if I start playing something You know this particular station, we're not going to listen to it, but it's playing in the background I promise you music is playing and while that's playing if I wanted to run the script again And then choose a different radio station to play It will kill the running process and then start playing the new station we selected So really there's nothing to this script. Let me zoom back out Well, I zoomed way back out Let me zoom back out so you guys can get an idea for how big this script is Because other than the comments and then this stuff here that is really specific to anything packaged for dm scripts You guys won't need to know that really all I did was created this menu function With our various options and the start radio and the end radio functions for our notifications And then choice equals the menu function piped into dmenu again Then we cut out the very first field based on the periods in these names here in the menu function And then we have our case statements and when we choose the quit function It just gives us the end radio notification and kills any running processes If we choose an actual radio station to play it kills any running functions And then it gives us a start radio notifications And then it starts the new function or the new process on the radio station that we chose. So really this I could have probably written this In 30 minutes It took me a couple of hours mainly for searching radio stations because I actually did have to go and You know look through all of these radio stations and searching for various ones And some of the ones I searched for on this site When I went to play them nothing happened I don't know if the stations are down certain hours of the day or maybe the station is now dead Whoever was maintaining it just got tired. So I did have to go and I probably looked through about 50 radio stations before narrowing it down To the 16 that I eventually settled on now for those of you that want this particular script You can find it on my git lab look for my git lab in the show description And you're going to want to go to my dmscripts repository for those of you on an arch based Linux distribution You can install the entire dmscripts package with uh a ur helper like yay or paru look for dmscripts dash Git that is the name of the package those of you that are running dtos You will have dmscripts available through just pacman and not dmscripts dash get just dmscripts I haven't added the radio script to dtos just yet again I'll try to get to that this evening or maybe tomorrow now before I go I need to think a few special people I need to thank the producers of this show And of course, I'm talking about devon gave james matt michael michael paul scott west alan armor dragon chuck commander angry Dio kai dylan george lead linux ninja maxim mike irion alexander peace arch and for door polytech red prophet Stephen willey these guys they're my highest-tiered patrons without these guys This episode wouldn't be possible this channel wouldn't be possible Shows also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen All of these names you're seeing on the screen these guys. 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Welcome traders to this week's live market analysis session with me, Patrick Munnally. We're going to get started here in just another 10 seconds or so. If you can hear me and you can see the welcome screen, you can type a Y into the chat box. Okay, let's get going. So for those of you who are here for the first time as always we want to adhere to the risk disclaimer. Most importantly, with respect to today's presentation, the analysis and opinions expressed by me are solely mine. They're not addictive or representative of those held by Tick-Mail UK or Tick-Mail Europe Limited. Like I say, if you're here for the first time, a brief introduction to myself. After I graduated from university, I joined a city PLC consulting firm. I left with some colleagues and went on to successfully co-found an exit to consulting startup, which was focused on seasoned executive search for technology businesses. I essentially had a front row seat to the dot com bubble witnessing people make and lose a fortune in the market sometimes quite literally overnight.  I started day trading the S&P 500, or probably more appropriate at that stage day gambling. However, after some early beginners luck, I racked up some pretty solid gains, but as is often the case, my beginners luck run out. And as the market phase changed, I began to average down, giving back all my gains and ultimately experiencing a significant six-figure hit to my personal capital. So gut-wrenching and sobering experience is an understatement. I really had to stand back and figure out if it was feasible for me to make a living from the markets. So I decided to get serious about trading and I sought out a mentor with an excellent trading track record. Working with my mentor for a period of 18 months to two years was a time during which I asked not just my technical game in terms of researching, developing, but also extensively back and forward testing strategies that crucially suited my personality, all of which were underpinned by a rigorous risk management approach. Most importantly, though, during this period of mentorship, I significantly developed my mental game.  Well, it means I had to stop focusing on what I could make from the market and start focusing solely on managing my mindset to allow me to consistently execute my trading strategy, oftentimes in the face of negative feedback from the markets in the form of losing trades. But once you become process-oriented and have a professional trading mindset and you understand the true nature of trading being a numbers game in which you're simply playing the probabilities, you lose the emotional investment and hellish emotional rollercoaster of living and dying by the outcomes of individual trades. So I'm no longer concerned with the outcome of individual trades or even a small string of trades. My focus is on the next hundred trades because I know if I focus on excellence and execution, my edge will demonstrate itself over an extended series of outcomes. My multi-strategy approach has delivered profitable annual returns since 2008. Since 2013, I've been managing investor capital through a managed counselor this again delivering annual positive returns. I'm currently responsible for managing a multi-million dollar portfolio. Since 2010, I've mentored hundreds of private traders of all experience levels from complete novices to former CME floor traders in developing the technical skills to reap consistent returns from the markets. In addition to my fund management and mentoring, I'm a resident market expert exclusively providing market and trade announces to tick mill clients. I provide an in-depth daily market outlook breaking down the fundamental and technical drivers for the day ahead. I also provide daily technical trade setup videos for about three to five markets that I'm actively tracking and I share those through the tick mill trading view accounts. I also run tick mills E-mini strategy Facebook group where I post a daily trade plan outlining my positions for the cash trading session in New York. I give my bias for the day ahead and specific action areas where I'm looking to engage the markets. These pre-market plans have delivered over 3,500 points of profit since we launched the service last year in April. The second tick mill strategy group I run is for traders who really want to take their trading to the next level. The tick mill futures trading telegram group is a real-time environment. On a daily basis, I share in-depth insights, analysis and real-time trades. I also provide live commentary during the opening hour of the New York cash trading session where traders can essentially see in real time how I dissect the markets and identify asymmetric trading opportunities. These sessions act as a platform helping traders to develop a professional consistent approach navigating the markets and the mental mind games that must be mastered to make it as a profitable market operator. Okay, so that gives you a flavor of where it is I'm coming from. Let's jump into the charts today. We're going to actually move into the intraday charts.  What I would say is obviously we have a fair bit of volatility coming up today. We've got the ECB announcing and we have the ECB press conference. They're obviously expected to announce a 75 basis point hike today in interest rates. Also, in running pretty much alongside that press conference, it is going to be the Fed chair, Powell is speaking at the Kato Institute and obviously markets will be paying very close attention to what he has to say with respect to interest rates as well. So just bear that in mind when we're looking at these setups for the session ahead. So we're going to start as always with the S&P 500 and we tested down into that 3880 area that I referenced previously and we have seen a decent bid develop in the market yesterday. We traded this from the long side in the group that I run in both groups and we have since put in a high interest just ahead of that 4000 level. Now, if we hold this high, then I'd be looking for a three-way corrective move back into the high volume mode here, which gives us the 3930s. From there I watched the bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side and my target really for this move is going to be up into the weekly R1 4030, weekly projected range resistance at 4040. And just above there we have the value area high at 4043. Now, at the moment, we have this high in place. We didn't get any divergence on this high. So there is the potential here, like I say that this is a wave three high that we're seeing and it may be that we correct in a more shallow fashion, print another high and then get this deeper pullback. But for now versus this high, my area of interest is going to be this high volume mode at the 3930s to engage on the long side looking for a move up into the 4040s as the next upside objective for this for this advance in terms of the E-mini S&P. Nasdaq, similar situation. We have a nice potential five-wave advance here coming off those lows looking for a three-way corrective move into our high volume mode. We're looking for a test of 12,100, 12,110. Again, we watched for bullish reversal patterns here to engage on the long side. Our upside objective is going to be into the weekly projected range resistance 12,530. Just below there, weekly R1, 12,500. We also have the value area high there, 12,580. So that's our next target on the upside for the Nasdaq. Hi, Jones, YM. We are looking for a pullback now into this potential pitchfork support, which comes in at 31,200 area. Again, we watched for bullish reversal patterns here. We're going to engage on the long side looking for a move up into the weekly R1, the daily projected range resistance and weekly projected range resistance, which should see us test up into that 32,000 level on the upside. Now, with these indexes, obviously if we don't hold these key support areas, these high volume modes, then what we've potentially got is a failed upside break here and we're going to roll over and print new lows. But for now, just to be clear, my focus is on another leg at least to the upside in corrective training. We have the DAX testing pivotal support here now. So we are looking for the DAX to hold 12,780. So watching for bullish reversal patterns here to engage on the long side looking for a move up into 13,130. Interestingly, the DAX is the weaker of the global equities at the moment. And I am, if we just get out to the daily and the weekly timeframe just so I can clarify the position here. I did post this as a setup on the Ticknell Trading View group here. Any close on the DAX through the support area here at 12,400, I will actually be looking to engage on the short side, looking for a move down to test into the equality objective, 11,150. So that's that's one of the caveats there in terms of the DAX to pay close attention to, because if we don't hold support here in the DAX, I'm anticipating we're going to roll over and I'll be looking at downside objectives. Nikkei looking bullish here. So any pullback now that Nikkei initially will look at the high volume nodes at 27,610. From there we watch the bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side, looking for an extension up into the 28,300 area. I'm going to do a deeper pullback here into test this potential inverse head and shoulders scenario here, which would give us 27,450 same story that I'm watching bullish reversal patterns to get in on the long side and we're looking for an extension to the other side. Sorry, the dollar index. I'm short dollar index from above the 110 level, as I've shared with members in the trading group. I'm watching now for any corrective moves back into test the underside of this ascending trendline support. Previous support now resistance. So any move up into the one 1017 watching the bearish reversal patterns to engage on the short side, initially thinking about a move down into this high volume node 10870s. And if we get through there then we're thinking about the value area low here at 10814. I'm going to be running through these pretty quickly today because I want to want to be prepared for the press conferences and power speech. So if you do have any questions, just drop them into the chat box and I'll aim to come back to them at the end of the session. Or if you have a pair you want me to take a look at I don't cover in the charts that I'm tracking here, you can type that into the chat box and I will take a look at it for you and give you a view. The euro dollar tracking a potential five wave sequence up below here. So we have our low we have one, two, three, four, looking for a fifth wave extension up into the weekly R1 10040 from there I see the potential for a pretty sharp pullback and this could be caused obviously by the ECB press conference. So as long as we hold into this 99 area just above 99, 99 20s watch for bullish reversal patterns I still think we've got another leg to the upside, if we're going to qualify this as an impulse leg off the loans. So Stirling, let's pull this up here so Stirling looks to be at least putting in a an equality test here so versus the 114 70 low, we look for 116 13 so that's an equal leg to the first leg off the low from a swing low gives us that area. I'll be then looking for pullbacks potential inverse head and shoulders scenario developing into the high volume mode here 115 10 watch for bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side and we look for weekly projective range resistance weekly R1 at 116 70s and the high sorry the value area high at 116 90s dollar yen currently short the dollar yen from the 145 test as I shared with traders in the trading group. So what I'm watching now is can we hold 143 24 that's an equality test versus this current swing structure here. If we do this the potential make another new high and test that 145, although we have had the DOJ the Ministry of Finance, the FSA in Japan out of the night, making reference to the speed in which the yen has declined and their concerns regarding that so I don't know if traders are going to be as interested in building this back up, but certainly I will be paying close attention if we take out this trend line resistance now. I've been looking to engage on the long side, looking for at least one more push up into that 145 handle is the area I'll be watching there. Now inverse to the dolly inverse to the dollar yen obviously we have us meals here the 10 year and what I'm looking for now is similar to that dollar pattern that I just referenced, looking for one more low here and then a three wave corrective moves that would complete a five wave sequence, often off the high so we have 12345 suggesting impulse so then we look for a three wave corrective which could set up a nice head and shoulders scenario here. So anything back into that 3.29% watch for various reversal patterns. And we look for an equality test to the downside back into the 3% level will be what I've been looking for in terms of those US 10 year yields. Euroyen, looking for one more high here in the Euroyen, we have the weekly R3 and monthly projected range resistance, and we have some potential momentum divergence developing here so as price makes new high the momentum indicator doesn't make new high so we watch a bearish reversal here in terms of the Euroyen to engage on the short side looking for a three wave corrective move as a minimum back into the 142.50s from that 145 area on the outside. Stirling in looking for an equality test here versus the current swing structure we have in place. So as we hold resistance at 165.90s, we look for another leg to the downside to test into this 164.30 area. So there's bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side, looking for a push up into the into the 165.50s, the ECB has raised rates by 75 basis points. So their interest rate now is sitting at 1.5% that's a record raise for the ECB in the past decade really. As a yen similar situation here I'm looking for any pullback now into the 96.30s, which will complete a three wave corrective move, then I'm watching for bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side, looking for an extension up into weekly R3 87.80s as the next upside objective. Cad yen similar situation, we've actually tested into the equality objective so what I'm watching for now with this cad yen is any break of this trend line resistance here. Just draw this in for you guys. So any close back through 109.70s, I want to be on the long side, looking for a move up into 110.80s, as the next upside objective for the cad yen. Dollar cad similar setup to, to the dollar index here so I'm looking for any push back into 131.50s, and we're looking for a bearish rejection there to engage on the short side. I'm going to move down into the value area low here, minimum 130.60s on the downside. Aussie dollar, looking for, if we go to the Aussie dollar actually on the daily timeframe, I'll show you what I'm tracking here, we've got potential double rejection here from a double bottom, we have some momentum divergence. So if we get a close today back at highs or new highs 67.90s, I'm actually going to trade the Aussie dollar on the long side, initially looking for a move back into the high volume mode here 69, and if we can get through there then we have this low volume at 70.50s, and then I look at 71. So replay close attention to the close here on this Aussie dollar, as I see the potential, if we can get back into the upper end of the range of today's candle, as an opportunity on the long side. So look here Kiwi dollar, we've got that three way corrective move, and we're taking off, don't really have a trade at the moment in the Kiwi dollar prefer to watch that Aussie tonight from the close. Gold, I am a long gold on the, let's go to the daily here and I'll show you. So we had this nice outside reversal yesterday, closed turning the five day volume weighted average price bullish gives us this green close. So I'm looking for an extension up here in gold now to test 1840s, obviously any loss of this 16.99 area, and then we'll be back testing into a potential double bottom 79 split back to the hour here. So yeah any pullback from here into the high volume mode now, if you're not in this gold trade is an opportunity here at 1720s what's a bullish reversal happens there to engage on the long side. And again thinking about those daily targets as opposed to just these intraday hourly timeframe suggesting 1750 as the next upside objective. Nice pattern developing here in silver as well. So we have an equality objective versus the swing structure here, these loads at 1770 give us an equality objective 1882. And you can see how this leg is subdividing nice into a five wave sequence here. So I'm looking for any push now into this area to gauge on the short side initially, looking for move back into test support at this 1820 area. And then from there I think we can see bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side and have a talk to move up into 1930 as the next upside objective. Crude oil. Breaking down and let's just go to this. Let's go to the channel here and see what we can do on the downside so holding this trend channel. So what I'll be watching for here with crews from this swing high one, two, three, four, five, six, seven so seven swing into the 7850s. So a bullish reversal patterns there to engage on the long side, thinking about at least a three wave correction back into trend channel resistance, 8440s to pay close attention to a seven swing move down into 7850s, what's a bullish reversal patterns there as an opportunity on the long side. Bitcoin. Really now as we trade below this 19,500, the focus is on the downside and I'm looking for a roll over here, the quality objective as those of you who are here on or here regularly. You'll know that this is what I'm looking for in Bitcoin. Bitcoin to break down to test the quality objective here versus this swing. So we have 12,185 so I've got nothing to do really at this stage of Bitcoin until we test into that area, certainly I'll be short to any move through 17,750 targeting that 12,185 for now, kind of in no man's land here, and there's an appear to be much actual appetite or interest in the markets for Bitcoin at the moment. So let's just take a look here and wrap things up with the euro Aussie looking for any three wave corrective move now in the euro Aussie back into 147 30s. And then I'm going to be looking for a move up into 149 20s to complete that cycle. Equally watch any tests into the cluster here we got daily projected range resistance weekly projected range resistance weekly R2. So they move into this 149, as long as we maintain momentum divergence here so price making new highs but no new highs and momentum study. We've actually trade that from the short side to target that move back into the 147s. I'm going to finish up looking here euros sterling broken down already so that trade hasn't played out. So that's, that's not one that's on the watch list now. So really for me today is going to be about this UCB press conference power speech, any pullbacks in the equity indexes that hold the support areas, I've highlighted, then we're going to I'm going to be looking to get in again on the long side. I'm looking for at least another leg higher looking for another leg down in the dollar, looking for a corrective leg higher in the euro and sterling looking for another leg down in $1 and we're looking for gold to to make a push to the upside as well. So that's the whistle stop tool of the charts that I'm watching this week. Are there any questions or anyone like me to take a look at the chart I haven't covered in my my presentation. For those of you that are interested or aren't already members. If you want to join the signal Facebook group and receive my daily trade plan for the S&P 500, the cash trading session in New York, you can just request access there. If you want to follow my daily trade setups through trading via post that link as well. That's in the chat, and can't see any questions coming through at the moment. So I'm going to wrap this session up here guys, like I say, look forward to seeing some of you hopefully in the Facebook group, or certainly follow along with the daily trade ideas I post on trading view. And that concludes this week's session. As always traders plan the trade trade the plan, and most importantly, manage your risk until next week. Thanks very much guys.