Well, this one is the long anticipated video for me. I know that many of you guys have asked over and over again about my eyeshadow palette video and when I was going to be doing that. And this is the one. We're going to get into it. So please stay tuned, maybe in the middle of this video. Somewhere in this video, there is going to be a fun giveaway for you guys. So I am excited to do that as well. Now I'm going to be ranking my palettes and how I decided to rank them was how much I grabbed for them, how much I felt like the quality was good in them, how I felt like they blended on my eyes, felt like the variety in them was really good. You could get more than just one look out of them or I felt like there were ones that I reached for because I love to the look out of them. And I think that's where you're going to be surprised at my number one. Let's get into this so we don't have to have it be 15 years long today. Coming in at number 15 is Wet and Wilds 32 pan eyeshadow palette. This is one that they came out with at the end of the year. This is their color icon formula and you guys for the price, I think this is like 15 or 20 dollars. I'm not exactly sure, but for the price, this does not disappoint. This is so much like their formula in their, I think it's their 10 pan palette, that exact same formula. And there are some duplicates in here from those palettes. So if you have a lot of those, you might not need to purchase this, but I have enjoyed this palette so much. And I'm not going to be doing complete swatches for you guys of all these palettes. So I'm going to be doing about 10 out of each palette, depending on how many there is, but really the proof in the putting on eyeshadow palettes for me is how it wears on your eyes and what it does. And this palette right here wears just like the color icon. They have the creaminess to them. They've done such a good job on the formula and the metallics are beautiful. They're bold and they're stark and they're gorgeous. But the mats in here are very creamy and very saturated as well. So the reason that this palette is down there at the bottom is because I got it towards the end of 2019 and I haven't had a chance to work with every single shade, but I can very confidently say that this was one of my favorite palettes of the year and every eye look that I've done out of it so far has been a really good eye look. Coming in at number 14 is the Dominique Cosmetics Rustic Glam. I love Dominique Cosmetics formula. It's a great formula, but I really love her choices. It just makes me feel like I want to be bold and I want to experiment a little bit. And you guys, I am the worst at swatching, so please forgive me, but they're the swatches from there. I really loved the blues and the greens in here. This one right here, whether you can see it or not, these two right here have a green cast to them and they're so pretty. Loved the pinks and just felt like this palette was all around just a beautiful palette to work with. It made me feel like I wanted to be even more creative with my eye looks. You guys know that I love color, but this one was like nothing's really set out for you. Nothing is really laid out for you. So your creativity kind of had to be kicked into high gear. And I felt like that's what this palette did. And the formula was fantastic. Coming in at number 13 is the Kathleen Lights and ColourPop Sojaded Palette. This palette is such a well laid out, well thought out palette as far as all of it goes. I don't appreciate in any of ColourPop's their heavy, chunky glitter. That's for another video with that we can talk about. But again, you guys, for me, the color payoff on both the metallics and the mats were fantastic. ColourPop is so good. But the thing about ColourPop is they just crank them out, crank them out, crank them out, and then they discontinue just as fast. But I don't think that they're going to be discontinuing this one for quite a while because I know that they have their original Dream Street palette with her that is still available and they continue to make it. It's a big hit. And this one has been a big hit this year as well. If you're looking for a warm look, if you're looking for a metallic look, if you're looking for a jewel toned look, you can go right into this palette and you won't be disappointed. And I just think that they nailed every color in here. I feel like, except for the glitters, I have reached for just about every color in here and use them and just thought that they were so good. Coming in at number 12 is the Sea Color Cosmetics. This is their Savannah palette. This is an all matte palette, which was to dupe one of Natasha Denona's palettes. And you guys, the mats in here are phenomenal. They blend so well. I think this palette cost me about eight dollars, something like that. And for that amount, I still can't believe that this is an all matte palette that you get such a high payoff with. And so here are the colors right here. I normally almost always reach for a palette that has some sort of a shimmer to put on my lid. But the light colors in here, there's a gray right here. And then the light pinker ones right here, I can put on my lid and they just brighten up my look. They just make it look so pretty. You will find that these blend together so well and you will find that the color payoff is there. And also the longevity of them is there. This is just, it's just a good palette. It's just a fantastic palette. Coming in at number 11 is the Nine Pen Palette from Juvia's Place. And this is the Nomad Palette.  I can even make this gold one into a good look.  If you like warm tones a little bit, then this is just a really good palette to start off with. And the reason that I loved it is because this color right here in the middle is the star of the show. It's right there on the top. And it is just the most beautiful silky smooth metallic color, but I can really say that all of these pans are silky and smooth as far as Juvia's Place goes. I own almost every Juvia's Place palette and I did buy several of hers that came out this year, but only two of them made it into my top 15. And this was one of them. So love that one from Juvia's Place. At number 10 is the BH Cosmetics Fairy Lights Palette. This came out as part of their holiday set. BH Cosmetics kind of fell off my radar this year. There wasn't a lot of them in there that I was so attracted to that I felt like I just wanted to run out and buy, but this when they came out, I'm like, OK, sucked in, going to go go grab that one. This packaging is all glitter on the outside. And then it is raised right here in their logo, which I thought was really great. They do have a nice mirror in this packaging. And then obviously the colors in here. And I just really, really like this color scheme as far as they're still being neutrals, but they're being the blues and the pink. And then when I started working with them, I'm like, OK, this is a really, really good palette. I'm pretty sure they still have this on the BH website. I know they do. But I have enjoyed working with this over and over again, and it has created some absolutely stunning looks for me. Number nine is the Festival Palette from Profusion Cosmetics. I actually purchased this one because Emily Noel did a review on it and she really liked it. There was actually one color in here, and of course, it's going to be the purple color that really disappointed me. But the rest of the colors I really felt like I could work with. I could get good payoff with this whole entire line over here. Totally neutral, total neutrals over here. And then everything in between you could just pop color. So if you wanted to get this because you're thinking, oh, I really want to try color, Mrs. Melissa has been saying, try colors, see what you think. These are going to be great for pops on the lid or they're going to be great as liners underneath to just dip your toe into some color if you're not used to it. And I do feel like that that color payoff is there. And I just think that this all around just makes a really great palette for not too much money. Coming in at number eight is the Color Pop and Gimme Better Flies Palette. I think they did such a good job on these palettes as they came out in November and December. And I just really fell in love with these. I had the hardest time picking out which of these was going to go into this lineup. But this one I chose because it is on those lighter colors that I absolutely love, the colors that are just such an easy color to use for a cool or a warm tone. You have your pinks, you have your peaches, you have the colors that you can deepen up with down here. You have the shimmers, the metallics. And I just am really drawn to this. So like every time that I do a look and I feel like the look has gotten a little bit too dark, I have been reaching for this shade right here, which is a very pretty peach color and it brightens up my look. I even did that on my look today. So this is one that I have been immensely enjoying using almost every time I do a look. I just pop it open. I feel very inspired by it. The next palette at number seven, you guys, I did not purchase this when it first came out. As a matter of fact, when I first thought I was like, oh my gosh, what are you guys trying to copy color pop or what? Because the colors in the Coral Palette, the Nubian three Coral Palette were so similar inside that I thought, well, I'm not really too interested in that. So I didn't buy it. Then I went into Ulta and I swatched this and boom in the cart because you guys, this palette is amazing as far as creating a look with both cool and warm tones and coming up with something so completely unique that I hadn't seen for a long time. This just completely won me over with those gray metallics and the cool tones and then being able to put the pop of the warm tones in there with it. You guys, this one, honestly, because I'm in love with the Juvies Place formula anyway, as far as pigment, blendability, lasting power, I just was like, wow, I can't believe that I wasn't even interested in this. And now I'm reaching for it constantly. The colors as they come together are just something different like this color up here, extremely cool. All of these colors down here cool, but then you have all of those beautiful corals that come into that cool and they can set that look off. And yeah, it completely won me over as soon as I dipped my finger into it. At number six is the Morphe Hot Spot Palette. And you guys, I actually purchased three different Morphe palettes this year for with my purple one. But I found myself reaching for this one all the time because of this blue scheme in here.  It's just a look that I absolutely love. But I felt like I wanted to put this into the favorites because it did have this neutral tones in here, too. Or the more warm tone, everyday tone, its office appropriate, whatever you needed it to do, it can do. And if you're really drawn to the warm tones, there are those over there. And mixing the two of them together, you can actually get into like more of a purple tone, if you decide to mix the reds with the blues, you get really beautiful purple tones, the pinks also just felt myself reaching for this one over and over again and doing those beautiful blue looks and I could transition into a purple if I felt like it. So just a gorgeous palette. Love the new formula, whatever Morphe's done on there. OK, the number five spot I have put two of Colour Pops monochromatic palettes in here and you guys, honestly, if there is a color that just speaks to you in this whole line of their monochromatics, just grab it because their quality is just that good and I have been absolutely loving it. I couldn't choose between these two. So I had to put them both in here because I just think that these palettes that they decided to do this year are next level and it's my pleasure palette, which is the purple one up here and then the Blue Moon palette down here, which is the blue one. So I have Blue Moon and then it's my pleasure. And you guys, I have the lilac one. I have the green one. I have the pink one. I just have found the quality to be, you know, the same all the way across. It's really easy to blend them. Really great way to, you know, dip your toe into colors. You guys know that I don't have a problem with that whatsoever. But I think for the money, these are each $12. They go on sale all the time. But I think for the money and that you can get so such a variety of colors is just fantastic. I watched Sabrina declutter her purple one this morning and I was almost in tears. But you know, we're all so different. And I totally understand that we get so overwhelmed with how many we have to review as influencers. You guys, I only have two palettes in this whole lineup that are high. And that's how good I feel like the drugstore palettes are. But I really did need to put the Jackie Aina and Anastasia Beverly Hills palette in here. They released so many palettes this year. And I felt like so many of them fell very, very short. But this one was just right up there with Modern Renaissance Soft Glam Sultry. This palette is fantastic. So if you can still get it, I would recommend that you do. I will make sure that I link anything below that I find out. So this row over here is all of the mats. And this row over here is all the metallics out of here. Feel amazing quality and gorgeous colors. And I just felt so inspired when I opened this. There were so many that she released this year that I was just like they fell short. They fell so short for me. But this one, I was just all over that, you guys. I'm so glad that I got it. It's one that I feel like is up there with all of her highest ranking palettes that we were, you know, like went crazy over the Modern Renaissance. I wish more people had gone crazy for this one, because I do feel like it's just a fantastic one. As usual, you get the nice brush in there. You get a good mirror in here.   And I'm so glad that I got that one this year. Number three, you guys, is one that actually has come to me very recently in the past few weeks, but I've not been able to put this down. And it's what I'm wearing on my eyes today. I've reached for this so many times because every single look that I've done, I felt like I just was in love with it. Maybe this is just my skin tone. I don't know. But this is the Flutterby palette by ColourPop.  Like I said before, it's just so pretty. But what was inside of this was gorgeous. There is only one in here that is a glitter. I do actually like that one because it doesn't have the huge chunky glitter in it. And I can use a glitter glue and get away with that and use it. So I have really actually liked that one. But the other colors in here, you guys, this mauvey, very cool toned gorgeousness, I couldn't help myself. Part of the reason I think that this spoke to me so much is I could do a very light look if I wanted to. Very soft look, very just lounge around the house look. And then I could just bump it up to an evening look or a very glam look if I wanted to too. And like I said, it is what I have on my eyes today, along with that one color from the Flutterby or Gimme Betterfly palette. And I just wanted to really make sure that this was in my lineup because even though I've only had it, like I said, through the month of December, whenever it came about, this has just stolen my heart. And it's just one of those ones that I think I can see myself just never getting tired of this. I might even order a backup to it. I almost put this in at number one, but then I kind of changed my mind. And you'll see why here in a second. And as a bonus, I know that this is not an eyeshadow palette. And I'm kind of sneaking this in here. But my yearly favorites video was so long and I wanted to put these eyeshadows. These are the L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadows, the singles. They're supposed to be 24 hour wear. I feel like they truly are a very long wearing formula and I absolutely love them. So I have some on my hand right here today. So the top one up here is a pink one. I have to have my glasses to see this and I still can't see it. It's so dang little, you guys, but it's always something pink. And I'll make sure that I link it, list it up there at the top. And then the second one is a navy blue color, which is so saturated and pretty. It's midnight blue right there. And then the next one is a very periwinkle blue. This one is oh, this is small, too. Timeless blue spark, that's that one right there. The silver one that is right here. This is one of my favorites because again, it has that little cast of just a little bit of purple pink in it, liquid diamonds. I think that is so pretty. And then the one on the bottom that is the green is the golden sage. And I have used all of these. I think they're fantastic formula. You put pop them on your eyelids for a pop of color just for fun. And I think that they're a formula that has gotten lost over time. And I just I absolutely love them. And I wanted to make sure I mentioned them for you guys because they're just they're that good. So I had said to you guys very recently that I was not going to be doing giveaways that actually said that in the title. And that is how it's going to be from now on. I'm going to pop little giveaways in here and there, maybe one, maybe two a month, just depending on how my budget does. So today I've just been kind of stuffing this fun little makeup bag with some of the things that I really love. This is a set that I came across during the holidays. This is the elf best of it has a sponge. They're poor, less putty primer of jelly highlighter and then a very pretty lip gloss in that set right there. So you're going to be getting that. And then the beauty creations bag that is just a really pretty, like almost a champagne color. And I put two of my favorite Maybelline lipsticks in here. One is called Rose Embrace and the other one is called Nude Lust. This is the Cody Airspun highlighter that I absolutely adore in snowmatch ice. I put that in my last giveaway. I got a little sample of the Luminoso from Milani in their baked blush. I put my favorite color in here of the elf primer infused blush. And this is always rosy. I also put in one of the Wet and Wild 10 pan palette. This is a tart palette from the rainforest of this sea. And I'm having a hard time because my hands are so full. There are the colors right there. I just knew that it wasn't one that I would get a lot of use out of. So I thought I would pass it along to you guys. And then I purchased the new Aurora palette from Alter Ego. And here came a little PR one. So I have one now and you guys want to get one now too. This Aurora palette is supposed to be a dupe for another Natasha Denona. And it has some of the most beautiful warm tones in there and a little sample of one of my favorite perfumes, the Dolce and Gabbana light blue. I'm getting very tongue tied because I've been talking for a very long time. And then there's a little sample, not sample, really. It's a little refill of the Ofra Rodeo drive highlighter. You guys will fall in love with that. Put it in one of your Z palettes or whatever in the bottom of this bag.  As far as contest rules, I like to make this as easy and simple as possible on all of us. So last time we talked about where you are from right now, this time, I would love to know your place of birth. I think that's so interesting to know that people have moved around in their life because I've kind of have been one of those plants that have just stayed where they were rooted in the beginning. Tell me your place of birth and then maybe also tell me if you had a favorite eyeshadow palette or not this year. I will announce here on this video in the comments section. I will tell the winner that they have won. I will announce that I have picked a winner on Instagram, Facebook, and on the community tab here that will come up on your feet. If you're obviously subscribed to me, that is one of the things too. Why didn't I say that? Please subscribe, ring the bell, make sure you like all of those things that really helped me out with the videos so that it can get out there. Mat number two and a palette that has not left my side all year is the Alter Ego Temptress Palette. This is a dupe for the Sultry Palette from ABHN. Although I do love the Sultry Palette, I thought that the dupe was almost better. Some of these mats in here are almost creamier and just the quality in here was phenomenal. And I was hooked on Alter Ego the second that I put my finger into these and started using them on my eyes. I was like, you guys, you got it down and I was not disappointed.  This color right here, as you can see, I don't know if you can see or not very well, but that color has been dipped into by me and it has a divot out of it already because I've used it so much, but that black in there is great for darkening up any look, gorgeous, great, gorgeous, great over here. Excuse me, that I have used over and over again just for a very soft, very cool toned look. If you just wanted to go for a matte look, you have that. And if you just wanted to really amp it up, go smoky. You've got that very gorgeous glam. It's a Sultry Palette as the name, the original name from ABH says, I think this palette is gorgeous. I can't wait to see what else this company has and I just am a huge proponent of theirs because I think they do such a fantastic job. OK, at the number one spot. Can you guys guess what I picked as my number one palette of the year? I bet you can't because I was even surprised when I started narrowing these down and writing them down. I knew that I fell in love with these palettes, but I didn't know how much I fell in love with them and this is them right there, you guys. Can you guess yet? It is the LA Girl Palettes. They came out with four of these this year. This one is the hot heat that you guys. Holy cow. I actually watched Sabrina declutter this one and it was in my number one. And I'm thinking, am I crazy for thinking that this is my number one? But I don't think that she had a chance. She said that she hadn't had a chance to work with them. And I was just like, oh, my goodness. I wish that I could just reach the screen and say, don't do it. Just give them a try. I just see what they're like because you guys, you know how I'm always saying that Juvia's place has something magical in their formula? LA Girl hit on it. I don't know how they did, but they hit on it and they just have that saturation, the lasting power, the blendability. This is just something more than just pretty eyeshadows. The mattes are so good. You have all of the vibrant other colors. And you guys, I just can't rave enough about these palettes. So if there is one of these that you look at and you go, oh, I like that color scheme, go for it. Because if it's the color scheme that's holding you back, they have three other color schemes to look at and try. But this one made it to number one because every single week when I would think of something I wanted to do with my eyes, I was either reaching for one color in here or I was reaching for the whole entire palette and using it. And I just feel like it's some of those ones that are just way up there as far as quality goes. And I just, I can't recommend them to you guys enough. I just think that they are some next level palettes. They are fantastic. And for what you get in here and for the amount of money, I know that they are sold at CVS, but I also know that I got all of mine off of the LA Girl USA website and that's where all of mine came from. So definitely if you can't find them at CVS, you will find them on the website and pick them up. I have all four. I'm not disappointed with any of them. I actually just did a party look for you guys that used another palette that had the teals and stuff in there. And I just it was so pretty. And now my hand is completely stained with all kinds of eyeshadows. But it was so worth it. Thank you, everyone, for watching today. I enjoyed it. I hope you enjoyed it, too. Don't forget to give it that thumbs up. Everyone have a happy and healthy rest of your week. Take care of yourselves. Love you so very much. And I'll see you in my next video. Bye bye, guys.


I've got a brand new drum plugin for you. It's completely free and it sounds like this. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you will. BFD Player is a free drum plugin which comes with an amazing 5 gigabytes of samples. We're going to be running through all of its features in this video but before we do I'd like to thank our sponsor DistroKid. If you follow the link in the description down below you'll get 7% off an already amazing price to distribute your music to the world. Now let's dive into this free plugin. So starting off on the main screen we get this 3d representation of our drum kit and if we click on any of the drums we get to hear them and also some options appear for that drum at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on browse here we can see more options and we can in theory swap each drum out for another drum but with this free version we do only get this one library. You can see its name over here on the left, the core library. So there's not a lot of choices of drums maybe with the cymbals for example if you click on those you do get to swap some of them out. So I think that's fair enough with a free plugin and of course what they want you to do is love this plugin and perhaps buy some of the other libraries which are normally around about sort of 50 or 55 dollars but don't get me wrong you can actually do quite a lot with this core library. Now at the moment it's on one particular preset which I like which is called Keeper Rollin which is a fairly sort of, I wouldn't say it's dry but a kind of a standard sound but there's quite a lot of others which sound a lot more sort of processed for example the 80s lover one here we can press this preview button at the side to hear it sounds like this well let's try this one dream state or original mix that's really dry sounding so you get quite a few presets there to get you going personally I like a kind of a drier kit and then I like to add my own effects to that later on we'll talk about that in a moment that's the main screen though one thing I want to point out from here which you can miss easily is go up to the preset name up here look at this little drop down arrow click on that and then go to engine and then key map and what you can see is you can you know change the key map which will be to make it the same as an existing drum plugin which you may already have so for example some of you I know I've got addictive drums and you could just make the drum map the same as that that makes things a lot easier if you're coming from another plugin and you're used to pressing particular keys on your piano keyboard for particular drums so that's the main screen let's take a look at the mixer next we have the mixer screen and as you'd expect you can use the faders and the pan controls here to mix this drum kit but you also have the ability to output each of these drums to a separate stereo or mono output these are exposed within your door meaning you can actually mix this drum kit from your door controls and add any sort of effects plugins and things that you want to add there that's my preferred way of working in a full production now what's nice about this is these are these four macro controls that we see at the top here so we can adjust the overall attack and sustain for example I'll just play the kit and play with that you can hear how much tighter it gets when we've got that attack down low okay it's more like a sort of a transient shape than anything else I would say then we have a stereo width control here let's play with that I can't help but love it when it's nice and wide a tone control I think that speaks for itself and then this ambience control so you get a bit more of the room noise as you push this up let's try that so you really get a lot of difference in sound with the controls in this mixer here it's a really nice addition one thing I love about this plugin is it's so easy to use a little bit like our sponsor distro kit all you have to do is upload your track your artwork fill out a simple form and they do the rest for you they're going to get it out to all of the major platforms like Spotify Apple Music Amazon Google Play all you have to do is follow the link in the description down below now I have to say even if you didn't use the sounds of this free plugin it's probably worth it for the 340 free grooves you get with it in lots of different genres here you could use these to build the basis of a song so for example we've got this collection of 80s lover grooves here if we go down we could start off with a verse it sounds like this we may do something like use a fill in and that may go into a chorus or a bridge here's a chorus there's lots and lots to choose from as you can see here and you can sort of filter them and things so that you can find them a little bit easier now when you want to use them all you have to do is just grab it and then drag it off into your door and drop it onto your track it's as easy as that well worth it and can give you a real sort of head start on a track so what do you think is this the best free drum plugin let me know in the comments down below and if you'd like to find out about more great free plugins check out this playlist right here


So from now until launch of Tears of the Kingdom, we're gonna be going over some of my favorite Zelda theories and maybe ones I'm not so sure about and discussing them. But I thought before we dove into those Zelda theories, that we first need to have an honest conversation about Tears of the Kingdom.  It's the longest a Zelda game has ever been in development for. We have a release date, right? May 12th? Cool, we know when it's coming. We're less than six months from release and we know almost nothing. We have a title, but that's about it. I don't recall in my life, six months out from a Zelda game releasing, knowing this little about a Zelda game. It's crazy.  We thought there would actually be one and Tears of the Kingdom did win. I'm on record saying if Tears of the Kingdom won the most anticipated game, we would see it at the game awards. And it won most anticipated game and we didn't see it. In fact, it was kind of a weird Jeff Keely tease because we saw a Horizon VR stuff and it started out in the clouds and so Tears of the Kingdom won and obviously we know Link's in the clouds and so the next trailer had clouds and it wasn't Zelda as we now know. It's interesting how Jeff Keely did that. He clearly knew what he was doing and how he lined up the show. But I also think it's interesting that Nintendo chose not to advertise it. There, now we do know Nintendo didn't know show, right? They not only won a bunch of awards and had the Mario movie there. We got Bayonetta Origins and yes, brand new news on Fire Emblem Engage. And Fire Emblem Engage is something we need to remember because I honestly think Fire Emblem Engage somehow is why we don't know that much about Tears of the Kingdom. Seems strange, right? Like Zelda is a such a bigger IP at this point than Fire Emblem. Why would they hold back on Zelda information due to that? Well, in part, my theory is because it is that much bigger. They really want Fire Emblem Engage to do well and they want to make sure that it gets a fair marketing opportunity. So now that Scarlet and Violet is out, all of the marketing is turning to Fire Emblem Engage and that's the game they're gonna push. Now, I don't think they're gonna hold back Zelda information for Bayonetta Origins. After all, it is a prequel, but it's a spin-off game. I don't think that Zelda will be held back for that, but for Fire Emblem Engage, which they are treating like a massive release, we're getting brand new information on this game daily. You got, literally, if I was a Fire Emblem YouTube channel, I would have an unlimited amount of content to make right now because of how much information is dropping and I thought at this point, I'd be able to do the same for Zelda and while I'm going to be creating a lot of tears of the Kingdom videos, especially as my second video of the day, I am doing it based off of opinions, discussions and thoughts rather than actual information because it comes so little. I mean, we had just the tiniest bit of information land over the weekend about the dubs being done with the Spanish version and that news video hit 20,000 views, my largest video of the year. How did that happen? Well, because the thirst is real, the fervor is real. Everybody wants to know even the smallest little details like if Nintendo hires a new employee for Tears of the Kingdom, you guys want to know about it. Like it's insane how much people want to know but how little we actually know. So talking to theories will be fun but honestly, it's a lot of filler content because I can't wait, I'm not Nintendo. They're waiting, I'm not waiting anymore. We're starting our run up to Tears of the Kingdom today and I wish Nintendo would as well. My ideal, at least at this point is that once Fire Emblem Engage comes out I think the Zelda train begins. Now I do think that we'll wait until the February Direct which should happen around the middle of February. I think either the beginning or end of the show will end with a massive Tears of the Kingdom trailer and then they're gonna continue this marketing. They'll do tweets and interviews and all that. There might even be a dedicated Zelda Direct in April like they've done for other games. We could get the announcement of an OLED edition. There's other theories out there as well though too that one of the reasons we haven't seen this game yet to really get blown out, really have a full understanding of what Tears of the Kingdom is. Just a bunch of guesses based on less than six minutes of footage is the potential of a new system. Now I'm not sitting here diving in on the new system train. You guys know the Switch Pro, Switch 2. This stuff has been beat to death for a couple of years. So I'm not fully diving in on that train but I can't ignore that it's a valid theory. It's one that I know Andres Restart brings up in some of his videos about how maybe the reason we know so little is Nintendo's waiting to unveil that next system because they want to unveil the system and they want to use this game as the centerpiece to sell the system at launch. And so they're waiting to blow it out until they can really show it in this past slide. You know, like dropping a 4K trailer. I, yeah, look, it's a valid theory. It is possible. We have no idea what Nintendo's doing behind the scenes. So I have to bring this up as, well, I think it might be due to Fire Emblem Engage and they just want to give it its fair marketing run. It is possible that it's really about new hardware. We have to lend a little credence to the Harbor stuff as well because May is a very weird month to release Zelda. At least in March, we can understand a March release because that's the end of the fiscal year and Nintendo likes to have a boost at the end of every fiscal year and then it also helps start the next fiscal year. So it sort of helps out both years at once but May is not only not the exact beginning of the next fiscal year, that would be April. It is a month into it, but just before summer. So it's when everyone's still in school when it comes to college or high school and all that. People are still in school that might want to play this game. We're not to the summer months and this isn't a major holiday period. This to me signifies a couple things. One, they think Zelda can sell no matter when they release it. Probably true, especially brand new games like this, especially ones to the level of Tears of the Kingdom. But also, maybe that timing is because that's when Nintendo will have enough stock of whatever this new system is to launch it that month. Now they do launch their hardware and rear months. We've seen launches in October, November, March. So Nintendo doesn't seem to care when they launch a game. They care that they have something to pair with the launch and Tears of the Kingdom would really be the next major game to do that with. After that would probably be a Mario game. Maybe a Mario Kart or something like that. But I don't think we're getting Mario Kart next year, right? Like if you think there's new hardware next year, Mario Kart ain't it. Like we have DLC all the way through next year for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I think we can write that one off. But again, this is just one of those theories that exist out there for why we haven't heard much information on this game. There's obviously some negative theories as well. Maybe Nintendo's afraid the game won't be received as well as Breath of the Wild. So they're trying to hide it. Maybe the overworld is much of the same. And they know the criticisms coming. So they're just kind of keeping a lot behind closed doors. Then again, Nintendo knew this about games like Triforce Heroes.  So I don't know that I buy that either. And they know this game's gonna sell really well and literally just showing the little snippets they have have already gotten some people excited. So what theory do you think it is? Do you think it's just, they really wanna give Fire Emblem Engage its own window? Do you think it has to do with new hardware? Or do you think there's something else? Let's get the theories rolling on why Nintendo has not shown us more of this game. And we'll be back again tomorrow to dive into some other story related theories that I guess you could argue is potential spoilers, but it's just guesses based on a very minute amount of information. Or who knows? Maybe we end up getting a smidgen news we can talk about. I don't know what tomorrow will bring just yet. Thank you guys for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.


Welcome to T-Mux. T-Mux is a terminal multiplexer. It enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. And I frequently use it on this channel when I've done a lot of my tutorials or just talking about things like when I'm doing speed tests because I want to be able to log into more than one server at once to do speed tests or network tests or any network engineering. And the question comes up all the time, how did you split the screen? The answer is T-Mux. But that doesn't really explain how to use it. So I figured I'd do a video on how to get started with T-Mux. I'm going to show you the basics. And I really only use it for the basics. But those basics are really powerful and it's a great tool. Before we dive into the content here, if you can take a second to check out the affiliates over here we have on our channel and also link down below in this YouTube channel. 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And that is available on GitHub. And I bring this up related to T-Mux because I did customize my T-Mux config as well. So the T-Mux config actually I just updated today to fix the little network show at the bottom. I updated it, I changed it, but I do not in my T-Mux change the default key bindings because T-Mux being that it manages the window, it's like a window manager for the shell. I make sure to leave them at default. And the reason why is sometimes I have to work on other people's computers who have T-Mux installed and they have not customized it, which is fine. But if you start customizing the default keys, which you're gonna see control B use a lot. That's like how you kick off an action inside of there. And someone chooses a different command set. My fingers remember to type control B at the beginning. So I do leave that at default. But I do turn on mouse support because it makes it a lot easier. And generally speaking, computers, now we have a mouse handy. Now, mouse support is an add-on. Even if you don't have a mouse attached to the computer you're logging into, it doesn't really matter. It's only an add-on. And if you have a mouse, that function becomes available. It doesn't, it's not a necessity. Anyways, what is T-Mux in general? All right, so besides being a window manager and easy way to split windows, it's just a really great way to manage sessions when you're dealing with things like multiple servers, multiple computers and maybe waiting for things to complete. It's a nice session manager as well for things like that. I'm gonna first talk about screen key. Screen key and slop are tools I have. And what they do is they make this happen. You'll see things typing down here. I did this on purpose because when you're running T-Mux, which will actually exit out of T-Mux, whoops. Make sure I close all the windows I had open. So now cleared completely out of T-Mux. And it's important to see the commands I'm using because it's a lot of different keyboard shortcuts. So right here, it's just default load of T-Mux, which looks just like my bash shell, which may not look that much different to you. But you notice down here at the bottom, it has our local IP address, the time and the date and that we're using the bash shell. And we're gonna hit control B and a quote. And now we have two windows. And this is where the mouse support comes in handy to be able to switch between these two windows. So let's run something at the top window and we'll run something on the bottom window. So when you're here, I can use the mouse to select which one of these windows is active or live. So wherever which one is live, it puts a little bar there and then I can clear this one as well. How do you do it without the mouse though? So I don't usually use the mouse from selecting windows because the handy way to do it is control B, which is always what you start commands with. And then control B, let go control B and hit down arrow. So cow say bottom Tmux, there we go. So we have something in the screen. Control B up arrow, say top Tmux. So now we have something in the top and we can just switch between them. Control B up. Now, if you hold, if you hit control B, then quickly hit the arrows up and down, you can start resizing these windows or with the mouse support, you can drag them around too, which is really handy. Now that was a vertical split of the windows or let me see our horizontal split. What about if we wanna split the windows vertically? Control B percent. And all these are on the cheat sheet. Now this is one of the things I'm gonna mention. These commands seem weird. I don't know the reason why they chose like control B quote or control B percent to split them horizontally or vertically. I just know they did. Therefore, once you have all these committed to memory, this is why I say if you're changing the defaults and some people do, because they don't like those choices, you get confused when you start using someone else's session up to you. But that's one of the reasons I'm doing this at the default. So now if you wanna go left to right, we do this. And now we're in this pane and control B over here and now we're in this one. But what about if we split it both ways? What if we did this like that? Now how do we get there? Well, control B over always goes over here and control B over here, then we may have to go control B up arrow. It's gonna go between them depending on how it perceived that or once again, clicking in each one of them. So each one of these panes is able to run another process. Like I said, you can put H top back in this one here and then we can do something over here. Now this is particularly handy for like watching a log file as things are happening. So maybe I wanna run some utility. I'm trying to diagnose it over here but I want the log files to be rolling over here like while I restart SSH server or restart Apache. And then you maybe want to watch the log files roll by over here and you're doing it all in one session. This is one of the use cases I have or the other use case I have is I wanna go to another server. So let's go to SSH root at 192 and whoops. <IP_ADDRESS>. I can be in my free NAS and I can run IPerf on my free NAS and we'll set it up as a server. Then we can go over here and then we can go IPerf3-client <IP_ADDRESS>. So now I'm able to be on my local computer over here on the right, have my free NAS box here and I left htop over here so I can kind of see what's going on and I can get that dual view of something or I can like I said pull up log files. These are some of the use cases I have all the time for it and we can exit out of this and away we go. Now the other thing that can be done so we kick off some process to run in here. We'll run this one here. Run top here. And let's pull, let's do this. Curl. This actually will pull the weather up over in here and it will slide it over a little bit. There we go. Now it looks right. If you didn't know, WTTDR.IN, you can curl that right there and it will give you the weather. So all this is up and running. Let's detach from it. Control B, detach. I have released and now I can use, I can close the shell even, it doesn't really matter. So now we've closed it. So what happened? Is all that running in the background somewhere? Actually it is. That session is kept alive by Tmux. So if we go over here and we do Tmux A for attach, right back where we left off. Now, obviously it's not gonna survive a reboot of my computer because it's running on this computer but let's talk about when it's not running. So we'll exit, exit. And you'll understand in a second why this is important down here. So 192.1683.9. That's my local computer address. Now we're gonna go ahead and SSH over to my forums. So we're logged in to forums server. So let's kick off a Tmux session. All right. Yes, you can see this local public IP. This is the forums public IP address. So I'm logged in and I don't know, let's try to run one of the reports. So I'll ask, I have some go access. I think I've covered this in our video. This go access report takes a while to run.  And you can see it's gonna pin the process a little while running and this will take a while. But I need that report because I wanna know some of the log files and this is parsing all those log files. Gonna go ahead and hit control B, D for detach. And we'll even exit off the server. So now we've forums.loren systems closed, all right? So let's go back into the forums and we do Tmux A still running and this is great. Now, what about if the power went out on my computer? Like we just randomly and harshly disconnect the network and drop this connection right here. Well, then what? Close terminal got the warning. All right, so let's go back over here and we were SSH then then we were Tmux then. So let's go back in SSH forums. Back into the forum server and we Tmux A. Well, good news is the report completed but you can see the session is right where I left it. And that's an important aspect of this. So whenever I go and especially when I have to rebuild the forums as places I use Tmux a lot like from a business standpoint, it is all done in Docker and I do a get poll and get the latest Docker image and it takes a little while and it compiles and I don't want any of that output to get lost in case there was an error. So frequently without even opening up any more pains, I start Tmux, I start the update process which is actually I put a little shell script together for that. This is the discourse upgrade process. When I kick this off, it's gonna take a while and I don't want to risk if a connection gets lost on my computer or if I do this, for example, when I'm at home, I kick it off at home, then I disconnect the session, I come here to the office, I reattach that session and say, okay, what's the status of it? Is it done updating or was there some error message left on the screen that I can see? This is where Tmux is really, really helpful and also why I have this local IP display down here so I can remember what session you're on because the other thing about Tmux where things can get confusing is that's Tmux on there. So we're gonna close the forums, we're gonna fire up Tmux locally here. Then we'll put a bottom pane and we'll put a top pane and that'll, as I say, back into the forums. So now I'm on the forum server and what if we reattach on the forum server? Well, this is referred to as nesting Tmux so now we have Tmux running inside of Tmux and it'll work but this is also handy to have this little bottom. So I know locally I have my own Tmux server so if I do control B, split, it overrides and there's ways to go and override the override but it overrode and I'm actually on this computer here that control B gets caught by the first session of Tmux not the second one. So that's just something to note, you can nest it but I don't necessarily recommend it and that's more advanced use case but it does recognize typing exit and we can close all those sessions and now we're only back to my local computer over here. Now the other reason I mentioned mouse support is for the scroll back effect. What I mean by that is being able to type things like we'll go demessage for example and you're used to probably grabbing the scroll bar and going up but you probably notice there's not a scroll bar so let's just show you the difference real quick. So if we exit Tmux, we do demessage here. The bash window says okay, no problem, there's a scroll bar. That doesn't work that way in Tmux though. Tmux does have a buffer. It didn't go to DevNul, it went somewhere and the nice thing about having mouse support enabled I just scroll back with the mouse wheel real quick and I'm like, oh, that's what I was looking for this thing right here. Then part of the mouse support, we're gonna go ahead here and I'm like, there's that weird error message and I'm holding the shift key to do this because this works different than the shift key. There's a couple of different ways to do it. That's not the way to do it. So we actually wanna scroll back, find that thing you're looking for and go, all right, what is it? What's this OSMP? But what does that mean? So I'm holding the shift key, copy and then from there, as we all know, we just kinda go through and paste and figure out what those messages mean, whatever they are. But you can kinda get the idea. Now where this becomes really, really handy and we're gonna split it a little different here. So clear, SSH into the lab server. 3.134, so the top window is the lab server and the bottom window is my computer but I wanna actually log in the lab server again so I'm gonna go ahead and do that. So now I'm on the lab server here. Now maybe we're gonna go over here to slash far log. All right, what do we got here? Syslog, deep package log, maybe we'll look at the SSH log. Or actually authorization log. So we cat, auth log, right? So there's the auth log and maybe we wanna actually go a step further and watch it. And I've used this tool before, LNAV. LNAV auth log, all right. So LNAV will actually real time watch things. We're just gonna exit real quick. Remove session, start session and this is where Tmux becomes a really handy tool because you maybe wanna watch some log file and you wanna do something on that server and you don't wanna have to have two different windows open or things like that. Maybe you wanna split the windows. Matter of fact, you can even, while this is live, control B and we'll split it this way. It'll just move this over here. And now I have my local computer but let's SSH back into that lab. 8.3.134 and we're watching it over here exiting. So you're watching the logs over in this corner. You can see how this can be really handy to do it and especially when I'm setting up something that I wanna do a bunch of testing, now I wanna go, I wanna do this later. So control B, D, but I wanna get back to it. I want those sessions still alive because they're working on something. I can just Tmux-A and attach to it. But what, and this is where things get a little bit more advanced. So this is, we'll go ahead and attach all three. So I have three sessions all attached to one server in this particular Tmux session. We're gonna go ahead and control B, D for disconnect.  All right, and this is on my local computer. Cow, say some new session. And so we have more things on there. Why not do the curl weather thing again? So split here, move it up a bit like that and then we'll type curl, put the weather in. All right, so I got the weather displayed on this Tmux session. Now let's go ahead and control B, D for disconnect, Tmux LS. Now there are two sessions. Now this is where it gets kinda cool. If you do Tmux-A, A, it's attached to the other session but if we hit control B, S, we have a session manager. And for every version, or every, I'm not version, but every extra instance of Tmux you have, now you have, you can switch back and forth. Control B, this session, or this session. And these are all covered in a cheat sheet what I'm doing right here. So you can even just move to previous sessions, reattach and rename the sessions. It's really nice, LS was listing them from the command line when you're not inside a Tmux. Once you're in Tmux, it's aware of all the other Tmux sessions you spawned on your computer. So you can, again, it also allows the options to detach and move them. So this is actually just a really neat feature in Tmux, the fact that it's self-aware of all the other Tmuxes that you have running on your system and can keep track of them all. And when I exit out of this one and kill it, now we're back over here. It actually kills Tmux, but it only killed that session of Tmux. I can reattach to this session now. It's the only session live, so A only goes to this one. So it kind of gets you the idea, it sounds complicated at first, but once you're used to using it, it becomes a very handy tool for parsing out things, watching stuff that's happening, especially when you start doing stuff like checking log files. Having this ability to clear this and we'll exit out completely. So no more Tmux sessions now. And we go to root at <IP_ADDRESS>. Clear, I just like to clear it to happen when I log in the servers. Now it's running Tmux. This bottom says what IP address I'm on. I know that's the lab server IP address and let's split the windows. Just using the split commands here. So now I have four windows running in here and maybe we want different things running in each one of these. So we'll have, this is where things get fun when you're doing some real heavy troubleshooting for a client and we'll do lnav, whoops, the syslog, s, then we'll go cd slash var log. Actually we'll just run lnav natively here. So it's gonna pull something different. When you're watching multiple log files, that's when things get fun slash var, whoops, log. What are we gonna go to here? This one would be maybe off log. So we can watch the SSH things in. And I have all these set up and let's say these are real specific ways I wanted it and I'm doing something with this box. Now I may want to control B, disconnect, exit. And this is kind of the same similar way of how I use the forums. I go back into that server. I can see my Tmux doing LS. There's that one session running. We'll go ahead and just attach to it. It's right where I left off. This happens frequently when you're trying to log something for a server. I just want the screen output on there all the time like this. Especially if I have a couple log files or sometimes even more and I've created some commands that are watching for something to happen when you're troubleshooting. It's really nice to leave this open on the server so you can just go back to it and just reattach to these sessions. Now the last thing I'm going to show you here that is kind of cool about Tmux. So besides all the other cool features, I have one, two, three, four panes all in the same place essentially. So how do we get to some of the other stuff like switching options inside of Tmux? Well, there's a whole command line system and we'll just cover it real quick through the cheat sheet. This allows you to get to this command, swap windows and things like that. Where's the other one we're going to use? Synchronize panes and then mode keys for when you want to be in copy mode and things like that. I like using the mouse because I think it's easier but these are options. There's also like just general option commands and this is how you get to those options. Like control B colon and then you set the option there. So let's go ahead and we're going to hit control B colon. And this is a neat option. I really like it. Set W, set W, synchronize panes on spelled properly. Now all the panes are in sync with each other. So LS does the same on all of them. We'll bring them all to the same directory, type clear, it's gonna, whoop, C-L-E-A-R, E-A-R, equal typo in all four panes all at the same time. And this is a neat way to be able to take servers and it doesn't all even have to be the same one. You can SSH to them because it's controlling it at the pain level. Maybe you're going in four different servers and you want to run the same command. Ansible is a better way to do mass commands and things like that. I have a couple tutorials on Ansible on my channel as well but for a quick way to do it and just say, I want to run this same command on these couple servers to get like a package installed. This is a quick and easy way to do it. You SSH in each one of the servers and we can then quickly add the same thing to each of them. And simultaneously, maybe we have too many windows open. If we type exit, it exited on all the panes at once. And now we're back to my local computer. And do I have any Tmux sessions? Nope, no sessions running. So we'll start a new one. And we're back to running Tmux on my local computer here. So print this cheat sheet out. This is what helped me get started in Tmux and it becomes kind of muscle memory for the most part. I had to stop and think to do this video like to some of the commands but that's also why I put them at the bottom. But you just got to remember control B to get a lot of things kicked off. These are like the renamed sessions, control BD. Control BD and control BA are the two I learned a lot. So control B, like to switch the session or detach from a session and control B, A to attach. I'm sorry, Tmux A to attach and control BD to detach Tmux A. Said it wrong, you don't need to control. You're just typing Tmux A to get it back on there but control BS will cycle between many sessions you have of Tmux up and running like I showed earlier. So there's a lot to it but you don't have to be too intimidated. If you just want the basics of splitting the screen and being able to log in a couple of different places that is easy to do with just splitting the screens with those couple of basic commands. And it's actually what I use it for more than anything else but you can quickly become a power user. Also this has searches on here too so you can find different stuff. I thought it was kind of neat but either way just having a copy of this is really handy to kind of learn how some of it works. You can dive way further into Tmux and start playing with it. It's a really powerful tool and a lot of my friends who are developers in Linux have been using it for a long time. That's how I got intro to it and figured I want to share it more. It's a great tool and go out and apt-get install it if you're on Debian or any other systems that it's supported on, thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. 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Thank you Miranda, and thank you this week for being the sole of these beautiful day lectures. So, I'll begin with this one. On the screen, display on the screen are images of the camera stand, the Honichambe, the treasury of the cathedral of O'Yellow, an 8th century building that has attached to a vial thanks to its conversion to an architectural renaissance. The treasury was built in some point between the reigns of Asturian kings of also the Second and Raleigh of the Third to house a collection of rents and recoveries that confirm the ties between Paul the disability kingdom and the new Asturian monarchy, but at the start of the revolution of the southern lands taken by the Muslims. Probably built alongside the acts of the 9th century church dedicated to the saviour, the camera stand cannot be used as a comparandum to establish the possible architectural models of early medieval and Iberian traceries. It is a unicorn because of the restancy of what it was built, the type of building it was, and the way it was being conserved. From the 11th century on they are, however, some surf fetches and consistencies within the architecture type of the cathedral sacristy, which varied in its form and placement. First, there were usually two sacristies. The first was a small structure adjacent to the main altar with cabinets to store cult objects. It could be located in the chapel behind the main altar, or in the sensory access flank in the main altar. These areas might also be the site of a larger sacristy that housed a bigger collection of cult objects, including liturgical books, and which played an important role in the liturgy, because it was where the clergy dresses, where earnings from the treasury were stored temporarily, and where the processions that negorated religious services began. In an act with an ambulatory, the location of the sacristy could vary. From the chapel close to the altar, the separated structures connected directly to the main altar or, more usually, attached a space of the transit. Treasuries were simply an expansion of the space of the sacristy into an independent structure, a protected space whose purpose was to safeguard the most religious possessions of the church. The architecture of the treasury could also vary from form and interior quality of the sacristy to be an architectural dependency more or less protected in an upper slurry. For an independent building whose sole purpose was to be a protected space that communicated directly with the main altar. In most cathedrals with ambulatories, the sacristy was located in or gave on to one of the rabbiting chapels, which established a collection between the sacristy and the main altar through a pair of doors that were often more mentalized and which framed the transition between the space that facilitated the liturgy and the presbytery itself. Indeed, the metal grills and doors that closed off the entrance to the ambulatory seemed to be sensible means of protecting the sacristy, the main altar, and the tranquility of the liturgical processions. Processions began by moving from the sacristy to the altar, following the same path taking by relics in the journey from the treasury to the presbytery. This is a basic point about the celebration of the liturgy. Inside the sacristy, the priest dressed as the... dressed as he recited sacred or private prayers that radiated him to officiate demands. Upon reading the sacristy, the root between the sacristy and the presbytery was transformed into a sacred path, framed by decorated doors. The portal of Calvary on the face in the ambulatory with the cathedral of Leon faces the ambulatory chapel that served the sacristy and that was expended at the same time as the doorway in the 15th century. In Toledo, Caetano, the indentation of the architectural link between the presbytery and the sacristy can largely be attributed to the failure of cardinal Pedro Morfale de Mendoza, died in 1495. Although it has scarcely been essentially since the completion of the pedophiles on Reticore, Mendoza sought to close off the space behind the presbytery adjacent to the return chapel of Santa Cruz and also ask the cathedral chapter for a space to the north of the main altar adjacent to the first pillar of the ambulatory for his burial site. Both the recent completion of construction as well as the importance of the burial site and the request gave the chapter pros. Upon Mendoza's death, his successor, Francisco Jiménez, oversaw the completion of the project under the supervision of the chapter and delegates of Archbishop Mendoza among whom was Queen Isabel. It has been suggested that the location chosen by Mendoza by Mendoza was a sign of his arrogance. Through perhaps this was not a touring case. He chose the space that communicated between the main altar and the sacristy which was, at that time, the first chapel in the north ambulatory where the chapel of the return of the San Gario was later erected. It would seem that the model for the funerary monument constructed starting in 1503 was a large, double-faced screen defined by two lateral doors. The altar of the Holy Cross which preserved the dedication of the coffee critter chapel that had been taken apart when the tomb was built was the face of the ambulatory when Mendoza's tomb was built towards the main altar. To a certain extent, the model chosen with respect to the original idea of the cardinal who, in 1494, indicated that his tomb should be formed by a large charge with a grimo between the main altar and the side chapel of the sacristy. In any case, the face, too, provided a magnificent frame for the processions of the officer and his minister at the start of the mass. Turning back to the architectural type, beginning in the late Middle Ages independent spaces connected wide away or another in the depths of the church were built to function as sacristies, often with a treasury in the upper story. There are several early and especially significant examples of this type of structure such as the cathedrals of Hugo de Ojma, Alida and Weske dated, respectively, to the 13th and 14th centuries whose perfectly regularized format of functional characterist paintings made us to think that they are representatives of an established type. The sacristy of Hugo de Ojma probably complemented to another structure in one of the answers of the early cathedral was conceived as a monumental space adjoining the law of transit whose two historic functions as sacristy and treasury. Another independent sacristy was constructed in Alida in the 13th century between its unusual transit and gaze of the cathedral. Part of this structure survives and was incorporated into the fabric at Weske where the church was built atop the site of a Christianized moat at the end of the 13th century, had two starred axiolarius paints and on the sacristy dot by a treasury was built between 1306 and 1508 and turned into the eastern side of the southern axis of the cathedral and it was expanded with another big building just behind the main chapel during the 16th. At this point, it is possible to speak of the architectural type of the sacristy which would enjoy such popularity in the coming centuries. That is, a building with a rectangular plan with large acrosolium in several walls and which armorace and chest for the restoration of liturgical objects would have been located along with a sacrarium or fountain with its basing for a ocean descendant of the Biscinus, originally located in the Axis where the priest would wash himself and the objects used for the mass. Moreover, these new sacristies perfectly planned from the star were also able to include an adversary that could serve as a treasury or wouldn't place for the audience of the sacristy. In that one hour, the oldest sacristy located between the Axis and the Canon's cloister was remodeled creating a new two-story space that functioned as a treasury and the living quarters of the treasury with its own window that enabled him to keep watch on the entrance and even defend it. Indeed, the Valencian revolt of the Germaninas prompted the treasury of the cathedral to be secure with a monumental door with a fireplace much like the fortified entrance to the city which impeded access to the sacristy and treasury of the cathedral that, let us not forget, had housed the king's collection of relics since the reign of Alfonso V of Aragon died in 1458. Between the 15th and 16th century, the concept of sacristy as an independent space persists in both newly constructed buildings as well as remodeled ones. The Gothic sacristy of the cathedral of Tamora was conceived as an extremely complex two-story place surrounding and taking advantage of the stereo saves of the earth. In the case of the surprisingly Gothic construction of the earth, the emulatory necessitated the construction between 1493 and 1518 of a complex space serving as the main sacristy in which underground basement helps resolve the unevenness of the area and which was accessed near the southern side of the emulatory. This was the first dependency in a complex sequence of spaces to attain the cathedral chapter that surrounded the east part of the exterior of the cathedral. Here is the big sacristy and here the chapter house. In Santiago de Compostela, the old accidental sacristy maintained its antiquated form and a new space needed to be built within the cathedral cluster. The reconstruction of the cluster provided the opportunity to construct a sacristy, temporarily established on the side where a new chapter house was to be built and which came to be known as the Lower Sacristy, as opposite to the Upper Sacristy behind the emulatory. The most sumptuous complex of chapter buildings built during the Spanish Renaissance are those of the cathedral studio and a series of dependencies among which was the sacristy and the living quarters of the treasure protected with a spiky constructor for firemen. How did these sacristy treasures look? That is to say, what is the internal appearance of these actuary storage spaces? We would not be mistaken to think that these, of these as cabinets of curiosities, contained everything from tragic symmetrical objects to books and vestments usually organized into chests and drawers or sometimes installed in cells that were built into the walls of the building itself. We get some idea of these spaces from inventories and descriptions or visits to sacristy's traceries. At the beginning of the 20th century, Rocher, Villanelle and Castor, the Abyssin and Raúl, published an indispensable collection of inventories of cathedral traceries from the 13th century onwards which gives us a great insight into this topic and opens up possible avenues of study. The inventory of the cathedral of Gerona, written down in 1477, is a special enriching tale. It lists the large art enclosed by two grills and secured with two keys in which most of the most Christian's metalwork objects were the chapter warehouses. Art of this art was a silver casket enclosed by two doors. There were also metalwork objects in an armor and the visus amictus and a book described in civic processions were contained in another smaller chest. The main custodia was kept in a large armor while titers of their pieces were not enclosed in containers but nevertheless, meditators would describe it. In front of these caverns containing the traditional objects were another five pieces of furniture as well as a sixth mounted on to the wall containing the vestments were written by the clergy or reduced to a volume of chapels, altars, images, poppins or caress stalls. A missed call of these objects we also find the metalwork cathedral of the bishop and the ceremonies as a symbol of the bishop's authority as well as a theatrical pieces used in the presentations of the Resurrection or for the post of the day on Corpus Christi. An afternoon for the readings performed during the holy weeks at the renouter, the conglomerate Pascal Candelabrum accessed with the flags used during the processions of the corpus and during the probation days we found out that coven the stories chess in the sacrosity where the corpus were kept. Moreover, the library of vision John Marieri, donated for use by his purest condition of a school for color-boys was also always stormed in the treasury. The treasury also housed a box filled with money referred to in 1463 where the cathedral documents were kept in a chess in the chapter house. Is this a misdescription of the cathedral of Girona was not evocative enough? Corpiero is the clear example of a treasury whose architectural form ended up conditioning the form of the cathedral as a whole. As I refer to as a star of paper, the camera center holding the chamber as it became known thanks to its rich collection of works was built on the south side of the cathedral complex. Its placement, conditioning, the construction of the 14th and 15th centuries part of the cathedral's transit work processions exited the relics or crosses granted to the cathedral by the early medieval historian Kings who the star of finish in the modern period an alchemy in the modern period an alchemy was opened up on the south of the cathedral near the access point for the camera center on the second story from which point the obvious shroud one of the cathedral's most precious relics was displayed. Combining a relic and an alchemy for its display was a non-established custom. There from a print of view created for justice function the relic shown to the faithful. In the crystallized most of the relics there was a lively aside from which the sanctor of the holy face the precious most important relic was displayed. In the 16th century an alchemy was built in the new cathedral just for justice purpose. In Korea a large stone alchemy was built next to the north corner of the cathedral where the relic of the holy table cloth from the last supper was displayed to be adored by the faithful. Can we interpret the balcony in the north assay of the cathedral of Korea along these lines? There are all monumental sites for exceptional celebrations from that of the alchemy to preaching or public display of relics. We should not separate these three functions which often work together. In the context of the display of relics from balconies and palpites at another site we find a large reliquary built into walls that enable the display and the protection of the relics. Although we do not know much about how it functioned as much chamber was erected about the bones of the self-ambulatory of the cathedral of Alentheia. We contain the relic of the Holy Throne which had arrived to the city in the 13th century. This space was the liberty period to be difficult to access and could be reached only by a power several meters above the ground of the internal wall of the sacristy. The reliquary was embedded into the wall and surrounded by a cycle of Gothic paintings that refer to the passion. Alas we knew nothing on the ceremonies celebrated around this space. Finally, in Lela the revolving of the cathedral apps in the 14th century included a large pictorial cycle on the north wall divided into scenes depicted in stories from the life of Christ in the image of the activity. There it is. This space was constructed to restore the relic of the Holy Swatting of Christ the curious almost surrealistic object of particular devotion in the cathedral. Much less than we saw in the case of the Holy Throne in Alentheia the Holy Swatting in Lela must have been removed from its inward reliquary and had been displayed at the door at specific points of the cathedral in surroundings during the liturgical year. The pictography of relics and her coat also had an impact on the organ setting of the cathedral on the side of the church itself. In Haka we would see that since the 15th century an elevated structure built in the cemetery surrounding Lela was the site where the body of Saint Rosia was displayed by Bishop during celebrations of the Patron Cemetery. This is a photograph done in 1895 and we can still find this late Gothic structure that was preserved until the beginning of the 20th century when it was sadly demolished in a not very beautiful architecture and the extent of the cathedrals of the cathedrals in some the sacristy and the treasury in the Tiva Liberia displayed different architectural types and topographical models always conditioned by the circumstances of each cathedral chapter and I think that's really important. In addition to the possible ways of cataloguing their architecture the functional principles that unified these spaces and the Rome as axillary structures for the liturgy containers of precious objects and the first stop in a liturgy that dispersed the relics and displayed them throughout the cathedral and surrounding area in the sense the sacristy's and treasury's were spaces that created the Rome called Uses in though with their own liturgical ceremonies. Thank you very much.


Life is about constant evolution. Always better today than we were yesterday. Welcome to another easy day was yesterday. I'm your host Scott Williams. And today we are out in the field, you can probably hear behind me the motor of one of our razors as it travels across the sand here on the famed obstacle course at Buds. And with me is our so as program manager, Andrew Dow. Hey Scott, thanks for having me. Yeah, hey, it's a pleasure to be out here, get some sunshine and watch the physical evolution that's going on. Tell us a little bit about where we are in the so as evolution today. Okay, so we are, as you mentioned at the obstacle course here at NAB Coronado. It is day three of so as assessment week. And right now we are doing one of the evolutions called IBS O-Course. All the candidates are broken up into boat crews. And for this specific evolution, the objective is to navigate your IBS boat, the same boats they use in Buds through each obstacle that's on the O-Course. Granted, we're not doing some of the high ones because it's not meaningful or doesn't have really a purpose to try to get an IBS boat over a 30 foot cargo net. So we're looking, we haven't broken up right now into three groups and they're starting to navigate. So they start at, they got the parallel bars and the objective of each one of these is we're looking at how they're critical thinking, how the boat crew leader is he stepping, is he or she stepping up? Are they working as a team? Are they communicating? And how they're navigating through each obstacle. They have assessors watching their every move, seeing if they're talking about it, see who's not talking, see who's trying to be a leader and seeing the ones who are kind of hiding behind their fellow candidates. You know, the obstacle course is hard enough on any given day and now they've got a boat to get through these obstacles. So I'm assuming this is not a timed evolution. Well, actually it is a timed evolution. There's an end time, but we, they don't know how long they have. There is a set time, like when we'll stop it because we can't do this all day. But their job, their objective is to get through the obstacle as fast as possible. But here's the kicker, the boat cannot touch the ground. So as soon as they, right, there's three stations because it's a big obstacle course. So we have three groups going simultaneously. As soon as they pick the boat up to put it on their heads, it cannot touch the ground. They can low carry it. They can, you know, shoulder carry it. They can full arm extend it, but it cannot touch the ground once they begin their section of the O-Course. Now I'm watching a boat crew that's trying to low crawl under the wire that we have set up. And they are attempting to put the boat on top as they try to crawl through. Is this a winning strategy? So there are a lot of ask questions to their assessor who's watching them and making sure they're being safe. They're allowed to ask questions. However, the assessor has the right to not answer it or to tell them to figure it out. The one obstacle you're talking about, the low crawl, which with the barbed wire, which isn't barbed wire, by the way. That technique I would probably not suggest doing.  I mean, that's one way to do it, but that's probably not the most efficient way to do it. Without, you know, given all the answers here, there's probably a faster way to do it. Maybe send guys through, because each individual has to complete the obstacle before the boat crew can move on. So they have to get the boat across, then each one has to complete the obstacle. The low crawl one, the way they're doing it is one way you can do it. May not be the best, but it's definitely not the worst. So as a boat crew, it's your objective to figure it out as a team, communicate, try out each ideas and find the way that works best. But back to what I was saying was each individual has to complete the obstacle as well. And if they fail to complete the obstacle three times, they earn a punishment. And that punishment is for right now, it's 20 pushups. If the boat hits the ground, the entire boat crew needs to earn some punishment. And that's most likely gonna be hitting the surf because it's very warm out today and one of the big concerns is heat. So we're constantly keeping them hydrated. We're constantly making them hit the surf, not as punishment, more like as keep cool. I noticed a lot of these guys had the sudden block slathered all over their faces because it is a pretty clear day out here and very pleasant by ordinary standards. But what they're going through now is not what we would ordinarily call pleasant. Certainly the obstacle course is a physical test, but today it looks like it's very much a mental test. Oh, totally. We have, like this one isn't a physically demanding. I mean, there is physical exertion happening while they're going over. As you can see, they're doing one technique over the weaver. That's, you gotta be in sync as a team getting through that obstacle. And you can probably hear it in the background. One of the persons taking charge and getting cadence so that they get through smoothly, quickly and safely. And that was perfect for them. But honestly, the biggest exertion they'll have today is the sun beating down on them. So we definitely enforced them to keep the sun block on them full time because we don't want some guy losing his opportunity to potentially become a seal officer because he got a heat casualty and got really bad sunburn and wasn't able to perform. Now, just taking a step back and looking at this overall process, this particular so as evolution. We've already seen a significant number of trites and we're only in day two of the physical week. This is day two of physical evolutions. And honestly, the morning session these candidates went through was pretty tough. They had to do a lot of running with weight and a long endurance course this morning. So these guys are feeling it. And we're only at mid day of day two. So these guys are, one of the things that is really we're looking at is the grit, how tough these individuals are. And they're constantly going, going, going and constantly refueling by eating and drinking. But we wanna see them move past their comfort zone, right? Cause that's something we're assessing. We wanna see them reach a point where they thought they could never reach before and still be able to perform and communicate. Cause these are our future officers of the teams, men and women. So we wanna make sure that we're selecting the right ones to go to Bud's. And they're gonna be really tired at the end of the day today. Tomorrow's gonna be a very demanding day, but it ends early because come Thursday, Thursday early, early morning, they're gonna start their continuous 36 hour or more evolution until the finish line. You know, I think a lot of people think that Bud's is the hardest thing that the SEALs are ever going to do.  I've heard a lot of SEALs come back and say, Bud's was really hard. Deployment was even harder. And if I hadn't learned those lessons in Bud's about how to just push through the pain and the fatigue, I wouldn't have made it through deployment. That's a great point. Just from my experience, looking back, Bud's was challenging and had his challenges, but I think it was more mental than physical challenges because you wanted to perform at your best. You wanted to make sure you're always doing what you're supposed to be doing and still trying to, you know, be the fastest runner, fastest swimmer and still lead your men and women. You did learn a lot. The things you've learned at Bud's helped you do better in deployment, but there's things in deployments that you couldn't prepare for.  So when you were faced with challenges, you were able to overcome them. But however, deployment is still challenging because you got all these other things, you know, some guys and gals have spouses at home. They have kids at home. They don't know what's going on. And it's hard for them to not think about these things when they're on deployment, but it's, it's, they need to try to block that out when they're doing life or death situation things. And, you know, they're learning a lot of these little things while they're here at SOAS and then when they eventually move on to Bud's. So Bud's is challenging, but it's preparing you for what's coming next. Now look at this evolution here where they're getting ready to attempt the balance logs. And we should point out that this isn't just like the balance beam you'd see in a high school gymnasium where it's stationary. These are actually logs that are set down low, you know, they're no more than probably a foot or so off the ground, but they are sort of free standing, if you will. And in other words, when you walk on them, they rotate. Like they can move back and forth, the side to side. And that's what throws the balance off. It's not just about walking across a narrow space. It's about the rotation of the log. And, you know, we can see some of the candidates having a difficulty with that. Now they're gonna try to move a boat across these balance logs. And that is really hard. So this is really a critical thinking exercise. Absolutely. So the logs without a boat is challenging. I mean, going through Bud's many years ago, the balance logs was always one of the number one things that got Bud's students, this and the rope swing. It was just, you're trying to do the obstacle course as fast as possible, right? Because you're always trying to beat your old time. If not, you pay a price, right? And you're trying to always do better. And now, like the balance logs, there is no real friction. Those things, the slightest left shift of weight or right shift of weight, those things are spinning. So, I mean, there's a million ways to do it, but it's just, okay, find that balance, get through it. Now we're adding a boat. Something candidates should look at is, yeah, okay, we require them to each complete the obstacle and then get the boat through. Sometimes what I would recommend is probably getting the boat through first and then start sending guys through. Just because one, it's probably easier with a boat because it's more weight dispersed. But this one section, this is still section one that we're looking at over here, is probably the hardest and most likely these guys will not finish because it's just, okay, here we see another boat crew and they're going through the vaults, which is a series of five logs set about roughly waist high that you have to just vault over and go to the next one. And each one of these guys is going over the vaults, which are relatively easy, but they're also trying to muscle that boat over the obstacle as well. And it looks like they're succeeding. So that one, that one's relatively easy because you can just rest the boat on top of the logs, but let me just let the viewers know that these boats are 200 pounds. And of course, there's going to be sand in it, so you'll get an excess of 10, 20 pounds inside there. And then when they get to the water, it's even worse. But it is crucial to do well, in this entire evolution of SOAS, it's teamwork. I mean, we're looking at communication, critical thinking, but teamwork is the biggest hurdle that sometimes guys, you get guys and gals who don't agree on certain things and it shows. As you can see, we just finished. So each boat crew, wow, every boat crew got through that one. That's impressive. Usually we have some boat crews that can't get through the balance logs or specifically on the section three with the tower line, the rope slide for life. Of course, they're not doing the high rope, they're doing the low rope. But now we got candidates running around. Right now, they just finished with their time, but they're getting hydrating. Cause like I said, hydration is so important here for them to perform well. So Andrew, after today, they're going to go on and they're going to do more evolutions. And how many hours per day would you say that they're active? So Monday, and so candidates arrive on Saturday, check in and then on Sunday, they do a PST. That's the first thing they do. Then they'll do some class work. And then Mondays when it starts, they usually start about 5 a.m. and they'll go until about eight, nine o'clock at night.  So they'll finish around 6 p.m. And then it's a mystery. I can't really tell the viewers what's going to happen Thursday, Friday, but let's just say it's non-stop for a little bit of time. Yeah, I can only imagine that the challenges are getting harder and harder each day. Absolutely. So, I mean, this is the second block this summer. We're seeing, we've lost quite a few candidates already, just them realizing that hey, this is not what I want to do anymore or they weren't physically prepared. And it's really challenging, specifically for the OCS and ROTC guys who don't really have experience maybe making a visit here or having the facilities at their location to kind of be a little kid again.  That's how we look at it. And just unfortunately, on ROTC and OCS don't have that.  So they have opportunities to work their upper body, lower body in conjunction, working as a team. But we've seen a lot of candidates just realizing that hey, this isn't for me or I wasn't prepared and they'll try to prepare and come back next year. I know we've talked about this in previous episodes, but just looking at it out here today as these guys are navigating these obstacles, the strength that's required, the coordination that's required and the endurance, what would you say is probably the best thing they could do physically to get ready for a day like this? So without getting too into the weeds, the biggest thing candidates can do before coming to SOA as in general, make sure you're in running shape and make sure you've ran in boots on some sort of soft ground. Doesn't have to be sand, but it can't just be running on concrete or hard surfaces all the time. Everything you do at SOA as everything you do at Buds is on some sort of uneven, soft ground. So just conditioning your lower body to be used to that type of environment to perform in is very important before showing up. I mean, you have the other things, you should be strong. You know, on the Sealswik website, they have the PST calculator. They're able to, you should be always going back there. If you can't do the math yourself, it's set up perfectly to input your scores. They should always be reviewing on their PST scores to see how they're performing because PST isn't everything, but it gives you a good indicator of where you're at physically. You know, upper body is huge at SOA as in Buds, but SOA is lower body.   So you're constantly working. So full body workouts, not heavy weight, more like lightweight high reps, and just constantly it's, you're conditioning for a marathon, vice conditioning for a sprint. I know when I've talked to the guys at PrEP that they stress the importance of next strength and ankle strength and stability because these are things that guys don't often think about, but with that boat on your head, that 200 pound boat, your neck is gonna be tested and running on that uneven ground, but running on those uneven surfaces, you know, ankles can get turned and this kind of thing. And the swimming with fins really helps a lot with that. But I think the candidates who are best prepared seem to have worked on those things, not just the big muscles and the endurance, but also those stabilizing parts of their body. Absolutely. So here's a lot of injuries in first phase where we see is shin splints or knee pains.  Strong ankle support, right? Cause like we said, you're running everywhere, you're jumping, climbing, we're watching guys conduct the obstacle called the dirty name, which is two uneven logs. And if you don't have that core strength, you're not gonna be able to jump across, get your body over it and then swing over and land. It's, if you're not careful and not mentally there, I mean, this can be very dangerous, but we have staff everywhere watching this. We have constant eyes on each individual candidate. And I mean, these, these instructors have been doing it for years, the buds have been going on for years. So we know all everything that can happen and what will happen and how to action if something happens. So. Yeah. And of course the corpsman is always out here too. Right. Whenever we do these evolutions. So if somebody does get injured, then he's Johnny on the spot to take a look at it and assess it and see what it needs. Bud's medical handles a lot of, of these, you know, injuries like the shin splints and the occasional, you know, stingray. Surprisingly, that's been a culprit for injuries. Yeah. You know, just students hit the surf and those stingray stingers go right their boots. And they're just a huge population right here on the Pacific on the Silver Strand or outside our base. So it's very weird that when you see a guy come to medical and it happens so often that I got stung by a stingray. You kind of laugh, but it's pretty painful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see one group we've got that's attempting to navigate the dirty name and they've just about got the boat all the way over. The dirty name, the first log is about six feet high, I'd say, and the second one is about 10 feet high and it's about what, maybe eight or nine feet away. So you got to jump up on the first log, then jump over to the higher log, get over it, and then drop down. And they've managed to get the boat over. Yeah, they did. They navigated the right way. That one group right there, they're communicating. There's not just one person barking orders or commands. It looks like they're working good as a team. Now, our second group over here is working on the low wall. And we say low wall, but that wall is what? 12 feet. 12 feet, yeah.  And now it looks like two of them are stationing themselves up there on top to take the front painter line of the boat and hold onto it while the others hold up the other end and they're gonna have to get over and then they're gonna have to work it down on the other side in the opposite fashion. Yep. And like, yeah, those boats are heavy. So I hope they don't leave one guy on the other side because 200 pounds coming from high elevation. Some go way even more. Exactly. But yeah, that's a good technique that they're doing right now. Having guys on both sides of the wall working together, they're communicating, moving through while the guy on top is help navigating the boat over. Now, here's a fascinating thing. We've got a third group that is working on, what is the name of this obstacle again? The slide for life. Yeah, that's right. Slide for life, which is basically, there's two levels of ropes, parallel ropes. One comes from 30 feet up and the other one's at about six feet up. Candidates are not doing the high one because it's just one, you can't get a boat up there.  So it's all upper body and leg work to get across the rope. So they have to navigate the boat across the lines to the end. And of course, if you can see what we're seeing is that there's slack in the line. So once they get past the halfway point, it's all uphill. So they're trying to get a boat up the hill and they're struggling a little bit, but the hard part coming right now is getting it over the last cross beam. They got it all the way across the ropes. They're talking through it right now, but this is gonna be interesting to see how they get it over. There's a couple ways to do it. I mean, that's one way to do it, but it's... Yeah, it looks like they're gonna turn it and try to take the front across without it falling between the two ropes and hitting the ground. So again, it's problem-solving. Yep, critical thinking, yep. So they're being assessed on a scale of one to five. Each individual is being assessed on their critical thinking skills, communication, and teamwork. Well, Andrew, after we finish up this week, what's next for them? So this is SOAS Block Two. They'll finish this week on Friday and then they'll move into Exposure Interview Week. Well, they'll conduct their community interviews with a SEAL officer and a senior SEAL enlisted. And then from there, it's the following Friday, they head home and wait. Wait to find out if they've been chosen. If they're selected to go to Buds and potentially become SEAL officers. And that'll happen in September. Well, that's amazing. It's been great to be out here today and just take a look and see what's going on during the physical week of SOAS. And we wish these candidates luck and hope that they're able to make it to the grinder one day and then try even harder things to get that pin. Andrew, thanks for joining me today. I appreciate it. This is the third segment of four for our SOAS series. We hope you have enjoyed today's episode and we look forward to the next one when we can talk about what happens after this week and we get to selections. I'm Scott Williams. This was the only easy day, it was yesterday. Andrew, thank you very much. Thanks again.