Alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakah to welcome to the live faith book on this special show dedicated to the father of the Hujjah of our time, Allah has his reappearance, Imam Al-Hassan Al-Asqari. Now we have been commemorating and have been going through a sorrowful time with the season of Arba'een and recently we have seen the flag change but the sorrow and the grief continues and inshallah majority of us will be commemorating the death of 11th Imam tomorrow night inshallah at Al-Hussainia but tonight that Imam Hussain TV3 myself most inshallah and my guest Sheikh Muhammad Ibar As-Pandju inshallah I would like to discuss with you the life of Imam Hassan Al-Asqari and also the visit of Samara inshallah so I'd like to welcome my guest Sheikh Muhammad Ibar As-Pandju As-Salamu Alaykum Sheikh Alaykum As-Salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakah to allah A'lam ala Udhurakum May Allah SWT reward us for our grief and intensify our grief in regards to the martyrdom of Imam Hassan Ibn Ali al-Asqari, salawatullahi wa salam wa adaih Sheikhuna, give us a little biography because I think Imam Hassan Al-Asqari may be one of the most unfortunately neglected Imams, but one of the most significant and important figures considering he is the father of the Hujjah of our time. Maybe a little on where he's buried and a little bit about his life and the troubles he had. Of course, Imam Hassan al-Asqadi, alaihi salam, the extent of his mavolumia and oppression can be understood from the very fact that he was poisoned at the age of 28. That's it, 28. A youth at the age of 28 poisoned and his assassination coordinated by the most powerful empire to have ruled the earth. Mohakkeen have come forward and they state that the empire of Bani Abbas stretched from as far as North Africa all the way to the borders of China, present day China. This vast majority of earth as we know it was ruled by Bani Abbas. And from all the enemies and foes and threats that you may think Bani Abbas may have, they decided to channel and to concentrate their entire military efforts and coordinate and plan for the assassination of this youth, you could say. The shining star of Bani Hashem, awali from the awliya of Allah, akhalifa from the khulafa of Allah, as-zawajal Imam Hassan ibn Ali al-Asqadi, alaihi salam. And therefore you find that within his age, the age at which he was martyred in itself there is a big dalala and an indication for the threat that he posed towards Bani Abbas. Imam al-Asqadi alaihi salam buried in the land of Samarra and the land of Samarra became blessed and became divine due to the burial of the blessed bodies of Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asqadi inside of Samarra. And it is very important over here and last night as well, I had mentioned in a Majlis for some of the Mu'mineen and Mu'minat, the importance of the Ziyarah of Samarra and the visitation of Samarra. In fact, tomorrow, Thursday, you have the Istishad of Imam Hassan al-Asqadi, alaihi salam, you will find that without exaggeration, hundreds and thousands, if not millions, hundreds and thousands of people from all over Iraq, from many parts of the world going to Samarra to pay tribute and to renew their allegiance with Imam al-Asqadi and commemorate his Shahada at the very shrine of Imam al-Asqadi inside of Samarra. And you find that Samarra, I believe it was perhaps with yourself that we had held in one of the shows, the commemoration of the bombing anniversary of the Haram of Imam al-Asqadi and the Imam al-Hadi inside of Samarra. You find that Samarra has historically been the seat of Bani Abbas's Khilafa, having moved from Baghdad, they moved to Samarra, Samarra being a military garrison in contemporary history. Even after the invasion of Iraq, you find that Samarra was a very unstable area. It had almost become a place that the terrorists such as Daesh had hoped that they would be able to have Saitara and full control over the city of Samarra. And it was a place of great unrest. And the bombing of Samarra was very evident on how the people wanted to use the land of Samarra and destroy the Dariy of Imam al-Asqadi as an announcement of their hatred and their war against Shi'a-izm, Tashayyo, and Imam al-Hujjah. In essence, it was not just a random bombing that had happened, there was a deep message and a very stern message behind that, the bombing of that shrine. For in any case, you find that Alhamdulillah with the barakat of Mawlana Sahib al-Amri was Zaman, the juhud and the efforts of the virtuous Maraja. And the barakat of the Mu'mineen and Mu'minat, people of Iraq and outside of Iraq, Alhamdulillah, who have contributed towards safeguarding Samarra, the security apparatus that has been installed in order to make sure that Samarra is a safe heaven for the Zawar of Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asqadi. And these are things that we need to appreciate and these are things that I believe we need to discuss on the Shahada of Imam al-Asqadi, on the Wilada of Imam al-Asqadi, the strategic importance of Samarra in this day and age as a place of Ziyara. Alhamdulillah, you find that millions and millions of people who went for Arba'een this year, who went to Iraq for Ashura, the Arba'een before that, every year we've been able to see progress in Samarra. There was a time seven, eight, 10 years back where it was almost unthinkable for people to go to Samarra. And the security concerns were very many, even though we are of the opinion and the number of the Maraja are of the opinion that even if there is a security threat on your life to uphold the Ziyara takes priority, in either case, you find, and many people did, you have a number of Shahada, Zawar who ended up becoming Shahada while embarking upon this journey to perform the Ziyara of Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asqadi and we're not talking about a very long time back, we're talking about seven, 10, 12 years back. And you will see that Alhamdulillah, the progress in terms of the security and how people have worked hard and institutions have worked hard in order to ensure that people like you and I are able to perform the Ziyara of Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asqadi in Samarra and even this year in Arba'een, Alhamdulillah, was shukr, the Haram of Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asqadi was filled with Zawar, Masha'Allah, where they had programs of Majalis. I believe Imam Hussein TV has the Beth Mubashar live broadcast for the Majalis from inside the Sahana of Imam al-Asqadi and there are Radoods doing Latham and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Zawar passing through Samarra on the days of Arba'een. This last Arba'een that had passed, Shahrum Muharram for Ashura, the year before that as well, there are even arrangements for people to spend the night inside of Samarra. Masha'Allah. And Alhamdulillah, you find that the Ataba of Imam al-Asqadi has done a lot of work and the Marjaiyya of Aitul al-Udhma Sayed Saadika Shirazi, may Allah grant him and the virtuous, marajo along in healthy life, have played an instrumental role in ensuring that Samarra is secured for the Zawar and the Haram in itself is secured in itself. And Alhamdulillah, we see the Barakat in the Juhud, food in the name of Imam al-Husayn in the name of Imam al-Asqadi is served from the Ataba. I remember last year, Shahrum Muharram, when we were blessed to be over there, we spent the night inside of Samarra and the Haram was opened the entire night. And it was very beautiful in the Sahan.  So Alhamdulillah, the importance of the city of Samarra and my advice, humble advice is that, and I've said this before, and the repetition of the message because of the importance of the message, it is important for all of us at Zawar, from the West, from Africa, wherever we are going, leaders of groups that take others of war for Ziyara, do not ignore Samarra as a destination for Ziyara. I would even go further and say, do not make Samarra a transit point where you are there just for a day trip, the way we say it, a couple of hours and then come back, la Imam al-Hadi, Imam al-Asqadi, Sayyeda Narjeed, Sayyeda Hakima, they're all buried within the Darih and then you have the Sardab of Imam al-Hudja, we need to have Marasim, when we go there for Ziyara, that we sit in the Sardab and we recite Dua' al-Ahad, the Dua' to pledge our allegiance to Imam al-Hudja, we need to have Dua' Nudba recited inside over there, this needs to be part and parcel of the Ziyara from the Adab and the Akhlaq of visiting Samarra that we sit hours inside of the Sardab and we weep and we wail for Imam al-Hudja, we renew our pledge with the Imam Zaman of our time, adjala allahu ta'ala farajahu shareef and this is the importance of the Ziyara of Samarra and I'm sure yourself you visited Samarra in Ar-Ma'in insha'Allah. I was blessed, I was there on, I think it was the 3rd, 4th of November, I was there, Alhamdulillah, I managed to go to Samarra and like you said, there has been great progress in terms of the restructure and also in terms of the facilities and infrastructure around the area, before we couldn't cross the bridge, we had to walk across the long bridge and then from there is another, I think it's about a mile roughly of walking you have to do but Alhamdulillah, this time we managed to cross the bridge, it was open access and go very, very close to the actual city, very close to the checkpoints and then you just get searched and you walk straight in and Alhamdulillah. The actual, the Haram itself, they're still rebuilding, there's a lot of work going on but if I managed to go downstairs and it's all marbled out into the Sadab, it's really, really nice now and it's very, very open. I think it's bigger than the actual Haram itself upstairs, there's a lot of space, you could see great development. The Mawa camps, the Mawa camps, yeah, on the way, on the way, yeah, yeah. What was really impressive this year for Arbaeen was, previous years I've been on Arbaeen and two, three days after Arbaeen, it's quiet, it's empty, this year it kept getting busy, it stayed the busyness, people were leaving but it was still a lot busier than normal and it was really, really like strange for me, like normally it's not this busy I haven't seen as many people and this is the same with Najaf Baghdad and Samarat it was probably arguably double what I were expecting what I was expecting to see and what I've previously experienced so Alhamdulillah there is more and more happening Alhamdulillah and I do have to mention this is that in Samarat there's the new toilets that have been made and they are amazing they are very very big and they're so big you got this elevator is that big there's a lift for you to go down to the toilets and they've got eastern toilets, western toilets, big facilities for Wudu, even Shia facilities is all I believe so like there is a lot of investment Alhamdulillah in Samarat we hope the houses can open again in Samarat Insha'Allah and they can be further development for the Zawar Insha'Allah. There is a relief and development and actually a development plan for resuscitating Samarat as a city from an economic perspective having people re-migrate back to Samarat rebuild the city of Samarat ensure that there are the local industry in terms of shops in terms of hotels why not in terms of schools for families to migrate back to Samarat for Shia families to come back over there and for Samara as a city to return back to the glory that it deserves because of the two kings who are buried inside of Samarat and Insha'Allah our hope and our anticipation is that the city of Samarat would become just like the way the city of Karbala is today and the city of Najaf is today and the city of Qadmein is today insha'Allah and the first step towards this is for the Zawar themselves to make this conscious effort to go to Samarat and actually spend time over there and even within the Haram or around the precincts of the Haram there is there is a lot of history that is that is there within the city of Samarat and insha'Allah step by step we are able to we are able to explore all of this is a part of our heritage and it's a part of our legacy insha'Allah may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless each and every person who makes the journey to Samarat to uphold the zikr and uphold the legacy of Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Asqali alayhim as-salam insha'Allah Shaykhana do you feel that because I feel this personally that Imam al-Asqali is very neglected considering he's such an important figure and considering he is the father of the Hajj of today what can we do to maybe you know improve our relationship and to honour the legacy of Imam al-Asqali what can we do better of course the first thing that we need to do is we have a number of things that we need to do number one reviving the shahadah and the willadah of Imam al-Asqali alayhim as-salam our attendance in the Hussainiyat have to be at their peak when it comes to the willadah of Imam al-Asqali and when it comes to the shahadah of Imam al-Asqali even the shahadah on a night like this or tomorrow night we have to have maximum participation you know in some of the centers that I used to serve in they used to be this mentality and it's very weird that it sounds very petty as well but it's a reality there used to be this mentality that there is a big Imam and a small Imam a big shahadah and a small shahadah you are an important shahadah and a not important shahadah and unfortunately the ignorance of the people is that the small shahadah the small Imam would be the likes of Imam al-Asqali this is the first point that we need to change and the people running the Hussainiyas the people administering the Hussainiyas or the khutaba reciting the Majlis for example sometimes I may think like a Majlis Imam al-Asqali I don't need to prepare as much as I need to prepare for another Majlis la this is wrong hujjatullah feel out of the way you said so therefore number one this importance from the people running the Hussainiyas reciting the Majlis khutaba al-kiram we have to have the create that fervor and that atmosphere I cannot come and say okay because it's shahadah Imam al-Asqali you know what today the time for matam will only be three minutes or four minutes why because the small Imam is not important la aib is actually an insult to Imam al-Asqali and insult to Imam al-Hujjah against any one of the Imam such an insult is an insult to Imam al-Hussain is an insult to Amir al-Mu'mineen alaihi salam the imams have a Horma awaluna muhammad akhiruna muhammad awsatuna muhammad kulluna muhammad Imam al-Hussain alaihi salam has a special position without doubt Amir al-Mu'mineen has a special position without doubt but we cannot have such a mentality within a community where Imam al-Asqali as seen as the lesser important Imam for this is one of the greatest steps that need to be done and this is an issue that we it's a problem that we suffer are within our local centers truth has to be told in that sense and this mentality has to change it has to change from the managing committees it has to change from within the madaris it has to change from the member importance excuse me showing the people the divinity and the importance of Imam al-Asqali alaihi salam this is one number two to connect with our Imam excuse me to connect with our Imam al-Mah knowledge about the Imam the life of the Imam the contributions of the Imam towards humanity towards the Shia umma the struggles that the Imam had the more we read the history of Imam al-Asqali the more we are able to relate to him the more we read his words the more familiar we are with the teachings of the Imam the more we fall in love with this Imam having said this you'll see that one great book our short alive faith book Alhamdulillah almost every week we've been concentrating on a certain number of books last week if you remember and if our Mushahedin remember the book that we had introduced is Calimatul Rasulul A'adam the words are the sayings of the Holy Prophet and this is part of an encyclopedia authored by the late Shahid Ayatullah Sayyid Hassan al-Shirazi where he has a where he has a encyclopedia a collection of the words and the sayings of the ma'sumin from Rasulullah all the way down to the 12th Imam their letters their saying so on so forth and you find within the book this is one of the greatest books that I have come across in regards to with all your respect to all of the writers scholars every book has a taste every book has a dimension of analysis from all these books you know one book that definitely stands out is this book entitled Calimatul Imam al-Asqali do we have time to go into the index or not really few minutes inshallah you find that you find for example within this book if you were just to look at the index in itself you look at the variety of the knowledge and the teachings that emanated from Imam al-Asqali that allow us to connect with Imam al-Asqali so for example there's an entire collection of a hadith entitled ilahiyat so you have a number of hadith in regards to understanding Tawheed from Imam Hassan al-Asqali alaihi salam each and every one of us has an opinion of what God should be what the Creator should be how he should function this is an opinion that you and I have why do we not go sit back and look what is the opinion or what are the words of Imam al-Asqali when it comes to understanding Tawheed I follow full on scholar and full on scholar and full on why when I have words of Imam Hassan al-Asqali alaihi salam understanding Allah through the words of the Maasum Imam similarly within this book we have a collection of hadith which is entitled as Nabooia in regards to the Nabooa where he speaks about the Nabooa of a number of the Ambiya so for example Imam al-Asqali has hadith on Nabi Adam being in Jannah he has got another hadith of the relationship between Rasulullah and Surat al-Fatiha the Surat al-Fatiha which is wajib for us to recite in every wajib Salah the miracles of the holy Prophet for example the hypocrites and the holy Prophet for example the Quran and the Huroof al-Muqatta'a you have Suras that start Alif, Lam, Meem, Yassin what is their philosophy what is their understandings these are churches of knowledge that have emanated from Imam al-Asqali and the same thing you have a number of hadith or from Imam al-Asqali in regards to Wilaya today you and I who claim to be Shi'a's of Abyr al-Mu'mineen the definitions of sectarianism what is it what does it mean to be extreme or not extreme as a Shi'a in regards to your faith these are all outlined for us by Imam al-Asqali through a number of the hadith we have hadith on Aqa'id and how the relationship between the Wilaya of al-Mu'min and the Malaika the Malaika believe in this the concept of peace and submission within the Quran you have Akhlaq the importance of Tawado the importance of being humbleness the evils of being stingy and so on so forth so you find that almost every aspect of our life when it comes to Ibadat we were not we were created Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says for the purpose of worship towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala you find that from the Ibadat the ways of worship and the mannerisms of worship taught to us by Imam Hassan al-Asqali alaihi salam we have got number one Salat Ayyamel isbua for every day of the week from the Nawafil from the recommended prayers there is a particular Salat to be recited every day of the week which Salat should be recited on Saturday on Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday these are all outlined to us by who by Imam Hassan al-Asqali alaihi salam and then we have a qunout we have the qunout of Imam Hassan al-Asqali what did Imam used to recite in his qunout in Salah these are things that connect us with our Ma'asum Imam we have for example the institution of Ziyarah that Imam al-Asqali established and you see he comes forward being in Samarra he used to encourage the people to perform the Ziyarah of Imam al-Baqir and Imam al-Sadiq in janat al-Baqir you find that Ahadith in regards to Fikr the apportionment of inheritance all these Ahadith you find for example from the teachings and the words of Imam al-Sadiq salawatullahi wa salamahu alaihi duas for every Imam for every Imam Imam al-Asqali has taught us how to recite a particular Salawat you want to send peace and blessings on Amirul Mu'minin yes how should you send peace and blessings upon him there is a Salat taught to us by him how to recite Salawat on Amirul Mu'minin how to recite Salawat on Imam Hassan and Imam al-Hussein how to recite Salawat on Imam al-Baqir how to recite Salawat on Imam al-Sadiq so on so forth the entire connection in my opinion what is needed within the Kaiba of Imam to remain connected with the Deen is found within the teachings of Imam Hassan al-Asqali alaihi salam we're going to go to a short break inshallah really looking forward to the next half inshallah join us on the next half where inshallah sheikh will be talking more on the life of Imam Hassan al-Asqali inshallah a couple of Hadith from the book inshallah join us after the break Salamu alaykum rahmatullahi wa barakatuh alaykum rahmatullahi wa barakatuh welcome back to the live Facebook we were discussing with Sheikh Muhammad al-Basbanju regards to the life of Imam Hassan al-Asqali alaihi salam inshallah we'll continue our discussion sheikhna tell us about the troubles and challenges of Imam Hassan al-Asqali Imam Hassan al-Asqali salawatullahi wa salamu alayhi his entire life for the time that he accompanied his father Imam al-Hadi salawatullahi wa salamu alayhi was filled with trials and tribulations and the role that Imam al-Asqali played was very very crucial number one in regards to protecting the faith from deviation during his lifetime and number two preparing the ummah for the ghaibah of the coming Imam and you find over here in order to prepare the people meant that you are safeguarding their faith for the future and this role was very very crucial for Imam al-Asqali because he was that final link before the ghaibah of the Imam would begin the ghaibah of his son and therefore the preparations that were needed to be done in order or the strategic steps that needed to be taken and be put into place in order to prepare the ummah to survive rather to flourish and to uphold their faith during this ghaibah this responsibility to a great extent fell on Imam Hassan al-Asqali alaihi salam and you find that the deviations that Imam al-Asqali during the time of Imam al-Asqali were numerous and the Imam despite being subjected to imprisonment within a military ghariz and a military prison with spies of the highest level from the intelligence agencies of Bani Abbas having an eye on him you find that Imam al-Asqali despite being in this situation was able to lead a revolution in terms of ensuring that this Dean of Adam Muhammad is not diluted or no deviation creeps into it and you find that there were a number of ideologies that had sprung up during the time of Bani Abbas that were actually being supported by Bani Abbas in order to deviate the people and distract them from the teachings and the leadership of Ali Muhammad Ali Muhammad Imam al-Asqali alaihi salam his leadership and his superiority was extremely visible for all the people it was something very easy to establish why through his ilm and hence Bani Abbas did everything and anything within their power to ensure that Imam al-Asqali would not have the opportunity to demonstrate this ilm towards the people and therefore they created they created and they branded and they advertised and they marketed different schools of force that would then be portrayed as the true teaching of Islam the alternate version to the version of Imam al-Asqali competitors of Imam al-Asqali if you could use that word for us to understand and you find over here for example within within this book of Shahid Atullah Hassan al-Shirazi you find that he speaks about an event that had happened with one of the individuals who had caused a great rift within the community and this was a person who was advocating Sufi teachings okay mannerisms of connecting with God they didn't come and tell you to do shirk they didn't come and tell you abandon Tauheed and go to this or that Allah they were portraying a form of Islam and the form of connecting with God the word is this connecting with Allah yani they were teaching a form of spirituality that was not endorsed by Ahlul Bayt look at how sensitive the issue is and look at how relevant the issue is today within the Muslim world Yababa leave the Muslim world within the Shi'a world we have a number of people who advocate a brand of spirituality a brand of being God-conscious by surpassing Ahlul Bayt and you find that Imam al-Asqali condemned these people why because they were causing ideological rifts within the community and ideological rift means that if you somebody becomes deviated he goes to hell and hence the imams took a very strong stance against people like these one of them was by the name of you see the imam says over here be careful of this superficial uh Sufis Sufis yani a sect that had come up that was practicing a form of spirituality having deviated from the teachings of Ahlul Bayt not every version of spirituality is the correct version of spirituality we need spirituality as per the teachings of Ahlul Bayt indeed and this is in regards to an individual known as Ahmad ibn Hilal look at the characteristics of Ahmad ibn Hilal he went for Hajj he went to on Hajj 54 times from these 54 times 20 times he went to Hajj on foot Allah religious personality comes across as being Mutaki Ahlul scholar speaks about Allah goes for Hajj on foot Imam al-Asqali says don't be deceived by the exterior he says our companions of the imam the companions of Imam al-Asqali and Imam al-Hadi they met with this person Ahmad ibn Hilal and they even recorded narrations from him that he would record or narrate on behalf of the imams before Imam al-Hadi and Imam al-Jawad so Imam al-Asqali dispraise this person through a writing and the shears were confused they said we don't believe that Imam al-Asqali would dispraise or condemn such a pious looking person who is known for hadith and this and that like today in this day and age people quote Amir al-Mu'mineen but they do tahrif of the meaning of the words of Amir al-Mu'mineen Amir al-Mu'mineen said something they distort the interpretation of the words of Amir al-Mu'mineen and somebody comes and tells you how can you criticize them speak about Amir al-Mu'mineen speak about Allah the issue is more deeper than that and look at what the imam says ibn Hilal la rahimahullah when the imam speaks about this guy ibn Hilal who has gone for hajj 54 times 20 times on feet Imam al-Asqali says la rahimahullah may Allah not have mercy on him wow meaning what when the imam says something like that he's got no hope what sin did he commit it's not a personal sin he didn't pray he didn't fast this that the sin was so grievous he deviated people from the right path what did he used to do he used to interfere in our affairs without our permission used to speak about our religion in the name of our religion without having any authority within our within our religion this is the grievous point he was branding a form of tashayyu or a form of islam benefiting from the authority of the imams when the imams not even give him that authority a person comes forward and aligns himself with Ahlulbayt portrays himself as an authority within the teachings of Ahlulbayt when he's not even an authority to begin with many we see this in this day and age as well the number of communities baba these are not new issues these are issues that exist from the time of imam al-Asqali la yamdimin amrina illa bima yahua wa yurid he says when he speaks about the religion he doesn't speak he doesn't convey our commands to the people rather he preaches his own opinion to the people and through this opinion of his a self-opinionated religion he deviated and was the reason of the deviation of a number of people somebody might come and tell you yasha akhuna does that mean there is no freedom of speech in islam when it comes to issues of theology correct there is of course there is freedom of speech but freedom within boundaries that has to be respected indeed like the way you have the freedom to use a knife yes but that doesn't allow you that you use this knife to go and stab people on the street somebody comes and stabs you with his knife and then when i condemn him can he come back and say yasha akhuna you're abusing or restricting my freedom to use a knife la if your freedom is causing harm to somebody else then that freedom is to be restricted this is something mantiki so the same way if a person is harming the ideology of somebody killing the soul which is more worthy than the body imam alaskari teaches us over here and you see that he stepped into the core of the issue and he issued a tauki a letter condemning ahmadi bin hilal so we understand from here that not only did he himself take an active step in educating the masses to be aware of those individuals who come across as being pious and scholars and leaders yet they deviate the people away from the teachings of alai muhammad and the imam expected from his shia that they would also stand up and would make the wider shia community aware of these people out of malice no out of hate no out of this one principle that you are taking people towards the fire eternal hell fire and such individuals are not any lesser than serial killers you let the serial killer loose on the street he goes and he kills everybody yes this one kills the soul not only does he take away a dunya from you takes away your akhera from you this was one of the challenges you find that even i was saying this yesterday to a number of the mu'min in mu'min out within one of the majaalish yes the famous author what is known as the sahib bukhari yes it was compiled during the lifetime of imam al askari alaihi salam and bani abbas branded him as this virtuous qualified scholar through whom islam could be understood he was marketed and branded and funded by bani abbas as a competitor to the teachings of ahlulbayt and imam al askari in particular you find he lived during the time of imam al askari there is not it was not persecuted for compiling and spreading the knowledge of rasulullah but subhanallah when imam al askari preaches the words of rasulullah he was persecuted imam al askari spoke about tauheed he got imprisoned bukhari spoke about tauheed and not sure and subhanallah you see the difference in the tauheed of bukhari and the tauheed of istaghfirullah you can't even put both these names it is the same statement where imam al askari and anybody else from the makhlukin but in any way you find over here that these were alternate authorities that were created by bani abbas who are then marketed and branded as scholars to deviate the people and distract the people from imam al askari and at the same time imam al askari has been imprisoned in samara away from the rest of the islamic umba to isolate him and his teachings but subhanallah Allah is the best of planners and you find from the divine hikmah of imam al askari his teachings spread and every corner of the islamic world so this was one great challenge that the imam tackled and ensured that he tackled during his life stopping the deviation from creeping into the teachings of ale muhammad and deviation of the shia this was one number two you find a crucial role of imam al askari alayhi salam was to prepare the people for the ghayba of his son maulana sahib al amri wa zaman salawatullahi wa salamhu alayhi this was going to be the most sensitive and the most fragile time for the shia umma the beginning of ghaybat is sohra is a very very fragile time there are important phases make or break phases within shia history one of them is this beginning point of ghaybat is sohra and another one is the beginning point of ghaybat al kubrah each one of them have their own particular challenges and if you are to sit down and analyze the challenges that the shia umma face at that time there are avenues of history that open up for you that perhaps majority of the people are ignorant said like i tell you for for true for real power we would need five nights ayam al askariya just to talk about highlights the challenges the shia faced particularly at the beginning of ghaybat is sohra and the beginning of ghaybat al kubrah just these two time frames cut these two pieces together isolate them in history and the challenges that that were there and how the people overcame these challenges you find over here that when it came to preparing the umma for the ghaybat of the imam the imam took a number of steps and you find again in this in this book by the way the event of the asufi al mutasanna and the imam's condemnation of this deviant school can be found in rijal al kisi the primary source you find that when it came to preparing the imam the imam did a number of things one strategy that the imam used the imam used a number of strategies to educate the people and to convince the people to establish their yakin and their iman in the existence of an imam after him whom they cannot have access to physically there was a number of strategies and each strategy each strategy that was implemented by the imam was in accordance to the level of iman and the thicker of the crowd that he's speaking to so depending on the crowd or depending on the type of people he was speaking to depending on the level of iman in which they were depending on the level of taqwa in which they were the strategy would be according to that it wasn't a one-fit-old solution the imam had very carefully planned out things hikmah divine hikmah selected by Allah az-zawajal you find over here that he took for when it came to the khawas those people who were at the highest level of iman the imam increased their imam by actually giving them access to see imam al-mahdi adjala Allah ta'ala farajahu sharif during his life time you have over here this is an incident which is taken from the book kamaluddin the companion says who is this companion abi ghanim who was a ghanim he was the khadim the servant of imam al-askari the servant of imam al-askari meaning that he was the most one of the most loyal companions to imam al-askari one of the most staunch companions of imam al-askari such that the imam trusted him enough to be in the household and serve the imam because the imam is administering the affairs of the entire umma while being under imprisonment so the people around him whom he chooses have to be the level of the highest level of trust he says when the 12th imam was born three days after his birth he showed the baby the newborn baby yani the imam to these close companions and he said to him haadah sahibukum min baadi wa khalifati alaykum and he is the one who will reappear when the earth is filled with oppression and tyranny and fill it with peace and justice so the strategy over here is that those people who are of the highest level of imam they have seen the imam with their eyes and it was now their responsibility to go down to the people of lower faith lower level of imam and to give them that confidence and that yakin that the imam exists even though you cannot see him taib why did the imam just take the imam al-askali just take imam al-mahdi to all the shia so imam this is my son is the imam after you because amongst those who are weak there is a possibility that they would go to bani abbas and they would expose this great secret because keeping the birth of imam al-hujjah hidden was one of the greatest tasks of the imam bani abbas were hot on their heels looking for this newborn baby so that they could kill him and then you find over here that in another hadith the imam says to the people musab nijaafar ibn wahab al-bakdadi he comes from bakdad imam is in samarra he says samayatu aba muhammad al-hasal imni ali yakul ka-anni bikum it is as if i'm with you it is as if i'm with you and i can see how you are disputing and have differences yani your unity as shia is shattered while you dispute over who is the imam after me imagine the extent of the fitna the shia umma are in dispute over who the next imam is you get how fragile and sensitive that time is and then he goes on to say the one who rejects the wilaya or the imam of my son after me is like the person he's like the same person who has attested to the imam of all to the who has attested to the nabua of all the ambia and rejected the nabua of rasulullah and then this is the point before we end the show he says amma ah indeed for my son there is an occultation there is a ghaiba in which the hearts of the people will be tested people will reach a level where they doubt the existence of the imam because of this ghaiba in brackets because it was understood is that it is an empty hand through which people will fall into misguidance except those whom Allah has protected and therefore you find from this hadith for us to take a practical lesson from the life of imam al askadi alaihi salam ourselves brothers sisters my respected parents pray and pray and pray for the safeguarding of your faith and the faith of your children particularly safeguarding the wilaya of ahlul bait today i could be a believer in ahlul bait tomorrow i could turn out to be an enemy of ahlul bait i could be a believer of imam al hujja today while i become an enemy of imam al hujja tomorrow the salamah and the safeguarding of the faith is the most important thing our belief in imam al hujja in the ghaiba person may not verbally negate the existence of the imam but negates the existence of the imam through his actions how convinced are we that the imam exists and is watching over us and is going to reappear for what goes the imam is going to reappear what does the imam expect from us in the ghaiba this connection with the imam and keeping on the right path during the ghaiba is something that needs to be of the highest priority as shown to us by imam al askalia ascent thank you very much sheikh now and thank you for our views for joining us inshallah we'll be back on the next episode of the live facebook where the sheikh will do another discussion from a book with hadith from a book inshallah we see then salamu alaykum rahmatullah


Can you tell me your name please? My name is James. Can you tell me what you're the most excited to see here today? Probably the Blue Angels. Have you seen them before? No. Is it your first time? I hope you enjoy the show. First name, Kaz. Last name, Hannah. What are you here for today? What are you most excited to see? Mostly I brought her over to show her to C-17. That's the jet I work on over at Hickam side. So you're at Hickam? Yeah, I'm at Hickam. What branch are you in? With the Air National Guard over there. 154th, MXS. Is it your first time with the Blue Angels? No, this is the second time since 2015. Last time they came out, so super excited for that. Yeah, we're excited to bring her back to you guys. What was the most fun? She liked to see five. Ladies and gentlemen, we're waiting for the T-6 to take off. So in the meantime, let's thank some of our wonderful sponsors. Who without much support this event would not be possible. I'm excited for the look around. I've seen... I've seen, like, all of them. Not all of them. This is, like, my first time being here. The last time I was, like, back in... When the leaves is... When I was, like, two years old. You need to head out over now. So how are you doing this month? Enjoying the show? What's your favorite food here so far? Do you like the turkey legs? They're giant.


Before we go on to understand these patterns, what are the findings in chronic sinusitis? We're all aware of those, but for a quick revision, we could have secretions within the sinuses, which could be hyperdense, as we see here. We could have adjacent bony thickening, adjacent bony sclerosis, which is a marker of chronicity. We could have certain calcifications, which would be peripheral and scattered. Remember, hyperdensity is a sign of benign disease. It basically excludes tumor for us, the other cause of hyperdensity being fungal infection and hemorrhage. There are various patterns, type 1 to type 5, which have been described based on the distribution of disease, based on these dino nasal drainage pathways, and which helps the surgeon in turn to decide on his choice of surgical technique. Pattern 1 is the infundibular pattern. We have seen the infundibulum draining the maxillary sinus and the ethmoid sinuses. So, when the infundibulum is obstructed, the sinuses that are involved are the xylateral maxillary sinus and the anti-ethmoidal group of sinuses. Pattern 2, the osteo-metal unit pattern, which will obstruct all the anti-a group of sinuses. So, we have disease in the anti-a group of cells, including the frontal, the anti-ethmoidals, and the maxillary sinuses. A sub-pattern here would be the frontal-resus pattern, which just obstructs the frontal sinus drainage pathway, and hence disease will be localized to the yylateral frontal sinus. Sphenoethmoidal-resus pattern, which is the type 3 pattern involving the posterior group of sinuses, and now disease will be localized to the sphenoid sinus plus minus posterior-ethmoidal air cells. As we go from type 1 to type 3 pattern, the chances of recurrence after surgery would increase. Also, the surgery becomes more and more complex. It helps us prognosticate in a way. Type 4 is synonasal polyposis, which is diffuse involvement of the sinuses. Usually treated medically, surgery reserved only for refractory cases, very difficult to operate upon. Type 5 is the sporadic pattern, which is a random involvement of often single sinuses. So, this is the infundibular pattern of the disease, where disease involves the maxillary infundibulum, and it is mucosal thickening in the maxillary sinus, the normal infundibulum on the right side. OMU pattern, which involves the entire OMU as a 3D space, and hence obstructs the frontal anti-ethmoidals and the maxillary sinus. The frontal-resus pattern involving the frontal-resus on the left side, right side being normal, and hence disease limited to the left frontal sinus. The spheno-ethmoidal-resus pattern, which involves the posterior group of sinuses, where we see this mucosal thickening involving the sphenoid sinus, blockage of this osteum and recess, seen well on the sagittal, as well as the axial images, sagittal being a little better, easier to evaluate, SCR pattern. And there is this mucoperiosteal thickening, leading to this sclerosis of the bony walls, and hyperdensity within the ipsilateral sphenoid sinus. Sino-nasal polypossess, which is the type 4 pattern, which is, we all, we have seen this very commonly, polyps leading to expansion of the nasal cavity, expansion of the infundibular with some hyperdensity within, and this hyperdensity could also represent allergic fungal sinusitis, very commonly seen in these cases, despite extending superiorly, despite eroding these bones, despite remodeling these structures around it, the polypoidal shape is still maintained in a case of sino-nasal polypossess. Truncation of the middle turbinate, the bulbous portion of the middle turbinate is a clue to the presence of polypossess in a case of chronic rhinocinositis.


This is Jimmy Powers coming your way with another Grantland Rice story. Hey there, this is Jimmy Powers with another chapter from the Grantland Rice story, The Tumult and the Shouting. Today, in first person, I'd like to take you through the 1954 United States Open, the greatest test in golf. During the 54 Open at the famed Baldish Roll Course in New Jersey, one poor round knocked Hogan into a fifth place tie with Billy Joe Patton, the colorful amateur.  The fellow's name, Ed Fergall, profound believer in the old adage, if at first you don't succeed, keep on shooting. I'd seen Fergall in tournaments around the map since 1945, the year he hit the professional circuit. The first time I saw him must have been during the winter of 45 in Los Angeles. I watched this sharp featured young fellow hit a few shots from the practice tee and noticed he met the ball like no pro I'd ever studied. He seemed to be doing everything with his right side as contrasted to the strong left side, which practically any good golfer features. Later I questioned Fergall about this strange manner of hitting a golf ball. Mr. Rice, he said, rolling back the sleeve of his left arm, I can't hit a ball any other way. Fergall's left elbow is frozen at something approaching a right angle and the muscle of the upper arm is non-existent. However, there is nothing the matter with his left forearm wrist or hand. When he was a youngster, Fergall fell off a swing in a playground, shattering the left arm. Unfortunately, surgery could do little to correct the break. That injury knocked me out of football, boxing, even baseball and basketball, continued Fergall. The doctor told me to try to strengthen my arm, perhaps by swinging a golf stick. That was my only competitive outlet and I've been swinging ever since. For the following eight years of tournament play, going into that 54 open, Ed had average competitive scoring rounds of between 70 and 71. That's real sound golf. But in all that time, the Polish American athlete had earned less than $15,000 in his biggest year, 1947. I finally decided the Fergall family needed more security and less rainbow chasing, Fergall told me recently. I decided to try teaching, but with this cock-eyed left arm, well, I wasn't sure how my pupils, if any, would react. The answer came from the Westwood Country Club in Clayton, Missouri, near St. Louis. I've been there for some time now. I've worked hard with my pupils, too, continued Fergall. From the start, I've been an exponent of the do as I say, not as I do, school. I haven't forgotten how important a straight left arm is for the average player, if he has a good left arm. But I've worked more with the hand action, which is even more important to a good swing, more important to a good hit. Let me say right here that Fergall really had to beat that ball a country mile at Ballas Roll. The course measured 7,050 yards, longest layout for an open. Besides, the turf was moist from heavy spring rains. It demanded bold hitting all the way. It was a case of attack, attack. You could never finesse a shot. Eight holes measured 450 yards or more. Long par fours for anybody, including Sam Snead. And it was that fairway shot, the payoff shot to the green on which Fergall capitalized with his favorite number three iron. In my mind, the key to Fergall's victory was that in 72 holes of scorching pressure, he never blew to a six, where many headliners scattered to sevens. I asked Fergall if he ran into the jitters at any time. Not until the final day, granny, he grinned. I was clicking along fine until the seventh hole. There I three-putted. Then on the eighth, another three-putt green. Walking to the ninth tee, I was steaming. Rounds of 71, 70, 71 to lead the pack. And now this. I hit a good number three iron on the ninth that slipped over the green a bit, but I got down in three. Then I had nine consecutive pars for the last nine holes for a 72 and jackpot. Being a sportswriter, I've covered the greats, the near greats, the fighters, and the flops down through the years. I've watched them score, yes, and I've watched a lot more fail in the clutch, but not for the lack of trying. To me, Ed Fergall is a shining example of the closing line of a piece of verse I wrote years ago. It ends with, the game fish swims upstream. Ed Fergall's battle to reach the top is one of those inspiring strokes along the way of the ancient green. It was a long drawn out fight in which full faith in himself finally carried to the top. Ed Fergall, a living lesson in the many ways that can be used successfully by those who have gotten the tougher breaks from fate. During the winter of 1954, I spent six weeks in Los Angeles and took in one of my favorite tournaments, the Los Angeles Open. Nearly half the field was made up of gimlet-eyed shooters of under 30. Those aren't men who have battled their way up through the caddy ranks and who have finally scraped together enough money or backing to make the big winter tour. These aren't the younger editions of the Hogan's and Snead's who, as juniors, lived on a diet of ulcers and table scrapings trying to hold on somehow while stabbing for the rainbow. No, these are the peach-cheeked college kids, boys who have traveled through the luxury of a college education on the strength of a groove swing and a four-year golf scholarship at many of today's big universities. I am certain that young Mike Suchak, whom I consider one of the bright young stars of the future, had football, not golf, on his mind when he matriculated at Duke University in the late 40s. Endowed with a terrifically husky build, this kid brother of Frank Suchak, a Pitt's great 1937 tackle, played great football. Young Mike also discovered he could blast a golf ball a country mile. And for two years, he's been blasting it to the consternation of the rest of the field. My own introduction to the newest breed of pro golfer occurred around 1951. I was in St. Petersburg, Florida on my annual jaunt through the baseball camps. Staying at the vanoy while in St. Pete, I usually took breakfast in my room. That first morning, my order was delivered by a young blonde giant with a Hollywood profile. He was as enthusiastic as he was polite. All he talked about was golf. We became quite chummy. It seems the youngster was hopping bells when he wasn't attending classes at the University of Miami, where he was riding along on a golf scholarship. His name was Al Besselink. By the size of you, I think you'd be of more use to my close friend and your football coach, Andy Gustafson, I said. Well, Mr. Rice replied, bellhop Besselink. Football is all right. But the way I look at it, my future is golf, all golf. I'm ready and willing to gamble anything I own except my clubs on my game. And somehow I expect to make that confidence pay off. Well, you could have knocked me over with a small truck the following year when I scanned the first round lists at the Augusta Masters tournament. Lo and behold, there was Al Besselink slamming birdies at the entire field. No, Al didn't stick up there. He blew in the third round, as I recall.  Jean Littler, the reddish blonde is in his early twenties, but make no mistake. Here's another big threat to the middle and old guard who came to play. Following his release from the Navy in September of 52, the West coaster was without so much as a warm up swing. He jumped into and won the national amateur, perhaps my favorite tournament. In January 1954, Littler won the San Diego Open with a 14 under par total for 72 holes. He must have reflected that the silver cup he received was indeed a lovely thing, but it was hard to eat. At any rate, he turned pro and is hot on the heels of the more established pro names. Littler's second place finish to Ed Fergal in the 1954 Open proved conclusively that this boy has the necessary goods. Hottest foreign prospect since Bobby Locke is, of course, Australia's Peter Thompson, who became a professional in 1949, while still in his teens. Stocky and solid under fire. What I've seen of Thompson, I like. What I especially like about young Peter is that despite his unquestioned physical power, he hits the ball well within himself. In other words, he's learned early the lesson that direction, not distance, is the big payoff in this game. That's usually the last thing that the youngsters are willing to learn. Bud Holcher is another of the young timers to be kept in mind. So it looks as if youth will be served in golf as in any other sport with the possible exception of croquet and Chinese checkers. The big money up there for the grabbing is the lure and I wouldn't be surprised to see the total purses pushing a cool million in a few more years. A far cry from the nickel and dime tournament of the late 1930s. Only race horses eat from a deeper trough. Yes, money talks in golf. So does the I'm unbeatable attitude that today's youngsters carry with them from the first tee. Well, that's about it for today. So until our next session with Grantland Rice's best seller, the tumult and the shouting, this is Jimmy Powers transcribe saying so long.


I do woodturning. I've been doing it for probably two years. I like to do mostly pens but I also do little bowls and goblets and cups and things like that too.  I actually when I graduated from college my parents bought me a mini lathe. It's just it's something they knew I had an interest in. It's not something I'd ever tried before but after seeing lots of videos on YouTube and Facebook just searching of things that people make and over time I accrued the tools needed and the materials needed as well and just tried it and fell in love with it. I really didn't know if I was going to be any good at it and truly at first I wasn't but over time I started to get good at it and I started developing these little techniques that were uh that are unique to me. You know there's so many different people to tell you this is the best way to do this this is the best way to do that. These are the best materials but over time I think you kind of just get your own your own rhythm and I think I'm there by this point. I love that no two pieces are the same. You know the wood it's uh there's so many different types of wood so many different types of grain there's so many defects in the wood that make them very unique and different from one another. I mean I could I could make two pens out of the same piece of wood and and they turn out completely different and you don't know what it's going to look like until you're at the very end and I think that's I think that's the coolest thing about it. I think people know me for the pens that I make. A lot of drivers uh of our night transportation drivers they'll uh I've had many purchase pens for me. I've also I like giving them giving them out as gifts to drivers. We just had a driver who he hit his milling mylar mark and he overcame cancer. I gave him a pen just as a congrats and and we're happy with us and I engraved his name on it just to make it personal for him.  It was actually a pen and pencil set and I engraved the night logo on it and I I like to think I've incorporated my hobby into the culture here at night.


And there's two papers on the EEG portable systems for event-related brain potential. So it's a display, it's an EEG response to a certain stimulus. Could be vision, sound, anything, really. But this paper, we would not have time to read it all, especially because it kept coming up. There's another paper, similar. Normally, just when looking at papers, we look at some of the images. Yeah, not a great image there. That's the study paradigm, I assume. Not an easy image to follow. And those should have been in different colors, come on. But yeah, even without the different colors, you can supposedly see the difference in response when stimulus is present. And this is amplitude microvolts, amplitude EEG. So you can see it's bugger all. In this case, like 5, a microvolt, a change of plus minus 6, 7 microvolts. You can also see interestingly that this signal is not detrended. There is some DC in it, especially in this third example. You know what the difference between the three examples. So this article is Creative Commons Open Source. You can download PDF. We just work on it to register. No, PDF is just downloaded. Now GPT-4, can you read the whole article and summarize? Mainly after information regards the data set used for this article, is it publicly available? Give me the link to the article and why you have it already. Did you read the whole article? Is that data set used in this study publicly available? It's reading it again. So obviously this would be different from uploading the actual text into GPT. Just trying to work with the PDF. The article doesn't specify the data set used in publicly available. It came still. How was the data collected? What are multiple devices compared? In the study, EEG data were collected from 60 participants using both the Muse EEG system and the standard EEG system to compare their performance. Multiple devices were indeed compared, the portable Muse system and the laboratory-grade EEG system. The comparison focused on the accuracy and reliability of the MUSC system in capturing specific ERP components, assessing its suitability for cognitive and perceptual research. For more details on the data collection methods and device comparison, you can refer to the full article here. Like you to read the whole article and not refer to the link anymore? Could you explain the figures? Particularly figures 2, 2, 4. I'm pretty sure I didn't read the whole article. I don't know if it's reading it now as we go. It keeps referring to the... The article compares the Muse EEG system with a standard EEG setup across figures 2 to 4. These figures present conditional waveforms and difference waveforms for different tasks and analysis methods, showcasing the performance of the MUSC system compared to the standard setup. They visually represent the reliability and quality of the MUSC system in capturing ERP components. The comparison is made across different conditions and tasks, indicating the MUSC system's effectiveness in a variety of scenarios. For a detailed view and understanding of these figures, please refer to the full article here. Again, without referencing the article in the link, online link, could you explain the details of figure 2? Figure 2 in the article presents the ERP waveforms recorded from the MUSC system and the standard EEG system. It compares these waveforms for different components and conditions, illustrating the similarities and differences in data captured by both systems. This figure is crucial for understanding the efficacy of the MUSC system in accurately recording ERP components compared to the traditional EEG setup. It's a really bad figure to understand. Should have been labels, conditional waveforms, standard analysis, electric PZ. The top is the electric PZ, middle, reduced analysis, put the electric TP9, TP10, and bottom is the MUSC. Obviously this was cherry-picked as well. Where can I find the raw data for this study? The raw data for the study presented in the article is not specified as being publicly available within the article itself. Should I read papers that do not publish the raw data? Papers without raw data can still offer valuable insights, theories, and methodologies. However, if reproducibility and data analysis are crucial for your work, access to raw data might be a determining factor. The decision ultimately depends on your research objectives and the importance of data transparency in your field of study. Well, it's also that the figures in these papers are not great. I would have liked to reproduce them in a different way. So they actually made clearer. Can you explain figure five? Figure five in the article presents the mean amplitudes of the N200, P300, and reward positivity ERP components across three different analyses, standard, reduced, and MUSC. The figure includes 95% confidence intervals for each component. This visual comparison helps in understanding the performance of the MUSC system in detecting these ERP components relative to the standard EEG system. So while the reduced and MUSC conditions are similar, there seems to be a significant difference between the standard EEG recording, both in N200 and P300. Yes, figure five indicates significant differences between the standard EEG and the reduced MUSC conditions in capturing N200 and P300 components. This highlights the variations in data quality and accuracy between the systems, particularly in detecting specific ERP components. Such differences are important for evaluating the MUSC system's suitability for various research applications. How about reward positivity study? In the reward positivity aspect of the study, figure five shows a comparison of the MUSC and standard EEG systems. The figure likely indicates the differences in capturing the reward positivity component, which is crucial for understanding the effectiveness and limitations of the MUSC system in this specific aspect of ERP research. This data helps in assessing the MUSC system's overall utility for various ERP components, including reward positivity. Can you extract the data from the figure? Anyway, I have no idea why. So this is normal N200. This is the figure. Can you extract data from it? Yes, it's actually using PLO library. It's using OCR to extract text. It didn't do a great job extracting the text. I don't know how does it know it's successful or not.  The OCR process data is used to extract the data from the figure. The OCR process data is used to extract the data from the figure. The OCR process data is used to extract data from the figure. The OCR process did not successfully extract the detailed data from the figure to accurately extract the data from the bar graphs for N200, P300, and reward positivity, who would typically use image processing techniques to analyze the pixel values and convert them into numerical data. However, this process can be complex and may not always yield precise results due to variations in image quality and graph formatting. Proceed, I can attempt to manually estimate the values from the bar graphs based on their relative positions and the scale provided in the figure. Would you like me to do that? So now to the numpy, ring the image, convert it to grayscale, thresholding, invert, find contours. Yeah, there would be a problem with those contours. There's the background bit over there. Anyway, it's not a great graph. Filter contours, it's not only fine, it's in the green. The contour detection approach did not yield the desired outcome for data extraction. Instead, we can employ a more direct method by estimating the mean amplitude values from the bar plots based on the y-axis scale. I will proceed with this manual estimation approach to approximate the values for each component. N200, P300, reward positivity from the bar plots provided. Let's analyze the image to estimate these values. Right, so now it's doing another estimate, showing the figure. So I estimated the values for N200, standard mean minus 5, lower, that's wrong. Yeah, I think it's really struggling with this image. Based on the manual estimation from the figure provided, here are the approximate values for each ERP component across the three conditions. N200 component, standard, mean approximately minus 5 microvolts, C range approximately minus 10 to 0 microvolts. Reduced, mean approximately minus 5 microvolts, C range approximately minus 10 to 0 microvolts. News, mean approximately minus 5 microvolts, C range approximately minus 10 to 0 microvolts. It's obviously wrong. The values are wrong. I don't know why this figure is like that. It seems like to begin with a very bad figure. But I wonder if there is a reasoning behind it. Was it meant to confuse OCR and image detection? It definitely confuses the human, but yeah. The contour detection was successful in identifying the bar shapes from the figure. The accurate data extraction. We need to measure the heights of the bars and the pixel distance between the top and bottom of each bar and then converting these pixel measurements to corresponding voltage values using the scale of the Y-ACC. However, the current setup of the code detects all contours, not just the bars, and doesn't provide the data extraction functionality. To extract the data, we would need a more complex analysis, which includes isolating each bar, measuring it, and mapping it to Y-ACC's scale. That's similar to the original code. What is it doing now? Right, so it extracted some numbers. Why is it so large? Obviously, the absolute value is wrong. I don't wonder if it's still correct in terms of the ratio between the dots and look like. Yeah, that's wrong. There was an error in the code you didn't correct indexing. The image is actual size and the Y-ACC's pixel positions need to be accurately determined to match the image dimensions. I will correct the code and try again. Well, it doesn't really matter if it's not being able to return the absolute value because it can't read those little numbers there, which again should have been just bigger. The Y-ACC's numbers should still give you the relative size it got in there again. It appears there was another indexing issue due to the X-coordinate exceeding the image width. It's likely because the estimated X-positions for the center of the bars are not aligned with the actual image's coordinates. To proceed correctly, we need to accurately determine the X-coordinates within the bounds of the image dimension. I will make the necessary adjustments and try again. No, it's not going to succeed doing this. The main reason is that the original image is really... The original figure is really bad. Should I try this one? Probably not. The colors should have been different. Yeah, just bad, bad, bad. What year was it from? Right, this was from 2017. I can try and have a more recent paper that was comparing EEG, again an oddball task, comparing EEG from this headband. And the 1020 EEG cap. The math does look just synthetic. Right, this is different colors, which is good. Again, it's just five seconds. We need more data to find if the raw data is available. This could be turned into a graph fairly easily. I guess it's over here. Yeah, so this is in different bands, comparing the two devices. One good thing about this first study is that they did a comparison to the standard, not just a reduced number of lectures. I'm not sure what they're doing. I assume they just do a reduced number of lectures comparison. The GPT might have better luck with this. It's actually comparison to different devices. There's no chart for it.  You can manage it. It's the prices, et cetera. Surprise this paper. I haven't turned this into a chart. Like an infographic, whatever. Let me get the paper. Yeah, we got the paper. Let's do a quick, I'm still loading, quick summary. They obviously there's more information on the muse. So you know if the paper is biased or just what's available. Still generating stuff? Or reading document? Why does it take so long? Network care. And attention to ask. Study concludes that MINDEEP is a promising EEG recording device with potential applications in audiology, cognitive neuroscience, and daily requirements. Regarding the comparison of portable EEG devices, MINDEEP stands out with its high resolution, compatibility with both dry and wet electrodes, and Wi-Fi connectivity for data transmission. It also offers features like impedance detection, multi-device synchronization, and event marking, making it versatile for various applications. The study highlights MINDEEP's advantages, including its ability to provide raw data access, and its practical settings. The EEG data sets generated for study described in the document are available upon request to a corresponding author. This suggests that while the data is not directly publicly available, it can be accessed by contacting the author responsible for research. Yeah, that's the graph for the table there, isn't this? No, it's not. How to summarize this table visually. We got a timeout first for today. We might need a break in the past. I was giving us like a one hour timeout this time. It's only, what's it now? Yeah, seven minutes. We can continue in seven minutes. I don't know if we will keep getting those, but yes, it's actually more bombarding, more don't get a timeout. We'll learn more about the timeout. I've already submitted this in the past. Yeah, usage cap request. Okay, so the summary for this two papers is there. Yeah, this is not a great paper. At least the way it's published, I haven't actually read the whole thing, but yes, say this graph is just the chart itself. The graphics of it are really bad. You can, well, for example, chipt4 could not extract anything out of it. So close this one. The other paper, yeah, the graphs are better. It's a newer paper as well. But this is not the whole data set with both papers. The data is not publicly available. There's only what's inside the tables within the paper itself. The first one didn't have any papers. Obviously, the reference is very important. It suggests that the reference is on the device itself. I assume the electrodes are on the forehead, so they're actually not in the same position as the 1010 EEG montage. Yes, there's lots of questions about this one. Can the raw data is not available? You'd expect the data from all the electrodes in a raw shape and form without processing anything. Yeah, I'm not sure why I include a figure like that. It could be just mentioned in text. Yeah, I don't think this one is of much use as well. Yeah, this is handy. You want those actual recordings. Rest in state. It's E O I. It's I, open, I closes it. So A is I's close and B is I's open. Instead of I motion or a blink. So essentially this whatever that is, I assume it's an I movement that the mind, the portable device recording was a double the I movement, the amplitude which if you consider it to be your artifact it's not a great thing. So here as well, the question about these things is sometimes the amplitude is greater but the question is what out of it is actual EEG. So this amplitude fluctuations could be non-EEG. It could be slight movement or things like that. It could be good to look at the raw data. I don't like summaries like that. They tend to be somewhat biased in the way it's being processed. Yeah, relative power to what. So it's out of all the power. But how come it's relative power here as well. I get relative, yeah, this relative power. The GPD OCR and the image processing would be able to extract these numbers. Okay, but what's relative power in here? The numbers available in those tables? No. And then there's a comparison table with all these different devices where they weren't actually tested in this study. So how is that relevant? Yeah, we'll spend more time on it if the raw data was available but it's not. Anyway, we've already spent too much time on this and we should be good to continue using 3.4. As we do this quickly we have this to 1.35 now. Now, so didn't tell me the title of the previous chat. So yeah, when you put the NIH it's called NCBI papers you get the access denied by robots. Which is fair enough, but yeah. Am I a robot? How do I know? Right, we now have till 1.35 so the time it came us before was wrong.


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Bring it right in and don't make any noise. Lady you don't move nothing like this without making noise This year bookcase is about the heaviest piece of furniture. I have had anything to do with it. It isn't a bookcase It's a queen and secretary. It is only secretary. I ever saw it screech. It's not that kind of a secretary Well this secretary has glass doors and weighs five hundred pounds where you want to Over there against the wall, I think Lady don't think no this ain't something to be tried out in different places Against the wall then you sure This used to be the only place but if you don't like him there We move him around for you, but not with me lady much as I wouldn't like to Got other deliveries to make All right, I'm and get strong. My name is Fritz. Okay, I'm an AC does it Lady no matter what you pay for this at the auction you got yourself a bargain a big bargain Watch out No, we ain't lady hey sandals hold it a minute Fritz lady We're forced up this year bookcase don't want to go against the wall Why not there's plenty of room between the windows? Oh, yeah There's plenty of room between the windows, but there ain't enough room between the floor and the ceiling between the floor ceilings to floors is eight feet in this apartment Think this is maybe a eight foot six. That's it This year bookcase wasn't made for no New York apartment.  That's sacrilege. I don't know about that lady, but it's frantic I wish you could chop holes you the truckman is joking the truckman ain't joking either my name Don't tell me I got your name right on the tip of my tongue Wait, it's Funny when I say it it sounds like one of these you'll have to get it in place for me Lady, it's like I said only a magician or a knax can do this job. I think only a magician with a knax Best we can do is get it out for you. All right quick before my husband sees it I'll tell him it was all a mistake only I can't make it Rather, I can't take it out for you today Company rules is that the truck must go empty to the garage, but he can't stay here while we put it Now you better leave it where it is easy But it's it's looking up the doorway Well, you figure out a place in this room where it don't block some door Look lady you sleep on it and if you want we should take it back tomorrow. Give us a call Listen, you can't tell me where he rules his rules Very comic man. I don't think there's a beautiful piece of furniture. Mrs. Norton too bad. It's so big Yeah, there's maybe some way I can help you Hey, am I to be kept in the bedroom all night or I even get any dinner. I'm coming out. No, no, no Don't come out yet. I'm coming in No fritz. I'm afraid there's nothing you can do Mr. Norton's home. Maybe he and I together I'm afraid this is something that mr. Norton will want to take up with me alone. I'm afraid Yeah, you want I should go then yes fritz. I want you should go This surprise is there to taking an awfully long time to hat That's because it's a bigger surprise than I thought it was going to be David. You love me What's that got to do with everything? Do you love me very much? Under advice of counsel.  We'll make up your mind because I'm gonna need an awful lot of love and understanding darling come to the point It's the end of a long long day starting out with a handicap. All right here goes David I bought something Well, what is it? You know, we haven't got a bookcase yet And you know, we've been talking about building shells around the wall and you can't take bookshelves with you when you move so so I Bought a gorgeous walnut Queen Anne's secretary. Not now don't interrupt darling. It's a genuine antique early 18th century and Completely original that is except for one of the back legs. It's a museum piece Where did you find it? Uh-huh at the auction gallery, Claudia You went to an auction sale by yourself now darling. I just how much did you bid on it?  I tell you as a museum piece It said so in the catalog. There's something wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with it except that It belongs in a museum That's no great drawback. That's what you think come on then. Let's let's look at it Good Queen Anne's secretary is nothing to sneeze at David. Wait a minute. Don't go yet Kiss me. Hold me tight There How's that? That'll probably be the last kiss. I'll get for years Come on Hey What's the idea of blocking up the doorway like this? You'll just have to climb over it darling Why didn't those lazy truckmen stand it up against the wall? David can't you guess the whistle blew in their day's work was done. No, yes again. I don't get it David it wouldn't be my Silly wife by any chance Good heaven It's an elephant. I guess that's why it was so cheap. I guess that's why it was Claudia if I ever catch you going to another auction sale at the price It was a gift you should always look gift horses in the mouth and Anybody with half an eye could see that this one has a pretty tall mouth But you've got to admit that it's beautiful. I'll lie down on the floor and have a look at it sideways Darling, you're very sweet to take it this way I'm not sweet. I'm furious with you. No, you're not David It's a lot of little things like this that add up to make a marriage or breaking it Don't call this This this thing a little thing You know darling someday. I I may ring your neck. There might be nice Oh, that must be mama. She was on her way over Come in, come in mama the door's not locked. Come on mama Somebody's blocking it. You must have been drinking Mrs. Brown. I can't imagine what you're imagining I'm imagining nothing very well if you won't move it. I managed to squeeze through I'm getting used to it in this household Very hospitable. I must say Well, what? What's that? What's what that that thing there? I don't see anything. What's she talking about, Claudia? Come on in mother. What do you expect me to do climb it or jump over it?  Do you never this is the surprise? Yes, do you like it stand it up? And I'll tell you but that's the surprise and anyway We don't want to stand it up Why not? Oh, it's been standing up for a couple of hundred years. It wants a rest before it goes over to your house to my house Yes, sort of a present sort of you should be very grateful. It's a museum piece My small apartment is not a museum, but it has high ceilings I feel to get the connection you will and it's beautiful think of all the books It'll hold I don't need anything to hold books. Thank you. You can store jellies in it I have no jelly make some then you know if she wasn't so lazy David She'd make a lot of jelly certainly she would I'm going now. Wait a minute mother She's your daughter and you've got to assume your share of the responsibility. I will not you married her. She's yours Oh, but I've got to go to Connecticut early tomorrow. It's too late to do anything about this tonight You're talking about me or the bookcase both can't you send it back my wife or the bookcase It'd be easier to get rid of my wife. She's not so bulky Besides Queen Anne came from an auction and it's not so easy to return things to auction Just sell it over again for us won't they don't worry.  I wouldn't dream of it I want to be there David. I know what you mean She'll probably buy it back again because she can get it cheaper It'll be even a bigger bargain you get the general idea. 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Hands together, please. Troy. Hands together. I think we got to add first. Then when we don't get to... I mean, I think we got to take away first. Then we'll be good to that answer. I think we got to add it up and see what we get. Well, first, we got to... I thought we added first. Floor, floor, floor, floor, floor, floor, is the important thing too. So, how? In 24 and 4 is important too. And how many tickets? How many tickets? In a floor. In a floor, it's important too. How many tickets they sell in bulk days? So, a circle of dollars. I think... How about we make a number line? I got to do it like that way. Or we can add it all together. See, look. It's 4 plus 4 equals 8. And you don't have a tool. So, it's going to be 28. Yeah, but let me check. Draw 20. So, it's 24 and... 4 plus 4. Yeah, 4 plus 4 equals 8. Make a number... You got to add it again. Because... Like this probably right here. 20. Now, you see this probably better? And with the 4 plus 4 is the same as 8 and then plus 20 more. And then plus 4 plus 4. And then that equals 28. So, that was right. How about we do the... I'm going to go with Ronald's. Yeah, he got a good idea. But mine was a good idea though. I had a good idea. You see this? Number bonds. I did mine horizontal.


Should you be using TrueNAS scale or TrueNAS core for your enterprise deployments here in 2024? Well, I answered this question last year, but I figured, hey, why didn't I answer again this year? Because, well, I just did a video talking about the future of TrueNAS. You'll find that video link down below. But of course, the BSD question comes up a lot. Why would you deploy TrueNAS core if BSD, well, maybe has not as bright of a future as people were hoping for. And that's why I want to dive into today, make an updated comparison to talk about these two. And because we do a lot of consulting, I'm going to give you my perspective on what we're doing for businesses. But this may not be exactly what you want to do, whether you're a business or a home user. I just want to give you some of those thoughts I have on it. I have a little comparison chart you're going to find in the forums and let's dive into it and start looking at the comparison to figure out which is right for you here in 2024. Before we get to the comparison chart, I just want to start by answering that, yes, we're still using the TrueNAS core free BSD based for our clients. The reason why is actually pretty simple. Core is very stable, it's very predictable. Not that I'm saying TrueNAS scale is unstable if you want to run it as a NAS, but the applications mean there's still some debugging to do on those. They keep getting better with every iteration, but most of the problems you'll find if you look at the forums are going to be around those applications back over to core. Those applications are not something businesses are asking us for. They usually want it for an SMB share tied to their active directory. They want it for an NFS maybe tied to the back end of a Linux process they have where they need to store some logs or maybe even a virtualization target or even ice cozy. Those functions are really solid, really dependable in core. They're good in scale. I don't have any problems with them, but that arc cash that is a feature that is well more refined in free BSD than it is in scale right now scales working on fixing that they're supposed to have some releases out later this year that are going to fix and adjust the arc cash to be more on par with the performance you get out of free BSD. Now the performance overall is really neck and neck with these, but the arc cash tuning, there's an edge that you have with free BSD that scale is still catching up to, and it's just time and coding to get all of that done. They're working towards it. Are they stable with it today? No. Will it be soon? Yes, I predict it will be. Now the good news is for clients that we've installed TrueNAS Core on, you can slide on over to scale. You can reload over the top without having to destroy all the data sets or redo everything. This is one of the things I really like that we can keep our clients on here and if a time arises where there's no updates or security problem that we have to address that is just not available in core because of lack of support or lack of updates at some distant future where something happens. Yeah, we're able to move over. Let's step into comparison charts because it may not be the right solution because you want to run all those extra applications and you want those latest features and you want to be on the cutting edge of what's coming out. So that's what TrueNAS Scale is for. So let's dive into the comparison. Now, this is the comparison chart that you're going to find over in my forums and you'll find that link down below in the description. But let's jump right to the containerization discussion. Way more support is going to be for scale containerization. They're using a custom Docker Kubernetes. They have a long list of applications that are frequently getting updates that are getting the latest versions. That's just not the same over at IOCage. While IOCage is a really great system in BSD, the lack of support, lack of developers, lack of people putting together applications for it kind of leaves you out in the cold if that's your goal is to run applications on your NAS. And as I said, this is not a big business request we have, but I know a lot of home users want to run the latest media applications and there's a lot of them available for TrueNAS Scale. Virtualization. This is not going to be as robust as a full on dedicated hypervisor solution, but yes, you can run some dedicated VMs in there. I have a tutorial on how to do that. Both of these can be centrally managed via TrueCommand. That is the commercial software from IOC systems that lets you manage fleets of these. And yes, you can mix and match. You can have some that are scale, some that are core and TrueCommand giving you a dashboard to all of your systems. Then high availability. You can get from IOC systems their hardware that supports high availability. I've reviewed the M50 before on my channel and the IOC systems hardware does support on both scale and core high availability still scaling out via Gluster. This is something I talked about in my last video. Gluster is now dead. So that project is no more, but there is something new coming. Chris Moore commented this in the forums. There's not really a full announcement yet as to how they're going to replace clustered going in the future. But for right now, this was a beta of Gluster and it got deprecated before it really ever came out. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is. Now, once you go down the rest of it here, we'll jump actually down to the share options because they're pretty much the same throughout these, you know, snapshots, encryptions, the functionality part of it, but they did both and TrueNAS core that upcoming release deprecates the S3 buckets and the R-Sync. Those are getting pulled away from the core OS as it is in scale. So it's just your SMB, NFS, iSCSI, and if you want those R-Sync features or S3 features, they're being moved back over to applications that are better supported. And as I said, you can still have actor directory support both in core and in scale. Now, I know this is a polarizing topic for some people. So leave your comments down below if you're a Team TrueNAS core or Team TrueNAS scale. Like and subscribe if you want to see more content from the channel, or head over to my forums, forums.lauranceystems.com, or you'll find this comparison chart or you can engage with me on this topic or any other topic that you find on a channel. And thank you.


the cloud sharing my screen. Okay, technology doesn't want to work with me today. But we see your screen now if you can just make it a bit bigger. How about now? That's good for my old eyes. Good enough? All right. Okay, everybody thanks for joining the Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG meeting today is Thursday, January 26th. My goodness, we're at the end of the month already. We're going to go over action items. And on the agenda, I have just a quick reminder about our Jenkins newsletter because it is coming towards the end of the month. And then a quick talk about CDF. Wanted to share with you our discussion with CDF that John Mark and I attended a meeting with them. And then some upcoming events are Vostum, Scale, CVCon, DevOps World. And then last but not least, at the end of our discussion here, we'll talk about GSOC and our planning for some upcoming deadlines. Anything else that we need to add? Okay. Okay, so action items of Vostum. Thank you, John Mark, for receiving the stickers and the banner and the postcards. So I think we're good to go in that space. The other parts of the pieces of the materials that's needed for our stand is still with Olivier, which Damien will be picking up and taking to the stand. Did you check death with him? I have. Olivier has everything. And he said that he has talked to Damien and they will arrange to get that there. But I'm still waiting for Damien to let me know about the Jenkins and Friends dinner. So that's still TBD. Okay. Okay. Anything else that I'm missing here, John Mark? No, just a little comment. The banner looks great. Good. Even my dog liked it. So it looks great. Nice model. And the Jenkins is the way stickers, they are going to be very expensive on the black market because they're super, very good stickers. All right. Well, let us know how it goes. And I'll be tweeting as well. So, when you're there, send me pictures and then I'll send out tweets. So thank you, Bruno and John Mark in advance for attending that conference on behalf of Jenkins. Okay. So agenda item, Jenkins newsletter that is going to work at the end of the month. The routine is that we work towards updating our updates and providing our SIG updates to be posted in the beginning of the following month. So that's approaching soon. So just reminder for all six chairs to update their SIGs. So CDF, John Mark, Bruno and I, we attended their outreach committee. And there was a lot of interest in GSOC. And a lot of the projects under CDF appears to show their interest in wanting to participate in it. And throughout the discussion, I think it's a little bit too late for them because lots of preparations has to be done far in advance to show Google that we were interested in that, you know, we've done our homework and due diligence. So then Lori, the outreach chair said that how about, you know, John Mark and I put something together to help other projects to be better prepared for next year and also to have more communications and help promote the program. And so we met with them earlier this week and the plan is to come up with infographics. So really, you know, pretty designs to show the process, the timelines for preparing for GSOC and how we can help other projects, other members, other contributors who wants to apply for this project in the following year. So John Mark and I will take a lead in driving this effort with CDF. Anything else to add, John Mark? No. Lori looked very excited to get information about that. Yeah. Yeah. And I think our goal is we want to help other projects get accepted since that we've got our some good experiences. And then we also want to get some messaging across, you know, that perhaps corporations or enterprises should invest in supporting such programs and contributors to work or their employees to work in the open source and pay for them, whether part-time, you know, or full-time. So maybe I'll highlight CloudBees as the best practice, somebody to look, you know, to follow. Let me see. So events. So we've got Fostum that's coming up around the corner. And I think we're pretty good to go there. I just need to send out some last communications and firm up some of the stuff that we've been working to put together. So still waiting for the friends and Jenkins and friends dinner. I believe we have a date, but we do not have a location firmed up. So still waiting for our gaming to give me that information. Scale is still happening. That's going to be beginning of March. So I haven't really planned anything on it. So I do have my hotel booked. So but it should be, you know, cookie cutter for us. Mark and I are planning to be there. And then CDCon, their early bird submission CFP submission has closed. So earlier this week, we talked about selecting five out of the 46 submissions that they're going to post for the early bird sessions. So so far it's, I mean, the sessions are looking pretty good. It varies from CD to open source projects. I haven't seen any AI topics on, but it's pretty much CD and open source projects that submissions that we received. Any questions there? Okay. Okay. So DevOps world, we still don't have a date and location for this yet. They are expecting a smaller crowd this year. The CFP that is still a work in progress. So that has not been posted yet. Oh, Bruno. That's been a surprise. Sorry about that. Okay. Oh, okay. You want to talk about that one? I'm done with DevOps world. Cool. No, just two minutes about that. It got all accepted as a local by local, I mean, in Europe, Belgium, to be precise, a Dev Day 2023 about Jenkins and mobile apps development. That's all. Great. When is that? End of March, 24, I guess. Oh, okay. Cool. Thanks for sharing that. I'll try to be there in the crowd. Do some cheerleading. And maybe bring stickers since you got 4,000 of them. Oh, okay. Good. Well, I need to see the conditions to register. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Hey, Basil. Thanks for joining us. Perfect timing, by the way. So, I mean, I'm pretty much done with the items on the agenda unless anybody has questions for me. Okay. So we'll go right into the GSOC discussion. Right. I'd like to introduce it. Then we move on. Okay. If you don't mind. Yeah. Perfectly fine. The only thing that I want to talk about is the our application. That's the first point on my agenda. Okay. All right. Take it away, please.  So we're going to have a discussion about the GSOC status and do a roundup of where we are. It will be outside of this meeting. And the results will be published. And it is more work meeting. Now, what we will discuss is first, we need to review and approve the org application. So this is the document that Alissa just presented. Then we're going to do a preliminary review of all the projects in or project ideas that are currently on the list. As normally we reference that in our application and see if we have something strong enough for that. And we'll review project description. We'll review mentor teams globally and per project. And we're also going to discuss the next steps and what are the next milestone. So once the, and just a summary about that is that once the application is entered and it's brewing, we are going to kick off the students or mentee parts kickoff start to have a weekly office hour to help students to work on their application, explain them the project, guide them, review. So this is an important phase. We're going to discuss how we're going to organize all that. The end of that phase is April. April 4th is where the deadline is. So a summary, we're going to review the application. This one is due now beginning of February. Do a preliminary review of projects mentor teams and get set and organized for the preparation phase. So the student preparation phase. Are there questions about that introduction? If not, then we'll dig into and stop the recording. Sounds good. Okay, so we can stop the recording. Stop the recording.


Good morning folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of a sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, Lebanon update. We've got a sea of green out there. All the U S indices that we track are trending the upside. That includes the spot follow tunics, which is up 20 pennies out there. Dolls up 44 S and P's up 17. NASDAQ is up 86. Russell's up 9. Semis are up 41. Trendy's are up 77. Gold's up $4. Silver's up 8 pennies. Light's recruit is up about 78. Natural gas is up 2 cents. And the 30 treasure is up 25 ticks printed out at 120. Even Steven. Let's figure out what all that means by looking at that nine panel market update chart. We've given up a left hand corner the ES mini. We don't have any kind of a top if price closed above 48, 98, 25. That is the roads meant to indicator topping pattern. If we don't get that, we likely go target 49, 44, 50. That's the A to B equal CD price projection. That's the small A to B equal CD price projection above that. You'd be looking at 50 10. If we take a look at spot ball tunics, it is arising, but still below its 50 day exponential moving average. The 50 day is at 13 61. If price closes above that, that could be curtains for the S and P 500. The N Q yesterday generate a bear shooting star candle that confirmed a roads meant to indicator top. You don't see that on this chart. You'll see it later during the trader's edge show. However, a close above 17 793 50 would negate that signal. U S dollar index continues to find support at the top of its daily profile. That says it's in bullish mode and should go target the bottom of its weekly profile. And that's at 104 66. If in fact that comes to fruition, we ought to see gold go ahead and make that A to B equal CD to the downside. First price projects 1986 second 1964. Silver ought to do the same right now. We've got silver consolidating with inside his profile. It has resistance at 23 21 and supported 22 37 a close below 22 37 and we're looking at 21 34 at a minimum, but they click a light sweet crude. It's traded into its cell zone. The cell zone is established by that bear structured daily profile. The cell zone is between 75 48 and 77 52 natural gas. Looked like it was going to go ahead and close above our trade above or stay above the top of its daily profile. It's a small profile that formed yesterday. Let me give you those numbers. Support is at 2.136. Resist is at 2.249. And finally, if you take a look at the 30 year treasury, it has basically completed the one to one price projectionary of its A to B equal CD to the downside. We had a bullish reversal candle. You'll have a Gartley buy pattern folks. Stay tuned for the trader's end show. But if you have to start your Thursday, have a terrific one. Thanks for joining us. We'll look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care.