Salaamu alaykum everyone Honestly, I feel privileged being with you all here today. How many of you are Muslim? Can you raise your hand? Okay, so we have one more shalom, one shalom Uh, first off all praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Without his grace without his mercy without his forgiveness I wouldn't be here today. You wouldn't be here. We wouldn't all be here today, right? It's all through an invitation and I always try to remind everyone That islam is literally an invitation for you Like how many times do we go to someone that isn't muslim and we start to talk about it and they just do not understand They just can't get it and it's literally Allah who guides who he was And so alhamdulillah, I wanted to really talk about my journey in islam And you know, maybe you all can connect through that journey. It's not easy. You know, we've all been You know had these struggles in our lives and maybe sometimes Someone speaking to you that's relatable that can understand will help you connect some of those questions that you've had and so You know, I come from a latina household My mother is from Guatemala and my father. He is Puerto Rican And so I have six brothers and one sister Alhamdulillah, um, we were raised in a christian household My mom she was um, she came here at a very young age And my father unfortunately, he ended up leaving us when I was five years old So my mother, you know, she struggled as a single mother Um, and so through all her endeavors and hardships We got connected through the church. So the church, you know, really helped us Try to find ourselves through life. They were very giving You know, I went through a lot of obstacles trying to figure out the spirituality of it So, you know, something that I realized throughout the, you know, me being involved at the church was that There was a little bit of a disconnection when it came to understanding the spiritual aspect of it And I see some of you, you know, not in your head. Yeah Because a lot of times what we read in the book is not what's being portrayed There's a little disconnection there. And so, you know Then that becomes where we start to feel a little bit You know depressed and sad and we're trying to get answers and we can't find them And so Alhamdulillah, you know, um, you know throughout my years I was just, you know, and going through dark paths, you know, trying to find myself I ended up being Catholic. So I went from Christianity. Then I went into being Catholic And then again, here we go. Still that disconnection. I'm reading something, but it's not adding up, right? And so You know, I was like, okay I'm just going to take a break a little bit, you know, from religion and just try to find my way in the world Well, that doesn't work out either because now I'm walking blindly At least I had a little something to hold on to You know, so and then I was like, okay, so at the I was around 17 years old where, um I went off to college. I moved down south and you know, I My brother at the time he ended up calling me and he goes He goes Elena, you know, I want you to know that I became a Muslim. This was like my mentor in life And honestly, I ended up really being upset. It was a disappointment to me I felt like he betrayed something that we, you know Didn't know of it was like shocking to me and I actually ended up disowning him because of it I didn't want anything to do with him. So I went a whole year without talking to my brother I still, you know, spoke to my mother. I still called her. I checked on her And um, and I would kind of ask about him and he would tell me, oh He stopped going out. He stopped hanging out with these people. He stopped, you know, doing these things and I was like, oh, that's good I don't want to know anything about him. You know, it was just my stubborn ways And um, and so one day she tells me You know esby, so we ended up his name is esby But we ended up calling him after a month after he took his shahada. That was this like his new name So he says esby He went to this place where they had a box and it was a black box. It ended up being umrah. He went to the kawa And so I go really what's the kawa, you know, it just kind of made me Realize like why do you have to go across the world in order to get some type of Spiritual connection or what so I started to wonder a little bit And during this time I said, you know, maybe I should Maybe I should go and read about Islam instead of me being You know negative and just being judgmental about it and so I went to the so back then this is 25 years ago Can you imagine we didn't have any social media? We didn't have all the technology we have today It was literally us going into the library and we had to research everything on the computer and so I started to You know Read books and read about the science behind, you know, Islam And one of the books that really really touched my heart was this book that was called what is islam about by yaham air merc and it goes into like all the scientific reasoning behind Why things happen? And I and I really sat there and I said, oh my god, you know, like I started to cry a lot and I was just like Is this Just for real, you know, this is what I've been asking my whole life You know, I couldn't believe the whole trinity thing Why do we have to go through this person to get to god? And this was like I can actually feel connected to god alone So that was one thing that really hit me when when I decided to take that that leap was the fact that a lot of these churches didn't Explain to me or they felt like I only could get connected to him through them Through going to the sunday or talking to that was the only connection now here islam You have that self-reliance on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala anywhere you are you can pray wherever you want And for me that was freeing That's me being spiritually free and connected to him wherever I was and I was like, oh my goodness. Is this really Is this how it is? and so alhamdulillah, you know, so At the age of 18 I decided to take my shahada and honestly it was the greatest day of my life I was down a wrong, you know, a dark path And it brought me back to life. Honestly, you know, 25 years now I'm looking back and I don't know where I would end would have ended up if I didn't, you know, take that decision Alhamdulillah, and it's all through his invitation by the way Um And my journey began after I took my shahada because Three months after I took my shahada ramadan came And I was like, okay, you know, so I'm the type of person whenever I I go into something I go 110 into it. And so here I'm like ramadan is coming now. I got to order books I got to read about it. I got to study And you know at the time I was in school I lived down south I was in a very rural area where no mosjids were there. There was no family and No Muslims at all.  Okay this time. Okay. It was like a daily like accomplishment to do it and so So by the third day, you know, it got very repetitive but and then I started to feel a sense of sadness and loneliness and this is It ended up hitting me a lot that Everything that I read wasn't necessarily what I was supposed to feel Right? Everyone's experience is different so Whatever someone else is going through it's not necessarily exactly what you're going to go through in life Everyone is going to have a tailored way of doing things right? Alhamdulillah and so By the fifth day I broke down I'm going to be honest. I sat there and I just cried And I cried and I cried and I went into sujood and I was like this is not Supposed to be how How Ramadan is, you know supposed to play out. I'm supposed to have family and friends and you know As time went on I always got more and more connected to Allah And so this was really his plan At the end of the day, it was like he designed that time for me to just be connected to him and By the second third week Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he became my best friend. He became my confidant He became my counselor And I ended up slowly detaching myself from feeling the connection of people By the fourth week I felt so much peace in my life. I felt so much tranquility And it was because it was a spiritual cleansing that I did not know was partaking You know, I I always like, okay, I'm just going to stop eating for for a time period But what else entails with this? And there was so much connected to it Me Building that relationship with God that I was never taught to do It was almost you have to build the relationship with people or the priests or you know different people when I did Turn all of that to focus on just Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That's when I got completely disconnected and I said, oh my god, I am spiritually free And it was probably The best feeling in the world and it made me who I am today It made me be a person to now This Ramadan, this is my reset button This is me disconnecting myself From everything and everybody and just focusing on my spiritual healing my spiritual connection And so there's a lot of wisdom behind fasting, right?  Just you're controlling all your desires You're controlling not eating whenever you want. We have so much free will to eat whenever we want Imagine like some people in the poor countries. They don't have that So we're training ourselves to one. We're being empathetic Right. There's a reminder all the time on how How privileged we are with food and the things we have here So that was one of the the main things that I took from Ramadan was the fact that I had so much access to everything And now I have to really come to terms with myself with internal struggles that I had within myself So, you know after I ended up, you know Taking my Shahada, then I you know had my first Ramadan I moved back to Cleveland with my family and subhanallah, you know, my family none of them Besides my brother all of them were Christians still And so here I'm coming back to a household where no one really understands us You know, I'm I'm trying to explain myself And they're not understanding it. And so I ended up realizing that there's no explanation needed You know the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam. How did he give Dawah, right? It was through his examples And that was exactly how my brother gave me Dawah He really I didn't talk to him for a whole year And through the his ways of changing. That's how I was able to connect And be like, wow, I really love this religion or look at Maria. She changed. Look, she stopped going out. She stopped being with such and such Those small actions are so impactful When you take your Shahada and I'm going to be honest You're being watched They're they're waiting for you to slip up and say see she turned to be a Muslim and she did this this and that No, this is you showing them that you're actually practicing and you're being for real about this And so that's one of the advices that I can give you You know, I know some of you are worried about your families But honestly the Dawah is so powerful. The prayer is so powerful to help people and he's the one that controls people's hearts We don't do that. You know, I ended up learning that years down the line that um I would try to change people and control their hearts and that doesn't happen. It's all through his will Some of you are fasting, right? So I wanted to also connect to if anybody here, you know, if it's too long for you Or you guys have to take a break. Let me know. I know, you know, your first Ramadan fasting it becomes hard So um, this is a open and safe space to feel free to to let me know that, you know, you needed a break So, yeah, so after I ended up going and moving in Me and my brother, you know, he lived separate from me but we kind of collaborated and we talked about our families and we would still Enjoying with them, but we would not enjoy in their particular Holidays, so that's something that we had to do We had to set a little bit of barriers and And let them know like we're serious about this But we're still going to be here as a sense of support and we still love you guys We still are here. Whatever you need us even more So this is what I ended up doing is I became more resourceful for my mother You know being a muslim, you know, it's an amana and this is an obligation for us to help our parents This is huge and so I took that very seriously and through those efforts My mother she um after six months of me being around her She said to me Elena, I want to be a muslim And she started crying. She said You you're just an amazing person And I feel like I want to be you know part of this and so For me that was everything she she ended up taking her shahada and After she took her shahada my sister did And then my other two brothers did And alhamdulillah, you know 25 years later my family became muslim and um So Another another story I want to go into is the fact that my brother when he went to umrah. He made two du'as one of those du'as was That his family become muslim His second du'a was at the time that He had taken a shahada. He was married and his wife decided to leave him She did not want to be with a muslim And they had three children at the time which you know to him. It was very heartbreaking He had to decide either i'm gonna save myself or continue to be with my family And he said what good am I gonna be if i'm gonna stay with my family if i'm not good with god and so he decided to you know To take a shahada and and and go that route And so um subhanallah, you know after we all became muslim His wife ended up getting married to a palestinian and his kids were raised in islam So allahu akbar, you know, so all of his du'as were were answered to him So the power of du'a again, I always say just pray to him. He's there waiting for us We leave him. He never leaves us, you know, he's waiting sitting there waiting for us to pray to him so You know, then I ended up saying okay now I you know, I have my family But how do I enter the community space? Right, so I think this is very challenging as well But also what I got out of it was the fact that we always have a perception of us not being accepted Right where we feel like automatically we're the outsiders But realistically we're really not because the shahada is so powerful And what we felt to realize is that we just gained billions of brothers and sisters Like anywhere you go in the world if you see my sister's in islam if you see a hijabi, you're like, okay I'm good, you know This is now just normal to us and so I had to figure out how to get connected to different types of community and so I just Organically walked up to everyone. Salaamu Alaikum. My name is Elena And I am Latina and that's what I started to do in the community I would go up to people and I would shake their hand And that was like me breaking that barrier of feeling like I'm an outsider And so sometimes and I always say this ask questions Because when you assume things they're not actually what it is and so One of my main focuses was okay. I'm going to try to just be myself Because islam is not really trying to change who you are. It's trying to enhance you And it's trying to bring you on the right path This is all we're doing some people say that you know islam is it's so hard and it's really not Allah gave us the tools to make things easier for us And so alhamdulillah, you know By me reminding those reminding myself of those things and actually being Educated in in islam too. So that was very important for me So through those efforts, I ended up, you know Getting married by the way. My husband is sitting up here. Mashallah. He's palestinian and And I was able to adhere to different culture, right? So I'm a latina. I like spanish food I love to be around family and friends and so I'm getting married into a palestinian household They like food too, but you know, I like the sazon the sofrito. I like to put the little spanish stuff in the boon So I would go back and forth with my mother-in-law and she would make the arabic food And I would throw in my spanish seasoning, you know So that was like a good little, you know, that was her, you know, welcoming me me welcoming her And you know, and it was just an amazing, you know, connection But again, that doesn't happen all the time I was fortunate enough to be married to someone who was Open-minded religious and he saw me as a muslim, you know And and so when you connect with people you look at them as just a muslim We are brothers and sisters at hamdulillah and so, you know After I got married and um and at the age of 27 now, I'm gonna fast-forward At the age of 27 My brother ends it up reaching out to a friend of his and they got connected to a person who they thought was my father So, you know, my father for those of you who are just showing up my father left us when we I was five years old He walked out on us.  That's part of us growing, right?  We never talked about, you know, him leaving us We invited him to have dinner with us. We talked about, you know Our our work and family kids And we spent the weekend with him the whole entire weekend Saturday we went to the zoo together.  He hugged us and as he was walking out to the door He looked back and he goes I want to be like you guys He said I want to I want to be a muslim And so he left and he took a shahada And you know, it could have went so many different ways, right? It could have went me being upset at him Or me throwing things back at him or But the fact that I was spiritually free and I was In a good place with God that that didn't matter to me You know in life we hold on We hold on to situations We hold on to things that people have done to us and it only affects us It holds us back from growing It holds us back from loving each other We are all walking testimonies for Islam And this is how we bring people to Islam There's no other way to explain it, but For my father to have taken shahada and and him walking away from us not even knowing us Was the the The best feeling in the world, right? After he took his shahada He left and we didn't talk to him For maybe 15 years we never heard from him again This past october we've received the phone call that my father had passed away My siblings and I we we got together and we said okay He took his shahada and he's a muslim Now keep in mind my mother was a single child She had no brothers no sisters She was an immigrant She was here alone. I was raised alone with my siblings. That's it and so I never knew my father's side of the family at all so after You know after we found out that he had passed away We came together and we said we have to give him his right As a muslim we have to bury him islamically Because he's our father And so we all flew to kanadik it And you know when we got there I ended up having 17 uncles and aunts My father Flew to connect he lived in arizona. He flew to kanadik it because he wasn't feeling well and he died Where all his siblings were and so we were united with all this family And lo and behold, you know a lot of the family members were pastors So half of the the family were all pastors. So here we're sitting We're sitting in this gathering and we're telling them we want to bury him islamically Because this is his right And they're saying no nothing indicated to us that he became muslim And so when we're sitting there, we're just like, oh my goodness, but he took shahada We know and so right when we're sitting there. So panama A guy comes in in a wheelchair. He's being pushed in And he goes salamu alaikum and we're like, you know, me and my siblings were like, what? And then so he is My nephew that lived with him that used to go to the masjid and he took his shahada and Me and my brothers we just I started crying I'm like, dude, I can't even make this up. This is like So then they had to they had no choice but to allow us to bury my my father and so we ended up burying him humbly and islamically and And it was truly truly a blessing for us to have that privilege to do that so honestly, one of my my biggest things is and what I wanted to tell you all is that This isn't a marathon When you take this leap You walk it through slowly and you first start off with your intentions You know intentions plays such a huge role in our lives Whenever you do something make sure you're doing it for the sake of Allah If i'm giving something to someone i'm giving it for the sake of Allah If i'm going to the masjid i'm doing it for the sake of Allah Anything that you do and then Allah will slowly guide you You know, he is the one who guides he starts opening doors for you and so Hamdulillah, I am now living in sacramental. I am the charitable aid director of al misbah A A nonprofit organization that service services over i'm going to say 12 000 refugees We help refugees get resettled And I have an amazing family See, I was this person that didn't have anyone and now Allah brought amazing people like even you all you guys are amazing To be a part of and to be here. So jazakum allah hidden for everything I really appreciate you all and i'm going to open the floor up for questions if you if anyone has any questions You know, she's going to bring you the mic So I go mashallah that was an amazing store. Thank you to share Uh So her question was what was my brother's reaction when I told him I took my shahada He cried a lot I I could only imagine how he felt being alone You know, and so for him this was his prayer being answered So he cried a lot and we became more than best friends. He would call me four or five times I couldn't get rid of him at that point. He would call me. So what did you do now? Did you make your prayer? Did you do this? He's like the islam prayer guru like now everything has to go by him So alhamdulillah and he became my mahram. He became my wali, which now I had a protector Um, so it became just an amazing thing. Alhamdulillah anybody else Anyone this is a safe space. Please open up ask as many questions as you like I'm sure we're all in the same boat right everyone So my question is as like someone who's not a v word, but let's say you know a lot of people who are v words How can you help them feel more comfortable with their journey? It's a born Muslim, right? You already know like certain number of practices But however, we are also not perfect and you don't want to overwhelm your v word friends or like people are coming to you So what are some of the steps that you could take to make them like, you know That you belong and you can do this and like not overwhelm them That's a good question. Um, so some of the times when when reverts Get connected to people, you know to other Muslims that have been in it for a long time They get overwhelmed sometimes because they try to fit in so much and they feel like they're not doing anything, right? So I suggest just letting them be Slowly, you know, um, if they put their hijab on wrong, that's okay They'll get to to put it on right or say for instance, they're not doing the prayer correctly Give them the tools but let them do it at their pace You know, sometimes we try to push them too much and it just becomes overwhelming It takes it takes a lot of time and effort and so just being a support Being a listener and allowing them to ask questions instead of you always directing them So, um, I know like a few sisters that they had, you know Sisters try to tell them oh go here. Go it becomes overwhelming So just when they reach out to you just be very resourceful for them and have you know, your ears open to listen And invite them over for food, you know, this is what they want They love to sit and and eat and connect and that's amazing So through food, you know, it's the hearts, you know, profoundly So just invite them over and just be their family really that's what they want And I'm sure sometimes A lot of us come to this is because we're lost, you know, we need that family support and so Um, that's the only way we get it is through other muslims, you know So I we suggest just just be there as a sense of support Brothers you guys are quiet Is there um any non-muslims here? None Yeah Oh, you're right. Yeah, so we have non-muslim and then none I want to know what brought you here today. Can I can I put I'm sorry? I got to put you on the spot, but I want to hear from you. This is a mutual thing, you know Uh, can I can you give me a second? Can you give him the microphone? Thank you. Thank you for that I appreciate um, you being vulnerable and He said salamu alaykum guys like come on. You're ready. It's And I say this all the time. This is everyone that is here is invited.  Thank you for that story. What's your name? dan and your name What Dan and Dan I'm telling you he is the best of planners you guys are meant for each other So Dan, why don't you stick around and watch Dan take a shahada tonight? And maybe this might be something inexperienced for you Insha'Allah, which is a call ahead and Dan and Dan for your story I mean and I commend your wife too because she was probably a good example to that, right Alhamdulillah see through her examples. She was able to to bring him in so You know, again, this is One an invitation to it's a community effort And something that I want to just before we leave we have like five four minutes before we head into the next room MCC Pleasanton is literally a gem here You have not only a masjid, but you also have a community center MCC helps so many underprivileged You know families out here. They provide so many resources Make this your home. Make this your community We work together with MCC all the way to Sacramento. We have a bridge where we give each other, you know needy Resources we help each other with with all kinds of in kind donations And what I want to say is how I got really connected was becoming a volunteer I would take so, you know our dean After you know, this is years down the line You know, you perfect the salat and then you you know, you do the fasting But and then we forget about the Zaka aspect of it now Zaka is just not giving money. It's actually giving your time And doing things for the sake of Allah and so throughout the years, you know, I wanted to still, you know Try to get connected and feel more, you know sound and what I did was I I became purposeful to helping those in need And so that balanced me out And so what I tell you is give time to help those in need and then you'll feel very connected Um, so just like a lot of head and everyone for taking the time to be here today I feel honored having you guys on and having a start with you all too because now I got more family members Washa Allah and so um, so I'm gonna be here until later on tonight Feel free to come up to me talk to me and you know, I'll be here as a resource as well So Thank you so much. Uh, you had a lot of us tearing up and crying and snodding and everything So thank you so much for your beautiful story. Um, may Allah reward you and bless you and allow you to come back here Many more times Thank you. Thank you so much. Um, so now, um, we're gonna go break fast To have iftar. So what we're gonna do is we can just go to the room the banquet hall If you guys don't know it just follow the line And then we'll go there break our fast and then we'll go to Salah If you haven't registered to get your ticket to get your plate of food If you you can get it after you break fast.  Thank you all so much And those of you who are not there, please stay with us and have dinner with us You know, just just be a part of us. We appreciate it


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Shane just missed the Sonar noise. He was one of the ones said that sounded nothing like Sonar. But I interpret the Sonar noise to be. That's East refractor. Drew Waters. Joey Manessus. Bo Nailer. Robbie Ray. Because I'm out. There's Gerard Incarnacion to $2.99 for the Marlins. It's a purple avaceal Garcia to $3.99. Got Corbin Carroll. Rookie photo variation. Going to the Diamondbacks. Nice one there, Arizona. Congrats. Sean P with a spot in Sapphire. Down to $17. Down to $17, everybody. This card is far out, man. James Outman, rookie auto. And Spencer Steer, rookie auto for the Reds. Outman going to the Dodgers, by the way. And Francisco Alvarez at Youthquake. On to the next one. Her we go. You're still saying $132? Oh, it says $137. Okay. So it is updating, won't it? All right. Eudar. Zicula Tova, our refractor. Albert Pujols. Cal Mitchell. Jose Abreu. Cedric Mullins. Purple Minidiamonds. Criss Sail. That'll be to $2.99 for the Red Sox. Skrads Red Sox. Criss Sail. Christopher Morell. Nice, true green. One of $99 for the Cubbies. Pink Ozzy Albies. $2.3.99. What happened, illegal? Still haven't received it. Good Lord. There's Jordan Diaz. Nice one there for the A's. Congrats. Oakland. Purple Minidiamonds. Joey Manassas. $166 out of $2.99. Rookie auto for the Nationals. And Gabriel Moreno, Youthquake rookie. Yeah. All right. Again, guys, we've got just 17 spots remaining in Sapphire. Breaking next. 17 to go. It's got to filled up. Last baseball break of the night with spots remaining. Everything else is sold out at this point in time, is sold out. Volpe Rookie. Corbin Carroll. Both refractors there. Royce Lewis. Andres Jimenez. Mike Yes. Javi Baez. Purple is Ozzy Albies to $2.50. Green JJ Bladet to $99. Purple Matthew Libertor to $2.50. Blue Wave, G Juan Bay. $1.16 out of $1.50. That's going to the Pirates. Got a base auto of Bryce Johnson for the Giants. And a Garrett Mitchell Youthquake rookie for the Brew Crew. E Guy Rosario. Kyle Tucker. Close the door. Gunner Henderson refractor rookie. Dalton Varshaw. Nolan Jones to $3.50. Aren't you supposed to be gone? Corbin Carroll's here. Aren't you supposed to be gone? Purple Mini Diamonds to Jose Miranda to $3.99. Or $2.99. Also have a Garrett Cole to $2.99 for the A. JJ Bladet to $2.99 for the Marlins. Nice one there. Purple Mini Diamonds auto. Bryce Johnson, base rookie auto for the Giants. Alex V. Spot in Sapphire. We're down to $16 to go, everybody. $16 to go in Sapphire. Breaking next.   I believe that is an orange. Michael Massey. John Gray. Kyle Stoller's rookie. That's Waldo Cabrera. Danesby Swanson. There's Estuaries to $50. Just because I don't think it retails for very much, to be honest, Alex. That's Javi Baez to $2.99. Purple Mini Diamonds. Purple Mini Diamonds of Jared Walsh to $2.99. Orange Wave. Caleb Killian, $22 to $25. Going to the Cubs. Nice one there, Cubs. Base auto. Matthew Batten. Nice one there for the Padres. And Oswald Barraza. We got a pretty good amount of flawless here, to be honest. Oh my god, so good lord. Ron Vecunia. Brett Beatty. Austin Hayes. Oh, me none. I have cards, but I don't have any sealed stuff. Gabriel Moreno. Wander Franco to $9.99. Kyle Stoller's rookie to $2.99. Ryan Mountcastle, that is $2,350. Base auto. Bryce Johnson for the Giants. Have another base auto. Ezekiel Tovar going to the Rockies. And to finish this off, Vinnie Pascantino going to the Royals. Oh, what in your head did you think that was a good idea? No, no, God no. 12 to go? 12 to go. Jason A with 4. Thank you, buddy. Jason A with 4 in Sapphire. We are getting there, guys. We are almost there. Michael Togga. Nolan Jones. David VR. Goldy. Trishon Kossus. Shay Langler's. Gold Youthquake. Hunter Brown to $50. The Stroze. Negative. Max Scherzer. Later, Drippy. J-Rod to $3.99. Oh boy, that's right. It's going to be a thought lobby over there. That's Ryan Cridler to $2.99 for the Tigers. No, no, God no. Marcus Wilson for the Mariners, Black and White Mini Diamond Auto. And Cal Mitchell. Is that Cheez-Its? It's like Dylan with his pretzels. Broke life. Oh man. Broke life. Again, guys, just 12 to go on Sapphire now. That's awesome. Beautiful. Redemption. Should be, my guess would be one of the Legend Autos here. Oh, and we got an orange wave. We got two golds, an orange wave, and a redemption. That's a pretty good box here. Treres, Brian Hayes, Dermas Garcia. Yeah, that would be sweet. Oswald Parazzo. Orange wave to $25. It's going to be Nicoladolo. Got gold. Zeke Otovart to $50. Youthquake. Corbin Burns to $250. Gold wave. Michael Stefanik. $50 of $50 on the Auto. Congrats, Angels. We've got Redemption. Top's Chrome Legend Autograph Refractor of Pedro Martinez. Congrats, Red Sox. Nice Pedro. I believe that'll be number 250. Down to 11, Mike W picking up a spot. And Edward picking up a spot. We're at 10. We're at 10 to go, Sean. Let's go. 10 to go, everybody. Thank you so much. Nice Pedro. And a Cal Mitchell. Who's your daddy? That's his own fault. So this comment is really good. Yeah, at the time, too. I know. It's like, you want to start a riot in New York? Man, is that two oranges? Good Lord. I think that's two oranges. Jonathan Aranda. Michael Toglia. That is a E-Guy Rosario. Yeah, Museum is going to be a lot of fun, too, man. Mike Yass, Christian Yelich, Sadie Alcantara. Weer, weer, weer, weer, weer. Blue Sonar to 125. Trevor Story. Orange. Jeremy Pena to 25. We got an Orange of Bo Jackson. 22 of 25. That's going to the Royals on the Ultra Violet All-Stars. Congrats, Royals. I think you could probably mag this one. Nice one there. God, going to the Marlins to 199 is Peyton Burdick. That's on that Teal Wave Auto. Bass Auto, Freddie Furman going to the Royals. That's on that KC. Very nice. And a Chris Van Rel Youthquake, rookie. Very nice. Iggy there, Hano picking up a legacy spot. Dane with a spot in 10 Box Tuesday football. So thank you guys there. Let's do a quick recap. We've got a Bryce Johnson, Freddie Furman, Peyton Burdick, Zeke Otovar, Matthew Batten, Bryce Johnson, Bryce Johnson, Jordan Diaz, Spencer Steer, James Outman, Steele Walker, Drew Waters, Bo Nailer, Marcus Wilson to 299, JJ Bladet, Ryan Kreidler, Joey Meneses to 250, Max Meyer, Bubba Thompson to 199, Caleb Killian, G1 Beta 150, Goldster 50 is Michael Stefanik, Orange to 25, Caleb Killian, Corbin Carroll, Shortprint, that is going to be Orange to 25, Bo Jackson, and Pedro Martinez. Nice one there. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Up next is Sapphire. Let's get it sold out.


Okay. So, this is a reaction taking an acetyl chloride to an alpha. Remember, last reaction we talked about taking an acetyl chloride when we used one of these lithium aluminum hydride reagents, right, to get all the way to the primary alcohol because that was lithium aluminum hydride. And lithium aluminum hydride will deliver four hydrides, okay? So, if we've got something like this lithium triturbutoxy aluminum hydride okay, it's a mouthful to say, especially when we can't run it. It's only got the one hydride. So, it's a hydride source with just one hydride, okay? So, it's going to deliver just that one hydride and then stop, okay? Of course, you've got to put just one equivalent or whatever in there, you know? So, you don't over hydride it, over reduce it. But anyway, so let's just erase this and then we'll do the mechanism, okay? And again, there's going to be some question as to, you know, where these aluminum, lithium are placed in it. But we'll just do kind of a general hydride delivery, okay? So, put our lone pair electrons. Remember, with the acid chloride, the chloride's a very good leaving group, right? It's very stable on its own. So, the hydride reagent looks like this. You're missing some of the groups. One more. Oh, sorry. So, you have these tert-butoxide, right? Because it's very bulky, you know, also, okay? So, what these will do is help it, you know, react with, you know, these things that are out-flapping outside them on the edges of the molecule, on the proof. So, what'll happen here is, of course, this hydride is going to be delivered to that carbonyl carbon. So, again, I like to draw the arrow through the hydrogen just to show that it's that atom that's being delivered. Maybe a forward arrow there. So, again, we're going from that sp2 to sp3. Of course, well, we can put R, like that. So, you know that this oxygen doesn't like to be like that. So, you know it's going to collapse back down here. And then it's got a choice. What is it going to kick off? The chlorine, the hydrogen, or the alkyl group, right? What's the best leaving group? Of course, it's going to be the chlorine. So, it's going to come back down, kick that off like that. So, you've got the albohide here. You've got, it's actually going to be kind of partially bonded to that aluminum there. So, you're going to have to wash that out with water. Okay? So, that's where that last step says wash it out with water. Okay? So, when you do that, is your albohide. So, you can use these powerful reducing agents, right? This is very powerful reducing agent. These lithium aluminum hydride reducing agents are very powerful, but usually they're so, have so many hydrides on them that they just destroy everything, you know? But you can kind of tweak them to where they, you know, don't have that many hydrides. They only have a single hydride to deliver.  So, this reagent right here would be, like last time you said, the lithium aluminum hydride is like a bomb. So, this one would not be as. Yeah, exactly, you know? It's not going to, it's going to reduce the most electrophilic thing, right? And that's this thing here in this molecule, right? But it's only got that one hydride. So, since lithium aluminum hydride has four hydrides, right? What would it do after it got here? It would reduce it again, you know, what I'm saying? It would go to the primary alcohol, you know? Because you have more hydrides. Everybody cool with that? Can we kill it?


From an early age many of us are taught that when cats purr, they're telling you they're happy. While purring is thought to be partly voluntary and partly instinctive, research suggests that cats can purr for various reasons, using the soft rumble as a way of communicating and as a form of self-soothing or even healing. This is why cats will often purr when they're injured, or after a stressful event. A 2001 study published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America showed that domestic cats and some species of big cats, including pumas and cheetahs, could purr at frequencies optimal for pain relief and even bone repair.


It took a little time last year since he was injured when the Yankees acquired him, but once he debuted with the club, Bader quickly became a fan favorite. And as we continue on Yankees Hot Stove, here's an interview he recently did with our Meredith Marokovits. Harrison, there's about a month until Pitcher's and Catcher's reports spring training right around the corner. Did this off season fly for you? You know, it really didn't. I think that's because I get to stay home and, you know, be surrounded by my friends and family, you know, working out at the stadium, pretty local for me. So I felt like I never really left. So I've kind of been here for a while, but like you said, I mean, spring training is right on the corner for Pitcher and Catcher's month away. So just an exciting time. And yeah, it's been a lot of fun. You mentioned being home. You grew up in New York.  I mean, yeah, a little different. You know, obviously, I've always said in New York, takes care of New York. So, you know, getting a chance to play for a New York franchise is incredible. You know, the fan basis is in addition to being, you know, super supportive, they know their athletes. So, you know, definitely a little more love walking around New York. But, you know, it's all in good fun.  So it's been a really fun off season. Do you enjoy that aspect, really soaking it all in, seeing those Yankees hats, people coming up to you and talking to you about being on the team? Yeah, I do. You know, you get to play with a short window.  I mean, you got to soak it up to some point, it's going to come to an end.  You know, Yankees fans know we have our captain, you know, in pin tribes, which we haven't had obviously in some years. So, you know, it's all part of it. And to just kind of be a part of that is great. And I love talking about Judgie being captain. I love talking about Yankees. I love talking about expectations for the upcoming year. So it's all, it's all on good fun. I love it. It's, you know, it's what we do. There was a period of time where Yankees fans were concerned, Harrison. They did not know if 99 was going to be in pin stripes. Were you on the edge of your seat as well as that was all going down to see exactly where he would land? Or were you pretty confident that he would be back? I thought he was checking Twitter, talking to some teammates for sure.  But you know, his journey is his journey. And regardless of, you know, what team he ended up with, you just have to respect it. Ultimately, getting to a point where, you know, you hear that it is kind of finalizing in pin tribes. I definitely took a big breath, a sigh of relief, if you will, apart from being just such an incredible talent. You know, what he means to this clubhouse and the players have done a chance to play with him for much longer than I have. You know, I saw it very quickly. So I'm very happy about it. I know not only the players, but the coaches and staff as well. They're all very happy to have a guy like that, have such an impact on people on and off the field. You know, you know he's special. So I was respecting his space and, you know, some of the discussions off the field with other teams potentially, but from to be back in New York, it just feels right. So I was, I was very, very excited and relieved to see that it was going to be ended in pin tribes. Overall, what do you think of the moves that have been made? He wasn't the only one signing him and securing him to a nine year deal also got pitching in Rodin. Tommy Cainley is back. There are other moves that this front office has made. How do you feel about this team heading into spring training?  I mean, that's what you want as a guy that's still, you know, part of that team. You know, I know it's not that experience everywhere else. I know players are maybe frustrated with some of the moves that other front offices may or may not make. And, you know, to be in a position where I'm fortunate enough to say, you know, I think the front office did an incredible job in getting winning players. That's all you can ask for. So they're definitely putting together a great roster. And most importantly, having those guys fit in to, you know, the overall culture behind the scenes is really what the challenge is because the talent's there. So I'm just looking forward to getting down to Tampa, starting to, you know, breathe that culture and be a part of that culture and continuing in the right and positive direction and having guys with winning talent. And then again, that's all you could ask for. So I'm very excited. I'm very confident about where we're going. And I'm just looking forward to taking it day by day, because you got to slow it all down. You talk about the mental aspect of it. How much was your mental fortitude tested last year as you tried to come back from that injury? You were traded at the deadline. I know how badly you wanted to get on the field for the Yankees. Was that a difficult process making sure that you were healed enough to be productive on the field? Yeah. I mean, you said it perfectly right there. It was a test. And, you know, part of a test comes with, you know, preparing for the test. And when it presents itself is, you know, answering the questions appropriately and kind of acing it. And my trainers and their level of preparation, the staff here, you know, all the way up to Brian Cashman who, you know, from day one made me feel very comfortable and confident in taking my time. You know, these are all the study materials, if you will, for that test. Because when it came, which was day in and day out, that month and a half or so that I was kind of on the shelf, when it came down to it, I think I aced it. And a lot of it was because of this staff. A lot of it was because of the medical staff behind the scenes were helping me every day. And without them, you know, I don't think I would have done as well in getting through that test. So kind of got to a point where I, you know, could play, get my feet wet towards the regular season, just get my timing back. And then obviously the playoffs just being super comfortable. And then the position where I was just healthy and going out there and just playing baseball. You know, that's kind of the final test, if you will. So it was definitely tested.  So it was a group effort, no doubt. How would you describe your postseason because you certainly showed some Yankees fans what you could do when you are healthy? How would I describe it? You know, I just strive every day to be a winning player. You want to be a winning player on the field, you want to be a winning player off the field. You know, I just, I always want to play winning baseball. And I think that regardless of the results, the level of preparation was to prepare to win. So, you know, as nice as the results were, it's not always going to be that way. But the mentality, the level of focus, and the commitment to just being a winning player, to be a good teammate, you know, that's the consistency that I'm always searching for. And I know that if I do that and I study the game, you know, I'm going to help my team win. So it was a very small sample size. But, you know, I'm just, again, looking forward to the opportunity to go out there and be for 160 plus games. Okay, now I see you're at Yankee Stadium right now, clearly getting a little work in today. Anything change about your offseason routine this year? You know, honestly, so I'm using the Yankees facilities, obviously, and the access to this, you know, the slow motion cameras and the different machines. And so some of the little tools that kind of, I think in my opinion, put me a couple weeks, a few weeks ahead of where I normally am, especially rolling into spring training. I've definitely been taking advantage of that. You know, the Yankees have an incredible facility here, as I'm sure many, many people could imagine, but just a little separators, you know, some things where I didn't maybe have access to a slow motion camera in the past. I can walk swing to swing right now and just kind of queue it up. And I, you know, I understand my movements pretty well. So just locking in my swing, you know, that's the biggest thing I'm not trying to be anybody else. I'm just trying to make my swing as good as it is in preparation for what I think the league is going to throw, throw at me in the upcoming season. So, you know, simple as cameras, different machines that could basically put a ball on a, on a dime in any part of the zone and just continuing to rep that, you know, repetition is king with a lot of things, but specifically in baseball in the off season, where it's easy to kind of get off track. So being at the same has been incredibly beneficial for me this year. And, and yeah, we've been getting after it. Well, I know fans are looking forward to spring training before I let you go. As we know, we mentioned earlier, you're a New York guy. So I have to ask you giants or jets? I'm a giant. Islanders, devils or Rangers? After a minute, I do love all three. I have respect for all three. But I am, I have, I did draw up a Rangers. Okay. Last one. Nick's or Nets? I'm a Nick's fan. Nick's. Oh, you're hurt. Yes. Network. We have the Nets on our air. Come on, Harrison. I'm sorry. This has been a lot of love and matters since we're guarding this off season as it has been in previous years. But next, next to my team, I'm most excited about the Nets. We've seen you there a few times so far this off season. You can maybe get a couple more games in before heading down to Tampa. Thanks so much for the time. Yeah, absolutely. Always nice to talk to you. Thank you as well.


SoulSkuller and Violet have had their fair share of bugs and issues since they dropped last November in 2022 since then players experienced game crashes, terror raid issues amongst a flurry of other things that shouldn't be happening in their games. Now with the latest update which we got just over a week ago as of recording this video all of these issues were meant to be fixed the patch notes detailed kind of fixes to the game crashes to terror raid issues and a multitude of other things but none of these seem to have been resolved. I personally speaking have had more game crashes since doing this last update than I had the entire time playing from when the games released so that just says and speaks volumes in my mind. I don't know what they have done to resolve any of these issues and the fact that a lot of players that I've spoken to and I've read about have experienced similar issues since this last update it's got a lot of questions hanging over its head but two days ago there was an even bigger issue that has arisen from this latest update and that seems to be where save files for players in Pokemon scholar and Violet are experiencing their save data being corrupted to the point where they're losing their entire game save now the bugs and the glitches that we've experienced before this have all been quite low impact but this is probably as high impact as we can get force game freak not having a way to have a cloud based storage system where you can have a save backup does create more problems especially when there is a bug like this that completely wipes all of your games data you know hundreds of hours the players have put into their games just being wiped in a second and it's non-recoverable now there are a lot of different arguments about what is causing this bug whether it's the compatibility between Pokemon go and sending postcards into Scarlet and Violet catch the different vivillon forms that you can get now in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet a lot of players experienced issues when sending postcards and people are kind of putting two and two together that that is causing these issues other players have downloaded the DLC or pre-ordered into their games and got the gifts and then experienced issues there but there are some players as well that have reported these issues within their games where they've done neither pre-ordering the DLCs or connecting with Pokemon go and sending postcards across and they are still experiencing these game corrupting issues you can see there was an article put out on Monday from Kotaku about this new bug deleting player save files and it goes into details about it may be being related to Pokemon go and the feature there with sending postcards into your game also players who have experienced buying the DLCs and then experienced the same corrupt message where you're not even able to get to the menu screen so you know if you've got a question like can you use the backup save to restore your save data you can't even get to the menu screen in your game to get to that point to restore your data your game data is completely corrupt and you can't even get to the menu screen so that is not even an option and like I say with game freak not implementing a cloud based save storage place for save backups of your game then you all your save data is on your switch if that gets corrupted that is game over your save data is gone and for having countless hundreds of hours in your game it's a big risk and although it's only affecting a tiny portion of the community at the minute it is something that is even scaring me right now we've got a raid event happening in a day's time and I want to be covering it on the channel like we normally do but do I want to risk my game by going online opening it and playing it you know there's some interesting threads as well on Reddit of course about the theories behind what is causing this and also there was an update from Joe Merrick-Sarabee about this so you can see here a tweet from Pew Pew hey I'm going around about this from reliable accounts if I already got the dlc and connected to go once without any issues will it be okay to continue or should I not risk connecting to go more now Joe comes back here so we've had reports from it happening without go connectivity so we don't know the root cause you should be fine it is quite rare we're just waiting from word from TPC so Pokemon have not put any communication out about a game freak have put no communication out about it and Nintendo have put no communication out about it so far there was another thread on Reddit that I was reading about this and some theories about what could cause this and of course we've went into the theories about it being Pokemon go and the connection there sending postcards across and maybe auto saves something in the update has done something to auto saves and that is kind of corrupting the data even more we know there is a an auto save issue or there was an auto save issue in Sword and Shield that did get resolved but there was an auto save issue in Sword and Shield that did corrupt game data could be a similar thing happening in Scarlet and Violet and although I don't really think it's anything to do with the auto saves because I think a lot of players that have experienced this laid down a hard save or reportedly laid down hard saves after connecting with Pokemon go close their game down and it was when they came back into it that the game data was corrupt whereas other players have reported that they had auto saves on and the same issues occurred and this is all after connecting with Pokemon go but like I said don't think it is the connectivity with Pokemon go because there are players out there that have experienced this issue when they haven't even connected to Pokemon go or done anything to do with pre-ordering the DLC but there was this comment on Reddit anyone tried to keep track of where everyone was when the games crashed I know the last patch changed how spawns work for NPCs and Pokemon so I would guess that's more likely the source strangely I don't think the game actually stopped spawning the NPCs themselves because there's an NPC who walks past with a suitcase whenever I'm checking my Pokemon size with the NPC in Mesugosa I remember thinking it was funny after the patch occasionally going past on the path just his suitcase pops up without him attached now I think this is probably on the the lines of where the probably issues are lying impersonally myself just from experiences that I've had in the game now like I've said I've had more game crashes since updating to the latest version since I had in the entire time before this since the game's release now the crashes all happened in exactly the same place in alphanardotown right outside the restaurant where there are a bunch of NPCs going past none of the NPCs that were there before the update have been removed they're all still there I was thinking a lot of these NPCs that are randomly walking around would be removed but none of them seem to be and this was definitely something that was mentioned in the patch note about NPCs in particular Pokemon in certain areas of the game are going to be removed and I haven't seen any of that so far Kotaku in their article do go on to say that Nintendo are aware of this problem you can see here some players tried to contact Nintendo support to get their Pokemon back one support agent reportedly told the player that the publisher was looking into it before closing their ticket another red air customer service representative reportedly brought up the possibility of transferring Pokemon from their corrupt save into Pokemon home once compatibility launches. Kotaku even reached out to Nintendo about whether or not the fix will be coming soon but not receive a response by the time of this publication so like I say we've still got no information about this from official sources from Nintendo or Game Freak and hopefully we do get something soon in regards to it but it looks like any support tickets that are being sent are just getting the same kind of answer back and then closed and it's just been a closed shop ever since so there's no real communication leaving a lot of room for speculation about what is causing these issues and who will be affected next of course it is very worrying when you've got over 400 or 600 or even more hours poured into a game that is one of your favorite franchises on this console and for such a big multimedia organization you would think they would have some resources to get communication out to everyone as soon as possible about these potential issues where they're occurring where to avoid what not to do in your games before launching a very quick and decisive patch for these issues of course there wouldn't be so much concern if Pokemon Home compatibility was now available with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet but we have no way to get a Pokemon out of our current games and put them somewhere safe like Pokemon Home of course the compatibility with that is still up in the air it is going to be coming in spring 2023 whenever that will be but at the moment we are kind of stuck no cloud based saving storage no Pokemon Home and there is a slight risk like I say I don't want this video to be a scaremongering video or anything like that it was more just to make you all aware of the issues that are currently happening and the one thing that I feel like it definitively ties back to is the update now a bunch of you have probably already got this update now conveniently to make sure if you wanted the new Paradox Pokemon from the latest raid event you had to update your games to get these Pokemon otherwise there was an issue with a weird glitch that caused an egg to appear in raid dens meaning that you had to update your games so I'm presuming if you wanted to add these new Pokemon to your collections for this limited time available terror raid event then you've probably updated already but if you haven't it's probably worth just holding off for a little while before you update your game and wait for this patch and when that patch comes out we can cover it here on the channel to make sure that you're aware of it and you do the necessary things so you don't experience any of these game breaking issues with scholar and violet you would like to think though because game freak act so fast on something like a duplication glitch a duplication glitch that came out for scholar and violet came out and a week later they had a patch for it a week later they had a patch for it now it's getting close to a week of this game breaking issue being out by monday are we gonna have a patch you would hope so you would hope we would get some sort of communication about it it's not a little issue either this is literally affecting players in a way that nothing else has affected players before it's probably the worst case scenario for players losing their game data so hopefully friends like I say it's only affecting a very small percentage of players when they are doing certain things in the game but there doesn't seem to be one thing that we can put our finger on saying that is what is causing it there seems to be a multitude of things that are causing these issues or that about does it for today like I said I just wanted to put a video out to make more people aware about it because it is something that can affect each and every one of us although the numbers are very small at the minute let's hope there's not too many more people that it does cause issues with and the game freak can act like they do when there's duplication glitches they put this to the highest priority bracket possible and get it sorted out as soon as possible because this seems way more of a serious problem than any duplication glitch that would occur in a game by not being coded properly so that's my two cents on it and like I said I really feel for anyone that has been affected by these issues up to now thank you so much for tuning in as always if we do get any updates on these issues that are happening now and scholar and violet I'll throw them up on the channel as soon as possible take care of yourselves friends stay safe and I'll see you all know the video very soon so until then take care bye bye


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Okay, hi, I am Pratheem. I am learning more about, we have a few things. So as well as I said, there's going to be a quick introduction on what databases we support with Julia. So it's going to be a good way. So basically here, there's a list of supported databases. So if you see, you know, Julia supports the majority of the databases. So you can see relational databases, you can see no signals, and then you can see your in-memory databases. There are some of the top ones here, okay. But the key point here is that it's supported very often. So what we have done is we have picked some of the TV drivers, okay. So basically you can see here, you know, the MySQL driver, you know, that can work with MySQL. And if you see ODBC or the JDBC driver, it can work with the majority of the databases, which you would see shortly, okay.  And then there's support for host layers. So again, basically this is the, you know, feature-wise comparison. So of course, there is an insert, you know, connector, of course, there is everything. So this also, that's about the various other features each of these driver provides, you know, for example, the pre-play segment is there, most of them, okay. Then support for multi-queries. We did the MySQL driver, support for minor test models. And that's, unfortunately, we have problems. So basically one of the ideas here is to have a kind of common interface layer so that, you know, we have the same kind of interfaces for all the databases. You will see that, you know, later, you know, why I'm saying this. Then there is support for proxy pack. And then the supported packet. So if you see, as I said before, you know, for the bodyBC and the JDBC driver, some of what others are, you know, it can connect to any kind of packet, okay.  It's not a big one. We are actually going for, you know, billions of records. And that is still the problem. Unfortunately, we could not get that into the same time. Okay. But that is something that we are doing so that, you know, we thought of, but at least, at least again, then you operate like you are just looking good on the billions of records. So if you see, most of the drivers here are sort of, you know, data parameters in terms of their performance, they are doing very good. But there is the same thing that I said before. If you want to see how you can actually connect your database, it's very simple. In most cases, it is just two or three or four lines of code. So in the bicycle thing, you just have to connect with your basic connection parameters and then just call or execute query, as simple as that. Of course, my secret also supports repair statement, so in which case, probably another, you know, one more line of code. So it's mostly again, it's just four lines. So it's as simple as this. Okay. That's the thing. And if you notice here, one of the things, you know, what I said earlier was to have some kind of a common interface layer. If you see here, you can see the difference in the interfaces here. So that's one thing that we are working on and probably have a common interface across the databases. Okay. So in which way, you know, what that means is that, you know, you will be able to switch between databases very easily without having to change any of your code. It's giving data frames, right? The right-hand side, both of them. Are they returning data frames? Yes. In fact, all of them are returning data frames. So in terms of road map, as I said, you know, we want to have a common interface layer across all the databases and support for blobs. Then of course, we have support for no SQL. We do have support first, you know, and you saw in the earlier list that we do support MongoDB and what we have, but there also, we would probably want to have some kind of a common interface layer there as well. And probably we'll also add more databases like this. Okay. And also, of course, another thing which I have not mentioned here is probably we will also do this kind of benchmarking for all the databases and published parts of it. Before many of you use, you have some idea of what you are getting. And of course, we just have to say, we need more and more contributors. So any of you on the internet, you're always at the test. That's the short introduction of the databases. Any questions? So with a common interface, is there a design for the databases? So we know that R has this library DBI, for example, which is sort of common interface for accessing any kind of database. So in fact, there is a DBI packet even in Julia, but unfortunately, I've not been there, and all the drivers actually come up to that. So that's what I'm talking about. Okay. We want to get there short, as soon as we can. But we're not there yet. Yeah. But there is a packet, but we won't come up to that. Not all the packages will come up to that. So that's where we want to get to. Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks, everyone.


Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Edward Marin and I'm a researcher at Telefonica Research. Today, I will talk about the secretive serverless, a new computing paradigm that has experienced significant growth over the last few years and is expected to become the dominant pattern for cloud computing in the future. Over the last decade, we have witnessed significant advancements in cloud computing. These were intended to simplify the development and management of applications as well as reduce the cost of running. These applications in the cloud. In the early days of cloud computing, cloud providers gave users the ability to port their monolithic applications to the cloud. Virtual machines were key to achieve this, offering strong isolation while providing users a sense of having an infinite amount of resources. The main downside of this approach was that users not only had to manage the virtual machines themselves, but also had to develop mechanisms to scale their applications. Motivated by these limitations, it was proposed to decompose applications into smaller, independent components known as microservices and place them inside containers. This approach increased portability. It provided lower startup times compared to virtual machines and it's allowed for greater efficiency. But it also came with some important limitations. As all containers in a whole share the same kernel, containers offer weaker isolation guarantees than virtual machines. Also, software developers still need to configure and manage the containers themselves. In addition to this, a common limitation of the previous approaches is that they rely on a static billing model where users pay a monthly fixed amount regardless of the number of resources they consume. Serverless allows us to overcome these limitations. First, it allows software developers to outsource all operational and infrastructure tasks to cloud providers, allowing software developers to focus only on writing the code for their applications. Serverless proposes to the couple storage from computation. The application logic is divided into a set of short-lived stateless functions each running inside an execution environment. Storage is provided by cloud services such as S3 or DynamoDB. In serverless, scaling of applications is managed directly by cloud providers, meaning that software developers don't need to worry about when and how their application needs to be scaled up or down. Unlike previous approaches, serverless offers a pure pay-per-use model where users pay only for the resources they consume. Cloud providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are already offering computing services to their customers. Meanwhile, several open-source serverless platforms have also been developed over the last few years. Before going into the details of serverless security, let me briefly explain how serverless platforms work. Functions are the main element in serverless computing. They run inside a fresh, isolated execution environment such as a container and are typically executed in response to several types of events such as a web request. Another important component in serverless platforms are API gateways, which expose rest endpoints to customers and act as a bridge between users and functions. If a function is triggered many times, the cloud provider can opt for creating new instances on the same function in other execution environments and redirecting some requests to them. Functions typically communicate with other functions and also with other cloud services. So for example, for achieving for storage purposes. Another communication is done via standard APIs. In addition to this, serverless platforms include a set of controlling functionalities. For example, one could be an authentication server that authenticates incoming requests before passing them to the corresponding functions. Another one could be the so-called identity and access management component, which is responsible for specifying the functions and cloud services that each function can access. Another well-known component is the so-called virtual private component, which basically allows to create virtual networks with all the functions that belong to the same application so that all the functions that belong to the same application can communicate with each other while preventing others from doing this. In practice, the serverless ecosystem is much more complex than that. The figure shown in the slide is a simple example illustrating a real estate website using serverless functions. Note that server developers can choose to write the functions themselves, use functions from third parties, or use property functions for which they pay licensing fees. Also note that only a subset of functions can communicate with the outside world. Let's now try to understand what the threat model of serverless is. In any serverless platform, adversaries can try to steal sensitive information, such as cryptographic keys or the application logic. They can try to exfiltrate data, control the function's execution flow, disrupt other applications, run applications without being charged, or even worse, associate their application cost to other users. These attacks can be performed by external and internal adversaries. That is malicious external users that leverage any of the existing external APIs. Malicious functions or compromised functions that try to bypass specified security policies, or even the cloud provider. We think that it's important to model cloud providers as honest but curious entities, since they can potentially learn sensitive information about users while running their applications. With the increase in diversity of attacks against the cloud, security and privacy are a key factor for the widespread adoption of serverless computing. At first glance, one could argue that serverless computing is intrinsically more secure than its predecessors. However, in practice, serverless improves some security aspects, but also makes some other matters worse. Let's first talk about the positive ones. For example, the fact that functions are short-lived makes it more difficult for adversaries to find ways to persist in their attacks. The bad news is that adversaries have already proven to be capable of bypassing these to mount their attacks. But despite this, it is positive for security that functions run for such a short period of time. With serverless, security is a short responsibility. Server developers are still responsible for application-level security, but the rest of the security tasks are now carried out by cloud providers. This is expected to eliminate a number of attacks against serverless applications. Due to the flexibility and elasticity serverless provides, it is now also possible to mitigate the denial of service attacks that aim to overload the server where the application runs. Despite disadvantages, we can argue that serverless increases the attack surface and introduces unique trade-offs and design choices that can negatively impact security. In the next slides, I will go more in depth on those negative aspects. There are three main reasons why the attack surface of serverless is larger than in previous approaches. First, functions are event-driven, which means that they can be triggered by many types of internal and external event sources with multiple formats and encodings. This clearly opens the door for adversaries to perform many attacks. As functions are stateless and are intended to perform a single task, they are required to constantly interact with other functions and cloud services to realize more complex functionalities. However, the definition and enforcement of security policies that specify how functions interact with each other and with which cloud services functions can interact with in such dynamic environments is very challenging. Finally, serverless platforms include several new components and cloud services, many of which are shared across users. These may lead to new forms of covert and side channels that can result in attacks into retrieve sensitive data or allow malicious functions to communicate with each other without the cloud provider noticing it. Ideally, cloud providers would like to develop serverless platforms that jolly maximize security and performance in their infrastructures and their customers' applications while keeping their cost as low as possible. In practice, however, experience has shown that cloud providers often sacrifice some security to be able to accommodate more users and to provide greater performance to their users' applications. One clear example is on the selection of the sandboxing mechanisms, as we explained before, with example of the VM and the container. Another example is on whether to use cold or warm containers. Cold containers refer to containers that are used only once. The problem with cold containers is that their booting time is often similar to the time it takes to execute the function itself. Therefore, the latency introduced with booting can significantly affect the function's performance. In addition to this, cloud providers don't build users based on the booting time of their functions. So of course they want to minimize it as much as possible. To solve this problem, cloud providers have started to use so-called warm containers. Warm containers are normal containers that are used to run several instances of the same function. They provide much lower startup times, but at the same time, they also introduce some security risk as best as could mount cross-invocation attacks. Another example has to do with the process of assigning functions to the host. This can be done using deterministic or randomized scheduling algorithms. While deterministic scheduling algorithms can lead to a more optimal use of resources and less communication overhead, randomized algorithms can offer stronger protection against attacks that exploit co-residency with the victim. All these examples show that there is a need to achieve a good balance between security and performance. One of the main advantages of Serverless is that cloud providers are now only responsible for conducting all operational and infrastructure tasks, including those aimed to protect their infrastructures and the workloads running on them from internal and external threats. At first, this is expected to reduce the number of attacks against Serverless platforms. Yet, this can also lead software developers to ignore security in their applications and to make unrealistic assumptions about the security measures in place. This could create a full sense of security. To make things worse, cloud providers typically keep all or most information about their backends confidential. This makes it difficult to scrutinize the security and privacy of such platforms. Some of the infrastructure aspects cloud providers tend to keep confidential, include how functions instances are placed in host, how the resources are assigned and managed, or how isolation is achieved among others. All of them have in common that they can impact the security and privacy Serverless platforms provide. In recent times, researchers have devoted significant efforts into understanding and documenting the way Serverless platforms of the main cloud providers operate. Their studies showed that despite cloud providers share the same goals, there are important differences in the way they implemented their Serverless infrastructures. Let's now talk about the main attacks against Serverless. We have identified three main classes. One of them is related to the application level The other one is more specific to Serverless. And the last one is about hardware attacks such as micro architectural type of attacks like meltdown or row hammer type of attacks. Due to the time constraints, I will not cover hardware attacks in this talk. OWASP has recently released a report explaining the top 10 security threats for Serverless applications. You can see them on the slide. You're probably thinking that all these types of threats are well understood by industry and academia. But unfortunately, Server developers keep designing applications with these kinds of vulnerabilities. Some of the most well-known ones, such as for example, injection attacks due to some data not being properly sanitized, can allow adversaries to fully control functions. Other types of attacks, for example, are caused by Server developers giving too many permissions to a function. Another classical type of threat is the one caused by using third-party components with no vulnerabilities. To mitigate the previous issues, it is recommended to treat every function as a separate security perimeter. It's also recommended that Server developers follow standard secure coding best practices. So for example, they should not trust the inputs that are received in each function. Additionally, Server developers should also follow the principle of least privilege because functions will eventually be compromised. And once a function is compromised, the goal should be is to reduce the amount of damage that the adversary can do. And finally, to prevent these kind of attacks, it's very important to secure data, both at rest and in transit. To secure data at rest, one can use cloud services and to secure data in transit. For example, one can use strong cryptographic protocols such as TLS. Let's now go a little bit more in depth on the serverless specific type of attacks. One of them is the one so-called resource-exhaustion attacks. The goal of this kind of attack is to over-utilize the resources of the victim to either disrupt the service or to impose excessive financial loads to the victim. So basically to perform so-called denial of wallet attacks. In such a complex and dynamic type of system, adversaries can also try to leverage inconsistencies in functions and cloud services. This remains unexplored so far, but I think it's an interesting avenue for research. Such sort of attacks are also very important in serverless platforms. They can come with different flavors. There are different ways these kind of attacks can be achieved. One of them is based on, for example, the access patterns or timing information. Then I also envision that there will be some intra-container and intra-host type of set channel. So I expect that there will be some new attacks coming in this space in the next years. And last but not least, there is also the possibility for adversaries to exploit the disk space in the temp directory. This is used to keep state that is used across different instances of the same function that run on the same container. As the future work, I think it's interesting to explore all the attacks that I explained before in the previous slide in depth. I also think that it's very important to better understand the cloud provider backends. For example, investigate the security of new execution environments such as Amazon's solution called Firecracker. And I also think that it's very important to mitigate all side-channel attacks. To conclude my presentation, I would like to say that this is a very challenging and a very active research area. Clearly, I hope that with this presentation, I convinced you that there are some very unique security and privacy threats and challenges that will probably come with new attacks and hopefully better defenses for the future. So I hope that you're convinced that serverless is the way to go and that security and privacy should be considered by design and it should be considered now that serverless is started to be adopted. Finally, I want to refer to you to a paper on serverless security that explores in more depth all the different aspects that I've been discussing in this presentation. You can find it in my personal website. And I also want to mention that we're organizing a workshop on serverless for mobile networks. You can also see the website there. And that's all from my side. If you have any questions, I'll be very happy to take them. Thank you.