Item number SCP-3001 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures To prevent further accidental entries into SCP-3001, all Foundation Reality Bending Technology will be upgraded, modified, with multiple newly developed safeguards to prevent Class C broken entry wormhole creation. While knowledge of SCP-3001 is available to personnel of any level, should they wish to learn about it, research and experimentation with SCP-3001 and its associated technology is strictly limited to personnel of level 3 and above, with special clearance designation granted from sites 120, 121, 124, and 133. Description SCP-3001 is a hypothesized paradoxical parallel pocket non-dimension accessible through the creation of a momentary Class C broken entry wormhole. While believed to be an infinitely extending parallel universe, SCP-3001 is almost completely devoid of any matter and has an extremely low Hume level of 0.032, contradicting Kedgl's laws of reality with the relation between Humes and space-time. This phenomenon causes matter inside it to decay at an extremely low rate and damage that would otherwise prove fatal does not impede any biological electronic function. Simulations suggest an organism can lose more than 70% of their body's tissue and still operate normally, as long as at least 40% of the brain remains. However, prolonged exposure will cause said matter to gradually approach SCP-3001's own Hume level, resulting in severe tissue structural damage as the matter's own Hume field begins to disintegrate. SCP-3001 was initially discovered on January 2, 2000 at Site-120, a facility dedicated to testing and containing reality-bending technology. Dr. Robert Scranton and his wife Dr. Anna Lang were head researchers at Site-120 and were developing an experimental device called the Lang Scranton Stabilizer, or LSS. Footnote The LSS was a prototype whose design would go on to become the basis for the current reality anchor project. Footnote Dr. Scranton was transported to SCP-3001 after unexpected seismic activity damaged several active LSS in Site-120, Reality Lab A. Initially presumed dead, Dr. Scranton has survived in SCP-3001 for at least 5 years, 11 months, and 21 days. During this time, he was able to record his experiences and observations within SCP-3001 through a somehow still functioning LSS control panel, which was also brought into SCP-3001 with him through the Class C broken entry wormhole. These recordings were later recovered upon the panel's sudden return, an unexpected side effect from testing improved reality-bending technology. These logs are the basis of SCP-3001 study. Despite new technologies being developed, retrieval and reintegration of Dr. Scranton has been unsuccessful. His current physical and mental states, if he is still alive, are unknown. Further information on Dr. Scranton's possible retrieval is under Ethics Committee review. Transcripts of Dr. Scranton's logs are below. Access File Scranton SCP-3001 Logs Section 1 No discernable, coherent dialogue can be heard from Dr. Scranton for the first 8 days. He cycles through periods of panic, confusion, and anger throughout, and it seems he was attempting to navigate SCP-3001 to find a way out. He finally moved close enough to the recording log on the 11th day, though did not notice it was operating for several more hours. Name, Robert Scranton. Age, 39. Birthday, September 19th, 1961. Favorite color, blue. Favorite song, living on a prayer. Wife, Anna, Anna. Name, Robert Scranton. Age, 39. Birthday, September 19th, 1961. Favorite color, blue. Favorite song, living on a prayer. Wife, Anna. She has green eyes. I love her very much. Name, Robert Scranton. Age, 39. Birthday, September 19th, 1961. Favorite color, blue. Height, 178 centimeters. Weight, 85 kilograms. Wife, Anna. Anna, I'm sorry. Name, Robert Scranton. Age, 39. Birthday, September 19th, 1961. Favorite color, blue. My wife's name is Anna. We got married August 12th, 1991. I hope she got out okay. Please let her be alright. Please let her be alright. Robert Scranton. 39. Anna, blue. Wife. Please, please, God, please. Anna, Anna. Anna Bobana. Anna Bobana. What the, what the hell is that? It is assumed at this point Dr. Scranton noticed the flashing light of the recording module.  My name is Robert Scranton. Yeah, yeah, my name is Robert Scranton, former researcher at Foundation Site 120. It has been, I don't, I don't know actually. I can't remember. I estimate it has been 10 days, but I, I don't, I can't, oh God, can anyone hear me? I don't know what's happened. I, I don't know where I am.  Hello? Anyone? Anyone? No one can hear me.   It can't be working. It shouldn't be working. So what the hell? I need to, God, I need to, I need to see how long can I talk here? I think that there's a cap or something on the recording log. I can't see anything. I can only see the red light blinking on and off. I can't see any of the switches next to it. I'm really hungry. Thirsty too. I think I should be dead from dehydration by now, but I don't know. Hi, little red light. Can you talk to me? Can you talk to Anna for me? Hello? I found the controls. Two weeks, three days, forty-seven hours, and fifty-eight minutes. Two weeks, three days, forty-seven hours, and fifty-eight minutes. Two weeks, three days, seven hours, and fifty-eight minutes. Two weeks, three days, seven hours, and fifty-eight minutes. With playback. Error with playback. Error with playback.  It hurts a lot, but at this point I don't think I'm gonna die. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna take my time, I guess. I, maybe some sort of miracle will happen and I'll get out. Keep dreaming Robert. Yeah, I'm tired. I'm gonna sleep. Three weeks, four days, 19 hours. I have a picture of Anna in my pocket. I almost forgot. Little red light, let me see her face, please. Just a little bit, I just, I just want to see her a bit. Hi Anna, I'm still here, I'm still here. I'm coming back, okay? Two months, four days, three hours. Hi, Robert here. Yeah, I haven't really recorded much to hear in the past few weeks. Sorry, gotta keep it together. Breathe. I've been, I've been busy. Trying to learn more about the place I'm in. My prison. My kingdom, all my own. King Robert. God, stink. Is there even air in this goddamn place? Stinky King Robert. King of goddamn nothing, fuck! Sorry, sorry. Gotta keep this professional. I'll, I'll come back when I'm feeling rested. Okay, here goes. My name is Robert Scranton. I am a former head researcher of Site 120. A foundation facility dedicated to studying various reality-bending SCPs for the purpose of developing more advanced countermeasures towards such threats. For the last, Red Light, speak to me. Two months, eight days, sixteen hours. What Red Light said. I've been trapped in what I believe to be an empty pocket dimension. Alone. Yeah, alone, all alone. I'm calling this place SCP, I don't know. I can't remember where we are, screw it. I don't know what's happened to the past Red Light, please, again. Two months, eight days, sixteen hours. But no one else is around to argue. At this point, I'm just talking to the control panel to keep myself together. I need to keep a record.  And if this ever actually makes it out, maybe, maybe I can help stop that from happening. That's all I have going for me right now. I really need something to go for. So yeah, Robert Scranton. Documenting a new SCP for future research purposes. That'll have to do. Here we go. Item number.  Object class. Euclid, I guess, but I don't know. I might update this in time. I need to explore more. Special containment procedures. God, I sound so much like a shrink right now. Um, I don't know if we could contain wherever I am. It's definitely not on Earth. To be honest, I don't know where it is. I think it has something to do with the stabilizer prototype. I'll explain that more later. Okay, um, yeah, wherever I am. I don't think it can be contained as much as created. No, no, that's not the word I'm looking for. Um, entered. Yeah, entered is better. I came into this place because of some really bad reality-bending accident. And no, no, Robert, don't be like that yet. You don't know if there's no exit yet. Oh, living on a prayer halfway there. Two months, eleven days, eighteen hours. So, wait, no, description. Robert, stick to the format. This place, it's some sort of reality gap, I think. It's dark, really dark. As in, this little red light that shows my words are actually being recorded is the only invisible light in this entire place. I can't see my hands. I can barely see the control panel here. I've had to basically use the light as a center and remember how many steps I take and in which direction. I haven't gone past a hundred yet, I'm too scared to. I wonder if my hair is turning white right now. I can't even see what color it is anymore. Speaking of which, my head has been a bit itchy recently. If I don't concentrate on it, it's fine, but I feel this tingling all over my face. I'm not sure why. Two months, fifteen days, four hours. Okay, whew, I need to relax for a minute.  I just discovered a new property of this place. All this time I've been thinking I might be walking on some sort of flat ground, if you will. I kept eye contact with little red as far as I could see and it seems I could just walk in a straight flat path. Jesus, my head is buzzing right now. I think the adrenaline is still kicking in, but if my hypothesis is correct and this really is some sort of reality void, then there shouldn't be anything to walk on. Now that I think about it the whole time I've been in here, it's felt like I'm walking but also swimming through something and something is thick and form-fitting. It has this pressure which I know isn't the correct term, but God damn it, this place makes no damn sense and I'm doing my best to understand it, okay? God, sorry. So the best analogy I can come up with is it's like I'm walking through really thick black gel. There's enough tension to keep me on a surface, but if I imagine myself pressing down hard enough, I can descend. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I think I need to test this more. I'll be back. Two months, 17 days, two hours. Navigation is largely affected by conscious impulses to travel in a certain direction. So this definitely isn't a complete reality gap, at least according to my Nana's theories. If it were, I wouldn't have been able to move at all since space wouldn't have existed.  Okay, okay, this makes a lot more sense than it did before. Great, great job Robert, you're getting there. Come to think of it, I should have realized that sooner when I was able to move in a flat plane to and from Little Red. It also explains why I'm not dead from dehydration or hunger yet. Time barely passes in here. Okay, yeah, so I stood right next to Little Red and I went straight down. Okay, from here on out, imagine Little Red as the origin of a 3D space. I went straight down, right? Yeah, and then I was able to come back up to Little Red again. I've also been able to fly above Red. Movement here is slow, like I said, gel analogy, best I can describe it by. Two months, 22 days, three hours. Reporting back for another update, Red, sir.  Pun not intended.  It's funny. Fine, whatever. This place still seems like it barely follows Kedgel's laws of reality parameters. By barely, I mean really just barely. I'm pretty sure my math is right, but hold on, I'm gonna check again. Jesus, yeah, yeah, pretty sure it's good still. Okay, this place, if we're using the standard Hume Scale, I'm pretty sure I'm in a reality where the Hume Field is .04-ish.  So, like I said above, space time exists on a very minuscule scale. So my biology is not getting shot to hell and back because of any malnutrition, but that also means I... I'm actually not sure what that also means. Adding on from the last entry, I'm not sure how my biology will react in such a low Hume concentration, actually. I mostly work with higher-than-average Hume Fields, and the reality benders we tested never had a field lower than .8. This is gonna be a first. An all-time first. I remember Site-133's Promo Killer. They called it because it broke the previous theory of the lowest limit of Hume concentration. Really expensive, really weird machine that brought down a small area to .4. .05 is... Yeah, I was lying. I was lying, last log. I'm lying to myself. My own body and little red here too. We're about the realest things in this place. And that means, over time, the Hume Field's going to want to equalize. And I'm... I'm gonna go for now. I have some calculations to do again. Red, Anna, take note. I'm using Kedgel's second, third, and fourth laws. Got it? Use .05 as the surrounding. My external field is somewhere in between 1 and 1.4. Use the second law's error estimation correction, and my internal is... Shit, I'm not done yet. I am real. I am super real. Super duper real. Ultra real. The realest guy in a world of no real. You have no sense of humor, as usual, Red. I'm talking about the LSS, Red. When we got sent here, I think our reality got cranked up a notch. Red, didn't you pay attention in class?  Okay, the point is, the LSS surge got us up to... Two months, 18 days, seven hours.  You must have converted Kedgel's third law equation wrong. Because of the malfunctioning LSS, we got blasted by... We're somewhere between 2.2 and 3.6. Yes, that's good, Red. That's very good. Because that means we have more time than we thought to...  Two months, 24 days, five hours. About three years. Four if I don't interact too much. If I had an LSS here, I could maybe stretch it out to... Eight, maybe? That's the best case scenario, but... I have... I have to... I know, but... Three years. Three years, then. That's past the point of no return. I should... I should definitely figure something out by then. I think I still should be pretty good for a while, at least. No, no, I won't be in here that long. I'll definitely figure something out. Anna, what would we do with a case like this? I need your help, honey. That tingling I've been feeling? It's my human field diffusing. My... my reality fading. Three years, maybe to stabilize myself within three years. I've been thinking. Anna and I, we had this theory. Even though the human field is low, it's still a human field. And precisely since it's so low, human diffusion should take quite a while. Now, if I could contain, recycle the fields, keep the diffusion from spreading too thin, I could... And I could also maybe... It's only a theory, but it's worth a shot. But that means... Hey, Red, I... I'm gonna have to go for a bit. I want to test something. You can't come with me. I'm sorry, no, no, Red, I'm really... We're really sorry, I want you to come. I do, but if we're together, the diffusion will increase faster. We both need as much time as possible. I need to figure this place out more, and you need to make sure you keep all that info in your head. It's... Red, come on. You'll be fine, Red. I know you will. You're tough. A lot tougher than me. It'll only be for a bit, Red, but I need to see if I can find a way to keep us alive a bit longer. Maybe even get us out of here. If I can contain enough field, I can... I can maybe even get us out. No, no, I'm not sure. But I need to find out. Red, we're talking about possibly escaping, okay? Yeah, it's a gap. A gap should have an end. Like, uh... Like the walls of a canyon, understand? I need to find a wall, and then... Then I can... I'm sorry, Red. I hope we're still friends when I get back. I'm... I'm going now. I'll see you soon. Access. File. Scranton, SCP-3001 Logs. Section 3. Six months, ten days, five hours. Hello again, little Red. It's been a while.  This place is... God, this place.  There's no end. It just goes on, and on, and on.   Why did I think I could get out? I'm thinking like one of those old European shits thought the end of the world was the rise.  Stupid, just... If I let myself fall down long enough, would I eventually hit a bottom? Ten months, 28 days, 15 hours. There's no bottom.  I'm sorry, Red. Don't go out.  Come back, come back, please. I turned 40 today. Happy birthday, Robert. I was adopted. Did you know that? Yeah, my parents left me in a box on the side of the street. Got picked up by some American couple, which explains my not-so-Chinese names. I don't even know my original last name. Just thought I'd share. How about you, Red? Anna and I met on site in 1988. God, she was beautiful. She still is. It was our eyes. She has beautiful eyes. Mine are gray. They're boring. But hers? God, they're beautiful. Do you think... Do you think she's still worried about me, little Red? Is she looking for me?  But I never hear you talk about yourself.  There's no one else around, right? Right? I'm sorry, Robert. I'm afraid I can't do that. I'm Red. You're hilarious. Were you married? Kids? Any family at all? Girlfriend? Boyfriend? Come on, Red. Come on, judge. Just talk to me, please. It hurts. My feet feel like they've been asleep forever. I worked at a comic store as a kid. So much cheaper back then. And I got free stuff at the end of each week. I like Spider-Man the best. I was in a box. Side of the street. I...what the fuck? No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Red, have you seen my picture? Red, Anna's picture. Where's...come on. Come on, where...Anna? Anna? Where did...no, no, no, no. Please, please no. Anything but please. It's fading. She's fading. She's fading. Please, Anna, no. Please, come on, sweetie. Stay here. It's too soon. It's too soon. My math isn't wrong. It's not wrong. You should be fine. Anna, Anna, I can't hold you. Come back, Anna, sweetie, honey. Anna, please, I need you. I need you. Please, please, don't go. I'm here. I'm still here. Red, get help. Anna, please, please don't go. Don't... Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Black hair, green eyes, one-sixty. Granton repeats this for three hours. And I got married in 91. We couldn't really get the nicest suit and dress we wanted because work, but damn, we both look great. And I looked better, of course. Just danced and danced the whole night, got the whole week off. Even a job like mine lets you enjoy your honeymoon. So come on, Red, open up, put it there. High five, come on, come on, Red. One year, two months, 27 days. The next recordings only play the control panel's automated voice giving times with intervals of one to three days with several month-long gaps in between as well. Also intermixed are Dr. Scranton's sobbing, screaming, and mumbling. These recordings continue until the time reading reaches two years, seven months, and 28 days after which they cease to pick up any sound until two months later. Access, file, Scranton SCP-3001 logs, section four. Dr. Scranton's voice is noticeably distorted now, hypothesized to be a combination of both him and the control panel, finally showing signs of reality breakdown. Robert, cold, I can't, I can't feel my legs anymore.  I don't know what's real in here anymore. Hell, I'm not sure I'm real. Or something, something close to it.  I don't wanna die yet.  I ran up in one straight diagonal line for six months. I went down in one. No, I just went down again for eight. There's still no bottom, Red. There's still no bottom. What have you been up to, Red? You've been listening for me all this time?  Sorry, must have fell asleep. What did you want? Oh, sorry, y'all, I'll try to remember. Lucy, that's what we wanted to call our kid if we had one, Lucy Scranton, Lucy Lang. And then I both thought it would have a nice ring.  Good morning. Good morning. Waved up the whole crew.  Can't fill my feet at all. Okay, you try, then, Red. Kedgel's law states that Hume Field defuses.  Anna, Anna, Bo-Banna. She hated that song. I left a teaser with it. Anna, Anna, Bo-Banna, Banana, Banana, Banana, Canna. It actually became a joke between us, did you know? We made the words that turn you on.  Fine, guess you have a sense of humor after all, maybe.  This place breaks apart rules like my hand is breaking right now. Spiderwebs. My left hands. Spiderwebs. That was a reality-bending spider at site 121. I should crush it. Red, would you crush it for me when we get out? Average 10, 15 kilometers a day. Speed breaks. 30, 2, 30, 10, no, 11, no, no, 10, I think.    Far down. Bottomless. Infinite. And beyond.  Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Breaking down at a rate of shit, what's the constant of modified promo relations? 10 to the fourth? No, no, fifth, fifth, I think. One year. Maybe add a few more months. Red, how does David sound? David, you know, you asked about, yeah, yeah, that. Sorry I woke you.   Stop it. You're hurting me. Five years, nineteen days. I'm feeling better now, Red. Sorry. How do you do it, Red? Keep it together? I need some help here. I need some help. Red, come on. Don't do that. Don't go. I know it's hard. I know it's dark, but it's dark, and we're together still. Come on, Red. No. No, you can't. Red, come on, buddy. Stay with me. Red, come on. I can still touch you. I can still touch you. Look at me, Red. You're not dying yet. No, Red. No! No audio is recorded for the next nine months. Access, File, Scranton SCP-3001 Logs, Section 5 Five years, nine months, two days. Red. Five years, nine months, three days. Five years, nine months, three days. Five years, nine months, three days. Five years, nine months, three days. Three days, five years, nine months, three days. You know, I thought you left me. Sorry to say, Red, but there's not much left here. It's been hard. I've 184. I've tried to kill myself 184 times. It didn't work. None of them worked. I don't even know how much there is of me anymore. At least one foot, because I can move. Probably a few, like, muscles, too, but, um, wobbly.  Still a heart, maybe a lung. This place really won't let me stop. It's tired. I did die, Red. Come on, Red. Don't look at me like I know what you're kidding. And I don't want shock or anger or fear or... I can't win 224. I miscounted. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Dr. Scranton counts from 1 to 220, 245, several times for the next 13 hours. I died. I died a lot. I tried to suffocate. I tried to snap my neck. I tried to bite myself apart. And then this place, it's not real. I left. I saw myself on the ground and I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't go anywhere. I couldn't leave. There's no way to leave. I just floated back down.  I thought, oh, God, how much more can I take away and still live? So, why are... Why are you back now? What did you want to tell me? Five years, nine months, 12 days. This place is getting smaller. Redden, did you somehow do this? I... there's an end here for sure now. It's gone from God knows how long to...  I don't know what's going on. It's... it's not dark. That border, whatever it is, is getting brighter.   I... oh God, I didn't know I was this bad.  Five years, ten months, ten days. Red, you're solid.  You're real. And then I'm real too when... Only when I touch you, but Red, it... It really hurts when I do. I think that if I touch you, I might fall apart.  Jesus Christ, you hurt.  About three kilometers in radius and closing. Is this... is this something like Kedger's Fourth Law?  Hey, hey, I'm in here still. Stop! You're causing a collapse. Hey, hey! Two kilometers. Oh God, what's going to happen when it closes?  Not collapsing. Waves. They're waves? Whites?  Not walls, windows, open windows. Five years, ten months, twenty-eight days. Anna, Anna, can you hear me? These waves. This place... Okay, imagine two realities as two pieces of paper stuck together. This place is the space squish between. There should only be two realities, parallel. But this place is a tiny, but infinite third, third, in between. Like, what would happen if you fell into a hole crossing a bridge from point A to point B? Remember Class C wormholes?  I think... I think this is where one of those holes leads. It doesn't lead to a different universe. It leads to nothing. A dead end. This place is a dead end. Class C, broken entry. These waves, wherever they're coming from, they're from some parallel reality interacting with this place. This place is in between place ever so slightly. And they're all pushing on me and Red. Because since we still have some level of reality, they're pushing or sucking towards them. Gradually creating a new wormhole towards... home. What's going to happen to me when I go back? When the window closes. Think, damn it, Robert, think. You've got to think. Think harder, think harder. Red, I'm gonna... I'm gonna have to... Jesus, I'm gonna have to move away from you. You, I don't know.  You're really messed up right now. Call me when you're feeling better. I can't think right. Blood? Blood? There's way too much... Where did it all go? I haven't tasted barfing forever. Not even when I threw up after my... Man, Robert. Oh God, oh God, not again, not again, not again. How can I be throwing up this much red? Tell me, I don't... I don't even have the stomach to hold me in anymore. Simply, he never stops. Dr. Scranton breaks down into crying for the next two hours. They're now thinking straight. Red, I don't know if I'm ready to go back anywhere yet. Five years, eleven months, three days. Now, Red, I'm not being selfish.  I can't be near them. Red, look, look at me. Look, I can't be near them.  I passed the three years quite a while back, remember? Because even after all this time, you don't want to die, Red. I'm still scared. Red, I'm scared, okay? You wouldn't understand. You're not human, Red. Oh, I'm sorry for offending you, Red. No, Red, come on, he didn't mean it like that. Red, look at me. You're my friend. Did you get that? You are my best friend. But once you face it, you've got a much better chance of getting out of here. Just leave me alone. Please, Red, just for a bit. I'm sorry, okay? I really am. Can you hear the waves coming in, Red? That little hum and shake. Did it hit your ears? I can't. It's getting louder every time. And it hurts so bad. It hurts so bad. Footnote. No audible hum is picked up by the control panel at the time. It is believed that the frequency was too low to be detected. And footnote. No, no, no, no. Why? Why? Let me go. Let me go, damn it. God, there's five ears. Five more ears.  What do I do? Over the next five days, the control panel does begin to pick up a low-frequency hum that comes in pulses. The volume increases steadily, and as it does, Dr. Scranton can be heard screaming, crying, and speaking incoherently in the background. Red. At this point, the background humming noise is picked up at a rate of 20 pulses per minute. Five years, 11 months, nine days. How? Complete silence for five days. Pulses increase in volume, as well as frequency, to 30 per minute. Red, give me your leg. I need support. Red, give me your lever, arm, hand. Red, I need to see better. Give me your light. No, sorry. No, no light needed. Not it. Sorry. Something else. Anna, I want pretty eyes. Anna, Anna, give me your eye. I only have one. Anna, Anna, give me lips. I want to kiss you again. Anna, Anna, give me your tongue. I'm hungry. Anna, Anna, spare toe wobbly. Anna, give me your brain. I only have half. Humming measured at 46 pulses per minute. Another way out. Still enough of me left to. Another five years. Five more years to figure something out. Here's 11 months, 20 days. Hum is now up to 60 pulses per minute. On December 23, 2005, the LSS control panel spontaneously appeared back within the Site 120 testing facility, Reality Lab A. Doctor, initial hume field ratings of the anchor are stable. Output ratings are 2.3, with a .001% fluctuation. Good, Skinner. Let's hope that holds. Hold on.  What's wrong? Something has appeared inside the testing zone. What? Ma'am, a large object is materialized within the anchor field. What's the call? Kill the power? Call in the team?  Oh my God. Where the hell did that thing come from? I don't know, ma'am. It just appeared out of nowhere. It looks like it's covered in...what the hell is that? Oh, God. It smells awful. I can smell it from here. Just Christ. It smells like death. It's like vomit and blood and... Ma'am? Oh my God. Ma'am. Do not abort, Skinner. I repeat. Do not abort. Keep that field up and do not abort. Ma'am, what's going on? Ma'am. Ma'am! Reduce whom field to 1.7. I'm entering the containment zone. Do not disengage the field or re-risk at destabilizing the object. Yes, ma'am. Reporting, yes. This is Dr. Matthew Skinner requesting. Oh, God.  What is all this? This is...this is the...Oh, God. Robert? Robert? Robert, is this you? Oh, God. Please, please. No, don't let it be you. Don't let it be you, Robert. I thought...it's...how can this thing be? Ma'am. Ma'am. What are you doing? You shouldn't touch... This is the range that is destabilizing the field. Welcome back, Dr. Wayne. What would you like to... Access audio log. Playback starting from January 2nd, 2000. Oh, God. Oh, God.  It's like someone exploded on it. It's like... That's...Oh, God. Is that...is that...Oh, God. Oh, God. Please, please, no, please, no. Access audio file. Please, don't waste the time once you continue, Dr. Wayne. Password is...Animobana. Oh, my God. It's everywhere.  Requesting knowledge. Processing. I'm sorry to announce that January 2nd, 2000. Access log on January 15th, 2000. Your voice recognition at time...  Robert, sweetie, what...what happened? Two terms, Dr. Wayne. Retreated audio files. Ma'am, you really shouldn't be touching that bear-handed. It could be hazardous. You should wait for the cleaning team to come in. There's so much blood here. There's so much, honey. Honey, are you okay? Where did you go? Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. There's so much blood. What? Oh, my... Ma'am. Ma'am. Dr. Lang, please, please, step away from the con... His hand. His ring. It just fell to the... Ma'am, what?  Jesus Christ. Dr. Lang, step away, please. Come back. We'll get you out of there for now. Everything will be all right. Please, Dr. Lang. Play now. Dr. Lang, please, come with me. We'll get help. Do you hear me? Dr. Lang. Dr. Lang, can you hear me? Dr. Lang. Name, Robert Scranton. Age, 39. Birthday, September 19th, 1961. Favorite color, blue. Favorite song, living on a prayer. Wife, Anna, Anna. Dr. Lang? Dr. Lang! Report, this is Dr. Matthew Skinner, reporting from Site 120 Reality Lab A. I need medical attention here immediately.


What's up guys? Today I have the Kyvo V20. It's a cordless vacuum cleaner that can do multiple different purposes around the house. If you have hardwood flooring or you have carpets, it will do a great job and it gets into those tight areas, those high areas. It's a multi-use vacuum cleaner and it's something great, especially like myself. If you move into a new place, you want to maintain it and have it very clean. I'm going to go ahead and unbox this to showcase to you guys what comes in there, what different types of heads that you get with it, how you can use it, set it up and give you a review on how it performs. So let's get straight into it. Inside the box you have yourself the main motorized brush. This actually has LED lights on the front, which is great if you're getting into smaller, darker places. You have the mini motorized brush, a 2-in-1 dusting brush and a crevice bar brush. So there's the long bar handle to have it as the larger vacuum cleaner. This is the main unit where it has the 300 watt brushless motor inside, which is great. I'll run through that in a second. You have yourself the user manual, the plug and then you also have a wall mounting bracket. So if you want it to hang this on the wall, then you can do that. It also comes with an additional filter there as well. So let me go ahead and connect this and I'll set it up with the main motorized brush first, give you guys a run through of the specs and see how it performs. So it's fairly easy to connect. You get the long bar, you clip this into the main handle first and then you put the motorized brush, clip it there. Very easy to clip into place like so. And then now you're ready to start using it.  There's a button here just on the top, which has three levels of pressure. Now this actually operates on the maximum level up to 25,000 Pascals, which basically is the amount of pressure and the suction that it can perform but the average on a lot of these cordless vacuums is around 20,000. So this one doing 25,000, it just goes that extra mile to give you the best suction for any type of dirt that you want to capture from your floors. Now the other thing I really like about this is that it has 2,500 milliamp hour Samsung battery packs in there, which gives you around 40 minutes of runtime. The battery pack is actually in the handle as well. There's a red button here that allows you to detach the handle so that you can charge the battery separately. So all you do is press this red button and it pops out. So there you have the port at the back of this to charge it and then you can just set this up on the side. And likewise, it's very easy to slot back in.  And that's essentially all the buttons. So it's very minimalistic, which I think is great. You have some buttons here to release the different types of extension rods and put on some of the other brushes there. So you have one towards the bottom as well and then one here at the top. Now although this does operate at 25,000 PA, it also has low noise operation. At the maximum level, it operates around 68 decibels. So when I do go ahead and vacuum the floors, you guys can try and hear actually how loud or how not loud this actually is. So what I'm going to do is now go and vacuum different parts of my house using these different brushes and then also try to hear out how loud it is, but I'll also give you a conclusion of how good this works. So let's get straight into it. As you guys heard, it was actually quiet enough that it wouldn't disturb other members of your household. But one thing I really like about this vacuum is that it twists and turns around corners so easily without any effort, as you can see here. In addition to that, I can get low under furniture just as easily with it being fairly light and slim and having that multi-directional rotatable head. Even on carpets, it was able to pick up dust and hiss just as easily compared to hardwood floors, which was great. Now removing the motorized head, it was super quick and easy to attach the mini motorized head just like this. And this is great for getting under those pieces of furniture that is otherwise too small for the main motorized head to fit under. My TV stand unit here is one of those examples. Now detaching the main bar, I'm connecting the two-in-one brush and I'll use the brush part of it to go handheld on my hardwood furniture. I have plenty of blackwood furniture in the house, which picks up dust very easily and having this handheld brush vacuum is going to be so convenient to keep things clean and it's even good enough to take dust out of my speaker systems. Finally, the crevice brush is just perfect to getting those pieces of food or other dirt that falls in between the sofas and this is what I'll use to clean the sides of my car seats as well. Now it's pretty easy to empty the dust. All you have to do is unlock it, so you've got some arrows there to indicate that. You twist it, you lift it up, just put that to the side. You can also see here this is one of the filters that come with it, there's a spare one that came in the box. This is also washable. Now the great thing about this is this entire unit can also be placed under water to clean it out and wash it. So all I need to do is lift up the handle, open this up and this is what's great about having a brushless motor as well. It's so easy to empty all of the dust and the particles that you've picked up, especially all the hairs that get trapped. So now I'm just going to put that to the side. That will also be washed and all you have to do is just empty everything straight into the bin. All comes down very easy and then now I can just place this under a tap to wash it. So pretty much you can wash all of it and it all comes out very easily. So just fill it up, pour it up, just make sure you get every bit of the dust quick and easy and now that'll be ready to dry. If you'd like to use a sponge to make sure you get all of the dust then you can go ahead and do that as well because obviously if things get wet it might stay there at the bottom and again the same with the additional units. So overall I'm so impressed with how easy it is for this vacuum to pick up all of the dust, the hairs on both the hardwood flooring and the carpets that I have upstairs. Now this comes in at £160 on Amazon. Take a look at the description and check out the link where you can purchase this. They might have some office and discounts running so take a look at the latest pricing information at the time you're watching this video. If there's anything else you guys want to know about this product go ahead and drop a comment down below. If you like reviews for things around the house, really cool home gadgets or anything tech I have new videos out every week so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss those ones. Make sure you like this video and I will catch you guys next time. Take care.


So we're here with the Wii view and who are you hello, my name is Kenny and I'm a whole founder in the Wii view and So what are we looking at here? What is this? Okay, this is called a high product. So the Purpose of the high product is a to let you to watch it a 3d video So you can record a 3d video. Yes, I can record a 3d video and And so using the built-in camera and plus an extra camera right here and both angles are making a 3d video Yes And it worked with every Android smartphone for high-levels Android Cell phone because it consume a lot of CPU power and use a lot of CPU you need your own application for the camera Yes, we own our own application in the camera What what is the function of the camera the application in the application? So from now I can record the 3d video just put this button Yeah And then push you stop what's the resolution? What's the reason so far is the VGA? VGA so two-time VGA and what else can you do picture? What is it? Okay, so after you record it You can get your video 3d video in your cell phone All right So then you can use a cardboard Yes, and you can just put in there put like there and you can watch the 3d video Yes, and then and then you can enjoy your 3d video VGA, can you do more? Oh Of course because sometimes I will say that limitation is about a USB 2.0 So it's a using a USB host function of the USB micro And the go So any Android smartphone with OTG with a fast CPU a faster CPU Qualcomm Qualcomm CPU is a recommend 810 what is minimum? It may be okay because I have to say sorry because we cannot get a lot of cell phone to test it but same songs and not a ball and not a pie or Sony yeah, okay, and those kind of and this is how it looks like You call it the I plug My products are portable name and right here. This is how it looks. It's small like this Yeah, and then you have a type C version for the future future. Is it a mock-up? It's real a mock-up. Yeah, it's a real a mock-up. It's a mock-up But we still have the function can work about it's a marker sample And so type C function, maybe we'll have even higher resolution also Yes, we will get a higher resolution because of the type C we can get a USB 3.0 or high How high is the maximum resolution? Maybe maybe the full HD or full HD or HD dual full HD So so so far I have to say it still depend on the Cell phone because of why the your cell phone have and how we can provide All right Cool, so how soon is available and how much it cost how much care the retail price in Taiwan with Almost a 40 US dollar around 40 years dollar for retail price retail price in Taiwan just in Taiwan How soon how soon maybe next week next week. Yeah, so already mass production already for for USB USB 2.0. It has been already attached. All right Where are you based your company, huh? Where are you based best in Taiwan Taiwan company come on company Taiwan brand So you start selling in Taiwan. I will start up in Taiwan But here at the Computex you find distributor all over the world. Yes, and you will sell worldwide. Yeah, we will sell for wine


Mr Speaker, let me, first of all, thank my colleagues, particularly the member for Grozile, who had to be summoned back to capital on his birthday rendezvous. I want to thank him for putting country first. He, being a young politician, a young minister, could not see himself missing such an opportunity to speak, to take part in this historic moment in his honourable house. Mr Speaker, as I sit and reflect on my time in politics, and I sit and reflect on what has transpired, where I've been, what has happened to me, how I've progressed from a nothing in politics from someone who could never win the seat, someone who could never ever ever be in parliament, someone who would never ever ever be minister, not even a prime minister. And I see how this process has developed. I remember the pain of election losses. I remember the pain of defeat and the glory of victory. I remember that day in 1997, when Kenyans, when the members of Yufot South and 16 others, this historic 16-1 victory, when all of us were very young, when all of us were motivated and led by Kenyans to this historic victory. And I see where we are today and where I am today. I have a lot to thank God for. I have to thank God, I have to thank my parents, although some people want me to say that. I have to thank my colleagues, I have to thank the members of the St Lucia Labour Party, and more particularly I have to thank the men and women of this cabinet. But Mr Speaker, I am perturbed by what I see developing in the politics of St Lucia. Here we have a debate on arguably one of the most important moves in St Lucia's history. A constitutional debate on removing St Lucia from the shackles of the previous council to the Caribbean call of justice, a regional institution Mr Speaker. And the level of debate that I see and am meeting from the opposition is painful. It's a debate of character assassination, the names of serious jurists, the names of global figures, the name of a former president of the Caribbean call of justice, the name of someone who's got involved at the highest level of jurisprudence is being dragged into the gutter of Facebook by the United Workers Party accusing him of bidding to the Labour Party. Mr Speaker, what example do we give to our children? When we cannot go above, we cannot rise to the moment, we cannot meet destiny face to face when these important things are happening Mr Speaker. When I see another man who has got himself into a position because he is the president of the OECS Bar Association being dragged again into the gutters, being called all kind of names, being defamed on Facebook just because he happens to be an associate or friend of somebody in the Labour Party. Mr Speaker, it's a real sad day and I think our society should reject it. I think our civil society to speak against these things Mr Speaker because I sit and I say not about me but it's about the example that we are setting to our children, the example we are setting to the young people of Senusia Mr Speaker when we get involved in that level of nastiness. Mr Speaker, what has the Caribbean call of justice got to do with somebody who is a friend to somebody in the Labour Party? What has the previous council got to do with someone who has a case in front of the previous council now? Why are we setting ourselves short when what we are doing is connecting to our destiny, taking ourselves away from one position and going to another Mr Speaker? Why do we have so little faith in ourselves as a people Mr Speaker? Why can't we as Bob Marley said liberate ourselves from mental slavery? Why aren't we confident in ourselves Mr Speaker? We've got the best, this generation Mr Speaker or this civilization always in this civilization has turned out some of the best Mr Speaker, some of the best artists, some of the best academics, Rex, Nettleford, Afal Mizz, Terrick Walcott and Kyve Thomas. Thanks for George's, some of the best Mr Speaker, some of the best have come out of our region but we have no faith in it, we attack it, we condemn it and we refuse to see that the time has come when we can no longer hang on to our colonial past Mr Speaker. But how could we think different when a former prime minister can say that colonialism has a conscience? What do we expect from his followers if that's the example that he sets Mr Speaker? So instead of we debating or instead of trying to educate our people as to why it's going to be cheaper, why it's going to be better, why it's going to be more accessible for us to be able to get justice, the justice that we claim that we want through the Prefect Council, through the Caribbean Court of Justice, we want to soil it with propaganda and you want to soil it with politics Mr Speaker. But Mr Speaker, I'm heartened, I'm heartened because when I see the reaction of the young people who were there today, when I see the reaction, when I see how they sat and they observed the discussion and the presentation of the members of view for itself Mr Speaker, when I saw the thirst, the anxiousness in the eyes to absorb the knowledge that was coming from the members of view for itself, I'm heartened Mr Speaker. I'm heartened because I know that the young people of this country, the young people of this country Mr Speaker, they know very well what is right and what is wrong Mr Speaker. I mean Mr Speaker, I want to quote from a saying by Martin Luther King when he said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of brutality, tied in a single garment of destiny, whenever affects one directly affects all in directly Mr Speaker. And that is why it's important that justice is accessible to everyone. And that is what this kind of justice will do Mr Speaker. We heard, we heard that even the filing fee sometimes will be free. How many people who will demonstrate in this afternoon can find 2,500 pounds just to begin a process in the previous council? Just to begin a process, not just to begin it, 2,500 pounds, how many of them out there can afford it Mr Speaker. But you think their leader will tell him that because he can afford it, because he can afford it, he will not tell them that they will never be able to afford it. And he will not tell them that possibly their relatives who may be at Baudelaire, who may be there because they are on remand because they cannot meet bail, who may be there, may be, they are innocently, may be Mr Speaker. With the Kaiban Code of Justice, when the process continues has gone through, they may be able to get justice through the Caribbean. Kaiban Code of Justice, which they could never afford to get in the previous council. Never. They could never be able to afford it Mr Speaker. But Mr Speaker, that is what we are not telling the people of this country. We are not speaking the truth to them Mr Speaker. We talk about judges are going to be appointed by politicians. There is no way, there is nothing in the agreement. It is almost impossible for politicians to choose a judge Mr Speaker. But we listen to CNN every night and may have our Trump judges and Biden judges and we accept it. We accept Trump judges and we accept Biden judges. We think it's right for the Americans to be able to say that judges who appointed directly by a politician, so much so that the opinions and the judgments that he will give will come directly from the philosophies of the Republican Party. We are proud and we say that's the developed civilization because we have, they are from America and they have Trump judges. We can sit and we can absorb that in the supreme court, the highest court in the United States. People can see that judgments will come from one set of judges because they are conservative judges and the other judges are liberal judges. So when an issue like what's happening now, the issue of student loans in front of the supreme court, people can predict that the liberal judges will go one way and the conservative judges will go another way. But we can never, we can never in the Caribbean court of justice ever see that one judge is liberal or one judge is conservative. Never because all of them are chosen because for other reasons not by votes, direct votes by politicians. We can accept that. We can accept it because it comes from North America. We can accept it, that's good. But we can tell our people here that because the people that we will choose as judges, people we know, people who look like us, people who went to the same schools as us, we can say they are not suitable. When there is no evidence that a politician will choose them, there is no evidence, absolutely no evidence. But don't accept them, don't trust them because they are chosen like by people. They are people that we know, they are probably going to the same school with us. They are people who went to the same universities as us, don't trust them, don't trust them. But we can trust Trump judges and Biden judges. Mr Speaker, that is where we are and it's very sad, it is very sad Mr Speaker. So Mr Speaker, as I said earlier when I, when I introduced this bill, I said this process started with a member of view for itself outlined it Mr Speaker and he, in his own style Mr Speaker, made some significant points, some significant contribution on the process, the historical process Mr Speaker. And I want to read a letter from the right, from the right Honourable P. J. Palisin, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica Mr Speaker. The most, his exact, his exact title is Mr Speaker, the most, the most honourable P. J. Palisin. And he said, and he on a letter written me on the 5th of February Mr Speaker, he said to me, trust that you will have a straight forward passage to the legislature. But please remember the vital importance of a concurrent public information programme so that the electorate is fully locked in. And he further said, Mr Speaker, fortunately, and that's his quote, Kenny was the curriculum chair responsible for the creation of the CCJ and has all the background material necessary to answer any questions which might arise. Should there remain any area which requires a sharing of the unique Jamaican experience that can be readily supplied on request, continuing best wishes for successful passage. And Mr Speaker, when I get to work tomorrow, I will write the right excellent to the right Honourable P. J. Palisin and tell him Kenny did give us a lot of his knowledge and we will pass the bill this afternoon. So Mr Speaker, we today, this afternoon or this evening, we are part of history. And the history books will record that on the 28th of February, St. Lucia broke from one of the shackles of colonialism Mr Speaker. And I am sure and hopefully the other shackle, the other shackle Mr Speaker, we will also liberate ourselves from the other shackle very very very short limit. Because our civilization, our country deserves it Mr Speaker. Our people deserve it Mr Speaker. The next stage Mr Speaker is in the process, we will write the British government and tell them what transpired as I said in the letter. And all the cases that are now in the Privy Council, they will continue. All the cases that are now that are there at this moment, so all the propaganda here is not true, that they will continue Mr Speaker and then any new cases, new cases will proudly march to the Caribbean court of justice Mr Speaker. Where we are going to be judged by people who know us. Where we are going to be judged by people who know the Caribbean experience Mr Speaker. Because I'm not a lawyer, but law is a product of the society Mr Speaker. Lawyers know what's happening as judges are people who live in the society. They understand this, understand the nuances of our society Mr Speaker. So Mr Speaker, I want to thank you, I want to thank the members of this parliament Mr Speaker. It's a pity Mr Speaker, it's a sad day that a former prime minister is not in this honorable house to debate such an important constitutional amendment Mr Speaker. It's very sad, it shows you the contempt and the scorn that he has for the people of this country. That if I'm not there, if I'm not the boss, I take my ball and I go. Because I must be the boss, I must be the boss. I'm Mr Speaker, somebody told me that there was a discussion in New York where the gentleman said if there was somebody who could run the country he would resign. You want to believe that? If they could find somebody who could run the country he would resign. So there is nobody, there is nobody in St. Lucia who can run this country. So he must be. Even though people kick him he must be. Mr Speaker, I thank you. I thank Dr Kenney, the member for me to serve Mr Speaker. So he wants to serve. Apologies. Apologies again. Mr Speaker, I thank the member for me to serve Mr Speaker. But Johnny as I said he signed the document in 2001 and where we are today, as at this level party is a stream it flows and now it's our turn to bring it to the end to its end Mr Speaker. So Mr Speaker let us enjoy this moment. Let us reflect on the seriousness of this moment. Let us reflect on the significance of this moment Mr Speaker. Let us say to ourselves we trust our people, we trust our judges, we trust the judges Mr Speaker. And together this St. Lucia and West Indian civilization will survive and will take our people to higher and better heights. I thank you Mr Speaker.


Welcome. I welcome you all to this lecture in the course, Samasa in Paninian Grammar. And this is the first course on Samasa. As is our practice, we begin our lecture with the recitation of the Mangala Charana, Vishvesham Satchitanandam, Vandeham Yo Khilan Jagat, Charikarthi Bari Bharti, Sanjari Harti Leela Ya, Vishvesham Satchitanandam, Vandeham Yo Khilan Jagat, Charikarthi Bari Bharti, Sanjari Harti Leela Ya, We are studying Tattpourusha Samasa. We said that Tattpourusha Samasa is one of the important Samasasas in Sanskrit along with Avyaibhava, Bahuvrihi and Dabandva. Tattpourusha Samasa is special because Tattpourusha Samasa is treated by Panini in a special manner. There are more number of sutras dealing with the Tattpourusha Samasa as compared to the other Samasas. Be it Samasa Vidhyayaka Sutra or Samasanta Vidhyayaka Sutra or Swara Vidhyayaka Sutras, Tattpourusha Samasa has got more number of sutras. Also is the case of the varieties of Tattpourusha Samasa, which are many as compared to the other Samasas and so Tattpourusha Samasa becomes very important, a very big umbrella. With the help of this equation, Tattpourusha Samasa and its features can be also easily explained. We have X and Y as two entities separate independent of each other in terms of the word form as well as the meaning as well as the accent. X has got an independent separate meaning so does Y and so is there a different word form of X and so is there a word form of Y independent of X. Similarly, there are accents on X and Y which are independent and which are separate. When the speaker of Sanskrit decides to merge these two X and Y together primarily because X and Y even though are independent are interrelated then the process of compounding happens and the output which is merged namely X, Y is generated. Now there is only one word, now there is only one meaning and now there is only one accent to this newly generated output which is one. This X, Y is such that Y plays the role of the head which means that if X, Y is to be interrelated to any other word in the sentence, this interrelation happens only through Y. If at all the interrelation of X, Y also happens with X, also happens through X then such a Samasa is treated as a Samartha Samasa. So Aikapadya, Aikarthya and Aikaswarya are the three features that are also visible in the Tatpurusha Samasa in this particular manner. We also studied several varieties of Tatpurusha Samasa. Right now we are studying a very important Samasa called Upapada Tatpurusha Samasa, a big variety of Tatpurusha. This Upapada Tatpurusha Samasa is stated by 2219 which we have been studying so far. 2219 is Upapadam Ating and there are two padas in the sutra, Upapadam as well as Ating. Both the padas are in Prathama Vibhakti. Upapadam is one slash one which means the word designated as Upapada and this is designated by Sutra 3192, Tatra Upapadam Saptami's Tham. Now this one slash one after Upapada decides the position it will occupy in the Samasa. First the Sutra Prathama Nirdistam Samasa Upasarjanam applies and makes Upapada technically Upasarjanam and then by the application of the Sutra Upasarjanam Purva, this Upapada is said to occupy the first position in the compound in the Samasa. Its Purva Nipata takes place. The second word in the sutra is Ating. What it means is which is not a thing, which means which is not a thingant eventually. Words continued are Sup and Sahasupa and also of course Samarthapada Vidhi. The meaning of the sutra on the basis of the material that we have seen so far is the following. Any Subanta whose Pratipadikas are designated as Upapada is compounded with any other interrelated word which is not a thinganta. I repeat any Subanta whose Pratipadikas are designated as Upapada is compounded with any other interrelated word which is not a thinganta. Now certain questions arise over here. The first question is what is the need of the word ating in this sutra and then what is achieved by this negation, a thing. Because when we make not a thingant a condition for this sutra to apply, the only other available option through this negation is that of a Subanta. I repeat when we make not a thingant a condition for this sutra to apply the only other available option through this negation is that of a Subanta. And this option is available to us anyway because of the continuation of the words Sup and Sahasupa. So we are forced to think that in this particular sutra the basic condition of Sup-Sahasupa does not apply. Rather Sup-Saha will only apply. So we don't need a second Subanta. So the structure of this samasa, this formed can be shown in the following manner. There are two Subantas. At the end of the first Subanta appears Su which is a Sup. And at the end of the second Subanta which is not a Subanta, at the end of the second element there is there need not be a Subanta. We can have the word ending in Krith. So for example we have a Prathipadika plus Su over here. We have a Prathipadika plus Su. This is the first padha. This is the Purva padha with the Subanta. And then we have a Dhatu plus Krith. Now there is no Subanta over here. In such a case Supadhatu Prathipadika will apply and will delete this Su. And then the finally derived output would be this Prathipadika and the Dhatu plus Krith Prathipadika. We have been studying several Sutras which prescribe Krith suffixes as part of the derivation of the Upapada Satpurusha compound. And these suffixes are stated by the Sutras, stated in 3.2. We started with Karmanyan and now we have to study this particular Sutra 3256 which reads like this. I repeat. The first word adhyasubhaga sthula palitna nandha priyeshu chvaira theshu The first word adhyasubhaga sthula palitna nandha priyeshu This word has got saptami bhava chana as its vibhakti. This indicates the meaning namely that when adhyasubhaga etc. are the Upapadas. This we arrive at with the help of the Sutra tattrapapadam saptamistham. Chvaira theshu is also 7 slash 3 which is the adjective of the Upapadas in the sense of the suffix chvi. So the meaning of the suffix chvi is to be intended. But the important point is the next word achvau in the absence of the suffix chvi. So the meaning of the suffix has to be there but there should not be the suffix chvi to express such a meaning. There should be an absence of such a suffix. So achvau is in the absence of the suffix chvi. Kriyaha is 5 slash 1 which means immediately after the verbal root kru to do. Karana is 7 slash 1 meaning in the sense of the most effective instrument and kyun is 1 slash 1 meaning the suffix kyun and the suffix kyun is added. So the suffix kyun means Karana in this particular sutra. Words continued are Datoho from 3191 which means immediately after a verbal root. Pratyayaha which is 311. Karmani from Karmanyan 7 slash 1. Tathropapadam saptamistham 3192. Krudatin 3193. So now the meaning of the sutra is the following. The suffix kyun is added in the sense of Karana to verbal root kru when the upapadas are adhyasubhaga etc which are related to the action of doing in the sense of a karma and also in the sense of the suffix chvi but in the absence of the suffix chvi. I repeat the suffix kyun is added in the sense of Karana to the verbal root kru when the upapadas are adhyasubhaga etc which are related to the action of doing in the sense of a karma and also in the sense of the suffix chvi but in the absence of the suffix chvi. What is the meaning of the suffix chvi? The meaning of the suffix chvi is abhuta tadbhava. Something that is not there is now made to be. In the suffix kyun the marker kha triggers the addition of the augment ma stated in the sutra as mom to the purvapada by 6366. So here we have an example. The meaning to be conveyed is that the most effective means by which a non-wealthy person is made wealthy. The most effective means indicate the Karana by which a non-wealthy person is made wealthy indicates the abhuta tadbhava. The non-wealthyness is abhuta and now when the person is made wealthy this abhuta is turned into tadbhava. So we have the laukika vigraha anadhyam adhyam kurvanti anayana. So the suffix kyun is added in the sense of Karana or the most effective means indicated in this laukika vigraha by the word anayana and then we turn this into an a laukika vigraha which is then adhyam plus am plus kru plus kyun.   In kyun, kha is anubandha and na is also an anubandha. Lashakva tadhyate makes kha as the anubandha and halantya makes na the anubandha. Tasya lopah deletes both of them. What remains is u. So we have adhyam plus zero plus kru plus u. After which next stage we add the augment ma to the purvapada.  Now kru is substituted by kar which is a guna substitute by sarvadhatu karadhatu kayoho 7384 and then we get the form adhyam karana.  Similarly, we will get the other outputs as well. So when the meaning is the most effective means by which a non-blessed is made blessed subhagam subhagam karoti anena and then the output generated would be subhagam karanam. When the meaning is the most effective means by which a non-big is made big asthulam sthulam karoti anena and so we have sthulam karanam and then we also have the most effective means by which a non-old is made old and this meaning is to be conveyed. We get apalitam palitam karoti anena and the output generated is palitam karanam. Similarly, when the meaning to be conveyed is the most effective means by which a non-nude is made nude anagnam nagnam karoti anena and we get the output generated as nagnam karanam. Similarly, when the meaning is the most effective means by which a non-blind is made blind anandham andham karoti anena and so we have andham karanam as the output generated. Similarly, when the meaning to be conveyed is the most effective means by which a non-pleasant is made pleasant and so we have a priyam priyam karoti anena as the laukika vigraha from which the output generated would be priyam karanam. This is how the suffix kyan added to the verbal root kru with these upapadas would generate outputs. These are all the upapadas that purusha samasas. Let us now go to the next sutra. Kartharibhavaha kishnuch khokayam 3257. There are three padas in the sutra. Karthari 7 slash 1, Bhubaha 5 slash 1 and kishnuch khokayam 1 slash 2. Karthari is 7 slash 1 which means in the sense of an agent. Bhubaha is 5 slash 1 which means immediately after the verbal root bhu. kishnuch khokayam is 1 slash 2. kishnuch khokayam eventually means ishno and ukka because kh and ch and yin they are the markers. Words continued are dhato ho 3191 immediately after the verbal root pratyayaha 311. So, kishnuch khokayam are the pratyayas tatro papadam saptami stham from 3192. kridhating 3193. adhyasubhaga etc. 7 slash 3 which means when these are the upapadas. chpertheshu continues which means in the sense of the suffix chvi when these upapadas also denote the sense of the suffix chvi that is abhuta tadbhava. But achhvau when the chvi suffix is not present in the absence of the suffix chvi. All these put together the meaning of the sutra would be the suffix says kishnuch and khokayam are added in the sense of kartha to verbal root bhu when the upapadas are adhyasubhaga etc. also in the sense of the suffix chvi but in the absence of the suffix chvi. I repeat the suffix says kishnuch and khokayam are added in the sense of kartha to verbal root bhu when the upapadas are adhyasubhaga etc. and also in the sense of the suffix chvi but in the absence of the suffix chvi. So here are the example anadhyah adhyah bhavati the meaning is one who is not wealthy becomes wealthy and the laukika vigraha is anadhyah adhyah bhavati the laukika vigraha would be adhyah plus su plus bhu plus kishnuch or khokayi then the samasa saudhna takes place then the prathipati ka saudhna takes place and then we apply supodhatup prathipati ka yoho and then am gets deleted and so we have adhyah plus zero plus bhu plus ishnu or ukha and then we have adhyah plus zero and then the augment ma comes into being it is added at the end of the purbapada so adhyah plus zero and ma plus bhava plus ishnu or bhava plus ukha so because of the suffix ishnu there is guna substitution in bhu so bhu becomes bhu and then the sandhirul applies bhu becomes bhava and because of the marker yinya in khokayi bhu becomes bhau which is a vraddhi substitute and then there is sandhirul which applies and substitutes av by av so we have bhava plus ukha that is bhavukha and so the output generated is adhyam bhavishnahu as well as adhyam bhavukha this is the samasa output similarly when the meaning to be expressed is one who is not blessed becomes blessed asubhagah subhago bhavati we have the samasa output subhagam bhavishnahu as well as subhagam bhavukha similarly one who is not big becomes big when this meaning is to be conveyed the laukika vigraha is astu lah astu lo bhavati and the samasa output generated would be astu lahm bhavishnahu as well as astu lahm bhavukha similarly when the meaning is one who is not old becomes old the laukika vigraha is apalitaha palito bhavati and the output generated is palitam bhavishnahu as well as palitam bhavukha similarly when the meaning to be conveyed is one who is not nude becomes nude anagnaha nagna bhavati is the laukika vigraha and the samasa output generated is nagnam bhavishnahu as well as nagnam bhavukha similarly when the meaning is one who is a non-blind becomes blind and if this meaning is to be conveyed we have anandha andha bhavati as the laukika vigraha and the compound generated is andham bhavishnahu or andham bhavukha similarly when the meaning is one who is non-pleasant becomes pleasant a priya priya bhavati is the laukika vigraha and priyambhavishnahu as well as priyambhavukha is the compound output generated this is how the sutra 3257 applies and the upapada takpura samasas are generated now let us see another sutra which prescribes another pratyaya teda adishu drashaha analo chane kaincha 3260 I repeat teda adishu drashaha analo chane kaincha this sutra has got five words five padhas teda adishu is 7 slash 3 when teda adis are the upapadas teda adis are teda tada yad etad idam adas ekadvi drashaha is 5 slash 1 of drash which means immediately after the verbal root drash to see analo chane is 7 slash 1 meaning not in the sense of seeing rather in the sense of similar kain is 1 slash 1 kain means a k is a marker yaya is a marker what remains is a chhe means and so chhe also brings quen from 3258 so the meaning of the sutra is the following the suffixes kain or quen are added in the sense of kartha to the verbal root drushar which means to see when the upapadas are teda et cetera and they are related to the action of doing in the sense of a karma and if the verbal root does not denote the action of seeing and if the compound is rather denoting being similar I repeat the suffixes kain or quen are added in the sense of kartha to verbal root drushar to see when the upapadas are teda tada et cetera which are related to the action of doing related to the action of seeing in the sense of a karma and if the verbal root does not denote the action of seeing and if the compound is rather denoting being similar so here we have teda plus am plus drushar plus kain or quen and here we have the samasa saudhna happening and then prathipadika saudhna takes place and so we have teda plus zero plus drushar plus a or zero now this teda plus zero is caused by suppose hathu prathipadika yoho and drushar plus a or zero this zero is caused by the suffix quen which is a zero suffix by itself then by applying tada dina maha the is substituted by a so we have tia plus drushar plus a and then by applying other sutras we get the lengthening tia and drushar and a and tia drushar is the output generated and also tia drush when we apply kain the output is tia drushar ending in short a when we apply quen we generate the output ending in tia drush similarly we have tadrushar and tadrush yadrushar and yadrush a tadrushar and a tadrush generated also we have sadrushar and sadrush and anyadrushar and anyadrush as the other forms generated by this particular sutra and these are all the upapazhats purusha compounds to summarize the suffixes in this particular section mean different karakas by default they mean the agent by the sutra karatari krithu but sometimes they also mean the most effective means namely the karana complex semantic conditions do play a key role in getting some compounds generated where the meaning of a particular suffix is understood but the suffix is not physically present the input compound meaning sometimes overrides the meaning of the verbal root recorded in the lixika these are the texts referred to thank you for your patience


I can't wait to get going because today we're going to be talking about investing in non-profit infrastructure. Yeah. Bridges. Roads. Bridges and roads, ingress and egress, no, that's not it, but you're right, we are talking about infrastructure, so I am excited to talk about this. Thank you for turning the hot seat on me, Julia. Well, it's very exciting. Again, I'm Julia Patrick. If we haven't met yet, I'm the CEO of the American Non-Profit Academy, been joined by my interpret co-host, finishing up almost two years of the non-profit show with, yeah, that's right, you're at ransom of the non-profit nerd, and again, we want to thank all of our sponsors who are ending up the year with us strongly as we navigate into 2022. It's super exciting to have everyone with us, you're going to see some new sponsor logos with us in the new year, which we're very, very excited about, so thank you so much for being a part of this journey. Okay, the non-profit nerd herself, Jared Ransom, CEO of the Raven Group, get those glasses on, sister. Yeah, I have them, I have them always near me, and again, really excited to talk about today as we move into the final week of the year, as you just mentioned, a reminder, we are not on air Friday, so we will move our Friday show to Thursday, but I just had this thought, Julia, we might need to have some bubbly on Thursday to celebrate and to help ring in the new year. Orderly, I am there. So for those of you that can join us, right, that will be a good opportunity to celebrate all of our wins and celebrate a new start to the new year. You know, it's going to be really fun. Tomorrow, the episode we have going on tomorrow, is kind of our best of, and you know, Jared and I talk about the best of concepts that we have, oh, that was a great guess, that was an amazing idea, I learned so much, but we decided we'd put it all together now in one show, which is super hard. I mean, super hard to get all that in 30 minutes, but so join us tomorrow because it'll be a lot of fun kind of rehashing what we were able to glean and see and from what what you have been telling us. So that I think is going to be a lot of fun and full of surprises. So absolutely. But today is the day we're putting you on the hot seat, sister. OK, investing in infrastructure, first and foremost, what does that mean? That's a good question, you know, when I first mentioned, I think we need to talk about infrastructure because most people think of infrastructure, right, Julia, of roads and bridges and, you know, those structural opportunities. And it's not very different because it really is still the structural opportunities internally of an organization. So because it's a mouthful, I did write it down, so I'm going to take a look here. Truly infrastructure at its core involves several things. So it includes and it involves facilities, staffing, training, software, auditing, which any of you think, you know, that's a scary word. So auditing, education, consulting and other business opportunities. So again, I wrote it down because it is a lot and I didn't want to miss it. Any of the key structural, you know, opportunities. So really, it involves a lot when it comes to infrastructure. One of the things I also want to mention is we talk a lot about how the nonprofit sector is almost proud to do so much with very little. And we are really switching the conversation to say, no more. We need to invest in infrastructure. We need to invest in our policies, our procedures, our software, our systems, our people, our pay. And that is exactly what today's conversation is about because as we have all witnessed the last couple of years and the multiple of pandemics in which we've all been impacted, we need to start looking at how we are doing things differently to still make a big impact for those that depend on our services. You know, I love that reframing. That's a really great way to look at it. And what you just said is magical thinking for me because I know all too often our nonprofit investors, our board members, we look at this from the outside and we're like, we don't use that word investment. You know, we try and hold back. We try and do so much more with less and we end up costing ourselves time and money, I think, because we don't make these investments. So let's get at it and have you discussed with us why we should be investing, and I love again that word, in leadership and management. What are you seeing there, Jared? So I did some research and in 2018, so it's been a couple of years, a few years, but in 2018, GuideStar reported that half of all U.S. charities, again, if you've joined us for the show, you know that we always mentioned 1.8 is the number of registered U.S. charities. So half of those are operating with less than one month cash reserve. So that is very scary. Again, that's a 2018 report from GuideStar. So scary, right? I mean, that is not payroll, that's not programming, that's not so much to do. So when we talk about investing in leadership and management, you know, it really is about talking truly to those stakeholders across the board, internally and externally, and we're going to talk about that when it comes to communications. But why it's important to invest in leadership and management? So we continue to up level our systems and our policies, again, talking about, you know, software. Let's look at, you know, the global health pandemic, COVID-19, over the last two years and how much technology enhancement has taken place.  You know, it's really interesting. I've been noticing and I know this, again, curveball to you, sister, but I've been noticing like in the beginning of my service within the nonprofit community, you would be hard pressed to find an organization that was led by somebody that other than an expert within that source, right, a source expert. So meaning, let's say you were running an organization that dealt with autism. You would have somebody that had their PhD in something that had to do with autism, or you wouldn't, or you wouldn't have that type of, you wouldn't have leadership, right? But I'm seeing now more and more organizations saying we can find the experts in the source material that we need, but we need like a CPA or an attorney or somebody with their MBA, more of like a professional manager who can oversee our organization. And I'm wondering, are you seeing that? I mean, is this part of that shift in mentality?  I know. Sorry. No, no, no. There's so many ways to talk about that.  So we're seeing that trend. Also, I think, grown accustomed to hearing, nonprofits need to run like for-profits, right? Like we've heard that, I think, you know, said time and time again. So I really think when it comes to your question, it really is about how can we streamline and build efficiencies to increase our effectiveness? So regardless of who might have that talent, I do think that it's really bringing those experts in all the fields, right? If you are an organization for autism, then you definitely need that expert there at the table. But I think it needs to be more of a collective team approach and really, you know, pull people in and on to your team that are better at something than you are. And that is truly how you build. I firmly believe you build a strong team is that you bring people in to your team, into your leadership, into your management that are better and more versed or higher versed in truly that topic. So that collectively you're building a management team for change. Yeah, I love that. And I mean, that is an infrastructure issue, don't you think? I mean, in some ways, when the way you just express this, it seems like that is almost the definition of infrastructure and that you're looking at what are those pieces holding up the foundation. Yeah, you know, and here in our community, there is a foundation that literally invest in organizations that are currently experiencing a deficit in infrastructure.  It is a multi-year program and process, but it is truly that to invest in the organization, the infrastructure, so that you can start to build your systems. Again, everything that I mentioned, your software, your education, your consulting, from the inside out instead of bottom up, which a lot of people, I think, organizations wide, focus truly on the program. What do we need to deliver the program instead of what do we need to build this sustainability and scalability from the inside out? Yeah, absolutely. And you know, that is a huge shift in the mentality of operations and approach. And so I really appreciate you bringing this forward to us in a way that I think we can communicate this to our stakeholders, to our board members, even to our teams. So another investment in infrastructure, you say, are systems and operations. You started talking about that, but what does that actually mean?  So documentation of your internal systems, your policies, your procedures, as everything continues to shift, we need to go back and look at our policies and our procedures, especially with the advancement of technology. So are we still doing a streamlined procedure when now we have these advancement of technology or software or systems that might, in fact, change that procedure structure? Maybe it cuts out some steps. Maybe it's very efficient. So really going back to that documentation of your systems and your operations, auditing those to make sure that you have the right systems and procedures in place. I keep saying the same words, but that's what we're talking about. I can execute and implement. And I have to add in report. There's a lot of funding out there that comes with a reporting requirement. And you need to make sure that you can account for that reporting as you continue to increase your documentation process. Yeah, I like that you said that because we've had folks on before that have talked about investing in organizations. And then when they don't get the reporting, it ends that relationship. And then the organizations are like, well, wait a minute. What happened? Why aren't we being included in the future? It's a huge stumbling block. Those evaluation metrics are critical. And again, I know that many of our organizations might have seen a decrease in service over the last two years. But the depth and breadth and how they served those individuals or community members during these last two years, again, the population-wise might have decreased, gotten smaller. But you might have served deeper to those individuals that you were serving during this time. I love it. And I love the way you framed that. I think that's really powerful. So then we talk about this process. We talk about all these things that we need to do. Now you've added communications in there. How does that all fit? You know, I did because we have always heard that you can't fundraise for operations, for overhead. You can only fundraise for programs. And people really only want to fund programs. And again, I'm here to bust that myth that is not necessarily the case. Everyone is starting to become more and more informed and educated as to why this infrastructure investment is so extremely critical. Excuse me. So we talk about, I would like to talk about here, that internal versus external communication and your strategy in that. Because as I mentioned earlier, there are organizations or foundations that truly look for organizations that are running at it with an infrastructure deficit. And they want to invest in your internal systems, your people, your facilities, your operations so that you can have a better system in which you serve the community. Because the reason we exist as nonprofits is because there has been a problem identified in the community. Therefore, there is a nonprofit that has been created and established to help mitigate or help provide support to that problem. So again, organizations are saying, you are the one helping this problem. We need to help you help this problem. And the way we can do that is to invest in your infrastructure. So when we talk about communications internally, there's a lot of staff that may not understand where these dollars are going.  I see that we are receiving support by the way of financial support from many organizations right now. That means I get a raise, right? Yes and no. And we can talk about pay structure in a little bit. But it really means that it is designated to this specific function. So it is designated to increase your technology. It is designated to perhaps bring in a consultant to help you with these new processes and procedures. And then there's the external communication, right? So I would like to address this when it comes to vying for that infrastructure investment from some of your top donors, right? To express the need, the purpose, the why behind the critical need for your infrastructure investment. So that could look like I was helping an organization a couple of years ago now. They, in fact, approved a deficit on their budget. Now there's two reasons that you have a deficit. One, it's an oops and oh my gosh, how did we get there? The second one is intentional. So in this case, it was they were moving from an all volunteer led organization to hiring their first CEO. So their first paid employee, which, of course, has this investment in infrastructure. You investing in the leadership, the management to move the policies, procedures, systems, operations, everything that we have previously talked about to move forward to invest in the continuity, the sustainability, and scalability of this organization. So how you talk about this investment to these stakeholder groups is very, very important. And such a wonderful investment to give these major donors or, as I like to sometimes refer to them, those blank check donors, the ones that trust you implicitly will say, what do you need and how will you use it? Imagine, Julia, going to someone to say, would you be willing to support us an additional $50,000 this year so that we can make this very critical investment in our infrastructure? Tell them why, tell them how it will impact, not only for the short term, but the long term. Well, you know, I think what I hear you saying, and again, communications, it's such a big part of the way I approach a problem or a project or an issue. When I hear you say infrastructure, that's a much easier thing to sign on to than operations. And because we do have this mentality and we started the conversation from the get-go with this is that do more with less, if we talk about investing in infrastructure, that seems less perilous, it seems more intelligent, and it seems more strategic and long term. And so in terms of communications, Jared, it seems like that's just a better way, if you will, to frame the message. Is that what you're really talking about? You know what is, it is a great way to frame the message. It's also when you have the ability to talk to some of those large investors, donors, supporters, whatever you name them, it's saying, because of you, we are able to take this mission forward in these ways. And it's truly diving into the core of the operation, the lifeblood of the operation. I would love to tap on wages, because I do believe that is part of the infrastructure investment. And right now across the nation, we have all seen where it's called a, oh gosh, now I forget the name of what it's called. I was talking to someone in HR and they were telling me this term. So if any of you watching live know the term, please let me know, but essentially we have new hires coming into the organization, sometimes making more than their supervisor, are just barely at their supervisor. And so really looking at this level set within the organization, absolutely. So this is a pay infrastructure matter in which the national salaries have increased. They are higher than they've been. We see this at restaurants. We see this fast food restaurants even in our communities. So we need to level set our pay wages and our gaps across the board. And that is an infrastructure investment as well. And I think that when we talk about paying competitive wages to our nonprofit sector, we really need to rectify this when we can, how we can. And I've been talking to many organizations over the last 12 months in particular to say, before you hire new staff, consider doing a compensation report of your existing staff and a three to five year forecast, if possible, on how this infrastructure investment will look and scale over that three to five years so we can truly build a budget to accommodate this pay structure and the growth. I love that. I think that's really smart. And that might be one of those things that we talk about the bleed off of we have in this great resignation and the fear that we have of attracting good talent and moving forward. That might be one of those things that seems like a heavy lift up front. But it could end up being something that is magical in helping us retain the staffs that we've created and therefore having a stronger infrastructure to begin with. Absolutely. Moving forward. We talk about attracting amazing staff and then we really need to talk more about retaining that staff that is really, I like to say rockstar talent. And then we've talked and we've heard about this more often through our HR representatives or human resource representatives about instead of having exit interviews, having stay interviews. And again, that is investing in your people, investing in your workforce, investing in what's important to them within your organization. And that is an infrastructure conversation as well. Okay, so now we don't have much time but I've got to ask you to readdress this investing in communications. You talked about the internal aspect.  That's your board members. That's your, I'm assuming stakeholders, major investors. Then going to the outside, what are you seeing that way and communicating externally? So for me internally, it would be, it would be your board, it would be your staff and externally would be perhaps some community foundations and also be some of those major donors that support your organization but aren't on the inside, they're not on the payroll or the volunteer. So really going to these large major donors, asking them if they would help to support and interactify the deficit in which you've been working on for so long because I really would love my wish for 2022, 2022, is that we stop being prideful and boastful on how we do so much with so very little. I really would love to shout from the rooftops and as much as we can about the critical impact and the purpose of investing in infrastructure. And again, for those of you that have joined us live and perhaps you didn't hear me say this, infrastructure includes facilities and includes staffing and training and includes software. So all of the additional technology investment, it includes some auditing, education, consulting and any other business opportunities. So it's a lot, it packs a lot into that infrastructure definition, if you will. So before we move on and let you go, we have a question that's come in and it's like, what is a stay interview? Please explain. Oh yeah, so again, we talk a lot about or perhaps we've heard organizations having exit interviews. So there's an employee that has chosen to leave the organization and that is when we address any of their previous and prior concerns with the organization. A stay interview, if you Google that, that is trending right now as a best practice in our workforce to retain this amazing talent. So again, it's really engaging in your workforce, your existing staff to ask them how things are going, do they have concerns, what might they need or ask for to better support them in their role. It could be technology, right?  And because of that, I am losing quality work time, to the tune of, I don't know, 30 minutes a day because of this outdated system, or perhaps they could mention their desire to move up in management or their desire to see more professional development opportunities. So a stay interview is literally talking with your staff about what's working, what could be addressed in a different way with the whole purpose of retaining, retaining your rockstar talent. I love it. And I think the thing about it too is it's a healthy approach to the relationships you have with people on your teams because let's face it, some of these things might have been gleaned when we were all working together. And if you walked by somebody's cubicle and you kept seeing them being frustrated, you'd be like, hey, Sally, what's going on? And Sally could say, well, Joe, my laptop keeps crashing or whatever, but when, because we don't have those interactions, the water cooler effect, if you go, you know, it's changed. Wow, you know, I always, always, always learn so much from you. And Jared Ransom, you are just an amazing part of our community and our nation when it comes to thought leadership and the nonprofit sector. Wow, how lucky was I to have our stars cross? I don't even know how that happened, but somehow it did and I am the better for it, for sure. Here is Jared Ransom, the nonprofit nerd. I always like to say she's my nonprofit nerd, your nonprofit nerd, the nonprofit nerd. Check her out because amazing, amazing information that she has and what a treasure truly she is to our sector. Again, we are on this show daily. We are the only, the only national live daily broadcast for the nonprofit sector, but you can find us on all of the archives, are all on Roku, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, Vimeo. So check us out. We have so much content. So if you're looking for something, you can literally go onto these platforms and do a search and you'll come up with a lot of things. Again, we wanna thank all of our presenting sponsors without you, we would not be here. So thank you ever, ever so much. Great episode, thank you for just letting us delve into that wonderful brain of yours today. Oh, I love it. Thanks for getting nerdy with me. It's a lot of fun. I wish all of you the best. I know this is our final week of the year or as I've referred to it, it is literally, the finish line is in sight because that we've been running this marathon, our 2021 marathon and our 2022 marathon is literally around the corner. So it's been a lot of fun. It's been wonderful. Hey, check us, be with us tomorrow and we kinda do our best of. It's gonna be a lot of fun, a lot of surprises and we are inviting everyone to jump on and add to that conversation. So as we like to say every day, we truly mean it as we're dealing with this new surge or the pandemic, stay well. So you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Hey, nonprofit nerd, thanks so much. Thank you, see you tomorrow. Bye.


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