community meeting of 2022. My name is Tonja Connerly, and I have the honor of being one of the board members for our Open Education Conference. To get us started, if you can please go to www.menti.com, and Haley's going to put the additional information in the chat and enter the code 79559014. Also, while you're observing the chat, if you can please tell us exactly who you are and where are you joining us from? And in a word or two, what is going to really excite you about the Open Ed 22 Conference? While you're utilizing the chat to introduce yourselves, I would also like our board members to introduce themselves at this time, since this is only our second community meeting. So board members, if you can start off by introducing yourself. Thank you. Sure. I'll go. My name is Susan Payne. I am an education specialist at the Oregon Department of Education, and I'm on our Oregon Open Learning Team. Director for Open. I'm Stephanie Buck. I'm the director for Open Educational Resources at Oregon State University, and I'm on the board. My name is Haley Bab. I'm part of the Spark Team who is supporting the Open Education Conference through this next transitional period. Am I the only one left to introduce her? So I'm Atul Roy. I teach at Montgomery College and I got this. I mean, I'm very excited about Open Education because, you know, I visited an Open Education University in India a long, long time ago that was established again, like about over 30 years ago. So anyways, so with this Open Education idea, it's really exciting for me and I don't know much about it, but I'm glad to join you and I hope I'm not in the wrong place, but because I'm not a board member, I'm not, I don't have any official title. I'm just an instructor, you know, just teaching for time for like 45 plus years. So, or 47 I keep forgetting. All right. So, so here I am. Okay. Well, we thank you very much and we don't want you to say you're just, you're not a board member. We're so happy to have you in our community. So thank you very much. Our agenda for today is that we're going to start off by discussing and giving you an update on our operational part of the conference. And then we will have a call for proposal update. We will also discuss with you our theme, Rise to Action, which we're very excited about. And we're looking forward to your contributions in reference to adding to that. And also, we will have a conversation about discussion questions. And then we'll have a wrap up. So at this time, I'm going to pass it over to my colleague, Stephanie. Thanks, Tanya. So quick operations update. So this is going to be our first year of community led governments. And obviously, as you know, we have board of governors now or board of directors, I guess I should say, who are voted for by the community. We've been doing a lot of behind the scenes work to establish our government's processes. And I think hopefully by next week, you should hear maybe some more about that and what kind of structure we're going to put into place. Once that is in place, committee recruitment will start. So we haven't gotten yet to the committees. But keep those in mind because we know that many of you are interested in joining us and volunteering and being part of the proposal. So community questions. Yeah. So last time we had a community meeting, our first one, we had a couple of questions that we just wanted to respond to. One was why did we choose to stay virtual? And there were a couple reasons for that. Primarily just getting in the venue at this short time would have been very difficult. And there's a lot of legal and physical implications for having an onsite conference. So we decided with all the other stuff that's going on, we're going to stay virtual this year. We also like the fact that more people were joining us at the virtual conference. So it's a little bit more accessible. What will change this year? Hopefully not a whole lot. We hope that it's going to be the same kind of experience that you've had in the past. It's just that the governance of the conference has been changed to a board of directors in Spark. But we don't anticipate doing any large changes to the conference this year. And then how do I get involved? There'll be more information about that. But yes, we will have information about how you can get involved in the conference as a volunteer or get onto a committee. And let's see what else. The call for proposals is coming soon. Watch for an announcement the week of April 18th. We should be sending out something at that point. And then if you are not already signed up to the mailing list, please go ahead and sign up to the mailing list. And that way you'll get notified of the call for proposals. And our theme announcement, very exciting, is Rise to Action. And this was suggested by last year's steering committee, a special nod to Regina Gong, who put a lot of work into this theme. The 2020 theme was Reimagined Open Education or Reimagining Open Education. And the 2021 theme was open for all. So Rise to Action is a continuation of the work done over the past two years and serves as a call to action for the open education community. And please stay tuned for a full announcement in the coming days. And now I will turn it over to, is Rachel here? I don't think so, Stephanie. So we're going to continue to talk about the, as Stephanie said, we're going to have a discussion part. And Haley, do you want me to do the topics or would you? Sure, I am happy to start us out with the topics. And then I'll hand it over to some of my colleagues to sort of share in the discussion. So I know there's a there's an overwhelming slide in front of you that I'll explain in just a moment here. We wanted to take today as an opportunity to chat a little bit to you about the call for proposals specifically. So I know that many of you will have attended the conference in the past, but there also may be some of you who are new to the community. That's okay. We would love your feedback sort of regardless of the amounts of familiarity that you have with the Open Education Conference. So please, you know, feel free to participate in the discussion that we're about to start now. So we would just ask that you make sure that you are logged into menti.com and that your responses, you're following through on the Menti app. That way we can track this information and have it sort of logged to go through as we make decisions. So if you want to make sure that your responses are noted, Menti is the best way to do that. Okay, so now that my field's done, I'll get into the questions. So what you're looking at here, these are the topics that we used last year at Open Ed 2021. So there were 10 topics in total. And what the topics were, were essentially ways of categorizing the sessions so that, you know, if you were interested in a particular topic, you'd easily be able to see which sessions of the conference relate to this. So 10 topics is a lot. And we know that there was a little bit of feedback just about maybe perhaps feeling overwhelmed by some of these. So we are going to make some adjustments moving forward. And we would love to hear what all of you think about that. So before we get into that, we're curious to know of the 10 topics that you saw last year. They're all sort of listed in no particular order here. Which of them do you think brought the most value and you'd really like to see continuing into the conference, they could be under a different name. But maybe think about this as sort of like a not directly moving the topics from conference to conference, but just sort of a general idea, which of these really stood out to you, which would you like to see at future conferences? So I'll give it a moment just for folks to input their answers. I know that this is, it's a hard decision. A lot of these seem so crucial and so important. So you know, we certainly won't be losing any of these topics. We may just sort of bundle some of them together and reduce that down just for readability. Awesome. Okay, so I see some results coming in. Great. Okay. So a lot of emphasis on teaching and learning, designing for inclusion and accessibility. This Open Education 101 topic was really popular last year. So that's great. Culture of Open. Awesome. Great. I see that's moving a lot as the votes come in. So oh, and I guess I'll say a reminder as well. This mentee, you know, will stay open for the next 14 days. So we will post the link to this recording as well. You know, you'll still be able to access the mentee. So if you're watching this recorded later, just know that you are able to follow along and submit your answers as well. So as long as it's within the next 14 days of the community meeting. Okay, seeing some really great answers here, I'm going to shuffle us along for the sake of time. But thank you so much. This is really, really valuable information for us. Okay, so next we have just like an open ended topic question. We're wondering if there's other things that weren't necessarily, you know, represented by those 10 topics that you would like to see it open at 22. And if you can't think of something new, you know, if there's one that really resonates with you, feel free to pop that in here. We're just curious to know sort of what's the most important to you. Okay, some results roll in. That's awesome. A couple regarding software. Yeah, challenges around facilitating open a definitely multilingualism. Excellent. Thanks, folks. I'm going to move us along but still continue to pop those answers in through the mentee. Okay. So we'll have a couple questions about session types now. And at this point, I'm going to hand it over to Susan to chat about session types. Thank you, Hayley. So again, if you have, if you attended the conference last year, you're aware that there were, you know, a variety of different session types. So as we look forward in our preparing the call for proposals, we want to get some input on what the value really in each of those different session types. So I'll just I'll read these just in case anyone, you know, so folks, but you can also see them there on the on the screen. So we had 10 minute lightning talks, those were pre recorded 25 minute presentations, which were also pre recorded 40 minute live presentations, 55 minute panel discussions, and 40 minute discussions that were not recorded, those were just on live. And then we had a couple of open space, which were, which are like really open and people, you know, just just had, I think we had two of those last year. So we're going to do the same thing, give you the opportunity to rank those session types by the amount of value that they brought to the conference. Alright, so as we watch those results roll in. Yeah, so the, the looks like the panel discussions and the longer, you know, the longer sessions, I think, you know, you can get a little bit more in depth with those. So it looks like people were appreciating those. Great. Yeah. Thanks for that. And then just want to open it up. Are there other session types that you'd like to see? Yeah, maybe some more hands on things, little, little more interactive flip, flip classroom. I think what what one of the pieces that was nice was that there were some designated times for watching some of the pre recorded sessions and then engaging in discussion. We did get some good feedback about that, that option. So you could just do it asynchronously or actually go to a room and be with other folks to watch something that was recorded and then discuss it. Okay, I see. Unconference, social spaces that's a, that's a, yeah, great suggestion, especially not being in person, be, be great to have some, some spaces where people can just kind of socialize. And I think there was some of that last year, as well. And there's been some talk about maybe even the possibility of doing some things like in person regionally. Nothing finalized at this point, but lots of ideas. So really appreciate the input here. This is the second time I've seen something about the business side. So that's, that's good feedback. Awesome. All right. And then we have another kind of like a specific question about the possibility of a virtual poster session. So curious about your thoughts about on that. Do you feel that would bring value to the conference? And why are we not be helpful for us to know? Yeah, it is a tricky format virtually. Great. Great. All right. Yes, a mix of opinions. That's great. If they're, if they're available ahead of time and can be viewed afterwards. Okay. Yeah, that's awesome. So thanks again, for all of that feedback. It's, it's super helpful for us as we're planning. And then we have another kind of specific question. So as we were talking about the panel presentations and the types of proposals that we were getting for that time slot, we were wondering about, so the our 55 minute session type was purely intended intended for panels last year. And so this year, we're wondering, well, should we have a 55 minute time slot that could be either a presentation or a panel? So the longest presentation time that we have right now is the 40 minute presentation. So curious about your, your thoughts here. And, you know, again, thinking about some of the things folks said earlier about like workshops or hands on types of sessions, wondering if, if that might, if 55 minutes might be a, you know, a good thing to aim for there. Yeah, which somebody just said there that it's too long for presentation, unless interactivity is clearly built in. So that's, that's a really good point. Yep. Yeah. So a workshop, but not lecture. Totally agree. All right, awesome. Thank you so much. I'm gonna pass it back over to Tom Jack. Thank you, Susan. Continuing on with the discussion. What do you, what did you enjoy about the last two open conferences that you would like to see continue at this open conference in 2022? And again, your feedback is so important, because this conference is for all of us to continue to share knowledge with one another. The volunteering part, believe me, we have lots of work for you to do. So don't, don't worry about that one. Quality presenters, we will continue to, to provide you with that networking opportunities, valuable presentations, most definitely evaluating proposals, variety of sessions. We hope that we'd be able to most definitely offer you a variety of sessions. I noticed that you, you really ask about a lot of hands on activity workshops. So we most definitely will work on that one as well. Equity centered diversity. Okay, our next question. What would you like to see change? We ask what you would like to see continue, but what would you like to see change for our open 22 session? Well, we know it wasn't perfect guys. So but we're working on it. Okay, more petition from the rest of the world. So we want out some outside feedback, because sometimes when you're in it, you don't see, you know everything. So because you're so in it, so we need some outside feedback. Okay. Less East Coast time zone, more flexibility. Okay, more social opportunities, more emphasis on real beginners. Okay, Mr. Roy, somebody's already letting you know that we're on your side. Agree on time zone miss. Okay, we most definitely look at the time zone. International collaboration. That's great. See if we can get with OEG global or something like that. That's awesome. More follow up. Okay. More flexibility for reviewing recorded sessions. Okay, so we just need more a little bit more space. Okay. Oh, time zone is really an okay, we really got to look that time zone. Okay. Great. This is awesome. And again, guys, you can always just go back and continue to add the next question. What questions do you still have that you would like for us to address at our next meeting? Are there any questions that you feel that about the conference that you would still like for us to address at the next meeting? Because I know this meeting, we told you that we're going to have a date for you for a call proposal. We gave you the theme. Is there anything else that you would like an update on for our next meeting? Which will be in time just sorry to interrupt, but maybe I'll just add for this question in particular. You know, we know there are a lot of questions still and that's totally okay. There's still you know, many months before the conference for us to get to work on that and you know, we'll we'll work our hardest to make sure that there is lots finished for next week or next month I mean at this meeting. But do just keep in mind that we may not have all the answers right now. Thank you Haley. So, some of your questions that you would like for us to address in the next meeting and again, as Haley said, we will try to get to them and most definitely try to have some information prepared for you. So, evaluation criteria for the CFP as Stephanie highlighted that for us today. Who does what clear on governments and outreach? Most definitely we're working on that. I'm I'm saying my colleague Stephanie names quite a bit because she has a lot on her plate with with the governor's paneling that she's doing. What are your plans for continuing to emphasize accessible conference? Okay. We will most definitely address these questions and hopefully have some answers to you for our next meeting. Long term sustainability of the organization. Bringing in disciplinary collaborations. Opportunities for partnerships. Okay. So wrapping it up, I'm going to turn it back over to my colleague Susan. Yeah. So, the first thing that we just want to say is that while we are still working to develop our committee structure, we are I know a few a few of you said one of the one of your favorite things was, you know, doing things like reviewing proposals or having those volunteer opportunities. So, that interest form is open and I think Haley just put it in the chat. So, please feel free to express your interest in a volunteer role and we should have information out soon about what those what that committee structure is going to look like and then just a few reminders. Our next meeting is May 13th from one to two Eastern and we have these meetings are monthly. So, we have those scheduled through the end of the year and then of course we want you to save the date if you haven't already for the conference which will be held October 17th through the 20th of this year and as we've already mentioned it is going to be virtual and finally do follow us on social media. I think Alex put the link to the Twitter in the chat but there are we're also on Facebook on the Graham and you can always use our official hashtag when you're posting. So, Haley also put that link in the chat to sign up for the mailing list. All those links are in the chat there for you and we just want to say thank you so much like super valuable to have your feedback. We're really excited so many folks showed up today and look forward to more meetings and seeing you all at the conference. Have a great day everybody. Thanks so much for coming everyone we'll see you next month.


When I ran sales teams, I would film them. First two weeks was all video. And I'm like, you see, you do this weird Twitch. Why do you do that thing? You're in the client's face for no reason. Like, why are you doing that? Every salesperson I ever had, they hated it. But then by the end of week two, they were so much better. Instant feedback. And so when I saw SwingVis, that's what I thought immediately. I was like, oh, this is like you're recording people's performances, and now you don't have a scapegoat. Because in my head, I feel like I'm hitting the ball like an adult. And then I watch myself on the video, and I'm like, who is that? The feedback of it really helps performance in anything.


Interesting cannabis cannabis cannabis is always interesting right so as you know many states in the United States have legalized marijuana so a significant number of states now have legal marijuana dispensaries businesses businesses are now growing marijuana all over the United States and selling it in various forms one of the problems with this is that it's still illegal according to federal law it's still a felony it's still a crime to sell marijuana to grow marijuana in terms of federal law now the feds are not enforcing that law very much but there is one area in which they are enforcing that is since almost all banks are you know have a national charter have a have a regulated by the feds all banks are regulated by the feds in one way the other then federal law applies to all these banks and one of the one of the regulatory principles is that banks are not allowed to deal with illegal businesses they're not allowed to actually sell sorry bank people who deal in into the legal activity you know I'm sure there's a technical term for what that means but it's a crime it's a crime to to bank an illegal business knowing knowingly so what happens is that you've got and this is true of credit card companies is true banks so what you have is a whole segment of the economy at least in the states where it's legal that is functioning legally but they cannot bank they're in all cash operation they have to carry cash they have to transacting cash they have to deal with cash they can't open a bank account they can't get a loan they can deposit money they can't write checks they can't use credit cards so the whole supply chain of marijuana is a cash business which means that it's an open invitation of robbers muggers money laundries organized crime and it's super inconvenient and indeed banks that have in the past banked more wanted dealers have gotten into trouble with the feds modules have been stopped because a bank has been discovered that they it has a lot of deposits of businesses that do more on that's not right anyway for change there's actually a billing Congress that's actually gonna fix a problem and actually do some good it's it's a new bill that aims to give the marijuana industry access to banking services and it's actually passed the Senate Banking Committee in a vote of 14 to 9 so you know he got some bipartisan support I wonder who the nine who voted against it are probably nine conservative Republicans it's it's being led by both Republicans and Democrats in terms of getting it through but I can't imagine Democrats being against this bill given that they want to they want to legalize everywhere 39 states of legalized marijuana so this will affect a big chunk it'll affect a lot of businesses it'll affect a lot of lives I mean what they should do is legalize marijuana nationally get rid of the federal law that bans it but short of that at least make it legal for marijuana businesses in states where it's legal to be able to deal with banks I mean that seems to be pretty straightforward and pretty simple you think somebody would have thought of this before but we are where we are in the world not much rationality out there


It's a cool chainsaw death. I'll give you that right through the head the way it's shot and silhouette and stuff It looks pretty cool Hello and welcome to our brand new segment called dead wrong and the whole idea is we're gonna tackle movies that We initially didn't like upon first viewing and people in the horror community seem to really like are we dead wrong?  Let's find out and the first movie we're gonna tackle is 2013's evil dead remake and this kind of stems from our review of evil dead rise probably got the most amount of hatred as far as comments go that we ever have had it's like I walked into someone's house and kicked their dog or something People are getting insulting and everything just because I didn't like the movie a lot of people do seem to like the 2013 remake if you go in the horror movie Community forums and stuff it gets a lot of praise. Yeah, you know, I really had to twist your arm to visit this again I really didn't want to rewatch it. I know he got pretty upset too. I left evil dead because of the remake Remakes are wrong That's why I came to YouTube to start a channel subscribers For seven years Forgotten whores who passed on from subscriber to sub subscriber to sub When the remake comes I won't watch it Let's review it. I can do it.  It's not forgotten You told me to review any movie that works to keep an open mind Why to honor you?  So initial thoughts on evil dead 2013 when we first watched it back when it first came out What do we think? Ah, well, I remember before I watched it I remember seeing the commercials for it and everything and it did look kind of good, you know And like the all the advertising for it and everything was like, yeah, okay This might be something, you know There might be something here and then I watched it and it was a total letdown for me a total letdown It did not live up to what I saw on the on the commercial I think we all watched it together you me and our buddy Carl and honestly I Thought it was kind of forgettable. Yeah, I didn't remember much about it at all Which isn't a good sign if you don't remember parts of movies if it didn't make an impact on you Well, that's the sign that it's not that good I remember us talking a lot during it It didn't keep our attention Google gave 4.2 out of 5 stars.   So right there the story is not great.  She would get at a hospital None of them seem to like each other because of this story.  Yeah, so delivers in the blood gore and jump scares well, that's gonna be a reoccurring theme here The blood in the gore it's mentioned a lot.  There isn't a whole lot of substance behind all of that stuff, right? Yeah, there's a lot of flash, but there's not much behind it delivers on the jump scares Okay, this is something that comes a lot of things that horror fans argue about jump scares some people love them Some people hate them in this case. I don't really remember there being too many jump scares anyway So it depends what you define it as a jump scare our opinion There's always been jump scares or like the worst thing in a horror movie. Yeah, it's all about the tension building That may lead up to a jump scare or may lead up to not a jump scare But jump scares alone again don't make horror great. It's a cheap device Yeah, exactly. And you know it only really works if you keep that to a minimum Yeah, one or two in a movie. Yeah, exactly And you also have to have a very good build-up to have a jump scare effective right you need the payoff It's not about the jump scares about the build-up to the jump exactly greatest chainsaw death in cinema history That's that's one hell of a comment. It's a cool Chainsaw death. I'll give you that right through the head the way it shot and silhouette and stuff Mm-hmm. It looks pretty cool greatest chainsaw death in film history. I don't know. I think that's stretching it I'm sure there are a lot of others funny cuz like off the top of my head I don't know if I can't think of one that's better But I can think of ones that are at least as good almost any kill that Ash does with a chainsaw Dennis Hopper killing leather face and takes a chance of a massacre to yeah right through the gut You know that's a great chainsaw kill anything from any of the Texas chainsaw massacre Yeah, like the next five-star review from Google Gore was awesome. Yes. We know the gore was awesome.  They were likeable Okay, so let's talk about the effects. The effects were great. Yeah, I don't know what the hell straight to the point Yeah, I don't know I have no idea even what to say about that But yes, the effects were good with some CGI touch-ups, which we don't like but at least they went mostly practical The characters were not annoying or snarky. They were likeable. Okay. Yes I'll agree. They weren't that annoying or snarky, but were they likeable. I don't know I didn't like any character in this movie. No, neither did I I didn't care about any of them The the character development was not great and if you call bringing a Friend to a cabin to detox character development. Not really. It's more story That's not character development per se You watch the first evil dead and that little scene where Ash gives Linda the necklace. Yeah There's ten times more character building in that one scene and there isn't any of this movie as a whole Yeah, and even like when they're driving in the beginning singing the song together. Yeah, they're all together and they're all in it For each other in this movie They all seem to be at odds with each other and that but I guess is character building in itself Sort of but it doesn't help the viewer to care about any of them, right? Because they don't help each other They don't like each other and it doesn't make them likeable if they're always bickering at each other how do you like people? They're always mad at each other Eric. I Hated that Eric guy hated his guts. I was glad when he died. I was happy. I was like finally.  Now. Let's tackle some rotten tomatoes reviews now It didn't get as high as a rating on rotten tomatoes as a whole 63% these are all high rated rotten tomatoes reviews They go for it with gusto where gore and terror are concerned. Yes the gore Yes, the gore is great, but let's get past the gore. Yeah. Yeah, well, they do kind of mentioned terror are a concern I didn't feel much terror in this at all No, the movie wasn't that scary and I think the reason why is because it's so Over-the-top With the gore where it becomes unbelievable when things start becoming unbelievable Well, then it's no longer scary because it's like while you can't put yourself in that position Yeah, you can't relate to it. Everything a good horror movie should do Well, what is everything a good horror movie should do well, let's break some of that shit down character building mm-hmm not really no tension building None good story. Yeah good story It doesn't really have a good story or proper story.  So now you almost got the best piece first and now everything else is no longer Shocking. Yeah, and now you're always chasing that. Yeah, and most of the time you can never catch up to it again And that's this movie is constantly chasing that first scene and it was completely Unnecessary useless totally Yeah, totally useless. So upon watching Evil Dead 2013 a second time. Did we like it anymore? I did not it was I had the same sentiments the second time around as I did in the first I Kind of actually liked it a tad bit more, but I still don't like it the first time around I didn't really notice how good a lot of the camera work was and how good the visuals were like it's a great looking movie Like it looks fantastic the budget shows. Yeah, and I didn't really notice that the first time second time around I appreciated that a lot more But I still didn't like the movie as a whole because there's just not enough else there to suck me in so final thoughts in Evil Dead It's pointless was never needed clearly set out to make a more serious less campy Evil Dead I can get behind that but in this case the gore and stuff which everyone loves Yeah, so over the top where it no longer becomes serious. It's no longer serious now It is campy without being campy which hurts it almost the way that they structure the movie with the necronomicon where like Eric reads out Basically, what's going to happen in the movie?  Yeah to the point where you kind of wish it wasn't there the deadites themselves Look too overproduced.  That's horrible. I'm scared. It's like Okay. Yeah, you're like you're like what?   Yeah. Well. Yeah, that's fine. Do it with some charm and some camp You can't do it Seriously and do these things in a serious movie Overall the movie just seemed like it had no heart and soul no charm. No real identity Besides gore exactly or was the identity?   Yeah Oh, yeah, it's like you just watch it to finish it finish watching it so we can do this review If we weren't shooting this review, I would have shut it off.  Yeah, it's hard not to judge it without thinking about those we're trying not to be swayed too much By our love for the original evil deads as a standalone movie I just just this seems mediocre.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. Today we're going to be talking about the elections in Ghana that are scheduled for December 7th. Now the elections are largely between two major parties, the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress. New Patriotic Party is the ruling party, President Nana Kufuado and he won the election in 2016 and his party won the majority in the 275 seat parliament as well. The candidate of the National Democratic Congress is John Mahama and these candidates have contested against each other since 2012. So to talk more about these elections, what are the key issues and what does it take not only for the country but for the entire region, we have with us Crazy Pradjunior of Pan-African Television and the Socialist Forum of Ghana. Thank you so much for joining us. So to begin with, I wanted to ask about the two candidates and basically what they're offering to the people of Ghana. So they've been contesting against each other. Both of them are current president and one of former president of course. So the people are familiar with both these candidates and their policy prescriptions. So could you tell us about what are the main issues that are currently being raised? Unfortunately, there are not many differences in the kinds of platforms that these political parties present. We have to understand very clearly that we've been having these kinds of reactions, multi-party elections since 1992. And what has happened in practice is that no matter who has won elections since 1992, they've all surrendered the money going to the national economy to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. So as some say, the World Bank's personal monetary fund has been in power in Ghana since 1992 and we do not expect that to change. So there are not substantial differences between the two. In fact, I've been following all the pools that have been organized over the last six months or more and all the pools indicate that the major issues in this election are infrastructure development, the creation of jobs, and education. Indeed, there's no emphasis on the framework within which infrastructure face. There's no emphasis on the framework within which educational policies developed and implemented. Infrastructure is set apart as if it's something on its own without any reference to an ideological frame within which infrastructure development occurs. The central question of who benefits from infrastructure development is not discussed. What kind of infrastructure development we embark upon is not discussed and so on. So these are just gimmicks that the political parties have used since 1992. And no matter who wins this election, we are going to continue the pursuit of the new Libra economic agenda. And I have no doubt at all about it. Absolutely. And in this context, we see a lot of talk about corruption yet again like you pointed out without talking about what is the root of corruption or the structural aspects of corruption. It's just seen as an individual weakness. Well, as a matter of fact, there's been a lot of emphasis on corruption in this campaign. It started with the ruling government, the Akupualu government, accusing the Mahamad administration of being the most corrupt regime and so on. But that has rapidly changed because the special prosecutor whose office is set up by the Akupualu government and who's also an appointee of the Akupualu government has just recently fallen out of the government and has actually described the current president as the mother serpent of corruption and has said that this is the most corrupt administration since independence and so on. So the focus has shifted. A lot more people are beginning to look at the MPP and the kinds of deals it has made over the years. They're beginning to look at the allegations of corruption and how they've been dealt with and so on. Now in this situation, the MPP has quickly been treated and is focusing attention on this educational policy and claiming falsely that it is the first political party to introduce free free education at the secondary school level. When in reality, free free secondary school education was a policy of the incremental government, we understand. And since then many left have advocated in a free free education as a way of improving access to education and so on. So here you have the new patriotic party led by Nenakupualu trying so hard to claim credit for an educational policy which is which is a dictation from the constitution and the National Democratic Congress doing everything possible to pay the new patriotic party led by Nenakupualu as a corrupt administration. Of course, these two positions in no way settled the question between those who are at the end who are the receiving end of capitalist exploitation. It doesn't in any way solve the question of who owns and controls the natural resources. It doesn't discuss the role of multinational corporations in the underdevelopment of Ghana and so on. These issues are not being discussed at all. Absolutely. Right, so in this context could you actually just elaborate a bit on the aspect you were talking about since about say 30 to 40 years of neoliberal policies and especially since 1992 since the two-party system came into power. What has been the impact of surrendering of economic policy to the IMF and the World Bank like you pointed out? Well, interestingly, the Romani's regime, perhaps far worse than any other government in our history when it comes to following the prescriptions of the pertinent institutions. In 1983, it adopted the economic recovery program and became the star people of the World Bank and the IMF. Indeed, all other African people at all to follow the example of the role of the institution. Now, what did they do? They retrenched labor in the civil and public service. In a matter of one year, 300,000 people lost their jobs. They embarked upon a policy of privatization of state enterprises. And over the period, the Romani state in power, close to 300 state-run factories, were simply sold. That policy has continued since 1982 to date. We are still engaged in a serious privatization of state enterprises and so on. Now, between 1983 and when Raleigh is about to form the economic recovery program till now, the national currency has been devalued by about 38,000 percent. I want to talk about 30,000 percent devaluation. If you look at the heads around it, that is a reality. We devalued the national currency by about 38,000 percent and the currency continues to fall.  Now, under Incrumah, Ghanians had 100 percent control of the good resources in Ghana. As a result of the reckless policy of privatization, today, we only have three percent interest in the exploitation of our good resources. We have signed the foreign exchange retention agreement with the multinational corporation doing gold mining in Ghana under an agreement called the foreign exchange retention agreement. And under this arrangement, they retain up to 98 percent of the value of gold exported from Ghana. The economy is bleeding as a result of all this reckless policies and the implementation. And to give you an idea, right now, as we speak, the government of Ghana owes independent users 1.7 billion dollars. The independent power producers are threatening to shut up their plants, which would mean that we're going to go into electricity rationing once again, you understand? As we speak now, the electricity company of Ghana is indebted having the Volta River Authority, which is the generation of hydro power, owes up to about $300 million.  Ghana currently is spending three quarters of its national revenue plus grants on debt servicing and debt repayments. The finance minister tells us that we are spending up to about three quarters of total national revenue on the payment of a monument in the public sector and all.  And yet, the politicians are mounting platforms, giving us all kinds of promises and so on, and how are you going to finance it? We have, we have borrowed and borrowed to the extent that by the end of December, our debt to GDP ratio is projected at 74%. So even the option of borrowing is going to be close to us very soon. So we can't borrow, we are not generating enough revenue and we are still heavily indebted and so on. How are you going to fulfill all these promises that you're making? I am not speaking to that and because they do not have answers to the real problems that confront our people. The social, political and economic problems that confront our people, they've resorted to some very base campaigning which is frightening, you know, campaigns bordering on ethnicity and the rise. All kinds of profits and bishops are polluting the minds of our people with nonsensical predictions about who God is going to choose to lead the country and so on.  If we fail to go back to the objectives of the independence movement, which were one, the capacity to develop the capacity to use our own leaders and two, to own our own resources and exploit them in the interest of our people. If we fail to achieve these two objectives, not of the revolutionary socialist movement, but of the independence movement, the broad independence movement, we are not going nowhere. We are not going to be able to cater for the health needs of our people. We are not going to be able to cater for the educational needs of our people and so on. Everything is going to reduce to a battle of the torrents and backwardness and that is what we are in today. Absolutely. And in this context, you mentioned the health needs of the people. So of course, COVID-19, a global issue in many elections that are taking place across the world. So how is the perception of how COVID-19 was handled by the government and the situation with the health system right now, especially in the context of the issues you mentioned regarding funding and infrastructure? Well, I was speaking to a lot of people, you know, and most people you speak to do not think that we don't have the correct data on COVID-19. Most people think that we are not being told the whole story. Of course, the government side is that they manage everything very well, everything is clean. I mean, we have one of the best results in Africa and South. We have never done mass random testing. And mass random testing is the only way of finding out the extent of the spread of COVID. We haven't done it. So how can we be credible? We do not know the figures. You understand, when the figures are based on practices, we do not determine the extent of the disease and so on. But government claims that it is doing very well. Every now and then we hear stories of whole families being affected by COVID and so on. I think that we have even stopped doing contact tracing. So we do not have the full picture. And because of the government's attitude, we are noticing increasingly that people are also beginning to stop observing the protocols. I mean, there are many parts in Ghana where people no longer wear masks.  I've been to many parts of Ghana where if you wear masks, you are seen as a stranger, some aberration and so on. Now we're going to have elections on 7th of December, six days from now. Nobody knows what the impact is going to be on COVID. You are going to have people massing up in queues and so on to go and cast their votes. That could be a danger sign for the escalation of the spread of COVID. Absolutely. And in this context, I just wanted to quickly ask you about the Socialist Forum of Ghana's perspectives on some of these issues as well. So what do you think would be the immediate steps especially needed in terms of at least salvaging the economy, considering the debt issue you mentioned, considering the surrendering of economic sovereignty that you mentioned? What would be the steps necessary to retake control of the economy? Well, the Socialist Forum of Ghana now essentially is engaging advocacy, you know, workers' rights, romance rights and so on. We are engaged in mobilizing the people to congregate around their own interests and to fight for their own interests, to fight for a place in the scheme of things as is where. And that's what we've been doing over the last couple of years. Over the last one year, our membership has increased tremendously, membership has increased by something like 200 percent, and we are still working at it and so on. We are not an electoral machine yet. We may become an electoral machine in the future, but for now we are not an electoral machine. We are a movement that is mobilizing people, that is deepening the consciousness of people and so on, organizing educational programs, etc., in order to question-tize people and to build a strong movement to be able to resist the implementation of these neoliberal policies and so on. And that's what we are still doing. We are not focusing on the elections. We've not declared support for any of the candidates. We are not associated with any of the parties. Even though some of our members belong to some of these parties, as a forum, we are not involved in these elections at all. We continue to do educational programs and so on. That's what we're doing. And finally, I just wanted to ask a question about the regional relevance of this election. So there's been a lot of churning in the region as well in recent times. So is the result of this election whichever way it goes? And it seems like a close one. Likely to majorly change Ghanah's foreign policies with regard to not only its immediate neighbors, but also to say the European Union or the United States for that matter. I think it's significant to note that Ghanah is the second country in terms of population size in the West African region. Nigeria has a population of about 2 million, something million. And that is followed by Ghanah with a population of about 30 million. Ghanah is seen as a hub of trading and other activities in the West Africa sub-region. Again, Ghanah is relatively more peaceful than most of the countries in the sub-region. I mean, if you take La Côte d'Ivoire, La Côte d'Ivoire is in turmoil as a result of the recent presidential elections and the disputes around that. If you take a place like Bukina, Faso, Mali, Guinea and others, there's a spray of Islamic insurgency from the north and they've been affected very badly by, you know, you take Togo and Togo is in turmoil and so on. So Ghanah is beginning to look like, for want of a better expression, the oasis of peace in the region. And if that is disturbed, it could have very huge consequences across the region. Of course, you do know that Nigeria has been hit by the insurgency led by Boko Haraw. And you know that there is a low intensity civil war in the Niger Delta area. We also do know about the Islamic conflict that are beginning to flare in the north-eastern part of Nigeria, linked with the arrest and detention of the Shia Muslim leader Sheikh Zakzaki and so on. So all these tensions are building up in the sub-region. And if Ghanah went up in flames, it would add to the general confusion in the sub-region, which would affect interactions amongst us and so on. Now it's also important for us to realize that West Africa as a whole has committed to the economic partnership agreement with Europe. Of course, it was only Nigeria who stood up against this agreement. All the rest of West Africa went along, including Ghanah. I do not think that this election will change, that Ghanah will continue to abide by the agreement with the European Union, in spite of the fact that Britain is middle-trading partners, exited the European Union. Of course, I think that that agreement is one of the worst agreements that could ever be signed by any government, given the fact that it discriminates against West Africa businesses and so on. So that's a mission. Of course, a lot of people would also like to find out what it would affect the establishment of a U.S. military base in Accra. You do know that the Ghanah government has entered into an agreement to the United States of America to establish a military base in Accra. I do not think that it would affect this agreement. Of course, when the National Democratic Congress was in a position, it vigorously opposed the establishment of a military base in Accra. But I think that that was just to stir up, you know, to agitate and give the new link and so on. I do not think that if they came into power, it would affect the establishment of a U.S. military base in Accra. But generally, it would affect the situation in West Africa because the confusion and desperation and so on would get exacerbated in Ghanah's elections. Absolutely. Thank you so much for talking to us. We'll get back to you once the results are out also to analyze what the implications of the new government will be. That's all your time for today. Keep watching People's Dispatch.


So I just finished the movie Bird Box over on Netflix and it was an excellent movie but this movie actually shows perfectly the link between depression and loneliness and I'm going to tell you about a really cool study that proves it. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from pop culture to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and if you're wondering about where I got that gorgeous scarf for the thumbnail, it's actually a Christmas present my son gave to my beautiful girlfriend Tristan because she loves owls but yeah, worked perfectly for the thumbnail. If you haven't seen Bird Box yet, there's going to be spoilers. It's a great movie. Excellent movie. I loved it and also I'm going to be using some of the ideas that I pulled from an awesome YouTuber who I just subscribed to. His name is ThinkStory. He explained it perfectly like even at the end I was kind of like confused like I made some of the connections he did but he has a great explanation of the movie. So I'm going to link his video down in the description as well as up in the info card if you want to get more of a breakdown of the movie alright. So just to kind of sum it up, I'm going to be talking about two different topics here alright. I'm going to be talking about the link between depression and loneliness and then I'm also going to be explaining the monsters alright. So we start off with Sandra Bullock's character Mallory and she's pregnant. She was left by her man named Ryan and it starts off with her seeing her sister and she's an artist and in her first painting that she's working on when her sister comes over she talks about how you know these people are there. They're all together but you can see that they're lonely right. And there's a lot of darkness in all of her paintings right. And when she goes to the OBGYN she doesn't feel connected to her baby and she's also thinking about giving it up for adoption alright. But you can tell that Mallory has this kind of like I look on life where she's disconnected right. She's disconnected from other people and maybe you know that's partially because the father of the kid left but you also find out throughout the movie that she didn't have a great relationship with her mom or her dad like her sister talks to her mom for her and that's how they get these updates and everything like that. But throughout this movie you see how Mallory has these walls up and she is just an isolated person right. And it's hard for her to make connections with other people and someone argued that that's helped her survive but this is actually something that we can look at with some psychology too. Some of these things that we do like the walls that we build up these are defense mechanisms that we built up as a kid right. And they served a purpose as a kid maybe when we got too close to people it hurt us and we carried that on throughout our life but later on it can actually hurt us okay. And that to me is kind of what this movie was talking about and later on as the movie goes forward we see how Mallory starts to build more connections.  You see that she named these kids boy and girl alright like she was so disconnected and didn't want to build this bond with people so much that she named the children boy and girl and you know what what set her back a little bit but only briefly was the loss of Tom right. They fell in love and you know they were alive together until something happened to Tom later on but anyways one of the topics that I think was interesting too was how depression from a parent can can affect a child too so I think you know one of the one of the symbols in there was like she was sheltering those kids too so her and Tom get into this argument where Tom was telling them this story right this story about when he was a kid he was outside playing and all these other things and Mallory comes in there she ends the story and all this and she gets an argument with Tom and Tom's like yo we gotta give these kids hope like that's what it's about being a parent and Tom calls her out for her ways and the way that she's she's sheltering has these walls up and now it's affecting these kids too he even calls her out for the fact that he named them boy and girl but later on towards the end of the movie when girl who is later named Olympia almost gets taken by the monster you know Mallory gets her back by apologizing for what she's done right and she tells she she tells the rest of Tom's story and the daughter ends up coming back but I think this is this is a really important symbol too because as parents if you're a parent out there we have to work on our mental health we have to work on our mental health for a multitude of reasons it affects our kids in a variety of different ways but one of the things is it might push our kids away like if we try to shelter them from everything from the outside world it can affect them very very greatly right and towards the end of the movie like the ending of the movie is Mallory now having this connection okay we see that in a few different ways when she goes to the school for the blind she names the kids finally she lets them go and play she lets the birds go and all this other stuff these are old OBGYN and now Mallory has this connection all right but I want to tell you about a study because there is this great great link between depression and loneliness all right so this is actually a study that came from my favorite depression book of the year called Lost Connections like it's all about depression and anxiety I'm gonna link it down in the description and the and in the comments below that you have to have to have to have to read this book this book is like the number one at the top of my list for anybody out there struggling with depression or anxiety anyways there's a study in there that they talk about and scientists who did this his name was John Cassiopo all right Cassiopo I think I'm saying that right anyways he's a neuroscientist all right so and he ended up doing an experiment because he thought there was a link between depression and loneliness or being disconnected from people so for a long time for a long time even to this day they thought that our brains were just malfunctioning right these chemical imbalances and all of this so he was like well maybe there's something else going on maybe maybe we need to look a little bit further so he was a professor at the University of Chicago so what they did was they got a hundred students all right they got a hundred students and they told him to just go about their days for three days all right just live your normal life do your thing all right so on the first day on the first day they had a few things okay they had a notepad they had a beeper and they had a heart monitor okay so whenever that beeper would beep they had to write down the readings from the heart monitor and they also had to say whether they felt lonely or connected to other people all right so if you imagine maybe they were walking down the street by themselves they felt lonely okay but if the beeper went off while they were at dinner with friends or family maybe they felt more connected all right so on day two same thing with a beeper but instead of having the heart monitor they had these little plastic tubes that they had to spit in okay the reason they had to spit in them is because John wanted to measure the cortisol levels okay those of you who don't know what cortisol is that is a stress hormone so they had to spit in the tube and also write down how lonely or connected they felt and the the results were absolutely mind-blowing okay so when they got the test results back and they were measuring the heart rates and cortisol levels like first off the heart rates are up when somebody feels lonely okay but the the cortisol levels like that stuff was insane people have the exact same cortisol levels when they felt lonely as when you're being physically attacked all right like let that sink in for a second when you feel lonely and disconnected from other people you have the same amount of stress as when you're being physically attacked isn't that insane so this is why depression and anxiety fuel each other all right cortisol is a stress hormone it triggers anxiety so when you are lonely you are getting anxious as well so this is why we need to work on building our connections if you're ever interested down in the description of every single one of my videos we have a link to our Facebook group as well as our discord server I'm gonna do some other videos later on like using using technology to our advantage to connect with others is one of the best things that you can do for somebody who doesn't go out that much all right like we need to feel connected with other people in Mallory's case in bird box it was feeling connected with her children but she also started building connections with other people like she ended up naming the daughter olympia after the nicest woman she ever met right she named the son tom okay so like she ended up building those connections later so now let's explain these monsters let's explain what this big bad monster was so this is something else that um think story actually talk about so we never actually see those monsters all right we never see them now it was it was kind of confusing but i think think story kind of explained it well like there were people who could look at the monster so those of you who haven't seen it but hopefully you have because i just gave away like a lot of spoilers anyways if you looked at the monster if you looked right that's why everybody has these blindfolds like you go psychologically insane but there were some people who could walk around without blindfolds on and what we knew on a on a couple occasions was there was the first guy who took out our boy from the movie get out i forgot his name in the movie in this movie but anyways he was an ex convict all right and then there was also the men who escaped from the insane asylum or the psych ward right and those people were able to look so what they're saying is like people who had already faced their demons they weren't affected so what this was kind of symbolizing is when you're not facing these things they're going to come back and they're going to mess you up all right so what what happened was that Mallory didn't finally overcome these things until she faced her personal struggles and one of the reasons we don't see these monsters is because we don't see our depression we don't see our past we don't see these things they're all trapped up here but Mallory in order to save her kids she had to break down those walls she had to break down those barriers and save them all right so that is the theory as to why we don't ever see these monsters okay they're all up here but in order to heal you gotta feel baby that's what i'm trying to teach you but anyways i want to hear your thoughts if you saw bird box did you like it did you hate it do you understand the link between depression and loneliness let's have a conversation down below all right anyways that's all i got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because i make a ton of videos and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel 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In today's video, we're opening an invasion of chaos first edition booster box for the first time ever What's up guys? We're back with another epic video. This one is to celebrate 200,000 subscribers And that means if you're seeing this video we have hit 200,000 subscribers So I want to shout out all of you guys for sticking with me and enjoying the channel for either a long amount of time Or maybe you're a new subscriber and it's good to see you guys as well If you've never subscribed to the channel at all you can become a subscriber just click that subscribe link down below It's not even a link. It's just a button. I don't even know why I said that but we have a booster box today Invasion of chaos first edition. This is a box that I have never opened on my channel I've opened every other DM set and I've opened every other GX set and booster box ever So this is the first time we're opening this up. I'm super excited for this video We could potentially pull the chaos emperor dragon because this is a hobby box We could pull blacklistor soldier. We could pull democ. So it's gonna be pretty exciting I'm hyped up for it. But first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this red-eyes dark degree that we graded This is a starlight rare PSA 9. All you have to do is like the video be subscribed turn on notifications Let me know down below what you want to see from this box Make sure to shout out sassy auto in the comments for sponsoring this video and giving us this booster box And speaking of sassy auto go check out his links. They will be in the pinned comment They'll be in the description go make sure to go check out his store. He has a lot of awesome stuff He's got pre-orders for the new legacy boxes coming out Which you guys know from legacy week But go check them out because he did sponsor the whole 200k special and he is the reason why we have this box So huge shout out to sassy auto. He is the man and I'm super excited Hopefully got us an epic box here with a chaos ember dragon and a blacklistor soldier anybody, huh enough wasting time It's time to get into it. Oh, we got to crack this box. Here we go Invasion of chaos first edition. Let's do this. We are about to break the seal. This is gonna hurt Oh, we did it Invasion of chaos has been broken. Oh, it hurts so much. Hopefully it's a legit box It looks pretty good to me, but you know, you never know with sealed products. So Seal feels pretty good feels like it's going to be a pretty nice box By the way, hobby box. This is the code that you would see for a cd box So that means that we can pull the cd rather than the invader of darkness. So obviously you'd prefer that Let's see what these packs look like inside Invasion of chaos first edition here we go I have not opened a lot of invasion of chaos first edition packs in general Of course, no booster box. We've already mentioned that but okay I think I'm going to do a little shuffly or should I No, let's just open let's just open an old school. Let's just open it the way that kinami intended. Okay. Here we go I'm super nervous. We haven't opened a booster box like this in quite a while. So celebrating 200k Thank you guys so much. Who would have thought we'd be here, you know, just a couple of years ago I guess a few at this point three years ago, but we are here, which is pretty cool So let's see if we can pull some really awesome cards I'm sure gezi will need some of these commons to be graded or something one two three four. Let's go. We have A hero emerges a good start. I've opened a lot of the set but not a lot of first editions It's a little bit different desk anger. So I'm familiar with the cards prickle fairy coach goblin. We have yellow luster shield The burning algae Oh jama black. We do have audio. We do have everything is recording, which is great blasting the ruins We have a fuma shuriken. So we're starting it off with a rare, which is okay Because you know, we don't want to pull all the good cards right away But we do want to pull all the good cards at some point second pack magic invasion of chaos Will there be something crazy in here? Come on. I if we just pull any of the big three cd Democ or black luster soldier. I'm gonna be extremely happy Obviously, we would love it to be gradable as well I actually have all of these graded 10 except democ So if we were to pull that one and get a 10 that would actually be really nice to add to the collection For from the back. We have a begun nave with a giant hand. It's like, uh, you know What is that kerby or something? We have bug roth. We have ryu koki Gale lasard Zero gravity, not a bad trap guard. Chop man. The desperate outlaw. Hiya. We have yellow luster shield We have burning algae. Is it coming up next or is it the next one? I can't tell. Oh, it's mataza The zapper that's just a rare. Okay. Mataza the zapper our second straight rare I even like like had my palm sweaty, you know what I mean in a long time for an opening So this is like this is it. I'm feeling it a little bit. I'm like, wow It's a little scared that we're not gonna, you know, what if we don't pull anything, you know Going back to that mfc box. Hopefully it's nothing like that. You guys remember that one Here we go for from the back. Let's see if we can pull something epic We have multiplication of ants so many cool cards in here. Dimension fusion is another good ultra rare We could pull terra king salmon. We have the hurricane the recycle thunder crash Blazing and bachi first edition. We have zero gravity another nice trap guard. Chop man the desperate outlaw. Hiya. We have Oh The black luster soldier On boy of the beginning. I was too busy. Chop manning desperate outlaw. Hiyaing.  Let's go our first foil ball We could get both we could get both. I asked for it. We could get both Oh my gosh sinnery is actually not too bad either. It's a little shifted this way. No way Black luster soldier. Let's go Dare I ask for the demock the bls and the cd or two ulcers in secret? I don't know Should I ask for it might as well? Why not 200k special? Let's make the most habit It does have a little bit of scuffing right there But still really nice card sassy auto you picked a good one Very nice box black luster soldier ultra rare our first foil pull. Whoa. That's awesome All right guys chop man the desperate outlaws now officially added to epic commons in our channel because the chop man Just blessed us with the black luster soldier. Whoa good start. All right cd I'm gonna be ecstatic with cd now if we get that Obviously because that's a huge card and then if we pull like demock, that's just like insane.  I mean if it's in here could be anywhere But keep in mind secret rears are definitely not guaranteed in old school boxes like one and two maybe even one and three Because they're secret so we don't actually know the ratio But I'd say one and two ish. Maybe a little bit worse than that one two three four. Here we go Let's pull something crazy. We have we've a lunderwood dj'd insect whistle my insect queen a sacred crane We have the curse seal the forbidden spell with bastion Gigantus that's a really good common dna transplant the sea serpent warrior of darkness very nice chaos end big koala is it next we have a Trap jammer. All right. Our second foil is a super rare trap jammer. That's not a bad center either I'm probably going to be grading all of these foils probably have its own like video or something I don't know. Well, maybe this one won't go in like a higher sub probably going to bulk But I always had this card in my deck back in the day had magic and trap jammers I just thought they were really good. They weren't that great But you know trap jammer especially but I really thought traps were amazing back then I need cd in the comments right now if you're watching this right now put that you want cd put cd We we got a we got to call it out guys It's got to be insane the chaos emperor dragon secret rare Well, you put one ultra one super we still have a lot of foils left sacred crane. Here we go Crystal of Britain spell gigantus a very crazy common. It's just a good card multiplication of events tower of the bell Finn rear hey crazy card in the meta these days not this one, but crimson ninja We have a griffin's feather duster and we have a Orca mega fortress of darkness back-to-back foils super rare whale. All right, the whale's in the chat Looking nice Very nice sintering is pretty nice on this box.  I'm loving the sintering. Okay Invasion of chaos first edition what an opening so far. I'm really hopeful for this cd now My hopes are way up after that blackholster soldier I mean we can't really complain even if we don't get it because we got the cd which is insane I mean not the cd the blackholster soldier.  That's just a rare very cool card I remember I used to use that card. I don't know why I guess one tribute You know, hopefully you guys are enjoying this with the popcorn 200k special I hope that this means the live stream went well because I think I'm going to try and post it after the live stream of 200 what in the world is happening here the 200k live stream You know that I don't know how that what's happening with this back. Maybe that means the cd is in here Okay, one two three four. We have chaos sorcerer awesome common guard first time we pulled that in this in this set Gore turtle we have jade insect the torpedo fish Sol tigre with the 2100 defense maju good to see you buddy maju first edition primal seed we have good maju day isa and Stray lambs just the lambs. Okay. We've got three foils on this side so far So if we get anything else, it's like nice because they're not necessarily evened out You know three on one side three on the other because we're going to get six to seven foils But if we do pull like four over here then we get hope for like a really crazy box getting like maybe three Ultras or something like that. We definitely prefer the secret. We're obviously here one two three four Let's see if we can pull something. We have gale lizard. Can we get that chaos emperor dragon secret rare? Come on. Get them all spear shellfish borderline. We have spatial collapse. Come on first edition invasion of chaos We got hand mirror. We got molten zombie the soul tigre maju our friend the maju of the 10,000 hands and our final card here is Oh, it's like sticking dd designator another super rare. All right So we did get a fourth foil three supers on this side. That is not bad Dd designator. You love to see it very nice card How's the back look pretty clean and pretty nice centering pretty clean services BLS is the only thing that had anything on it. Of course. All right, that's only nine packs in Maybe we got a crazy box with tons of foils. How cool would that be? Here we go one two three four That's five not five. We have balloon lasar nice card chaos greed the thing in the crater Okay, we are still recording energy drain salvage. So feed we have fiend's hand mirror the molten zombie and Get to fuma. I was about to say fuma sure. You can look that it's a different card All right, two packs left on this side still 14 packs remain in this booster box Hopefully you're enjoying this 200k special. By the way, don't forget. This is only part one of the 200k special We're also opening 200 packs for 200k So if you want to see some other insane packs, I do have another invasion of chaos pack By the way, just you know throwing that out there one two three four Also, it's cool that we pulled the blacklist or soldier after how long it took us to pull the even the unlimited version Soul absorption. We have begone knave and baby is bugger off. We have ryu koki chaos necromancer the new y'all bug salva Sylveed Oh compulsory evacuation advice very good rare has a lot of reprints at this point So probably not that crazy, but still first edition version of that that's a really strong trap card Even I think labrath sometimes uses that card in current meta. All right IOC our final right side pack. We're opening it like kinami intended and so far. It's been pretty epic Let's do this 200k special shout-outs of sassy out of megan and happen. One two three four Why did I I thought ojama blocks in dcr? It's ojama green. We have cannonball spear shellfish needy borderline Special collapse ojama yellow ojama black back to back ojama Washington ruin chaos necromancer neo bug and our final pack on the right side Is an enraged battle ox so many cool cards in the set IOC is just such a nice set Especially when it comes to non foils like some of the non foils are insane. All right guys Second half invasion of chaos. Here we go. Come on ced make it happen, dude. Show up Show up with the democ make it be the best IOC opening of all time. I'm down for that I am down for that sea servant warrior of darkness with his battle prowess. We have Soul absorption begun nave the amphibious bug roth ryu koki Sea servant warrior of darkness a warrior who defends the world of the sea of darkness He brides himself on his fighting prowess both on the ground and of course in the water sea serpent the chaos end big koal while the centering is terrible on these commons right here blazing empachi. It's back. Okay, and Sasuke samurai number three. So there's a number four that gets an alternate rare. This guy unfortunately just gets the rare All right, still packs left. Come on ced. Let's go make it happen, man Make it happen ced show up. Okay. Some of these packs are not ripping the way I want them to Okay, let me know in the comments if you open IOC back in the day Were you around for IOC's release when it was super hot said because it had you know Casper dragging everything. Uh, did you open any did you pull any ced? Blackless or soldier d mock anything like that. We have gigantes. They were all pretty amazing cards in the meta multiplication of ants terra king salamon. We have ladybug salvage dimension distortion silphied we have fiends hand mirror and Ultra evolution pill dinosaurs anybody Reptile only reptiles.  I guess that makes sense. But then you have to play reptiles and dinos I feel like that is not a great card vision cast I mean, I've never really seen anybody play it. So it probably isn't democ ced We are searching for you. We believe in you got to get these open so we don't ding any corners one two three four Come on a hero emerges Desk kangaroo We have prickle fairy coach goblin griffin's feather duster the inferno boganian dna transplant poor little yellow guy and finally a berserk gorilla All right a classic berserk gorilla to reference the prog one pretty pretty good signs. All right What was that prog to you? I can't remember. I've been going for so long at this point. All right. One two three four Chaos timber dragon Please appear to us. Give us your presence Gora, we have jade insect whistle Sacred crane feel the pain. That's a different one burning algae. We have the ojama black blasting the ruins neobug and A robin zombie not the robin goblin the robin zombie. All right, no foils on this side yet We've already pulled four foils So it kind of makes sense that it's you know taken a little bit here Hopefully we get seven and we get a secret rare That's what we want because you know There's one secret where we can pull out of this box and its name is chaos emperor dragon envoy of the end Already pulled the legendary envoy of the beginning We began the box with the envoy of the beginning and we're ending it with the envoy of the end, right? Is that going to happen? Here we go multiplication of ants The terror king salmon That's a ruckson special first one of the video. I think let's go mark ladybug We have a cycle guru and maju de isa the moist critical card tower of the bell finner here crimson ninja and Oh a dd scout plane. All right, just a super. Okay, so four supers one ultra Hopefully no more supers. Hopefully we just get an ultra and a secret to end this thing That is the ideal box we're looking for here. Come on make it happen Okay, I think our best pull ever out of ioc before this was a dimension fusion I pulled out of a loose pack I also pulled a levide dragon datalus that we created a 10 So we've had good luck with ioc before just haven't opened a ton of packs For first edition one two three four. Here we go Several packs left, but we really want that cd We got the earth chant the thing in the crater energy drain chaos sort really cool Not quite a play set yet zero gravity chop man the desperate outlaw Last time we was here blackluster soldier. Let's go anti-aircraft flower yellow luster shield and Oh it didn't work this time. No chop man magic, drill logo Regular rare. Okay chop man. You tried I respect it But we actually pulled two chop man the second one was the one that had the big foil So that's our third fourth chop man is going to be big. Keep an eye out for that guys. Here we go I'm calling it right now first edition ioc. Let's see if that is the case chop man bless us Here we go jade insect whistle for weevil underwood sacred crane Curse illa forbidden spell gigantus molten zombie Soltigre Primal seed self-destruct button. Don't press that thing. All right and Mad dog of darkness. He's a mad dog in the darkness. Okay. We're down to five packs left I'm getting nervous now. Come on ioc. Come on. Give us two more foils Make them big ones. Here we go or at least one of them big, you know, you know, I'm saying Okay, one two three four. Let's do this. Give us a chaos and bird dragon. Let's go spatial collapse We don't even need a second ultra if we get the chaos and bird. Oh jama yellow balloon lasard. Yeah chaos greed sea serpent warrior of darkness chaos end Big koala. Come on blazing impachi. Here we go dimension fusion. All right That is a crazy good one. Oh my goodness tiny bit of back scuffing But not bad sintering is way better than the one I had already pulled before Whoa, that is probably the third best ultra rare It could honestly be more money than maybe the democ maybe even the bls because it's such a good card That's one of the best ultras in the set. This has been an insane box so far. All right. Now we have four packs left We're hoping for that secret rare. I'm nervous. It might happen. It might not they're not guaranteed per box We've got six foils already, which is pretty amazing What reminds you guys sassy auto sponsored this whole video. So go check out sassy auto right now He's a legend. He sponsored this and he's sponsoring the next 200k as well. So it's it's gonna be pretty amazing So go check him out. It's been amazing. I want to shout out to you guys as well for the awesome 200,000 subscriber special and just you know, that's such a crazy number man. That is a lot of subscribers I'm very excited about it. All right now cd. Bless everyone who subscribed and give them an amazing good I mean you've already kind of done that. It's been pretty good Let's see if we can end with a cd. Here we go thing in the crater We still have three more packs after this energy drain kiosk work. That's a play set very nice gore turtle evolutions neobug salvage Sylphied we have fiend's hand mirror and A destruction ring. Okay. That's fine. That's fine three packs left We have an eighth of the booster box left 12 and a half percent remaining invasion of chaos Three packs left. We got a dimension fusion in a BLS.  You got three chaos sort. You're playing a lot of chaos You're looking good one two three four. Here we go and the amphibious bug roth Right, kooky yellows are come on chaos emperor. We got borderline griffin's feather duster. We got inferno bulganian dna transplant And a lukunga. That's a rare. All right lukunga two packs remain. Come on cd. Make it happen Make it happen chaos emperor dragon. Let's go one two three four We have ojama yellow. We have balloon lizard chaos greed earth chant silphied climson ninja griffin's feather duster. We got blasting the ruins and A chain disappearance. It's coming down to the final pack. All right guys If you've enjoyed this video make sure to subscribe to the channel because you know We're gonna do more cool stuff, you know, just subscribe to it. Okay. We're gonna pull cd right now, right right chat By chat. I mean not live chat because we're not live. Here we go Let's go one two three Caster bird dragon. Here we go Coach goblin our last chance.  It's been such a good box grid maju day eyes. Let's shout out to sassy auto once again for an amazing video Tower of babble. We have fin rear crimson ninja. I think it might be next. Here we go Oh, it's a dark drop sarah tops. All right, so no chaos in for a dragon But other than that we've had one of the best boxes you can have I'm really happy with it. I've enjoyed this 200k special. So shout out to you guys once again I appreciate you guys shout out to toe info show dax or jt show puffins of doom or nester dna Dizzy macycle america deutzer supreme stage 21 and another tideshow ayan moosa jr. Barting memegakko with thomas plane Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace


Hey what's up guys welcome to Trending Reviews. So if you're watching this video then you're probably aware of the FieldWorld F5 so you might be watching this because you're thinking about buying one or maybe you've already bought one and you want to know how to set this up and get it working with your SLR cameras. Now I won't go into too much detail about what this is, you probably have done your research but just to give you a quick overview it's a 5 inch HD monitor for your DSLR cameras so if you're planning to go outdoors for your shooting, for your photography, for your videos then you might have a camera that doesn't have a flip-out screen for you to actually see yourself. Or if you want to get a larger viewport of all your videos and all your photos that you're taking outdoors then this might be the best option for you. Now this comes in at about just under 140 pounds on Amazon, I'll have a link in the description below where you can buy one of these. Now I'm going to show you everything that comes in the box and then show you how to set it up and then give you an overall review of how my experience has been in using this so let's just get straight into it. In the box you have the F5 monitor, you've got a cold shoe mount, it's actually 360 degrees spin on it so you can actually change this to any angle that you like. You also get a mini HDMI cable to connect this to the monitor and then you also get a sunscreen shade that you can mount onto this via the Velcros that's there just along the edges of the actual screen and this whole thing is made of Velcro as well. That's the only thing that comes in it, you also have a user guide to give you some tips on how to set this up. Now there's a few ports that come on this so you have obviously the mount connecting port there which is connected to the monitor. At the bottom you have the DC out cable so you can get some power going out of this into any other device or if you wanted to just connect this via a outlet plug you'll also have to purchase that separately. You also on the sides here you have the DC in, you also have the HDMI in and the HDMI out as well so depending on where you want to display the screen you can actually put the HDMI cable into the relevant ports here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to be giving you the HDMI in because I'm going to be displaying my camera onto the screen here and showcasing this in terms of what most of you would be buying this for is actually using this as a secondary screen to your DSLR screen. Now finally just before I go into how to set this up I'm going to tell you a few things that you need to actually buy for your camera to actually make this work so obviously this doesn't come with any power the first thing is you need to get some power for it. So what you need to do there's a port at the back here where you can slip some batteries. I have these ones here. This is the RAVPower Saviour F550 battery pack. It's compatible with a lot of the Sony cameras so there's a multiple option of cameras that this will work with. I'll leave a link in the description and below where you can buy this and have a look at the complete list of compatible cameras. So my Sony a7 III has the FZ100 battery in there. Now the port behind the F5 screen here is compatible with multiple battery packs for both Sony, Canon, Panasonic and Nikon cameras. So you can actually find a link of all of those where you can purchase these below as well but I've specifically am going to be using the Sony ones. So the F970 battery port here is compatible with the F550 pack that I've purchased from RAVPower. These are both 2900mAh of battery power each so that will give me about three to four hours depending on usage of continuous battery life to power the monitor. Now the last thing I want to do is obviously I want this monitor to be powering my camera as well. So what I'm going to do is buy a dummy power which is this one here. So this is basically a dummy battery. It's plastic. There's actually no power in it but this is where you connect the DC input and onto the monitor there. So this will be there just on the outside onto the DC in section there. Now I'll have that connected and this will go into my camera so that everything that I'm seeing from the camera can be displayed directly onto the screen. So this is where it will be connecting and powering both devices at the same time. So let me connect all of the pieces and show you guys how to do that. Okay guys so now I have the dummy battery right in there. So this dummy battery actually comes at just under 28 pounds on Amazon. Again I'll have the link in the description below but it is compatible with the Sony FZ100 battery packs. So what I need to do now is connect this to the DC input. So just on the left of the monitor. Gonna connect that in there. Now like I mentioned this can rotate. What this doesn't do is if you rotate it the screen itself that's being displayed on there will not automatically adjust as well. So you have to manually change that in the settings. Or what I prefer is if you just want to change this around. So this is if you're filming yourself and you want to see it on a live screen but if you're filming yourself and you want to see it like a selfie mode I would suggest just turning it around and just putting that in place. It'll be so much easier. Now let me just quickly show you about this battery pack here. Gonna take one of these round cow batteries and I'm gonna slot that in there. You just hold down the bottom push that in and it's in. So for your reference I'm gonna turn this back around. You can see that the screen is now turned on. So that battery pack is powering the monitor that I've got behind this. Now what I want to do is display my Sony a7 free screen right onto the monitor there. So I need to get the mini HDMI cable. What I'm gonna do is put it into the HDMI input there and the other end into my camera's mini HDMI port. So now everything is all connected.  So let me go ahead and turn my camera on. As you can see it's now switched over and it's being displayed on there. Now I'm gonna move this on around. There's no lag. It's pretty clear. It's just a larger version of this but the primary reason I would use this is if I wanted to turn it around and actually see myself when I'm recording videos or shooting some pictures as well to see how they come out. You have an option here that comes up saying the operation and safety of this battery is not guaranteed. It's just a bit of security measure because this camera is not really made for dummy batteries because the power is coming from elsewhere but if you just select okay you can continue using it. And then this sunshade you can basically just click that on using the velcro and it's very easy. So if it's very bright and sunny outside it'll give you a clearer view of looking at all of your pictures through this viewport. So I'll take that off for now. I'm gonna take a quick picture as well show you how quickly the shutter speed is with this monitor. It's instant. It's in real time.  It's taking a few seconds which obviously isn't great but it took a while. If I only got there then you can see it. So I'm hoping the speed on this can be improved in future models perhaps in the other field word monitors that this may be fixed but as you can see here's some samples I've just taken and if I just go back going back to the camera view again it just took a few seconds there but finally got there in the end. So it's very crisp it's very clear it does shoot in 4K but only up to 30 frames per second. If you wanted to get the updated version of this I'll recommend you going for the MA5 or the Master 5 model. Now what that does is that comes with an additional micro HDMI cable as well as a carry case but the screen is 30% brighter and the refresh rate and the difference between the camera and the monitor is 10 milliseconds quicker. So those are the only difference with the Master 5 and the F5 models. I've seen people asking these questions online so that is the primary difference but nonetheless this is how it works and overall I would say the whole package it comes up just under 200 pounds so that includes the field word F5, the dual battery pack for the actual monitor and the dummy battery for Sony cameras. So all of the links in the description below for all of the purchases that you can make to make this work. Now a quick run through of the menu. Okay and finally guys I'm just going to give you a quick run through of what the menu looks like and the options that come in here. So along the top you have some buttons so what I'm going to do is quickly just show you what those buttons are. So you have the function 1, function 2, left and right, menu button down and up and the power button as well. So let me quickly show you what comes in the menu options so if I press menu now there's a few settings there along the top. So the first one is picture settings you can see that you can adjust the brightness, the picture mode, contrast saturation, color temperatures and so on. So let me show you an example if I go down. Picture mode is on standard by default. I can change that to mild, user or dynamic so you can change how the screen looks in terms of displaying those pictures. Now if I do change it to user that means I can adjust this manually so if I go down I can change the brightness, the contrast saturation all myself by default they're all set to 50, the sharpness is 15 and then the color temperature you can also adjust that as well. If I hit menu it goes back to the top one. Next it's the main settings so you can change here the language, the aspect ratio of the screen, the signal that this can come with, the backlight refresh rate. You can also reset the screen from here as well just to see what the latest version firmware is on there. This is basically the zoom options so you can go down see what types of different zoom modes there are and scan modes and obviously if you turn zoom on then you can adjust all of the other settings in there. Now these are the advanced settings so you can change here the markers, the frames, the grids and this is where you can also change the image flip so you can turn the screen a certain way if you wanted to flip the screen from there it will keep it at the same visibility viewport right now but if I turn it like this way so it faces the selfie way then the screen wouldn't have flipped so I'd have to manually flip it for the settings at this stage. The last one is where you can adjust what the function buttons do so function one shows you the histogram I can change that for it to actually do different things so I can select that manually. There's plenty of options in there I would maybe set function 1 to image flip so that would make it easier there we go and then function 2 I would maybe change that to maybe change that to zoom there we go and now if I come out the menu if I press function 1 you can see the image is flipped the other way press it again it's flipped the other way again upside down and flipped horizontally and then back to normal so there's two levels of flip is both vertical and horizontal as well but that pretty much covers everything on the f5 screen you can also see the battery percentage there on the top right hand side just to keep an eye of how much battery life is left on the monitor not the camera so that's everything I wanted to show hopefully that was very useful for you guys if there's any other questions you have on using this or how to set it up or if there's anything you want me to specifically test on this f5 monitor then do drop a comment below otherwise I hope that was useful I hope you guys subscribe and I will catch you guys at the next one take care


Hey, what's up? There's a lot of great style on this team and we got Miggy Enduhaar right here and he's going to show us what he's rocking off the field. Let's start with the shirt. What you got?  I like the color. You got the black diamond necklace and the gold chain.  And you usually go with the gold chain while you're playing, right? Yeah, yeah.  You know, sometimes, you know, for making something different to the field. Yeah. You got the Gucci shades. Yeah, somebody give it to me and one gift. Yeah.  I like everything, no matter. The frames match really well with the watch right here. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my friend Sabi gives it to me for my birthday. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Sabi. The pants. And Sara, I buy this and Sara, you know, what I say, I like Sara. You know, it's comfortable.  It's like nice and easy, you know, easy, not too much, you know, easy. All right, nice and chill and relaxed, comfortable. Yeah, comfortable, yeah. That's swag right there, man. Yeah, yeah, you know, a little bit, not too much. Yeah, a little bit, suddenly. Yeah.


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