وَالْضْبِ اللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانَ الْرَجِيمِ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَانَ الْرَّهِيمُ وَبِيْهِ نَسْتَعِينَ وَالْسَلَاتُ وَالْسَلَامُ وَالَا خَيْلَ الْخَلْقِكِ وَخَاتِمْ هُلَا مْبِيَائِ وَالْمُرْسَلِينَ سَيْدَنَ الْأَوَلِينَ وَالْأَخَرِينَ وَالْحَبِيْا المُضْنِبِينَ رَحْمَةٌ لِلْعَلَمِينَ وَحَبِيبَ إِلَّاهِ الْعَلَمِينَ وَالْحَبِيبَ إِلَّاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ الذي سُمَّعَ في السماءِ بَأَهْمَدُ وَفَالْأَرَذِي بِأَبَ الْقَاسِ مُحَمَّدُ اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم ومالسلات والسلام وعلى أهل بيتها الطيبين الطاهرين المأسومين المبلومين المنتجبين وعلى الله العديم في محكم كتابه كريم والقولوك الحق ولاستقل قائنين عوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم أفلا يتدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أخفالها أمنى بالله صدق الله العليء العديم صلى الله عليه وسلم وعالي محمد يوم الحقيبة الدورية초 مأ salvation وعلى الله العديم ويوم walk ويوم конц Glenn وكي ي Bacon أن تفتح مجموعة التي تأخذها في هذا المنزل المنزل is the change of our bodies when you have to fast for 16 hours for 30 consecutive days your body is going to change physically depending on the food that we eat the nights and the days they become very difficult for us but we see that narrations of the time in the house they stress that the month of Ramadan should be a month which changes our bodies physically for the better the Hadith from the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it states that fast and you will become healthy thus during the month of Ramadan in reality we should be intaking a lot less not intaking the amount that we would normally eat in the last 7 or 8 hours when the sun has set so thus we come forth and we see that the first aspect of reformation during the holy month of Ramadan is bodily physical change that insha'Allah will improve our health and secondly and of course most importantly the dimension of spiritual change the change of our hearts and the change of our souls during this blessed month of Shah Ramadan that aspiration the goal is that our hearts are to be presented toward Allah سبحانه و تعالى with absolute purity at the culmination of these 30 days of the blessed month of Ramadan and when we take a look at this particular aspect of the human heart we see that the Holy Quran Allah سبحانه و تعالى has mentioned the Quran in terms of 3 different types the first type of heart that he mentions and when he mentions heart within the Quran or when the heart is mentioned within the narrations of Ahl Al-Bayt when I'm speaking about the physical heart or we're speaking about the spiritual heart we see that the spiritual heart is in 3 different phases the first phase is what is known as قلب سليم إلا من أت الله بقلب سليم the verse in the Holy Quran states that your children and that your wealth are going to be no use for you on the day of judgment the only thing that is going to be useful for you is the pure heart من أت الله بقلب سليم the second type of heart that Allah سبحانه و تعالى mentions within the Holy Quran is known as the sick heart he mentions several times في قلوبهم مرضا فزادهم الله مرضا that for these disbelievers who are constantly rejecting Allah سبحانه و تعالى their hearts are sick and when they continue to transgress Allah سبحانه و تعالى compounds that sickness and compounds that disease within their hearts the third type of heart that Allah سبحانه و تعالى mentions within the Holy Quran is what is known as قلوب قاسية or what is known as a hard heart these three levels the first level is the healthy the pure the clean heart the second level is the sick heart that has been inflicted by disease due to sin and the third heart is what is known as قلوب قاسية meaning the hard heart and Allah سبحانه و تعالى mentions that those individuals who are constantly forgetful of Allah سبحانه و تعالى in the days and the nights and after years and years of living on God's earth they completely are forgetful of him they have what is known as this hard heart now to put this all in perspective before we get into our discussion the first type of heart is that which we need to aspire to be that which we need to aspire to have the heart that is pure the heart that is clean the heart that has been purified is able to then be receptive to Allah سبحانه و تعالى as teachings the teachings of the Quran the teachings of the Prophet the teachings of Ahl al Bayt عليه وسلم see the heart like a sponge if the sponge is receptive if the sponge is pure if the sponge is clean if the sponge is new it's able to be receptive to water it's able to be receptive to liquids but after that heart has been abused after the body has continuously transgressed about Jesus الله سبحانه و تعالى like that sponge it becomes dirty and slowly it begins to gain these qualities of sickness في قلوبهم مرض الله سبحانه و تعالى states and in their hearts is a sickness we see that that sick heart is not able to be receptive to Allah سبحانه و تعالى in the same way that the clean pure heart would have been able to be and thirdly and finally is what is known as قلوب القاسية that hard heart like the sponge when the sponge is hard after it's been used for an extremely long time and there is no liquid on it we know that it's extremely difficult to break it's extremely difficult to squeeze similarly is the heart when it has transgressed the boundaries of Allah سبحانه و تعالى so much that no longer does it even reflect or think about الله سبحانه و تعالى in the least bits we need to desire to become amongst those who have the screen hearts now to put this in perspective a little bit further in order to understand the importance of having this clean heart we go ahead and we see that the side effects of having a heart that has been inflicted by disease are two the first one of these on one level is that we begin to doubt in the authority of Allah سبحانه و تعالى or even worse we begin to doubt in Allah سبحانه و تعالى entirely when an individual has constantly transgressed the boundaries of Allah and left that state of the purity of the heart and went toward the stages of sickness of the heart or went to the stage even worse of hard-heartedness we come forth and we see that the human being it begins to doubt in Allah سبحانه و تعالى we're all sitting over here fasting during the holy month of Ramadan we're very exhausted none of us would ever come forth and state that I am doubting in the authority or in the presence of Allah سبحانه و تعالى we don't do that but there's something that is connected to this doubt and that is not only doubting in the presence of Allah but perhaps we begin after constant transgression and sin to begin to doubt in the names and in the attributes of Allah سبحانه و تعالى for instance one group of people they come and they step forth and they state that I doubt if Allah سبحانه و تعالى is really merciful Allah سبحانه و تعالى look how much absent there is no way he's ever going to forgive me the minute that someone begins to talk like this they have despaired in all powerful in the all merciful Lord who has created us and this is a sign of doubting the existence of Allah سبحانه و تعالى itself very dangerous and less dangerous than that perhaps is doubting in the wrath of Allah سبحانه و تعالى someone who states they begin to reflect and they tell themselves you know what if I eat a little bit or if I drink a little bit during the holy month of Ramadan is Allah really going to punish me we don't know Allah سبحانه و تعالى is the authority and when he has told us to do something we should be willing to submit toward that immediately that is what it means to truly understand the tawheed of Allah سبحانه و تعالى but the minute that we see ourselves even having these thoughts enter into our mind Allah will never forgive me if I do this sin or Allah سبحانه و تعالى will never forgive me because I'm such a sinner or on the flip side that we state that Allah سبحانه و تعالى he won't punish me because these are only small sins that these are signs of having the disease of the heart present between our two shoulders this is on one level in terms of the symptoms of the disease of the hearts on a greater level on a more dangerous on a more worrisome level we come forth and we see that individuals they begin to completely reject the tawheed of Allah سبحانه و تعالى entirely not only doubting but they state we don't believe in God again when we come and reflect on that in terms of our hearts in terms of our souls we state you know what we all believe in God we pray and we fast and we do all of the obligatory actions we stay away from the haram at least we do our best to do so so thankfully we're not amongst those who reject Allah سبحانه و تعالى yes Alhamdulillah we have not reached that level but this particular aspect of rejecting the tawheed of Allah سبحانه و تعالى doesn't only mean rejecting God in terms of its essence or in terms of his names or in terms of his attributes but it begins by completely rejecting certain obligations in terms of obedience of Allah سبحانه و تعالى the religion of Islam is known as the religion of Islam because the word Islam means submission أميل المؤمنين إنهج البلاغة he states الإسلام كوة تسني the religion of Islam is the religion of submission submission toward God submission toward the Quran submission toward the Prophet submission toward the Imam of the أهل البيت عليهم الصلاة و الصلام that is what makes us a belief and I say all of this as an introduction toward getting to my topic of discussion and that is that when we come to reflect upon our hearts and our souls we need to understand that this month of شهر مضان is the month that we remove all of these sicknesses we remove this heart heartedness from our hearts and we begin to focus ourselves directing ourselves toward Allah سبحانه و تعالى so that we present ourselves with that purified heart with that purified heart إلا من أت الله بقلب سدي but the question is how do we become amongst those who cleanse our hearts and cleanse our souls and able to maximize the benefits within this blessed month and a narration from Imam محمد بن علين الباقر عليه الصلاة و الصلام he states لكل شيء ربي و ربي القرآن شحر رمضان that for everything that for every season that for everything there is a spring there is a climax to every period or for every concept and the climax of the Quran or the spring of the Quran is the holy month of رمضان that when the believer we strive our best to link our hearts and to link our souls with the Holy Quran then we are able to maximize that benefit and the blessing of this blessed month I know that today is the first day of the fast and I know that everyone is exhausted including myself but if you're following or to give me a little bit of a break please recite و الصلاوات على محمد و علين محمد that during this holy month of رمضان we need to make sure that we maximize our potentials with the book of Allah سبحانه و تعالى we need to make sure that number one we do not procrastinate when it comes to the recitation of the Holy Quran one day is about to pass us within 35 minutes or so we'll begin to break our fast and the first day of the month of رمضان has concluded how many of us recited the verses of the Quran today how many of us contemplated on the verses of the Holy Quran today we come forth and we see numerous traditions of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و عليه و سلم emphasize the importance of the recitation of the Holy Quran we go ahead and we see a narration from the Holy Prophet he states اكثر فيه من تلاوته constantly increased within this holy month the recitation of the book of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and we go forth and we see that in the Holy Quran Allah سبحانه و تعالى gives the reason why we should be reciting it he states شفاء لما في الصدور that the Holy Quran is a cure for that which is within your chests meaning it is a cure for those diseases which are in your heart in order to cleanse our hearts from all of these diseases we need to constantly be in recitation of the Holy Quran and another narration from the Holy Prophet he states the Holy Prophet states that the one who recites one verse from the book of Allah سبحانه و تعالى within this holy month it is as if he has completed the entirety of the Quran within other months meaning that the reward for reciting one verse in the month of Ramadan is like reciting the entire Quran in other months we come forth and we see another narration from the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى and the most important one he recites in this sermon of his on the last day of the month of Sha'ban for his companions he states make sure that you ask الله سبحانه و تعالى that you beg الله سبحانه و تعالى for two things within this holy month that you ask him for توفق توفق means divine intervention divine help that you ask الله سبحانه و تعالى for his divine help so that you can fast within this month and so that you can recite the Holy Quran meaning that my dear brothers and sisters that reciting the Holy Quran within this holy month like fasting within this holy month requires divine help that if we see ourselves for instance the first day of the month of Ramadan passing the second day the third day one week the night of later comes and then we begin we have to know that الله سبحانه و تعالى removed توفق from us he removed his divine blessing and his divine intervention from us if we see ourselves failing to recite the Holy Quran this is the Holy Prophet he states within this narration فسأل الله ربكم بنية صادق ask Allah with a clean intention وقلوب طاهراء in the pure heart that he blesses you and that he allows you and that he facilitates for you to recite the Holy Quran within these days and within these nights of the holy month of Shahra Ramadan we come forth and we see that reciting the Holy Quran is not sufficient but we have to take it to the next level and contemplate upon these verses upon the ayat of the book upon the ayat of Allah سبحانه و تعالى for who is amongst the most famous reciters of the Holy Quran within history amongst the most famous reciters of the Holy Quran is a man by the name of Ibn-Muljim the killer of Ali ibn-Abqalib عليه الصلاة و السلام the man who struck Amir al-Mu'mineen on the 19th of this blessed month was known to be a memorizer of the Quran he would recite Quran day and night along with other خوارج amongst those who were amongst the memorizers of the Holy Quran is a man by the name of Shumr the Middle-Joshan the killer of Aba Abdullah al-Hussain on the day of Ashura was amongst those who recited the Quran he was amongst those who memorized the Quran but unfortunately their hearts were not cleansed their hearts had not reached that level of ألبن سليم but rather they had heart heartedness where you come forth and you see that they failed to be receptive to that which is present within the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى if we read the Holy Quran like any other book without understanding the instruction that comes from the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we're no better than them we need to make sure that we take ourselves to the next level in terms of being amongst those who contemplate upon the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى who contemplate upon the verses of Allah سبحانه وتعالى صل على محمد وعالى when we want to go ahead and reflect upon the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى recite the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى within these days within these nights of the Holy month of Ramadan we need to understand that there are certain etiquettes in terms of recitation of the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and these etiquettes they are formed in terms of two different dimensions the first dimension are those physical etiquettes in terms of our dealing with the physical book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى of the Holy Quran and the second are what are known as those internal etiquettes that we have to do in terms of dealing with the Holy Quran in terms of the physical there are several before we recite the Holy Quran we should be in the state of Walul how many of us came to the mosque today in the state of Walul in preparation to recite the Holy Quran someone will come as forth in the states that I will recite the Holy Quran but I won't touch the verses I won't touch the letters so there's no need for me to be in the state of Walul yes that's true it's not logic for you to be in the state of Walul in terms of reciting the Holy Book that's not the point the point is to allow our hearts and the very basic level that they'll harm in performing the Walul and then coming to reciting the Holy Quran a second thing that we should try our best to do whatever we can and there's nothing wrong for us to not do it but we should try our best especially when we're in solitude to face the Qiblah when reciting the Holy Quran facing the Qiblah nothing wrong with that either someone might state there's no in terms of facing the Qiblah we need to do our best when we're facing the Qiblah to recognize that we are facing Allah SWT it's home we're facing Mecca we're facing the Holy Ka'bah and my recitation of the Holy Quran in that state has a little bit more potential for me to connect with him nothing wrong with that again number three that when we come forth to reciting the Holy Quran after performing the Walul after preparing ourselves facing the Qiblah take the Holy Quran and kiss the book when we're concluding our recitation kiss the Holy Quran when we're reciting the Holy Quran itself take your finger and touch the verses these are all blessings these are all barakah then we can attain from the book of Allah SWT there's a famous story narrated by شيخ الكليني هو شيخ الكليني شيخ الكليني شيخ الكليني is the compiler of كتاب الكافي one of the most important books of Ahadith that we have within the school of Ahlulbayt narrations of the Holy Prophet narrations of the Imams of the Ahlulbayt عليه مصرات وصرام and it's said that one day شيخ الكليني was not feeling well yet an intense eye pain he was reading his job is to read and to research and to write and this particular day this intense eye pain was extremely crucial in terms of hindering him from doing exactly what he wanted to do so he looks toward his son he says oh son go toward the doctor go toward the pharmacist and get me some medicine so I can remove this pain from my eyes it's giving me a headache and I'm unable to work I'm unable to read and research and so on and so forth and it's said a couple of moments later or excuse me this is narrated on behalf of شيخ الكليني the compiler of مفاته الجينات this most important book about أمال and دع that we have the son goes out toward the doctor to the pharmacist whatever after an hour or so later he returns back home and he sees his father sitting on the table reading and writing and researching and resuming his activities as normal he says dad I didn't even give you any medicine what happened he says I realize after you left that I don't mean any medicine for I have the book of شيخ الكليني the book of الكافي the أحاديت and the narrations بحر البيت he says what do you mean he says I went to my library and I picked up that book and I recited بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم or Allah and I asked you by the words of أهر البيت to cure this pain in my head to cure this pain in my eye and I took the book of الكافي and I rubbed it on my head and I saw a few moments later that I had been cured from my sickness how about the book of Allah when we recite the whole of the Quran the whole of the Quran it's not only a cure for our spiritual diseases but perhaps it's a cure for our physical diseases if we actually believe that it is that's the hard part to allow ourselves to reach this level our hearts and our souls to reach this level of elevation for us to have this for us to have this certainty that the whole of the Quran is a means for us to actually cure ourselves amongst those etiquettes of the recitation of the whole of the Quran as we were mentioning is to make sure that we touch the holy verses that we take blessing from it by kissing the holy book of Allah that we rub our fingers upon those verses amongst the etiquette amongst the etiquette of the recitation of the whole of the Quran is to make sure that we recite the whole of the Quran in a loud voice not in a loud voice that is too loud that it distracts others but not completely silent that we are only moving our mouth or we are only moving our lip without actually making a sound because that's not recitation the reward comes in terms of reciting the whole of the Quran and in fact we say that reward is in many different phases when it comes to the book of Allah there is a reward for looking at the verses of the Quran there is a reward for reciting the verses of the whole of the Quran there is a reward for hearing when you are driving to work coming back from work to the mosque during these holy month of Ramadan listen to the listen to the recording of the book of Allah this is all means and ways to build this link between us and Allah amongst the etiquette of the recitation of the whole of the Quran for instance is to make sure that when we are reciting we actually look at the words that we are actually looking at the verses not for memorization that every single day before you sleep you recite you recite three times and you say I've recited the Quran today my responsibility is done no reciting the Quran by looking at the verses these are a means again to make sure that we are fulfilling our that we are fulfilling our right to word the whole of the Quran these are all in terms of physical natural etiquettes that we can go ahead and perform that are not difficult on a day-to-day basis but the more important level in terms of fulfilling our etiquette toward the whole of the Quran is in terms of those internal or in terms of those spiritual etiquettes the first of those spiritual etiquettes is to make sure that we are taking lessons from the Quran at every single moment many of us during the holy month of Ramadan we do our very best to complete the Khatam we try to complete the Quran two times or three times that's very good there's nothing wrong with that it's very highly encouraged but for someone to make sure that they complete the Quran a billion times within this month without ever understanding exactly what you recited what's the point what makes us better than Ibn Majim what makes us better than Shem we need to make sure that we take our hearts and our souls toward the next level to make sure that we are understanding exactly what we are doing in terms of the recitation of the whole of the Quran on a second level and most importantly we need to be contemplating those verses that we are reciting الله سبحانه وتعالى states do you not contemplate the whole of Quran or upon your heart is there a lock again going back toward the heart contemplating the verses of الله سبحانه وتعالى have the potential to remove that disease have the potential to remove this lock that is on our heart how do we contemplate when we're reciting or when we're reading the story of Musa or Isa or Yusuf or Ya'ub or any of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى imagine for a moment that we are living within that particular historical period when we're reciting the verses of the punishment of Allah when Allah سبحانه وتعالى states that for the disbelievers he's going to give X punishment or Y punishment or Z punishment at that moment reflect in terms of what it would be to be living and receiving that torment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and say Oh Allah save me from this and on the flip side when you're reciting the verses of reward and of bounty and of paradise say Oh Allah make me from amongst those who are receiving this these are all methods in terms of increasing our relationship and at the same time doing our best to contemplate upon those verses that we are reciting during this holy month from Allah in the same way that if we were to take Imam Al-Hussain عليه السلام and the story of Karbara and the story of Ashura and segregate it to only one historical period that took place on the 10th of Muharram 61 years after Hijra and see Hussain as a historical figure that we haven't done much in terms of understanding the message of Imam Al-Hussain عليه السلام that's what we need to do again is to make sure that we are living we are living through the verses that we are reciting that we are imagining ourselves to be in that situation and that is the way to maximize our potential to maximize our reward to maximize our relationship within this blessed month with the holy month of Ramallah and beginning tomorrow night Insha'Allah we will begin our discussion on one of the most important chapters within the Holy Qur'an what is known as Surat Nuh Surat Nuh is a chapter within the Holy Qur'an that allows us to extract numerous different lessons the first one of these lessons that we can understand Insha'Allah will focus on this particular aspect tomorrow night the first lesson that we need to understand from this particular chapter of the Holy Qur'an is in terms of how to remain faithful in the midst of all different types of struggles that we encounter within our life Prophet Nuh عليه السلام according to narrations according to the Holy Qur'an he preaches for 950 years 950 years but he doesn't get phased from only having at most 800 followers that's less than one follower per year the Prophet Nuh عليه السلام remains patient he remains focused in terms of constantly working to get closer toward preaching the message of Allah and number two we begin to reflect in terms of what it means to build our heart toward that level in terms of being receptive toward the ayat of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in terms of being responsive and receptive toward the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we take lessons from chapter Nuh from Surah Nuh within these next couple of nights I'll conclude with this final da'a and my dear brothers and sisters we need to understand and recognize one thing when it comes toward the Holy Qur'an and that is that we are unable to understand the depths of the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى without a teacher and that teacher of ours is a Rasool الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and the people of the house عليه وسلم that during this holy month many people they come to me for instance and they said I was reciting this verse and I was reciting this chapter and reciting this and that and all of us in it I've got it all figured out I understand the religion of Islam from beginning to end upon my basic recitation of the Holy Qur'an well if you recite the Holy Qur'an and completely segregated and completely marginalized from the holy household of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم then you have not understood then you have not understood the first thing of the Holy Qur'an because the Prophet he states in نتارك فيكم أتبق عليهم كتاب الله وإترتي أحلو بيتي that I have left behind for you two things the first of these is the Holy Qur'an and the second of these is the Ahlulbayt عليهم صلى الله عليه وسلم that each one of these they explain the other the Qur'an explains Ahlulbayt and Ahlulbayt عليهم صلى الله عليه وسلم they explain the Qur'an this we need to make sure that we utilize the narrations of Ahlulbayt عليهم الصلى الله عليه وسلم that we go back toward the teachings of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم for Allah سبحانه وتعالى states within the Holy Qur'an لا يام الصغوء إلا المتحروم that no one can touch the Holy Book except for those who are purified on one level that speaks about physical purification that no one should be touching the Qur'an if they haven't performed وضور if they haven't performed غسل but on a second level it is in terms of those who have reached the purification of the heart and who are those individuals الله سبحانه وتعالى states that those who are purified of course are the household of the Holy Prophet اهل البيت عليهم صلى الله عليه وسلم and that no one can touch the Qur'an meaning that no one can delve into the depths of the Book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى except for the Ahlulbayt عليهم صلى الله عليه وسلم unless we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى within these nights every single night we should make sure that we make this dua that we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى for the hastening of the reappearance of the Imam for he is the one who is the interpreter of the whole Qur'an within this age we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to hasten the reappearance of the Imam so he comes toward us and explains toward us and presents toward us the depths of the Holy Book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he grants us the tawfiq to become amongst the reciders to become amongst the readers to become amongst those who contemplate the Holy Qur'an والحمد لله رب العالمين وصل الله هم على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعالها طيبي


Hello everybody, welcome back another Dolby Photoshop Tutorial and this one, I'm in the Photoshop beta, but I'm going to show you the new tool that's just about to come out that can make you create perfect lighting techniques. This is going to be incredible. We're going to be able to adjust the exact diameter, the ratio, the direction, the type of lighting, whether or not it's just in this pinpoint area, whether it's a spotlight or it's a directional light like I've got going on here, or if I go over to another example here, I've got a light just around the mask here and nothing else. If you could see that here, I'll turn it on and off. I'm going to show you how to do this and it should only take a few minutes and you'll be an expert in lighting. Let's get going. All right, here we go. So here is the original image. It's nice and dark and haunted and scary, but I want to go ahead and create a directional light coming from this area that only kind of takes up the top left of it quadrant. While at the same time, I also want to show you how to just light her scary mask and kind of have everything else darkened out and I don't want to make this over complicated. So again, let's just get going here. The first step, I'm going to go to the bottom here, click on create new filler adjustment layer, create an exposure adjustment layer. And then when you do that under properties, you'll see exposure. We are now going to turn the lights out. Now, I mean, she's very pretty, but we've got to turn the lights out on this one. It's a little scary in my book. So there we go. I'm going to reduce it to about 3. minus 3.98. And I'm going to basically turn the lights out. If your image is too bright, you can darken it. If it's too dark, you can go the other way with the exposure and brighten it, depending on what you need to do. Okay, good. So we've reduced the exposure. You'll see here, it's created an adjustment layer, and it's got a nice little mask here. Now this is where it gets interesting. I'm going to make sure I'm selected on the top layer here, and that the little brackets are around the mask. I'm now going to go to the left side and I'm going to grab my gradient tool. When I do that, take a look here. First off, I've got black to white. If you don't see that, you can set default and foreground background colors, and they will probably go white to black. And then you can just click this little arrow and reverse them.  Now up at the top here, you're going to see gradient. You probably got gradient selected. That's correct. Make sure that's good to go. Now under this little drop down, you're going to see a few different options under basic. What we want is black to white, or in this case, foreground to background. Either way, it's fine. As long as the left side is black, and the bottom side is right, or the right side is, is white. Now, in terms of the type of gradient, you're probably on the classic gradient or the normal linear gradient. We want to select the second one in which is radial gradient. Once you've got all of that in place. Now we're just going to paint on the light. So again, all you got to do is just watch this, I'm going to move this over a little bit so you can see. And then oops, I'm going to just click out here, and then just drag down. And here we go. This is step one. This is the old, you know, create the directional light source. Now the great thing about this, and this is coming, this is in the Photoshop beta, it's coming to the full version very shortly, is a I can move it around. So depending on where I want the light to be, I could put it right here, for example, let's go with something like that. But look at this, if I grab this little white dot, I can change the direction and I can change the shape so I can make it a narrow slot. So if it was coming through like a door slot, for example, or the heavens just opened up, there we go, we've got a narrow light. If I want a big wide light, I can do it just like that. So again, this is very, very cool. Also, I can move this in and out. So if I want to create it a little bit smaller, like let's say I only want to have a small little light coming through the top here. Again, it's things you can do. This makes great adjustments. This makes great directional lighting, and it's easy to adjust is what I meant to say. Also, you'll see here the midpoint white midpoint slider. If I move it to the left, it's a very lesser, I guess you'd say, I guess that's the right word. It's a limited amount of lighting. But if I move it to the right, it's quite a bit more. So there you go, you can move these and adjust them as you see fit. Also, if you want a spotlight effect, this is probably the best way to do it. Watch this, I'm just going to pull this in nice and tight and narrow. And let's go with something like that. And then maybe I'll pull it a bit more, maybe something like that. Let's say I just want to light the mask, I'll put the black point or the midpoint right in the middle of the eyes, right between the eyes, so to speak. I'll pull this out a little bit. And you see here, I'm basically just dialing in exactly what I want. So we've done a directional light, we've done some pinpoint lighting. If you want to, if you want to change the entire, you can just create an exposure layer and adjust it. And that affects the entire image. And this is literally all there is to it. Also, if you find that it's not enough, so let's say I click out here, grab my move tool, we could turn this on or off. Okay, that looks pretty good. You can always create a second layer. So I'm just going to duplicate this. And then presto, it's even more pronounced. And then if you want to, you can dial in the various opacity levels here. So if you want it to be limited, if you want it to be extremely dark and anything in between. Similarly, I'll turn this one off, I'll show you one last technique while I got you here. You can go ahead and exchange the, change the exposure level. So if I wanted to maybe change it X post, I can pull it down a little bit or I can pull it up. So again, these are all different things you can do if I click on the mask as well here, check this out, I can change the density of it. So if I want it to be a little less dense, there you go. If I want it to be a little more and I want maybe it's a little bit too hard around the edges. For example, I can adjust the feather. So I'll just increase the feather a little bit. I can increase the density and I can literally dial in whatever type of lighting I'm looking for, or the effect I'm going for, the direction, the width, the ratio, everything using this one technique. Thanks for watching.


I apologize for delay, no problem. Thanks for joining us. You are the last person to join us to talk a little bit about eight seven 27 and I'm wondering if you could give us the big picture on it. So let me just run through it section by section. Yeah. All right, so it's my page. So very simply, 727. Most of 727 is everybody here. We have, I think, at least past five in the hallway, Peter Conlon House Committee on Education. 727 really, most of it is a rewrite of chapter 11 of title 16, and is really the work of the agency of education. Title 16 really covers the creation and organization of union school districts that we put unified union school districts, union elementary school districts, high school districts. You know, everything that everybody went through with that 46 creating unified union school districts. It was all in chapter 11, but this reorganizes it rewrites it heck of a lot more detail heck of a lot more specificity, so that in the future, if two towns or two districts are looking to merge. They can find their specific situation much more easily. So one stop shop for everything you need to know. And it may seem a little counterintuitive haven't we already done all of that through at 46 but in fact, there's currently a merger study committee going on in Addison County between two districts that were formed a four member at 46. So it's not not going to not happen in the future. So this was an effort by frankly Donna Rousseau Savage to take all of this rewrite it make it much easier to use for like a school board members for a citizen. I'm sure that you have down savages to be in ledge council now she's with agency of education, great attorney just really knows this. Yeah, yes. So when you go through it section by section with ledge council. And that's sort of the smaller areas of policy decisions that we made within that part. They are terribly consequential there are things like letting a union school district elect its clerk for three years rather than one year, or appoint the person for a treasure so there's a lot of small policy decisions in there that we made. So this section that generated the most discussion and was the biggest amount of work for the committee was the section on a town that seeks to withdraw from a union school district or from a union high school district or a military school district. The, we were sort of threading a political needle with this for those who believe that the State Board of Education is the last best protection for children. We're getting school from adults who might make four decisions and those who believe that you're not ever going to let an politically appointed group of so many people overturn the bill of the voters. So, just this is the part that sort of deserves more discussion. Current law basically allows a town to withdraw from a union school district. And all selected group of people can go around and get the necessary signatures to petition for a vote in their community that wants to withdraw and all the other communities. Do all of that, then go to the State Board at the end of the process. And as long as they can show that their students have a school to go to. In other words, if they are if they were to close their school or couldn't pull off creating their school, can they go to a neighboring school. And if they can show that which is a hard stretch, then the agents or the State Board basically has to approve their withdrawals. We sort of took that process and and reversed it a bit and said, you know, first of all, it should be more formal that if we're going to if we're going to take the time to merge districts with a lot of thought and care, transparency and accountability, and involvement we should probably be doing the same for withdrawals or dissolution of merge districts. So it takes that and says okay if you are a group of citizens who are seeking to withdraw your town. You got to go out and get the signatures but included in that your naming a group of three people to be a recognized public body to be the withdrawal study committee recognize public body meaning that they have to follow the meeting and truly about accountability transparency and providing as much information to the voters as possible. It also says that, you know, you need to essentially do a lot of the upfront work and the work is spelled out, and it seems like it's a lot but it's really nothing more than the State Board would be asking for anyway, at the end of the process. I was just asking for it upfront, mainly with the goal of making sure that the voters have this information before they vote. So it essentially changes the order of things and says, Okay, let's get all this information get all this work done up get an idea of what the state board is going to do when the town gets before the state board. So they have this information. And of course you know one of the most important pieces of information is how is your withdrawing to town. If they are to continue operating a school, going to provide those services that we call supervisory union services, business management curriculum development and most importantly, providing special education. Before you go to the voters, you got to have a plan, and you got to make that plan public, and the state board gets to weigh in, and they provide an advisory opinion, so that the voters have all the information in front of them. Let me go to the polls, both in the withdrawing town, and in those communities that need to ratify that withdrawal. The other thing that we do is we essentially take out the state board's power to stop the process. They are in a advisory role only. We felt that put it making sure that all this work and information is provided up front was enough to sort of satisfy that. And so the state board issues and advisory opinion at the front end. The other parts within the withdrawal area there are three carve outs for three districts that are have either been through the process or are in the middle of the process these are ripped in, which has been all the way through. The state board has approved their because they have really much of a choice under the law approved with a lot of sort of cautionary notes, their withdrawal stow, which has voted in stow and then have their withdrawal ratified, and then Lincoln same situation. So basically in those cases, they already in process, they're already in process, and they basically need to provide either their plan or status report. They're in the final part. Yeah, yeah. So to haven't been before the state board yet. One has already been to the state board. Yeah, there's only three that have voted, or they're in process. Yeah, there are others who have been through the complete process and are already sort of. So you kind of have first hand experience. Yeah, I mean, not only do I represent Britain also on the school board that it withdrew from. So, yeah. But, you know, but they before this came to us they had already had their approval by the state board. So that was the first hand experience. Yes. Yeah. So those are sort of the big things in a nutshell. And then, you know, you're going to good, you'll get a good education in essentially differences between all these various kinds of unifying school districts in elementary school districts, high school districts as you go through it. Like I said, the vast majority of this is rewrite of chapter 11, it's existing law that is made much more user friendly. Great. And I guess I will say, I, I've been sort of the lead on this in our committee. I know it intimately. And if you ever have a question, they want to know why we did something to stop me right me whatever I'm happy to discuss it. I think that was brought by AOE, or is like, yes. No, it was, it was. So, this was always something that that's, this is great question that I wanted to point this out, something that the AOE has been working on. And this year with the field saying, don't take, don't do any great new initiatives with the AOE saying please don't do anything big and having to leach councils assigned to education. Now or never. And the same chance that was hoping for never. That's true. Please center. Very reasonable. I don't know if this is an appropriate task, but what was the floor vote of out of the house. The floor vote out of the house. Well, so our committee passed it 11 zero. Then we went to a roll call on the floor. And you know this. I can't explain why, but a lot of it does have to do with sort of past simmering resentments over forced mergers or mergers that took place that people didn't want to be part of ultimately or fear of school closures. So I think there was a 90 to 45. And you know you will hear, as you go through the testimony, those communities that are concerned that that this makes it too hard to to leave. Our philosophy all along has been, it's basically asking for the same thing that's being asked for today. But in a different order with this with a special focus on accountability transparency and as much information to the voters as possible. Yeah, it's all over center chin 90 to 45 out of the house of the partisan vote or typical partisan vote. In all things act 46 partisan has nothing to do with it. Yeah, it's about your own local communities. Sort of experience with that 46 almost. Yeah. Yeah, I think a lot of it I can't explain. I can start just having over you again reminded me what cat 46 is, et cetera. Yeah, yeah. That's really helpful. Thank you. Any other questions for representative comment. No, I know, but like I said, you know, there are there are some political decisions that you make three and if you ever want to know more about the debate we had happy to help out. I think you'll probably get a lot of the same testimony from from people just fine. And the three times that you mentioned are in the process. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there are there is session law at the end of this that addresses them. And it provides for a little bit more accountability, but basically, they are sort of freedom. Actually, one thing in those I will point out is, we did give the state board one power. And that is with those three that are in process, if their town decides, we don't want to do this. We don't want to vote and say we're abandoning ship. And we gave the state power to essentially wave avoid all the votes that took place and let them just sort of stay as is, the fact being that under current law, they have to go back and get voted back in by every single town in the union district. You can see where they don't want to be alone, but all it takes is one town, perhaps feeling a little bitter over what happened, voting no, and they'd be floating out of this, this world that don't have a home. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's great. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, we have one on our. Yes, well, it was the same country, but at different times. Oh, you were with my wife. My wife, I was a family. Yeah. Yeah, in the building. Yeah. I really appreciate this as well as the opportunity to be helpful. Yeah, really. I know you guys put a lot of time into it and you know, it's really important to get through this year because of all the all the foundational work that's been done by the Great. Thanks. Thanks a lot. The same things we are not going to go through course, the entire. So, I think what we'll do is we'll do schedule. How much time would you, please, absolutely. I was hoping with the kind of game plan. Yeah, okay. How much time would you say we would need I was thinking about starting with somebody come in here. I'm back on this committee after a while there's some new folks, sort of a quick overview of act 46. And then I thought maybe you could follow that person and take us through the bill. Sure. And I was thinking maybe a Thursday. Sure. I'm just wondering how much time you need to give us a good overview. And that would give us time to just sort of at least skim it. So for act 46. Not that this is my lane. Yeah. But you could have the attorney that I worked with that AOE is Donna Rousseau savage who also drafted act 46. Yeah, please have done it. I'm sorry, you are thinking Donna or we're thinking you would Donna. I'm just saying Donna and Donna and I worked very, very closely on the house side to get this where it is today. Great. I think it's pretty much in every draft and everything at the direction of the house. So savage from AOE. She's great. So as far as how long it would take to present this. So I would suggest for your consideration the way the house handled this. Remember this is a committee bill so it came in chunks. Yeah, but they handled it and I used the word chunks. They handled the like big bill of the rewrite portion that kind of non controversial reorganization detail added is one chunk. Okay, and that took me about three days to get through in house going line by line. Three days to present it, not three full days three days in committee free time. Because it is the vast majority of the bill. Now I have been through this many, many times now so I suspect that will be a lot faster. Okay. Two days. Two days. But you know what you're talking about. Yes, and I think I was in committee, an hour to an hour and a half each time. So it just depends on how detailed the committee wants to get in the walkthrough of what is the majority of it is current law. And then the next chunk that the house considered were the withdrawal sections and that is new law. And then the third chunk was the session law to address the withdrawals underway. All one bill ripped in Stowe Lincoln there's also a fourth piece of session law that basically says, if you start and you hold one vote but you haven't held all of them before this goes into effect you got to start all over again under current law. The three towns or the three pieces of session law that still addresses our communities where the both have all taken place. So that's actually for four pieces of session law but the fourth one is essentially a page and a half. So if you want to do, you want to look at it just linearly, the withdrawal sections if you're right in the middle of everything. If you want to chunk them out, we could do current law and then focus on the withdrawal and then the session law. What do you think we should do if you haven't done it. The first chunk is what the easiest to digest the easiest to focus. So if we were, for example, to start with Donna resource savage definitely looking to you on this also on Thursday for about a half hour on act 46 and then for you to come in and do the first chunk. And I'd say an hour. There's an outline with page I've made an outline with page numbers annotated. So we can kind of go through the outline and then I can stop and we can dive into the actual language when the committee wants to look at it and I can provide kind of an overview of section by section. So I'll ask them to print out that first chunk that you sent to her so everybody has a copy of what you're talking about that I added page line or line numbers, okay, as pass by version doesn't have that and with a bill this big I felt it would be helpful so we can say online seven. So, just so I know so definitely is what will you email for the entire bill has passed or just one. I've already emailed her the entire bill is passed but then I can split it I can split it up so that you've got the entire bill and then we've got current law I'm using air quotes here. withdrawal and then session law. Okay, so you've got four pieces to work with and we can work with anyone at any time here. So we'll start with the first time the current law this Thursday after we hear from dinosaurs. I think it's like at least controversial mostly clean up language. Sure, the, I would suggest, we provided a policy consideration document for the house. Okay, it's several pages long and they went and made their own policy considerations I will annotate right where the house made those decisions but you may want to clean up a little bit for me from Ali for your own reference of, you can see the decisions they made, and the places where they didn't take any further action. Just a suggestion, I'm assuming Donna will make that suggestion. Okay. And then we'll talk about the second shot, etc, later in the week probably Friday and then we'll go into action a little bit. Okay. Yeah, we'll work with you. I've had an hour on the second hour. Okay. Thank you. You don't mind sticking around for a few minutes. Tomorrow just everybody knows we are jumping into all of our work on military families and hoping to get a good sense of how to move that tomorrow so we can get that done since it's also I don't mean it's going to house that I think it's going to military cares. Just kind of move that as quickly as possible. Okay.


Hey guys, this is Hydra from x trades and in this video I'm gonna be going over overall market analysis and top tickers to watch for the next upcoming week So we're gonna start off as usual with the indices start up with the spy So yeah on the daily Not much has been going on for SPY right still we're stuck in consolidation We got to this level early April and since then we've just been consolidating this entire time and Yeah, not much has been going on One good thing for both is that the uptrend line has been holding on the weekly So on the weekly it is holding this uptrend line so that is a positive But again, we're just stuck in this top range, right? Good chance that we could consolidate for a couple more weeks Tighten up a little bit more and then we'll see if we can eventually break this 419 level or 418.5 level or If balls are unable to hold and we could see a flush back down to 376 possibly or even lower, but yeah For now, we have to take a day by day to see what happens Yeah, just see if we consolidate more and as we tighten up then we should be prepared for a big move in either direction But yeah for now not much to say other than spies just pretty much in chop, right? Not much movement went on this week. Yeah, it's been trading in a very small range this entire week actually Like look at how small that weekly candle is that's like, yeah, very tight range Next we'll take a look at qqq So tech has been a lot a lot stronger compared to the SPY so It looks a lot better compared to the SPY, right qqq has also been consolidating for the last one two three four Five ish six five six six weeks last week. It actually broke out And was able to close above this 321 level and this week we got some follow through But it did not too much follow through. Let's take a look at the daily chart. So it is trending up pretty nicely But on Friday we did have a down day, but again both closed closed the day pretty pretty well, so Wasn't too bad, but yeah bull or Yeah, both have room to 331 and until then yeah, we should see no resistance And we should just see a slow grind up higher and higher and then when we hit this 331 level There's a good chance we can console consolidate for a bit and then tighten up and see if we Break out or break down. Um, but yeah, once we get to this area, it'll be We have to be prepared for a big move in either direction. So That's pretty much it for the qqq. Let's take a look at the weekly chart one more time Yeah, no real resistance until this 331 level Yeah, other than that qqq does look a lot better compared to the SPY Now we'll take a look at some of the big cap Text stocks that you guys always want to see so we'll start off with Google Google had an amazing week So really strong breakout on Wednesday Really nice volume as well on Thursday it gapped up and on Friday It just put in a consolidation bar inside bar. So really really good action from Google Has been holding up extremely well this entire week even though the qqq hasn't made such qqq did end up the week green but Definitely nothing compared to how strong Google was this week. So really really strong action from Google and Yeah, major resistance at the 120 ish level. So Yeah, we'll see what happens when we get there, but yeah, Google definitely has room for $2 move from here for next week All right, next step will take a look at Microsoft So Microsoft was building a nice bull flag here really strong move then was consolidating very nicely and then Triggered a buy on this day and consolidated again very nicely another tiny bull flag and then There was another and by day and now it's doing another bull flag So yeah, we'll see what will happen but Microsoft is shaping up really really well as well Resistance at 315. So yeah, I think we should definitely hit that level and then we'll see what happens from there Yeah, Microsoft is also getting pretty close to all-time high. So if it takes out this 315 level then has room back to 350 Which is pretty insane But yeah Microsoft acting pretty pretty well All right, we'll move on to Apple So Apple has key weekly resistance at the 174.5 level if it takes that out Then it has room all the way back up to all-time highs Apple looks phenomenal as well Like Microsoft Apple has just been consolidating and yeah, it's consolidating right under this key resistance level So if that gets taken out then that's a clear buy signal And yeah signal to get long. But yeah, Apple looks really really strong right now Not giving back any gains and has been trending up higher and higher. Yeah, it looks really good Yeah, I think there's a good chance that we can break out next week. But yeah, we'll see Next up Meadow so Meadow has been acting a little bit weaker compared to the other Names like Apple and Microsoft but still pretty good To collect the weekly it is a lot further to it's all-time highs compared to Apple and Microsoft But it is forming a nice New these lines. It is forming a nice bull flag here on the weekly So that gets taken out and it can make a big move here was a good week weekly bull flag From the really nice or made a really strong move and then from the flag here broke out now It's doing the same thing really strong move now Forming a flag and we'll see if next week and take it out if it does then chance for it to make a Make a move higher again. So yeah, like Meadow does look pretty good, but Not as good as Microsoft or Apple Next up we'll take the look at Stu Amazon so Amazon still stuck in this Solidation range It's having trouble breaking down 112 area Which it makes sense because that's a key resistant key resistance level every time it touched that it rejected but yeah, I'm Amazon can break this 112th level then there's a good chance that we can make a powerful move back up higher first resistance level would be around this 125 126 level So that'd be the first target if Amazon was to break 112 So clear resistance 112 next level 125 This is a piece of art level these are the key levels for Amazon And it has been building an uptrend the last couple weeks, that's good So yeah, if this 112-113 level can break and there's a good chance That we can power higher to 125, but yeah, Amazon does look pretty good, but then this one's still pretty off To its all-time highs like Meadow, so Apple and Microsoft are still better options Next up we'll take a look at Nvidia everyone's favorite stock Nvidia has been shaping up really really well had a really nice bull flag and then broke out on this week And then this week it just put in a consolidation bar. So that's perfectly normal action But yeah, I admit you had a powerful move off the lows And it's just been acting really good this entire year and part of that could be because of the AI team, but regardless and video is a must watch stock and Yeah, it's been acting really really well. So I think if we can take this This 289 level or 290 and then there's a very good chance Or that would be a buy signal and then on that buy signal I think there'd be a very good chance that we could power higher But um, yeah, our Nvidia looks really really good here If it takes out the level then there's a good chance that we could power back all the way up to all-time highs Because there's no real resistance probably some psychological resistance at the 300 hole number Other than that it has a lot of room to the outside. But yeah, Nvidia looks Pretty pretty good here Okay, now we'll take a look at some Smaller individual names actually we'll take a look at Tesla and they are kicking it first So Tesla has not been acting the greatest recently Um Yeah, it's just stuck in this consolidation range that if it breaks 178 that's a clear long play if it breaks 167 That's a clear short play. That's all you need to know for Tesla. Nothing else really matters We're the key the key levels are very clear. So Yeah, that's all we need to know for Tesla. But right now it doesn't look that great looks more bearish than bullish to me But yeah, we'll see Take a look at our KK So you're a KK was trying to break this downtrend on the weekly and didn't make a really nice breakout move on Wednesday or Yeah, this week and then it pulled back in pretty pretty hard on Friday. So we'll see what happens If we get followed through next week and there's that's a bullish confirmation So if you can take out this weekly level of 39.4 and That'd be a clear sense that bolster supporting the recent pop But if we fail and we get below this trend line again and there's a good chance that we were just back in the top range or We can even get back to this 34 level. Oh, which is a key support level But oh, yeah, that's pretty much it for a RKK. No, we'll take a look at some individual names PLTR Palantir everyone's everyone's favorite 2021 name think swing 21, but yeah Yeah, this name had a really nice earnings really nice volume. That's a really good sign, right? So now we'll see how it consolidates Ideally you want to see a form some sort of bull flag and if it forms a flag then that would be a good Good signal to take the straight for right now No, it really needs to clear this 10.3 level That's a clear resistance level, but if you can do that Has a lot of room higher this one this one's very beaten down So she can take out their resistance level has a lot of room to the upside So I'll take 14.2 is the first real resistance level. There are some resistance here, but this is the major one so Yeah, a lot of upside potential on this one And Yeah, look at that weekly bar, right? Those weekly those weekly bars have nice accumulation Signatures and it could be assigned that institutions are buying the stock though Next up we'll take a look at dual So this one also had a really good earnings report and it made it made a move back to all-time highs And now we'll see if this one can also form some sort of flag Key resistance at the 148 level But yeah, we'll see if it can take if it can form a flag here, but yeah, this one's also acting really really well Yeah, last last time I got up on earnings. It made a really big move immediately right now It's consolidating, but if it can take this 148 level up and the chance that we can power higher Draft Kings another one nice earnings gap up decent while you So it is forming a little flag here And we'll see how it does But if it loses this 23 level then there's a it's a clear short to Fill the gap back to like 21.7. So it has to hold this 23 level But other than that you can't use another one to what that is worth watching Next up Shake Shack. This one is a really choppy stock But it all it also made a really big move with volume and now it's consolidating very nicely So we'll see what happens with this one. This one's forming a really nice flag. So very clear by signal I'll be on this one for sure if it breaks 66.8. That's a very clear by signal for me What's next So this one oh and oh and this one has earnings Coming up next week and it's building a bull flag right before earnings So we'll see what happens last time I had earnings that had incredible volume and a really nice move up think strip the percent Yeah, I made a 23 percent right in the first four days for an ink So this one has a lot of potential and it tends to make big moves so this one should definitely be on your radar too for next week and Take a look at two more Uber's another one that also had earnings last week or last last week and yeah, it's been powering higher and Next level to watch for is This 38.9 level if it can take that out then I think this would be a clear by signal But this one's also forming really really nicely. It's tightening up Yeah, it's tightening up really nicely here. So this one's definitely a must watch as well and Last one Celsius. So this one has been in a base for a very long time and just the Just last week. We were finally able to break out things to earnings really big volume now It's consolidating so we'll see what happens here But this is definitely another one that you want to keep on your radar But yeah, that's pretty much all I got for you guys for this week. Thank you. Thank you guys for tuning in


You've got a lot of complimentary football Sunday with the offense holding the ball a long time, but with the defense, how much of that is something you can build on and how much of that was maybe what you're hoping to see and see more of as you go down the stretch of the season?   You know, there were a lot of things that we can, you know, hope to build on. Coach, you've been living on takeaway, putting extra emphasis with the offense this week on taking care of the football, not putting it in harm's way? Well, you know, I mean, I think that that's something that they've been known for. They do a fantastic job. You know, obviously, you know, Leonard is outstanding at it. And the rest of the unit, you know, it looks like they're all looking for opportunities. You know, whether they get them or not, they have gotten a lot leading the league.  So we're going to have to try to be aggressive with it, but also take care of it. Allen and Mahomes attempted a lot of passes, but Wenz hasn't been doing that. Important for you guys to kind of shape the game in order for the pass rush to be able to do that.  Obviously Taylor is going to probably be, you know, get the bulk of that, but Hines goes in and has his plays and Mack has been able to go in there and spell those guys. And then, you know, they've done such a great job being able to run the football that the play-action pass would complement that and they've hit shots downfield or they've gotten, you know, long defensive pass interference penalties. What makes Hines problematic? Well, he's just not a receiving back. I mean, they'll run their offense with them. They'll run the football with them. They find ways, creative ways to get him the football. And he's a good player, you know what I mean? He's a good returner, punt returner. He is a, you know, skilled athlete. He catches the ball easy. He runs really good routes.  Wenz, maybe look from the mobility standpoint from when you faced him and affected the standpoint. I think obviously much more effective, you know what I mean? Doing a really nice job. And I think that his health probably has a, you know, big reason to do with that. I think also, you know, their ability just to, you know, kind of improve as the season's gone on. This is, you know, a much better football team in all phases, you know, than the one that we saw. And that was a difficult test then, you know, they're essentially four now. You know, they won four games in a row. I know they lost to the Ravens. But, you know, they played outstanding. They just unfortunately, you know, ran into a tough night with how Lamar played there in the second half. With that offensive line, they're getting Quentin Nelson back. How much does he kind of change or improve that offensive line, especially from a physicality standpoint? Well, I think he brings a demeanor and attitude.  So it looked like it gave them, you know, shot energy, a physicality, seeing finishing and trying to move people off the line of scrimmage. You only give it up to one sack total over the last two games. It didn't quite go that well over the first four. What's happened to such a drastic, including Quentin? You know, we touched on this. We're focused on the Colts. And it's going to be a huge challenge to protect these guys.  Buckner is obviously a very gifted, long player.  I think obviously it starts with the protection. It starts with guys getting into routes, you know, recognizing man or zone, being open, you know, when the quarterback needs to throw the football. All the little things that we're going to have to do, you know, this week to try to, you know, help slow some of that pass rush down. Can you mention leverage and, you know, looking for help for Molden earlier in the year when he was struggling a bit? Wondering if you've seen improvement in those regards from him, you know, over the last few games?  And when we've blitzed him and in the zone coverage, being able to reroute guys and then, you know, obviously, you know, hold up in man. You make it a point of emphasis at all with the players and coaches that what a win would do as far as taking up the upper hand in the division race, or do you just kind of push that aside and focus on just the game plan, ask at hand? Well, we're focused on improving. We're focused on improving each week right now. We're focused on fundamentals. We're focused on, you know, the matchups that we're going to have in the game against the Colts.  I don't know if we've talked about the impact or the, you know, anything passed just this week. How much has AJ quickly changed the dynamic in terms of separation and play-action success when he's out there? I mean, I think AJ's got a good skill set for some of those passes. He's, you know, fearless to go inside, to catch in the football. You know, he goes in a taxi with his hands. It doesn't let him get into his body. Those are contested throws that normally, you know, when they get into their body, those are tough to catch. So, you know, he continues to develop and improve. And, you know, we'll need every bit of his best this week to give ourselves a chance. Watching them on, like I said, Monday night, they think they drew three, four penalties down the field. I mean, how much of that is from a strategic to standpoint throw-ups if you can draw a penalty? And what do you maybe tell your DBs in trying to keep some of that from happening? You know, I mean, we've, we all saw them. We've watched them. They've hit a lot of those plays down the field.  And that's something that we've tried to follow.  So I think that there is a fine line, but our ability to play the football while it's in the air, you know, is something that, that has to continue to improve, you know, it hurt us early in the year. And it'll be huge Sunday. You know, that's something that, that cost us early. And, you know, hopefully we've learned from it. Coach, how nice is it to get a couple of you guys actually back at practice today, you know, still on that IR, but just getting some healthy bodies out there? Yeah, I mean, just to get those guys back into, to meetings and get them back on the field, see where they're at from a football standpoint. And then as we work our way through the week, we can evaluate, you know, whether they think they, they can help us this week.  Sure.   He's been with us, left, came back and jumped right in. He learned what to do quickly with the game plan, went and played. And, you know, I don't know how you couldn't be happy for, for guys like that. Is, is there something about his skill set, you know, that, that worked especially well against Kansas City, as opposed to maybe some of the other guys? You know, I don't, I wouldn't want to compare any of the players who just felt like wanted to, you know, through the course of the week, we decided to go with Greg and see how it was going. It went well. We kind of stuck with them. We'll see where it is this week. Is that part of the plan when, when you guys make roster moves during training camp, for example, guys coming and going, that, that you want to have as many guys out there maybe with at least a taste of having been here and knowing what you do, that if you get in a pinch, you can, you know, there might be somebody you can bring back that way? I don't, I don't think so.  I don't know if that's a strategy. I think that's just sometimes kind of how it works out. And when you look out there, you're like, okay, we have familiarity. This player has been here. We kind of know what he can do or, you know, be able to comprehend in a short amount of time. Mike, I know you guys have already, you know, played the colds more this season, but like with a guy like D'Nico, who's playing against his old team, the team he's had history with, I mean, in those kinds of situations, you ever have to talk to a guy about the emotions of maybe going back to, or playing against the team he played with prior?  It's a physical game. It's a violent game.  And I trusted, you know, D'Nico and everybody else for that matter. I think everybody's going to be, you know, pretty tuned up, whether they played for the colds previously or not.  How has that process come along just as far as incorporating some of the ideas that Coach Schwartz may have, you know, and the whole, a lot of chefs in the kitchen kind of thing that we touched on in the, in camp? Well, you know, Jim's got a lot of experience in this, in this league and has come in. And, you know, just, I never really thought of anything other than him just helping out. And I know that everybody makes a big deal about it or has tried to. He's supported. He's done everything that I've asked him to do, that Shane's asked him to do, to support, to give input, to follow up on post game, during the game. So, I don't look at it as anything other than just another member of our defensive staff and our staff that's done things that to help us win, and then we'll continue to try to do all those things. So, you know, everything that I thought it would be, it's been. And, you know, just hope that everything that can continue.