Welcome everybody to another episode of the nonprofit show. We're so excited that you joined us today. If you joined us in the green room chatter, we're talking with our guests today. Wow, I'm impressed that you're here today, Kirsten, because she's making a major move to another city and another part of the country in just a week. So bless your heart for coming on the nonprofit show when I'm sure you got a lot to do. Anyway, but we're gonna be talking about something that's really, man, it causes a lot of stress with folks and it's getting your capital campaign started right. I mean, I'm looking at our, and welcoming our new co-host, Meredith Tarian with us and she's shaking her head like mm-hmm. Yeah. I know what we're gonna be talking about. So we've titled this capital campaign magic because I think that there's probably a lot of science and basic routine to this, but we got to think of it in magical terms because that the path forward is quite magical. So we are super excited to have Kirsten White, wait, want, lend, blah. Easy for me to say, joining us today. Also, who joins us every day, day in and day out are our amazing presenting sponsors and they include Blumerang, American Nonprofit Academy, Nonprofit Thought Leader, Staffing Boutique, your part-time controller, 180 Management Group, Fundraising Academy at National University, JMT Consulting, Nonprofit Nerd, and Nonprofit Tech Talk. These folks are with us day in and day out and they've been with us as we have produced more than a thousand shows and you can access that archive on our app through streaming broadcasts as well as podcasts. So we will meet you where you are according to what you need. Okay, Kirsten, you got to tell me about this adorable photo. Let's start there. Absolutely, so when I'm not fundraising up Blumerang, I'm actually photographer. I do weddings, I do elopements, I do portraits, pairs, all of that. So this was two falls ago, this is our dog Putin, we also call her Pie, but she is very much a Velcro dog. And so I thought it was absolutely fitting that when I was taking my new headshots for my website that she just made the photo. Love it. I think that's fabulous. Well, it's a fabulous image. And for those of you that might be listening to us via podcast, you owe it to yourself to go back through our archive and find it because it's really a cool image. But one of the things we were talking about in the Green Room Chatter, Kirsten, is that everybody that we've had on over the years from Blumerang, and we never have the same people on twice. It always seems like your team gives us amazing talent. Everybody seems so passionate about your product and your work environment. What does that mean to you in terms of what you do? And if you could explain that to us. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. First, I will just say that, you know, when I was doing my masters in nonprofit management and leadership, I was like, how do I get into fundraising? Like I know that this is the kind of community connection I want, like, I love art history. I wanted to be a curator at one point, but I'm like, I need to talk to people. I need to get people to care about what I care about. So I thought fundraising was the best fit, but for me, I didn't know that there were like tools like Blumerang and like wealth prospecting tools that existed out there to help fundraisers do their jobs more efficiently. So when I found Blumerang, it was kind of by accident. I was working with an orchestra doing a little bit of their data management and they're like, we use Blumerang and I'm like, fabulous, what is it? And so that's how I kind of figured out what it was. I've been with Blumerang for about three years and I started in the support department. So I learned the product from the technical side and then I got to transition to my current role which I work on the managed services team. So clients pay to work with our product. Essentially what that means is I do one-on-one work with our clients and two of the main projects that I work on are efficiency audits. And then I also work on quarterly strategy, kind of advising. So the first part of that, the efficiency audits is I will look at your database and your data and say, hey, we can't contact 50% of the people in your database. Let's remove them. Let's make sure your data is all clean. Let's, hey, you have this in your contract but you're not utilizing it. Let's make sure you're utilizing this tool to make sure you have the best experience. One, fundraising, you can raise more money and your data is really clean. So I help them do what they intend to do on the platform better. And then the second part of what I do is I work with organizations in the quarterly strategy program. So I'll meet with them every 90 days and we run 72 different data points to say what's happening in your database, right? Like how are people giving based on- Oops, you may have a little freeze. Like how are people progressing through their data plans, right? I help you look at different areas of your fundraising based on nonprofit best practice and donor behavior to say, hey, we really wanna increase the loyalty. Here's how we do it. Here's the segment we need to look at. Here's this particular thing that we need to focus on. So I help bring a lot of visibility to align with their fundraising strategy. So those are the two main projects. I know that was kind of a mouthful. So let me know if you have questions. No, you know what I appreciate and Meredith, I'd love your comment on this is that a lot of times we look at software and I don't care what it is, right? I mean, if it's email software, calendar software and it's like, oh my gosh, we just need to pay the $19.99 or the $99.99 and drop it in and it's gonna solve all of our problems. I love that you actually can advise and look at what an organization is bringing to the table so that you can set it better. Absolutely. It's not all like the fundraising strategy. It's interesting because my current portfolio, I work with about 80 organizations. They're all so different with what they focus on. Some people are event heavy. A couple of my organizations are very grant funded so they don't have, they're just all in very different stages of fundraising. So it's really interesting to work with them. One, because I learned so much, not being pigeonholed into one kind of organization or one particular sector or one particular NTE code. It's very interesting for me and then I get to spread that wealth to the other clients and say, this is what works well for organizations like yours, for organizations that are trying to achieve the same kind of growth, whether it be in dollars or average lifetime value, like it's really interesting work and it's a beneficial partnership, especially for small to mid-sized nonprofits where they may not have a lot of bandwidth in terms of staff to pay attention to these kinds of things. I love it.  Yeah, absolutely, Julia. This is such a relevant topic and Kirsten, I can't wait to hear what you have to share with us because especially particularly when it comes to capital campaigns, so much of it is driven and informed by data. So tell us on this first one here, what is ROI when we're talking about data and campaigns? What do you mean by return on investment here? Absolutely, you just nailed ahead with the definition of return on investment. This is one thing we don't always think about as fundraisers, right? Fundraising can sometimes feel like my hair is on fire. How do I raise money the fastest? I'm gonna bombard people with email, right? But the thing is, is like, sometimes it's not effective for your particular constituency. So you have to do things that are different. Like when I say structuring a fund, right? Not everybody knows how to structure those things appropriately to be able to see what's most effective for your constituency. So at Bloomerang, a big part of my job is helping people understand how to structure their campaigns, funds and appeals, how to tell what's effective, what's working, what's not working, that way we can pivot their strategy and help them raise the most money. When I say a fund, that's how your organization is using the dollars. Is it an unrestricted fund? Is that fund going to support the activities in a particular program? Is that fund going to support the efforts for your capital campaign? We need to know how your organization is utilizing those dollars. Now, the campaign, that's that overarching fundraising goal. Am I trying to raise $500,000 for a new ambulance? Am I trying to raise $2 million for a new agricultural center? Typically that is an overarching fundraising goal. It's typically time-bound. You have a dollar amount that you need to reach in order to accomplish that goal. I think of it, I'm a visual girl, so I think of it like an umbrella. My campaign is going over the top of my umbrella. Now, when we think of appeals, the appeal is like what compels that donor to give their money to you? Did they receive a direct mail? Did they receive a mass email? Did they find you on social media? And the reason these are all appeals is because they all will contribute to that campaign. When we structure things this way, we're able to see what's most effective. Did Joe, the board member call you and you gave $15,000? That's a personal solicitation. We want to see that difference versus the direct mail. So when your campaign is over, I want you to be able to run a report and say, here's my campaign for my $500,000 ambulance. I've raised $50,000 from direct mail. I've raised $20,000 from email. I've raised $175,000 from personal solicitations. You can see that personal solicitation is the most effective. Now, with my example, I just kind of reiterated there. I said, hey, we're gonna raise, we have raised $50,000 with my direct mail. Let's say you spent $48,500 on this direct mail. It's not a very good return on investment, but if it costs a couple, if it costs $1,000 and you raise $50,000, you're gonna say, hey, direct mail was pretty effective for this campaign. So that's the goal that you want to get to. And those are very basic examples, depending on how much time and patience you have for these kinds of things, you can do it in different emails. You can link online giving forms with different subject lines. So you can say, hey, this person that received this mass email and had this subject line donated through this form, and I can see that on my reporting. And then your other form with maybe different language or you're sending it to a different segment that goes to your other online form, you can see the effectiveness of the method, but with kind of like A-B testing. If you're not familiar with what A-B testing is, it's a way to kind of test what works best. So I always encourage organizations to kind of challenge yourself and say, if I'm interested in seeing how effective this particular part of my campaign was, can I see it? That's the big question, is can I see it? If I can't see it, there is a structure problem with your data. Okay, now I'm gonna throw a wrench in this discussion. Because, I love starting out this way. And I love thinking, okay, we're not just gonna be like wishful and hopeful that the money comes in.  What I hear you saying, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that you see that there's an opportunity here for a little bit of modification. So that you're not just waiting at the very end and saying, well, next time we'll do it differently. What am I hearing on that? Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. I think sometimes when we attempt different fundraising efforts, like I'm gonna do this one special event or I'm gonna do this email drip campaign one time during my three year capital campaign, right? We can say, we didn't raise that much money, nevermind. But the follow up to that is, why? Was it a language thing? Did we segment appropriately based on people who were engaged or not engaged? Like there's a lot of follow up questions that can come from failure or quote unquote failure or maybe just not as successful as other efforts. I don't like using the word failure and fundraising because it's not really a thing, right? Like you learn from it and you say, hey, this doesn't work for our constituency, this works for our constituency, let's do it again. Especially in capital campaigns that are longer, you're not just doing your six week end of the year sprint in end of the year end fundraising. You have time to do that kind of A-B testing where you can say, hey, this worked now, this didn't work then, and you can find the right path that works for you. Meredith, what do you think about this? Cause I see- So you know what I love about everything Kirsten is saying right now is, we already know, right? How important data is in fundraising. But what I really hear you saying is that data is only as good as what you do with it, right? So much of what you're telling us Blumerang has these really cool functionality and tools you can use, but what really makes the difference here is what as a fundraiser, what you're doing with that data, right? How you're informing your decisions going forward. Yeah, I mentioned in the beginning of the episode that a lot of what I do is efficiency data. So I will have these conversations with fundraisers every single day. And they'll be like, no, I absolutely need this email record from 17 years ago, even though that person's deceased or whatever. And I'm like, okay, but when did you report on it last? When did it play a role in what you are doing now? That is the question that I ask people is like, it's all well and fine that you have record of every communication ever that you've brought to whatever system you're using. But what are you actually doing with the data? Because if you're not doing anything with it, if you're not using it to say, is it more effective? Hey, they've received this appeal. I'm gonna see who made a transaction after they received that repeal. If you're not doing anything with the data, it's not adding any value. It's really just kind of cluttering anything up. So when people are reluctant to let go of data that may not mean anything now or that is not good data, I challenge them and I say, okay, show me two examples of when you've used that data in the last year and they'll be like, oh my gosh, I didn't. And I'm like, I know. So it's a hard thing, right? Because when we think of data and fundraising, we wanna have as much data, but there's data for data's sake and there's data that is useful. And we have to pivot especially in a campaign and say, what is useful data? If we can't answer that question, we're not thinking about it in an appropriate way. Well, let's then move on to the value of wealth prospecting tools. Because this is another amazing amount of data that can come in and transform so many decisions. Talk to us about what this looks like. Yeah, yeah. First of all, I'll answer the question of what is a wealth prospecting tool? This is one of those things where, when I was doing my studies, I was like, I have no idea what a wealth prospecting tool is. How do they know how to ask Yoshmo for 50 grand, right? How do they make those kinds of asks? The answer is wealth prospecting tools. So one of, Bloomerang's partner is donor search, but there's other ones out there like iWave and things like that. But essentially a lot of those tools will aggregate public record. So if your organization that you donate to, like let's say I give $5,000 to the National Parks Foundation, if the National Parks Foundation publishes an annual report, that's now a public record to say, hey, Kirst Swatland gave $5,000, donor search is going to find that record and they're gonna give me a rating that says, hey, Kirst is on fire, which means she has a DS slash whatever, whatever rating that says, I have the capacity and the means to give a particularly sized gift. Where this can play into your fundraising in general and also in your planning of a capital campaign is you can see what capacity donors have and then not leave money on the table. You're making the appropriate asks for them to them. You're not saying, hey, every single person in my database, I'm gonna ask for $250 because if Julia can give me 10,000, I'm gonna ask for 10,000 from her. And always, I mean, it's important to keep in mind that just because somebody has the capacity doesn't mean they're gonna give you that. They're just gonna write that check when you ask. This is part of the cultivation part where fundraising is so dependent on relationships where, yes, you can see what people have that capacity. So you know what relationships are worth cultivating. And that's not to say that people with a lower capacity don't have that worth in cultivating. We may be able to get them up to higher levels at some point, but it shows you what money is immediately accessible, what people have the means right now, especially if you're in something urgent like a capital campaign. Amazing. It's a really interesting way to weave this in because then the next thing that we really kind of wanna, you know, have you address? And it's a shame we don't have like four hours to be talking because this is so much and it's just riveting. And you know, the other thing too, I think Meredith and Kirsten, you know, so many organizations because of COVID, they stopped their capital campaigns and now they're chomping at the bit to get them reactivated and reanimated even and how do you do that and what does it look like? So let's move a little bit in further to prioritization and how do we look at these prospects using data, using outside information based on the relationships that we have or that we can navigate. What does that look like? Absolutely. This is a fabulous question. This is another one of those things that I don't think I was even really comfortable answering until the last two years, really with looking at so many organizations data. This is a hard one. Who do I put my focus on, right? So we talked about the importance of wealth prospecting and the importance of good data. So when I think of prioritizing data, the kind of industry standard that we go by here at Bloomerang is, you know, every engaged donor gives every year, right? They have to give once every 365 days. That's kind of the goal. I know other organizations operate on more of like an 18 month cycle where if someone hasn't given 18 months then they're considered lapsed. But the goal here is 365 days. The more time that passes, the less likely you are to recapture that donor. So that's why it's so important to keep your donors engaged. So they don't turn into a lapsed donor because it makes them so much harder to capture. So with that in mind, when I talk about prioritization, time is a big aspect. So I may have major donors that prefer to give every two years, every three years, et cetera, which is fine because they're giving those larger amounts. But when I think about prioritizing, it's going to be someone that gave in the last X amount of years. Sometimes we have people in our database that haven't given for 20 years, even though we still have good contact information. I would say they're going to be lower on the priority list than someone who's giving now in the last six months in the last year. Typically when I'm looking for priority one for this capital campaign, I'm going to look for people with high wealth indicators and a system like Blumerang or system like other CRMs, they're going to have some way in there to tag those individuals that have that higher wealth prospecting rating. So I'm going to say that's one of my requirements. The second requirement is if you have a way to measure that engagement. So maybe you're saying these people had personal touch points with me or these people have all of these really positive data trends because they receive our emails and they click on them and they engage and they come to our free events, whatever it is, they're people that are interested. So when we look at the second requirement, we're saying the second requirement is engagement. And then the last requirement for me is like that actual contribution at some point.  That's the other thing I don't want people to forget about is it's not always capital campaigns are not only funded by those massive donors and large foundation grants. A lot of the smaller input can be very valuable. So when I think of prioritizing, I'm thinking, do they have a wealth prospecting score that's relatively high or at least what you consider, I keep getting the icons here, at least what you consider a major gift for most of the industry, it's $1,000 or more. And then the second thing is, do they have those engagement scores? The third thing is, do they have a transaction in the last three to five years? If they haven't given in five years, the percentage ratings of them ever giving again, very, very low. So that's what kind of my criteria is for prioritizing. So then if we talk about that top level that we're like, okay, everybody, we're gonna really drill down on this and we're gonna really focus on these and our intention is to connect with these folks. What does that second level look like? And is that something that you spend only, 25% of your time on or you give them to the newbies? Like what does that ecosystem look like? That's a great question. I never thought of it like a percentage split, like where my attention should go. Obviously your priority one, I would say like 60%. You already know those people have high engagement, so they care about what you're doing. You know they have high capacity, you know they've given at least a penny in revenue in the last five years, right? So that's kind of priority one for me. I'm gonna say, let's spend the other 40% on our lower tier and not when I say lower tier, I don't mean lower in value, I just mean maybe lower in capacity or lower in engagement. The other thing to think about is a lot of these wealth prospecting tools can show you future potential. So like let's say Julia, you gave $500 to the National Parks Project. Let's say your capacity rating is actually $10,000. If the National Parks Project is cultivating you, they're gonna say, hey I'm gonna treat Julia like a major donor, I'm gonna treat her like she's given me $10,000. That can really cultivate some of that future potential. It can strengthen relationships. It can get people reinvested in your mission. So that's almost why I say priority one, they're already there man. They've got that cultivation. Priority two really helps you look at future potential. And this is where we start to pivot fundraising from my houses on fire to I see smoke, right? You only don't, I think I don't wanna call it a mistake but I think fundraisers can often forget that you have donors to cultivate for potential. We don't only wanna look at our existing donor base of people that I've given major gifts before to say they're gonna be the only ones to ever give us a major gift. That's something hard to forget. We have to pivot and say, who has potential now? Who can I treat like a major donor to get them to that level? That's part of fundraising that didn't make sense to me before because I'm like, oh if we had 50 people before that had given us a $1,000 gift and some of those donors drop off it's just gonna continue to go down. But we have to look forward and say, what tools do I have to show me future potential? Okay, I'm fascinated by this because Meredith, I've gotta ask you this question. As a seasoned fundraiser and somebody who's in, you know, the space of training and educating and promoting this, how much time or even intent do you think that we as a sector are even thinking about cultivating for the future? So that is such an important question and you're right because, you know, I went to a conference one time early in my career and one of the best pieces of advice that I got was, you know, you should have a full-time prospector on your team. So somebody who's always sort of looking forward to, you know, who do we add to our pipeline? Who are we looking ahead to to cultivating? I mean, like, like Hurston said, so many times we put all of our focus on our current donors, but what about those hidden gems in our database? Or what about those folks that, you know, have the potential or the capacity to give more? So that's, you know, I think the answer to your question is not nearly enough time, right? We're not spending enough time doing that very activity. No, and we don't even, we don't even talk about it. Yeah. And this is where I think it's interesting where when you lean into a CRM or a wealth prospecting tool, you may have those hidden gems in your database. The Joe Schmo down the street that comes to all your free events and has a season pass, right, may have money to contribute. He just hasn't been recognized, right? So he hasn't had that investment in his relationship with the organization, maybe on his part, maybe on our part, we don't know. So that's why it's so important to take a look at what you've already got. Capital campaigns often are preceded by a feasibility study. This is talking about, you know, do our stakeholders care about what we're trying to raise money for? This could be a survey. This could be calling all your donors, right? Do they even care? Do they want to support those kinds of things? And when you talk to people in your database, even if they're not your big donors, your major donors, people you think who are going to have a big impact, one, they could have that more capacity. The second thing is they could be seriously interested in supporting whatever you're doing. So that could be cause enough to get that first major gift from them. Amazing. Well, I have loved this conversation. I mean, Meredith, it's really been fun to have you join us today. You're going to start to see much more of Meredith Terrainian and we will, Terrain, I'm telling you, you need to whack me upside the head. Really, really an amazing conversation. And Kirsten, I love your approach.   And that's just the wrong way to be going about this. So, Kirsten Wantland, I'm going to wish you a grand adventure on your new relocation into the West. We need more great talent in the Western United States.  Database Consulting Specialists with our friends over at Bloomerang. Check out bloomerang.com. They have an amazing wealth of information, white papers, blog posts, videos, podcasts. It's free, you don't have to be one of their customers and it's not gated. I mean, so it's really an amazing assortment of great thought leadership. I can't say enough about it. And I think you'll find that it really can help any kind of direction that you're taking with your organization. So I certainly encourage you to take a look at that. Also, I encourage you to take a look at our presenting sponsors and they include Nonprofit Thought Leader, American Nonprofit Academy, Bloomerang Fundraising Academy at National University, 180 Management Group, Your Part Time Controller, Staffing Boutique, Nonprofit Tech Talk, Nonprofit Nerd and JMT Consulting. An amazing wealth of talent and knowledge that supports the nonprofit show day in and day out. And we are really, really grateful for this. Okay, Kirsten, I think you've made me less stressed out about this concept. What about you, Meredith? Absolutely. I mean, there's so much confidence to be had in understanding your data and who better to do it than working with Bloomerang. I've worked with your database, Kirsten, so many times, it's one of my favorites. So loved everything you had to share today. Awesome. Well, thanks so much for having me guys. I really enjoyed my time. Well, ladies, it's been fabulous. You know, we end every episode of the Nonprofit Show with this message. And it's so funny because I swear, it means something different to me every day and I hear something different, but it goes like this. And that is to stay well, so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow, everyone.


I don't know. To be honest, I've had some good experiences with melatonin, but it always tended to be very much like it hasn't been a long-term solution. The only thing that has helped, I think, with my sleep, trying to set up a routine around it. If I'm out of that routine, it's pretty rubbish in terms of being able to fall asleep and wake up. It's always a real task. Putting some night modes on your screens and playing a mindless game seems to help me a lot. Yeah, I actually have spent a lot of the last three years experimenting with my sleep and doing a variety of things. All the things people tell you you should do, and the really annoying thing that I realized through, I have an aura ring, so I'm tracking what different things you're doing to my sleep. My system is just so, my body-mind system is so sensitive that I have to do all of the things that you're supposed to do in just extreme amounts. I need to not eat for four hours before bed, which feels draconian.


concept of availability. In this module, we will discuss the rules for the available names and valid name. We said that if a name all the criteria international code for zoological nomenclature is given, then it is a valid name. We also discussed that article 13a is very important. If article 13a is not followed then it is not called valid name. For example, if a name is published and all the conditions are not satisfied then it is called nomennudam. Especially article 12-16 international code for zoological nomenclature if these articles are not followed then these conditions are not followed then it is called nomennudam and nomennudam does not have any standing in zoological nomenclature. If it is previously given then it is called proper scientific name but because this criteria is not being followed then it is very important that when different authors especially research articles describe when they submit a journal then its editor if international code for zoological nomenclature has complete information complete understanding then then unavailable name cannot be published for this its important that the editors have all the rules and their complete understanding and especially when a specific name is given then the article is completed if it is not then it will not be called valid name similarly after 1930 we saw article 13a is to be followed any name after 1930 then it is important that the specific name we are going to keep its description and its characters should be compared if the description is not given then in that case this name will not be called valid name now here another important thing that if any name is given then it is not a specific name it is a hybrid name because the hybrid are individuals they are not population therefore it is not considered biological tax now this is very important article 1b3 according to this such a name which is given to a hybrid this can be available for homonymy but not for cyanonymy I am repeating this again that if a name is given to a hybrid according to this this name can be useful for homonymy but not useful for cyanonymy along with that when a name is given to a hybrid and later it is known that it was not a species but it is a hybrid now the species it is a hybrid i.e. the parents of this hybrid the parental species the name of the hybrid the parental species none of them can be given to this hybrid I am repeating this again that if a name is given to a hybrid later it is known that this hybrid is not a species it is a mixture of more than one species so the name of this hybrid the two species present in this mixture these parental species cannot be given to a hybrid now let's talk about the meaning of cyanonymy if if a name is given to a hybrid then this phenomenon is called cyanonymy and these names are called cyanonyms i.e. one thing is given to a hybrid now the first name is called senior cyanonyms and the name is called cyanonyms similarly if a name is given to a hybrid then this condition is called homonym similarly the first name is called senior homonym and the next name is called junior homonym now if we talk about cyanonyms cyanonyms we said if for one thing a name is given then we call it cyanonyms there are two types of cyanonyms the first type is objective cyanonyms and the second type is subjective cyanonyms objective cyanonyms means the name that refers to the same thing i.e. in this if objectively we have two names of one thing in this we have one image or one illustration or one specimen we keep it in front so this type of cyanonyms is called objective cyanonyms but if the name is given on different specimens then in this case we call this name subjective cyanonyms for example we call it proghorn for example that proghorn proghorn's first name was antelocarpa antiflexa i.e. it's name is antelocarpa antiflexa whereas the second name was antelocarpa americana now these two names were based on different specimens now from this we can see that in this antelocarpa antiflexa which was named this was basically a specimen which was an unusual specimen and this specimen belonged to antelocarpa americana but in this there were some differences so when an expert saw this he thought that this specimen had the name antelocarpa antiflexa so the objective cyanonym is in the objective cyanonym one thing different names are kept objectively whereas in the subjective cyanonym different specimens are given different names and this can be an unusual change in the specimen


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today we're looking at the Bulletsafe VP3 Bulletproof Vest. Now I've reviewed this before. I got some great results. I want to show you that but this is what it looks like. Now what I like about this is that it goes all the way around the body. This is for everyday use. It fits as tight as you want it to. It has adjustments all throughout. You can see it has adjustments. It goes all the way around the body. The only exception to that is that little area on the side of the body but it works great. When I tested it I was super impressed at everything that it can withstand. Now this is NIJ certified National Institute of Justice. They do ballistic testing and they certified this so they say it works. It does what it says it will do and when I tested it I did 9 millimeter then 9 millimeter hollow points and nothing penetrated. I did 45 ACP and it withstood that no problem. It would give you a nice bruise. It would bruise up your ribs no question about that and then I did 10 millimeter and it did not penetrate either. It did not penetrate. It's our V crown 115 grain. No penetration. Spear lamin 3 rounds 230 grain full metal jacket. It did not penetrate at all. Here we've got the FK Berno 3 rounds of 10 millimeter 180 grain flat nose. Let's shoot all three rounds. They too did not penetrate. So I was very impressed when I did this. I want to show you what it looks like on and then what we're going to do today is we are going to mag dump it with the X-DAR EP9. Right over here I've got the X-DAR EP9. We're going to just drop a mag and see if somebody just pummels one wearing this vest if it would still protect. Now the reason I'm doing this is because with each shot you have to believe that the integrity of the substance that keeps this thing all together is compromised because of the trauma that is taken with each and every shot. So we're going to check that out today. Let me show you what it looks like on. Bullet safe VP3 soft body armor. It goes all the way around. I'll show that. Goes all the way around. The only part is about a half inch right there. It has this bungee area. It does have eight points of adjustment and this is an XL but its size is from extra small all the way to four XL.  I have to say it you know with a sweatshirt on with a jacket on nobody would even know and I've noticed that right away when I reviewed it before. Now let's go ahead and set this up because we're going to penetrate this one after another with the X-DAR EP9 Gen 2 and see how well this withholds all of that trauma. I have the bullet safe vest set up on the tombstone. I have this bar across to keep it from coming down and off of the structure. The eight points of contact are over the shoulders. Two points front and back and then on the sides the front and back all together that is eight points of adjustments. We're going to pummel this thing. I'm going to take 18 shots which is what the X-DAR EP9 holds with their their own mags and see how well it stands up. Now it is my belief that it will perform quite well. Based on what I experienced before it was amazing. 18 rounds 115 grain target load ammo X-TAR EP9 Gen 2. Let's see how it does. All right so I heard the target. Now I don't know if that was penetration or not that's a lot of shots somewhat same area but let's check it out. All right here's what we're looking at pretty much in the same area. That is a lot of firepower on this vest. We'll get rid of that and we'll see that yeah it penetrated all right but not by a ton. Let's see yeah it made its way through. When you put that much stress on any target it it made its way through. Here is the internal pocket I took the covering off and check out that bulging there. This took a lot of abuse a ton of energy went into this thing. Down below where it's a little bit looser I could feel the bullets many hit and then then dropped but as the shots kept going eventually it did penetrate. This is made for everyday use. This is not for what I just did but I wanted to do it just to see how it would stand up. I would put this test against any soft body armor and see how well it did. I'd be surprised if any handled them all. I actually thought it would just because it performs so well. I did this with 10 millimeter and it wasn't even close to penetrating but the majority were stopped some did penetrate. This is the back of the plate. We can take a look I see one exit hole that is clear and if we look at the front we can see that it bulged out quite a bit and we'll look at the material pretty heavy duty. Here is what I recovered when I broke down the vest and this is the inside of the vest itself. You can see that it has these heavy duty ballistic nylon covers if that's what you call it I don't know but this stuff is pretty heavy. Now this looks like a plastic bag but I'm telling you if I go to rip it it is it is heavy duty and there is a series of this stuff that one's broken down a little bit but if I come over here it's it's pretty heavy and you can see there's a whole bunch of them. So how did this vest do? Well it's hard to determine. Some of those dings that we heard were not actually penetrated but they they went so far to this area and it and it dinged the target behind it so it's hard to determine from what I can see once this specific area was hit so many times it was compromised and a couple did penetrate. Now I did not see any bullets or pieces of bullets as this disintegrated you'll see that there are a whole bunch of little pieces all throughout. Some of those may have hit the target I don't know it's hard but I didn't see any of this laying around the target or underneath it after one or two or three or four penetrated. I could imagine if somebody was wearing that and took 18 shots how their ribs would look the next day but there it is that's what it looks like and I give it a solid B plus with this test my other test I give it a A plus because it stopped everything. If you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thank you for watching and you guys be safe


Happy Sunday everybody! It is Sunday February 27th just before 1.30pm. I have been doing chores around the house. I also got a couple more frames in some more for some more the art pieces that have been hanging on the wall. I almost said prints but those are originals. I'm waiting for a frame for that one and I've got to go find a frame for that one. But anyway yeah I've been doing that. Bob is working on bills and taxes so I'm staying out of his way. It's just after 10am on Monday February 28th. It is dumping rain outside. It's not just pouring. It is dumping. We are getting gusts of rain. It's not even just gusts of wind. It is so strong outside. We have had 1.15 inches so far this morning according to the weather app. That's a lot of rain. I don't know what it's going to be by the end of the day. And we're supposed to get rain until like next week. Yeah next week. Like the whole week is going to be rainy. What you're hearing if you're hearing the rumbling in the background? Rain and wind. Holy cow. Anyway guys it is Tuesday March 1st and it is 5.08 pm. Yeah pm. It hasn't been a super busy day but the house cleaner was here today and I worked on some sketching and watched some more of my new show that I'm binging right now. And you know just been a other than having a cleaning lady here just been a quiet day at home but one in which I don't get much done because she's here cleaning so that's usually the case anyway. Bob worked very late last night and he didn't eat dinner until like after 8 o'clock last night so I think he's going to take off early in a few minutes and then we're going to go walking. Passed out. I don't know what we're doing but we're going to do at least that. I have to do today's daily drawings. I was thinking for a hot second that I forgot to do the March mood board but we're doing Moody Mondays the first Monday of the month which isn't today. Today is Tuesday so that's next week but I probably will spend some time later this week or this weekend and get it done ahead so that I don't have to worry about it because that would be nice. The camera is like going off every five minutes. Once it's been Amazon the rest of the time I'm thinking it's like the cat. I don't know I don't think it's the babies from next door. I don't know what the heck is going on but it's going off every five minutes. Oh it is the babies from next door right now but yeah it's just crazy anyway. I was right. Bob took off a little early. It's not even dark out yet and we're out walking like that's shocking. Anyway we're going to go get some steps in otherwise like I said earlier it's been kind of a chill day. Bob's been working all day. It's hard for me to get much done on days like this because Letty is here all day and it's just her and we have a big house so I just try to stay out of her way. Anyway all right we're going to go see what we can see. Check out the neighborhood. I'll be back. You hear that? Yeah I'm guessing spring is here because the bullfrogs are out. They are so loud. All right we're going to go home and have dinner. I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Wednesday morning March 6th. I'm March 6th. Holy cow March 2nd. I had I need to go run errands but I had some things I needed to do first this morning before I did that. I need to change out these four little mood boards here from 2021 and I had kind of an assignment when I told my counselor I had these hanging up here as sort of art focus inspiration. She and I both thought it would be interesting to change them out to something that was maybe artistically inspiring but also positive thinking which I could use way more of in my life. So I did that this morning so I created four more mood boards and we're going to take these down. I'm not going to throw away. I'm going to put them in a journal or something somewhere for reference and we're going to hang up the new ones right now. I have the idea of changing these out maybe monthly and creating a journal with them to reference back to at the end of the year. I kind of like that but finding one that these are going to fit into that might be interesting. So anyway I'm going to answer text messages. I'm now just now getting from my sister and I'm going to go run my errands and get that stuff done. I'll bring you with me. I'll be back. I came all the way over to CVS which for us is inside of our target store to pick up my medication for my colonoscopy only to find out that all of the registers in the pharmacy are down and all of the regular registers other than self-checkout in target are also down and they have no other backup way for you to pay for therefore pick up your prescription. Not to mention they were out of half of what I needed on my list like they didn't even have it. So I'm going to head over to go get some coffee and then I'm going to go to a different store I guess and get the other couple things I needed but yeah I did I leave CVS then they called me and said our registers are up.  I'm on my way to go get some coffee like run other errands so I guess I'll stop back my target on the way back to the house and hope their registers are still running. I don't let's hope the rest of my day goes okay and that I can find what I need to on the shelves because yeah that's just a weird way to start my errand running. All right I'll be back. I did the mood boards before I left the house because we're now zero of two so my normal source for the coffee that we like we are have a particular brand that we like is out and I thought for a hot second maybe they weren't even carrying it anymore so I checked with one of the employees she says no looks like we're still carrying it we just don't have any which has honestly been hit or miss just anyway and now I have to go back to target because they called and said that prescription is ready I don't know anyway I'm gonna stop at one more store see if I can find what I need and then we'll head back to target I guess target CVS all right I'll be back okay the clips you just saw are me working on this new journal I do mood boards for a couple of different projects that I have since the beginning of last year and different things with them but I finally decided to corral them all in one place that is not Mr. Electronics back there so I printed all the mood boards out from my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression if you want to access to them go join the Facebook group the link is in the link tree list down below I also am one of the three artists in the artsy trio here on YouTube and we have a Facebook group for that too that link is also down below check it out um that's fun art of arm fun isn't it um anyway I decided to print all the mood boards and make myself a sort of a reference book of them for when I'm feeling a lack of inspiration or um feeling a little bit down they're all positive affirmation mood boards positive thinking um art creative art so I have taken a composition notebook as you saw and I've decorated the cover and I have glued and taped them in and see so anyway I am loving it already so I'm gonna I'm gonna keep doing that this year I'm gonna as I create more mood boards I'm gonna keep doing it and the mood boards seem to be a thing that I'm doing and I'm now also doing them for as I said earlier for my mental health and well-being and um as inspiration to keep on track with that so they're all gonna be glued into this book so I don't know how I got in this kick but you know it is what it is and I'm not mad at it so all right I'll be back good morning it is Thursday morning March 3rd it's just before 8 30 a.m. it's like 8 25 or something I just realized I forgot to get yesterday's mail oops so I'm gonna go get it now I have a counseling appointment in about a half an hour at nine o'clock I think I'm all set up for that um probably grab a cup of bone broth if I have time anyway and then do some art I'm gonna go for a walk Bob has his masonic lodge meeting tonight so uh I will probably go for a walk by myself this afternoon get some steps in oh yeah there's no um it's mostly junk but yeah anyway so I keep walking out all right so stuff to do places to be things to see hopefully it's sunny and clear out but a little bit cold so as you saw it looks like it was cold enough and damp enough last night the sun's beating down on the fence and steam is coming off the fence as the water's drying I guess that's interesting you know when I got up this morning it was blue skyd and sunny I had my counseling meeting which went well I sat and had some bone broth and my fiber drink and calcium afterwards watched a couple youtube videos it's now just before lunch and I'm gonna head out for a walk before I have said lunch close that mailbox um and it's that color outside the heck anyway we're gonna go for a walk as I said earlier Bob has a meeting tonight so I don't have a walking buddy and I would rather um that's pretty I would rather walk during the day than at night by myself and waterfall back there a little waterfall here because a little one I kind of see in between a creek that runs by our house anyway we're gonna go for a walk get some steps in I'm tempted to go thrifting because I haven't been in a while I do like thrifting I don't think today's a day to good that do that because I think the shopping thing might be a response to emotional stress and trauma and I want to go thrifting because I enjoy thrifting and not because it's my response to the counts counseling session this morning does that make sense all right anyway I also found out about the five four three two one grounding technique today which I will be trying I will put the name of it down below but you can just google five four three two one grounding technique if you have panic attacks anxiety maybe it'll help you I don't know I'm gonna try it so anyway I found some free free principles on google and I'm gonna I made a couple of little cards one for upstairs one for downstairs and we'll try it all right let's go get some steps and see what we can see I'll be back it's 12 0 8 p.m on Friday March 4th Bob and Rebecca are headed back to California as I said earlier to celebrate his mother's 93rd birthday everybody tell Betty Erin's happy birthday I have no problem telling you all any of that because by the time you all see this they'll be back anyway we're going to go to the bank and then go pick up the daughter and then head to the airport and then I have to run at least one Erin all the way home so we're going to go see what we can see then I'll be back I put everything away still haven't had lunch yet and it's almost three o'clock and at this point I'm thinking lunch is going to be dinner I'm kind of debating just taking a bottle of water or juice with me from the fridge and going for a walk and then coming back and having something to eat that's a good idea let's get to it shall we well at least until the pond dries up again what are you going to do all right let's get going because now we're really hungry buddy it is saturday morning february 5th um it's just about 9 a.m. I am going to be getting ready to go thrifting this morning uh at least for a little bit I have two or three favorite stores I like to go look at and then I've got to stop over a foot mile really quick I should have gotten more coffee creamer at the store when I was there the other day but I didn't thought we had enough but we don't anyway I also for the second time in about as many months broke another sugar bowl at this point I think I just need a plastic one I keep dropping them I don't know what the deal is well part of the deal is I grab them with this hand since rotator cuff surgery I never recovered all of the feeling in this hand and so I forget I grab things with this hand and then I drop them that's part of the problem so anyway I broke another one and so I've mostly cleaned up the mess but I'm going to take a shower and before I leave I'm going to set our robot vacuum aka hazel to um do the floors and hopefully she'll catch any glass shards that I missed and because anybody who's dropped anything and broken it on your floor you know there's like seems to be an endless amount of little teeny tiny shards that you just yeah anyway I can tell it's going to be an interesting day already plus Wiley Coyote was by last night just before midnight so that's a thing yeah all right I'll be back to get myself dressed and showered and all of that stuff without breaking anything else bonus points for me um and despite the fact that I um had the house to myself last night and was able to get a lot of extra drawing done and um do um some daily of course my daily practice and some a bunch of stuff I forgot to post any of it last night so I did that already first thing this morning I know like honestly um so that's done I think I've just checked on social media so then I think what I'm gonna do is go oh that doesn't actually go there anyway I'm gonna go I'm gonna pick up a couple things here around the house do my breakfast dishes and then we're gonna go thrifting for a little bit and I guess look for a plastic container to keep my coffee sugar in because evidently I can't be trusted anymore with anything breakable so anyway all right I'll be an interesting day and I'm gonna just take it easy on myself because I also forgot to put the breakfast dishes in the dishwasher before I left I mean they'll still be there when I get back but I did mean to do that so now I'm here at Goodwill a few minutes early before they open so I'm gonna have to wait about 10 minutes or so it's just you know I don't know all right I'll be back there are some die hard thrifters in the neighborhood because there's at least three people oh no take that back four people that I can see without looking around too much up five I see one behind me there's a bunch of people here waiting in the parking lot with me for them to open so yeah and there's four cars waiting in line to donate speaking of which I have some donations in the back I'm going to give them to one of the other thrift stores but yeah anyway all right plastic sugar bowl it's on my list today I don't know if there is such a thing or just a cute plastic container with a tight fitting lid if I can't find one thrifting I'll just stop at Fred Meyer on the way home oh boy anyway I'll be back we're done at now and headed home it is just before lunch probably good timing the stores are starting to get real busy I think I've mentioned it before on the vlog but in case I haven't and it was in a conversation with somebody because at this point I get confused who I've told what to um I have lost so much weight I need new clothes I know I shared with you all that we did a big giant closet purge I had an instance where I was walking from our bedroom to the coffee pot which is just our bedroom and the kitchen are both downstairs anyway it wasn't a long walk but my pajama pants fell off on the walk and I realized I've lost so much weight like none of my clothes fit so it led to cleaning out a closet and other closets and drawers and then my husband also decided he had some things he needed to get rid of too and anyway six giant bags closed later um I was going to drop these frames off for donation I forgot anyway um I had some clothing items that I needed to replace because I did wear them a lot and obviously they were too big I couldn't do that anymore um some of which I was able to find new but some of which I just can't or didn't want to I had a really cute denim skirt I really like to wear often especially in the summertime and I had a couple of black skirts that were my business slash funeral skirts I know that's a little bit more big but yeah anyway you get to a certain age you have to have those kind of clothing items in your closet for some reason at regular shops around here like skirts are just not a thing I don't know so thrifting for them plus I don't want to spend $30 on something especially like the denim skirt that I might rip or get paint on or like I'm not known for being super great with my clothing um anyway I found three black skirts today and a denim skirt one of the black skirts is corduroy so it's a very casual which would be a great alternate sort of thing to the denim skirt and yay and I spent less than $25 for all four of them so like I couldn't get a skirt for that price even if I could find one in the store so anyway the house is for sale on our street it's very cute I like ours better it's a little bigger a little more open you like open concept anyway I'm gonna go see if I can get some steps in it won't account for all my steps because hello forgot to put my Fitbit on this morning among other things I don't know if I mentioned that already yet anyway we're gonna go get some stuff soon see if we can get a few today's views hashtag organ life pictures and I'll be always a great walk when you get to make friends with the neighborhood dogs just saying all right let's get going I'll be back at night and I am working on finishing my sketchbook I have one more page to do and I'm waiting for just one to dry anyway I'll be posting pictures of the pages I've done on my social media in the future so follow me on Instagram or Facebook go join me over on Facebook patrons get an early sneak peek and I've been giving them the photos I'm drawing from to see if they want to do anything with the same photo and what they come up with so if you want to see what kind of art I'm doing get a sneak peek on some stuff there's a few projects I'm not really sharing how the how to publicly unless you're a patron so anyway join patreon if you want to see all of that stuff and support the free content here on YouTube they also have their own private YouTube channel just FYI all right that's it for the minute it is uh getting later in the evening I still have to do my word brain puzzles and my daily sketching but I really really really want to get this sketchbook done and I don't have anything else to do so Bob gets home tomorrow and Rebecca so it'll be back to normal things as usual and that is great and I have had a good day today a good couple of days it's been nice to just sit and chill and do some art but yeah I'll be head glad to have him be home so anyway that's it for this week I hope you guys have had a great one and that if you haven't you have some care and support for whatever is going on with you don't be afraid to reach out to professionals friends family if you need it there's no shame in that I certainly am doing that so anyway that's it for right now don't forget to like share and subscribe check out that video description for all the relevant links most of my stuff is in the link tree list of links which is down below and uh yeah leave any questions comments or concerns down there too I'd love to have a conversation that's it for right now go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys


Everybody forced here we've been a box or a couple boxes here for Jeffrey H Jeffrey's got a 2023 definitive baseball hobby and a 2022 Bowman draft baseball super jumbo Pretty big stuff here. Good luck Jeffrey. Thanks again for the order is always We can pull some heat out of both of these We got Bowman drafts coming up pretty soon. We cool to see an older Bowman drafts in here Jackson holiday Maybe they're on the right. I don't know. We'll see I forget no paper base is gonna ship with this Why is your green base chrome? Fabian there. Okay refractors of Leonardo Belcazar JR Richie Jackson Shorio and Brooks Lee first Aqualava Jay Allen that's numbered to 199 fractors of Jordan Lawler Clark Elliott first Ostracola Samuel Munoz and refractor first auto Gabriel Rincones the 499 To a 499 Kumar Rocker first Fractors of James Wood Justin Boyd Steven Zobac and Brian Acunia Gold paper coming up here, and it is the Denzer Guzman Number to 50 refractors Jackson Job Mikey Romero first Pete Hansen Logan Tanner and a first-public refractor auto Ryan Ritter to 499 493 499 Refractors you got Jordan Sprinkle Justin Boyd Yeti Kappie and Mikey Romero Colton Couser aqua paper That's gonna be number two I was on the front of course to 199 Just like the chrome Come on draft Fractors Jacob Mizrowski Kevin Perrata Joshua Baez Simon Juan and a gold wave. Come on. Go away. Go away first Jacob Miller 23 of 50 on the autograph. That's pretty solid Gold wave Jacob Miller first bow and auto definitely got some potential. How was he? Guys over in Jake clingy cards. There we go Victor Brian Acunia refractors. We've got South Stewart Brian Acunia Yellen confidant Kevin Perrata Purple paper here So many backwards all other ways these paper base this year purple paper at a 250 Jacob Melton We'll do that base in a second gold first bowman Jackson Cox number to 50 It's 48 of 50 fracter Robert Moore Jason Dominguez Pedro Pineda Logan Tanner and refractor first auto Justin Campbell to 499 every auto numbered so far Pretty good This stuff is all over the place. All right last one Jeffrey come to hit a monster Everything numbered so far though So Jackson holiday chrome base fractors of William Bergoglia Adam Azura Dylan Beavers and Trevor Martin No only someone more Light blue paper John Kenzie Noel the 499 do that in a moment here This last one was a tough rip not easy to get through Refractors of Yankee Fernandez Roberto Campos Jack Branigan Drew Thorpe and blue wave first woman auto Ignacio Alvarez out of 150 It's a decent box all five autos were numbered with a few bats as well Not so Alvarez I believe that was our last 20 22 Bowman Jeff Super Jumbo 2023 right around the corner Okay, here we go definitive time Jeffrey. Here we go first up Solid one here Vinny Pasquantino RP 8 of 15 on the green Pasquatch rookie autograph number to 42 of 50 is gonna be Alec Burleson Burleson there Jersey Autograph is Craig B. Gio 29 to 40 All game used in definitive of course BGio Purple 5 of 5 Bernie Williams autograph Four-time World Series winner 5 of 5 Bernie Williams auto Framed auto is gonna be Mike Schmidt 28 of 30 Sweet Schmitty dual autograph Robin yelp Paul Molliter Yelp Molliter dual number to 35 Relics here you got Miguel Cabrera jersey card 1940 and three color game used patch five of 15 Shohei Otani That is a gorgeous patch That'll do right there Big chunk of I guess it could be the letter or the number it's tough to tell with just that piece Looks like no, I don't know. I don't know if it's I don't know if it's definitive enough See what I did there either way it's going into a Mac Congrats on that Jeffrey That'll do it for your personal sir. Thank you again. We'll get it out to you


Freddy Falcon, it's time to find you your perfect matchups. That's right! The Falcons partnered with Gridiron Heights for their schedule release video, The Saints Could Never! Alright, Freddy, let's meet your 2021 opponents. First up, Tampa Pay. Woo! Yeah! The Saints! Let me in! James, grab the Swiss Army knife! Not that! Apparently he meant Tason. The Bills! Wow! You look smashing! Josh, we talked about this, we're a serious threat now! Sorry, old friend. The Lions. I'm not here for your Southern cooking! I mean, kneecap or nothing! Oh, brother. The Patriots! And now, it's an in good time, the Patriots can always come back. Whoa! Hold on. How do I look? Do I look like I want to break up? Oh, did Tom win the Super Bowl last year? I actually didn't really follow football. I'm not crying! The 49ers. Hey, Freddy. I know. I know. The Panthers. Wow, Freddy. You look perfect. What's that bear doing? It's Sir Purr. You call him that? Isn't it? Man, I want to jump on that table. The Dolphins and the Juts. Be careful. We're both wildly unproven. And as a special treat, you get to play the entire NFC East! What part of Stanclear the closing door is do you not understand? It's Texas! We have room! We behave and believe out. Yeah, coach? And the Saints again. Let us in or I'll change the rules again! For the 100th time, I'm just doing my job. And in a surprise twist this year, we are adding a 17th game. Introducing, Jacksonville. I'm not here to make friends. And there you have it, Atlanta. Your 2021 schedule. I can't take it anymore, Bill Spongebull! No! Turn on the spring. Oh, oh, come on! I'll take them!