I bought a box of old sealed Yu-Gi-Oh! product What's up guys we're back with another epic video and today I'm gonna be opening a box of sealed Yu-Gi-Oh! product that I actually bought while I was at the YCS On eBay, but before that we have a giveaway I'll be giving away three champion pack packs and this is two three and four These are light packs, but they're still pretty awesome for sealed collection All you have to do is like this video be subscribed turn on notifications Let me know your favorite item in this box. So the story with this box is I was at the YCS I was at Hartford I was trying to buy some cool stuff I tried to buy a prize card tried to buy a fair servant box and we just couldn't agree on the price So it didn't actually happen, but then someone hit me. I'm like, hey, there's such and such I'm not gonna tell you guys what it is to spoil the video on eBay you should buy it So I ended up buying one thing and found turns out this guy was a fan He was a fan of me and he was like, oh, yeah, I have more stuff and I was like yo Let's buy it. So I bought a bunch of old school stuff from him. I mean, it's not a crazy amount It's in this small box, but it was a decent amount of stuff that we got for a pretty pretty decent deal I think so we're definitely gonna be opening up some of it in this video. All right, let's see what's inside I'm gonna pull it over here not spoil it for you guys. It is very difficult to open at this angle Well, let's go. So first we have two unlimited legacy of darkness. Good start We've got a few first edition for Ronnie Guardian. That's five of those who've had great luck with this set We've pulled like three lava golems at this point We have four unlimited magicians for so yeah dark magician girl Maybe I don't know if they're retailer hobby or not But either way it's gonna be pretty awesome and then finally for the loose packs We have some first edition magic ruler. So we have three four five six seven eight nine And we've had a bunch of these recently. We've not pulled a blue eyes tune in quite a while I think Lee and Hart was the last time we pulled one at his house So let's see if we can you know pull something amazing out of there And those were the extra things I bought the original thing that I bought was a first-edition legacy of darkness booster box So if you guys don't know the 24 pack box has yada yada just got unbanned So I figured this would be a pretty sick box break to do so the back has been scribbled on so it's a perfect box for a box Break so if you guys are interested in that make sure you guys check out the YouTube membership down below or patreon You guys have access to this box break. It's gonna be pretty cool 24 packs Hopefully we can get a yada. We have not pulled one in a very very long time I don't even remember the last time we pulled one so this will not be open in this video But these loose packs right here will be open in this video and we're talking like 19 ish packs something of that I don't remember the exact number, but we're gonna be opening all of these first edition and unlimited So sit back relax and enjoy this awesome opening and as we're getting into it. I want to remind you guys I have been streaming on twitch Constantly like eight times in the last two weeks at this point and pretty much every day that I've been home So go check out my twitch link is in the description. Give me a follow there We're playing a masterl and like Pokemon nuzlocs and stuff like that go check it out now Let's hop into this opening. Let's see if we can pull something amazing. So these were loose packs So we don't know they I mean they could be scaled I don't think they were he said he found them from a long time ago So you never know what that could actually turn out to be let's open them up and see if we can pull something cool So there's a lot of awesome commons and rears in this set as you guys know We've opened it quite a bit metamorphosis trap does shoot. We've got awesome rears like book of moon Let's see if we can pull someone we got the cobra man It's a coosie the giant X mummy gravekeepers vassal from dual links the two-ton mask disturbance strategy Gravekeepers guard hyrule griff hyrule glyph Lithograph can't speak cry you all very nice and a dark Jeroid so there's our first three. I thought there was two more cards the weird thing with Veronica as they have these like Rolled edges. I don't know if you guys can tell but like they're literally like bent backwards. It's kind of weird You kind of feel like you're gonna paper cut yourself the entire time Which there's a good chance of getting a cardboard cut and that hurts look guys I do a dangerous job opening Yu-Gi-Oh packs is dangerous. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it's it's pretty scary I do but I bet I do what I can to stay safe But it is pretty intimidating going to work every day. You know what I'm saying All right first this your magical or enough of that really bad joke. Let's see if we can pull a blue-eyes by dragon I don't know if these are retail or hobby either way. I'm pretty excited. I would love either secret rare We have a guardian of the phone room. This is the little brother of the slot machine Labrador the liquid beasts house of these of tape ancient one of the deep forest fire Kraken dark witch crab turtle. Is it next? Hero's shadow scouts so we are off to an o for two start I'm hoping that these are not like scaled or all you know rares or whatever But that's the risk you take when you open these loose packs But I know you guys love old-school openings as do I so that's where we're doing it But wait 50% of you guys are not subscribed to the channel according to this graph So go down below and click that subscribe button. Let's go into a magician's force pack These are unlimited, but dark magician girl unlimited is insane and dark paladin would also be awesome I don't think the price is that crazy for the unlimited, but I would still go crazy if we pulled that We pulled it once on a box break, and it was pretty pretty awesome. We got the exhausting spell the giant orc Anti-spell pitch dark dragon. He's very dark dimension jar. That's a domain. That's a jar. No one ever remembers cure you the second the goblin formation unit and Dramatic rescue dramatic. All right, okay over three start usually in these old packs You get about one every four to five packs. You'll get a foil. So we're still on pace Okay, so maybe pull something we could pull something here and be fine back to magic ruler because we do have nine of those Let's see. I love opening these old ones Can we get something that'll make it worth it actually in terms of our money unlikely, but it's possible I believe horn of light sonic bird tie-home number two the electric snark penguin Canite eat to kaboom queen bird mystic plosmo zone and a Karate man. We just have a regular old karate man. Unfortunately. He's playing karate, but playing karate. Is that what you say doing karate? Maybe that's better back to the Ferran and Guardian PGD first edition. We have a dice jar. This is a pretty good comment Wow, there's a little dot on there trap does shoot. That's a really good comment. All right We'll take that grave keepers curse will there be a metamorphosis in here for the trifecta banner of garage card shovel That's us right before we do a claws scorpion It's form of scarabs narrow pass Book of moon. Okay. That's a gray rare. It has had like a million printing since then but still pretty nice rare Okay, so far not looking too good in the full department because we have zero right now All right, let's try a legacy of darkness We've opened many of these in the past and we've had good and bad luck and I already know what the comments are saying like These are scared because every time you open loose packs people immediately assume they're scared Which I mean there's sometimes that they are but they're not always skilled wilderness pride Let's go. We got the dragon's gunfire a wing bead of dry and dragon Let's see if we can actually pull something out of here dragon manipulator. We've got the super rejuvenation battery accident Smoky a robo lady Serpentine princess and this doesn't feel like foil to me Royal oppression look at that corner. That's a wild-looking corner right there royal oppression It's an oppressive old card for sure. All right, so far the naysayers may be right We have not pulled anything yet, but can we break the streak all we need is one big pack blue ice-tuned dragon I'm happy with that. We could go one for 19. I'm down.  Was there ever a deck that use this card? I'm sure at some point there was but feels like it fires were never really the you know a good deck Sorry you pyro fans. Don't mean to hurt your feelings there But let's keep going with front at guardian so far our best cards we have pulled have been comments from front at guardian We got a giant axe mummy Gravekeepers of us all to taunt mask time eater servant of catabolism Disturbing strategy gravekeepers at guard Hyrule blith lithograph And a pyramid turtle. This is such a cool card an absolutely amazing card back in the day All right, it's looking bleak for sure, but we still have a lot of packs to go It's always possible that we they are just shuffled to the bottom october sir Hungry burger look commencement dance Metal fish. Ah, there he is a metal fish with a razor-sharp coddle fin a very nice the malevolent nuzzler Angel one of the deep forest a fire crack and will it be a blue ice-tune dragon? Dark witch will it be a blue ice-tune dragon? Cyber jar the original og first-edition magic ruler cyber jar very nice This would be a cool one to grade like if it didn't cost so much right now fifty dollars is actually open though By the way PSA is not doing fifty dollar level, so it's getting lower, which is nice. Okay. It's not looking good at all It's looking pretty bad actually because we are probably eight packs in or so, but that doesn't mean though They the rest don't have foils. We're just gonna have to find out ourselves We got the electric snake the minar flash assailant turtle oath wall shadow stone ogre grotto a Gaia power chain energy and We got a giant germ, so we will be doing all kinds of setting and passing with these cards Giant germs gonna be burning people up and summoning other ones unfortunately only have one right now Well, probably fortunately we don't want to pull anymore. Okay, let's go magicians force I would also take a dark magician girl as our only pull I'd be down for that Let's go and see if we can pull something over vindictive. I would love to pull breaker or dark paladin as well Master over pretty much any foil at this point huge revolution. All right. All right poison of the old man You can either burn for what 800 or recover 1200 something like that. Yeah pixie night the burning beast. All right, very nice Autonomous action unit dimension jar and Dark paladin all the naysayers are like they're not wait. It's insane Dark paladin. I have never pulled this for myself. We pulled in a box break one time But that was it dark paladin. Wow Are we grading this card? Wait, let's check the centering It's actually not that bad. It's slightly going this way, but it's not too bad Surface looks amazing dark paladin. What's the corners look like? Corners not completely perfect, but so pretty good. Oh my gosh insane a dark paladin for magicians force Can't believe we just pulled that that is insane. It's worth going over 10 now the rest these packs What could be inside anything could be inside a dark paladin out of four loose packs of magicians force? That is pretty insane. All right I'm happy with the opening now the cards probably only like 20 or 30 bucks, but mint condition unlimited MFC. I'll take it I'll take it. I'm not too mad. Let's go twin long rods course a sanctuary the mechanical snarl Slot machine where's his little brother the dark zebra? We already saw him earlier at the rising air current We're at our true girl. Can we get something out of magic will remove it? and The Arkansas razor backs very very nice, but that's not what we're looking for right now All right, let's do our last legacy of darkness. We only had two of these. These are unlimited So they're not too crazy, but I would take a secret. I don't care if it's unlimited yada or injection fairy Lily Whichever one this is let's go. We got the dragon's gunfire a wing beat of giant dragon the dark manipulator We are recording we didn't miss the dark appellate and with a life absorbing machine audio is also on I've missed that a few times throw stone unit super robo yaru the bark of dark ruler winged minion Oh, and a luster dragon. That's pretty cool and unlimited super rare Luster dragon from legacy dark So the unlimited packs are coming in first edition however are not being clutch yet But they still have time they're gonna do it and by the way If you are interested in the commons and rares from this opening make sure to hit me up on Instagram or Twitter at 34 you can email me at rodneyrex34 at gmail.com because I usually do sell the commons for the most part for now at least so if you Guys are interested in those hit me up MRL first edition. Let's go weather report upstart very nice card ceremonial bell Cotodama the stone ogre grotto Chain energy holding them back. I mean this guy is always just I was like what in the world is that thing? It's very creepy looking at it's got to be another Yu-Gi-Oh monster, right? hi-tide yo-jin boar soldier and I thought it wasn't a boy who was saying they were scaled admit it raise your hand in the comments if you were thinking they were Scaled admit it right now. Look, I'm part of you guys. I thought they were too or at least the light You know, I didn't maybe not the this seller scaled them, but you know what I mean I didn't think we were getting anything and then this happened this happened blue eyes tuned dragon dark paladin and luster dragon service is insane Sinnering is pretty good. The bottom is a little bit bigger than the top at the side of sides. Very good. No way Unreal unbelievable blue eyes tune Dragon oh my goodness. There's still six packs left We've already pulled more than I could even imagine to ask for at this point. Oh my gosh now It's like Fronty Guardian needs to step up only pull out of magic ruler so far has been insane Let's keep going up Fronty Guardian what you got we got an arsenal bug. This is gonna be a great video I'm super excited for this royal tribute a death's Lakuta for the what is it called the something about chomping something?  There might be one more card Call the mummy. Okay. I always really like this artwork. It looks like a wookie from Star Wars and Gora turtle just a regular or rare. Okay. I need that because I'm getting a little bit too excited It's probably not good for my like blood pressure or whatever. I don't think I'm that old yet to care, but Yeah, let's just I Don't know. I don't know. All right magicians force third pack last time we pulled a dark paladin Can we pull a breaker? Can we pull a dark magician girl at this point? I technically I guess we could pull a dark paladin I doubt there's like two different boxes though. It's probably from the same box. Let's see. We've got a union rider Meta silver armor the liberal a white dragon a ritual Ronic duck no sonic duck front line base. We got the physical double decayed commander and when we get the dark magician girl Big bang shot. No, but we'll get a big bang shot pretty cool. Still a few packs left I can't believe we just pulled a blue ice-tune dragon. So these were from these are hobby packs These are from a hobby box at some point. I don't know where he got these from he said he just found them So I guess he found them in the basement or something. I don't know. I don't know attic Whatever October serve closet hungry burger. Ah the legend. He's here commencement dance very cool metal fish with the Cattlefin we got the hamburger recipe. We got the psychic kappa very nice a gruel final destiny and Oh an ultra rare spellbinding circle I just assumed it was nothing when I saw it was a trap because I think this might be the only trap card That's a foil. I could be wrong about that, but it's one of the only ones spellbinding circle ultra rare saving them all for the end What did I say guys? Oh my gosh spellbinding circle sinnings pretty good, too I mean, it's not completely perfect, but I'm similar to the blue ice-tune dragon three packs to go I mean at this point.  You don't have to have anything. It's all good You had some good commons and rears at this point and we've pulled some absolutely amazing stuff out of everything else We've got the grapekeepers curse banner of garage curse of aging of the Yumi ship detribe We've had some crazy luck recently summon skull last week.  We got the right of the spirits metamorphosis. Let's go Amazing common and one more curse of royal Okay, so we had some great commons out of for on a guardian, but we don't need foils out of there We've done good on everything else. Okay two more packs, baby. Let's go magicians force insane Insanity has been had by all let's go one two three four What's it can MFC bless us with can it be the dark magician girl? That would be I will lose it if that happens mass driver oppressed people. Okay, poison of the old man He's gonna poison us or he's gonna heal us one of the two I too we got the magical marionette emblem of dragon destroyer pixie knight burning beast and the final card of MFC I'll print this magician a pretty good card that you can you can summon the old vindictive from your deck pretty cool All right in the final magic ruler pack out of nine packs. We've gotten one ultra and one secret rare So at this point it's like well, we can just take another rare. I'd take a super though I'd take anything to be honest. I'm pretty happy with it already. So I can't really complain Let's see what we can get men are chicken bucket in flashes salent turtle oath a little whiptail crew performance of sword giant totally feeds on flames magical labyrinth and Shining angel and there it is our guardian angel bringing out all those amazing pulls We will take that guys. 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So we're here with a FOV3D here at SID Display Week and we're looking at your special display right here. So hi, so who are you? I'm Thomas Pernitt, I'm a founder of FOV3D. And what are we looking at here? This is a true light field display so it's a full parallax perspective correct light field display. So is it something that can be viewed with the camera or need-wise? No, no, you can do it with the camera. So what am I looking at right here? Well you're looking at a pyramid moving so we're animating a light field in near real time. How's it possible that I can see all these angles by moving around? Well because we're projecting all those angles. We're projecting the light that would reflect off that object if it was actually there. And so it's how does that work? How do you do this? Well you're not actually seeing me directly right? You're seeing light reflecting off me and impinging on the lens or your eye.  I don't understand. So do you have a graphic and show us what is going on here? Right, so what you're looking at here is, we call it a hodl for holographic element, but you can consider it a directional pixel in that depending on how you're looking into that micro lens you're seeing a different ray. And the idea is when you have an array of these hodls each having distributing the correct ray information when you look into the display you'll see a 3D aerial image. If you're familiar with a light field camera this is sort of the inverse of the light field camera. What's a light field camera? Well a light field camera captures the direction and intensity of light in a field so to speak and so a light field display just the inverse of that. How many angles or you know it seems there are different angles? So there's 12,000 unique views that this display is capable of doing. 12,000? From every different angle. From every different angle. But it's like an area where it's too much right? Yeah you're outside of the projection freshman. So how big is the projection area? It's a 90 degree projection freshman. And so is this kind of like the ultimate hologram? Yeah it's a holographic display like you see would see in Star Wars so that is the idea. Since when are you working on this? Well I've been working on this kind of technology about 15 years but Fovey's been working on it for about three. It's your company? My company. So what's next? What's the market? Well what's next is to make larger light field displays color. Markets are military, oil and gas, medical, maybe e-sports visualization. Anything where you want to collaborate over complex 3D data? And what are those kind of like squares? So you're looking at 20 4k OLEDs that are all tiled together so 20. Yeah so they have it. Yeah it hasn't been color balanced so you're looking at the non-uniformities of all those those OLEDs. As because there's a bezel less small OLED displays? Right. But they're all 4k 4k 4k? That's correct. There's nothing inside this box right?  It's just flat is it? Well it looks like there's something in there. No yeah it's flat. The photonics and optics is very very narrow. This is all drive electronics down here. And what's different on this one? Different micro-lens have a lower spacial resolution? But it has a lot higher angular resolution. So this display can project something taller but with less detail and that display can project something with more detail but less height. Taller? Yeah. Because people have been talking about wanting to do holograms for a long time right? Yeah so why isn't it like everywhere yet? Well it's pretty hard to do. This is actually 108 megapixels or mega rays in this little box and so it's quite a phenomenal challenge to you know control all that light and compute all that light. 108 megapixels? Like a 4k is 8 megapixels right? So you have a bunch more. Yeah and it's 108 megapixels in a 9 centimeter by 9 centimeter square area. How do you get those tiny 4k displays? Well micro OLED actually makes these 4k displays. Like micro displays? Yeah they're 4k micro OLED displays from micro OLED. They're in France. And they fit right here? Yeah. We had to tile them together that was complex. There's no bezel? Well they have a small bezel so there's a there's a relay optic on top of them. You're lensing them together so there's no scene? That's correct. And how do you make a huge one in color? Is it just going to be the same? We just tile more of them. Yeah. Just more of them? Yeah. Do you need to drive more of them? You need a bigger chipset or something? You need more of everything. More OLEDs, more driver boards. Is there FPGA in there? There's six FPGAs in that box. The secret rich ones? Yeah there's some secret sauce in there but there's five driver FPGAs and there's another FPGA that sort of manages them all. So at some point we all have holograms at home, right? That is the idea. How soon is that? Like a couple years? Ten years probably. You'll start seeing them in your homes. They always say ten years, right? That's what this joke is about. Everybody here says two years. We're saying ten. You're saying ten. But so ten years everybody has one? I would like to see them proliferated in ten years. Then it feels like somebody is in a room or what does it feel like? No you'll get an experience like this where you can sit around a display and watch like a football game in 3D with your friends. But you could also feel like your friend is in the room right there? I don't think we can get that that level of fidelity in ten years. I view it more of, you know, maximizing the 3D fidelity of an image volume about six inches deep. So no matter where I position the camera, there's always an image. That's correct. A perspective correct image. Just like in real life. Everywhere. Everywhere within the projection freshman. Because there's all these like glasses-free 3D space. This is a true glasses-free. Every time you move it's like jumping. Yeah, so that has those view zones. This doesn't have zones. This projects a field of light, a perspective correct light. So how long have people talked about holographic displays? 30, 40, 50 years? Yeah, definitely. But why is it not yet? Well it is kind of hard to put these things together. They didn't have 108 megapixel displays back then? That is true, yeah. It's still hard to make them. Yeah. So what if a huge company comes by and says hey we want to speed it up? It's all about money now. I mean the whole reason that we're here is to socialize that this is not science fiction anymore, right? You can make these displays and you know there are some challenges but they're all addressable. And so you know we had some pretty good responses from industry people that could solve a lot of those problems whether it's compute or photonics or optics. What do you need to solve? Without saying too many secrets. I think that compute is a challenge and I think being able to preserve the detail of all these rays when they're angrily distributed is also a challenge. So those are the two fundamental things that need to get solved for more commercial adoptions. Where is it just yellow? Brightness. Brightness can color pixel density. So if you had all colors it'd be hard to make it look like that? Well we took a color OLED and we doped all the subpixels to be yellow-green and we picked yellow-green because it was brighter that way. But you want to have full color? Yeah we can do full color. You can. Where are you based? In Austin, Texas. And so what's next? What if some of the industry people came over and said we really like that we want to have them? Yeah so we can make I think you know with the right investment we can make mobile displays, we can make large tabletop displays and anything in between. You know I think the architecture is the same it's just where you really put your engineering dollars. You know this red company? Red phone. How does that look? It looks pretty good actually. But what is that technology? Well it's similar to this and I haven't seen too much of it but it's a single-user you know light-filled phone that produces a 3D aerial image you can't you kind of hold it out here and I think it looks pretty good. And are the companies working on the holographic stuff? I think but you know that company is lay and I think they've done a good job on the mobile stuff. I don't know if there's any buddy else who's got a full-on you know desktop light-filled display like we do. I think Samsung has had one in their booth in the past years but I haven't seen it this year. All right cool so looking forward to that at home right and everywhere. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. A couple years. All right.


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So one of the things that we can do just like we did with that text files We can actually come into the data tab and we can import from Microsoft access now I know what you're saying or you're thinking at least I'm just gonna click on this thing and that's gonna work Well, what happens if I actually want to limit what I want to look at I don't want to look at an entire database That's a lot what I can do is I can come over here to from other sources and One of the things we can do inside of a database is we can ask it questions Known as a query I can select from Microsoft query and that is going to give me a nice little dialogue box like this This allows me to now Investigate and look through what kind of data I want to be working with I still want to work with an access database So let's go ahead and hit okay This is gonna make a little connection now. This is gonna be a little crummy Hopefully you've learned a little bit about file hierarchy structures. I like to save mine in my desktop Some of you may have this in your documents folder If I double click on say mine I Can see that if I come down here's my downloads folder where a lot of you may have this stuff Again, I like to store files. I'm working on on my desktop Now finally tutorial 11 I go in there. This will give me the database.  Ask me what columns of data Do I want now? This is a query meaning I'm able to actually pull from all my different types of Information say for example, I want to see who the heavy hitters of the portfolio Are yeah, obviously, I don't need to look at every single one of my stocks I just need to know the you know the key players the ones that they tank. I go out of business. So I'm gonna come in here and I'm gonna first select say my ticker symbol ticker symbol that way I can know what to look up when I go And look at this up say tomorrow for example I'm also include the title and How much my portfolio is of this particular stock now? We always like to the first five loans blah, blah, blah, blah, but this is gonna tell me at least the percentage How much this stock is worth in regards to and then the majority of my Portfolio next I'm gonna actually come in here. I'm gonna go and look at my long-term performance I want to take this year high in this year low and I want to look at them as well That's gonna be something that I can kind of keep an eye on as we move forward I hit next Next little part is where we can actually filter out information. Say I don't want to look at all my different Portfolio stocks, I don't want to see all of them. I only want to see for example those portfolio stocks that have a greater than or equal to of Seven percent now. I'm using the option here of zero point zero seven that translates out to zero seven percent Now I can take this information and I can hit next. Do I want to sort it? Yeah, why not? I'll sort by our portfolio percentage in descending order when I hit next pretty much Where do I want to go? I can actually save this query if I want to use it a little later And I can say finish where do I want to put it same place as always as soon as I hit ok You see it actually pulls that information from access and so suddenly we get to take a look here's all the different portfolio Stocks that are above seven percent So we've got actually a few of these we've got nine different stocks that kind of have highs and lows We get to see sort of how they perform and how much you know that matters to us


If you're a teenager out there, a middle schooler or high schooler, don't just sit around on the couch and watch ESPN or Bravo or the soap operas, come out to the library and be a part of a teen section here that is very active and is a great resource to continue learning throughout the summer. If you have a goal of going to college, the best place to be during the summer is right here at the library, continuing your learning by exploring the world of these books and resources. So a challenge for the families of San Antonio and our teenagers to read as much as possible this year and make this the most successful summer reading program ever. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, and if I may, I would like to publicly thank you for, well, this may be your last time, however, we will continue to invite you. Thank you for being such a great champion of the library summer reading club. Thank you so much for endorsing it, for supporting it, and for talking about the importance of reading. We really appreciate and thank you for your support. Introduce two members of our key roles in the Mayor's Summer Reading Club. Dr. Vicky Ash and Jennifer Velasquez. Vicky oversees the younger target population, and Jennifer, as our team services coordinator, focuses on our teams. They both work very hard to develop a very, very structured program during the summer to reach as many young people as possible. Again, to talk about the importance of reading during the summer when children are on vacation. And if they don't keep reading, they can fall back in their reading skills and reading levels, and it's because of their work that we continue to impact the community and promote reading during the summer months. And I'd like to invite both of them to the podium to tell you more about what they do together. We're being here. The theme of the Summer Reading Club this year is Fins Boom Read. And so we're having a scientific sort of summer. As you can see, there's green slime everywhere. I want to say, though, that we have two things we want to think about with children and reading in the summer. One of them is really a message for their parents that we really are concerned about children losing reading skill over the summer. We call this the summer slide. And if a child is a little bit behind at the beginning of the summer and they don't crack a book all summer long, they're a little further behind when school starts again in the fall. So this idea of helping children to maintain or even increase their reading skill is certainly very important to us. But long before we even knew about summer slide, libraries were encouraging summer reading quite frankly for pleasure and for fulfilling your own sense of curiosity. So this is a time when children can learn about things that they just want to know about, not a time when somebody tells them what they need to learn about. It's a time when they can read books that help them build their empathy for other people and try on other lives. So we really want to encourage reading for fun and reading for skill. But my job I feel like is to help children learn to love to read. And that's what we're hoping will happen this summer with all the kids who join the reading club. Absolutely. And if I could just add that teens really have the opportunity to visit their library and not just read. This is an opportunity for our school learning and an opportunity to become involved in their community. If they're looking for volunteer service hours, if they're looking for something to do, the library in their community is a place for them to call home during the summer. And it's my job to invite 13 to 18 year olds to visit their library, partake in our activities, read our books and participate. Thank you. This is Jean Grady. It's a former school librarian. She understands the importance of reading. But I'd like to recognize Jean for her leadership on the Library Board of Trustees, for her passion for the services the library provides and offers. She works very hard on your behalf and introduced Jean Grady to you. Jean? Well, on behalf of the staff and of the Board of Trustees, I want to extend a real special thank you to Mayor Castro. We know he's really busy and we're glad he's here with us today.  And I assure you that there are librarians here who will be there to help you. And I have to say that one of my favorite things to do in the summer was we didn't have a library in the little town I grew up in. And so we drove 15 miles to Denon, Texas. And we checked out, I checked out 15 books every week. And I'm a really fast reader, so that's what I did all summer was read. And I can't tell you how many doors it's open for me. Not just doing this job, but in getting to travel the world and see things that I never thought I'd get to see.  We appreciate Mayor Castro and all our partners that have helped put this on. We could not do it without all of you all. Especially the librarians who plan all the programs and the story times and all the things that keep children engaged all summer. So it's an exciting time for us. I'm pleased that you all are here. And I thank you for coming. Thank you. Once again for being here. One last thing to make it possible. And one last thank to Mayor Julien Castro. Thank you all for coming.