I applied for thousands of jobs, but no offer. What's wrong with me? Let me see your resume. Too long, no keywords, no impact, grammar mistakes. You don't know how to spell? Did you get a call back from the hiring manager? If not, there must be something wrong with your resume. Do you know that usually recruiters only have 10 seconds to take a look at your resume? So your resume has to be very eye catching or may not be written and direct go to the trash bin. Recently, someone reached out to me that he already applied for 2,500 jobs and he was only able to get about 10 interviews all of those applications. On top of that, he got no offers. That was because he made several mistakes on his resume. This is Dr. Nesli, a director product from drnesli.com. I help people transition from a worker B to a partner manager and business leader. To learn the most effective way to land a partner manager job, you should subscribe to the channel and turn on the red bell button so that you'll be notified every time I post a new video, every Wednesday. If you are any of the tips I provided, I really appreciate you hitting the blue light button so that I have more motivation to make videos like this. One of my subscribers had messaged me recently that she used the right template I shared with her about product manager resume. She was able to get way more interviews within one month. So these resume mistakes can actually cost you a job. So if you don't know how to avoid them, you'd better to watch this video and also make sure to stay until the end of the video. I'm gonna share you some of the bonuses so that you're able to get your offer very quickly. Even if you do not want to get a partner manager job, the mistake I'm sharing with you here is gonna be applicable to any other jobs as well. So let's get started. Mistake number one, didn't know how to write a high impact statement on your resume. Do you know that Elon Musk loved to hire people working for his companies such as Space Ads, mainly focused on the prior achievement because it's very difficult for recruiters and hiring managers to understand what you can contribute to the future job without knowing how well you have done in the past. So therefore, in those interviews, we always like to hear your achievement among all the candidates. If you spend a short amount of time to achieve way bigger results, I'd like to hire you. So now let me give you a specific example. The mistakes I made earlier in my career that cost me lots of job opportunities.  And for example, in this resume, that's one of my earlier resume. When I talk about what I did back in school, some of the school project, I only listed exactly what I did in terms of invented a novel method to measure viscosity or freestanding PMA in thin films. It's crazy because I only talk about what I did without describing what the impact and is it the first time in the industry have invented something, things like this. So therefore, I would rather to write in a very different way to show more impact. Let me show you another example that I have improved on. And later on on my resume, I said this way, advise senior executive management on 32 million fuel cell business investment through assessment of return on investment on a billion dollars market. So this new version of the sentence and sounds like I made a bigger impact by showing the scope of work I did. That's a wonderful way to show your impact. Another way to show it is directly talk about the result you have achieved. Now let me show you an even better way to quantify your result and impact. Initiate companies first subscription business improvement project and reduce overdue payment by 90% revenue impact of 35 million dollars. So what we did here, we directly talk about what you did and then you improve by 90% and impact revenue by 35 million dollars. That's something the employers want to see. Now let me share with you the top three things can help you to think about your impact. So ask you those three questions. Have you made any organizational improvement in terms of did you improve efficiency by whatever percentage? And second question, have you made any revenue or cost saving related numbers that's available? And third, would you able to improve customer satisfaction? For example, you launch a product, you receive 100% customer satisfaction. That's something really valuable, especially you're applying for product management job. Mistake number two is to use a run resume template. People really like to make fancy template. To be honest, it's not necessary if you know how to write the right content and also way easier for hiring manager to read if you directly lay out your template in terms of line by line instead of left and right. Let me show you one of the resumes we have received. In this resume, this person first of all, the biggest mistake is showing his pictures. I understand in some cultures like European and Asia, people love to put a professional picture of yourself on your resume, however not in the US, we don't do that. So I would immediately remove the pictures on the resume. And second mistake in terms of his layout is that he put left and right and he wasted lots of space on the left hand side. So I wouldn't do that because from the hiring manager's perspective, I would scan through things on the right and try to look for things on the left. So it's hard for me to read. And third mistake he made on his resume when we see the layout is that he talks about his experiences, but he didn't highlight his impact. So how is related to the product manager you're applying or any type of jobs you're applying? So therefore, please make sure you need to use the right template to apply for the type of jobs you're going to use. Specifically, I have a product manager resume template. I recommend all of you guys to download. It will increase your success rate significantly. And my template gives you specific examples how you put your experience into achievement and rose responsibilities. How will you lay out easily for hiring manager to read? Mistake number three is not to tailor your resume to the type of job you are applying for. Specifically, if you apply for product management job, I expect you to show lots of product related experience and show the product manager keywords. If you want to use the right keywords, make sure you check out this video. I give you the full list of keywords you need to use. So lots of people like to use a consulting resume to apply for product manager. When I have those resumes in front of me, I was like, huh, you're looking for a consulting job. You should apply for BCG McKenzie. Don't send me a resume here because the skills that we're looking for in terms of consultant and product managers are very different. Even if you might show your achievement in your consulting resume, but you're missing the keywords of product managers and also the related experience. So I highly discourage you to use the same style of resume to apply for all possible jobs and out there. Your resume should have different versions based on the type of jobs you're applying for and especially if applied for certain your dream job. I would tailor your resume to your dream job specifically to the company and to the type of job you're going to do for them as well. This will make you stand out very quickly. So comment down below and let me know what kind of resume mistakes you have made. And you can also ask me questions regarding whether what you have done is right or wrong. Happy to give you a quick overview and see how I can help you to avoid those resume mistakes. If you like any of the tips I've shared with you so far, please make sure to give me a thumb up because I would really appreciate the greatest content that can be seen by all the people out there. Mistake number four is to have the grammar mistake on your resume. Myself is also immigrant, English is not my first language. I don't write very well to be honest. It's a shame, but I still make mistakes when I write my resume as well. There's lots of grammar mistakes and arrows. Myself cannot catch. So I recommend all of you guys have someone else to proofread, especially have some like American speakers to read it for you. Do not have some other student whose English was as good as yours to proofread your resume. So make sure you have someone better than you to help you out as well. So when we talk about the resume grammar mistake, let me give you some examples. This type of mistake I made as well. So embarrassing. I always put those like wrong tense in terms of those mistakes. When you see on my resume, sometimes I didn't use the past tense or throughout the entire experience. Are your experience in certain companies should be all past tense? Make it consistent as well. And sometimes I forgot S and pearls and different mistakes happens a lot. So I recommend you guys actually to use a software called Grammarly. This is not a sponsored video. Myself use Grammarly to check my grammar mistake as well. But the best way is find a coach or someone to proofread your resume, but the person has to be better than you in terms of the writing skills. Mistake number five, it's the least irrelevant experience on your resume. Let's use product management as an example. If you apply for any product manager job, I expect you to use this experience as most relevant product management and write a relatively longer session about those experience. For the ones that's irrelevant, I would put them down below and also make the paragraphs about those experience much shorter. So it doesn't matter you're the greatest engineer or greatest dancer, so anything you can imagine, it's irrelevant to the job. So I will keep those experience very short and you may thinking like removing some of the experience if it happened more than 10 years ago. It's totally up to you. If you wanna bring it back, you think it's relevant to product management such as engineering experience, but you still need to make it very short. I will give maximum two bullet. Let me give you one of the mistakes I made myself. That's crazy. So take a look at the resume I used earlier. There's no clue you can tell I'm applying for product management or applying for research experience. I'm just dumping in everything I've done before. Looks I have more than 20 years experience. However, at the time only have a few years experience, some school project, but you bring down everything on the resume to make it like, this is irrelevant. I'm so confused. What kind of job are you applying for? Are you a scientist? Are you applying for business analyst? Applying for product managers? Don't make the same mistake I did when I was younger. Now you may ask this question. So Nancy, what exactly should I put on my resume given you only wanna put a relevant experience? So I made a YouTube video talking about the right product management experience and make sure you check this out right now. Mistake number six, it's write a very, very long resume. And I think this is not the first time I tell you guys about writing a long resume. To be honest, people still make those mistakes. The longest resume I've ever received is nine pages. Nine pages. Ah! So that person has a years experience. Why resume? Don't do that. I recommend everybody to maximum give two pages of your resume. If you don't know how to cut your resume shorter, make sure to check out this video where I tell you some examples to answer questions in terms of making your experience short and concise. The rule of thumb is that if you had less than 10 years experience, try to condense it into one page and maximum two pages. If you have 20 years experience, yes. You can write about two pages of resume. So I don't recommend anybody to go over two pages. And some content you can cut on your resume such as hobbies, if out of space, cut off your hobbies or wouldn't hear your experience. You have space and write those as well. So really think about how would you prioritize. So when you write a resume, think about your product manager as well. Because product managers prioritize requirements, product features. You need to think as a product manager since day one. If you want to get way more product managers interview opportunities much quicker, you can download my product manager resume template right here. This is the key to resume, helps you to get full offers within 60 days during the pandemic. Feel free to download directly at the description of this video. If you like any of the videos and want to have more people see my best content out there, I really appreciate you can like and comment and click the subscribe button so it'll be notified every time we publish new video. I also have more videos on my left and right. I hope it'll help you to quickly get a product manager job as soon as possible. All right, I'm gonna see you next time. This is Dr. Nancy Lee. Bye.


I'm Lucy Ellis, I'm Museum Collector's Manager at the Society of Antiquities and I'm standing in front of seven of our wonderful arch-top portraits. They have just returned from conservation because they're due to go on loan to Yale next year and then onwards to Norwich Castle Museum for a very exciting exhibition entitled The Past and Treasure and it's brilliant but back on display they look so much better. The gold is popping and I'm really excited to see them in their new display when they go away.


A 32 year old Lake George woman is facing attempted murder and assault charges after authorities say she cut the throat of a man she knew in LaPorte. The incident happened this past Saturday afternoon at a home located on Hubbard County Road 95. Hubbard County deputies responded to a 911 call and found Larry Holm bleeding from a cut on his throat. Holm was airlifted to an area hospital.  Holm needed 20 stitches to close the cut which stretched ear to ear. Rex was arrested near the scene. She refused to speak to authorities but a neighbor told deputies that Rex told him that she had cut Holm and that Holm was bleeding quite a bit. Holm told authorities that Rex was homeless and stayed at his house sometimes and that previously she had dated his son. He says he had a disagreement with Rex regarding appliances prior to the incident. Rex is being held in the Hubbard County jail. Her next court appearance is set for August 13th. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Flooding tends to be really tough on the very young trees and the very old trees. It's also tough on the sick trees. Also, we're unhealthy going into the flood. This tree, obviously a young tree, newly established, or not even quite fully established, and the top mostly died. Here it is trying to survive. Good to see it. This is a burrowed tree, native to North Dakota, and you can see this tree is fairly young. You can also see it's in pretty darn good shape after the flood. Lower branches have died, but the vast, vast majority of the upper branches, upper leaves are alive, and that's great to see. I think this tree will be just fine in the long run, and we'll compare that with some of the other burrowed trees we see here. This mature burrowed tree, big old burrowed tree, is doing just fine. It's not over mature. It's not super old, but this tree is doing just fine, and it'll shrug off this flood as if nothing happened. It's been through it before, and it'll be through it again. Well, hopefully it won't be through it again, but it's certainly adapted to this kind of an issue. This burrowed tree here is completely dead on the top. All the branches, all the leaves, have died. But if we look along the main stem, new sprouts are coming out, and this tree actually stands a good chance of surviving. The only thing I'd really be worried about is deer eating the tips of this over the winter. But in the long run, these certainly could make nice new branches, if this is pruned properly, into a nice new tree. Here's a green ash. It was uprooted by the floodwaters, as well simply at the ground. It was so unstable after the flood with the wet ground, unstable soil. It just came over, and unfortunately, we can't predict when and where this will happen. And if this does happen, though, take the tree out as quickly as you can. The whole idea here is to think safety. Safety of people, and take care of your property as well. In comparison, this big green ash here has been leaning its whole life. And internally, structurally, it's sound. There's structural mechanisms to keep it standing. It's not going to fall over any time soon, at least it shouldn't. If you're barring any major windstorms or any major events, this tree should be just fine, and I feel perfectly safe standing on the underside. As you can see on this tree, you can see the height of the water that came through here. One thing that surprises me so far is that these trees are still alive on top. I totally expected all the spruce trees, all the pine trees to be dead, all the evergreens. Yet there's still some living tissue. Is this going to survive next year? I'm not really sure. I'm expecting that it won't, but I certainly wouldn't cut it down right now. I'd let it sit a year, go over the winter, and see what comes out next year. If it's growing on top next year, then it might have a chance. Floods cause roots to drown. Roots need air. When the floods come in, their pockets are filled with water. And flowers and other herbaceous plants, non-woody plants, flower, which include flowers and lawns, they only have a very extensive root system in many cases. So they're very sensitive to flooding. It's not uncommon for them to die after even just one week underwater. And so these are goners, and now what we're seeing is some weeds in this cave, cursing, coming in, filling it out. It's too late to do anything about this this year. One thing we can consider doing in the fall is it's going to be a good time now to get the garden ready for next spring. And one of the first things we can do, well, these are just annual weeds. They're just going to die from our cold winter. But this is a good time to improve your soil, putting an inch or two of compost this fall. And that will help improve the water infiltration of the soil, the drainage. It also can help buffer any potential toxins that were brought in from the flood. So I think one of the best things we can do is add an inch of compost in your flower bed and do it this fall, work it into the soil, and you'll be ready to pick the one in springtime. There is a plants that were underwater that were submerged, have a hard time surviving. And you see here this is death, brittle wood, and this isn't likely to come back. We're going to have to rip these out and replant next spring. Turf is very sensitive to flooding, and in many cases if the floodwaters are on the turf for more than a week, the turf may die back. Now, the good news we have in this situation is as we head into fall, this is the best time in the year to renovate a turf. And so in this situation, the turf, it's dry, it's fairly dry, but you've got a heavy crust here that's developed. We need to aerate the soil. This is a compacted ground just because of the sheer weight of the water upon it. So we need to loosen up the ground and something vigorous in this case, like a power rake would be advised. We're going to rip open this ground, and now we've got until mid-September to put in some grass seed. So we've got a nice window of opportunity to prepare the soil, have a uniform seed bed. Don't let the layer of silt stay on top and form a crust. We're going to work it in, have a smooth uniform seed bed, and get the grass seed in by mid-September.


There you have it. There you have it YouTube family. Okay, I didn't bring the GoPro today Just got the run done got it done no stopping in filming. So no no footage from today's run, but it was 16 miles so what is that 25 kilometers and so seven minutes per mile or four minutes and 20 seconds per kilometer and Keep in mind. I did 23 miles total yesterday and And gosh wow, I don't know like I feel pretty good Considering I did 23 miles yesterday. The lay I would say on this run for the 16 miles My legs started to feel tired around mile 12 to 13 So anyway, I would say overall very very encouraging and if you've been watching the channel for a while now You're probably figuring out like I like to go easy for a couple days and then I like to go hard for two or three days and But the only way that I can go kind of hard is to begin taking all of my vitamins and minerals and Basically just getting this electrolyte the electrolytes replenished immediately and if you missed last night's live stream Go check it out upper right hand corner We talk about electrolytes and fueling during a marathon race and also we're gonna talk about racing tactics, so The further I go into this marathon training, maybe the older I'm getting It's like that 30 minute window right after a run becomes even more important for recovery Just get basically it's I get ready for tomorrow right now One last thing the hoka carbon Rockets now have 48 miles in them So we're almost to 50 so I'll get you my full review of the hoka carbon Rockets Probably in the next three or four days got a lot of thoughts on these after 50 miles whoo and Before we dive into today's topic. I am curious to see what is in these packages. I don't remember ordering anything. Let's see here apex Home socks. I get it now. Okay, remember. I was a little confused like socks are awesome But it's because we talked about socks like ten days ago. That's awesome. Thank you Jack. Jack said hi Seth Thanks for creating such a positive community It's got me excited to run again, and I can't thank you enough Jack That is what it is all about and that actually connects to today's topic about coaching. So Let's see Jack. You're the best. Thank you for sending the socks. I'll give him a shot Maybe even tomorrow up in the mountains. We shall see. Okay moving on to coaching Let me just say at the beginning. I am not looking to become a coach Right now maybe down the road. Basically, there's only 24 hours in a day. I would love to coach I'd love to coach a high school cross-country team. I'd love to coach people individually one-on-one I think there's definitely a need out there to provide guidance for people and basic understanding of how Aerobic development works in the running world, but I just don't have enough time Basically because this YouTube channel like I would have to cut back and nobody wants that I would have to cut back pretty tremendously I think in the quality and quantity of these daily vlogs, and I don't want to do that I think I can be a sounding board and a voice for all of you out there that are just Trying to get off the couch like Jack said he's inspired again to run So anyway as we dive into this topic I just want to mention that and also I am running out of time to answer your email So if you have emailed me in the last 10 days, thank you for your patience. I don't know what to do There's just not enough time to get some of the emails coming in are actually coaching related asking about training ideas and I would have to really spend like 10 15 minutes to type out a Well-thought-out answer and I just I don't have 10 or 15 minutes right now So I'm trying to strategize a better way to help all of you that are emailing me about Coaching questions. Okay. Here we go. Of course keyword is coaches You better believe it keyword hit it up down below as coaches and I have had five coaches in my life My middle school coach was was was cross-country and track I had two cross-country coaches in high school and one track coach and then mark wetmore at CU was my cross-country and track coach for four or five years at CU So I've had five coaches in my life and all of them brought different qualities to the table a different experience level different Abilities to push my buttons in a good way like knowing when to hold me back and knowing when to push me forward So here are five points that I would look at or five qualities Characteristics that I would look at if I was seeking out a running coach. Here's number one The ability to read people. All right, and let me explain not physiologically Although that might play in a play in later down the line But rather mentally can the coach pick up on my personality and my mentality when it comes to Getting in shape comes to doing a hard track workout comes to getting up at 6 a.m. And a in a blizzard to get out the door for a 15 mile middle distance run Whatever the case may be can the coach read me because I think that's really important for a coach to get to know his or her athletes and Understand what makes them tick what makes them push themselves hard enough, but not too hard. All right So that's number one the ability to read people because it's a it's a it's a I would say it's a it's a it's a strength It can also be I would say it could be a weakness if you don't have that ability I could really see this playing out at the collegiate level when you are recruiting athletes You might have a particular Dynamic or culture within your cross-country and track program at the collegiate level and if you can't formulate a good solid culture that you that you love as a coach then and and the Components meaning the athletes that are coming into that culture if one or two components throws the culture off You're in trouble and point number two Positivity helps all right when you're when I'm working with a coach I like to work with positive people It gives me energy for a workout for a long run to wake up when you don't want to wake up to go to the gym When you're just sore and you just want to lay on the couch But I like that positivity to really be rooted in realism main meaning the coach Gives positive feedback, but also is not afraid to keep you grounded in reality With respect to your volume of training with respect to how many races you can do in a training block Like if a coach is sending you out every weekend or twice a week for a race or whatever I don't know like overracing you that can be not that's not a good like that's not that's not rooted in a Realistic a racing schedule. So anyway, that's what I would look for Positivity but rooted in realism. Does that make sense and point number three for looking for a coach What quality I'm looking for the coach should have a basic understanding of the science behind long distance running whether it's cardiac efficiency or Developing like aerobic versus anaerobic or whatever that I mean we could go on and on So if you don't have that basic scientific understanding, that's a that's a big red flag But but I will say point number four kind of in my opinion Trump's point number three. So point number four Does the coach have the experience backed up with success? I mean again It kind of goes without saying but if if a coach has been coaching for 20 years But his or her athletes have never really met their full potential or are struggling to hit their PRs in the prime years of their racing or Maybe has a history. Oh, this is a good one Maybe has a history of sending their athletes into injuries. All right, that would be a red flag So this is something you might want to consider when if you're interviewing a coach or looking at a coaching website Like for me, I had I coached at the collegiate level for I think three years I'm not doing it now, but I would say that's proud. That's not enough experience. Like I would like to see at least Oh, I'm gonna say at least a decade. I know that's crazy But a decade of experience really really would give me a lot more confidence in a coach and especially if it's backed up with Results and last but not least. This is kind of a oh man. This is crazy. This is this is one of my favorite ones the coach should Challenge you and the coach It for me. All right talking for me is not my best friend Okay, I have best friends that I can go get drinks with that, you know at the bar and watch a football game The coach is there to guide you toward your goals guide you towards your PRs The coach shouldn't be there to be your best friend and for example, I think the coach should be able to say I'm going to make you hurt but the reason I'm gonna make you hurt is you hired me you Joined this running program because you wanted to achieve a goal and in order to achieve that goal rooted in realism I know what it's gonna take to get you to that point Which means you're gonna have to go through suffering to get there and one last point to drive this home as far as Can a coach challenge me is I was not pushed hard enough in high school Specifically like later on in high school Basically, I think I was some untapped talent and that's why I was able to train myself For a year as a freshman in college and eventually I walked on to the CU cross-country team Like I knew I had more in me and so I trained alone for a year and boom So again, it's it's you got to walk the line But I would say I would lean in the direction of taking little Calculated risks in training in order to reach a goal and I did not quite have that in high school So oh man, what a topic so coaches that is the key word and the question of the day What would be your top? One or two qualities that you would look for in a coach or in other words If you were striving for a PR, how would you want to be pushed? Like what would be a couple factors that you feel like okay? I know these one or two things are really gonna help me achieve a PR. All right. Does that sound good? What a topic and by the way this topic was emailed into me or maybe it was sent to me on Facebook And I loved it. I was this was emailed to me like last week So if you have ideas for future vlogs Certainly send them to me. I'll add them to the list and if one really jumps out at me like this one did I will I'll put it in the put it in the rotation and we will make it happen. So thank you so much to whomever I don't remember your name, but whoever sent me this idea for a vlog Topic. Oh man. Ah, it gets me fired up. I love you guys. Thank you for being here I'm not quite gonna sign off gonna go we're getting ready for the live stream Oh, yeah, ran in these today getting ready for the live stream where we talked about electrolytes and fueling during a marathon and then also we're gonna talk about racing tactics. So, oh man, whoo What a day And good night seek beauty work hard


CHAPTER I. SAINT ANN AND SAINT JOKEM Before time began, the Holy Trinity decreed that one day, after the creation of the world and of man, and after man's fall, God the Son was to be born of a virgin mother. In order that this mother should be the purest human being who ever lived, Almighty God decreed that she was to be miraculously exempt from all stain of original sin, and as a fitting preparation for the incarnation of the God-man among men, the blessed Trinity also planned to train a chosen people to serve and to worship the Lord faithfully in the religion which he himself revealed to them through their patriarchs and prophets. Thus he taught them to purify their hearts by leading a decent and holy daily life, and to pray for the coming of the Messiah or Savior that he promised to send them as their King. In the course of time, however, most of the chosen people of Israel were unfaithful to God in many ways, and as they became more and more materialistic, they imagined that the Messiah would appear as a great ruler who would free them by political power from their oppressors, the Romans. But some of the Israelites continued to love and to serve the Lord in humility and detachment from the world, for they knew that the Savior would come to free men from the oppressor within their own hearts. It was from these pure families that by his grace God developed and guided the ancestors of his future mother. They were extremely simple and devout persons, very gentle and peace-loving and charitable. Out of love for God they always lived a very mortified life. Often the married couples practiced continents over long periods of time, particularly during the holy seasons, for their highest ideal was to raise saintly children who, in turn, would contribute toward bringing salvation to the world. They lived in small rural communities and they did not engage in business. They worked on the land and tended flocks of sheep. They also had gardens and orchards. They were very conscientious in fulfilling their religious duties. Whenever they had to go to Jerusalem to offer their sacrifices in the temple, they prepared themselves by prayer and fasting and penance. When traveling they always helped as best they could, any sick persons or paupers whom they met, and because they led such an austere and detached life, these good people had to endure the scorn of many of the other Jews. Thus Mary's grandparents inherited from their ancestors a love of humility, chastity, mortification and the simple life. Her mother, Saint Anne, and her father, Saint Joachim, were the very finest products of this long line of pure and holy servants of God. Saint Anne was born in Bethlehem, of rich parents who owned many flocks of sheep and herds of cattle. But they regularly gave away to the poor a large part of their possessions and kept very little for themselves. After Anne's birth they moved to a beautiful country estate at Zephyrus near Nazareth. From her childhood Anne loved to pray and to think about God, but she also grew to be an industrious helper around the home. In fact while very modest and retiring she became such a model daughter that other mothers used to tell their young girls to imitate her. And the more she learned about the awaited coming of the Savior, the more ardently did she pray that God might hasten that happy event. Just before her holy mother died she told Anne that she was a chosen vessel and that she should pray for a worthy husband. Anne was now a comely, sturdy girl in her teens with all the modest simplicity of a devout peasant maiden. Several young men were hoping to become her husband. One day Anne happened to be praying fervently to God to give her a husband who would help her to live according to the divine law. And at the very same moment on another farm near Nazareth an unusually pious middle-aged bachelor named Joachim was also praying for God's help in choosing a wife. Although he knew and greatly admired Anne he was so extremely humble that he did not dare think she would become his wife. When the prayers of St. Anne and St. Joachim were presented by the angels before the throne of the blessed Trinity, God decreed that this pure couple should unite in marriage and be the parents of the future mother of the messiahs. The archangel Gabriel was sent to announce this decision to them both. He appeared in visible form to Anne while she was praying. He alone of the angels knew her destiny but all he was allowed to tell her now was. The Lord give thee his blessing, servant of God. Continue to pray for the coming of the Redeemer and rejoice in the Lord. It is his will that thou accept Joachim as thy husband. Leaving Anne greatly comforted the archangel went to Joachim and said to him while he slept, Blessed be thou by the Lord, Joachim. Persevere in the practice of justice and perfection. The Lord wants thee to take Anne as thy wife. Take care of her, esteem her, for she is dear to him and give thanks to God. The very next day, Joachim, who was small, lean and broad shouldered, went and asked Anne's father for the hand of his daughter. And soon the couple were solemnly wedded in a simple open-air ceremony. St. Anne was about twenty-four at the time and St. Joachim was forty-two. They made their home on the estate of Anne's father. Though they were quite wealthy, they lived very economically and charitably. Each year they divided all their rents and income and sheep into three parts. Then they gave one-third to the temple for God's service, one-third to the poor, and they kept only what was left. And yet their flocks and herds continued to increase amazingly. Very often they gave food to poor travelers and lambs to their needy relatives. In their home they frequently talked together about God and the coming of the Redeemer, for which they prayed long and fervently. Both Anne and Joachim had been serious even in their youth. Now as they matured, they made a distinguished and devout couple. Neither told the other about the message of the angel. In his wisdom, Almighty God proceeded to purify them still further by giving them a heavy cross to bear, a cross which only grew heavier as the years passed. They remained childless. Among the Israelites in those times this was considered not only the greatest misfortune and disgrace socially, but also a clear indication that the Lord thought such a couple unworthy to contribute toward the coming of the Messiah.  But they took these humiliations with patience and continued to pray that God might bless their marriage with children. Seven years passed without an answer to their prayers. Then they decided to move to a smaller farm near Nazareth and to begin a new life, a much more mortified and holy life, in order thus to earn God's blessing. For in their profound humility they felt that their great affliction was entirely due to their own unworthiness before the Lord. They also increased their charity and gifts to the poor, and they trained themselves in continents for they always aspired to greater purity. They even took a solemn vow to dedicate their child, if God gave them one, to his service in the temple. Thus they lived through another thirteen long, trying years. Then one day when Joachim was offering his sacrifices in the temple the priest rebuked and insulted him, saying, Why do you come here, Joachim? Your offerings are not acceptable to the Lord?  Oh Lord, my sins merit this disgrace, but as I accepted according to thy will do not cast me away. Then with a sore heart he left the city and went to some of his flocks on the distant slopes of Mount Hermon. He was so troubled that he stayed there in prayer and penance for several months without communicating with Anne. Through friends she heard about his being reproached by the priest and this only added to her keen suffering. She often wept, lying flat on the ground in her room.  With a sad heart Anne sent the girl back to her family. That evening St. Anne was sitting under a great tree in her garden, reading prayers on a parchment roll and begging God to send Joachim home and to let them have at least one child. She was now forty-four. Then she prayed fervently for the coming of the Messiah and her thoughts turned to the fortunate family, to the holy mother that God would choose.  Just then the Archangel Gabriel suddenly appeared before her in a resplendent human form and declared, Anne, servant of God, the Lord has heard thy petitions. If he delays their fulfillment it is an order to prepare thee and to give thee much more than thou askest. The most high has resolved to give thee and Joachim holy and wonderful fruit, for those who pray to him in humble confidence are most agreeable to him. Now he sends me to give thee joyful news. He chooses thee to be the mother of her who is to give birth to the Redeemer of mankind. Thou shalt bring forth a daughter, and she shall be called Mary. She shall be blessed among women and filled with the Holy Ghost. I have announced to Joachim that he shall have a holy daughter, but he does not know that she is to be the mother of the messiahs. Therefore guard this secret. And now go to the temple to give thanks to the Lord, and now shall meet Joachim at the Golden Gate. Gabriel vanished, and Saint Anne's humble heart was so overflowing with amazement, heavenly joy, and gratitude that the Holy Spirit sustained her lest she faint. She immediately prostrated herself on the ground and for a long time poured out her thanks to God with tears of happiness. That night she dreamed that an angel came and wrote the name of Mary in big, luminous letters on the wall of her room, and after midnight she awoke and saw the large, bright letters. Deeply moved she kept gazing at them and thinking lovingly of this marvelous daughter Mary, until the letters disappeared with the dawn. Then she arose, prepared herself for the trip to Jerusalem, and left with a servant. She was so deeply happy that she looked much younger. Meanwhile Joachim had been visited by the Archangel Gabriel during the night while he slept among his flocks. Gabriel told him that Anne was going to give birth to a blessed daughter who was to be consecrated to God, and that he should go and give thanks in the temple where he would meet Anne at the Golden Gate. Joachim awoke filled with joyful consolation and hastened to Jerusalem. This time the Holy Spirit moved the priests in the temple to accept Joachim's offerings courteously, and several of his friends congratulated him. Then two priests led him into the holy place and left him there alone after burning incense on the altar. While Joachim prayed on his knees with his arms extended, a bright angel appeared and told him that his childlessness was not a disgrace, but an honor, for the child who was to be born of his wife would be the most perfect flower of the race of Abraham. Next the angel took him into the holy of holies, anointed his forehead, and gave him a certain mystic blessing which freed him from all sensuality. Then he led him back to the holy place and vanished, as Joachim sank to the floor in an ecstatic trance. Soon the priests found him thus and revived him with marks of respect. When he recovered consciousness his face was radiant with spiritual joy, and he seemed considerably younger. He told the priest that he wanted to meet his wife at the Golden Gate, and they showed him the way, which led through a long, beautifully decorated and well-lighted underground corridor. Saint Anne had just made her offering in another part of the temple, and she told the priest that an angel had ordered her to find her husband at the Golden Gate. Accompanied by several devout women, among whom was Anna the prophetess, Saint Anne was taken to the same corridor. Thus it happened that near the Golden Gate Saint Joachim suddenly perceived his beloved wife coming toward him, her beautiful face shining with joy. They hastened toward each other and embraced with tender emotion. Then each told the other what had happened, and together they gave fervent thanks to God for his marvelous answer to all their prayers. As they now renewed their vow to offer their child to his temple, they seemed to be wrapped in a holy ecstasy, a cloud of heavenly light enfolded them, while a great number of angels hovered above them. Saint Anne and Saint Joachim became luminous. Never had a human couple achieved such supernatural purity of soul. Then suddenly the heavens opened up, and the Blessed Trinity looked down with joy and love on this saintly pair and gave them a special blessing. Later, Saint Anne and Saint Joachim left Jerusalem and returned to their home near Nazareth, where they gave a great feast for the poor and distributed alms abundantly. Now they were both transfigured with fervor, happiness, and intense gratitude, and very often as they prayed together they wept tears of joy and love. Thus did Almighty God prepare and purify Mary's good parents until the great day at last came when the glorious mystery of the immaculate conception of the Mother of God took place. The Blessed Virgin said to Saint Bridget of Sweden, It is a truth that I was conceived without original sin and not in sin. A golden hour was my conception. My son joined my father and my mother in a marriage of such chastity that a pure union has never been seen. Sensuality was extinguished in them, thus my flesh was formed through divine charity.


What we have here is essentially two mindsets. Two mindsets of one is happy, one is that inner critic, always a judgmental mindset. This one is much more accepting, more tolerant, more supportive. The question is, why do we spend so much time listening to this voice? Here we are, we're in the middle of this and you are going to make some, this is DM. You are a decision maker and the question I have for us here is, what is it? Or what does the critic, okay? What is it that the critic fears most of all? Our critic over here. And the answer to that question is very simple. It is choice. The inner critic is aware that as soon as you make a decision to be happy, you move directly into the happiness mindset. Therefore you must choose the critic. Now that seems pretty strange to us because nobody thinks that they consciously choose a mindset that's not going to serve them, that's going to make them feel small, that's going to make them feel weak and afraid. But yet we still do and the question is why? Well, it's afraid of choice. It's terrified of this whole situation. It's in fact terrified that you are even aware that happiness is a choice. Therefore it must make you feel like there's no choice at all. Now we know that the critic is afraid of choice because if we think of something like depression, okay? What are some of the characteristics that we associate with depression? Well, it's a feeling like I have no choice. It seems as if when we're depressed, nothing we choose is actually going to make any difference. Therefore choice is gone for me. We all know that helplessness, we feel helpless when we're depressed. Again, that's an indication that there is no choice. A word like coerced literally means to have no choice. Obligation is another word we associate with depression. Finally, another one that will come from having no choice is a feeling of resentment. All from when we are in this mindset, the belief that we have no choice at all. What we're beginning to see here is that when we're in this mindset, we're not even aware that happiness is an option at all. The inner critic has pulled off a pretty incredible feat and it's made us feel like it has no choice. Happiness is not a choice at all that can be made. There is many people that have talked about this in the past. One of them is Ralph Marsden. His quote was, happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. And he was absolutely right about that. There's another book from Bonnie Ware where she talks about the top five regrets of the dying. And the fifth regret, the fifth most common regret that people have at the end of their lives is that I wish I had let myself be happier. Which again shows us when it boils down to it, people finally realize happiness is a choice. And if I can make that choice, it is possible, right? It is possible to do this. They begin to realize all I needed to do in my life was make the choice. So the inner critic has managed to pull something off here. It's made us convinced that we can't choose this option. How does it do that? And that's what this video is really all about. In other words, why on earth? Why don't we choose? And that is the question that many people have looked at. And I'm gonna show you right now. When we come down here, we still have our critic, but the critic convinces us that this has disappeared and it brings us down to a new place.  When you're in this mindset within the critic, okay? It's gonna be a lot of pain. There's gonna be a lot of suffering. Here, of course, we feel real, we feel happy, authentic. Now that's nowhere to be seen. How does it manage to make you stay in this mindset? It creates within itself, this is all the critic down here. It makes you feel like you have choice. And one of the best ways to understand this is Carl Jung's persona and shadow concept. Here's the shadow down here. We can make choices between the persona and the shadow for the rest of our lives, thinking we're choosing something better than the other, when in actuality, we're still here, okay? So this entire thing is contained within this mindset. When we talk about the persona, we're talking about making the choice to be seen as happy. A word might be to be popular. Another one might be to be successful. Another one could be attractive. Now, the problem is, we like to choose these things for a persona. It's all about becoming these things and attaining these things. And that's the choice we make. Because really within the shadow part of our mind, we secretly believe that we are ugly or we believe that we are fake or we believe that we are useless. We might believe that we are the jealous type. We don't like that about ourselves. And all this stuff gets hidden away in the bad room, we'll say, okay? It's hidden from conscious awareness. We hide that away. We wall that off and we don't wanna look at it. And we believe that we're making the choice for happiness in this persona.  We're all aware of that. Nobody consciously chooses this part. That is pretty much a raw-naked ego. This side, however, is much more tricky and many, many more people are attracted to this part of their psyche. However, it's still the same nasty aspect of the mind. The only difference is this guy holds up a little mask and he wears a mask from time to time, okay? So his mask looks like, looks like this. It's pretty fake and it never leads to this. So if we're making decisions, if we're the decision maker on this level of consciousness, and we can go here, we can go in here from time to time, the result will always be pain and suffering. It will never lead to any real lasting happiness. So what we need to start to do is to bring all of this up to this level to where you can actually make a meaningful choice, okay? Start to choose against this and start to look at this. This is more of a truthful mindset. We bring this to the truth. It stands in front of a real choice between authentic happiness and all of this seems less appealing to us. We need to start to bring this to the truth, starting to do inquiry about beliefs about my mowgli, I'm fake, I'm useless, I'm jealous. And we also need to start questioning things like I need to be popular, I need to be successful, I need to be attractive. None of them will help, none of them work. This is the point. Shadow persona, shadow persona goes back and forth like that. One of the things about these things that we're trying to attain here within the persona is we need to not drop them. We do need to drop the shadow part, okay? We need to become aware of the shadow question and let it go. But we need to rather than drop these, we need a complete reinterpretation of what they mean. So you can still be a popular person, you can still be successful, you can still be attractive. But what does that mean? Does it mean that you're better than somebody else or worse than somebody else, right?  Or does it mean that you are those things on your own terms? What does success really mean? Maybe success now means more of authenticity about who it is you are as a person, okay? Attractiveness, I'm an attractive person. Every aspect of me is attractive. Not just one feature of my physical appearance or something like that, right? I have an attractive personality. In other words, it's much more accepting of who you are as a person. Features of this are truth, they are acceptance. Something else we might associate with this mindset is unconditional. And this is the real choice we need to start making. We need to start making the choice for authentic happiness. We get so caught up in this persona, you know, we learn this when we're very, very young. We see someone else's persona, oh my God, that's very attractive. I want to attain that for myself. That's what happiness will mean. Little do we know, anytime you pick up one of these or you're attracted to one of these, you are automatically attaching yourself to the shadow aspect of yourself, of your psyche. One comes with the other. You can't take one without the other. And in fact, the more we try to attain this, we are actually driving more energy into this all the time. That's why it never works. So to start making real choices, it's questioning all these aspects and attachments to every aspect within our persona and our shadow. And then we start to come into what do we come to at the end of that? We come to our authentic personality. And our authentic personality is who we are when we were born. Who we are when we're comfortable within our own skin, just the way we are.  You don't have to become somebody else. So that's what we're talking about when we're talking about getting rid of the inner critic. And that's the work we're going to be doing in this course. We're going to start questioning this persona shadow dance because it's all fake. It's all within the same mindset. Authenticity is nowhere to be found within either of these two mindsets. This is not real. Any of the nasty things the inner critic says to you about yourself, I can guarantee you they're not real. But the things we strive towards because of these hidden feelings are equally unreal. And they actually are a pretty dysfunctional dance we get involved with. So I'll see you in the next video and food for thought. Take care.


Look at A-Mate 40 here. So I was just watching Richard Spencer's reaction to Tucker Carlson's two minute video. And Richard may really have the measure of Tucker Carlson. He eviscerates Tucker Carlson's two and a half minute video release Wednesday night as being absolutely vapid. And in fact, claiming to espouse the very things that Tucker shows completely absent on such as debate about important issues. So I was just thinking about the verse from Proverbs, I think chapter 27 verse 17, just as iron sharpens irons into one man sharpens another. And so sometimes you'll encounter someone in life who really has your measure. And I think often Richard is at his best, like taking the measure of other people on the right. So deep left jerkel, AKA Kenneth Brown, is also really good, taking the measure of liars on the right. But I think the best of the best is Richard Spencer. Like he just demolishes everyone. No one in politics debates about the important things. But Richard is just a pretty skilled at taking down every other intellectual on the right. Kenneth Brown is very good at it, not as good as Richard. And then, I mean, some people think that I take the measure of Richard Spencer or Dennis Breger or Kenneth Brown. So in my life, I've experienced people just really good at taking the measure of me, taking the measure of others. Like they're just able to like hone in on the weakness, like hone in on the ridiculousness, hone in on the soft spot, a tender point for other people and just hammer away at it. And so, yeah, just as Ian Chopin's eye and said to one man, you can chop in another. That's the basis for it.


In this video, I'm going to be talking about variables and why you need to know about them if you are going to be using the shortcuts app on Mac OS. Now, this is the third video in a series of videos I'm doing all about shortcuts, a beginner's guide if you will. So be sure to check out those other videos down in the description. But for now, let's get over to the task in hand and variables and let me explain exactly how you can use those in shortcuts. And first of all, exactly what is a variable? Well, a variable is essentially some piece of data that we are going to assign a name to and then use later on in our shortcut to actually form part of the later actions in the shortcut. This will all make perfect sense, I'm sure, as we go through it. So I'm going to start by creating a new shortcut. And again, if you have not used shortcuts before, then be sure to check out the first two videos where I explain all about creating actions and how to use the interface and so on. But for now, I'm just going to click into this new shortcut that I've just created and let's have a look at how we're going to build something out. So a variable, as I say, is essentially a piece of data. It can either be a piece of data that we derive somehow from some other action or it can be something that we actually ask the user for as a form of input. So let's just do something really simple. We're going to have a little alert that pops up on the screen or rather ask a question where we ask somebody for their name and then have an alert that pops up on the screen to say hello to them or something like that. Really simple and pretty much useless example. However, it does serve the purpose of explaining how to use these things. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to come up here and there is a command in shortcuts, which is ask. So if you are asking for some form of input, so I'm going to click on this one and there you see it, ask for input. So I'm going to add that one in. And here we've got a couple of different points that we can adjust. So you'll notice here that it says ask for and then there's this blue text here and then with and then something here. So when you are looking at actions, just bear in mind that anything that is in white is usually some form of description or something like that related to the action itself. And anything in blue is usually something that you can actually adjust or change. Now in this case, the ask for where it says text. This is actually the data type. I'll be covering data types in more detail in the next video. But for the time being, all you need to know is that you can either have it as text or you might be asking for a number. You may be asking for a URL, a date, time or something like that. So these are different types of data that you may be asking for but we're going to keep it simple for the moment and ask for just text. And then here it says with prompt. So we're asking for text with some form of prompt. Now the prompt being what we're going to display to the user so that they understand what it is exactly that we want from them. So how about I just type in here, what is your name? Just like that.  This is by the way completely separate from the shortcuts app. It just happens to be over the top of it so that we can see it at the same time. So if I just type in what is your name and I type in my name Alec and then click on done, you can see that that output there has now come into the shortcut and if there were any more actions it could potentially be passed down to anything that happens further down the line. So let's actually do something with that shall we know and let's say that we want to have a little alert box that pops up and just says hi to whoever it is that's typed in their name. So I'm going to look for an alert. So here we go. We've got show alert. It could also have been a little notification that pops out from the side but let's use the alert. And now it's saying show do you want to continue? So we don't want to show something like that. We want to actually just have a response which is to their name. So let me just type in here hi and then I want to actually put, whoops Daisy I need to delete that other, there we go. So now if I was to just run that you can see that what would happen is if I clicked on run, he's going to ask for our name again and click done and then it just says hi. Well that's not very personal isn't it? So wouldn't it be good if we could actually incorporate the person's name into that little structure there? So well we can do that. If I come into where it says hi, I can actually use any bit of data that's already in the action itself from the input. So this essentially is a variable. This is what we're talking about. So if I right click in the alert message and you can see that we've got this option down here to insert variable. Now insert variable, there are different kinds of input that we can put into there but let's just click on this one select variable and this is going to select a magic variable. So there are a couple of different types of variables. There is explicit variables where we're going to give them an actual name and then we can call that wherever we want in the rest of the actions. But magic variables are basically shortcuts built in method where it can actually just pull out certain variables without you having to name them. This isn't necessarily a good practice to get into which we'll come to in a moment but for now let's use this. So you can see that now it is asking me to select a magic variable and the magic variable, the only thing that's magic about it is that it just identifies all the potential variables for you. So here it's saying show alert and we want to add something in there and you can see that we've got this one highlighted provided input. So if I click on that one now what we're going to get is it will say show alert and it's going to say hi provided input explanation mark. What does that mean? Well, it means that whatever they put in here so if I put in Alec and then I click done you can see that now the alert says hi Alec because it has taken the name from there. So why is that not the best way to do it? Well, it's okay for very simple things like that. I mean, that's a very easy straightforward example but what if you wanted to get multiple different bits of data, multiple different variables and then have those feeding in at different points? Well, it can get a little bit confusing when you have lots of these provided input sections here these magic variables. So let me just perhaps give another example of that. So I'll add in a second question. So I'm going to ask two questions now and I'm going to ask, whoopsie daisy, that's the wrong one, I want to ask for input again. So let me say I'm going to say ask for text with a prompt where do you live? And so we're going to have two different variables now. So now I'm going to ask them say hi whatever your name is what's the weather like in wherever you live. So we'll do the same again. I've just added the alert in separately again just so that we can do this from scratch. You'll see what I'm getting at in a moment. So hi, I'm going to put in here, I'm going to say hi and then I want to put their name. What is the weather like in and then we'll put where they live. So here, if I wanted to add in the name I would click in here again as we did before and I would put insert magic variable. So insert variable, select variable and we'll take this one. So we want to add in the name and then we will add in the place where they live in here. So I'm going to do exactly the same. Set variable and we'll take this provided input like that. So now it says hi provided input what is the weather like in provided input. So let's just run this and we'll see what's going to happen. What is your name? Alec click on done, where do you live? Thailand and then click on done and now it's got the output. Hi Alec, what is the weather like in Thailand? So it did work. However, you can see that this may be getting a little bit confusing as you start building out more complex actions or complex shortcuts I should say then using these magic variables where you've got things like provided input, this provided input that is going to get very confusing. How do I know that I've got the right one? How do I know that I'm calling the right thing? Well, it's a lot easier if you actually give these variables all names. So what we could do here is if I wanted underneath here instead of just going straight onto the next section I could actually give this a specific name as a variable. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the set variable command. So I'll come to here and search for set variable. There we go. And I'm going to put this one just beneath here and I'm going to, I am going to use the provided input because it's coming straight after this name. So this is the, let's call it username just so that we don't get confused with the actual variable name. So I'm going to call this username. And now let's do exactly the same thing again but for the location and I'm going to call this user location. Okay, so now we have got two variables and what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to delete these magic variables out from here because what we want to do now is we want to add in their name. So what I'm going to do here is go to insert variable and then what I'll do is can you see now what we've got in here is we've actually got this list of variables it actually appears in there.  So just once again where that was I'm in this little message that I want to display. I'm going to click right click with the mouse, insert variable and any variables that we have named within this particular shortcut will now appear here. So I'm going to click on username and then if I come to here, what is the weather like? Here we go, insert variable and we'll put user location. You can already see how that is a lot more clear from the point of view of going and doing any editing or things like that at a later date. You can see exactly the inputs that it's taking. So the variable is username and the location is just given there as well. So now if I run that, this will do exactly the same as before with a bit of luck. So I'll type in my name and I'll type in my location and then click on done and there you go. It says exactly the same. Hi Alec, what is the weather like in Thailand? So that is once again a bit of a sort of useless case as a shortcut goes. However, it does demonstrate the way that variables can be used. So let me show you another example now of something that was one that I gave in the first video actually, which was generating a QR code. So I'm going to just come and create a new action but I'll do it from here and I'm going to do it using variables this time. So we've now got generate QR code from URL. Okay, so what we're going to do in here is we are going to basically take a URL from rather than typing it in manually, which is what we did before. By the way, there is a built in generate QR code function or action in here I should say. Now what we did in the first very basic example was we actually just manually typed out the URL in here. But how about you want to be able to copy and paste something from a website or something like that and then actually create the QR code from that. So you're going to take some sort of input. Well, in that case, what you can do is you can use the clipboard, the name escape me there for a moment. So if I type in clipboard, it's going to say get clipboard. And so that is going to get anything that you copy as a URL. It is going to take that information. And now let's actually give that a variable name. There is a bit of a simpler way to do this, but I'm just being very explicit about it so that you can see. So if I go to set variable like this, I'll show you a shortcut to do this. I'm just using this to demonstrate. So let's give this a variable name. Let's call this URL for QR code like that. And that's going to go to copy from the clipboard. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to then use this QR code function again, generate QR code. And you can see how it has actually already just assumed that we're going to want that. And it's used that it is not the magic variable, though it is the explicit variable. Now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go to a website. And I'm going to copy, copy the URL. And then I'm going to just come and run this. So now that we've copied a URL, if I run this, it's actually going to create a QR code from that particular URL. And in fact, the URL, if I just output this, I could just delete that and run it again. The output there was actually the take one tech website. Again, take one tech.io slash nothing, just take one tech.io. So there we go. That is how to basically use a URL as the input. I will just show you though, just because that was a bit sneaky. I will just show you how with that particular QR code action like this, you can either do it from text. But what we could also have done is insert variable and we can also just insert directly in there because there is a variable already built in which is clipboard. So we don't actually need to define it like that. Although if you wanted to sort of copy multiple different things and give them all their own explicit variable name, then you could do that. But as I say, you can just actually get clipboard here like this. So that would work exactly the same. If I just run that one, then it has given us the output, the QR code from that particular URL. So that is just a very brief sort of introduction really to variables. And it's intended to just get you understanding the way that you use those and the way that's having explicit variables are named allows you to create sort of a whole batch of different data points or different values or things like that that you can then use at multiple points throughout the rest of your action. Something that will be very important when we get into building out more complex shortcuts. Now the next part I'm going to cover is actually about data types. And I touched on this earlier. So this is going to be coming up right now in the next video over on the right hand side. So I'll see you there.


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So I just finished watching this amazing Netflix series from Ricky Gervais called Afterlife, all right? And if you haven't watched it, there's going to be spoilers, but if you don't plan on watching it, please stick around. There are so many great life lessons from the finale, all right? But before I get started, I do want to let you know there are going to be subjects that we talk about that could be sensitive. So just a little trigger warning. If you struggle with suicidal ideation and things like that, make sure you check out the description down below. You can go ahead and turn this video off, but there are going to be some resources, reach out and ask for help. But yeah, anyways, let's jump into this and talk about the amazing life lessons Ricky Gervais gives us about how to do whatever the heck you want and be happy. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel's all about mental health. What I like to do is pull different topics or subjects from like movies, TV shows, and things like that to try to teach you how to maybe potentially improve your life. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And quick disclaimer, I am not a licensed therapist or psychologist. If you need that kind of help, check down in the description below or go talk to your doctor or insurance provider and get some help, all right? I am going to be talking about the show, Ricky Gervais, as well as my own personal life experience, like philosophies and things like that, all right? So anyways, quick little recap of what this show is about, okay? And remember, spoilers, okay? But anyways, Ricky Gervais plays a man named Tony. And Ricky Gervais, he wrote this show, he directed this show. And Tony is a man who lost his wife to cancer. His wife, Lisa, she was the love of his life. She was the light of his day. Just everything, just so in love with her.  And when she passes away, he just goes off the deep end and he actually attempted suicide. And he has thought about suicide ever since, right?    So we kind of follow this story. And if you're somebody who watched Afterlife, I'm not sure if I'm gonna make more videos, but if you want to, I wanna dive deeper into other subjects. If you're interested in it, like there is somebody who was addicted to drugs and they overdosed and yeah, I wanna talk about that if you're interested in it. As well as some other different topics from this show. But in this video, I wanna focus primarily on the finale. So it's only six episodes. So if you haven't watched it, just go check it out. Six 30-minute episodes. Doesn't take too long, phenomenal show. So anyways, in the final episode, one of the things that comes up is Ricky Gervais' atheism, okay? So if you know Ricky Gervais, he is a very vocal atheist and he talks about it a lot. He's been interviewed about it and all of that. But anyways, there is a young woman at his office. He works for a local newspaper, a free newspaper.    And she's like looking at him like, what? And he's like, yeah, I don't do that at all. So I'm doing it as much as I want, but I don't do it at all. And that's something that I've talked about before with atheism. There's this misconception that atheists are just like running amok and all that. But no, there is the human conscious and just being a good person. You know what I mean? So he touches on that. But anyways, we see his character really develop. And the first scene that I wanna talk about is when he goes to a therapist for the last time. Throughout the show, he's going to a therapist and talking about his depression and everything like that. And a therapist sucks, okay? Like there are great therapists and there are terrible therapists. And he's showing a terrible therapist. So how are you?  His therapist is like on his phone texting and talking about how he's like in a Twitter back and forth, like in the middle of the session.  He talks about how, you know, not everybody is an A-hole. There are good people out there. And that is a huge revelation, right? Like when we get stuck in that mindset of just hating the world, we group everybody together, right? We lose faith in humanity and we're like, everybody's terrible, everybody sucks, right?   I don't like you. I'm stopping therapy, right? Well anyways, the therapist lets him know that his, you know, because the therapist gets all upset and he tells Ricky that his brother-in-law, Matt, and is having marital problems, right? And Ricky's like, whoa, you know? And throughout the series, Matt is Ricky Gervais' brother-in-law.  And, you know, Ricky Gervais' character, Tony, he's just not hearing it, not having it throughout the whole thing as much as Matt tries to help. Ricky Gervais is just like, no, he's still just being mean to everybody and nasty to everybody and being mean to people in the office that even go out to like a comedy show. And Tony is like, he says some stuff to the comedian at that show and Matt just doesn't know what to do. But anyways, when Tony figures out that Matt's marriage is having troubles, he goes straight back to the office and he sits down and he talks with Matt. And he tells Matt, he's like, hey, what's going on? What's going on? You know what I mean? And that's when Matt finally snaps and he tells Tony like, yo, like you're not the only one with problems.  And Matt like asks him, he's like, are you surprised? Are you really surprised, right? And that's something that I try to talk about because from my personal experience, I can get into a very selfish and self-centered place when I'm dealing with my own mental health issues. One of the things that people taught me when I was working on my mental health was like reach out and ask other people how they're doing like talk to them, get out of yourself for one second and ask somebody else how they're doing. And when you're in it, when you're in that depression when you're in that dark place, right? Again, like myself as well as other people I've worked with, you know, we don't think about anybody else. We don't think about how it's affecting anybody else. I actually spoke at a high school this morning. I'm gonna do a video about that. I'm speaking there again tomorrow. But anyways, like I try to teach people, you know, what worked for me, which is getting outside of yourself and seeing how other people are doing. Like it helps us quit thinking about ourselves 24 seven. So after he kind of has that talk with Matt, he starts complimenting, you know, the people in his office and thanking them for being there for him, you know, through this entire time. And he even thanks Kath. So Kath is the woman who like, she kind of annoys him throughout the series and she came over and asked him about like the atheism thing that I mentioned earlier in this video but he even thanked Kath, right?  He thanks her for that. And I think that's huge for all of us. Like we need to realize that every situation in our life, every person in our life can be something that, you know, benefits us and our mental wellbeing in some way, shape or form. You know what I mean? So I love that part right there.   And he ends up thanking Matt for never giving up on him. And like that, I just rewatched the finale so I can make this video and that just put a huge smile on my face. And my suggestion to all of you, take it or leave it, do what you will. But if you're somebody who's been in a dark place or you've dealt with mental health issues or whatever, like after this video or even pause this video and just text somebody, call somebody and thank them. Thank them for being there for you. Like, a lot of you know that, you know, I've been going through a rough time.  And something that I've done is just every few days is text the people, you know, who have been there for me and just let them know like, hey, I really appreciate it.  Like, thank you. So, you know, it might make you feel better just by letting those people know that they're appreciated. Because like I said, you know, from my experience, like when we're dealing with these struggles, we get really selfish and self-centered and we don't think about all these other things.  What's the point? Why even talk to them? Why even try to help them, right? Think about how good it would feel for them to thank you, okay? So, the last part I want to talk about is the woman Tony meets in the cemetery, Ricky Gervais' character, and I forgot her name. But anyways, throughout the show, he talks to her because she's there and she talks to her husband whose grave stone is right next to Ricky Gervais' wife in the show, right? And he talks to her and gets like life advice or whatever, but I love that scene, this scene in the finale because he sits down and he says, how are you doing? Like, part of his character's growth, Tony's growth in this finale is recognizing how selfish and self-centered he's been.  But you see it again, we sit down on the bench and for the first time in this entire first season, he asks her how she is doing and like you see this kind of growth and he just sits there and listens because she lost her husband too and they were married for like decades, right? And this is the first time he's asking her how she's doing. So anyways, they end up talking a little bit more and everything and, you know, one of the final revelations that Tony comes to is that he can still do whatever the hell he wants, right? And that's the title of this video. Like you can do whatever you want, right? Like no matter what, you could do whatever you want but the revelation that Tony has is like doing whatever you want doesn't mean running around and just trying to punish everybody, right? He took on this like kind of vigilante mindset, like I'm gonna punish everybody for that hurt and the pain I feel, right?  But part of him doing what he wants to do is he realize when he's there for other people, when he's nice to other people, when he's kind to other people, when he thanks other people, when he listens to other people, that's doing what he wants to do and it feels good. Like I cannot tell you guys enough. Like that's one of the reasons I have this channel. Helping other people feels good. I want to do it. I love doing it. Like I might make a video at some point about like something I heard from a meditation teacher about how there's like no true altruism, right? Because helping other people, even if you're not expecting anything in return, helping other people just feels good, okay? So I love, love, love this show. I highly recommend you guys watch it if you haven't yet. Again, like if you guys have watched it or those of you who have watched it, if you want me to break down some other really interesting things in this show such as addiction and grief and loss and things like that, let me know down in the comments. I have like a whole notepad filled with video ideas. So let me know or if you have suggestions about things you want me to kind of dive into, let me know down in the comments below, all right? I'm also thinking about checking out that show, that new show on Netflix. What's it called? Like love, love, death and robots? Something like that. I keep hearing really, really good things. I'm thinking about checking that out and maybe doing breakdowns of that too. Anyways, that's all I got for this video. 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All right, so I want to you know, appreciate everyone coming. Obviously, this is our continuation for us a bit on edge day where we sponsored there as well We want to talk about that. I think we've talked about multi-cloud sort of being a thing for a while I think we're really starting to see it take off and one Kubernetes is driving it because VMs Weren't as portable as we were promised but really bringing up the scale and the diversity of the locations edge is really pushing this boundary We're seeing a lot of very interesting use cases. I think firstly We have some survey data. I'm going to talk about in a second that came out after Valencia and We're finding that there's a lot more business value an edge, you know 67% of users said it made a more innovative and competitive. We're seeing very creative use cases coming out ranging from customer sentiment analytics in retail to Drones picking fruit so very exciting things that are sort of developing an edge and it's bringing up a couple of patterns That we found in the research this research is available on our website if you want to download it the firm that did it is Dimensional research. We've been doing this every year. I think we had 500 something people in the survey So the sample size is getting pretty good sized People who are participating so shows growth in Kubernetes growth and edge, etc One we're seeing obviously. How do you manage scale? The scale problem, you know, how we manage Kubernetes in a data center in the cloud is very different from how we management We have thousands of devices. I think interesting next is security We have these devices that have sensitive data They're close to the data and we also don't want the devices to leave So things like encryption at rest and making sure the devices are well managed, which is the third bullet point So wanted to sort of just talk about some of the data and why we've been doing some of the things We've been doing and really focused on edge. We've also Sponsored an open-source project called Kairos So feel free to take a look at a kairos.io our head of open sources here somewhere Who's who's sort of governor's this has reached 1.0 and GA? We actually use this because we think it's really important to How do you put an OS and a Kubernetes on these devices the form factors different the way you want the operating system configured? Which Kubernetes distro is best fit for your use case? We just found sort of a need to have a better sort of community way to have a immutable and easily composable Project that can just help you manage these and get get these edge devices up better And so, you know, we really want to make it an immutable stack You know manage it over the wire one of our customers that spoke with me at Valencia was GE health care And they talked about their biggest problem an edge that they spoke about during this session during edge Day was actually this the cost and and effort it takes to manage these devices in the field So they've been reducing their their spend in field engineering at their customers facilities by 20 million a year so far And so kairos is a big piece of that We're obviously using it and what we do within our palette edge product, but we also want to contribute back You know so we're obviously stacking on top of it, but there's a lot of functionality So we definitely want to invite people to have a look at kairos contribute to it You know, it's another project we think helps build the community and we're glad to be a sponsor We're out there. We have some great stickers and hopefully looking forward to engaging with everyone and having some great conversations about edge Thanks for everyone being here


Hello there, I'm Sandy Olnok. Welcome to my YouTube channel. This is the second of my Ferris Wheel Press videos for this week. And I'm going to be showing you a project that is not an unboxing. The unboxing was in my last video. So if you like unboxings, go see that one. I'll show you how I swatched my colors and the way that I test them. And then there's a crazy test project that I created because I wanted to exploit the properties in the aurorialis ink. Because that was pretty spectacular, don't you think? However, in this video, I'm going to do one painting that has all three inks in it. And it's going to feature this lovely Sherry Sonata. And it is a lovely pink. I'm going to mix it with the aurorialis purple and the knitted nettle turquoise. So let's get started, shall we? So I began my painting wanting to experiment with Sherry Sonata, the ink from Ferris Wheel Press that starts out as a bit of a brick color and then it sort of turns into a very pale pink when you water it out enough. You have to water it out a lot. So I put some into a little dish so that I could mix the ink with water as well as putting plenty of water on the paper so that I could actually turn this into something that was not going to be a brick red type of flamingo because the flamingo picture that I was using as a reference from Paint My Photo, which I will link in the doobly-doo down below in case you want to try this, that flamingo is very, very pale and I wanted to make sure that I got that paleness. And one of the things I find really interesting about this color and there's a lot of properties in ink that are completely different than watercolor. I'm used to a color that's going to be brick in watercolor when you water it out. It's just going to be a very pale brick. You don't usually get a color shift and here it turns into a cooler pink as it gets lighter and it's just a brighter pink. So it was just kind of interesting to see what the ink does versus what my brain tells me would happen with watercolor. I'm going to be putting some pinks all over the beak so I just painted right through them. But the first pass on this, I considered it a watercolor in my head. I just made sure that I got all of that nice lush, really pale pink all over the bird itself first. And then I started using a dip pen to do the drawing with. Now a dip pen is a pen that you dip into the ink bottle. You don't need to actually put ink into it. A lot of the fountain pens that I use have a cartridge in them and you have to actually change the ink out. I was going to have to change ink all the time with this so it made more sense to use a dip pen. However, my glass dip pen died. I did try to use it in my previous video but just barely survived with it. And when I say my glass pen died, the tip of it broke so I had this really sharp scratchy nib on it and that's why it didn't work so I had to toss it but I'll have to order me a new one. But that got me to get this pen out. Now this was one that I, oh gosh, I bought it ages ago. I can't even remember where. And it came with a bunch of calligraphy nibs so I'm using calligraphy nibs here because I can't find the other nibs that I have. I need to do something about that because if I'm going to be working with inks more as someone who's working with Ferris wheel press, probably would like to switch back and forth between inks a lot more. Now this color is actually the auroraealis which is a purple color. And what I did here, I had tested on a sketch in my sketchbook. A technique that I wanted to try because I wanted these colors to mix but every time I dropped wet color into wet color it would just bleed like crazy everywhere. And I wanted to have some more control. So what I'm doing here is putting the ink down in places where I can have control over it. There's that long line where the beak opens around the center of the entire beak. And I wanted that part to be really dark. And I still wanted it to blend with everything but I wanted the color to stay put a little more than just dropping in color. And you'll see how that plays out. So I started with the purple color this deep purple that you saw in the last video if you were around and watched that one. And then I'm going to mix that with some more of the sherry sonata. And that's going to give me more sherry sonata to mix into the beak because I want the beak to be really strong in color. Even stronger than in the reference photo it's a little bit lighter than what I'm going to come out with. But I wanted to have that contrast so it would make the flamingo itself really pop by having extra contrast in it. So I'm just scribbling color in here because I know from testing that these colors are going to water out really well which means I'm not going to end up with a bunch of scribbly lines in there necessarily if I don't want them because I'm going to be able to just kind of push things around and water is going to melt out the color really nicely. So just using my nice big brush to go over the inks that are here so it's turning them into movable ink and then just kind of playing around with how those edges work out kind of blending toward each other. That white line down the center of the beak is one that kind of comes and goes a little bit in the photo. It gets a little darker at one end so I just let my brush travel over it just kind of having some fun watching the ink move and then any time I didn't want to drag extra color around I just rinsed my brush. I got back to my little bowl and could start then dipping my ink into it to make some slightly thicker Seri Sonata ink so I could get the top of the beak to be one color and the bottom another because that's kind of what the picture indicates. I think it's a greater flamingo I think I'm not really sure. I don't know my flamingos very well and I did try kind of generally doing a search to see what kind of flamingo it was and I couldn't really tell but mine's just a sandy flamingo and that's just what I'm going to call it. So I'm working with some very thin pigment and even though it looks like that brick color in the bowl when I'm using it very lightly I'm hoping it's going to stay nice and pale because I want to put a bunch of feathers into the bird and I want to just work really softly with it and I just was kind of working here to gauge exactly how much pigment do I want to have in there. So once that was dry I wet the entire background area because I wanted to try the knitted nettle which is that turquoise color because I did want to see if I could do one painting with all three colors in it. So it was kind of exciting to see that I came up with that idea and figured out what I could paint that had all three elements in it. Put a whole bunch of water in it and some very thin pigment to start with. Because I wasn't sure if I wanted that to be really dark or if I wanted it to be really pale and the beak to be the only dark portion of it but you can see how dirty my water got really quickly because ink is just really really strong as I talked about in the last video. Inks are much stronger in pigment than watercolors and they also have different properties of lifting so don't expect them to act the same all the time but they will tend to move in similar kinds of ways that you might be used to in watercolor. So I did add some color to it. I wanted it to kind of snug up to the edge of my bird's head so I just kind of tilted the board to get the color to move so I was trying to stay away from having like the wet pigment touch the dark beak. If per chance you touch some wet ink that you're putting on the page to a wet area it's going to just immediately run into that area. With watercolor sometimes it will stay because you can control that a little bit by having the color you're applying be thicker than the color that's already on the paper. With ink it's a little more dangerous to touch areas next to each other. And being careful with how you produce your edges is important because it's really easy to make a mistake. You will see one of mine in all its glory in just a minute here. But I was trying to decide I wanted to have a bunch of ink work showing on the beak in the finished piece or if I was going to use my brush and melt all that out again or not. Because when I did wash over everything it did get a little bit on the kind of blended side and I wanted a bit more detail in there. So as I started working toward this little corner here I did that. Let me instant replay it for you. This was when I squealed and went oh no. Because all of that ink just went running right into the corner here where that paper was wet. So I stopped the camera immediately. I dried it really well so I could then start to put some more color into the turquoise. Oh my gosh I thought okay well now I know at least what I'm going to do with that background. It's going to get darker because I have to cover that purple that went awry. So I started just kind of making little blobs of color with some scribbles. And again I wasn't sure if I wanted to leave the scribbles and let that be a texture in the background or if I was going to blend it all out. So you can see kind of the craziness of what I was doing with my line work. The further I got doing this I decided this was going to be an ink painting not a pen and ink type of drawing with all that line work. So I took some water and just went over the entire area. I put some in another dish so I could add more color to certain sections. I just played around with it until I melted out a bunch of those areas of the pen and ink work. But it did hide that purple blob and that was the goal. So there we go. Got that nice and dry this time and did not allow it to move again. But I also decided what I wanted to do was make this almost a bokeh type of design. The tests that I had run on my little swatch cards showed that there was a little lifting of the ink when I applied water to it. And not a whole lot but a little bit. And I think it was just enough to make that interesting so that it was not going to be fighting with the bird. Because some inks if they get too bright with the bokeh it can look really weird. So I kind of liked what happened there after all. I love serendipity in art where things just kind of happen and you're forced to make different choices and somehow sometimes it just works. So then I got a small brush and just started working on using thinner and thinner ink as I worked my way up to the highlight side of the flamingo so that it would just get more and more pale. And I followed the feathers all the way around the head. So they would curve when they came down to the other side. There is a nice shadow on this section of the neck as it turns and makes that turn around the other direction. And then just used a small brush to start dragging those feather lines out and joining those so it doesn't look like a big blob. It did leave me with a couple of blobs that were going to need another layer of detail to be put into them. But that was perfectly okay because I'm very used to that with watercolor. In some sections I would switch to my large brush and then just finish off the edges of them so they would slowly trail out with more detail in them as they worked their way across the body of the bird. So once that was all done and dry, then I mixed up just slightly thicker and darker pigment into my little dish so I could start painting more of those same shape feathers but breaking up those big darker sections with smaller and smaller details of the ink which kind of gave it that consistency of the texture even though the color was getting darker as that shadow kind of appeared across there. When I finished this painting I was so tickled with myself not only because I didn't freak out completely, okay well I freaked out some when I had my ink blue but I figured out how to fix it. I did achieve a little bit of the shimmer. There's not a whole lot there. You can just barely see it on camera. I can see it much more in person. But I used all three inks and I didn't paint every square inch of the piece of paper. There were some areas that I just let them be what they are and it was fun. It was just a really fun project to work on. So I hope you have enjoyed this and if you did and you want some inks of your very own and I have a deal for you go to ferriswheelpress.com and get yourself 10% off anything there. You can get the inks that I'm using or you can get something else and use the code ALLNOC to get your 10% off because I'd love for you to get a discount. That would be awesome and amazing and I will see you again in another video next week. I hope you enjoyed this one. If you did tap the like button, that big old thumbs up. Share it with a friend who loves inks so they can get 10% off too. And I will see you guys later on. Bye bye.