to, uh, you know, person of interest in Bioracle to, you know, becoming the CTO at Cotabee, and as his role has changed, the types of things that he has to talk about in front of audiences has changed. And so I thought I would create a CTO-suitable presentation for Koski to give to us. Koski, Koski, do you think he will be able to do that? So, I thank you. All right. You know, I don't actually feel nervous about the talk, so I don't really see it. So, I'm going to be a king, right? I'm going to be Koski. I probably need to pronounce it right, but so far, with Oscars and Kosikis and all that, I'm doing the game KKK, right? He doesn't get anything, but I don't know. And he's still making mistakes. Koski, too. Yeah, machine learning, you know, it's also a thing, right? I mean, everyone's doing it. And so I'm not going to do it, so I don't know. Um, yeah, so machine learning, it's basically, like, what do you do about it? It's like, uh, the, uh, I'm always friendly, like, so I'm always friendly about it, but actually, all you need to do to get paid well in the next decade. So I pay attention to the city of Galvesty, those things. You know, actually, I did some machine learning at the graduate school. That was a part of the fun class. So, in a way, I feel like I picked the wrong course. I should not come into somewhere persistent to do job or external stuff or web services. I cannot stay in the university to do that. So, the monks, these monkeys are cute. I hope they came from, like, this region in Japan, that there's, like, a hot spring, the monkeys, like, and they enjoy coming together in the hot spring. And I discovered that in the warm horses, they do the same thing. So in Japan, they actually, they go into a hotel, you know, they can be hacked, and then in the evening, they can jump into this, like, a communal bus, and they'll all make it to the hotel. Um, yeah, so, um, when you can, you know, you can, it's awesome, it's a summer, it's a summer, I think that's a summer. So the sun had a great summer, you know, because at one point, the sun had invented this container, the fuel of the summer, so that before the docker came along. So I just kind of, kind of wish that we had a docker running in the summer inside the shipping container. And all that, and then all of those things had been complete. And the machinery, please. Um, so... Yeah, so they kind of came in, so that's what this kind of container is, so they're sitting around, and then, yeah, these are the bad guys that are playing. Um, yeah, so see, the stock is only, the stock is only on the easy side, because I'm excited. The bad guys can, like, hack us, that's pretty bad, right? Daniel can tell us all about that. So, like, you know, that's part of, like, the mission for the Jenkins Project, is to come up with these five-order tactics and make me feel I can do something here. Um... I have no idea what this is about. Oh, these are icons. So these handle project icons in the audience, and after the graphic designer with the Jenkins Project, like, no, I couldn't. So the first part of the Jenkins says, if you talk to icons from another project, and they're not available for the media, you can actually store these entirely on the source. So, actually, we do have something else, and that became the handle icon. So, because we have all these problems, we have a solution, like, a simple word for the solution, I think it would be... I was going to say Jenkins, but I bet it's going to be, like, a creeper. That's the solution. I think we got to do blockchain, and I mean it for real, because if you think about the fact that... I don't know, the company is doing the security, right? I'm sorry. Yeah, so, in all its case, all the time, the pointy-care bosses get angry. Super-angry, that's not good. In other words, it's kind of important to use a blockchain to make sure that everyone for the work they execute is left in the system. Am I doing it right? I think it's something like this, right? Plug-in. By the way, another, like, reference to the Japanese culture is kind of this, like, angry face, but that's used for the... Yeah, and then the other thing with blockchain and the microservices, I think, all these things that create Jenkins now they need to be split into the microservices. That's going to be a great service. Like, right now, in the ID scale of all state-based services, that can go down and nobody else will know this, right? And it's a creep process. I think I would like that there is something about the blockchain that I have to have. And then, yeah... This is in the future, right? It's all about, like, occasionally we say something, like, I say something that turns out to be correct and then I take credit for that. Most of the time I'm completely wrong. I try to take a quick... I try to take a quick hand around and talk to the people who don't know this. Yeah, so, actually, I have a friend, like, I used to do a small company with him, and he's now in the commercial sector. So, yeah, I think that's all about the future in the Jenkins project. Thank you very much. Jenkins and blockchain, you heard it here first.


Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with George Glacier from Western Uranium and Vanadium. George, it's great to see you at PDAC. Great to see you, Tracy. So you are almost production ready. Is that correct? That's right. We opened the mines and got them ready this summer. We're ready to go into production. As soon as the market turns a little bit, we'll be in production. Well, we're expecting the market to have a very positive feedback here this spring as we're waiting for the nuclear fuel working groups' latest recommendations. Any thoughts on this? Absolutely. You know, that should be out shortly. You know, I think that would be very positive and I think President Trump will act to preserve and to, you know, promote the U.S. industry. Of course, he already put, you know, into his proposed budget, you know, $150 million for this next fiscal year to be followed by, apparently, nine more years of that to buy U.S. Uranium, and we'll be one of the suppliers. So for those of you out there that are just looking at Uranium, if you heard that correctly, $1.5 billion in the budget over the next 10 years for U.S.-based Uranium. So what's the competitive asset or story with Western Uranium and Canadian George's? Tell our investor intel. Of course, you know, we've got the Sunday Mine Complex, which are five permitted Uranium mines that were produced as recently as 2010. We opened them last summer. They're ready to go into production. We actually mined ore. It's in the mine. We just finished building ore pads to move the ore to the outside and then ship it off for processing, obviously, to sell, you know, a good part of it, maybe to the U.S. government for the stockpile and for other customers. Well, of course, we are very committed to sustainability and issues such as, you know, building a stockpile. So what should shareholders, those of you that have been following you, and of course, you do have critical material of an ATM as well, what should we expect to say in the next quarter or two? Well, you know, I think what we're going to do is we're definitely going to move some ore out. We're going to send some samples to some Vanadium customers. They've been waiting for that around the world. So of course, Vanadium prices have fallen, you know, since the last year. But we think Vanadium is still a strong commodity and we've got very strong grades of Vanadium in the Sunday complex. Well, as always, it's a pleasure to see you, George. I hope you have a wonderful and successful trip here in Toronto at PDAC 2020. Thanks, Tracy. Always good to see you.


And basically this is the connection between wokeness, the success of woke culture, the success of cancel culture, and our legal system. Our legal system really since the 1960s and how, according to Hananya, basically woke culture and wokeness as he interpreted it and I'll give you, I'll give you his definition or his descriptions, not really definition. Wokeness is being set up in a sense it's kind of an inevitable consequence. And one of the things he observes right early in the article and again I recommend this is a substack, Richard Hananya spelt like it sounds Hananya. Richard identifies early on he says Republicans right now are primarily motivated, inspired by this idea of cancel culture and woke culture. But what are they suggest doing about it? And he says the end is to that is nothing other than talking about it. But they have no remedy, no political remedy, no remedy if you will in the law to fix it. All they do is talk about it. Indeed what Biden was passing his big stimulus package which basically spent, I don't know, $2 trillion and wasn't really stimulative. It expanded government control and government funding for a bunch of different things that you think Republicans would care about. They spent almost no time discussing it, not on Tucker, not on Fox, and not on the floor of the Senate. Republicans were distracted by Dr. Seuss. They were distracted by wokeness, they were distracted by cancel culture. And yet when you ask them what should we do about it, they harmonize and they talk about we should talk about it, we should discuss it. But they don't have a practical solution to cancel culture rooted in something they could do politically. Other than, by the way, other than we can respect, restrict free speech. That's their solution to woke culture is let's regulate, regulate big media, sorry, big tech. Let's go after Bezos so we can silent the Washington Post. Let's restrict free speech. That is the conservative answer to wokeness. And what Richard Hananya shows is no, there is a legal regulatory political origin to wokeness. And therefore you could start combating this cultural phenomena through the legal system. So as one of the women says, the Republican solution is to cancel the counselors, but that just buys into the cancer into the cancer culture that just legitimizes cancer culture. Hananya suggests that there's something deeper going on here. There's something deeper in the legal system, in the political system, and therefore there are things a Republican president can do that would at least start changing the debate. And as he argues, it's taken 50 years, 50 years, yeah, 50 years to get to the point where we are today from where the initial momentum started, 50 something years, it might take a few decades and do this, but at least you'd get a start. And you have to start again in the legal system. So here, so I think this is an incredibly important article. Now again, it's not philosophical. It doesn't deal with the philosophical roots of, of wokeness and it doesn't deal with the philosophical question about free speech or the philosophical questions around racism and discrimination, the philosophical questions around postmodernism and why critical race theory or critical theory and why any of this could come to the forefront. It deals with the legal political issues. All right. So, why are you here?  And she comes on to insult, so here's her insulting question. Like we didn't know you'd cook up an excuse to de-cuse DeSantis or anyone else who fights the left. DeSantis is not fighting the left. DeSantis is fighting free speech. DeSantis is fighting for authoritarian power. DeSantis in his latest bill that basically would penalize social media for, for dumping a politician is basically, basically, you know, declaring politicians special. He has everything that the constitution of the United States is not. He has everything that the founders were not. Yes, he's a, just based on this one bill. He's a bad guy. This is a bad, bad, bad bill. This is not fighting the left. This is buying into the left's premises and accelerating authoritarianism. Have you ever declared any Democrat disqualified for president? Yeah, all of them basically. Have I ever liked a Democrat as president? No. Have I ever endorsed a Democrat for president? No. Have I ever thought a Democrat was qualified to be president? No. But because I was anti-Trump, and because now I guess I'm anti-DeSantis, at least on this one issue, I am a lover of the left, obviously. God get a brain, Ann. All right. So let's go back to, let's go back to Richard Hananya, who's, this is, this is quite, this is quite, again, an excellent article. All right. So he wants the first, he wants the first to find, and you got to give credit to anybody who first wants to describe what it is that he's talking about. He says, what is it that defines or describes Wokeness? So he says he thinks there are three components to Wokeness, three components. The first component is, and I'm quoting the article, I believe that any disparities in outcome favoring whites or males over non-whites, over women are caused by discrimination. So the idea that inequality of outcome is, can only be caused by discrimination. That's point number one in Wokeness, and he acknowledges that he's not here dealing with all the other issues like LGBTQ and so on. He's just sticking to the main ones, race and sex. Number two, so that's one. Any disparities of outcome, any outcome, that there's disparities between races or sexes has to be because of discrimination. Number two, the speech of those who would argue against this number one, the speech that would argue against discrimination is always being the cause, should be restricted, should be banned, in the interest of overcoming the disparities. And of course, we have to, we have to take care of the emotional state of those who might be offended by anything we might say. So the safety and emotional war being of the so-called victimized group, the group that outcomes are less of and therefore must be discriminated against. And number three, we must create bureaucracies that reflect point one and point two. So the bureaucracies that are working through the law, through the legal system or through the private system, we'll see how this affects the private world, to overcome disparities and manage, manages a nice word, manage speech and social relations so that people don't get offended and so that we can keep the workplace such that people can overcome these disparities. They don't have to give in to it. Now, I think this is a great breakdown, right? So the first is all discriminate, all disparities are caused by discrimination. Second is you can't claim otherwise. You cannot claim otherwise. Speech that claims otherwise, arguments that claim otherwise, should be banned. And three, we need to establish bureaucracies in the public and private sector in order to make sure the disparities don't exist anymore and that we cannot speak about them to the extent that they do exist. Or we cannot speak about them or assign causes to them that are not about discrimination to the extent that they continue to exist. And I know that all of this is how the world culture works, right? There's a difference in, I don't know, we talked about education and walkness. There's a difference in test results between black kids and white kids. It must be discrimination. But maybe it has something to do with what? With the quality of the schools. Oh, you can't say that. That's insulting to the schools. And even if it is the quality of the schools, the quality of the schools are determined by discrimination. And if you don't believe that, because science doesn't show that, then we don't want to hear you, you're obviously a racist, be quiet, and we're going to silence you. Walkness in healthcare, different outcomes in healthcare, different achieving different things in healthcare, that must be because of discrimination between men, women, doctors, maybe of different races. That must be discrimination. We must silence and we must build bureaucracies to stop this. Now, this sounds new and you could, walkness seems to be people want to date walkness to around 2010. It seems like the people who look into this kind of the history of walkness attribute the rise of walkness to the internet and to social media. The speed at which it happens, the easy silencing, the cancer culture can happen over social media. Maybe that's true. But the fact is that all of these attributes, the discrimination, the silencing, the bureaucracy, all can be traced back to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination based on race and gender. And Congress, at that time, basically thought, well, this will basically remove explicit discrimination, intended discrimination, and it'll be easy and we'll get over it. And that's it. Courts and regulators since 1964 have basically expanded the concept of non-discrimination to mean almost anything that advantages one group over another. So, well before cancer culture, well before white fragility and white guilt, the idea that discrimination could apply to any advantaged group or disadvantaged group was already starting to be instituted into law. In a watershed case, it's called Griggs versus Duke Power in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that intelligent tests, because they were not shown to be directly related to job performance, could not be used in hiring since blacks go lower on them. And it did not matter whether there was any intent to discriminate. So from 1971 on, it doesn't matter in your hiring practice whether you intend to discriminate. The only thing that matters is is the outcome unbalanced. This is called the doctrine, the doctrine of disparate impact. That is, if a particular rule, a particular test, a particular activity, results in disparate impact. That is, this results in different outcomes. It is by definition discriminatory and must be banned. So, for example, criminal background checks, it turns out, disproportionately prevent blacks from being hired because they tend to have more criminal offenses, more crime sheets. This is a case that the Trump administration settled with dollar generals for six million dollars. So even the Trump administration basically litigated this. The Obama administration went after scores for disciplining black and white students at different rates. It didn't turn out very well. Police departments, fire departments, other institutions use gender norm tests, you know, gender norm tests, tests that both men and women can pass, so that the test cannot be accused of discriminating. I'm sure the criminals, the criminals can be relied on, you know, Richard Wright to go easy on female cops on account of their sex. So the idea is that the law, the law that we live with, the law that we've been living with for 50 years, basically says that if a test you give results in disparate outcomes, you are then guilty of discrimination and you can be sued in courts and in the court as the lawsuit of the Trump administration, again, dollar against dollar general shows. And there is a financial cost to this. Now, once this was in place, this of course started to expand beyond government into the private sector. Initially it was just, it kind of applied to government, but it started expanding into the private sector. Executive order, 11246. I didn't even know this was an executive order, but this is an executive order, 11246. Signed by President Johnson, right? So 1967, eight. It required all government contractors and subcontractors who did over $10,000 in government business to quote and notice the language, take affirmative action. This is where the concept of affirmative action comes from. Take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Sex was actually added later in 1969, Richard Nixon, a Republican, signed executive order 11478, which forced affirmative action onto the federal government itself. So from 1969, affirmative action applies to the government and to basically all of government contractors. Now, what does, what is discriminating, right? What does it mean that employees be treated during employment without regard to their race? How do we tell? Well, again, we look at outcomes. We look at outcomes. Affirmative action assumed that but for discrimination, statistical parity among racial and ethnic groups would be the norm. So if you take out discrimination, if they're 40% blacks in the population in a particular city and 40% whites and 20% Hispanics, then that would be, that would be their distribution in every job in that community. And if it's not, then the cause must be discrimination. Affirmative action says, if the burden is on you, the employer, to show that you made every effort to match that demographic. So here you see the government instituting into the legal system and therefore into the culture and into behaviors of businesses. The idea that outcome is what matters, not your intent, not whether you actually discriminated or not, but what matters is outcome. And if the outcome isn't even on matching the population, then you have discriminated and you are liable. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist roads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show.  There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this, and you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. 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In recent days, Dollywood has sent out a survey inquiring about a possible new major roller coaster to come in the future. This is some really exciting news here, so stay tuned and let's talk about this. In a recent survey, Dollywood proposed plans for a new coaster in the future. We have three options that they presented to us.  This is really big news as Dollywood has been investing a ton of money into the park and making some really big expansions. As we all know, Wildwood Grove is opening this year a whole new, emersively themed section of the park and it includes Dragonflyer, which is a suspended family coaster by Vekoma. Dollywood has got a lot of additions in recent years, including some really major thrill coasters. We have Lightning Rod now and Wild Eagle opened in 2012. And Dollywood is quickly becoming a must-do destination for coaster enthusiasts if it wasn't already with Lightning Rod alone. So when you have a lineup that has Lightning Rod, Thunderhead, and Tennessee Tornado, and even Wild Eagle, and you're talking about adding another major coaster into the mix, there's really a lot to sink your teeth into here, along with everything else that Dollywood offers. Let's discuss the hyper coaster first. Right off the bat, I think the hyper coaster would be the most easily marketable to the general public. These rides are huge. They provide great thrills. And these B&M hypers also are known for being pretty graceful, which is good for the general public too. It's not going to be super intense and full of ejector airtime like something along the lines of Lightning Rod is. So this would provide a good contrast. It'd be huge, big, tall, fast ride. The general public would just love. But it would also appeal to a lot of people because it wouldn't be too intense, have some nice floater airtime. And this would be awesome for the park. Taking into consideration that there is a lot of hilly land at Dollywood and most of the coasters utilize the terrain. This would make an amazing hyper coaster, honestly, because this would pretty much certainly have to use the terrain in some way. So that would be pretty exciting. The next option we're going to talk about here is an indoor coaster. Now, this is very unclear as to what manufacturer would create this ride. The slide describes it as a two to four minute thrill experience with high level theming, lots of elaborate scenes, story sections of the ride, animatronics, lots of lighting and projection mapping. So we're talking about a very immersive, very story based thrill ride here. And in the slide, there are pictures of three totally different rides from three manufacturers. A Vakoma and Intamin and Azir. So these are all very different rides, but they all have an immersive storytelling aspect to them. This could be quite interesting for Dollywood. And from what I hear, I've heard from several people that Dollywood really needs some more indoor rides, especially seeing as it, you know, it does get cold in the winter and they're open for Christmas and they could really use something like this. So it would make a lot of sense to see something like this come to the park. The last option here we're going to talk about is the spinning coaster. This is a really exciting one as well. In the slide, we have pictures of Time Traveler, which opened in 2018 and it's a very exciting, very, very well received mock spinning coaster, a thrill spinning coaster and versions, launches, big drops. So very exciting experience here. This would make a lot of sense for Dollywood because their sister park, Silver Dollar City, a lot of times, you know, they'll add similar things to Dollywood. So this would make a lot of sense in that aspect and it would also be a very marketable ride. You know, being only the second one in America, there's nothing else like this around that area. Not even any type of spinning coaster in that area of the United States. The slide says this would include a big drop to begin the ride, high speeds, different ride experience every time, which we know that controlled spin on Time Traveler, it always provides a different experience. But it also allows the ride to not be too intense, it appeals to a lot of people. So it's a very marketable ride, but also very thrilling and it would get a lot of people's attention. It'd be really appealing. And I think this would be an amazing fit for the park. It would most definitely use some of the terrain like we talked about. I would not be surprised at all to see a spinning coaster come to Dollywood next, although a hyper coaster would make a lot of sense to all three of these options here. I'm sure we'll see at some point in the next 10 years or so at the park because they all really do make a lot of sense and I'm sure at some point they'll get every one of these models. But what do you guys think is coming next to Dollywood? I know there's a lot of exciting possibilities here. The future is looking really bright for Dollywood. They've got a whole new Immersively themed section. Lightning Ride just opened three years ago. There's being a lot of money put into this park, a lot of money. So it's going to be really exciting to see what kind of direction Dollywood goes into the future. Obviously they're going into a more thrill-based direction, but also retaining that family audience and appealing to a lot of people. And they have a really well-rounded lineup of coasters so far and it looks like they're just looking to improve upon that and build that even more. Dollywood has two elite coasters already in Lightning Ride and Thunderhead, which are two really unique rides, very well received by enthusiasts. And along with great supporting rides like Tennessee Tornado, which a lot of people rank fairly highly, and then there's some awesome family coasters too. And Wild Eagle, which is just a good looking fun, not very intense coaster that has a lot of inversions that really appeals to the public. And then really great supporting family coasters like Fire Chaser Express. And now we have Dragonflyer opening in 2019, which is a great looking ride for sure. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below about what you think Dollywood is going to be receiving next in terms of a new coaster. I believe we could see a new coaster at Dollywood as early as 2021. I'm sure they're not going to wait around too long to add something major. It looks like they're really looking to kick things into really high gear and to expand the park even further. I want to know your guys' thoughts, so make sure you like, comment, subscribe, and all that. Thank you guys so much. I'm coming right up on 300 subscribers right now. And you guys are all amazing, very supportive. And thank you so much for sticking around and watching my videos. I can't thank you enough. Be sure to stay tuned. I'll have more exciting videos coming in in the near future. Thanks for watching. This is CoasterDaddy.


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Hello, I'm Bob Greeny. I've lived in Amherst for 24 years. I've had four children go through the Amherst public school system. And I've served on town meeting for about 12 of those years. I'm running for select board in support of democracy. I strongly believe in the power and efficacy of participatory democracy. Government of the people, by the people, for the people. Elections in Amherst too often go uncontested. Last year I ran for select board against two otherwise unopposed incumbents. At the same time I ran for school committee against one otherwise unopposed incumbent. Democracy by voting alone is an anemic and weak democracy. Voting for an unopposed incumbent is no democracy at all. After 10 years of having no suitable choice in select board elections, I decided I should run. The select board can and should be an effective executor of the will of the people. If the people are divided, the select board should cultivate consensus and coordinate collective wisdom. Many failures assigned to town meeting are actually failures of the select board, the planning board, or the school committee. Recent votes on the school and library are good examples. If the people, that is the general public, are not involved in a meaningful and participatory manner in the early stages of planning of any large town-wide initiative, then rejection by town meeting should not be a surprise. Town meeting is a broad representative governing body of all people. I run for the select board to change this flawed planning and policy-making process that provokes division. I run for the select board to cultivate consensus and coordinate the collective wisdom of all the people. The select board makes or approves appointments to many important and influential boards and committees. It is important that those appointments include people with a diversity of views and perspectives. This is one of the many and important ways the select board can put participatory democracy into practice. Economic development needs to be holistic and consistent with our shared values. Economic development should benefit the people. Not just in indirect and hard-to-measure side effects, but it should have a clear and direct benefit. The benefit to the people should be obvious and exceed any benefit to the private sector or corporate entities. If this is not possible, then the town itself should engage in public development projects. The current paradigm of privatization is not able to realize public benefit and proper proportion. I run for the select board to see new and creative housing initiatives that address the broad range of unmet needs in our town. I run for the select board to propose a fresh approach to economic development that is modeled on principles of permaculture. I run for the select board to promote a higher standard of participatory democracy, government of the people by the people. I am Bob Greeny running to participate in this election process to offer another point of view for voters to consider and hopefully in some small manner to contribute to a positive, constructive, civic dialogue in the enhancement of the democratic process.


And thank you everybody else here on the call for being interested in philanthropy force and how we might help people find the right consultant for their nonprofit. So who am I? I'm Sean Hale. I've been doing nonprofit administration nuts and bolts for more than 20 years now by day. I'm a consultant now for the past year and a half. I help nonprofits build strong administrative functions. So finance, HR, IT, those sorts of things. And I'm also the co-founder of philanthropy force. And that's a tool that helps nonprofits find their next consultant online. We already have hundreds of consultants listed and it's free to nonprofits. And well, let's dig in. How do we find the right consultant for your nonprofit? Cause that is a question that we get a lot from nonprofits and from foundation leaders. And when they're not telling us that they want to have more options for the nonprofits, they are telling, and because they're not getting enough through word of mouth, they're asking us how do they vet their candidate pools so they can really be sure they're getting the right match? And folks, one quick note. You don't need to worry about taking notes today. If you don't want to, we're going to be publishing all the content from today's presentation in a series of three articles on the philanthropy force website very soon. And I'm happy to send you an advanced copy of those articles. Just send me an email. My email address will pop up at the end. And I'd be happy to share that with you if you don't want to take extensive notes. And I do want to do just a really quick legal disclaimer and basically please don't sue us. This is good general information, but a key component of that can be bringing in a professional if you want to make sure that you kind of identify and manage exceptions to that. For example, in most nonprofits, a margarita machine in the office on Fridays might be a great way to boost staff morale, but it might really backfire at an organization like Mothers Against Drunk Driving. So one of the things we're going to skip over is this poll that's really for a nonprofit. So it's everybody here as a consultant. So why would a nonprofit want to move beyond word of mouth? Well, one reason is money, right? If you're going to spend, you know, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000, you want to get a great match, right? For your nonprofit, not just a match. And why wouldn't we want to just keep going with a friend's reference? Well, a good match from your friend might not be the best match for your nonprofit. Every nonprofit is unique and has unique needs. And there is a nice, there's a beautiful sea and ocean of consultants out there. And so you can, with the right search, find some, several that are highly tuned to what your nonprofit really needs. And some of you might be wondering over the course of this presentation, well, why would a nonprofit want to do all this extra work, right? Because like doing vetting and thinking about these stuff, instead of just going with that recommendation for my friend, that's extra work. Well, there are a lot of reasons. And some of those you'll see woven throughout the presentation. But near the top of the list is that human beings, so all of us, we have a lot of biases. And those biases all too often lead us to make poor choices. For example, we human beings, we tend to favor the person that gives us warm fuzzies. And warm fuzzies, that is a great criteria for picking friends and for picking romantic partners. But warm fuzzies are usually not the best criteria to use for a match for a consulting gig, unless maybe it's a fundraiser. But sometimes even then, that should just be one criteria among many. And so we have good processes, like the processes we're gonna talk about today to help us acknowledge and reduce our bias. So we can make good decisions when we're out there looking for the right consultant. And those making the decisions that way, using these tools is gonna give you great fruits in the long run on your searches and on your consulting engagements. So first step, defining your project, right? And by answering questions like, who, what, when, where, why, and how, that's gonna increase your odds of actually finding the right consultant when you know the answers to that in advance. And PS on larger projects, think about hiring a consultant to actually help you figure out all the project details. You might not be very well versed in strategic plans and even what goes into making an awesome strategic plan. And so a good consultant, you can bring them in for a limited basis to help you design that and make sure you're asking all the right questions internally and to help you really understand the problem and the opportunity. And because very often, the problem or the opportunity end up being somewhat different from what you thought originally when you engage somebody who's living this, who's working in that area day to day. The next thing you wanna do is to dive into the project details, right?  Specific, what is it that we'd want to accomplish and why is this goal important? M, measurable, right? How much, how will we measure success, right? Is success a finished website? Is it a 50 page plan? Is it mission clarity? A stands for achievable. Is this whole project, is it realistic? And have we accounted for things like financial and other constraints? R stands for relevant, right? Is this goal consistent with the nonprofit's mission, values, and strategic plan? And finally, T, time-bound. When are we supposed to finish this thing? Of course, activities, you wanna start naming what activities might go into this. It doesn't have to be perfect. You may not know all the activities up front, but start to name those as you're building out your kind of project description, your budget, right? How much money do you anticipate this is gonna cost? And have you done a little bit of research to get a sense of what it might cost? Financing, this is a really important detail for you and also for the consultants who you start engaging with to be able to communicate. Is the financing already secured? Is it partially raised? Is none of it raised? That's part of good communication with everybody. Timeline, right? What are the major dates, the major milestones in this project? Do you have a hard and fast date that you need something delivered on July 1st or is December okay? Organizational roles. Knowing and naming and being really clear about who has decision-making power? Who has advisory power? Who's gonna be the point of contact for the consultants? Things like that. Naming as much of that as possible in advance. And also what is the consultants role? Because different consultants bring different things to the table. Are you looking for an advisor? Some of them do analysis or research for you? Someone to diagnose? Someone to propose solutions? Someone to implement solutions? Something else being clear about that role can help you find the right consultant and help also that consultant find you. And folks, the list on this page, it's not comprehensive. You don't always need every single thing on this page. And there are probably things that you might need that aren't on this page. For example, I get hired to provide ongoing financial advisory to nonprofits, among other things that I do. And a traditional timeline really doesn't come into play a whole lot. There's a monthly block of time that I dedicate to each of those clients. And folks, as a nonprofit, you wanna share these details freely internally and also when you're reaching out to applicants. Because these are the kinds of things that help those great matches happen when you start saying who you are and what it is you're looking for. You also want to define in advance what criteria you're looking for in a consultant, right? And you wanna do this before you begin publicizing or doing the search, because otherwise, how do you know what you're looking for, right? And it might include things like skills and credentials, experience in the field, number of years of consulting, emotional intelligence, personal lived experience can be very, very important, right? It might be a critical ingredient for this consultant to have meaningful lived experience with the population that you serve. Affinity for your mission, right? Do they, you need somebody who can demonstrate that they understand or maybe even love and articulate or can at least articulate your mission. How important might that be that they be deep into the K-12 space or whatever your issue or area is? Location, must they be local? And if so, why? Or is a regional or national consultant okay? If you cast the net bigger, you can have more opportunities to find somebody who's an awesome match, but sometimes you truly need somebody who understands your community, even things at the neighborhood level sometimes. Can they do the work remotely? Does it need to be on site? You might need somebody who plays well with others. Sometimes that's less important, but sometimes it's critical and forthrightness. Do you need somebody who's gonna speak hard truths when necessary or is it okay to have somebody who might sugarcoat the message? Different projects are gonna call for different skills in different areas. And I wanna pause here and make a special note about unicorns because unicorns are magical, beautiful creatures. They have magical powers. They perform miracles. And sometimes I've seen over and over again actually how nonprofits sometimes expect to get a unicorn. And that's totally a reasonable expectation if you as a nonprofit have a magical treasure chest, right? And yes, you can hire a unicorn consultant, somebody who's gonna check all the boxes and does all the hard work for you and it's perfect in every way. But if that doesn't happen to describe your nonprofit, be sure to prioritize your criteria. That's gonna be the case for 99% of us, right? You wanna know what criteria are required to have and which ones are preferred, just nice to have. And you wanna do this now before you meet any consultants, before you even reach out to anybody because doing this is also gonna help you to acknowledge, manage and minimize bias. And it's also gonna help you to manage your own expectations. So a key tool in the search for your next consultant is the evaluation matrix. And this is kind of like a scorecard, right? It helps you to compare apples to apples because this helps you to use the same criteria for each candidate and thus helps you to minimize bias, right? Because we should plan to have multiple applicants. Now, some of you might be asking yourselves, why would we wanna minimize bias, right? Or remember, we humans are biased and earlier I talked about that person who gives us warm fuzzies or maybe we'll wanna, we also have a tendency to pick the person who we wanna have a coffee with because they're just so fun and exciting. Too often, we humans also have more serious unconscious bias as well. And research has shown that we often judge people unfairly because of such things as physical appearance, age, gender, national origin. So those are all reasons why we want to take these extra steps to reduce the bias so we can actually get the right consultant end up in a process where we get the right consultant in the room with us, right? And again, we wanna do this now because after we start seeing applications, bias can start creeping in, for example. Maybe you notice that one of the consultants went to the same university you did, or maybe they went to a rival university. That can have unconscious or sometimes even conscious bias, right? And creating these things together, right? Your consultant criteria, your matrix and also developing your interview questions can help make sure that you are minimizing your bias and that you are kind of treating apples to apples with these consultants as much as possible. So this evaluation matrix, it might look like the image that you're seeing on the screen right now. This is one that we've created. I'm happy to email it to you and we'll be posting it on Plantherforce shortly, but I can email it to you today if you like. And the basic idea is that across the top row, you're gonna be putting in your, plugging in your required skills and experience, also your preferred skills and experience. Along the left-hand side, you're gonna plug in the different candidates who've applied and you're gonna be using a number system to help you really confirm which of these consultants has the required skills and experience, those who do, great. Now we'll look at your preferred, you move forward in the process and we're gonna look at your preferred skills and experience and okay, we'll end up with hopefully two or three or four that we're gonna move on to the interview stage. So that's kind of how that works and we're happy to provide more information on that, digging into that a little bit more offline. Or during question and answer. The next step in your process, and again, this is before you go out and launch your search, is getting buy-in from your stakeholders, right? This includes your program participants, right? The people that you serve, especially if they're gonna be involved in this project, you wanna get them involved because the more that they have a real voice, you're gonna get better program design and better participation from them. And also you wanna be sure that you get buy-in from your key decision makers, right? Whether it's board or executive director or key staff, funders. The last thing you wanna do is spend dozens and dozens and dozens of hours finding the right person and then have a critical decision maker deny support at the last minute, right? And I'm not telling you necessarily need 100% buy-in or 100% consensus, but at minimum, you need a critical mass and you need to know the way of the land on these things. A lot of people ask, should we do a request for proposals or not? And the answer really is it depends. And more often you'll see that with bigger projects where more details required, more formality, budgets of 50,000 and above. However, it's really important that you keep in mind as a nonprofit that requiring a full RFP can create a real barrier to entry. Many of the most qualified and most experienced consultants will not participate in an open RFP process. Why you might ask yourselves? Well, for one, it's a big time investment and these folks, they don't necessarily wanna compete against dozens and dozens of other proposals because that means there's a low chance of payoff. Also, if you as a nonprofit are allowing dozens of proposals and you're just kind of broadcasting this opportunity everywhere, that signals to them very often that you haven't done your homework to find good potential matches, right? This also usually means that there's not a discovery process for the consultant. So it's hard for the consultants to understand your nonprofit, your unique challenges and your unique opportunities. And finally, why do so many experienced qualified consultants ignore RFPs because the winner is frequently the lowest bidder rather than the best match? And so why bother to put your best foot forward if the job is gonna go to the lowest bidder anyway? So what can you do instead? Instead of an RFP, if you have a big project consider doing a targeted approach. Identify four, five, six consultants who look like a strong match. So do research upfront and we'll talk about this a little bit more in a minute. Do some research upfront, find four or five, six good candidates, reach out to them personally and share those project details with them, right? And you can do it by email. You don't need a beautiful printed presentation like on the screen, email's great. Invite this person to be one of a handful of hand-picked candidates to put in a proposal. An approach like this it's gonna get you greater appreciation from the consultants. It's gonna start to build a positive relationship with them from day one. It's gonna be better for your reputation as a nonprofit and it's gonna get you more participation from those highly experienced candidates and ultimately better matches. So let's talk about the search, right? We've put all those other things in place. We have all of our ducks in our there we're ready to dig in on the search. And the best thing I can tell you to start off with is to cast a big net. If you wanna get the best candidate need to start with a big pool of candidates. So you have that best choice, a best opportunity of getting an excellent match. We're gonna skip this little poll here and talk about nonprofit consultant directories. And here in Texas, we don't have a regional one. A lot of other states do. I know there's one in Colorado and there are some in a lot of other states have one associated with their state nonprofit association. There are also some national ones I wanna mention really quick. Philanthrophorus, full disclosure. I'm a co-founder of Philanthrophorus. You also have CGT and non-profitists. All these reach out to a national audience and those are all good places to cast your net and see who you can get into your, who might be a good match for your nonprofit, right? Where else might you search? Professional groups are a great spot, right? You have informal professional groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. Some of them are organized by specialty and others by region, but that can be a great place for you to reach out and get the word out. You also have formal professional groups, things like the association of fundraising professionals or the grant professionals association. Those are great places for you to find good candidates. And of course, there are your personal networks, right?  You wanna be sharing this opportunity with all of them if what you're doing is trying to build a big pool of candidates. So now you have your big pool of candidates. How are you gonna narrow the field, right? And folks, I wanna give you a special tip here, pro tip.   Because again, you may have feelings about unconscious or unconscious about people with certain names, people who live on a certain side of town, people who might have gone to a certain university. And so by crossing those things out, it increases opportunities of getting the right match and this unconscious bias not finding its way into our processes. And so you're gonna use the matrix that you created to screen those resumes, right? See who has the required criteria, move them along to the next stage and you see which of those remaining ones have a good amount of the preferred criteria and among those you're gonna advance two, three, four, five to the interview phase. So now we're at the interview phase and to get the best match, you really do wanna continue to compare apples to apples. You wanna continue to be mindful about unconscious bias and you're gonna have a matrix in questions for the interview stage as well, very similar to the matrix that you developed for the resume review stage. And you'll want to, again, if you're really serious about minimizing bias and getting the best candidate, you'll use the same panel for every interview, right? The same people, because if somebody's in like half the interviews and not the other half, how are they gonna really be helpful comparing apples to apples if they've only seen half the apples, right? So you'll wanna get the time on everybody's calendars well in advance and continue to use the same matrix, the same questions for every candidate. Here's another quick pro tip for you. Ideally, you'll get an HR professional to help you design interview questions so that you can avoid illegal, irrelevant or unhelpful questions like, when were you born? Cause that can lead to age discrimination or have you ever been arrested? Because arrested is not the same as a conviction and so many arrests are not even relevant to the job. Questions like, are you a US citizen? Which can lead to discrimination based on national origin? Questions like, do you have a disability? That can get you into trouble with the ADA or family status, right? Are you pregnant? Things like that. There are those questions in many more you never wanna ask, especially in an interview. And an HR professional can help you avoid those. And if there is some element in there that is important to you, to help you tease out what's important there and get that into your process rather than the discriminatory kinds of questions. Like maybe you need somebody who can be available to take a call at any time. Well, great. That's the question you need to ask. Not, do you have children? Another pro tip for you. And this is also a very, very strong request. Speak frankly about the organization's weaknesses and challenges because the consultant's gonna figure it out sooner or later anyway. So what happens if you don't tell them up front? It's gonna damage trust. And you might not end up with the right match, right? And so your consultant might walk away once they find these secrets out. They might walk away halfway through the engagement because they don't have the skill for now an engagement that's changed because it involves firefighting or they might not have the enthusiasm to do it even if they have the skills or they might walk away because you broke trust with them and they're gonna think what other surprises are coming for me, right? If you're still not sure about whether or not it's a good idea to lay all the cards out there, especially with your finalist consultants. Think about the time that this has happened, I think just about everybody, the times where you or a friend went into a new employment situation and whether it was day one, week one or month one, you found some ugly skeletons in the closet. How did you feel? What did that do for your warm fuzzies about that employment situation? So final steps, right? So we narrowed it down to one, maybe two candidates at this point, right? Because we went through the interviews, we did a great job. So we wanna check references on folks, right? And so go back to that same metrics and you're gonna change that out for questions you wanna ask the person's references, standardized questions again, so we can do apples to apples. And ideally you'll have the consultant give you references from similar organizations and or similar projects, background checks. You only wanna do those if they're necessary. And sometimes those are necessary, right? If they're gonna be dealing with HIPAA protected data or financial data, they're gonna be dealing with vulnerable populations like children, then yes, by all means to a background check. But it's really important to consider the context of that background check, right? For example, let's say the background check comes back on somebody, criminal background check and turns out that they have a 20 year old DWI. And this is somebody that you're thinking about hiring for bookkeeping support. There's no relationship between that DWI 20 years ago and then being able to do a good job as a bookkeeper. However, a DWI from two months ago for somebody you're considering to be a driver's safety instructor, that could be really relevant. So again, think through the context really clearly. Oh, there's some kind of conviction here. They're not qualified because too often good people get left out because of not having really good consideration at that stage. Now it's time for the contract, right? Because you've got your finalist, you checked the references, now it's crystal clear this is the right person for you. This is a big milestone in your project, congratulations. There's still more work to do, right?  So you as a nonprofit, you wanna be sure that you maintain timely thorough communication that you continue to speak honestly with them, especially around things, weaknesses that might be relevant to the project. You wanna be welcoming to this consultant and you wanna be sure to treat them with dignity and respect. And I kind of have to say these things because sometimes nonprofits forget them. And of course, one more thing here. Please remember to send a brief thank you note to all the applicants just to, you know, close up the circle of communication to let them know that you have found somebody, thank you for applying that kind of thing. You wanna do this because it's good courtesy of course but it also it helps your reputation as a professional and as a nonprofit. The consultant is a lot more likely to speak better about you in the community. So that's important. And they're a lot more likely to apply for future opportunities, right? Because so many of them, they might not have been the right match for this particular gig. They might be the right match for the next one and they probably have friends who might be good matches for the next one. And so you wanna maintain that goodwill all around.  Does your organization value justice, equity, diversity and inclusion? Or maybe you're intrigued by all the studies that show how diverse teams get better results or maybe you feel strongly like we do at philanthropy force that everyone deserves a seat at the table. If you meet any of those criteria or just are curious, we're gonna be publishing a third article in our series on how to hire the right consultant. This one is written by Sherylen Payton. She's a specialist in diversity, equity and inclusion. And this article is gonna help you intentionally weave justice, equity, diversity and inclusion practices into your next consultant search. And just send me an email and I'm happy to share those articles with you and also the evaluation matrix. And there's my email address, hail at philanthropyforce.org, P-H-I-L-A-N-T-H-R-O-F-O-R-C-E.O-R-G. And hey, I'm done. It's time for questions and answers. So I'm looking at the chat here. Let's see, consultants represent. Yes, knowing your audience is a good thing. Good. Eli jumped out. Got it. Number one question I get from my event attendees is where would I find a consultant who could? Yeah, yeah. Good, good, good. So did we answer everybody's questions? Sarah, Debra? Hi, sorry. I'm trying to think. I'm going back through. I grabbed some notes from some of your points you made earlier, but all of those are like, oh, that's a good point. Oh, I hadn't thought of it that way. And I honestly don't have any follow-up questions on any of them. Wow, thorough presentation. Okay, I can check that box off. This was the world premiere of that presentation. Really? I think it's very complete. Thank you, thank you. See, Debra wrote in the box. Thank you for bringing in DEI and Justice. So relevant. Yes, thank you. Yeah, that was an insight we got early on. We've continued to kind of gather feedback and support from people we've interacted with. And so it's a road for philanthropists, right? I can't tell you that we have figured out the whole thing, but we're certainly trying to weave that into the work that we are doing and help nonprofits weave that into their work as well as they seek to interact with good consultants. Okay. Do we get out early? Am I gonna go have lunch before my next call? Yeah, we can wrap, right? Okay, we'll give, that sounds good to me then. So Sarah, Debra, thank you both for being here today. And I'd be happy to hear from either of you afterwards. So just, yeah, reach out and thank you again. Thank you so much. It was great to meet you. Yeah, bye-bye. Bye.


Okay, so now the chapter. So if there is a neuron in this part, okay, this is an experiment which has, you know, commonly discussed in detail. Let's call them S1 and S2. Okay, these two slits is on this plane. Okay, so light will come from here. This screen and this is D. And this is D, there is a screen. And we observe the things that happens on the screen. Okay, now if light is a particle, then what are the things you can expect in spot and here right spot. Okay, and here should be what? Dark spot. Fine. This is how it should be. But what turns out is that this is the brightness. It turns out that this is what is expected out of it. It is a small size. It's a small size. It's not fixed. Okay, so here you observe complete brightness in this experiment. This distance is small d. Distance between the slits is small d. And one more thing, very large compared to small d. Because it's an experiment. D has to be, capital D has to be very large compared to small d. Okay. Any doubt on S1 and S2? It is a point source difference. So these two ways, then you are going to see the image. Similarly, you have this screen over here. So whatever happens on the screen, you are going to see it and observe it. Fine. So like this, the situation is very nice. Now some of the difference between S1 and S2 when they have started. These are two coherent sources with zero part difference. How do you create such source to coherent sources with zero part difference? So it will generate ways and these two ways for reaching S1 and S2. So there is no part difference. And since it is coming, so assume that this distance is small d and capital D between this way and that way. Find out and this will be d. So what is d1 minus d2? Let's say l1 and l2. That is better. Find out l1 minus l2. How much? Whole square.


Energy conservation is becoming increasingly important in today's world, with governments and businesses alike looking for ways to reduce their energy consumption. One way to do so is through thermomodernization or deep renovation of existing buildings to make them more energy efficient. This process involves replacing old systems with new ones that use less energy, such as compressor heat pumps and photovoltaic panels. By doing so, energy savings of up to 80% have been achieved, resulting in significant cost savings over time. This case study examines one such project in Poland, where a school building underwent thermomodernization. The results showed that the building's energy efficiency improved dramatically, leading to substantial cost savings. Additionally, the project reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 74%. This article was authored by Anna Barwinska-Malajowicz, Radoslav Pyrek, Christoph Siksaka, and others.


Today we're opening the most hyped Yu-Gi-Oh! set of 2023, Photon Hypernova. What's up guys? We're back with another new Yu-Gi-Oh! opening. Photon Hypernova is here, and this set is supposed to be crazy, especially up the ban list.  There's a lot of great cards in here, so let's just go ahead and crack into this. So as we're cracking into this box, I want to remind you guys that this is a pre-order time, so we're like before Friday when everyone can sell on TCG Player. You can grab these from your local store right now on Wednesday, this is the time I'm recording this, Thursday and stuff like that, but on Friday that's when everyone can start selling this set, so a lot of the singles are going to be extremely inflated in terms of value. Keep that in mind. We're going to have the values pop up, but that's currently the pre-sale prices, so it's probably going to go down for a lot of them, but this is a pretty big set. A lot of the cash tier stuff is going to be pretty crazy. It's going to be pretty meta-defining according to what I've heard. You guys know I don't play too much, but that's what I've heard. But some of these prices are absolutely insane. I think the Starlight that we're going to be going for, there's a couple that I really like the look of, but of course the Mirror Jade is the reprint Starlight. Very nice looking card, so hopefully we can pull that one. Let's get right into it, and of course, if you guys want to win the giveaway, we're giving away every card that we pull in this video, so like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know what you're excited about in Photon Hypernova. There's a lot of good options because, well, it depends on if you are excited about cash tier, which I don't think a lot of people actually are, but you might be playing the deck because it's going to be pretty good. I'm not doing a pack trick this whole time because we have 48 packs to open today. It's a new set. I am trying to post this video today. I'm going to have to edit it myself. We have a Triburgate Arms Bospholus, very cool. And also, if you guys are really excited for this set, we will of course be opening cases of this. I am also going to be opening a case of this tomorrow, I think, maybe Friday, something like that. Oh, there's a Super Rare, very cool. I'm going to be opening a case of this for another video, so you're going to get a case video, which doesn't happen very often. And of course, we're going to do a live stream with multiple cases on probably Saturday. That's the goal right now. I think tomorrow or Friday, we're doing the case opening that was provided by my locals. So my locals at Frontline Games actually said, hey, you guys want to open up a case? You know, you can open up a case for us. I was like, sure, that sounds awesome. I'll do that. That'll be really fun. So we're supposed to be doing that. If I can get it edited by tomorrow, if not, then it'll be Friday. All super so far. Slow start. That's okay. We're saving the heat for last. And then I'm going to do another video, I think, with Photon Hypernova. So we're going to have a lot of Photon Hypernova coming up. We also have a lot of really cool videos that I've been planning. We have one for my two-year anniversary coming up. That's a Ruckson special right there. Two-year anniversary of, can you guess what two-year anniversary of what? What is he talking about? Daily uploads. We have uploaded daily for two straight years coming up on February 25th. So we're getting very close to that a couple weeks away, maybe three weeks at this point. I don't remember what the date is, to be honest. I think we're 16 days away, something like that. So yeah, basically a couple weeks. We have yet to pull anything. It feels like a collector recipe.   We have Meteor Rush, Intimidating Ore, Chaos Beast, another Ruckson special. It's these, I'm telling you, this new card stock makes it so hard to not pull that card right before the, right before the foil along with it. So far, just supers, but that means a lot of Ultras and secrets coming up. I did mix these together. So we're going to have a little bit of a mixed opening here. We have a sneaky seed. There it is, another Ruckson special. I will not Ruckson special the next one. Just go ahead and mark that down. There's a 0% chance I'll Ruckson special. All right. Next pack. Can we get a Starlight? I haven't gotten a Starlight. So I got these two from my locals as well. I don't think I've pulled a Starlight out of the one or two boxes. I have pulled a ghost from them before. There is an Ultra Rare Gold Prize Star Leon. Okay. I think I saw this guy was actually kind of expensive, but I figure it's kind of far down the list in terms of value. I figured that some of the other cards will probably beat it out in terms of being an actual value card, but Ultra Rare, I don't think that's a great archetype from what I've heard, the gold pride. It's a new archetype in this set, but I don't think it's supposed to be that crazy compared to like all the new cashier stuff and stuff like that. First Ultra Rare, not bad. We'll take that. I don't remember what I was talking about before that, but I know I didn't Ruckson special there. So that I almost did there, but I didn't. And then a Cardon, the clear-sided, very nice cashier, a big bang. I don't know if any of the commons are great for cashier. We'll have to see. I will say the artwork on this pack and on the box is really beautiful. I'm a big fan of it. I think it looks really good. I think it is a nice looking set overall. Shell of Chaos, we got Dino Mondo, Joe the Gravity Ninja, Dogmatica Matrix, some more Dogmatica. Hey, look, you know I like Dogmatica, but we'll have to see. You guys think Invoke should all Dogmatica make it a comeback? Now that Tier Limits has gotten hit a lot. Tier Limits, that's how you say it, guys. I don't know if you guys knew that. Landflipping, we have the branded Befallen, Scareclaw cashier. I think this is actually kind of a sick card. Wait, didn't this get like a, wasn't this in the OTS-21? I can't remember. Plunder Patrol Ship, George. I could have swarmed that was an OTS-21, which would be weird, since that, you know, they kind of came out at the same time. What card am I thinking of? I'm probably thinking of a different card that looks similar. We have a Mistial Baldrake. This card looks kind of insane. Yeah, it kind of looks insane. I see the line we got Landflipping, about Numeron Creation, Gold Pride Leon. So we got the Gold Pride boxes. All right, maybe this is the one I was thinking of. I think this is the big one for the Gold Pride set. Yeah, they currently have this at $16.99, which I doubt is going to hold up, but we'll have to see. Maybe if that's like the main focus of, you know, the deck and that's like the best card that might hold up a little bit, but it's like way down the list.  Shell of Chaos. Got Photon Emperor. We've got Joe the Gravity Ninja and Galactic Caribos. Super rare. I love to see those super rare Caribos. That's awesome. That's a cool looking Caribo too. I'm a fan of that. It's not as good as the, you know, Magic Caribo. That's the best Caribo ever made, but second best maybe. Hyped. New set. So many new things coming out. We had Banlist. We had OTS. We have the new, you know, this set, new core set, I guess you would call it. A lot of stuff coming out. It's been insane in terms of new content. It's been fun. You know, a lot of content for me, which is always great. XC is a line giant ballgame to go with the giant ballpark. Shell of Chaos. The Gravity Ninja. We got Arctos the 12th. All right, Arctos the 12th. He was once a ruler in the 1400s. Very cool. What else can we get? Maybe a box in something like that. Numeron creation. Evil Eyes Unleashed. Giant Ballgame. Yagumaru. Okay. That's not the foil. And then, oh, number C62. Is the cover card? Neo Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon. Yes, this is a Photon set. I know based on the name, but you don't really see a lot of Photons. Cover card pulled. Hey, pretty good opening. Not gonna lie. This is fire artwork. That is fire artwork. I don't know. Does that have a starlight? No starlight. You're telling me the cover card isn't a starlight. That's a bummer. I mean, it's probably a terrible card, but still, it looks awesome. That's all that matters, right? All right, Photon Hypernova. Can you prove to us the epicness? We have Abyss Script. Very cool. Landflipping. Photon Emperor. Gigantic Thunder Cross. Green Ninja. That's a super rare. Okay. Just the Green Ninja. Very nice, but not the starlight we are looking for. So far, what? Two Ultras? That's it. Maybe three. No, two Ultras in a secret. Castare Overflap. Abyss Actor. Super producer. He produces Chaos Mirage Dragon. I really like these Chaos cards. I think they look pretty sick. A lot. It's banished to light and a dark, you know, gauge style. Very, very cool. Still a lot of packs to go in this new Photon Hypernova opening. Hopefully you guys are enjoying it and hopefully you guys are excited because, look, we opened Amazing Defenders last time. Not quite as exciting. I'm definitely more excited about this Gold Pride Nitro Blaster. We are pulling a lot of Gold Pride stuff today. Yeah, we are definitely more excited about this set than the Amazing Defenders, which did age a little bit better than expected with the Eevee stuff, you know, whatever they're called. Pearly, Corp of Chaos, and Ultimate Great Insect. Let's go. My insect queen has become an Ultimate Great Insect. There you go. I'm sure you guys really wanted to hear that. You're welcome. I'm glad I could bless your ears with that.  They weren't actually watching it. They're like, oh my gosh. What was that? Dynamondo. We've got, oh, Castare Rise Heart. That was a ruxant special right to the Castare Rise Heart. Hey, it had been a while since the ruxant special. I'm not going to lie. That's, I think, a very good card. They've got that one in almost $25. So that's going to be a solid card. It probably won't hold up at $25, but hey, the cash to your core is probably going to be pretty expensive. So it might hold up pretty well. Bistio Baldroc. We've got the Abyss Dragon Sword Soul. Whoa. And a sword soul in the name. Cool. So that means a sword soul card. Yeah, that's obvious. But of course, that's a, you know, sword soul is pretty strong. It's mostly a, you know, master gold deck at this point, I think, but it is still pretty strong or pretty decent in the TCG. A lot of the branded, I do have a full, a full deck myself, Gishki, Grimness, and an Ulcerer, Orph, Orphable, the Harmonious Bullfighter Bard. I remember this guy from the leaks. This guy has amazing artwork. He's dope. I think he's banished two lights, two darks. Yeah. It's insane. His cost is nuts. It's from your hand or graveyard though. So a couple more options in there. Can you imagine banishing four cards for one? It's kind of insane, but hey, he is pretty strong when he gets out there. We've got Photon Emperor, Gigantic Thunder Cross, Core of Chaos, Shell of Chaos, card on the clear sighted. He has sight. That is clear. Very nice. Still a lot of packs left. This is actually a, I keep thinking we're like getting close, but really not. Meteor Rush. Apparently this card, people are like, thinking it might be kind of lit. Just as a common. Core of Chaos, Plunder Patrol Ship, Shored. Plunder Patrol is always trying to have more support that'll do something. And I don't think they ever do. They are not usually very good. Shell of Chaos, very cool. Grisky Grimness, Galaxy Hundred, Branded Befallen, Gold Pride, Nitrohead, Manticore of Smashing, Infinite Antelion. We got Sour Scheduling and Castira Bag Bang. Photon Hypernova. Here we go. You gotta believe Dino Mondo, Joe the Gravity Ninja. Whoa, that was a Ryze Art. I ruined it. No, the Ruxen Special. That was a Super Ruxen Special. I think that's what we should do. When I do more of the one card, that's a Super Ruxen Special. I think we gotta add that. Castira, a Ryze Art, Secret Rare. This is a Starlight. I mean, this can be a Starlight. A little bit different. This is like 37, 38 right now. So that's one of the big hits. So that's a great hit. By the way, you guys can win all these cards. Don't forget, this is a giveaway. Every single card we pull. So no matter the value or whatever, you guys get to keep, or at least one of you guys get to keep these. I am a little behind in my giveaway announcements, which by the way are another Secret Rare, another Ruxen Special. That was another Super Ruxen Special, by the way. That was two cards. And it's another Castira card. So that's good. Oh, and this one is 100 bucks. Okay. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. That's a card right there, guys. Okay. Yeah. We have ourselves a Castira, $98 Secret Rare. No big deal. Nothing to worry about. All right. Cool card, guys. All right. Wow. Okay. So a Super Ruxen Special into a $100 card. The best Secret Rare in the set. Yeah. That is pretty strong. I don't remember what I was talking about before that, because that was a hit, man. Yagamoro. Okay. Oh, why did I think that was the foil? Tier Elements, Castira. Another Castira card. Hey, look. Tier Elements. Not Tier Elements. Tier Elements. I got it. I got it, Farfah. Okay. Another $21 card according to pre-order prices. So I'm, you know, I'm sure those will go down, but I know people were pre-selling like the cores at like 700 bucks for like a Castira core. I mean, that's absurd.  I mean, these cards are super hyped. Wow. There's still a lot of packs left. Wow. Okay. If we get a Starlight here, that's going to be big. Photon Emperor. Okay. That is since whatever it's called. No, it's going to be a crazy giveaway. How many secrets is that? Wait, both boxes had one. That's one kind of a dud. Then two of these, the best. Hey, dude, that is absurd. Wow. Wow. I should have, should have kept these boxes. You know what I'm saying? That is nuts, dude. Talk about a giveaway. Wow. Photon Hypernova. We've already pulled four secretaries, so I think we're out of secrets, but we'll have to see a Starlight to anybody, you know, land flipping, green ninja. Okay. Oh my gosh. That was absurd. I was like, I think, I thought we had already pulled all our secrets before that one. And then apparently not. I was wrong. Intimidating or that was crazy. Thunder cross. I have super ruxen specialed or actually, I guess regular ruxen special when it's only one pass. Yeah. That was just a regular ruxen special, but I've super ruxen specialed a couple times too, but it is so hard on these new cards. Like this new card stock has no friction branded before. The only one that does is the foil. Big welcome, Labyrinth. I think this one's good too. People really like the Labyrinth archetype, but it's, I think it's kind of like mid. It's like, okay. It's not like really bad or anything, but it's not great. Yeah. That's like, I'm supposedly 20 right now. So, you know, I'm sure a $20 card would probably be more like a $5 card. Like once we get to like the real prices, but still a $5 card is not bad for an ultra rare giant ball game. We've got another ruxen special. The Lavy TN generator boss of shadows. That's an ultra rare. That's pretty nice. I don't, I haven't seen that one before. So I don't think it's too valuable, but generators, I guess, you know, not that crazy. All right. A few more packs. A lot of the branded, I feel like we definitely have some ultras left. We have gold pride. Start your engines. Today we have a race between a photon hypernova and ruxen 34. All right. Gigantic Thunder Cross. Yagamoru. Photon Emperor. Intimidating ore. Queen Butterfly. Deneis. They look more insects for evil underworld. All right. We're down to the last, less than 10 maybe. No, baby. Maybe it is 10 exactly. I don't know. Something like that. Now have I been opening slow? I'm not sure. Brandon befallen gold pride and nitro blaster. Will we get something else epic like a star? If we get a star like these are been like the ultimate boxes. Apophis, the swamp deity probably not going to happen because this is a core set. We're going back to the regular star that rates of one in two cases versus battles, legend crystal revenge, which had the one in one case, which was a lot better for us in terms of like pulling one. We got the gold pride and nitro head. I don't think that's going to happen this time, but I would love to be surprised. Like I'd be okay with being shocked. You know, I'm okay with that. I love surprises. Light of the branded cash tier at Yagamoru. Choju. Choju and wait. Oh, that was the super choju. Okay. Six packs left. What will it be? We will have to see. We have Yagamoru. We have chaos bees. Light of the branded cash tier scare claw. That's backwards. We got a couple of aces. Okay. That was our super rare. It's really hard to see these like they look like not supers until I, you know, pick them up and I'm like, Oh, there we go. There's a little flash as it went by.  I'm totally down. I've never actually done that. Okay. Rin Brom, the striking dragon. Not going to lie. This looks really cool. I like the look of that. That's a very cool card. I think, okay, we have pulled, the only time I pulled a random starlight was with CMO, but that was also from a case, but it was like a case that I had like kind of pieced out box by box. And that's still not guaranteed ultimate great insect, but I've never actually bought like a couple boxes and gotten a starlight. That's never happened for me or blisters or anything. I know a lot of you guys have done that before. So tell yourself lucky because like I pull a lot of starlights, but it's mostly because I open a lot of cases, you know, so it's like eventually going to happen. But opening just a random one is pretty lucky. Like that is, that takes some luck. We got a fairy ant, the circular sorcerer. Cool. Yeah. The most random one I opened was with CMO. And that's because it was a, it was a case that I had already opened a lot of. And I was like, Oh, there's probably not one in here. Chaos bees. We got dynamondo, bestial ball, drake, homo, homongous. The homonculus. No, I'm just kidding. Okay. One pack left. Photon hypernova. It's been a crazy opening so far. Two of the $98. That is insane. That is the best card in the set. Two of the best card. Liar, Brandon.  I'm down. Okay. No rucks. It's special. Come on. We can do this. Gischee grimness and a dogmatica. Alba, Zoa. Are people playing the ritual dogmaticas? I always ask that. I don't really know. I feel like they're not, but maybe they are. Who knows? But wow, what an epic opening. Make sure you guys enter the giveaway if you guys want to win those cards. And if you guys enjoyed it, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content, a lot more photos on hypernova coming up in the next couple of days. 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