Hey Aloha and welcome to Stand on the Energy Man here on Think Tech, Hawaii where community matters and we care about energy and first off before I do anything else I want to send our hearts and prayers out to the folks impacted by the hurricane down on the Gulf Coast and you know when I started doing this stuff I got a new appreciation for energy and when you think about the amount of energy in a hurricane it's hard to imagine until you see the devastation that a cat four or cat five hurricane does like what it did to the Gulf Coast this past week and you know you can't fight mother nature when she rolls through that stuff and the best you can do is survive and turn around and start rebuilding so they got a lot of work to do down there and you can do anything to help them out probably probably ought to think about doing that. So today we got a great show I've been trying to get this gentleman on as a guest for months and months and months and months and I've seen him do two briefings in the last six weeks or so and he's definitely he's just expanded his repertoire and gotten even more and more awesome in his knowledge of his trade which is making hydrogen from water and electricity and so today's guest is Mr. Steve Samansky. This company was recently bought out it used to be Proton on site and now they're part of Nell Hydrogen which is I believe a Norwegian company and I'll let Steve tell all about that but hey Steve welcome to the show and thanks for being on I really appreciate it. Aloha Stan. Hey nice shirt by the way. Trying to get into the Aloha spirit. Good. Well we'll see you here in December but why don't you tell the audience a little bit about yourself and how you got into doing what you're doing with Nell. Sure you know I like to tell people that you know I first started working with electrolyzers back in 1988 when I first got out of college but I was working on electrolyzers for space and defense applications. I was working at United Technologies who did a lot of innovation in PEM electrolyzers but they were focused on applications for you know for NASA and the Navy where the electrolyzer was producing oxygen for you know basically for respiration and you know it's a very different you know kind of application space that we use that we're looking at electrolyzers for today but the founders of Proton onsite you know all came from United Technologies and their vision was to commercialize the technology for energy applications in fact our original the name of our company was Proton Energy Systems and it's still actually our registered incorporated name but you know they wanted to take it out of that cost plus you know space and defense contracting you know space and really move it into the commercial sector and so that's really what we focused on since 1996 is basically commercial applications for hydrogen recognizing early on that the energy markets were a little bit off in the future we focused heavily on industrial markets because you know hydrogen is used as a commodity gas for a lot of different industrial applications and so we were able to you know sell electrolyzers into those markets and and pay the bills and keep the lights on while the energy markets were still kind of emerging and but now you know more recently I think people really are appreciating the fact that using hydrogen from electrolysis really can be a very complimentary and enabling technology for renewable energy you know really doing large-scale high penetration of renewable energy and so our new corporate owners Nell hydrogen you know they had that they shared that same vision and last year they acquired us to really compliment the work that they're doing on large-scale alcohol and electrolyzers as well as hydrogen fueling systems so our sister companies in Norway and Denmark produce you know very large alcohol and electrolyzers and at the factory in Denmark we make the world's you know first UL listed hydrogen fueling station equipment so we can produce up to 300 hydrogen fueling stations a year at our facility in Denmark and you know that makes it literally the world's largest hydrogen fueling equipment factory and so between our you know the the PEM electrolyzer work we do here in Connecticut and the alcohol and electrolyzers and the hydrogen fueling equipment and we really can offer kind of a full solution for you know energy storage and fueling applications yeah I'm just curious when you worked at United Technologies was that right was that the same place in Windsor that's now doosan and US hybrid fuel cell that was their you know technologies they called it UTC power and they did stationary fuel cells using phosphoric acid technology as well as they did the bus fuel cells so they did PEM fuel cells for buses and when they sold off that division the high-temperature fuel cells went to doosan and then the low-temperature PEM fuel cells went to US hybrid so those two companies are kind of have carried on that technology actually works for the the Hamilton standard division of United Technologies where they did the electrolyzers but we you know we know we knew the folks in South Windsor very well okay great we knew you hit on the work in Norway and Denmark excuse me but you know one of the things that that I'm always asked and it ties back to your work with NASA and the military is you know how safe is hydrogen and we always get the Hindenburg stuff and the H-bump stuff I'm I'm kind of getting numb to it but you know people don't realize that hydrogen's been around I mean literally for at least a century well understood but in the last 50 years we we've done a lot to make hydrogen very safe to handle very safe to transport and like you say we use it in space applications to make oxygen we use it in submarine applications to make oxygen same technology that you're making hydrogen with your electrolyzer and then even the liquid hydrogen for rocket fuels and things like that and and the safety aspects of all those different uses are well established well regulated and well standardized is there anything you can add to that because I think that's the hardest point for me to get across to some folks yeah I mean you know the you know I do like to point to the you know the Navy application because we we have a production contract for not only the US but also the UK and the French navies as well you know basically all the nuclear navies in the world use pemelectualizers to produce oxygen on submarines and you know one of the things that I've known you working with the Navy all these years is that you know they're very risk averse I mean they don't let you put anything on a submarine unless it's it's really proven and it's got you know kind of redundancy and safety designed into it and you know so you know to me any technology that is kind of good enough for the Navy is is going to be more than robust enough for kind of consumer applications now you know in the in the in the world of you know vehicle you know fueling you know there's there's been a lot of safety codes and standards work done on a hydrogen fueling and storage so that you know I always tell people that the fuel cell vehicles that we operate are safer than any gasoline vehicles that they'll ever operate exactly and you know and that's it's an important thing I mean I think that yeah you can get into just really technical discussions with people on it but ultimately you know the fact that hydrogen is the lightest element in the universe it disperses very rapidly you know as opposed to you know gasoline vapors are heavier than air and they'll pull up under your vehicle and you know if you've ever seen a you know gasoline vehicle fire you know they're they're pretty terrifying but all the work that's been done with hydrogen in vehicles shows that you know the hydrogen disperses so so rapidly that the vehicle never gets engulfed like a gasoline vehicle does yeah we were fortunate out here Mitch Ewan from the University sponsored a lot of training for our firefighters when the DOD was demonstrating hydrogen fuel cell vehicles so we had to train all the firefighters on how to respond to a vehicle incident with as a hydrogen vehicle and by the time we finished training them they literally just exactly as you said they go we'd rather deal with a hydrogen incident than a fuel gasoline incident or even a diesel incident for that matter because if you have a leak if it's not burning we let a leak when you're done there's nothing to clean up and we go home if it happens to catch fire it's a very directional fire if there's nothing in the past path of that kind of blowtorch looking flame we just let it burn till it's done burning there's usually not too much damage to the rest of the car and we go home you know I mean they loved it they they they agreed with you that it's it's safer than gasoline yeah we we've operated our own public access hydrogen fueling station here proton for since 2010 now and we use it for training you know as you said kind of fire and the first responder type folks as well I mean it's an important aspect of you know kind of doing outreach on this subject is really kind of bringing those people in and showing them because seeing is is understanding and and I think that doing training at the facility is really important yeah you know another aspect besides the safety that's kind of the first thing people ask the second thing is you know how how long does this equipment last and you know is there a lot of maintenance to it and things like that can you talk a little bit about you know your your electrolyzers that are working now and I mean we have one at Hickam that's been running I think since 2008 so that's 10 years already what's what's the kind of average life and what are some of the issues you have with your equipment to keep them maintained and running and give us an idea of that kind of operating cost factor of electrolyzers modern ones yeah I mean we we typically say the equipment is designed for a 20 to 25 year useful life you know certainly there is some maintenance that you have to do but it's it's relatively minor you know I mean you know the cost of maintenance kits kits is you know maybe on the order of a couple thousand dollars a year or something like that and and typically you're talking about one day of downtime for preventive maintenance the yeah the stack life is something we say it's it's you know about a 10 year life so so if you are planning on operating the system for you know 20 years you should plan on a stack change out at some point kind of during the middle of the life of the equipment and as I said earlier before we went on the air you know if you know the the number one thing to keep the stack life as long as possible is is is water quality if if if we can work with the customer to assure that the stack is always getting good water quality then you can expect a really good stack life okay yeah because we we were on our little we had you know you're you're well aware of Chris McWinnie's Millennium Rain they're in a little different category than you a much a much different end of the spectrum but we just did a reverse osmosis water purifier and ran it in there and and we have no problems with it at all and he's got that going when a bunch of his equipment so it's not a real high maintenance and the other piece that I'm aware of is desiccants if you have to change desiccants out and that's like you said it's just part of your periodic maintenance and it's not that expensive right how about seals and on pumps and and things like any kind of cooling pumps or seals that that need to be changed that you know what's kind of the typical periodic maintenance that you do once a year once every two years on this equipment besides the water filters yeah right yeah a lot of it is you know basically the electrolyzer balance of plant is basically just a water and gas management system you know the electrolyzer stack itself is where you split the water and basically you have you know kind of two exit ports I mean one port has hydrogen and water and the other one has oxygen and water and then all your the rest of the system really does is separate gas from water and dry it and back pressure it and so a lot of what you're doing is you're just maintaining those those water and gas systems and a lot of that is kind of filtration and replacing polishing beds and things like that you know pumps are you know these are typically centrifugal pumps I mean they you know they do have some you know some operational life you know where you know you you're gonna have to replace them periodically it's just kind of the nature rotating equipment you know so sometimes you know a customer may want to have a spare pump available or something like that but they're very quick to change out the other thing that's true of our equipment is that you know we do multi-stack systems so that you've got you know like in the equipment you have at Hickam there's three cell stacks and then there's three rectifiers there's a dedicated rectifier for each stack so if there's an issue with one of those modules let's say the other two can continue to operate so you have some kind of built-in redundancy which is which is helpful for customers because you know you don't lose all your hydrogen at once you just kind of get a derated capacity okay well we're coming up on a break here Steven and what I'd like to do when we come back is maybe talk about large-scale hydrogen production and maybe some grid applications things so we'll be back in 60 seconds. 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Hey welcome back to my lunch hour Stan Energyman here with Steve Samanski from now a Norwegian company that makes electrolyzers all sizes of electrolyzers they make alcohol and electrolyzers over in Europe and PEM which is a proton exchange membrane electrolyzers here in the US and we've been talking about just some of the safety and some of the things with with the technology in general what I like to do is kind of step it up and talk about some projects that are going on it Steve what can you tell us about what you're doing with Nicola motors because that Trevor Milton has been on my show twice now and I'm sure the folks out there are pretty excited when they hear about what he's doing with his big trucks and I know you have a relationship now has a relationship with him can you talk about that at all yeah I mean we have a supply contract with Nicola for basically building hydrogen fueling stations for their entire fleet of vehicles you know we're building our first couple stations now the first one's going to go in there outside their facility in Arizona we're going to be manufacturing the trucks and then the second one I think they've said is going somewhere in California but I'm not quite sure where the thing about their stations is they're all going to be electrolyzer stations you know a lot of the hydrogen filling stations in California today are delivered hydrogen stations so there's no on-site generation of hydrogen but you know the Nicola model is to produce the hydrogen on-site they are focused on locations where land is cheap and power is cheap and so they can do these relatively large fueling stations for their their truck customers and basically what they're offering is a lease that it's a dollar per mile lease that includes the hydrogen fuel so they in order to make the lease work they need to be able to produce the hydrogen at a loan off cost so that you know so that they're they can make money on it and what we are focused on for the the commercial stations is a ton per day configuration with an electrolyzer with eight stacks so each stack will do one metric ton per day of hydrogen that's that's a total of eight metric tons is 8,000 kilograms per day of hydrogen and we will be also providing the compression storage and dispensing equipment because that's what our sister company in Denmark does so it's a it's a very large undertaking I mean we're talking about you know notionally about 400 48 of these stations nationwide and you know as you know having this contract enables us to build a really state-of-the-art large new factory to do electrolyzer stacks and that is really going to enable a real step change reduction in the cost of electrolysis systems so not only are they already the most efficient electrolyzers in the world now we're going to be able to offer them at a cost that's really you know probably you should be able to surpass you know what anybody else can do just because we've got this huge volume and that's the kind of thing that's really exciting about the Nicola partnership is that it's enabling hydrogen to become ubiquitous here in in the United States it's going to be everywhere they have plans to sell the hydrogen for like duty customers as well so you'll be able to pull up in your Mariah or your clarity and fill up at one of their truck stops as well and they'll even export it if there's a local market for it they'll they'll sell the hydrogen as well so they've got this kind of multi-dimensional business model and you know the thing that for me is really exciting and kind of gratifying the fact that you know we're going to be able to get the cost of hydrogen down to what we what we call fossil parity it's going to be on a dollar per mile basis it's going to be as good or better than diesel in the trucking industry and a lot cleaner so a lot cleaner yeah hey you know that you mentioned something and we talked about this before we came on the air a lot of the wind farms in I was surprised by the 20% of Texas's electricity is from their wind farms a lot of those big wind farms and the big industrial grade and commercial solar and wind properties they got a lot of tax credits and things and helped them put that equipment in but a lot of those incentives and those benefits are starting to run out and so up until now they've been able to sell their electricity pretty cheap but that's going to change here in the next few years how does that impact on doing electrolysis on the scale that Trevor's looking at with with Nicola well I I think it's a tremendous opportunity you know I I have been told by you know wind plant operators in the pan Antelope Texas that in the wintertime you know up to 40% of the time they're under negative pricing because there's there's you know there's no demand for that power and you're right you know they've they've been able to get production tax credits that help them to still you know they're still making some money but as those production tax credits get phased out you know more and more they're looking at other ways to monetize that those electrons and so you know they are saying you know rather than selling it for you know just a penny or two back to the grid or have an actually pay for someone to take it we could offer it for hydrogen production and having this demand from you know a you know that these long-haul trucks that are going to be getting on the road in 2020 really offers a tremendous opportunity to them to help you know support their their wind plant operations you know I'm I am not a an engineer or scientist but you know I so I use a lot of rule of thumb kind of things what have you got a price point on electricity where in the big scheme of things with compression and everything else you say if I can get power for six cents a kilowatt hour or eight cents a kilowatt hour whatever that I know we can make it is do you have a kind of a rule of thumb that you use to to kind of see if it's even feet in the ballpark for some of these things yeah I mean what people often want to compare hydrogen production cost to is what you can get it from an SMR plant right and right now a big SMR plant can produce hydrogen for about $2 a kilogram okay you know we've looked at some opportunities you know where you know if we can get maybe power for a couple cents and we can do it at you know maybe like a you know 50 to 100 megawatt scale we can produce hydrogen at $2 a kilogram so you know you're so it's really not that far you know out of the realm of possibility that today with today's model for electrolysis that you can already make hydrogen for the same as an SMR plant yeah that's that's where I see this thing really starting to come together in the next year or two when we have this kind of conversion of all these factors scaling up and the factor the fact that Nicola Motors is putting the stations out there you know they're bringing the chicken and the egg and across the continent how are you going to get hydrogen across states and aren't Zev states without any incentives and the states don't put it up unless somebody else steps in and it looks like Nicola is doing it with you folks so that's that's awesome the one thing I was surprised to hear those those trucks are at 700 bar on the pressure store is that correct yeah that is true I mean you know they have to offer a range that's as good or better than a diesel truck so you know 700 bar gives them that range okay so as we look at them expanding and the kind of the maybe some of the incentives going away and helping helping give some of those when wind turbine guys who are have surplus electricity give them some money so that we can make hydrogen you see the market really taken off in the next two years or so or you know what's your crystal ball yeah no absolutely I mean I think you know more and more we are seeing you know not only the recognition of you know just the kind of the wind plant operators but you know even utilities are really starting to step up now and understanding that if you know they're going to be pushing more and more renewables onto the grid I mean you know Hawaii's got a hundred percent rps mandate California's got the same thing now and these states as they look at you know trying to put more and more renewables onto their grid they're going to need a portfolio of solutions and hydrogen definitely is going to fit into that portfolio of energy storage solutions that's going to enable them to do you know come you know 100 100 percent renewable grid yeah I see it coming I just you know I see this thing going and I waver on the fact that I may be doing inside trader violations with the with the securities and exchange commission because I'm so bullish on hydrogen but I just see it happening I just it's almost unavoidable that the right things are coming together price of electricity the curtail power on renewables the new like you say renewable portfolio standards that are coming out from the different states it's all starting to come together and and we see the the grid piece is important too in fact I tell people that the grid and the transportation energy world are merging because the future of transportation is going to be electric and hydrogen and battery plug-in are both electric it's going to happen so you have to just watch that thing happen and it's all coming together over the next few years so I'll see if I tell you what it's been half hours gone by already and I really really thank you for being on the show today you brought a lot of great insight to to the folks here on on think tech in here in Hawaii and I'm looking forward to seeing you in December so maybe we're going to invite a whole bunch of people out to know how and and tell them to call Greg Barber and get invited to this conference in Kona and they can hear you give them a good update in December on what Nell's doing and what the state of electrolysis is here in the world Mahalo Stan and and I'm looking forward to being in Hawaii in December too for sure okay well we'll see you then save your loha shirts and maybe we'll buy a new one while you're here too sounds good all right take care and thanks everyone for tuning in today and we'll do that here next week with stan energy man thanks to robert and cindy here in the studios for making all the magic happen connected me to steve over there on the east coast and we'll see you next week aloha


Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. All right, you guys.  This is a Facebook member share Bolo video So what I did is I posted this in my Facebook group under the announcements featured section And I invited my Facebook members to come and share a Bolo Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching Amazing right? All right, let's get started um Your name will be anonymous if you decide to Participate in this if you are a Bolo buddies member of my YouTube channel You will get a shout-out to your eBay store or your YouTube channel You can join memberships down below for perks This channel is completely free if you sign up for memberships you get the perks All right, you guys are you ready to see some awesome plush Bolo's this I love these I love selling plush plush is just so fun. And you guys there's always somebody looking for plush Okay, somebody's lost this item their kid left it at the fair or It got muddy or something. I don't know people are always trying to make their kids happy, right?  All right. Let's get started. I Purchased an Aflac duck and you guys see me looking over here I am looking at my computer to read off where they got it what they paid for it and what it sold for and then I'm gonna pop up the screenshot that they shared so you guys can see what it looks like, okay? Aflac duck 499 at the Goodwill I sold it on eBay for a hundred dollars plus shipping This is plush. It is easy to find it is everywhere Donatella Bottolino is a great source for buying plush Here's her YouTube channel She I just bought a $50 plush lot free shipping.  Let me share this with you guys.   This is three ply plastic you guys It protects it from the rain. They are also protected underneath. So She's been shipping like this for a long time. It's not a big deal Again, she's trying to get it as compact as possible to keep shipping rates down. So I think it looks great Okay, let's get back to the Bolo's Paid $4.99 for this downtown Disney Build-A-Bear dog sold for $365 plus shipping on eBay didn't know it was worth that much until I looked up comps All right, you guys if you have not seen my Build-A-Bear Bolo top 10 Build-A-Bear to be on the lookout for go check out this video ASAP But this is a rare Build-A-Bear Mickey ears puppy downtown Disney exclusive $365 plus shipping Wow Bottom at a garage sale for $2 sold on eBay for $325 you guys it looks like I Can't hmm. It's some sort of snowman. I can't see the title, but this is what it looks like. I apologize Bought at a local thrift store for $1.51 had it listed for 649 and took a best offer of 500 is your mind blowing you guys what what is happening? It's a vintage rare Cartier 1999 collectible bear what I Love it.  I put please post like three into a hundred is still fantastic. I mean, it's really amazing Let's see Mr. Bingle plush. I knew he was special just because he looked unique. There are a lot There is a lot of history about this guy. He's from Dillard's before they were called Dillard's They were called Lee Masson Blanc and everyone in Louisiana is crazy about vintage. Mr. Bingle So look for Mr. Bingle items She got it at the Goodwill and the stuffed animal bin All right, this one's my I got this at an estate sale earn away Where did I get this trying to remember? I'm drawing of a link Yeah, an estate sale 50 cents and it had some light staining on it But I ended up selling this for $65. This is a vintage Fisher price puff a lump and it's like a zebra horse And it's from 1991 even with the stains. I got $65 for it Here's another one. She wrote that so I was like, I'm gonna share bread and butter this little one is a gunned Finger puppet mini plush dog.  It sold so fast. I may have underpriced it I don't know or maybe it was just what someone was looking for. They did message me and asked me if I had more I Think this one came out of a mystery box. So I'm not sure how much I paid for it. Who knows? Maybe it was a garage sale. I have so much stuff you but I sold it for $14 plus ship shipping So definitely just a bread and butter the next one pick this up at the Goodwill bins It is a Spyro the dragon hug me vibrating plush toy sold for $45 plus shipping all in at about seven from my local honey hole Actually only had three at one point went back a few weeks later and found the sister sold for $97.99. It's the Bernstein Bears you guys Lot of four. It looks like they are new old stop new old stock super fun Got this in a mystery plush box so by cost was about three dollars Let's see it looks like it was a Goodwill blue box Aurora super flopsie mush husky Stuffed dog 28 inches it sold for three hundred dollars get out of town. Wow My best plush sale this week was this Hills sugar plum bear paid 99 cents at Ambet sold for full asking price during my sale for 1912 plus shipping and this is what it looks like So plush can be big money But it can also be a fantastic bread and butter and I will tell you that bread and butter adds up The rebel reseller I recently read in a comment I think it was in a reseller Resource Center Facebook group and she said that she paid her mortgage for a year with bread and butter items And I think those were like $10 and less items Check out her channel. She sells tons of plush. I mean she is a plush expert the rebel reseller She is also a Bolo buddies member Got this for free at a yard sale left over sold for asking price of 29 99 It is a plush large Rottweiler dog vintage stuffed animal.  She sometimes has selling events where she will auction off plush and people in the chat Bit on them. So it really just depends. I'm not sure what this one was But it looks like it was a bill to bear and a plush lot from Donna Telebot Alino I think I paid about 20 or I think I got about 25 plush pieces for $55. So this may have been one of the auctions He sold on McCurry and took about 90 days to sell she took a best offer of a hundred and sixty seven dollars for this So It's a bill to bear gold eyes Panther Club Leopard. That's it you guys That's what it looks like. So this was in a plush lot from Donna Telebot Alino So what she does is she buys plush in bulk pre-owned plush and she gets she has like somebody She gets them from and she gets so many that she just wants to move it out. She doesn't look the stuff up She doesn't have time. I mean she's fill-in orders like crazy. Think about how long it would take her to Look up all the plush to throw them in a bundle. So she just throws them in a bundle now again She doesn't look them up.  It's micro bead plush. Let's keep going here. This is a webkins with sealed codes I don't know how to know if the code is sealed or not If anybody knows, please let me know in the comments if I guess I know what the code looks like But I don't know how to know if they've been used So if anybody has info on that share with us in the comments this bear sold fast for me And I picked them up it in a state sale for fifty nine cents sold for fifty four ninety nine It is a webkins retired Sunbear sealed unused code tag Not all of the webkins go for big money most of them are bread and butter But sometimes you get lucky so definitely look them up These Disney Zoom zooms, I think is how you say it when we're part of a huge Disney haul I picked up last summer for two hundred and forty dollars I finally got around to listing these right before Christmas and this buyer bought them all for a hundred and forty five oh five plus shipping No offer, but did combine shipping and refunded him the difference So these little characters are I mean, they're not very big and these are all Disney It looks like hundred and forty dollars and thirty five cents plus shipping for these this comes from Jack's treasures They have a YouTube channel YouTube channel This is what it looks like. They are Ebola buddies member. They do storage units So go check them out lots of fun content over there Bought on Facebook marketplace for a dollar sold for asking price. Yes, beanie babies do still sell these are the T Why is it tire T? Why I can't remember beanie baby set handsome and Gretel the gingerbread man These sold for thirty dollars plus shipping This was a fun one paid twenty five cents sold in four days for eighty eight dollars and eighty eight cents Fisher price 1979 lovey security blanket yellow plaid Rabbit check it out.  They do range from bread and butter to big money Look them up kids lose them all the time and their parents scramble to find them because they are discontinued and retired They are sometimes called lovies. That's a great thing to put in the title Also unexpected this was about twenty five cents sold in two weeks It is a limited edition pink nerds plush sold for twenty two dollars and eighty eight cents I plus just makes me smile Pick this up at the Salvation Army for three dollars and ninety nine cents vintage from 1994 sold for full asking price in about two Weeks sent to a freight forwarder in California. Her purchases items for folks in Asia It's a vintage well-made toy company stuffed white plush bear 1994 $65 and 49 cents plus shipping Let's see got it a yard sale for a dollar and sold it for 55 on eBay This is a vintage rare commonwealth colorful rainbow lollipop puppy dog stuffed plush 55 bucks you guys Would you have picked it up or would you have been like no? All right, bought this guy at an estate sale for five dollars and sold him for 70 in about a week. It is baby. Oh What does that say? ABU EL it oh, I don't know poncho singing dolls sing along Sold for 70 bucks anything that is animated Pretty much I buy it if it's cheap because they sing and dance and move and people love them They usually sell good vintage mr. BIM monkey zippy Zim stuffed plush Monkey banana rubber face tags got it at a local garage sale sold for asking price of two hundred and seventy four dollars Plus the buyer paid 12 shipping Paid three dollars for it The buyer had zero feedback, which I never have an issue with the plush did have some condition issues Which I disclosed in the listing there are currently 2218 results on worth point when you search for mr. BIM plush My item is the third highest selling the buyer messaged me upon receipt thanking me She had one as a child and was very pleased to have another I love selling plush and replacing long-lost friends and memories for buyers This one comes from Bolo buddies member a friendly flea. This is her eBay store. Definitely go check it out Again, she sold this for two hundred and seventy-four She did mention worth point which I just released a video on is worth point worth it It looks like this definitely go check out that video I do have a referral link in the description if you guys decide that you would like to try worth point If you can use that that would be great. All right. Let's move on Found this sweet girl at the bends approximately a dollar I sold her for full asking price of ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents Buyer-paid shipping sold in one to two days of listing. It is big comfy couch It is the Molly doll the big comfy couch items typically are a Bolo So if you see the plush definitely look them up Somebody else said they sold her also they thought for seventy-five Um, let's see Bought this for sixty-nine cents at my local Goodwill and he just sold for twenty two ninety-nine plus shipping yesterday Got a look out for tie attic treasure beanie babies. Hmm never heard of that tie Attic treasures anybody ever heard of attic treasures? So Yeah, nice bread and butter right there She did say that it's not all attic treasures. So do your search solds I got him at the Goodwill for a dollar forty-nine when I was browsing the stuffed animals I grabbed him and originally thought something was wrong with him because he didn't have much stuffing in him I was shocked to learn that he was made to be like that and even more shocked to see how much he was selling for I sold him in two to three weeks for full asking price to someone in Denmark through the global shipping program It is a vintage Fisher price rumble rumpels floppy plush bear is sold for a hundred and twenty dollar one hundred and twenty one dollars Plus buyer paid shipping. I found all of these guys at the Goodwill for about twenty total They sold in less than three weeks The fact that I had the whole collection is what made this this sale so valuable sold for a hundred and ninety eight plus shipping So it looks like it's Disney Winnie of Winnie the Pooh and their gunned Bought it in auction with a whole box of plush for three dollars So I only have pennies into it sold in less than twelve hours for twenty five dollars So this is Hotel Transylvania It's the doll Mavis Vampire doll by Tori factory 2012 $2.99 into 55 from Goodwill listed and sold in one hour Only ones I could find in this specific pose were larger versions only salt to they sold for 50 to 60 None listed nothing else to go off of information wise I assumed vintage But didn't claim it to be it got four watchers on eBay and seven on Mercari before selling I was a bit surprised how fast interest built up on this item 55 was my listed price Didn't have to accept offers so it sold for her asking price of 55 free shipping It's this Douglas company cuddle toys Red Fox line pose. 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All right, so it says that I am live.   So I wanted to do this thing for you. I had this idea where I would be going live and I'm gonna be going live every Tuesday from now on to just talk about schools and to research the various different programs that are currently out there for PA schools. There are a ton of PA schools out there, probably like over 300 and counting, okay? And so we wanna make sure that we can actually go ahead and look at the programs and see exactly what they are requiring and from you and when you should start applying and all of that good stuff. So that is what this is going to be all about. So I wanna go to CASPA for you guys. This is typically where you will go to check it out and that is just caspa.liesoncas.com. I'm gonna share my screen so that you guys can actually see what I'm talking about. And let's get to the window that I wanna go to. All right, so here we are, CASPA. This is the central application site and this is kind of what it's gonna be. This is what you're gonna see when you are looking at programs, okay? And so if you notice, this guy is like too much, but this is what you're gonna see when you go to apply for PA school, when you go and you look at the application, this is the main part. This is where you're gonna create your application. This, get out of here. Oh my gosh, okay. So this on the left, you see right here where it says click here for the list of 2021, 2022 participating programs. That is where we're gonna go, okay? So here you will find all of the programs that are participating in CASPA. Now, again, there are more PA programs that don't actually participate in CASPA, meaning that you can apply to these schools outside of the CASPA application. But what I will be doing on Tuesdays is looking at the schools that are participating in CASPA, okay? And so the first school up is Advent Help, as my title stated. Their program deadline is November 1st of this year. So if you were interested in that program, you would need to do that, okay? You'd need to do this thing by November 1st and they're located in Florida. So I'm gonna just copy this and paste it and just hit PA program and let's see what pops up. Okay, so here we go. This is Advent Help University and I do wanna make a disclaimer, like no school. I'm not affiliated with any of these schools. I will be like kind of reviewing, so that's researching for you guys. I'm not getting paid to do this. There's like, I have nothing to disclose. This is just me doing something for you guys out of the goodness of my heart in terms of looking at these programs, okay? So this is the main page for Advent Health University. This is something that you guys should probably look at if you're interested in being a part of this particular program. They have a virtual information session, October 5th. You can RSVP, because there you'll be able to ask more questions to those people that are at the actual program, like advisors and counselors and maybe even some students might be there, okay? So I like how they have this laid out because it has kind of like the quick facts for you guys where not every PA school has it laid out this simply for you all. So just bear that in mind and you might be able to kind of see that as we go on and look at other PA programs. But this is really nice. So it tells you what degree level this program is. It's a master's degree. And now there are some PA programs that will be a doctorate degree, but we'll cross that bridge on another day. But their degree is a master's degree. The average accepted GPA in 2020 was a 3.5, okay? Their minimum to require you to apply is a 3.0. So you can see right then and there, like if you have a 3.0, that doesn't necessarily mean like you're quite out of it. But if you're looking at this GPA of the average students that they are accepting, like this is actually, this is actually like something that you should think about because it's a 3.5, okay? So just keep that in mind. It says their deadline is November 1st and they are a summer start. So trimester. So three semesters, I guess you can say with the summer start, which is what my program was. We started towards the end of May of the following year. And so that if this deadline is November 1st, typically they will start probably at the end of May or in the beginning of June, somewhere around there for their summer session. And they accept 30 students, okay? 30 students is what they accept. And let's look at their accreditation statement because this is kind of something you might wanna know about. Okay, so Avent Health has been granted accreditation continued, which is good. Now you can be continued, you can be probation or you can be provisional. And provisional just means that your new probation means like there are some things that your program needs to work on and continued means you're in good standing, okay? So that is good to know. Let's go back up to the top about the program. It talks about the physician assistant profession. This program specifically its mission is to educate knowledgeable and compassionate individuals as spiritually cognizant healthcare providers who embrace the mission of service to others. So when you are thinking about if I get an offer for an interview to whatever program it is that you're applying, it is important to know what the program's mission is, okay? And how that mission aligns with you. So just be mindful of that because it's gonna be important to know. And then they have a diversity statement where it says the Avent Health University PA program is a graduate program awarding a master's of science and physician assistant studies. Our program is committed to diversity in the student body and in the physician assistant workforce. We encourage persons from all socioeconomic, racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds to apply. Okay, so that's nice, you know, it's a good statement. Oh, pass pass rates, this is another good thing. So when I was looking at schools, I was trying to see exactly like, all right, well, if I were to apply to this program, what is the pass rate? Because if I don't pass, then I can't practice. So I wanna see exactly what it is that the pass rate is and they have it laid out here. Again, very simply, very easy for you, so that's good. And I want you guys to comment and let me know what schools I should do next. I had it where I was literally just gonna go straight down like in alphabetical order, but if I have like a comment with a bunch of likes for a particular program that somebody is interested in, it might be able to jump, you know, jump up in the ranks for schools that I'm going to do next, okay? All right, so this says their pass pass rate and this is from, you know, 2017. So the last like four years, I guess you would say, to 2020. So number of candidates who took the pants and just keep, again, keep in mind that, and I'm looking at this because they had, they have an acceptance of 30 students. So maybe this was the first year of it being in existence and their acceptance was 25, I don't know, but let's see. So first time, Pat, pants takers in 2017, number of exams attempted, it was 19. Exams passed was 16. Their pass rate was 84 versus the 97% national pass rate. And if you just kind of take a look at this, look at our national pass rate for like your first time, pants takers versus your all, like if everybody that's taking it, because it's kind of, you know, it went down in 2019 and that was the first year of the new changeover in terms of how many points you needed to pass and then adding also that section on, I can't remember what it is. It was like, it's not really compliance but kind of like compliance, I guess you would say. I'd have to look at it and see, but there was a new section added into the pants and so it went down in 2019 and it's bumped up slightly in 2020 from 91% to 93%. And I was partly part of this 91% right here because I didn't pass the first time, okay? Here you have it again, 2020. They had 100% pass rate, y'all, for 2018. And this was first time takers in 2023, 87% and then in 2027, only 1% didn't pass that year of the 27 people that took it. So 96% right there. All right, let's get out of that. So that's good for you to know that. I mean, this kind of goes to show like, hey, they are sitting up here and training their people adequately, I guess you could say, to pass their boards and become great providers. Let me see what you guys have in the comments section as I continue to go. Danielle Mapp said she just applied to their program yesterday. Oh, well, I wish you many blessings on that application. Hopefully you get offered an interview. So there is an application checklist here which I think is nice for people to use. You can just kind of check off the various different things that you need to do if you've applied through CASPA. And again, like I said, not every program has is CASPA affiliated so that you're still going to apply. So you can still apply to the programs that aren't CASPA affiliated. It just means that you're gonna have to apply through their particular school website. This does have a supplemental application and application fees. So another thing to keep in mind when you're thinking about these schools, it is $175 to apply to the first program and submit your first CASPA application. And then for each subsequent application, it's $55. But then you think about a supplemental application and that's another $50 that you have to add on top of that. So you need to make sure that you're kind of like counting these coins and making sure that you have that money put aside so that when you are offered, we're speaking that into existence, when you're offered the supplemental application, you have the money to pay for it, okay? Official transcripts, so making sure you get your transcripts and if you're an international medical graduate, they accept you, they allow you to apply, okay? So for all of those international students that hit me up on YouTube and Instagram and are like, hey, ma'am, I wanna apply to, I wanna attend PA school in the States. Well, this is one of these programs that you can apply to, but you're just gonna have to call. I would suggest calling them and specifically asking them for if there is what information it is that I would need to apply as an international student, okay? Here it is where they use the WES system, the World Education Services, to do like that transcript matching where you will put in your transcript or your grades from your international degree and they will match it to see how it lines up or what specific courses would line up with their prerequisites and then you would need to know, okay, what else do you need to take? So just something to keep in mind as well. Policy on pass, fail, grade. So this is all talking about grades. It says prerequisite pass, fail, credit, hours will not be accepted outside of the 2020 calendar year. Please note that course is taken for pass, fail, grade will not impact the applicant's GPA. Okay, I mean, which again makes sense. We'll allow applicant, so in light of COVID-19 AHU's PA program we'll allow an applicant up to eight credit hours of prerequisite pass, fail, grades receiving during the 2020 calendar year only. Wow, so that's like a really good thing for anybody that is trying to apply right now, like from your grades from last year in 2020 due to COVID. If you have like a pass, fail, they will allow you to use eight credits, which typically is not, you know, like allow, you don't, you're not allowed like pass, fail, grades for like anatomy and physiology, but they will allow that, which is a good thing because it doesn't affect your GPA per what they're saying.  Degree requirements, all applicants must have a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Bachelor's degree right here, you guys, it's saying it right here. And I talked to you guys about that all the time that for PA school, you just need to have a bachelor's degree, it can be in anything, anything that you want. However, when you're thinking about that bachelor's degree, you also have to remember and keep in mind that your bachelor's degree has to meet all of the prerequisite requirements. You need to have those prerequisite courses in that degree. So you might have to take some other courses while waiting. So again, their minimum GPA requirement for both cumulative and overall science is a 3.0 on a GPA scale of a 4.0, okay? It says all prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or above, which is kind of standard across the board. Some schools say nothing lower than a B, so B minus will not cut it, but I think a large majority of schools does say C. You'll need to do your professional essay, which is your personal statement. Again, 5,000 characters and that is based on CASPA, not on the particular school. So 5,000 characters is what you are allotted to like upload into CASPA. So when you're coming to me and you are sending me personal statement reviews and you have like three, four, five pages and I'm cutting it down, I'm doing you a favor you guys because I know that you have a lot of experience that you wanna allow these people to hear. However, they're still not gonna hear it because if you put it in, it's only going to be the first 5,000 characters. Okay, so just keep that in mind. Physician assistant, oh, they're talking about the PA cat. Okay, you guys, I've talked about the PA cat. I did a video for Ross Review. It's on the Ross Review website. I've done a couple of giveaways for the PA cat review that Ross Review is doing. And it says we highly recommend that you secure your test date at least six weeks prior to the deadline because all applicants are required to take the PA cat. So that is something that I'm seeing that is new. Okay, when the PA cat was first in existence like a couple of years ago and I first did a video on the PA cat, not many schools were requiring it but this school is Advent Health University is requiring the PA cat. So just keep that in mind. This is what they're asking you to do, but change up, okay? The GRE is not required nor considered. So if you don't wanna take the GRE, this is the school for you to apply to because they are not requiring the GRE. All applicants are also required to take the CASPER exam, okay? That, and that again is the interpersonal characteristic test, you know, it assesses like how you will handle people and how you talk to people and how you deal with people. And essentially, which is important because you're gonna be dealing with people on a consistent basis as a provider. So they wanna know like what skills you're gonna be able to bring to the table. So keep that in mind, PA cat required. CASPER required, GRE not required nor is it considered. Okay, all right, let's get to it. This is that we are in the nitty gritty of the things. This is what you all came here for. What are the prerequisites for this program, okay? So always you guys, always I'm telling you this because I made this mistake when I was initially applying to PA school, read everything, read the things in the parentheses, read the things in the fine print because it will get you in trouble if you don't, okay? So science prerequisites all must include a lab component with the exception of genetics, okay? So everything needs to include a lab. You cannot have human anatomy and physiology or just physiology and it not have a lab. It has to have a lab, okay? So they need eight credits of A&P which is one and two. Four credits of organic chemistry, one which is essentially the organic chemistry class which is typically three credits and the one credit lab. Same for either organic chemistry too or you're gonna do biochemistry which is cool because if for whatever reason you don't wanna do biochemistry, you don't have to, you're gonna take Ochem one and two anyways. Microbiology is what they're requiring and genetics which is different for me because some of the schools I was looking at, it did not require two additional upper division, science courses, so micro and genetics that just kind of required one or the other. So it's interesting that this is a requirement for them. They want you to do general psychology or developmental or abnormal. And again, that's something that was different when I was applying because some of the schools that I was applying to required you not only to do a general psychology but then have developmental or abnormal. And again, that was specific. But I like the way that this is laid out that you can have any one of those kind of like social sciences and be okay, which is good. And then it has statistics, any one elementary biostatistics or general statistics and medical terminology. So I like this. Oh, and it says certification acceptable. So maybe you didn't get a credit but you got just like a certification of doing a medical terminology class. So that is also acceptable. It says we do not have a timeframe for any of our prerequisite courses including science prerequisites.  Like there are so many schools that have a requirement of like five, seven, 10 years. Like they need to be completed over within the last two years or three years. So this is actually a really good thing. Let me see you again as I continue to go out, go down what's going on in this comment section. Do the University of Baltimore. University of Baltimore, there's a University of Baltimore school. I'll check that after I look at this. I didn't know that that was a thing. So I'll check that out. And L. Jones asks Casper generally opens in April. Yes, it does. Casper opens at the end of April like the last week of April every year. And it closes in like March of every year. So from this is the list, this Casper list here. Oh, where is it? This Casper list here is the list of schools for 2021 to 2022. So 2021 to 2022 cycle that opened in April will end in March. The 2022, 2023 cycle will open in April of 2022 and end in March of 2023. Okay, so that is how that works. Policy regarding, okay, so they already addressed that earlier where it said eight credits of outstanding prerequisites is what you can have at the time of your application. So no more. And again, they will allow up to eight credits of past fail grades, which again is really something that is kind of like novel. So for those of you that may have that, that in mind, it allows you to apply to this program.  Cause my throat is getting a little dry. Recommended experience, okay? This is another thing that we need to keep in mind because this is your healthcare experience, right? This is what you come and you ask me like, how do I get healthcare experience? So these are some of the recommended experience that they are asking. We strongly recommend that applicants present documentation of at least one year or 2,000 hours of direct patient care experience. Woo, 2,000, you guys, it's cut throat out here. I was used to seeing schools, 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000. These PA schools are kind of stepping their game up and that's again, another reason why they're becoming so much more competitive because 2,000 hours, like one year of experience, are you able to get that in undergrad? Are you working every summer and able to like bang out 2,000 hours? Or do you have to take a gap year? So these are things that you should be looking at now, especially in like your junior year, your sophomore year, look at these programs now on where you think you might be or where you wanna be, where you wanna go to school and look at all of these prerequisites requirements. Because yes, they will change from year to year but at least you will have a base foundation on what you should be getting, okay? Applicants who undertake a wide variety of patient responsibility and demonstrate excellent critical thinking skills are competitive. So that's like your nurses and your firefighters and EMSs and things like that. So examples of preferred patient care experience hours counted at 100% include, what's this counted at 100% Okay, let's see. So athletic trainers, audiologists, cardiac monitor, techs, CNAs. Yeah, go CNAs! That was me, all right. Clinical researcher. Wow, a clinical researcher, okay. Dental hygienists, medical assistants, but clinical, like where you're actually like dealing with patients, okay? Military coursemen, nurse coordinator slash navigator, paramedics, perfusionists, phlebotomists, radiology, technologists, dieticians, respiratory therapists, registered nurses or LPNs and surgical techs, okay? So those are all like you're getting 100%. Examples of related healthcare experience hours counted at 50% up to a maximum of 1,000 hours. So I'm a little confused that this 100% versus 50% maybe it's saying like if you have like 500 hours as a medical assistant like an administrative medical assistant then you will really have 250 hours and you get to get that many hours up to 1,000 hours but then you need to have something that's more clinically based like the ones that they have further up. So I think that's what it's saying but we'll look a little further down and see if they answer that. So administrative medical assistant or a medical scribe, nutritionists, ophthalmic technician, a Peace Corps, patient care advocate, social worker and pharmacy tech if you're just doing the retail like non-hospital based one. All right, so it says the above list of direct patient care and related healthcare experiences not all inclusive, okay, yes, of course. Additionally, types of direct patient care and related healthcare experience submitted on and the application will be critically evaluated for depth and breadth of the experience. Please note shadowing healthcare providers and hours credited as part of training, educational or internship programs will not be considered for direct patient care experience which I mean, if you guys have watched any of my videos on PC versus HCE versus shadowing like you know this, okay. Again, leave your comments in the comment section below on what school you want me to do next and if you have a school or somebody that has listed a school and they really like it you like those comments so that I can go and see exactly what it is. All right, letters of recommendation, three letters of recommendation are required. Oh, I skipped, so it says PA shadowing. We do not have a minimum requirement for PA shadowing hours. However, we highly recommend shadowing a variety of physician assistants. All right, so again, if you're interested in getting like virtual shadowing I don't know if they will accept that due to COVID and just kind of how things have kind of shifted but we do do virtual shadowing on GTCU. We have some that are already listed and then starting my plan is to start at this upcoming month that we're gonna be having a virtual shadowing program for you guys set up where you can get at least 18 hours of shadowing. All right, letters of recommendation. So three letters of recommendation which is typically what is required in CASPA. Some schools will require two but you upload three anyways in CASPA and it will send it off automatically. So for international applicants, so like you might have to take this test of English as a foreign language like your TOEFL test just to prove that you can speak English adequately. So that's something that you might wanna keep in mind as well but and then you will have to provide evidence of the temporary or permanent US residency. So like if you have a green card or a visa and you would have to prove that also. It says successful completion of a bachelor's master's or doctoral degree from an institution where English is the primary language. So these are some for you all that are interested your international students and you graduated from an international program if you have a bachelor's degree, master's or doctoral degree it needed to be from a program that had English as its primary language of instruction. And then on top of that you would have to take the TOEFL test, okay? Selection preference, okay. So they got some preferences, all right. It says the following are groups of applicants who receive preference for admission. Applicants who meet any of these preferences must still meet the same academic and clinical prerequisite requirements, okay? Additionally, the presence of one or more of these preferences does not guarantee admission into the program. So graduates of Advent Health or a seventh day Adventist University or college which I did. So if I wanted to apply maybe I would have had like a little extra preference because if you then you go back to their mission their mission is about creating spiritually cognitive and like conscious providers, okay? So this is a seventh day Adventist school. And I actually took some courses at this school when I was in high school, which is kind of cool. Or if you're a seventh day Adventist, which again I am so shout out to all my SDAs out there and applicants with current or previous documented military experience, which is cool. Okay, so you might get a little kick if you meet any of these. Interviews are offered by invitation only. It doesn't say exactly how many interview sessions they have. It says please understand that meeting our minimum requirement does not guarantee an interview and you guys understand that, okay? You can apply to many schools and not get one interview. So I just keep that in mind. The admissions committee will consider the cumulative data collected and the strength of the interview and then applicants from and clear commitment to the profession and due to the competitive nature of our academic process, meeting the minimum standards does not guarantee admittance. Okay. So this is key because they keep addressing that, right? And so again, if you have 2000 hours which is one of their minimum requirements, if you have 3.0 out of 4.0 on science and both overall like your cumulative GPA, that's a minimum requirement. That does not mean you're gonna be granted an interview because it is competitive out here. People is cutthroat. So you gotta make sure that you're surpassing these numbers, okay? And then of course like for matriculation you need to be vaccinated. And that's something big because when you're getting into healthcare like you're gonna be in the hospital and things. So unless you have like a really, really good reason as to why you can't get a particular vaccine like literally like an anaphylactic shock type of thing or like complete like religious belief or whatever the case may be, you have to be vaccinated, okay? You will need health insurance. Again, you would have to do a drug screen which everybody that is entering into PA school you go through all of that. So just keep those things in mind and a deposit, a seat deposit of $500 is required. Oh, and this is non-refundable, okay? Non-refundable seat deposit of $500. Your acceptance letter will provide a deadline. Those who pay the deposit but declined to enroll will forfeit the deposit. If that student is admitted to the same program at a later date, a HU will require another full deposit. A professional program deposit is not transferable to another department, okay? So just keep that in mind. And who knows, maybe once you get into the program the deposit goes to something else but it does say non-refundable. So extra $500 you're gonna have to pay and they ask to require a background check, okay? So that's what that is. It says the curriculum we mold critical thinkers, a holistic education goes beyond textbooks, core and program specific classes must prepare graduates. Okay, our program is 27 months. So a little over two years, that's how long my program was. Again, because we started in the summer and we ended in the summer. So 27 months consisting of 63 trimester hours of didactic education and 44 trimester hours of clinical education. So a total of 107 hours is what your 27 month program is, which is a lot. Like there are some master's programs that are like 60 hours, 80 hours. So having 107 hours, that's you're getting the full breath of your education, okay? Let me go down. Divya says, hi, I'm Divya Siri. I wanted to apply but I'm an international student. How I need to proceed further. Okay, Divya, so I address all of that stuff about international students up in the admissions part. And you needed to have completed a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree from like a predominantly English speaking program in the country that you are currently located. And then from that, you would get all of your transcripts, send it through WES.org to get it, just kind of match to see exactly what it is that it will translate into. Make sure you're calling the school, let them know that you're interested and ask them what the process is. And then you go through those steps, okay? Let's just look at their academic catalog. Let me see, did I click it? All right, so you're gonna be doing, yep, enter to the PA profession, just understanding the PA profession, history and physical exam, principles of clinical pharmacology, gross anatomy, identity and mission. What is this? This course addresses the mission in practice of faith-based healthcare. Cause this is a faith-based school, a wide range of assignments and readings, biblical and elsewhere provide the healthcare provider in training with broader understanding of spiritual dimensions of healthcare. Topics include human identity as the image of God and child of God, spirituality across faith traditions, compassionate whole person. You know, I think I might've liked to go to this school cause I'm super like, you know, spiritual religious. I love God and stuff. And the fact that it's already integrated into the curriculum, I think I would have liked that. I don't know. And I'm used to that cause I went to a private Christian college anyways. You don't start doing pathophys until the second semester. I think that's how it was with us too. We started pathophys in the second semester, the fall semester and then we completed it in the third, yep. And then you start your clinical rotations. Yeah, this is essentially kind of like the same thing. I like how they have healthcare disparities in here, one and two, because there are quite a few of those. So understanding that as part of the whole person, the holistic person that you will be treating cause they're not only going to be treating one set of people is important to understand how healthcare disparities play a role in the overall health of individuals. You will have a research in your fourth trimester of your first year. And here's where your rotations start. You're the first trimester of your second year. Okay. So this is all it, general surgery. How many rotations do you, I guess it's just, they're just listing all of the ones because you can have those rotations in various different places. Okay. All right, let's go back to where we were at prerequisite eligibility to glean a better understanding and official evaluation will transpire until we have received your official transcripts with outline courses. So again, all of that will go through CASPA. So it talks about their frequently asked questions and it's just pointing you back to like their various different areas. Okay. That you would go find like where, what their prerequisite requirements are. So L. Jones, let me see if there's anything else. Let's just go down to their additional details, masters, applicants and students. So the program should be aware of the following. All right. Here we are. You should be aware of the following, their mission statement, which is what we saw earlier, spiritually cognizant healthcare providers. Okay. That's what they're trying to create. The goals of this particular program is to recruit outstanding educators. And so this is for their faculty, support and nurture spirituality and enriching learning environment. Okay. I like that. I like it a lot. Graduate students who will be successful on their pants and it lists another place where it lists the past three of their pants pass rate, which is again, very good that it's clear. It's here, like they're not hiding it and you don't have to go searching for it really hard. It's right here in front of you. It says preparing highly qualified individuals. Okay. I like this. Here we go. So it says matriculated students in the class from 2020 to 2022. Okay. The average age was 27, but students ranged from 21 to 49. Okay. So you're not too old. All right. You're never too old to apply and get into PA school and start that career. But 21 to 49 was an average age of 27. GPAs, their overall GPA was a 3.49 and their overall average science GPA was a 3.46. It says 16% of students possess a graduate degree at the time of admission. And so obviously like there are some people that already went and did like grad school, but that was a small percentage and the majority of them just had their bachelor's degree. This is typical of the gender, 74% female, 26% male, PA profession is highly female dominant. So that's typical race. All right. So 58% Caucasian, 13% Asian, 12% African American, 1% Indian or Alaskan, American Indian or Alaskan native. All right. And as far as ethnicity goes, they said 34% identified as Hispanic. So, you know, again, like cool. You're, you are committed to diversity. This shows diversity. I would love to see these numbers a lot higher. So please, my diverse brothers and sisters, please go apply to these programs. We need more diverse providers because we live in a very diverse world and it's continuing to become more and more diverse. So we need people that are cognitive of the various different needs of a diverse population. So please let's, let's apply so we can raise some of these numbers. Clinical experience. All right. So the average hours of clinical experience is 5,659. Now, if you remember, I stated that their minimum requirement was 2,000, but look at what the average was 5,659. Okay. These are the things that you have to keep in mind.  Like your GPA needs to be like a 3.7, you know? You need to have done like some really great things in terms of your volunteer experience and all of that. Your personal statement should be on point. These are, when I talk to you guys, about like, I talk to you all about making sure these other areas are on point. These are the, this is the reason why I'm looking at it. And now you guys can see it firsthand and you will continue to see it firsthand as you join me every week on Tuesday as I continue to do these different schools. So you'll see it firsthand on what these requirements are. And it says that they look at the whole person throughout the educational program, our students learn how to create the whole person, body, mind, and spirit. So they're looking at that. So there's a lot of little fine print here, the expectation metric, the program defined benchmark of greater than or equal to 85% for student exit survey report. I don't know what these things are. Exit survey program seeks 100% all-time pass rate. We've recognized that some students may require more than one attempt to be successful on the exam, which is true, a benchmark of 40 hours of the community service during the program. So you need to have 40 hours of community service while being in the program, okay. Highly qualified individuals who have demonstrated academic prowess. All right, cool. Let's go to the technical standards. And this is where you'll have like, you know, the various different skills listed. It says this program starts to develop competent primary care providers, okay. PAs, the following technical standards specify which attributes our PA faculty consider necessary to thrive in the program. Observation, communication, motor senses, problem-solving, clinical skills, judgment stability, cognitive, like, okay, those are, that's all cool. I don't want to look at the manual and so you can look at that yourself. It's going to be a lot. Additional resources, what is this? Oh, it's talking about ARC. So if you are interested in the accreditation status of any of the schools, the PA programs that are in existence, you can go to ARC-PA.org and that is where you will see all of the schools. You'll see like why they may be on probation. It will give you like an explanation of their particular status and what that stands for and then when they are up for review. So that's a good site to have in your back pocket, okay. NCCPA, that's our certifying body.  Post-back studies. If you already have a bachelor's degree but are missing some prerequisites, post-back courses are available for you. Once admitted for post-back studies, you'll be allowed to enroll in a minimum of six credits for a semester for up to one year and general courses at HU. Okay, so you can do a post-back there and then apply to their program. All right, Tuitions and Fees. This is the money y'all. This is where the money is at. So for 2022 to 2024, the estimated cost of the program is gonna be $90,000. So $17,000 each semester. And it gives you exactly like the reason why it goes through which is, was that more than what I was paying? No, I don't know. I think we were like 80 something but maybe it came out to be 100 overall after everything was all said and done. But I like this breakdown on what they have here and it shows you exactly what you're paying for. And so, you're gonna have to get a loan or find some money or get into some stocks or savings, whatever it is, to kind of offset this $90,000 cost but $90,490 is what the cost is to go to that program. And here's the faculty. Okay, let me see who's anybody I don't know. Nope, don't know anyone. All right, so Carrie Whitaker, he's the department chair, director of program assessment. I'm not really sure what that does, but Matthew Allman, he's a PAC, Ms. Ballmart, she's the clinical director.  Clinical program manager, Janika, Mr. Cornyn is a professor. And Mr. Edgar is also a professor, Laisley, assistant professor and director of program admissions. Oh, so this is the guy, he's the director of admissions. Somebody to keep in mind to know about, Mr. Wood is the farm D, your pharmacology director, medical director. Okay, so Dr. Levine is the medical director and there's usually a medical director on the program. Academic director is Ms. Murray. Dr. Murray, she has a DPT. Anna, a doctorate in education as well. And Ms. Gayhee is executive assistant of the program. All right, and so let's look at their facilities as well. Let me see, you guys, what else do you have going on? What a program, this is from Elle Jones, what a program with a provisional accreditation be generally easier to get into? You know, I don't think so. I thought so initially when I started my channel but it's not accurate because yes, maybe some of their requirements maybe a little lax in terms of like, it's not a 3.2 but a 3.0 or maybe they might require like a 2.75 or something, maybe a little less hours but you and everybody else are thinking the same thing so it's still gonna be very competitive. So you'd think that it would be easier to get into but it's really not. So they have a lab, this is the PA lab which looks cool. That's the only thing that I'm seeing right now. All right, so that's it. So that is it, you guys. So that was the Advent Health University PA program, okay? And it laid everything out for you. I'm gonna stop sharing that now and go back to this. I think that this, I think this is good. Let me see, youngblood said, good Eve, ma'am, good Eve, youngblood. Maya said she loves the idea of Casper and I do too. I think it's really important to have something that really tells you like how this person is gonna be because you can be the best. You can be the absolute best student but you can have no interpersonal skills whatsoever, making you a really bad provider at the end of the day because yes, clinically you will be able to get what the disease process is and you'll be able to diagnose them and treat them but a lot of what we do as providers is actually sitting down and talking to the patients and answering questions and some hand-holding and a lot of social work type stuff as well. And so it's important to be able to make sure that you're in that realm of being able to provide care for patients, okay? Ash said, thank you for all the information. It's motivating, great, I'm glad. I think that this is going to be beneficial. Alexia, you're asking if I'm saving the live. So the live is going to be up on my page. So anytime I have a live session on YouTube and it's streamed to YouTube even if it's being done through StreamYard, it will be up on my page as one of my videos. And so these sessions will be saved. They will be there for, you know, ever I guess you can say. Can I link a GPA calculator for CASPA? Okay, so for CAS, I might like help me out because I'm not really sure what you mean by for CASPA because CASPA calculates their own GPA. But if you want a GPA calculator, I think like Mercer has one. Let me just see, I'm going to look it. And I think they have one. Yeah, so let me just share this with you and then GPAcalculator.net. That was the one that I used. I like that a lot. Okay, all right. So let's share my screen again. And I will do GPAcalculator.net first. So I went here to GPAcalculator.net. This is the one that I used when I was calculating my GPA. I just went to the college GPAcalculator. It's free, obviously.  It's always popping up, sorry y'all. All right, so I put it in. You put in, you don't have to put in your course, okay? You can put that in if you want to just kind of keep yourself organized because after putting in like A and three credits or B and two credits, it kind of gets mundane and you can like make a mistake. So you can put in like the first few letters of the course just to keep yourself organized, but you just continue to put it in and then you can add another course, add as many courses as you like. And they have it here for everything.  So you can do this for science and overall GPA. And then here on Mercer University, they have like a weighted calculator and you can really do the same thing. It's a little less interactive. You literally have to like put everything in and then it will do it. You'll calculate that semester grade and you can go from semester to semester as well. So that's, those are the two that I use. So just type in Mercer, GPA calculator, later or GPAcalculator.net, okay? But those are the two that I used. Will you post all these links? Yes, so I will post the links in the description box or maybe I will like pin this comment for CASPA and then Advent Health University so that you can go ahead and look at the school and you can just go a little bit more in-depth or you can follow along with the video after it has been uploaded to my channel, like for safekeeping, you can do that, okay? And that was from Benatha, okay? Kennedy says, could you go over Xavier University in Louisiana? Yeah, you know, I don't have a problem doing Xavier. I might be able to do that next. I do have somebody that said something about Baltimore University, I'll have to look that up. Elle Jones says, has anyone used my PA box to calculate their GPA? So again, I don't know if anybody has used that, if you have, go ahead and answer that question for her. I've gone through my PA box, you know, I've worked with them and I really like their setup in terms of keeping you structured and organized and ready for PA school in terms of the GPA calculator and then like their PA school match. Excuse me, that's a little dry you guys, but their PA school match where they will essentially match you with programs that you fit. So if you have like a thousand or 2000 or 5000 hours you put that in, whatever your GPA is, you put that in, all the prerequisite courses you have and then it will literally match you with schools that you meet those requirements for. So I think that that is good. I think it's a good way of helping people not make mistakes and of applying to schools that they do not meet the requirements for and wasting that money. So if you are interested in my PA box, they do have a GPA calculator. So you can use that as well, along with all the other resources that they have, okay? And I do, I don't know if it's still, yes, I do still have like a percentage off where I believe you get $5 off.  So it'll be or $55, you get $5 off. So just whatever it is, you'll get money off if you use Adonis PA as code, like the Adonis PA code and I'll put that in the description box as well or in a comment.  I just stumbled across this video, thank goodness. All right, Shamia, all right. So here you go, Adventist, Advent Health University. You know, it used to be called Florida Hospital, but Florida Hospital University slash now Advent Health University is a Adventist school. You get a little bit of a preference if you are Adventist or form a military or even just graduated from an Adventist school. So, you know, look into it. It might be something that might work well for you.  So I think it obviously it would in terms of because you're seeing patients, you know, your mental health tech and they have like all of these other tech things. Let me see, let me see if I can go back to that list of school of things that they had in terms of what they would allow, okay. Let me just try to go down, try to get back to that area for us so that I can go specifically and see what they had listed. But I think what the thing is, depending on if you were clinical versus just solely administrative, that's where that whole 100% versus 50%. So if you had three years and I'm guessing that they're seeing an average of 2,000 hours a year is what you would have gotten. So you would have had 6,000. So if you had 6,000 hours, then yeah, you're pretty competitive, you're very right in line with their average student. But if they were counting it as 50%, only 1,000 hours of that goes towards that minimum requirement of 2,000. So that's just something to keep in mind in terms of what, where you will be. But I think I don't see any reason on why it should not count. But you can always again, just ask the school, just call the school and ask the school, like don't take my word for it because I'm just a girl on YouTube. Just a girl on YouTube. So don't take my word for it, call the program just to make sure, okay. All right, you guys, that's it. Like look at this. We finished literally right at like an hour mark. And so that's kind of what I wanna do. So I'll be spending an hour with you guys every week on Tuesday, sometimes Wednesdays, maybe Mondays, depending on if I work or not. And we're gonna be reviewing schools. I will be looking at what schools you guys want me to do next, okay. So leave that in the comment section below. After this video is posted, go comment on the video, what schools you want to see next. And if you're watching the rebroadcast of this on my YouTube channel, just comment automatically what schools you wanna see next. And then I will do that if I get a lot of likes on that particular comment. If not, I would just be going down the line. So if I'm going down the line, Albany Medical College is next. Their deadline is this week, is October 1st. And so something to keep in mind, y'all. Something to keep in mind. Obviously, you would have missed that deadline, but just knowing what you need to do, go moving forward. Let me just share this screen with you really quickly again so that you can see exactly what I'm talking about with Caspo and where to look at things. So here, it would be Albany Medical College. Their deadline would be October 1st. And let's just look at these. Orange deadline, application, payments, transcripts, and at least two letters must be received by that. Application must be verified, okay. So the blue is, what was the blue say? Application must be submitted on the deadline date. Program materials do not have to be received by the deadline date. Oh, okay. So it's blue, orange, green. So green means everything has to be in, blue means some of the things have to be in by that, not program materials, and orange means that program materials need to be received, okay. So a white deadline program has not reported its deadline requirements. Let's see if there's anything like that. Oh, right here, California State, their deadline is to be determined. So when we get to that California State, we will see exactly what that means. Maybe it's a new university that is like opening up. And then I just wanna scroll down to this bottom for you because here, look at all these programs, so you guys. Oh my gosh, it's a lot. But here it shows you, oh wait, this is, let me do this where it's big for you so that you can see, let me just share my full screen so you don't need to see my face. So right here, it shows you all of the developing programs. So there's quite a few programs that are in development for this current cycle, and they're always gonna have developing programs. So again, oh, y'all, Chamberlain about to come out with the PA program. Oh, it's about to be over. Chamberlain does the nursing degree online, the NP degrees, as well as like they have like, actual like brick and mortar schools as well. So they're about to come out with the PA program. So maybe they might be doing something that is online so that's something to look for. And so we will get to this. We will get to all of these schools and all of these programs at some point, probably next year since it's lower on the list. But yeah, this is it. These are all the programs. And so like I said, the Albany University would be next up at the top because if I was going Albany Medical College, if not, it's whatever you guys want. All right, thank you guys. Thanks so much for watching. Again, leave your comments in the comment section below. Let me just go through these comments one more time. Jonathan says, does a PA program, PA school only start in fall? No, it does not only start in fall. Some start in winter, some start in summer as well. Winter being like November, December slash January. Like a December start, end of November or January start and some start in the summer like May slash June, okay? Joseph says, hi, hi Joseph. Okay, and so you guys are listing your schools and again, leave them in my comment section once this video is done, okay? Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.


The interesting thing is, and from all the shots that I've hit so far, is sound and feel and sort of power that you feel out of the face. Balls flying. Yes, so back to the story. What's the story Callaway telling us about the technology that's packed into this Mac's driver? And it is a big story and it's one that no doubt you'll already heard. I'm going to repeat it very, very quickly. It's about AI, artificial intelligence, the supercomputer and what it's done. And we're alike in a very positive way. What Callaway have done here is this idea of building bespoke product, bespoke club head, if you like, in terms of specific design to meet specific requirements. The Mac's product is the one that's got the draw bias. It's probably more traditional in this sort of MOI placed well at the back. It's going to be more for people at A, like I said. I've got a big slice in the game looking for that draw bias and B are looking for a bit of help and assistance in terms of launch. Again, AI has designed a specific club face for that sort of variable pattern, strike pattern that you might see for the type of player that might use this driver and the type of positions that they might hit on the club face. And again, looking to achieve ball speeds across that club face, which I think they've done very well and will get to the dry ball data soon. But I think the Mac's driver, the one thing you're looking for from it, it's very simple. Artificial intelligence has designed a product with face and head shape combined that's going to produce high ball speeds across the club face, very, very forgiving and assist with launch. And if you want those things, then this is going to be one to consider. You've heard the kind of the story behind these clubs in terms of AI and supercomputer and what it does. I think for me, I think everyone needs a story in terms of marketing, whether you then choose to believe the story or the hype wherever you want to call it is down to you. But I think it's important that Callaway get across a message of what work is going into these in terms of technology. And like I said, whether you believe it or not is then up to you. But what they've done with these faces, they're very much three individually designed club heads. And I think they're very specific to an individual swing requirements. They'll appeal to different levels. And I think that's a good thing. You know, these are very different clubs, but they do each perform very, very differently. There is no doubt about that at all. And that's to me is very, very important and it's key. But I say the same thing. I played this course for the last two days. I've largely been playing three wood off the tee and reviewing the three wood. But in terms of yardage gains in where we've all where I've landed so far that the club is and I've not seen dry ball data. Like I said, we'll get to that at the very end. But the club is performing really, really well. But not only is it doing is it traveling more importantly and finding fairways. And there's not a great deal sort of left and right. However, when I say found fairways, I just found a bunker with the max off the tee. But again, very positive from me at the moment with these clubs, I've got to say. That's a decent enough dig and a decent enough carry as well. It certainly shifted out there, but it did go down the left-hand side. And one of the things I want to mention about that left is that with the max, it's certainly draw bias. There's a bit of weight at the heel end as well as at the back. And it's slightly shut into the offset at address. And for me, on a personal level, it's a massively different overall profile and shape from that of the regular driver. Right, so overall summary for the performance of the max driver, both here I've carried on testing at Conway and obviously you've seen one from there in Amandoeira. It is an offset driver. It is a draw bias driver. You can swap those weights around. There's a 14 gram and a 2 gram, which will sort of change that slightly. But for me, as it stood, I did struggle to get it. It was going a bit left for me and a bit too shut, like I said for me on a personal level. But in terms of performance, dry ball data, again, it's kind of very consistent in the sort of mid-240 carry. It did spin higher. It was more that 3,000 revs a spin, which isn't too bad to be fair, but that did impact on the sort of carry distance. And we did have a sort of quite a high ball speed still at that 148 off 98 mile an hour, which is really a decent ball speed off of the clubhead speed and my swing speed. But we just lost a little bit in terms of carry distance with that balance of spin. And also launching in about 12 and a half, I think it was.  I've not got them. But the overall summary is this. Super product, very different in terms of sound and feel from other clubs that are out there at the moment. It's a more muted, softer sound. And in there are things that are going to appeal to you. Again, if you're looking for that draw bias, it's one for you. But overall, a very, very good product. AI is doing a good job. And it'll be interesting to see how much further this goes to develop bespoke head face designs for specific golfers and less about kind of our own adjustability and what we've seen in the clubhead designs in the past. Anyway, as ever, thank you for watching. The important thing is one simple message.  Right. I'll see you soon.


Hey, welcome to Wing Chun workouts today. We're going to do a seven-minute Wing Chun workout and exercise video It's only going to be seven minutes So get your stuff together and let's focus and we're going to do it without any equipment You can do this from home without any experience or training. So here we go exercise number one is the step and attack Step and punch technique. So we're going to get into our basic stance Hands up and we're going to step and punch step punch step punch step punch


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