I previously talked about writing down what your favorite artists do that you love, but I also find there to be other worthwhile practices. For some, finding their voice isn't a hard process, but for others, it takes them digging inside for what's compelling to them. New-age gurus call this finding yourself, or talk about self-expiration. Instead, I think of finding your voice as a process where you try to find what's emotionally resonant to you and how it gets expressed so others understand it. In this video, I'm going to discuss how you find your voice and how you develop yourself as an artist. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon, and this is MuseFormation. So let's talk about finding your voice, and I like that term since voice is a larger metaphor. When you speak, you use a certain vocabulary along with speed, accent, and dynamics that make up the sound of your voice.  When you express yourself musically, you do the same exact thing, for a collage of who you naturally are that also picks up small qualities from others that you use to convey what you think about each day. An often overlooked aspect of singing is that we're commonly doing an imitation of someone else's singing style. The sounds we make when we sing usually come in the form of an affected accent or a pronunciation of words that's far from the way we actually talk. A singer's voice isn't one absolute sound. In fact, many singers are capable of doing various inflections with their voice. These inflections can make them sound English when they're actually from the Bay Area. Green Day. Loud, confident, and audacious when they sing, yet their speaking voice sounds nothing like that. Michael Jackson. Or an alien with an odd accent. Kendra Kumar. And the list goes on. It's a rare occurrence when a singer sings or raps the same way they talk. Each singer is picking up accents, turns of phrases, inflections, melodies, and vocabulary from those they admire, and blending it into a performance that hopefully sounds unique to themselves as well as furthering an emotion they're exuding. By forming a collage of what they've enjoyed that furthers their expression, they build a signature all of their own. While there are some parts of your voice that are naturally embedded in who you are physically and genetically, we have countless ways to change that timbre. As well, this isn't to say that your most authentic voice is singing exactly the way your talking voice sounds. In fact, it can be highly creative to affect your voice in a way that gives your performance even more emotional resonance. All these affectations when employed to give more resonance can be the best way to enhance an emotion in a vocal performance. Let's think about Tom Wade's application of treating his voice with so many different treatments and affectations, the same way he treats the manipulation of the instrumentation in his music as part of what makes it so unique and resonant. The clash's masterful use of different voices traded off between the three singers of the group furthers the storytelling quality of their songs. Most vocalists are singing with an inflection that they found naturally from singing along to their favorite music. When we talk about finding your creative voice, this concept isn't ironically named.  But this voice is both figuratively and metaphorically one of the biggest factors that defines your sound. Since I'm not always talking about singing, the same discussion of voice goes for nearly every choice you make in the instrumentation or the production choices you make. Choosing to figure out how to find a palette that accentuates your emotional resonance instead of imitating gives you a unique voice instead of an imitation. If you're still curious how to develop your voice after you've gained a working knowledge of what you want to do, a healthy exercise can be to figure out how you draw inspiration from what makes you unique. Ask yourself, what's something you love no one else loves? How can you incorporate that into your music? What's something everyone loves that you hate? How do you develop a character from it? What's missing in music and can you take it to a new level? Try not to barf as I'd quote Ayn Rand's shortsighted worldview in the fountain head, but she says we create because we're dissatisfied with what already exists. One of the great indicators that you should pursue in an artistic impulse is when you want to hear a sound you've yet to hear someone else make. This means you're craving an emotion that's not being expressed. Finding concepts that you haven't seen before that you blend with emotional intent has made some of the best art throughout time. Pick a fight with an ethic. Voice your disdain for a trend you have an authentic bad reaction to by letting your own work show why this trend is wrong. Taking the time to explore your likes and dislikes to find what you think should exist is one of the most helpful and effective ways of finding who you are as an artist and creatively to develop a unique voice. That's it. Am I missing anything? Is there any way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I want to answer them so leave them in the comments. I hope you liked this video and if you did please like and subscribe and get notified for my future videos since I'm going to be breaking down the concepts in this video along with tons of others on promoting your music and how to make music you're more happy with. As well, I have a Facebook group that's linked below that has only helpful information. No one tried to sell you anything, playlist or con artist, only helpful information for musicians looking to be better themselves. If you want to learn more about me, make a record with me or check out any of my books, podcasts or anything else I do. Head to jessicanon.com or at jessicanon on any of the socials. Thanks for watching. One last thing, if you liked this video, there's two playlists here with tons more videos that you'll probably enjoy. One's about how you promote your music and the other's about how you make songs you're happy with. Otherwise, you can hit the subscribe button here to see the rest of my videos. Thanks so much for watching.


Welcome to the Almaguire Center. The Almaguire is named after coach Almaguire, who brought the team great success from 1964 to 1977. This is the main gym where women's basketball and women's volleyball play. Up here is where we control the giant screen, which you will see during many different games. This is the basement of the Almaguire. Down here, there's a lot of different practice spaces, as well as heterotherapy and other things to help our athletes to be their best. This is the main practice gym for the men's basketball team. Thank you for coming along with me on my brief tour of the Almaguire.


Welkom back and as I told you today we shall have a business interview concerning on how to start up a business and let's say that business is a usual komashu activity engaged in as a means of livelihood. An unentrepreneur is one who organizes, manages and assumes the risk of business or an enterprise and starting up a business may be a big step of people and people tend to wonder how should I start a business and how should I make it successful. Today we have Tony Nyongesa who is an unentrepreneur. Welkom Tony. Thank you very much. Kindly just tell us about yourself. I'm called Anthony but people normally call me Tony. So far I stay in Nairobi. What I do is that I like business. Business is good personally because actually it is your security if you have personal business. So far in Nairobi I have various businesses and actually I have tried and everything is well in my life. I do well and that's why I advise so many people to do their own business apart from being employed. Yes, you are out to that point. Can you just basically explain to us what kind of business should one start? Okay, thank you very much. Business one it depends with you. First of all don't just choose business. One is supposed to have the experience of the business. Yes. Also you are supposed to base on the where the business, where you are supposed to start, whether you sell that business or not. And you are supposed to invest where by this strategically the business that you want to sell, yes. Another question that people may tend to ask that where should I start, where should I cooperate my business or where, which area should I start a business? Okay, business, when you want to start a business, don't just put because you have money you want to start up a business. First of all you are supposed to put where the strategic place for your business. Like for example shoes, like for example hotel. Like for example you want to start like a kahaia and whatever. You are supposed to look where by these restaurants or whatever. The place with the strategic for your business, the kind of business you are doing. Okay, thank you for that. Another question that people tend to ask is how should I capitalize my business at the beginning? Like what I mean is that when one wants to start a business, how much can one start with? Okay, thank you very much. Capitalization, it depends with the type of business. You know you cannot start doing big business like selling cars and you don't have money. First of all you start with the business, something little that you have.  Like now selling shoes, selling clothes, you can start with the like 10,000. 10,000 as you grow slowly. You cannot just go and take big business and you don't have money. But any small like I see people start with my eye, you start with 2000 or 1000. So it depends with the business that you want. So long as it gives you income at the end of the day. Okay, and as I have gotten another question that one of the people asking is that is it good to do a market research? Probably you want to do something particularly probably on shoes or a hotel? Is it good to do? Of course yes. When you want to start a business, first of all do market research. That's very important. That one you cannot have risk of losing your money. Because I see other people, you just see somebody is doing well. And that's in my head and when they want to do the same thing that you are doing. So do a market research. First of all like the business. Do you like the business first is I do research. After doing research, go now and collect the resources like money. Then you start up the business. You cannot just wake up and say now I want to do this and this. You do research first. In the point of interest that you are? Yes, interest that you are. Now for instance, now you want to put up shoes. First of all go and do research where you are supposed to find a whole sale. Where they sell. Now you want to sell business. Are you going to sell online or are you going to take your shop to sell that business? Do market research so that you can come up with the disadvantages and disadvantages, merities and merities, challenges so that you can know now when you start a business, you won't have risk. Okay, sure. And should one require capital investors? You know probably one world would want to probably start a business idea and you just call people to come up. Is it really allowed? It's not allowed to me and it's not a must. I start to be those people that can support you. I personally have never engaged anybody to help me starting my business. I am very creative. I may just sit down and think what I am supposed to do because I can do this, I can do this. One, I go with the slowest. You know, in this world when you want to, everything starts from down. The only thing in Yanzanga, is to go up and down.  Everything I need to be good. Wow, thank you for that. And another question that I would like you and Tate to ask more on it, how can one get capital to pay attention to me? This is a meaning like, if you want to start up a business, what are the key things that one can actually rely on so that you can say that this business, how may I put it, an opportunity of the market? How can you explain that? Okay, thank you very much.  First of all, as I told you, do research. After doing research you have a vision. Maybe like now you don't have money. If you do research like now, they are planning around 2022. Like you see people, politics, they want 2022, they want to be somebody. So of course now they are starting now planning themselves in terms of financial, also in terms of now looking at the people who will now be on the ground, all that.  Not just today we wake up and say now, I want to do a business. You suppose to have a plan, a long-term plan. Like now, three years. It depends on the business. You can say now, next year I want to sell clothes. First of all, you go and do research. Do I need a shop? Do I need, where to? Am I going to do online? Am I going to sell online? Am I going to use a shop now? How much does the shop cost? Is it now? We are supposed to get those clothes. Can I go to Uganda? Can I go to China? Can I go to Isli? Can I go to Kumbak? That's when we can start doing that business. So now after now planning, after now planning, now have to say now, where am I going to get money? Of course you know when you are planning a long-term, in the long-term, you suppose now to say, now let me enter into Sago, whereby I'll be saving my money. Like I'll be saving monthly 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000. So that next year you get this having a lump sum money when you start the business. Another question is that concerning this is a youth channel. What advice on the business can the youth venture in? To me I can advise youth that let them not just stay there and thinking that maybe somebody will come and help you. Ayut 1, once you are born, you suppose to know that now you are a man or a year, when you are above 15 years, you suppose to think and say now, what am I supposed to do? Mostly youths think about to employ yourself. Shelf employment is very good because you want to be disabled. You will grow. You know when you start a business, you will grow. If you are focused. Second advice youths that from today just or Germany, they do their own things, they employ themselves, jobs ziko vizuri o kati kibaki, adingia, adi tifunguria mi lango eba you can go to another country, do business, you can come and do business in everywhere, in Nairobi, youths sizing their employers, they employing so many things. You can get a youth like 18 years or 22 years, 26 years. Having their own business. Yes, having their own business and having money. Even more than, even like me, I'm employing all the, all the, all the, all the, yes. I have two cars, I'm employing, now I've employed like two cookers, you know. For the taxi business. Yes, taxi business. And they are all the love cars. But me, I'm a youth because I think very fast. And then my car was alone because I was great. And I liked it.  I want to be employed whereby you are being paid 12,000.  That's what life. Yes. You know behind the second generation. Okay, right. And as we come to wind up of this, of this interview, what are the biggest challenges that, that one comes across in starting up a business? The challenges one is that to kuchabuama hetas. Don't employ hetas, isn't it? Don't go and give the ideas to your hetas.  The next one is that poor planning. If you don't have poor planning, you cannot do business. The next one is that challenges is capital. People they don't have capital to start up a business. They have so many plans but they don't have capital. Another one is that just to have money, then I have like 200,000, then you start business. Just you see somebody is doing business and so you copy. You risk. Risk is good but at times risk something.  You can be starting, you have started a business but now they are customers.  You have another person selling vias there. You are selling vias there. You see that there is a lot of go-sips and everything.  Maybe you have a car you are selling inside the car. They don't want others. They think that you are a rich person so you want to do that. So those are the challenges that you normally face. And to that point of starting a business, there are several things that one is not supposed to do when starting up a business. What are the key things? Probably saying picking up the wrong business or something of the sort. Thank you. One of all, something I don't suppose to do when you are starting a business. One is that don't fail into plan. Make sure you plan your business. Make sure you look at the business that is your class. Actually there are some. I read that if man is your own goal in starting a business, you will not kufa. That's true. Yeah sure. You have to change life and all that. Of course. Yeah. Being focused. Another thing is that challenges people. You don't suppose to, like now, time. Okay. You have employed so many people. And you know, fire it. Just come. You don't know how to socialize with the people.  Yeah. That's there. Yeah sure. Yeah. Thank you for that. And as you just say give your final remarks and adding why do youths prefer the white collar jobs rather than the kazi amikono as the people say. Thank you very much. I personally, it is just a testimony that I can tell you that actually I have come from Rifa. I came in Nairobi. I was supported by my brother. Kondopatismil. And Bbiya, she called Dikimani. Actually by the time I entered Nairobi, nili kon me gia mini. Like nili kubali everything. I asked my brother. My brother was working in a big company. Very estate. Yes. Then I asked him, now I have come in Nairobi. What plans do you have? Okay. Then he told me, me, so long as you have stepped in Nairobi, that is it. I said no. I don't have any plan. Just go, go, go, go. Find your own self the way you want. Take kukoteni there, get it trolley there. Do you know what I did? I told my brother to buy for me a trolley. Isn't it? Because he told me, go and do whatever you can do. I took a trolley. I went to town. Isn't it? CBD. That was 2012. Yes. CBD. And you know I was a learning person. I was an organized person. In fact I can do a good job in an office. My brother by that time he was an operation manager in the office. I don't know which plans he had to me. But I thank him because he showed me he was supposed to struggle. So I went to town. Biza trolley, biza trolley. I was coming with around 1000 shillings, 1500 shillings at the end of the day. And here you are. I said now this is what my job is. I was supposed to do this because my children in Switzerland were like I should have this. I cannot do it in my life. I can't have my own with this because it will go on challenges. We were supposed to go to the stage where we were supposed to go. They are smoking and they don't smoke. They are drinking and they don't drink. I was just an upright person. But I was trying to reach money because I came from Mushago to come to Nairobi to look for money. So I had to do that. But then I stopped because I had a challenge that Stikanzo Kema took my trolley because I was not within that organization. I was in Fanyasota because I was a clean man and customers they needed. So I can just advise the jobs that I have done a lot I have done muchari, I have done so many things. So youths now they don't like they like white collar jobs because they don't want to do that. And they are lazy. They like somewhere whereby they can just do this the way I am doing. But that one nowadays you can do that at the same time you are doing your own business. Work hard pace. When you struggle, you gain. So I can advise youths that don't just like to sit there.  Because white collar jobs can be paying $20,000 but a business can give you $200,000. As you have heard that work hard pace.  So thank you for having me and staying tuned to us on business tuesday. My name is Joendegwa. Have a blessed night. God bless.


Simon Ottley, the professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, writes Then Hossein mounted his horse and took the Quran and laid it before him And, coming up to the people, invited them to the performance of their duty Adding, O God, thou art my confidence in every trouble and hope in all adversities He next reminded them of his excellences, the nobility of his birth, the greatness of his power At his high decent and said, consider with yourselves whether or not such a man As I am is not better than you, I who am the son of your prophet's daughter Beside whom there is no other upon the face of earth Ali was my father, Ja'far and Hamza, the chief of martyrs were both my uncles And the apostle of God upon whom be peace said, both of me and my brother That we were the chief of the youth of paradise If you will believe me, what I say is true For I, God, I never told a lie in any since I had my understanding For God hates a lie If you do not believe me, ask the companions of the apostle of God He he named them, and they will tell you the same Let me go back to what I have They ask, what kinder him from being ruled by the rest of his relations He answered, God forbid that I should set my hand To the assignation of my right after solvish man I have recourse to God from every tyrant that doth not believe in the day of account


Hello, welcome to SSUnitex Societies side and today we are going to see a very important concept inside the Azure Data Factory that is how we can get the latest file from folder and that folder inside your Azure Blob Stories. So this is very important and sometime in the interview interview also going to ask this question. So let me quickly go and try to understand the requirement first and after that we'll be implementing the same. So we are under the Azure Blob Stories of the input folder and here we have all these files. So in the real time you will be having all the files with the same structure and you will be getting the file like every half an hour or every one hour. So on that basis you will be getting all those files. So the requirement is every time you should be going to pick the latest file which we have received and after that process that file. So in this example we are going to pick the latest file among all these and after that copy that file into the output folder of the same Stories. So how we can do that? So for doing that let me quickly go into the Azure Data Factory and here first let me try to create a new pipeline and let me call this pipeline as get latest file like this. Now first as I told you we are having a folder and under that we have all these files. So for getting the information from this we are required to use the get meta data activity. So first we need to use the get meta data activity and this get meta data activity is asking for a data set. So we have already created the data set for the same. So go to on the settings and under the settings we need to select that data set. So the data set which is ds underscore input. So let me try to open this. So it is pointing to the input folder. As you can see it is pointing to the input folder. So once we will execute this then we will see how many files we have under that. So here we can see the field list. So under the field list let me try to add a new.  So child item will be going to return all the file names and let me quickly try to click on this plus symbol. So it will be going to have the last modified. So we need to check whether this will work or not. So let me try to debug it and we will be going to see the output of this. So this is executed successfully let me check the output of this. So what we can see here the last modify is returning the last modify of the folder. So it is not going to return the last modify of the files which is under the child items. So here we cannot use the last modify directly. So this is the tricky part of this scenario. So here under the child items we can see we have the name which is containing the file name and after that we have the type what is that. So either that is folder or the file so that we can see the file. Let me try to close this and here we are not required to have the last modified. So we can remove that. So only child items are required. Now we need to look through for all these files. So for that we have to use the for each activity. So under the for each activity let me connect with the get metadata activity. So in this for each activity go to the setting and here we need to select. So what we need to select? We need to select the output of the get metadata of the child item so that we can see here we can select directly and click on OK. So this for each will be executing for all the files so that we can see 1 2 3 4 5 6. So it will be executing total 6 times. Now next what we need to do? Let me go under this for each activity. So under the for each activity again we need to use the get metadata activity and that get metadata activity will be going to get the last modify as per the file and file name that we are getting under the for each activity. So here what we need to do? We need to point for each file. So let me go into the setting and here we have already created a new data set which is the ds underscore input dynamic file. So it is asking a file name value. So from where we will get this file name value. Let me try to open this data set first. So I can show you that. So here we have created one of the parameter of the file name. So this parameter we are passing over here like the file name. So when we are using this data set it is asking the file name should be supplied on this. So file name we are getting from the for each container. So let me go here for each container and which property that is a name property. Don't worry for now. I will show you later like from where we are getting this name property. Let me click on OK. So here what we want to do? We want to get the file name and we also see the item name and this is the file name mainly and the last modify of this file. So here we can see the last modify. Now let me try to execute this. So here the get metadata activity one will be executing. So this will be going to return all the files which is available under the input folder that we can verify from here like the name of this and total six files. So total six we can see after that we can see the for each. So for each will be going to have total six items. So it will be executing six times. So six times it will be executing the get metadata. So once we click on this then we will see the item name as the file name and the last modified at the last modified. So let me try to copy this. So it will be going to use later on this and let me try to put this into the notepad. So if we can go in the upside. So it will be going to have another file. So total six files we have with us and whatever the last modify of those file will have. So what next we need to do? So first let me try to create a variable and that variable will be having the file name and the last modify. So like two variables we need to create here. So let me try to go into the variable and here this will be for last modified and that is string and default value I am going to pass 1900 0101 like this. Here let me call this as file name variable and default value I am not going to pass anything. Now here let me go under this. So once we have this next we need to check whether your variable value of the last modify is greater than or less than of your actual last modify of the file. So that we can get from the get metadata activity but for checking we need to use the if condition activity. So let me connect the if condition activity from this get metadata activity. So in the condition what we need to do here simply go into the expressions and under the expression here first we need to check greater then we need to supply the first one. So let me try to use the format date time function and this format date time from the get metadata to which is this one output and output of which property that is the last modify that we have seen here. So let me try to copy this. So this property is having the last modify of this. So dot this property. Now if this value is greater than again we need to use the format date time function and then we need to supply the variable value the variable which we have created. So here we can see the last modify. So if actual modified value of the last modify for any file is greater than the variable last modify value then we need to add this variable value as the last module of that file. So what we are doing here we want to check between all these files and doing the comparison and we will be going to pick the latest file from here and after that we will be proceeding accordingly. So let me try to click on okay. So if this condition will true then we need to use the set variable activity. So under the set variable activity first let me try to add the last modify and this last modify value that should be equals to the output of the last modify to the get metadata 2. So that we can see here. So it will be going to supply into that variable. So in the first execution it will be going to have 1900 so it will be true. So it will directly jump under the if condition activity and under the if condition activity it will be going to assign under that variable of the last modify and at the same time let me use one more set variable activity and this set variable activity I am going to supply the file name as well. So file name is also label under the get metadata 2 of the item name. So that we can see here because we have seen the item name property is holding the name of the file. Now let me click on okay. Go back to here and here let me try to execute and we will see. So what it will be do? It will be doing the first get metadata 1. So it will return all the 6 file then for each it will be going to loop through with all the file and under that the get metadata 2. So it will be going to execute one by one according to the files that we are getting through the for each container and after that under the if condition activity we are checking if that is true. So the true condition we are checking the actual last modify of the file and the variable which we have created. If that value is true then we are assigning last modified for that file into that variable and next execution it is going to check with the first file. So let me go back here and try to check the outputs here. So as it got executed successfully here we can see the set variable activity last it got executed. So the value we can see 982022. So this is the last we have set into the last modified variable. Let me go here. We can compare with all the modified here. So we can find this is the last modified and same thing we are getting over here as well. Let me close. So this is we have done let me quickly go and try to use the copy data activity and this copy data will be executing after the for each container. So once everything will be done then we need to copy the data file from input to output location. So for that we have already created the dynamic file data set and here let me quickly go and try to supply the value. So this time this value should be coming from the file name variable. Let me click on OK. So that is done. Let me quickly go into the sync and for the sync we have already created the data set. So we can select the output data set here executing. So once it will be executed we will be going to see the last modified file should be copied from input to output location. So we need to wait a little bit on this so we can check and confirm. So in between let me go here and try to go into the output folder of this SSU testing. So we need to wait and here the copy data is in progress. So we can wait until it will not be completed. So as we can see it has copied. Let me go back here and here we can see the item details dot CSV. So the last modified that we can see today's date and time that we can see. So we have successfully copied this from source to sync location and if you can see the input folder. So under the input folder we can see this is the last modify among all these. So that's why it has copied from here to there. Let me recap what we have done here over here. So first we have used the get metadata activity to get all the files and after doing that we are using the for each container the for each container will be going to execute total file is six. So it will be executing for six time and under the activity we can see the get metadata two. So this get metadata two is required because we have already seen the last modified is not working in the get metadata one. So here we are going to supply the file name from the for each container and after that we'll be getting the last modify for that file and then we are checking through a variable if the variable value is less than the last modify of the file then we need to assign the current file last modify value to that variable. Similarly we are going to assign the file name as well at the same time. So after doing that we are going to copy that and the file name that we'll be getting from the variable where we have assigned under the if condition activity. So this is the flow that you have to remember. So thank you so much for watching this video. See you in the next video.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Norm Fizikas, Chris Allen, and Chris Smith. Coming up on DTNS today, Starbucks gets into NFTs, of course, Roku has some big hardware and software updates, and the MetaQuest Pro headset is found, maybe, in a hotel room? This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, September 12th, 2022, from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From lovely Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Rick Schiropolino. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Well, we've got all sorts of stuff to talk about. We've got hardware announcements. We have hardware found in hotel rooms. You never know where you're going to get on a Monday. But let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google spun out a new company called Aleria, which offers a light laser technology called TypeBeam, as well as a software platform to manage hyperfast, ultra-secure, and highly complex communications networks that span land, sea, air, near space, and deep space. It currently has a commercial contract with the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit. Google retains a minority stake in the company, but this isn't under the alphabet umbrella. This is a spun out company. In other Google news, the Verge reports the company has canceled the next version of its Pixel book, a laptop, and dissolved the team building it as a cost-cutting measure. Members of the team are said to be transferred into other Google projects. Streamer Tyler Blevins, you might know him better as Ninja, announced he didn't sign an exclusive streaming deal with Twitch or even another platform. Instead, he will now simulcast streams to Twitch, to YouTube, to TikTok, to Instagram, to Twitter, and also to Facebook. Left out LinkedIn. They feel bad, I guess. Oh, we're LinkedIn. You talk over thinking he's a LinkedIn guy. Ubisoft will bring three new mobile titles to Netflix subscribers. This includes a new Assassin's Creed mobile title as well as sequels to Valiant Hearts and the Mighty Quest for Epic Lute. All three will be available in 2023. Nintendo will hold its direct showcase on September 13th at 10 a.m. Eastern time, promising roughly 40 minutes of information mostly focused on Nintendo Switch games launching this winter. The event will stream on Nintendo's YouTube channel, except in the UK, as a mark of respect during this period of national mourning, says Nintendo. Ford Motor Company, which owns LinkedIn Motor Company, has introduced the 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E and 2023 Lincoln Corsair SUVs, which will be the first vehicles available with Ford Blue Cruise 1.2 and Lincoln Active Glide 1.2, both part of an upgraded package that will extend to other models eventually. Ford has been upgrading its map systems with advanced driver assistance features designed to work on more than 130,000 miles of divided highways, including hands-free lane changing, which can also suggest when the vehicle should change lanes in slow moving traffic. Predictive speed assist adjusts the vehicle's speed when approaching sharp curves, though it signals the driver before doing so. It would help. That'd be nice. Yeah, exactly. As long as drivers are in the driver's seat, it would be nice to have a heads-up about that. All right, Rich, let's talk about where Zoom might be going. Yeah, I mean, we seemed like we were talking about Zoom all the time in a certain period in 2020 when everybody was starting to work from home, and certainly spurred on by pandemic-related necessity, Zoom went from being kind of a corporate back-end service, maybe use it at work, to a household name over the last three years. For many, this ends with Zoom just being a video chat host, and that's certainly the bread and butter of the business as its business services. But the company also offers other communication services that maybe don't get as much press. Those don't seem to be getting the attention Zoom wants, so it's trying to rebrand its overall communication suite. Yeah, so Zoom already offered a communication suite called Zoom Chat. You might be familiar, but if you aren't, it works similar to something like Slack or Microsoft Teams. But now it's renaming it to Zoom Teams Chat, because I guess Zoom Slack Chat would just be too on the nose. I don't know how upset Microsoft is about this, but going forward, this isn't just a new name for the service, because Zoom also plans to roll out some new features over the course of September. These features are based around letting you do more productivity tasks from Teams Chat. So it's not just about video chat. Teams Chat is about all sorts of other things. One is that in-meeting chats can now be shared to channels. Another is that users can now schedule Zoom meetings directly within Teams Chat. Yeah, and this is what's getting the headlines today like this specific kind of rebranding, but it's part of a wider move by the company to increase awareness around the breadth of its services. In an interview with Fast Company, CEO Eric Yoon said that the company is looking to expand into new avenues, and CFO Kelly Steckelberg framed it that what we're striving for is becoming the operating system for your workday.  And that's like, okay, fine.  That's great. I think that, you know, what always bothered me and, you know, we're going into the early days of the pandemic where everybody, Zoom became that like Kleenex, you know, sort of brand name for just video chats. You can do lots of things and you don't have to use Zoom to do that. But so many people just started to use Zoom as this ubiquitous word for what we're all trying to do when we're all stuck at home in our underwear kind of thing. And I mean, that still is the case, but you always had a lot of other options. So for Zoom to be like, well, yeah, we're, you know, still good with that. But as life goes on, we have a suite of other products that you would be interested in and you don't have to use Microsoft Teams. You don't have to use Slack. You can just use our suite. I will add that Zoom, not to sell them short. They developed a product that was easily shared across multiple workspaces. So you didn't need, for example, we've all used Skype. You've got to get Skype app running and you have a bunch of configuration needs to do. Zoom was very, here's the link. You click on it and you can watch. In fact, you know, this past Friday, I attended a family funeral and it was streamed using Zoom. And so it was a very, very no-nonsense, very simple way to engage a bunch of people. But Zoom over the past, ever since like the end of the last half of 2001, their growth rate in revenue has dipped considerably. And of course, a lot of it has to do with, you know, the bump that you got with the pandemic. But they're definitely in a position where we, I think, they want to, they think that they need to start cementing out their other products in people's minds so that when the time comes, they have more to lean on instead of just this one product. Well, and it's interesting to talk about both, excuse me, Zoom and Skype, because, you know, back up until 2020, if you were talking about VoIP calling, usually you said, oh, I Skype somebody or something like that. It had that Kleenex level name recognition. But the simple fact is, as an enterprise service, like Zoom has never pivoted to being a consumer service. Like they've offered some consumer, like, safe. But I think there already were one. They didn't have to pivot to be one. They just realized, oh, people, like one part of our, you know, offering. Their monetization is still very much we are an enterprise service. Everything else that we're going to be getting from a consumer level is peanuts compared to what we would be getting when we're talking about huge enterprise contracts and stuff like that. So like that name recognition, while it's great for them, I think they're realizing that that doesn't save them from being the next Skype where, okay, yeah, everybody uses us for their free call for their family, but then they don't pay for it or they only pay for like the most basic plan. And every other competing service that offers either some sort of communication suite or some sort of video chat calling service has a variety of different, like they can use all of those different pieces as funnels to more subscription services. You're talking about Microsoft Teams.  That CRM is like the biggest funnel ever to like kind of going both ways. So they have a lot of now competition that they, you know, the competitive landscape has changed where that name recognition is certainly valuable. But it doesn't make, it doesn't make, you know, CTOs or CIOs signed contracts. I can't tell you how many Slack, well, I mean, okay, there are only a few of them, but like Slack channels that I'm in, we're not paying for anything. Well, that's the problem, Slack. You get the notification every so often of like, well, you only have this many megabytes of, you know, onboard storage. It's like, it doesn't matter. We're just, you know, chatting throughout the day. It's all good. I feel like Slack and Teams, Microsoft Teams, just have that corporate infrastructure built in to, you know, that is what they're known for. Whether you want to use it or not, it's still what they're known for. I would not have said before kind of looking at what it seems like Zoom is doing going forward that Zoom would have been in that same category, but the company obviously wants to be. Yeah. I think Rich, you kind of hit the nail on the head. There's very much of value add to the Slack and the Teams in that it's a suite of collaboration tools, plus this video conferencing that enables you to do all this stuff without necessarily jumping outside their particular ecosystem in order to do it. And Zoom wants to make sure that people, they want to maintain the stickiness of their product, right? Yeah. And that they need to offer additional products that are value added, that basically multiply the compelling nature of their product. This is the problem that Slack fundamentally had, is that Microsoft could add Teams as a free add-on to something you were already going to pay for, and then all of a sudden they can start growing this huge market share, right? And that's, I believe that's why they ended up getting bought. I mean, obviously, it was a huge acquisition. People weren't chatting too many tiers, but I think it was like $27 billion. But Zoom could be in that same position where there's a lot of other productivity ecosystems out there that can throw in video conferencing as that add-on. So having that as your only funnel into their subscription system, increasingly probably doesn't make a lot of sense. And that's certainly why I think that they are trying to see, hey, we have a lot of different avenues. We're an overall productivity suite. We want to be this operating system. I don't think that's kind of going after Microsoft's lunch and a number of verbiage levels isn't an accident by any stretch of the imagination. Well, speaking of productivity suites, Roku is definitely in that market. But before we get to some software announcements, the company updated its entry-level streaming service, the $30 Roku Express. Set-top streaming box still only handles 1080p streams. It's okay for most people. You might want 4K, though. But it now supports dual-band Wi-Fi and includes more on-device storage. That will be a welcome addition to some folks. Available for pre-order now, shipping October 13th. Roku also released a new $130 Roku wireless base with 120 watts of peak power and ability to sync with the company's various soundbar and wireless speaker products, shipping November 7th. But on the software side, the company announced some significant upgrades coming with the release of OS 11.5. This is still coming down in the next couple of months, but they're letting us know some of the features now. This will see Roku trying to get into the short-form video game, or at least highlighting it on their platform. They're adding a new section called The Buzz, which contains short-form promotional content from various streaming channels. You may say, okay, what is that going to look like? Things like trailers, interviews, content clips. And you're going to be able to see the channel information from where it's from, so you can save those channels or shows. If they show you a trailer for something, say, oh, let me save that. I want to watch that later. Give you a little interactivity to stuff you might already be watching on YouTube or something like that. Yeah. So the Roku OS, the new one, is also looking to revamp the What to Watch screen.  Also adds a revamped save list, which used to be limited to the Roku channel, but will now support platform-wide content. So you have a little bit more options as a person who loves good content. This could also be used to save content currently available for purchase or rent, and then see when it hits a streaming service. So then you can jump on that. The OS also adds a new live TV guide on its mobile app Remote, which will aggregate content from the Roku channel over the air content from a connected tuner, add supported video on demand channels, and premium subscription channels launched from its subscription platform. So you kind of have to be within that ecosystem. It can't be stuff you're subscribed to otherwise. But a lot of updates coming to kind of cement Roku as this major aggregator for all your streaming needs here. No, Sarah, you're not a Roku user. Does any of this make you kind of want to jump ship? What? No. So most of all media that I consume goes through Plex, through a variety of media servers. And Plex has kind of not, Plex and Roku are not the same thing because you don't subscribe to Plex. These are media servers that exist otherwise that are going through this particular way to make it pretty and look nice and be able to look for things. Roku, I used to use back in the day when HBO, was it HBO now or it was HBO now that was only available on Roku before it was available on Apple TV, right? Okay. I have that right? Anyway, so back in the day, there was a need for me to use Roku. And I kind of went back and forth over time. I just kind of went to Apple TV. I felt like that was, you know, the platform that I needed.  And it's all designed to, and I think Roku is doing the same thing, you know, taking care of the consumer who's like, well, okay, I have this. What do I watch? You know, what's here?  But if you don't, to have a little bit of a curated thing, I think most companies are doing this and that seems like what Roku is doing. Yeah, it's, there's some interesting moves. I am a Roku user. I have a TCL TV that I love the interface. I think it works really well. But I never, ever use the what to watch screen. I'm mostly just like, I know exactly what I kind of want to jump into or, or I don't think. Yeah, you kind of go past that stuff. Well, I don't think that's going to be a place. I think that's going to be like the YouTube Explorer page where I'm going to be like, oh, like this is maybe some like stuff. I'm like the first time I'm sort of something I don't want to watch is like, I will never click on that again. Right. So the, like the fact that this could, what really is interesting to me is the save list where there are so many times where it's like, oh, there's a show I want to watch. I don't know if I want to subscribe to this yet. But like, when you finish a series, you can kind of check back on what you want to watch and go back and say, oh, it changed, it either changed streaming providers or it was something that was, I had to buy outright. Now I can kind of add that. You know, it's already part of another service that I'm paying for. Like I thought for a while that Roku has not leaned heavily enough on its ability to be an aggregator, even though it is getting into content. It still kind of has a unique position in the market. And these seem to be like them like, okay, we need to step on that gas. And I would add this is not unlike what Google has done with Google TV as they transition away from Android TV to Google TV. One of the first things you notice is there's a section on the screen that literally shows you what's coming up next. Even on services you don't yet, you don't yet or haven't subscribed or installed the app. Yeah, well, that's where they get you. Well, this is the idea is that, hey, by doing this, Roku, like what Rich was saying, Roku OS isn't just the dongle. This isn't just a box you buy as a stocking stuffer. It's built into a number of smart TVs. My parents have one and it's really simple to set up. And once you do, it carries with that account. So as long as you use that same account, it will have all the same stuff on it. And so I see it as just a way to kind of make it more engaging and make it more valuable for other apps. So, hey, don't want to make sure you make your app compatible with ROS because there's plenty of people who want to watch it. And we have this way to kind of get people hooked up on your brand new service that maybe you haven't told them yet, but we can tell them, hey, Game of Thrones is on, even though you don't have HBO Max, maybe you should subscribe and you can watch it. How's it going, Roger? How's it going? Hey, listen, there's all this. But, you know, a whole kidding aside, the more we talk about this, the more I'm like, oh, Roku is the new Plex server. That's what they're doing. It's just that they also sell you hardware and, you know, some kind of Roku specific stuff. But for anybody who's like, and I think that's what we're talking about now, it's like, well, I've got Netflix. I have HBO Max. I might have Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, a variety of other things. Where does it all consolidate into one place that makes sense for Roger's parents? This is a good one. Yeah, and it's a turnkey solution. I mean, Plex isn't hard to use, but it's a little more involved in my parents just turning on the TV and they're instantly presented with all that information. Exactly. Well, if you have thoughts on anything that we've talked about thus far on this show, you probably have thoughts about media servers because we know you. Join the conversation in our Discord, which you can join by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNS. Well, back in the misty pass of your long before NFC based phone payments became ubiquitous, Starbucks figured out a way to get people to pay with their phones using the Starbucks mobile app. Part of this was convenience. Starbucks' barcode scanning payments got you through your drive-through order just a little bit faster. But another big part of it was the company's rewards program, giving customers points to earn stars, to help feed their coffee and snack habits.  If you're a daily drive-through user, you're getting some free stuff at some point. So any change that rewards program is going to be big news for coffee devotees. Yeah, and Starbucks was really at the forefront, especially during the pandemic of saying, you know what, just order something ahead of time, come on in, you know, no contact. We are good. So with that in mind, Starbucks will open a wait list for something called Starbucks Odyssey on September 12th, combining its Starbucks reward program, which is quite popular, with an NFT platform on the polygon blockchain. This will build on its existing rewards program using its existing logins. So if you're like, oh, NFT is crypto, I don't know. You don't actually have to do anything in that sort of the point. Starbucks eventually wants to deeply integrate the two. However, it is intentionally keeping mention of Web 3, which a lot of people either don't understand or find to be, you know, a little bit daunting, far away from the customer experience that it already has with Odyssey. So kind of how this will work is logging into the Odyssey Web app will let users play either interactive games or do challenges to earn NFTs dubbed journey stamps. Limited edition NFTs will be available for purchase using a standard credit card so no crypto wallet required, Phil Collins style. These stamps can be sold on a marketplace in the app with a portion of proceeds donated to causes chosen by Starbucks employees and customers. We don't know the percentage or much details about that. More details available as we go on here. Collecting stamps will gain points, kind of similar to you get points for buying stuff, you buy NFTs, you get points, which can be used to unlock exclusive benefits, not just like free stuff in store. However, these are things like they were talking about virtual classes, unique merch and even special event access. Yeah, so I am a person who doesn't go to a Starbucks all that often. So, you know, my first reaction was like, well, so like what kind of perks? Well, a lot of this still being figured out such as which challenges the company is going to set up for, you know, what kind of customers as well as the price, quantity of initial limited NFTs and who gets what? Do you pay for it outright? Do you just buy enough wraps? Get an NFT. The company plans to launch Odyssey later this year for people on the waitlist, so you can sign up now, before a full public launch next year. But I feel like there are a lot of questions still to be answered, Rich. Yeah, and Roger, just in our prep for this, you asked the most pertinent question, like what does the blockchain do for Starbucks that they weren't already doing on their rewards program?  If they wanted to make a big NFT splash, they would have launched this like the day after the Super Bowl, which was like the peak, you know, NFT crypto watermark for that. We've like before kind of the crypto, you know, crypto winner that we're in right now, but they waited to like almost the low point of the market to kind of wait into these waters when people would perhaps be at their most skeptical. So I mean, clearly they have an answer to this. What I think is an interesting element to this is it almost taps into Starbucks as this like lifestyle brand. Like there are people that like, I have to go to the Starbucks every single day. It's, you know, like just the way that like it's part of your morning commute. Which is why their loyalty program on the app has been so successful. You could argue that Starbucks was kind of ahead of the curve on a lot of the stuff. The fact that the company is like, okay, we have all these people who are using our app on a daily basis. They love, you know, you know, you buy four coffees, then maybe you get a mug or sandwich or whatever afterwards, whatever that is. The NFT version of this to introduce more kind of lifestyle experiences. This is where sometimes they lose me because I'm like, well, but like what? What is the lifestyle experience besides like a free coffee? I mean, is there a back-end thing where they are essentially offloading some of the rewards management onto a blockchain run by a polygon so that they don't necessarily have to have the hassle of it? They don't, but it's like, but if it's not a hit with customers, I'm not going to continue that very long. Is there a thing where people little double dip on Starbucks rewards that they want to avoid by issuing NFTs or... I don't think so. No, I think they're trying to be, I think they're just trying to, you know, look outside the box. Starbucks has this, depending on where you live, they have a chain of kind of high-end Starbucks places called Starbucks Reserve. And I used to live pretty close to one. It was nice, you know? It felt like a, you know, kind of like almost a nightclub more than your standard Starbucks on the corner. And I could see where there's a certain amount of clientele who would be interested in maybe having, you know, a sommelier come in one night and you get to be part of an exclusive group who's there and because, you know, that's the NFT that you have. I can see that, but I feel like that's pretty few and far between for Starbucks in general. Well, I will say, I feel like one of the reasons they waited on this one, obviously they wanted to make sure this wouldn't, you know, kind of all of our points. They don't want to mess up the rewards program. That's like a golden goose for them. They don't want to mess that up. But the other element that I think they were waiting for is for there to be, you know, kind of the early question with NFTs is like, what do you do with this? Like you just put it up on your monitor or something like that. And we're, even though a lot of places are rolling back like at very ambitious NFT plans, a lot of social networks now will let you throw up an NFT at their profile picture and that kind of stuff. So there are more places at least to put that and in a way that I don't, you know, I don't know how much Starbucks is going to be into the NFT aesthetic that's kind of become almost passe now at this point. But like there is at least more avenues. You know, you could hook them up to send them to your LG TV. You know, they have crypto wallets now. They're like, they're actually like places to display them. If you are the person that lines up every year for the Starbucks holiday mug, you might also be the person that does the challenge. Totally. To get your Starbucks NFT. Totally. Yeah. I think there are those types of Starbucks enthusiasts out there that would be totally down for this. Oh man. I mean, I am not one of them, mostly because I just don't live near a Starbucks.   Please do let us know. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. All right. So we might have just gotten a view of Metta's next generation quest headset. courtesy of Facebook post, Ramira Cardenas. Now this is a little potentially sauce, but hear me out. He posted pictures of multiple devices left in a hotel room labeled as engineering samples. Okay. Pictures show a black headset with three cameras on the front, new circular controllers with packaging showing the name MetaQuest Pro. Seems pretty legit, right? Equipment looks similar to a leaked Metta instructional video. However, we have no comment from Metta. The device wasn't shown powered on. And it's hard to say if this is a real thing or some sort of stunt of some kind. Cardenas says that the room's occupant later claimed the headsets. So there's that. How great would it be if the person that left this in the hotel room was the same person that left that iPhone in that bar? That's what I was thinking. It was the iPhone 4, right?  And now we all know what it looks like. I am just not convinced that these things are not all stunts. Come on. And as much as we all love, oh, we love the leaked renders that get out there. We love, oh, we got the leaked photos. This does not tell us anything that we haven't already. It's either seen in leaks or in the weird blurry promo video that Facebook, that Facebook itself or Meta itself put out there for this headset. Like it doesn't tell us anything new about the capabilities. It doesn't tell us anything new about the hardware. If they could, if they sent it to iFixit and they tore it down and we got all sorts of inside of SOCs and stuff, I'd be excited. This to me, if even if this is legit, I get, I am very skeptical. I'm surprised it got the amount of run that it did other than like the hotel room aspect is the notable thing about this. It's not like we have a picture of it. Listen, I've left all sorts of things in hotel rooms, you know, you're trying to make a flight. It happens. That said, this just seems a little too perfect to get a lot of buzz on a Monday. But let's go to the mail bag because you always send us lots of great stuff. This one comes from Paul and this was in response to our conversation yesterday following Apple's new announcement about the Apple watch plus Apple watch. Ultra. Ultra. Yeah. Obviously I haven't bought one. So I don't know. Paul says I'm an Apple watch user been one since the beginning, but also a pretty hardcore runner. So I kept using a Garmin until the Nike Apple watch with GPS. And that was good enough in 99% of the cases with the series for talking about the Apple watch about the fancy stainless steel expensive version watch to wear every day. And then a new Nike series for to use for running, but a few years ago I fell on a run shattered against a curb. Since then I've been using that stainless steel watch for running and it's been fine. Though at this point running a full marathon would pretty much drain the entire battery. But like others, I've been hoping that the new watch would be a new style.  Paul says ironically, the Ultra has flipped this plan upside down for me because I pretty much entirely ordered the Ultra to be my new running watch and I'm looking forward to putting the fancy band back on and just using my stainless steel and using it as my everyday wear watch. The Ultra may be expensive says Paul, but a new version of the stainless steel watch starts at the same price. Comes in a cheaper version than some of the high end garments. Those can run as high as $1,500. This is what I needed to hear. Paul, thank you so much for writing in because this is one of the few tech products that like I can't like visualize myself using. It's just like not for my needs. So like I love hearing the runners use case for this and I'm so sorry you broke your watch that makes me very sad. I know. I know. Bummer. But yeah. Thank. Oh, whoa, whoa. Otis. Sorry about that. Paul, thank you so much for the response, especially for somebody who is definitely putting their watch through, you know, marathon type stuff. Yeah. You know, I don't know, Rich, how many marathons you're running these days, but I'm not running very many. You know, so I definitely try to kind of like push my Apple watch to its fullest. But at the same time, just knowing what kind of what what people need.  You know, Apple's obviously honing in on that, that set. Well, thank you so much, Paul, for the email. 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HIMARS is the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. Michigan is one of few states across the nation that has HIMARS in the National Guard. So HIMARS Weapon System is a long-range field artillery asset. It has the greatest range of artillery employed in the United States Army. This weekend we went up to Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center to conduct a table-six of Wi-Fi. Table-six is called Section Qualification for Artillery. It is the most basic level of collective training in an artillery organization and it basically just proves that the organization at the lowest level is capable of employing the weapon system. This last drill weekend was critically important for our 13 Juliet's. 13 Juliet's are responsible for the Fire Direction Center portion of employing field artillery. They were able to obtain positive feedback from the forward observers as to where the munitions that were fired landed. What makes our system unique is most of the munitions we employ are GPS-guided so that makes it extremely accurate. If you're looking to join the Michigan Army National Guard and make a difference, the first-to-time 182nd Field Artillery Regiment is the place to be. We have a lot of capabilities and options in our toolkit. High Mars makes a pretty large significant impact on the battlefield.


I must say everyone my name is Greg Prescott from n5d.com here over here and uh welcome to another n5d facebook live hello to Ari and David, Sherry, Rebecca, Aisha, Carl, Candy, Valerie, Tanya, Stacey everyone's jumping in awesome exciting time right now we're just about almost one hour away from the fall equinox that comes up at 9 54 p.m eastern time so whatever time it is for you it's just about one hour away at least here you know for us and you know the united states north america so that's what we're looking at in about an hour almost to the exact time so a lot of things are associated with the fall equinox and we'll get into that in a minute I just want to touch on the shuman resonance if any of you guys were awakened around five or six o'clock this morning eastern time I guess on the pacific coast in the united states that would be two to three o'clock in the morning there was a large wave that came through last night so if you if you felt that today that's probably why if you felt it at that time so so I went to a it was the sarasota mystical bazaar at the sarasota auditorium and I bought some cool stuff I want to share the stuff that I bought I did do a a live video and I saw this buddha statue I didn't get that but I bought a cool incense burner so I got a little you know box to put the incense in I have like I don't know probably 10 incense burners around the house but this one looked really cool it's really classy I like the little case for it so I got that and I got this abalone shell it's really cool check out the iridescent colors in there and a little stand to put it on made of wood so you know you can use that for sage which would be ideal for the upcoming full moon or burning like cone incense or whatever so I got that pretty cool shiny sparkly oh and I bought these crystals of course crystals I often buy these they're just like little tiny ones and what I end up doing is I put them around my house and just bury them outside for added protection oh and the last thing man you know how some rocks just talk to you they're like I need to go home with you well that's what this one did um let's remove the tag but I saw this one this was a matter of fact this was right by the buddha that I was looking at look at all the inclusions and that oh and it's got that window right there can you see that window right there how cool is this so you got the window with all these inclusions it's just freaking stunning and I walked by it and I think they they wanted like 38 dollars and I'm like well yeah I like it and I like it because you can put it in your hand it can just hold on to it like that and uh and I like the inclusions because all the inclusions basically tell a story behind it so but I had to have it and I just kept going back and back and eventually I went there and I bought it and I gave her 40 and she gave me 35 so she knocked like three dollars off of the price of it but um had to have it ran into a bunch of people out there luciani was out there I ran into her and met a bunch of people that know me that I just met for the first time that know me from N5D so that was pretty cool um and it was a really good time so it goes on tomorrow as well so if you're in the Sarasota area it's called the Sarasota mystical bazaar and you can find it on facebook so what next oh I just want to say a quick shout out to everyone that's on patreon that's following following me there I'll be coming out with a new video um this week where I take my patreon people through a tour of siesta key so that's going to be fun and just a quick reminder to um if you're not subscribed to N5D you can subscribe on every web page on N5D whether you want the weekly or the daily that way you're not missing out on anything because like many of you guys know and what are going through many of us are shadow bands so we'll put out articles and I do that every day you know that you know for years I've been doing this every day but it just doesn't reach many people the example I I use is you know I've got over 400,000 followers on the N5D facebook page but yet any given article only reaches maybe one to three thousand of them that's how bad facebook suppresses this information so subscribe all right oh my gosh there's so many people here it's awesome hey vivian lisa tamera tamera is the name of my spirit guide which many of you know welcome thank you for joining me so the equinox is now officially less than one hour equinox actually means half night half day basically it's equal night equal equinox equal night 12 hours of daylight 12 hours of darkness so it's basically done to celebrate the harvest you know this is one of the most biggest things that that happens during an equinox we celebrate the the harvest and for many people that's you know the everything that they planted in the spring and nurtured throughout the spring and summer and harvest in the fall but it's much more than that it's what did you plant earlier in the year with your thoughts and intentions how did you nurture that and how is that coming to harvest right now it's kind of like the phases of a moon which like I said in two days we have a harvest moon coming up there's a near full moon tonight but with the with the moon phases you have the the new moon where you where you set your intentions and then with with the full moon you look back and reflect so what we're looking at myself when I when I go through what did I what did I put out there what did I intend what am I harvesting right now I'm harvesting a lot of gratitude um for everything that has came into my life some things that have come and gone for my life and things that are entering my life I know that just like you guys you know we many of us have gone through some challenging times and I hate to say it but because we're this is just fall we're heading to winter we're at the equinox it's kind of like a heads up it's not a bad thing but the days are going to get a little darker but that's also the truth is coming to surface as well so it's it's a it's a good thing and it's going to be a challenging thing we'll put it that way what we're going to be seeing and experiencing is a lot of purging on so many levels that you'll know exactly what's going on and you're gonna have to rely a lot on your own personal discernment of things that are going on within your immediate life and around you because there's going to be so many different paths that you can be tempted to take and you can listen to everyone else but ultimately you have the truth within so go within for those answers and and take it easy on yourself because like I said there is going to be a lot of purging going on a lot of things that are going to be coming up that need to be cleansed and released and transmuted so don't take it too hard on yourself still got this little thing on my lip I was outside looking for UFOs and I went through my garage and I'm in my backyard and the garage was dark and I was walking through the back through the garage and I turned a little early before the door and my head hit the cabinet and at first I thought I had a black eye but it was just a scrape under my eye and I was looking up on the internet what you do for if you have like minor scrapes and abrasions and I was I read that coconut oil you put coconut oil on there so I did that and the little scab just popped off so there was no black eye it was just a scab but the lip because the lip you know you smile or you laugh it cracks open again and you're oh I'm making myself laugh but that's this is going to take a little longer I don't care it is what it is but I'm a little klutzy I've always been that way and some people find it endearing some people don't I learn to live with it so I'm okay with that so as I mentioned what we're what I'm looking at with equinox is gratitude and it's so huge right now to be grateful for everything that's coming into your life and to keep a positive attitude about everything that we're experiencing right now because like I said it is a trying time but despite everything that we're going through there's so much beauty that's going on a great example is earlier today I mentioned this on on the beach update I woke up and I look out the window and there's a dragonfly just flying around right there I thought well that's really cool it's a great totem to have totem insect and I look out my window and I go outside on my front porch and there's dragonflies flying all around I'm thinking this is really good what a great positive sign and then I go to the beach to do my beach update and all of a sudden they start flying around me right there and one fly is right up to my my camera it was pretty cool and I see that you know the the dragonfly is a sign of transformation and here I am doing these thoughts and intention with you guys that are tuning in and you guys are helping me to transform the water but it goes so much deeper than that especially on the day of the fall equinox where we're looking at transformations that are way beyond just healing the water so I saw that as a very very powerful insect to come to come to me and us to give us that message I just want to read this this is what I was reading about of the dragonfly says the dragonfly totem carries the wisdom of transformation and adaptability in life as a spirit animal the dragonfly is connected to the symbolism of change and light and I'll get into that in a minute about white light this is really interesting and it's happening to other people when the dragonfly shows up in your life it may remind you to bring a bit more lightness and joy into your life those who have this animal insect as a totem may be inclined to delve deep into their emotion and shine their true colors the dragonfly is generally associated with the symbolic meaning of transformation here are common meanings for this animal totem change and transformation adaptability joy lightness of being light body symbol of the realm of emotions invitation to dive deeper into your feelings being on the lookout for illusions and deceits whether they are external and a connection with nature's spirits fairies is well i'm sorry spirits and spirits and fairy realms so not just with the transformation and the light body that the dragonfly has but be on the lookout for those illusions that are coming at you and once again use your own discernment go then listen to your higher self to yourself first and foremost before you listen to anybody else everyone's got a message but listen to your message first and you know what i do i i love listening to everyone's messages i love hearing about dates of the event Kerry at least karyan sanders i i just met with her and did a beach um a beach update with her and she has a date for the event and she said it's october 6th through the 17th 11 days where this the event happens this plasma this white light plasma just comes in and floods the planet and i always take that with a grain of salt because i've seen so many dates come and go but you know what i listen and i put it out there and if it happens great and if it doesn't well maybe it'll happen soon or sometime afterwards i'm like it's not going to depress me because i know it's going to happen i've seen it i felt it it's going to happen i just don't know when my guides won't tell me i think it's because every millisecond timelines are changing every thought and and intention changes the timelines so that's as far as i can get on that hey Scott Nicholson from pennsylvania my drummer from one of my bands rock on brother yeah you too man glad you can make it here as a matter of fact one of these days i'm gonna make it up there love to jam with you guys again tell the guys i said hi so um just getting back to the dragonfly real quick dragonflies start to grow in water and then move into the air and fly when the spirit animal shows up in your life you may be called to transform and evolve symbol of metamorphosis and transformation it inspires those who have it as a totem to bring out the changes needed in their lives in order to reach their full potential when the spirit animal shows up in your life it's an indication that it's time for change just like the dragonfly changes colors as it matures you may be called to live and experience yourself differently stay open to the enfoldment of your personal journey so that what a what an awesome message on this day the day of the fall equinox to get the message from the dragonfly of transformation that's just so freaking exciting so just saying hi to everyone that's tuning in vladmir gerald carlos elizabeth danie and renay now i say thank you for joining me 55 people i i just looked up 55 people of course just dropped them up back to 55 i love it i love those numerical synchronicities it just shows you you're on the right path and doing the right thing what else do i want to cover oh yeah so we are going from fall we're starting fall we're going into winter things are going to get a little darker but it's always a blessing it's things that are being purged transmuted keep a positive attitude we'll all make it through it and we have each other to lean upon so be positive so we have a full moon coming up on the 24th and i will get to that white light that's the last thing i'll be talking about that i mentioned a little bit earlier but we have a full moon on the 24th and that usually a full moon means you know you end up doing a lot of purging a lot of cleansing so it's so appropriate that we have this harvest full moon happening right now as many people are purging and cleansing various things within their their lives and uh i feel for it because i'm myself included i'm going through that too um you know i i always try to keep positive about things you know and i've been called Pollyanna at times because i'm too positive if that's such a thing i don't think it's possible but you know to me the glass is perpetually half full it could be a little under the half full line but it's still half full it's just the way i am and i don't want to change that that part of me so what a full moon does it it brings light to darkness and especially during this this harvest that we're going through the full moon harvest and reflecting back on what what the intentions you put out there and how they have grown and and was there anything that came that did not come to fruition were the things that you felt maybe were you were disappointed about and why you know you get we're always looking at the meaning and the message behind all this you know everything that comes into my life i'm always thinking okay why why did that cup just blow across the street in front of me you know as i pick it up throw it out throw it out whatever you know little things like that you're always looking at the message that's behind that so dig deep because you're always getting symbols and messages includes whether it's you know a bird an insect an animal coming in front of you something in your dreams you know hearing a random song if a song just pops into your head it didn't just pop into it there's been so many times where i've heard songs you know most of you guys know that i used to play lead and rhythm guitar and several hard rock bands that's the kind of music i listen to hard rock all sudden i might hear this like mushy song from the 70s that i haven't heard since the 70s but there's some kind of message in it so listen to it figure out what the message is and uh you know i forgot the song i i posted recent oh uh tesla love will find a way i thought that's one of the songs that just popped in my head um there's been numerous songs that that has happened to me i think i posted a stick song recently i forgot which song it was by sticks that i posted but there was a meaning behind that as oh come sail away is about it's about this guy that believes he's being visited by angels but as it turns out they were extra trust reels so that was a pretty cool song that just happened to pop into my head for no reason i was at the beach and there it is and elizabeth says she loves the 70s i love the 80s that that was my era basically you know even though i'm kind of kind of old um the guys in my band called me omp old band prescott because at the time i was like 25 or 26 and they were like earlier 20s 21 22 or something like that and even back then i was taking naps and and like two o'clock in the afternoon or whatever i've always been listening to my body when my body tells me to sleep i sleep so yeah that was my nickname in the band omp old band prescott yeah old 25 god i wish i was that old again so we have that full moon coming up i know i i i get a little tangential tangential sometimes i go off in different directions but we do have that harvest moon coming up on the 24th so you know a lot of people use that as an opportunity to cleanse their crystals as well to not only cleanse but recharge their crystals so you know just a reminder for everybody that's out there that's going to be doing that with their crystals there it is for you guys coming in late this is one of the ones i got today at that mystical bazaar and there's that that window i was telling you about there's a little window on it right i can see if i can get it to shine i don't know it's right above my finger anyway it's a little window right there but all the inclusions on it are like freaking cool i had to buy it i keep a crystal ball i have a little crystal ball that sometimes i'll i'll put in my hand and it's it's in my bedroom and i'll sometimes fall asleep with it in one of my hands one hand or the other just for the heck of it so last thing i want to talk about i've talked to other people about this i've had it happen in the past but not as much as what's happening now and not as bright and as long either what i'm seeing is i'm getting these flashes of white light on the side and my peripheral vision and it's not just like a it's like it'll hang out there and then it's it's staying longer than just a flash does that make sense uh other people are experiencing this too and it's it's white light that's just it's there and it happens when you're just like really relaxed um every every time it's happened when i'm almost into that alpha state that meditation state um and i it might just be you might be like watching a video or something like that because that puts you into that kind of like uh and you know most of the videos i watch are all metaphysical you know so but are you guys seeing that catching the white light it's it's happening more and more and it's lasting longer and longer it's just really fun phenomenon to partake in and it just happened to me i don't know maybe 20 minutes before i came on i had this and it was it was it wasn't like a tiny little it was like that big and just like bam so are you guys seeing that are you guys catching it yeah and there's confirmation right there from heather so weird i experienced same things you described just saw one before you got on here definitely yes and guys saying hers are white and silver lights and sparks so yeah it's a lot of us are seeing that and it's happening it's not just something we're on the verge of something really big we all can sense it we all can feel it and you know maybe this this is just like we know that that white light is coming that's the event the white light is going to flood the planet and it's going to bring this unconditional love to a magnitude you can't even fathom on this planet and maybe this is just like little energy that's coming in maybe this is the precursor to the event i don't know but it's happening and it's happening to a lot of people lots of sparkles i love the sparkles shafts of light and barbara taylor's home orbs so much stuff nice at least it's saying oh yes seeing the same every day sometimes purple or blue sweet yeah something big is happening we're on that precipice right now so what i'm going to do it's 919 so we're about half an hour away from the equinox and i'll be doing a an after thoughts video for my patreon patreon followers on this about what i've experienced for the equinox and what i did and all that fun stuff and but i want i hope you guys have an amazing equinox and and just keep flooding the planet with love and light and gratitude because there can't be too much of that so i'm sending you all infinite love and light my name is greg from n5d.com namaste love you all