Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE at IBM Interconnect 2015. Brought to you by headline sponsor, IBM. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live inside theCUBE in Las Vegas for a special presentation at IBM Interconnect. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the civil noise. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante, our next guest, Eric Swain, who's the VP of product at Mutual Mind, based out of Dallas, great product, amazing visualization of analytics, powering all of the IBM big boards all over the show and on the big stage. Eric, great to see you, welcome to theCUBE. It's my pleasure, thanks for having me. I mean, you guys saw visualization as a pretty big deal a couple of years ago. We saw you guys, I think it was two years ago at an event, small little board inside a booth. Now you're expanding, you're on the big stage. What was it like to get to make it work on the big stage? Data, you get the data back end done, but now you got to pipe that into just, share with folks what you guys have done here, what you're doing, and how did you do that big analytics board? Yeah, well, I know I succeeded when I posted on Facebook my mom said, wow, that you actually do something, and figured out what I actually do for a living. Yeah, we've got over 75 panels worth of Mutual Mind here at the conference, so this is a big coming out party for us, we're really excited. I mean, everything you see here is on IBM Softlayer, so we're running from, actually our offices are about a mile away from their headquarters in Dallas. We're very excited about what that offers in terms of bare metal plus public hybrid. We also are powering analytics behind the scenes to analyze the event, to provide social business team and others with insights about what's going on with the conference from a digital perspective. Okay, so you guys are obviously a heavy software company, sort of, off air said, BI is really your focus, but a big part of what you do is design. I mean, the boards are gorgeous. Thanks, thanks. I know there's a big movement, obviously, to find developers who are also sort of artistic and designers. Can you talk about your culture in that regard, in that respect?  I mean, there's no one way or two ways about it. You have to jump in with both feet. We were really careful up front to set a clear design vocabulary for what we're going to build a board. So when new data, new data sources come in, we already know what our language is for how we're going to show that data on the screen. And our developers are just killer. They do the full stack, front to back. We focus primarily on responsive web so that everything will work on every device and that automatically makes them design decisions for us as well. So when you say responsive web, but you, off the area, you talked about having a mobile app as well. So, but their primary is a responsive design. So the mobile app you see is a web app and that's why we're able to push it out to multiple devices at once. So if you go to ibm.biz slash ibm engage, you'll see our mobile engagement center. That's compliant with iOS and Android, any of those browsers on those devices. Okay, but I can run that same URL if I run it on my laptop or my iPad, it's going to just respond to whatever. That's right. To mention, but do you design for, so how do you make that trade off, right? Cause a lot of responsive designs are okay on a bigger screen and okay on mobile, or they're really good on mobile, not so great on laptop. How do you balance that? It's a weird world. When we launched the engagement center in May of 2013, nobody asked about touch, nobody really cared. I think now the cost of touch screens has fallen so dramatically that we're getting that question a whole lot. So we said first we're going to launch it on a mobile, in a mobile web app, then we're going to back that into the large screens cause we wanted to learn our lessons on the small screen and then push them out to the big screen. So let's talk about data sources. Yeah. What are your data sources? A lot of people point to Twitter first, it's the fastest source of data we have. We are a plugged in partner with Gnip, which is Twitter's data arm. So we're part of about a dozen companies that have that status. We participate in pilot programs with them, help them optimize their services. We're very excited about that relationship with Twitter because it gives us such a rich data set. Full firehose. Yeah, full firehose access. Okay. We also have access to thousands of forums, blogs, YouTube, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all of those at firehose level. So we're able to bring in millions of data sources at once and bring them to bear. We even do international data sources like Stina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, VK, Naver out of South Korea. Basically, I have a marketplace I can go to for data and we're very modular in consuming that data in information source as possible. So we were at Oracle OpenWorld a couple years ago and we watched Larry Ellison give a demo and he talked about, it was a Twitter based demo.  And we were looking at saying, that's kind of cool, but is it real time? Yeah. No, it's not real time. Are you real time? Entirely so. In fact, the distance from tweet published to screen is about 12 seconds. And considering that tweet probably bounced off a satellite somewhere, that's pretty good. All right, how do you guys handle like spam and like spam filtering and bots coming in? Yeah, so we have a lot of tools there. We have keyword based tools to filter out most of the bad language. Actually, interesting, we partnered with a company called Alson Dallas called ImageVision that does image analytics.  So we have literally a nudity filter. I guess you could filter in nudity if you really wanted to but we have a filter to remove out any images you might not want to see on the big screen. So you guys taking real time feeds and doing image recognition filtering that? Yeah, so we have our partner ImageVision.  And then how do you determine, literally I was staring at that board for, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes and I wish I had more time, I had to go, but so I'm looking at the leader board. What am I looking at? How do you determine sort of, I mean, I'm sure you have some algorithm, a clout-like thing maybe. We have a lot of options for how to do that. I mean, a lot of our customers are asking for different ways to measure influence. So we have all the raw metrics like clout score, following, followers. What you saw there was more about volume of mentions. So we had different topics that were re-ranking. And then we're also working on tools to better understand influence. And that's where our work with IBM Watson comes in. Because we're analyzing personality traits using Watson personality insights to better understand not just an influential person, but is that the right person? On one of the websites, but maybe it was the board, I saw Watson sort of powered by Watson. What is the relationship between Watson and what you're doing? Right, we work very tightly with the Watson personality insights product team because we're bringing to market a solution. We've already brought to market our social portraits widget, which is what you saw, which you'll see at the conference here, which takes a group of influencers and displays their social portrait, their realization of their personality vectors, as well as their influence in clout score distribution. So that's the clout score of their followers, which is interesting insight there. And also the topics that their followers most often talk about. But then also we're working on further instigations where we can implement personality insights on a real-time level, so that we can target individuals based off of not just clout score following and all those other lovely things, but also are they open to change? Do they have a degree of altruism? Are they analytical? They're purists, open-source purists. They have some interesting topics there. Is that a text analytics capability? Yeah, so the personality insights tool investigates your, basically last 200 tweets, and they use linguistics to determine how that text is indicative of your personality traits. So you can essentially build a persona. So we would be like bipolar. It's schizophrenic, bipolar. It's also your own personality, yeah. John's talking about open daylight and neutron, then talking about social business. What the hell's going on in your brain? Driftwood. Data ocean. What's the coolest thing that you guys are doing on the graphics that people talk about the most? What's the coolest thing? Yeah, I think one of the cool things we're doing is called the perspective motion widget. You'll see it out here as well. It's a 3D visualization. And what's cool about that is there's no software involved there as well. It's using a browser language called WebGL, which actually iOS 8 just brought that onto iOS devices. So the perspective motion widget lets you see basically kind of cards floating in a star field and they kind of swarm back and forth. So that was our first implementation of 3D. We'll be doing a lot more of that in the coming year as well. But it's amazing that browser technology has caught up to that level of almost game development. So talk about the size of the company, what you guys are doing, how big are you? Are you growing? What's the state of the funding? Growth, et cetera. So we're actually a fairly, a company's been around for four years. We're a team of about a dozen people, which you consider what we're doing with a dozen people. We punch above our weight class pretty well. We actually have bootstrapped the company and Angel Fund and we're seeking a rounds of investment, but we've been able to do a whole lot when very efficiently with our capital. And you know what, knowing you guys and have previous conversations folks out there, we've chatted before, want to tee that up, because really being bootstrapped is a huge accomplishment. And in this market, you guys have a great product that certainly renders itself well. So congratulations, you know, it's something, I always say entrepreneurs that can bootstrap and grow without outside funding are the true tier one. Now you might need to get rocket fuel if you have that rocket ship all ready to go. That's right. Or everything's clean. And you bring in the big money, scale, ride the rocket ship. And you guys are building it out in real time. It's pretty phenomenal. Well, I think that this is the kind of moment that that type of fuel is necessary, right? I mean, we have shown a lot of capability and a lot of scale with IBM, literally in physical inches as far as the screens. Are they selling your product for you? Or are you guys joint sailing together? Is there a real business relationship? So we have a lot of relationships with IBM, both as a vendor and as a reseller, and those are continuing developments.  But they are reselling our tools or we're working on that solution, as well as we are a vendor to them. So they use our tools for detecting, well, not just at events, but also in the wild for detecting opportunities for social selling. So we're working on that project as well. We have a lot of those different types of relations with IBM. And so we're both vendor as well as reseller as well as partner. So how do you position with the sort of sentiment analysis guys, are you head to head with them? So we have our own proprietary sentiment and analysis engine. But I think what's really powerful about our platform is we've built from the ground up with an integration mindset. So we can bring in other external sources of enrichment. I mentioned image vision, you know, that plug in for that image analytics API was a week worth of coding for us. It's really amazing how quickly we can bring in someone that brings value to the table like Watson and use that to enrich the social data we already have. Well, what's the real time nature of what you do? I think differentiate you from some of the sort of gen one sentiment analysis guys are just sort of you know, a lot of tools focused and my background is on agency side for 10 years running and leading social analytics teams before I came on here. In fact, I was the customer before I came on part of the company. A lot of those tools are doing research and they're doing really well historically. But we realize that marketers now want not just impressions and volume and mentions, they want action, they want something now. So we've laser focused on the real time visualizing it and then we have an engine called adaptive listening. It's kind of like if this then that for social media. So you can say if cloud score above 50 and mentioned by brand and it's negative sentiment kick off a workflow task for Eric Swain because he better respond to that stuff like that. We see that as the moment that makes social business go. And you've got a killer API to go on with all this.  We're very proud of that. We integrate with a lot of partners that use our tools for social listening or they have a box in their flow chart called social and they don't know what to do there and they plug us in. It's great. Eric, thanks for coming on the queue. We're getting the hook here. We've got to run social business is about the data and visualizing it, taking action, the insights engines, IBM's all over this. And so we have the queue and we'll be right back after this short break. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante.


What is going on guys? Welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I am back with another Destiny 2 video and this one is going to be a little quick update video on what I found yesterday with the reveal stream trailer. So the RC2 reveal stream is later today. Expect to see plenty of that horde mode action. I do look forward to it. The stream reveal trailer yesterday was dropped which was 33 seconds of goodness. Check it out right here on the screen now if you haven't seen it already. Okay so we're in this trailer yesterday. I pointed out the return of the Suez Regime and possibly the Icebreaker. That video can be found on my channel if you missed it. It's quite easy to spot the Suez. It's in your face for a few seconds.  The weapon this video was going to be all about was one I missed and everybody missed yesterday but a legend of Twitter by the name of Puxian555 pointed this out to me and to be honest I was shocked. What I believe we see here is a no-lambiond or some kind of variant and that can be seen right at the start of the trailer for literally a split second. No wonder we all missed it. You can see its shape and you can also see that bolt action mechanic the no-lambiond is famous for. And this is just amazing if this is what I believe it will be. The no-lambiond version too. Or maybe even just the exact same weapon a few minor changes in design. Either way it has me hyped. If you guys remember my D1 days I loved the no-lambiond even though I wasn't very good with it at all. I still love the weapon. I still love trying and to see what looks to be this within this trailer does get me hyped indeed. You know what this actually reminds me of which has been available to see in-game from the very start. The Sniper Rifle Devrim K is using within the EDZ. Check it out on screen now. I've actually seen this. I actually think this will be the weapon we get to chase come May 8th. It bears basically the exact same size that wrapping around a barrel is seen within this trailer on this Guardian's back. So I'm guessing this will be the weapon where you can see it's basically a no-lambiond with a bit of tape wrapped around the edge. And to be honest I don't care how much they change its looks as long as it works the same way as it did in D1. I am happy. Now we wait until the major expansion this fall where weapon slot changes are introduced. Because this will not arrive as a power weapon. Maybe Bungie will give it a new name also because people will say the exotic thing about a no-lambiond was it's the primary. If it ain't called a no-lambiond people can't reach about it. Or will it be the no-lambiond and will it be a primary weapon wouldn't that be absolutely amazing. To be honest the way Crucible is going now the direction Bungie are taking it I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually the case and this drops as a primary or secondary. That would be so good it's unreal but let me know what you think about this down below in the comments section. Were you also a fan of the no-lambiond?  Let me know. But thanks as always for stopping by if you enjoyed the video and I hyped about the no-lambiond returning hit that like button. Again thanks for stopping by and hopefully people I will see you on that next one.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're looking at a new Bursa Bar 9, Bursa AR9. It's an AR pistol. They introduced this last year at SHOT Show. I said, that's cool. We know Bursa from making nice handguns, budget friendly prices. Now they're making a Bar 9, a nine millimeter. But what I did not know at that time is that Bursa would come out with a full series. So they make two AR pistols in nine millimeter, one with an eight inch barrel. This one here has a four inch barrel. And then they make a couple rifles and a pistol in 556. So Bursa is expanding their line to not just produce handguns, but also long guns. And I think that's cool. But this is a Bar 9. It is new. It's available with either Glock mags or Bursa TPR mags. And this model is suited for Glock mags. So let's check it out. I mentioned it has a four inch barrel. And you say, well that handguard's longer than four inches. What's the deal there? This is compensated. It has six compensators on there. It's made by KAW Valley Precision called the Slim XL Pistol Caliber Compensator. And it attaches to that four inch barrel right there. And so the compensator's four and a quarter inches. So it looks like it eight inch barrel, but it's not. Now, the role of the compensator is to divert gases in this case forward, which reduces muzzle rise. When I took it to the range, I said there's like no muzzle rise when shooting this firearm. The overall length is 21 and a half inches. And it's real short. So if you use it for home defense, you have the availability of Glock mags and you have a very short firearm to make your way around. Now let's take a look at this. The magazine that is included is a mag pull. All right, but like I said, it accepts Glock mags. Many of the models currently that I see out there have the TRP mags. Now the MSRP on this is 870, but the average price that I am seeing is 670. You don't typically see that with the new firearm of $200 less price tag, but that's what we're seeing 670 for this firearm. It's available with Glock mags or Bursa mags. I've got a ton of Glock mags, so I went with that. Now let's check out this handguard. You can see the rail goes all the way up top there and it is M lock. So you can add some accessories there if you so choose. Compensator is certainly cool. It is made of aluminum and an aluminum lower receiver. This right here is where you can use your hand to grip the lower, keep it away from this shorter handguard. You could put a hand stop on there. That wouldn't be a bad idea. Give yourself a couple options. There's the buffer tube. Comes with this pad. I guess this is how we're gonna have to do things now. Okay, with the pistol brace ruling with the ATF and all this, we'll see how that turns out. But before the pistol braces were around, we just pretty much cheeked the buffer tube anyways. So this pad's nice. You can move it forward, backward, wherever you want your cheek to rest on the buffer tube. The grip is a Mission First tactical. Now some they have suited with Magpul, others with MFT, Mission First tactical. I haven't had that yet, but it certainly works fine. No arguments there. And we'll take a look at this side. 21 and a half inches. It's all AR, which is Bar Bersa AR pistol. You can put whatever Glock mag you want nor stick with this right here. Now I do have a Bushnell First Strike 2.0 on there. It comes with the riser. You need a riser. Now you can figure your cheek rests right here. Your eyes align right there. Comes with the riser. It's a 303 MOA dot. And I sighted it in at the range and it was cold. I mean, windy and cold. I wanted to do more, but the wind kept blowing my camera down, believe it or not, but it was a easy sight in. I took some shots. Let's take a look at that. We'll come back and talk more about it. Bar nine has a standard mill spec trigger. All right. So it's a pretty common trigger pull that we see on many firearms. There's your forward assist. Already talked about the charger. Overall, very nice to assemble. Same as any other AR. What I really appreciated at the range was this and elongated trigger guard because I had gloves on. As I mentioned, it was freezing cold and I had plenty of real estate in there to reach my finger in there and pull the trigger. But overall, very happy with it. I thought about going with the eight inch barrel model, okay, to get a little more velocity, but I wanted the benefits of the compensator. I'm gonna get a picture of that and throw it in there so you can get a better look, but I wanted the benefits of the compensator because I figured, you know what? Most handguns are four inches anyways. You get the compensator. Nice, easy shooting. Now I have to say, at the range, a terrible day to go to the range, by the way. People said I was nuts when I told them what I was doing, but it performed excellent. It really did. It fed fire and ejected everything just fine. Even with that freedom munitions ammo, I've been having, you know, with freedom munitions, you either get a great batch or a batch that is inconsistent. I was shooting a batch that was inconsistent and the bar nine fed fire and ejected everything very well. I had one little hang up and I'm telling you, I'm blaming that on the ammo because I've had the same issues with other handguns that I've shot with the freedom munitions. Really losing faith in that. But I'm not losing faith in the bar nine with the four inch barrel. I thought it was great. I really enjoyed it. I liked the compactness of it. I was happy with the Bushnell first strike 2.0. I liked the compactness of it. I thought it was real easy shooting. That compensator has something to do with it. Not a lot of recoil with nine millimeter, but enough to, well, I don't know that it is a game breaker. You know, the eight inch barrel would be cool too, but I did like this. The eight inch barrel goes about that much longer. So I went with the size and I just think it's cool. I think it's different. It's cool versus now making long guns and pistols and all this and the availability of Glock mags makes it super cool. Very happy to have this new release from Bursa, a whole bar series. Check it out on their site. They have more than you may be expecting from Bursa. This is made in the USA. The bar series is made in the US instead of Argentina. And I think that's cool. And I think this bar nine is cool and I plan to do more with it on more weather friendly range days. Although I have to admit, I still had fun. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


Another installment of my very favorites of 2020 and this time we're talking about my very favorite thing in the wide world which is eyeshadow palettes. Let's get into that right now. Hello my friends. We are talking all about the top 10 palettes of 2020 and I couldn't be more excited because I have found some fantastic palettes this year. I kind of was a little bit more picky about palettes and I really kind of narrowed it down because I realized that my collection is so big. I just wanted to make sure that I was really picky this year and I felt like I did a really good job. Now every one of these palettes is new to 2020 except for there's two and I put those in here because I feel like because I used them so very much that they needed to be in this lineup. I also want to say to you that before this video goes up I will have another video that is about my help and different things that are going on and so if you are interested in that I'll make sure that I link that down below for you and I'll try to remember to throw it up here in a card. YouTubers say they're going to throw out things up in a card which is that little clickable tab that comes across in white. Sometimes we remember sometimes we're really bad about it. More than likely we're really bad about it. So anyway I hope that you do enjoy this video. Give it a thumbs up and let's get into the palettes right now. All right so I'm going to start out with from Gimme Glow Cosmetics. This is their new Vivid Rose Palette. It's been with me about a week. I'm in absolute love with it and you're going to see why. First of all the packaging is fantastic. I am trying really hard to get you guys closer even though my ring line doesn't like that very much but I'm going to do my best to make sure that I give you really good swatches of these and show you the palettes really close up so that you can see. This is a purple mauve pink lovers dream. I am in love with this. I just think it's a fantastic palette. It has the most interesting colors in it. Now before we get started it is a bigger one. It has bigger pans there and then we do have a full mirror the length of this whole thing so it's kind of good mirroring it as well. So here are the colors and let me tell you that when I first got this palette immediately I thought of Juvia's Place. The pans are big like that. They are super super saturated but there are some beautiful really interesting colors in here. This metallic violet right there right there is so beautiful. Now this is what I'm wearing today. I do have the darkened purple on in the crease outer V. I do have a little bit of this purple mixed in with it. I have this is my transition color and then what did I put on my eyelids? This is on my eyelids along with a little bit of white. I felt like it was just a little bit too pink for my eyes but wow aren't those gorgeous. They are just some of the most pretty colors. Very saturated, extremely blendable, very very blendable and you just need to like tap your brush in there. This is an indie brand when I was looking at them and watching their Instagram it was talking about how they press all of these by hand one pan at a time and they put out a ton of these during Black Friday. Kudos to these gals for what they pulled off and they're from Texas so I'm sure they're thinking big. So I really do love this one and it had to be in this roundup no matter what and by the way we're not going in a specific order we're just kind of going through whatever is pulled up next. These are all that good. If you find one that you really like jump on the bandwagon. All right next up is this adorable little palette from Violet Voss and this is the Sweet Violet and when I saw this I was like I have to have that of course because it's purple but the other thing is that these are really nice quality. They're really good and I had never had a Violet Voss palette before. I never tried any of her palettes at all so I didn't know what her formula was like but it is a very very nice formula and the pans are small but I don't mind that because when you're looking at a palette that is all one color or you know leans towards a color hue then you really don't necessarily want one that's going to be huge that you're never going to be able to go through. Kind of like the vivid rose even though I love that palette I still feel like this is probably a little bit more practical. You know you can put this into your purse whatever you want to do. So here are the swatches for you today and I just think that these are absolutely gorgeous. I'm going to try really hard to make sure this is good swatching for you. I really do like the palette. I like the quality of it. I like the blendability and the saturation and I love that it is purple themed. That's my jam you guys. If you have anybody likes purple you're in the right spot because usually that's all I get done is talking about purple on my channel. So this one from Viola Voss is really great. I know that they did just come out with a bluen and I think they might have a green one. Okay here is one of the palettes that I was talking about that was from last year. This is the Blue Moon Palette from ColourPop. What I love about them is the the pans are small enough that you will go through them eventually. I love the packaging on it. It's very sturdy. It is plastic packaging instead of the regular cardboard. There's a really nice mirror in here. So if you put this in your purse and you need a mirror during the day, got the mirror thing covered. And then I will go ahead and just show you the palette itself. I am absolutely in love with this Periwinkle blue color right here. There is not a lot of Periwinkle colors out there where it just sits on the cusp of almost being lavender. And I think that's so special. And then I really love this duo chrome light blue right here. So it's an icy blue color. It has that blue shift to it underneath. All of them are gorgeous. And here are the swatches for you guys. They did a beautiful job with this palette and they did a beautiful job with all the other palettes as well. They're just really something special. And I think that if there's a color in there that you have really had your eye on and that you really love, go ahead and give it a try because they are really good. Next is another one of those palettes that was from 2019. But it definitely deserves some praise here. It is the LA Girl Hot Heat Palette. And this one is in Aloha vibes. I am absolutely enamored with these 16 pan palettes. They are some of the best quality I've ever seen. I mean, high end, as far up luxury as you can get. And these palettes are amazing. I have not been disappointed with any of them. Maybe one or two of the metallic shades in, you know, other ones. But as far as what these are, they are so saturated. They're so easy to blend and they're so buttery and creamy. The mattes are a tremendous quality. They blend together seamlessly. If you are a woman that thinks that's her wearing days of metallics and shimmers are over with, please give these a try. I am not kidding because they are that good. This palette itself has some remarkable colors in it. I absolutely adore this one right here. It's coming across the camera as a little bit blue, maybe a little bit lavender. It has a multi-chrome shift to it, which when you're buying a multi-chrome pan single from somebody, you're paying what, like seven to ten dollars for a single pan. And this whole entire palette is, I think, on the website, 18 dollars. Now here are your swatches of it. This color right here, which is a metallic taupe, I think that is one of the most beautiful, interesting colors I've seen in a long time. And then it has this gorgeous teal up here. It has those basic colors as well. When you're looking down here, you get some very basic colors, but it has the element of having some personality about it. And that's what I love about it. You get a little bit of purple and you can just do endless, endless looks with this. Pop one of these metallics, any of them on your lid, and then do a regular just neutral look with some of these other colors. And you have an absolutely gorgeous look. Again, I cannot state enough how good the quality is on these. I've just been absolutely blown away. All right, let's just sit with LA Girl for a minute. I have the one that did come out this year that is the 16 pan palettes. And this is the break free palette. If you're not a pink lover or a mauve lover, you probably won't like this. Rose, those colors, you probably won't like this, but I am. And this, they could have just put, instead of break free, they could have put break free Melissa. Because honestly, this is one of the prettiest palettes I've ever seen. I love working with this. And it has this color right here and this color over here. Those are topper colors. And usually when they do these colors, they do just the metallic or the shimmer. And they kind of broke out and did this topper color thing. I'm not a huge topper color fan. However, if you take this color right here, which is the bone color, or let's see this dark black and color, and then you put one of these over, you're going to have the most beautiful transforming colors that you have ever seen. And again, the quality is there in those mats and the shimmers. This is one of the topper ones that I was talking about right up here at the top. But look at the shift in it as I move my hand. It's just so pretty. So all of these are really wearable. If you don't mind pinks, wearing pinks, a lot of people don't like them. But I really do love it. And you can definitely make it deeper with this charcoal color down here. I'm so glad that they put that in there. You have this burgundy brown color over here that's really pretty that could be put in the outer V, even though that is a more metallic shimmer shade. It's still as beautiful in the outer V. So I'm so glad about this palette. I'm really happy that I got it. And I just think it's something special. I love these LA Girl palettes. We're going to stick with LA Girl for just a minute. Now LA Girl came out with that same formula only in the nine pan. They are the same quality. It's just, you know, more of a variety in a smaller palette. This is a very warm palette, almost got the oranges in it. And then this one was supposed to be their purple one, but that's more of a rose mauve colors. And then this one right here is their really neutral cool tone, leaning cool tone. But for today, this one is called Down Play. I will link below what all of those are down there. It is in that same nice packaging of the plastic. So you have a really nice, sturdy packaging instead of the regular cardboard. And I love this theme as far as what the palette has in it. It is so good. And I feel like of all of the palettes, and yes, I'm skipping over that purple one, but I feel like of all of the palettes, I like the coloring and the quality of this one the best. It just has some absolutely gorgeous colors. And if you are somebody that has been looking for a neutral palette, I wouldn't say that this is really cool toned because there really are only a couple of cool toned in here. But there's really some great neutrals and quality in here is just absolutely fantastic. I can't say enough good about this formula. This makes me darn tootin happy as far as the quality of them. And I just, I love them. They had to be in here. I hope they continue to bring out these palettes because they are very, very special. The next one, I know friends, it has been done and done again. And everybody has ranted and raved on how wonderful it is. There's a reason, my friends, it's because this Natasha Janona palette, the Glam palette, it is that good. I mean, this shows, and the other one that I'm going to show you that is a cheaper alternative of it, but this shows that this type of palette where you have still neutral colors and still leaning towards cool, there's still a market for this. Everybody went nuts for this palette. And the reason is, is because we needed to have our throwback to our really good 90s days. When we had gray eyeshadow, when we had the brown eyeshadow, when we had grungy, and we still loved it. I think this palette is really great. I like that the pans are a little bit smaller. I just really love this palette. It's a great quality palette as far as the palette itself and its outer packaging. It's really good. It's very sleek. The dogs decided to join us for a minute. Natasha Janona also gives you the ability to customize your palette. I didn't know that. So you can look on the back right here, see those holes right there in the palette. You can stick a toothpick or something through there and pop out these individual ones and pop in other ones if there are colors in here that you don't like. Now for me personally, this gold right here is probably not one that I'm going to be using that often. So I actually do like that ability to do that. And here are your swatches. They are just so pretty. We needed this palette to come out so that so many other cosmetics companies knew that these palettes were still in demand. Yes, we still want neutral palettes. We don't necessarily need all of these super bright colors, which are fun. Don't get me wrong. I love my color eyeshadow, but we still needed something like this. So this had to be in the lineup. So you know how often ColourPop comes out with releases. I mean, we're talking every week, sometimes twice a week. It's just like crazy. So when this palette came out, I kind of dismissed it even though I'm a huge Disney princess girl because I had my little girl and she was the princess of all princesses all the time. And I saw somebody do a tutorial with it and I decided to pick it up and I'm so glad I did because this palette, it hits all the boxes for me. So it's the Disney Designer Collection ColourPop. It's a princess thing and it has, you can see it has that gold packaging. I really actually like the packaging. They've had each princess sign it so pretty and then you get into it and the colors are pretty too.  I think that I'm mostly drawn to this because it is a lighter palette. The colors in it are a little bit lighter. Yes, you do have all of these right here along this row that are deeper. I need a deep shadow, but there are so many times when I reach for a palette and everything in it is just super dark and I just can't use that that much. I have to have this color right here, which can go across my brow bone and actually cross all the lid to set my eyeshadow primer. And then I love that they did all of these really light colors right here that I can use as transition colors. And then I will show you the swatches and they're just so pretty. I really do like the quality of this one. I just really gorgeous. And you do have quite a bit of warm stuff in here, which I don't mind. Again, I know that I talk all the time about cool tones, cool tones, cool tones, say that a lot. Well, basically, I love cool tones, but you do need the little bit richer, warmer colors to brighten up an eye look.  And I kid you not every single time it will save your makeup look. You'll love your look after that. It's just something about that little bit of peachy, orangey color, and it just brightens the eyes. So a little tip there for you. Elf came out with their new Classics palette and I fell for this palette. And kind of the same reason as the Natasha Genona. We needed neutrals. Everybody needed to continue to know about neutrals, but at the same time, we needed them updated. And that's what this did for you. You have this mauve neutral color over here. You have all of these warm colors in here, but I think that this is just wonderful quality. It just ended up being one of my favorites, reached for all the time. This Celadon green over here, well, I was so impressed with that. Just a super pretty color. And there they are right there. And that is all of the neutrals. The blendability in the pigment and how gorgeous it is. And these shimmers aren't here. On here are not high metallic. So when you're looking at them, if you're somebody that doesn't like to wear shimmer, these might be for you too, because they're more along the lines of being just a straight up shimmer or just a little bit of that satin look to them. And I really like it. But that Celadon green kind of sold me on the whole palette. You can't go wrong with Elf shadows. They have done such a good job through the years. Now, I know I said that I wasn't going in any particular order, but this palette had to be the number one spot for me. And you guys might even know what's already coming. It is the Sydney Grace Enduring Love Palette. This palette changed everything for me, as far as the neutrals. Again, I just became enamored with a neutral eyeshadow this year. I love my pinks. I'm wearing my pink and purples today. That's from that new Vivid Rose one. But I a lot was wearing these neutral colors. Okay, beautiful packaging. I think they may have just changed the packaging. This is tin or, you know, a little bit of metal on here, raised embossed. And it's just gorgeous packaging, great near in there. And then what's inside is the treat. I just could not believe that it took me so long to find this. And Sydney Grace is an indie brand. It's run by two sisters, I believe. And if you have any problems at all, they email you personally and they do a fabulous job. This one just stole my heart. And because of its color scheme, of course, you know, you have this bright fuchsia pink. You have a muted purple over here. You have this gorgeous teal down here. But these colors in here, you have that great mix of light and dark. So making endless looks with this.  I'm in love with this thing. It is so beautiful. And the quality is superb. This probably is the best formula. It's way better than Natasha Ginona. I think that LA Girl rivals it. So they kind of make a tie for me. But if I had to pick, I probably would go with though these ones because they are just that good. So let me show you the swatches themselves. And the metallics in here, they did such a great job with, but they did a great job of what they put together for colors. Just so interesting to me. You get that neutral colors, you get the warm colors, you get the cool colors, you get the pop of colors. It just really, truly has been something special that I have absolutely fallen in love with. And I cannot say enough good about it. They have a light and a dark one of these, by the way. I don't think I said that. I would love to have the dark one, but I know that they just put in some deeper transition shades. So I probably could just, you know, buy some singles and have the same thing. But really honestly, you guys, if there was a palette that I was to say, is it worth the money? Is it worth, you know, splurging on? Yes, this one absolutely is. I just found so many ways to use this. Like I would go in with the color right here, which I used as a transition a ton of times or this one. And then I'd pop any of these metallics on my lid, even this deep and teal right here, or that magenta purple right there. I would pop those on my lid and then I would just go in with one of the darker colors that's here into the outer V and just on my word. It just is one that just absolutely claimed my heart. And I knew for 100% that this was going to be in this lineup this year. And it might be in the lineup for every year to follow because I love it that much. It's just so good. That's it. That was the last one. I sure hope that you guys enjoyed this. I love palettes and I loved bringing you what I found in the year that I just fell in love with. They are just next level beauties and I wanted to pick out the best quality for you and affordable clear on up to luxury. Did you yourself have a favorite this year? I would love to know that in the comment section below. Thanks so much for spending a part of your day with me. I hope everybody is doing really well. Please stay safe out there. I know we are all facing so much and I hope that your family is good and that you're good. And I love you very much and I'll catch you in my next video. Take care of yourselves. Bye-bye.


Hey, guys, welcome back. Let's resume with the way we left off. We completed with page 63 in the chapter, chapter 6, on music and worship technology. We've covered all the sound equipment, sound component of the equipments that we discussed until monitor speakers in page 63 and the need of it. And I hope you were able to all just understand briefly what it does. And now moving on, I'm going to the next section, page 64. In this section, we're going to talk about the recording equipment for use in worship settings. The recording equipment for use in worship settings. What is the need for it? Now, in addition to the equipments mentioned in the above section, to record, you'll need a computer digital audio workstation, also known as DAW, DAW is another software that is used to record anything. It could be like a simple podcast if you want to record professionally and whatnot. So for anything that you want to record, you will need a digital audio workstation. And because this is not a sound engineering course, we're not going to go too much in detail about it. But everything that you need to know about this is available online. So it's like you can do a sound engineering course for free on YouTube. But yeah, you get all the more information over there.  A really good audio interface can make a huge difference to recordings, whether of live music, speech, podcasting, or a church service. Now, all of this, we've learned quite a lot about this in the last year and a half due to the pandemic, isn't it? All of a sudden, the churches in the rural areas or smaller churches that did not think that online recording will be useful, we suddenly had to learn that, hey, recording is very important. And for the most part, even last year, from the first wave hit, we prerecorded so many of our services at APC. So for you to be able to do all that and to continue to bless your congregation, this is important. Being able, knowing how to record, knowing the equipments that are used to record is very important. So one of which is the audio interface. And here are a few suggestions of the brands that you can look into. One is the Focusrite Scarlet 2.2. This is about $14,000 or so.  But then again, like I said, the prices will range from your need and the brand, the quality of equipment that you need. And the softwares used for recording are, again, just mention a few is Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase. There are a lot of free softwares out there that you can download for free to record your audio. So that is the audio component of it. And just moving on to the video part. When churches are first starting to stream, many will mount a single camera in the back of the sanctuary to capture their Sunday summits. The technology in these gadgets is great for single camera setups and will ensure that you put your best foot forward. So even if you don't feel like you totally know what you are doing yet. So having just one high-definition camera, if you want just one angle, just investing in one good camera. And I've suggested a couple, but then again, they are not exhaustive. There's just so many brands, so many good cameras out there that you can invest in. And now you get a good high-definition cameras for a lot cheaper than it used to be, okay? So having a good camera to capture the video of the church and with the cameras, the tripod is very crucial as well. What is a tripod? It's a simple stand that they mount the camera on with the camera, that's a tripod, okay? And investing in a durable and a strong tripod is a must. And then with that comes the video editing software. Okay, and some of the softwares that I've seen people in the church office use are, they use Final Cut Pro, most of the time they use Final Cut Pro. That's what's mentioned in the notes. And for free, I think you can get iMovie, there's Adobe Premiere Pro, and there's so many software nowadays guys that you can download, you wouldn't get it for free to edit your softwares, okay? So this is what's related with equipments that are required for recording your audio and your videos, okay? And I think it will be a very good addition to your church and worship ministry, okay? Investing in the audio and the video equipments. And then moving to the next section, it talks about the lighting systems for use in worship settings. Just a few guidelines, right? Lighting sets the obvious mood and the atmosphere in the room, okay? So if it's bright in a room, it is happier, celebratory, et cetera. And if it's dark in a room, it is more intimate, more private, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, so lighting actually sets a pretty obvious mood or atmosphere, changes the atmosphere, changes the mood in the room, okay? And then secondly, in the B section, the lighting should match the mood in the room, okay? Even if it's a, if the team is doing like a pray, a fast or an up-tempo kind of a song, if there's some celebration thing happening, high amount of lighting in the congregation is suggested, okay? People need to see the role of the congregation in celebration and praise. And in intimate worship, during the slower songs, you know, during those intimate moments of worship, you reduce the amount of lighting, okay? It's like this, it gives like this sense of privacy, that, you know, okay, kind of getting closer and being intimate in that particular moment. So that's what lighting does, okay? So the effectiveness of our worship times will increase as the worship team, the sound team and the lighting team are working in one purpose of bringing glory to Jesus and serving His charge, okay? The effectiveness of our worship times will increase, okay? Now, definitely all of this, you know, having said, we've spoken about the audio recording, video recording, the equipments and all the fancy equipments, including the lighting and whatnot. All of that is not going to bring God's glory down. Just having a fancy equipment, fancy expensive cameras and whatnot, having the best lighting of the softwares and et cetera, et cetera, we can have all of that and yet miss out on the glory. And you can have none of it and still your congregation be filled with the presence of God, right? So in all of this, please don't get anything wrong. You know, if your church does not have any of these equipments and whatnot, it's absolutely fine. But it's one of the good things to work towards. But equipments should not be an area of distraction. You get what I'm saying, right? It should not be like, okay, if God will come down only if this kind of lighting is there on stage, okay? That should not be the intentions of our heart, everything, right, the whole, everything that we do is to serve, is to minister unto God better and to serve his people better, right? If we can record good quality audio, if we can record good quality video and if it's going to serve our congregation better, go for it, right? If your room, if your room that you're renting or your building does not have enough natural light and it's very dark all the time, investing in a good lighting system, there's nothing wrong with it, right? But again, like we've discussed so many times in the spiritual aspect of it, is as a worship leader and as a worshiper, all your focus is about getting on stage and being under the spotlight. We are missing the whole point, isn't it? Okay, so the whole point of all this chapter is that, okay? We can have all of this, but then, you know, Jesus is always the focus of it all. And finally, the projection software, people need to see the lyrics, isn't it? Of the songs that we sing of the sermons that you preach, you know, yes, we can use PowerPoint and whatnot, which is great, it works, it's functional, it gets the job done, right? Using PowerPoint and slides and whatnot. But then there are some of these extra professional softwares that you can use, we can use. So one of them, a couple of them is ProPresenter. Now there's version seven and eight that's come out, okay? So a pro-level presentation software for churches, it's good and there's another software called ProClaim, which is very similar to ProPresenter, okay? So that's another alternative. One of the earlier softwares, projection software was EasyWorship and MediaShout. Okay, so all of these are the projection softwares that you can start investing in for your church as well. And some of the tools that are available for the training of your worship team members, of worship ministry that you can, there are a lot of resources to equip your team, guys. Okay, YouTube of course, there is no shortage of lessons on YouTube, on the teachings of worship. There are hundreds and hundreds of podcasts, free tutorials, trainings on YouTube and resources available on YouTube. And the few additions that you can look at is Bethel School of Worship. There's an online course if you want to, if you're led to pursue your worship ministry studies, you can look into that. Worship Initiative by Shane and Shane and there's another. Lead worship by Paul Belosh, Hillsong and Praise Charts, et cetera, et cetera. So these are all just websites for you to get some free resources, okay? That this is all about chapter six, right? It's about worship technology in worship ministry. So does anybody have any questions, guys? Please forgive me this. My internet seems to be a little unstable. There was a heavy rain last night. If my voice is breaking or whatnot, I apologize. But I hope you were able to follow the chapter six now. But any questions, any thoughts that you want to ask or share about the importance of sound system? Hi, Pastor. Yes, Dave. Not a question, but a kind of suggestion.  I mean, that your worship team needs.  Yes. The board or the leadership has denied or doesn't get approved. So in such situation, well, you know you need your worship team needs your church needs. In that situation, what can we do or how can we convince or how can we let them know that these certain things are necessary. Yes. How can we convince them or let them know if there's something that you can suggest me? Yes, Dave. But I'm not sure if you like the answer that I have. But you know, when we started off, this is chapter, right? I said that it's very unfortunate or sad that most of the leaders might, you know they have either two aspects to it. One is they don't have the funds for it. And the second aspect is perspective is that they just don't see the need for it. They think that it's a waste of money investing in any of these equipments. Instead, they would, you know they would invest that fund for something else for the church, whatever that may be. And I've been part of both such kinds of leadership. But the thing is that, you know as a member who is not a staff who is just another volunteer or part of the worship team members, all we can do is just ask and suggest, you know that this is going to help. This is going to help. Can we buy this? You know, because this is going to enhance. But if you're kind of the one of the important like the main worship leaders that's main worship coordinators that you're coordinating everything for you for that location of your church. It's important that you have like a priority list of equipments, right? For example, it's important to have microphones. And if you don't have microphones and if you just have you're not going to invest in an FX processor or an equalizer, right? So make a list of the equipments that are important, prioritize them. Okay, now we have the microphones. The next is we need to get a mixer, right? Or an amplifier. So one thing at a time convince, you know this you make a suggestion, that's all you can do, right? You say, you know, we need this it's not just a want, it's a need, right? So after you've done what you have to do the only other thing that you can do is honor the leadership. You know, what we should be careful with is when the leadership denies something the enemy can use that to cause bitterness or offense in our hearts. So the first thing I would say is just keep that heart in check. Don't give the enemy a foothold to use the denial of the leadership of your request to turn that into bitterness. Okay, so continue to honor the leadership continue to be patient with them. And this is why I said, you know you're not going to like the answer that I'm gonna give but continue to honor them and the leadership will see, right? Eventually that, okay, hey, he's been asking this for a while and he's been patient and he's been an honorable about it. He hasn't made a scene, he hasn't said I'm gonna leave the church or et cetera, et cetera, right?  And then now it's up to them, isn't it? Because they are the leaders. So in that season, I would suggest you to continue to honor them and wait. And yeah, hopefully things work out for good, Dave. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but on your part, just, you know if you can just work on that list the priority list of equipments, what is needed? You know, separate that list from top priority or urgent to the wants, okay? These are all the luxury stuff, okay? You know, we don't really need them but when we have all the basic stuff we can, you know, slowly save up for them and add them to our title list. Yes, Professor. Okay. My other concern is, you know, during this pandemic we all know at least we need at least a two-channel sound interface at least. Yes. So while we just record by a camera and or a mobile phone it's not that bad but the quality of the sound is not very professional or Yes. So in those situations we, how can we make them know the difference between the quality of the sound just to recording by a camera or a phone and through sound interface? I mean, how do we let them know is by playing an example and showing them that like a difference between audio and video that's recorded using good equipment and audio video recorded using just a phone, you know. The thing is last year again when the first wave hit, that's how we recorded, you know, we, like, none of us were prepared, right? You don't study about this in any Bible college. It's like, okay, in this year you're going to be hit with pandemic, everybody's going to go online. Nothing prepares, you know, for something like that, isn't it? So similarly like everybody else we were unprepared but we had to improvise on the fly. So what we did is like for worship ministries is like worship leaders, guys, record a worship set on your phone and send it. So for a solid one month or so, that is how we managed, right, for one month because of the lockdown and everything. We couldn't go out anywhere. So the worship leaders in their home, not everybody else, again, not everybody has an interface. Okay, let me just show you what an interface looks like. A lot of things connected here. I'll take it. Give me one second, guys. So what Dave is actually talking about, this is a DAW, like a digital audio workstation, right? So this acts like a bridge between the computer, okay, and my instrument, my keyboard, or a guitar, whichever, so you see it has two inputs here, right? So I will use one input for the mic. I use, let's see in this, let's see. So this is one mic here, okay, a lot of things are falling. So I use one channel for the mic. So this is a small interface. It has only two channels. That means I can connect only two instruments at a time. Okay, and this is about 10,000 rupees or so, yeah. 10,000, 12,000. So one channel for the mic and the other channel for the keyboard or the guitar. So now, because it's expensive, isn't it? 12,000, not everybody in the worship team has, even now not everybody has these, but if there's like a main worship leader, investing in this will surely help, like recording all the audio in this and capturing the video in a high definition, and then playing and showing them the difference. See, do you see the difference? This is the clarity. And I again, just hope that they agree and invest in a simple one like this. Yeah, I think. Yeah, thank God you're, I mean, you, we do have some of the members who are willing to help and they come up with, at least God has been at least providing for the members. So, like the members who are in the worship team. Yeah. We are thankful for them. And it's been a great help for us. Praise God for that, David. I mean, it's amazing to see how God has sustained His church through the pandemic, right? Through the ups and downs. And I think this is one of the lowest points that everybody, the whole world, but the church has had to endure and we've had to learn to adapt and improvise. And I started, in all honesty, this thing was in a box for, I don't know how many years and I didn't really use it. I took it out and I started using it only after the pandemic came in to record everything and bought one mic and all of that. So, yeah, any other questions, guys? Thomas, Prince, Kiran, how was the technical aspect of the church, in your church? Any challenges that you'll face? Kannan? Actually, currently we didn't buy any technical things but I was there in the ministry for almost five years. I have seen this mixer, my, I'm not sure what you showed, sure, it's a 58 and one more cordless. I forgot the model name, but that's cost 32,000. It's cordless, very expensive. That ministry always has spent good amount of money for the technical side, soundcraft mixer and JBL speakers, very good instruments they've been buying, snake-able and all. So, that pastor used to say, whenever you do for the kingdom, also you have to do the best and that will be useful for the, enhance the kingdom of God. So, as you showed us some pictures, I was recollecting it. So, praying in coming days, we should have a very good equipment in the church. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, thanks, Thomas. Yeah, I think, you know, when we say best equipment and whatnot, it's to the best of our ability. You know, our best might not necessarily be the best of another church or another ministry and whatnot. Are you able to do, you know, the best you can in your ministry? And I think that's an important question to ask yourself, so, yeah. Thank you for sharing. Anybody else? Kiran, Kanan? Yes. As you said, the financial matter is also, you know, always think about to buy the things. Yes, yes. That also depends on the ministry, growth stage and the capability to slowly have to buy one-one things at the time cannot for the financial stance. Correct, yeah. Absolutely. And see, I think just like any other organization, even if you studied in a church music and not music administration, church administration, is also budgeting, right? Now we make budget for, you know, so many different things, isn't it? Like for the church, okay, we have a budget for, let's say a church family outing, different various things, isn't it? So if you have a budget, like a savings plan for just, okay, sound system, the church is going to put in, set aside just 500 rupees monthly and then the end of the year, you can use that to buy an equipment that we need and et cetera, et cetera. I can have a plan like that will also work. I'm talking to you as pastors, you know, as leaders that we do. So yeah, yeah. So Pastor. Yes. During the lockdown, the first wave and the second wave, when you were in a complete lockdown, how did you manage the worship and the sermon? Was it house record at the house and send it to Google Drive or something? Yes, yes, yeah. That's how it was. So everyone did it in their house, right? Yeah, everyone did it in their house, yeah. All those files were sent either by a Google Drive or we transfer, you know, whatnot. And I think there was also a time when only, you know, we have this Swiggy or Danzo. So we'll put all the heavy files in a hard disk or a pen drive and send it to the media team. You know, all those dramas was happening, sending the laptop from there to here and sending the laptop back to them and all of that. Then once the lockdown eased a little bit, the media team would go to pastor's house to record his summits. But otherwise even pastor would record his summits, you know, with the camera that he had and send it to the media team. So everything was happening online, yeah. So, yeah, it's pretty challenging. Yeah, I can relate that. We are still on the same thing. We are not physically open yet. Right, right. So, yeah. But yeah, what I got now, people can come at least for the recording. Yeah. And then record and then go. Yeah. And I think in my experience, another suggestion is, which I've also seen is people need a good audio a little bit better than the video. So, you know, if I'm sharing a video for us on the class, although you can see the video, one of the first things everybody will immediately complain or say is, sir, we can't hear. There's no audio, right? And, you know, and also in the Zoom meetings and whatnot, if people can see you and cannot hear you and if the audio quality is not well because of internet connections or whatnot, the interaction is not going to be, the engagement is not going to be at the same level. So, yeah, sound system, investing in sound system is never gonna let you down. You know, good sound systems never gonna let you down. Okay. Well, if there's nothing else, what we'll do is I'll stop the session here. Okay. And we'll resume the next session next week. Okay, guys. And I hope you've been learning something and take time to invest in some technical stuff. What I will do after the class is I will upload an Excel sheet that has every possible collection of technology that you can use in ministry. Okay, it's gonna help you. Okay, so I'll share that once the class is done on the stream section. So please download it and use it. Okay. All right, then. Thanks everybody for joining in. We are finishing class much earlier today. It's unusual, but we'll resume next class. Okay. Take it guys. Bye-bye. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Hey, everyone, welcome to today's day trading recap. Tuesday, March 9th, another wild day this time. Ended up on the green side, plus 7.69. So got back a lot of what the market was borrowing from me yesterday, but let's go over these trades. I'll show you what happened on the mighty 90 front, 0 for 2, but pretty small winners here.   Did a pair's trade in the Nasdaq versus Dow, plus 370. And then on the runners, had a nice winner in Boeing for 626. Beyond Meat got me for a little over 1,100. Winner in Lyft for 199, Marvel for 237, Microsoft minus 370. Roku, my biggest winner, plus 1510. And Disney, minus 495. So let's take a look at these. I'll show you what happened. Let's start with the mighty 90s in Apple and Facebook. So first in Apple, Apple. Apple started to push up, getting some nice volume here. There was actually a lot of trades that were given mighty 90s at this point. I chose Apple, and it pushed up, and it finally started to roll over a little bit, and I ended up just getting out. Didn't get a very good fill. I was actually slightly positive. I was almost getting ready to get out for a profit, and it popped back up on me. I ended up just closing out. So it took basically a scratch, minus 47 on Apple. In Facebook, Facebook, kind of the same thing, nice volume pop, started to roll over, but then just pushed higher. I was patient, patient, patient. Added to it right up here at yesterday's high, and finally got a pullback, and when it started pulling back here, I just closed it out. Again, just kind of a small scratch, minus 85 bucks on that. And then Boeing. All right, so Boeing, I played really well. Obviously wish you had more size on when you get the moves you want, but can't complain. I had this big push up. Boeing was staying weak all day. I was talking about, if this thing keeps consolidating, stays weak, it may be a prime candidate for a potential continuation down, because the rest of the market was staying strong, and Boeing was staying weak, but then all of a sudden boom, boom, boom, boom. It got some massive spikes in volume, so when it pulled back here, I got long, popped up, got out of some, came back down, got in, popped up, got out of some, got back in, popped up, got out of some, and I was staying super small, but booked 626 bucks. I think I got out of my last piece. Well, actually I got out of my last piece right here. I was looking for one more continuation higher, and I was just kind of done for the day, so I just got out of that just a few minutes ago, so Boeing plus 626, beyond meat, double whammyed me. We were looking for, on this push up, this had a nice volume of spikes, so we're looking for a little bit of a pullback for continuation higher, and this thing just kept pushing, pushing, pushing lower. Finally ended up adding to it when it came down to yesterday's open here, got a nice bounce, got some back, and then when it just started getting weak again, I just closed that out, just got, I think my exact words in the room were, I don't wanna mess with it, so I just got out, and then got back in when price moved back up again, looked like it was gonna show some strength, massive volume spike, and so I got back in long again, and this thing just chopped around, chopped around, chopped around, and so I ended up getting out, taking a loss on that piece as well, so I ended up taking a sizable loss on beyond. Lift, this one was called out in the room by Andrew. We had two Andrews call out trades today, Andrew K., Andrew Gabriel. I believe Lift was, I can't remember, I think it was Andrew Gabriel, yes it was, okay. So, see I give credit where credit's due too, I don't just blame people for losing trades. So in Lift had a big volume spike here, so on this pop-up got short, closed most of it out down here, kept one little piece, it just kinda chopped around, so I ended up closing out the last piece around here, still booked a winner of 199, and then on Marvel, this was Andrew K., big volume spike here, so when I just got a little bit of a pullback got long and cut a nice move up here, I think I got out of my last piece, or I got out of some here as well, and I think I got out of my last piece when I kept trying to push through the pivot, ended up just closing it out now. How about it, I could have sat through all this and would have got a lot more, but I was out of it much earlier, so I didn't have to sit through a lot of that, but still booked a nice winner of 237. Microsoft, minus 370, so Microsoft was a little bit of a late bloomer to the party, we were looking for an upside continuation out of Microsoft, it was choppin' around, it came down, touched yesterday's high, started to bounce, I was close to getting out of half here, didn't quite get there, came down, sat through, sat through, and when finally it broke down again, I just ended up closing it out. Now, obviously, like I said, it was kind of a late bloomer with the market being strong, Microsoft wasn't as strong and so I thought it was probably a good exit now, obviously in hindsight, Microsoft ended up pushing back up, so it could have been a winner but got out early, so it took a loss on that one. And then Roku, played really well, Roku was my biggest winner here, Roku pushed up and then it started to consolidate, I think it got in right here on this little pullback to the pivot, popped up, got out of some, came back down, got in again, got out of some, came back down, got in again, sat through a little heat and then boom, it really popped up and that's where we made our money, so plus 15-10 there. And then Disney, this was one late in the morning that I took, this one kind of came out of nowhere so I ended up giving a little bit of my profit back, I would have been up over a thousand bucks on the day but sitting there and Disney had been weak all day but then all of a sudden it just exploded, I just kind of saw this out of the corner of my eye, massive volume spike, so when it started pulling back to this pivot I got long, I think we might get a continuation higher but it just kept bleeding, bleeding, bleeding and then just started chopping sideways and it looked like it was gonna potentially go lower so I just cut out and took a loss on that one. So plus 769 on the day, I'll take it for quite a while, quite a wild market. We'll be back live streaming Wednesday and Thursday, we'll be offline Friday and then Monday of next week. So look forward to seeing you in the room, talk to you then.


I was going to call this video Why Use a Compressor but instead I went for Why Use Compression and there's a subtle difference which we'll discuss later. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. It seems that more often than not when people are discussing compressors they're talking about making things louder or more present but there's actually a few reasons to use a compressor, some of which you may not have thought of. Now before we get into that I'd like to quickly thank the sponsor for this video, DistroKid. If you follow the VIP link in the description down below you'll get 7% off an already amazing price to distribute your music. Now before we get into the situations where you may use a compressor I think it's really important that we quickly answer what does a compressor actually do. It may surprise you to hear that most controls on a compressor are concerned with turning things down. I like to think of them as answers to questions so the threshold control for example is answering the question when should we turn things down and it's measured in decibels so once we go over a particular level in decibels the compressor is going to turn the volume down. The ratio control is answering the question how much should we turn it down by so once we've gone above that threshold how much should we turn that volume knob down. The attack control is answering the question how quickly should we turn it down once we go over the threshold. Should we wait a while or should we turn things down instantly and finally the release control is answering the question how quickly should we return things back to normal. So once the level has gone back down below the threshold should we wait or should we turn things back up again right away back to the volume they were previously at. Now a lot of people do ask me hey Mike if a compressor is just adjusting volume why not use volume automation in your door. It's a good question here's what I would say to people a compressor may be adjusting the volume several hundreds of times during the course of a song for example now if you were to do that with volume automation that would take a long time to do would be incredibly tedious and then if you wanted to make adjustments later again it would be very time consuming and tedious. Volume automation is really great for broad strokes for things that are going to last a long time yeah in terms of you know a few seconds or something at least compressors are much better when you've got lots of volume automation and you want it to be done automatically depending on the signal. Now if most of these controls are concerned with turning things down why do people use compressors to make things louder. So let's see the process of making something louder using a compressor in action here in my door Kate walked by band lab I've recorded a female vocal and I've duplicated it so we've got two identical waveforms one in blue one in green the only difference is the second track in green has a compressor applied it's this Arturia FET 76 compressor we'll discuss what that's actually doing in a moment but first of all I want you to notice something about this waveform there's a couple of areas where it's much louder than other parts we've got a section here here which is much louder than other parts and then we've got another section here which is much louder that is what I'm using this compressor for I'm actually using it to make these louder parts quieter okay now you can't actually see the difference it's made yet visually with this waveform at the bottom but we can make that happen here in Kate walk by freezing this track in your door it may be called printing the track or bouncing the track or what have you so we'll go ahead and freeze it so we can visually see what the compressor has done now you can see with these louder parts let's look at the first one here that it's actually made it much much quieter and it's comparable to the level in the other parts of the singing okay so it's done that there and it's done it here further on as well and it's done a little bit here with some of the louder parts later on okay so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this first waveform the one at the top and I'm going to turn its volume up as loud as it can go so that the peak level of this waveform is all the way up to 0 dB if we go louder than that it'll start to clip okay I'm going to do that automatically by using a normalize function most doors have this feature and it enables us to set a new level for our waveform so I'll open my normalize feature I've got it set to 100% don't need to change any settings and I'll click okay so now that waveform is up as loud as it can go everything is increased and the loudest part of it is now at 0 dB let's go ahead and do exactly the same thing to our compressed waveform at the bottom so open up my normalize feature click on okay and again the peak level is now up to 0 dB as loud as it can go however look at the quieter parts especially look at this middle section here yeah and compare the first one to the second one you can see that the quieter parts of course are now much much louder than they used to be and that's because we created enough headroom enough distance between the loudest part and the quieter part to be able to do that when we used the compressor now in an actual compressor the process of doing that will actually be done with an output control or sometimes you'll see it called makeup gain okay and sometimes it's automated depending on the compressor you're using and hi folks it's future mike here editing the video and I just realized I showed you those two waves but I didn't actually play those different vocals for you so you could hear the difference when the compressor was added let's have a listen to that now and that is how we make the the actual overall performance sound louder because human beings are far more attuned to the average level of something than the peaks so now that the average level or the quieter parts are louder we perceive it as much louder but we don't always want to do that sometimes we want to reduce the volume and leave it there so let's look at an absolutely classic situation where we use a compressor to simply turn something down here in my door I've got this little demo and it's just a bass guitar with some drums and it sounds like this now commonly what will happen is the bass guitar will tend to mask or hide the kick drum a little bit yeah the kick never really gets a chance to shine and punch through and that's because they occupy very similar frequencies down in the down in the lower end okay so we could simply go ahead couldn't we and just turn the volume of the bass guitar down so that we can hear the kick more clearly however what's going to happen then is we're actually going to turn the whole volume of it down even when the kick's not playing and it's just going to sound possibly too quiet we're going to lose that lovely sustain that we've got with some of these notes so what we actually want to do is just turn the bass guitar down while the kick is playing we're going to use a compressor to do that so I've already applied a compressor to this bass guitar it's the same one we looked at earlier this FET 76 from Arturia and if I play the bass guitar at the moment with this compressor in its default sort of setup you'll see the needle moving with the bass guitar as it's playing yeah so it's compressing the bass guitar in response to the sound of the bass guitar but we actually want it to compress the bass guitar in response to what the kick drum is doing yeah so we'll just do that quickly this is called sidechain compression and with each compressor with every door it's done a little differently I'll just show you how it's done here in Katewalk so first of all with the compressor I'm going to go to the advanced view here and we can see down here it we can select the source internal or external so internal is the bass guitar itself external would be something like the kick that we're about to use okay so this is called an external sidechain but here they don't use the term sidechain on your compressor it may now with the actual kick drum I need to send the signal of it to this compressor so here in Katewalk I go to the send section of the kick drum and then I simply select the compressor from the list we can see it here okay so now the signal of the kick is going to the compressor okay now I'm going to play it again and again I want you to watch this needle this time you'll see it's reacting to the signal of the kick but it's actually turning the bass down have a look now that may not be very obvious to you which is a good thing we don't actually want this to be too obvious we want it to be happening but we don't want the listener to be too aware of it but I can make it a little bit more obvious by muting the drums yeah so that we can just hear the bass completely by itself and you'll hear it just slightly moving out the way yeah it's ducking out of the way which is why this is sometimes called ducking have a listen so it's subtle but it does work very very well now in a moment we're going to look at a use of compression which is going to be really familiar to electric guitars and bass players especially but before we do that I just want to look at how our sponsor DistroKid make it really easy for you to share your releases with other people this is the hyperfollow page for one of my EP's Wonderland when people visit this web page they can choose for themselves which one of these great platforms they want to listen to my music on but I didn't have to create this page it was generated automatically for me when I uploaded my EP to DistroKid if we visit my DistroKid page here and look at this EP and scroll down you can see the section just at the bottom here where they supply the link for me to share now I can share that on places like Facebook where they will automatically be generated my album artwork and people can just click on this and go straight to that hyperlink page now this is all included with the base price of DistroKid which is just $19.99 per year if you follow the link in the description you'll get 7% off of that already great price so in this example I'm going to use a compressor to increase the sustain of a bass guitar right this is a really common thing for guitarists to do electric guitarists especially now I have again two identical waveforms the blue one at the top the green one at the bottom but this time I've actually applied two compressors okay the first one is this FET 76 compressor from Arturia now I've set this up with a really quick attack time so it's going to react to the beginning where we see those peaks in the notes pretty quickly okay and it's going to start to turn them down but once that's done it's going to release fairly quickly as well so the quieter parts are going to be louder now as well as using this compressor to just control those transients those parts at the beginning of the sounds yeah I'm also using a second compressor which is a much more sort of overall sound yeah it's not just focusing on those peaks this is an LA2A style compressor and this is just going to sort of even things out a bit more so I'm going to apply those two compressors by freezing the track again and in particular we're going to focus on these three notes right here okay so let's take a look at the top one here that you can see the beginning of the note it peaks there and then it sort of decays reasonably quickly okay but you can see with the second one here where we've compressed it we get that initial peak but then that decay is held for much much longer and the end of that note is much louder than it is in the first example let's have a listen so that we can hear the difference so the first one those three notes sound like this and now listen to the sustain especially on that third note you can hear that it hangs on to that decay of the note much much longer have one more listen the first one the compressed one and that's how we use a compressor to sustain notes so at the beginning of this video I alluded to the fact that sometimes we may use a compressor without actually doing any compression and that may not make too much sense for you well the primary reason for it is to add character to the sound and when we're talking about character we're more often than not talking about harmonics or overtones okay now these types of sounds were normally added traditionally with hardware compressors okay and still with hardware compressors when we've got tubes or things like transformers in the circuitry they were naturally added as a byproduct of using that hardware and of course when we make plugins we try to emulate that so we can capture that sound for a beginner and even for someone who's experienced they can sometimes be very very difficult to hear but nonetheless they are there and they can add a little x-factor to the sound now whilst we may not be able to hear them always we can definitely see them here in my door I have a sine wave and it sounds like this and I'm sure you don't want to listen to that for the rest of this demonstration so I'll mute it but we can play it and have a look at it now it's a very very simple sound as you can see here on the spectrum analyzer it has no harmonics showing whatsoever now what happens when we turn on this la2a compressor without it actually doing any compression immediately we can see the harmonics appear at various levels here and it's the combination of having the harmonics and having them at various levels which really creates the character let's see what happened we'll switch that off and we'll turn on an 1176 here let's have a look we can see it's different again there's many more harmonics being used here at different levels okay and that's simply what these plugins are doing to add that character now earlier we discussed the main controls that you'll find on a compressor things like threshold ratio attack and release so why would it be that possibly the most popular compressor of all time actually doesn't have most of those controls to find out the answer to that I recommend you watch this video right here


All right, welcome to another thank you Julia welcome to another installment of the ACMI show We are here at the farmers mark and for this episode. We have ACMI intern Lea Atkins. Hello, Lea. Hello, Neem How's it going? Oh, I'm fantastic, you know, it's a little warm outside right now, but we're feeling good We're under the tent Very beautiful. I agree not too hot and like last week when I was sweating bricks and bullets Mm-hmm. We use same here, you know heat waves over so can't complain You know, Lea, you were here with ACMI for a long while. How would you describe your internship experience such as this point? Um, it's great. Honestly, you know, this has been my first good answer. That was only the only answer. I was gonna accept It's like amazing Okay, yeah, no lies always But no, it's been really great It's my first film and media like type internship because I kind of just decided I want to do film last semester So it's been great. I think I've learned a lot since I really didn't know much about Anything going into it. So, you know, that's good. That means I Makes me sound like I did my job. No, you did your job. You did a great job, you know, great job Thank you. Thank you. And so what's next for you? Your internship period is coming to an end What are you gonna be up to from this point on? How many semesters do you have left at college? Uh, I have four four semesters.   Uh, we'll see. I mean, I'm gonna help out in the fall I think do some more sports production because I think that's what I want to do Get more involved in that side of the production world, but After that, though, I guess we'll have to see. I mean, I'm going abroad in the spring So maybe I'll have any like revelations see if I want to change what I want to do or something. I don't know Oh, okay. All right. Where are you going in the spring? I'm going to Barcelona, Barcelona in spain. I'm very excited. Yeah One more time. We need that one more time. Oh, espanja It's fantastic. Oh, you missed the showers again Hey, big shout out to our podcast producer for this system in julie de la fontaine Oh, yeah, julie, when are we gonna get you on? That's that I'm gonna get you on headset soon. That's it. Yeah, we gotta get out here. No, she's giving me a no She's just giving me the high your funny look Not a solid answer And that's how you communicate a message using non-available communication We're just using all of our technology here at ACMI, you know, we are very fortunate to have us all And we're gonna play games with it. That's true And anyone who is listening to this if you're in orington, just know that this kind of technology is available for you to play around with as well Visit us in this farmers market every wednesdays from two to six or stop by 85 park avenue And we'll love to uh give your tour around and an overview of what we can offer you Where ACMI is Totally recommend it's like it's like the best very very fun very easy Cool stuff play around with it. Probably won't break it. If you do, it's okay Don't break it. Please don't break it An overview of what we can offer you Where ACMI is Why would you replay that? Wait, that's scary Well, we're learning things on the spot. Thank you julie for showing us what that Particular feature of our brand new roadcaster does. Oh, yeah The only second time we're using this brand new roadcaster and hopefully we get to put this in the hands of a community member Hope so come on down. We have a nice tent. We're very welcoming. All right, we'll end it here Greg shout out to juliet de la fontaine. Yeah, yeah


Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Today, we're thrilled to welcome Prime Minister Ratas of Estonia. I was very much looking forward to sitting down with him for the first time here in Ottawa. This meeting was the opportunity for us to advance our common priorities and to grow our collaboration. We are both determined to encourage trade exchanges, to stimulate economic growth, to benefit the largest number, and to ensure peace and security in Eastern Europe. Indeed, we are united in our ambition to build a more prosperous, equal and safer world, an ambition that is already expressed within multilateral institutions such as OTAN, OECD and OSE. Therefore, in this spirit of collaboration, we have just come to finish a first productive meeting during which we have addressed a lot of topics. On the economic plan, we have discussed the global economic and commercial agreement concluded between Canada and the European Union. I would also like to emphasize that Estonia has been among the first countries to ratify the agreement in October last year. Thank you very much for that. A decision-making agreement, the ECG, represents the future of our strengthened economic partnership, founded on common values and objectives. It reflects a progressive commercial agenda, predicting, among other things, the rights of workers, the environment, responsible investment, food security and the protection of consumers and the management of natural resources. We also talked about digital cooperation. Estonia has long been a global leader in digital governance, harnessing the latest technologies to better serve its citizens. The work they have done through e-Estonia is truly remarkable, and Canada can certainly learn a thing or two from their experience. As members of the Digital 7 and the Open Government Partnership, Canada and Estonia have already begun collaborating on this issue, but today we're taking things a step further. We concluded a new memorandum of understanding on digital cooperation. This means that we will be working together on joint projects and sharing best practices to promote transparency, empower citizens and improve government services. Digital technologies are having a transformative impact on our economies and on our societies. We look forward to working with Estonia to explore opportunities for growth while respecting the need for individual privacy and data security. Prime Minister Ritas and I also spoke about matters of defence and regional security. Canada has taken on a key role in Latvia, leading one of the four multinational battle groups as part of NATO's enhanced presence in Central and Eastern Europe. Canadian officers are also stationed in Tallinn as part of the NATO Forces integration unit in Estonia. I assured Prime Minister Ritas that we will continue to step up as we have always done now and into the future. Finally, we discussed the ties that unite Estonians and Canadians, ties rooted in history. After World War I, Canada welcomed thousands of Estonian refugees who have since enriched our national fabric. We are also among the very first countries to recognise Estonia's restored de facto independence in 1991. Today, Canada is home to more than 24,000 Canadians of Estonian descent, representing one of the largest Estonian diasporas in the world. And it's partly because of these immigrants and their descendants that Estonia and Canada are such strong partners and close friends. We share not only a common set of goals, but a deep commitment to the values we hold dear, values like democracy, the rule of law, and freedom of speech. These are the principles upon which our relationship was built and remain at the heart of everything we do. I have no doubt that together we will continue to advance our shared priorities and strengthen the ties that unite Estonia and Canada. Once again, I want to thank you, Prime Minister Ratas, for making the trip, and thank you all for joining us. I'm now happy to pass it over to you. Please, Prime Minister. Thank you, Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, your Justin, your ladies and gentlemen, Honourable Press and media. I'm really glad to be here today. We had a very good meeting. This year is special for Estonia and for Estonians around the world, also for Estonians living here in Canada. We celebrate the 100th anniversary of Estonia. Canada is home to one of the largest Estonian communities in the world. Thank you for accepting thousands of Estonians refugees and supporting them in keeping their culture over the years. The more I feel honoured to celebrate the centenary of Estonia together with all of you, the transatlantic link with Canada is very dear and important for us. We are both actively contributing members of NATO and we value highly the Canadian role providing security in the Baltic region. I hope that the strong Canadian military presence in Europe will continue. Both Estonia and Canada are leading digital nations, members of the Digital Seven Network. I think we can achieve a lot more by joining our digital competencies. We are taking today an exciting step ahead on this journey by signing a new memorandum of understanding of digital cooperation. This will boost innovation, create economic growth and new jobs, improve the lives of our people. Estonian business leaders joining me in this visit have already started to build stronger links here. The EU and Canada trade agreement that Estonia has ratified already will also boost its business to business contacts. As Canada, Estonia is focusing on the development of the data economy and artificial intelligence. With Canada being among the global leaders in artificial intelligence research, I invite Prime Minister Trudeau as a first Canadian Prime Minister to come to Estonia. As you can see, Estonia and Canada have much in common. Estonian passion for digital support for Ukraine. Shared values, I am convinced that in the future we will work even closer together. Thank you.