Late in 1937, the Army Air Corps prepared six flying fortresses for the famous Good Will flight to South America. Special flying gear for 49 officers and men was inspected for the record-breaking mission. Finally, on February 17, 1938, engines were started and the V-17s began to rev up. Colonel Robert Oles signaled the planes to proceed individually over the route. In charge of the entire V-17 service test program, he devised this flight procedure for crew training. At each day's objective, they engaged in the only formation flying of the trip. In this way, the navigational proficiency of the personnel was fully tested. After visiting Argentina, Chile, and Peru, the bombers returned to the United States and sat down at Langley Field, Virginia. The roster of the Good Will pilot sounds like a roll call of America's World War II air leaders, because among them were Caleb V. Haynes, Harold L. George, and Curtis E. LeMay. Such missions were labeled the Great Expeditions of the First Generation of Human Flight. Later, Secretary of War Harry Woodring led a party of us, including General Zonald and Emmons, to honor the Second Bombardment. For achieving the most outstanding Army Air Corps flight of the year, we awarded them the highly prized Mackay Trophy. All 49 men were saluted for their high degree of skill in pilotage and navigation in accomplishing the 10,000-mile mission. Meanwhile, with the advent of Hitler, the German Air Force came back to life. Glider clubs for Hitler youths were fostered throughout the fatherland. For the bigger boys, flying sports clubs were the attraction. First, Germany's aviation industry was ordered to build only commercial planes, easily convertible for military purposes. Then, ignoring the Versailles Treaty, Hitler gave Air Minister Göring the green light to go into mass production of fighters and bombers. America, the cradle of aviation, soon was outmanned and out-plane. We didn't seem to know that it took one year to train a pilot and five years to design and build a plane. Hermann Göring did. Hitler now had a powerful political weapon, and waxing Nazi aggressive ambition put it to use. Mechanized forces with 400 aircraft began to cross the Austrian border on March 11, 1938. Hitler himself followed the next day and formally swallowed up the Republic of Austria and its small air force, prelude to World War II. As a result, Major General Frank Andrews gave us orders to put the nation's GHQ Air Force on defense maneuvers. In May 1938, the GHQ maneuvers utilized 3,000 officers and men, 217 military planes, and 19 temporary air bases. For a tactical exercise to defend the northeastern section of the U.S. against an air attack by American squadrons assuming the role of an enemy force. To assist General Andrews, we came from bases all over the country, and aided him in planning the biggest show of its kind in the nation's air history. One of the highlights was to be a mock attack on the city of Farmingdale, near Mitchell Field, and a blackout of the area as the first U.S. air defense test. Weather intelligence as well as tower operations were alerted. Taking part was the small fleet of Boeing fortresses commanded by General Krogstad of the Second Wing. A few squadrons of Douglas B-18s, the new bomber favored by Congress and the Army, commanded by General Emmons of the First Wing, and several echelons of stubby P-26 fighters, which stepped down to treat New York skyscrapers to an aerial thrill. Attacking bombers headed for the target Farmingdale, home of the Seversky and Drummond aircraft plants. As night fell, newscasters like Bob Trout helped alert the defending planes of the Third Wing at Mitchell Field, as well as the surrounding Long Island community. The first sound of approaching enemy aircraft Farmingdale responded to the air raid signal with enthusiastic cooperation. But the detector picked up an entire squadron. They dropped flares instead of bombs with blank ammunition the defenders hit back. Realistic air exercises ever held were declared a brilliant success by the defending commander, General Martin, who lost the battle of Farmingdale. September 29, 1938. Hap Arnold became chief of the Army Air Corps. With Andrews, he freaked General Marshall on the airfacts of life. On the day following Arnold's appointment, the Munich agreement was signed. Without firing a shot or dropping a bomb, Hitler's military machine had won for him a great victory. But Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thought he had achieved peace, peace in our time. The very next day, 500 German aircraft assisted in the invasion of the Sudetenland. By appeasement, Hitler had conquered Czechoslovakia. Six months later, the Czech Republic was dissolved. Munich taught America a great lesson. An international diplomacy is in poker. You can't win if someone else holds all the aces. So in 1939, the air corps began to expand to give the nation minimum air protection. And young Americans came to Texas to learn how to walk in the flight boots of air heroes like Thomas Selfridge, Eddie Rickenbacker and Billy Mitchell. Thus, the training to build a manpower pool of reserve pilots began. Cadet requirements were rigid and the course was tough. In fact, only 50% of each class made the grade. Within a few hours after his arrival, Mr. Cadet drew his uniforms, including white gloves, and was given a room, army blankets, and a rifle, which he learned to care for like a baby. Stern faced and serious upperclassmen received their orders to guide the new flying cadets, whom they called dodos, through the intensive ground and aerial courses. Before the dodos learned to fly, they became soldiers. In one year, they had to absorb the army's long tradition of service, honor, loyalty, and discipline, so that later they would know how to command. For the cadet was more than a prospective aviator. He was a potential officer in the Army Air Corps. For the academic phase of the life at Randolph Field, the Department of Ground Training provided the new cadet in the primary stage with intensive studies in meteorology, navigation, radio, and air regulations. In fact, all the knowledge necessary to become the best darn pilot in the world. When we marched into the mess hall, we were anxious to hear the orders of the day. Classes which were promoted into basic training were announced by the Cadet Adjutant. The next morning, my new officer instructor was waiting for me when my class reported for duty. Those of us who weren't washed out thought we were pretty hot pilots, but soon after breaking ranks, we realized we had a lot to learn when we met a real flyer. We were about to spend a lot of time with this man and our new basic training plane, and we liked them both from the start. After flying primary trainers, the slick BT-9s looked like push button flying jobs. We still didn't have to worry about retractable landing gear or armament, but now we did have to work flaps, trim tabs, operate radio, and other new devices. There was so much aerial activity at Randolph Field that some joker figured we used to fly three times around the earth each day. Flying formations in cross country, we covered more square miles than there are in the state of Texas. Although we had more instruments to watch, more complicated equipment to handle, flying was no longer a chore. It was fun, sport, excitement. And with every flight and every landing, the feeling grew. We talked and ate and slept flying. They say it cost thousands of dollars to train a pilot. Frankly, we should have paid the army for the chance. Instead, we got 75 bucks a month and the opportunity of a lifetime. After counting our pay, we got ready for weekend leaves. Life at Randolph wasn't all work. I'll never forget the big times in San Antonio where we rushed Cadet Widows, the name we gave to the local girls, for the spiritual and moral side of the student's character, the city of Wings had one of the most beautiful chapels in the army. And to build his body, there were more than enough sports to choose from. One thing I bet none of us will ever forget was the calisthenics with rifles before breakfast. For advanced training, we sent the fledgling flyer to nearby Kelly Field. There, he flew an AT-6. In 1939, Aviator was America's number one idol. No longer was he a one-man show. That ended in 1918. Teamwork was the keynote for training, just as each cadet learned that it was the basis of all flying. The leader and his wingmen were a team. Pilot and air crew, flyer and ground crew. Because in this business, every man's life was always in the hands of a team. The Germans had their secret weapons. We had some ourselves. But the most valuable weapon in our entire arsenal was the self-reliant, resourceful American soldier. Accordingly, our cadets have always received more actual flying hours than any other nation. When the cadet brought his ship in for the last time, he was ready for graduation. With simple ceremonies, the cadets were sworn in and commissioned as second lieutenants in the reserve corps. Later, the graduates received their certificates and silver wings. Rigid and careful training had converted raw recruits into men, mentally, morally and physically fit to help defend the nation. Surrounded by their admiring families and friends, the cadets learned there were many rewards, personal as well as patriotic, for the best-darned pilots in the world. Keeping pace with a big national defense effort, the other Army Air Corps training programs were marching forward to create air preparedness. When the new expansion program was finally put into operation during this prelude to war, the few hundred graduates of 1939 were but the vanguard of a great army of Americans learning to fly in defense of the United States. The goal of the Air Arm has not been to create a large standing army of service flyers, but rather to build up a reserve of trained personnel upon which it could call in times of national emergency. As we shall see in later chapters, 1939 was the birth of the belief that a strong air force would not only go a long way toward keeping America out of war, a strong air force would be absolutely vital in keeping war out of America.


For everyone involved in the Queensland residential rental sector, it's important to know that new minimum housing standards are coming into effect soon. Minimum housing standards will apply to new tenancies from 1 September 2023 onwards and to all tenancies from 1 September 2024. Minimum housing standards apply to all types of tenancies, including general tenancies, movable dwellings and rooming accommodation agreements. Meeting the minimum housing standards is simple. The property must be weatherproof and structurally sound. It must be in good repair with working fixtures and fittings that won't cause harm, including any electrical appliances which are included with the rental property. Every property must also have functioning locks or latches on all external doors and any windows that can be reached from outside without a ladder. Properties must be free from vermin, damp and mould and have coverings such as curtains or blinds on windows in all rooms where a tenant could reasonably expect privacy, such as bedrooms. The property must also have adequate plumbing and drainage and must be connected to a water supply service. Bathroom areas must provide privacy and all toilets must be flushable, refillable and connected to a waste disposal system. If the property includes a kitchen, a functioning cooktop must be provided and if there's a laundry, tap fittings and adequate plumbing must be included. For more information including the different options which will be available to you if you believe a rental property does not meet minimum housing standards visit our website at rta.qld.gov.au


The following is a clip from my popular YouTube livestreams answering your questions. If you're brand new to my channel, don't forget to hit the subscribe button, hit the bell so you can be notified of new videos. And if any time this video resonates with you, please hit that like button so I can be seen in the YouTube algorithms.  It's direct, a little tough love, and a lot of heart. And occasionally I use expletives to enhance a sentence. So if an F-bomb or two isn't your cup of tea, I suggest logging off right now. Lastly, these are my thoughts, my perceptions, my opinions. By no means do I suggest this is the truth. You have to decide the truth for yourself. I'm a bit of a contrarian, so my advice goes contrary to public opinion and traditional expectations. All right, take it away, Jonathan. And I've been thinking about something that's been rattling my head for a bit. It's a woman on one of my Facebook posts says, why is dating so hard? Why is dating so hard? Why is dating so hard? Now I think she has most likely a traditional expectation of what dating should look like. And that's part of the challenge. So I want to address something that I think is really important to recognize. And that is dating is a relatively new phenomena. It's relatively new. If you think about it, Neanderthals are 200,000 years old and when Kate people got together, there was 10 men, 10 women, that was it or whatever the number was in their tribe. And you made it with whatever was there for you to make with. And as humans evolved, they started to be more tribe oriented. So let's say your tribe was 30 people, 15 men, 15 women. I mean, there were some elders, there were some children there. And you basically made it within that group. Okay. Then we started to move into villages and it started to be a little bit larger. There could be several hundred people in the village. And you mostly made it with someone you knew and you did that for survival reasons. In fact, literally up until about 50 years ago, women oftentimes had to pick men purely based on survival reasons. Okay. Literally because men were the predominant, well they were the hunters, they were the providers and women took care of the children. So there wasn't really a lot of dating up until about 100, really up until about 50 or 60 years ago. I know many of you women love the idea of the pride and prejudice. Well I want you to think about the movie Pride and Prejudice, Darcy said all of about 10 words to Kira Knightley and then he professes his love. I mean, where could you do that today? If someone in 10 words says they professed their love for you, you would think they were the Tinder swindler. Okay. So that narrative and by the way, you know, that was a great movie.  I can't say her name properly. They wanted the richest, wealthiest men in town. They got them. But what about one of their friends who got stuck with the priest?  Because she had to accept the crumbs because that's the way it used to be. Oftentimes up until a couple hundred years ago, most women just had to settle for whatever they could get. So they could basically be taken care of. So when I hear the conversation, why is dating so hard? Well think about it. It used to be when we lived in villages and tribes, we knew everybody. Everybody wasn't a stranger. Most everybody wasn't a stranger. And today our tribes are, we aren't in tribes. We aren't in villages. We're barely in any sense of a community or family in most cases.  We don't know their lifestyle. And more importantly, we don't know their emotional maturity. It can be rather dysfunctional. And the fact is, and I know women, it blows me away. How many of you think as a man gets older, he becomes more emotionally mature? No.  Let's just be clear about this there. It's just as many dysfunctional women out there as there are men. And there's just as many women with weak relationship skills as men.  By the way, when I hear some of my contemporaries telling women to be claimed, I want you to think about that. Being claimed is basically saying you are property. That's an old terminology. And let me tell you, that ain't going to go over very well in the Me Too era these days. Or at least that's my perception anyway. So I think it's important to understand that the reason why it is hard is because we're swimming in a sea of strangers. This is why I continually recommend reading the book by Malcolm Gladwell, talking to strangers, what you should know about people you don't know. In fact, my whole private coaching program is all about pre-qualifying your prospect because the reality is, when you're meeting, I listen. I was listening to a dating coach on a TikTok video today and she goes, don't interview a guy on a date. Don't interview a guy on a date. Don't interview on a date. Just make it fun. Make it fun. Make it fun.  What's your day doing? How's your day going? Did you have a good day?  When you hyper-focus on chemistry and if you're not familiar with my relationship iceberg, when your chemistry is the tip of the iceberg, when we hyper-focus on chemistry and attraction and romance, which is above the waterline, we're not paying attention to shared values, blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity.  You might find out your lifestyles aren't compatible or worse. This guy is completely, he's got issues with his ex-wife. He's got drama going on in his life.  Do you really want to wait till you've been hooked for that to happen? But Jonathan, all the dating coaches told me to sit back and let the guy do all the work. Listen, you can do that. Sounds great. If you get lucky enough to date the emotionally healthy man, but let me tell you something, the vast majority of humans are ridiculously dysfunctional. And yet, it's funny, I say all this, and yet there's the, you know, it's funny. When it comes to love or healthy relationship, it's the broken clock syndrome. It's right twice a day. In other words, your odds are two out of 24 that it's going to happen. At best. That's at best. And it's funny because I was talking to my dearest friend the other day and he's in a relationship now going on. I almost want to say a year and a half. And he's genuinely, I mean, he's in love with her.   And I've got another friend who's getting married. And I've got another, I've got so many of my personal friends in great relationships. So I know it does exist. And I have now, by the way, if you listen to my last couple of broadcasts, I have four clients in the last 16 days and actually a new client. So I want to say five. She's brand new to my coaching program and she met really a great guy. I got to tell you, there's something about my coaching program. It's like, it's like the minute a woman makes an investment in the program, all of a sudden they become a magnetic attractor to great guys. And this one woman was just telling me what this guy has done by their fourth date and I'm in awe.  It's kind conscientious stuff. And he even said he'll read the book eight dates before they have sex.  I'm sorry, you may not like my words, but I'm trying to illustrate a point. Stop being so naive to this process and start being in charge of your relationship destiny. It is not the man, by the way, men are terrible at leading the process. We lead because we want to get laid. Sure.  Most guys are clueless. They're winging it. They're winging it. They're winging it. They really are. And I want to just tell you to all listen, read the title of this book.   Because that's what love would do. That's how love would respond. This is one of the reasons why I'm a big proponent of everyone doing personal development, self-help and spiritual work. If you haven't read my book, what the heck is self-love anyway? It's going to, it's going to prepare you. It's not a dating book.  By the way, there's a link below to schedule a discovery call with me to get a copy of my, or to get my book and everything. So before I share these secret thoughts, I've been thinking a lot about commitment lightly. Do you know the definition of commitment in the dictionary? The definition of commitment. Well, let me backtrack for a second. I'll give you the definition in the dictionary, or at least in Google. But you know, it's interesting. Most women think of commitment as a safe place to land. That's where women tend to think of commitment as a safe place to land. Do you know the average dysfunctional guy thinks of commitment as a restriction of freedom? As a restriction of freedom. Isn't that interesting? Women look at it as a place, safe place to land. That's what it means to feel safe. And to guys, it feels like being tracked. Isn't that sad? Now I said dysfunctional guys. I literally know 20 men who are in awesome, juicy, delicious relationships.  They were very intentional about wanting to be in a committed relationship. Ladies, I'm going to give you a hint here.  Ask him, what does commitment mean to, ask him what it means to him? What does it look like? And I'm going to add a new one. Ask him what commitment feels like. I was listening to a video with John Gottman. He said, ask a man, what does commitment feel like? And pay attention. Because the guys who are dysfunctional will curl up. Oh my God, commitment. That's the last thing I want.  Ladies, I don't mean to make it about sex, but at the end of the day, the minute you have sex with a man, you bond with them.  Or worse, you chose someone like one of your parents to heal a childhood wound. In other words, how many of you ladies have daddy issues that were un... And listen, I'm not to disparage you whatsoever, but what I mean to say is you weren't loved by your father, so you choose men who will not love you hoping, daddy love me, daddy love me, daddy love me. That's the little kid inside saying, please love me. And by the way, we men have the mommy issue of wanting to be loved. Believe me, there's a picture of my mom and dad. My mom was, listen, lots of great qualities. And I'm totally gonna disparage her right now. But she was a slight borderline narcissist who used to emotionally abandon us whenever she got mad at my dad or one of my self or my siblings. And as a little kid, I'm like, mommy, why did you abandon me? And so I oftentimes chose women in my life that were also emotionally avoidant. This is why I have a little bit of an anxious attachment style. If you're not familiar with attachment style, I highly recommend checking out the book attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller. But Jonathan, all you're doing is recommending books. Folks, you want to change your life for roughly 150 to 200 bucks on Amazon.  I didn't bring up the book. I've been talking to a client today about Brene Brown. If you aren't following Brene Brown, look her up, Brene Brown, daring greatly.    All right. Told you, I kind of ramble a bit before I get into the content. So let's talk about those six secret thoughts a man has. That's my note.


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When I would discuss ASW with Admiral Greenert, he would often say, the best way to find another submarine is not necessarily with another submarine. That's like a needle in a haystack. It starts with good intelligence. And from that intelligence, you obtain cue. ASW is a combined arms operation and let no one forget that. Integrated air and missile defense. We have the best anti-ballistic missile in the world. And that is the SM-3. That SM-3 launched from Arleigh Burr Class warships is a bullet that hits another bullet at supersonic speed and space. We have demonstrated it twice in this theater. Tremendous success, part of what we do. And when we do these demonstrations, we are not alone. For deployed naval forces in Europe, we couldn't do all the missions that we do without our forward deployed forces in Europe. And we couldn't do this without partners either. When I talk about missile defense, let's not forget the incredible collaboration we get from our Romanian partners with our missile facility in Devocello and in Poland. We wouldn't be there if it weren't for the incredible generosity and relationship we have from our host nation in Spain. On countering violent extremism, this is something that we face every day. We want to take that fight to the violent extremists and keep them on their heels and keep them out of our own sovereign countries. The U.S. Navy continues to combat violent extremist organizations by dismantling networks of terrorist organizations in Syria, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere. We defend forward against that. That's the reason we're here. Enhancing African maritime security and since 2009 to present, their progress has been like night and day. And they have vessels that can get underway and challenge nefarious activity in the maritime and counter the pirate activity that's taking place. Whether it be in the Gulf of Guinea, a new surge there or maintain the status quo where we have beaten piracy on the east coast of Africa off of Somalia.


who reminds us that of his many qualities of his many attributes of his many characteristics that his mercy encompasses us all and he does not start with the one who is just in the Avenger of wrongs he starts with ar-Rahman the one who is universally merciful to all those who believe in or disbelieve regardless of who they are they are recipients of Allah Azza Wajan's mercy or ar-Rahim those that are those that receive his particular mercy right so though we receive existence we receive life we receive wealth we receive children but we also receive an abundance of wealth we receive an abundance of and we receive happiness with our children we receive the Quran we receive Hidayah we receive the Shafa'ah we receive the intercession of the beloved so Allah and the Akhirah and that is ar-Rahim the one who gives us gives us these particular mercy so when we say Bismillah that we start in the name of that Lord the Lord that has made us under his subject under his under his under his control that he has made us people who are oriented towards him Azza Wajan rather than oriented to anything else that would disappoint us it is from the mercy of Allah Azza Wajan that he has not left us to our own devices that he has not left us to just figure it out right it is not it is from the mercy of Allah Azza Wajan that he has sent us guidance it's from the mercy of Allah Azza Wajan that he has told us that we are imams of ourselves that we are imams of our own soul that is between our two sides when the Prophet says that every single one of you is a shepherd and every single one of you will be asked about your flock and you might think that I have no influence I do not have a circle of influence over any person in my life no one listens to me I'm not in any sort of religious leadership nor am I in any sort of political leadership I'm not the leader of my family I'm not the leader of my friends I'm not the leader and this this place or that place and this is not this does not mean that you're not a leader because at the very least you're the leader of the the nuts that you have inside of yourself the soul that you have inside of yourself that nuts that either calls you to do those things that are unbefitting of that soul that that soul was created to worship Allah Azza Wajan and it was not created to disobey him that that soul either does that and it's it's let loose to do what it wants it to engage in whatever desire that it has or it has taqwa it has God consciousness and this is a month in which Allah has ordained for us prescribed for us fasting he's commanded us to fast why لعلكم تتقون so that you have God consciousness so that when nobody is looking when nobody sees that you remember Allah is watching that Allah I am preventing myself from engaging in the halal of eating and drinking and so forth when other times I have difficulty engaging to have difficulty stopping myself from engaging in the haram that this is a month in which we are imbuing our souls with taqwa which we are filling our souls with taqwa God consciousness aware that Allah Azza Wajan is there and whatever level of taqwa we might have in the very least of that is to avoid his prohibitions and to enact his commandments to avoid those things that Allah has commanded us to avoid and to do those things that Allah has commanded us to do and if we can do that then our soul becomes a soul that is no longer a marabisu that is commanding it is this is commanding you to do evil it's the soul that is that soul that is that is reproaching you and in joining you to do good and that soul is the soul that is an Imam of your body you do not want to take the soul that is commanding you to do evil commanding you to displease Allah and His messengers and you do not want to take that soul as your Imam and so for taqwa starts primarily with leaving off the prohibitions of Allah and this month is a time when we train ourselves to not just leave his prohibitions but we even leave those things that are legitimate for us Imam Abu-l-Hassan Al-Shadrani one of the great spiritual masters of the tradition he says he says be wary of falling into sin falling into transgression falling into disobedience time and time again with absolutely no regard of the fact that you are falling into a sin time and time again that the one who because the one who transgresses the bounds of Allah that is an oppressor and the oppressor is not fit to be an Imam not fit to be a leader you are not fit to be a leader of yourself if you engage if we engage we're not fit to be leaders of our own bodies if we engage in things that brings about Allah's displeasure that we are not ready to take care of the flock of our own selves before worrying about taking the flock of those around us right our immediate family and then after that our extended family and then the circle of our friends and the circle of the community we cannot be people who are ready to have any sort of influence on another if we are not fit to be the Imam of our own selves and so we need to recognize that often times we transgress our own against our own selves the the oppression that we commit is often against our own selves and if we cannot recognize that and we do not take heed from from that we are going to see that there's going to be corruption spread in the land in the sea Allah says the corruption is sown in the land and in the sea with what the hands of people have earned the state that we are in we find ourselves in if we find a lack of khushua in our prayers if we find a lack of of presence in our prayers if we find that the umma is in a state that we don't want it to be in we find that our families are torn apart we find that our friends our circle of friends there's enmity and there's jealousy and there's aggression in between one another where did this come from bima kasabat aid in nas that this is with what the hands of people have earned that Allah is showing us that this is what our hands have earned and why so that they can taste they can experience they can feel something of what they did Allah is so merciful that he does not allow us to experience everything the repercussions of everything that we do is just a bit of what we do and in that affliction of feeling the repercussions of our actions is a mercy because Allah only does this so that we are aware that he is there that we are put into a sense of desperation that yeah Allah I cannot even control my own self yeah Allah I'm not fit of even controlling my own self so yeah Allah you take the reins yeah Allah that any good I do is from you and I say Allah praise be to Allah that Allah is the one that gave me that good and Allah is greater that he is the only source of that good and this I am you think about him be my but I don't know what I'm you know why I love him your ji'oon so that they can return back they can return back to Allah Azawajan so that if we want to be people who are imbuing our souls with Taqwa who are inculcating Taqwa God weariness in our lives this starts first and foremost by leaving off the prohibitions of Allah Azawajan it first starts with Taqliya with with with removing those characteristics for ourselves we cannot have Taqliya we cannot have adornment of our own selves our own souls with good characteristics and good qualities if we consistently sully and dirty our souls with evil acts and we cannot be people who are fit to lead our own selves an Imam is someone that you look at and you see that this is it this is a person that you want to you want to emulate right you look at them the Imam of all the Mursaleen sallAllahu alayhi sallam and you want to emulate him sallAllahu alayhi sallam and that and and and you look at him and the Taqliya that he has those beautiful characteristics he has with those beautiful characteristics be possible if he was if there were evil characteristics in him if that health of shaitan of that portion of shaitan was not taken out of him sallAllahu alayhi sallam would that be possible that we need to remove our and here shaitan is locked up in this month and we experience we experience that we don't have as much of an inclination to do evil acts in Ramadan even if we don't consider ourselves religious sometimes it's the guilt or the shame that brings us to stop doing evil deeds even if we're engaged in things even if we're engaged in things that are haram this in this month of Ramadan those people that we look at and we see them and they say and we tell ourselves this is a person that does not come to the masjid this is a person that that is not concerned about about Allah Azza wa Jad even that person that when we look at their Eman and this is beautiful that their Eman is so strong that it stops them from engaging in the prohibitions of Allah and so when we look at that person we should be reminded of Allah Azza wa Jad that this person who I look down upon is not engaging in those things that Allah has prohibited so what about myself I come to the masjid I'm at Juma I read Quran I am a person who has influence amongst my circle of friends right am I not myself a volume and my myself not an oppressor right and if you can turn and see the fault in yourself rather than the fault in the other that's how you know Allah wants good for you but if a lot busy you busy you with the faults of others and the the the gaps that people have in their character of their practice then you then Allah is Allah is distracting you from what you need to fix yourself what we need to fix ourselves from the villain the oppression that we commit ourselves against ourselves this is not oppression against Allah Azza wa Jad. Say Allah says this is one of the most hopeful ayaat in the Quran that oh say all my servants Allah is giving you that this is Allah's still that you are that we might transgress we might commit evil deeds but Allah says still says you are my servant. Say all my servants who have transgressed against themselves that do not have despair from the mercy of Allah. Allah forgives all sins right Allah forgives all sins one of the most hopeful ayaats in the Quran and so that we need to start in this Ramadan if we have not started now and if we think we've started we haven't really started if we think we've gotten somewhere we haven't really gotten anywhere yet right the people who if you've met the people who arrived did not think that they've arrived somewhere they see there are many deficiencies and they see the grace of Allah that he is not taking the Iman from them we need to start leaving those prohibitions and perhaps we don't commit major sins perhaps we don't even commit minor sins but there are thoughts that pass through our minds that we might have about ourselves or others about Allah Azza wa Jad that we're responsible for and the person who does this that the person who leaves off prohibitions and is patient through the afflictions that Allah has put them through because no one in this life will be free of affliction everyone will go through hardship the the most wealthy of us the most healthy of us and those that are the most sick of us and the the most destitute of us everyone will have afflictions so if you have sabr through those afflictions and you leave off your prohibitions and you are certain about the promise of Allah that it will come and certain of the fact that if you do not stop this Allah has also promised this threat then fahuwa imam wa inqallat atba'uhu that person is an Imam that person is a leader that person is is is set to lead them their own soul and lead their own bodies then and then in turn lead the other and then in turn lead the family and then in turn lead the extended family in this circle of friends and then extended community and so on and so forth that it starts with the self and if we want the facade the corruption in the earth and the sea right if we want if we want we can even say pollution in the earth and see to disappear the starts with ourselves to be my guess about aid in us we have to start with ourselves and that when we are afflicted with something that we take this as an opportunity to turn back to Allah say yeah Allah you have shown me the affliction of my own actions and yeah Allah I take this as a sign that I should come back to you I'll come to go to Hatha was the first of Allah only one of the side must mean you can't stop you know what the full raha is from now and I'm doing now was a lot of sunam on our son and I'll Ali he was a happy human well nothing that we said in the last 17 minutes or so is something that we haven't heard in our lives before we all know deep down in ourselves and it's that knowledge that we know in ourselves that brings us to the masjid that brings us to pray brings us to fast we all know that we're going to be accountable one day we all know that we have deficiencies we all no matter how hard we try to dilute ourselves that we are well we are good and well that we're fine and the others have and the other has a problem we all know that we have deficiencies and we all know there's there's room for improvement in all of us in this month of Ramadan is a madrasa it is a time of learning right of of dars of in the loss of erasure erasing those qualities right dars the word dars is related to word in the loss which means to erase right we should take this month as a time of dars and in the loss as a term of time of learning but also a time of erasure of those qualities that we're not fit that that Allah there's not fit to be in our souls Allah has created this this soul with nobility will a good carum na bani Adam Allah has and it has created your soul with nobility and Allah says we have a noble the child the child the children of Adam A.S. the soul was not made to engage in the prohibitions the soul is not made to be heedless of Allah Aziz and we know we know that deep down in ourselves whether we hear reminders or not we know that in ourselves and so we should take this as a month to engage in the Quran and engage in the Sunnah of the walking Quran so Allah send them and what if we are deficient in these two things that we bring these back into our lives and if if we are deficient in our engagement in our relationship with Allah Aziz and in our relationship with the Prophet ﷺ that this is a time that we renew that and we make we renew that covenant we have with with Allah and the Prophet ﷺ the covenant of alas to be rabbi kumqadu bala shahidna that am I not your Lord of course right of course and we witness to remind ourselves that we made that covenant and that we do not want to be presented as liars in front of Allah Aziz and so may Allah Aziz and make us people of taqwa may Allah Aziz and make us imams of our own selves may Allah Aziz and make us righteous imams may Allah Aziz and make us people who are worthy of having the flock may Allah Aziz and give us God consciousness may Allah Aziz and give us patience may Allah Aziz and give us gratitude may Allah Aziz Aza second gives us faith and trust may you hate God maybe gives us certainty may you give us God make people who are care良ed to ourselves and to a lot and to the other and we may be sources of mercy for others may we be sources of mercy for others that when others look at us they they're reminded of their Merciful Lord Azawajan, they remind them of their Merciful Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. May we be prophetic in our states, in our actions, in our words, in our Aqwal, Af'al, and Ahwal. May we be people whose hearts imbue Eman unto others. May our hearts be hearts that when people are engaged with those hearts, that is sufficient for them to become meaning, sufficient for them to become believers. May Allah Azawajan make us people of solace and peace. May Allah Azawajan make us people who have peace in our lives who are a source of peace for others. May Allah Azawajan make us recognize that Allah is the ultimate source of peace. The ultimate source of Salam. Allahumma anta al-salam. Wa minka al-salam. Tubarak ta'iyyad al-injalali wa laykaram ha'ina. Wa dikhil al-adha al-salam. Rabbana aatina fid dunya hasana. Wa fil aakhirati hasana quna aadab al-naar. Rabbana hablana min az-wajina. Wa dhibriyatina qurta ta'ina. Wa ja'anna lil muttaqini imama. May Allah Azawajan have mercy on our teachers, particular first teachers, our parents. Rabbir hamhuma kama rabbianis aghira. Rabbir hamhuma kama rabbianis aghira. Rabbir hamhuma kama rabbianis aghira. May Allah Azawajan allow us to recognize that Allah and His angels send their prayers and peace upon them as the beloved Salah has sent them.


Hi, this talk will be about what machine learning can and can't do for security. So my name is Wendy Edwards. Let me start by introducing myself. I'm from Urbana, Illinois, which is about 200 kilometers south of Chicago. It is probably most famous as the birthplace of HAL 9000 in 2001. So I work in my day job as a software developer. I am part of the NASA data notch, which is what gave me an interest in data science and machine learning. And I also got to participate in the 2017 SAMS Women's Academy. And on Twitter, I am Wayward710, and my pronouns are she and her. So what are we going to talk about? Let's start with terminology and concepts. And we'll have some examples. And we're all talking about the limitations of machine learning. So first, probably a lot of you have heard of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. And they kind of, and they're essentially kind of nested within each other. AI is the broadest category in machine learning and then deep learning. So basically, artificial intelligence, if you recall since I'm from Urbana, which is the birthplace of HAL 9000, this here is a picture of HAL 9000. And artificial intelligence, which would include HAL, would be the 4-HF computer science that basically attempts to emulate human intelligence. And slightly more neverly defined, we get machine learning. So machine learning is really actually a lot of math. And it looks for patterns and inferences. And you can have something called super, you got things called supervised and unsupervised learning. Those are the main categories. And so supervised learning, probably anybody in stats may have heard about a prior probability called Bayesian modeling. And that is heavily used by supervised learning. And with unsupervised learning, you're basically drawing abstractions from unlabeled data sets. So for example, with supervised learning, you tend to have labeled data sets, which means you have the answers. Unsupervised learning, you don't have the data sets. You don't have the answers. The data sets are not necessarily labeled. And they could draw abstractions for these unlabeled data sets. So of course, one challenge with unsupervised learning could be making sure that you have it right. And then we'll talk about deep learning, which also use the concept of neural learning. So neural networks are actually not anything. They were invented in 1942. And so they're basically modeled on the whole idea of layers of neurons. So they're modeled after the human brain. So the layers are made out of nodes. And so the nodes is basically just where computation happens, which is kind of how a neuron works. And essentially, it fires where it can encounter sufficient stimuli. So the node combines input from data with a set of coefficients or weights that either amplify or dampen that input. So it's like, do you want more of this input or less of that input? So the algorithm by going through this process is trying to learn what will get the, kind of, what will bring you the closest to the right answer. And here we have a picture of a neural network. So it's what's called a B4 or neural network. So you have an input layer. Then in this case, you have one hidden layer with four neurons. But you would have more or less neurons or more or less hidden layers. And you have an output layer. So that is essentially just what you're talking about. And now we're going to look at some videos showing neural networks. So you can kind of see, I don't think the animation works. You can kind of see it's gradually getting better. Because you're talking about the test loss and training loss. And you want those losses to be as small as possible. But you kind of see, it's actually just trying to accurately categorize the dots and the picture. And you can see it's getting closer and closer. This is basically the TensorFlow program, which anybody can use. It's just a very interesting way to see neural networks in action. So when you talk about neural networks, you're having to talk about tweaking parameters. And that means you might adjust your inputs. You might adjust your layers to have more or less. And so here, let's see what happens if we tweak it by just adjusting the input a little bit. By doing that, we actually add it. We stay with only one hidden layer or four neural networks. We added more features, which are more inputs. And if you watch it closely, you can see it was very accurate. But it worked a lot more quickly than the previous one. And that could be actually very significant when you have big data. And then in here, we're actually going to look at just a slightly different kind of manner. And then actually that, if I recall correctly, works a lot more quickly if you have fewer input layers. But that is just a neural network in action. And you can kind of see for the weights of a line, which inputs are weighted higher or which inputs are weighted lower. Essentially, deep learning, when we talk about it, it could also be called stacked neural networks. So we've got a network composed of several layers. Big data is a very big challenge. One thing that's helped with neural networks is advancements in GPU processing. And GPU processing is a graphical processing unit. And that's often used in basically big computing. So it's not a solar bullet because it needs an extensively labeled data set. And that is a lot easier to say than do. But if you can get that, if you can get such a thing, there are a whole lot of things you can do with it. You can use computer visions, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation. I don't know if you've ever used like the Google Translate or depot.com, but those are machine learning. And for security, it can also detect anomalies in user and network elements. And that's going to be very important. Basically, for you to use machine learning, what do you do with the data? So with data selection, it's simply you're deciding, OK, so you've got a data set. Like, let's say you've got a PCAP file, you've got something. So what part, what information in this thing do you care about? What do you want to represent? And that's often considered, that's often called your feature set. And the most machine learning algorithms you're going to need to encode the data in some kind of mathematical fashion, like just dumping the raw data usually is not going to work. And then there's normalization. So normalization, essentially you're transforming values to a range between 0 and 1. And this is just something that you do to get your data ready for machine to plug into a machine learning algorithm. And then this would be an example of normalization. Like, you're looking at the number of requests per second in your CPU utilization percentage. And that could be, that could tell you like if you're being hammered by a DDOS attack, is a Bitcoin miner gracing you while you were circle with this presence is something wrong going on. So in here, the request per second feature have a range 10 times larger than those of the CPU percentage feature. And so if we didn't normalize those values, the distance calculation would be really skewed. And so we just address it. We basically address this by normalizing both features to the 0 to 1 range, which is a pretty simple map. So essentially one big thing in machine learning is pattern recognition. So you're trying to discover explicit or latent characters in state hidden in the data. And one thing about that is that you can use an algorithm to recognize other forms of the data into the same characteristics. Like, for example, botnets or command and control channels. You very often see similar behavior. You also see similar patterns say in malware. So essentially clustering. Clustering, the whole idea behind clustering is that bad things happen together. So with clustering, you want to find how do you group things into clusters? And you want to group things in a cluster so that they're more similar to other things in the same cluster than they are to other things. And there are different techniques you could use, k-means and db-scan are two big ones. db-scan, the advantage of db-scan is that you don't have to start with a preset number of clusters. So let's talk about a clustering example. So this is good. I just put the URL up close to slides. This is where they're clustering incidents together. They actually, I believe, incorporate either such as Splunk. So you can recognize similar instances and keep crack of responses in a similar manner. So all the time you're stuck, you're going to have a lot of these disparate inputs coming from different sources. So you'll get all your sources you'll collect. And then this will basically group them into incidents. Incidents, basically, a collection of events happening on the same machine at the same time. A lot of them, they may have the same group cause. And so basically, you could find these similar incidents maybe not on the same machine, maybe across from the artwork. They could save the SOC analyst a whole lot of time because the SOC analysts sometimes often get to spend their time doing a lot of very tedious stuff. So clustering takeaways, you could apply it to a lot of different kinds of data. You do need some statistical validation. And it's very useful when you have a whole lot of data that you need to find a way to sift through more efficiently. So that is clustering. Classification. So classifications a little bit differently because classifications, you've got these predefined class. And you're trying to figure out what the odds are that a sample will be part of this class. Classification is an example of supervised learning which means you have to start with a pre-laid set data set. And one point is that a sample can belong to multiple classes at the same time. Like for example, a mango could be part of food, yellow, tropical, whatever. And it's like so, so for an example of classification, one really big, very common classification problem related to security is classifying email is spam or benign or possibly phishing. Sometimes phishing gets its own classification. So let's try just some examples that you might do classification and security. You might look for a botnet because there's just a lot of commonalities with that. And then this is what, this is basically what a Microsoft study did. They basically, so they took, they issued a bunch of set HTTP requests to these servers and they were looking for a very specific set of a bot software. To be honest, it wasn't catching any kind of bot, it was catching a kind with a very common bot related control panel that used WordPress. So they were querying it and then they were using, and then they were creating a, they were using a decision-free model. Like so for example, like they were sending requests to pass that were kind of consistent with known sketchy sites. And then this, for example, might be what a decision-free could look like if you were trying to categorize an unknown, a website is a botnet command and control site whether or not. Like you could say, do you hit a whole lot of daily visitors? If yes, it's probably not. Has it made your Alexa top site list? If yes, probably not. Well, but maybe it's not getting many visitors in your URLs auto-generated. That's a bad, it's not on your list and there's an existing print intel report on it. That's not good either. That's probably a bot, or there's probably a botnet. Just classification and taking ways. So classification again is a supervised learning model. There's four phases of that training, validation, testing and deployment. So let's say with classification, you have to break your data into training and testing data. And one thing with classifiers is that it's not necessarily an absolute oracle. It's not telling you that it definitely is or it's definitely not. It's telling you how likely it is that something belongs to a particular category. Like so for example, like in your email, you know how like the nine emails sometimes get caught in your spam filter and spam sometimes get through. That's an example of it not being perfect. So another example, like finding malicious PowerShell scripts. So one of the things that people of PowerShell, the attackers using PowerShell like to do is obfuscate your scripts. Like for example, any idea what this means? Yeah, me neither. So what they did was they took a whole lot of PowerShell scripts and they used something called, and this is a very interesting example of machine learning uses natural language processing. So there's all these techniques and LLP that could attempt to extract meaning out of words. And so they used one of a well-known one called the word Chevec algorithm. They were able to actually extract these tokens and represent them in a way that showed the context. And this is just the graphic, it's just an example of some clusters they found doing this way. So what they basically did was they had a very large sort of a pretty script already labeled Cleaner Malicious. And they're, and basically a project worked very well. It did really well with recognizing aliases, which are pretty commonly used in PowerShell. And so, and yeah, it was pretty successful. So another thing you're doing is anomaly detection. So essentially you've got to think about what represents normal? So what is normal? What described in your dataset could be anything. It could be like your network logs, your logs, your network flow, whatever. And then if something is happening that's outside normal, that's considered outliers. And so a lot of times unusual is not necessarily bad, but it often is. It's like, so it often might suggest fraud or something like that. So even an intrusion detection system are also like an IDS. What do you want?  You want a reasonable growing curve. You want something that can keep on security chains constantly. And you probably will have only a limited amount of resources and then explainable alerts. Like, for example, if you get an alert, you don't want to disable somebody's account without knowing why. And then these are just some things we look for in host intrusion detection system, your processes. You have a sketchy user account, you have an unusual kernel modules loaded. Are you looking up, I don't know, are you looking up sites that are known bad, doing DS, look up to sites that are problem, unusual network connection or have there been unexplained changes made to your registry? We'll just look for that kind of thing. There's a fairly, there's a pretty useful tool for post-inclusion data inspection called OS query. So, I mean, it can measure reliability and compliance, but it's often used for intrusion detection. So, for example, for example, you can schedule it, you can populate queries to be able to be queried later. One limitation is not built to operate a known trusted environment. And it does not have any built-in orchestration, but it can work with Chef, Ansible, Popwood, whatever that. So, network intrusion detection. Okay, so you've got to compromise post. It's probably going to need to initiate communication somehow because a lot of heads like a firewall is not going to let you go in and make an established connection with that host. So, some examples that are like your botnets, APT, your adware, your spyware, you've got an order choice you use. TCP, though, basically will capture all your network traffic. Snord is a rules-based engine. Zeke, which is all formerly known as Rural supports deep packet inspection. That's kind of got its own programming language. It's traditionally, it's signatures, but that can be kind of a limitation. For example, like when you're dealing with a zero-day or something like that, it does not have a signature. And then these would be some of the things you would look for in web application intrusion detection. You're basically unusual IP addresses. Like you've got maybe like a website that's just local and you're suddenly getting like a lot of traffic from China, Russia, Iran, fly. Basically, if you're getting really strange URL, entities, they may be trying to, they may be trying to buzz it. If they're using strange characters, they may be looking for vulnerabilities or other things that suggest SQL injection. User agent patterns, like for example, if you're doing automated access, if you're using Coral or something, you don't say your user ID, it won't show one. And mailware analysis, that's kind of group, that's basically group by family. You've got a couple of ways you can analyze your static. It's traditionally identified by signature matching, but that won't pet your zero-days. Typically, a static analysis is when you look at the P, you look at the code, maybe you decompile it.  And then these would just be some of the things you would see in Android mailware, your strange strings, API calls, network. Like for example, you might see references to system binary, server addresses, checks to see if you're running an emulated environment, like you've got mailware, maybe they want to know if you're running it in a sandbox. And again, like we talked about a previous example, obfuscation. And I've got to show my jeannexiness. I don't know if anybody recognizes this guy, but this is Bob Seger in the Silver Bullet Band. So basically it's no Silver Bullet. As you talked about before, you've explained ability, like do you always, you know why it is or why it's giving an alert. There's a whole lot of human knowledge to our research. Others, probably it's called overfitting, underfitting. Underfitting is like when it doesn't figure data very, your data very well, period. Overfitting is like for example, it matches your training data too well, but not your real-world data. Garbage in, garbage out, which means you start with bad data.  So basically you're taking away, you've got the potential to automate some tasks and if they increase efficiency. So the ability to look for anomaly detection or stuff that's going on strange is very useful for zero days or APDs or stuff that does not have signatures established. Risk of error, like, I mean, one example, I feel like we all saw was Facebook tried to automate some of its content management, you saw it doing some, and I think a lot of us saw it doing some really strange things. So there's always a risk of error and we'll, I think we'll always need competent security professionals. This isn't going to replace us. And then these are just some examples of machine-wearing software you could use. Yeah, I would use some credits to my sources and list some additional resources and thank you so much for your time.


What is up guys? I'm going to be showing you how to do closed caption on your videos on YouTube today. A lot of people requested this tutorial, so I thought I would show them. It's really actually kind of easy with the new tools that YouTube has implemented as of late. So let's take a look. This is my latest video. What I'm going to do is click transcribe and set timings. And from there, what you end up doing is you type the words that you hear. The video will pause itself to allow you to catch up. And then when you stop typing, the video automatically continues playing. And then you can start typing again. It'll pause. And let's do a little bit of a demonstration here. So YouTube now attracts 1 billion views with over 6 billion percent of that plot. See guys? It's as easy as that. I'm going to pause that video. Let's do a little bit of a time lapse because I'm not going to make you sit through this whole video and watch me transcribe it. So here we go. And that's it. I just typed the whole script of my video down. I guess transcribe would be the word that I'm looking for. And so when you're done typing here, you see we've come to the end cards of this video. I'm going to click set timings and YouTube will automatically pair this with how I was speaking in the video and set the correct times and basically just put it together for me. It's actually really easy and I don't have to touch it. I just got to leave it alone for a couple of minutes and it'll set itself perfectly. So guys, let me know if this was helpful. I want you to at least give it a try on your own videos and let me know how it goes. So take care guys. I've been Alex Adams, senior manager at Freedom and you've been watching Let's Discover Freedom. Click the first video to learn what is freedom and how it helps you grow. Click the second video to learn about sponsorships for all Freedom partners, even if you have just 10 subscribers. And click the other videos like How Do I Leave Freedom to learn more? Click Get More Views to learn how to build your audience faster on YouTube. Click Get More CPM to learn how to make more money from your channel. And click Get More Music to learn where to get more music to spice up your videos. Click the first playlist to watch The George Show on Freedom. That's my show. Or watch The Anthony Show or The Alex Show also on Freedom.


Hi, beautiful. Thanks for joining me today. Now, since last week, I tortured myself watching relaxer fails. Like I don't think I've ever had to leave the room so many times in one video. It was torturous, it was horrifying. I hope all those girls are okay. Today we're doing something a little more fun, which is watching people color their hair, shades of the rainbow. All types of different glorious, beautiful, saturated colors. And the best part of all is that they'll be using my hair color line. I cannot wait to see what people create. So let's watch some videos. Up first, we have a video by Hannah Bell. It's 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night, the best time in my opinion to completely change your hair entirely. I'm still gonna keep it pretty similar to what it is right now, but I'm going to be dyeing like some color block in my hair. Right now I have some purple in it, some pink in it, some blonde in it. I haven't dyed it in about a month. I would say maybe a little bit longer. Yeah, there's definitely a lot going on there, Hannah. A lot of different colors, a lot of fading. Some purple, some blonde, some brown, I don't know. Let's get it together. Make it more cohesive today, huh? I hope that's what we're doing. The bottom's a little bit darker still with the purple. I had super purple before for the last time that I dyed it. I'm going to be using turquoise from X-Mondo color. I'm very excited about this. Yes! Oh, I love turquoise. I love blue, I love green. They have sex? They create turquoise. So that's just like sexy to me. Like, you know, blue and green are just like eh, we love each other so much we're going to create a love child called turquoise. That's a good baby's name. Turquoise Mondo. No, I actually have a different name for my potential kid in the future. It's way cooler than that, but I will never share it because nobody is to steal a name. Except I don't think anybody's going to want the name.  Okay, let's go from baby names back to the video we were watching. All right, great. I am going to be bleaching my roots in some areas that I'm doing. Like the color block, I'm doing a little streak right here and then some underneath as well.  Oh, I love that concept so much, so much. I don't think I've ever loved anything more. I hope she has a very cool brown though because otherwise turquoise and like a warm brown looks a little bit ugly, but maybe she'll make it work. I don't know. We'll see. I'm also going to have to bleach her bangs again. The bottom half is light enough for turquoise, but the top is not. The lighter you want the end result to be, the lighter you had to lighten your hair. I hope that was obvious. I don't even know why I said that. Do you understand what I meant by that? For bleach, I'm using my Purvana Pure Light Ultra Lightener and she's using 30 volume. Slay, that sounds like a plan. 30 volume and lighter. Let's do it. She is attacking those roots and doing a great job. She has so much regrowth that she needs to actually go and do that sort of band first and then she can go back and do her roots second because the heat from the scalp is going to make the hair process faster. You don't want to apply it on the scalp right away. She's applying to the scalp right away. All right, nevermind. I hope I'm not confusing you with that because typically on a retouch you would, you know, do the roots first. That's all that there is, but she has so much regrowth that you're going to need to hit the sort of middle part first and then you can do the roots after. I don't know, this stuff is so hard to explain sometimes. You know what, I'm leaving it there. I'm not even going to try it today. I don't feel like it. Luckily she's doing a fashion color so if this isn't completely even, it's gonna be fine. Fashion colors are usually pretty forgiving unless you're doing a very light color like yellow or orange or something like that. It's a little bit more difficult. All right, now we're bleach bathing the ends. I think that's a great idea to get that color out or, you know, I love my Malibu treatment, CPR. I love my Gai-Ting color remover. Those two also work very well and the roots are looking good. Wait a damn minute. Sometimes y'all do things that aren't right, but it works. Pretty decent palette to start with. In this case, if we're doing turquoise, I might have toned her hair to a nice icy blonde before applying the turquoise. That way you get a really pure turquoise result because if it goes over yellow and it's turquoise, it might be a little more gray than blue. She applied that first little, my favorite part. You know what it is. And it's going on like a dream. It looks so good. It looks so pretty on her already. She has that pink undertone on her skin so that these cool colors just pop. Oh, it's looking great. Now let's tone the back. She's using 5&A. Thank God, that is a super, super cool brown color. NAs in Redken Shadesy Q is like gray. Shadesy Q, you're actually supposed to apply to dry hair. You can do either one, but it does dilute the formula if you apply it to wet hair or damp hair. I would recommend applying it to dry hair next time if you want the results to last longer and be more pigmented and more rich in tone. Look at that color. That is actually insane. Like, holy cow.  This is the complete finished result and I'm actually obsessed with it. I've never had this shade of blue. Oh, God! The hair cut with the blow dryer, with the turquoise, with the 5&A in the back. Oof, the combination is epic. It's perfection. Her hair looks so shiny and healthy too. Woo, she pulled that together. XMondo never seared me wrong. Like, look at how cute this is. I straightened it. I really wanna see how it looks curly too, but I love just like the tone of it. It's such a pretty blue turquoise and I already got so many compliments on it. I love the accent of the blue underneath too. Like just spectacular. I absolutely am so obsessed with this color. I love X-Mondo color. I love their products, their hair care, literally everything about them is just absolutely amazing. So I couldn't speak more highly of this hair color and just X-Mondo as a brand. They are doing amazing things in this world and I am completely obsessed with this color. I think I'm gonna rock it for a while. I really think so. I really like it. Oh, I love you. I did not pay her to say that. I love you. Shocked with how like even this came out, I'm gonna be honest because I had so much regrowth that I literally had no idea if the bleach would come out even or if the blue itself would come out even. I gotta admit, I feel like I did a pretty dang good job. It's pretty even. I'm obsessed. I love this look. I'm shocked at how even it is too. You got real lucky. It looks so good. Amazing. F***ing job. Up next, we have a video by Kaya Jadon. I'm going to be dyeing my hair. I'm going to be using some X-Mondo hair color today. And I've got Rodeolite and I also got Garnet. And she's using the new Jewel Tome of Colors. Yo! God, they're so pretty. Rodeolite's my favorite one of all. I don't think I'm saying that right. Rodeolite, Rodeolite, Radalite. How else do you say it? Radalite, Rodeolite. Somebody correct me below. I don't know how to say that. It's my own product. I named it and I don't know how to say it. That makes a lot of sense. I'm going to do Garnet roots over here with Rodeolite everywhere else. And then I'm going to switch it up in this little tiny section. And I'm just going to do Rodeolite roots and Garnet here. Ah, my God.  I can already tell. She does, however, have an interesting base that she's working on because her roots, about two inches of her roots are yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow. Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow. And then the rest of her hair is a nice pale blonde. So when she puts that Garnet, which is a very deep, glorious purple, it's going to mix with the yellow and yellow and purple cancel each other out. It's going to mute the purple a little bit. It should be fine.  So it should be able to cover a lot. So this is Garnet. So I'm going to take this brush, put it right here. I'm going to have Garnet roots. I love the idea of having the deeper purple roots and having the extremely bright pink ends. The only thing I'm a little worried about is she said she's going to do the opposite in one of the sections. So Rota Lea roots with the Garnet ends. I don't know. The colors are not the same for sure, but when you put purple next to pink, sometimes they blend together and you don't really notice the difference that much. So we'll see what happens. Beautiful, beautiful pink. Oh wow. Oh wow, it's right. It is bright. That first time you lay Rota Lea on the hair, it is sparkly, gorgeousness, cool, cool pink. I'm really excited about this, but I'm not excited about the fact that I have bangs. Is there really hard to do it? As she works on this, I kind of wish she did her bangs like all the Rota Lea color and then the back all the Garnet color. Like I just feel like that would be so interesting and fun for her. And I like her bangs and I want to make them like kind of an accent around her face. Do you guys feel me on that one? Are we on the same page? Or what? I'm glad she's taking very thin sections going on one side with the color and then the other side. And she's applying a lot of color. That is so important when you're using any kind of color really, but especially when it's my color. I can speak on behalf of my color. Use a good amount of it. That's not me trying to make you buy more, I swear. Like you really need to saturate the hair. When it's a very conditioning color, the more saturation, the better color payoff. So we want it vibrant, so you put a lot. Wouldn't it be kind of fun if she just left the roots pink too and then didn't do anything to the rest of her hair? Like just had blonde ends and the pink roots. Like that will be also a vibe. Are you ready for this? This is a garnet. All right, we're laying down the garnet. Let's see how she does. She's doing a pretty good job. Like look how thin her sections are and how saturated they are. That is so important. You go girl.  She is working her way around the head of being precise, being thorough with everything I'd like to see. It is dead, I just can't get any better.  So just got better. She's killing it. And the colors are looking so saturated.  Usually hair is dry if you bleach it, right? Lightener doesn't, they agree with hair. No matter what you do, it's still, it's a tricky situation. But since my color has bomb builder, proteins, oils, shine inducing ingredients, this is gonna make your hair look and feel 10 times better. And that's always my goal. So I'm about to finish this section. This poor girl though, this is taking forever. This video's only 25 minutes long and it's sped up. I can only imagine how long she actually took to do this. Like, I gave myself a haircut today and it took me like 30 minutes and I was like, I don't wanna do this anymore. Is it just me? Do people enjoy that?  Let me know, cause like I can't be bothered. It's not therapeutic, it's not fun. But the outcome is fun. Like I love seeing what my hair looks like at the end and I just feel brand new and fresh. Like I do feel kind of fresh today. I feel like cutting my hair makes my teeth look whiter. Is that crazy? Okay, yeah, crazy. We're just gonna work it in here preferably. I see a spot where I want it. I'm gonna massage it in there. Be careful massaging the color in too much because we still want that root to appear like it's a different color than the ends. If you're kind of distributing the garnet color onto the rhodolite, the garnet is going to overpower the rhodolite because it's darker and it's going to rub off and it's going to make the roots darker. So I really wanna see that big transition from that pink to the purple. Don't keep touching it, don't. No. All right guys, now it's time to start the pink section. Fun! We got this girl. We can do it. It's gonna look so good. I just wanna see the result. I wanna see it now. Time to do the pink. Wow. This color is really pretty. I'm gonna try to speed run through this and I'll see you guys when I'm done with my banks. I am just gonna start using my hands. She's gotten real crazy with it. Now it's time to start that. Even with the color in right now, it's just like so vibrant and so beautiful. All right guys, we have one section down and I'm supposed to be at work in eight minutes. Oh my goodness gracious. And now I'm going to wait 20 minutes and then I'm going to wash this out. All right, it's time to wash the hair and now I get to finally see the finished results. I have been dying for this. I needed this today. Look at my hair. I look so freaking cute. This is the garnet and this is the rodeo light and it's just like all beautiful. Brad, I approve your color. Oh my gosh. Popped up before and after.  Oh my God. Like, whoa, you look so good. Damn, I am obsessed. You killed it. I love the colors. It looks so with your skin tone. Check, check, check, check, five stars, eight plus. That's a win for me. I'm gonna take that one. Do we have time for one more? I don't wanna go yet. Not yet, monkey. We're not done yet. So doos, we're not done yet, monkey. Come here, come here. Oh, look at this long, lanky body. Up next, we have a video by Camille. So this is what we're starting with. I had red hair that grew out and faded a bit and just bleached my roots in literally one round with the lowest developer I've ever used. But this is the perfect base for a bright pink and you can see that from the roots to the red is a bit of an ombre already from me bleaching the roots. So that's gonna be helpful. But either way, you can use this method to create an ombre on any base that's light enough. Yeah. I get to see a curly hair video today. Yes, she has a magnificent curls. For bleaching her hair, her curls have really withstood the test of the bleach. I'm so surprised her curls are still so beautiful after doing so much lightning. I'm sectioning my hair in half and then the other half in half. So it's in workable sizes. And it doesn't matter which section you start with since it's a color-depositing semi-permanent dye so you don't have to stress about time. You don't have to stress about time. You can leave this product on for a while. You don't have to stress about time. You can leave this product on for literally days. Wouldn't recommend it. But it's not gonna break your hair. It's gonna only make it feel better, look better and be actually better internally. So that's a great, that's a great plus. To make the ombre seamless, I'm mixing the pink and the red together for a color that's halfway in between. I always start with the light color and add small amounts of the darker color at a time because making a color look halfway doesn't mean putting equal parts of each color.   I don't need to explain that one. Once you have your halfway color, I recommend doing a strand test to double check that the color will show up the way that you want it to. The pink is a bit brighter than it looks inside the container and definitely warmer than the label which looks more magenta slash purplers. So a big thing with the labeling guys, with the labels on our products, the label color is created based off of what the end results looks like on a level 10 hair swatch. So that is how we create them. What it looks like in the jar is not what the end result looks like. But what's on the label is supposed to be more accurate to what you may get if you have a level 10 head of hair. Unfortunately, we can't make a label that shows everything but yeah, that's what it's supposed to be. Next I'm using my halfway shade to blend the middle section into a bit more of a red color to make the transition seamless and it did exactly what it needed to do. And lastly, I'm using the reds on the ends and it looks perfect. So I'm gonna move on to my whole head. Oh my God!  Girl, put gloves on now. There is a little ombre going on already. So I'm using that as the fourth transition zone and just putting the same pink on both parts so it ombrates itself. But of course that is optional and just a convenient perk of looking this crazy between colors. I think these colors look great on just one round of bleach without being toned because my hair is light enough for the color to pop and the untoned blonde is warm just like the dyes. Okay, I want you to apply more next time and use gloves and literally just take a bunch of it, put it on since you're basically doing the same color all over. You don't have to be organized with it when you're using some permanent color like this if you're doing one color over everything. Just make sure once it's all on there and globed on you take a comb, a wide tooth comb and you get it all through there or even like a detangling brush. Anything, all right? I actually love using dirty a** brush on my table. Let's pretend it's clean but like something like a detangling brush is great for putting inside permanent color. This is a very conditioning product so it should glide right through your hair. My goal is always to do the fewest processes possible on my hair and in the least damaging way. So that's why I chose pink to red because I can utilize and refresh the red ends of my hair without a fading or bleaching process and add a similar color or one next to it on the color wheel. And now it's a whole new look that also keeps your hair as healthy as possible. Yes, we love a smart girl who knows how to use her color wheel. Color theory is the best. It's the most fun.  This is looking magical, dude. Like this looks so delicious and gorgeous. I am loving what's going on. I'm working my way through the sections and slicking them on top of themselves to keep them out of the way while I'm working. I don't know how she's managed to only get color on one of her hands. That is some talent. How are you doing this?   That's more impressive than what the color is about to do. I also like to slick it down with Mordi to hold it in place and also make sure everywhere is completely saturated.  Yeah, that's very true. You gotta glob it on the front because you don't want those baby hairs blonde. I hate that.  It's like, girl, the babies need some coverage too. They need protection. Next up is the transition shade and I'm placing that three quarters of the way down and blending it outwards towards the bottom and lightly blending it towards the pink roots without overpowering the color. I feather it downwards lightly so it's easier to blend into the red and prevents the red from overpowering the colors above or making it look blocky instead of a smooth transition. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's got a full on plan and she's smart. By the way, I love doing this with my fingers without gloves because I can really feel every detail which makes it easier for me to be precise and for me to do this myself, especially because when I'm doing the back I do what mostly I feel. Well, that's interesting.   If that works for you and you don't mind washing your hands vigorously, vigorously, more power to you.  Once you're done, leave it in for 20 to 1,000 minutes and then rinse it out in cool water in the shower. Eh, the results, it's result time. After it dried, this is what it looks like. Bright, fresh, healthy and stunning. I'm obsessed. If there is ever a day for Brad Mondo to notice me, this is the day and this is the video. Oh, hair was so healthy and so bouncy and so pink and red. Oh, wow, that was probably my favorite. I don't know, that was just magical. Like, her curls are just like, so beautiful and zero frizz. How do you style your hair like that? It looks like perfection, but the color, everything. It's just beautiful. What? Yes. I loved that. That was so fun. Thank you guys for making those videos and if you guys ever tried my hair color and my hair products at home, record a video and post it so I can react to it and see it because it makes my entire life and it makes it all worth it. I just love the confidence it brings over you guys when you try products, even if it's not mine. I love seeing a transformation.  So that's why I love hair and that's why I love what I do and that's why I love creating hair products. If you wanna shop any X-Modal colors or X-Modal hair care products, they're all linked below. We're going to X-Modalhair.com. That's all for today. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye.