So about 10 years ago, I bought this Canon t3i also known as the rebel t3i or the 600d. I love this camera. It works great recently got a brand new lens for it But what I'd like to do is I would like to use this as a webcam Because I have a webcam, but I don't like it very much now You can get video from the USB port here and I've watched many videos on it And I've tried that and I can get it to work, but not great But there is a mini HDMI out port here. So the other day, I bought a simple USB-C To HDMI capture card for like $15. So I'd like to try to use that That to capture videos from this as a webcam Problem is when you turn it on and you turn it to video mode You can get rid of pretty much everything but that white square in the middle there So that's not good And one of the options to get rid of that is to add some special software Magic Lantern Which is a open-source application to go on your phone Now I've heard of Magic Lantern before and I always thought it'd be neat to try out But I never saw the need to mess with my camera if it was working. Okay I always thought that Magic Lantern was a custom firmware and it's not what it is It's an application that actually runs off the SD card So it doesn't replace the current firmware, but it's like an extra application. I have not done this yet I am following the instructions as I record this video But I've watched a few videos and read over instructions and so I'm just going to give you a quick guide on this One of the first things people tell you to do is you have to see what firmware you're running For this to work. I need firmware version 1.0.2 When I turn on the camera, the way you find that out is you press the menu button And that should bring up the menu screen here and then you can dial over So the first issue I had when following instructions was finding out what firmware I have all the instructions I watched said press the menu button and then scroll over to The wrench here the third wrench and see what version your firmware is and I don't have a third wrench Well, what they neglect to tell you is you have to be in the right mode And I just figured this out just by trial and error I just turned it all the way here to ADP and now if I press the menu button You can see I have three wrenches and if I go to the last one here, you can see I'm running version 1.0.1 So that's already an issue because as I've said, I need version 1.0.2 for magic lantern to work on this camera So I have to find the firmware from canon to upgrade my camera to get magic lantern working So going to the canon website the newest firmware is version 1.0.3 So I'm too low and that's too high So I googled it again and I found a website canon driver dot net and it has the firmware I need so here it is you can see the firmware is 10 years old must came out just after I got my camera because I got mine Well, I got mine in 2012 so camera probably came out after but didn't have that firmware But there's a zip file to download and inside that zip file Is a few pdfs in different languages on how to install the firmware and a file that is the firmware itself So the first thing I need to do is take an sd card and put it in here and make sure it's formatted properly I'm sure this one's formatted fine, but I'm going to format it with the camera So I'm going to put it in I'm going to press the menu button here And I am going to scroll over to the first wrench here And you can see the third option down is format and I will format that sd card formatting just finished So I'm going to turn the camera off and take out the sd card and I'm going to put that into my computer And all I should have to do is copy over that one binary firmware file to the root directory So not in a subdirectory, but to this again, I did that on zip from the website had the pdfs And then there's a file for this particular camera. It's called ccf 11102 FIR and I'm just going to drag and drop that into the root directory of the sd card and safely eject it Grab it from my computer Let's go ahead and put it into the camera Now according to the pdf that came with the firmware. I am going to once again press the menu button I am going to go to that third wrench And all the way down to where it says firmware in my case. Again, I have 1.0.2 installed I'm going to click that and it says current version. Do I want to update? I'll click okay and hopefully again I've never done this before it's going to look on the sd card find that firmware and install it took maybe 10 seconds It seems to have found it found it. I am going to go ahead and click on it Okay And I'm going to let it finish doing its thing. Okay, so the camera is at about 75 percent It's been going for about a minute and a half now So I'm going to assume that this takes about two minutes. I would say But while it's doing that, I'm going to go to the magic lantern website and just search for my camera And again, these cameras have multiple names. I always call mine the t3i. Technically, it's a rebel t3i Or also known as the 600d. I'm going to find that again on it has installation instructions Instructions or directions, whatever you want to call it and 98 percent 99 percent 100 percent done and update is complete. Okay camera seems to be working. That's good Now again, it says that I need version 1.0.2 on my camera And it's to make sure that the sd card is formatted from the camera, which I just did so that should be okay So what I'm going to do is I'm going to download the files from the magic lantern website Remove the the file that I just put on the sd card and then I'm going to copy over the files from The magic lantern website. Okay. Here's the files that are on the sd card automatically makes two directories and then this is the firmware from canon I'll delete that just to make sure it doesn't cause any problems And over here is the zip file that I downloaded I am just going to select everything in this zip file and drag it into the root directory of the sd card And then I will safely eject that and I will put that back into the camera Now hopefully this time I can go to a firmware upgrade and it should find the magic lantern software and install it So I'm going to press the menu button And I'm already on the firmware screen here. I'm going to choose that I'm going to choose okay and see if it finds the magic lantern software And there we go. Uh, that only took a couple of seconds And it says restart your camera and I will do that. I'll turn it off And I'll turn it back on one thing you do want to do on the sd card now It has created a folder ml and then another folder called logs and there are some ROM files in there So it pulled the original firmware off the camera So you can make a copy of that you should back it up in case you ever want to go back to the original But again, uh, I need this sd card in there for the magic lantern software to run If I don't put in the card that has the magic lantern software on it the camera should just run as normal So I don't see why you need to redo it But you do want to back up those files in case there's a problem down the line Uh, let's go ahead and see what the magic lantern software can do. So again, uh from what I've read and watched online I just tapped the uh Delete button a couple times a little trash can here And look now we're in some special software here where we can go through and we have a whole bunch of options That we didn't have before so again, my goal is to remove all these overlays From my screen while i'm doing using the camera as a webcam Now there is a button here. Uh, that allows me to remove overlays if I do info That turns off that and actually now that magic lantern is installed It's going to give me all these extra options But if I hit info again, most of it goes away, but that stays there now you might also notice, uh These extra dots that's if autofocus sun so I turn off autofocus to get rid of all those little squares But again hitting info I can go through all this but that white square always stays there So how do we get rid of that? We're going to go back into magic lantern software by hitting the garbage can here And then there's an option Right here, so you go over to where it's the picture of the camera with the little display There's an overlay option I'm going to click that and you have different options and I'm just going to say always And now if I go back out to the camera, you can see they're all missing now If I hit info Yep, it doesn't bring up anything So I have no information on my screen, but I can now use this as a webcam through hdmi Well, I'm really glad I didn't break my phone watching videos on this It seemed very unlikely that you're going to hurt the phone. Um or phone It's a camera I didn't brick my camera that I love it has newer firmware on it and it has the magic lantern software, which is awesome again, it's something I've always been interested in but I I didn't want to mess up my camera and I all the functionality I needed was already there But now there's more functionality things I may not have thought of not have thought of things I may not have thought I needed are now there so I can look through them And maybe I can improve some other things I've done But I think it's going to be great that I can use this as a webcam because I've bought a few webcams over the years And I've always been unhappy with them and you never know what the quality is going to look like until you get them Uh, and I know the picture quality with this is awesome. So, uh, yeah Now I just need to test out that uh usb c to hdmi capture card to see uh, how well the capture goes off a $15 device But I thank you for joining me in this journey and as always, please visit films by chris.com That's chris of the k. There's a link in the description and as always, I hope that you have a great day


These are super fresh, they're piping hot. It's actually like almost burning my hands. Ah! What's going on, guys? Welcome to the second city on our Texas city tour, Austin, Texas. This place of any city in Texas is known for its food scene. Yo, Jack, you have spent a lot of time in Austin. A lot of time. I mean, honestly, I've seen a change. A lot of tech has moved in here. A lot of wealthier people have moved in. So, you know, the standard is raising. All right, well, we gotta figure out because we are going on a Texas food tour, meaning we are eating some of the best barbecue. We are gonna be eating some of the best fried chicken. We are eating the best burgers from Austin, and then we're gonna be eating the best Tex-Mex breakfast tacos. Aren't you guys? We have arrived at Nickelwaite Craft Meats.  I will say, we read a lot of articles and this spot always shows up in your top 10 list of barbecue spots. No way, no way. It's actually top five. And it's top five for no weight. They say it's the best value considering the weight. Yeah, you can go to Franklin's, but you're waiting like three to five hours. This spot is award-winning in its own route, okay? We're about to find out. Quick take. Is Austin the center of barbecue for Texas, would you say? No, no, like for capita, I think for higher-ranking barbecues, we're all coming out of Austin. If you look at the Texas barbecue top 10, most of all of those are based in Austin. It's awesome that we've come out of Austin. Dude, thank you, I'm looking forward to it. All right, enjoy. Thank you. So, they ran out of their goat and their pork shoulder, which would have been cool to get, but it's all good. You know, we really gotta focus on the brisket. The brisket. The brisket. All about the brisket. We gotta worry about the brisky. Hey, we were filming a YouTube video about Texas barbecue. I wanna know if I could just talk to you for a second. Sure. Dude, what made you guys want to come to Mickleway versus the other barbecue spots? You know, we were actually just down the street for the Franklin's and then you saw, I don't know if you saw the line there. Line looked crazy already. It was like about a three hour wait. Yo, I'm not gonna lie, I thought it was interesting to see other Asian people here. So I thought it was funny. Cause we went by Franklin's. There wasn't that many Asian people waiting in line. Cause I think Asian people, we don't want to wait. Asian people love Mickleway. Of course. Co-sign, aren't you guys, the food here at Mickleway has arrived. We got a lot of stuff to eat today. We have a lot to eat today, all right? So we're tasting it. So what we have here is the brisket. Apparently guys, there are two different types of brisket. One's lean, one's moist. And what is it? Jack, you were saying it's like a bad cut of meat in a way? I heard it was supposed to be a really tough, hard piece of meat. And through slow cooking, it softens and looks like this after. This is beef brisket. Wow. Smoky, fatty. That was gotta be the smokiest piece of brisket I've ever had. They definitely cooked it really slowly. It seems like they put a lot of time into it. But you guys, we are trying central style Texas barbecue of the pork rib. Oh, super smoky. That might have been the best barbecue pork rib I've ever had. Wow. To be fair. It was really good. I don't eat this very often, though. Let's just say I've had more shallowing bios in my life than I've ever had. All right guys, the other popular thing here is the Czech Tex style sausage. You mean as in Czechoslovakia? What does that mean exactly? What comes to mind when you think of Czech? Not Texas. I've never had something like that. Barbecue chicken. Low and slow. That skin was crispier than I thought. Sir, for that being white meat. Yeah, that's really good. Really flavorful. Favorite meat so far? I gotta go with the pork rib. I'm going with the rib, too. I'm actually still gonna roll with the brisket. This other thing here that I'm sure they don't have at every other barbecue spot is this Frito pie. The Frito chips, okay? And then you have chili, cheese, jalapeno, sour cream. It's pretty much like nachos with a slice of brisket on top. You know where they were already eating Frito pies was in King and the Hill? Hi, Mrs. Halloway. Want some cold Frito pie? Yo, have you ever had a Frito pie? No, never had a Frito pie. This is actually my first Frito pie ever. Have you? I've just heard about it in culture, but I don't know. I think I had it, to be honest, like somebody's mom cooked it before. Really? In Kent? Yeah, like one of those like potluck things, you know? Well, tell you this, they weren't Asian, okay? Yo, I don't know, can we make this Asian? Texas brisket Frito pie. I want to say it's a lot richer than nachos. It don't taste like nachos fully. The combination of all those flavors, I think it went well together. Hold up, guys, I'm gonna try some crazy. Sandwich? Yeah.  Nah, you're not gonna throw the mac and cheese in there. Say I won't! Say I won't! Oh. If you guys know Andrew, Andrew's been doing this since he's about six years old. Yo, how are the sides, guys? This all tastes the side real quick. Mac and cheese first, all right? Mac and cheese, I thought the mac and cheese could have had a little bit more cheese flavor. Cheesy grits, that is good. The jalapeno with cheese must be good. Going with the beans, the beans? Bean direction kinda good. And last but not least, guys, they got the lemon poppy coleslaw. Yip stop. They put kale in the coleslaw? Kale in the coleslaw, I don't see them anymore. Guys, I don't want to be all California with it, but the coleslaw with the kale was nice. I did see one review from like a Texas person going to Maine, this ain't Texas barbecue, this is more like for San Francisco tech hipsters. I saw that on the Yelp review. All right, guys, I don't want to sit here and pretend like I have the best sensor for like Texas barbecue. What? I just like what I like. Overall, that pork rib was fire. It was super fire. That was the best pork rib I've ever had. Man, it was a great introduction. And you know, it goes to show you that, you know, just being in central Texas was a dope cultural experience. And also, you know, a lot of Asian people here. I'm just saying. Yo, let's just say this, let's just say this, let's just say this, you guys. Is that funny? That's funny. If you're not trying to spend your whole day waiting at a ultra famous barbecue spot, I do recommend McAway as a great alternative option. Yeah. All right, guys, our next spot is Gus's world famous fried chicken. Let's go. You guys, we have arrived at Gus's fried chicken. You guys, this is the most reviewed spot in all of Austin. That is crazy. They say there's the best fried chicken in Austin. This is it. Hey, I'll tell you this. There's something about the chickens here in Austin that have been here. Really good. Yeah. Gus's fried chicken. Let's go. Do you guys have fried chicken like that? Where are you from? Britain, England. Not as good as this, no. You know, we've got KFC, that's what I'm saying. Guys, a huge plate of Gus's fried chicken just hit our table. We got three of each piece. You're starting with the breast. Breast, then we're going to move to the thighs, then we're going to go to the drums, and then the wings, dude. These are super fresh. They're piping hot. It's actually like almost burning my hand to even touch them. You guys, this chicken has never been frozen and it's cooked in peanut oil. So I believe that's different. Mm. My gosh. Do you see this? Andrew, I know you like yourself a good juicy breast. Oh, man. I think the breast is the best way to judge it. Dude, thighs are always good, man. Thighs are the best, but when they do a good breast, that's when you know it's good. Hey, so it's spilling some juice, but it's not overly juicy. Yo, I got that little chili kick. It's a bit spicy. Is it crazy to say that I can taste the peanut oil like it's a little nutty? I don't want to say it. Texturized like catfish. Yo, the crunch is like lechon. Oh my gosh, that is steaming, bro. Yo, guys, I don't want to be the one to say this, but it kind of tastes Asian. I'm getting like a sesame flavor from it, and it might be from the peanut oil. The breast was crazy juicy. It was fresh. I have no complaints. I'm moving on to the thigh, guys. For me, this next thigh piece, I'm going to hit it with a little sauce. A little hot. What kind of sauce is this right here? Louisiana had a hot sauce right there. Catch up right here. Boom. Just a little bit. The thigh here at Gus's. Get close to it. Ooh. Fire. Some of the best chicken I've ever had. Look at this texture. Tender. What's different about it, David? What do you taste in it? Tastes like chicken. The texture. But the tenderness of fish. Tenderness. Juiciness of fish. All right. My personal favorite piece. This is personally my favorite piece.  It was fire. I will say so. That bite was crazy. It's not overflowingly juicy. You know, sometimes I've gotten fried chicken that was really fresh and then you bite into it and the juice just squirts out. I don't know if we're topping that, bro. I don't know. Wing time, baby. That was a delicious little bite, but that's all the meat you get right there. That's it. I ate it in one swoop. Man, the wing has got to be up there too. Oh my gosh. This is the most reviewed spot in Austin. So I'm kind of wondering, I was like, okay, is it overrated? I don't think it's overrated. It's not overrated. Personally, I don't. It is not overrated. The guss is worth the hype. Five out of five for me, man. Guss is five out of five. Man, I'm super excited to move on to the next spot, guys. All right, you guys, make sure you like this video. I always say that going on food tours is a great way to explore the city. Thank you guys. Next up, I hope you guys save some room because we are going to Jack's favorite burger spot in the world. Next stop is Hop Dotties. That's an Austin original. All right, Jack. We have arrived. You gotta let us know, man. We have arrived. Have been talking about this spot since we got to Texas. From Austin. It is from Austin. And it is going national right now. And it's going national and you love it. This is your favorite burger spot in the entire country. It's kind of like pokey where each ingredient comes together. It's so good. It does look like a Shake Shack. It does look. It does look like a Shake Shack. But I'm ready. It does look like a Shake Shack. All right, Hop Dottie versus Shake Shack. Let's go. Let's go to Hop Dottie. Jack, what are you talking about? You said this is the beginning of the experience like Parmesan, truffle fries, the sauces, truffle. All right, I'm in. It's a little bougie, but it's good. This is in the real sugar ketchup. You know what, Andrew? I feel like this spot is for people who identify as elevating merkins. Yeah. Because this is what this food is, is elevating American food. This whole kind of tour that we've been on so far has been eating high level, top level American food, whether it's barbecue brisket. It was fried chicken. Now we're eating burgers, but this is obviously not your average burger spot. We're here to find out why they started in Austin or Texas. This, I'll tell you this, Shake Shack does not have anything disinvented. Dude, this ahi tuna, burger has the fried nori. It has the ginger in it. Tempura nori. Tempura nori, point. No, this has some crazy elements I've never had to see before. All right guys, ahi tuna at Hop Dottie. It tastes like sushi. Wow. No ginger, no wasabi, aioli. Of the ahi tuna sandwiches I've had, I got rings up there. That's like top two. Okay, so this is the prime time. This is their like signature, the main, regular sandwiches you gotta get. Yo Jack, is this normally what you get here? This is normally what I get. You get the prime time. I get the prime time. Right. The ground beef is ground a little bit more fine. Oh man, that's so good. I think we go on the bison. Oh, look at this, this looks like a pie. It's beautiful, look, I gotta give it to them. The presentation is crazy. I don't know why, but I feel stronger after eating that. Ah. You know, bison tastes meatier than beef. That's not a beta, that's not a beta protein. That's an alpha protein, alpha. It's hitting the bloodstream. Oh really? We're hitting the gym tonight. I feel different after eating bison. Ah. This is a double jam with a double patty. Dude, would you guys agree that every single burger we've tried really had a whole different complexion? Yeah. They both, they're all taste unique. I believe this actually has what, like jam? That's jam? That's jam. Bacon jam. Bacon jam. I dipped it in the ranch. This dude tastes like a better version of something you had in Burger King. The other burgers, I think, people who are just into their burgers, they might not feel as much, but that one. We gotta finish off with the milkshake. It's a strawberry shortbread milkshake. You know, I will say this, hot doddy is kinda lit. Like, you can put booze in all your milkshakes. They didn't ask, they didn't ask for ID or anything. This guy. All right, all right, it's good, it's good. It tastes like strawberry. Damn. Tastes like that ice cream bar. I know why you say it's better than Shake Shack. But, it's better than Shake Shack in my opinion. They're like, I'm better because I don't even eat Shake Shack. There was a time when Shake Shack was king. Uh-oh. And now, it's hot doddies time. Whoa. That's how I say it. That's how I say it. It hits a home run every single time. What is your favorite burger? Crazy. The L.D. Alvolo is an avocado burger. Hey guys, on this crazy Texas tour, we got one more spot to hit up because we gotta get breakfast tacos. Aren't you guys, we have arrived at our last and final, but not least spot on our Austin food tour. Torchies Tacos. Torchies.  Clearly. Is it? It is. It's Tuesday. It is Tuesday. Taco. I gotta finish it. Let's go get torched, baby. And not least, you guys, we have breakfast tacos here at Torchies Tacos. Let's go. Okay, we got our tacos. It's sort of like their own re-imagining of Tex-Mex, right? Yeah. Basically. So what do you guys look at? I mean, this is a whole breakfast omelet in taco. This ain't even a taco. What is this? This one's crazy. All right, everybody, we're just gonna pick a taco. How do you guys like to sauce your tacos? I'm a big fan of green sauce. Guys, let's go in on these breakfast tacos. Austin's famous for them. It's almost like a new way to eat your favorite Tex-Mex foods by just putting them in a tortilla. I love the egg dough. The way the egg is cooked, it's fluffy. All right, man, which one do you guys wanna go in on? I was looking at the Baja shrimp, man. Oh, man, that was a good one. Jack, go for it. Salmon? You giving me the salmon?  What are they eating? Yeah, no, this looks like it. Man, this looks like it has chashu in it. It looked like you could eat that for a whole week. Fire? There was a ton of shrimp in that. I can't say that was my favorite. For sure it wasn't, but it wasn't bad either. You don't need that. That is jam packed, man. I don't know what this worker looked like, but man, he made that thing. I like the avocado in that salmon. If I can say I'm a bit spicy, what's that? Let me give me the chili con queso, okay? Give me the chili. I think they're known for their queso, actually. The only time I've ever been to a torches, I only had queso. I never actually had the tacos. I would pay queso, many quesos for this queso. Queso is five. Queso? Well, let me try the Democrat. I gotta try the Democrat. They did run out of barbecua today at the barbecue spot, so I'm gonna run out. It's pretty good. Oh, we even had this. Guys, this is, David, guess what this is? You don't know what this is. It's a fried McDonald's of chocolate chip cookie dough. No. Take one, say no more, say no more. All right, guys, this is fried cookie dough. Oh, man, this is gonna give me a heart attack. That's actually just rolled in corn flakes and then fried. So it's extra crispy on the outside and semi-cooked on the inside. All right, you guys, I mean, we are at the end of our Austin tour. We've had so many things that I've never had today. I know we went to a lot of big chain restaurants today, so you're like, oh, you guys didn't hit up the hole in the wall spots, but this really gave you a taste of the common food that's in Austin. These are all spots that are packed during lunchtime. That's how you know it's a staple. Nothing is like the authenticity of Texas. All right, everybody, that wraps up our Austin food tour. We have so many more spots to hit up, but we gotta move on to Dallas. So hit the like button, subscribe to this video, check out Jack's links down below. Man, glad we can make this trip. And guys, in the comments below, let us know if there's any other cities that we should go visit because we are on a tour to explore culture through food and let us know if there's any interesting restaurants in those cities too. I wanna know the specific names. So far, I gotta say, Texas has not disappointed. Texas has not disappointed. I'm glad we came, guys. Thank you, Jack. Thank you for rolling with us on this trip. And guys, until next time, we're out. Peace.


Between 1989 and 2012, First Nations children spent 66 million sleeps away from their family. And I think about that. I think about children in my own life going to bed. They might have their favorite blanket or their teddy bear and they're asking you the stories of what was it like when you were little?  I want children to be able to hear those stories from their parents who also grew up at home. And I want every child to feel as sacred as people say they are. Not just by hearing the words I love you and I'll be there for you and I'll put you first, but by seeing people and their own government actually do it. Because right now the government is saying we care about you and in their actions they're putting the kids second and that's got to stop. You know I'm a Harry Potter fan and one of my favorite characters is Luna Lovegood and there's a scene where Harry's feeling very much alone and he's out there with Luna and he says you know I feel so alone in this battle and Luna says I don't think that's true. I think that's the way that they want you to feel but I don't think that's true and you need to believe it too because if it was just you alone they would have taken you out but it's because of all the people who truly believe in you who believe not just in you but more importantly in what you're standing for for the children all over this country then they can do nothing to you and that's been my experience. This is not about me it's about something far more important it's about the lives of children First Nations children who want to grow up to be proud of who they are with their families and communities and have a good education and speak their languages and practice their cultures and the non-aboriginal kids who want to do the same thing and think that First Nations cultures are pretty cool it's time for justice and equity.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is Syria and Eiridhavizi. Team of the season is coming out today. We need to take a look at the market and talk through some things that we can do to make some coins during the lightning rounds today and just throughout this Friday and into the weekend on FIFA Ultimate Team, especially regarding the new team of the season cards that are going to be coming out and everything with the emphasis around the Syria. Now I'm recording this video, obviously, before Syria Tats is coming out, but we know what's coming and we know kind of the pattern of what's been happening the past couple of weeks, so that's why I wanna take a look back at some of those patterns as well as look at some cards from the Syria and from the Eiridhavizi that I think have a good shot to go up. Now we talked about this yesterday a little bit in the video, talking about, in my video yesterday, talking about Syria team of the season cards that either get a Tats or don't get a team this season and a lot of them just generally rise because people use the Tats cards, they go out, they make teams with these cards, they play with them, they have fun with them. We saw it a lot this week with some of the La Liga cards that I have actually here on my transfer list, you see some of these cards have risen up a decent amount in price that I have been able to flip and get some decent money for because of the rising prices throughout the week of when that league is in team this season. So this week with the Syria, I first wanna talk about how to make some coins during the lightning rounds, but we gotta start before that, before the lightning rounds come out, when you're watching this video right now, if it is before the lightning rounds that are coming out, you have a chance to pick up on some of the panic selling of these cards. Now, obviously I have talked about this in my video yesterday, but this is the prime time for the panic. A couple of hours before the team of the season actually comes out. So make yourself a concept squad really quick with some cards like this, some very meta usable popular Syria players and just be watching their price. You know, today we got the new foot swaps. So that's affecting this Alexandros cards price. Obviously he requires a decent amount of foot swaps so he's not going to be attainable right away. I do think he's gonna get a team this season card. It's gonna blow this card out of the water and everybody's gonna be thinking that it's crazy, but it's gonna be a very, very, very expensive card with him being Brazilian and Juventus. You're gonna see this headliner card maybe take a hit in price. As people see, he gets a tots card. You see this card take a hit in price, but it's going to rebound as people who panic sold that card realize that the team of the season is way too expensive and it's so rare on the market right away when it comes out into the game that they can't buy it, that they're gonna go back and buy that headliner card because of the weekend leak. And that is the most important thing when you're thinking about buying cards before team of the season. If you see some panic selling on any type of special card in form, stuff like that, you wanna make sure that it is weekend leak usable and playable because everybody's gonna be buying teams back to play the weekend leak after that tots hype, the 6pm UK drop happens. So that's a really important point. If you're buying those special cards in the hype like we talked about in yesterday's video, check that out if you haven't. I know I've mentioned it a couple times, but make sure they are those meta usable weekend leak players. Now, I wanna focus more on the lightning rounds and how to make some coins off of that because there are a lot of ways to make coins during lightning rounds when those packs do come onto the market. Obviously, everybody's attention, it's turned to the new team of the season players. So that opens up a very, very wide opportunity to make some coins in other areas of the market as people are wanting to see how much these cards are when they come onto the market and how much they are coming onto the market like their pack weight. So we're not gonna focus on those cards. If you wanna make some coins, this is a very, very easy way to do it. Now, obviously we know that the upgrade SBCs that have been coming out into the store have been requiring rare gold cards from that specific league that is out. So obviously this week, La Liga 81 plus double guarantee. You need 11 rare La Liga Santander players. So this next week, Syria, what are you gonna need? You're gonna need 11 rare Syria players. Now, a lot of people have already been bidding up these cards and these prices have gone up a bit, but you see the La Liga cards, now that we're almost done with that SBC, it's Thursday, the La Liga team this season is about to go out of packs. A lot of those La Liga rares are like 2,000 coins. This is just one that comes to mind because I've been buying him to do the 81 plus SBC. He's up here at 1,900 coins for this 80 rated goalkeeper. That's gonna happen to all the rares for Syria next week as well. And you're gonna have Ronaldo, and if they boost some of these guys in this team this season, those cards could really rise a lot. So just gonna go gold.  If you can get these cards under 1,000 coins, if you're a low budget guy, get on the bids during lightning rounds and get sniping as well. Don't be afraid to pay 800, 900 under 1,000 for some of these cards because look, people are already bidding these up so high because they want to stock their club with them and get ready to do these packs. So you can either stock them in your club, even going assigned on them if you want to, to be able to do a lot of upgrade packs when those come out, or you can stock them in your club, put them on your transfer list and sell them for a profit later in the week. If you're a low coin guy, this is a great way to double your coins every week, buy some rare cards from the league that is in team this season and sell them after the upgrade SBC comes out, like one or two days after when those prices really start to rise. That's a really easy way to make coins if you're a low budget guy. The next way to make coins during lightning rounds is, we're gonna look at, obviously, some of these higher rated golds. I'm gonna move this over for you guys so you can actually see what's going on here. But a lot of these cards get packed and packed and packed during the team of the season and there's a lot of supply of these cards coming onto the market right away and they're very important for SBCs throughout the later of the week as people go and do the guaranteed SBCs that require higher rated 85, 86 rated squads with a TOTS card and as they complete icon SBCs throughout the week as well. So you can see right here, this montage card went to a low of 17,000 coins on Sunday during LaLiga TOTS, bumped right back up to 18, 19,000 coins as more SBCs came out during the week. People are doing the upgrade packs, they're crafting their icons and this is a very good investment to stock your club with. I just deleted the page. Let's go back to it, cheapest players by rating during the lightning rounds. It's a great time to stock your club and to stock up on some of these high rated gold cards, get them on bid as well. An hour after that first lightning round comes around, usually about two PM my time, seven PM UK. You have all the people that got packed cards right away. Maybe they listed too high. You have all the people reselling those cards like the seven PM to seven, 10 PM timeframe, two PM Eastern to two 10 PM in that timeframe and you also have all the bids. People that just pack a card when they're doing lightning rounds, if they pack the card, they list it up for open bid. That's a great time to get cheap prices on the market because everybody's gonna be focused on the new team the season cards. They're not gonna be focused on stocking their club with some high rated gold. So again, focus on high rated golds. I'm gonna say first of all, focus on high rated golds from the Serie A because those cards are going to be required if they're not in team of the season. Like let's say Parasich doesn't get a team of the season card. Watch his left mid card. If you see any of these 86s, the buy ranges for these cards, 86 rated cards, I'm gonna say around 15 to 16 K, 85s. You're looking for like 9,000 coins. 87s, you're looking for 20 K flat. 88s, you're looking for under 30 K or right around 30 K for most of them. And the 89s, you're looking to get under 40,000 coins for those cards as well. But really focus on the 85s, the 86s, and the 87s as well because most of the SBCs that they've been putting out recently in the store have been somewhere between 84 and an 86 rating. So that's gonna cover the basis for a lot of those cards.  And I think Casimir requires a couple 84s and maybe an 85. Yeah, 185 right there. So that's not too bad. That's a usual, like that's a usual Tatsumomens SBC. And as you can tell from these requirements, you need La Liga players, one for there, Brazil and Real Madrid, so La Liga. You're gonna need some Serie A players coming up in the next week. I know it's not the most glamorous way to invest and make coins during team of the season lighting rounds, but that is a very simple and a very fail-safe and fool-proof way to make coins during that time. It's a stock up on your SBC requirements. Even look at the current team of the week. I have not looked at the team of the week because usually these team of the weeks kind of at the end of the year aren't the best. And I don't really see too many good investments when we look at this team of the week. This Ronaldo Augusto card, that could be a decent investment. Watch him during lighting rounds but make sure you stock up on your discard informs because a lot of people are doing these icon SBCs right now and you need informs in some of the icon SBCs. You don't really need a rating for some of the lower ones. But this Ronaldo Augusto, if you see him during lighting rounds, like 20,000 coins, 22,000, 23K, that's a definite buy for an 84-rated card. So watch the team of the week, watch the high-rated golds. Those are gonna be good pickups. And I wanna look at one more thing. This is kind of a high-budget thing on the market. This is something that I like to do a ton during lighting rounds on it. There's not a lot of people that do this, especially now, later in the year. We're gonna look at icons. First off, we're gonna look at the icon floor. Like I said, a lot of people are doing icon SBCs right now because there's a lot of coins on the game and people are just having fun at the end of the game. They're getting all these coins from rewards. They're just getting on the game, doing icon SBCs and you need icons, excuse me, to complete those SBCs. So, right now you see the baby icon floor at about 318,000 coins. That is up recently over the last couple of weeks as people have continued to complete icon SBCs. Watch this icon floor. You can honestly sit here. If during lighting rounds, this is something you wanna do, sit here during lighting rounds and you know they're going for about 318. You could probably expect that floor to drop down to around 300,000 coins or so. Maybe drop 15 to 20K during lighting rounds. Maybe you just sit here and snipe for 280. Maybe you just sit here and snipe for a couple minutes. See if you can pick one up and also check on bid. Watch these icons, go on bid and there's gonna be a lot of these baby icons that are packed during that lightning round period. You're gonna have a chance to pick up some of those for cheap if you're wanting to do an SBC. But those prices are gonna continue to go up. You know, right now it's 320K. I bet next week during the week it's gonna be 330 to 340 if I would imagine because more and more people are doing SBCs with the coins that they get from these packs. So don't be afraid to look at some of these prices and to get on the icon snipes as well as if you're even a more high budget trader. This is something that I love to do. This is what I mentioned before what I love to do during lighting rounds. Set this to, set yourself a little bit of a setup like this and it works almost either way. You don't have to have 9 million coins to do this. Right now I have 5 million coins and you can see this is the filter that I'm working with. So we're gonna go league icons, chemistry style basic. Max price, you're gonna go all the way up to 15 million so that you can refresh the page every time you search. Minimum price, find something that works. You know what, maybe I'll go with 6 million because I only have 5.4 million coins liquid right now. But basically what we're doing here is we're setting up a filter to filter out a lot of those discard level icons. But we wanna include a lot of the icons that we can afford and possibly snipe. Because a lot of times people pack icons during rewards, they're fresh icons just getting packed. Especially with the introduction of icon moments, you see this, you're getting a lot of fresh icons that are coming onto the market and people just list them for too cheap sometimes. It's almost like you're watching the high rated golds during lighting rounds for people to undercut them.  It's the same thing with the icons. It's not obviously as common to see these cards listed up during lighting rounds. But let me tell you, there are so many icons that get listed up during lighting rounds. And this is a really good filter to kind of monitor that 59th minute of icons. Basically, all you need to do is sit back here. You kind of have to know your icon prices though. That's one thing. But you can have foot bin at your side and ready. Let's say I'm here, this bird camp pops up on the 59th minute for 900,000 coins flat.  You run over to foot bin really quick and you type in bird camp. Is this a deal? You look at foot bin, bird camp, 999K. You look at his graph, you see, okay, a bird camp, a fresh one at 900K flat, that is a deal. You can pick it up and you can sell it later in the evening when the market flies up after the lighting rounds and after the hype has settled down and people buy their Week in League teams back. So that's one way that you can make coins on a higher budget but the whole entire value of this, whether you're buying cards in the panic selling before TOTS, whether you're stocking up on the golds or whether you're messing around with icons, you can make a lot of coins during the lighting rounds just because there's so much going on. There's panic selling, there's cards being packed, there's fresh icons coming onto the market and of course there's team of the season cards. You're gonna have an opportunity to make coins on team of the season cards that have price range problems. So we're gonna look at the La Liga team of the season right here. I wasn't very active last Friday when this came out but I know there were icons, there were team of the season cards that were extinct because their price ranges weren't updated correctly. I think Usman Dembele was one of them. If you go right at the start of the game or right at the start of the drop when these TOTS cards do come out onto the market and you see, let's say tomorrow somebody, somebody who's pretty packable but is very OP, let's say they re-release, no not re-release, let's say they release a team of the season nine goaling card. He's got juiced stats, he's like club 80, some 90 stats and right away you see that that card's price cap is somewhere around a million coins.  Let's say that happens. Well, you might realize his card is getting insta-bought right away and you look at that card and you know nine goaling is hype, he's an OP player in this game, very good and he's meta, so that's the same thing, OP and meta, I just said the same thing but a card like that with nine goaling, I mean that card's probably worth right around a million coins or over that first day in the hype especially he's very linkable and people like to use his card but if his price range let's say is like 600K or something way too stupid cheap you can get on the snipes, it's risky, it's very risky but you can wait for that price range update to come and then list those cards when the price range update happens and make some coins on that. I know there was people that made a lot of coins off of a bombing that first week because of his price range was very low, it got updated and his price just kept going higher. Now obviously these Syriac cards aren't gonna have the same type of hype as Premier League did neither will the Air Divisie cards but there's gonna be a lot of hype around those cards. I think this is gonna be a good mix for Syriac and Air Divisie, you have some hype players from the Air Divisie this year with all the Champions League hype going around Ajax and all the cards like Taglia, Fico, Gata Tots, you know the delict and stuff like that so keep an eye on a lot of the stuff that's gonna happen today and you're gonna be able to make coins during Lightning Rounds because ultimately what's happening is people are opening packs, coins are coming onto the market and with those coins people are gonna go do SBCs, they're going to go buy players, they're going to go push the market up in the hours after those Lightning Rounds do come out so it's gonna be a great way to make coins tomorrow by the panic selling cards, just honestly make yourself a concept squad like I talked about earlier, that's a great way to filter out those cards, stock your clubs with the rare golds, I would honestly recommend everybody do that, whatever budget you're on, stock your club with some rare golds from the Syria for less than a thousand coins, maybe 800 to 900 coins to get ready for the upgrade SBCs later in the week and of course stock your club with the high rates, look at the 85s through the 88s in that price range and we will be looking for the rebound after all the Lightning Rounds do come out during team of the season. If you enjoyed the video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new, it's been Nate, the photo accountant, catch you guys later, peace out.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late sports cards ripping two boxes of 22 Bowman Draft Sapphire Edition baseball for Jacob L. It's a good luck here Jacob. See what we got in here for you buddy. Alex Freeland, Cooper Jurp, Andrew Pintar, Traylips going first. First Carson Palmquist, Coffey Jackson Cox, and Ol' Rodriguez, Aleno, Brady House, first Pete Hansen, Jackson Holiday first, nice, Cole Phillips, Alice Daces. Again all of these cards will be sleet and top-loaded to Jacob just so you're aware. Can't help but laugh. Noah Schultz, Gabriel Rincone, Samuel Munoz. Should have two color parallels in here. There's a teal is Ryan Ritter on the first 17 out of 20 for the Rockies. Nice one there. Ryan Ritter, 17 of 20 on the teal. Jared McKenzie first and Stephen Zobac. There'll be a yellow in here as well. Yep. Snelling. There is Kumar Rocker, 57 out of 99. Nice one there. Vanderbilt Legend. Congrats on that there. Jacob, very solid hit coming right, and Chase the Lauder. And box two. Vandy Dandy, Eric Brown first. First Cole Young, Henry Bolt first. There's a Brooks Lee, nice. Moore first. First Logan Tanner. Jimmy Crooks, Trace Gonzalez, Warming Burnable. That's holding freeze and alarm. Never too late for that. Marcy first, Troy Melton first, Ben Joyce first, and Connor Prilip. Noice Joyce. Always got to hit it with that as well. Never too late for that either. Never too late. Never. Some Mots first. Jackson Job. Two to go. Should have our two numbered cards as well. We've got a green is Dolan Rushing, 34 out of 50. Nice one there for the Dodgers. Heck yeah. Congrats on that one, Jacob. Dolan Rushing. Yerlan Confidant. Zack Nido, and that's a Nido Nido. Man, we're just getting everybody. We need a let's go in the last game. Got yellow, Jew Baker, James Triantos. That is Edison Paulino, 50 out of 99. Nice one there for the Red Sox, and a Samuel Zavala. I'll do it for your break there. Jacob, thanks again for the support, my friend. We'll get those right out to you, buddy.


And welcome to theCUBE's coverage of CouchBaseConnect Online. Mary Roth, VP of Engineering Operations with CouchBase is here for CouchBaseConnect Online. Mary, great to see you. Thanks for coming on remotely for this segment. Thank you very much. It's great to be here. Love the fire in the background. Little fireside chat here kind of happening, but I want to get into it because, you know, engineering and operations with the pandemic has really kind of shown that, you know, engineers and developers have been good working remotely for a while, but for the most part it's impacted companies in general across the organizations. How did the CouchBase engineering team adapt to the remote work? Great question. And I actually think the CouchBase team responded very well to this new model of working imposed by the pandemic. And I have a unique perspective on the CouchBase journey. I joined in February, 2020, after 20 plus years at IBM, which had embraced a hybrid in-office remote work model many years earlier. So in my IBM career, I live four minutes away from my research lab in Almedin Valley, but IBM is a global company with headquarters on the East Coast. And so throughout my career, I often found myself on phone calls with people around the globe at 5 a.m. in the morning. I quickly learned and quickly adapted to a hybrid model. I'd go into the office to collaborate and have in-person meetings when needed. But if I was on the phone at 5 a.m. in the morning, I didn't feel the need to get up at 4, 3 a.m. to go in. I just worked from home and I discovered I could be more productive there doing think-time work. And I really only needed the in-person time for collaboration. This hybrid model allowed me to have a great career at IBM and raise my two daughters at the same time. So when I joined CouchBase, I joined a company that was all about being in-person. And instead of a four-minute commute, it was going to be an hour or more commute for me each way. This was gonna be a really big transition for me. But I was excited enough by CouchBase and what it offered that I decided to give it a try. Well, that was February 2020. I showed up early in the morning on March 10th, 2020 for an early morning meeting in-person, only to learn that I was one of the only few people that didn't get the memo. We were switching to a remote working model. And so over the last year, I have had the ability to watch CouchBase and other companies pivot to make this remote working model possible and not only possible, but effective. And I'm really happy to see the results. A remote work model does have its challenges, that's for sure, but it also has its benefits, better work-life balance and more time to interact with family members during the day and more quiet time just to think. We just did a retrospective on a major product release, CouchBase Server 7.0, that we did over the past 18 months. And one of the major insights by the leadership team is that working from home actually made people more effective. I don't think a full remote model is the right approach going forward, but a hybrid model that IBM adopted many years ago and that I was able to participate in for most of my career, I believe is a healthier and more productive approach. Well, great story. I love the, you come back and now you take the leverage of all the best practice from the IBM days, but how did your team and the CouchBase engineering team react? And were there any best practices or key learnings that you guys pulled out of that? The initial reaction was not good. I mean, as I mentioned, it was a culture based on in-person. People had to be in-person, not in-person meetings. So it took a while to get used to it, but there was a forcing function, right? We had to work remotely. That was the only option. And so people made it work. I think the advancement of virtual meeting technology really helps a lot over earlier days in my career where I had just bad phone connections. That was very difficult, but with the virtual meetings that you have, where you can actually see people and interact, I think is really quite helpful. What's the DNA of the culture there? What's the DNA? Every company's got the DNA. Intel's Moore's Law. What's the engineering culture at CouchBase? Like if you could describe it. The engineering culture at CouchBase is very familiar to me. We are at our heart, a database company, and I grew up in the database world, which has a very unique culture based on two values, merit and mentorship. And we also focus on something that I like to call growing the next generation. Now database technology started in the late 60s, early 70s with a few key players and institutions. These key players were extremely bright and they tackled and solved really hard problems with elegant solutions long before anybody knew they were gonna be necessary. Now those original key players, people like Jim Gray, Bruce Lindsay, Don Chamberlain, Pat Selinger, David DeWitt, Michael Stonebreaker, they just love solving hard problems and they wanted to share that elegance with a new generation. And so they really focused on growing the next generation of leaders, which became the Mike Carey's and the Mohans and the lower houses of the world. And that culture grew over multiple generations with the previous generation cultivating, challenging and advocating for the next. I was really lucky to grow up in that culture and I've advanced my career as a result as being part of it. The reason I joined Couchbase is because I see that culture alive and well here. Our two fundamental values on the engineering side are merit and mentorship. One of the things I want to get your thoughts on on the database questions. I remember, you know, back in the old glory days you mentioned some of those luminaries. You know, there wasn't many database geeks out there. There's very kind of small community now as databases are everywhere. So you're seeing, there's no one database that's ruled in the world, you're starting to see a pattern of database kinds of things emerging more databases than ever before. They're on the internet, they're on the cloud, they're on the edge. It's essentially we're living in a large distributed computing environment. So now it's cool to be in databases because they're everywhere. So, I mean, this is kind of, we were right. What's your reaction to that? You're absolutely right. There used to be a few small vendors and a few key technologies and it's grown over the years but the fundamental problems are the same. Data integrity, performance and scalability in the face of distributed systems. Those were all the hard problems that those key leaders solved back in the 60s and 70s. They're not new problems, they're still there and they did a lot of the fundamental work that you can apply and reapply in different scenarios and situations. It's pretty exciting. I love the different architectures that are emerging and allows for more creativity for application developers and this becomes like the key thing we're seeing right now, driving the business and the big conversation here at the event is the power in these modern applications that need low latency. There's no more, not many spinning disks anymore. It's all in RAM, all these kinds of different memory. You got decentralization, all kinds of new constructs. How do you make sense of it all? How do you talk to customers? What's the main core thing happening right now if you had to describe it? Yeah, it depends on the type of customer you're talking to. We have focused primarily on the enterprise market and in that market, there are really fundamental issues. Information for these enterprises is key. It's their core asset that they have and they understand very well that they need to protect it and make it available more quickly. I started as a DBA at Morgan Stanley back right out of college and at the time, I think it probably still is but at the time it was the best run IT shop that I'd ever seen in my life. The fundamental problems that we had to solve to get information from one stock exchange to another to get it to the SEC are the same problems that we're solving today. Back then we were working on mainframes and over high speed data com links. Today it's the same kind of problem. It's just the underlying infrastructure has changed. You know, the key has been a big supporter of women in tech. We've done thousands of interviews on why I got you. I want to ask you, if you don't mind, career advice that you'd give women who are starting out in the field of engineering, computer science. What do you wish you knew when you started your career and you could be that person now, what would you say? Yeah, well, there are a lot of things I wish I knew then that I know now but I think there are two key aspects to a successful career in engineering. I actually got started as a math major and the reason I became a math major is a little convoluted is it as a girl I was told we were bad at math. And so for some reason I decided that I had a major in it. That's actually how I got my start but I've had a great career and I think there are really two key aspects. First, and is that it is a discipline in which respect is gained through merit as I had mentioned earlier. Engineers are notoriously detail oriented and most of are perfectionists. They love elegant, well-thoued out solutions and give respect when they see one. So understanding this can be a very important advantage. If you're always prepared and you always bring your A game to every debate, every presentation, every conversation, you will build up respect among your team simply through merit. Well, that may mean that you need to be prepared to defend every point early on say in your graduate career or when you're starting. Over time, others will learn to trust your judgment and begin to intuitively follow your lead just by reputation. The reverse is also true.  So if you don't know your stuff, don't engage in the debate until you do. That's awesome. Go ahead, continue. Thank you. Now, so my second piece of advice that I wish I could have give my younger self is to understand the roles of leaders and influencers in your career and the importance of choosing and purposefully working with each. I like it to break it down into three types of influencers. Managers, mentors and advocates. So that first group are the people in your management chain. It's your first line manager, your director, your VP, et cetera. Their role in your career is to help you measure short-term success and particularly with how that success aligns with their goals and the company's goals. But it's important to understand that they are not your mentors and they may not have a direct interest in your long-term career success. I like to think of them as say your sixth grade math teacher. You know, you getting an A in the class and advancing to seventh grade, they own you for that. But whether you get that basketball scholarship to college or get into Harvard or become a CEO, they have very little influence over that. So a mentor is someone who does have a shared interest in your long-term success. Maybe by your relationship with him or her or because by helping you shape your career and achieve your own success, you help advance their goals, whether it be the company's success or helping more women achieve leadership positions or getting more kids into college on a basketball scholarship, whatever it is, they have some long-term goal that aligns with helping you with your career and they give great advice. But that mentor is not enough because they're often outside the sphere of influence in your current position and while they can offer great advice and coaching, they may not be able to help you directly advance. That's the role of the third type of influencer, somebody that I call an advocate. An advocate is someone that's in a position to directly influence your advancement and champion you and your capabilities to others. They are in influential positions and others place great value in their opinions. Advocates stay with you throughout your career and they'll continue to support you and promote you wherever you are and wherever they are, whether that's the same organization or not. They're the ones who when a leadership position opens up will say, I think Mary's the right person to take on that challenge or we need to move in a new direction. I think Mary's the right person to lead that effort. Now, advocates are the most important people to identify early on and often in your career and they're often the most overlooked. People early on often pay too much attention and rely on their management chain for advancement. Managers change on a dime but mentors and advocates are there for you for the long haul and that's one of the unique things about the database culture. Those set of advocates were just there already because they had focused on building the next generation. So I consider, Mike Kerry is my father and Mike Stonebreaker is my grandfather and Jim Gray is my great grandfather and they're always there to advocate for me. That's like a schema and a database. You got to have it all right there kind of teed up. Beautiful, great advice. Exactly, thank you for that. That was really a masterclass and that's going to be great advice for folks. Really trying to figure out how to play the cards they have and the situation and to double down or move and find other opportunities. So great stuff there. I do have to ask you, Mayor, thanks for coming on the technical side and the product side. Couch-based Capella was launched in conjunction with the event. What is the bottom line for that as in operations and engineering, built the products and rolled it out? What's the main top line message for about that product? Yeah, well, we're very excited about the release of Capella and what it brings to the table is that it's a fully managed and automated database cloud offering so that customers can focus on development and building and improving their applications and reducing the time to market without having to worry about the hard problems underneath and the operational database management efforts that come with it. As I mentioned earlier, I started my career as a UVA and it's one of the most sought after and highly paid positions in IT because operating a database required so much work. So with Capella, what we're seeing is, taking that job away from you. I'm not going to be able to apply for a DBA tomorrow. That's great stuff. Well, great, thanks for coming on. I really appreciate it. Congratulations on the company and public offering this past summer in July and thanks for that great commentary and insight on the CUBE here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mary Roth, VP of engineering operations at CouchBase, part of CouchBase Connect Online. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


Hi, everyone. Wherever you are in the world, we're going again live with the Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson. And we do have a question that was written in today and then a witness that was written in today. So I'll go into those in our practical application of today's workbook lesson. So today's lesson is workbook lesson number 13, a meaningless world and gender's fear. Today's idea is really another form of the preceding one, except that it is more specific as to the emotion aroused. Actually, a meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it. Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego, quote, challenge each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes infrantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. And on this alone, it is correct. It is essential therefore that you learn to recognize the meaningless and accept it without fear. Let's just pause for a moment. That is the key to spiritual awakening. There is, you can't say it any more direct than that. I'll repeat that sentence. It is essential therefore that you learn to recognize the meaningless and accept it without fear. We'll continue. If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess and crowded with images that do not exist. To the ego illusions are safety devices as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego. The exercises for today, which should be done about three or four times, were not more than a minute or so at most each time are to be practiced in a somewhat different way from the preceding ones. With eyes closed, repeat today's idea to yourself, then open your eyes and look about you slowly saying, I am looking at a meaningless world. Repeat this statement to yourself as you look about, then close your eyes and conclude with a meaningless world and gender's fear because I think I am in competition with God. You may find it difficult to avoid resistance in one form or another to this concluding statement. Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the quote vengeance of the quote enemy. You are not expected to believe the statement at this point and will probably dismiss it as preposterous. Note carefully, however, any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse. This is our first attempt at stating an explicit cause and effect relationship of a kind which you are very inexperienced in recognizing. Do not dwell on the concluding statement and try not even to think of it except during the practice periods. That will suffice at present. So here we are. We've made it up to workbook lesson number 13, and Jesus started this out with lesson one. Nothing I see means anything and then he continued with lesson two. I have given everything I see, all the meaning it has for me. Then he began to teach us that our thoughts didn't mean anything and that we were never upset for the reason we think and basically as he went on 5, 6, 7, 8, he's basically teaching us that when we're asleep and dreaming of exiles from God, believing that we're in a real world in a form, time, space, reality, which isn't reality at all, we have been convinced that a hallucination is real. Sometimes you hear about people who are walking in a desert for many days or weeks and they start hallucinating an oasis. It's one thing to hallucinate an oasis but to hallucinate a cosmos that God did not create is a mistake. It's an error and we are happy to remember that the Holy Spirit has already corrected that error. It's not in process of being corrected. It has been corrected. Jesus, who's our symbol, who's behind me, you can see over there. He's kind of in the light and he's waving to us. He's a beautiful symbol because basically he realized that the kingdom of heaven was real and this cosmos of time and space was not and that's why he had dominion over all the so-called laws of the world. We have good cheer. I have overcome the world. He could seem to heal the sick by the faith that was given to the healing power of God. He could raise the dead by the faith that was given to the healing power of God and it didn't matter what manner of sickness, what degree, what intensity was there physically, psychologically. It all was unreal when brought to the light, the light of Christ and the light of God's love. So when we continue on with these lessons we realize we're just making the turn here. Jesus was teaching us that the reason we are hallucinating or dreaming a world of separation is because we have thoughts that come from the ego or in Christian terms the devil, Satan. Satan has tempted our mind with a whole thought system of unreality and now the projected world that the ego made up is just a dream world but it actually seems real and it seems to have reality just because the ego projected meaning onto it and that's why Jesus just told us that it's like when you experience meaninglessness it's like the ego is trying to rush in and say you should be concerned because of this and this and this. See that? Over there, over there, up there, over there. You should be frightened because of this, this and that. You should have doubt and worry because of linear time and what seemed to occur in the past can repeat in the future and the ego is saying that's bad news. Jesus is just teaching us that these meaningless thoughts that seem to be filling up consciousness of the sleeping mind are just projecting an unreal world and the projection is trying to be used by the ego to reinforce the thoughts.  You don't like the idea of war then see it in the world. You don't like the idea of greed then the ego says well look it's over there no over there greedy one there see a greedy one there and basically the projection has just been designed by the ego to to offer meaning to take the place of the word of God and the word of God you know is like letting truth be written on the world or love or joy. It's like letting light take the place of idle images it's like saying I would love you God more than all the idle images that the the ego or the Satan would make up and and so when you start to really go for that in your heart then you do start to see a different world. So today's lesson a meaningless world in gender's fear is basically just saying that fear is coming from the sense of meaninglessness that is experienced when you don't remember that you're a perfect innocent child of God. Fear is not coming from the world fear does not come from the images. The images are projections and therefore he said we're introducing our first cause-effect relationship and basically he's teaching us that that God is the cause of of reality that Christ is in effect in reality not not the man Jesus but the Christ idea the pure Christ idea and that that's the true cause-effect relationship but in terms of this world cause and effect have been split off and turned around this world is the belief that the the son of God the Christ can leave the father where the creation can leave the creator and this perfect creation somehow can go wandering in time and space and then it seems like the world has causes and effects all of the disciplines all of the the genres of the world if you look at a university curriculum all of the the different fields of study have one commonality and that's the belief that there's causes and effects and the ego teaches that the causes are in the past and then the effects are what's present and future so when you look at this lesson today we'll we'll get into the question here in a moment but basically the the recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety and all the separated ones in other words for those that believe in the body and the personality self and the self-concept of this world which is just an idle image then this is an example of of identifying with falsity and part of the way that that falsity is reinforced is to believe that there are things in time and space that you have to handle economic things food hunger thirst warmth and protection for the body and on and on and on and then a lot of psychological ones about wanting to be liked and know the right people and be appreciated and be applauded there's various forms of pride those are all part of the self-concept and no wonder there's the sense of of anxiety and intense anxiety when you've associated the mind which is sleeping with this personality self and then you think you have to do things to prove it's worth you have to prove yourself worthy you have to earn the ego would say you have to earn your respect earn your worthiness all the while not not really telling the mind what the Holy Spirit is offering which is saying you were created perfect you don't have to earn anything through God's grace you are perfect you will forever be perfect you are a perfect child of God always were always will be forever and ever and ever and then this meaninglessness is is really generated from trying to listen to a false voice to to trying to cling to an imposter self that God didn't create God creates Christ God creates in spirit but God doesn't create in perception perception is a is a projection projection makes perception so this is really good for us as we learn today that he's basically telling us toward the end of the lesson he says meaningless world and gender sphere because you believe that you in competition you believe that you're in competition with God and then he that's kind of like dropping an atomic bomb in the sleeping mind like what did you just say read that one again what did you just say basically he's saying that that when you believe in competition you believe in an idea that God didn't create when you believe in a personality identity when you believe in a world of time and space God didn't create the body God didn't create the cosmos God didn't create the the galaxies the suns the moons the stars the black holes God has nothing actually to do with the projected cosmos as Jesus says in the beyond all idols section you know in in his text he said God knows not form so if you want to know God who knows not form then you must realize I am the Christ who also knows not form and everything that I'm perceiving through the five senses through this fragmented filter of ego has no meaning whatsoever so it is essential therefore that you learn to recognize the meaningless and accept it without fear and if you imagine you could just do lesson one and you could just transfer it to everything and I mean every thing that seems to be part of the five senses and perception then that's it you don't need the other 364 lessons if you can transfer that but Jesus knows you know we need practice we need train the mind transfer transfer transfer total transfer of training so he's going to give us like a diamond he's going to turn every day give us a little other facet of the same diamond which is God is real you are real as the Christ and the world and cosmos are false oh here did you get it okay another lesson did you get it no try another lesson get it oh oh you see you keep turning the diamond he loves us so much you just spin this little diamond with little different variations in the lessons but they all are pointing towards this shiny light within that is the light of God and that's that's our light of joy our light of happiness peace eternal life you know it's so good so what a lesson it's finally now we're getting into some good cause and effect things but this is not the cause and effect that we were programmed to believe in by the ego this is not the cause and effect that that we seem to learn from our parents and our teachers and all the way up through university you know we seem to be heavily read reinforced with false cause effect relationships that the ego generated but happily at some point we go oh enough of that I want to know my real relationship with my creator I want to know my real relationship with God and Jesus is a great way shower you know the Christ that is my real relationship with God that's what God created eternally so there's nothing that can go really prevail against what is real and true thank heavens so we did have some some a question and a comment that came in and I thought I would pop into that here and the question that we have coming in is from Gustavo Henrich Ruffo in Portugal and Gustavo writes I David as much as I know it makes no sense I still identify as the puppet as a name as a body although blessed are those who believe without seeing those who have faith I do not seem to crack that I'm pretty stuck with the self-concept considering there is no value or improvement needed from anyone at any time to reach God in the future parentheses we can do so now at our current stage right question mark I try not to fight with that anymore and just rely on the promise that I just have to be open to the Holy Spirit to convince me I am more than flesh and bones anyway if you could talk about that I would be really thankful I want to get in touch with who I really am but I still fail to accept I am perfect child of God in fact I feel I have to be convinced revelatory experience question mark miracle question mark I have no idea what the script has written for me to get there but if there is anything I can do to reach that stage please let me know so that's a good one I have no idea what the script has written for me to get there well yeah that's that is a good way to start right there there's the script of the world the scripts the stories that we call our lives are part of a projection that was made us to keep us from knowing who we are the script of the world and all the stories and dramas and conflicts that seem to be tied into these various outcomes of the script they were made with one purpose they were made in hatred to keep us from going inside to the truth within but really I think what you're asking is you're saying I need to be convinced and you're just really just starting to open up and say I really want to be convinced that I am spirit but I seem to have a very strong belief and attachment to a belief system and thoughts that the ego made up and that is the situation of the world the good news is the world is not outside the mind so you can shift your mind and align with God and then everything that you perceive will look completely differently in fact you come more and more close to Christ vision and you even see things lighting up in your perception as you get close to this beautiful holy vision of Christ which is just pure light it's just pure abstract light but in order to move in that direction it's like you you can just say okay this body is like a puppet you've already identified your body as a puppet and then who's going to pull the strings are you going to reach the light of forgiveness through service through devotion through being done through in other words if you hand the the strings of the Mary and that over to the Holy Spirit and to Jesus and you say use me move through me you know spiral through me laugh through me speak through me hug through me rejoice through me dance through me you know this is the way that you loosen from identification with the puppet it's like you really have to get lost the personality self has to get lost in the mind's devotion to waking up so every second of every day is actually meant to be offered over to the Holy Spirit and Jesus to to use and again you're not supposed to know in advance how that use will look in fact it's better if you don't care how it looks if you just have the prayer that's how you expand your faith that's how you expand your faith you you you say use me and you mean it you say use me and you don't put any conditions on that use you don't say use me but don't use me in this way or that way you just say use me and and pretty much so it's it's it's around being letting the puppet be used in a communication device because because the body is just a something that the ego made that the Holy Spirit can use so your prayer is really Jesus Holy Spirit take over this body fill me up fill my heart up with warm love and light and then let this body be used as an instrument like Saint Francis had prayed Lord make me an instrument of that piece and everyone feels that that love and devotion and Saint Francis symbolized and now we're opening our mind to say oh okay I I meant to do the same thing in terms of of devotion and and being used now Saint Francis you know is a perfect example too because he basically he was not really operating in the boundaries of the Christian church at the time which involved a pope and and various different bishops and arched bishops and and diocese throughout Italy you know he basically unplugged he was he was a more of a I call him like a nature mystic he he was more at home out with the butterflies and the birds and and the animals and and all the ones that were kind of the people that were cast out of the society they seemed to find him and he found them eventually he got over his his you know his judgments around leprosy and he he was washing the lepers he was taking people in he was welcoming people in to join his little community of the Franciscans and that's just a great example that as you give your life over in a very full way to devotion then everything gets provided and and he'd lived a very simple life we could say he was he lived a very prayerful simple life that's that's really what Jesus is encouraging us to do is live a devoted simple life of pray and listen and follow he's saying don't cue off of the perceptions of the world we've been raised to believe the world's real and you have to react and respond to people places things events rules and laws that that are basically just make believe but the ego doesn't tell you they make believe it's it's a it's a hallucination that has been made to convince the mind of of the the images it's tried to make it more solid even though it's a little veil a little film it's it's been just endowed with so much false meaning that now it seems to be solid and it seems to be serious when you take these ego beliefs and thoughts serious you seem to have a serious life and including sickness and death and all kinds of things that the ego made up to convince you that you're not a perfect child of God so I would say dive in jump in to the pool of devotion to the pool of give all to all to have give all to all just that's the first lesson of the Holy Spirit in the text and when you jump into that wow it's you know the ego reacts immediately because you're going against all of its make believe rules and laws I know for me I was in my 20s my late 20s when I jumped in that pool of trust of faith and the ego is screaming inside my mind saying what what's going to happen to your career how are you going to make a living how will you survive and all these things and and I just trusted trusted trusted and then yeah it's been a ride it's been a beautiful ride I have to say so that was the question from Gustavo in Portugal and then also we had a miracle sharing sent in from Christoph Berenbrock in Austria and Christoph writes dear David after yesterday's lesson 12 I asked our father please write your meaning over the world I see then I had a wonderful first psychotherapy therapy session full of joy laughter and perfect understanding after the session Jesus told me see that just was his meaning written over the world extended so clear so easy so wonderful then I heard you saying expect your awakening and for the first time I knew it's not only possible it's guaranteed thank you love you all Christoph so wow what a testimony you know here we are doing lesson 12 yesterday and and what Christoph did with that is he basically he took it to prayer and he said you know let's let your meaning father be written on the world and for some are saying well if if God doesn't know about the world how does God's meaning get written on the world well that's what we call the happy dream the forgiven world or a true perception Jesus has a lot of different terms for it but basically it's it's seeing the world without judgment that's what Jesus said on Sermon on the Mount you know judge not let's you be judged and I think that's got to be two of the most powerful concise words from Jesus ever judge not if we don't judge the world if we don't hold any opinions about it no positive opinions and no negative opinions then we are able to behold the forgiven world we are able to experience the happy dream but when we let the ego put meaning into things and this could be just what people consider common every day judgments you know the ego will try to break it up into condemnations and just your regular daily judgments no there's no there's no categories to this you either have a pristine quiet mind that beholds the world from a very lovely high holy place with the Holy Spirit in Jesus or you seem to watch these judgments just crossing your consciousness and if you take a bite out of any one of the judgments if you believe them then that's the problem Byron Gady used to say still says I think don't believe everything you think and these early workbook lessons of the Course are basically saying yep that's right in lesson four these thoughts do not mean anything in lesson 10 my thoughts do not mean anything and basically he's teaching us that are my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world and now you can understand why Byron Gady says don't believe everything you think we need to release the attack thoughts we need to release the grievances the judgments we need to release all thoughts of the past and all thoughts of the future and come into this pristine state of of being the observer the witness self lifted by the Holy Spirit to this place on high in the mind and just seeing the world kind of just go by just watching it go by I think of a beautiful Kenny Loggins song I used to listen to a lot of Kenny Loggins and he's got a song you know which is if you've been thinking you're all that you've got don't feel alone anymore because when we're together then you've got a lot because I am the river and you are the shore and it goes on and on watching the river run further and further from things that we've done leaving them one by one and we have just begun watching the river run listening and yearning and learning run river run now that is my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world that that is letting those thoughts just go by just watching them you aren't even thinking them that you're not the thinker of those thoughts that's the that's the big happy relief is that I'm not the thinker I've never been the thinker of ego thoughts it was the imposter that tried to convince me that I was thinking them so Jesus says the thoughts that you think you think the feelings that you think you have and the world that you think you see none of them are real okay all right well just we're going through the roof of this one it's just it's just high high high high high so thank you for joining today if you have questions please join our living miracles mailing list and mail them in and they do reach me and yeah I'm happy to hear your testimonies and hear your questions and we're in this together we're holding each other's hand we're walking side by side we cannot fail and there's Jesus over there there he is behind me he's just our symbol of awakening and he's just you see his arm is up arms are open looking to the light welcoming everything and everyone to come unto the light all right thank you God bless


Hi! My name is Sarah Zahn. I'm a librarian at Gorgas Library. This is the first in a series of video tutorials on the Citation Manager, Zotero. Zotero is an open source program that you can download for free from Zotero.org. A citation manager is an essential tool for any researcher. You can use it to collect and organize a library of sources with citation information in notes, attach PDFs, and easily generate a bibliography in citations. It makes everything keyword searchable, so no matter how chaotic your research process might feel, you can easily find what you need. In this video, I'm going to show you three ways to add an item to your library, manually using an identifier such as an ISBN or DOI, and using the browser extension. Let's start by adding an item manually. I might use this option for a physical item I have or an older item that doesn't have an identifier. I'm going to use this cookbook from 1960. I'll create a new item in my library by clicking the green plus sign in the menu bar. The most common types of items are at the top of the menu, or I can go to more for more options. Once I choose the type of item that I want, I can enter the information in the text fields. I can use the attachment button here to attach images, PDFs, or other files to the item. I have a scan of the table of contents, so I'm going to attach that. When I attach the file this way, Zotero will automatically change the name of the file based on the item's metadata. Zotero also allows you to quickly add items using an identifier such as an ISBN for a book or a DOI for an article. These are unique numbers assigned to an item that allows Zotero to retrieve information about them to add to your library. You might find it useful to use this option when you want to add a particular edition of a book or if you are adding items from a bibliography that includes DOIs. To use an identifier to add an item, I'm going to select the magic wand icon in the menu bar. I'll copy my identifier from the bibliography of the article I'm working from and paste it in. I hit enter, and Zotero pulls in the data associated with that number. At this point, I can make any additions that I'd like. The most efficient way to add an item to your library is using the Zotero connector browser extension, which you can download at Zotero.org. I'll show it using Chrome, but the connector is available for Firefox, Safari, and Edge. This feature is what makes Zotero so useful and flexible. The browser extension can read data from almost any web page and import it into your library. Note that Zotero must be running for the browser extension to work. I'll start by adding a book that I found in Scout. I click on the Zotero connector to import the information into my library. I put my plug-in button right here next to my address bar so I can find it easily. When I click the plug-in button, I get this pop-up that will allow me to specify where to save it in my library. It automatically saves the item to the folder I have selected or I can use the drop-down menu to select another one. Now, when I go over to my library, the book I've just saved is in the folder and I can check and see if I need to make any additions or corrections to the information. I can see here that it's correctly labeled my item as a book, but I'll want to fix the punctuation in the title. Zotero has also saved the book's abstract, all the bibliographic information, and a link back to the Scout record. This process will work on any website, from databases like JSTOR, to online bookstores like bookshop.org, to newspapers like The New York Times, and even social media like Twitter. If you add an item with an associated PDF in a database, like this article from Scout, Zotero will usually be able to pull in the PDF and save it as an attachment. These attachments won't get renamed automatically, but I can right-click on the attachment and select Rename File from Parent Metadata to rename it. Note that Zotero cannot automatically attach ebooks that have downloaded restrictions or items from some databases, but you can attach a PDF or other file using the Attachment button. The Zotero connector will also take a screenshot and save it as an attachment to the item. This is especially useful for preserving access to an item that might be deleted later, like a social media post. Those are the basics of adding an item to your Zotero library. Check out the other videos in this series to learn more about using Zotero, explore our resource guide, and let us know if you have any questions.


Welcome back fellow techies to our latest tutorial video. I am The Technician Project. Today's tutorial is going to show you how to record a narrated voiceover in Keynote and export it as a movie. So as we know, PowerPoint, you can record a narrated PowerPoint and export it as a PowerPoint show. Keynote, you can do the same, but instead of exporting it as a show, you export it as a movie. They see the same as a show. As you advance through each slide or build your voice and timings are recorded and preserved for playback. We're going to select a empty presentation today. So we're just going to do the blank presentation. Just like that, our blank presentation. Lovely. So now we're going to add a quick title page. So we're just going to double click to edit and we're going to put title here, title here. And then we're going to add another slide which just click, click and enter. And we're going to put slide two on that one and slide three on this one and slide four on the next one. We now want to record on our slides as a narration over the top basically as we're presenting our keynote. We can click on our first slide and go to this document setting over in the toolbar on the right hand side. We click on that. We then go to audio and we can record slideshow. And once we press record, you can start your presentation by clicking the record button, which is this one here and your timer will count you down so let's go into that now. So we're now in our record function. We're on current slide one of five. We show the navigator in the left hand window so we can click through our slides. This is the current time at the top. And if we click on any of these, we can see next slide, et cetera, and time. So that's where we exit it. And if we go to the bottom down here, you can see our microphone levels coming through quite clearly. We can then mute our microphone and we can also record our slide. So we're going to record here. Three, two, one. This is our title slide. This is slide two. This is slide three. This is slide four. You can pause the recording at the bottom and the end record, end of our recording. You can then click through the recording here at the bottom. You can delete recordings. If we hit exit now, to listen back to it, you can either play or you could play recorded slideshow. You'll play that. This is our title slide. And that will play back everything we need to know on our show. This is slide two. Perfect. And it'll play all the way through. All we've got to do now is we go to file, export as a movie. And we'll export as a movie, recorded slideshow, export it as the highest resolution as possible. We'll do 1080p and press next. This will export to wherever we tell it to. So we do test slide and we're exporting that now, creating movie to our desktop. There you go. Our test slides. If we click on that now and do a preview. So that is now playing back everything. This is slide two. This is slide three. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more. And also ding dong that notification bell to get further updates. Thanks again. Goodbye.